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This is awesome!

Book of Fen's Guide to Myriad Realms standing up over a print of a sad necromancer like human, with a bag.

I cannot overstate how delighted I am to finally get my hands on my copy of #FensGuide to Myriad Realms. It feels surreal to have my name in a published TTRPG book.

@skaavart.bsky.social was such an amazing person to work with through the entire process.

#TTRPG #DnD #5e

living in the 2020’s

#Lexember Day 31: relating to the new year

G'sunan
kɘ̊hɤ̊ga, (n.) (meteorological) solstice, (from Aqolo: o̊lạaho̊e̊yuu’ii, astrological solstice)

From Aqolo to G'suna, the intricacies of stars and weather got a but lost. Thus, the new year starts the hottest day of the year.

Happy New Year!

#Lexember Day 30: a role in society

G'sunan
n̰ɑ̰gɤ̇m, (n.P) a headman or chief
(lit. "great father")

A relatively recent development in G'sunan culture, increasing need to centralize power with poachers encroaching on the jungle.

#Lexember Day 29: a formal greeting

n̰ɑ̰rɤ̰m̰, (v.t.) a heatbutt with praise

G'suna would greet another fondly with a mutual headbutt :)

Mountain landscape showing a lone, wide mountain with a bowl-shaped building at the top over a blue cloudless sky. Sunlight lights the upper third of the mounain, while the rest is in shade.

Thumbnail I did after some sky tutorials.

I'm trying to do a narrative lighting thing for Dyos, where all figures and places associated with the light sun are in light, and all associated with the dark sun are in shadow.

#Lexember Day 28: a ceremonial/cultural clothing/symbol

ɹakŋ̰ȧk, (n.) a fang-mane, esp worn by a leader
(from "tooth-garment)

A biped's equivalent would be a headress, G'sunan predator leaders, e.g. lions, wear fangs of their forbears in their manes as a symbol of their leadership

#Lexember Day 27: a cultural/societal value

G'sunan
ʢzɤm̥tkɘ̊ʜ, (adj) integrious, loyal to one's word
(from temkeh "stands true")

Glyph for today's G'sunan word: along a line, a narrow loop, a small line diacritic below the line marking low tone, and above the line an m-like glyph. Then a glyph with two ellipses below a line.

#Lexember Day 26: an astronomical event

G'sunan
gạʜ ŋ̥ɘŋ, a lunar occultation

From, gạʜ, a predator's chase, and ŋ̥ɘŋ, a moon (Dyos has 9 moons!). So a moon preying upon another moon and covering it in the sky.

#Lexember Day 25 (Happy Lexmas!): a weather condition

G'sunan
r̰ɑl, (v.i) to rain

r̰ɑl z̰ɑɹ
rain jungle/world
the world is raining
"It's raining"

G'sunan view their place of origin in the Jungle-in-Shards as the origin of the world, so it's used as an impersonal, omnipresent kind of animacy.

#Lexember Day 24 (Happy Christmas Eve!): a biome or landscape

G'sunan
hɤ̣ʢɤl, (n.) a coast or beach
(from Aqolo ụ'u, the sea just below the surface)

hɤ̣ʢɤl are very important places of exchange for the G'sunan, beasts of land, and Aqolo, seafolk.

#Lexember Day 23: an oceanic landform

Aqolo
e̊hụle̊he (nat.trench), an ocean trench.

And a glyph drawn in very wet clay, could use some work to look a bit more natural.

#Lexember Day 22: a terrestrial land feature

m̰ɹɘ̰k, (n.) mountain, wide tower
(From “sky tooth”)

G'suna view earthen forts as continuous with the earth, but a brick or rock fort would need a different word.

#Lexember Day 21: something you'd give as a gift

nɑ̇zdạn, (n.) corpse of a recent kill, esp. given as a gift

Y'know, like a cat would do 😂

#Lexember Day 20: a term of endearment

mɘ̣hŋ̥ɑk, (n.) watcher, or worry wort

Used to describe a G'sunan who's job it is to watch, but more often for a worrying person who's always watching for danger.

#Lexember Day 19: a way of caring

m̰ɘl, to groom (another)

G'suna, again sentient mammals, would use m̰ɘl for typical animal grooming but would also use it to refer to bathing another in a bath, etc.

#Lexember Day 18: a way of learning

ɾɤlmɘ̣h, to learn by watching a demonstration
(Lit. "to show watch")

ɾɤlmɘ̣h ɹaɰ d̰ɘ̇s gɤ̇m

The cubs watched the lion demonstrate

#Lexember Day 17: an act of trickery

z̰aɹ̰tɑ̇n̰, (noun) camouflage, esp to hide from predators
(Lit. "mud head")

The G'sunan have a ritual of chase and capture of prey, so it's deceptive to avoid predators by using camouflage, though z̰aɹ̰tɑ̇n̰ is more like a ghillie suit than paint.

Cuneiform like glyph for "to execute by breath weapon" in Wyrm

#Lexember Day 16: a means of execution!

kha (t)ex khom, to execute by group breath weapon
(Lit. "to breath disintegrate gather")

Back to Wyrm today for this rather grim prompt. The highest ranking and their most trusted dragon lords may subject a victim to multiple, simultaneous breath weapons!

#Lexember Day 15: a means of transportation

ɹ̰ɘ̇g̰, (verb, transitive) to mount, ride, stand-atop

ɹ̰ɘ̇g̰ rɑ̣ʢ sȧl̰ mȧh
ride [agentive] mouse lion
"(the) mouse rides (the) lion"

G'sunan assumes nouns of the predator class are agents, of the prey class patient, so rɑ̣ʢ marks the mouse as the agent!

#Lexember Day 14: a means of construction

zɑ̇kdạn, a dug-out den or cave, esp. dug by hand.
(Lit. "to/a dig-nest)

Still trying to figure out the adverb/adjective plan.

#Lexember Day 13: an animal sense or sense organ

ɹ̰ɘɾlar, to smell another's scent mark (e.g. a dog's)
(Lit. "to nose-sense")

A proto-g'sunan word not likely to last long without ranging that middle ɾ/

#Lexember Day 12: word for flight-related anatomy

ŋ̰ɘg, a whisker or feather

G'sunan speakers group any hard, sturdy hair-like things together: whiskers, wings, even prominent eyelashes would be called ŋ̰ɘg.

#Lexember Day 11: a specific kind of tooth

d̰ɘ̇sɹak, a baby tooth
(lit. "child fang/tooth)

We don't pay enough attention to baby teeth!

#Lexember Day 10: an animal weapon (e.g. antler, horn)

rạʕɘ̇s, a claw or claw-like thing
from rạʕ (to claw) with attributive(izer) d̰ɘ̇s.

Time to invent adjectives it seems!

#Lexember Day 9: an insect body part

ɰ̰ɘt, (noun) a stinger, such as on a bee or scorpion.

Surely something sentient beasts run into regularly!

#Lexember Day 8: something to eat on

gȧldạn, (noun) plate
(lit. "fish cradle")

Sure G'sunan are sentient beasts, but they're not barbarians!
Derivation being "fish cradle" as land animals are deemed acceptable to eat on the ground, but fish should be held in something. Again, not barbarians ;)

#Lexember Day 6&7: eating instrument, drinking instrument

dȧntɑ̇n̰, (noun) a bowl, esp one made of a skull
(lit. "head cradle")

G'sunan have a very practical approach to remains 😅
And yeah I'm double dipping here.