#d'ni

[shoomlah]

...Aaaaand some of my prop designs & models for Riven (2024).

So much of my own sensibility as a concept artist was inspired by Richard Vander Wende's work on the original Riven, so getting to work alongside him to re-create some of these objects (and design some new ones) was completely surreal. Meet your heroes!! Sometimes it works out because your brains work in the exact same way. 😎👍🏼

(Credits to my collaborators: Grave marker models by Lance VerMeer, rebel viewer handle design by Richard Vander Wende)

[mysticplaces]

Japan Underground | photography by Hideaki Uchiyama

submission by Nathan Manceaux-Panot

[abroerman]

Mapping Riven (2024) - Temple Island

[dynasoar5]

Riven paintings, 2022

[rivcog]

[redwoodrroad]

couple of things i've been working on that i would fully make into poster-sized prints if i had access to the right kind of printer and poster paper 😅

[laughingpinecone]

A quick one for Mysterium's prompt Blooming. Desert flowers and the furtive roadrunner...

[veovis-of-kveer]

Riven 2024 demo

[lunaquantica]

The Basics of D'ni Grammar

(research by Richard Watson)

D'ni is not an Earth language, but because the D'ni are so similar to humans physically and mentally, their language has similarities to some of our native tongues.

D'ni is often compared with Hebrew, since the two languages have similar characters and sounds. But there are many differences, with the most obvious one being that D'ni is written left to right, unlike Hebrew.

The D'ni alphabet has 24 characters, but there more than 24 consonants. These are created by adding indicator marks to a letter. For instance, the character for a "v" sound is the same as the character for a "b," only the "b" has a dot over it. Generally, any consonant without a dot is a fricative, meaning it's produced by air passing continually between the tongue and lips. A consonant with a dot over it contains a stop, meaning that the air is cut off. in the case of a dotted "v," the air is stopped by the lips. By adding indicators to their vowels, D'ni's six vowel letters are expanded to eleven vowel sounds in their spoken language.

D'ni follows a familiar noun-verb structure. Adjectives follow the nouns they modify. Adverbs follow the verbs they modify. Quantifiers such as "very," "extremely," and "really," which add emphasis to phrases, are indicted by numbers from one to twenty-five. The higher the number, the stronger is the emphasis. For example, the phrase "I am a little tired" in D'ni becomes, "I am tired to two." "I am very tired" would be. "I am tired to twenty." To exaggerate something, the D'ni would use a number over twenty-five. "I am incredibly tired," in D'ni could be written or spoken as, "I am tired to thirty."

There are a number of important prefixes and suffixes in D'ni. Verbs use a suffix to indicate both number and person (this is similar to Spanish). For example, the D'ni word for eat is "rees," which is the form it takes when you say "I eat." The suffix "en" is added to indicate that he, she, or it eats, "rees-en." "They eat" uses the suffix "eet." "rees-eet." "We eat" uses "et," "rees-et." "You eat" (singular) uses "em," "rees-em," "You eat" (plural) uses "tee," "rees-tee." You can change this phrase to a command by adding the additional suffix, "ah." To order an individual to eat, you would say, "rees-em-ah!"

Verbs use a prefix to indicate the past, present, and future. To say that you have finished eating, the phrase is "ko-rees." To say that you are currently eating, the phrase is, "do-rees." To say that you will eat later, the phrase is "borrees." Other forms of the suffix are:

• kodo (past progressive): kodo-rees (I was eating)

• le (perfect): le-rees (I have eaten)

• kol (past perfect): kol-rees (I had eaten)

• bodo (future progressive); bodo rees (I will be eating)

• boko (future perfect): boko-rees (I will have eaten)

• bodol (future perfect progressive):

bodol-rees (I will have been eating)

Other common prefixes are "re" for "the." The D'ni word for "book" is "kor," so to indicate "the book," the phrase is "re-kor." The word "and" is "ga," so to indicate "and the book, you would say "ga-re-kor." Suffixes can indicate ideas such as plural and possession. To make a noun plural, add "tee" to the end.

The word for "books" is "kor-tee." To indicate possession, add the suffix "akh," which roughly corresponds to "of." The phrase "Gehn's book," in D'ni is structured, "book of Gehn," and is written, "kor-okh Gehn." An adjective, such as "garo" ("mighty"), can be changed to a noun with the suffix "th," as in "Garoth" (Mighty One). You can change the same adjective into an adverb with the suffix "sh," "garosh," as in "mightily." There is also a special set of characters called the "Garo-hevtee," "Great Words." These symbolize important ideas of groups of words.

From " From Myst to Riven: The Creations and Inspirations" (1997)

[sacred-gayze]

IT'S HERE

[appendingfic]

D'ni callout posts for people who write problematic Ages

[mysticplaces]

Abandoned military bunkers | Albania

[abroerman]

Mapping Riven (2024) - Boiler Island (spoilers)

[alahmnat]

Holy shit, actual Riven content in the Riven tag.

[rivcog]

From old to new.

[sumitiper]

Why is it that, every so often, when my mind wanders I remember the opening scene of Myst?

That scene of a marvellous special book slowly falling through the star fissure into that glittering starry expanse has embeded itself deep into my brain. I just wish to know, why?