Ask about the Garlands

I'd like to some day make money from just my music but -let's be honest- that is NEVER happening.

It’s not that I have no interest.

It’s just.

I will yay this if I must use such a banal and vapid exclamation.

Goblins are driven, capable creatures who I feel ternion society could learn a lot from.

They have achieved much with very little. With no help from others, save other goblins.

Some call them ruthless, but I put forth that this is a simplified and cowardly standpoint. Goblins are honest.

Goblins are doers. I find their company agreeable, I should like to be amongst it more often.

They can get you some things you might struggle to find elsewhere. Necessary things needed to help people that the government and civilised society make hard to get, sometimes.

And well, on a personal level? They’re not picky about their company so much. If they’ve broken off from their burrow, they’ll hang out, go on adventures , even shack up. Even if you’re a freak. I kinda like that.

That’s as individuals though. If I see a GROUP of goblins? I draw.

Goblins are almost universally trash.

I don’t doubt there are nice ones.

Never met one.

Not going to look that hard.

I think I have bad associations with them, cause so many people thought I was one. Just a really tall one.

Some didn’t think I actually was, but still CALLED me one.

These days..I dunno. I’ll buy from them if their a lone trader but I wouldn’t go near more than two without back up.

Mmh..goblins are not so very troublesome.

Gullible. Greedy.

That’s an excellent question. I have no idea.We don’t really have young, nor do we feed them.

Maybe they just look nice? What do you think?

No comment.

It has been put forth that dryads look similar to the three main ternion species intentionally. This way, they could be envoys between nature and burgeoning civilisations, with a kind and familiar countenance. 

This doesn’t really make any sense. First of all, many dryads - perhaps even a majority are not particularly safe or approachable. Even those that are meant to be polite and friendly have troublesome instincts....

Perhaps Delag plays a part in this.

Beyond this, there is the issue that some dryads - the ancient ones were around before we were. They existed, and supposedly looked like they did in a time before anything looked like them.

Did the ancient dragons have breasts?

Fucks sake,

We don’t know. 

All we have found of them are their bones and a few depictions and legends of the five that made this world. At no point are their sexes mentioned, nor do we see them in anything but their complete ceremonial armour.

It’s possible the dryads were the first things on the planet to have such a shape.

But why.

Some of a dryads extracts can be obtained through them.

Huh.  did not know that.

It is possible, that because they are solid spirits that the ancient, giant dryads looked like dragons when dragons were around and now look like us now that we’re around. I mean, why not?

That or the legends are just that.

And the world wasn’t made the way everyone thinks.

I keep that to myself though.

Totally mystified.

ulo

A dryad, when they are completely relaxed corresponds with actions of its soul tree and the trees like it that make up its ‘Lawulo’; the area it can travel and that it generally protects. In my case, the three square kilometres of Juunquo forest.

So it is possible. But it takes only a minute measure of a dryads energy to adjust their appearance to something they prefer - within reason.

Hm. Not really anyone’s fucking business, but I’m originally from the Artimid flock. I look as though I am from the Corvid flock, I know. Artimids tend to be black and white.

Soon after my birth, the few feathers I had that were white like the rest of my families were shed and only black ones have grown in their place. One of the many reasons my supposed family banished me.

That and I disagreed with their shitty fucking behaviour.

((ohohohoh. Yes. Anon, you ask the best questions. I don’t have voices for all of them, but I will put a brief list here. I will add to this as more characters appear. Also as I decide upon them. Subject to change.))

Bok Tyneside: Misha Collins / Dory (from the 50 Kaitenz)

Noonan Forbes: Keith David / Takashi Kondo

Wissil: Glynnis Campbell /  Miyuki Sawashiro

Dr Grigory Sterrpike: Matt Berry / Joji Nakata

Basically, yeah! Dryads don’t really have the same hang ups with it that terna.. turny? Turnipy...?

Ternion. Fancy word for trio. it’s a catch all term for orks, elves and humans.

Right!

Dryads and a lot of other species are generally pretty content to think of sex as something fun and relaxing to do.

With that said

Some species can learn a lot about a person from their smell and their touch. A bit like how trees and insects can communicate. Or how dryads can communicate with other dryads via their scent.

So sex can be a quick and easy way to make an assessment of someones character.

Wait..can you do that?

For many dryads, sex is also a pretty effective way of obtaining food.

Exactly.

There’s no apartment here.

I have been told this before. More than once

You’ll hug but you’ll leave. Everybody leaves.

Nobody wants to live in the same 3km square the rest of their lives.

No one wants to stay with me unless they want something from me.

Even when I sing, even when I dance, even when I bring them food and watch them sleep.

Even when I swear I’ll look after them and protect them collect samples of their hair. Even when I beg.

Even when I kill their friends, so it’s not like they have anyone else to talk to anymore anyway.

I was gonna hold off on that but I’m just super happy someone took an interest in my fantasy crap so here’s a member of the Cantha tribe. Based on the Long Horned Orb Weaver.

The Cantha tribe are not naturally hostile or necessarily dangerous.

BUT

They are very large and they often build huge webs in stupid places and get resentful when people accidentally stumble into them and get tangled.

OH!

Um...

Well, I mean..that will depend on personal preference! I am..flattered that you find this one cute. Obviously not everyone does.

But there are many different types of Pajaks in this world.

Some are larger or more chitinous or have more or less eyes.

Perhaps my particular tribe, the Kiplingi have features you approve of?

I am sure some of them might. Such trades are not common, though. Humans, or indeed any of the ternion species can’t be counted upon to not betray us or at least panic.We have been contacted by traders, agreed to meet at a neutral ground. But when their guards spot ours, far too often they open fire. Something about our species, perhaps the way we move seems to elicit instinctive fear in many people.

I realise it is more complicated than that.

There are many many tribes of Pajak, my species.

Not all of them are fuzzy, largely pacifistic vegetarians like us. 

There are many tribes that invade towns, engulfing them in web, killing hundreds and kidnapping dozens to be fed upon by their brood later. Other tribes set traps designed to pull unwary travellers underground and consume them.

So, part of the problem, I am quite sure, is that most members of ternion society cannot tell one tribe from another.

Similarly, many Pajaks, even from peaceful tribes like my own, do not distinguish between elves, orks and humans who hunt them and those that don’t. So, some of my tribe who have lost family are hostile to them on sight.

It’s one of the great strengths of the soldier academies that we have throughout the land.

See, its one of the oldest callings, one of the oldest lines of work that exist in any culture. Since the dawn of time, you gotta know that someone out there needed their ass kicked.

So there are so many warrior traditions from all these little tribes - particularly amongst the orks. A certain colour that is important, a warriors dance. A certain piece of music that must accompany them into the battle.

I’ve seen soldiers that, before every battle, break a bottle over their head and then rhythmically pound on their armour. Some of them coat their armour in chemicals that glow as the sunlight catches it.

There are other ones that come into battle blowing on a trumpet sort of a goofy

‘Waahp wah wah waaaaaaah’ tune. I guess they think it’s cool?

There really are too many to list.

Now, naturally, there have to be certain standards upheld since you’re now training warriors in an actual academy. If we let everyone who wants to be a soldier adhere to the traditions of their family or 100%, it’d be a mess. 

So there tends to be compromise.

Some examples. There is an human tradition of smearing your armour in the blood of a freshly slaughtered auroch. This is obviously a waste of livestock, so instead their armour is painted to imitate this look.

Many Orks, traditionally fought completely naked as a sign of honour and bravery. Now, we can’t have them wandering around town in their birthday suits, so a special sort of armour was developed that covers less of the body, while maintaining a legal level of decency.

There’s too many to list.

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