B28.
This is part of the #Dungeon23 challenge in which you make one room to a dungeon every day for a year. In an effort to link my memories to the creation, I am also writing a personal journal entry with each room that may or may not be related.
You don’t have to read that part.
B28.
The doors from B23 are guarded and barricaded. There is an opening in B24 but one would have to get past the Goblin Grapplers.
This southern area outside of Kik’ina Kir is the Ashfoot camp run by Nurdleen.
Nurdleen
Deeply fearful of anything from the above world, and will react with violence unless you can come up with… something.
Misses Turglik, chief of the Riglum, and her former litter mate. They disagreed on how to lead the tribe, with Nurdleen wanting to regain their home down below, and Turglik wanting to spread Chaos in the world above.
Sees Nurblik as the key to getting her way and will manipulate him against his father.
There are only a dozen goblins here. The rest of the Ashfoot are stationed throughout Kik’ina Kir.
The camp here mostly feasts on a stew made from flies. They’ve got a lot of dead flies.
There is a barricade to the south to protect the camp from any encroaching Butazwein (the new name for the Pig men that I’ve been trying to figure out) from down below.
2/28/23
Butazwein. That’s what I came up with.
Yes it’s basically the Japanese and German words for pig mashed together. I think it looks kinda cool.
Google Translate is pretty much my main tool for naming stuff.
Say I’m trying to name a town. I come up with a list of words and toss them into Google Translate. Then I pick different languages and start hacking things together. I’m mixed race Japanese, so I often go to that language first. Then I check out Nordic languages, because I like how those languages sound.
Then I hit up a bunch of other ones that I’ve got on rotation. I love languages.
A while back when I was trying to develop a fantasy setting, I made a decision to assign certain languages based on sounds to the different species. So something like Dwarves would maybe get Armenian words. It’s kind of a quick way of create naming conventions that feel unified, without actually doing any linguistic work.
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Two months down.
We made it.
I’m pretty proud of myself.
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This weekend we go back to Chicago to finish up some work, and then I think I’ll finally feel a little peace. I think that will be the last major test of updating this Diary. Probably a lot of coffee shop blogging in my near future.
See you tomorrow.
-jae
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