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For now I'm thinking positions of power would really only be open to the nobles but I really do like this idea of people outwardly representing their birth sign by clothing style and the like. The 4th sign people find themselves quite the opposite of untouchables. They usually end up as priests...

Are you still working on this story. I just saw you posted this now. I personally would go chemosynthetic seeing as photosynthetic needs the sun. Humboldt squids have a very interesting way of communicating with each other that may work for you with a little tweaking. Seeing into IR or UV...

Yeah I'm trying to figure out a good balance with all these foreign words like possibly using them a few times and briefly explaining them in a natural way, so I can then use the english equivalent or foreign word without confusing readers.

http://mythicscribes.com/forums/world-building/7120-ninkurra-help-needed.html This is an early version of the society. I had posted awhile back.

I don't have a clearly defined role that it would play besides it affects how people see each other. Much like the way people are like "oh you must be a virgo." For acting a certain way. The entire religion is centered around this idea of these signs grouped by the four seasons (two for...

I posted this about a week or two ago in brainstorming. Thought I'd have better luck in this forum. One of the stories I'm currently involves a culture that's religion and zodiac/horoscope is tightly tied into the way they see themselves. I've got the basics of what I want down. What...

No gods, just all from a common ancestor. They are all able to interbreed. In fact it is central to the story. Three of the main characters are hybrid from different races and this fact is used to foreshadow future events.

Not to jack your thread Dragoncat, but what would the likelihoood then be of a woman born with an omnivore father and a herbivore mother being able to have children? P.S. dragoncat I like that you are having your vampires being a species rather than supernatural. I am doing the same in mine.

I thought of Old English, still too similar to English. I might have to check out sanskrit. Malik- I guess I'm going. Conlanging is way above my head.

I don't want it want it related to previously used languages. That's for sure. It is supposed to be from a people that have had little to no contact with those of the first story. As of right now. Feel is not extremely important but they are a desert and mountain people. I would love to do a...

I just started on the beginning stages of the second story arc of my planned trilogy which involves traveling to foreign lands and I'm in need of a usable functioning language, preferably nothing currently in use today. In the first arc I used Hebrew, Akkadian, Babylonian, and Sumerian for...

I don't know if you'll see this in time, but in 3 hours from my post so at 5 p.m. American central standard time. On the channel history 2 (don't know if you get that in poland) but theres a show coming on called Journey to the earth's core. I think it would really help your world. Maybe you...

Perfectly put. She did an amazing job of making them human and relatable yet still vile creatures. After reading that trilogy I had always hoped she'd write more in that genre rather than strictly historical fiction, good as she is with them as well.

Her Dracul books are still my favorites but her historical fictions good too especially The Borgia bride and the burning times. Those are the two I'd highly recommend.

I'm suprised no one here has mentioned the vampires of Jeanne Kalogridis's diary of the family dracul trilogy. To me they seem the perfect balance of monster and sexual, not to mention their myriad of powers and weaknesses.