A Castrovel Adventure: Part 4, Chapter 28
In which Vaeol, with Taiase’s help, seeks to connect outward to the greater world.
https://www.worldanvil.com/w/castrovel-28from-paizo-s-pathfinder-setting29-verrix/a/a-castrovel-adventure3A-part-42C-chapter-28-document

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#Lashunta Word of the Week
Kaushunila (/kɔːʃu.ni:la/; declinable by gender): manifold; complicated; difficult

Many Lashunta philosophical schools share a common tenet:
~O’Erimani Koea Kaushunilya:~
“Expect Reality/Truth to be Complex/Difficult.”

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Mid-Week #Lashunta Inspiration - artist: https://www.deviantart.com/renum63

One of the biggest challenges I've had with this project is finding good representative inspirational art for Korasha. Too often the stuff i find comes off looking like dwarves, orcs, or Conan, and either too tall, too stumpy, or too tusky!

And then I thought of these guys, the Neanderthals. Their height apparently topped out at 5 1/2 feet (168 cm), putting them on the tall end of the Korasha spectrum, and weighing around 170 pounds (~77 kg), putting them slightly on the skinny side for Korasha. But it's a solid, robust build as a starting point. I also like his features' cragginess.

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As a teaser for Chapter 28 of _A Castrovel Adventure_ (due to post tomorrow), Lady Vaeol describes her attempts with Taiase to use their growing psychic powers to communicate with Lady Semuane, all the way to Qabarat...

"..Misluckily, we did not reach her straightly. Instead, we got Qabarat's farseer-beacon, along with a sharp dare back from the watch-seer bidding why we used a dwimmer foreheld for city business (there is behoof in all Son knowing me, which is not true in Qabarat). Whether they will bode her the word I know not. Yet so I hope, and so told Vosaeth and the others."

...So what are the ways psychics can get in trouble??

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Mid-Week #Castrovel Inspiration - Eugène Bidau (1839-1899)
Remember: sincde this is Castrovel, those aren't blossoms. They're leaves!

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Mid-Week #Castrovel Inspiration. Artist: Cynthia Sheppard https://www.deviantart.com/sheppardarts

The Moqeva are my homebrew version of Serpentfolk on Castrovel, allegedly extinct, though there are exceptions to that rule. Yet perhaps their presence is most felt in their absence. In their legacy, they are the #Lashunta bogeyman, the demons who haunt their nightmares.

According to legend, Tess the First Queen, after she tamed Shotaviras, united the Lashunta Clans to keep the Moqeva from hunting her kind for food and sport. Yet these legends purportedly gre from events fifteen thousand years before the current age. What if there was more than that to the animosity and war between Lashunta and Moqeva? What did they do?

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Guest what day it is!
#Lashunta #SariTuesday

PS: I absolutely love this fabric!

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#Lashunta Architectural Inspiration - Madanika Apsara Sculpture, Sri Channakeshava Temple, Belur. Karnataka India.
One of the interesting possibilities of Lashunta telepathic community is participation in shared concordant activities. While choral singing may be interesting in its own right, choral dance may be the thing for which Lashunta may be most known for. Recently I was watching a medley of the top ten greatest Bollywood dance scenes, in which they talk about them taking weeks or months to shoot. Maybe a Lashunta village could throw something similar together with a few hours practice?

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#Lashunta Inspirational Pic of the Week
Artist is Yvonne Clarinval (Salammbo Invoking the Moon, 1910)
This is a piece of historical romance, inspired by Gustave Flaubert's novel published in 1862. I find it intriguing because of the Art Nouveau style, the pose, and also because it deals with nature-centered worship, which is of course a major theme among Lashunta Religion.

It also occurs to me that much of Fantasy - be it High, Sword & Sorcery, or dare I say Planetary Romance - grew directly out of Nineteenth Century Historical Romance. Before we let our imaginations play wild among the stars or on different worlds, we first played in the past, such as this portrait, set in Carthage after the First Punic War was lost to Rome. Thus it is a tale inherent with tragedy, and as one would expect with Nineteenth Century Tragedy, along with paintings like this, there have been a few operas composed.

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A Castrovel Adventure: Part 4, Chapter 27
In which Vaeol and Clan Miniada stare death in the face, and life.
https://www.worldanvil.com/w/castrovel-28from-paizo-s-pathfinder-setting29-verrix/a/a-castrovel-adventure3A-part-42C-chapter-27-document?preview=true

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#Lashunta Word of the Week
Viyassi (/vi.jas:si/): to possess spiritually; to overtake emotionally (in the exclusive first person)

This is one of a series of specialized verbs, which have to do with emotional states, and which don’t have good, precise translations into English. To sum: people don’t possess emotions; emotions possess people. This belief is based on the pre-scientific premise that emotions are transmissable, spiritual forces that use opportunities of mental shock to ‘infect’ an individual, alter rational thought, and then pass communicably, like a psychic virus.

Sound silly? Maybe. Or maybe not if you’ve spent time with highly empathic people. Consider the implications of highly sensitive empathic repercussions among a people so psychically, telepathically talented as the Lashunta. Odds are, if your friend, family member, or lover is experiencing a given emotion, so are you.
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Mid-week #Lashunta Inspiration - Artist: Hu Jundi https://www.theautumnsalon.com/artists/hu-jundi

I had a very interesting, provocative discussion recently with some friends, about the value of art within a civilization. What role does art play among the Lashunta. What do they consider Art? How are artists valued and supported?

Ultimately, Art becomes a dialog with how a culture sees itself. What is the vision Lashunta project to reflect upon their own natures?

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Mid-Week #Castrovel Inspiration - Artist: Adam Paquette, http://www.adampaquettemtg.com (pretty sure he did this for Magic: the Gathering)

Castrovel, like #Golarion is infamous for its portals: those that both the #Lashunta and #Elves use to span the world with their travels, and those unknown, awaiting an unsuspecting explorer to step through, which is rather how Lady Vaeol met Brand and his company of mercenary misfits. The only question is how these worldgates first came to be. Who made them, and for what purpose?

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Guess what day it is?
#Lashunta #NotSoSari Tuesday!
~O'Vosi-Osi!~

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New Article: Lashunta Social Taboos
https://www.worldanvil.com/w/castrovel-28from-paizo-s-pathfinder-setting29-verrix/a/lashunta-social-taboos-ritual

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Some inspirational armor crafted by Enric Pujol Art. I really like the look of the plate pieces, although I see the chainmail layer as problematic for Castrovel's humid environment. Too much surface area to rust. I also like the color! Although I believe this is actually leather, this look on damascened metal would be really interesting!
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Lashunta Ritual Purity: Blood, Water, & Curse
https://www.worldanvil.com/w/castrovel-28from-paizo-s-pathfinder-setting29-verrix/a/lashunta-ritual-purity---blood2C-water2C-and-curse-ritual

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#Lashunta Architectural Inspiration - Artist: Qi Sheng Luo: https://www.artstation.com/luoqisheng

For those of you who know my artistic tastes, then you know why I chose this. The hint of air captured in stone.

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https://www.worldanvil.com/w/castrovel-28from-paizo-s-pathfinder-setting29-verrix/a/lashunta-ritual-purity---blood2C-water2C-and-curse-ritual?preview=true

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I am starting to explore concepts of ritual purity and social taboos for my #Lashunta of #Castrovel . Aside from obvious things, what are some interest ideas for purity and taboo for a fantasy world?

Note: my initial ideas so far revolve around blood, water, milk, and curses.

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