Zompist Bboard Again

Lovely presentation and I like the aesthetics of the language so far.

So, this piece of work is probably not going to get finished. It would be a lot to work out. I’m posting it here in its current form. It’s a bit mangled by my ideas shifting as I was writing it. It only considers the river downstream of Ctésifon. It’s 0% canonical at this point, merely a repository ...

Your most recent message reminded me I forgot to listen to this. There's a kind of bittersweat irony that something so sad can lead to such a beautiful song. Thank you, Lērisama. The truth is that the beauty belonged to my friend. I simply got to experience it through him, and it flowered in the so...

Series Index Ban Seree The ban Seree is associated with some of the most solemn and devotional religious chants, especially funeral rites, and the folk music of the eastern part of Eretald, through which runs the Serea river. (It contains a string of five whole tones in a row and thus is vaguely re...

Thank you for sharing this. I’m sorry for your loss. For what it’s worth, I was deeply impressed by your description of Ulian. I read through the travelogue, referring back to the map as I did so, and I found it to be an excellent and evocative piece of worldbuilding. Thank you so much, I'm really ...

Thank you for sharing this and for the art your story made you create! And thank you for all of your encouraging comments and ideas along the way. If you like, you can listen to a song I wrote about my own parallel process ‒ my own letting something new grow. It is a tribute, of course, to my best ...

A meta note. In late January 2025, I found out that my best friend from school, who had 18 months before got in touch after an 11-year-long estrangement, passed away unexpectedly in July. (I had tried to contact him in the months between July and January, but as he had very sadly been predeceased by...

Leilis wrote: ↑Sat Feb 28, 2026 8:41 pm Edit: My local Tolkien expert recommends <ñ>, following Quenya.

I think that would work well, if you don’t actually like <ŋ>.

At the risk of sounding like I'm quoting a Bridget Jones film, although I think bradrn’s suggestions have their own charms (especially the 2nd), I also like your orthography just as it is. (With the possible exception that <nc ng> might feel more efficient than <ŋc ŋg>.) To me, <ŋ> in the mix of the...

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Feb 28, 2026 5:32 am

sasasha wrote: ↑Sat Feb 28, 2026 2:56 am Some of our best evidence of ancient musical cultures comes from their tomb art.

Huh, really? Didn’t know that.

Sure, have a look at this.

They besought the fairfolk, who were all too happy to carry out the chaos. Fairfolk speech is a mixture of melisma, solfège, pitch, whistling, overtone vocalizations, nasality, other phonation shenanigans, and the occasional pulmonic consonant, and its grammar and syntax is needlessly complex and o...

I'd be interested in suggestions on this topic (and in general), though I might end up just doing what I already said. Interesting project. I think your solution to the motion example is fine, although it adds to your sentences having a fairly homogenous structure, which you may or may not like. A ...

I find both the language and the poetry very beautiful.

A quick question for Zomp: are there any more maps of parts of Almea that you haven't shared? Like, the zoomed-in province map of Célenor-Curesi: I love how detailed it is, and wonder if other parts of Eretald got this treatment? Or something like the Province map of Verduria, but for other provinc...

Necroposting my own thread so I can ask about Svetla bridges. Places I think ancient bridges were: Araunicoros (seems likely) Cantiego (attested) Aenocur (I would guess) Bogira? Aerivileon? Šerian? Ulian (attested) Definitely Araunicoros and Aenocur. Maybe only one of Bogira and Aerivileon-- let's ...

Series Index Ban Eärdurei The ban Eärdurei and ban Seree are of equal importance within the Antau Šerianei, but quite different of character, both to each other and to the ban Svetle described in part 2. Whilst all its modes have a distinctive character of their own, the Eärdur family as a whole is...

Necroposting my own thread so I can ask about Svetla bridges. :) (Limited to Svetla downstream of Araunicoros for now, including Anaseris even though it's technically on the Eärdur) Places I think ancient bridges were: Araunicoros (seems likely) Cantiego (attested) Aenocur (I would guess) Bogira? Ae...

A quick question for Zomp: are there any more maps of parts of Almea that you haven't shared? Like, the zoomed-in province map of Célenor-Curesi: I love how detailed it is, and wonder if other parts of Eretald got this treatment? Or something like the Province map of Verduria, but for other province...

Series Index Interlude: Scales as Rivers Eīledan endowed all natural things with musical properties, and perhaps most musical of all are the streams which strike, unceasing, a high, clear squabble of notes, while the great river pulses like the speech of a giant. attributed to Einātu, through Vissa...

Thank for laying all this out! Just one Almeological note: Zomp might notice a new usage of the word royi , which I hope he’ll forgive as I patiently sift through the terminology we have already discussed and find out the limits of what it all means in practice for the Almean musician. Suffice to s...