[WIP/Setting Up] Classes, Kin & Canon

[~Latonia de la Courtel~]

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Classes of Chess Kin/The Four Clans/The Banished Clan
Underlanders: Kin to the Cheshire Cats
Naming Conventions
A Glossary of Nonsense: The Underland Dictionary
About the Wonderlands (Lat's Headcanon)

Trying to Organize Cheshire Headcanon.
It is -as you can imagine- like herding cats.
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[~Latonia de la Courtel~]

~:Classes of Chess Kin:~

In Lat's potentially alarming brain there stirs an entire headcanon about this alternate Wonderland and the citizens therein. For now (in this post), we'll stick to discussing a bit about Cheshire Cats and their Kindred!

Royals: The Ruling Class of Cheshires. (Typically a ruling Monarch and Heir at the least.)

Lore Keeper(s): The Cheshs which know the history of Wonderland/Underland and the Code and Precepts of the Clan. Usually advisers, historians and teachers all at once.

Game Maker: Look no further for fun, the Game Maker exists to make mischief and play games. Works closely with the RiddleSpeaker and occasionally the LoreKeeper.

Riddle Speaker: Perhaps the maddest of the mad (in a mad herd), this one may speak wisdom or warnings or just plain nonsense. Who knows? Works closely with the GameMaker and occasionally the LoreKeeper.

Vorpal Sword: The current leader (or leaders, depending on how many there are) of the Vorpal Blades. Can be male or female; typically the most lethal and accomplished of the Vorpal Blades.

Vorpal Blades: An Elite Warrior group, comprised of Male and Female Cheshs.

Nobles: Cheshs that would be able to take over and lead the band in the event the Royals were lost or killed.

Commoners: Cheshs with no royal ties or claims to the throne, possibly not even one of the four main clans (rogue elements welcome).

~:The Four Clans:~

As the four clans play games of power and prowess throughout time they have all ascended to, held, and eventually lost the throne of Wonderland. The current Queen, the pride of Heart Clan, took a Spade as her love and eventually welcomed the six daughters that would one day find their way to this land in exile.

Spades: The Clan that our girls are marked as belonging to, though their mother was a Queen of the Hearts Clan. (Spade on the Shoulder). In this land of exile, a former Princess of Wonderland will become Queen of the Underland herd.

Diamonds: A high-maintenance and fussy Clan, depending on whom you ask. Overly concerned with treasure, possibly. Known for asking pointed questions and having hard heads.

Hearts: The current ruling Clan in Wonderland. One might say they love to be loved. While within their borders, it isn't wise to speak ill of them. But you're here now, say whatever you like!

Clubs: If a Clan was meant to be warriors? Yeah, it'd probably be the Clubs. Not that some fine Vorpal Blades and Swords don't come out of the other Clans, but these cats have it down pat!

~:The Banished Clan:~

Jokers: Little is known of the banished Joker Clan. Even less is said about them.  

[~Latonia de la Courtel~]

~:Underlanders: Kin to the Cheshire Cats:~
Note: An Underlander is any soul from Wonderland, the Isles of Madness, the Lands Through the Looking Glass, and so on. Any of these children of Imagination are Kin to the Cheshire Cats.

Hatters: Mad or otherwise, we always do need fine hats to wear to tea!

Hares & Rabbits: Mad or not, White or not, Waistcoated or not... Friends of the Cheshire Cats all! Do come spend your Unbirthday with us, or at least stop by for tea!

Lions & Unicorns: Fighting for the Crown...

Cards & Chess Pieces: Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs, Spades; Red, Black, White Chess Pieces.... All those citizens of Wonderland are welcome here.

More to Come...

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[~Latonia de la Courtel~]

If you would like to use a traditional game as a surname for your Chess, I have included a list below. Some are dull or too long, but "Jinx", "Peek-A-Boo" and a few others would work just fine!

You could also do something like "HideQuick" instead of Hide and Go Seek, or even just 'GoSeek'.

Traditional Children's Games

 

[~Latonia de la Courtel~]

~:A Glossary of Nonsense: The Underland Dictionary:~

Wonderlanders/Underlanders: Interchangeable terms, a name or title applied to anyone from Wonderland.
Cheshire Cats, Hatters, Hares, they're all Wonderlanders to us.

Topsiders/Overlanders: Interchangeable terms, a name or title applied to anyone that is NOT from Wonderland.
Oh, I suppose they're fine enough... But when you're an Overlander, your life just isn't as Wonderful.

Maddening: The name of a group of Cheshires.
Look at that, it's a maddening of Cheshire Cats.

Classic Terms:

Bandersnatch: A swift moving creature with snapping jaws, capable of extending its neck.
A 'bander' was also an archaic word for a 'leader', suggesting that a 'bandersnatch' might be an animal that hunts the leader of a group.
(A Wonderland/Underland Monster).

Borogove: A 'borogove' is a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round, something like a live mop." (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland).
Described further as "an extinct kind of Parrot. They had no wings, beaks turned up, made their nests under sun-dials and lived on veal."

Burble: A sound one makes. Could be a mixture of the three verbs 'bleat', 'murmur', and 'warble'.

Frabjous: Possibly a blend of fair, fabulous, and joyous.

Frumious: Combination of "fuming" and "furious".

Galumphing: Perhaps used in the poem as a blend of 'gallop' and 'triumphant'.
Later used as: "To move with a clumsy and heavy tread"

Gimble: Said to mean "to make holes like a gimlet."

Gyre: To gyre “is to go round and round like a gyroscope.”

Jubjub Bird: 'A desperate bird that lives in perpetual passion'.
(A Wonderland/Underland Monster)

Mimsy: Said that " 'Mimsy' is 'flimsy and miserable' ".

Mome: (Somewhat Uncertain): "I think it's short for 'from home', meaning that they'd lost their way, you know". The notes in Mischmasch give a different definition of 'grave' (via 'solemome', 'solemone' and 'solemn').

Outgrabe: Humpty says " 'outgribing' is something between bellowing and whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle".
Carroll's book appendices suggest it is the past tense of the verb to 'outgribe', connected with the old verb to 'grike' or 'shrike', which derived 'shriek' and 'creak' and hence 'squeak'.

Rath: "A 'rath' is a sort of green pig".
However, Carroll's notes for the original in Mischmasch state that a 'Rath' is "a species of land turtle. Head erect, mouth like a shark, the front forelegs curved out so that the animal walked on its knees, smooth green body, lived on swallows and oysters.

Slithy: A word meaning 'lithe' and 'slimy'.
Alternately defined as meaning "smooth and active"

Toves: Animals that are something like badgers—they’re something like lizards—and they’re something like corkscrews. They nest under sundials and live on cheese. (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
Alternately: A species of Badger [which] had smooth white hair, long hind legs, and short horns like a stag [and] lived chiefly on cheese"
Can be used as an insult.
Chesh: YE'R A SLIMY LITTLE TOVE, THAT'S WHAT YE ARE. AND IF YOU COME NEAR ME AGAIN I'M GONNA GRAB YE BY YER TWISTY SNOOT AND TOSS YE TO TUESDAY!!

Tulgey: Could be taken to mean thick, dense, dark. It has been suggested that it comes from the Anglo-Cornish word "Tulgu", 'darkness', which in turn comes from the Cornish language "Tewolgow" 'darkness, gloominess'

Tulgey Wood, The: A dark, dense forest in Wonderland. Original home to the Cheshire Cats.

Tum Tum Tree, The: A lovely tree for resting under.

Pool of Tears, The: A strangely salty lake in Wonderland, courtesy of one giant girl that we do wish hadn't cried so much.

Vorpal: Carroll said he could not explain this word, though it has been noted that it can be formed by taking letters alternately from "verbal" and "gospel"

Wabe: A wabe is the grass plot around a sundial “because it goes a long way before it, and long way behind it— And a long way beyond it on each side.” (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)






Some original terms by LDLC.
Most definitions from Alice In Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass, References Jabberwocky Wikipedia  

[~Latonia de la Courtel~]

~:About the Wonderlands:~ ((Lat's Headcanon))
(Alternately: Wanderlands, Wandering Lands, Lands Through the LookingGlass, Land of Hearts, Isle of Madness, and many others besides)

The first thing to remember is that while the place they may hail from is simply "Wonderland", it is capable of being a great many things. A country, a continent, a collection of islands, all of these things and more. In that way we may have citizens arriving from all corners of 'that place' that have similarities but have never met.

In this way, the world or lands or islands have come to be called a great many things by a great many peoples. As they are a place one may wander to or from but never find deliberately, they are often called the Wander Lands... However as there is confusion about the fact that they are never on any map and cannot be found on purpose (and indeed may not be located after one has left) there are also stories of how they too move, and therefore some circles call them the Wandering Lands (or Wander Lands) as well.

Wonderland is a land separated from our own by somewhat unconventional borders. In one area it may be nothing more than a mountain range, in others some uncross-able sea. The Cheshires found their way here by visiting a very still pool they referred to as LookingGlassLake, known to be the source of a great many peculiarities. If one is able to hold one's breath long enough for the swim, they may dive into the pool, and after a short swim locate a surfacing point in some very strange caves. If they can keep their head long enough to navigate said strange caves and another diving pool, they may arrive on the surface in a different place entirely.

With Wonderland in danger, that is exactly what the Cheshires did!