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[Fault]

here's some supplementary information explaining the familial relation between Josef and William.




EDIT: I should change William's ancestry to "explorer clan" going with the family/clan definitions below

[ein]

Ooh, I love trees.
Ever since I read Lord of the Rings.

Care to expand/do Wilhelm's?

[Fault]

In time, if elements of Wilhelm's ancestry become important to the story.

oh, and Jonathan is the uncle who told Josef about wolfbears when he was a child.

[Acanthus117]

Awesome.
Seeing as I'm stuck, I'm so gonna reread this shit.

[Fault]

EXPLANATION OF FAMILY HISTORY NAMING AND PROFESSION DYNAMICS

the main human society in EFFIGIES (the coastal and plains people, as opposed to the Outlanders) does not use last names. A person's full title is their first name followed by "the [Profession]", I.E "William the Historian", "Josef the Merchant". Each family (or "clan", if it includes unrelated/adopted members) has an associated group of closely related professions. these professions are passed paternally - it is expected that a child will take up the profession of his/her father (or at least take a profession related to his father's), as taking up a different profession would warrant spending time away from the family to learn from a different clan.

In addition to professions, elements of name structure are also passed paternally. Children are usually given names which start with the same letter as their father's name, and In some cases the name will contain the first letter of the father's name and the last letter of the mother's (Anya + Martin = Mina). It is considered acceptable to re-use the same name as one of your ancestors as long as he is three generations behind you (a child can be given his great-grandfather's name, but not that of his grandfather or younger). Like all rules, exceptions to these do exist.

[Acanthus117]

Damn, that's interesting.

YAYY BACKSTORY

[Fault]

heh, yeah there are aspects of the EFFIGIES mythos that I've put like HOURS of thought into making them really elaborate and interesting, and other bits of story where they've just been snap decisions like "oh yeah and then this should happen"
and then there's the bits mid-story where I still haven't completely planned out how to get from beginning to end

it balances out, I guess.

[Fault]

Page #30 is up!

In which the door to the temple is finally revealed.

Nothing that interesting happens in this page... it's kinda just stuff I need to get out of the way before the BIG EVENTFUL STUFF occurs.

which will occur... VERY SOON

[Acanthus117]

Yay! New page!

[Diablous]

Woohoo!

[SolarShado]

What was that "click"? The doors hitting the walls or something inside?

[RedWarrior0]

It seems I have stumbled upon this thread. Awesome work.

[Fault]

What was that "click"? The doors hitting the walls or something inside?

it's probably just the door's locking mechanism. Of course, it could be the sound of spike traps arming, but it's probably nothing.

It seems I have stumbled upon this thread. Awesome work.

thanks. I put a link to the thread in the comic description - Hopefully it will draw more people to the thread.

[Sensei]

heh, yeah there are aspects of the EFFIGIES mythos that I've put like HOURS of thought into making them really elaborate and interesting, and other bits of story where they've just been snap decisions like "oh yeah and then this should happen"
and then there's the bits mid-story where I still haven't completely planned out how to get from beginning to end

it balances out, I guess.

Heh, my stories usually involve a bit of a deconstruction of existing mythos, then some whimsical details I make up, then me ruthlessly deconstructing those.

[Acanthus117]

Hehe, I've hit a roadblock while writing my story.

That roadblock is Effigies and tons of other roadblocks.