"Tales of Leinyere" Story Event: Official Support Thread

[Voboy]

I used bastardized Icelandic to name Grennskogur, and I planned to use Icelandic inspired names for my elves.

And just for the record, Podl'adom is bastardized Slovakian and I'm going to use Slovakian inspired names for my Dwarves.

Not sure how I'm going to name my Anacot yet.

Thank you, Google translate!

This is excellent info.

My elf shall be something Icelandic, preceded by Ka-.

Ka-Viti. Viti is "witty" in Icelandic. And my elf is forever wondering why the humans around him keep mocking him about the state of his teeth.

 

[Blind_Justice]

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[Rustyoznail]

So, a random thought for a Friday night.

Two Anocot's meet and go out together. A romp through the mountains, kill a couple of goats, eat them over a flask of spiced mead, then curl up together in a cave.

Would that go in romance, or fantasy?

 

[Blind_Justice]

So, a random thought for a Friday night.

Two Anocot's meet and go out together. A romp through the mountains, kill a couple of goats, eat them over a flask of spiced mead, then curl up together in a cave.

Would that go in romance, or fantasy?

Depends on which parts of the story you're playing up. If one of your furballs is a mage and uses Fireballs to grill the goats, you've got fantasy. If you play up the furry nature of the Anocot, you've got yourself a Non-Human story entry. Not really helping, I know...

meow!

 

[Nouh_Bdee]

So, a random thought for a Friday night.

Two Anocot's meet and go out together. A romp through the mountains, kill a couple of goats, eat them over a flask of spiced mead, then curl up together in a cave.

Would that go in romance, or fantasy?

That's a great question! I definitely don't think we need to insist on specific categories for the event; it should be up to the authors. I will say that SFF is a big-tent category. That's most of what I read, and I've seen just about everything pop up in SFF stories: Romance, Incest, Non-Con, Mind-Control, Gay, Lesbian, Non-Erotic, all kinds of different Fetishes...

I've only written a couple of stories for that category so far myself, but I also haven't gotten a single negative comment. Just FYI.

 

[BradleyScott]

So happy to see more people saying they're going to write stories for this!

Let me know if you need any more adjustments to the map, timeline, or notes!

Hey, can I claim some naming rights for that big island to the North East?

My story will only take place on part of it, but I've got some brilliant (in my opinion) veiled puns that I need to get out of my system.

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

My muse came and whispered in my ear last night as I lay in bed, and I think I've figured out how to get my story started. I've got the first 500 words down, but I've never really written fantasy before. I'm a little worried about the story sounding too much like a D&D campaign. I think I've got a pretty solid setup, but I'd welcome opinions before I get too far down the wrong track.

"Never..." Bojavnik huffed to himself as he pushed the barrow full of scree up the well-trodden path. He was sweating from his labor and in too foul a mood to be thankful for the breeze or the shade that protected him from the autumn sun.

"Owe your life..." He dug the toes of his boots into the earth for a little more traction as he approached the last steep incline.

"To a damned elf!" With a roar of effort and a mighty heave, Bojavnik crested the final rise. The way to the cottage was all down hill from here.

"You owe your life to a dwarf," he continued muttering to himself, "they'd say 'Right then! Join me on this dangerous quest. Plenty of chances to square your debt, and plenty of treasure and glory to boot!' That's what a dwarf would say."

He tilted up the barrow next to the stone wall that he had started building and emptied the scree into a pile.

"Not an elf though," he continued his rant as he selected a hunk of rock from the scree pile at random and started looking for a place to fit it into the wall. "Oh no, not an elf. An elf will tell you not to worry about it, 'It's not a big deal, you'd have done the same for me.' She'll go on and on like that for a month, like your sacred honor is just some little annoyance she can't be bothered with."

With a hammer, Bojavnik chipped off a protrusion of the rock in his hand and then fitted it snuggly into the wall before selecting another stone at random.

"And then when she finally admits that ok, yeah, maybe you do owe her a debt for curing the corpse-lung you caught in that crypt, what does she do? She tells you all about her noble quest to build a monument to her lost village and she tells you how she could really use your stone-cunning to help her quarry the obelisks she needs to build her henge."

Bojavnik kept at his work, chipping stones into shape with his hammer and fitting them into his wall, all the while grumbling out loud.

"An elf will drag you out to this gods forsaken forest with no shelter and no supplies and expect you spend months and months hewing fifteen foot slabs of granite from the living earth and then hauling them to the other side of a fucking mountain... "

His diatribe trailed off as he focused his attention on a particularly fiddly bit of stone that didn't want to fit where it ought to. A bad tap with the hammer cracked in two, and Bojavnik chucked the rocks back on top of the scree pile in disgust where they both rolled clackering to the bottom.

"What is all this dwarvish racket?!" Ka'Natrunni's voice demanded, coming up behind him through the woods. "I can hardly hear myself think, let alone concentrate on my work."​

So, any thoughts?

 

[Voboy]

My muse came and whispered in my ear last night as I lay in bed, and I think I've figured out how to get my story started. I've got the first 500 words down, but I've never really written fantasy before. I'm a little worried about the story sounding too much like a D&D campaign. I think I've got a pretty solid setup, but I'd welcome opinions before I get too far down the wrong track.

"Never..." Bojavnik huffed to himself as he pushed the barrow full of scree up the well-trodden path. He was sweating from his labor and in too foul a mood to be thankful for the breeze or the shade that protected him from the autumn sun.

"Owe your life..." He dug the toes of his boots into the earth for a little more traction as he approached the last steep incline.

"To a damned elf!" With a roar of effort and a mighty heave, Bojavnik crested the final rise. The way to the cottage was all down hill from here.

"You owe your life to a dwarf," he continued muttering to himself, "they'd say 'Right then! Join me on this dangerous quest. Plenty of chances to square your debt, and plenty of treasure and glory to boot!' That's what a dwarf would say."

He tilted up the barrow next to the stone wall that he had started building and emptied the scree into a pile.

"Not an elf though," he continued his rant as he selected a hunk of rock from the scree pile at random and started looking for a place to fit it into the wall. "Oh no, not an elf. An elf will tell you not to worry about it, 'It's not a big deal, you'd have done the same for me.' She'll go on and on like that for a month, like your sacred honor is just some little annoyance she can't be bothered with."

With a hammer, Bojavnik chipped off a protrusion of the rock in his hand and then fitted it snuggly into the wall before selecting another stone at random.

"And then when she finally admits that ok, yeah, maybe you do owe her a debt for curing the corpse-lung you caught in that crypt, what does she do? She tells you all about her noble quest to build a monument to her lost village and she tells you how she could really use your stone-cunning to help her quarry the obelisks she needs to build her henge."

Bojavnik kept at his work, chipping stones into shape with his hammer and fitting them into his wall, all the while grumbling out loud.

"An elf will drag you out to this gods forsaken forest with no shelter and no supplies and expect you spend months and months hewing fifteen foot slabs of granite from the living earth and then hauling them to the other side of a fucking mountain... "

His diatribe trailed off as he focused his attention on a particularly fiddly bit of stone that didn't want to fit where it ought to. A bad tap with the hammer cracked in two, and Bojavnik chucked the rocks back on top of the scree pile in disgust where they both rolled clackering to the bottom.

"What is all this dwarvish racket?!" Ka'Natrunni's voice demanded, coming up behind him through the woods. "I can hardly hear myself think, let alone concentrate on my work."​

So, any thoughts?

Nice!

Almost forgot: I wrote just last night about your village getting razed. I’ll send it to you today sometime.

 

[Nouh_Bdee]

Hey, can I claim some naming rights for that big island to the North East?

My story will only take place on part of it, but I've got some brilliant (in my opinion) veiled puns that I need to get out of my system.

Yeah! Whatcha got?

So, any thoughts?

I am really enjoying their dynamic already! And I’m not reminded of a ttrpg at all.

 

[BradleyScott]

Yeah! Whatcha got?

Forgive me XD

But it'd be really great if I could get those. (Will think of further ones if necessary and/or well received.)

 

[Voboy]

Whore Pricing

So. In the Marches, and perhaps elsewhere, whores wear green. Their price is advertised by the quality of their gown.

Lace: a top-tier whore.
Silk: second-tier.
Satin
Velvet
Linen
Cotton

Bear in mind that, unless you're at a brothel or something, it's still a caveat emptor proposition: the woman is deciding for herself what she wants to charge, so you still need to be savvy enough to judge what you're buying. It's not like there's a central authority that tests whores for their sexual skills.

Feel free to use as needed.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

So. In the Marches, and perhaps elsewhere, whores wear green. Their price is advertised by the quality of their gown.

Lace: a top-tier whore.
Silk: second-tier.
Satin
Velvet
Linen
Cotton

Bear in mind that, unless you're at a brothel or something, it's still a caveat emptor proposition: the woman is deciding for herself what she wants to charge, so you still need to be savvy enough to judge what you're buying. It's not like there's a central authority that tests whores for their sexual skills.

Feel free to use as needed.

Potential for an interesting narrative device. A memoir of a whore as she goes through the stages of her life: young, lush, wearing lace, and attracting the richest, most powerful noblemen for clientele, and through the years as shes ages dons new gowns and deals with less and less palatable (but perhaps more interesting) clientele to make ends meet.
Silk in her thirties, satin in her forties and so on. The chapters symbolizing the transience of her beauty. Maybe she meets a client during her cotton years that suggests he could get her back to her days of lace, but its a deal with the devil.
The life and times of a whore of the marches

 

[Voboy]

Yes. One of my characters is enthusiastically balling a satin whore with mad skillz, and speculates that she was probably wearing silk a few years ago.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

Yes. One of my characters is enthusiastically balling a satin whore with mad skillz, and speculates that she was probably wearing silk a few years ago.

Sounds like a fun story, looking forward to reading it!

 

[Nouh_Bdee]

Forgive me XD

But it'd be really great if I could get those. (Will think of further ones if necessary and/or well received.)

I'm not super happy with how the gorge looks, but I think if I fiddle with it any more I'll make it worse.

Edit: There was an issue with saving it. I'm working on it.

 

[BradleyScott]

I'm not super happy with how the gorge looks, but I think if I fiddle with it any more I'll make it worse.

Edit: There was an issue with saving it. I'm working on it.

Looks pretty good to me. Thanks so much! Very happy with my semi-veiled puns.

Such a great challenge. I will hopefully be able to get started soon.

 

[Voboy]

Okay! I've started!

Dude fucks a whore, then goes to the Castle Square to recover what he spent on the whore by betting on a death match. That'll set the scene: the Marches are not exactly Lothlorien, if you know what I'm sayin.

 

[Nouh_Bdee]

Okay! I've started!

Dude fucks a whore, then goes to the Castle Square to recover what he spent on the whore by betting on a death match. That'll set the scene: the Marches are not exactly Lothlorien, if you know what I'm sayin.

Nice! Off to the races!

Or, the match, as it were.

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

Two questions.

First, is "Terwiliger" and acceptable name for an Anocot? I haven't seen any naming guides for them, but I may have missed one.

Second, has anyone claimed a Dwarven Pantheon yet? If not, I am putting forth the following based on Elementalism.

• Mother Earth - goddess of creation, stability, order, and justice
• Father Fire - god of labor, knowledge, food, and war
• Brother Air - god of chaos, trickery, love, and health
• Sister Sea - goddess of death, destruction, loss, and magic

 

[Rustyoznail]

First, is "Terwiliger" and acceptable name for an Anocot? I haven't seen any naming guides for them, but I may have missed one.

Perfectly acceptable, as they reluctantly take Humanish names in the company of other races. Anocot speech is difficult for human type beings to pronounce as it contains a lot of hisses and growls. "Humans", inc Elves, Dwarves, Centaurs, etc can't get the subtle pronunciation.

So many fights have started when some Human tries to say "Welcome, I have made fish for dinner" and it comes out "Let us fight with a live fish."

 

[yibala2]

a planetary suggestion

Looks good. I'll PM you and Blind _J a clip of the map with locations I think should go in that area.

If no one else has claimed one of the larger eastern islands, can you please pencil one in as "Hindu type Island"?

I'm trying to convince an Indian writer to enter, but she's worried that her world building won't match the European concept. Having her own remote island will negate that problem.

This is an exciting project... I just found out about it on Twitter last night!

If I understand, the south of Leinyere is polar, but there aren't any tropics on this map. So we're south of a planetary equator, and presumably there are other peoples on this planet?

I would suggest rather than squeezing a non-European culture into a corner of this map, that we assume there are other lands in the world and write about characters who are traders, colonizers, immigrants, etc. in Leinyere from those mystical places.

That was my thought for a story. If you think it is feasible, I'll get on it without stepping on the toes of this other writer. If we come up with story ideas, is this forum and the notes the only place we are sharing them?

-Yib

 

[SimonDoom]

It's interesting to see how this project is coming along. I'm still trying to come up with a story idea to get involved.

It might be way too much work, but you might consider adding an alphabetized Glossary so all the names and special terms are briefly defined. As this world keeps getting built it will be difficult to keep track of. For instance, if I decide to write a story about a character who comes from the Isle of Pen it would be useful to have a very easy way to look up the Isle of Pen and read whatever information is available about it.

 

[Rustyoznail]

This is an exciting project... I just found out about it on Twitter last night!

If I understand, the south of Leinyere is polar, but there aren't any tropics on this map. So we're south of a planetary equator, and presumably there are other peoples on this planet?

I would suggest rather than squeezing a non-European culture into a corner of this map, that we assume there are other lands in the world and write about characters who are traders, colonizers, immigrants, etc. in Leinyere from those mystical places.

That was my thought for a story. If you think it is feasible, I'll get on it without stepping on the toes of this other writer. If we come up with story ideas, is this forum and the notes the only place we are sharing them?

-Yib

Welcome aboard!

The general idea is all stories takes place here. If there are traders or other visitors from another continent, sure!

I’ve made the assumption the Anocot came from the south about 5000 years ago. It’s not relevant to my idea, but hey - someone might use it.

As for story ideas, drop them here. On the first page there’s links to other elements.

 

[Nouh_Bdee]

This is an exciting project... I just found out about it on Twitter last night!

If I understand, the south of Leinyere is polar, but there aren't any tropics on this map. So we're south of a planetary equator, and presumably there are other peoples on this planet?

I would suggest rather than squeezing a non-European culture into a corner of this map, that we assume there are other lands in the world and write about characters who are traders, colonizers, immigrants, etc. in Leinyere from those mystical places.

That was my thought for a story. If you think it is feasible, I'll get on it without stepping on the toes of this other writer. If we come up with story ideas, is this forum and the notes the only place we are sharing them?

-Yib

Awesome! So glad you're writing for this! I love your stories!

I think it should all be on the table. If you want to write about a recent arrival to the continent from another culture, that's wonderful! Please do!

I also don't think it's a stretch to imagine a different culture existing on Leinyere or one of the nearby islands. Maybe their culture developed organically due to isolation, or maybe they're immigrants who arrived slightly more recently that Rusty's anocots. We're building this world together, and I'm certainly not going to tell an author "no", especially on something that doesn't directly conflict with already established lore.

It's interesting to see how this project is coming along. I'm still trying to come up with a story idea to get involved.

It might be way too much work, but you might consider adding an alphabetized Glossary so all the names and special terms are briefly defined. As this world keeps getting built it will be difficult to keep track of. For instance, if I decide to write a story about a character who comes from the Isle of Pen it would be useful to have a very easy way to look up the Isle of Pen and read whatever information is available about it.

I think that's a great idea, Simon!

I'll put making the glosssary on my to-do list, and add it into the first post on this thread once I get it started. Most of it will probably be just links to the users that named things, to ask them questions, but maybe eventually it will get all filled out.

 

[yibala2]

Awesome! So glad you're writing for this! I love your stories!

I think it should all be on the table. If you want to write about a recent arrival to the continent from another culture, that's wonderful! Please do!

Thanks for the compliment!

My initial thought is to write about a pirate, a follower of Shall'a, who comes ashore (or runs aground) either in the eastern islands or Varna. I'll sift through the other ideas people have in these areas and come up with something more precise.

-Yib