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An issue I've been thinking about - I have the houses and the lineages discernible by hair and eye color. Should I add varied skin color, too? The Bhais Lan would get ivory skin, the Cogadh Lan - probably red, the Mian Lan would probably have pearl skin etc. etc.
Very possible. Does that mean each house is inbred (or large) so that its traits don't get diluted by marrying out? (Or I suppose people taking after the wrong ancestor could dye their hair for solidarity's sake, or be discreetly pushed back from politics as "not quite the voice of our house.")
1) what about art? Should noble houses sponsor it? What about painting (mostly on the cavern walls)?
2) I thought of giving every year a name and an associated legend. Or would that sound like a FR-ripoff?
Because the planet's core fluctuates and flashes, they can measure time without using magic. Their year has 12 months and every month has 4 weeks 8 days each.
Why is their year so close to ours? It is not measered in the same way. Why do they even have a year and months at all, years are based on the sun and months on the moon. You probably should make a different way of measuring time based more on the core. And it should be very different from Earth's
I thought of making some other calendar, but my friends told me to stop making it too weird... So I simply changed the number of days in a week, because of the holy number.
Alternately, elves could count days only and then group them in some groups of 8 or of a power of 8...
The Eight day week makes sense for this but to me a 12 month year is to earth-like and doesn't seem right for this. It wouldn't be too weird or confusing in my opinion to have a completly different calender unless they have some way of seeing the night sky.
I think something like moon and sun cycles might work great here. Sun cycles for talking about the day. Moon cycles for weeks.
" I'll be back at red dawn my lady."
or
" I'll see you at the trial at Half moon."
Just have to work out the time cycles between the various stages.
Ill leave this post in here but I just realized this is the underground planet thread. Apologies.
I haven't yet decided on the divine patron of one of the other houses (Traidi Lan, which means full of tradition). The Noble Queen and the Life-Giver both have a single house + the Mian Lan (the undecided offshoot of the Uasal Lan) under their patronage, so I might be forced to:
a) make the Elf Queen their patron
b) invent a new deity
c) make some other deity their patron
Additionally, a good solution to the Mian Lan [full of desire] venerating two deities at once would be to invent a minor deity of sexuality...