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What People Compare Things To
A Duskaran compares things to what they know: water in a channel (slack, current, set, weir); loa...
The Exception of the Rift
In the rift of the heartland the river and the cold current of the floor run along the belt, not ...
Figures of Speech
People talk in the grain of the world. Saying Meaning It went dayward It is lost or wasted and wi...
Overview
On the surface of Duskara everything has a direction, and the direction does not change. What Com...
The Ordinary Town
Unless a section says otherwise, what follows is true of a town of the heartland, in the nightwar...
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This book is about the ordinary day on the Living Edge: what a person sees, hears, smells and tou...
Overview
The Compendium describes how Duskara works. This Gazetteer says where things are. It gives every ...
Overview
Duskaran emerged over some eight hundred years from the linguistic necessity of survival. The Ste...
Joined Lines
A few families keep the lines of both parents, joined with a hyphen: Kamau-Chen. This is most com...
Place Lines
Names that mark the home of the line. They use Dan-, from the Hausa word for "child of". It does ...
Craft Lines
Names taken from the work of a founding ancestor. They are Creole words. Line name Meaning Bahari...
Ship Lines
Family names that came from Earth. They no longer show what a person looks like or where a person...
Overview
A line name passes from parent to child. Either parent's line may be chosen. There are three kinds.
Bonded Animals
A bonded animal has one short name, nearly always a Creole word: Kasi, Wimbi, Taa, Shimu.
Duskaran Names
Names made of Creole words. They are the newest stock and the one that grows. A Duskaran name rec...
Crew Names
Names from Mandarin and Tagalog, the languages of the crew. They are most frequent in the old tec...
Settler Names
Names from Swahili and Hausa, the languages of the settlers. They are the most common stock on th...
Overview
A personal name comes from one of three stocks.
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Names follow the sounds of Duskaran Creole (see the Language Handbook). Five vowels: a, e, i, o, ...
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The Wind-Kins are five clans that group the lines along the whole arc. Each is named for an eleme...