Zompist Bboard Again

This scenario looks very interesting, I'm looking forward to more! ...see, this is exactly the kind of information that I really did try hard to find out but couldn't actually locate. I found a ruddy paper of Proto-Muskogean, for crying out loud, but not one on Proto-Algonquian. So, well, yes, I sh...

The Great Plague broguht by the Norse should have butterflied away many OTL political organisations among the indigenous peoples. Also, the plague may never have spread that far without a Viking De Soto and European fishermen constantly reinforcing it before colonisation takes off. Okay, so technic...

Also, as a quick side-shot, Blessed Cold's version of NORTH AMERICA (Part I) : Turtle Island (Mik'maq Migjigj Mnigu ) is the third-largest continent in the world, coming behind Asia and Africa. It can be divided into three regions, moving from the Pacific to the Atlantic: the Cordillera, a Cretaceou...

mèþru wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 4:09 pm Not about them, but they play significant rule in The Tale of the Heike

Ta!

To start with, a quick research question: does anyone know any good books about the various sects of Buddhism practiced by the Sōhei warrior-monks? EDIT: this is a world where the Post-Roman Cold Period (400-900) and the Little Ice Age (1250-1850) swap intensities and duration. As a result of this, ...

Interesting...
So, what’s Cheyaden actually like, as an empire?

On my own site, I have it listed as $5 per image I create, along with copyright acknowledgement. So if he’s mixing, say, twelve images of yours, that would be $60. (It is possible I’m being too cheap about it, but I should like some customers, to be honest with you.) In your case, though, you could ...

Primate: ABS-tail-ANIM OR tree-HABIT-FEM

Next: capuchin

I don’t think I’ve ever seen an Australian Aboriginal conlang before. Wonderful work!

I think we should not accept an animal name that in the English language already has no reference to another animal. ...you might have to run that one by me again. I mean something like "sugar glider": In English, the animal is referred as a compound of sugar and glider, neither of them r...

Xwtek wrote: ↑Fri Sep 27, 2019 4:03 am I think we should not accept an animal name that in the English language already has no reference to another animal.

...you might have to run that one by me again.

A slight departure from the normal, but then it's a big world: THE BASICS OF PFARILIAN, PART 1 : Outline Pfarilian (Pfarilian: Pfäriler p͡fɛ:'ʁi:lɐ ) is the main language of Pfaril, the main (lowland) competitor to Rokhana and the League of Aureon in the Central Lands. The Pfarilians themselves are ...

Two questions. First is there a reason why in the first table you have labelled the moods realis and irrealis and aspect imperfective/perfective etc, but in the second we are using the perfect subjunctive base? Is it not perfective irrealis? And you're going to have to explain the comparison table,...

Moving on from verbal derivational morphology, we might try looking at VERBAL MORPHOLOGY instead: Classical Salvian is the descendant of a a strictly ergative-absolutize language, Proto-Empath, which by this point has probably disowned it for all the damage Classical Salvian did to a perfectly good ...

Vampire squid: blood-lantern

Next: thorny devil (in a similar vein)

next: to disclose; open Proto-Berserker: * h w rom "to open (mouth), disclose, reveal" (From Proto-Endurer *haramAU, from the root *ham "jaw") Old Zanguenese: * l̥om (same as above) Classical Zanguenese: * l̥om "to disclose, reveal" Changuyan: lom /lɔ:m55/ "to rev...

A quick note on MODALITY PREFIXES in Rokhanese: Originally, in Zhovgonese, prefixes were added to verbs to demonstrate modality as well as whether or not the verb was negative or not. Rokhanese has maintained most of these affixes--has added to them, even, with new dimensions. Positive Modal Negativ...

Yet this means that if Pokhti were popular enough and Rainar useless enough, Pokhti could become empress, so there are circumstances in which it's worth having a go if you're the Red Prince(ss). You just need to plan ahead. It seems a compromise between the idea of strict primogeniture to provide a...

A note on the politics of Rokhana, specifically about THE FIVE PRINCES The Grand Council In theory the emperor ( drezhnyer , drezhnyezu -, from Zhovgonese drezyenezus “overseer”; there is also a feminine equivalent, drezhnyei , drezhnyei -) has absolute power over the entire political system, everyt...

( EDIT: I see that fixes for several of my points below have been edited into the first post. Thanks Pedant!) No worries, bradrn, and glad you liked it! Let's see if I can't clear up the other stuff as well... Adjectives are derived from nouns and take nominal endings. Question: does this apply to ...