The Royalverse

Wowie, it’s been a while since I posted here? Anyways, I apologize for neglecting this blog, but I kind of want to use it as a development blog since I haven’t documented my creative process elsewhere. So here, I might as well share some stuff I’ve been working on! None of this is fully implemented into canon yet and some of it needs external review from others.

So, I’ve been documenting my naming conventions and ideas for different names, first and foremost. This is what it looks like:

(For some reason it won’t let me copy paste from my notes app anymore so I can’t get proper alt text in right now. Post will be updated once I can get it in.)

MISSING TRANSCRIPT:

Wait, I think I’m cooking?!

I know I’m transcribing my thoughts in real time when this document should be reasonably more structured, but what if the -nida / -nid suffix meant “people” in the Celestet language or in a non-human context? Like- most of the other fantasy races in the Royalverse are still somewhat human due to their origins, but Celestials are inherently non-human, so I’m wondering if there should be different root word shenanigans for that.

I already really like the way Stellari and Luneri sound, though, so I’m wondering how I could alter the suffix structure for them specifically to be “-rida” instead of “-nida.” Or perhaps just “-ida” or “-id” to allow for the different endings like Leonida, Stellarida, Terranida, Lunerida. Yeah, that works!!!

Breakdown time

I found that having an “-ida” suffix with the stell/lune/leo/terra prefixes and a difference between the ones with “r” or “n” at the end of the words honestly sound better and match together better. For example, Stellari would now be Stellarida, Luneri now Lunerida, Leonida is the same, and Terra is now Terranida.

Alternate plural signifiers include “s” as in Leonids, although informal and uncommon. Singular would be an “-id” with the r or n signifier applied before the -id part, as in -nid. For Stellarida and Lunerida, their old names “Stellari” and “Luneri” are now the singular forms, for example “a Luneri woman” or “a Stellari poet”; Leonid and Terranid would be the singular forms of their respective words.

Formal adjective structure includes “-ic” for Leonid and Terranid, i.e. Leonidic and Terranidic; for example “a Leonidic alchemist” or “a Terranidic diplomat” as opposed to “a Leonid farmer.” “Nidic” is pronounced “needic.” (End Transcript.)

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There was my thought process when I was thinking about the names of the different Celestial ethnicities.

I’ve also been thinking about the chronic illness I’ve been thinking of for one of the two main characters. Here it is!

The illness is also supposed to be affected by the weather, where colder environments make it worse, etc., which is especially prevalent since the city of Perseus where he currently is has super cold temps during the winter. The Rage is a rage virus sort of thing that I and the friend who came up with it are working on. I’m going to need some suggestions, feedback, and review by people w/ chronic illnesses since I don’t want to screw anything up in this portrayal. I’m confident that this is the direction I want to go with for this character and want to make it as respectful a portrayal as I can. I’m also thinking of adding more “magical” symptoms which are specifically relevant to Celestial physiology, but I’ll have to think on that.

As for the Pantheon and its gods, here’s what I have so far:

I still need to work on the rest of the names, and get some feedback here and there, but ultimately, I like what I’ve done so far!