Arcanum Paterfamilias & Estvarya -- Ishvaran Glossary: Introduction and Orthography
Authors:
mfelizandy &
fractured_chaos
Graphics:
fractured_chaos
Rating: For the Glossary, Everyone -- For the Story, Teen
Category: Written for the 2010 FMA Big Bang Challenge.
Disclaimer: Fullmetal Alchemist (Hagane no Renkinjutsushi) was created by Arakawa Hiromu and is serialized monthly in Shonen
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We sort of divided the Ishvarun into three distinct cultures, as well. The most insular being the mozhkarishki, the nomadic Ishvarun. Then there are the southern tribes that came out of Aerugo (which is Africa in our 'verse ( ... )
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As I recall, at one point we actually ended up telling each other, "We have to add some warts to this society, it's too perfect!"
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...by a hair. XD
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And we expected to catch some flack on that, but when we first began plotting this story, it was about a year before The Prince of Dawn, and we'd already plotted Aerugo to be that world's equivalent to Africa, and we didn't want to change it... because if we did, we'd have to change Makhu, and we like Makhu XD
Oh yes, and one more thing, didn't the Aerugo military block off the entrences to the coutry from the Ishvalens? I was just thinking..
Yes they did, during the conflict. But in our 'verse, Ishvarun had been enslaved by Aerugo hundreds of years previous, and there is a piece of "history" we have lying around that describes when the Ishvarun made the exodus out of Aerugo and slavery.... but there were some Ishvarun who remained behind, and still live there to this day... in fact, Makhu had decided to leave, and spent some time with the mozhkarishki ( ( ... )
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Makhu is mentioned in the prologue, but makes his first actual appearance in Ch 1. And there will be some backstory, eventually, explaining the competitiveness between him and Scar/Mishyael.
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I actually did some very rough calculations at one point, trying to work out how big Amestris is using the train-travel times mentioned in canon. To sum it up...fractured_chaosHere's the long, rambling version discussing the likely average speed of a passenger train in Amestris...oh, and a fair amount of the backstory/worldbuilding for the Ishvarun and Aerugans as they're imagined in this story. Of course if the continents on that version of Earth didn't drift the same way ours did, it's every fangirl for herself ( ... )
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