RS117 A side effect of a suneaters’ enumeration of time in mere days is that his or her age appears, as a number, to be monstrously high. That the other Erjan races use years to count age, coupled with the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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RS118 To suneaters, ‘night’ represents stillness and death, and the word itself refers to the absence of the sun not only literally, but ultimately—to the to the end of the world, when the sun will set on the Great Day[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RS119 Hello, readers! Due to a recent injury from which Jenn has only recently recovered, we must presently halt our update schedule for a little while in order to replenish the comic’s buffer. We will in the meantime however continue[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RS120 We apologize for the incredibly long hiatus; 2020 was a difficult year for us all. For the immediate future, Rising Sand will be adopting a looser update schedule—but don’t worry, it will still be fairly regular. No nine-month silences.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RS121 It is evident that eidolans are near-uniformly well endowed in terms of physique, as well as corresponding strength. Myths abound regarding why this is so, and untested prejudice is not the only reason they do—tested prejudice also plays a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RS122 It has in fact been put forth by some that perhaps eidola are impervious to injury and age alike. While this is to date as unfounded as any other eidolan myth, it is notable that the odd eidolan farmhand[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RS123 Suneaters prefer to be left to their own devices, and do not interact with the other races of Erj on a day-to-day basis. This is perhaps truer nowhere than in the relationship between suneater and sylph; while suneaters, as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RS154 The occasional erjan who has a passing familiarity with the true suneater culture—minus their facade of demonic barbarity—has typically heard that they enumerate large passages of time only in days. However, this is not the only importance the concept[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RS155 To suneaters, Erj’s coming Night has classically been considered a foregone conclusion—something which augury has determined is inescapable, and thus must be accepted without protest. Notably, this somewhat contrasts the erjan concept of the Abrogation, the threat of which[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RS156 To the other races of Erj, the steed of the suneater—colloquially known as a ‘bike’, a truncation and corruption of the suneater word vvrblbjqrq (lit. ‘(one is) to ride’)—seems almost as magic. Though merely another application of the suneaters’[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…