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I made maanuls and kyhuines, sometimes i write worldbuilding text too.
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2 Ask: How did you come up with names? + Does Maanul have an in-world meaning? Annonymous asked over on Tumblr : How did you come up with the names for your species? I don't remember why maanul is called maanul, to be honest. It was back in 2021, i think i just compiled letters togheter until it clicked. I wasn't thinking ahead about conlang, which i doubt is something i'd dip my toes into seriously, aside from some rules i've given to myself related to the vocal lungs.Kyhuines used to be called Okapies back in 2021- 2022, but since the spelling was so close to the spelling for okapi, I changed it.Mierthri are recent (late 2024-early 2025 if i'm correct), but my memory is horrendous i can't recall last week, so i can't recall why they're named mierthri. Sadly i didn't think of noting down the process. Most of what I remember is that they're named after a scrapped biome I already created. The biome isn't fully scrapped, it has become different enough that i consider it a seperate thing than the base idea. For maanuls, I didn't think about "are there things named like this already?", in fact, there is, pallas cats are also named manuls! Though how manul is pronounced is different than maanul. "Okapies" (Kyhuines), I knew of okapis, so the name didn't stick long because of the reseamblance. If you want to think of your sophont as named from an outside viewer, go for it, if you want an in-world name, go for it, too. You'll just have to think of what the name means in the language chosen someday, haha.<hr> Jamesofangus reblogged , asking: Does Maanul have an in-world meaning? Maanul is a word from the Shumatt's common language, Shuaait. While many ethnic groups spread across the territory still speaks their native languages, what's considered as "standard" language to speak under Shuamatt is Shuuait. Shuuait takes from the Nuinuk and Sani languages, as these are their close neighbors.Most words across my blogs referring to maanul concepts, inventions, or how other maanul groups are called, are in Shuaait. Some words are more so how they would phonetically read words from other languages into their own, deforming them in their language not having the same whistling as another. Maanul is one of many ways to refer to the species, making a distinction between the word for people as a whole. "Maaui" means "People", which includes all species together, and the word for the species they are. Maanul is referring to the maanul species.Like the way we'd call another sophont a person, but we would use human to distinguish which species we are talking about. "Maa" is for "my people". The "my" refers to "people who look like me". Like how in "Maaau" the maa is pronounced with a pitch in the whistle near the end, to sound like a deformation. Maaau means "Almost my people", it is the species name for maanul's closests living relatives. "Nul" is a deformation of Nuaulu, referring to the sea as a neutral gendered person rather than an object, more akin to reffering to a parent. So basically, if taken apart, maanul means "My people from the Sea", tales of people washed over the waves because they were born by the ocean itself are very common in traditional maanul mythology for the population who were seaside, which a third of Shuamatt is, and the oldest part of Shuamatt originates there too. The name carries it too.Ask: What draws Monmartre and Tchaark together?+anonymous asked over on Tumblr Monmartre and Tchaark seem to be close (going off of Tchaark's TH profile), what draws them together?And what genders are Tchaark, Ikinih, Tua, and Uyonah? 24-10-2025 Tchaark basically worked as a sentinel , he'd detect gas in advance with his smelling nerves, "tahofahs". Because mierthri's tahofahs are more sensitive, evolved to protect themselves because they have the most fragile lungs of the 3 species, they can detect hazardous gases in advance before it's too late. Miethri in the mining industry are employed as sentinels, not miners, because their build isn't good for it. One mierthri is attributed to a miner group per route. When Monmartre was sent, Tchaark was grouped with her, he stuck closely because she was the youngest of the group, and this was her first time down there. This is how they first crossed paths.denMonmartre was in a constant cycle of wanting him away from it because of how Tchaark could predict its behavior, something it hated more than anything. Yet she occasionally sought the non-hostility he'd offer, when she felt tired of being on alert so much, she knew Tchaark was reliable to be with, knowing it could settle for a moment. But the similarity they had would still cause aggression in Monmartre.Tchaark could read what Monmartre was trying to achieve when it engaged in violent behavior with people of the colony, with strangers to even friends, because this was a behavior he used to do too in his youth. And Tchaark had the idea of being able to manage her and prevent what he believed was going to happen to Monmartre eventually.The feeling of someone trying to lead her on a leash, even if the promised destination was not hostile, would drive Monmartre up the wall. She was so obsessed with having control over everything that even guidance, no matter the source of it, was rejected by her. headPeople in sulfur , Chèka, are all from different places and ethnic backgrounds, so their genders are not always easily categorisable, especially if they're from places with large influences from other species' standards (coughs, kyhuines). Maanuls have no sexual dimorphism, so their concept of genders is often role-based within community. However, we can group them by what their pronouns translate to.For Tua, Meri'kn, On'maa, they all use she/her. Tchaark He/they, Ikinih They/them. For Uyonah and Omati, it's He/him. For example of culture influencing pronouns: Monmartre is she/it because of how, by default, in Ayêsh, people are referred to as it until they age and work their way to basically obtain pronouns socially through being a member of the community. It ends up being seen as a pronoun that refers to youth, since children and teens are not eligible yet. Monmartre left home before it ever obtained those socially, so for most of its life, even during young adulthood, it is still referred to as it. Though you'll see me use it/she interchangeably, as it does obtain a title later in Mosaic that gets it referred to as she by others. Thank you for readingSulfur Worldbuilding notesayesh patternSulfur is quite short, and what I call sulfur mostly revolves around three specific versions Mao/Monmartre made of herself, all taking place in the mining foundry community. Monmartre is a singular person who has an overly complicated relationship with her personhood. Figuring out how to reclaim it, how to stand out and bring her own meaning to her name, while knowing she's just another animal within the world. But she doesn’t want the animal it is to represent her self , it wants her self to mean something else than what people want it to be. Monmartre creates a new persona whenever something from the outside signals that it’s time to “kill” her current chapter and start a new one.Example: Obtaining the salvaged bronze helmet marks the distinction between when it allowed people to call her Monmartre and wanting to be called Guinêsh (guinêsh mao for full, but she doesn't allow people to use mao). She had the thoughts simmering in her mind about what to do and be. The new persona is not there in the snap of a finger. Guinêsh was like an accumulation of frustration, anger, everything that it never had the chance to scream at ██████, the desire to return to a simpler animal but a loud one who makes itself known to everyone, compiled with the imagery of some posters for a shadow puppetry show that was around the colony at the time (miners sometimes get entertainment braught to them), is what creates the idea of guinêsh. Gaining the helmet was just the kick to make it exist to people. 12 - 10 - 2025<hr> bronze toyThe Chèka mining colony is isolated from other groups to avoid cross-contamination of water and air pollution in areas inhabited by non-workers (the sophonts have dainty lungs). They have their own self-sustaining basic supplies, such as poultry, but are still linked to several larger facilities for shipping out raw ore or the products of the foundry. Sometimes they receive shipments that Chèka cannot produce on their own, like medical supplies, replacement filters, etc. Living quarters are in the area itself; people don't take the train to leave work. The train is mostly a cargo train, sometimes with a passenger wagon or two, depending on what was planned ahead, such as a worker transfer. Chèka, the mining colony Monmartre was located in, although this pertained to the foundry part of it, received a shipment of bronze helmets from the Shuamatt Republic. And while chekà is not in Shuamatt, it's actually in neutral grounds; technically, they're free to take request forms from any party. Although the act of sticking to one specifically results in being given benefits and protection by them.Shuamatt's chosen ore for helmets, thus armors, is bronze because copper is one of the most common resources that can be mined out in Shuamatt territories and is valuable for durable protection. The helmets cast have issues sometimes. When Monmartre was tasked to do a shakeout (removing the casted object from the mold), one of them came out with a defect where there was a large hole on the right side. It was told to put it with the other defective ones meant to be melted back and redone, but it kept it for itself, for Guinêsh . That's how it obtained it. In the drawing, New chapter , it is early spring, where Guinêsh starts, the flowers within the piece are the first ones to bloom in the region at the end of winter, so they're a symbol of a new cycle since they announce the end of spring. Fun fact: Spring came in late this year.The pattern at the bottom of the piece is just simple ayêsh decoration that would be sewn at the bottom of the fabric piece, where the content within the bands is a sequentially made-up story 21 - 10 - 2025Mold music of the moment
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