Yrae Chronicles
Talechasing 2012 ~ Unfinished Business
Mood ~ 
creative
9:44pm, Sat, 28 Jan 2012
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Title~ Unfinished Business
Author~ Annarti
Disclaimer~ All mine~
Notes~ ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif?v=91.6)
talechasing is doing new challenges for the new year :D This time around I'm going to see if I can keep up to date with them, rather than let them pile up and get overwhelming. I miss doing regular minifics =( So first off the bat, unfinished business. Here we have Assili facing off against an old foe. Bitch =P
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Tooth and Claw
Mood ~ accomplished
5:03pm, Sun, 20 Nov 2011
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Title~ Tooth and Claw
Author~ Annarti
Disclaimer~ All completely mine
Notes~ Latest in the line of Llayan fairy tales, here's the oh-so-belated tale for my Sallie <3! As with Dragon Boy, the main character is never given physical description beyond 'she' so the kiddie reading the story can imagine herself in the main character's shoes. This one... probably targets an older kiddie, tho. People die and stuff.
ANYWAY. This is for my Sallie, who loves her some werewolves, oddly matched couples and a touch of Beauty and the Beast. And Ruskies. And blond men with rugged sexy faces. Shove all that in a blender and something like this falls out. <3 Love my Sallie~!
( 11 501 words ) <-- The cut is fake. Long fic deserves a prettier space to be read in than LJ :D
Mood ~ 
amused
8:45pm, Wed, 16 Nov 2011
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This looked like fun :D See when I get a chance to get around to make them all answer it.
Ask my original characters NSFW questions by throwing these numbers at them! ( Read more... )
Meanwhile in Assiraz
Mood ~ relaxed
4:02pm, Sun, 13 Nov 2011
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Title~ Meanwhile in Assiraz
Author~ Annarti
Disclaimer~ Zakaariss is Sallie's, the rest including Kazin is all mine.
Warnings~ Spoilers~
Notes~ Part of my 'finish off the WIPs' phase, this one's been sitting half-done for more than a year. Basically figuring out what's going on in Assiraz at the time of chapter 12-ish of Tarnish. As such there are spoilers, I guess, but no really huge revelations that the Raykinians haven't already figured out themselves.
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Wordsmith
Mood ~ creative
9:51pm, Mon, 3 Oct 2011
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Title~ Wordsmith
Authors~ ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=91.6)
annarti and Saku
Disclaimer~ Florien is Saku's, Kurae and the rest of Raykin are mine
Notes~ Quite some time after SH reaches its conclusion, Kurae gets sick of how Florien treats his brother. So he goes to fight him. With words. This can only end well.
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Wine
Mood ~ happy
10:01pm, Sun, 7 Aug 2011
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Title~ Wine
Authors~ annarti and drazzi
Warnings~ Gay. But they keep their pants on, promise.
Notes~ This takes place two years or so in the future. Sallie made Kurae a boyfriend, yay! Sebastian's a Llayan chef who opened a restaurant in Ni-Yana about a year ago because his lord and lady and their family in Llayad were PICKY eaters and he HATED that so he came to somewhere a little more open :D Kurae makes a point of going to the grand opening of any new restaurants, so he met Sebastian there. Three years later, this happens :D
Also this thing has more false endings than Return of the King. IT WAS FUN, DAMNIT.
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Kak
Mood ~ creative
11:20pm, Mon, 18 Jul 2011
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Title~ Kak
Author~ Annarti
Disclaimer~ Whole lot's mine
Notes~ God it's been AGES since I've done a minific. Anyway. This came to mind on the way to work this morning. Language is awesome :D
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Map of Ni-Yana
Mood ~ creative
7:54pm, Mon, 4 Jul 2011
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( This has been a long time coming )
Part of rewriting the Big Book of Stuff means mapping important places. I've always known what Ni-Yana looks like, always known that they number their districts from the palace outwards, but actually pinpointing the districts has been a matter of making up a number on the spot and going "yeah~ that's a rich suburb." This will make giving people residences and birth places much easier =3
The big sweeping road that irritatingly crisscrosses everything and splits a couple of districts in two is where the Ra-Lin used to be when Ni-Yana was first built. Then they realised it had moved a fair bit and made another parallel road to the river. So the palace is kind of a long way from the river now. WOOPS. Good thing it's not Nol and Mithé collecting the water >>
The big hexagon things in the markets are where the sort of town square type things are. Big public events happen there :D
The north-eastern corner is where the farmers live, cos it's close to the farms :D The richer farmers live by the river, then the further from the river they live, the less well-off they are. Nobody ever wrongly assumes they're south of the Main Road, not even the nobility on the opposite corner of the city. The yellow-green from 14-36, however? Nothing they say will convince the northerners that they're Not From The South. Whenever I've said someone's from south of the main road BUT NOT THAT FAR SOUTH, that's where they're from.
The Own all live in the 29th and 30th districts, Nimay and Yamin lived as little kiddies in the 12th district, and all the best pubs are in the 7-6-10-26 type area. The Golden Thrai is in the top corner of the 6th X3 I dunno where Big Juggs is. Ask Sallie :D
Pets
Mood ~ 
dorky
3:38pm, Sun, 25 Jul 2010
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Title~ Pets
Author~ Annarti
Disclaimer~ Zakaariss is Sallie's, Assili and the rest of Kazin are mine.
Warnings~ Takes place after Silent Harmony so mild, mild spoilers for that.
Notes~ In GuildWars, Sallie and I have made Assili and Zakaariss, wherein Zakky tamed an iguana. After noting how much the things are like him, this is now canon. Sucked in, Zakky X3
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Apple
Mood ~ creative
7:01pm, Sun, 13 Jun 2010
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Title~ Apple
Author~ Annarti
Disclaimer~ All mine
Notes~ Talechasing mini-challenge, the word being 'apple'. As you may have guessed from the map of Assiraz the other day, I'm doing a bit more planning with the place. As such, here's part one of that. Introducing an upper-middle-class family who you'll see more of to characterise Assiraz. There'll also be a much poorer family coming along at some point. For now, welcome to Assiraz!
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Assiraz City
Mood ~ creative
6:34pm, Mon, 7 Jun 2010
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I want Assiraz city to be like Ni-Yana, in that I know everything about it, where stuff goes on, etc and so on. Expect minifics over coming months :D In the meantime, let's start with a ( map )
The palace is at the top of the hill then the city falls away to the river/valley below. Black lines are walls, from back in the day when the city was small enough to fit inside them, and the green lines are rough borders. The yellow patches are the markets.
So, ye olde Assiraz was once walled in completely back when there wasn't really 'Kazin' as it exists today. I mean, yes~ they pretty much all hate each other now, but when tropical and mountain Kazin were completely separate, much warring happened until tropical Kazin won. This was all, like, 2000 years ago, so Assiraz thinks itself pretty safe now. These days, the Old City, as they call it, is basically a playground for Kazin's rich. Lots of fine dining, cocktail bars, coffee shops, bird aviaries, immaculate gardens, theatres, music halls, and markets filled with expensive and potentially exotic things. It's also where the army barracks are, and the old palace which will have a use, just gimme some time to think of one for it. The old palace is much closer to being a castle, much more heavily fortified, whereas the current one (still several hundred years old, at its core) is all white marble and open.
Nobility on the western face of the hill, close to the Old City and also sunset views, then the slums of the northern quadrant on the north-eastern edge. No paved roads so in monsoon season it's a bit shit. Shizaaqa doesn't look after her peasantry, oh no. Occasionally they get north-easterly breezes that blow the smell of the northern quadrant over the rest of the city. It's not nice =x
The commercial quadrant is pretty much proof that they're a modern city now, with their trade area being closest to the rest of the world rather than their fortifications and army barracks. This is where all the business happens in the city. They have sections for seamstresses, blacksmiths, butchers and whatever else. In Ni-Yana, people tend to have their business on the ground floor of their house, then live on the top floor, but in Assiraz people don't tend to work from home. They'll have their shop frontage in the commercial quadrant where they can show why they're better than every other blacksmith in Assiraz. It makes things easier for people wanting to spend their money :D The only place where this isn't the case is in the Old City, where, because it's old, there's not so much organisation. You'll have a coffee shop next to a theatre then someone selling birds next to them. Commercial quadrant, though, is surprisingly organised for Kazin.
And~ that's the lot for now.
Raykinian Alphabet
Mood ~ creative
4:42pm, Tue, 1 Jun 2010
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As I was redesigning Nolryn's royal regalia I decided I wanted to put some writing on it somewhere. Ended up that I couldn't fit it anywhere and still keep it aesthetically pleasing, but I redesigned the Raykinian alphabet anyway. The previous version I was never happy with, since it looked more like pictograms than actual writing. I've always imagined Raykinian writing to be all squiggly and sort of cursive, so I ( redid it )
Muzzle your Tiger
Mood ~ amused
3:51pm, Thu, 27 May 2010
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Dialogue bunny I mustn't forget to put in somewhere:
Sahid: *is a dick*
Nol: Oh, and Assili, would you please muzzle your tiger?
Assili: That wouldn't help. He's still got claws =/
Kazinian Army Uniform
Mood ~ accomplished
3:16am, Thu, 20 May 2010
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( picture! )
Talechasing Topic of the Week ~ Family
Mood ~ 
sleepy
4:22am, Mon, 17 May 2010
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Talechasing Topic of the Week ~ Family
What are the family relations like? Are same-sex couples allowed? Are the people matriarchal or patriarchal? What's everyone's position within a family? Does the eldest child inherit or the youngest?
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The 100+ Questions Meme ~ Princess Assili
Mood ~ accomplished
2:46am, Thu, 13 May 2010
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It's that meme again! Let's ( fill it out! )
Takeover Bid
Mood ~ creative
6:33pm, Thu, 29 Apr 2010
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Title~ Takeover Bid
Author~ Annarti
Disclaimer~ Commander Zakaariss and Prince Kanera are Sallie's, the rest of Kazin is mine.
Warnings~ liek woah. Up to chapter 18 of Tarnish which I haven't actually written yet, but damnit I wanted to write this. So basically that means Sallie and Shanra, who helped me plan out Tarnish, are the only ones who won't get spoiled here.
Notes~ The dangers of developing a side character are, of course, that they'll want their bits written so they're the main character. Sod you, Sahid. God~ he's so different to writing Nol XD I hope I didn't screw up Kanera and Zakky too much :< WE'LL SEE!
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Flirting with Ideas
Mood ~ accomplished
3:08am, Tue, 27 Apr 2010
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Title~ Flirting with Ideas
Authors~ Annarti and Sallie
Disclaimer~ Commander Zakaariss and Prince Kanera are Sallie's, Princess Assili and the rest of Kazin are Annarti's
Notes~ More getting to know peoples :D As such, potentially reads a bit all over the place, certainly no central character focus, typos cos I'm too lazy to find and fix them, but just a bit of fun :D Zakaariss, as I believe we have established, has his eye on the position of General. This most often means being the empress's not-husband, and Assili's next in line. Give her a few years for hormones to kick in and she'll totally find him hot X) For the moment, though, he's just the most capable of her mum's Commanding Circle.
This one takes place shortly after the last one with Zakaariss and Sahid.
A black mountain, btw, is a black Russian. Kazinian mountains are where the vodka is, so it fits =3
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Training the Child
Mood ~ creative
7:57pm, Thu, 8 Apr 2010
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Title~ Training the Child
Authors~ Annarti and Sallie
Disclaimer~ Commander Zakaariss is Sallie's, Prince Sahid and the rest of Kazin are Annarti's.
Notes~ Getting a handle on these two, because they're fun~ :D Sahid is a dick expected by his parents and society to get into the Commanding Circle, but he's a dick, so he probably won't. He's currently at Sergeant (one rank up from the bottom and another three to Commander) but frankly, he reckons being a prince is far more fun. Zakaariss is the youngest man to be promoted to the Commanding Circle, and damnit if he isn't going to aim for the top spot of General. I love him. He's got smarts. Can totally see how he's made his way to the top with them >D
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Kayani ~ stage 2
Mood ~ artistic
10:44pm, Thu, 1 Apr 2010
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So Kayani have colour now! Finally. Sort of. ( colour! )
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