Coffee; wrote:Schuyler wrote:sugar free. wrote:Do you guys have any customs? If so, I wanna hear some backstory :> I've seen many customs but don't really know the inspiration and what you did to earn it :P
Pet's name: Äðwchrámhḿ
This boy is the main deity for a fictional species I've been developing, but I haven't worked out many of the details yet, so I'm afraid I can't tell you much more than that right now -- my general idea is that the society has a myth that there was once a terrible winter causing everything alive and beauty to perish and Äðwchrámhḿ did [something] to end it. In doing so, he gained magical powers and immortality, becoming the spirit of warmth, sunlight, fire, and ultimately life.
... As you can see, I have a lot still to figure out, lol. The species itself supposed to be a highly intelligent and civilized cross between a dinosaur and an eagle; you can read some of my brainstorming about them
here if you like.
Äðwchrámhḿ roughly means "one bearing or embodying everlasting fire/soul/life force" in their language.
That’s really fascinating! Not to mention, Äðwchrámhḿ is gorgeous!
You said you were developing a species based on Äðwchrámhḿ. Does that mean you’re writing a story? Or are you going to create a website similar to Chicken Smoothie/Flight Rising? (Sorry if this question is too invasive.)
Not exactly either. What I'm doing is creating a conlang (constructed language -- think Klingon, Elvish, Esperanto, etc.). And this eagle/raptor cross thing was an idea I had been sitting on for a while that was originally going to be for just one OC, but then I decided to start developing it as the species that would be speaking the language because I needed a world and culture to go along with it. If that makes any kind of sense. The page I linked to for the species is actually part of the website I set up to organize my ideas for the language, so if you click around on the other pages there, you can check out what I've got so far.
I do have the thought to try writing some stories and/or poems about or as part of their culture once I have more to work with, but for now I'm just having fun and don't have anything concrete planned. c: I also often have trouble coming up with creative lore (hence the many gaps in Äðwchrámhḿ's backstory) and am mostly focused on the language, so I'm not sure how much I'll actually get around to developing for the species, but you never know. An adoptable site for them would be awesome, but I'm afraid my artistic and coding abilities aren't anywhere near the level they'd have to be at to pull something like that off. :'D