Say the word "karnikur" to a skarastaja and it will strike immediate fear into their heart. The flesh reapers are fearsome predators that roam the surface of Berwen...and the skarastaja are their prey of choice.

This is the last day of #languary! Thank you all for accompanying me on this journey through the årdrakin and skarastaja languages. ♥

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Did your mother teach you to share? For the skarastaja, sharing is a major part of their culture, the better to ensure the survival of the Whole in an otherwise harsh environment. The #languary word for this is "uptul".

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The årdrakin are a highly advanced race, but even they need somewhere to store their information. The #languary word for it is "sí'nektú", which means "archive" and is literally translated as "databank".

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How would you describe a rainbow? In the årdrakin language, they use the #languary word "dekes rúll", which very fancifully is literally translated as "color smoke".

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Today's #languary word is one I've mentioned before... The skarastaja people call themselves the "Children of the Sun", which makes sense since they see Talgor, their sun god, as their Divine Father.

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In årdrakin society, daughters have equal footing to sons, including in matters of succession (though children who find themselves in line to inherit, even when it concerns a position of power, are promoted based on merit rather than birth order).

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There are very few trees left on Berwen. The ones that do survive live in subterranean garden caves and grow only a meter or two high. Instead of sturdy branches, they have tendrils that sweep downward from the crown kind of like tentacles.

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Just as how we might talk about our "forefathers", the årdrakin also talk about their "foremothers" using the #languary word úyåma.

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This #languary word, yizo, comes from the skarastaja language and means "orbit" or "year". It's a strange thing, that the otherwise low-tech skarastaja have an understanding of what an "orbit" might be, isn't it?

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Perhaps a bit on the nose, but today's #languary word is the årdrakin "besånshí", which means "pandemic". Pandemics aren't often seen in the advanced årdrakin society, but they have known rampant disease and the deaths it brings in their history.

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