1: Strange Companions (15.3)
Ilon holds a companion publication to the show.
Ilon holds a companion publication to the show.
Aop dubs zer grandkæther zer “grandkæther” or “grandmother” with equal affection. Ze may not even know exactly which ze is.
The Viewer-Machine is accepted as being technologically less sophisticated than the government’s equipment. However, that doesn’t stop its productions from being immensely popular in their time. Unlike in our world, a broadcast form of silent moving pictures preceded broadcast audio[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Young Sonia gives her sister Perisa’s name a little extra “ah” sound here (just a consequence of not being able to quite pronounce it). We might say “peh-REE-ssah”.
Don’t worry. You are not meant to be totally oriented in the world. You are being thrown in the deep end of the Lor’Avvu pool, right off the bat, and the larger pieces will hopefully come to you as you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In a normalizing social situation, any given Jeenare may treat the appearance of wings — liable to show up in all of their young, healthy children — as something interesting, mysterious, obscene, better or worse. However, it is one of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
zodzofgoæ 0 6FGOE or ZODOFGOE Zodzo is NAL for the number six. So this word literally translates into sixer, as in someone or something having six numbers. Pærth operates on a caste system based on a simple numbering order of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An anonymous soother accidentally uses the formal title for lores (Loræ) instead of males (Dziiræ) when trying to calm Ilon’s father off-panel. For future reference, the title for females is Faræ. Hence Lor’Avvu is like a gender-neutral way of spelling[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Farchæf (NAL) FARCES A blessing Easterners give to friends. Roughly, it does just mean “bless you” but it would not be used in case of a sneeze.