User:Amelia Lonelyheart/sandbox 3

Remember that it's all in your head

work in progress.  "Far to the hill we've to go, over the mountain and seas to the old hill where the old dragon sleeps. Blind in the dark dungeon's night, so God please take me away from here..."

- Blind Guardian, "The Hobbit"

To quote my best friend Albente, "dude you have way to much on your plate". Indeed, I do, but that's fun to me. As such, I've been working on a lot of different "verses". This is to help me keep track of stuff from them while hopefully be a fun/interesting read for others. Maybe? Who knows. Onward to adventure!

Introduction
I am a linguistics enthusiast (but admittedly, I'm pretty horrible at actual linguistic work). As such, I'm a huge fan of "Conlanging". As some may have noticed, some of my pages feature words in my "contructed languages", such as "Proto-Zozan" (See: Dyeus-Zatar) which was meant to be a Proto version of Proto-Indo-European language spoken by the Post-Allodian tribes of Urn.

Amenia
"In my thoughts, and in my dreams...they're always in my mind...these songs of hobbits, dwarves and men and elves too. Come close your eyes, you can see them too..."

- In The Forest

Overview
"Nature herself has imprinted in the minds of all, the idea of God"

- Cicero, a quote that inspired much of Amenia's mythology and tone "Amenia" is my second longest "running" story I've had, in the sense that out of all the worlds I created, it's the one I worked on the second most. Technically, at least. My longest "running" series is Vintasia: The School of Magic, which I've been on-and-off working on since I was 13. Seven whole years ago. To quote my best of friends once again "Vintasia is your baby, but Amenia is that cool cousin you want to know more" (he's quite the wordsmith). "Amenia" as a word is based off my favorite female name "Amelia". I just kind of came up with the name after naming a Pokemon Amelia and really liked the name. The former name or the series was "Dalm", which wasn't nearly as cool sounding.

In-universe, the term "Amenia" is the Cosmic Hymn word that essentially translates to "home". You see, the "Cosmic Hymn" is the "language" of the universe, a series of primitive sounds uttered by the primal factors of the universe. Due to how primal these sounds are, they have been ingrained in the minds of all (see: quote above). Everything from the Star Men to the Tuck-Tuck Octopus race understand the Hymn and "speak" their own incarnation of it. All language is derived from the conversations the universe had with itself, discussing topics that echoed across of space. This was inspired by my father, who claims the universe talks to him to give him killer chili or burger recipes (can confirm, burgers were killer).

Geography
"Draw a circle, it's the Earth! Draw a circle, look! It's the Earth! Draw a circle, it's the Earth! Such a beautiful world~"

- My bad memory of how Marukatie Chikyuu went.

In the beginning, Amenia was, by all terms, a pretty generic European fantasy setting with several aspects of Polynesian and Native American tribal cultures (primarily Hawaiian and Nan Madol for Polynesian and Mississippi and Cahokia for Native Americans). However, after a streak with depression, I realized I needed to change that. Thus, Amenia was given a makeover. Gone was the brutally generic countryside of rolling hills and forest and in its many, many wars. To take its replace was a world of color. Lavender forest, yellow hills, red mountains and a sickly green moon.

To some, it may be garish, and I understand why, but to me, it's strangely kind of warm and comforting. As a kid, images of orange and purple forests always raced through my mind,

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Characters
"All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts"

- Shakespear