Starting a thread over here to avoid clutter. Feel free to contradict me on things (or just inform me that Sasha's understanding is incomplete).
Houses
The Naxar have Houses. I'm thinking they are like privately held corporations with hereditary membership. So for example Sasha has 5/8 of a share in Fountain House, which specializes in shipping and logistics, averaging her father's half-share and her mother's 3/4-share. (Sasha's mother votes Sasha's share, as a proxy.) In Sasha's day you could also buy into a House, if you had the equivalent of a couple of million dollars lying around and weren't Kirrish.
A certain portion of Sasha's childhood social difficulties were caused by the fact that a partial share in Fountain House was worth a lot more money than a full share in Mulberry House, which controlled the local mines.
Language
The Naxorian language has at least four grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, animate neuter, inanimate neuter) and no definite or indefinite articles. The 'x' is really more like a chi (High Language speakers never get this right).
Atrocities
I've been assuming the way the mines worked was fundamentally horrifying, but it took a while for me to figure out why that should be so, assuming a largely mechanized system. One possibility is that Kirrish people were trapped within the mining machines. When the heptarchate liberated the Kirrish, it presumably retained knowledge of the relevant technology for its own ends (like moth harnesses??)
The heptarchate's conquest may also have involved Naxorian mecha turning on their officers.
I love this! Could you expand on the concept of Houses? How do they work / what is their purpose and function in society? What is the difference between a partial and full share?
The Houses are like family businesses-- but huge conglomerate family businesses. Think Koch Industries or the Mars candy corporation or the Mafia.
In Sasha's day, the three branches of government were the military/executive, the judiciary/religious scholars, and the legislature/Council of Houses. The military were crushed by the heptarchate in the War of Liberation and the judiciary were replaced by the Vidona & Rahal, but the Houses survived in some form.
If you're legally of age (23) and own a full House share, you receive a certain amount of money every year from your House. If you're actively working for the House you get extra, and if you're at executive level you get even more.
If you have a fractional share you get only that fraction of the House funding (and that's true for the extras as well, so a full-share executive makes twice as much as a half-share executive would in the same position).
If you have anything more than a half share you can vote in House elections for the Board of Directors and to choose the House's representatives to the Council of Houses. Again, fractions of a share mean fractions of a vote.
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Naxorian worldbuilding
Houses
The Naxar have Houses. I'm thinking they are like privately held corporations with hereditary membership. So for example Sasha has 5/8 of a share in Fountain House, which specializes in shipping and logistics, averaging her father's half-share and her mother's 3/4-share. (Sasha's mother votes Sasha's share, as a proxy.) In Sasha's day you could also buy into a House, if you had the equivalent of a couple of million dollars lying around and weren't Kirrish.
A certain portion of Sasha's childhood social difficulties were caused by the fact that a partial share in Fountain House was worth a lot more money than a full share in Mulberry House, which controlled the local mines.
Language
The Naxorian language has at least four grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, animate neuter, inanimate neuter) and no definite or indefinite articles. The 'x' is really more like a chi (High Language speakers never get this right).
Atrocities
I've been assuming the way the mines worked was fundamentally horrifying, but it took a while for me to figure out why that should be so, assuming a largely mechanized system. One possibility is that Kirrish people were trapped within the mining machines. When the heptarchate liberated the Kirrish, it presumably retained knowledge of the relevant technology for its own ends (like moth harnesses??)
The heptarchate's conquest may also have involved Naxorian mecha turning on their officers.
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In Sasha's day, the three branches of government were the military/executive, the judiciary/religious scholars, and the legislature/Council of Houses. The military were crushed by the heptarchate in the War of Liberation and the judiciary were replaced by the Vidona & Rahal, but the Houses survived in some form.
If you're legally of age (23) and own a full House share, you receive a certain amount of money every year from your House. If you're actively working for the House you get extra, and if you're at executive level you get even more.
If you have a fractional share you get only that fraction of the House funding (and that's true for the extras as well, so a full-share executive makes twice as much as a half-share executive would in the same position).
If you have anything more than a half share you can vote in House elections for the Board of Directors and to choose the House's representatives to the Council of Houses. Again, fractions of a share mean fractions of a vote.