#Conlangity 4. On day 2, we saw the basic pronunciation of the Kraslan alphabet. However, as I implied, there’s still another layer to explore. That’s because vowels are divided into light (/a/, /i/, /o/) and heavy (/e/, /u/, /y/). While light vowels don’t change the sound 🧵

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#AwesomeCharacters This was Askaly's idea, and she, of course, convinced mam Nitara to help send out invitations and all that.

Ashrah is, to everyone's delight, cooking, though Askaly is helping, too, and the Edenian sisters will bring some items as well. Sareena 🧵

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#OctoberWorldbuilders 3. While wood, bamboo, and leaves are staples across most of the kingdom, Alämhra adopts adobe and rammed earth as its most common materials, followed by stone. For the latter, the region has a greenish stone that can add a creative and colourful touch 🧵

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#WIPSnips 3. “Petal”

Grumpy/sunshine when you start melting the grumpy's heart :3

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#Conlangity 3. As I mentioned yesterday, while vowels play a big part in Kraslan, it doesn’t have open vowels, only one near-open, /a/ [ɐ], and one open-mid, /ai/ [ʌ].

In the consonants, we find no guttural stops, pharyngealisation, or implosives. Clicks aren’t found in 🧵

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#Octember 2. Nitara has the strength to be the legs. Ashrah has enough dexterity to be the arms. And Sareena, who got them both into this mess, is the charismatic head that will guide them through this Kobold party from which she wants to steal a highly prized artefact!

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#Conlangity 2. I've been too lazy to make a proper IPA chart for my languages, and I'm afraid I'll continue to be lazy for now, but... we have the alphabet!

Let’s go by parts. First, I’ll post the alphabet and add an * beside the letters that are most important to remember 🧵

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#LitHodgepodge 2. Oh, having the cast of #ChroniclesOfTheRealms meet the cast of The Mighty Nein would be delightful—they'd both fit right in and wreak delightful havoc xD

Ashrah & Nitara and Beau & Yasha could go on a double date, too... after they sparred for a whole day 🥰

#LGBTQWriteAThon 2. I continue to work on Eternal Flame, the first book of #ChroniclesOfTheRealms, my dark fantasy, xianxia series starred by a group of fierce (and sapphic) women (even though one of them don't know she's a woman yet)!

#OctoberWorldbuilders 2. There's a notorious society living in Alämhra—when the rest of the would-be Kingdom of Ophádûn was hunting down Nether-Touched and everyone with a drop of alarun in their veins (either real or imagined), the region offered a haven for those 🧵

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#WIPSnips 2. "Dent"

A snippet from one of my favourite chapters in EF, as Ashrah officially starts learning to wield the Mystic Arts 🥰 (One I won't share much here to keep the surprises for the book!)

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#AwesomeCharacters “Do you ever laugh? Maybe just a tiny smile?”
“I do not.”

Well, there's Ashrah's answer 😅

Okay, some of you will probably remember that scene, from Book 3, where Nitara marvels at Ashrah's quiet little laugh. That probably won't be the first 🧵

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#Conlangity 1. All right, let’s talk about Kraslan. If you’ve followed my posts about Orasan and Kraslya in general, you might be somewhat familiar with this language already—yes, this is Nitara’s mother tongue, and as a taste of what’s to come, it’s worth remembering that 🧵

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#WIPSnips 1. “Injury”

Continuing from that snippet with the hellhounds, this might well be one of Ashrah’s Fatalities if the CotR game were ever made! Yes, CW for violence and gore 😅

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#OctoberWorldbuilders 1. In the Kingdom of Ophádûn, Edenia, we have the southwestern region of Alämhra which, thanks to the Yamassar mountain, is a desert—and it also has a pretty famous dessert, the jülamel, a puffy, round, flaky bread baked with sugar crystals and that 🧵

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#AwesomeCharacters "Not plot pivotal" being the keyword 😅

Ashrah would write a scene where she can bathe in a lake without worrying about curses or monsters. She misses it, and even more so after she connects with her Mystic Arts.

Nitara... the poor thing 🧵

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#WIPSnips 30. "Guard"

Ashrah doesn't approve of the Monkey Style.

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#AwesomeCharacters Ashrah can be patient, to an extent, when it's part of a strategy she designed. Otherwise, patience isn't among one of her many virtues, and we see this a lot through EF. We'll also this in HoF, as it's one of the reasons she struggles with 🧵

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#WIPSnips 29. "Well"

Lots of "well" in the story, but only one true "Well."

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#AwesomeCharacters Ashrah clearly sees herself as the incredible, talented, gorgeous, powerful, and wonderful warrior that she is, and if you disagree, it is obviously your perception of reality that is misguided!

(She does learn to see herself in a more... 🧵

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