Worldbuilding

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Map Making

Having a load of fun making a map right now and currently in the VERY time consuming process of turning a basic continent plan into a coastline. I tried to do this with some tricks in the software but I didn’t like how anything came out so I’m manually drawing by hand the coastline which is honestly fine by me, it genuinely is looking really neat so far.

(Basic Landmass Plan)

(Current work on the northern coastline)

There’s also the minor issue of my image being 72 million pixels only adding to the time taken and also causing minor lag in my editing software.

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What’s the deal with the tiny island off to the far left

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What website is this

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What website is this

I’ve tried a couple mapmaking softwares like Inkarnate. Azgaars was good but it just didn’t give me the control I wanted.

GIMP

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What’s the deal with the tiny island off to the far left

Oh Lol I got lazy and didn’t add anymore. There really should be some more around it but I have an idea for a culture of people who live about there so put a dot to mark it and forgor

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Done a bit more. Working on one of the three big lakes in the north. They don’t have names yet but I sort of want to name them after constellations in my universe at some point.

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Another progress update. Very relaxing just to draw on this, and I’m glad its beginning to take shape.

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Next progress update:
Done the islands of Aptheil and another one which is bordering a part of the world called the Pale Sea, both of which are the large islands to the right of the map. On the left I’m working on the islands in that again unnamed sea.

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can you create a nuclear bomb and explode the land

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lol no but some guy did create this weapon to channel the power of the gods to destroy an enemy country entirely.

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Sorry for just doing map stuff but I haven’t really been doing too much other than this and some stuff I don’t feel is high quality enough to share yet.

There’s ~eight really huge lakes on this continent, of which two of them would dwarf our largest lake (The Caspian), and all of which are bigger than Lake Superior. Seven of them are freshwater, and one is a saltwater lake. The southernmost, Lake Nishifubet, runs across the border of Belmare and The Nishifubetuan Shogunate.

The largest lakes in the world are even bigger than these ones, the largest being around 13 million square kilometres in area, and I’ve estimated a volume of about six hundred quadrillion litres of water. That sounds insane (because it is) but that’s less than a 2000th of the total amount of water on earth, if I’ve calculated everything right, (probability of which is quite low), the numbers are probably crazier.

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Been a while since I updated this but I haven’t done much worldbuilding recently. The southern part of the big continent has been coastlined though.

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it looks and sounds better than what my gm got

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progress!!! Moved on to other continents now.

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Continent Names:
‘Rejüsis’ means ‘Land of (the) People’ and can roughly be translated from Acenta (Tongue of the Gods) to English as ‘Continent’.

There’s also a word for large landmasses that do not have people which is ‘Rejidet’

The continents are as follows:
Hêyth Rejüsis (Main large one in the centre of the map)
Sabasda Rejüsis (Long one with the large lake in the south)
Elisa Rejüsis (Large southern one with the three lakes)
Moinei Rejüsis ((Western one north of Elisa Rejüsis)
Zacala Rejüsis (Eastern two landmasses and the surrounding islands, named Zacszerin (north) and Zacsamin (south). )
T’veran (Smaller landmass in the northeast corner.)
Leipneras Rejidet (Literally, the Absent Land. Leipneras is derived from the canonical name for the Function Absence, which is Leipsis. The smaller landmass to the north between Hêyth and Moinei.)
And finally, Ietrias Rejüsis (The huge desert at the south of the world. There are a few groups who do settle there, hence the use of Rejüsis rather than Rejidet It’s formed of ice sheets surrounding a plateau of volcanic rock from a range of volcanoes in the centre. The few groups there settle around volcanic springs.).

(Rough map for reference)

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This is about horses. If you aren’t familiar with horses, you measure their height in ‘hands’ [one hand is equal to 4 inches (101.6 mm)] up to the ‘withers’ which is the point where their back meets their neck.

Surukmak is the Acenta word for horse. The Surukmak were a species of four legged, tall hoofed animals which were used as steeds for a good period of history, until a Arasirikis called Tuthmeligia decided that the Surukmak were too slow, weak and didn’t have enough endurance. So, Tuthmeligia created a new, better horse and named it after themselves, the Tuthmak. These were larger (the lightest Tuthmak were at an equivalent of 18 hands tall (1.8288 metres), the largest working Tuthmak got up to around 24 hands (2.4384 metres) on average. The largest Tuthmuk recorded (easily not the largest ever, as archival and recording is limited in many parts of the world) was about 27 hands (2.7432 metres)), and also heavier, stronger, faster and significantly more endurance.

The fastest gait of a horse, the gallop, can go up to about 48 km/h. A horse at most can gallop for 3km before needing to rest (that’s really quick by the way). A Tuthmak however, can gallop up to 70 km/h, for often tens of kilometres.

This had a major effect when they were introduced by Tuthmeligia, and that was that transport got easier. Large distances are no longer so daunting, since your steeds are just that much stronger.

It also had the effect of wiping out the Surukmak. Consider this scenario, you have to survive in the wild with loads of predators who could very easily kill you (your one weapon is being able to run really fast). Now what happens is a couple Greek Demigods arrive who are better than you in every way… and you’re going to be quite quickly outcompeted and over a long enough period of time wiped out.
Nobody wanted to domesticate Surukmak anymore, since if they went to war and their enemies had Tuthmak they would be (literally) trampled, and Tuthmak were just better workhorses.

So, what happened in short is that one of the Gods learnt (unintentionally) about invasive species and everyone has super horses.

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T’veran (Smaller landmass in the northeast corner.)

I want to point out that this word T’veran is different to the other landmass names, since its actually not Acenta, but rather derived from the language of a now long lost seafaring kingdom called Knavia, who named the land after their word for ‘Holy’ since they believed they had found some great religious location.

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The Hec Dicaotexinoey Impexis is a military force I am not expecting you to pronounce, but roughly it’ll translate out of the language of the Impexis people to ‘Army of Impexis’, the homeland of my ‘main’ character Akos Frost.

It has two overarching branches, the main military branch and the Mere Vi Vhoasan (Thoo-sahn).

Mere Vi

The Mere Vi are further split into two more branches, the main branch which serve as the military police for the Impexis State – they are not a gendarmerie, more of a provost, although parts of it have limited jurisdiction over civilians (there is not national police force within the Impexis State) – and the specialist branch, which serves as the special military intelligence branch.

The Main Branch consists of three units:
The Police (Who police internally within all military branches, not just the Hec Dicaotexinoey)
The Shield (Protection of military assets)
The Office (Both administration of the Mere Vi, and specialist policing in civilian contexts)

The Specialist Branch consists of four units:
The Inquisition (Intelligence branch which is a remnant of a brutal religious inquisition in the country three hundred or so years before the time of Akos Frost)
The Blood (Military espionage)
The Sea (Military intelligence, spies, basically)
The Stars (Military research unit, the most recently formed one after the old military research unit disbanded at the end of the Stamstani War).

Main Military

Consists of six divisions:
1st Impex Ground Guard
2nd Home Guard
3rd Etze Guard
4th Expeditionary Force
5th East Guard
6th Reserve

Each division contains various regiments, all numbered in the format XYY where X is the division number and YY is the regiment’s number.
Some examples include:
101st Infantry Regiment
107th Lancer Regiment
208th Retzez Regiment
211th United National Guard
305th Marksmen Unit
406th Heavy Cavalry
414th Tunnelling Corps
502nd Skirmishers
515th Cavalry Dragoons
606th Reserve Medical Corps

There are in fact, lots more.

Generally I consider the Impexis Regnum to be on the heavier armed side of nations, since they have just come out of the deadliest war (worldwide) to not directly involve Arasirikis. There are gaps in their numbering scheme because many entire regiments got wiped out in the war.

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Swords

So in this piece of writing:

Mudflats at Izith Greteja, 1018

pretty sure I said I don’t write much anymore like… two days ago My Worldbuilding Topic (Lore and More Stories Maybe Eventually One Day.) Pronunciation Guide: (Just the more complicated looking ones, pronounce the rest how you want I’m not judging) Word Pronounciation Izith it-ith Greteja grey-ha Fielnflaerreh fee-illn–flare–ruh Falvaarev falth-aa-reth Narindus narind-us y ee (As in, the letter E) mi me ivioera ith-ee-œ-ra Arasirikis arah-siree-kiss Mudflat…

There was a sword duel between Iri and Icarus (With Akos in there as well, but he’s not particularly helpful) and I didn’t include too much detail because I don’t know much about sword fighting

Now I got interested and decided to look at some youtube videos of this sort of thing to get an idea of the pacing and limits of this

and holy wow okay those guys are insane. I think this is polish sabre and it definitely has given me some inspiration to the fighting styles of various characters:

Akos

Akos is not a soldier, but he is trained in a martial art (emphasis here on art) called Semiav, which utilises a sword traditional to Impexis nobility called a Semiti. This one handed sword is cutting based and is in weight and size a bit thinner and lighter than a Scottish broadsword and a bit wider and heavier than a rapier.

He’s not particularly great, but could hold his own against somebody untrained.

Iri

Iri is a soldier, but I would like to point out that for a regular Impexis soldier, swords are almost never seen. They’re carried solely by two forces of the Impexis Military that I am yet to introduce here, those being the Staemistsoa or Stamstani Guard and the Royal Guard.

The Royal Guard used a variety of swords and combat styles across all their members (along with polearms and firearms), but traditionally many of them used a style called Amevav. Again, the blade used here was called a Amevti which was usually used two handed and was a lightweight longsword sort of thing.

Iri is very skilled with the sword, and although she primarily was trained in Amevav, she also was proficient in Semiav and other ways of killing somebody with a sharp stick.

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Swords are almost never seen. They’re carried solely by two forces of the Impexis Military that I am yet to introduce here, those being the Staemistsoa or Stamstani Guard and the Royal Guard.

I’ve come to regret this comment above, and I think its probably better if I adjust this statement. Swords are rare, as in the regular infantry soldier would not carry them, but light cavalry definitely would.

What is probably rare are two handed swords, in sole use by the Royal Guard and Mere Vi most likely.

The Staemistsoa Guard and light cavalry units would most likely be armed with curved sabres, and so would officers in need of a sidearm who do not carry rifles with bayonets, and perhaps stationed garrison soldiers on watch alongside a main polearm.

There are many traditional swords of the Impexis, but I think they can be broadly categorised into five categories:

• Thin, rapier-like thrusting weapons. Used among the civilian populace, especially as an arm for those middle class enough to be able to afford to carry a quality weapon, but far from nobility.
• Thinner double edged swords still designed for cutting such as the Semiti. Common amongst nobility.
• Narrow longswords, such as the Amevti. Again, common amongst nobility but also seen in the Royal Guard.
• Wider bladed, one edged swords, similar to a falchion. Rare, but still found in civilian contexts and used in units such as the Mere Vi and Royal Guard.
• Curved sabres, used for light cavalry, the Staemistsoa Guard, and other soldiers (or even city/civil guards not a part of the military).

I’ll think of traditional names for example swords in the remaining categories tomorrow.

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Example names

Wider bladed, one edged swords, similar to a falchion. Rare, but still found in civilian contexts and used in units such as the Mere Vi and Royal Guard.

An example of this could include the Ermivti.

Curved sabres, used for light cavalry, the Staemistsoa Guard, and other soldiers (or even city/civil guards not a part of the military).

An example of this could include the Faserati

Thin, rapier-like thrusting weapons. Used among the civilian populace, especially as an arm for those middle class enough to be able to afford to carry a quality weapon, but far from nobility.

An example of this could include the Idmeti

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Notice how all the swords end in -ti and respectively the combat style with those swords end in -av. This is because in this language that I still don’t have a name for there are only 48 possible noun endings (called tails).

This can vary slightly if the sword is used for a different purpose, since tails are based on the usage/context of the word rather than what the word is describing, a Semiti used exclusively for ceremonial purposes might be called a Semisaa or even a Semisoa. If you stabbed somebody with this sword, it might instead be a Semioet. In fact, you could use both Semiav and Semiti to describe the sword OR the style (although this isn’t traditional, necessarily, its just that generally you use the -ti tail for a physical object).

If you were using the sword, however, you might instead use the verb Semieorav, however if you used the sword it would be Semieoras.

Here’s a whole phrase for you to look at:
Iviynedoso. Daathoso. Kvesoso. Iviygensoso. Esysivodv esid ysta ivioaras pav ggogearivisa ssoh cysoa geminasoa. Senynyk mashiaoares amzety vizoa otexineras ssoh kvesoso geminasoso.

This is the ATLA opening.

Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.

Although word order in this language is a bit different, as you might be able to tell.

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Four major families (three if you count Nishifubet and Kobaspera as one)

Family tree of the Frost family.

And of the Nishifubet family and Kobaspera family (both linked I just have two separate trees in these images

And of the Winter’s family

I’ll probably make a giant family tree at some point so I have all of them in one place but since most major families (apart from maybe the Impexis noble families) are in different parts of the world completely.