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Peoples and places!
DAY 16: People-place words.
There are five distinct "types" of affary: Shussary, Pfoary, Khitary, Tikkary, and Khuulary. The first four are named due to the environment they live in, which informs (is informed by?) their appearance and abilities in terms of magic. The fourth is a melanistic variant and not a proper ethnic group of its own.
Shussary are a coastal/island people; their name is probably related to the ocean or the waves.
Pfoary generally live in a sort of shrubland/plains region; their name, I think, comes from "grassland" or "plateau".
Khitary are in the temperate-to-boreal mountains, likely named for mountains or ice. Probably mountains.
Tikkary live in the least comparable environment to Earth; the closest approximation is "jungle". The word they're named for would probably roughly translate to jungle but really describe the treetop ecosystem of a forest of a particular kind of "tree".
Khuulary are named for the Eclipse, a "daily" event where the gas giant which their world orbits eclipses the sun for some time. This is the darkest period of time.
From these, I have:
shussa: ocean waves (can be waves from rivers or ponds when appended with "small")
pforath: grassy plateau
tepfora: rocky plateau
tekko: rock
khitye: snow
tikaffe: "jungle canopy"
khuu: dark (adj), darkness (n)
tokhuyth: the Eclipse
There are five distinct "types" of affary: Shussary, Pfoary, Khitary, Tikkary, and Khuulary. The first four are named due to the environment they live in, which informs (is informed by?) their appearance and abilities in terms of magic. The fourth is a melanistic variant and not a proper ethnic group of its own.
Shussary are a coastal/island people; their name is probably related to the ocean or the waves.
Pfoary generally live in a sort of shrubland/plains region; their name, I think, comes from "grassland" or "plateau".
Khitary are in the temperate-to-boreal mountains, likely named for mountains or ice. Probably mountains.
Tikkary live in the least comparable environment to Earth; the closest approximation is "jungle". The word they're named for would probably roughly translate to jungle but really describe the treetop ecosystem of a forest of a particular kind of "tree".
Khuulary are named for the Eclipse, a "daily" event where the gas giant which their world orbits eclipses the sun for some time. This is the darkest period of time.
From these, I have:
shussa: ocean waves (can be waves from rivers or ponds when appended with "small")
pforath: grassy plateau
tepfora: rocky plateau
tekko: rock
khitye: snow
tikaffe: "jungle canopy"
khuu: dark (adj), darkness (n)
tokhuyth: the Eclipse