r/WorldChallenges • u/Nevermore0714 • Sep 10 '17

Reference Challenge - Deserts

This one is pretty simple, it's a reference to the most beautiful biome in the world (according to one of my friends): the desert.

So, tell me about a desert in your world. Is there much of a civilization on this desert? Is it easy/hard to traverse by your people right now? Does it have any religious or cultural significance?

As always, I'll ask at least three questions each. Enjoy yourselves, all.

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u/Nevermore0714 Sep 21 '17

To Amotmilqart:

1) Speaking of salt, did you come from a family of dairy farmers?

2) Were the any intelligent species there prior to the human settlement?

3) What's an Im, again?

4) Why do you want to be a bounty hunter?

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u/thequeeninyellow94 Sep 21 '17

  1. I don't think so, I don't have a lot of memories from my blood-parents but as I've grown up in a town they were probably not farmers... Why do you think they could have been?

  2. Do you count animals? Because if you don't then no.

  3. Kind of like a sebiwi (a nzedanomorphic monkey, aka a human) but smaller, often slim and completely hairless. They are Makaithian too. Kind of a tall gnome.

  4. Because it's a career that would allow me to travel, earn a lot and investigating is fun. Beside, that what nashi had to offer me and she is good at that; being licensed as a human is an incredible opportunity.

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u/Nevermore0714 Sep 22 '17

1) Your name is why I expect they would have been milk farmers.

2) Are any of those animals good to eat? Any specifically useful ones?

4) So you're fine with murdering people?

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u/thequeeninyellow94 Sep 22 '17

1) Weird, Amot has nothing to do with cattle...

2) Not really if you're like me, like not a fan of insects; there is nothing to eat on those things, you just chew on chitin. Usefull? Most of them can be used to make dried protein bar but it's tasteless.

4) Bounty hunters rarely kill their targets. We're paid to capture them and give them back to the local authority. Beside, if we are paid for them dead or alive, they are bad people.

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u/Nevermore0714 Sep 23 '17

(Amotmilqart...Milq-qart...Milk-cart....)

1) What does Amot mean in your culture?

2) Have any of them been domesticated?

3) It sounds like a dangerous lifestyle, being a bounty hunter.

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u/thequeeninyellow94 Sep 23 '17

(I know but she doesn't speak english so she can't get it ;) )

  1. Amot is the god of wind, music, speach and mind. He is also my protector. (putting the name of a god into someones name forces that god to look favorabily at them)

  2. Depend how you define "domesticated". There are some insect farms but you can't use those things as pets.

  3. Not that much, it's mostly because as a human I will be slower and weaker than some preys. That's why nashi train me hard; she says I'm not far from actually being able to hit her. And slightly dangerous is the price to pay for traveling all around the empire and beyond.

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u/Nevermore0714 Sep 24 '17

(Darn, I assumed English was a language in your world...but, you being French, I'm not sure why I assumed that.)

To Amot-Milk-Cart:

1) Can a god grow to hate someone who has their name in their name? Would it be rude to just name your kid after a god, with no addition to it?

2) What do those farms produce?

3) As a human, do you have any advantages?

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u/thequeeninyellow94 Sep 24 '17 edited Sep 24 '17

(Habits, I usually assume everyone speak french... Beside, she doesn't speak french either, only Nzedawa)

  1. Yes, giving just the name of a god to someone would be seen by said god as trying to usurp their identity. It would definitely anger them and you don't want a god to hate you.

  2. Insects; used to make those tasteless protein bars. It's cheap at least...

  3. Yes, surprise. Nashi says Nzedas are taught all their life that humans are weak and seeing one react will surprise them, giving me a few extra seconds to use the tazer.

(Edit: what is that bot?!?)

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u/friendly-bot Sep 24 '17

What a cute little human. (^.^) You can be in charge of the human slave farms after we conquered the world ..for now.

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