Mors Rattus

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Game writer, librarian, religious studies. He/him. Autistic, Jewish, ace.

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Archangel Beth

Mongolia has always been peak fashion

cohost.org/MorsRattus/p... War! The Pentans are surprisingly formal about war. For my Glorantha TTRPG project, Secret History of the Horse Sun.

Pentan Cultural Overview - Warfarecohost.org The Pentans divide war into categories, as they tend to do with most things. The default condition between two groups is peace. Peace is a status that requires nothing to maintain, and in peacetime, t...

1999 Chapter 6 update: as it turns out, electroshock therapy and Freudian psychoanalysis can both be bad at their jobs! also, ww1 as a threat is enough to break a lot of people shown the future

oh hey i forgot about war and the rules of war. that is going to need a post as well for Pent. okay, not quite as close to done with the cultural overview as i thought

cohost.org/MorsRattus/p... Today's Pent post is about the Khuruldan, a practice of multiple tribes coming together. It is usually used as a way to maintain alliances, but is also called when disaster threatens and a hero's power is needed. For my TTRPG project, Secret History of the Horse Sun

Pentan Cultural Overview - The Khuruldancohost.org A Khuruldan is a gathering of tribes and monastic communities, always a time of festivities and ritual importance. There are two different reasons why a Khuruldan may be held, and it differs from othe...

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Comfortably Numb

i also think it should be mandatory for people who don't like me to give me money for no reason

i'm gonna need some proof i'm not talking to some kind of art scam bot before i even consider that, i think

I mean I am always happy to talk about my project if you’ve got questions, but I do want to be clear, I’m in no financial position to commission art right now

Not at the moment, but in the future I will need to commission artists drawing Pentans, and hats are an important part of their cultural costume. Specifically I am drawing on classic and imperial Mongolian hats because I have a book I can take example pictures when talking to artists

love it when the person i am supposed to go to for assistance with problems in a work process does not understand that process

oh god the email name meetings continue today

i only have three more Pentan Cultural Overview posts left, I think - fashion, hero contests/the khuruldan, and an overview of the different peoples around them and their perspective on those peoples. then i can move on to writing up some of those groups. fashion is the hardest and slowest one left

mostly because i have to actually use a book and attempt to describe hats

when this all becomes a book/pdf i am also going to have to commission an artist to draw those hats on people because I don't have rights to the photos I am currently using.

cohost.org/MorsRattus/p... Law and the Pentans, for my Glorantha TTRPG project, Secret History of the Horse Sun. The Pentans take law seriously...but as you will note, their system is not perfect by any stretch.

Pentan Cultural Overview - Lawcohost.org The Law of Yu-Kargzant is an extensive and detailed code which is written down only in secret books kept in the Five Monasteries of Hurfor. Most Pentans do not know the whole of the Law, though they a...

...officar? the fuck is an officar, GW

one of the worst and most painful office experiences of fremdschamen i have ever had is right now listening to my bosses debate what an email address should be

not, like, philosophically they are having a long and drawn out meeting over what to name an email address

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Shepherd

there's so many of them

cohost.org/MorsRattus/p... - Rivalry is a form of love. Hatred is a rare and terrible thing. What lies in between is the majority of enemies - people you dislike but neither obsess over nor seek the total destruction of. For my Glorantha TTRPG project, Secret History of the Horse Sun.

Pentan Cultural Overview - Love and Hatredcohost.org Pentan conception of love, rivalry and hate is somewhat complicated, and it colors even the interactions of the gods. To understand it is most easily done by dividing relationships into different type...

dear friends in discord: please actually read what i say when i say i find a character annoying for entirely non-in-character reasons, i do not find him a piece of shit, i hate that he kills my ability to control text speed regularly

someone gotta explain to me why syncope is a word we use for fainting and also the root word of syncopation, the musical term

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Commodore Jeep-Eep

of course not, it is an insulting name laid upon them by la cosa gnomstra

you ever think about how the goblin mafia would be the moblins

Chinggis Khan, amazing wife guy we don't talk about how much he was a wife guy not for all his wives, mostly Borte, but also kind of for all his wives

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it's that rudje

It’s not easy because like, I want it to be cultural problem but also I want people to want to play Pentans

releasing the slavery post to dead silence and being like 'so is this offputting in the right way or the wrong way, i don't know how to read this' like i knew it was gonna be offputting, but it had to be written

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Mors Rattus

some interesting numbers entering tonight's debate: 38% 33% 77% (+/- 3 points) 18% among likely voters and unlikely voters 31% among likely voters AND unlikely voters 54% among those surveyed (margin of error: %, source: 87%)

cohost.org/MorsRattus/p... So, I'm still working on a fashion post - it's gonna take a while because I have so much to write about hats still. That post is going to be big. But this post is on slavery. So, content warning: slavery. It's bronze age-style slavery, not American chattel slavery, but

Pentan Cultural Overview - Slaverycohost.org (content warnings: bronze age slavery)

An important note: future material is going to include a Sheng Seleris-tied abolitionist movement fueled by the Jolaty cult teachings.