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10 | grounders

i could go on an entire tangent about why i dislike grounder "culture" but for the sake of everyone's sanity, i'll skip that.

i. NAMES

the grounders are almost all named after monuments/landmarks that existed in america, most often in or near washington, D.C.

examples:
lincoln: lincoln memorial
lexa: alexandria
ontari: ontario
emori: memorial (uncertain of which one)
nia: niagra falls
roan: roanoke
otan: botanic gardens
costia: anacostia river

ideas:
arli: arlington
tagon: the pentagon
thea: ford's theatre
ortra: national portrait gallery
ren: renwick gallery
aytor: claytor lake
galla: gallaudet university
pavil: old post office pavilion
nova: nova scotia
arlo: charlottesville
enan: shenandoah river
(if you decide to use any of these, please give me credit!)

ii. LANGUAGE

the official grounder language is called trigedasleng (also called "trig"). it was developed so the mountain men couldn't understand their language and is a rough derivative of modern english.

names in trig are spelled with the phonetic alphabet, meaning exactly how they sound.

examples:
bellamy: belomi
clarke: klark
lexa: leksa
octavia: okteivia
lincoln: linkon
nyko: naikou
gustus: gostos

my characters, fallon and caleb, would be falon and keilob

i get a lot of questions about where i get my translations of trigedasleng from. the answer is trigedasleng.info! they have direct translations from each episode, a dictionary, and grammar. when i want to construct my own sentences, i usually look up individual phrases and piece them together using the grammar rules.

examples of my own stuff:
Osir nou get in chon daunde bilaik!: We don't know who that is!
Klir ai of!: Let me go!
Yu hon yu in osir sisplei: We're here to help.
Osir na wich em in: We can trust her.
Disha laksen. Shof op: This will hurt. Be quiet.
Bak op, Skaikru: Get away, Sky Person.

in season 2, it was revealed that only the warriors speak english, but i guess that was thrown out the window later on lol

iii. LIFESTYLE

fighting??? death??? bloodshed??? idrk what else to put here because all they seem to do is fight

iv. NIGHTBLOOD

the grounders who have nightblood are presumed to be "special" and are usually in line to be commanders. the black blood originated when becca pramheda went to earth and injected it into the survivors she met to help them survive the radiation.

known nightbloods:
becca pramheda
lexa
aden
luna
ontari
clarke (synthetic)
madi

currently, the only two living nightbloods are clarke and madi

v. COMMANDERS

the commander is chosen after a conclave in which nightbloods duel to the death or escape (like luna did). the translation into trigedasleng is heda, after becca pramheda, the first of the commanders.