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What is the Audi language like? Love the species, by the way.

The Audi language, Aomisk, is unique compared to other Laurelai species' languages because the Audi's is purely spoken. Audi are essentially completely blind in adulthood (and have really bad eyesight in childhood), so Aomisk has no writing system. Luckily their longevity, excellent memories, and strong family ties means they have preserved a very rich oral history for thousands of years. However, in more recent times, Audi have taken to using recording systems for preservation purposes.

As for structure/sound, it's very East Baltic. Think Latvian more specifically, though i've used Estonian as inspiration as well!

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Realizing I need to dress my entourage of naked aliens and shooting myself in the foot for being ambitious by having the Marans have four variants with distinct cultural stylings.

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I'm dedicating some time to writing for Threshold People, but I welcome asks from anyone curious about anything I've made so far! I might even draw something for it!

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saw something about hybrids? 👀 what's that about?

Parsi humans are the only species that seem to have any ability to hybridize with other species, but it's such a statistical miracle that a hybrid fetus would make it to term without self-aborting due to incompatible genetic features. More often then not the human egg just self-destructs on its own before any sort of fetal development begins in the first place. Needless to say, hybrids are extremely rare (think like a 1 in 10,000,000 chance of being viable), and each one has very unique medical issues that make finding specialized care very difficult even with Persis' incredibly robust healthcare system. No two hybrids are the same even if they share the same parent species combination.

I'll take the time to get into the medical disaster that is Von at a later date, because that dude's a mess.

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Mahl Fun Facts

Due to their language being nigh-impossible for non-Mahl to speak, it's very common for individuals who regularly work with other species to name themselves after their favorite word of that species' native language.

So sometimes you'll run into Mahl named 'Niblet' or 'Crack' or 'Double' simply because the Mahl thought the word sounded neat.

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I do have a second story being done in tandem with Threshold People that I'll eventually draw the cast of that, too. But one thing at a time.

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Slowly chipping away at story outlines at the moment and you all just knowwww you're gonna see art of characters soon.

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If anyone wants a frame of reference of what Audi language sounds like, look to Balto-Slavic languages with Lithuanian being where I'm pulling most inspiration from.