#AwesomeCharacters For Ashrah, an adventure is a journey that challenges her both physically (usually through combat) and intellectually (puzzles!), and that rewards her with some kind of treasure at the end. So, it's exciting, dangerous, and rewarding!
Her (1/6)
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Editing CH19, and the meet-cute is happening! 😍🔥
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#AntagonistApril 11. Infernal Cults are known across the realms, and each Archdevil has one prominent group e.g. the Torch Bearers for Ulorzz. For the most part, they're feared and hated for the chaos and death they cause.
Quan Chi's Covenant of (1/2)
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#WIPSnips 11. “Milk”
Manyamo has a theory on how dóankhi is made… 😶
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#AprilWorldbuilders 11. They are. As I mentioned before, nensy homes are quite spacious to accommodate their size and their wings—and they don’t always follow what we consider a “normal” house.
Their clothes also adapt to their wings, either featuring holes for them (1/2)
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#AwesomeCharacters Ashrah discovers an appreciation for the melati, the national flower of Indonesia, when she learns about it during her exploration of Bali. The meaning of strength, purity, sincerity, and grace certainly draws her to the flower as well!
She also (1/4)
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Three-quarter digital portrait of Bi-Han, from Chronicles of the Realms. He's a Chinese man in his sixty-two years old with long black hair wearing a blue robe.
Three-quarter, digital portrait of Xiuying, from Chronicles of the Realms, by me. She's a natural-born cryomancer, which gives her her blue skin and eyes and white hair. Clusters of ice crystals grow on her bare shoulders, and more float around her, demonstrating the mastery of her magical abilities.
Father and (adopted) daughter, both highly skilled cryomancers 💙
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#AntagonistApril 10. Oh, most of the Archdevils and devils are aware and proud of their wicked deeds—as I said before, they're deliciously evil! 😈
The other antagonists, though, are more nuanced. Quan Chi doesn't see himself as evil; quite the contrary (1/3)
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#SapphicLineShare 10. "Verse/Song"
From Love and Freedom, my first and beloved short story of the Coliary Family that you can read here: archiveofourown.org/works/76296471 🥰
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#AprilAdventure 10. Meeting Sareena completely changes Ashrah's plans (and life). Other than that, it's Ikalry's intervention and request.
For Nitara, meeting Datusha's new wielder is... not exactly by change, but *Ashrah* herself is surprising in more ways than one.
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#AprilWorldbuilders 10. The most obvious thing is that nensy can fly while humans cannot (not without magic).
But the blood drinking is another important distinction. I mean, sure, humans can drink blood, too, but not in the same way nensy do, and their organisms (1/2)
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In #WorldWithoutLove, both Briaca's and Qinyang's names connect to the theme of the story: "Briaca" is Breton for "the one with force and light," and Qinyang is Chinese for "sunshine of my heart."
In #ChroniclesOfTheRealms, I may not have originally named the characters, but I did give them (1/4)
#AwesomeCharacters Interestingly enough, Ashrah ends up making good friends: Tomas, Hanzo, Kurtis, Mileena... A lot of it thanks to those other parties, who usually have to put up with her temperament that sometimes borders on the insufferable.
But she also (1/4)
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#ConlangApril 9. Again, something I have little developed for, just some initial sandhi rules. The two cases I have so far:
- No two crown tones (´) in sequence, the second becomes a seed tone (`) e.g. álu is Tió'aê for "purple," but when joined with bá ("grape") (1/)
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#AprilWorldbuilders 9. Nensy are a lot more “dynamic” than humans thanks to their wings, which give them a whole other layer of movement and navigation. They’re also naturally faster and have more stamina. Due to this, their spaces are a lot more open as well, as I (1/4)
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#AprilAdventure 9. Ashrah - Achieve her freedom by purifying her soul.
Sareena - [redacted].
Nitara - Destroy Datusha and keep her people and the Universe safe.
Askaly - Vacation ✨
Mileena - Collect some magical flowers.
Kitana - Understand the demon attack.
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#AntagonistApril 9. Ashrah doesn’t think in terms of “good” and “evil,” that’s not the morality of the Netherrealm, and neither does she believe in this once she gains a deeper insight into the Universe and herself.
So no, she doesn’t see her enemies as evil. (1/2)
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#WIPSnips 9. “Stuff”
It’s funny to realise how prophetic literally all of Nitara’s suggestions were…
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From page 217 of Eternal Flame:
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#AwesomeCharacters This would create some wild AUs.
Ashrah would go back in time to after her younger self made the pact with Datusha and become her own mentor so she wouldn't need to go through ~everything~ she did, particularly with Datusha, before she (1/4)
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Oh, I did. Ashrah may be asexual in the canon, but she allows me to write some spicy AUs for her and her wife, both during and after their "enemies" phase 👉🏾👈🏾
One of those I posted on Ao3 as one of the short stories for #ChroniclesOfTheRealms, while the other is hidden in my Scrivener vaults x)
#ConlangApril 8. For Tió'aê, I still want to develop this part (much) better, but there's an important rule to keep in mind: we don't have two consonants together.
Exceptions are the clusters I shared on the sounds day (mn and all the ones coupled with "h"), words (1/2)
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#AprilAdventure 8. Ashrah only needs one thing: Datusha, her sapient and snarky psychic sword!
She does end up stumbling upon Sareena, though, with whom she joins in the search for Nekros and its permanent portal out of the Netherrealm. Later, they also join with (1/4)
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#AntagonistApril 8. The first antagonist Ashrah defeats (aka brutally kills) in EF is Divi'ssim, the half-spider, half-"humanoid" (think Quelaag from Dark Souls) devil known by her title of Silk Queen. Somehow, Divi'ssim captured Ashrah's spirit when she *somehow* (1/3)
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#AprilWorldbuilders 8. Nensiis (curiosity: I use “nensiis” to make it easier to understand, but the grammatically correct plural form would be “nensy”) are a species of tall, muscular, winged humanoids (a prime example in the pic) whose biology developed to feed (1/6)
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#WIPSnips 8. "Need"
Ashrah is orchestrating a dangerous plan...
(That "that holds true" warms my heart so much 🥺)
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#AwesomeCharacters In a way, Ashrah didn't resist the temptation... at least not at first. But she does end up turning away from power, the power that would elevate her above warriors and gods and devils, in favour of true freedom. And still ends up very powerful lol
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#ConlangApril 7. In Tió'aê, “fog” is káo’là, literally “sigh of the earth.” For today, I composed a small and simple poem to also showcase one of the dĩn’huei* (a name that you can now pronounce 🙂 And if you don’t or wish to get a reminder: bsky.app/profile/saya...) (1/4)
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#AprilWorldbuilders 7. The brothels where they can experience the exhilarating feeling of getting bitten by a nensii 😂
Okay, it's not an Orasan-only thing, but it *is* one of the best cities for this kind of tourism!
They have some local species of cold-water fish (1/3)
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#AprilAdventure 7. Ashrah's journey begins with hopeful purpose: that she will escape Ulorzz and find her freedom by purifying her soul with Datusha's help. She has no attachments to any creature or place at this point.
Sareena's journey begins with [redacted].
Nitara (1/3)
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