Qizilbashwoman

indeed, welcome, millennium turos

And a born-ogre inside a clan like the Red Cows wouldn't even necessarily have any physical markings. Their ogrishness comes out only during their initiation! It might only start to appear when an ogre breeds true.

well, i did say i didn't think we should tolerate cat piss men, didn't i

Listen, nobody is chasing him away, I think it's appropriate that the moderator said "knock it off" We don't want to chase people away; we also don't want cat piss man. Moderation is in fact appropriate.

i want an angelic replacement for my nervous system, nice Shadowrun, only with a less terrible gaming system

That's Sun Domer talk. Orlanthi carls plough like other men, Kolati seza snare rabbits and fish and take some offerings, redsmiths trade work for grain and training new redsmiths, White Ladies keep herds, and Issaries peeps keep the trade running for luxuries. Most Orlanthi (Ernaldi, properly) are working-folk, even the kings. The Lunar Kingdom of Sartar and the city-state of Esrola is where we see conflicts between clan and city-state. There's a real conflict between urban and non-urban because of hierarchy; I have a real strong feeling about the actual Orlanthiness of urban Orlanthi.

She's obviously a muri (a hot troll)

it's the second post @golden wheel dancer has made in this thread insulting the art; their last post was simply: i actually gave a cogent reply the first time, which they clearly ignored 100%

is that why we have no Rune font

no, you're thinking of tetrazzini

Oh! I think that sometimes there are stories we know of. I know important historical wyters were star captains. It is possible that one wyter was Buserian. I say possible, don't get it twisted. But the story of Buserian has him as the effective wyter of humans in the Greater Darkness! Some of the early gods also appear to be wyter-like: as I mentioned specifically in my Entekosiad thread, all those Turoses specific to a single settlement are oddly featureless are described as powerless except to represent said settlement ("Ded Addi Turos was revered at Balovius and Rafelios but had no great power except to oversee the council meetings"). Others die and the community goes mad (sounds familiar, right?). But I don't know if every wyter has a notable story, in the sense of being an identifiable figure. Some wyters mentioned are like a large blue alynx or a strange bear or a woman wearing a peculiar mask. I have no doubt stories appear but I'm not sure if that's part of the creation story or not? Certainly seems like if you are creating a wyter, it should involve some kind of heroquest to "learn" the story of your wyter. I'd have to read hard. Maybe we could tag in someone really in the know - someone like a Jeff, except maybe not Jeff because I always tag in Jeff.

Lower LaHave. It's a g e m and it's in the "no we don't get 11' of snow" edge of the island. so many birds. the community is so great there, and the produce is absolutely exquisite.

Not 100% on this question? the spirit is an artificial mythological construct created - or augmented, perhaps, to give it full identity and intelligence - out of the natural emotional bonds created between human beings who interact. the strong bonds of affinity caused by the regular exchange of gift and work and assistance that create bonds between people are the meat and muscle of the wyter. there is some symbiosis, I guess, in that you can grow the wyter and thus provide feedback into the community's bonds by providing sacrifice appropriate to your community. i reckon that means a temple of White Ladies offer medicines and yams while creepy-ass communities offer human sacrifice! Orlanthi probably offer a variety of things, like goats and grain. but the wyter isn't really a symbiote, it's just the community itself. it doesn't do much except defend the tribe from curses and spirit attacks by hostile witches and the like. it's not, like, a god.

Nova Scotia is where my parents live

you don't meet a lot of bilingual barbarians in fiction

@Nevermet You are writing up Azerlo as Xiola Umbar, but she's Ugly Old Woman, i.e. Ty Kora Tek (Annara Gor, GW IV-9). Any reason for that identification of the woman with serpents for hair as Xiola Umbar instead?

i wanted to be really clear and explicit and i felt like your answer wasn't laid out in a clear way for a newbie, i really wanted to make a clear argument/explanation also i think it literally kills the emotions. that's the price in a magical society.

@Bill the barbarian just said chacun à son gôut to me, so on that note, I shall bid you all a very fine, if befuddled, goodnight

you've taken the community and its sense of reciprocal feeling and need - that's what makes a community - and inspired it, literally, breathed it into life as an independent spirit that you nourish quite literally. this is the smartest way to keep things safe and sane: literally grow the good health of the community with sacrifice and enable it to defend itself from attacks by witch-curses and evil spirits that might attack it as a sentient being. a curse meant to harm a community can be struck down by a self-aware being! problem is that if you decide to use the wyter as a weapon, say, against an enemy tribe; if it dies in that conflict, slain by a sorcerer or eaten by a gibbering chaos monster, well that's the entire community that's gone. people don't suddenly hate each other, but they have lost all sense of connexion to each other, the human link that is fostered over time as we interact, cooperate, drink together, eat together, exchange gifts, and share things. it's all instantly bleached of meaning because it was bound that spirit.

you are not right, no; that's like saying "Chagall was bad at art" because his style was not literal. he has a specific style quite familiar to European readers and he's considered a master of comic art. he's won endless awards for his comics and his animated films.

@Jeff Real question: is the Groke(start) from the Moomins a version of Rashoran(a)?

noooooo i lovvvve his chat du rabbin work, so evocative and emotional! and... there's a lot more detail than his fantasy work, hahahaha also the cat pwning the rabbis in argument, *chef's kiss*

I mean, I understand that, but on the other hand, this is entirely theoretical because Sfar isn't going to write Prince of Sartar but it's a wish upon a star and my reasoning is: then we'd get the rest of the story?

@Akhôrahil Online I saw a writeup:

you should compare The Rabbi's Cat, then, which is ... much different to his work on fantasy