#narakane

[dimensionhoppinghybrids]

Joseph had gotten himself... Into trouble that he wondered how he'd gotten himself into. He got confused of being a... Little Narakan? He wasn't sure about what that was, but he knew these demons had him confused for something, or someone else.

His tails shifted with his tense attention, even as he tried to deescalate things as best he could. But that seemed to just make these fools even more angry. And the angrier they got, the louder they got, which brought in friends.

Oh, Joseph knew he was about to meet odds that weren't in his favor, and if he wanted to survive and get out? He'd need to do finish this quick and dirty.

And he had to let his idle curiosity make him wonder what kind of places other hells were. His father had warned him. His mother had warned him over and over. Do not meet other underworlds for this exact reason.

But noooo, he had to be the fox he was, and let his curiosity get the better of him.

Stars and blistering suns, he had to be an idiot.

Oh well. With a determined look, he took out his mace, and pulled out his gun. He let his magic coil around the mace in his hand, the metal head crackling with menacing electricity.

Both sides stared at each other, even as Joseph looked at the foes with determined finality.

And both moved to engage. Guns and knives and whatever these demons had at hand came to bare and Joseph simply proved... Better.

His blows were not only harsh, but lethal, his shots with armor piercing slugs pierced through bodies that had sat in rows like idiots, killing multiple ones, but only once. They had learned quickly after that, and the battle, if it was that, became even more hectic and wild.

Joseph had to flit around, jump over bodies and use collapsing imps and demons as springboards as he executed them with haste and precision.

It sounded like a goddamned battlefield.

In the end, when the dust of battle settled. Only he remained standing, reloading his gun with an almost calm efficiency. His armor having a ding from a ricochet from a lucky small caliber almost hitting his shoulder, making it honestly sting, but that was better then having it fully shot. The armor had held quite well.

It also didn't help his look that his face, and his armor was splattered with a lot of blood.

@infinitcnexus

[littlestpersimmon]

random question, between all your ocs, who have achieved god level cooking? like even Gordon himself would bow to them and ask to be their apprentice level? and who is so abysmal at it, can't even cook water?

Best Cook: Sumakwel- they had a Remy Ratataouille making Anton Ego remember his childhood moment with anyone who tries their food. Dinta also makes delicious broths and soups. Humadsan probably the most talented cook out of all my ocs!

Surprisingly good: Sarawak, makes banging roast fish. Namwaren: loves making stews

Bad cook, but with a potential to be better: to Srithvi, inept at everything she does, but is trying So Hard.

Xie Lian levels of horrible: Narakan literally falling to her knees because she can't beat the girlfail allegations. Gets really mad and says her food is Girl Dinner (she has invented coal that can burn for centuries. no one knows how she did it.)

[midautumngame]

We're back at it folks!

Hi folks! It's been a few months since our last update and we're excited to talk about how development has been going!

How did our Early Access Launch go?

Short answer: it went well! It's been a few months now so it's a bit easier to see the impact of our early access launch and it accomplished a bunch of things we needed it to do. First things first, we managed to not go broke, which is always something to be thankful for when you make video games for a living! We hit our financial targets for launch, which let us verify that our current target scope for the game wouldn't be too big to support financially, or too small to meet expectations! After putting out a couple bug fixes we were able to take a much needed rest and then most of the past couple months have been under-the-hood fixes to prep for the rest of our early access plans.

We've also been monitoring how the game has been faring for folks coming across it out in the wild instead of as part of our existing community. Finally, after confirming what's been working particularly well with our gameplay and story, we have a much better sense of what we want to do with our remaining two biomes! We've got a solid plan in place of what we'll need to do to bring the game to a really satisfying conclusion, as well as what we need to add to existing parts of the game in order to support that!

Controller Support!

The major feature in our most recent build is that we now have full controller support as well as controller remapping! The early access launch was a great stress test for us to help make sure we implemented controllers in the best way possible! We were able to put some of those initial early access sales towards some more controller plug-ins to help us add fixes for less common controllers faster and more reliably. We were able to get a wider variety of test controllers, and prioritized the kinds of controllers we were hearing the most issues about!

Going forward, If any folks are having issues with their specific controller being detected, you should be able to use the controller remapping menu in the options menu in the short term to bypass that issue. That same menu should also show you a name for your controller, which may sometimes be different from how your controller is typically recognized. If you let us know what name is showing up in that menu, we should have a much quicker time creating a long term fix for your controller!

Development Progress

The latest build update won't have a lot of noticeable content updates since we really wanted to focus on getting controller support working right away, but a lot of the things we're working on are going to revolve around adding more variety and more to do in the existing 3 biomes, while we build out an initial release of Biome 4 behind the scenes. The update we put out after this one should include some new enemies to find in Wooden Refuge and Lotus Sea.

Some other stuff we are working on over the next coming months (I've ordered these in terms of how long I think these will take, so the higher ones on the list should come sooner)

A new gift giver character

more story events for the 2nd and 3rd acts of the game

Some new Narakan Loom abilities

Adding more things to do in the Temple District and Sakurafest hub areas

Biome 4 (Qilin Peaks) is in active development, it will probably be a while before it's playable though! Looking at our remaining task list, it looks like about another year's worth of development before we're close to a version 1.0 of the game. There's going to be a LOT of content between then and now though so If anyone is waiting for a particular feature or point in development before they jump in and play, let us know and we can send y'all a reminder once we have those elements in game!

Hope y'all are excited for what we're working on! Thank you so much for all your support so far! Every wishlist, purchase, review and even just sharing these posts helps us out so much!

And if you haven't yet please consider checking out Midautumn and playing our FREE demo!

[radiomonkeys2]

"Sit down, monkey!" by Seacar14

Golmo is a Space Janny.

Golmo's job is to clean space junk caused by world, interstellar, and intergalactic wars as well as accidents and weapons tests so that these same races can continue mucking up the cosmos. Can't travel through outer space if a haze of debris tears your spaceships apart, after all. Some races are so foolish that they permanently ground themselves before they ever really manage to get to space via blowing up satellites and space shuttles, leaving low-planetary orbit untraversable. Space janitors, whether fleshy or cybernetic, allow these races to enjoy the wide expanses of space. A noble job for a less than noble Narakan dude who's just in it for the money.

Some manager with a quark-sized brain thought it to be a good idea to make his part-time partner a Yaban girl named Sol Yulaan. Because it's not ridiculous enough, Golmo learns that "Yulaan" means "Skullcrusher" in the Yeren language. That singularity-brained manager put a demon monkey named Skullcrusher on his ship. Why is she on his ship? As community service for mass murder. Like, "killed an entire planet with her fists" mass murder. Oh joys, goddammit. This manager's brain shrinks with every passing second. It's gone sub-Planck scale and is collapsing still to sizes unknown.

Golmo can barely get the 13-year-old Yulaan to sit still. She's just come up from massacring an entire planet of mercenaries, and her body's been left horribly battle-scarred and crippled. Yet in spite of her brutal injuries, she still forces herself to practice martial artistry.

As Yulaan herself said in response to a question of why she does this: "I was born. That means that someday, I will die. If I'm going to die, let me die in war."

All Yulaan cares about is war and ruination.

So why would you put a Demonoid on a ship dedicated to cleaning up the aftereffects of war and ruination?

"SIT DOWN," he roars often, but Yulaan's youthful nexcidium leads her to punch and kick and battle holograms and mental-image train. She's driven by that primal, instinctual Yaban battlelust and has yet to be sent to Earth Prime to be pacified into a more controllable state. Not to mention she's still just 13, so whatever aggressive energy she has is octupled by her youth. She's going to grow up to be a savage warrior, undoubtedly. If Golmo didn't have to deal with her, she'd be his kind of killer. Would be so nice. SO nice. If the deathmonkey wasn't on HIS ship.

[flanvathanh]

I've been waiting S I X Years for them to get more development! 💕🥰 Thank goodness she didn't get her memories erased, and she scored his number ;)

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[demianblog]

Jorge Drexler interpretó “Telefonía” en playa de La Paloma luego de tocar en Cabo Polonio

Jorge Drexler interpretó “Telefonía” en playa de La Paloma luego de tocar en Cabo Polonio

Montevideo Portal Jorge Drexler se siente como pez en el agua en los balnearios de Rocha, y como acostumbra a hacer cada año, no es una rareza que tome su guitarra y comience un recital en playas de día o de noche. Esta semana se presentó en Cabo Polonio, en el hostel Narakan, ubicado sobre la playa norte, durante un concierto que estaba dando el cantautor paulista Tó Brandileone. Gonzalo…

[wshenrygreen-blog]

Top MMORPGs for iPhone and iPad

MMORPGs for iPhone and iPad:  Whenever you feel that you would be in the middle of the battle so that you can eliminate your enemy, you can go for MMORPG. Don’t get us wrong if you have thought about the real battle, it’s all about the best MMORPG. 

These games offer warlike experience in the virtual world. Whenever you get bored with card games and want some deadly action-packed games, you must look for MMORPGs. With endless missions, fearsome monsters, myriad of skills, such games provide you the best combat experience.

1.1 List of Best MMORPGs for iPhone and iPad

1.2 Dawn of Titans

1.3 Toram Online

1.4 Order & Chaos Online

1.5 Crusaders of Light

1.6 Goddess: Primal Chaos

1.7 3D MMO Celtic Heroes

1.8 Arcane Legends

1.9 Dark Legends

1.10 Iruna Online

1.11 Armed Heroes (Black Gate Inferno)

1.12 Ingress

1.13 Wayward Souls

1.14 Knights of the Old Republic

1.15 Banner Saga 2

1.16 Final Fantasy iX

1.17 Darkest Dungeon

1.18 Death Road to Canada

1.19 Old School RuneScape

1.20 Five Card Quest

1.21 Dungeon Rusher

1.22 Galaxy on Pen and Paper

1.23 Might & Magic Elemental Guardians

1.24 Cat Quest

1.25 Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition

1.26 Lineage2 Revolution

1.27 The World Ends with You: Solo Remix

1.28 Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth

1.29 Marvel Strike Force

1.30 Desktop Dungeons

1.31 Into the Dark: Narakan

1.32 Monster Hunter Freedom Unite

1.33 Teen Titans Go Figure!

1.34 Dragon Quest VIII

1.35 Transistor

1.36 Knights of Pen and Paper 2

[jeffpennymusic]

Hey everyone, a game I’ve been working on comes out today on iOS.  I had a lot of fun doing some of the music and sound design for it so it would mean a lot if you’d check it out!

[littlestpersimmon]

OK so ive always been into gentle swords but not fully got it but i Get It More now that uve posted more and i did a big read of all ur tag for it. so heres my questions. 1. we know how radinta reacts to finding out darenyas still alive but how EMO and 'nothing left to live for' unhinged does dinta become when he finds out about darenyas execution. also like how close to the execution does dinta know about all this in the first place (esp w the pregnancy ...) 2. youve touched on that darenyas undead + undead servants are used in the world as unending labor, is there any sort of way to tell someone id undead without them directly telling you? (also doesnt darenya count as twice undead because of his birth circumstances?) 👀👀👀

Ohh my g-d.. the more asks abt this the more I reveal how much of a whipping boy Dinta is to everyone around him..

Dinta is autistic as I mentioned before, so his only friends have always been just Humadsan and Narakan, whom are Both Also On The Spectrum, and Darenya.

They have been through thick and thin, been together catastrophe after catastrophe, however, no one grasps Dinta like Darenya does, no one is as kind and patient over Dinta's quirks and awkwardness and Difficult to Understand-ness like Darenya, who is just always... amused, never angry, and always willing to see the better side of Dinta's thought process, since Darenya knows what it's like to be Disabled But Not Visibly So.

Dinta was raised by a single mother, and though he's Understanding that life in an occupied land is difficult, and he's willing to give his mother Understanding, he just, also. Is terrified of the idea or being like her.

Because Renya is an "amsara", a child called back from a stillbirth for another shot at life, it is understood that he will only live partially a normal human lifespan, in my world's case, the oldest he could possibly be would be his early thirties. This doesn't daunt him, he's always known death, he has made peace with it. But also knowing he was gonna have a shorter life than other people, it made Renya very assertive, honest, and direct with asking for what he wanted.

It was him who pursued Dinta, asked him out, and was very protective of him. It was Darenya who was always chasing this boy and making sure he was okay. And Darenya's directness was very good to Dinta's brain, he never had to wonder if Renya had hidden motives or was not speaking in plain words.

Renya became pregnant when he was in his early 20s, and both him and Dinta were super excited, even if they both knew Renya did not have much long to live, they were determined to make the most of it,

Darenya would retire from his job at the rajah's court (he is a starfarer!), and Dinta would start to withdraw as well, Dinta is also a starfarer, but he'd be more of a "mission control" guy, like computing how much a ship should steer away from certain winds, monitors the weather condition, how much karhanan is needed to let a ship take off, just nerd shit, and he also makes wayfinding maps, for people like him who can't really memorize or visualize navigating stars by mind alone.

At the back of Dinta's mind, he knows he's gonna be a single dad for the rest of his life after Renya dies, and he's already sort of, depressed about it, and the only thing that they're both super excited about is how nice it would be to live near the ocean and they can swim every day, and both Renya and Dinta spend hours and hours drawing what their house is gonna look like..

Dinta, does one day, give Renya a small vial of this shiny liquid. It looks like.. almost translucent, almost prismatic liquid, and he WONT tell Renya where he got it, only that if he so wished.. to extend how long he belonged on their earth.. then he may have a drought of it. Renya would be shocked, because he immediately recognizes it to be sap from the saranggita, the holy trees from their world, and it is only permitted to take ONCE from it, to bring back stillbirths, but he is teased by the notion of getting to live longer, which was something he'd never even considered possible, so he keeps the vial Dinta gives him, and mulls it over.

But then eventually, Darenya finds out how Radinta got the vial, and another terrible betrayal, and he, being very hormonal and heartbroken, goes nuclear, but he does not stop loving Dinta, and Dinta does not stop loving him, and even to the Last day before Darenya eventually dies from his long, drawn out execution, Dinta never stops trying to, save him, run away with him and be vigilantes somewhere they can both be safe, even after Renya miscarried.. they can try again. Renya still dies, from infection, exhaustion, blood loss and just grief, and Dinta does not cry.

He does tenderly take Renya's body, in a fetal position and in rigor mortis, and he does the autopsy, the bathing.. scrubbed him clean in plumeria and coconut until he did not smell so dead and some of his beauty was restored to him.

Usually the Idina Tala, the undead slaves, would arrive to the deadships caked in blood and dirt and sweat, because the Idina Tala were executed criminals whose punishment continued even after death, and they were considered the dregs of mankind, people so unloved their deaths would just go on and on as eternal outcasts.

Renya arrived very clean, his nails clipped, his hair lovingly cut, bathed and with herbs in his mouth, and a talisman that would ward off any demons wishing to reposses his body, because Renya had an autopsy and was prepared like how a loved one would be buried, much unlike the others. The witches who would call him back remembered the man who dropped him off laying him down on the table very carefully, like he was still alive and could still feel pain.

I always see Dinta as having a blank face, rarely smiling, not mean, but just very.. reticent and withdrawn. He would comb back renyas hair on the table and stand there in numbed silence for a very long time, before he turns to the manhiyang, the witch who would reanimated Darenya to turn him into a slave, and he tells her, "do not think Ill of him. You know him not."

After Renya dies and is surrendered to the dead ships, its like Radinta was going about his life half a person, when he closed Darenya's lifeless eyes he knew no one would ever love him, and look on him with such deep understanding like Darenya did. Narakan did not know it was possible to have someone who was as distant to the world like Dinta, become even more distant, walking around the halls of the Rajah's palace like a man trapped in a thick fog. But, life must go on for Dinta, he still had some other matters to attend to, so. He focuses all his effort and energy and resources to find his sister in Sasaban, the most difficult to get into Sundering, and to get to Sasaban, he first must get to Janalila. All his hopes for the future, all his grief, he pours into finding the one family he has left, something to anchor him to the world, or else he might, he might die, lose himself to the myriad and the wheel of time.

In the world of Hidlawonen, when you are deemed to have done a social transgression, or a crime that is judged to be extremely gross, you receive a single tattoo, of a ring of salamanders and geckoes that goes around your limb. These are magical tattoos, one that remind the person branded that they have some role in the world to perform, and that all their actions must turn the wheel of time forward, meaning they must do all the good in life to progress the world. The more bad a person has done, the more they receive these rings of geckos. Almost everyone in Hidlawon has some form of gecko tattoo on their body, it is all part of being human to make mistakes. This system of punishment, though, is easily abused by people born into more fortunate circumstances, to isolate people they deem to be people "the wrong way", people who were born into misery are just.. trapped in a cycle of being miserable and a burden to their respective societies, and trapped to recommit evil acts trying to survive in a world that is just naturally hostile to them, and the gecko tattoos become a mark of shame the more there is on your body. The gecko tattoos are normally invisible, until you receive so much of them that they become visible and painful, once past your elbows or knees. The tattoos start at your ankles or below your shoulders, and the more "bad" you do as deemed by the local governments, the more tattoos of them you receive. When the gecko tattoos reach your wrists and ankles simultaneously, you are sentenced to death, and yoir fate is to become inevitably an Idina Talan, "no longer a person", an undead slave. That would be how people in Hidlawonen identify the Idina, and most Idina are "broken in thought and body", meaning while they are conscious, their mind is broken to the point they cannot speak, cannot smell, or anything. Most of the Idina simply cry, groan in pain, unable to remember who or what even they are.

[midautumngame]

New Midautumn build is up NOW!

The game now has full controller support + controller remapping as well as some small bug fixes. We also have Mac and Linux builds uploaded!

There's not a lot of new content in this latest update but here's some things we're working on for future updates over the next few months!

Some new enemies in Biome 2 (Wooden Refuge) and Biome 3 (Lotus Sea)

A proper intro sequence for starting a new game with some of the animations from our trailers

A new Gift Giver character

More story events for the 2nd and 3rd acts of the game

Some new Narakan Loom abilities

Adding more things to do in the Temple District and Sakurafest hub areas

A new area, Biome 4 (Qilin Peaks)

[radiomonkeys2]

CRAWLING IN MY SKIIIIN

Originally drawn by Ishida1694

The Narakans are a pure indulgence in Y2K-era edgelordism, and I love them for that. The edge is adorable.

Not really a race that can stand up to Yabans or Gosamyrs regularly, but they're a good background people, and maybe a few mutants can rise to the challenge.

These particular Narakans are from an "abusement park" attraction.

Abolian abusement parks are the evil carnivals his music was set to. Condemned criminals and subabolians on death row are often paraded through these things to be victims of sadomasochistic carnies and psychotic circusfreaks. It's like if the PS1 game Thrill Kill and the arcade game CarnEvil were used as inspiration for real parks by someone who thinks Coal Chamber, Mudvayne, Insane Clown Posse, and Otep are the baddest badasses who ever walked.

You have Hoody the Pig. He comes in saying "I have the body of a pig," then snorts, "I'll eviscerate your ass!" and shoves a weird electric butcher's knife/chainsaw combo up a condemned's ass, destroying him from the inside.

However, the one the Skullcrusher Double saw first was sometime in the middle of their current Execution Exhibition, where this cute little goffik contortionist—Seraphine the killer contortionist— flipped and twirled with bladed shoes, decapitating one Abol and then stretching & contorting her body around a second before unwinding in such a way that he seemed lucky at first— her crotch right in his face— only for all his limbs fell off in a bloody mess and his ribs to burst through his chest. Neither Gungarus or Yulaan know how she did that, but she just did a bow and pranced off before the ringmaster waltzed on, smacking another condemned fool in the nuts with his skullheaded can, and announced the next set of events to a cheering and televised crowd.

Then you had Bojo. The clown. A goffik clown with Abolian schizophrenia. Mir (a goth girl Yulaan knows on Earth Prime) met Bojo during one of his docile moments before. Seemed nice enough, if a bit crazy and murderous. Despite his orc-like tusks, he could conceivably pass as a human well enough.

But once he's a clown? He becomes Bojo the Psychoberseker. Big, fat, twisted, and psychotic.

The ringmaster, Seether Black, was likely either a vampire or mutant. He was also one of the few "correctly proportioned" males, which made him a downright prettyboy compared to the orc-like beefcakes that Abolian males usually were. He was like crossing Alice Cooper with Charles Manson.

"Don't you mean Marilyn Manson?"

"I know what I said."

Seether Black is edgelord supreme. He was a horribly abused kid whose bullies often tried killing him and forcing him to commit suicide, so eventually one day he snapped and crucified them, one by one. Their crosses still stand, and some of their bodies have rotted away, though for a couple he poured molten mercury down their throats to turn them into macabre statues.

Seether Black finds beauty in madness.

Seether Black literally killed the Goddess of Naraka, and keeps her body as an ornament. It's his vengeance against heaven, and he refuses to be a slave to a dead god or a society that doesn't care about him.

Yeah, Naraka is a world of 90s psychosploitation. Like that one kid, Maxxi Yazzi, who just wanted to be your friend. If he cut you open and ate your organs and lived inside you, you'd be friends FOREVER! But you rejected him, and now he's sad and psychotic and going to spill his organs out.

If I can sum up Planet Naraka in under 2 minutes:

I want desperately to believe they are absolutely not the kind of race that Toriyama would have created at any point, but considering how turbo-Zoomer Dragon Ball Super started getting.... let me stay ignorant!

[levyathan0]

Pferdejagd, Soul of the Broken Blade

An entity born of the weapon Pferdejagd being exposed to the raw Aether of the Astral Sea of Okeanos and the adventures it then participated in with the folk hero Fodnogran. The consciousness that emerged from these events took upon itself the name of the blade which composed its body.

When the blade was at Fodnogran’s Last Stand, a famous battle in which the hero lost his life but provided time that allowed for the Narakan forces to escape, the soul of the blade was set loose into the world as a unique entity, however this birth heralded a rapid degradation in form as its Aetheric form began to disperse. Desperate to live, the soul of the blade scoured the nearby landscape for a suitable host eventually finding a peasant girl with whom it made a pact, it would provide her with a portion of its power if she would help it find a vessel to preserve its existence within. This compact was the first of what is now known to historians as Hex Blades.

After a few years of travel with the peasant girl, on adventures that rose her to fame amongst the Narakan people, Pferdejagd discovered the existence of Flurxce, the realm of the Fae, and set about guiding its host to locate a point of entry. Decades more passed without success, until she, now an old woman, was able to find such an entry point to the shadowy realm of Aether. Using up the remains of her life and as much power of its own as it dared, Pferdejagd tore open the veil between the worlds and dived into the new world, leaving behind the withered husk of its former host. In this realm it took up residence and now schemes towards some greater purpose that only it can dream.

Since that time, every now and again, Pferdejagd has reached out from its home to another section of the Multiverse to forge a pact with a new person. This chosen person is endowed with the powers of a Hex Blade and is given a task to achieve by the consciousness of the ancient weapon, though it will often leave the details vague and allow them free reign to use the powers as they will.

The current contract made by Pferdejagd is with a overly curious Tabaxi woman by the name of Night on the Hill, who has been tasked with hunting down the wizard Set and extracting from them the location of his mistress, the Archfae Yra’ath. Why the consciousness is after the Goddess of magic is unknown, but it can be surmised as never being a good sign when two beings of immense influence in Flurxce meet.

[flanvathanh]

It's been a while everyone! OTL Hopefully college doesn't utterly destroy me still! I'm working on a pencil comic for them as my computer and tablet are back at my home and not my apartment. ;___; Please accept this sketch of the precious babies. 🙇‍♀️ Sorry my lighting is Garbo as always ;O___O

[flanvathanh]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AKANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Holy crap its been basically half a year I made some half-decent WT art! ;O__O But of course I had to do it because it was for my bby gurl! 

[littlestpersimmon]

Oc blabbering, move along!

Tbh I always saw and Wrote Renya to be the one who is like, emotionally stronger than Dinta. He is the one who does all the pursuing, the chasing, and protecting 🙈 I feel Renya truly is one of those guys who are Ride or Die and who can love wholly inexhaustible. Like even if you are the worst person in the world, he won't b able to bring himself to Not love u because that's just how he is as a Person. Narakan, Dinta and Kaswanti have done some totally unforgivable things to Renya and he still loves them, LOL. And then Dinta, he is always hesitating, always hiding, never sure of himself nor of the world around them! Xkjssk!! Why can't this story write itself already.

[littlestpersimmon]

hello!! southeast asian raging lesbian here!!! your art is absolutely stunning, and to see myself in the fantasy world and characters that you've created really means a lot to me. also it is my duty as a sapphic to ask for more about "kill and maim" sarawak, narakan, and kalimbahing maputli. all of their designs are just... *holds them gently*

WELCOME TO MY SOUTHEAST ASIAN GAY BLOG !! I AM Glad you asked about my girls and you want to hold them tenderly, as all of them deserve to be tenderly held, especially Narakan... however most of my answers tend to be very long djjsjs so I'll tell you first about Sarawak Only and then I'll maybe make a post about Kalimbahin and Narakan bc WHEW they are the second most important characters in this story next to Darenya and Radinta.

Sarawak is the daughter of a mariner, and she wants to be just like her mom, rough of voice and wild of hair, demanded respect from her stance alone. She wields two ceremonial daggers, and loves to appear as callous.

Sarawak is a Sanjata (in their world, Sanjata just means "indigenous") and her dad is a sanjata from the lonely land of Dayang-Dayang, where the land is untilled, and the once deer-people who walked there in droves and treehouses are now very reclusive and scared of the growing imperialism in both the north and the south. Her mother (also named Sarawak) is indigenous by blood, however, she has assimilated into the Janalilan life, where she eventually became a starfarer.

Because their world is literally "broken", the people have to travel through each "sundering" via boats called "dragonships", and each dragonship is captained by someone with breathing magic called "Karhanan".

The dragonships are literally fossilized dragons, trees imbued with the remains of dragons are harvested for their wood, and the spirit within the precious lumber remains powerful and capable of sailing into the stairs, however the dragon-spirits are wily, and will only answer to people with Karhanan... Imagine mustering enough power in your lungs to whistle/ blow out enough force to navigate an ancient stone ship weighing tons and tons out of a small planet's atmosphere. That is the kind of power required of a Karhanan, enough energy to steer an entire ship, crew and luggage in tow.

The most powerful Karharnan can wipe out a city in a single breath.

Sarawak's mother was a great starfarer, feared and respected by even the senatress of Janalila herself, however, Sarawak did not inherit the powers of Karhanan, and she was very disappointed.

Not to be deterred, Sarawak found a job as an agent and spy for the senatress, and found herself delighting in the thrill of the hunt, and everyone feared the lady of the night, Sarawak, with her long wild hair and wide, bloodthirsty grin. There is an uncontrollable rage and grief in her (that I can't say why because Spoilers) that cannot be stilled until she receives her fill of blood. She's actually modeled from the bloody crow of cainhurst, which is why her name is Sarawak, because it rhymes with the tagalog word for "crow" which is "uwak".. to me it just sounds.. sharp, like a curved sword.. or a bird's talons.

Sarawak was defeated only once by a band of pirates, in an attack that left her blind in one eye, and one leg shattered in a way that never healed right, leaving her permanently limping- though again, Sarawak is not one to be deterred, and her role in the story is how she seeks revenge for what has been done to her. Limping and laughing, she is still the most renowned killer in all of Hidlawonen.