I just caught wind of your rewrite and I have barely a clue what's going on but everything sounds so so good and I have a LOT of questions if that's okay!
1. Is there any kind of comprehensive timeline for everything?
2. How do the vigils do things like cooking and painting and making the canvases for that?
3. Do the vigils have holidays of any kind? Or particular celebrations they hold every so often? (Not necessarily once a year)
4. Last one: can you please tell me about the new code if there is a new one? I head "oakstars laws" but I don't really know what that means or anything else that's new lol
of course anon!!!! ask as many questions as you like!!!! because my inbox is empty and i so desperately want to talk about my Little Guys :3
and ohh my goodness ive just realized i completely forgot to transport all my other supplementary stuff from the first draft to the blog when i made it!! i feel like a fool!! this project originally was just me an a few pals in a discord server just thinking of ideas, and i've just forgotten to transfer all the stuff??? will be doing that over the course of the week! wow!
1) I am working on a timeline post off-and-on! it sits right now just under 3k words, and I promise that it's worth the wait. just a little longer! maybe another month as a tentative deadline?
2) Cooking as a whole will be expanded upon in individual larger posts! The canvases made for art are made with wax, bug residue, vines and bracken, and eventually resin. The resin is an addition from the new Vigil of Sky when they arrive at the lake and introduce a lot of new materials from both the gorge and twolegplace. I think I'll have to make a larger post on how the art is made at some point, with the paints and such... we'll see...
3) I've made a few concepts for the calendar but nothing concrete, so the times for this are gonna change, so bear with me:
Celebration of Thunder-Sky
-> This takes place on the second day of Spring, and happens only biannually instead of annually, like the Celebration of River. It takes place once within the Vigil of Thunder (and later the Modern Vigil of Sky) camp(s). Then, a larger celebration is had the same Gathering that month. They play games, enjoy snacks, and just reflect on how far everyone has come.
Celebration of River
-> This takes place on the first day of Summer, and annually celebrates the foundation of the Vigil of River among the existing Vigils at that time, which would be the ancient Vigil of Sky and the Vigil of Thunder. The celebration happens at both the Vigil of River's camp on the actual date, and another celebration at the Gathering for that moon. They play games, enjoy snacks, and just reflect on how far everyone has come.
Windbreak Treaty Festival
-> Takes place on the fifth day of Autumn and celebrates the end of the first Holy war over the Mooneye, considered the "Blood over the Mooneye" conflict. The war itself will be focused on in the big timeline post. They celebrate the Windbreak Treaty Agreement with a feast during the Gathering that moon, and a day of silence at the Vigil of Wind camp on the date, to respect the dead.
I should note that there aren't any holidays in the Wintertime (as of right now) because nothing major has happened in Winter yet. However, as I plan more of the arcs out, this will change! Hopefully! I think!
4) The Oakbranch Laws (aka Oakstar's Laws) are a collection of laws proposed by Oakstar the II. They were restrictions on herbs available to nursing queens, stricter borders for every vigil, the almost removal of the Law of a Queen (aka Queen's Rights), and generally stronger restrictions on what the younger cats of the vigils could do. It failed at the Gathering, with the leaders voting 3-1 against it's introduction. However, a lot of cats still practice them in culture due to how they were introduced. Generally an issue, really!!! i'll have to make more posts expanding on this in the future! :3
thank you for the ask, newcomer! have a great time perusing my wares :)
