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@lashunta.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 12:22 AM

Monday Lashunta Architectural Inspiration
Richmel1, Deviantart

We spend a lot of time discussing lashunta's access and knowledge of the aiudara elfgates. Yet what other psychic or arcane devices might they have access to?

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@lashunta.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 9:44 PM

In the beginning of _A Castrovel Adventure: Part 3_, Lady Vaeol witnesses her maidenlove Kaure bond with her own shotalashu...

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Then Oshis, as yesterday forespoken, asked Kaure to follow him to the Shota-field. We all riders witted this will and followed to watch.

Oshis led the way to the meadow, where the Shota meanly gather to glean fodder and scraps we put out for their welfare. He then bade Kaure stand in the pack’s midst. She went slowly, easily so to not startle them. We watched their boxy, scaled snouts swerve to smell and see her. A few younglings gamboled near. Yet she unheeded.

Bywardly an older Shota sidled near: a big queen who bore scars on her hide and had doubtlessly borne many egg-clutches. Also likely, she had bonded and carried a rider ereward, maybe even at warfare. She neared Kaure with a trustiness that bespoke she knew Lashunta and had a good math already of Kaure’s self. In answer, Kaure knelt and forth held her hand. The big queen upcame and snuffled her fingers, doubtlessly seeking a snack. Kare sat forbearingly and slowly drew her near, until her antennae could reach forth and touch the fine scale-ridges along the Shota’s brow, which thew the same purpose.

We others stood softly for the tide, lest we do anything that might break the bond. Yet we beheld good token when Kaure reached arm about the Shota’s neck and softly hugged her. The steed’s mouth opened and let forth her great tongue, which slathered Kaure’s face. Kaure stood and stroked and scratched the Shota’s hide, who stood and stretched gladly underneath. Hand on the beast’s shoulder, Kaure walked together to us. She gave her steed’s name as Vali, which we thought well. Then she hastened back to the Flaghold, for she said Vali was mightily wantsome of roast meat. Laughingly we followed back and readied for the City.

@lashunta.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 10:12 AM

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@lashunta.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 7:57 PM

In the beginning of _A Castrovel Adventure: Part 3_, Lady Vaeol watches her flagmates' reactions to Kaure, whom as a female korasha, many believe as cursed...

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Bywardly, I took stock of how others behaved toward Kaure, whose shyness withheld. I witted Erymi speaking with her, and also Krastaes. This heartened me, since they stand as leaders among our house. While they spoke, Remaue upcame behind Kaure, wrapped arms about her breast, and rested chin on her head. Earnestly the short ~korashe~ clutched her back.

Then Remaue called Oshis and bade him meet our new maidenlove. Yet Oshis unminded. Instead, he climbed down toward the shota field. I looked to Erymi and asked amind what bothered the burly korasha. She went after him.

A tide later, Erymi came back and kissed me. She mind-boded she had spoken with Oshis, though she asked me to keep mind open and not grow wroth. Withholdingly we yaysaid and went groundward. Erymi told that Oshis owned a grudge, oughtful to him as one of the few korasha who ride. Eyesomely, he was often teased, incleaving an offthank often thrown that he was misclaimingly ~korashe~ and not a man. His wifemate outlaid Kaure’s sight had updredged it. He feared Kaure's fellowship may make him again so misnamed. I shrive my thought wounded and asked whether Oshis would speak with me.

@lashunta.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 12:01 PM

In the beginning of _A Castrovel Adventure: Part 3_, Lady Vaeol and Remaue introduce Kaure their new maidenlove to their flag-pod...

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Today after soon mornwatch under Master-Captain, I found Remaue, who had already met Kaure, Draue, Nae, and Hanos. We who had shota saddled them from the barn. Then together we set forth to the flaghold.

At first, I worried how the others would behave toward Kaure. Yet Hanos bluffly took her arm and started a marchsong, wherein she, and also us riders, clove throat. About halfway along the ridefare, I asked Kaure whether she wearied walking. She first naysaid. Yet I offered Ess if she wished to ride. At once I read her inthrift. So I unsteeded and gave her my shota’s saddle.

Then Hanos crowed how he had ever wondered what belikens to ride shotalashu. So Nae offered her steed Baenu. Unhappily, forwhy though Kaure rode well (and Ess forbore under my blessing), Hanos could not halt laughter ever after he got feet in stirrups and almost fell. Baenu grew bothered, and at last Nae bade halt and helped him unsteed. I walked with him for the way’s rest, where he jokingly whined my long legs outstrode him.

@lashunta.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 10:41 AM

...Whereas #lashunta celebrate the glory of single combat (in part since such a negotiated trial may avoid the carnage illustrated here), what place does this confluence of terror, trauma, wrath. death, and calculated strategy inhabit within Lashunta Culture? Is it glory or something else?

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@lashunta.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 10:39 AM

Lashunta Inspirational Pic of the Week
Moebius

I've said before that full pitched battles are relatively rare in lashunta warfare, but that doesn't mean they don't happen...

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Art by Mobius - amid a cliff-choked field full of fighting and fallen bodies, a man stands covered in blood. He lifts another man's bloody body overhead, either in triumph or supplication.

@lashunta.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 12:27 AM

In the beginning of _A Castrovel Adventure: Part 3_, Vaeol and Remaue seek to convince Kaure of what they see in her...

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I start here with yestereve. Remaue and I hosted Kaure to the small duskmeal within our sunderroom. The stocky buxom korashe upshowed freshly bathed, but wearing the same clothes she had erewardly worn, hair again drawn back in a mere tailknot.

Straightway Remaue came, handed her Lanaryel, and beseeched leave. While I dished the meal (and Remaue quipped it is ever better when outriders thew shieldbearers), Remaue led Kaure to the seatpillows, loosened her hair, and combed it out while our guest played with the babe. Then Remaue braided it into a sideknot while I overbrought a dish of diced eel, pepperworts, and riceberries.

Kaure and I ate while Remaue fed Lanaryel, though I sometimes floated morsels to my wifemate’s mouth. I could not help witness, however, that fresh bruises marred Kaure’s knuckles, and another lightened her cheek.

While we ate, Remaue asked further, though happily with more kindliness than she had earlier forethreatened. When she asked of Kaure’s kindred, I shot a warning glare. So instead, she begged Kaure to sing, who began a lullabye for Lanaryel. Remaue’s voice clove hers, and together they sang for the babe, who stood while hanging dancingly from her mother’s hands.

Then Remaue untied Kaure’s braid and let her hair loose. It fell in a silver-green ripple over her freckled shoulders, like Father-Yaro flowing by the bank. Remaue then held forth our handglass and bade Kaure look upon herself. ~Dei yi lindam o se zhehue?~ “Did we not tell you are beautiful?” asked my wifemate.

@lashunta.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 5:16 PM

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Lashunta Word of the Week
Damae (/da.ma:e./ feminine): Damaya; a member of the Lashunta Damaya subspecies/clade; specifically, a female damaya

Within Lady Vaeol’s time period of Lashunta History, contemporaneous with Pathfinder and the Age of Lost Omens, this is the most commonly used version of the word, whereas ~Damaya/Damaea~ typically occurs only as an adjective, in reference to a thing belonging to or pertaining to a Damaya (where it must agree with the subject’s gender). The form ~Damaya~ (in the common gender) does not become a common reference until the Lashunta language of the Starfinder epoch, after Lashunta Society becomes more equitable and self-determinative.
This word is a good illustration of the long and complicated histories words often have within their languages. In Lady Vaeol’s day, ~Damae~ is almost a synonym with ~Rie~ - wife/female. It thus highlights the stereotypes present under the Damaya Matriarchy… which on that note, is forever tied to that social institution when one reads it in the Lashunta version: ~Difimae Damae~.

@lashunta.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 10:54 AM

ARTICLE: ~SEALNEA~ - The Intelligent Monkeykind of Castrovel

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@lashunta.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 12:10 AM

In the beginning of _A Castrovel Adventure: Part 3_, Lady Vaeol seeks out the drill instructor who forced Kaure to give up her shotalashu for being korasha...

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While watchtide, I kept eyes open for Arae Elderspear. Bywardly, I saw her in the meal-hall. I asked to speak alone.

I led her to the heartyard, where we stood under the great milktree, and she asked my will. I told I had trusty word that she had bereft the City of a rider. A dumbstricken look crossed her face, and I frankly think she first witted not what I spoke of. So I gave Kaure’s name, whereon unbelief further widened her eyes. She shook her head. So I asked whether she would naysay the deed.

She did not naysay. Instead, she gazed straight at me: ~Korasha di lasha.~ “Korasha do not ride,” outspoke she.

I answered that I knew Kaure had already bound a Shotalashu when Arae bereft it. Furthermore, I know another Korasha who rides well, and, to my mind, better than Arae, and a better Elderspear as well, and so outnamed Oshis. At his name, I cannot well bewrite her look. Not since Valmaeyana fighting the Formians have I seen utter hatred on a Lashunta face. She spat that Oshis has no right to ride as Elderspear. ~O'nae ukezhyas, o Shota halaeassa,~ - "He should be offrun," she answered, "and his Shota slain."

Her hatred shook me. I offshrugged unbelief while my anger rose to match. I stood near, overleaned, and then outquoth that she should never again do as she had done to Kaure. If ever I hear, I swore I would wreck her livelihood, for not only am I Outrider and Flagmaiden, but I have Lady-Captain’s ear, and also Master-Captain Dosuaesh’s (which name I ground into her ear for the flinch outbearing), and moreover would bring my kindred’s full might, both Lady-Mother and sisters.

@lashunta.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 11:55 PM

Friday Night Lashunta Inspiration
Artist: Marcel Rieder (1862 - 1942)

How do lashunta damaya divert themselves? What are the options and expectations under the Damaya Matriarchy's entitlement?

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@lashunta.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 12:04 PM

In the beginning of _A Castrovel Adventure: Part 3_, Lady Vaeol learns from Kaure what minority Thwartkind undergo, despite all her belief in Lashunta communality...

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This last mindwhit showed so fearsomely, and yet also queerly, that it shook me. It offbroke starkly, and I reckoned no end but an odd emptiness. I sought further and found a dithercraft overmuddling, unskilled soulcraft as one unlearned at the Ihezoshu. I asked what had befallen, though when she faltered answer I should not be forecaught.

Reckoningly, I bespoke the dithercraft, and asked whether she wished me to lift it. A deep, dreadful thought overtook her, as if she half-guessed and so worried. Grimly she said yes.

Mildly as I could, my mind reached forth, cradled hers, and shed her thought’s muddleship. As I did, I peered within what had hidden…

I found something so hurtful, so woundful, that shock halted me: something I had erenever believed canny, that men could so wrong a maiden, a wrathfulness that in fifty years I had erenever dreamed.

Kaure broke mindlink and leapt afoot. Yet in that breathtide ere our linkbreach, I felt such wrath and dread as I had erenever witted. Even worse, mindlessly, it aimed at me, against her better wisdom, for right as I had caught her yestermind, so had she caught some of my life: wealth, high kindred, the best teachers, korasha yielding me worship even in little thoughtless, and every behoof: all the wants she yearned.

Right then she might have offrun. Yet against my shame, I took her hand. By my own soulmight I refound mindshare. Her wrath I took and let overflood. Then I asked her wish that I might do for her sake.

@lashunta.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 11:51 AM

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@lashunta.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 11:49 PM

In the beginning of _A Castrovel Adventure: Part 3_, Lady Vaeol confronts lashunta's and her own biases and assumption toward the people chauvinistically called Thwartkind: female korasha and male damaya...

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The riddle at the heart of folk’s unease with these wights has ever seemingly been whether one behaves a ~korashe~ as a better, owing to her wifeliness, or as a lesser for being korasha? Likewise samely for ~damayas~: as Damaya better or as a man lesser? Folk rootfully know not how to behave, for they have no rightful, easy stead in our society. Therefore, we unmind them whenever we can, and mock them when we must meet them, as small wrackship under unwillingness.

While I stared and tried to soothe my startleness, at once I beheld another whisper unproven. The tales I had ere heard bespoke ~korashe~ as ugly freaks: hairily rough-thewed and frightful beards. Yet I deemed Kaure not ugly. Surely was she short and broad, rising to my breast. Yet the most whiskers she had was some wispy down on lip and cheek. Green tresses with a cloudsilver sheen drew back in a tailknot over green-freckled bronze skin. Also in no wise would I call her body manly, forwhy smooth and wholly buxom she showed. Her bosom put even Remaue to shame, and from her hips I could not even draw eyes. Full they swelled, like a great mead vat slimming to her waist. She wore rightly enough a breast-halter (eyesomely broadly cut to her size) and a leather warrior’s kilt.

@lashunta.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 11:43 PM

In the beginning of _A Castrovel Adventure: Part 3_, Lady Vaeol meets Kaure, a female korasha, and everything she though she knew about her life begins to shift...

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Today I again sought Lady-Captain and told that I have three more names to install for my flag. Lady-Captain took and deemed them well added. Yet then she asked whether I would reckon another. I asked whom, whereat she bade me follow and led from her stallroom.

She led me to the Shota-Barn, where we came among the riders and grooms, and until the far door, where a korasha shoveled dung. The korasha swerved to us, and I startled, forwhy this korasha was not a man, but wifely. Thus Lady-Captain undergreeted me to Kaure.

Soon as I witted my own startleness, shame burned, for I bewared the offthank I showed. I had kenned some little of ~rahyathalma~ - thwartkind Folk, who are few but the butt of much idle talk in youth, both while schooltide and newlinghood. Along with wifely ~korashe~, who were whispered as roughly squat and hairy, there are manly ~damayas~, tall, slim, weak, and right wifely-seeming but for the fleshy stalk between their legs. Along with these bewritnesses had come wild tales of ~korashe~ trying to show themselves as men and ~damayas~ as wives, leading to awkwardness in bedsport, which tales I had ever ataken as too uncanny against any truth, forwhy I had known a ~damayas~ at school, who had been my Elvish loremate.

@lashunta.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 9:56 AM

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