#arknights aegir

[multiversetravelingjournalist]

Ægir Grammatical "Number" System.

Ægir has a few grammatical numbers that not only mark the amount of a group of the nouns but also the composition of said group. In other words...

Singular applies when there is only one of such noun.

Balanced Dual applies when a pair of something is considered the same or equal.

Biased Dual applies when the two nouns are considered different or not equal.

paucal is for when you have a few of a noun regardless of composition.

Even Plural is for when a group is considered equally distributed in some way.

Odd Plural is for when the group is considered to be unequally distributed.

Collective is used for when referring to all possible types of that noun regardless of composition.

What is considered "balanced" or "biased" or "even" or "odd" is a subjective matter left to the speaker to decide therefore making it telling of what the speaker values through its usage.

In the person marking system these numbers are marked with a vowel that is which out of the eleven that the language has, this system uses seven of. placing the vowel in the place denoting the person in the consonant root (more on that later) determines the number of the person in the subject and/or object of the verb. there is a total of 441 possible combinations of person, number, and case without tense, aspect, mood, nor positional infixes (more on those later).

Overall, I am quite satisfied with the results. (though I was considering having the singular come in different genders. but decided against it as the numbering system with what I consider a unique twist on how nouns are marked for number).

That is all for now. as always, feedback is appreciated.

till next time... ;).

[mvtj-aegir]

Number Vowels

Most grammatical number in Aegir are marked via vowels. these vowels correspond to the seven Grammatical numbers.

Singular: a

Homogenous Dual: e

Heterogeneous Dual: o

Paucal: ə

Even Plural: i

Odd Plural: u

Collective: æ

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[totallynotsarkaz]

working alone

[gaemms-chamois]

Arknights Blorbissimo Series

#41 – #50

[koshka-sova]

tom scott would absolutely fit in arknights by virtue of how detailed the worldbuilding is in this game. yes this is just about the "im at X" thing he does every video.

"im at an abandoned amusement park in chernobog-"

"im in sami"

"i am about to cross a road in nuova volsinii"

"i am in vyseheim-"

"i am still in sami"

"i am here with dr kaltsit-"

"im at rhine HQ"

"im in front of a shop in county hillock"

"i am here at the ursus-higashi border-"

(loud voice bc windy) "IM AT THE FIELD OF FORGOTTEN WATER"

(whispering) "i am inside the mansfield state prison"

(shouting) "I AM ABOUT TO ENTER A KAWALERIELKI MAJOR ARENA"

"im at the entrance to gran faro-"

"im on a train to kjerag-"

(in kazdel, somehow) "i am here with dr kaltsit again-"

"i am in the golden city in sargon!"

"im at the iron carrot mining platform-"

"i am in laterano-"

"im at the obsidian festival"

"i am in front of the lgd headquarters"

(talking abt zeruertza) "im on top of a city"

"i am at mount hymnoi"

"im in calaisblason-"

"i am back from sami."

"i am in dossoles!"

"im in one of the naval battalions heading towards the sea"

due to how on-the-nose arknights is about real life inspirations, the tom scott of terra would be a feline. BUT it would also be funny if it was a team rainbow situation

[mako-neexu]

WHY IS HE SO CUTE HE IS SO IWAK...................... but being in the third company must have been a privilege... singing voice??? ulpian??? ULPIPI??????? at least you get to die hearing jotaro sing to you lmfao

[moszeel]

Lowlig— I mean here’s Andreana!

[higumii1]

眠りなさい

[illegaltruffle]

ARKNIGHTS CROSSOVER

mashes one special interest with the other special interest,,, sorry this is no longer neopets idek how to tag this anymore hello anyway i put my blorbos in the arknights universe

[000yul]

i appreciate that arknights went beyond what you would expect out of a eldritch horror cult story and into the detail of why people would join such a cult (or at least be sympathetic), why it continues to persist, why iberia has been so unsuccessful at eradicating it.. it's a really refreshing perspective. the seaborn are completely alien amoral monsters, sure, but the people who align with them do so for very human reasons. revenge, spite, a longing for something more, a rejection of iberian society - these apply to both the native iberians who no longer feel any community with or allegiance to from a cruel, overbearing ruling power, and the aegir refugees exploited and thrown away like trash…

this skill in fleshing out the many facets of human response to uncontrollable misfortune is a strength in arknights writing - the catastrophes and how society responds to them, as well as oripathy etc. being the prime example of course. i just think it's particularly notable here because of how much eldritch abominations are traditionally an external, Other threat, but here, the writing conveys a strong message: humans divided themselves along clumsy lines and failed their own, and that's not something you can blame the seaborn for

(saint carmen said something like 50% of the aegir taken from gran faro back then had cult links. the flip side of that: 50% did not. nonetheless - no one returned from their time with the inquisition. and how many liberi did they miss in their mad rush back then? amaia was a liberi, after all…)

fitting that their enemy is the seaborn - a species that is the purest, ultimate representation of the us-vs-them mentality (kin or not kin)—to the complete exclusion of all culture, the ability to relate to those not their own, and everything that defines humanity

[petterwass]

This is one of my favorite pieces from the artbook and not just because I'm Very Normal about Gladiia.

I don't know what the artist was portraying, but to me this is showing the contrast between Gladiia as the noble daughter, the Consul of Technology and Warfare (and what kind of society do you have where those two offices are the same? Not a nice one. Aegir society must be so fucked up! I hope we get to visit.) and Gladiia the Captain of the Abyssal Hunters 2nd Company. Swordfish.

It's interesting that all the blood is on her non-Hunter self, but also fitting, given that it's somewhat implied (if I didn't imagine it) that Gladiia pioneered the Abyssal Hunter surgery, meaning all the blood the Hunters spill is on her hands.

She looks weary. Tired. And there's a wierd possibly Seaborn structure in the mirror, either behind her Hunter self or growing out of the back of the neck where we know she has signs of starting to change into a Seaborn.

@abyssalhuntersnerd @butchgladiia I believe this is relevant to your interests, if you haven't seen it already (I'm surely not the first to get the box)

[multiversetravelingjournalist]

Arknights: Ægir conlang

Seeing how my recent conlang sketch that takes place in the same universe is so well received, I might as well share my second most realized conlang. this one is for the aquatic goths at the bottom of Tera's oceans.

the language employs a four consonant root system. like any semitic language but with an extra letter. this was shamelessly lifted from a now-missing language of Lichen the Fictioneer's Skjor. because Ægir is such an old norse aesthetic, and skjor has such in its name alone, I just had to incorporate this feature somehow. (To Lichen the Fictioneer, if this post ever finds you, First of all, I hope this feature won't end up copying what yours would be doing, as unlikely as that may be. second of all really big fan of your work, keep it up).

There are no plosives, affricates, clicks, ejectives, implosives, nor any consonants that completely close the airway. the closest to those would be fricatives, of which there will be many of as explained in the tentative section of this post. this will mean that Skadi's name would be more pronounced [Sxa,.ðhi']. I really like the phonaesthetics of this choice and will not be changing it any time soon.

Now that we got the confirmed features out of the way, let's look over some maybe-inserted ones:

I was thinking that what consonants there are will have a three-by-three-way distinction via voicing and articulation. voicing would distinguish voiced, breathy voiced, and voiceless. while articulation would be plain, aspirated, and palatalized. though I'm on the fence about the palatalization.

I am honestly stumped about what to encode morphologically with the aforementioned features listed above. maybe the classic person-number-case seeing as the four-consonant root system and lack of plosives meets my self-imposed quota of "features I have yet to see in a conlang".

this is all I got for this one. hope you found this interesting. as always, your feedback is appreciated. till next time... ;).

[mvtj-aegir]

Vowels

Closed

u ï ü i

/ï/ is the back unrounded vowel.

/ü/ is the front rounded vowel.

Mid

o ë ə ö e

/ë/ is the back unrounded vowel

/ə/ is the schwa or neutral vowel.

/ö/ is the front rounded vowel

Open

a æ

/æ/ is the front vowel.

All other vowels are pronounced as there IPA counterparts.

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[totallynotsarkaz]

sea elves pointy ears Aegirian

[astranauticus]

i think these two should interact

[elidistortion-art]

Woman needs more content pls,,,,