Eldraeic Word of the Day: níaóhál
Smug words by default.
https://eldraeverse.com/2025/12/02/eldraeic-word-of-the-day-niaohal/
níaóhál: the sound that a fírastal (cat) makes. It is derived, first, from the onomatopoeia for the sound itself (níaó), and secondly from the emphatic-imperative suffix used when issuing commands. It is known, after all, that cats speaking to large, clumsy, dull creatures do so almost exclusively loudly, slowly, and
LANCET-CLASS FEL BORE Operated by: * Blue-Green Ecociates, ICC * Atalant Materials, ICC Type: Orbital Bore, Free-Electron Laser Construction: Starflight Shipyards, Seléne Length: 1.2 km Beam (primary hull): 72 m Beam (storage rings): 324 m Gravity-well capable: No. Atmosphere-capable: No. Personnel: 18 Drives: Nucleodyne Thrust Applications 4x1 "Sunheart VI" fusion torch
Insecuring Security
Whether or not it exists, it works.
CALMIRÍË, ELIÉRA - Addressing current extranet rumors in a press conference given outside the Fortress today, a Daríë Qanlídár, speaking for the Imperial Security Executive, was unable to confirm or deny whether the JADE NEEDLE program - in any form described by the rumors - or indeed any usage of
Excuse Me, Constable - https://eldraeverse.com/2025/09/13/excuse-me-constable/
What the well-dressed watchman wears.
Today in worldbuilding, we're going to talk about the uniforms of the Watch Constabulary, the Empire's policing service¹. Now, to be clear, this doesn't include the Office of Investigation and Pursuit (who aren't part of the Constabulary, strictly speaking), who wear regular Service grays. Within the Constabulary, the same applies
God-Poking Tank - https://eldraeverse.com/2025/08/24/god-poking-tank/
Have fun down in the phlegm-pit.
SNARgocz-class applied eschatology vehicle Builders: Probable Technologies, ICC, based on an original design by the Society of Nanoscale Artisan-Researchers Length: 48' Width: 20' Height: 16' Propulsion: * Dual Treadwell tracked drivetrain, powered by * Empire Nucleonics, ICC, "Ember"-type low-power radiothermal generator Maximum speed: 15 mph (naked); 5 mph (shielded) Complement: 3
Unconventional Courtesy
https://eldraeverse.com/2025/08/21/unconventional-courtesy/
Allowing for frequent visitors.
Despite the many quirks of the House of Blood-Streaked Marble¹, the most curious features of the House Sargas estate are not to be found there, but rather fifty miles north in the small hill town of Voivars, buried in the high valleys of the Dragon's Nest Range. Voivars hosts the
Genesis Planet - https://eldraeverse.com/2025/08/14/genesis-planet/
Promises were made. Promises will be fulfilled.
(This is one of two write-ups of Luciverine (Eponian Cluster), in response to reader request. This is the purely canon version, rather than that found in the Friendship is Sufficiently Advanced shardverse.) Every colony exists for a reason. Which is to say that these are no longer the wild days
Foreign Dealings - https://eldraeverse.com/2025/06/25/foreign-dealings
We all know how, but this is where.
I've been feeling moderately like crud all month (possibly weather, plague, lingering COVID, acute state of paranoia brought on by not being a native-spawned American in the US these days, that sort of thing) and not been getting much done. So have some little worldbuilding snacklets that I have managed
The Will Is The Deed
Variations on psychokinesis as they exist in the 'verse.
In this introductory textbook, we will discuss the basic techniques of the psychokinetic arts, from the trivial through the trained with a brief reflection on the rarely attained exotic abilities, and then pass on to focus upon each in turn. We shall discuss, however, only the simplest techniques which form
Alistair Young
Alistair Young