Help Me Create The World of Ith

I'm inviting everyone to help me build a fictional world by sending me asks. Ask me anything about the world of Ith or the universe it exists in, and I'll give a fully "canonical" answer to that question. Please avoid broad-strokes questions if you can.

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You know how japan had women bind there feet until the world community shamed them into stopping? Is there any major practices that have stopped on Ith due to similar circumstances?

In Commonwealth of Gosmil, it used to be common practice to engage in extreme body modification to make oneself better resemble one of the local deities. But the Cult of the Sapphire Eye found this abhorent and began sending missionaries into Gosmil to instigate mass convervaersions and push the king into banning the practice.

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You know how japan had women bind there feet until the world community shamed them into stopping? Is there any major practices that have stopped on Ith due to similar circumstances?

In Commonwealth of Gosmil, it used to be common practice to engage in extreme body modification to make oneself better resemble one of the local deities. But the Cult of the Sapphire Eye found this abhorent and began sending missionaries into Gosmil to instigate mass convervaersions and push the king into banning the practice.

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Do the dragons have mating rituals? Like how a bald eagle will briefly free fall claw in claw with their mate?

Of course. Though the types of courtship rituals will vary dramatically from species to species.

The male Wooly Punchbugger, for example, often engages in boxing matches with females to win mating rights. These matches are less actual fights, and more elaborate tests of endurance, as a female punchbugger can take and dishout heavier hits than the typical male can.

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Ten year ago your mentor told you “Kid, here’s a dirty little secret about magic. You can just make shit up and it’ll usually work. Makes the guys who take it seriously really mad.” Today you’re one of the least respected (and most powerful) mages on the continent.

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Pretty much how it works on Ith.

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How do Jekit family work?

Are the babies hopeless at birth like human babies?

How long does it take for them to reach maturity?

While all Jekit are nurturing and protective of their own offspring, most packs raise the hatchlings communally.

A Jekiti hatchling is born featherless and weak, roughly the size of a rabbit, but is usually able to walk and run with the pack by two weeks old. Joung Jekit spend much of their time underneath the shadows of an adult in order to avoid overexposure to the sun and to prevent being snatched up by aerial predators. They typically learn how to speak within a year and will continue to grow and increase in cognitive ability until about 17 to 20 years old when they reach full maturity.

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What is Jekit culture like? Ethnic groups? Religion?

The actual culture of Jekit can range wildly depending on the sort of adjacent human cultures, the environment they live in, and the available animals and dragons. Most Jekit revere dragons to some extent and each Jekit pack has one or several species they particularly idolize and seek to emulate.

I will list some notable Jekit packs at a later date.

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What are the days of the weeks named and why?

On the Stalanese calendar, there exists six days of the week in the following order:

Nirutay: Meaning "New Day" in old Stalanese. The first day of the week synonymous with real-world sunday.

Fraltay: Meaning "Slave's Day", it was the day in which the ancient Stalanese held as being the day of the week where all slaves and indentured servants were not legally obliged to perform their duties. Though this custom left when the first Emperor of Stalan came to power.

Olumtay: Meaning "Beer Day". It is the appointed time that brewmasters and brewmaids of Stalan traditionally give a free cup of their cheapest brew to the first person that enters their establishment.

Druztay: Meaning "Sleep Day". When you cannot be punished for taking a nap on the job. Imperial soldiers do not get to enjoy this custom.

Orrentay: Meaning "Iron Day". There is no custom, ancient or otherwise, associated with Orrentay and there never has been; so says the Emperor!

Rasstay: Meaning "Last Day". Synonymous with real-world Saturday.

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So yeah, I'm trying to get back into answering questions for this. But going forward, i'm gonna need folks to be a bit more specific in their questions and avoid topics that might cover the entire world. I am only one man and answers questions of world-spanning scope can be a bit of a chore to write much less mentally concieve. I'm not saying I won't ever answer broad-strokes questions again, I'm just saying one should not expect one immediately or as detailed as it should be. 😅

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How are the burial rites done? Do they use bones for something?

Plenty of cultures in both Theyda and Uginar utilize human bone in rituals and the like. The Ķzero people of western Yormot and southern Ustium (two Theydan nations) are particularly known for converting their dead into all manner of jewelry, furniture, statuaries, and clothing.

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What monsters do parents tell their children about to keep them safe/ have them behave?

In the rainforests of Ros Mela, the indigenous Ekkrau people speak of the Liwen-Tabir; a terrible skinless dwarf with a neck as tall as a tree. If he sees you after dark, he'll scream so loud, you'll go deaf.

Some of the Nomad Clans in Uginar sing songs to their children concerning a beast called either the Dugunk, Tokonk, Donk, or Jong; depending on the region. A one popular goes something like this (a crude translation):

Watch out for Donk. Watch out for Donk.

It will bite you when you are alone.

Watch out for Donk. Watch out for Donk.

A belly big enough to hold your bones.

Watch out for Donk. Watch out for Donk.

Eyes like coals and teeth like stones.

Watch out for Donk. Watch out for Donk.

Bathe in the river, it steals your clothes.

Watch out for Donk. Watch out for Donk.

While both of these monsters are technically fictional in the world of Ith. The nature of msgic means that occasionally, human belief in their folkloric creatures occasionally, though often temporarily, brings them into reality.

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I really should stop trying to answer questions before bed.

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What about science? Do they know about DNA, atoms, space, evolution, mass extinctions,...?

Many of the most successful mages come upon these discoveries and others over the course of their careers, but typically keep these truths really close to their chests, since such things have the potential to change public perception of reality in unpredictable ways, whether they embrace the knowledge or deny it.

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Can you decide to become a wizard or mage or something? Or do you have to be born in a wizard family? What is magical training like? Is it a Hogwarts situation or more like individual wizards that train apprentices? Are wizards and mages seen as important figures or are they discriminated?

While anyone CAN become a mage, it is infinitely difficult to do so, as it requires special training and education to master. The first big hurtle is being able to disconnect ones self from the idea of reality as a immutable concept. As such, most self-taught mages are very delusional. Ironically, this is why "clerics" are the most ubiquitous type of mage.

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What monsters do parents tell their children about to keep them safe/ have them behave?

In the rainforests of Ros Mela, the indigenous Ekkrau people speak of the Liwen-Tabir; a terrible skinless dwarf with a neck as tall as a tree. If he sees you after dark, he'll scream so loud, you'll go deaf.

Some of the Nomad Clans in Uginar sing songs to their children concerning a beast called either the Dugunk, Tokonk, Donk, or Jong; depending on the region. One popular song goes something like this (a crude translation):

Watch out for Donk. Watch out for Donk.

It will bite you when you are alone.

Watch out for Donk. Watch out for Donk.

A belly big enough to hold your bones.

Watch out for Donk. Watch out for Donk.

Eyes like coals and teeth like stones.

Watch out for Donk. Watch out for Donk.

Bathe in the river, it steals your clothes.

Watch out for Donk. Watch out for Donk.

While both of these monsters are technically fictional in the world of Ith. The nature of msgic means that occasionally, human belief in their folkloric creatures occasionally, though often temporarily, brings them into reality.

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Are Jekit like aphids in how they reproduce?

??? They're bird people.

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What are tge gods like?

That sort of depends. The gods are products of human thought given life. Which means their temperament, appearance, and the powers they possess are entirely dependent on how their worshipers conceive of them. Given the nature of religion, this means a god will spend much of it's time as a semi-amorphous blob of chaotic and contradictory concepts with exceedingly erratic behavior, that is until they are approached by people with a very solid conception of the god.