Late late night...

After taking a break while working on Amazo all week I've started updating the skin for Oak Cross. Most of it is a basic addition of a few graphics. Hopefully it will help to attract a few more people ;)

So an update on Amazo and Amazon culture. I'm working on their clan system and so far I have two cans. The SnowLeopard and the RunningHorse Clan. Both are named after a totem which the Amazons believe they inherited after accomplishing something to impress the totem spirit. Each Clan is split into family base Genos lineages that then relate to each other via a concept of sisterhood. I'm working with the greek words Fratria and Patria to get a better idea of what this is. The current concept for the word is Muteria or ɲuteria. Which is a sort of role inherited via blood relation. How this works with the Genos I am not sure oO.

First part of the manuscript is finally done!

Just a quick update the first major part of Arrow Child is done. So I'll be able to finally move along. I've started developing the story behind how the Amazons gained their name and a I've got a few more words in Amazo-Persian ;). The Basics of Amazon culture are complete and I'll be sketching out more ideas for their society as time moves on.

Sorry for the short blog, I'll have a longer one up later today.

Summer goin in June...

Late night and four episodes of the Tudors later I made more headway on Arrow Child! Steadily catching up with the 2,000 or so words I'm behind by, I hope to have the first part done soon if not by this weekend! The only thing making me pause is a name for the family that will take up most of the story. Plus I need a name for a few others, but the good news is I've almost finished the basis of Amazo-Persian. Which once I can find a classical greek speaker I can start a derivation process to create Amazo :)

On another note, Oak Cross is gonna be 3 months old soon. And it is going well! The storyline is moving along at a good pace and I hope to add more to the forums as time goes on. I'm also looking at creating an accompanying site to store extra information on :)

Some more stuff on Amazo-Persian

So here are some of the basics of Amazo-Persian Phonology:

Amazo-Persian linguistically borrows greatly from Old Persian and Proto-Indo-Persian. It also has several heavy influences including the dropping of masculine aspects in many roles particular dealing with leadership.

Long / Stressed Vowels: /a:/, /e:/, /i:/, /u:/

Short Vowels: /a/, /i/, /u/

Stressed vowels are marked with a macron over the vowel such as in the case of “ā”,

Plosives: /p/, /b/, /d/, /t̪/, /ɟ/, /k/

Aspirations: /kʱ/

Nasals: /n/, /ɲ/

Fricatives: /β/, /θ/, /ç/, /x/, /h/

Sibilant: /s/, /z/, /ʃ/

Rhotic: /ɾ/

Lateral: /ɭ/

Approximant: /ʋ/

A small update with notes from Amazo-Persian

A few words on a minor conlang project, which is the precursor to another I will be working on.

ūrīta = strong
Nara = Woman
Mara = Man
Marā = Men
Patiŝ = Lord
Ijaŝ = Thunder
Āçila = Lady

This is a language that will be from a now dead branch of the Indo-Iranian family. Specifically it's closest would be Sanskrit with a few cognates in Persian. It is found on the pot shards found in a pontic greek settlement near the black sea.

A temporary hold

The work on the book will be slightly delayed as I have started work on Amazonian. A new language which will have Iranian and Hellenic influence. It will be feature in the names of some up and coming characters. The work will continue on as I have to make sure the basis of everything works :)

Finals are now over so I'll be free to finally work more on Arrow Child. Which is perhaps one of the hardest projects I've taken on. I've started looking into possibly contacting a few of the local professors to prep for researching that I'll be conducting to improve the project.

The Final push is almost there...

A short message is all I have time to leave. Arrow Child is going to be put on hold until I can finish my finals. But hopefully I may have worked on the plot for the series a bit more. More on that will be up once I'm freed of the confines of Finals week.