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i can understand purist critics who don't like Ithelia from a conceptual level but i also think many of them have a fundamental misunderstanding of what she actually represents. in comparison to Azure's sphere of change or to go so far as to denigrate her as the "multiverse prince".

like, Azura enacts change, so that doesn't even quantify into what Ithelia does. As for the "multiverse prince" stuff, there is not a multiverse... technically anyways. There could be (as is the nature of the structure of the dream) but that's neither here nor there. Ithelia sees all potential paths, and only when she glimpses them are they really there. i feel like this sort of thing is just lost on people but hey

like i said, i get it. adding a prince in ruins the numerology of 8 and 16, but Lorkhan ALREADY broke the numerology by adding himself in as the 9th-- and as of the end of the 3rd Era, Jyggalag is 17 (since of course, Ithelia banishes herself back to a path she sees where she can't escape from). this isn't even getting into how numerology is heavily referenced but isn't really canon either

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Creation of Mewtwo

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Greetings! I just want to say I LOVE your creation of Velothi language. Your nerd powers are mighty and admirable. I've also been reading How to Disappear Completely. I am thoroughly impressed and inspired by your descriptive writing skills. I struggle with social anxiety and find a lot of Iriel's thoughts frighteningly relatable.

I am working on my own Morrowind fanfic, Chronicles of an Outlander, and wanted to use some of your Velothi words. I will definitely credit you. I found your documents on the language, but linguistics confuses the heck out of me, and I'm struggling to translate some phrases. Would you be so kind as to help me translate/verify these?

He became an Ash Vampire?

Outcast ('haisha' or 'haishan'?)

Outlander (I found 2 words for this: 'urammat' and 'cho')

Idiot/fool

We're going to die out here!

Friend (abasa?)

No way/I can't believe it! (In like a 'holy shit!' or 'that's horrible!' kind of way.)

Thank you (in a casual way. Dinammu or salka?)

Sharmat took him away.

Sharmat took me away.

Do you want to travel with us?

Farewell. We hope to cross paths again.

Bless and be blessed. ('assuh kal assor' or 'assusi kal assour'? In this context, it is used as a farewell.)

I plan to use more Velothi in my fanfic down the road, so I hope you don't mind if I ask you more things later. Also, have you ever considered making an online Velothi translator? It would be such a big help for fanfic writers. I have heard of Lingojam and Apertium, but I don't know how good they are.

Have an enchanting week!

-K

Hey, thank you for your kind words about my various self-indulgent Morrowind projects, I'm glad you enjoyed them. :)

I'm happy to translate stuff into my Velothi conlang, but I can't promise it'll always be super-fast, because it does take a fair amount of time, depending on the phrase, and I've got a lot on, right now. But I enjoy it, so feel free to send stuff! It helps to have info on who is speaking to whom, though, as my conlang's grammar changes a lot, dependant on the social context, and the gender of the speakers.

Which... is the reason an auto-translator is never gonna work. Honestly, even the big auto-translators for major languages can't ever be all that accurate, because they don't know context, either. What they DO have, is a huge bank of existing translated text in that language, that they can pull from. Conlangs don't have that, especially not a micro-niche one like mine. Knowing this, I had to go have a look to see how conlang-translators like Lingojam worked, because I didn't see how that could actually function.

Spoiler: it doesn't. It's very cool, don't get me wrong, and you could have a lot of fun with it! But it's just doing straight text-swaps and phrase swaps, with a few bonus rules and regex things you can apply. It would only sort-of work if you had a conlang that was a complete structural facsimile of English, with just the individual words changed, and that's not a conlang, it's a cipher. It can't handle a whole new grammar, unless you hand-encoded every possible phrase, and then it still wouldn't get the genders or context right.

Counterpoint: nobody knows or cares what an accurate translation into my conlang is, except me. People could just write Velothi textslop for flavour, and it'd be pretty much the same from a reader's point of view! But... while my conlang is far from perfect, if people are gonna credit me for it, I'd rather it was at least consistent by my own standards, and that whatever errors remain are my own. Like I said, translating into it is fun for me, enrichment for my enclosure.

So. Don't have time to do every sentence right away, but I can reblog this post with some of the phrases in a bit.

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when the lesbian situationship isn't going the direction you wanted ft. @tarellia

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTgK40Pu_yA)

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We make a special trip just for you, same low price.

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Arrival at Seyda Neen (April 25, 2021)

Report to Caius Cosades (April 28, 2021)

Antabolis and gra-Muzgob Informants (May 10, 2021)

Sleepers Awake (June 12, 2021)

Vivec Informants (August 6, 2021)

Meet Sul-Matuul (October 3 and October 10, 2021)

Sixth House Base (January 26, 2022)

Corprus Cure (March 3, 2022)

Mehra Milo and the Lost Prophecies (May 13, 2022)

The Path of the Incarnate (October 3, 2022)

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One thing that bugs me about the setting is that it would be pretty simple to reverse engineer the dwemer steam systems and use them for basic stuff. it's not the spooky mindfuck technology its fine. and even if the general sentiment was "oh no, the dwemers' hubris may have been their downfall, we must not walk in their footsteps" I can't imagine accepting that if I was, say, a tenant farmer or something. like FUCK y'all man the gods are not gonna disappear us for inventing a tractor. me and all my ancestors seven generations back have repetitive strain injuries from harrowing the fields every year. u like to starve? that's what I motherfuckin thought. take those machines apart and figure out how they work or by Talos I will beat you to death with a rake

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owlion wanted a Telvanni cougar wife, and i wanted to play with sai again. 

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Eris and Moros being Nyx's cuntiest children WIP

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My redsing of an old Vergil genderbend

I hope you like it :)

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i too, want my girlfriend to give me a kiss and instantly cure me of my slump

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that’s how hyakkimaru learned that leaving people behind for a several years without saying them a single word about leaving, is a bad tone.

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I’m so emotional over Dororo ending! I’ll miss watching it every monday, i hope hyakki and dororo live the rest of their lives in peace and happiness!!  

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#Dijkstra went off

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I sided with the Scoia’tael but for some reason I really just want to keep drawing comics about how much that bothers Roche.

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Some dumb Total War Warhammer 2 image I made while browsing /vg/ and seeing this Skaven walking out a door