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Side Story Saturday: Shahin in College

Feb9

This is a drabble of Shahin, from Addergoole: TOS, during the time of Chapter Two of Addergoole: Year 9

“…and that’s why I think that interpretation is ridiculous.”

Shahin would never be a brilliant student, but college – even college while juggling four children – was so much easier than Addergoole that she couldn’t help but play around a bit.

Her professor was giving her the supposed-to-be-intimidating glare that she got such a kick out of. “While that’s an interesting theory, Miss…”

“Mrs.”

“Mrs. Morn, it fails to take into account the implications of the court case we’re actually discussing.”

“But those implications would not have been in place at the time of the theory’s penning.” Shahin smirked. Human teachers were so much fun.

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That Gal Thursday (Belated): Ellen

Feb8

Ellen cy’Akinobu
Seventh Cohort
Crew: Shandar and Ciara, [Amadeus]

Some people walk into Addergoole and decide that they are simply not going to engage in the drama, stress, and trouble that is part and parcel of the education.

Ellen is one of those people.

Her Keeping by Rory Year 7 (read about Rory here and here, 3rd section) was, by Addergoole standards, a good one, mild, gentle, marred only by the mark Callista had inadvertently left on Rory. But it was still supernatural mind-control, and left Ellen with a distaste for
All Things Magical. Her philosophy in life is essentially: Keep your Head Down and Don’t Make Waves.

Perhaps understandably, this clashes with Ciara’s personality quite a bit.

Ellen is a short, busty girl, standing 5’0″ with an hourglass figure reminiscent of Jamie from Girls with Slingshots. She wears her curly brown hair in a short pixie cut, and prefers flowing, simple, natural clothes. She has green eyes and honey-brown skin; her Change gives her hair the same color as her eyes, long pointed ears, and a faint metallic sheen to her skin.

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Magic Mondays: Magic of the Cālenyena

Feb4

The Cālenyena term for their magic at the time of Rin and Girey is sira, or, if they’re being poetic (which they rarely do), "the press of the Universe."

At this point in time, their magic falls into three rough categories, by the gods that they worship:

  • The blue, for Tienebrah, the sea, the sky, the air.  Mind and breath.
  • The red, for Veignevar, blood, fire, violence, death, the hot season. Violence, fire. 
  • The green, for Reiassannon, life, plants, the earth. Healing. 

The Bitrani use magic in similar manners, although the Bitrani limit most of their magic to the priesthood. 

In the way the Bitrani use magic, sometimes you can see the underpinnings of their previous theocracy, which was rife with more gods than any man has fingers and toes.  

In the way the Cālenyena use their magic, you can see echoes of the Bitrani system, but you can sometimes see remnants of a far older system, the seven-peaks that formed the original proto-Cālenyena cosmology.

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#Lexember in February? #Febumantau? Syllabic Sunday: Fire

Feb3

I may go forward with the suggestions listed here in the future and, for example, do Febumantau and put forth compound words. But for today, I want to talk about fire.

Fire: apa

This word has two thing of note:

First, it begins with a vowel, indicating that it’s of the third (first? zeroth?) gender: beyond use. Very few things in the world (the current list can be found here), but fire is considered by the Cālenyena (or at least by the proto-Cālenyena) to be one of those awesome things of the world that is simply always there.

Secondly, it has nothing to do with the god of fire and blood that the Cālenyena worship in the time of the story, Veignevar.

This is because the Cālenyena have had fire for a much longer time than they have had these three god. Fire dates back longer than any history, while the god Veignevar is a loan-god from the Bitrani.

What’s more, the god Veignevar is actually a combination (Maybe he’s a portmanteau!) of at least three proto-Bitrani gods.

Which is a story in and of itself…

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Side Story Saturday: Kai and Conrad in College

Feb2

This is a drabble of Kailani and Conrad, from Addergoole: TOS, during the time of Chapter one of Addergoole: Year 9

August 31, 2003

“Does it seem like…” Kailani paused to grab Alistair and pull his shirt back over his head. “…like we should be listening to Regine’s speech again?”

Conrad, who had his hands full trying to get Audra’s socks on, just laughed. “It’s not like we weren’t here last year, too.”

“Last year, we hardly had time to think, and we were still fresh from school. This year…” She successfully got Alistair dressed. “No, Ali, keep it on. Crissy will be here any minute.”

You could, she had learned, demand things of Regine. An au pair had been her first “request.”

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