villainous-queer-deactivated202 asked:
cardassianlanguage answered:
I actually had a chat about this with @tinsnip, because this is some neat worldbuilding that I wanted to do justice.
So! For starters, if blue is very popular with your Cardassians, then there ought to be a word for it. As it turns out, among humans at least, linguistically, it takes a while for words distinguishing blue and green to develop. Depending on how old your legends about the various ‘buses are, they might be referred to as “mar” (currently used for green only) instead of “maract” (mahr-asht), blue which I now need to add to the dictionary.
I’m going to suggest “marbet” (mahr-bayt) as the oldest base word for these creatures. Cardassians generally don’t fuss about gender much, and I’m not so sure it would matter much to them whether that sort of monster were lying on top, lying under, or switching, so that’s less important. If you’d like, though, I could come up with multiple words.
Also, many of the oldest religious/mythological figures have regional variants of their names. The goddess who governed the worst of the afterlife was known as Arik'aca, Arik'vassa, or Varikassa. The mother goddess Glacett was also known as Marett or even Lametta. Other gods, like Endaras (a goddess who appears to hardworking Cardassians to grant them her favour) and Oralius tend to have names without many, or any, regional variants. So it’s very possible that there could be other names for these beings. I can lend a hand there, too. <3
One thing that might be kind of fun would be to refer to these monsters as working against Endaras’ will as they tempt faithful Cardassians away from their hard work. Not sure if that would fit with your worldbuilding, but you never know.
Thanks for your patience, and happy writing!
(All deities mentioned are from the Cardassian Sourcebook.)
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