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I know everyone pushed the “Percy has a hero’s middle name too” and that is in fact funny, but I have thought of something funnier:

Perseus Jackson has no middle name except for when his mother throws a random Greek Hero’s name in the middle. She does not repeat them.

Yes, at one point, it was Perseus Atalanta Jackson.

Perseus Heracles Jackson died a quick death.

Perseus Odysseus Jackson may be repeated? But only if he vanishes again.

Anyway, feel free to steal this. The thought wanted to be shared.

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So, where did the myth that Jedi kidnapped kids come from?

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Toana - Devotional

This post delves into the practices and beliefs specific to Devotional Toana. Here, I'll answer questions pulled from this worldbuilding list, as well as a few of my own. Anything that is pulled from canon Star Wars sources will be marked with an asterisk (*). Feel free to ask me any clarifying questions you have! It really helps with the worldbuilding process!

Toana Masterlist

Ideas

About the afterlife: Everyone goes to the same afterlife, a relaxing, peaceful existence in a world that mimics real life, but is softer. The oceans are easier to fish, the mountains easier to climb, the soil easier to farm, so on and so forth. There is, however, a hierarchy. Depending on how honorable you were in life, your choices of profession expand or contract.

If you were a dishonorable person, you may only get two or three options. If you were a very honorable person, you can pick anything you like. If you were a dishonorable person and you were offered, for instance, either fisherman or customer service, and didn't want to spend your afterlife doing either of those things, you are free to hike up to a portal on top of Mount Appenza (an easier climb in Rhea's world) and be reincarnated.

About community: Community is the cornerstone of civilization. Everyone within a certain community has certain gifts and is obligated to use them for the betterment of the community. There is also a procedure for conflict resolution, because conflict is the beginning of chaos, and chaos is the root of evil, misfortune, and tragedy.

About interpersonal relationships: Interpersonal relationships are the building blocks of community and thus, the same rules apply. If, for whatever reason, a relationship needs to end (romantic breakup, toxic siblings, abusive parents, friendship growing more and more distant, etc.), you need to do your absolute best to end it peacefully and amicably. It's widely understood that that's not always possible, but all Toanans have to at least try, for honor's sake.

About the sentient's relationship with nature: The sentient being is not part of nature, but it is surrounded by nature. Nature is more than willing to destroy the sentient being, so it is the sentient's responsibility to be respectful of nature and not be destroyed.

About children: Children are very small people with their own thoughts and emotions. It is the family's and the community's responsibility to teach them how to be honorable members of society, but you still have to treat children according to the rules of honor while they're learning.

About gender: Devotional Toana is rather strict about gender roles, although actual adherence to said gender roles varies depending where on the fundamentalist-secularist spectrum your community falls.

On the fundamentalist side, women are the dominant sex. They act as the head of the family, are the primary caretakers of their children from ages birth to ten, can make decisions on behalf of their families, serve as representatives on community/town/city councils, and lead within their religious communities as storytellers and priests.

Men play a supporting role, providing money/food/supplies for the household, introducing their children to trades/the professional world as they become teenagers and young adults, enforcing the rules and laws, and defending their family's honor if it ever comes under question.

Being binary trans (mtf or ftm, but not nonbinary) is fine, but you have to adhere to the gender roles of your chosen gender.

About government: As Toana became prevalent at a time when plenty of other religions were alive and thriving, there has never been any kind of theocracy. Occasionally, in areas where Toana is the dominant or at least a major religion, there is a push for a temple representative in legislature or on councils, but they mostly leave each other be so long as neither break the rules of the other (for instance, if a Toanan practice broke Alderaanian law, the government would be within their rights to prosecute. Likewise, if an Alderaanian law or leader was dishonorable or causing chaos, Toanan citizens and religious leaders would be within their rights to protest or appeal to the courts).

About war: War is an absolute evil. It is the most conflict two groups can have, it is nothing but chaos, and it encourages people to act dishonorably. Most Toanans are pacifists and believe in ending wars as quickly as possible via negotiation.

There are some, however, who believe war is a necessary evil in the case of an oppressive force. If an outside force is causing chaos and acting dishonorably towards Toanans, they can fight back to put an end to it (this is the whole idea behind Bannai, the god of righteous war). The focus is still on ending the fighting as quickly as possible, however.

Practices

Birth: A month before a mother is due to give birth, her mother moves in temporarily to maintain her daughter's household and help take care of any other young children. After the birth, mother and baby are quarantined for twenty days, with the exception of the father and grandmother.

At the end of the twenty days, the community will get together for a party for the baby, where the baby's name will be announced. Toanan babies have two "given names" in addition to their family and house names (the family and house names idea is from @looseleafteeaves headcanons here. I imagine this is a pan-Alderaanian custom with slight variations from culture to culture). If the baby is a girl, then the mother chooses the first name and the father chooses the second. If it's a boy, then it's the other way around.

Coming of age: When a child comes of age (16 on Alderaan), their parents will take them to a temple and they will pledge themselves to a deity. This will be the deity that they will pray to first for the rest of their life, but they can still pray to other deities as well if the request is more relevant to someone else.

Toanan's are only allowed to change their pledged deity in the case of war, if their deity is thought to have sided with Kiikouda (deity of chaos).

Marriage: Marriage is a deeply intimate and private affair, involving the individuals getting married, Riinu (goddess of marriage), Miirta (goddess of passionate love), Miirtou (god of steadfast love), and the couple's pledged deities. No one else should be there. Afterwards, however there's a giant party to celebrate.

Generally speaking, husbands will assume the surname (family and house) of their new wife, but if the husband is from a significantly higher social class, then he might only take her family name.

Finally, same-sex marriages are allowed, with one complication: there needs to be children. If a couple doesn't raise a child, they are seen as not contributing to their community. Most infertile couples and some same-sex couples get around this by just adopting, but sometimes a couple will open an orphanage together to fulfil the requirement. It's such a prevalent stereotype that if someone wanted to speak about a same-sex couple euphemistically (such as we do about straight couples with phrases like "tying the knot" or "getting hitched"), one would talk about "opening an orphanage" (i.e. "Rouge and Cara are getting pretty serious! Think they're planning on... opening an orphanage anytime soon? *wink wink*" and "Tycho and Raymus just broke ground on their new orphanage. The afterparty was great!").

Death: The end of life is a sad but peaceful time because it is believed that the dead person is either in a happier afterlife, or is coming back to be reincarnated. Toanans are typically buried either in tombs or in the ground, always facing the direction they died because it's believed that that is the direction that Rhea (goddess of death) summoned them towards. If you turn them a different way, they might get lost.

You never ever are cremated in Toanan tradition. If a Toanan's body is burned, they are immediately sent to be a servant of Kiikouda and can never reincarnate again.

Worship: Toanan families keep a shrine in their home with figurines of commonly-prayed-to deities and practitioners are supposed to pray once a day. Adults will usually wear a charm (on a necklace, bracelet, etc.) with their pledged deity's iconography. If one doesn't have a shrine at home, doesn't have a figurine of the specific deity they want to pray to, needs religious advice, or needs to receive a blessing, one would go to the local temple.

There are several temples in every major city on Alderaan, at least one temple in most sizable towns, and there's even a temple in the Alderaanian-populated area of Coruscant (although Toanans tend to stay on Alderaan if they can help it, because they believe their gods live there). All temples contain shrines to all of the deities and at least one priest.

As for the blessings, those are taken when one needs direct help from a specific deity (job interview, proposal, nerve-wracking test at school, it can be anything really). In order to do that, one needs something digestible to be blessed by a priest, and the invoked deity will help as long as the blessed food item is in one's body. "Blessing a laxative," is a saying that comes from this practice that means you are putting a lot of effort into something that won't do you any good, when you could be using your energy more wisely.

Priesthood organization: All religious leaders (about 85% women and 15% men) have to attend religious schooling for four to six years before they can start practicing. They also do not pledge themselves to any deity. The first four years are spent memorizing the core myths about the deities, how the deities interact with each other, and the history of Toana on Alderaan.

If one leaves school after this point, they are qualified to be storytellers. Storytellers work in temples by teaching the myths during weekly gatherings and during daycare if the temple has one (common in big cities). They are also expected to participate in all service work done by the temple. They are not permitted to give blessings, carry out ceremonies (except where one is time sensitive, such as a funeral, and a priest absolutely cannot be gotten), or be elected to religious office.

The last two years of school teach one how to give blessings, carry out ceremonies, manage community conflicts, and make figurines for shrines. After school, priests are sent out on assignment to wherever they are needed. Both priests and storytellers are expected to live in or very near the temple.

In large temples with several priests, they work in shifts with one or two being available for consult (or "on call") at a time, while the others rest, work on service projects, or do leisure activities. In very small temples with only one priest, said priest is on call around the clock and is always at risk of being interrupted or woken up when they are needed.

There is a central temple in Juranno and the chief priest of said temple is called "the head." The chief priests of the seven most populated temples (not including the central one) form a council called "the shoulders", which is led by the head. This council is responsible for assigning priests to where they're most needed, allocating funds as needed, managing inter-temple conflicts, deciding theological debates, and creating new myths if a new theological question arises that can't be answered by the existing myths.

The head priests of all the other temples are called "the arms" and are responsible for advocating for the needs of their own temples. Senior priests (those who have been doing their jobs for two decades or more and aren't head priests) are called "the hands" and are responsible for supervising the junior priests, organizing service projects, and making sure everything within the temple is running smoothly.

Finally, the junior priests are called "the fingers" and do all of the day-to-day work that makes the temple run. Singular priests in very small village temples are technically considered "arms" but are often referred to as "fingernails" because they have very little power and are hanging onto their sanity by their fingernails.

Storytellers and priests are allowed to get married and have children. Storytellers usually do, but some priests choose not to as their work takes up a lot of their time and energy.

Holidays

Gingerbell Blossom Festival*: Spring Equinox celebration of life and growth. It has bled into mainstream Alderaanian culture, but still has some religious overtones. Celebrated with sacrifices to Bailio (god of life) and whatever major spirits may be around, and some people celebrate by planting flowers anywhere they can be grown. It is also a very popular time to get married.

Harvest Festival: Mostly celebrated by people in the agriculture and wine industries. Celebrated by sacrificing to Maiouel (deity of leisure, merrymaking, and alcohol), eating with family and friends, and lots of drinking. Also serves to kick off the new year in the Toanan calendar.

Winter's Heart*: One of the many midwinter celebrations on Alderaan, it takes place on the winter solstice. Traditionally, it is a very solemn holiday set aside to mourn the dead, as winter in the mountains can be a very dangerous time. As technology advances and life gets safer, it retains its solemnity, but loses a lot of its sadness. Usually observed with sacrifices to Rhea (goddess of death) and Antil (god of hope)

Silver Flow*: This holiday is celebrated by almost every culture on Alderaan. Glimmerfish* will lay their eggs in Alderaan's waterways and, in the fall when they hatch, the baby glimmerfish will turn the rivers silver as they head to the seas. In certain places, like where major rivers meet the sea, this phenomenon can be seen from space. In Toana, the holiday is set aside for the celebration of mothers and community.

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I would also like to propose /platonic

When I was in my teens, I used to make an entire magic system with 360+ unique spells, ordered in magic schools and categories, and it boggles my mind that I basically reinvented DnD mechanics, even down to metamagic.

I wanted to make a wiki about it but I don't have time for it.

The point was to try to encompass every "superpower" I could think of into a magic system.

I even got lore related to it all, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna simply reuse it all for OC worldbuilding. Ngl the fun part was naming all the spells, symbols and coming up with the logic of it all.

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The Language of Alderaan

Alderaan is planet built of mountains, valleys, and oceans. There are hilly regions, which is about as flat as it gets without terraforming, however it is known for those heights. Thus, I pulled a bit of inspiration from Appalachian sounds, and common language patterns that are seen in mountainous regions.

Note, the language is not english. It is nothing like english. Appalachian English is just the nearest mountainous dialect I am familiar with. @yellow-faerie is once again my partner in crime, and this lanugage is still absolutely a WIP. I also have borrowed from @raointean for religious information, which will come in a different post.

Okay. There is the warnings. Lets get into what we have right now.

Sounds!

Here is the current phonology sheet! The preview allows you to see the basic phonology, but I will be sharing a specific section on the spelling patterns, which are very simple at the moment, until I add some variations.

Alderaanii is made of 20 consonant sounds(including some that would be represented by two letters), and 12 vowels, including diphthongs. The vowels sounds can be similar, but usually are doubled to represent a drawn out sound. The spelling patterns are what the IPA symbol sounds like to me in English. (Not Basic, because one of my dearest friends, @krayttahrei-adragonsfriend is creating basic into another conlang, instead of space!English, since its fun. We stand evil conlangs /j) Mostly, the sounds made since and I liked them, with some input from canon names and places, barring one spelling rule that is covered next.

Spelling Patterns and Sounds:

Here are the sounds + associated spelling pattern:

The image above shows the most common spelling patterns, as Fae and I have not created uncommon or old spelling patterns yet. The biggest thing I want to point out is that we made the decision that the letter "i" cannot exist alone. It must be paired with another vowel, or in a double i, example: Alderaanii. This is a change from the original name for the language, which I called Alderaani. This choice is one that looks right, so we shall be keeping it. This is similar to how the letter "c" does not exist alone, it only exists for the "ch" sound. No we do not have a reason for this yet. Probably some hold over from a specific Old Alderaanii word, but we haven't decided yet.

Grammar

Next up is grammar! We haven't done a lot with grammar yet, but here is what we do have:

Normally, word order will be SVO, same as english. However, this changes when in a religious setting, then the word order is OVS. (Nothing is posted with this yet, but Fae has been translating the song Noble Maiden Fair into Alderaanii, and it is so pretty so far I'm obsessed and on tenterhooks for the next bit.)

Nouns in the unaltered form are usually used as names. You add a suffix to mark it as a single, a duo, a triple, and more than triple. In these conjugations(?), if the word ends in a consonant, it follows with a Vowel-Consonant-Vowel, while words that end in vowels (usually) only add Consonant-Vowel(Im looking at you, triple suffix). These are (as of June 19, 2025) located at the top of the grammar tab, linked at the subheading for this section. Example 1, Vowel ending: Breha (means endure, is also a flower that grows as high altitudes). Brehame is one breha flower. Brehabe would be two flowers, brehail is three, and brehade is more than three breha flowers. Example 2, consonant ending: cobal (means tea), would be written Cobalome is a single tea(a cup of tea or a tea blend, this is generally understood based on the context used), Cobalebe is two, Cobalile is three, and Cobalede is many.

Conjugating verbs is done with a suffix to indicate the tense, as I liked that for Kehran and am doing the same with Alderaanii ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ This is not written nicely in a chart yet lol, but we have 6 tenses, with one adjusting the other 5 to become something ongoing, the other tenses represent when something was begun. Far past, near past, present, near future, far future, and continuous(the modifier).

Mood will be denoted with a prefix, currently we only have imperative(which is commands).

Names

Now, I touched on names a bit in the Grammar section, but names need to be addressed separately as well, as it has its own section in the Doc.

Names are always an un-adjusted noun.

Names can come from any part of speech, but nouns are most common, and of nouns, it is usually something that is one thing, but has a deeper meaning it presents.

Family is a huge part of Alderaan. It follows this rule of three that we have going on, and some other stuff I am excited to share in another Alderaan post. But, in any case, Names are Who You Are. They are EXTREMELY important. Here are the words of @yellow-faerie who sold me on it immediately:

"My idea is that there are houses which pretty much everyone belongs to (the Royal House, which was House Alde before they died out and became mythicised, and then became Organa after a bit of infighting; the Thirteen Major Houses which rule over smaller subsects of the planet; and then a bunch of minor houses which are again in specific places) You get a first name on your naming day which usually has a meaning of what your parents want you to aspire towards - how vague and metaphorical that is depends on your parents lol - and then you have your House Name, and then your surname. OK so this might be complicated because I'm bad at describing it - but House Name is the house you belong to (you can petition to change this, which is easier when you might be getting married or are adopted in, but you can do it otherwise through appointment by court) which is who you go to for any legal dealings etc etc; surnames are which family within that sect you belong. So, Bail Prestor Organa is still in House Prestor as he's a consort without political power of a reigning monarch, and so remained within his old house (this was a personal choice he made so he could remain as Senator) but is part of the family Organa (as Alderaan is matrilineal in who joins who's family); Breha Organa is part of House Organa but is also part of family Organa (the oldest branch of the house) and so drops the last Organa - typically if someone only has one surname, it means they're a pretty big deal in their family OR that they have no house (and legal dealings are held by The State) Surnames may be gained or changed over the years [REDACTED BECAUSE ORIGINAL STORY] Another example would be Leia Organa Solo (admittedly in Legends) taking Han's last name (non-traditional by Alderaani standards but was a strong statement of how much she was Marrying This Man Fuck All You People Telling Me To Marry A Prince) but remaining a member of House Organa.

So, TLl;DR, no Middle Names. Its Who You Are+Family+House Name+Surname. House Names can be changed or differ from the House you belong to, especially if you are a branch house. Surnames are your close family. You, mom, dad, and maybe aunts/uncles, but not always. NOTE: No we have not yet made all Thirteen Houses.

Numbers

This won't be super detailed because we havent done it yet, but we will be doing a base-13 because number 1, I hate myself, and number 2: Baking. So yeah. We only have 0-3, siiv(0)-iile(1)-eebe(2)-oome(3).

Conclusion

Alderaanii is absolutely a work in progress. However, you can keep up with our progress and make your own words using our doc, though please let me know so I can add it if I think it fits what I am building. (Your own dictionary can be a dialect or something, but I will reserve the right to be picky, lol). I also would love to hear about what world-building you are doing and any questions you have- just send an ask (this is title "Pick Your Poison" because I think I'm funny). Same as with Kehran Amatakka, Ryl, and anything else I yap about on this page! Thanks for reading!

-looseleafteeaves, AKA Teeaves (you can also call me Pehi)

doc is linked in the first word of the Conclusion

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Hello! @aikoiya suggested I ask you about language stuff! :)

...do you know if there's an audio library for the IPA anywhere? I'm trying to actually make bones for a language for a world I've had forever, and the guide I'm following for beginners suggests starting with selecting sounds from IPA and... I cannot understand the descriptions of the phenomes at all 😅

Honestly, I rely heavily on Wikipedia for sounds. The audioclips are great for it, even if they can be confusing. You may also be able to find on youtube!

@krayttahrei-adragonsfriend @anabenalia do you have different options?

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Alright! The post will be about Alderaani, but I did havr someone ask very nicely for the religious stuff so that will get its own as well!

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Thrive

"Master K'Nish, ma'am, what are we doing here?"

The blind Jedi pulled a small firepit from her pack, filling the brazier with charcoal and stoking it into flames.

"It's been a rough mission."

"…Yes. Nar Shaddaa is wretched. The whole planet is filled with criminals and scum."

"And yet, there is Light as well."

She pulled out skewers and a container of sausages, jabbing the meat and passing one to her padawan.

"Master?"

"Where there is Dark, there has to be Light. There are good folk here."

"I see. Yes, I suppose so."

"No supposing necessary. We have seen them; in the workers of the spaceports, the markets, those that aid us against the Hutts."

She gave a slight smile and lifted her sausage skewer, "Especially the ones that sold us these."

For @jedijune

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do fic readers know that their comments actually influence the course of the story sometimes? i don't mean in a "you need to write it this way because i say so 😡" type of comment, i mean when people are asking questions or really engaging with the plot and the themes in the comments they sometimes bring up things that i didn't even think of, or dig into parts of the story that i've overlooked, or get really interested/fixated on something i was going to just kind of glance over--and it has me going 'oh wait that's actually really interesting, that's a good point' and fully adding or tweaking or changing things about the story going forward. i'm literally adding an entire additional chapter to something right now because someone's comment had me like "oh i didn't dig into that as much as i could have." you have impact!

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i feel like nobody has NOTPs anymore. like if you hate a ship now it has to be for some deep moral reason and you have to justify it to everyone what happened to just not liking stuff that isnt inherently bad but just because you personally think it sucks

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ok what if, thanks to giving birth to two quarter-force/eldritch skywalkers, padmé wound up as a force ghost (but only said eldritch skywalkers could see her)

(commission info // tip jar!)

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writing advice for characters with a missing eye: dear God does losing an eyes function fuck up your neck. Ever since mine crapped out I've been slowly and unconsciously shifting towards holding my head at an angle to put the good eye closer to the center. and human necks. are not meant to accommodate that sorta thing.

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