Slatepaw : Writing inclinations

Insert better term here.

Another attempt at writing development.

When writing for my Slatepaw characters focus on smells and sound, reactions should be reasonably animalistic. Sudden sharp sounds tend to make Slatepaws jump. And get increasingly nervous depending on the smells that cling to people.

Sound example.

The busy streets of down town Seized-Port rang out with the beat of early Monday.

JinJin already out and active darting around the sluggish Monday zombies. She climbed into the corner of the street, Michael's City Postage, to get work. The hum of the city died down, Jacob waved her in, "Hey my favorite orange lightning bolt.", He handed her the first package of the week. Jinjin did her best to reply "Thank Jacob.", The orange kobold turned around and bolted out. The beat of the streets returned, moving with the step of the city JinJin shot off to earn her rent.

Wow, that is so much harder than you would expect. I read it back to my self and I know that it isn't that good, but it isn't ... bad.

Slatepaw Character : Jareko reference

Bwuhahaha! Reference for Jareko, with a few mistakes.

Also Torok, do not try and fight the berserker kobold of DEATH.

Slatepaw characters : Timithy

Timithy...

Family, given, chosen, and claimed.

Aelpht, Yust, Timithy and no claimed.

He has no claimed, because he is better known as Aelpht Timithy.

The Aelpht family is mostly known for the exotic fur colors and patterns their kobolds have.

This also makes it next to impossible to hide from the local fanfair.

He is generally untrusting about unknowns. He hates to be left in the dark. Once commited to a job he tends to finish them. He dislikes freeloaders. He dislikes if he is a burden. Other details in progress.

I dunno.

Slatepaw characters : Jareko

(I am not happy with this colorscheme yet, but its gonna be greenish.)

This is Jareko.

Following, family, given, chosen, and claimed...

Urnsurpt, Lek, Jareko, Feysin.

Urnsurpt because it sounds long winded.

Lek, short and sorta sounds like link.

Jareko because he wanted to have a longer name.

Feysin was... Elderin spell blade? I suppose so, but it's like calling oneself Moontin when you are a werewolf.

He doesn't use his claimed name often, it feel into pretty much complete disuse after he was sent to SeizePort.

He is pretty forward with his opinions. Likes experimentation. Will get even in some shape or form if you knowingly wrong him. He is properly paranoid about otherworldly things. He is very aware of all escape routes, never wanting to be in the nightmare that he was in.

He has survived a rather psychopathic adventurer attack, he was the one that managed to kill the adventurer in question. He is reasonably adept with magic, however preferring passive magics over magic. (For example, elemental brands versus fireballs.) More of a selfbuffer than offensive blasty pow pow.

Slatepaw characters : Shale

ACTIVITY GOOOOOooo...

Following the same... Family, given, chosen, and claimed.

Tenth, Met, Shale, and no active claimed.

The Tenth family. Which may or may not be the actual tenth formed family.

The given name Met because his parents thought it sounded fancy and from another language.

Shale another simply because he liked it.

He is fairly naive about how the world works. Once he makes a decision he sticks to it, adversely he rarely gets a chance to make such decisions for himself.

Tends towards fight or flight. Is the nervous type, tends to cling to familiar grounds.

Is a reasonable judge of character.

He was sent to SeizedPort due to lack of discipline, he was not fairing too well in his assigned role.

He had the talent to become a Spell thief, but the required skills to be military level alluded him. With no other skills the management dumped him over in SeizedPort on a equally troublesome agent, with the hope that maybe something productive will come of it.

Slatepaw characters : JinJin

And to keep the writing up... All of my slatepaws need to be defined.

On the left here is Jinjin. (Urg that shading hurts...)

Following the, family, given, chosen, and claim names...

Tenth, Pet, Kit, JinJin.

Tenth family, I'll have to pun this...

Pet, following the short names, that will also have to be punned.

Kit, because she liked it and it was short.

JinJin, a once famous hobbit delivery runner, replaced in fame by Lulzy.

Directly related to Shale, they came from the same litter.

She was the best off of the whole group of story focused slatepaws.

She likes to explore, is independent, and is fairly adventurous.

She is easily frustrated, she tries to avoid asking for help.

She was shipped of to SeizedPort (I dunno what to call it.) Due to association with her brother Shale. Who for reasons related to him was booted over there as well.

World building : Slatepaw naming system

Besides the fact that I should be writing more. letsee what I can do.

Slatepaws operate by family names.

How one slatepaw's actions reflect on their family is empathized. when it comes to recognizing names one's family envoke how one should treat them, respect or scorn.

For lack of better term, dishonored families are unlikely to stand for long. Younger family members tired of the scorn they receive disown themselves, losing all value, except for their personal relationships, often preferred from the complete ill they receive from others.

Now rarely do individual Slatepaws become notable. It is more often that the family in general receives credit for what they did.

Most often because of this, the individual kobolds take "claimed" names of famous persons from any culture. The names are taken when the person in question feels like they match the abilities and other qualities of this other person.

When a kobold does somehow gain enough fame that they are recognizable, it is polite to actually wait until that kobold at least dies before others use it as a claimed name.

Timithy Yarnt (RANDOM LAST NAME GO!!)

For example is recognizable for his name and is also very easy to pick out of a crowd.

The event that pushed him into being famous was a historical event for the kobolds.

His tower along with four others fought off the entirety of a swarm of abominations and fiends.

The four other members may not have received such fame as he, being more recognizable in fur pattern. But their names will become claim names for courage and all that good stuff.

Eventually I will have to write and illustrate this event, but that day is not this day.

So in the end the common Slatepaw kobold has a...: Family name, Given name, Chosen name, and a Claim name.

For example Shale's names respective to the last.

Tenth, Met, Shale, no claimed.

Family names tend to be at least two parts long. Given tends to be short and end sharply. The Chosen is of course what ever sounds cool to the kobold in question.

That is pretty much what randomness I have to say. It is unstructered, makes no sense, and isn't any fun to read. :)

At least I got this on paper now.