Blood Dragon
Who truly deserves godhood?
“Blood and Wrath! Oh goddess, tell me the wrath of the Consort of the Blessed One,
The Mad King, The Empyrean, The Ethereal Sovereign, The Last Elder: Khayin Rolfan.
The story of a god, upheaving the balance of the universe, destroying the multiverse on a whim.”
-Retriac the Humble
The world of Draconis Umbra, Ghost of the Dragon
The World of Melāshia, known as Draconis Umbra and Lahrem, formed from the corpse of the Blood Dragons, Krwi Smok, created by the seven Beings. The kingdoms of Rolferi, Auden, Oligerd, Anorāshta, Fyke Islands, Meroplene, Oxenshire, Sashīrāshta, Nūnarāshta, and Gventaloka all formed a unbalanced peace, fragile and shaking. How did the powers change? More importantly, why did they change?
First Iteration of the Map
Map rendition made in Procreate
Post Time-skip map made in Procreate
Here is the first draft of the world building that I have done. This is the progress so far. Many of the biological markers were taken from the help of Syd Hoskins, a biology major at Purdue University who attended the same time I did.
Below are the rest of Appendices
The Elder Verse
An entirely original language, inspired by Latin, Sanskrit, and Telugu. Complete with pronouns, verb tenses and conjugations, noun cases and declensions, gerunds, gerundives, participles, subjunctive cases, and so much more.
Nirole nilarai awagalai
Kāle jubalā ayt nayltrai
Morte comrāde ayt alināna avatara srulokam morilokā
Hāsa intitulēt serkālā stinem ayt kaikālā kaihavem ēmitrolirvālāñt |26|
Rakrapay morvosatranay ayt gavapole
Raloka veralatrana intra tylmerem ayt audentisā chaivām
Ańdālya karam pitavaym gapologēsīt
Trābanāyam gresulokā ravajāsīt gacata esaramam |27|
A diligence of true war,
A time of rejoice and mourning,
Dead comrades and allies on the battlefield floor;
Their bodies that no longer feel winter’s sting or summer’s breeze
Destroyed forts and castle walls,
Deserted lands from Tylmere to Audentis’s Walls,
An empire now fallen from rebels:
To a revolution of colonies that have been razed to level
Below is the poem written in the Alāndār script.
Differnt dialects and different scripts
Different dialects have different scripts. The above are drafts for a custom keyboard and font for Microsoft Word and Adobe Photoshop.
Access the work in progress dictionary here.
All the declensions and conjugations and the rules of forming language are not here. Rest of the tabs are below.
The Last Elder, a renunciated king, worked as a mercenary till he let his family die.
The Mistress of Magic, Banrion, and the Night’s Abomination, Luna, laid dead at the hands of another Girl of the Gods.
The tradition of a Blood Feud must be broken. Tradition to take revenge on kin should the wrongdoer perish. But why?
Why challenge tradition?