Lashunta Inspirational Memory - 4 years ago Artist is Raymond Swanland I've been imagining that bow & arrow is a high-value weapon style for the Lashunta, especially dwelling in (and up in) the megadendra rainforests. Limited-front engagements along a bough, set of swinging vines, or even up or down a tree trunk mean that missile weapons become a premium, or better yet - shooting down onto the forest floor. While Outrider-led Shotalashu cavalry may rule melee, there may be considerably fewer opportunities to bring that force to bear than even the noblest, eagerest Damaya lady-knight may prefer. Think the flying-lizard riders in the background are out of place? I would argue no. Starfinder canon for the Lashunta & Castrovel propose the Thasaka and their riders from Ofu-Laubu (Laubu Mesa). The Lashunta of this far northern city have been taming and riding Thasaka through Castrovel's cloudy skies since before the Elves abandoned that colony when the Return to Kyonin drained huge swathes of outlying populations back to Sovyrian.

Art by Raymond Swanland - a man crouches, aiming a bow into a dinosaur's open mouth. A woman crouches beside, clutching a knife. Overheard aloft, a pterosaur flies. On its back rides a warrior, who brandishes a spear.

Lashunta Inspirational Memory - 4 years ago

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As a teaser for next weekend’s Chapter 35, here’s a Lashunta phrase: ~Di heilodya-ruae zi haene erose o yosaiamyelis:~ “Do not be too proud of the easy blossoms you pick.” - Advice from Her Highness Lady Zhasael Zolaemaue, High Matron of Son, to Master-Captain Dosuaesh u'Miearyas, commander of the Golarion Worldfare, on the temptations of embracing Patriarchy.

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Valmayana - The Lashunta Sparta

ARTICLE Valmayana - the Lashunta Sparta

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...Until I came across this pic, I hadn't contemplated a #lashunta might psychically bond with more than one shotalashu. This would make them more than a mere rider, put mistress of a whole pack. What prey would they seek together amid #Castrovel 's jungles?

Art by Ivana Abbate - Artemis Leading the Hunt. A woman hastily crouches in mid-pursuit. She carries a bow, wears a fawnskin cape, and bears a crescent diadem on her brow. Around her run a pack of hounds.

Lashunta Inspirational Pic of the Week
Ivana Abbate

Confused by this pic? Instead of hounds, imagine shotalashu. Considering they're grizzly size, this would become a formidable hunting party indeed...

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Art by Martin Bergstrom - a man like shape descends a rope into the chasm-like ruin of an ancient hall, where massive pillars leans toppledly. Upon a ledge under the rope, another shape stands at the bottom, while a third kneels at the edge, looking into the depth below.

Castrovel Inspirational Memory - 2 years ago
Martin Bergstrom

I have a list of lost cities on #Castrovel: Halla, where the Warrior-Princesses reigned for 1,000 years before the Thief-Queens burned their palace...

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Thoughts on Part 6: Chapter 34 - The Milktree Masquerading as a Grandmother

NEW ARTICLE! Thoughts on Part 6: Chapter 34 - The Milktree Masquerading as a Grandmother

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Lashunta Word of the Week Zethesira (/ze:θe.si:ra./; common): farfetch; adventure; mission This word is a contracted compound from ~zesha~: fare; travel + ~thesira~: far; distant. As a variant appropriate to today’s Chapter 34 of _A Castrovel Adventure: Part 6_, Lady Vaeol and the lashunta of Son have also coined the term ~zeshatheia~ (common): worldfare; travel to another world, referring to the planned military-diplomatic quest to go from Castrovel to Golarion and find the cause of the Hoshiasa Worldgate Disaster. Related Terms: Zeshassi: to travel Zeshana (com): dayfare; journey; short journey Renzesha (com): wayhall; communal hostel for travelers Uzeshassi: to visit Uzeshaza (com): visitor; newcomer Zeshantal (com): weekfare; about six days’ travel Zesharaza (com): wayfarer; traveler Zesharea (com): warfare; military campaign Zeshavaema (com): tradefare; caravan Zeshazo (neuter): waymarker; milestone

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A Castrovel Adventure: Part 6, Chapter 34

NEW CHAPTER! A Castrovel Adventure: Part 6, Chapter 34
In which Lady Vaeol speaks to the trees and finds an ancestor.

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Art by Frank Frazetta - a woman stands within a jungle grove, surrounded by vines and flowers. Off to the left, and alien elephant stands near.

Friday Night Castrovel Inspiration, Part ~Zhoa~
Frank Frazetta

I've seen a lot of Frank's proteges and imitators, and some of them I love...

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Art by William Etty - Venus & Her Satellites, 1835

Friday Night Lashunta Inspiration
Artist: William Etty - Venus & Her Satellites, 1835

Let's assume it's her suit of arm hung at the side. Is she prepping for combat, or returning from?

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Art by Kerem Beyit - a shobhad with four arms and wielding multiple weapons attacked a lashunta damaya female riding her shotalashu steed.

Lashunta Inspirational Memory - 4 years ago
Artist is Kerem Beyit

I've previously posted my critique of this pic's flaws and questions. Don't really feel like getting into it right now.

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Mid-Week Castrovel Inspiration
Artist: Guillon Benjamin

A walk along the megadendra forest's floor...perhaps it's more bioluminescent than sunlight?

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Lashunta

ARTICLE Lashunta The Species
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My great-grandmother wore a bodyshroud wrapped skirtlike and knelt to brew tea. I followed to the hearth and knelt while I wondered why the Overmind chose her shape. Rightly I had grown on Eavol’s hero-tale as a Formian Myrmarch’s slayer. My name is even an overspell of hers. She had won our kindred’s stallworth, had forestepped the path for Efadi my grandmother’s matronhood and beyond to my mother’s uprisal, and also my sisters. Yet she had not started livelihood as a hallcraft-player and matron. Like me, she had first been an outrider. I took the teacup she yielded, reckoning the Overmind wished my trust. Yet also the seldom forehap to speak with my dead great-grandmother swayed me. Eavol took back the cup after I sipped. ~Yei vothauli ruthandi,~ she said: “So the forebode has come forth.” I nodded, flitting between letting her speak and seeking deeper knowledge. If the yoretales are true, the Overmind had outlived since the City’s settleship twenty-four thousand years ago, had even outlived the first Soul-Tree’s death when Old Hanat had burned Son in the Time of the Warrior-Queens, and had been reborn from a cutting hidden by the priesthood. Awhim, I beseeched: ~Sheazya-shyae Aslantya tollaudya,~ - “Tell me of the elder Aslanta.” My great-grandmother smiled. She told the Aslanta had been proud but couth, and outstanding traders. They had come with weird mightiness, both elfcraft and other weirdlore. They had brought wonderful gifts and had upheld Son’s elder empire for a bargain: Qabarat - or Kasrovelaryum as they had named it (and I reminded Brand had named our world Kasrovel), which they had settled as a colony to hold the Redqueen Worldgate. They had shown greedily heedful of anything linked to gatelore. Yet oddly, they had becomingly wielded a trucesome sway among the Warrior-Queens’ feuds. Then she added that, although their men had owned much foremostness, some Aslanta wives had owned weighty mightiness as well, even against Manright...

And because I can't resist, here's one more snippet from Chapter 34, in which Vaeol, amid communion with the Soul-Tree, gets a special visitor: Lady Eavol Zolaemaue, her great-grandmother...

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Today, and in share from my speech with the thriae, I did something I had ere much forethought. I went to Zotheiu’s Shrine in Greenmother’s Temple. Before the Soul-Tree’s roots, I beseeched the priests and treesingers to cleave the Overmind. It had been fourteen years since I had last done, and the sake was rather same: the Aslanta. I dolefully outsought the yesterwhits taken from the mindseech Brand had undergone and any whits that may help us understand their world, from the stunted trees barely big enough to hold a single house to the queer dry-furrow bare-earth fields, like wounds open to the sky. I heard their barking Hyumanza speech and gleaned meaningfulness from Brand’s thoughts. I watched the many fights he had outlived, from backlane thieves, witsome smithcraft enginewights from a silver spire, and wild tusky heathens who looked half-Korasha, half-ape and would seemingly slay all. I tasted the odd meats and cakes as he uncouthly ate with hands or even stuck a knife in his mouth! And ale, so much ale! Over and again I came back to the dream of his mother’s death and Brand’s murder of the haughty, sneering man who had slain her. This I bewared as his lifetime’s key, the deed that had both broken and shaped him. He had been a youth, and it had made him outlaw and wanderer, which had doubtlessly added to him becoming a pathfinder and, deeming some deeds else, sometimes a thief. Even so awful, much within his sorrow and anger I understood. When I felt his love’s strength for his mother, I could hardy believe his mind had never stemmed from hers…which raises so many asks about how hyumanza babes grow and learn speech. Reckfully, there were also yesterwhits of wives (and Brand had surely loved wives, as I knew), which drew my heed, since among the hyumanza, Manright forecravingly owns foremostness. I watched that, though Brand had loved a few, most wives he had dallied under lust. More reckfully, many had seemingly enwed under fee. It seemed an odd trade...

As a teaser for Saturday, here's a snippet from Chapter 34, in which Lady Vaeol seeks communion with Zotheiu, Son's Soul-Tree, seeking more information on ~Aslanta~ - Humans...

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Guess What Day It Is?
Lashunta Not-So-Sari Tuesday!

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Art by Mihail Gard, artstation - a snakwoman with a tail instead of legs lounges beside a marsh pool, leaning back upon her arms while her tail loops around and trails into the pool. Around her, small snakes gather worshipfully.

Castrovel Inspirational Memory - 2 years ago
Mihail Gard

"I wasn't born evil. I'm just perceived that way." - So I could hear one of Castrovel's Moqeva Serpentfolk saying...

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... #Lashunta, under #Castrovel 's almost constant clouds, wait 150 days for the chance to see the sun, that holiest moment when Burning-Mother's brightness breaks the horizon, to chase away the darkness and bring light to the world. Is it any wonder they hold this as the holiest time of the year?

Art by John Pitre - as dawnbreak lightens a valley, a torch-bearing processesion from the left files over a stone bridge overlying a gorge, heading to a temple upon a cliff to the right.

Lashunta Inspirational Memory - 2 years ago
John Pitre

~Anmathi~ Heaventide starts in Ofu-Laubu while Lady Vaeol, Vosaeth, and their houses visit as guests Queen Seri-Ilaueth...

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Lashunta Architectural Inspiration
Tony Roberts

Thinking of the Hoshiasa Disaster that occurs in Part 6...

...It's a transpatial portal, opening a rift to connect to spots millions of miles apart. What could go wrong?

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In Search of Qutheiu: the Castrovellian World-Serpent

ARTICLE! In Search of Qutheiu: the Castrovellian World-Serpent

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Castrovel Inspirational Memory - 3 years ago
Ivan 小红花

~Eazue~ - #Castrovel 's Megadendron Milktree - is a living manifestation of Mahaere -Greenmother. Psychically sympathetic, it can pick up memories of its #Lashunta inhabitants.

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Castrovel Inspirational Memory - 4 years ago
Artist is Goran Josic - www.artstation.com/gjosic

With trees like this, who needs skyscrapers?

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Lashunta and Symbiosis

ARTICLE: Lashunta and Symbiosis

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Art by Gustave Dore: Apollo Vanquishing Python

Castrovel Weekend Inspiration, Part ~Zhoa~
Gustave Dore

With a few tweaks, this could be a classic scene from #Lashunta Mythology: Burning Mother taming the World Serpent, after which She set him underground to guard the World-Soul.

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Art by Kinuko Y. Craft - an angel stands within a cosmic star scape, the earth at her feet, stars, moons, and galaxies overheard. On the left dryads grow from a tree trunk, below which a nixie comforts a child. On the right a wolf uses a mask to shift shape, while at her feet a gossamer-wing pixie sleeps.

Castrovel Inspirational Pic of the Week
Kinuko Y. Craft

#Lashunta theology is more complex than the handful of gods I've detailed. Along with the gods (~noa~), there are varieties & hosts of spiritual beings...

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Lashunta Word of the Week Kami (/ka:mi./; spiritual): time, specifically as a natural force; the passage or flow of time; age, in the sense of a place or person. This word factors into today’s Chapter 33 of a _A Castrovel Adventure: Part 6_, when Lady Vaeol’s mother says: ~Kami shimi lathya-shyeldi,~ - “Time has proven [our] foe.” The Lashunta phrase equivalent to “How old are you?” is ~Kami-sti siyae?~ - “What time/age has you?” Related Terms: Kamassi: to take time; pass time Shiqamassi: to time; measure time Shiqamazo (neuter): a clock; watch Kamathi (spiritual): a while; indefinite period of time Kamatha (common): a historical age; a defined period of time Kamae (s): the past Kanzhaue (s): the future Kanmi (s): the present Kanvaea (c): lifetime Kalino (n): a clock-subdivision of a Lashunta belltide, roughly equivalent to a minute; more precisely, about 27 seconds

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A Castrovel Adventure: Part 6, Chapter 33 In which Lady Vaeol confronts prophecy and must deal with its opposition.

NEW CHAPTER! A Castrovel Adventure: Part 6, Chapter 33
In which Lady Vaeol confronts prophecy and must deal with its opposition.

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The Evolution of Lashunta Science

New Article!
The Evolution of Lashunta Science

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