Thursday, December 9, 2010

World-building with Blogger Word Verification

Over on his blog, Swords Against the Outer Dark, Shane has posed an interesting challenge: take a handful of Blogger word verification captchas and do writeups for each of them in such a way so they could be used in your game.  Well, now that things have somewhat settled down here, I'm going to give it a shot.

The method I used was just to take some words that jumped out at me, and started thinking what they could be.  There were some on the list that just didn't work for me (mation) and others that were simply obscene (arshl comes to mind).  So...here goes...  

Trised (try-sehd) - The city-state of Trised is one made up of concentric rings, each ring is a ward of the city.  Walls between each ward keep them separated, though there is some bleedover at the walls themselves, as populations from one ward spill over into another.  The center ring is the castle ward, where the military governor Schor keeps residence.   

Challys (chall-iss) - Challys is a powerful sorcerer who lives on the edge of civilization, near Trised.  His tower stands forbidding and alone.  No one has actually seen Challys in many seasons, leading some to think he may be dead -- or worse, mutated by his forays into forbidden magicks.  Travellers passing near the tower have heard strange noises and seen flashes of light inside the tower's windows. 

Volut (vohl-oot...rhymes with 'droll foot') - Volut is a star appearing in the constellation Dotholh, and can be seen low in the southern sky in the northern hemisphere during Reaping and early Preserving seasons.  (Seasons are based on agriculture: Planting, Growth, Reaping, and Preserving).  Named for the warrior-poet from Al-Azyan, known for his poems of love and valor, as well as his military prowess.

Dotholh (doh-thole) - Means "the lion" and is one of the 12 constellations visible in the night sky over Andurantha.  The Lion is stalked by the Hunter, and the Lion is hunting the Stag ("The Forest King"). 

Schor (shor) - General Schor is military governor of Trised.  His normally strict, regimented decisions have been erratic of late.  This comes shortly after he led an expedition inside the Vault of Orak'vi, leading some to darkly speculate what he may have encountered down there.

Word list:
trised
challys
coures
flammun
mation
anedgen
unplaha
gible
cansesse
volut
exedd
vipip
arshl
cativerm
orakvi
glyancen
plagi
doriumbe
dotholh
kince
schor
uines
denes
cocancie
phalimpa
reptio
dinne
interst
petsych
woodoco

1 comment:

  1. Great work! Thanks for taking up the gauntlet and running with it. I especially like Challys and Volut. I hope others will follow suit and try this out for themselves.

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