#AwesomeCharacters Ashrah slays strong foes, flays them, and crafts her armour with their hides :)

The orange pieces? Skin of a qsultar, a Minotaur-like demon, which makes it a light but incredibly tough piece of armour. The horn on her pauldron? From the same🧵

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#Conlangity 15. Kraslan has five tenses: present, past, distant past, future, and distant future.

The present tense uses the root form of the verb. We’ve recently seen the example, “Vasainy hoɱa cin” (“Dances she park in”), with “vasa” meaning “to dance.” It doesn’t change 🧵

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One of my favourite demons, design-wise 💜

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#Conlangity 14. Many Kraslan verbs end with -a, particularly -ta and -la. However, those are definitely not the only endings, and we’ve seen a prominent one that breaks away from this pattern: vy (“to be”).

As we’ve talked about before, the suffix -teó [t̪ø] is attached to 🧵

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#AwesomeCharacters Ashrah had heard of creatures she thought would make for worthy opponents—such as Archdevil Malekhall and, later, Shao Kahn—but she didn't really have good examples to look up to until Azzer'fir. "Want to live up to" is a strong sentence 🧵

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#Conlangity 13. When asking for directions in Kraslan, you say, “Ʋomoróga __ apa yaha”, which literally translates to “The path __ to what” (no, Kraslan doesn’t have “?”, but we’ll talk more about this on a later day).

A little vocabulary concerning direction/proximity 🧵

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#LitHodgepodge 13. Ashrah and Sareena's journey across Arak'shiir is a labyrinth. Not physically or literally, but it does have this symbolism of "Hey, you're only finding the way out if you find yourself first."

And it has that connection with Dante's journey in the 🧵

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#WIPSnips 13. “Blue”

Sareena’s skin is blue, which may be a random choice… or not 🙂

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#AwesomeCharacters Martial arts. All of them XD

Okay, for the sake of entertainment, let's consider a second option.

For Ashrah? Fencing, of course! Earning medals for showing off her sword skills? Perfect!

I think Nitara would enjoy some kind of group-style 🧵

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#Conlangity 12. In Kraslan, adjectives come after the nouns they modify and must agree in gender and number. When it's a singular, feminine noun, no change occurs; when it's masculine, it takes an -i or, if it already ends with the letter, an -y:

"Nitara luƥim vyu" =

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#LitHodgepodge 12. Ashrah: "Honour and will. Without those, the soul is weakened, and it is undeserving of my companionship."

Nitara: "Compassion. Compassion to seek understanding and to fight for what is worth."

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#WIPSnips 12. “Pulse(s)”

Lots of Pulse(s) in the story when that’s the word for the global time measurement of Arak’shiir/Netherrealm.

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#AwesomeCharacters "Curiosity" is Ashrah's middle name! Not only does it influence the plot (if she weren't so curious, she wouldn't have gone after Datusha), but it also influences her inner journey, since it's precisely that curiosity that provides a measure🧵

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#Conlangity 11. Let’s go with personal pronouns, which, to be honest, are the only ones I have fully developed so far:

- Sa [sha] = I
- Ty [too] = you
- Ry = you (plural)
- Nyr - you (formal, both singular and plural)
- Iny [i-noo] = she
- Ina = he
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#LGBTQWriteAThon 11. “Mysterious”

Perilous, but there was no other choice. To find the mysterious entity calling to her, Ashrah must brave the Silk Colony and its ravenous queen.

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#AwesomeCharacters Ashrah's unwavering sense of honour is the first thing that pisses Datusha off about its new wielder. Her honour is a part of her, and breaking it would mean tainting her sense of self. If she cannot accomplish her goal without preserving her 🧵

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#Conlangity 10. In Kraslan, family is “rósayi”. A few members:

- Oma = mother
- Taya = father
- Neƥil = child
- Vaŋa = daughter
- Myn = son
- Néri = sister
- Matýa = aunt
- Cáro = niece

Diminutives are used a lot here, so you’ll often hear “omale” (“little mother/mommy”) 🧵

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#SFFChat Q4. A short but, I think, properly eerie one!

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#AwesomeCharacters Oh, most accurate goes to Mileena—many, many centuries of target practising with her sais gave her quite the aim that even Bullseye would find lethal! Her tarkatan eyes do help, too, as they're significantly better than normal dĩn’huei eyes.

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#LitHodgepodge 9. I've mentioned this before, but I'd want 2 for #ChroniclesOfTheRealms. One, an Asian composer who could work with different Asian musical instruments. I'm not that knowledgeable to choose one.

But to drop a name here, I'd also love to have Bear McCreary🧵

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