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I was just looking back over this thread and noticed something- are primates absent from your world?

The fennec and the njr̄vg wolf are still too similar, imho- apart from the jawline, they only really differ in proportion, while all of your other canid glyphs have at least a distinctive combination of patterns. Of course, neither animal actually has particularly distinctive patterning in real life...

Have there been any Ktuvok empires where the majority of the subjects were one of the non-human Thinking Kinds? If so, how do they differ from human-majority empires? If not, is this just an accident of history and ecology (what with the humans outnumbering everyone else by so much), or are there bi...

to burrow > wolverine > violent, rapacious person > pirate > frigatebird > unpowered glider > airplane

next word: barley

And, of course, there's the english "To Go West" meaning "To Die", which I've found ascirbed to a Native American folktale, a thirteenth-century poem, and 19th century English thieve's cant, relating it to hangings at Tyneburn Prison.