Pentalithic Ramblings

The world is a little bit like an inverse onion. As you travel further in, each ring is larger than the last. ~Merlin~ What little is known about the grand structure of the universe comes primarily from the enigmatic being known as Merlin, who’s said to be older than the Earth itself and claims to hail…

According to the teachings of Atlantis and the Ministry of Magic, all magic has two colours, the discipline colour and the signature colour. The discipline colour gives some indication of the magic’s effect, while the signature colour gives some indication of who cast the magic. They do not mix - someone using magic sight can see …

Appearance The aishineh are humanoid. They average a little shorter than humans, at around 140 cm (4.5 ft) when standing fully erect, and their slightly more hunched posture makes the difference even more obvious. They are sufficiently similar to humans to pass as one in a costume. Aishineh sport a pair of curved horns emerging from …

The musors are a strange race from a distant star. The name “musors” is an Earth coinage, as their name for themselves is unpronounceable by humans due to their polyphonic language. (The name for the language itself, commonly written Âö, is coincidentally pronounceable. Correct pronunciation requires that the <â> is a quarter tone higher than the …

The word silessi, singular siless, means “person” in the chief language of the species (it’s often spelled silȯssı). Their name for themselves as a species is solonoss (plural solonossı), but this never caught on among English speakers. Another term that may sometimes be used to describe them is Shasskheznı, but this is more properly the name …

The mountain dragon of Atlantis is arguably the most well-known dragon of all, given its use by the Atlantean mounted police force. Appearance A mountain dragon is somewhat larger than a horse, but not so large as an elephant, with scales in varying shades, with green, sky blue, and dark grey being particularly common. Other known …

Variously known as the grass dragon, plains dragon, or dragon wolf, this species is native to the open plains and foothills of Atlantis. Appearance As suggested by one of its alternate names, a full-grown grass dragon is about the size of a wolf. Each wing is almost as large as its torso, and its tail is …

The Chinese dragon, known as lóng in China and sometimes referred to as a “sky serpent”, is actually not related to the true dragons. Its closest living relative is in fact the elusive sea serpent, meaning that its ancestry traces back to the plesiosaurs, though it bears little resemblance to such ancestors. Appearance A Chinese dragon …

Appearance The tree of life, called “vuli” in Atlantean, is a deciduous evergreen tree with dark, smooth bark and spreading branches. Its leaves are a very distinct trefoil; its flowers consist of seven long, narrow yellow petals; and its gold-skinned fruit very closely resembles a peach, though it also possesses features that allow it to be …

Leannán Sí (Seelie) The leannán sí, or “fairy lover”, is a beautiful fae who takes a human lover, granting them inspiration in exchange for their life force - a sort of vampiric muse. English speakers often drop the “si”, shortening the name to “leannan”. (In fact, speakers of many other non-Celtic languages also do this, taking …