#maleficaria lore

[larkral]

(+ a new Chapter of A Dangerous Affinity) 

Alright lovelies (especially @facewithoutheart​), I spent all of my writing time yesterday excruciatingly rewriting a section of exacting worldbuilding that I really liked that just didn’t make sense in the chapter it was in (which, of note, is this chapter I just posted) (really getting down to the wire there.)

When I wrote this like a month ago I was very happy with it. I think this it’s fun and silly and also gives interesting context that it turns out is not at all useful for the story at the point it was located. Possible it’ll show up later? I hope. 

There isn’t much in the way of anthropolgy of mals. Taxonomy is all we have, and even that’s highly imprecise (if you think a Platypus is hard to classify, imagine trying to classify a mal that was once a hyena but was fused with the soul of a still-maybe-living human, and then ate and unified with a colony of vespids) (as an example). 

Bonus points to anyone who can guess where this was in the chapter (Not counting @aristocratic-otter​ or @takenabackbytuesdays​ who both read it in situ before my editing frenzy, and therefore are entirely blameless in the actual section of the chapter)

Read the chapter on AO3 !