Dragons & Dragorean Language/Cultural Notes & Worldbuilding
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Thomas Castle's Other Realms #1 by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Pick-n-Mix Comix, Original Work
19 Sep 2024
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A treatise on the Other Realms as a setting, Thomas Castle's Other Realms is an adventure through the multiverse — from the valley of Inglenook — to the spaceborne settlement of Spotlight City — to the lucidite-laden world of Dorriya — and far beyond, including the Chasm of Stars — and more. Each installment brings you up close and personal with a selection of facts, figures, and lore from every corner of the urban fantasy multiverse known only as the Other Realms.
"The Walk; Or, To Dream Amongst The Stars And Be Whispered Unto By The Ancient Unknowns"
An introductory tour into the Other Realms, offering you a tale of different realms, the backstory of the Realms, and even hints of the whispers of the universe that underpin the chasm of Stars beyond known reality from within the Realms.
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- Part 1 of Thomas Castle's Other Realms
- Part 28 of Pick-n-Mix Comix Presents — All Solicitations (Issues + Lists)
- Part 41 of Pick-n-Mix One-Shots & Shorts
- Part 1 of Dragons & Dragorean Language/Cultural Notes & Worldbuilding
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 361
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Hits:
- 10
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The Other Realms #2 by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Pick-n-Mix Comix, Original Work, The Other Realms
23 Jan 2025
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A treatise on the Other Realms as a setting, The Other Realms is an adventure through the multiverse — from the valley of Inglenook — to the spaceborne settlement of Spotlight City — to the lucidite-laden world of Dorriya — and far beyond, including the Chasm of Stars — and more. Each installment brings you up close and personal with a selection of facts, figures, and lore from every corner of the urban fantasy multiverse known only as the Other Realms.
"Vartoth — The Station Beyond Stations"
In the midst of the Other Realms, at the cornerstone of all worlds, stands Vartoth — an ancient waypoint against the chaos of existence, where all realms meet and find solace in war, peace, and entropic magics from all of known history.
When the dragon Nugath calls on Byrennian wizard Akthorian, Akthorian pays Vartoth a visit to retrieve a powerful artifact, and gets caught up with one of the Chasm's oldest enemies: the Necromancer, who has come to collect a new soul for his army.
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- Part 2 of Thomas Castle's Other Realms
- Part 5 of Pick-n-Mix Comix Presents — January Solicitations, 2025
- Part 41 of Pick-n-Mix Comix Presents — All Solicitations (Issues + Lists)
- Part 1 of Braxanite Rising
- Part 2 of Dragons & Dragorean Language/Cultural Notes & Worldbuilding
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,512
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 2
- Hits:
- 14
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Dragorean notes — (ROUGH DRAFT ONLY; SUBJECT TO CHANGE) by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Original Work
11 Feb 2025
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Working on conlang stuff for my dialect called Dragorean, which is used primarily by dragons and elder races in the Chasm of Stars; based on the naming "language" I formatted up, with a whispering phonology and 38 official letters representing various consonants, vowels, digraphs, and sounds currently, I've been expanding it into a hopefully-speakable linguistic sample, and although I'm coming at it practically rather than scientifically (I've been building workable phrases and naturalistically reverse-engineering it from there), I thought it might be fun to share some of my behind-the-scenes development notes so far.
There's also a set of runes used to write Dragorean, which I'm developing; there will be at least 38 for each letter, collectively called Mezhon, and in the Valozian script, they're written in blocks of 4 to represent different syllables within the sentence. You'll see how it works, if I can get it drawn up along with the language itself.
Hoping to do a workable phrasebook eventually. I seem to be developing this from the viewpoint of phrases a person learning the language might need to know first — IE, basic "I am, you are, we are" phrases — and spiralling out from there.
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- Part 6 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
- Part 3 of Dragons & Dragorean Language/Cultural Notes & Worldbuilding
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,038
- Chapters:
- 6/10
- Hits:
- 12
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Mezhon runes — (Developmental/Prototype Tests) by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Original Work
11 Feb 2025
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The idea for Mezhon is taken mainly from your classic Elder Futhark series of runic inscriptions; it was designed to be a simple way for dragons in the Chasm of Stars to leave behind messages carved into the runic "dragonstones" left behind as memorials on the planets and in the realms they visited. Currently, there's 38 runes for different consonants, vowels, digraphs, and other sounds within the Dragorean language, and they can be written individually or using the "Valozian method", which is more common — inspired by Korean hangul, the Valozian method presents Mezhon runes and messages in blocks of four, representing two runes/sounds/phonemes at a time to form the full word.
Blocks of four become blocks of four to form longer words or sentences, and because it's still fairly primitive, there's currently no way to differentiate between sentences or parts of speech, as I'm mostly testing it with basic Dragorean names and syllabic phrases, but I expdct that might change as it continues to evolve and I finalize more of what the Mezhon runes actually look like.
This document is mostly some of my crude, first-run trial tests of some prototype Mezhon runes and what names in the Valozian method might look like.
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- Part 7 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
- Part 4 of Dragons & Dragorean Language/Cultural Notes & Worldbuilding
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 8
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Hits:
- 32
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Dragons: The Elemental Types by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Pick-n-Mix Comix, Original Work
24 Aug 2025
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All dragons in the Pick-n-Mix Comix universe have an elemental type, which develops as they grow out of their drakehood phase and into adulthood. Here's what that means for specific individuals of their kind.
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- Part 37 of Pick-n-Mix One-Shots & Shorts
- Part 18 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
- Part 15 of Worldbuilding & Lore Posts
- Part 7 of Worldbuilding Documents
- Part 5 of Dragons & Dragorean Language/Cultural Notes & Worldbuilding
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 853
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Hits:
- 6
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Tales From The Lorebook #6 by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Pick-n-Mix Comix, Original Work, Breaking Bad
04 Sep 2025
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The Loremaster writes tales about Inglenook, the Other Realms, and beyond, and in so doing, they so happen and come into existence and being.
"Dath Wisa Wej Eolzhov"
Byrennian wizard Akthorian has taken up the study of the Dragorean language during his time in the Chasm of Stars, leading to an unexpected translation from one story into another.
The Loremaster witnesses, and Akthorian acts out a very specific, potentially familiar monologue, entirely in hand-translated spoken Dragorean.
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- Part 6 of Tales From The Lorebook
- Part 6 of Dragons & Dragorean Language/Cultural Notes & Worldbuilding
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 537
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Hits:
- 5
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Dragorean notes 2 by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Pick-n-Mix Comix, Original Work
04 Sep 2025
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After some further work on Dragorean wordlists and sentence structure, I found I needed to make my own categorization system in order to be able to scan for useful words according to parts of speech and use within a sentence.
Word order is generally SVO, like English, but it's intended in a way where that can be tossed up at will by certain dragons if they want to. Like Yoda.
Very limited vocabulary, so not much to say with it. Trying to be able to translate Breaking Bad, and the "I am the danger" monologue specifically, which I'm realizing is way more difficult than it should be due to all the rampant colloquialisms which don't seem like they would exist in Dragorean culture. So, what even is the culture of dragons? We're gonna find out.
For reference, the line:
I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger.
Translates to:
Na nima wuk gruvo vus muhira, Zokailar. Na nima wuk tu muhira wisa.
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- Part 23 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
- Part 6 of Dragons & Dragorean Language/Cultural Notes & Worldbuilding
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 520
- Chapters:
- 1/4
- Hits:
- 1
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"Adishë mo riz Azhar (Star Mother)" by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Pick-n-Mix Comix, Original Work
16 Sep 2025
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Some random work on Dragorean led me to an idea for a song! And here it is, it's the song! Just a short few verses, working with what I have for the coming dictionary. Bonus points: it comes with a translation baked right into the post. Cool stuff.
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- Part 8 of Dragons & Dragorean Language/Cultural Notes & Worldbuilding
- Part 39 of Prose & Artsy Words/Other Postings
- Part 24 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
- Language:
- Uncategorized Constructed Languages
- Words:
- 124
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Hits:
- 7
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Nugath's Song by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Pick-n-Mix Comix, Original Work
17 Sep 2025
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The dragon Nugath sings an ancient Dragorean lullaby to himself. Once upon a time, it was a bonding song for dragon warriors, who bathed in the blood of conquered worlds before returning home to those they worshipped, but for Nugath, as the years passed by, it only ended up another lullaby in a new form, sung to himself, by himself, for himself, in the grand emptiness of his caves throughout Basileus...
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- Part 44 of Pick-n-Mix One-Shots & Shorts
- Part 25 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
- Part 9 of Dragons & Dragorean Language/Cultural Notes & Worldbuilding
- Part 40 of Prose & Artsy Words/Other Postings
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 327
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Hits:
- 1
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Mystery Work
Part of Serials
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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Tales From The Lorebook #6.1 by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Pick-n-Mix Comix, Original Work, Tales From The Lorebook, The Other Realms, Braxanite Rising, Prospero's Call, Breaking Bad
21 Sep 2025
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The Loremaster writes tales about Inglenook, the Other Realms, and beyond, and in so doing, they so happen and come into existence and being.
"Dath Wisa Wej Eolzhov, Version 2"
After using the Quill of Lore to alter continuity ever so slightly, Codex observes as a second version of Akthorian's monologue takes place, featuring more details, extra context, and more-canonical Dragorean examples than ever before.
Bellamy Prospero — the new Loremaster in the years following Loren Taverner's retirement in 1985 OE — watches, Akthorian's audience, as the Byrennian imp acts out his monologue and brings the two toward closer knowledge of the Dragorean tongue, language of the dragons of the Chasm of Stars.
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- Part 7 of Tales From The Lorebook
- Part 11 of Dragons & Dragorean Language/Cultural Notes & Worldbuilding
- Part 83 of Pick-n-Mix Comix Presents — All Solicitations (Issues + Lists)
- Part 26 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
- Part 29 of The Grimshaw Cycle
- Part 10 of Royal Family Prospero
- Part 2 of The Codex Arcadia
- Part 5 of Braxanite Rising
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,329
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Hits:
- 5
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Mystery Work
Part of Serials
Summary
This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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Mystery Work
Part of Serials
Summary
This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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Griffin and Aurelia Haggard celebrate the new year period between 1979 and 1980 OE, with some dragon lore revealed as well.
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- Part 52 of Solemn Graces-related stuff
- Part 52 of Pick-n-Mix One-Shots & Shorts
- Part 15 of Dragons & Dragorean Language/Cultural Notes & Worldbuilding
- Part 19 of Worldbuilding & Lore Posts
- Part 29 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 815
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Hits:
- 0