The last of my pixel art and then I promise I'll shut up.
"The Lonely Galaxy" written in Commonthroat. It's a reverse abjad (vowels are full letters and consonants are diacritcs). It's read right-to-left.
Hearthside, the innermost planet at Focus. It is tidally locked. The government is ecclesiocratic and its economy is distributist.
Yih, the yinrih's homeworld, and the only other planet in the galaxy to have given rise to life. It has a ring.
A paw keyer, used as an input device along with HUD specs as output. It can be held in any of the four paws according to user preference, but is designed to allow knuckle-walking while held in a forepaw.
The holy symbol of the Bright Way, called the Star and Gear. It was originally a depiction of the Theophany, with the gear evolving from the chromatic fringe around the orb of light. The red arch recalls a common motif in Claravian iconography, an arch behind the head of a saint. The arch in turn evoking Yih's ring as seen from the surface.
A small reliquary containing the preserved writing claw of a Claravian saint. Relics are hardly an alien concept, but yinrih go a lot further with it than humans are probably comfortable with. The walls of their houses of worship are encrusted with the bones of their deceased loved-ones. This causes some culture clash when yinrih are given a supply of human medical cadavers to study and attempt to honor their new friends by erecting a building decorated with the leftover bones.
An orbital monastery of the Knights of the Sun, the warrior monks described in an earlier post. The picture depicts the transit (motion across the sun) of one of these monasteries. The Knights get their name because their headquarters is so close to Focus, their home star.
An orbital colony in the Spacer Confederacy, a VERY loose alliance of independent city-states located in the Inner Belt, an asteroid belt between Welkinstead (the gas giant shown earlier) and Moonlitter (the other of Focus's two gas giants). As arboreal quadrupeds with prehensile paws and a prehensile tail, yinrih take to microgravity like a duck to water, and there is a large population of spacers who live out their lives in zero-G. The missionaries that find Earth are citizens of such a colony.
Finally, this has no in-universe significance, but it does relate to the inspiration for this conworld. Much of this was me coping with the aging and eventual passing of my late guide dog. That's why the yinrih are canine and why they live so long. Notably a yinrih's lifespan is to a humans as a human's is to a dog's. Humans get friends they'll never have to say goodbye to, but yinrih have to mourn loss after loss.
I have lots of other stuff that isn't pixel art. I do a lot in Blender in particular. I don't do perspective and lack the hand-eye coordination to be a proficient artist. Everything here was done with a mouse and took ages.
That's it. Sorry for info-dumping all over everyone's feed. Conlanging and conworlding can be a profoundly lonely hobby. You don't have to be a musician to enjoy a song or a chef to appreciate a good meal, but constructed languages are opaque to anyone not interested in linguistics. So any time someone shows the slightest bit of interest I find it hard to shut up.
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📻 Anchorite
Jan 08 · 4 months ago · 👍 99thplace, The_Jackal, varve, kiyoah · 🤘 1 ❤ 1
🗡️ The_Jackal · Jan 08 at 02:03:
This is all pretty cool! Thank you for sharing.
🪐 kiyoah · Jan 10 at 14:16:
Do not worry, I think your worldbuilding is really fascinating and I would love to see more of it-- especially the conlanging stuff.
🪐 kiyoah · Jan 10 at 14:21:
I totally understand what you mean about conlanging being a lonely hobby-- it's extremely niche, so it's very hard to talk about unless the other party is actively interested.
I myself do it at a snails pace-- most of my ideas for conlangs are mostly the history or vague blueprints of what I imagine the language to be like. Researching lingustics and conlangs on my own is very fun, but it only really happens in sporadic bursts. Not having many peers as interested in it as I am certainly adds to it.
I'll continue to follow along your posts, seeing other people's worldbuilding projects greatly inspires me and fills me with joy :-)
📻 Anchorite [OP] · Jan 10 at 14:41:
@chimericalGallimaufry If you want other conlangers to talk to I'd recommend making an account on the CBB forum
— CBB Forum
It might be the most active conlanging and conworlding community outside of the big social media platforms. I'm also encouraging @The_Jackal to do the same for worldbuilding. Finding a conlanging community after being a lone scrapper for 25 years is what finally got me to stick with a language long enough to flesh out a grammar, that and embracing xenolangs and getting away from the human vocal tract.
I have a capsule I'm not doing anything with. Perhaps one day I could carve out a space for conlanging and worldbuilding in geminispace.
If you're interested I also posted some stories set in this universe here in the sci-fi subspace. Though keep in mind I'm no writer.
— The Tornado
— The Mass Router
🪐 kiyoah · Jan 10 at 15:02:
Thank you for the reccomendation! I'll definitely check it out, same for your short stories.
I would also be interested in what you do with the capsule, if you ever decide to do something with it.
(Also, apologizes for changing my UN right about the same time you replied- I wanted something a bit shorter and concise, haha.)
