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I haven't really thought about it a great deal, but it's largely similar to Laputa in Gulliver's Travels - that is to say, sky-centric (in their mythology, they thought of humanity as being divided into two groups - "sky people" (them) and "ground people" (everyone else), though they don't really consider either group to be better than the other), extremely curious and knowledge-hungry to the point of occasionally ignoring more practical issues, and somewhat isolated from other cultures (though they'll happily visit and study them, of course).

Well, the language sort of came from a "before we knew what a paper rpg was" paper rpg. rofl
So all the nations have their own languages and their own cultures.

I'll have to add this to my conlang section once I move it:

Kintara
=Self-called Name: Kintara, Kintarasesa (Kintaran), Kintarayef (Kintaran person, Kintaran)
=Gov't Type: A somewhat democratic Republic. The Daemon (which probably would translate closer to "emperor", but is actually not) is appointed by the Daemordon (appt. by previous) and the Raemordon (elected in same numbers as Daemordon).
=Allies: Pretty much everyone besides Urokan and Yantira. Hey, at least their enemies hate each other too!
=Enemies: Urokan, and to an extent, Yantira.

Yantira My info is limited, since my friend "plays" Yantiran characters
=Self-called Name: Yantira
=Gov't Type: Military Monarchy. Borderline dictatorship.
=Allies: umm.. I don't know...
=Enemies: Urokan, Kintara

Nagda
Desert island between Kintara and Yantira. Used as a no-mans-land between the two for traders to sneak over--it's illegal for Yantirans to look towards Kintara. Seriously, don't look west while you're there.

Urokan
Yeah, I have no clue. They're supposed to be the evil empire of the story, but they don't really have anything going on. We just don't like them razz

Elna
Think of Rohan (from LOTR, not the people named Rohan), then put it on an island that I now realize looks vaguely like Cuba, but really far north. Oh, and as far as we know, there's no Wormtongue.

I don't remember any more...

The language roots for Kintaran and Yantiran are supposed to be pretty close, but the actual languages will be different. Amirael's supposed to be working on it razz

It's hard to sum up a culture on an island that big... In the mountainous region near the Capital where Kira Valoka (main character) lives, most people take on some sort of job under someone until they can make it on their own, pretty much. I never thought about it that much... Kira's nickname is Sakura (NOT the Japanese name, I didn't know that it was a word in Japanese when I named her), which means theif, or Sakuri, little theif. Just because she wanders teh streets at night. lol... rolleyes

For my conlangs, I mostly just try to get into a certain mindset and then work around that. I like to pretend I'm from some exotic country no one's heard of, with a miniscule population and a language that sounds completely alien to anyone who isn't from that country, and then design the language around that. biggrin

However, I did come up with a concept for a culture once, years ago, for a language of mine called Trenmak. I don't really remember much about it, though, aside from the fact that they ritually smoked domestically produced cigarettes without there being a stigma attached to it, kind of like how everyone used to smoke casually in the early 20th century, before people realized that smoking is unhealthy.

And then there's my language eheae, which is designed to be transmitted ("spoken") between sentient robots, computers, and other sentient machinery. cool

Either that or being too cool for life. xp

Oh, and I just remembered another thing about that particular conculture:

They had two words for "person" -- one referring to themselves and one referring to "outsiders" -- but no word referring to people in general.

I guess they were elitists.

Mine's still 'under construction'. XP

Because the language is so simple, to fully understand one another they have to use gestures and body language - like an unscripted sign language. There are a few signs that have rules though (like pointing to someone vs. waving in someone's general direction when referring to them - the former showing respect while the latter obviously meaning the opposite (everything must be taken into account as well - how long your arm stays up, how rigid your arm is, even how you hold your hand or how tightly it's balled)) This allows for everyone to know their standings in the society, and therefore there usually isn't much conflict within - or with strangers. They're pretty laid back and open-minded most of the time.

They're not really nomadic people, but have no qualms about abandoning their homes for new territory. Usually this is directly related to conflicts with strangers (the most repeated one being of the 'reference/status pointing' misinterpretation - basically the leader was insulted in front of everyone without the visiting leader knowing he had done a wrong - it's used mostly as a children's story, yet was a war that lasted 158 years. neutral )

Hmm...by the end of it did anyone actually remember what the war was about? sweatdrop Just wondering...158 years of fighting....

Hm, Serevanians...

Well, where do I begin? They're a very war-like people who have sided with only the most powerful allies, in this case, the Zaian Empire. Thus in history they have always sided with what always seems to be the negative or evil forces.

The planet Serevania is actually quite productive, it's the #1 (i.e., only) producer of Serevanian Silk in the galaxy. Though only the rich corporations who run the whole silk spiel are productive. Most everyone else on the planet lives in poverty, and the streets are flooded with crime and gangsters (the crime rates dealt with by batman, superman, the x-men, even the entire justice league have NOTHING on this). In short, there's no police force (besides the corporates with their personal security guards) -- it would just be pointless.

Some say that the reason for having only one language on the entire planet is due to the fact that when spoken, it would be very difficult for spies from enemy planets (even spies totally fluent in Serevanian) to understand, because the words have complexly long structures and is spoken very quickly (as Spanish).

Bottom line... they're not a very nice people. They hate just about every other race in the galaxy - and likewise, just about every other race in the galaxy hates them.