RI47 HEAVY INDUSTRIES

"For Want of Wings, I Cast Away My Skin"

The fires of war have spread through the Kishar system, burning for longer than anyone alive can remember.

Colossal fleshcrafted machines of war, pygmalions, are the hands by which the system is torn to pieces. With no apparent weaknesses besides the pilot inside of them, pygmalions provide incredible power at horrific cost.

From the tumult, a third front emerged. The dynasties of Kishar united, rising from the ashes of an apocalyptic catastrophe into an Empyrean Court and laying claim to the heritage of humanity. This marked the beginning of the Eternal Century.

With the Divine Solis Imperium and the Kreuzhafen Union of Autonomous Colonies showing no signs of breaking, the war could continue forever, a rapturous feast of blood on a scale incomprehensible to any single person.

Those with interests in ending the war grow tired. The time for drastic action draws near, dangling like a sword over the heads of those who would be kings. It is only a matter of time before the stalemate will be broken.

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Kalmen-style slaughterer shield, painted in colours of Clan Örlun, whose supporters ended the Vedron Empire's hold over the east, and whose branch families remain influential within the commonwealth to this day.

and the blade could not be sheathed with blood still warm upon it.

"The Railroad Company's ordered a sanitary cull. Something about the influenza, everything with wings short of the bugs and bats, even if it's not yours, so long as you can get at it. It's a half-starling to the head if you can bring a bushel to the survey, and if the birders general are in good spirits, you can pawn them for the each."

Travellers along the Mergiel all seem to find their way to Vrámstad, a sleepy town built first around the river, second around an ancient stonework bridge.

and with that, both NOMAD/VIRTUE and OMEN/CONSTANCE have received album art updates to bring them a bit more into scheme with each other and make it clearer they're part of one series

so, conversational tone here because this is just rin writing something out

official releases in conspiracy with Ri47 Heavy Industries have been a bit slow because of some personal health issues compounded by the burnout that comes from taking up the necessary additional work to compensate for taking time to physically recover

I'm going to be reworking some album art for older Ri47 releases. in particular, the ttrpg soundtracks (to bring them into one united design scheme) and probably redoing Bloodwarm, since as fun as a photo of my wrist is, I've gotten multiple people assuming it's porn (which is funny, but also an increasingly rough liability)

look forward to that soon, and if you like the old album art, either download it ahead of time or manually swap it with the included legacy art

Sonts (written out by non-speakers as Sontisien/Sontisch/Sontsa etc) primarily makes use of a vertical script a la Ogham, or more specifically Scholastic Ogham, though it borrows more from Manchu when it comes to character differentiation and punctuation

one notable trait of Sonts is that, when spoken, names are distinctly gendered through a slight mutation in pronunciation at the last syllable. this is entirely absent in writing, as the space where this accenting would normally be indicated is occupied by the tail that finalises a name, which is the same tail that you would normally use to finalise a column of text at fullest stop, equivalent to a paragraph break

in spoken Sonts, indicating name gender is polite (for example, Mahnédahnse for masculine and Mahnédahnsé for a feminine name) but using a terminating tail is proper in writing, and so refusing to do this is roughly equivalent to leaving someone's name uncapitalised. it's so improper that it comes off as a sign of illiteracy before it even registers as a rude gesture in most cases

this rule is so intuitive to speakers of Sonts that they rarely notice themselves doing it out loud, and in written form, the average Sonts-reader would probably not even think to explain this self-evident rule unless they were specifically educated to teach it

while most non-name nouns are also gendered, this is a consistent feature in written Sonts, as it's somewhat improper to end a sentence on a noun. strictly speaking, it's proper to give an adjective the verb of its attached noun, but the grammatical genders as applied to adjectives have taken on some connotations of their own, and so a few exist as exceptions to this, acting as distinct words. accordingly, this can be employed as a poetic device

there are a few grammatical genders in Sonts, though of the five that are commonly used[1], three avoid this orthographic stumble by being indicated at the start of a word. in the somewhat unusual case that one of these finds its way to the start of a column, where the name would otherwise be written with an initial character, modern Sonts orthography prefers that a (relatively, in scope of centuries) recently-emerged ligature above the name be substituted, to preserve clarity in reading

while horizontal Sonts does exist by necessity for compatibility with foreign ledgers, particularly those of the oft-contacted Vedrons, it is not widely used domestically and, eschewing initial and terminal characters for ease of foreign reading, does tend to preserve non-contextual indicators of gender in names. this falls roughly in line with the rarity of unisex naming in Vedron cultures, though it's somewhat more common in those along the shared sea

in contrast to this, it's not uncommon to see Vedron forms of Sonts names in the Sonts-speaking territories that were once occupied by Greater Vedronia, where the language was disfavoured in official documents

The Grand and Terrible Tendency of All Things, or, a Charter of the Progress Towards Understanding

this is one of those lore posts that warrants the disclaimer that it's subject to change and tidying up over time, especially because it's a "second-pass" explanation, or in other words a chatlog where I was describing something that I had written down much more matter-of-factly in my personal notes

all to say, temper expectations accordingly