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theshadowwalkers · 2 years

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The Line of Seriel - House of Naradrilen

The Ahn’né people came to Enschka on the dawn of the first age. In what are now called the Lost Tribes lived Seriel. Little is known about her outside of the House of Naradrilen. It is said that Seriel was a leader in her community, although what her accurate title or responsibilities were has been lost to time. The reasons that pushed her to leave the Lost Tribes behind are mostly unknown, and what little is taught about it often conflicts with itself.

Some believe her community was persecuted, others say that a great evil was rising amongst the Tribes and Seriel protected her people by fleeing the growing threat. Others still say that what Seriel fled was an illness, a disease so swift and so deadly that her people were the only left to survive it, only because they left in time.

Whatever the truth may be, Seriel gathered her people, her family, and together the few hundreds of them began the Exodus. After crossing the Farewell Pass, the exiled people founded the Dreaming Woods in the Septentrion-most part of the continent of Enschka.

Seriel's family and closest friends she brought with her were instituted as the House of Naradrilen (ahnol for Children of the Trees) and Seriel was crowned first Queen of the Ahn’né on the 1st of Pyredays of 98 1AA.

Seriel was a brave and just queen. Her prowess in the use of irha made her integral to the early survival of the Ahn’né when they settled in the Dreaming Woods. She's remembered for her quick tongue and biting sense of humor. Seriel is often represented laughing and this is how her people still see her to this day; a fair ruler who always had laughter on her lips.

On the 23rd of Rainsbloom 201, Queen Seriel of House Naradrilen, First Queen of the Ahn’né, was assassinated. Even now, it is still unclear who was behind the murder, or what their motives were. Some people over the years have begun to believe that Queen Seriel was assassinated by the J'kaï and that it is the reason behind the Tribute War. Proponents of this theory say that it would echo the name given to the war, as well as conveniently explain the long-forgotten origin of the thousand-year war that has caused such tragedy for the Ahn’né.

Whatever the reason, after a brief period during which Consort Eikane of House Orane became Regent to help stabilise the Queendom, Seriel's heir and firstborn child, Maÿ, came to the throne. On the 18th of Firstsnow 202, Maÿ was crowned second Queen of the Ahn’né.

Queen Maÿ the Kind remains to this day the most beloved queen after Seriel. Maÿ was just good, purely and completely good. Under her rein, the Dreaming Woods flourished, growing rapidly in size and population while its culture and customs began spreading far and wide throughout Enschka. She nurtured most of the diplomatic relations with the Fées and the Ondines and brokered the longest period of peace during the entire Tribute War.

But above all, Maÿ the Kind's greatest gift to her people came after she met who would become Consort Itril Silnalui. Their love was the matter of legends, and it is legend that says that the ahns, upon seeing this love, moulded the irha of the Dreaming Woods and gave to Maÿ a secret knowledge. A knowledge with which the Queen created the Bonding, and made Itril and her the first ever Companions.

From their Bond came Merathÿ, Maÿ's heir, on the 4th of Awakening 910. And on the 4th of Awakening 910, Queen Maÿ the Kind passed away in childbirth.

Because Merathÿ was just born when she needed to take the throne, she was replaced by Relei, Seriel's second child, who acted as Regent starting on the 3rd of Harvest 1 1AF, and for the decades before Merathÿ was of age to inherit her duties.

On the 41st of Firstsnow 87, Merathÿ was crowned third Queen of the Ahn’né.

We do not talk about Traitor Merathÿ.

On the 6th of Slowdays 106, Nanse, Queen Seriel's third child, was crowned fourth Queen of the Ahn’né.

Queen Nanse the Great was a genius tactician, and in any other life, she would have been one of the greatest ahn’né warrior-queen. But barely fifty turns after Nanse's coronation, Enschka crumbled under the disastrous consequences of the Great Cataclysm. Nanse's entire rein after that was solely focused on rebuilding the queendom from the sheer destruction caused by the cataclysmic event.

Those who knew her said that Queen Nanse was always calm and gracious, that she would always take the time to listen no matter who talked to her, from commoners to her personal advisers. That she rarely smiled, but not for lack of wanting; because Queen Nanse the Great had lived through the death of her sister-queen, the betrayal of her niece, a war that had ran through generations, and without question the single most devastating and catastrophic event Enschka had ever known.

It is said that Nanse had a beautiful smile that pulled you in, and a laugh that invited you to join. It is also said that Nanse rarely had a reason to smile, and never had a reason to laugh. There was a melancholy that dragged her down like a dark miasma, a despair that dogged her every step no matter how much effort she put into dragging her country out of the rubble and ruins.

Already weary when she took the throne, a hundred times more weary the more she reigned, Queen Nanse the Great passed away peacefully in her sleep on the 39th of Warmer 567, having lived a long and heavy life.

Right after, Nanse's heir and second child, Erethil, was crowned fifth Queen of the Ahn’né.

Erethil was one of the youngest queens to come into power and it was immediately obvious to her Court and her people that she did not want to be there. Nanse, to date, remains the queen who lived the oldest and reigned the longest, and many believe of Erethil that she had taken her mother's long reign and even longer life for immortality.

In a way, she might not be completely wrong. Scholars in the study of irha believe that if Nanse didn't have to spend so much of her power during her reign to compensate for the Great Cataclysm, and if she didn't decide to have both of her children very late in life, she most likely would have lived eternally. But a child is a costly thing ever since Maÿ's death in childbirth outlawed the Old Way, and Nanse exhausting herself to create two lives in such close proximity expanded so much of her irha at once that her following death was to be expected.

Consequentially, Erethil lived in the belief that she would not access the throne for a very long time, if at all, and it showed during her reign. She was never cruel or unjust, but there was a distinct lack of care in her actions. She was clearly very unhappy, miserable in a role she despised. Erethil did the bare minimum and delegated everything she could to her Council and her elder brother.

Roughly 250 turns of the wheels into Erethil's reign (dates are fuzzy because of how private House of Naradrilen is and how little of this process was done publicly), Erethil's brother changed.

The specifics are, again, unclear, for this kind of procedure is normally undertaken so much younger in life. Some Scholars believed that surviving this was a miracle for Nanse's firstborn. Others say that the survival rate is always the same, but what mattered here was that Nanse's first child most likely believed it a course of action impossible specifically for her..

Roughly 250 turns of the wheels into Erethil's reign, the Queen got everything she wished for. Her older sibling was now a woman, and as firstborn of the line of Seriel, she was now entitled to the throne upon Erethil's death. Erethil did not see it that way. Her sister's transition was a gift from the White, in her own words, and she would not pass the opportunity this presented.

On the 13th of Blizzard 854, Queen Erethil abdicated the throne of Ahn-Seriel and stayed just long enough to see her sister to the throne in her stead. Right after, Erethil marched to the banks of the Maÿ that cut through Ahn-Seriel, embarked on one of the ondine barges that had apparently come only for her, and vanished into the night. No word has come from Queen Erethil ever since, no news recorded; although it is believed she is still alive.

Despite now being eligible to the throne, Antahnaril had never been raised as a queen. She named a Regent in her stead while she was taught all that she needed. In the first of many controversial decisions Ant would take in her life, she named Lieutenant-General Sileo of House Haravel as Regent.

The controversy didn't came from Sileo's aptitudes, as he was arguably one of the most competent people in the whole queendom. But despite his many qualities, Sileo was not of House Naradrilen, making him the first person to take the throne of Ahn-Seriel who wasn't a direct descendant of the Line of Seriel.

Ant managed to placate most complaints by simply pointing that Sileo was an incredibly competent man and that, given her unique position as the only queen-to-be to be of age while a regency was in place, she had still authority to veto a decision made by Sileo even while she was in learning. Sileo's regency was more of a joined affair between him and Ant while she learned the ins and outs of the Naradrilen monarchy.

With Erethil's abdication, her education now complete, Antahnaril was crowned sixth Queen of the Ahn’né on the 9th of Pyredays 916.

Warrior-Queen Ant was a brutal tactician, a deadly fighter and a prodigy Master of Arms. Her reign marked the most aggressive campaign of conquest and battle against the J'kaï army. Ant is seen as a savage warrior, a ruthless decision-maker, and a mostly absent queen. Her time was almost exclusively spent on the battlefield while she left the bulk of the government work to her Council and Consort. Oh, what a scandal her Consort was.

Ant met President Kela when he came to congratulate her. The Fée president had taken an entourage with him, and amongst them was his younger brother, Yosaël. Everyone present in the room, even those who grumble at the eventual conclusion, agrees that it was love at first sight. Less than a cycle later, the Warrior-Queen and Yosaël had begun the Bonding process, and the Ceremony happened not long after.

To date, Consort Yosaël is the only consort to a Naradrilen queen who isn't ahn’né. There might have been more pushback against his inclusion in the House of Naradrilen if Consort Yosaël wasn't as good as he is.

The Fée has managed, despite everything going against him, to garner from the people of Ahn-Seriel the same reputation as Maÿ the Kind. Yosaël is deeply beloved by the people he effectively rules over while his Companion fights the Tribute War personally (again, something the Warrior-Queen is the first to do). Yosaël also raised Ant's heir from birth and for most of her life while her mother was in campaign.

Despite her ruthlessness, it has always been evident how fiercely Queen Ant cares. Her people come before everything, even her own safety, her time with her family and at home in Ahn-Seriel. She hones in on any threat made against who she considers hers and, despite her many oddities, this has granted Queen Ant a high popularity amongst her people.

But after a lifetime of controversies and debatable decisions, Ant did the one thing that no one was able to let go of. During the customary visit to the Sanctuary made once every turn of the wheel, the Children of the Calling gave Ant and Yosaël a prediction. Although not frequent, the Sanctuary does, at times, contact the various leaders of the continent with any information they gleaned from the future and deem necessary to pass onto them.

The last queen to receive a prediction had been the Traitor, making it almost an Age since then and surprising everyone with it, Ant and Yosaël most of all. The predictions are kept secret between the Sanctuary and whatever leader received it, to ensure that, given the state of Enschka and its thousand-year war, nothing foreseen by the Seers amongst the Children of the Calling would fall into the hands of an opposing nation. Therefore, no one knows what words were gifted to the Warrior-Queen one that fateful encounter.

The sweet child of Ant, Heir Anathÿ, was believed to be blessed by the Gods because of her uncanny resemblance to Seriel, down to her frequent smiles and loud laughter. Much too young for the throne yet but the people were looking forward to her reign; it was public opinion that she would herald a prosperous time, perhaps even broker a continued peace with the J'kaï.

But when the royal family came back from the Sanctuary, sweet Heir Anathÿ had stopped smiling. There, on the Sanctuary island, hidden away from her own people, Anathÿ had her very last laugh. When the Ahn’né next saw Heir Anathÿ, they were shocked and horrified to see the small child with metallic wire sewing her mouth completely shut.

Aside from the obvious, something had irrevocably changed in the family. Yosaël was aggressively kind, as if to compensate for what he let others do to his child, no matter her blood. There was now a distance between Yosaël and the queen, despite their clear love for each other. Ant, on the other hand, became ever more absent.

Her campaigns went on for longer and longer, until Yosaël effectively became the ruler in her stead. A period of despair followed, as the people of the Dreaming Woods watched in horror their hope and dream of Heir Anathÿ becoming the next Seriel be destroyed by a prediction they knew nothing about.

What was supposed to be a prosperous time for the ahn’né people turned into tragedy, and disappointment. During one of her seemingly ever-lasting campaigns, the Warrior-Queen was taken down by a squad of J'kaï assassins. She died on the 29th of Slowdays 356 2AF, not having come home to Ahn-Seriel, her Consort and her daughter for over a decade.

Anathÿ wasn't of age when Ant died, so Consort Yosaël became regent for a short period of time. Finally, on the 5th of Harvest 359, Anathÿ was crowned seventh Queen of the Ahn’né.

(shown above, Anathÿ -right- and her son Eobel -left-)

Last in a long line with a heavy history, Anathÿ-Battlescar is a grave, serious ruler. Long gone are the smiles and laughter of her childhood, Anathÿ took the best of both worlds from her parents. Her queen-mother passed down to her a ruthlessness that shows in much of her decision-making, and terrifying skill in combat. From her father, blood relations or not, she got her unparalleled skill in the use of irha.

Anathÿ sees the world in black and white. There is only the war, and the continued survival of her people. Nothing else matters. These two sides of her rarely conflict, but the citizens of Ahn-Seriel, who most often interact with her, tell tales of a queen who spends half of every day in a public hall, where she meets anyone of her subjects who wants to speak with her, one by one and in private. No matter that she was back from the battlefield, injured and exhausted, you would always find her in the morning, in that great hall where her people gather.

The rest of her time, she mostly spends with her war council, planning the next attack, coordinating the next defence. Queen Anathÿ never Bonded, despite having two children. Heir Orril was born of General Alaric, while her son Eobel was created with Alinael-irhashal. Anathÿ has one of the longest reigns of the line of Seriel, with Heir Orril having come of age for a number of turns now. She's a popular queen, if not the closest to her people, a skilled ruler and deadly warrior.

#totl #lore #the shadowwalkers #the oath of the landwalker #interactive fiction #seriel #maÿ #merathÿ #nanse #erethil #ant #relei #sileo #yosaël #anathÿ #orril #eobel #totl art

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spacetimewithstuartgary · 2 months

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Three years later, search for life on Mars continues

In the three years since NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars, the NASA science team has made the daily task of investigating the red planet seem almost mundane.

The rover and its helicopter sidekick Ingenuity have captured stunning images of Mars and collected 23 unique rock core samples along 17 miles of an ancient river delta.

One science team member, University of Cincinnati Associate Professor Andy Czaja, said he sometimes has to remind himself that the project is anything but ordinary.

“This is so cool. I’m exploring another planet,” he said.

Czaja teaches in the Department of Geosciences in UC’s College of Arts and Sciences. He is a paleobiologist and astrobiologist��helping NASA look for evidence of ancient life on Mars using a rover outfitted with custom geoscience and imaging tools with three of his UC graduate students, Andrea Corpolongo, Brianna Orrill and Sam Hall.

Three years into the mission, the rover has performed like a champ, he said.

“Perseverance has excelled. It’s been fantastic. It has such capable instrumentation for doing the geology work. It’s able to explore distant objects with its zoom lens cameras and can focus on tiny objects at incredible resolution,” Czaja said.

Along the way, the mission has recorded a number of firsts: first powered flight, first recorded sounds of Mars, the longest autonomous drive (nearly a half-mile) and new discoveries about the planet’s geology, atmosphere and climate.

Czaja was part of the NASA team that decided where on Mars to land the rover. And he remained on the science team that would pore over its daily data and discoveries to decide what the rover should do next.

Among the new discoveries was finding primary igneous rocks in Jezero Crater. These rocks are the hardened result of liquid magma. They offer scientists promising clues about refining the known age of the planet.

Scientists suspect Mars once had long-lived rivers, lakes and streams. Today, water on Mars is found in ice at the poles and trapped below the Martian surface.

Czaja and his student Corpolongo were co-lead authors of a paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, Planets that revealed that Mars also may have had hydrothermal systems based on the hydrated magnesium sulfate the rover identified in the volcanic rocks.

“When those rocks cool off and fracture, they become a habitable environment for life,” Czaja said.

Corpolongo also led a similar research paper in the same journal co-authored by Czaja detailing the results of the rover’s analysis of samples using the SHERLOC deep ultraviolet Raman and fluorescence instrument. Both papers featured contributions from dozens of their fellow NASA researchers on the project.

Samples collected by the rover may finally answer the question about whether we are alone in the universe.

“We have not found any definitive evidence of life in these deposits yet. But if there were fossil microorganisms trapped in the rocks, they would be too small to see with the rover,” Czaja said.

Czaja is hopeful funding will be approved for the anticipated Mars Sample Return mission to retrieve the hermetically sealed titanium tubes scientists have spent three years filling with interesting rock cores.

“These hydrated minerals trap water within themselves and record the history of how and when they formed,” the study said. “Returning samples of these minerals to Earth would allow researchers to explore the history of Mars’ water and climate and possibly evidence of ancient life with the most sensitive instruments possible.”

But that was just the beginning. Perseverance began its deliberate exploration from the floor of the crater to the front of the delta, formed by an ancient river or drainage channel where it encountered sedimentary rocks that often contain trapped minerals and another avenue for evidence of ancient life.

And last year the rover made it to the crater’s margin in what used to be an enormous lake where it is exploring deposits of magnesium carbonate, which can form geologically or biologically from bacteria.

Czaja said the decision to send Perseverance to Jezero Crater appears to be paying off.

“Absolutely. There were other places we could have gone that might have been just as good,” he said. “You won’t know until you explore them all. But Jezero was picked for good reason and it has been completely justified.”

The helicopter Ingenuity’s flying days appear to be over after it sustained rotor damage in January after landing on its 72nd flight. But Perseverance is still going strong. It still has 15 sample tubes at its disposal to capture additional interesting geologic specimens.

Next the rover will make its way out of Jezero Crater to explore the wider area. Czaja said they are likely to find rocks dating back 4 billion years or more. And Mars could harbor stromatolites or rocks that contain evidence of ancient layered mats of bacteria visible to the naked eye. On Earth, these rocks are sometimes found in extreme environments such as geyser basins.

The horizon of discovery continues to expand daily before the science team.

“I hope that Perseverance has just whetted our appetite for more Martian exploration,” Czaja said. “And bringing back samples will allow us to study Mars and search for evidence of ancient life with instruments that haven’t even been invented yet for years and years to come.”

TOP IMAGE....NASA "parks" Perseverance to wait out the Mars solar conjunction, a period when Earth and Mars are on opposite sides of the sun. The sun's ionized gas can interfere with communications, so NASA idled the rover until Earth and Mars were back in direct view. Photo/NASA/JPL-Caltech

CENTRE IMAGE....NASA's Perseverance rover has been investigating rocks at the front of what scientists believe is a former river or floodwater delta in Mars' Jezero Crater. Illustration/NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/USGS

LOWER IMAGE....NASA's Perseverance Mars rover stitches together a panorama of Mars using its mast-mounted camera. Photo/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

BOTTOM IMAGE....The rover Perseverance has taken hundreds of thousands of images of Mars in the past three years. Photo/NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

#science #space #astronomy #physics #news #nasa #astrophysics #MARS

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bitchystarlightduck · 1 year

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1travesia-imposible · 2 years

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Mírame

Mírame, escúchame, me cansé de que me dejes sin decir nada, de que me orrilles a lanzarme, de me quieras y luego no, de que me abraces y luego no, de que busques y luego no, estoy cansada de buscar en ti lo que no puedes darme, de buscar la respuesta en la duda, de escuchar tus problemas y que te valgan los míos, de verte a los ojos y sentir mariposas. Estoy tan cansada de ser la que muestra interés, cuando se nota que no me quieres, estoy harta de sentirme insuficiente, de sentirme menos de lo soy, de sentir que podrías elegir a cualquiera por encima de mi. A veces quiero que te alejes, otras que te quedes, pero soy débil, así que quedate, búscame, abrazame sin soltarme y no me dejes como todos los demás, como mamá, como papá, como todos en mi vida, por favor se diferente.

-Blue

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aranazo · 6 years

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Laing and Anti-Psychiatry an anthology of writing about R. D. Laing with a Derek Birdsall cover.

#books #covers #penguin books #penguinbooks #r d laing #anti-psychiatry #derek birdsall #1972 #salmagundi magazine #robert boyers #robert orril

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nucleo-sin-electron · 6 years

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"A nadie te pareces desde que yo te amo..."

- Pablo Neruda -

#nadie #parecer #recordar #existir #desde #que #yo #te amo #pablo neruda #pajaros #viento #fuerza #temporal #barca #cielo #tu estas aquí #grito #orrillate #corrio #sombra #ojos #ahora #pequeño

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cactus-pudding-blog · 5 years

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A tag commissions for Link [wajas] of their DnD character, Orril.

#cactuspuddign #art #digital art #commission #dnd character #dnd #aasimar

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giftcollection4u · 3 years

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ORRIL Kids Durable Wooden Folding Study Table Chair Set (2-8 Years) – Polo-Made in India (with 7 Years Warranty) Price: (as of - Details) Light-weight & convenient to carry; Item Weight: 3 Kg; Product Dimensions: 70 x 60 x 40 cm; Material: wood & Practical and fun for kid's bedrooms.Comb of Study Table and Chair are for 2-6 year Old KidsWonderful print on the table makes it look appealing

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theshadowwalkers · 2 years

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You have opened the floodgate for ask spams fjjffdjdjd! I wanted to ask first about the language: what inspired you? Do you follow a set of rules or just go with what looks cool? Do they have an alphabet? Any chance of hearing how the most important stuff (especially names) is pronounced?👀

OMG you just asked about one of my favourite topics ever around this world lmao

So, the goal eventually would be to be two fully functional languages, Ahnol and So'Kaï, respectively the languages of the Ahn’né and the J'kaï, and have some common words and titles translated into the languages of the Fées, the Naïades, the Ëkos and the Changeformes. The Dracs' language is a bit different, because I'm basically using a regional language from my country and tweaking it a bit for them, so it's not like I'm coming up with it from scratch like I did with Ahnol. So'Kaï is currently at the point I'd like to get with the other languages, which means a bunch of important words used by people in the story.

I was, of course, inspired by Tolkien just as a concept, but the language in itself is a combination of a bunch of things. I've learned seven languages in my life, even if I'm not fluent in all of them, and I've always been interested in them. So, for Ahnol, I based the syntax structure on French, which is S+V+C, or Subject, Verb and Addition. Then, I just began making up words until I had enough that I begun noticing a pattern in sounds I had made unconsciously. When I noticed that pattern, I stuck to it to make a consistently-sounding language. So eventually, it began to sound like the regional languages from my country, mixed with Japanese and Chinese. I'm also using some of the additional letters we have in French, like é, è, à, ç, the little triangle symbol like this = î and the two-dots symbol like this= ï

It has very consistent rules for how it's pronounced and it's relatively easy to understand. Time works like in Chinese, where every sentence is present tense and you just add a time signifier. In English, that would look like this: I was hungry // Yesterday, I am hungry. So the latter is basically how it works.

Unlike French, which its heavily based on in other aspects, I refused to add gender markers and the formal and familiar "you" we have, because the first sucks and the second, although fun, was more complicated than I wanted to get at the time (that changed but at this point it'd be too much work to invent both "you"s)

There is an alphabet and I even made a custom font so I could type the words in documents or when I'm drawing something. The alphabet looks roughly like this (this is an earlier version but the only picture I currently have on my computer, but there's like one tiny difference in the current version so this will do)

The alphabet is clearly based on Ogham, which I'm very familiar with because of my religion, culture and practice. Because the Ahn’né live exclusively in forests, it made sense to use something literlaly called the Alphabet of the Trees as an inspiration.

Right now, Ahnol is completely usable, but it looks vocabulary, which is what makes a language rich. Since I basically add new words whenever I need them in the story, I have a wild variety of words atm.

Excuse my voice, I went to a metal concert with my sister that went on for almost 5 hours and had four bands, including the legendary Gojira, so my throat is busted. But here's a list of words and short phrases, what they mean, and how they're pronounced, as well as some of the most important characters’ names

link to the sound file

(rough transcript of names)

Naradrilen’né Anathÿ O’sha

Olaÿ Erenalui

Mehetÿl of Ashbloom Domain

Hé’noûr of House Faon’den (Faon’den’né Hé’noür)

Aubiel

Sheoril Ashall’dil

Jora Dil’norr

Eobel (Naradrilen’né Eobel)

Orril (Naradrilen’né Orril)

and hey, if you want to use what I give you later in this post to make some sentences of your own, I’d love to see them lol I haven’t copied everything from my language file because I want to protect my work a little bit, but I use Ahnol pretty extensively in the game so I thought it’d be cool to share some with you and everyone else

Thank you so much for this question, I had so much fun writing all this. I might post a language breakdown in the lore tag of the blog for later, we’ll see. And if you have any other question, I would be DELIGHTED to gush more about the world of Enschka.

[everything below the cut is copied straight from my language file on my computer, so it has annotations, French thrown in the middle of it and it has literal translations as well, marked as ‘lit.’, short for ‘literally’ (for ex, I love you is Je t’aime in French, but the literal translation would be Je aime toi. Or in reverse, Je m’appelle John translates to My name is John but the literal translation, so word-for-word, would be I am me called John)]

PRONOUNS & BASICS mün: to be ih: I, me noür: you wa'ih: you far away (like in japanese, sore/kore/are) ara: they (gender-neutral singular third person) araï: they (gender-neutral plural third person) ihnoü: us

ihn: mine noüh: yours arani: theirs (no distinction of singular/plural) ushihi: ours ushihnoü: together

aa: yes eo: no i: and, also

asharr'noür: thank you (lit. blessed be you) dil asharr: you're welcome (lit. bless the white -implied, bless the white instead of me)

aa: yes eo: no i: and, also

asharr'noür: thank you (lit. blessed be you) dil asharr: you're welcome (lit. bless the white -implied, bless the white instead [of me])

TITLES

o'sha: gender-neutral word for a ruler a'sha: king specifically, since the ahn’né don't have those they invented the word for other cultures shalle: master ha'norr: healer (the magic of hands) irhashal: mage (master of life) ashto'ïreq: shadowwalker (lit. walk in the dark) vallemek: warrior oshallem: soldier (lit: warrior of the queen) irhamek: battlemage (lit: warrior of life) erenmek: councillor, specifically for war (lit. the one who sees war)

ETHNICITY

olaÿé: dreamers sila'né: sylvains héki'né: septs

POINTS CARDINAUX

héki: septentrion arheyü: after-sky oshaji: stone sheo: sea

COLOURS

dil: white dila: light ïreq: black ïreqa: dark nara: red eri: blue sato: green lunil: yellow faon: gold adoo: marron

FAMILY

eranga'a: sibling essa'a: older sibling (like Chinese. this is familiar way, like "big sis/big bro" but gender neutral) osso'a: younger sibling (same) irha'a: twin/beloved sibling/sibling of life because of irha ushana: companion, partner nooqa: parent who provided the stasis (familiar) anooq: idem (soutenu) neqe: parent who provided the constant stream of irha (familiar) aneq: idem (soutenu)

PHRASES

ih shalle'deo: I don't know -something implied- (literally meaning I don't master -something-) quera ihqari: come with me ihqari: with me (works with any pronoun or noun, subject or speaker first, then the thing being with the subject) asharr'uil: blessed be [...] shallon ihqari: i love you (lit. love with you)

GREETINGS & SAYINGS

for bonded people: peace for you: noür thyna'shi (lit. you peace is for) and prosper: i n'ahanni (lit. et t'prospère -même raccourci que dans je t'aime par ex)

formal greeting: asharr'uil noür dil'oshallonri: Be blessed on this day, you who is beloved by the White (lit. blessed be you, sun beloved) ushihnoü ashto dilero: may we walk together under the light of the White (lit. together walk the sun under)

PET NAMES & NICKNAMES

oyami: precious (gender neutral) (ihn)ushana: (my) companion (gender neutral, with the possessive it becomes a full word) (ihn)venhael: (my) bonded (gender neutral, same) oshallonri: beloved

SWEARING (scale of #1 to #5 from less offensive to worse)

shkaï: putain (#1 used like putain, is a bastardized version of Kaï, the angel island) irha'o: connard/connasse (#3 gender neutral insult, lit. without irha/without a soul) mera: salaud/salope (#4 gender neutral, short version of Merathÿ, the traitor queen)

VERBS

quera: come, follow quera'deo: stay put, don't follow shalle'rea: to know something, to have mastered something asharr: to bless asharr'ui: to be blessed shallon: to love, (lit. to master emotion) shallon'ui: to be in love ahanni: to prosper eren: to see eren'ui: to be seen ashto: to walk arahn'ui: to give birth

NOUNS

dil: the sun/the white, light norr: hand irha: life/centre (also the name of the particles that form their life-force and magic) ahnol: language of the ahn’né ahn: the small fairy-like creatures who inhabit the Dreaming Woods and are born from the irha in the trees. Also how the ahn’né talk about themselves in their language sooreth: cloud sooreth'irha: clouded heart, ahn’né slang for half-blood/mixed people thyna: peace sil: tree sileo: bois (du bois, pas les bois/forêt) (common first name) soori: a type of tea, very bitter, from the Ashtou Chain nalui: friend olanéi: the dreaming elm (lit. the ones who speak the dreams into existence) lemek: conflict, though used also in the context of war ol: langue (autant le muscle que le concept de language) olaÿ: dreams, songe ishell: the wrapped tunic worn by Dreamers over their undershirt and pants thÿrun : the facepaint worn by members of a specific House to denote their status yüe: the sky qeraÿo: a follower, someone who subscribes to a belief yano: wind shi: "-day" or celebration (Dreamer-day is olaÿ-shi for ex) jarré: snow oshaji: stone sheo: sea asharri: god/the divine, as in a general term for a god when not using their name (ex: the gods have spoken) arahn: birth mer: carer, caring person ant: star/celestial body

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6 independent company tech inclines that will help you in 2020

In 2019, we saw the ascent of a progression of business tech patterns. They incorporated the cloud-based frameworks so you can deal with the go and from any area; email mechanization to assist keep with following of who you have messaged; and email advertising stages, for example, Mailchimp and Klayvio, so you can arrive at your clients with data that is important to them.

With the beginning of the new decade, we anticipate six key patterns that will help you as an entrepreneur in 2020.

1. Ascent of the cloud

Andrew Dark, executive and co-proprietor of print wear and marking expert Custom Planet, accepts the utilization of cloud-based frameworks will proceed be a business tech pattern for 2020.

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He says: "Cloud-based programming is impacting the manners in which our staff can work, giving them greater adaptability and permitting them to remote work without any difficulty.

"Fund can pursue installments, request stock, and approach all our requesting data from anyplace. Deals can process orders, make statements, and manage customers.

"I feel cloud-based frameworks and telecommuting can help staff to have a superior work/life equalization and increment satisfaction in the working environment."

The equivalent can be said of cloud-based bookkeeping programming, which will permit you to keep steady over your records when you're in a hurry.

2. Appropriation of innovation

Advertising expert Nat Sharp is the originator of Sharp Thinking Marketing. She says the appropriation of innovation will be a key business tech pattern and challenge for entrepreneurs in 2020.

"Numerous organizations believe that man-made reasoning (AI) is still in its earliest stages, yet as an entrepreneur, you can't stand to disregard it," she says.

"Man-made intelligence can give you an inconceivable serious edge improving reaction times and the entire client experience. What's more, in 2020, we will see an enormous increment in chatbots.

"Chatbots have customarily been disapproved of by promoting industry specialists.

"However, as progressively online life stages are allowing bots and as their complexity has expanded, it will get urgent for private ventures to send them to improve their client encounter and mechanize their business.

"Bots can help qualify and support leads dependent on clients' collaborations as opposed to producing a consistent stream of deals messages."

3. Computerization

One thing that entrepreneurs don't generally have is time. Some portion of the purpose behind that will be that they're occupied with following up on late solicitations that haven't been paid and other manual procedures that should be managed.

As per Sage-dispatched investigate, the normal time lost to administrator in the US in 4.8%. Sound natural to you?

Robotization can be the response to spare time, so you can concentrate on increasingly significant assignments that help you to assemble your business. What's more, it's probably going to be a key pattern for 2020.

Regardless of whether it's down to utilizing bookkeeping programming so you don't need to catch up on solicitations or arrive at your clients effectively by means of email, mechanization will be one to watch.

Nat Sharp includes: "Shrewd organizations realize they have to gain by promoting robotization. What's more, I'm not simply looking at conveying your organization bulletin utilizing the most recent email showcasing programming.

"The individuals who realize the part comprehend they have to give their purchasers more command over how and when they expend substance and personalization is at its essence.

"Advertising robotization programming can incorporate your site, email promoting and your CRM framework, guaranteeing a consistent and exceptionally adaptable client experience."

4. Round innovation

Asad Hamir, prime supporter at Klyk Tech, accepts 'round innovation' will be a developing pattern for 2020, as entrepreneurs will be seeing approaches to reduce expenses.

He says: "Innovation is one of the greatest cash channels for independent companies; 45% consider supplanting to be tech as past their present spending power.

"Luckily for them, as we approach 2020, there is a solid contention for organizations to move away from a direct utilization model.

"Rather than purchasing gadgets with money, utilizing them and afterward discarding them, organizations are beginning to utilize a round model where tech is rented, renovated, and fixed for re-use toward the finish of this first cycle. It's anything but difficult to see the advantages of this methodology.

"Purchasing innovation in a straight manner implies independent companies burn through cash on costly resources that will just devalue and sap the income of a business.

"On the other hand, the round model spreads the expense of a workforce's gadgets. Rather than purchasing new innovation, organizations pioneers can decrease costs significantly by buying renovated tech or fixing gadgets to get more use from them."

5. Mechanical procedure mechanization (RPA)

Another pattern for entrepreneurs to know about is mechanical procedure mechanization (RPA). This is an advancement of computerization and it includes the utilization of programming with AI or AI to manage a high volume of monotonous errands, for example, for money groups.

Steve O'Brien, overseeing executive of Newicon, a product structure and improvement organization, says RPA "has just changed associations around the globe".

He includes: "In its present structure, it can lessen operational hazard, improve profitability, cut costs… you get the thought. It's transformation. The stuff we're taking a shot at with our customers at this very moment.

What's more, the truly energizing part is that RPA is experiencing its very own change, both with respect to the innovation in question and the manner in which it's being received.

"Innovation shrewd, I believe we're probably going to see RPA attract more on progresses AI and AI. Thus, RPA will enter what others are calling RPA 2.0, or unassisted RPA — where, when set up, there's no human association vital. This would introduce an unheard of level of profitability increment.

"What's more, pay special mind to an expansion in commoditized, fitting and-play equipment, nearby potential libraries of open-source robotization programming. Together, these two things could open up RPA to an a lot more extensive market.

"As far as reception, we're as of now observing a tremendous push towards RPA from China, as it goes to innovation to proceed with its reality driving degrees of efficiency. Also, we're probably going to see any semblance of Europe and the US putting resources into request to contend."

Steve Orrill is the accomplice account administrator at fund robotization organization V1. He says: "Mechanical procedure computerization will turn out to be a piece of the every day working lives for little and medium-sized ventures as money offices endeavor to take out manual procedures and work more efficiently, with their information.

"Account groups have a lot of manual and dull assignments that include looking and entering information just as joining information from various sources – and these will be dispensed with through mechanization. Indeed, Gartner trusts RPA can spare money offices 25,000 hours of avoidable work yearly.

"In addition, RPA and people will cooperate. RPA will do all the basis [data section, looking and consolidation] to give increasingly precise and opportune information readily available. People will even now need to have some oversight which means figuring out how to screen RPA frameworks.

"Be that as it may, the prize is increasing more prominent control and undeniably progressively sharp dynamic.

"Receipt mechanization is a spot for SMEs to begin and, when incorporated with cloud innovation, it is the perfect initial step to accomplishing a powerful advanced change technique."

6. Social trade

Dhruvin Patel is an optometrist and the organizer of Ocushield, a screen defender organization. He says 2020 will see the ascent of social trade: the capacity to execute on Facebook visit or WhatsApp, for instance.

He says: "Apparatuses are turning out previously demonstrating abilities of this, for example, jumper.ai, however I envision the social stages themselves will hope to present this as they can procure income from this kind of exchange based robotization.

"It will likewise observe AI and talk work nearer together as most visit demands particularly for web based business are generally the equivalent average inquiries – shipping, returns strategy, and so forth, hence this can rapidly be distinguished and the right reaction given."

End on private company tech patterns

As an entrepreneur, you have a decision with respect to whether you need receive the developing patterns of mechanization, man-made brainpower, all the more naturally inviting practices.

With these patterns getting increasingly unmistakable, it will merit thinking about which ones merit receiving for your business in 2020, so you can remain on the ball, win new clients, and lift your business.

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Studio

CC Statements, Blog Link and Final Reflection

Final Conceptual Statement

This website is designed specifically to rate landlords and property managers. The website allows users to rate their landlords, using both numerical points and written answers. We understood that the landlord is not the fundamental factor in the decision-making process of renting a space. The intention is to provide an impartial perspective on the managing styles of the landlords. The professional relationship is approached in different ways, so gaining an understanding of what situation you are getting into while renting is important. Having a digital profile now in this era is very important if you want to be recognised and have a good impression for your potential consumers. So we are creating a platform where ratings will be based on users through a repetitive design process, focusing on the accuracy in transition from personal views and significant data. By having our research into Critics, Ethics and User Interfaces this will help our website with a very accurate perceptions of profile and at the same time learning that Landlords aren’t the basic part in the process of renting. This will improve the ways on how to keep a professional relationship.

Individual Contextual Statement:

Most of assigned work was looking at ethics and how Consumers are now aware of security and wary of companies that break their trust. As a result, security has become make-or-break for many organizations. Many users left Facebook, for example, in the wake of its public interrogation about the mishandling of user data. No longer can organizations rely on user apathy to get away with poor data security practices (Wysopal, C, 2018). Making sure our landlords and tenants safe is why we have made our website more secure. Our mission is only to improve not ruin someone's career or defame someone. Our system is strict and secure, it involves a username and password with verification sent to your email address. User testing is something else we wanted to our expand our knowledge into. We wanted to get more in depth information on what our users wanted from us and how we could have improved from last semesters success. We had to think about our website for a second. What are our goals? We obviously want to get more users, but how do you make it happen? Instead, you have to figure out what influences users from becoming a part of your service. That’s the heart of user experience testing.

We looked at what the positives of user testing are and how it could benefit us examples such as improving retention rate, Understanding user behaviour, finding out the unseen problems. This was seen to be a great tool for us because when we started our User Testing of our Rating Systems we could see how people actually didn't like certain aspects that we had a plan to put so it made us conspeate and re-think about our design.

Good user testing for a website requires the following

Clear navigation

Easy access to product information

Easy product service

Trust symbols

Social proof Reference (2018, July 2)

This how we were able to get good results with the user testing for our Rating Systems Survey and also when conducting our experiment when showing our users what they felt about our old website and new website. It gave us more clarity of what our users liked and disliked of what we had done and how we could improve The rating systems were something that we wanted to really improve and expand upon after last semester success. Our goal for this semester was to look at other different types of rating systems and see how can we improve customer and landlord feedback. Netflix is an example of they removed their traditional rating system of 5 stars to a more simple thumbs up and thumbs down. The reason for that was they wanted just a clear answer from their viewers to see if they liked the TV Show/Movie.

To get more from our users we wanted to try different rating systems and challenge ourselves in creating the best feedback experience to our users. We learned more about rating systems during the process. When designing a rating system, it's all too easy for user-experience designers to overlook the many purposes of rating systems. Before you can decide on the right rating system for your users, it's important to understand exactly what rating systems can help you do. “Only you and your team can decide which kind of rating system is right for your product. Depending on which of the factors above is most important to you and your users, you may find that a binary rating system will suit your needs. That said, you may find that a more nuanced rating system is required” (Goode, L, 2016). With the help of user testing methods this led us into making an original rating system that would provide users with all the knowledge they would need to know about a Landlord and a previous tenant. Landlords are rated out of Communication, Reliability and Admin, users get to answer some questions on each topic and then give them a score out of 100%, which contributes to the final score. We wanted to get the best feedback possible for our landlords to see what they can improve on. Our mission is not to ruin their careers it's all about getting better and providing the best service possible to our users. These parts of research have a played a part of how the website is today and we can’t wait to share it with the world.

Rate My Teachers. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://ratemyteachers.com/.

Orrill, J. (2016, October 26). What Are Web Ethics? Retrieved from https://smallbusiness.chron.com/ethics-33123.html.

Wysopal, C., Wysopal, C., & IDG Contributor Network. (2018, September 7). The ethics of creating secure software. Retrieved from https://www.csoonline.com/article/3304300/the-ethics-of-creating-secure-software.html.

User Experience Testing: UX Methods and Tools. (2018, July 2). Retrieved from https://www.crazyegg.com/blog/user-experience-testing/.

Goode, L. (2017, March 16). Netflix is ditching five-star ratings in favor of a thumbs-up. Retrieved from https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/16/14952434/netflix-five-star-ratings-going-away-thumbs-up-down.

Rajgor, H. (2019, June 26). How our online rating system can become better. Retrieved from https://uxdesign.cc/how-our-online-rating-reviewing-system-can-become-better-5aca72b0d018.

Knowles, A., Knowles, A., Knowles, A., Knowles, A., & Ibm. (2019, March 5). Tough Challenges in Cybersecurity Ethics. Retrieved from https://securityintelligence.com/tough-challenges-cybersecurity-ethics/.

Rand-Hendriksen, A. M. (2018, March 22). Using Ethics In Web Design. Retrieved from https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/03/using-ethics-in-web-design/.

Vea,S.Patel,H &Lau, C.(2019).AUT University:Renters. Auckland. Unfinished student project.

To find all my blog documentation regarding studio this semester please go to this link.

https://hirenpatelbct.tumblr.com/search/ctec709

This project was a great way to end of my degree. I can’t thank my teammates enough for the amount of support they have given me during the last 12 weeks. I truly believe that this project is the next step in changing the perception of rating systems and can be the first step in making landlords accountable for their actions. We hope we can do well in the crit and make our lecturers proud of the work we have done this semester. Let the Crit and final showcase begin!

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