Motorcars are somewhat common, roughly as they were in the 1920s in our world. There are no planes, but air travel is possible via dirigibles. Jay can drive a motorcar, but prefers not to, finding them loud, obnoxious and dirty. He has never been on a dirigible, as he has not had the opportunity to travel much.
A notable ethnocultural group must be mentioned: the qarnot (singular and adjective: qeren). They are a diasporic group that have lost their original homeland and now live all around Mir, usually shunned, scapegoated and persecuted. They share a religion, worshipping a solar deity (they hold that Mir 's sun is the eye of their god). Culturally, they 've retained a coherent identity (though it does get complicated in places) across the …show more content…
He was assigned female at birth, came to experience severe gender dysphoria and realised he was not a woman when he was around 12 or so. He started attempting to present male around age 14 and began medical transition at 18. His actual gender identity is complicated; he defaults to telling people (and in part, himself) that he is a man, because he is quite sure he 's not a woman and he 's unaware there are other options (or at least, other options that are available to him). In modern-day circumstances, he would likely come to consider himself nonbinary/genderqueer, but in his context within his setting, he considers himself an effeminate man, with the caveat that the fact he 's a gay man is a key part of his …show more content…
He has vivid blue eyes, sharp cheekbones and a prominent, crooked nose. His hands and feet are rather large for his frame and his fingers and toes are a bit longer than one would expect. He wears his fingernails long. His black, kinky hair is cropped short, but he 's been letting it get a little overgrown lately. His ears are pointed--in Ryslig, they will be normal, human ears--and he 's missing about two-thirds of his left ear. He has a pale, twisted scar on his right cheek. Prior to arriving in Ryslig, he had three blue eye-spots on each cheekbone, but they have disappeared as he has become human and mortal and thus lost his Spirit
A notable ethnocultural group must be mentioned: the qarnot (singular and adjective: qeren). They are a diasporic group that have lost their original homeland and now live all around Mir, usually shunned, scapegoated and persecuted. They share a religion, worshipping a solar deity (they hold that Mir 's sun is the eye of their god). Culturally, they 've retained a coherent identity (though it does get complicated in places) across the …show more content…
He was assigned female at birth, came to experience severe gender dysphoria and realised he was not a woman when he was around 12 or so. He started attempting to present male around age 14 and began medical transition at 18. His actual gender identity is complicated; he defaults to telling people (and in part, himself) that he is a man, because he is quite sure he 's not a woman and he 's unaware there are other options (or at least, other options that are available to him). In modern-day circumstances, he would likely come to consider himself nonbinary/genderqueer, but in his context within his setting, he considers himself an effeminate man, with the caveat that the fact he 's a gay man is a key part of his …show more content…
He has vivid blue eyes, sharp cheekbones and a prominent, crooked nose. His hands and feet are rather large for his frame and his fingers and toes are a bit longer than one would expect. He wears his fingernails long. His black, kinky hair is cropped short, but he 's been letting it get a little overgrown lately. His ears are pointed--in Ryslig, they will be normal, human ears--and he 's missing about two-thirds of his left ear. He has a pale, twisted scar on his right cheek. Prior to arriving in Ryslig, he had three blue eye-spots on each cheekbone, but they have disappeared as he has become human and mortal and thus lost his Spirit