Hey guys! This chapter has been a particular pain because of the shifting plot and interactions, but it WILL be coming out some time this weekend, because holy crap I need to move on.
Don’t you love it when you’re trying to write out a story, but details and major events keep changing in your head as you go along– making you rewrite entire chapters? :’)
These original characters are apart of a book I’m writing. Which is really just the story that plays in my head all the time, there hasn’t been much writing involved yet. I hope that one day they won’t just be in my head.
That’s Issachar on the Left and Paris on the right.
This isnt a joke my favorite piece of writing advice that I’ve ever seen is someone that said if you were stuck with a fic and couldn’t figure out why or what was wrong, your problem is actually usually about ten sentences back. Maybe there was something wonky about the tone or the dialogue or you added something that didn’t fit but it’s usually ten sentences back. And every single time I get stuck in a fic I count back ten sentences and it’s always fucking there
If you write yourself into a corner, back out of the corner.
Oh boy! Here we go! (questionsbold; answers italic)
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Do Kaleesh pups drink milk from their mothers or are there differences between humans and Kaleesh? Heh, so I HAD thought of this some time ago in my brainstorming of Kaleesh biology, but decided not to write about it in the story itself. I headcanon Kaleesh as mammal-like reptiles, and when it came to the matter of nursing I looked to modern day monotremes for inspiration and reference. Monotremes do lactate from mammary glands, but don’t have nipples—they just sorta secrete milk onto patches on their fur/skin and the babies lap it up. So, uh. To answer your question, yes and yes.
Does Dalibor know anything about Ronderu´s backstory? How much time did she spend with the pirates anyway? Dalibor never learned as much about Ronderu as Qymaen did, but that’s not to say he knew nothing. And I always imagined she spent a few years pirating. It’s questions like these that cement my desire to someday write a Ronderu-focused fic in the Sahuldeem setting, starting back at Mir-Haz and leading up to the day she met Qymaen. Someday… :’)
Sometimes I remember the name of Grievous’ starfighter and cry Good! Let the tears flow through you!
Will you ever do a tutorial on how you draw Kaleesh? If there’s a significant demand for it, I suppose I could?
i finally got around to reading theough salhudeem, after it being on my to-read list for months haha. oh my gosh i love it so much, its so great to see kaleesh culture actually developed! small question, are we going to get to see grievous and gor interact? i was always sad we never got more elaboration on how grievous saw and treated his pet, i mean, he seemed pretty devastated when gor died… anyway, keep up the amazing work :D!!!! Thank you so much for reading!! All right, now is as good a time as any to make a confession (and maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but ah well): I’ve always thought the idea of Grievous having a pet was pretty hecking silly. In my original script (back when I was plotting Sahuldeem out as a comic), Gor only showed up in one panel during a Clone Wars montage, more as acknowledgement than anything expository. The plan has been to expand a little bit on “so where’d that thing come from and why does he care” in prose, but don’t expect a whole chapter dedicated to the cyborg general bonding with his pet Roggwart on Vassek 3.
I’d be surprised if noone asked you this before, did you intentionally come up with the term Sahuldeem to parallel Saladin? See, I always identified a lot with Grievous as being very Middle East, which comes from both the writers appropriating (as they do a lot) but also from his incredibly deep and poignant story resonating with the colonization the west has done to the middle east for centuries, the cultural anger we have. So I think its dope to give a nod to Saladin, even if its unintentional Thank you for this perspective! The specific parallel of the term was unintentional, I must admit. (I explain a bit about where the name Sahuldeem comes from here.)
Are you able to tell us anymore about Qy’s wives? Hm, I can give you names + order of marriage: Zena kal Nitzelka Vykalla san Nisina Kirizal nun Shandana Ninurisa bal Zimah Siduri qam Ushbar Ashme nab Surhlavi Mahulena tir Kizurra Tila sul Khamaji Peshanu saj Anugi Ilona dae Zubaru (something I wrote in my original script when he interacts with one of his wives: “We won’t meet them all or learn their names. They exist on the periphery of what remains of Sahuldeem’s heart at this time…and when perhaps he finds himself caring again, it will be too late to matter.”)
How common is the letter Q in the Kaleesh language? Honestly? It’s rarity is in perfect correlation with how often I forget to use it, lol. Sumerian doesn’t have a ‘q’, and I don’t often remember to swap out a ‘k’ instead. It’s easy enough to handwave it as “oh ‘q’ IS a very rare letter in Kaleesh”. Qy’s just lucky!
Hello. I would just like to say that your work has inspired me so much that I am writing my own fanfiction. It would be a slight rewrite of the clone wars, but Grievous is more like his 2003 interpretation than his 2008 one. I have come to ask if I could borrow some things, like names of characters or places. Once it get the first act done I could send it to you to beta read, if you want. Hell yeah, that’s awesome! I appreciate you checking with me. When it comes to someone using any of my Sahuldeem-specific creations in a fanfic (vs. the official Canon/Legends material that’s already out there), I would prefer if you credit me and/or provide a link to the series on AO3. I’m afraid I can’t commit to beta reading any works—I can barely keep up with my own project(s)!—but am fine with folks linking me to anything they do post if it took inspiration from Sahuldeem. :)
Mentally shrieking because once the banking clan becomes involved, the end is nigh. There may be more yet to come than you expect, but you are correct: this is the beginning of the end.
In the next part of Sahuldeem, will Grievous ever get to appear before the Galatic Senate? (At least before the Clone Wars?)
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you might know this already but i feel like telling you that fun fact grievous kills t'chooka d'oon in the 2005 grievous comic (yknow, the one where he captures a bunch of younglings and plans to build them cybernetic bodies, complete with masks like his that he designed himself). do you think he remembered You’d be hard pressed to find something about Grievous that I don’t know! I’m familiar with the comic; had to look it up to figure out what T’chooka D’oon looks like, after all. And yes—I do think he remembered, in spite of everything that happened in the intervening years.
