Miscellaneous Trivia

In the cultural sphere situated broadly around the eastern-ranges of ???, it is considered standard to refer to powerful and respected figures using pronouns of a non-human connotation. In a mythologizing act, many great fighters and scholars may be referred to as (the equivalent to) "It" in much the same way as a mighty mountain or a rolling storm.

The capital metropolis of Błą’ugk was originally built as a stronghold upon an ever-changing labyrinth in an effort to contain it. It has never been measured how far down the superstructure goes, only that entry is forbidden beyond the 14th level down. Activity below the 7th down is heavily monitored.

It is a topic of fierce debate whether the Ragast rune system is named after the ancient scholar who was said to have self-sacrificed to create them, or if the mythic figure was named retroactively after the runes.

The language of ??? uses reduplication as a grammatical scheme to derive proper nouns. Possession is indicated without a dedicated particle or affix, rather just appending the possessor and possessed together as a compound. (gadnam = book of stone) Interestingly, proper nouns (such as place names) are derived by a word being 'of itself,' (i.e. its own possessor) and thusly reduplicated. (Gadgad = the book of all books. a bible, in essence.)

The ????? language is defined by a rather identifying grammatical quirk, in that it treats all nouns as collective on syntactic and inflectional levels. If one were to reference a single sheep for instance, this singular animal would still be accompanied by an auxilliary noun much like how "a drop" quantifies an amount of water in English. Acting also as a noun classifier, this auxilliary will be near-invariably derived from some titular quality to the subject, usually "feet" for land animals. Though more archaically specialized classifiers have often been forgotten and replaced with more stock conventions. An individual quadruped would be inflected somewhat analogous to "four feet of sheep"

A pan-continentally popular--at least among speakers of languages with prominent vowel length distinctions--musical format is the tradition called Pakahra. A style in which the singer(s) riff upon a repeating non-isochronal pulse of an arbitrary amount of alternating two-note beats and three-note beats, with the one stylistic "rule" being that syllables that contain a long vowel may only ever be sung on-beat with the long three-counts, and the same for short vowels and short beats. Many game-ifications of the structure exist as well, such as rulesets where the meter is entirely determined by the pulse of the performer's prosody and the dancer(s) must predict the pulse based off of the likelihood of the next word like a game of hangman. Another such ruleset is where the given pulse is arbitarily in flux between new forms chosen by the instrumentalists, and the singer must adapt and listen for the new definition of when to hold their tongue, almost like a stoplight game.