The Nomad Lore

[Treewyrm]

Well, the diagram shows a rather simplified comparison of common terms used throughout everyday communication, stuff that is as common as word "me". Stuff we live with and use as the basic blocks in our logic. Where is the threshold that separates "we" from "them"? Technically it should help to get some basic grasp on these terms, to see which terms are applicable for them which are not. But then again, such stuff requires some degree of abstraction and it's not surprising at all that it can confuse at first. Kinda the reason why I asked Nathan to make a visual diagram out of it is that explaining it all in text took me several hours of nearly non-stop text typing resulting in a very huge wall of text that I think was more difficult to comprehend than a single image diagram.

Why such complexity? Typically when some alien specie is being created we typically borrow concepts from our own societies, shuffling and mixing them a bit, but at the end in the result it's often pretty easy to figure out which parts has been taken from where, and quickly all the sense of those beings alien wanes off revealing the naked skeleton of misplaced bones. So this takes a slightly different route, pretty much it's a part of the roleplay experiment I was taking with the faction, exploring further far reaches and horizons of the roleplay by borrowing elements from a different area. Due to my profession I tend to work with various databases, networks, arranging information and data types into complex relative and hierarchical structures, and so this was largely inspired by them. Splitting to the very basic terms in order to create a complex structure.