https://thread.pinkgothic.com/ 2026-04-25T12:44:03+00:00 https://thread.pinkgothic.com/ https://thread.pinkgothic.com/_media/wiki/dokuwiki.svg text/html 2024-12-30T04:34:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/a-thread-between-the-stars?rev=1735533250&do=diff A Thread Between The Stars is the first book set in kraiaKy, focussing on Nekenalos. Despite rarely being written from his point of view, it predominantly serves as Valcen's backstory. It was initially written as a (privately shared) web serial, running from the 26th of September 2015 text/html 2020-01-25T23:30:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/anigi?rev=1579995053&do=diff Anigi is both a place and an event alluded to several times in A Thread Between The Stars. Caused by Valcen six billion years prior to the events in the aforementioned book, it resulted in his ostracism from his fellow Threadwielders - something Jeneth considers the minimally just punishment. Its name relates to the word text/html 2020-06-20T01:02:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/azhajanaak?rev=1592614943&do=diff Another representative of the radiation of Multituberculates on Nekenalos, the azhajanaak is a rather unassuming burrower. Unlike analogous Earth mammals such as moles, azhajanaaka dig primarily with their head rather than their forelimbs. They have a flattened, elongated head covered with thick bony plates; they are also able to seal their nostrils to keep out dirt, and, like Earth's mole rats, they have a very high tolerance for high concentrations of carbon dioxide. When a text/html 2022-05-07T22:38:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/characters?rev=1651963090&do=diff Recurring Name A Thread Between The Stars The Sky's Umbilical Cord Evenatra ✔ appears ✔ appears Gazhil ✔ appears ✔ appears Jeneth ✔ appears ✔ appears Madjan 💬 mentioned ? Terenyira ✔ appears ✔ appears Valcen ✔ appears ✔ appears Ysikary 💬 mentioned ? text/html 2020-01-07T22:35:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/eyat?rev=1578436503&do=diff EYAT is an abbreviation used in this wiki to refer to Earth Years After Terenyira, denoting time passed since her inception. text/html 2020-01-07T22:35:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/eybt?rev=1578436537&do=diff EYBT is an abbreviation used in this wiki to refer to Earth Years Before Terenyira, denoting timespans from before her inception. text/html 2020-01-15T20:49:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/garukaron?rev=1579121366&do=diff text/html 2020-07-07T19:49:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/hehiviho?rev=1594151362&do=diff Equally nimble both in air and on the ground, the hehiviho is a worthy representative of the lineage of Anurognathidae, which flourished on Earth between the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. A crepuscular and nocturnal animal, it spends the day folded motionless against the tallest tree boughs, hidden by its cryptic coloration. In the twilight, it takes flight to pursue insects much like a bat would. Its flight is not exceptionally fast but very manoeuvrable, and completely silent thanks to the … text/html 2018-01-28T02:39:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/howler?rev=1517107144&do=diff text/html 2017-11-18T21:34:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/human?rev=1511040880&do=diff Humans in kraiaKy are entirely comparable with the humans of our reality. In A Thread Between The Stars's Satellites chapter, while observing that the Nayabaru of Nekenalos are slow thinkers together with Valcen, Jeneth privately laments that humans are quicker to innovate and Earth may not be recognisable when he returns. text/html 2024-10-05T22:44:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/jenekumil?rev=1728168267&do=diff To a human observer, jenekumila would certainly be recognizable as an ant; although a fearsome one, with its six centimeters of size, rivalling with the great Titanomyrma of Earth's past. A closer look, however, would reveal a stranger anatomy. The jaws do not close horizontally against each other, as is the case in most insects, but vertically against a sloping face, giving the head the appearance of a crab's pincer. Minute setae grow on the face plates, which upon contact trigger the closure o… text/html 2024-02-14T21:22:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/kavkem?rev=1707945756&do=diff “” kavkema (singular kavkem) are a sapient Nekenalosan species (“nyaqena”) evolved from Cretaceous Deinonychosaurs. Unlike the Nayabaru, they have barely physically changed since the Cretaceous. Their name likely etymologically stems from the word kavama text/html 2022-11-11T04:32:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/kazeqen?rev=1668141162&do=diff The sapient inhabitants of Zalaagra's domain are collectively referred to as kazeqena by the Threadwielders. As hexapods, they share traits with some human renditions of dragons and are thus typically collectively referred to as Draconics. The following (highly incomplete) phylogeny is known to date: text/html 2018-12-16T03:58:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/kendaneivash?rev=1544932720&do=diff text/html 2024-06-28T20:50:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/kendane%CD%A1ivash?rev=1719607836&do=diff Kendane͡ivash is the language of the Threadwielders. Part of the Threadwielder Commons, it acquires vocabulary whenever someone adds to said vocabulary. A canonical dictionary can be found on the Tarnish website. Characteristics By inherent design, Kendane͡ivash is not a spoken language, but an text/html 2020-01-15T20:48:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/kiikam?rev=1579121282&do=diff text/html 2020-01-07T18:21:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/kumivak?rev=1578421270&do=diff The kumivak is an instructive example of how much the evolution of sauropods on Nekenalos diverged from their ancestors of Earth. Despite being a member of the titanosaur clade, it bears little obvious resemblance to the colossal quadrupeds that are known by this name. Some thirty million years ago, a certain species of titanosaurs gave birth to calves that frequently rose on their hindlimbs to browse on shrubs and used their forelimbs to pull down fruit-bearing branches before moving into the o… text/html 2020-01-15T20:48:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/maenona?rev=1579121332&do=diff text/html 2019-12-09T22:49:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/murehej?rev=1575931791&do=diff A close relative of the much larger rheshjere - indeed, separated by it only by a few million years of independent evolution - the murehej is a precious resource in the driest regions of Asheenagiji, its sand-colored pycnofiber coating as efficient at protecting it from the diurnal heat as from the nocturnal cold. In its native semi-desert and brushland, it uses its beak - much more massive than that of the text/html 2024-10-08T22:24:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/nayabaru?rev=1728426249&do=diff The term “Nayabaru” means two different things depending on context. It can either mean the second sapient species of Nekenalos, or the meta-culture that this species predominantly shares. In latter sense, Terenyira is a Nayabaru. Species (image courtesy of Concavenator) text/html 2022-11-27T13:47:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/nyaqen?rev=1669556862&do=diff The sapient inhabitants of Nekenalos are collectively referred to as nyaqena by the Threadwielders. They comprise the following species: * kavkema * Nayabaru They have a few things in common: * Time-keeping * Cardinal directions text/html 2020-07-07T19:50:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/osodijor-kteves?rev=1594151451&do=diff A descendant of an early representative, as yet unknown to human science, of the family Pelagornithidae, a lineage of massive seabirds whose distinctive feature is a heavily serrated beak effectively armed with sharp false teeth. The ancestors of the text/html 2018-05-12T22:36:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/planets?rev=1526164591&do=diff The following planets are known to be inhabited by sapients: * Earth (of Sol) * Nekenalos (of Upsilon Andromedae) * Sesakanala text/html 2022-06-07T15:53:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/pronouns?rev=1654617200&do=diff Pronouns in the kraiaKy universe can take some getting used to, especially those that describe Threadwielders. As a rule, the following sets of pronouns are used: * ve / vis / ver / verself is a set of pronouns used predominantly for the 'true form' of Threadwielders. It's gender-neutral, given they don't have any biological sex to refer to. It can also be used for other sexless characters, or those known not to identify with either gender. text/html 2018-01-28T02:40:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/qichelek?rev=1517107247&do=diff text/html 2020-01-15T20:47:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/qidravem?rev=1579121250&do=diff text/html 2018-01-28T02:41:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/qiselek?rev=1517107264&do=diff text/html 2018-01-28T02:42:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/qishelek?rev=1517107370&do=diff text/html 2018-01-28T02:40:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/qis%CC%88elek?rev=1517107231&do=diff text/html 2018-01-21T23:53:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/sessions?rev=1516578813&do=diff Based on 'A Thread Between The Stars' Tarnish Tarnish has its own website at tarnish.thorngale.net. The roleplay plays on Asheenagiji, predominantly amongst the mountains wedged between the Sinukaaj and Silukaaj deserts, and takes its name from the faith Nitish Ynas (“Tarnish”). It makes all sessions played text/html 2020-01-18T22:09:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/shyilun?rev=1579385394&do=diff text/html 2020-01-18T22:10:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/shy%CD%A1ilun?rev=1579385409&do=diff text/html 2022-04-24T21:37:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/sidebar?rev=1650836259&do=diff World: * Characters * Planets * Species * Kendane͡ivash Roleplay: * Sessions Literature: * Terror of Time * A Thread Between The Stars * The Sky's Umbilical Cord ---------- Wiki: * Wanted pages * Orphaned pages text/html 2024-10-05T22:39:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/species?rev=1728167974&do=diff Sapients in bold: * insects * jenekumila * mammals * azhajanaaka * humans * yenaksima * nekena * hehivihoa * kumivaka * mureheja * osodijor ktevesa * rheshjerea * vesavihoa * yerralejona * zalvesa * zarmata * zilzi hes̈etikia * zujiheja * nyaqena * kavkema * Nayabaru * kazeqena * Isasjana * Netaru * Lhenahehiema (Hiema) * Mirhata * Imiyirha * Rashtaryka * Shareseja * text/html 2022-06-07T15:54:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/start?rev=1654617284&do=diff This wiki is growing organically and should not be used as a reference yet. It currently contains information up to (but not including) Kaleidoscope #4, only sparsely garnished with information known to come later. Stuff not in the sidebar or reasonably easy to navigate to yet: text/html 2020-01-15T20:49:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/tamas%CC%88elu?rev=1579121395&do=diff text/html 2020-01-15T20:47:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/tehaba%CD%A1in?rev=1579121235&do=diff text/html 2024-12-30T04:27:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/terror-of-time?rev=1735532859&do=diff When the author of A Thread Between The Stars was around ten years old, ve started writing books in the kraiaKy universe in a series ve called Terror of Time. This universe was much more of a patchwork of ideas back when ve first made it, and it took until 2015 (when ve was thirty) for ver to seriously attempt reconstructing it. text/html 2020-01-24T23:54:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/thread?rev=1579910049&do=diff Thread is a resource that gives Threadwielders their descriptive name. Technically speaking, there is nothing that prevents any other creature from using Thread as well, but due to the way the evolution of the universe has favoured sophonts tightly bound to the 3-brane's electromagnetic reality, Threadwielders are the only that can intuit its use. text/html 2021-01-12T01:53:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/threadwielder?rev=1610416406&do=diff Threadwielders are dark matter creatures with neutrino 'vision'. Broadly, they were responsible for the creation of the universe, which was designed to be self-unpacking. Madjan was the first Threadwielder to gain minimal sentience after the seeding of the universe, and gradually improved verself until ve had enough agency to 'awaken' the rest of the Threadwielders coded into the universe. text/html 2020-01-15T20:49:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/tkanetar?rev=1579121357&do=diff text/html 2018-05-12T21:49:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/upsilon-andromedae?rev=1526161760&do=diff Upsilon Andromedae is the native stellar system of the planet Nekenalos and the stars Mekiva (Titawin, or Upsilon Andromedae A) and Daskuvar (Upsilon Andromedae B). It contains one artificial planetoid by the name As̈raavahr. The following terminology correspondences exist for the system: text/html 2017-11-18T21:34:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/ve?rev=1511040880&do=diff text/html 2017-11-18T21:34:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/ver?rev=1511040880&do=diff text/html 2020-01-07T18:21:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/vesaviho?rev=1578421290&do=diff The vesaviho is among the last representatives of a rather obscure group of pterosaurs, the Chaoyangopteridae, known to the inhabitants of Earth from fossils of the Early Cretaceous, but in reality surviving just long enough to be sampled for Nekenalos. Many of their descendants on the new planet specialized as coastal fish-eaters. Two features that distinguish the vesaviho from its chaoyangopterid kin are considerably larger and stronger wing-fingers, useful to hold a grip on sheer cliffs, and … text/html 2020-07-07T19:52:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/yenaksim?rev=1594151562&do=diff A rare example of a predator mammal. An observer from Earth might find analogies with wild cats, which the yenaksim resembles in ecology, behavior, and size, although it belongs to a very different branch of the Cretaceous radiation of mammals; namely, the multituberculates, distinguished by a text/html 2019-12-09T22:47:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/zarmat?rev=1575931622&do=diff Thousands of generation of selective breeding have molded this ceratopsian (likely a relative of Microceratus or Graciliceratops from Late Cretaceous Earth) into a variety of breeds. Here depicted is a typical medium-sized house breed, feeding on one of the oil-rich seeds that form the foremost part of its diet and justify its powerful jaws and fast-growing beak sheath. In fact, whereas most basal ceratopsians on Nekenalos are omnivorous to some degree, with a handful of specialized predator for… text/html 2020-06-20T01:00:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/zilzi-hes%CC%88etiki?rev=1592614830&do=diff The zilzi hes̈etiki is one of the most common herbivores in the temperate regions of western Asheenagiji. Closely related to small-bodied ornithopods of the Late Cretaceous such as Orodromeus and Parksosaurus, it spends it time browsing in small familiar groups in forests and open woodlands, with one or two individuals serving as watchers while others feed. Its rather drab coloration is broken by a pale, spotted feather mane, and by a sort of feather flag with striking black-and-white bands grow… text/html 2021-12-24T00:46:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://thread.pinkgothic.com/zujihej?rev=1640306817&do=diff Zujiheja are Nayabaru-domesticated, vaguely gazelle-like ceratopsians. They are used for fleet-footed travel, which makes them fairly rarely encountered, as Nayabaru are not very travel-happy in general, and certainly not without cargo. (A picture will hopefully follow at some random point in time. In the meantime, you can look at King Kong lore's