Alva (not the skater)-A planet and world much like the one we know, or claim to...

Preface:
I've only read a small fraction of Shinryu's observation journals, but there's a lot of common things that are spoken of in every Era, Act, Prose and Verse, though the majority of them are talking about nothing of importance, there is one thing that stood out to me, one Aldai rune that in translation to several languages I knew at least partially, didn't exactly mean anything, so I figured that it must be some sort of placing rune (meaning that the rune itself doesn't have any meaning other than its' own); I know of some of these from my own native inscribe, but I've never seen one quite like that one, but it's all over the place, so I had to use a bi-lexicon (a reference lexicon) to look for rune bits, and what I found was that the rune itself is made from three bits, one for bubble, one for life (as in the everyday things that occur), and one for finite (as in something that begins and ends definitively). Aro, Lenoa, Dava. The way the rune is drawn, it uses an exact third of each rune bit, so that they connect and intersect in a strange way, and as beautiful as it appears, it is one of those things that was not given any context, so I could only imagine what it might mean, and since Shinryu, by the time I was around, had long since gone way 'off the grid', asking was not an option. I looked into what the rune correlated to, and a lot of the correlation involved mortals, mainly, mortal civilizations and their various realms where these civilizations could be found. Not implying planets or anything, but that rune is most certainly the centerpoint, so that's what I figured it to be, and to be fair, I've not ever found any other runes in Aldai or my own native inscribe that have any similarities, since such is not spoken of or written as a fact but as an abstraction; this rune makes it look like some factual thing. Also, 'Arolenoadava' would translate as a glass bubble toy with some kind of novelty inside (what some would call a 'snow globe'), so, making this a combined bit phrase made more sense, until I attempted it. Every single one I could come up with, actually had a more common translation, except one. Alva. FTR, this uses improper vowel and consonant transitions, so it wouldn't make sense to most. It's weird, even to me.

Long preface. I know.

So, Alva is essentially, what Shinryu refers to planets/realms with mortal civilizations, that are more than abstractions, but tangible. In my games, Alva is the world, Alvans are the humans/predominant species, and...that's really about it.

And Tony Alva is a professional skateboarder. Skated with the likes of McSqueeb and others way back before the days of Microsoft Windows.

This blog is going to be mainly about some of the game ideas I've had with Alva as the primary realm.