Writers' Salon!

[isana]

All right, guys, let's get this started.

This is a post for members to post their burning questions to each other. They can be simple, like "when is Character X's birthday," or not so simple "how would you define the relationship between Character X and Character Y?" If there's a story you want that author to talk about, throw in the title (and some points you'd like covered!) and if said author's willing, they can write their answer in a separate post, since I have no idea what the comment word limits are.

Here's how it'll work: an author who's up for answering questions/writing commentaries about stories will leave their name in a comment. Readers who want to ask questions or request stories reply to that comment, and hopefully we'll have some good conversations going!

If you guys request stories, it may be best if you limit them to rainbowfic for the time being, unless the story you've got archived outside the comm is in a public entry.

EDIT: If it's not already obvious, you can ask authors more than one question in however many comments you like. The point is to have a discussion, and it wouldn't be very lively if it stopped at one question per author! Just give the author a chance to finish answering your previous questions, of course.

Comments

[kay_brooke]

Wow, thank you! I'm just surprised any of it was coherent, since I was just writing stuff as it came to me without much order to it.

There's more, stuff that I was going to put and then forgot to.

Like, I never got back to the Goddess like I said I would. Salkiy religion is basically pantheistic, with several different gods representing various aspects of the world, but the Goddess is above all the others. The Goddess does actually have a name, but it is something sacred that salkiys just aren't going to ever tell outsiders.

Uh, there was more stuff about the roles played by Fourth and Fifth Ethret salkiys, but I think it would have been too long and boring. Basically, in the old days there were distinct paths of knowledge salkiys could take beyond the Third Ethret based on their talents and vocational desires, so for example one could become a Fourth Ethret warrior or a Fourth Ethret scholar or healer or whatever. Again, pretty highly specialized. After Border Glory, most of the salkiys who continued past the Third Ethret did it as part of training to become an arai, and there was no separation of different areas of study (since much of the original knowledge and spellwork had been lost anyway).

Also, your comment above about Serpent Folk life spans reminded me: salkiys live on average about twice as long as humans, so the oldest salkiys might be in the vicinity of two hundred years old. They go through puberty at about the same age as humans, but relative aging slows down after that.

And, because I say so, left-handedness is dominant among salkiys. :)

[isana]

Haha, it makes me hang my head in shame that my Serpent Folk answer wasn't as rich and complex. I do appreciate the additional stuff in this comment, though, even if you didn't put it in the original! I don't think life with the Serpent Folk is necessarily as complex as the salkiys--I think I got as far as village elders and possible designated roles, but that was about it. They were a bit more old-world/tribal in that sense.

Ooh, so does that mean Merrus is most likely left-handed?