Recent content by MSadiq

I think it's more accurate to say that he was fond of anything that's traditional of England, not in any xenophobic way. As a matter of fact, he was an avid hater of empire. He hated the Roman empire, not Rome, and the British empire, but not England because he didn't want the traditions of...

It's a Lovecraft invention. Supposedly the mad "Arab," Abdul Alhazared, which means nothing. It's literally Servant of the (abdul) the Hazred (not a real word). The book, in the made up history, is called Al Azif, which is the sound of wind picking up sand, but Lovecraft gives it some other...

I know you said you were deployed to the Middle East, but it's surprising that you can read such literarily perverted titles, which I assume so, and impressive, I might say.

Lexicon is the closet thing, in Modern English, but if you want to adapt an Old English term, wordhoard is the closet thing to thesaurus.

If you widen the scope of Asia to mean all of Asia, then you'll come to find that the Dwemers of the Elder Scrolls, at least aesthetically, are quite Mesopotamian. As to why, there are probably deeper reasons that we don't know, but as the others mentioned, it's probably because elves are meant...

It feels so weird reading this because I have two worlds, too, and one of them is also very dim, though that's due to the sun being blocked by thick clouds and smoke, called Shanal-Qen, Dragon Breath.

I've decided on two calendars for my world. One solar, which is kept for agricultural purposes, while the other is lunar, which is the more relevant to the story. The phases of the moon have an amplifying effect on the Ma (mana in a way) of creatures and people that corresponds to how much of...

If you're seeking novelty, add your spin on the power system. Take it and interpret it through something you really love. In my power system, which is an elemental one, etymology, semantics, and perception are important to how powers manifest, so if a character truly believes that swinging his...

I don't think you can even separate who you are from whatever you do, and with something as personal as writing, it's bound to show, even if very little. You're all way more experienced than me, as I'm still learning and haven't producing a novel, but in my worldbuilding, even the characters I...

AI isn't even that great at present you accurate info. It straight up makes up information, gives wrong sources, and misidentifies information. A while back, I presented it with poetry, which it ascribed to a poet that lived around 300 years after the poem was composed and the styles are quite...

For me, I like to take events or things from history and shape them into fantasy. For example, in the time of Buyid dynasty, between 934-1062, there were maristans: hospitals, fully equipped and split into wards, even insane wards. They would send medical caravans to villages and dwellings that...

I'm not that concerned with the actual precise pronunciation because that's impossible to communicate, especially with such wildly different phonemes. I'm more concerned about if a reader sees a name will he stop and struggle to pronounce it? Or even stop and wonder how weird and unnecessarily...

It's really difficult to try to fit another language with another script. I had to abandon adding pharyngeals (/ʕ/ and /ħ/) because I couldn't find a good way to represent them. I tried a diagraph, like hg and hk respectively, but more than just looking awkward, people would just ignore the H...

I'd assume you'd just write the letter that's the closest to the click and mark it with a diacritic/accent, like an alveolar (the fleshy bit behind your upper front teeth) click might be written as t̂ or t̎. Or just come up with digraphs, like gh and kh.

I'm in the same rabbit hole, but more tame. Practically creating an English-Arabic hybrid and trying to making sounds shifts from South Old Arabic to Classical Arabic because I decided that semantics will play a role in the magic system, and it made everything 20 times more complicated.