#Steren Home

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★donatello, donnie, dee—★

[wellthebardsdead]

Vivienne: *standing in the kitchen looking at a cook book with increasing confusion* …

Taliesin: *walks in and sets down the groceries* pondering the pictures again again are we?

Vivienne: what’s a tsp?? A Quart?? I wanted… to make dinner but… even after all that learning to just read books I can’t understand any of this?…

Taliesin: *sensing more to the disappointment in his tone* Vi… what’s wrong?…

Vivienne: I wanted to make dinner for when Steren comes home but… but I don’t know how to…

Taliesin: … *sighs and puts on his apron* alright I’ll show you what everything is first then we’ll get started.

*after dinner*

Steren: It was really good Vivi you’re too hard on yourself.

Vivienne: really? Taliesin helped me a lot…

*downstairs*

Kaidan: *walks into the kitchen to see every utensil, pot, dish and plate in the house now in the sink and Taliesin on the floor drinking from a bottle of wine* … Alright, let’s get you to bed I’ll do the dishes.

Taliesin: who- *hiccups* mixes up flour with baking soda?! The cake was alive!!

[trickstarbrave]

TCS FRIDAY BABEYYYY

i just wanna talk about steren because i love him. sorry for what will no doubt be rambling u_u @the-elder-polls i will be including art and stuff as necessary bc i love my boyyyyyyy and ive drawn him a lot

he's technically a nerevarine. he isnt nerevar's reincarnation though, instead nerevar (trans) and voryn had a kid by accident and well. steren is the reincarnation of THAT child.

first lifetime in his early life he was born at kogoruhn and raised in house dagoth. The cover story is nerevar was on a pilgrimage for azura and voryn had a drunken affair with a woman. steren is born, voryn fakes the death of the random woman, now he has a son. very few people know the truth. nerevar wanted to raise him but he was originally born a commoner and while he's strong enough to protect himself, he wouldn't put it past anyone with a grudge to target a literal infant just to spite him. nerevar still visits often though, under the guise that of course he'd be nice to his closet friend's son

steren was born a few years before the war of the first council though. tensions were getting high between the chimer and previously quiet dwemer, and house dagoth being the spies for the chimer by and large discovered what kagrenac was up to. you know the rest (mostly). nerevar and voryn die, the tribunal become gods, the dwemer vanish, everyone becomes dunmer except ayem and half of vivec... tribunal had caught on though that steren was nerevar's son as well though and they think it is particularly cruel to kill nerevar's only child just because he's of house dagoth blood. so they pretty much wipe his memories for the most part and have him raised in house indoril.

steren grew up in house indoril, and eventually realized he was of house dagoth. he confronts vivec who had become a sort of mentor to him, and vivec tells him to leave it in the past. he was spared because he was an innocent child. house dagoth were destroyed because they were traitors. they had to be purged from morrowind. there is nothing in the past that will give steren the answers and comfort he wants and will only lead him to his doom. this goes over as well as you would expect with him leaving house indoril and looking for answers alone. at some point he got married and had a kid, but his mission was about uncovering the secrets of house dagoth the tribunal tried to bury and learn more about his parents. he's killed during a collapse of some ruins. his wife takes the kid and promptly leaves morrowind, fearing what the temple may do now that steren is dead

family line continues for a while, and during this time nerevar's ghost has been watching over them. he felt too bad leaving his son all alone in the world, so he silently watched over him, heartbroken. then steren died and nerevar followed his child, his child's child, and so on. up to the third era where steren is reborn to a dying woman on the run from some illiac bay nobleman. after she dies, steren goes to an orphanage. unknown parents, born under a certain sign, fulfilling the prophecy. he's arrested when, after leaving a house he was robbing, he stumbles upon a dead body at the completely wrong time. the trial is shit because this is the TES universe (guilty until proven innocent is canon fsr, dont let me ramble about why we'll be here all day) and he develops a fear of large crowds having their eyes all on him (idk what thats called). he stays 3 months in prison before being pardoned and shipped to morrowind. despite it being his home province he never heard great things about it.

he follows the storyline pretty closely. except that this is my world so mods like tamriel rebuilt are canon for me. he joins house hlaalu and the mages guild. he's really freaked out by all the sleepers who know him by name saying weird shit calling him 'prince' or some shit so he decides to take the opportunity to visit the mainland when the mages guild asks him to. on the mainland he does a bunch of stuff but finds vissamu and an ancient tome from house dagoth. he doesnt know why but he cant let go out of the house dagoth stuff. its familiar. but it also makes his heart ache.

more importantly though on the mainland is he comes across a dunmer who didn't know what house or family he was from. a nearby temple has you gather ingredients for a ritual to summon an ancestor spirit. steren does it correctly and then after seeing the guy happy to know who he is and able to build a relationship with his deceased family, asks the temple to do the same for him. an ancestor spirit is in fact summoned but before they can reveal who steren is, nerevar shoos them away. all steren knows is it fails but the priest sees what is clearly saint nerevar watching over him and tells him he doesnt know why it failed but that he is watched over well. steren hears a voice urging him to go outside and does so. there, nerevar reveals himself, able to communicate with him now, and tells him he stopped the spirit. she wanted to come and talk to him, but she was a woman of house dagoth (voryns mom specifically) and nerevar feared what might happen if his lineage was revealed to others. steren is kinda freaked out, asking if he'll go insane like some of the sleepers he sees, but nerevar assures him he wont let that happen.

back on vvardenfell steren continues his questing. gets corprus, cures corprus. goes to kogoruhn and finds at the old family hearth a bottle with what was originally his baby teeth as well as locks of hair from both parents, typical things to leave near the family hearth for protection. steren takes it with him, not knowing why he's so attached to it.

after getting the ring though he gets his past life memories back and realizes he's not nerevar reborn. he has memories of "uncle nerevar" in his first life. he demands answers, crying, and nerevar comes clean that no, he isn't nerevar reborn. nerevar didnt want him doing this either, but azura has no other options because nerevar refused to reincarnate and apologizes to steren. but steren asks how he can wear the ring then and nerevar is quiet before explaining that while he was alive he asked azura to modify the enchantment so that nerevar and his descendants can wear the ring. that steren's other parent was always nerevar, but nerevar couldnt be open about that fact because he couldnt bear the thought of his own child being killed

fighting dagoth ur is particularly painful because dagoth ur recognizes steren as his son but well. he's still insane. dagoth ur thinks steren is too corrupted and blinded by the tribunal who stole him away and brainwashed him, but dagoth ur can kill and remake him, just like he did his brothers. then he can bring back nerevar, purge the empire from morrowind, and live together as a family, proud and openly. defeating him was not easy emotionally or physically tbh, but steren did win.

also at some point he got trueflame. i havent figured out when he did the tribunal dlc quite yet. it might be while he was on the mainland if im being honest but i feel like almalexia would def spill the beans on who he is. maybe he takes out the assassins, comes back, gets the ring, and then goes to deal with the rest of the stuff from tribunal.

after daogth ur's defeat, azura comes to usher nerevar to moonshadow. spirits arent supposed to remain in the realm of the living for too long and he risks being completely destroyed. nerevar is worried, but steren assures him he'll be fine, and nerevar goes to rest. then azura says she'll give steren any gift within her power to him as a reward for doing such a difficult task, and steren says he just wants to be with his parents again. azura frowns and says she cant bring back the living. steren knows. azura is even more upset because steren is not that old for dunmer and is already asking to die. but instead of killing him she sends him to another world where his parents ARE alive. and also 200 years in the future where theyre together in hopes steren can be with his parents and live happily there. she's going to let this worlds nerevar and voryn have the memories of steren's world too so it wont be weird.

mephala though intervenes with the reasoning "you can just send people to different worlds and time periods. you'll fucking break the dragon." and drops him off not in mournhold but in blacklight, outside of a brothel where the reincarnation/child of vivec (named vivienne, who belongs to @wellthebardsdead) is currently being kept. in this world nerevar was the nerevarine, azura restored him to his status, voryn reincarnated, i wrote about them getting together here. steren, strongly resembling voryn, is taken in by force and fed poison to both diminish his strength and keep him from healing the injuries from dagoth ur. but he and vivienne save up money from tips and escape. steren couldnt take his ring or sword but he figures the brothel madam probably pawned them off and he should just gtfo of morrowind before the temple figures out theres two copies of nerevar's ring and sword and if theres an impersonator running around. they hop on a boat like a day or two before voryn and nerevar track down the brothel in blacklight to look for steren.

they get off the boat in.... SKYRIM!!! surprise, vivienne is the dragonborn too. he and steren are very close but very shy about admitting the fact theyre in love. theyre both traumatized and afraid of hurting the other or being rejected. im sure you can imagine.

look at how cute they are...

also since steren isn't the dragonborn he doesnt do much of the msq. he is more like a follower but he has some side content he does. he joins the companions, contracts lycanthrope (thanks hircine, not helping steren's opinion of daedra at all), ends up doing the forsworn conspiracy and after breaking out of the mine the forsworn take over markarth. vivienne does the thieves guild and steren helps with that bc he does know some dwemer from being taught it by both nerevar as a ghost and voryn when he was a kid. also he did the mages guild in morrowind so he knows a lot of dwemer stuff. oh steren also got fucked up by the heart of lorkhan a little and during the peace talks he did make the throat of the world start shaking when he got violently angry. steren is also not at all impressed with delphine (he already didnt like the blades for obvious reasons)

oh they also adopt a scrib. named mr scribbles. its later revealed scribbles is a girl but (sorry i cant draw bugs well)

alduin is defeated and vivienne comes back. steren was worried sick but is happy to have his beloved back. they confess, its cute, and steren gifts him a necklace he made with traditional house dagoth craftsmanship

shortly afterwards though miraak's cultists show up and despite what they want they have to go to solthsheim and deal with it..... ugh. while all this is going on nerevar and voryn arrived in skyrim and were trying to track their son down sort of on a wild goose chase. by the time they catch up steren and vivi are on their way to solstheim.

on solstheim they try to keep a low profile. steren uses a bandana to keep the big red star on his face covered. vivienne ends up getting turn grey and cold like vivec which doesnt help the vivec allegations. after he's turned steren starts getting some gold patches on him too (i forgot the red star like an idiot sorry)

one of vivienne's clients though survived the purge that voryn and nerevar did. his name is sen dres and he's been hiding out on solstheim getting enough political power to either go to skyrim and find vivi or get vivi when they come to solstheim. sen hates steren thinking steren is the one who convinced vivi to leave and his plan is to kill steren and take vivi back to morrowind to live with him forever. when he finds out vivi is the reincarnation of vivec he wants to force him to become vivec too because then he can have a god as his slave/husband. i hate sen dres so much. anyways he manages to get steren and vivienne alone and convinces vivi if he comes quietly they'll leave steren alive. only to promptly stab steren straight through the stomach and leave him there to bleed out while vivienne is gagged so he cant shout and drugged.

nerevar and voryn do arrive in time to help steren and heal him up. they were told by the house hlaalu dude actually what sen dres' plan was because that guy saw steren had the tattoo of a house hlaalu grandmaster and he doesn't want a potential high ranking member of house hlaalu to die. they get steren to safety and with the rest of the dragonborn gang rescue vivi and the two of them are happy together again while recovering :))) and steren gets to see his parents

steren and vivi also end up getting married eventually. yay!!!!!!

other stuff i couldnt figure out where to put it-- at first the good three think vivi is vivec. mephala sent steren to vivi to see if he'd betray steren to alleviate his own suffering. but vivienne did not, instead he took care of steren and wanted to escape with him. boethiah and azura both try to kill vivienne though. and molag bal thinks vivienne is vivec and should be married to him ugh. do you see why steren hates daedra.

[the-elder-polls]

i wanna share oc facts!

its a chimeri tradition to put a lock of hair from both parents and a child on the health altar in a home to help the spirits connect with their new descendant. as well as the first baby teeth a child loses. when steren does his nerevarine questing and ends up in kogoruhn he actually finds the bottles of hair from his dads+him and his baby teeth and ends up swiping them. he doesn't really know what they are but he got really sad looking at them. suffice to say, when he gets his memories back and knows what they are he kinda breaks down crying

PLEASE THAT ALWAYS BREAKS ME EVERY TIME I SEE IT. its so sad and heartbreaking :((( they all deserved so much better 💔

oc fact for fact: vedyra, as a child, used to "steal" dagoth ur's mask out from beneath moon-and-star's bed to hold it and talk to it. he knew she was doing this, hence why "steal" is in quotation marks -- he was letting it happen. it was the closest he could let her get to her father and he refused to deprive her of it. this is ultimately why vedyra sewed vedathyr the "papa vo" plush years later, so that way he had some part of voryn to hold onto, too.

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Are there established Mirandy ff where they have to deal with homophobic behavior/situations?

Hey Nonnie

This isn't exhaustive but I did start this list a while ago.

Homophobia Fics

Where some experience of homophobia, including internalised homophobia is referred to in more than just a passing statement.  i.e. it affects peoples behaviour/decisions/actions.

Angels Wear Versace by AnyOni (internalised) https://archiveofourown.org/works/47446417/chapters/119565160

At a Loss For Words by catgirlpriestly (period typical) https://archiveofourown.org/works/28325616

Castles Crumbling by Alex_liu (internalised)  https://archiveofourown.org/works/48522619

couple freckles on your noses, roses made you blush: a drabble collection by evenotadam  Deleted but I have it.

Fridays Are Her Least Favourite Day by LovingMedusahttps://archiveofourown.org/works/42644889/chapters/107120949

If We Were Royals by PoisonedPrada (historical homophobia) https://archiveofourown.org/works/38398666/chapters/95959060

In the Deep Woods by Amles80 https://amles80.livejournal.com/52218.html

It’s Never ‘Just’ Anything by Steren Heart (internalised) https://archiveofourown.org/works/48254536

Meet me in Another Time and Place by steveanthonys (period typical 50s) https://archiveofourown.org/works/28938390/chapters/71004444

My Body by CharlottePriestly (internalised)  https://archiveofourown.org/works/21251582

Never Enough by Crazybecat  https://archiveofourown.org/works/24068206

Pride by Jasfiction https://archiveofourown.org/works/19156795/chapters/45532036

Sankofa by Menzosarres https://archiveofourown.org/works/1935738

Someone to Trust by Amles80 https://amles80.livejournal.com/18406.html

Take Me Home by MisKorya  https://archiveofourown.org/works/47474053/chapters/119639758

The Power of a Word by Kerrykins (internalised) https://archiveofourown.org/works/18922582

Waking Up by Chainofclovers  https://dvlwears-prada.livejournal.com/187360.html#cutid1

All the bestest

XVnot15

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STEREN STELLAR✨

My Welcome Home sona designed by @stupidsunny-d and colored by @abstract-arven!!

The neighborhood astronomer and witch. I will make his ref sheet sometime soon but I just wanted to show him off.

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Russell Trinity Verse Profile

I’ve been meaning to get this written down for quite a while. Now I finally got it together and did it. 

Warning for mentions for experimentation and child abuse below.

Trinity is my own verse, for the Urban Fantasy novel I am writing of the same name (it’s a working title, but still.)

Name: Russell Tolbert 

Nickname: Russell Sprout, Russ, Catmoth 

Age: 26 

Birthday: 9th October 1993 (Star sign: Libra) 

Gender: Cis Male (he/him/his pronouns) 

Sexual Orientation: Homosexual.

Species: Altehuman  (basically my term for a human with supernatural powers) 

Abilities: He is a therianthrope. However, while most therianthropes are able to shift into one particular animal form, he is able to shift into two primary forms, making him a ‘Dual-Thrope’ which is rare but not impossible. He can turn into a cheetah or a Luna Moth at will, and then back into a human from either (or into the other animal if he needs to). Along with this, he has enhanced senses, speed and agility, as well a good jumping ability even as a human. He has had this skill from birth. 

He can also sense anomalies (e.g. vampires, werewolves, spirits etc.) and has a compulsion to follow them until he finds the source. He feels it as a pulling in his chest. This was from his previous scientist ‘boss’s’ experiments on him. 

He also has the ability to know what he’s seeing just by looking at them. For example, if he looks at a vampire, the word ‘vampire’ will literally flash and echo through his mind. Again, this was from the experiments. 

He also seems to have a higher durability and pain tolerance. He once leapt out of a building and came out of that with bruises and being knocked unconscious. He doesn’t know if this was from the experiments or whether he had it since birth and it was only ‘enhanced’ by the experiments.

Ethnicity: White

Current Residence: Nomadic in nature. However, he has a home in the city of Steren Wheel.

Former Residence: Boston, Massachusetts 

Nationality: French-American (French Father, American Mother).

Mother: Cassandra Anderson (now deceased). She was a nasty old crone to him and the rest of his brothers while he was growing up. She was especially so to him when she found out that he was essentially a ‘monster’ in her eyes. When he was an adult, she made plans with a scientist who was looking for someone ‘like him’ and essentially sold him off after he was tricked into believing he was simply taking on a job that would take him far from home (and therefore away from her). 

Father: Currently unknown. Was only told that he has the surname ‘Tolbert’ and changed it to that as a ‘fuck you’ to his mother.

Siblings: He has seven older brothers in total. Lewis (deceased), Martin (still living at their now-dead mother’s house but planning to move), Truman (living in California), Simon (lives as a hermit in an apartment of his own), Bradley (actually living a fairly normal life with his wife, three daughters and his son), David (trying to get his life back on track) and Travis (currently in prison, but has promised to get his shit together once he gets out.) - He wants to get back in contact with them, but is afraid to. 

Height: 5'6" 

Weight: Fluctuates between 110 and 115lbs 

Body Type: Thin but athletic. 

Hair: Dirty-blonde, kept in an undercut with volume and fluff at the top.

Eyes: Blue

Languages: English, French, and American Sign Language (ASL). Knows a little German because of his old neighbour Freyde as well. 

Distinguishing features: He has vitiligo, and the patterning on his skin seems to resemble the marks of a cheetah. The most notable of that are the ones on his eyes. 

A water colour tattoo of a Luna moth on his back. A sleeve tattoo of a nebula on his left arm. Scar tissue on his right arm, shoulder and part of his chest because of a car accident. Deep scratch marks (from fingernails) on his left shoulder. A couple of cigarette burns behind his right ear (hidden by his hair). A small birthmark on his abdomen that he shares with his father. Needle marks on his neck, behind his ears, and his scalp. 

A few burn marks from an electric shock on his hip, overlapping with one another. 

He stammers and has a awkward chuckle that comes out whenever he’s particularly uncomfortable about something. He also has insomnia. However, he has a concern over taking pills for it and so hasn’t tried to yet. 

Far-sighted so he wears glasses to read, play games, and other close-up tasks, 

Hobbies and Interests: Parkour and running, reading, space, videogames, mythology, steampunk, vaporwave, and drumming. 

Occupation: He often usually just helps people out for a bit of money. He also offers information on things he’s seen and knows about. He’s also affiliated with the work of Pano, a company decided to investigating paranormal events and improvising the relationship between humans and supernatural beings. 

Personality: Quiet and rather shy. He’s a bit of a doormat and finds it hard to speak up about a lot of things. But he’s also very kind and helpful whenever he can be, and has a lot of empathy and compassion for other people. 

However, this sadly can lead him into getting mixed up with the wrong kind of people. He also has some basic fighting ability and will fight dirty if he has to, as much as he would rather not. He’s incredibly loyal to any friends he makes as well, willing to put himself between them and any danger that might come their way, even at a risk to his own life. He also has a slight temper, particularly when frustrated or when he’s allowed negative feelings to build up inside for too long. He does his best to keep that reined in. 

He has some hope for the future after his escape from his old boss (and said old boss’s arrest when Pano found out about him..)

Basic Backstory: He didn’t have the best childhood due to his mother being the awful woman that she was. She would act manipulative, lock her sons outside as a punishment, become violent, physically, verbally, and emotionally lashing out at them and other horrible things. She also treated Russell like he was a freak once she found out about his abilities, holding it over his head and threatening to tell everyone about it.

He left home at seventeen. He saw a job applicant in a scientist’s lab, just as a helper. It was also several hundred miles away from home, so he saw it as a benefit for getting away from his mother as well. He applied, packed his bags, and left. However, he didn’t realise that his mother had set it up along with his boss, who wanted someone ‘like him’. She got a large sum of money for essentially selling him off. He didn’t find this out until later though. 

He was subjected to invasive and painful experiments, along with conditioning from his boss. Said boss pretended to treat and see him as a friend, and told him that it would be fir the greater good in the long run, so he tried to trust him. The experiments gave him the ability to sense, track, hunt, and then fight whoever he found. His boss wanted the perfect hunter so he could catch, study, and then possibly send these other subjects to other people for large sums of money. As such, he is no stranger to the supernatural, which roam semi-freely in his world, and isn’t very surprised whenever he meets them. 

Russell also learned how to use his speed and agility in a fight, and how to implement basic first aid. But it did little to make him feel better. Three years later, after he found out that it had been a set up, he eventually ran away and his boss was arrested by Pano. However, they were quick to catch up to him as well. About a couple of months later, they captured him by force but much to his shock, they offered him a job, and protection. Their reason for capturing him was because he wasn’t about to trust anything they had to say, and he wouldn’t believe them if they said it first. 

So now he’s living his own life as he goes, travelling wherever and whenever. As far as he’s hoping, things are looking up for him, but he’ll just have to see how things go.

[tulunnguaq]

Linguistic Excursions (5): Cornish / Kernowek

So after my four  previous Celtic excursions it’s fitting that I turn south to visit the final Celtic tongue of the British Isles, Cornish.

Like Manx, Cornish is a revived language, but with a rather longer time between the passing of the last native speaker and the revival – more like 200 years rather than 20-30. So one of the complications this has brought is that there has been less agreement on the exact type of Cornish that should be revived, e.g. Middle Cornish, Tudor Cornish or Late Cornish, and of course there are no recordings available to confirm exactly how Cornish is spoken. 

Cornish also did not have a fixed orthography during its last few hundred years, so Cornish revivalists have at times been at loggerheads in terms of the form of writing that should be used to write it (see for example, Kernewek Kemmyn - Cornish for the Twenty First Century (1997) by Paul Dunbar and Ken George, which is essentially a 160 page rant - in the form of a dialogue between the two authors – analysing the criticisms of their orthography by another Cornish scholar, Dr Nicholas Williams, rather than (as I hoped) an introductory grammar of the Cornish language). Fortunately, since then, the disparate groups have come together to cooperate and create a new Standard Written Form of Cornish, which strikes a balance between traditionalists and modernisers, and which also permits alternative forms to be used according to the writer’s style.

Like with Manx, there’s been some attempt to push the revival at the nursery/primary end, as this video suggests, but sadly I couldn’t easily find out what the current status of the early education programme is in Cornwall. 

Today’s first text comes from Skeul an Tavas (The ladder of the language), an introductory Cornish language coursebook. The version I have uses the ‘traditional graphs’; another edition is available that uses the more modern ‘main form’ graphs.

Cornish is a Brythonic (or Brittonic) language, and is very close to Welsh, so where possible I’ve shown the Welsh equivalents in the vocabulary, out of comparative linguistic interest.

Text 1

Yma Peder hag y whor, Morwena, ow mos dhe’n lyverva. I a garsa cavos nebes lyvrow tochya an balyow coth y’ga ranndir. Peder ha Morwena a gar whithra an jynnjiow.

“Kemmer with!”

“Yma’n lyvrow na ow codha, Peder”.

Wella a wra aga hachya. Yn y dhorn yma dew lyver da.

“Gwra mires, Morwena, Tas-gwynn a garsa an lyver ma.“

Y whrons i mos tre gans an dhew lyver.

 Vocabulary

yma – is . Cf. Welsh (W) mae

ha, hag – and. W. a, ac

y2 – his. Causes the second (soft) mutation to applicable consonants. W. ei  

whor (f) sister. NB wh- does not mutate.  W. chwaer

ow4 in this case, a verbal noun particle. W. yn, Ir/Sc G ag. Causes fourth (hard) mutation to applicable consonants. Cornish has no fewer than four mutations (!), listed as the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th state mutations in Cornish text books. Compare this with one mutation in modern Scots Gaelic (lenition), two in Irish and Manx (lenition and eclipsis/nasal mutation), three in Welsh (lenition/soft, aspirate and nasal) and Breton (lenition, aspirate and hard); Breton and Welsh both also have a “mixed” mutation but unlike Cornish it doesn’t create a new scheme of mutated consonants that don’t appear elsewhere. The Cornish mutations are as follows:

- the 2nd state mutation is a soft mutation, like the Welsh soft mutation, causing (p>b, b>v, m>v, t>d, d>dh, ch>j, c/k>g, g>w or Ø)

- the 3rd state mutation is an aspirate mutation, like Welsh aspirate mutation, causing (p>f, t>th, c/k>h, qw>wh)

- the 4th state mutation is a ‘hard’ mutation, creating unvoiced sounds, causing (b>p, d>t, g>c/k/q)

- the 5th state mutation is a mix of the aspirate and hard mutations, causing (b>f/v, m>f/v, d>t, g>wh).

Letters not mentioned in the above lists are not mutated.

mos to go

dhe to. W. i, Cf. Irish (Ir) do, Scots Gaelic (ScG) do/dhan

’n, an the. W. y, yr. Ir/ScG an. Note that as in W. the same form of the article is used for singular and plural definite forms, whereas in Ir/ScG an is singular only.

lyverva library. W. llyfrgell, but cf. W. ending -fa ‘place of’ as in swyddfa office.

i they

a garsa would like. From cara to like. i a garsa they would like. Cornish is structurally a VSO language like the other Celtic languages, but it also has a number of “impersonal” verb forms where the subject/pronoun comes before an uninflected (for person/number) form of the verb, separated by verbal particle a2, which causes the 2nd mutation. So the meaning is something like “[it is] them who would like”. In doing so it gives the impression of an SVO word order, possibly something that might have been influenced by the surrounding English language as Cornish declined?  

cavos to get, find

nebes (a) few (takes plural form)

lyver (m) book, plural lyvrow

tochya to touch. Here meaning “concerning”

bal (m) mine. pl. balyow. Not sure if cognate with W. pwll pit?

coth old. Does not seem to be cognate with W. hen, Ir sean, ScG seann, but rather Breton (Br.) kozh

y(n) in. W, Ir i

’ga3, aga3their. Probably not cognate with W. eu their but note the similarity with Ir acu, ScG aca at them, often used in possessive constructions, but not used directly as a possessive pronoun as in Cornish.

ranndir (m) area, district. W rhandir

whithra to search, investigate. Similar to W. chwilio

jynnjy engine house. Presumably from Eng. loanword jynn engine + chi house. Plural jynnjiow

kemmer take (imperative form of kemeres take). W. cymryd, cymer-

gwith care. Here with second mutation as with. As in Welsh, the soft mutation used for the direct object of a verb appearing after the explicit or implied subject. Cf perhaps W. gwyliad(wriaeth) caution

na that. Appears after the noun hence an lyvrow na those books. ‘This’ is ma, used in the same way.

codha to fall. Note that the 4th state mutation after ow4 does not change initial c-

Wella boy’s name

a wra does. This is the impersonal (3rd person singular) form of gul do, which is gwra reduced to wra after the soft mutation caused by a2, as above. Cf. W. gwneud. In this case it is used as an dummy auxiliary verb - much as English do has a dummy auxiliary function as in “do you like that?”.  

cachya to catch. From English, presumably. Here in the aspirate 3rd state after aga3 their giving aga hachya ‘their catching’. Similar to Welsh, the possessive pronoun is used with the verbal noun to indicate a direct object, i.e. ‘catching them’. So the phrase Wella a wra aga hachya means lit. ‘[It is] Wella who does their catching’ or more naturally ‘Wella catches them’

dorn (m) fist. From which yn y dhorn in his fist

da good. Same as W. da

gwra do! (imperative form of gul). As above, acts as auxiliary verb for following action verb.

mires to look. Hence gwra mires look!

tas-gwynn (m) grandfather. Lit. “white (gwynn) father (tas)“. Grandmother is similarly dama-wynn “white lady”.

y whrons i they do. y5introduces the statement form of the verb (cf. Welsh fe, mi) and takes the 5th state mutation (softening and devoicing g-), which in this case converts gwrons to whrons. As above the verb is acting as an auxiliary to mos go.

tre (f) town, farm (seen in the names of a number of Cornish villages), but here as an adverb meaning home(wards)

gans with

dew (m) two. Here with soft mutation after an, and note the use of the singular noun after the number. The cardinal numbers in Cornish (which are very similar to Welsh) from 1-10 are:

1 onen/unn

2 dew/diw

3 tri/teyr

4 peswar/peder

5 pymp

6 whegh

7 seyth

8 eth

9 naw

10 deg

Translation

Yma Peder hag y whor, Morwena, ow mos dhe’n lyverva.

Peter and his sister Morwena are going to the library.

I a garsa cavos nebes lyvrow tochya an balyow coth y’ga ranndir.

They would like to find a few books about the old mines in their area.

Peder ha Morwena a gar whithra an jynnjiow.

Peter and Morwena like investigating the engine houses.

“Kemmer with!”

“Take care!”

“Yma’n lyvrow na ow codha, Peder”.

“Those books are falling, Peter.”

Wella a wra aga hachya. Yn y dhorn yma dew lyver da.

Wella catches them. In his hand are two good books.

“Gwra mires, Morwena, Tas-gwynn a garsa an lyver ma.“

“Look, Morwena, Grandad would like this book.”

Y whrons i mos tre gans an dhew lyver.

They go home with the two books.

  Text 2

The second text is the Cornish version of a well-known song, and a different orthography has been used, reflecting a Late Cornish approach. See if you can work out the song before you read the translation.

Spladn che steran vian spladn,

War an moar ha'n doar en dadn.

Dres an clowdes, otta che,

Carra jowal 'terlentry.

Spladn che steran vian spladn,

War an moar ha'n doar en dadn.

Vocabulary 

spladn bright. Note alternative spelling splann, which can be pronounced /nn/ or /dn/. Further alternative spellings shown in brackets below. Not sure what this may be cognate to, but same word is used in Breton: splann

che (also jy) you. W. ti

steran (also steren) (f) star. Cf. Welsh seren

bian (also byhan/byghan) little, here lenited after feminine noun as vian. W. bach, bychan

war on. W ar

moar (also mor) (m) sea. W. môr

doar (also dor) (m) earth, soil. W daear

en dadn (also yn dann) under. W. tan

dres above, across. W ar draws

clowd, clowdes (also clowdys) cloud(s). From English.

otta behold, here is. 

carra (also cara) like. W. caru. The odd thing here is that carra/cara means to like, be fond of, rather than English like=as, which would be avel. I wonder if this is a translation issue on the part of whoever translated the song into Cornish.

jowal jewel. From English

’terlentry.to twinkle. I think the apostrophe here might represent a missing verbal particle ow, described in Text 1 above. Not sure what this word might be cognate to, but note Breton terenn ray of light

Translation

Spladn che steran vian spladn,

Bright, (are) you, little star, bright.

War an moar ha'n doar en dadn.

Upon the sea and the earth below.

Dres an clowdes, otta che,

Above the clouds, there you are!

Carra jowal 'terlentry.

Like a twinkling jewel

Spladn che steran vian spladn,

Bright, (are) you, little star, bright

War an moar ha'n doar en dadn.

Upon the sea and the earth below.

As ever, I hope people found this latest ‘excursion’ interesting. Do let me know if so. 

Not sure if there are any Cornish learners on tumblr? If so - corrections or comments welcome!

So where next? I’m basically working my way through my bookshelf and I suppose will work my way round the globe little by little...

[saltydoesstuff]

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[wellthebardsdead]

*scarab prince & the runaway dragon, pt18, part 17 here*

———

“Below… come to me… down below…”

Vivienne: *blinks awake, the voice clear and familiar echoing in his mind again, a woman, softly and sweetly calling to him from seemingly beneath the floorboards* huh?… *moves to sit up only to find himself held captive in his prince’s embrace* I- *looks back to see Steren snuggled in close, arms holding him snug and a leg hooked over his. Clearly not giving any room for him to slip off into the night again* … *smiles and relaxes back into the pillow thinking he was just dreaming, only to feel a soft, fuzzy tapping on his nose as he closes his eyes* what? *blinks open one eye to see a spider perched on the pillow, tapping at him* … *slowly raises his hand and squashes it, gasping in surprise as it explodes in a plume of daedric energy* what the- *looks at where it was, then back at Steren before sucking in his breath and shifting his weight, slipping out from his grasp with an unnatural flexibility* I’ll, I’ll come back… *tucks him in slightly before stepping back and immediately tripping over Sterens bag, landing with a thud loud enough that it should have awoken the prince, only for him to remain completely still, his red star glowing faintly in the dim light of the dying fireplace* ow… *looks over at Steren, surprised to see him still sleeping* … *gets up and quietly sneaks off, not even noticing the scattered rations he’d knocked out of his bag, including a single kwama egg, wriggling on the floor as it begins to hatch*

*meanwhile*

Voryn: *slowly wading through the endless colourful waters of the dreamsleeve, smiling up at the sleeping dreamer as they flash into view for a brief moment before disappearing again* never wake… let my star live happily in your endless dream… *glances off in the distance as he hears another disturbance in the waters, a boat rocking on the surface carrying his most precious cargo to him. Steren smiling and waving to him with tears in his beautiful eyes*

Steren: *overcome with emotion that he found his father in his dreams, his presence there unstable, only a passenger in a realm he doesn’t understand* ATA!!! *moves to jump from the boat and into the waters*

Voryn: *panic suddenly seizing his heart* my star don’t!!

Steren: *halts in place, having only ever heard that tone when he was seconds from getting hurt* A-ata?? *watches as he wades his way to his side, his hands gently grasping his as he finally reaches him*

Voryn: *tears pooling in all three of his eyes as he feels his presence more firmly now, his skin against his, his hands holding on tight* our connection here is thin… this realm was never meant for your eyes hla Molamer… but it was my best chance at reaching you…

Steren: *eyes not seeing what voryn sees. Only an endless void with nothing but darkness and a boat rocking on unseen waters. The rest blocked out, his mind shielded from it by his fathers interference, not wishing to burden him with the knowledge that once drove him to and beyond the brink of madness* I-i felt you before- o-on solstheim, there’s something wrong there ata it’s-

Voryn: shhhh, I know… *squeezes his hands* I know… it’s alright… it is not a burden for you to bear. You have much more to concern yourself with now than that. *smiles softly* your heart is so full but so heavy, as is your mind… what troubles you little star?

Steren: a lot… I miss you, I miss father… I miss home, but… I found him, I found…

Voryn: your gem?…

Steren: *nods and blushes slightly* h-he’s not vivec- he’s the Dragonborn! I watched him, he took down a dragon and absorbed its soul, we’re safe in whiterun now and- ata?

Voryn: *wearing an unusual expression as he realises the complexities of Vivienne’s identity. To be Dragonborn means to be Shor, Lorkhan, to be Dragonborn means to be Talos, one who also struck the heart of Lorkhan, to be Dragonborn and Vivec’s reincarnation finally lays out what Vivec meant when he uttered his silent promise, to put an end to his mistakes and right his wrongs, by any means necessary* I foresaw his entanglement with the dragons return, but this is… unexpected.

Steren: ata?…

Voryn: *looks at him, really looks at him, and smiles brightly as he sees Nerevars face in his own, his doubts and concerns fleeting in that moment, knowing his star is just as capable as his moon. That Vivienne will make the right choices while at his side, that everything will turn out okay* I’m just… *gently embraces him, stroking his hair and kissing his forehead as he breaths in and out a deep sigh* so very proud of you… whatever lays ahead on your journey, I hope you enjoy every moment of it with Vivienne…

Steren: *smiles and nuzzles into his father’s embrace, smelling his perfume, feeling the warmth of his skin, his familiar touch* I will… tell father I… I love him okay?…

Voryn: *nods and squeezes him tighter as he begins to fade and slip from his grasp* I will, I promise.

Steren: *closes his eyes and yawns as he relaxes against him, the boat slowly tipping as he slips from the dream* I love you, ata…

Voryn: I love you too… *watches him slip into the water as the boat gives way, slipping from his grasp and out of the dream, leaving him alone once more in the endless veil of eternity* my little star…

*meanwhile*

Vivienne: *quietly walking back into his room, holding a rusty old blade and rubbing his head in confusion* I- *jumps seeing Steren wide awake, crouched by the bed* Steren?…

Steren: *woke up and immediately went to look for Vivienne only to get distracted by something unexpected, glances back at him* look.

Vivienne: *tilts his head and steps closer, gasping as he sees a tiny scrib hiding under the bed* Aw, hello… *sets the blade down and kneels beside Steren* where did you come from?

Steren: one of the kwama eggs must have been fertile… hi there… *gently offers a piece of food, smiling as the scrib curiously scuttles towards him, taking it before chittering and chirping as Vivienne pets it* what are we going to name it?

Vivienne: scribbles??

Steren: *snickers* a bit on the nose isn’t it?

Vivienne: *now rubbing its belly* I don’t think scribs have noses-

[trickstarbrave]

Today, of all days, see How the most dangerous thing is to love

im fuckin this poor guy up

love will really drive you to terrible places. you start looking at profane tools that have corrupted your own father before you and gave rise to the tribunal who erased your other father's legacy, destroyed your home, and harmed your people just as much as they helped them, and you start to think "maybe it'll be different if its me. all i have to do is use them to get rid of molag bal"

nerevar, voryn, please hurry. theres a councilman trying to kill your son, abduct his lover to make him into vivec AND a sex slave, and steren is contemplating using profane tools in a wild act of hubris to protect his beloved from a daedric prince

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[wellthebardsdead]

*the scarab prince & the runaway dragon pt19, part 18 here*

———

Voryn: *opens his eyes and sighs softly with a calm smile across his face, only for it to falter as he feels the bed beside him, finding no nerevar* my love?… *sits up, finding him seated at the foot of the bed, staring down at something in his hands as he sobs quietly* neht?…

Nerevar: *holding a bracelet too small for a grownups hands, a gold band with three beads, one a star, another a moon, and the third a scarab. A jewellery piece he’d had made for his little star when he was first born, worn up until he was simply too big for it to fit and kept safe in nerevars possession all this time* I failed him…

Voryn: *pulls back the covers and hurries to his side, embracing him without a moments hesitation as he finally lets his walls crumble* oh my love, my moon and star no, you didn’t-

Nerevar: I did… *looks up at him, heartbreak in his eyes* I carried him for 9 months. I travelled the seas with him I held him from the moment he was born to long after he could walk, I swore I’d always be there for him and then… then I chose the responsibility of our kingdom over him… when did I push him so far away?… why did he feel he couldn’t come to me? Talk to me? When did he start keeping secrets? Why was he so willing to run away rather than… than come with me to look for Vivienne instead?… when did I become who I was before when I ruined everything and it all… all fell apart… *grips the band tighter as he just falls to pieces*

Voryn: … *gently strokes his cheek and lifts his head to look at him closer, his third eye opening wide and glowing a vibrant red, his mind poking at the corners of the hortators, not asking for entry but alerting him to his presence as a voice, a memory, sings out over his rambling thoughts and doubts*

“Tell Father I love him, okay?”

Nerevar: *breath catching in his throat as more tears spill over from the endless sea of his eyes* h-he-

Voryn: loves you, Neht… and he’s safe, they’re in whiterun, and they’re together. Our little star will be okay… you didn’t fail him…

Nerevar: *lip quivering as he holds onto the words echoing in his mind before burying his face into voryns chest, holding him tight as he just weeps* I just want my baby to come home…

Voryn: *smiles and strokes his hair, fingers twirling through his mohawk and tracing over the shorn sides* I know my love… We’ll bring our heart home… him and his heart… *stares out the window of their cabin, the outline of solstheim now no more than a shadow in the far distance, along with the maddening thrumming of a dead heart tied to a golden mask, and an unwanted threat they’d deal with later on*

*several days later*

Vivienne: *walking with the group from dragonsreach and through the city, his hands trembling as he stares at the key to his house resting in his grasp* he really gave us a house…

Teldryn Sero: gave you and his highness one you mean. Thanks for letting us stay by the way~ *halts in place outside jorrvaskr*

Steren: *snickers* you’re welcome. Um, Lydia was it?? Can you get us some supplies? Meat, vegetables that sort of thing?

Vivienne: and slaughterfish if you can?… Taliesin doesn’t eat meat.

Taliesin: *emerges from the mead hall, fixing his hair and looking very pleased as Vilkas slaps him on the behind before he can leave*

Lydia: …I’d say he’s eaten plenty of meat but, alright. *walks off*

*a few minutes later*

Vivienne: *staring at the door to breezehome, three floors, a tower with a view, a hotspring in the basement next to a room for several children should he wish to adopt or bare his own… a house to make into a home* I-…

Steren: *takes his hand with the key* welcome home… *smiles and helps him guide it to the lock, opening the door and staring into the warmly lit interior*

Vivienne: home… We have a… *looks up at him, as if asking if he wants it to be their home. Not just his*

Steren: *just smiles back, gentle, warmly, his mind already drifting to thoughts of living with him here, not just as a friend or adventuring partner, but more* home… *moves to pick him up, only to halt as he imagines carrying him across the threshold as his bride and suddenly feeling wildly inappropriate to follow through with the action* I-erm… l-let’s go- check out our new place huh?? *blushes and looks away awkwardly as he holds his hand and walks with him inside*

Lydia: …So are they a thing or not?

Taliesin: oh they definitely are~ they just don’t know it yet.

Inigo: …Why do you smell like wet dog? I thought you did not like dogs?

Teldryn Sero: *clears his throat* ehem… Woof.