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1 February 2026

  • 12:4412:44, 1 February 2026 Cyberarcheology (hist | edit) [1,167 bytes] Lurker (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Much like humanity, the yinrih's information age dawned around the same time they achieved spaceflight. Through the millennia their internetwork has grown in size and complexity as they settled throughout Focus, and by the time of First Contact they have amassed 95 thousand Earth years of digital information. When you live over 700 years, you have to think long-term. There are data centers filled with storage servers that are built to operate independently for millennia...")
  • 12:4212:42, 1 February 2026 Oracle OS (hist | edit) [1,119 bytes] Lurker (talk | contribs) (Created page with "One persistent subject of interest to amateur cyberarcheologists is the so-called Oracle OS. It was said to have been programmed by a mad monk who claimed it was a conduit through which the Light could communicate with mortals. While many pieces of software claiming to be the original Oracle OS are in fact full operating systems, able to execute other programs while running, the earliest mentions of the software d...")

31 January 2026

  • 20:5320:53, 31 January 2026 Mass router (hist | edit) [533 bytes] Lurker (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''For an explanation of the mass router in narrative form, see The Mass Router.'' A mass router is a means for transporting matter instantly between two arbitrary points in space. It does this by shunting a bubble of realspace containing the matter to be routed into the underlay, dividing that bubble into smaller bubbles that can take different paths to reach the same destination. These bubbles appear discontinuous when observed from within the underlay, but rem...")

29 January 2026

  • 17:4817:48, 29 January 2026 Ear notch (hist | edit) [825 bytes] Lurker (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The term ''ear notch'', a calque of the Commonthroat word `HKrqFdqg` /long rising strong growl, chuff; huff, late high weakening whine; huff, short low weak growl/ is used as a derogatory term for a firearms enthusiast in an analogous manner to the English term ''gun nut''. Older yinrih firearms are worn on a saddle mounted on the back, and are fired using a remote trigger wired to the gun assembly and held in the tail or paw. Depending on the length of the gun barr...")
  • 17:4217:42, 29 January 2026 Weapons (hist | edit) [2,326 bytes] Lurker (talk | contribs) (Created page with "I've stated previously that yinrih are not accurate throwers. They also have natural weapons in the form of their claws, so I'm not sure if spears would develop. Then again, spears were likely the first tools used by early humans (chimps also make spears by gnawing branches down to a point). Perhaps like chimps yinrih could use spears for thrusting but not throwing. Early weapons would probably be enhancements of the yinrih's natural combat strategies. Caudal slings wer...")

28 January 2026

  • 21:1021:10, 28 January 2026 Perfume (hist | edit) [1,955 bytes] Lurker (talk | contribs) (Created page with "With the exception of healers, yinrih don't wear clothes. While they do use things like backpacks and pocketed leg bands, the communicative function of clothing is filled by perfumes. Yinrih produce pheromones, both as an ambient musk and via their ink, that other yinrih can use to gain information about them. Approximate age, gender, emotional state, and whether or not one is currently in a childermoot can be determined readily by these natural odors. Artificial perfu...")

21 January 2026

19 January 2026

  • 15:1515:15, 19 January 2026 Writing claw (hist | edit) [1,875 bytes] Lurker (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The writing claw can refer to the claw of the digit next to the inner thumb of the forepaw, or to the entire digit analogous to a human's index finger. A yinrih's writing claw is shaped like the nib of a fountain pen, and acts more or less like one as well. However, while a fountain pen uses capillary action and gravity to cause a "controlled leak" to produce ink flow, a yinrih has voluntary control over the muscles in the ink sac. By contracting these muscles, and...")
  • 14:5814:58, 19 January 2026 Moonlitter (hist | edit) [236 bytes] Lurker (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Moonlitter is the sixth planet from Focus, an Ice giant with many moons. It is an independent state, but is caught in the cold war between the Allied Worlds and Partisan Territory. The capital of Moonlitter is Stormburg.")

18 January 2026

  • 17:4817:48, 18 January 2026 Stormburg (hist | edit) [898 bytes] Lurker (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Stormburg, also Stormboro or Stormborough, is the capital of Moonlitter. It is a floating city located on the planet itself. It is not open to the air like the cities on Welkinstead, since the atmosphere is not breathable. It is located in the eye of a perpetual cyclonic storm. No sunlight penetrates the deep clouds around it. The only natural light comes from the constant lightning from the surrounding storm clouds.")

16 January 2026

  • 19:3619:36, 16 January 2026 Steadtree (hist | edit) [1,449 bytes] Lurker (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The steadtree is a species of tree native to the equatorial rain forest on Yih. It is this tree that the yinrih evolved to dwell in. ==Fruit== his fruit co-evolved alongside the yinrih's nonsapient ancestors in order to use the yinrih as seed dispersers. It's about the size of an apple, and Its flavor is uniquely adapted to the yinrih's poor sense of taste. It is mildly sweet but has a very, very strong sour flavor. Humans liken it to Warhead candies. The skin is deep...")

28 December 2025

  • 23:2723:27, 28 December 2025 Welkinstead (hist | edit) [768 bytes] Lurker (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Welkinstead is the innermost of Focus's two gas giants. (Or if you want to be pedantic, it's the only gas giant, with Moonlitter being an ice giant.) Its atmosphere is rich in economically exploitable gasses. Terraforming proceeded slowly, with floating extraction platforms similar in function to oil rigs being built in the layer of atmosphere where the gasses are most abundant. These structures are held aloft by vacuum pontoons and are capable of a small degree of self...")

27 December 2025

  • 13:1213:12, 27 December 2025 Postures (hist | edit) [2,159 bytes] Lurker (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Yinrih can assume a number of static postures when idle or when performing tasks. # standing on all fours. This is the standing position that requires the least amount of energy. It's also the position taken in order to start walking. # Perching. Lying on the belly straddling a narrow surface such as a branch with the paws and tail hanging freely. This is the default "sitting" position. The yinrih equivalent to a chair is built for this position. Such perches may have...")
  • 13:0413:04, 27 December 2025 Dewfall (hist | edit) [103 bytes] Lurker (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The ''Dewfall'' is the Claravian womb ship that makes First Contact with humanity.")
  • 13:0013:00, 27 December 2025 Erickson (hist | edit) [1,086 bytes] Lurker (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Erickson is the small Texas town that the Dewfall lands in. Rather, a park outside of town. It's just large enough to justify the presence of a small college. The residents are very protective of their little guests, and it's largely thanks to them (and their many, many guns) that the missionaries remain unmolested. The town was historically an ethnic enclave for Lebanese immigrants who arrived in the US via Galveston. After WWII and the proliferation of air conditionin...")
  • 00:5800:58, 27 December 2025 Colossus (hist | edit) [1,464 bytes] Lurker (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A colossus is a cynoidomorphic structure with a full-sized lighthouse on its back. The word for these structures in all major yinrih languages has gone on to mean giant or titan, and is used to indicate anything imposing or intimidating. The first Colossus was built at Moonlitter by the Knights of the Sun as a war memorial honoring the knights who joined the Pious Dissolutionists at the plea of Iris the Hearthsider. It's a fully working mech, much larger than normal, po...")
  • 00:5300:53, 27 December 2025 Star hearth (hist | edit) [93 bytes] Lurker (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A star hearth is a ceremonial nuclear fusion reactor used in liturgies of the Bright Way.")
  • 00:5100:51, 27 December 2025 Lighthouse (hist | edit) [4,554 bytes] Lurker (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A hearthkeeper's duty is to bring physical and spiritual light and warmth to her congregation. This is accomplished through lighthouses, places of worship of the Bright Way. They evolved out of the open bonfires tended by shamans prior to the Theophany. These bonfires grew into sheltered hearths as the yinrih's society advanced. With the discovery of electricity the hearths evolved into small power plants distributing electricity to the homes of the faithful. The...")

22 December 2025

  • 15:5015:50, 22 December 2025 Kit (hist | edit) [202 bytes] Lurker (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A kit is a juvenile yinrih or tree dweller between the time of conception until the age at which it is weaned. Afterward they are referred to as pups or puppies until they reach sexual maturity.")
  • 15:4715:47, 22 December 2025 Womb nest (hist | edit) [404 bytes] Lurker (talk | contribs) (Created page with " A womb nest, also spelled womb-nest, is a highly derived egg-sac with its own simple heart and circulatory system. A central bus artery feeds oxygenated blood to the Kit, and returning veins pass through a semi-permeable dermal layer to allow for gas exchange. The arrangement of kits in the womb nest is what gives Womb Ship their name, as suspension capsules are arranged in a similar manner.")
  • 01:5201:52, 22 December 2025 Meanwhile, in an Alternate Universe... (hist | edit) [7,772 bytes] Lurker (talk | contribs) (Created page with "”Where’s your bathroom?” I think this was the third time any of us had heard him speak since we met. Brightstar and Moonglow had found him on the tram from the city center, his snout buried in a claw-written notebook. We needed a second sire besides myself to equal the two dams, and he smelled of age. Moonglow was never one for subtlety. She came right out and asked if he was looking to join a childermoot. “Yes” was all he said, and “OK” was his answer to...")

16 December 2025

  • 16:2416:24, 16 December 2025 The Void (hist | edit) [1,127 bytes] Lurker (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Void, also called The Blind Void, is, according to Claravian doctrine, the realm of the afterlife where the souls of the lightless are sequestered. The damned are devoid of all sensation, including proprioception, with only their own regrets for company. The void is not separate from The Empyrean where the souls of the blessed dwell in the Uncreated Light. The difference is in how the realm is perceived. One is not sent to the Void, rather, they consign the...")

15 December 2025

  • 22:3622:36, 15 December 2025 Tree dweller (hist | edit) [2,462 bytes] Lurker (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Tree Dwellers (Commonthroat <qgKq-dq-g> /huff, early rising strengthening growl, huff, short high weak whine, huff, short low weak growl/ literally "forest yinrih") are a non-sapient species closely related to the yinrih. While humans often compare them to chimps, they're more closely related to the yinrih than chimps are to humans. It's better to think of them like early hominins. They're clever, can use simple tools, and have complex hierarchical social structures, but...")

13 December 2025

  • 15:3915:39, 13 December 2025 Uncreated Light (hist | edit) [1,980 bytes] Lurker (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Uncreated Light is the most common designation for the incorporeal exocosmic super-intellect worshiped by the Bright Way. According to Claravian theology, it dwells outside of space and time and is responsible for bringing the universe into existence. It lacks a name, as that would imply there are more than one of its kind that would need to be distinguished with names. ''The Uncreated Light'' is thus considered a descriptor rather than a proper name. Various ot...")

21 November 2025

13 November 2025

  • 13:5413:54, 13 November 2025 Hearthside (hist | edit) [896 bytes] Lurker (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Hearthside is the innermost planet of Focus. It is tidally locked, and its capital, the City of Eternal Noon, is located at the substellar point. Hearthside is the center of religious government of the Bright Way. Hearthside was founded as an experiment in ecclesiastical utopianism. The government was set up to reflect the ancient power structure of a yinrih shire, where a group of male patriarchs governed secular affairs while being advised by a female sham...")
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