Re: The Melting

Sally Caves wrote:
> That's so familiar!  Much of my early Teonaht was pulling the words out of
> the air.
Same here.  My first conlang had probably a couple thousand words, I
would just come up with a word and that would be the word.  It was also
easy to make the grammar.  I decided "They say X this way" and that was
official.  Now, I often struggle with figuring out a construction or
word for hours, sometimes days.

> You need a friend.  An ammanuensis.  A go-between.  You need to get into a
> relaxed state of mind, pencil and pad and paper in hand, and let that
> go-between dictate to you.  I've heard that this is how remote viewing works
> best, if you believe in that sort of thing.  You need to view remotely your
> Rozhendi people and hear their voices.  I've got a friend who writes that
> way.  She opens a door, and the events and the people are there and talking
> or they aren't.
I get that occasionally.  For example, the other day, I was working on
figuring out the map of Uldii, the continent on which the Kassii live,
and I "heard" a high-ranking military official proposing a war plan to
the Empress against the Kalpanian Empire, one which I'm now pretty sure
was adopted, and pursued very successfully, to the point that almost the
entire Kalpanian Empire was conquered by the Kassii, giving them access
to rich silver and gold mines, and allowing the Empress to restore the
currency to pure silver.  I'd known before that they somehow got those
mines, but had no idea how the war worked, or even where the Kalpanian
Empire was.  :-)

> Ah ha ha ha !!!   I think there's a reason why we come to conlanging and
> conworlding at the age of twelve.  Language awakening, sexual awakening, an
> awakening to reason and politics and structures, and sexy peoples.  My major
> change at age twelve, after two years of making baby Teonean for my heaven
> cats, was to put the heaven cats in heaven and turn the Teonim into young
> men I could fantasize about, all in tight-fitting very audacious clothing:
> earrings in their ears, their long hair braided with silver and copper
> thread.
Hmm ... my people have always been aliens, who were discovered by humans
in early incarnations (the Kassii are now completely separate from
Earth).  There's never been any sexual undertones to them.

> Well, exactly!  Go look at my Teonaht city:
> http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teonaht.html.
I have visions of the traditional (pre-Imperial) village, and visions of
"modern" cities, many of them enormous, sprawling, urban
conglomerations, with tens of millions of inhabitants.  The Kassii have
a strong preference for clumping together, possibly dating back to their
evolutionary past when they needed safety in numbers to defend
themselves against the myriad predators, and to assist each other in
child-rearing and food-gathering.  They still have an ingrained fear of
open spaces, especially at night, and of forests in particular (their
ancestors were shore-dwellers).

However, I'm very unclear on the cities of Imperial times, or of other
intermediate periods.

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