Musings on Monstrousness

 I actually do have something on this as I am a prolific namer and often devise immense casts of funny little characters for my campaigns or worldbuilding projects and so on, though until the recent discourse on the subject i never interrogated myself on the exact mechanisms of my process. Having thought about it I can pinpoint a few details about it that probably consist of the core off how I go around naming guys. I also don't want to sound like I'm stating the obvious or what a bunch of people know but I'm trying to explain my process from first principles so I apologize if it sounds that way. Also I'm not gonna complain if people have entirely different methods or actually fuck with Herpys. 1. No historical names or things. I'm not naming someone like Euphemia or Narcolepsy. Not against it I just don't do it often (unless it is a historical setting ofc) 2. Derive naming conventions off of historical or modern names but make them a little different (Chasta, A...

For  GLAUGUST    Think of the soul as the unique conglomeration of every memory which is experienced, assembled as some spiritual second substrate layered over the physical body. A unique song where every instance is a note. Life is the continual composition of the song. Death is when it ceases because it no longer is tied to the physical world. No machinery, like a mind or eyes and hands, exists to record it.  To bring someone back to life is to restart the song. A fragment which contains it must be obtained. A corpse is best, of course, because it is like an inert record which may yet be spun up if restored properly. The fresher the better, of course, and damage can cause parts to be missing. This is why so many undead are mad, chunks of who they were did not carry over, but they are not a new person; they are the same person they were, "missing" parts. It is the reverse of a SOMA situation; if you can perfectly replicate a copy of a dead person, the dead person re...