#loupharthe

[shadowgraphics]

Concept art for Loupharthe’s oldest wall.

[notdeadorgone]

Louphartian Cyrillic with sounds in Anglisk (Little English), and Glagolitic-derived numerals (reformed). Final iteration.

[notdeadorgone]

Monies of Loupharthe

In order from highest to lowest denomination, the coins:

Crowner

Towner (3 to a crowner)

Guarder (8 to a horizon)

Waller (6 to a tower)

Archer (4 to a waller)

Bricker (20 to an archer)

A Crowner is worth 11,520 Brickers, or 576 Archers, or 144 Wallers, or 24 Guarders, or 3 Towners.

The basest coin is the bricker, a round plug made of iron and struck with the image of a brick on one side and the letter K on the other, for its cyrillic name: кирпичи (kirpichi).

An archer is a square bronze coin with rounded corners an image of a brick arch on the "face" side and the cyrillic letter C on the other. Cyrillic name: своды (svodiy).

Wallers are copper coins with six sides, larger than archers or brickers. An image of the city wall is on one side, and a shield on the other. Cyrillic: стены (styeniy).

Guarder are silver coins with eight sides, about the same size as wallers, but heavier. On one side is an image of the Tower of the Guard, and the other is an image of the Dicephalus corax. Wallers, Archers, and Guarders are the most common in day to day commerce. Cyrillic: башни (bashni).

Towners (also known as Horizons) are large, flat, triangular coins made of white gold (silver alloyed with gold). On one side is an image of the Louphartian skyline. On the other, a crown above an image of the Dicephalus corax. Cyrillic: городки (gorodki), or горизонты (gorizontiy).

A Crowner is a metal bar of about 145 grams of gold, stamped with the royal seal of Loupharthe, also known as Кроны (Kroniy).

[cyrillictypewriter]

An as-yet unnamed Louphartian dock scavenger. Yesterday I spent some time thinking about animals in the world, and I made some cool decisions. No dinosaurs survived their version of the K-Pg event. Not even birds. Mammals reradiated (along some very different lines, which I'm not willing to talk about yet), and so did pterosaurs, also along some very different lines. (In retrospect, it's weird to have spent all this time thinking about languages, politics, history, architecture, and science in the City of Science, but almost no time about the other creatures that inhabit this world.)

[cyrillictypewriter]

Designs for a ongoing, future project.