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FAMILY TITLES AMONG THE HILL TRIBES
(ft. various linguistic notes and tangents)
In-universe Brakul’s self-given title of ‘Red-Dog’ is Brakul 'ne-Dainh' in his native language (Bict-Urbinnas dialect of the Highland language group) and Brakul 'Chin-Reyla' in Wardi. Ne-Dainh/Chin-Reyla is not something he treats as or considers an actual surname or identity, just a self-styled nickname. He already has a title.
Family names/surnames are not a native practice among the Hill Tribes (though some clans or individual families have adopted this practice), and all traditionally use titles that designate immediate ancestry, clan and tribe. These full titles are officially given when one comes of age and are spoken aloud in ceremony (with the entire direct male and female lines listed by name, with most traditions expecting 12 generations of each being named).
The function is to cement one’s sense of place in the world, and their place in a direct ancestral line, which puts the person under the full watch and guidance of their ancestors. It's also a critical method of recording lineage- the long held practice of each person memorizing at least 24 total direct ancestors allows for very long, largely accurate records of family history to be kept, with some people able to trace their ancestry all the way back to initial settlement of the Highlands (or even beyond).
Brakul’s full title is:
“Brakul virsum Kuligan et Borunil an Briyonis ne-Taig an Bict-Urbinnas”
Which dead literally translates to “Brakul son of Kuligan and Borunil of the Foothills (of) Red-Cattle, of the North (Urbin/Erubin) River Valley” but has a much richer meaning in the original language.
"BRAKUL VIRSUM KULIGAN ET BORUNIL"
The actual meaning here is closer to ‘Brakul, son of Kuligan and his father’s fathers, and Borunil and her mother’s mothers’.
“Virsum” means ‘child (son/daughter) of’ (the gender is contextual), but implies the person’s status as a descendant of a full male and female line of ancestors. A different word is used if you’re just saying ‘I’m so and so’s son”. The title describes him as a son of his father Kuligan and of Kuligan’s male line, and of his mother Borunil and Borunil's female line.
All ancestors (within this particular system of kinship, divided into one direct male line from the father and one direct female line from the mother, and not including husbands from the female line or wives from the male line) are invoked and credited with the word ‘virsum’. Speaking it as part of the personal title is part of the routine and necessary honoring of one’s ancestors, who watch over their descendants from the afterlife and can temporarily return to the land to guide and protect (and sometimes punish, or teach sharp lessons to) the living.
"AN BRIYONIS NE-TAIG"
The actual meaning here would be understood as ‘clan/people of the foothills where cattle are lit red by the setting sun'.
‘Briyonis’ is the word for ‘foothill’, citing his clan’s specific location being the foothills that form the slopes of the north Urbin river valley. He is of a lesser clan within the powerful North Urbin River tribe. His clan benefits from close affiliation to their more powerful ruling clans located directly in the river valley, which grants them access to a greater variety of cultivated foods, but their actual position in the foothills still renders them predominantly reliant on cattle for subsistence. Clan names referencing cattle or horses are very common, given their frequent centrality to life.
The ‘ne-Taig’ literally means ‘red cattle’, but the ‘ne’ color word for red specifically invokes shades of red seen in and cast by a rising/setting sun. This red cast is culturally regarded as a unique beauty and evocative (and part of the name) of the solar god Hraighne. The foothills his clan is physically located on are a vantage point from which the western horizon is not fully obscured by mountains, and they experience very striking sunsets and are directly touched by the light. This is fairly unique to this location, and is invoked in the clan name and identity. ‘Ne-Taig’ here suggests a visual of grazing cattle illuminated red by the sun as it crosses the horizon.
‘Ne-Dainh’ carries the same implication, a dog illuminated red by setting sunlight. The Wardi language does not have a comparable word for a sunlit red and ‘Chin-Reyla’ really does just mean ‘(orangeish) red dog’ (‘reyla’ is specific to orangey-red colors, which is the closest match he could get. There’s no way to impart the meaning of ‘sunlit-red dog’ in Wardi that is non-clunky enough to be appropriate for a name).
"AN BICT-URBINNAS"
‘an Bict-Urbinnas’ is fairly simple, Bict means ‘north’, and 'Urbin' is the name of the specific river that stems from a northern and eastern tributary. This river has a very ancient name (or a derivative of one) that predates settlement by the Hill Tribes, and its exact meaning is lost.
The root -(n)nas designates a river valley, but has strong implications of being an esteemed and bountiful place, rather than solely a literal geographical descriptor (as the river valleys are centers of power and trade in the highlands). It may be a loanword from the Wardi language family, as its usage is VERY similar in form and function to the Wardi -(n)nos, which also suggests a place of esteem and bounty (more specifically having connotations of a kingdom).
’An’ literally means ‘of’, but in the specific sense of describing the place and identity of a collection of people. ‘an Bict Urbinnas’ would be understood in speech as ‘of the north Urbin River Valley (people)’. The clans historically settled in and around the valley of the North Urbin River form the totality of the Bict-Urbinnas tribe.
The ‘Urbin’ word predates the contemporary Wardi name ‘Erubin’ for the river, the latter of which invokes the semi-mythological founding figure Erub, who himself was of a Wardi tribe located downriver to the south of the Highlands. The real historically extant ‘Erub’ was most likely named Urub after the river, with his cited name shifting over the centuries in folklore, and the Wardi name for the river shifting with it.
‘Erubin’ as a corruption of ‘Urbin’ functions very well in Wardi language due to ‘-bi/bin’ denoting something as a ‘gift’, usually in a more metaphorical sense. ‘Erubin’ is understood as meaning ‘(The river that is) Erub’s gift’, and the Erubin/Urbin river is a key tributary to the much larger Black river, one of the key rivers that feeds the region's wetter and more fertile west. This 'gift' meaning also occurs in the name of the southeastern Imperial Wardi city-state Erubinnos, which is understood as meaning ’((The kingdom that is) Erub’s gift’. He is considered to have conquered and taken the land (from the core city's actual founders, the Wogan people) and established a kingdom there in the early days of warring Wardi tribal monarchies.
#Just dropping this randomly because it's a pretty complete lore dump in my notes app#Family names are a big fucking deal in the Wardi cultural sphere and not having one is associated with being a bastard or otherwise#displaced or unwanted. If pressed Brakul either fully lies and says 'ne-Dainh' (which will just come off as 'oh it's some foreign name')#Or lists his actual title (not a family name but equally important). Sometimes listing all 24 generations if he's particularly annoyed.#It's only strictly necessary to memorize 12 ancestors in each line but it's considered good practice to be able#to cite associated non-direct ancestor husbands/wives/siblings/etc. That's where the tattoos as a mnemonic device comes in#It's easy to memorize 24 ancestors but very difficult to memorize 24 ancestors and at least some of their family members#And remembering and honoring the dead by name is of great importance- both puts you under the protection of more#ancestors (including non-direct ones) and ensures the dead's status in the afterlife is secure (it's believed that fully forgotten#dead leave the celestial fields and can no longer directly intercede with the living- though with some additional nuances to what#constitutes being fully forgotten)#Venerating and remembering the dead is a huge focus of cultural practice and additional methods are used to safeguard#ancestors (and other honored dead without descendants) whose names have been forgotten. There's one yearly holiday focused entirely on#the nameless dead where they are invoked and honored via little straw dolls that are burnt in bonfires high in the mountains so the#smoke is sent up to the Fields. It takes weeks of preparation and tens (maybe hundreds idk I'm bad with scale) of thousands of#dolls will be made each year across the Highlands for this purpose. Honoring them with effigy even without name is usually#considered enough to safeguard their afterlife for at least another year.#Also yeah kinship systems among the Hill Tribes (and very similarly among the Finns) follow a male line/female line system#Only father's father's fathers (...) and mother's mother's mothers (...) are considered direct ancestors (though all four grandparents#are sometimes honored as ancestors even if only two are considered DIRECT ancestral kin- this tradition varies)#Inheritance systems are somewhat matrilineal given that a wife is considered the owner and arbiter of property and a husband is#its protector and active manager. If a man and woman from different clans (or tribes) marry any children will be considered to be of#the clan/tribe of whichever spouse does NOT relocate in marriage.#Whether the husband moves in with the wife or the wife moves in with the husband is dependent on an arbitration process#and the husband (and his family) being able to provide a bride price (which is somewhat of a payment for the land/property#the wife's mother will be passing down to the new husband's management should he move in- and displays his ability to care#for and provide valued assets. A man who can provide a bride price tends to receive greater respect)#This is most commonly going to be livestock (and almost ubiquitously includes a single cattle to be butchered for the wedding feast)#But can include other valuables or assets like land or grain/seeds or etc. There is no intra-Highlands monetary system and the internal#economy is built on trade. So Imperial Wardi currency is mostly useless but is sometimes given in marriages between clans with strong
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Why yes... I am going broke... But they're worth it.
#legacy of kain#dark horse direct#legacy of kain statue#soul reaver#I NEEDED THEM BOTH#I COULDNT JUST GET KAIN I ALSO NEED THE SASSY BLUE BOY#I LOVE THEM THEY ARE MY EVERYTHING#payment plans / layaways are a life saver lemme tell you#I have the perfect spot for them right next to my life size soul reaver sword <3#theyre worth every single penny#DO YOU HEAR ME EMBRACER GROUP AND CRYSTAL DYNAMICS!?!#FINISH THE FUCKING STORY#I DROPPED ENOUGH MONEY ON THIS AND THE KICKSTARTER TO KEEP THEM GOING#THEY ARE MY LIFES BLOOD
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in boring adult annoyances, i recently converted my checking account to a different type of checking account with the same credit union. i've done this a couple times over the years cuz it's the same checking account my dad helped me set up when i was 13 and this CU is still my primary financial institution. asked the banker
"will my account number remain the same?"
"yes, we're just converting it to a different type of the same account!"
"so my direct deposit and autopays won't be impacted?"
"correct!"
"and i can still use the same debit card i've been using for the last ~6 years!"
"absolutely!"
"great, let's do it."
fast forward to this week, when three of my autopay bills bounced, my debit card isn't working, and a closer look at my account number shows a 1-digit change at the end. go back to the same branch like "hey no offense but what the fuck??"
different banker takes a look at my accounts, makes a Face, and politely casually asks "so where did you go to make the switch? :)"
"here, this branch. that person over there was actually the one who helped me."
The Face intensifies. ".....Ah. I See. well, it looks like the way the changes were made may have Disrupted some things. you're gonna need a new debit card, etc, i'll get that printed for you ASAP."
[5 minutes later the banker who fucked up the first transaction sheepishly approaches me to hand over my new debit card & apologize profusely.]
#SIXTEEN YEARS OF AUTOPAYS & DIRECT DEPOSITS & STATEMENTS & SAVED PAYMENT PROFILES DOWN THE FUUUUUUCKING DRAIN#BC INSTEAD OF JUST SWITCHING THE SUBTYPE OF MY EXISTING ACCOUNT SHE FUCKING CLOSED IT OPENED A NEW ONE & JUST MOVED THE MONEY OVER#LIKE I'VE DONE HER JOB I KNOW HOW EASY IT IS TO MAKE MISTAKES LIKE THAT BUT GOOOOOODDDDDD WHAT A FUCKING PAIN#THIS STUPID ERROR HAS BROKEN. SO MUCH OF MY LIFE IN ONE FELL SWOOP#GIRL I'M NOT GONNA COMPLAIN TO YOUR MANAGER OR ANYTHING BUT I *AM* FANTASIZING ABOUT HUNTING YOU FOR SPORT#between this and a different banker at the same branch taking 2+ weeks to get back to me with a shit tier auto loan quote#the service here has rly gone to piss lately#like thanks but i bought my car last week & financed thru the dealership for 4.3% APR less than you quoted cuz you ghosted me#shit chat#ctxt#charlie vs money
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i love fan jian he is my favorite guy. i love everything about him. the emperor just said with a soupçon of menace "fan xian est rus��. n'a-t-il pas appris de vous?" and fan jian replied "je suis bon et innocent. je n'ose pas accepter cette appréciation" like butter would not melt in his mouth. JE SUIS BON ET INNOCENT. he said that to the emperor who is like thiiis close to shooting him with an arrow just for funsies. the emperor goes "bon et innocent?" like did you really just say that to me bro. they're both having so much fun even though bixia is trying to be like don't test me i could end you. but could he really? could anybody bring themselves to do anything to that little face. god. i am obsessed.
#IGNORE THAT THE LINES ARE IN FRENCH BE NICE TO ME I AM GOING THRU IT#and 'bon et innocent' is really choice#je suis bon et innocent 🥺 <-middle-aged man who knows all your secrets and also scowls all the time but is sooooo cute abt it#joy of life#fan jian#my posts#i am this close to commissioning fanart of this man. i want him tattooed on my eyelids#the main things stopping me from commissioning people is 1) i hate using my legal name on here and how else do you pay for stuff#and 2) i hate giving direction. i did it once and there was so much back and forth about what i wanted. i don't freaking know.#can i just give you money and one sentence of description and then you go do your thing#the payment thing i could get around by just not linking the request to this account. and i could use venmo#assuming the commissionee goes for it#so it's really that i so rarely have ideas for things i want and then never have any details#but this guy is making me think about it
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No need to Work up so much Vladdy. Just sit Back and enjoy the absolute chao that about to happen.
#this is like the fenton science discoveries announcement about ghost#Penelope have studies very hard about every guest that attent the party and prepare a little bit of a suprise#it anounce the result that ghost are just monster from another dimension#but Spectra about to end their wholes carrer as the payment to the favor vlad do for her#mr chang here have a daughter that die in a car accident last year#mr and mrs parker there have their son passway in a war cross sea 3 years ago#mr leuton mother die just 3 month due to cancer#ect ect#their ghost haven't fully form into humanoid form yet but i'm sure they would be happy to meet their family member laugh#Scraming followed by the fenton telling people not to worry and laser shotting everywhere#the special mist is release which strenghence the injured ghost enough to help them form humannoid form#Daddy help me help me#but not enough to save them from being erased from the damage dealed by the fenton weapon which eradicated the ghost completely#thing soon turn into an angry emotional mob directed toward the Fenton once it over#hachi doodle#it free trauma day for everyone that attent this party “chuckle”
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Heyyyyy so guess whose pharmacy fucked up and had to get part of its prescription reordered for the next day and who also now can't afford to get transport to and from said pharmacy when the prescription is due. This guyyyyy
Now that I actually have access to my paints again I can start doing commissions again! So when I get home I'll try and revamp my commissions post finally. But, for now:
- It's £10* per hour of time I spend on the main piece (preliminary/concept sketches are for my own sake and are free).
- I usually recommend a minimum of 2 hours for a loose painting, and a minimum of 5 for a more detailed one.
- I don't accept up front payments for more than 20 hours, but am willing to work on a painting for longer than that if I fill that time and you still want me to keep working on it.
*Previous rate was £9 per hour but as of today I'm changing it to £10 due to changes in cost of living recently. Backgrounds or more than two characters will now cost an extra £1 per hour rather than flat payments.
If anyone is interested in a commission at all, even if it's just a single hour doodle, it would be extremely appreciated 💖
(All my current work is traditional, primarily watercolour but I can also do pencil sketches and drawings. If you want the original physical copy as well as scans/photographs, please feel free to ask about it!)
#normal barking#artists on tumblr#commissions#art commissions#commision info#ko fi#<- I direct people to my ko fi for payment most often but can also discuss alternatives#traditional art
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look. most people on tumblr, like most people everywhere, are just kind of innumerate, at least in slightly unexpected cases theyre asked to discuss on polls. they can't demonstrate an understanding of probability and they also don't understand compound interest. this is bad, but we can't fix it by explaining on the polls at length why they are wrong, because people on tumblr, in a specific manner but also still pretty much like people everywhere, think you are a fun-ruining evil stemlord who automatically loses the argument and should be put to death as the oppressor if you try to explain math to them
#i have noted those of you who are vexed by the interest one but acted like people were being dickhead killjoys about the probability one#and may i just say: yeah it's actually very frustrating isn't it. you can sort of see why i was pissy about it previously.#sorry you're now getting got. as we all will be got. in time.#it does also make sense to me that not everyone would respond to both because the probability one was only implicitly a math question#and had a great big ''who's ready to get cancelled for arguing that magic isn't real'' diversion attached#which. alters one's instincts. in various directions.#box opener#and conversely i actually found the interest thing mildly unintuitive until after i'd sat down with a calculator and contemplated what i#know about interest rates. so like. if you're not going to do that on a tumblr poll. and you don't think a lot about orders of magnitude#maybe you just say whatever sounds plausible and never think about it again#(until the hideous stemlords emerge forcing you to double down on the intrinsic moral rectitude of daily payments of course. but that#is not central to the point.)
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man another thing that's been very nice about having moved out of my dad's house is that... i am under no obligation to convey anything to anyone <3 i don't have to tell my parents about my doctor appointments, i don't have to tell people my intentions, i don't have to defend making purchases or arranging my life in a way that makes things easier or more pleasant because people don't even have to know about these things in the first place.
it's really fucking nice.
#experienced the unfortunate combination of 'pathological anti-liar' and 'being a fucking doormat by nature or whatever'#and 'controlling father that has to know everything and will directly curtail any attempts at privacy with guilt and authority'#that i sometimes compulsively try to make someone understand things about me even when it the direct outcome of such is unpleasant#here's to breaking these habits lads#discovering that i can do things and have preferences without going to protestant hell or even worse dealing with my dad#i can even pay my Idiot Tax without the external application of guilt#that is payments or late fees or forgetting to return something that doesn't fit and et cetera#that sometimes come up on account of being a fucking mess LMAO and would be less of a thing if i achieved a level of organization#that i simply will not realistically reach at this juncture but am generally working on getting myself in order for#i just make sure i routinely set aside a lil money for potential mistakes and i deal with them as they come#without the song and dance of being actively and repeatedly scolded as an adult for regular person mistakes#prattling about the self#edit to note that yeah i know there are times when i should convey things to people but you know what i mean
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My birthday is next week! In celebration I bought myself an aquarium chiller. For the first time ever I’m having a hard time keeping Otto’s tank as cool as I’d like to. I know it’ll be worse in the Summer so I decided to finally take the plunge.
#I know the problem is that the corner of his tank gets direct sunlight from the window which obviously heats up the water#but it was literally the only spot I could put the tank#it’s not TERRIBLE but I usually try to keep him around 62 degrees and he’s up to 65#Otto#my post#also thank u to Amazon for letting me do a payment plan#bc holy shit those bitches are EXPENSIVE
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just fucking love having my salary held hostage by my government it’s so fun and not anxiety and rage inducing at all 🙃
#fuck greg abbott#anyway hi voting matters#voting is the direct cause of me having a full ass decrease in pay this year#not a functional decrease because inflation#and actual ‘number is less than last year’ decrease#I /might/ get a one-time payment if the school board I voted for votes to give me one
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My credit score was mega fucked from when my parents used my name to apply for loans and services that they then didn't pay for many years without me knowing.
Around 4 years ago I got myself into a decent enough place in life to start tackling it after having it hanging over my head all those years. Got myself a little credit builder card and just put little amounts on it now and then so I had something to pay off. My limit slowly increased from £250 to what it is today :)
Today I got my weekly report and my score has finally passed into the "excellent" range \o/
I celebrated by ordering a milkshake and cookie dough :)
#Not that anything I'm doing or planning in the short term has a need for a good score#But it certainly won't hurt if I ever find myself in a situation where having a good history of paying stuff will be to my advantage xD#I would have been done last year but I didn't realise my water bill wouldn't automatically move the direct debit to my new address#So I missed a single payment and had my score re-fucked for 18 months xD
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Xie Lian Almost Gets Stolen By A Brothel
#Me Talking#tian guan ci fu#heaven official's blessing#TGCF liveblogging#Getting grabbed for a brothel is a very distressing thing to happen especially for Xie Lian and it's good they got away#but since they DID get away it's also... vaguely absurd?#'Feng Xin accidentally destroyed some brothel property so the angry madames came to demand payment'#'and then when they saw Xie Lian's beauty they decided to take HIM as the payment'#PWP-set-up ass situation! Xianxia take on 'my parents sold me to One Direction'!
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Wait I just realised I forgot to tell you guys that I looked into all the commission stuff over the weekend, and while that’ll probably still be a ways off I have made a breakthrough:
I have a Ko-Fi now :D
https://ko-fi.com/cbmagus49
Idk how it works or what to do with it yet but it sure is a thing that exists now!
I also messed around with the html on my blog and prettied it up a bit; it’s got a fancy background I made and there’s a Ko-Fi button there now ^^
#also I forgot that I tried to make a paypal ages ago#and it randomly limited my account almost immediately#I can't use that account or make a new one#so screw paypal#I'm using stripe instead#that was way easier to set up#so I've got the payment part of commissions on lock!#now I just need to do the actual commission part#figuring out pricing and all that jazz#that's gonna take a hot minute#but this is a big step in the right direction I think ^^
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