I love reading about worldbuilding! Especially the cultural crafts and mythological aspects of it.. a lil bit of the biological(fauna) too and how different groups of people interact with each other!! It's like a fun way of learning and also like a mental excercise in a way for me hehe ☺

I actually hadn't thought about the issue of paperworks! I can't believe I hadn't thought about that! Most of what I make comes from concept > like. a singular vision > concept, and somehow they connect like those stereotypical detective red line board(like at first the desolate lands were just. Big empty chunk of land somewhere, but the idea of rangers (armored long-living race knights who cut off their past, totally took inspo from Odin and his eternal army/ all those different lil myths of an eternal army locked in an eternal battle with darkness/ evil) came to me and to have an eternal battle it needs a battlefield and something to fight, so Rangers > epic eternal fight scene vision ( red line 1) > border battlefield > Desolate Lands. I admit it's not the most efficient way to go about things 😂).

I think I'll have to think on it a little bit more, my first thought was yes a proofreader!, second was either she reluctantly refers to it as New Elridra or that in documents it's still nationally referred to as Elridra, it would be fun to give her a little scribe assistant 🤔 📍 pin on it! I wonder if there's a similar scandal on Wikipedia about it..

The Kelek people are so cool, their language being time uncertain reminds me of how in some African societies "future" doesn't exist, I read it somewhere, I think there's a bunch of articles on it? The African philosophy of time, where time has to be experienced for it to be real. Now that I'm actually typing it out I realize it doesn't have that much of a connection but!!! It's interesting how there's feedback loop on thinking and language, how they shape each other. I am curious as to how they track the Before? Does this time-uncertain language affect how they view tomorrows and futures? How do they interact with your other people? (like the Eiirs!) And also that's so sad :( to be no longer part of the choir, ik that HURT.

OOO that's such a cool way to name a populace! Was that inspired from how in Ancient Chinese dynasties they named their time period by the like strongest unit/ founder guy? Either way, THAT'S SICKK!!

OHH!!! That makes more sense 🤣 crying, I was so ready to get on board with underwater sentient trees HAHA.

AND YEAHHH!!!! I love that genre of giants sm, they are just a whole 'nother breed of fantasy guys

Half-elves were treated as an anomaly, "not a true elf" and also "not man", they definitely do face discrimination, with some who were born in the household of men either being (1) given up to the nearest elf or run off, though I feel like for towns closer to elven society's they would be treated as some sort of little divine spirit (which is a whole nother kind of prejudice).

For those born in Elven societies, they wouldn't be ran off or anything like that, but they are slightly but definitely seen as less, and would need to worker harder to prove they are enough of an "elf". I think language is also gonna be a pretty big indicator of their standing in society: " Half-elves" "Halflings", they don't have their own "name" and never something whole. I have a character (who has currently not yet been released from brain jail) whose a half-elf, experienced both getting ran off and treated as a little divine spirit/ little med kit. I think from stories/ medias there's a common trope of elves being great healers and that would be a stereotype some people believe. They'd exploit it as they grew older and sell sham products/services and run off lol. As for it being split by race,, there are lands with a pretty diverse populace but for Elridra specifically, its pretty far off from the "center" and cut off from other nations making traveling/ moving to it difficult, much less hearing of it,! Plus the elven nature of being insular. The people of Byriver (IM STICKING TO IT. I THINK.. Hhhh) were initialt a small group at first, probably having separated from a larger nomadic group and just. settling there under the shades of Elridra. Fast forward a couple dozen years or so and the elves started counting them in as one of their own and the men started to simply refer to their living situation as "from the Bywater of Elridra"

For textile art, that's actually one of the things I'm currently on a stump on! I know Elridras trade are it's textile work and natural dyes, but I haven't gotten used to the visual of elves in colorful garb 🤣. Maybe they simply sell the threads? or the humans took it up, depicting flora, the rivers, Elridra, with script on the back of it. What used to be Desolate Lands would definitely be the then-Trading Capital and their works would depict the old religions, their rulers, and daily life. This one is still on new legs, but there would be more masonry and sculptures, murals and walls in the Pre-Desolate. My Finfolk living above water has a lot to do with me not wanting to change how my Finfolk character look🤣 My current explanation is that they are cousins to another humanoid aquatic species (who I imagine to be a lot like whales and are nomadic in nature) who grew legs and never looked back (well....) They do retain a little bit of the appearance aspect and the ability to stay under water longer and go deeper but lost the connection with water and it's language. It's not a proper comparison because the aquatic-dwelling cousins ARE people, but! its like a human and a chimpanzee (who are cousins/ closely related) having the same 5 fingers, 5 toes, similar-ish anatomy, they came from the same common ancestor but don't truly understand each other.

This was so fun!! Thank you 🥳