#nostraman

[vassalor]

[the-liars-art]

Nostraman braille on leather.

(Shameless crossposting from bsky)

Text-based media must be crazy on the sunless world, where you can’t read, in the dark, without resource and energy to illuminate the room. especially before industrialization. What if: tanned animal hide historically used with a pick or stitching awl as a sturdy and longlasting medium for braille.

I can even reach and say that picks/needles and leatherworking have always had significant cultural meaning to the people of Nostramo, hence our little Night Haunter catching up on flaying and sewing to make skin cloaks as his thing, before anything else.

Many older Nostraman literary works are recorded in leather. Braille used to be for everyone in Nostramo, but after the noble (gang lords) families rose to power with the adamantine mining business and industrialization, it became more of a tool than language, e.g. on emergency manuals and infrastructure, in case of power outage.

Night Haunter transcribes ancient Nostraman braille for his people, after he becomes their ruler. Most of the more complex literary meaning were lost to common people, though the noble families and scholars still preserved braille. He will bring it back.

[like-tears-in-rain-storms]

Learn the Tongue of the Sunless World

Hey guys! At long last here is an update to Nostraman. We've made it more user friendly and made it more akin to a course by introducing sma

Guys....GUYS GUYS GUYS!!!! There's a guide to Nostraman!!!!

[nereidof40k]

Really need to go to sleep, but I just have to record this mental image so I don’t forget.

Off to bed. But I had another mental image of Sevatar returning to his own time. And Konrad telling all the returned Astartes that whatever they managed to smuggle in without him knowing, they can keep. All smugly certain he found everything.

Only to promptly lose his shit when Sev shows that he managed to bring with him his wife, Rushal, Altani, at least one more kid, a dog and the whole damn farm.

Only thing he would leave behind would be his shirts, lol. 😈

Except the ones with funny slogans on them.

I can also see him wearing a shirt with “Property of the galaxy’s tastiest woman” and his wife wearing a matching shirt that just says “The galaxy’s tastiest woman” or something like that.

[nevesmose]

The Night Haunter knew many things, including dozens of languages he had never heard. But Nostraman he’d had to learn. In later life he would appreciate it as a language of a rare sort, so far evolved it no longer resembled the universal tongue mankind had taken to the stars from Old Earth. It had become soft, crammed with rushing sibilants. Its users favoured poetic metaphor over directness of expression, a romantic sensibility evolved to cover the pitilessness of its speakers.

Konrad Curze: The Night Haunter by Guy Haley.

[like-tears-in-rain-storms]

New Fic dropped, go get your fix if you're into that stuff, kids! (gratuitous and liberal use of probably very bad Nostraman).

Sing Me a Song of Those Who Were Gone by NinaMadou

Warhammer 40.000, Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors, Horus Heresy - Various Authors  

Explicit

Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings

M/M

Complete Work

A Nostraman song accompanies one of the sons of the sunless worlds through his times as First Captain of the Night Lords, sung to those few who manage to approach him. By the end, its lesson has been taught - and rejected.

As always, mind the tags!

[nereidof40k]

I simply can't decide. Black or red hair?

Which hair color?

Black

Blood Red

Other (please comment)

Voting ended onMay 20, 2025

[nereidof40k]

Are all Nostramans dark haired? Or do other colors exist?