Magic Mondays: Faerie Apoc, Unutu
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aldersprigIn the Faerie Apocalypse 'verse, there are 11* Domains and 11 Manifestations - Domains being Things You Can Affect and Manifestations being How You Affect Those Things.
Of the 11* Domains, Unutu is my favorite.
Unutu is the word that covers "Worked Objects" and can be anything from a stretch of cloth to a steel girder. At its purest, Unutu is plastic-like - if you are using the Manifestation Meentik (Create) and have none of the other object-like Domains, you are likely to end up Creating something that seems mostly plastic.
However, if you have, for instance, Huamu (plants), you can then more easily create, say, hemp or cotton cloth. Eperu (earth) and you can make those steel beams. Panida (Animals) and you can make a wool jumper or a leather collar.
Of all the Words, thus, Unutu is the one most often combined with another Word. And it can be, in today's day and age, the most versatile.
Recent discussion on Twitter gives me another example: You can use Jasfe (repair) to repair a pitted, pot-holed road, or you can use it to repair your car once the road has done it damage. Or your tire, once it gets a flat.
With Meentik Unutu and a sufficient knowledge of how things need to work, you can make just about anything you might need.
Well, except food. You still need Huama and/or Panida for that.
And no, we're not going into Tlacatl here.
Of the 11* Domains, Unutu is my favorite.
Unutu is the word that covers "Worked Objects" and can be anything from a stretch of cloth to a steel girder. At its purest, Unutu is plastic-like - if you are using the Manifestation Meentik (Create) and have none of the other object-like Domains, you are likely to end up Creating something that seems mostly plastic.
However, if you have, for instance, Huamu (plants), you can then more easily create, say, hemp or cotton cloth. Eperu (earth) and you can make those steel beams. Panida (Animals) and you can make a wool jumper or a leather collar.
Of all the Words, thus, Unutu is the one most often combined with another Word. And it can be, in today's day and age, the most versatile.
Recent discussion on Twitter gives me another example: You can use Jasfe (repair) to repair a pitted, pot-holed road, or you can use it to repair your car once the road has done it damage. Or your tire, once it gets a flat.
With Meentik Unutu and a sufficient knowledge of how things need to work, you can make just about anything you might need.
Well, except food. You still need Huama and/or Panida for that.
And no, we're not going into Tlacatl here.
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Date: 2013-05-06 05:28 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-05-10 01:34 am (UTC)If you have Meentik Tlactl and you're strong enough, old enough, etc, can you make a person?
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Date: 2013-05-10 01:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-06 06:25 pm (UTC)this is just making me think of dozens of questions/ideas about how one wish to combine Unutu and Tlacatl, darn youuuuu XD
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Date: 2013-05-07 12:50 am (UTC)And every time I see "Tlacatl" I say it: [ƛakaƛ].
Because I like saying things like that!
And that character is U+019B,
LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE aka "barred lambda".
Which is one way of spelling out the pronunciation of "Tlacatl".
Because I like saying things like that!
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Date: 2013-05-07 12:56 am (UTC)Oh. And there are three Lost Words.
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Date: 2013-05-07 02:40 am (UTC)UfCAWSSS!
Oh, good. My mom, an art teacher, taught me about symmetry. :-)
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Date: 2013-05-07 04:12 pm (UTC)Symmetry?
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Date: 2013-05-07 06:04 pm (UTC)I forget where I heard/saw that particular spelling.... ah, I think it was The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N.
Symmetry 1: I somehow mistook that for 11* Domains and 14 Manifestations. Counting 3 more Domains would restore symmetry, 14 & 14.
Symmetry 2: After I typed in ƛakaƛ, I realized that
• it's a palindrome
• the middle part is "aka" aka "a.k.a." aka "also known as".
Whence the last three lines up there.
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Date: 2013-05-07 10:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-13 04:17 am (UTC)So, roughly speaking, Nouns and Verbs respectively. I'd offer to try and think of some more possible Manifestations, but I don't know the full set of the ones you've got (hint, hint).
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Date: 2013-05-13 12:44 pm (UTC)http://www.addergoole.com/wiki/index.php?title=Words
Manifestations (verbs)
Meentik (Create)
Abatu (Destroy)
Jasfe (Repair)
Qorawiyay (Shape)
Aistrigh (Transmute)
Tempero (Control)
Quipia (Preserve)
Idu (Know)
Aposyntheto
Buli (Ignore)
Tuapeka (Disguise)
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Date: 2013-05-13 02:27 pm (UTC)How about adding or draining energy? These could be the same Manifestation, with a literal meaning something like "adjust". One pair of effects would be heating / cooling, even unto burning / freezing. Another: invigorate / exhaust. A third: accelerate / brake. Plenty more, I'm sure.
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Date: 2013-05-17 12:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-07 05:20 am (UTC)Oh, and BTW: the "ƛ" I used up in 3A1 is equivalent to the "tɬ" on that page. The former is Americanist (often used by linguists describing languages of the Americas, such as Nahuatl) and the latter is IPA. In case anyone cares.
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Date: 2013-05-07 03:24 pm (UTC)And @ aldersprig: This is pretty, pretty worldbuilding.
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Date: 2013-05-07 04:12 pm (UTC)And I'm intrigued, @thnidu
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Date: 2013-05-07 06:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-08 02:12 am (UTC)Respectfully submitted,
Dr. Whom: Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoëpist, and Philological Busybody
(Icon: one of Charlene Taylor D'Alessio's renditions of "Dr. Whomster", this being Tom Baker's fourth Doctor – my first, from first run and my favorite Doctor. © Charlene Taylor D'Alessio, used by permission.)
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Date: 2013-05-08 12:17 pm (UTC)