Songs of Fragglia (An FR Lexicon)

Author's before-I get-done-editing -anything-to-post-here-note:

This is sort of my version of a pretend Encyclopedia Fragglia. I was going to call it Encyclopedia Fragglia, but then I realized 1) New members might mix it up with the real one. 2)This is written from an all knowing human (silly creature) pov and it would be silly (hee) to have a title of a canon fraggle book written by fraggles for fraggles share its name and 3) This is an ongoing collection of the little details from my version of the Fraggle Rock universe as I see them only and the real EF is about..well, not made up things

Just a note, these are my ideas that I have been collecting in the background as I write that I decided to share because I went a little crazy and saw/gave my fanworld more detail than I may or may not ever use, so if you don't want anything 'ruined' you might not want to read it. Still, it is more detail than I will most likely ever get around to 'showing' (At least in a simple easy to understand way like here "What was wrong with Wembley anyway?" ) so it might be worth your time if you like my version of FR at all .

I'm very sorry for the lack of any actual entries yet, I will have some ready by tomorrow. They are all in a single text file I keep tucked away. I hope a topic like this is allowed, thank you so much for your time! :3

Fraggle Rock :

A land of many caves, lakes, rivers, and natural underground spans of ocean waters. The rock that lower cave (Rock) fraggles call 'Fraggle Rock' is actually one of countless others, all interlinked, and all known by the race that lives there as the 'only' Fraggle Rock and center of their own universe and life (and when spoken of, it is assumed that a visitor is talking about their own rock). The only exception to this rule is the home of the (ocean) fraggles known as Merggles, whose homes of open water are supported by a 'Tree Of Life' on a small 'life island'. This tree is often a form of what we know as a Banyan.
While supporting over 10,000 Fragglius at any one time, because the lands and waters of Fraggle Rock span the entire underground length of what we humans know as Earth, many fraggle races live their whole lifes without ever knowing of their far away (or near) cousins. On the other hand pure wishes or force of will can make travel that would take months or years in our world only last weeks, days, or less with the help of magic. This magic also serves as natural protection from many human actions.
While there are countless fraggle tribes, the main (6) sub-genus of Ornithorhynchus Fragglius are:

Fraggle (rock)
Solggle (sun)
Ripaggle (river)
Merggle (ocean)
īsggle (snow)
Vindrggle(wind)

Vindrggle (The wind fraggles)

Motto:
"A stranger is a forgotten friend."

Other Fraggles' Comments on the Vindrggles:
"Never did see 'em jump off a cliff, wouldn't surprise me though."

Main western rock clan: Mosscover
Clan Sizes: Small (50-75)
Under: Scattered areas of the northern US, Florida, central Brazil, and Mongolia.
Height: Medium to tall
Muzzle: Pointed
Swimming: Liked, but not needed
Talent: Collecting shiny objects that drop from the human world.

One of the many lesser known types of the fraggle the Vindrggle are easy to spot by fur of varying shades of green and feather like hair and tail tuffs. Their main settlement nearest to lower rock is know as Mosscover and is a favorite to all traveling fraggles due to the Vindrggles' well known hospitality.
The Vindrggle love trees, and are one of the few fraggle types to not use natural structures in their settlements, making their cozy dome like homes out of riverbed clay among the bases of oak and willows.
No one knows for sure if the Vindrggles' feather hair grows as it does because they once could fly or only because they wished to very hard, but the race is well know for collecting real feathers from birds and weaving them into long sleeved capes they wear daily on their backs. It is said that some of their most secret of festivals involve jumping off a high cliff or three, but this has never been observed first hand.

I really like the idea of elemental Fraggles.

Ah, this is very interesting! I wonder, will you be including the cave fraggles from Fraggle Wars in this? I haven't seen Mokey Then and Now yet in my adult life, but from what I've heard, it seems that the cave fraggles of Fraggle Wars behave much like the ancient fraggles, in terms of being kind of drab and militant. So perhaps they're an offshoot ultra-conservative malicia-type group that's really a clan of one of the other types of fraggles you're mentioning, and really too small to warrent their own entry?

Can't wait to read more!

That was my thought about the Cave Fraggles as well.

They are everyday (rock) Fraggles..in fact they are pretty much as rocky as they come You will see my overall two cents on that after I do all the types , as well as the difference between clans and tribes

Ah, so our fraggles are a bunch of rebels? I knew it, lol!

īsggle (The Snow fraggles)
Motto:
"Anything worth doing is worth doing three times."

Other Fraggles' Comments on the īsggle:
"What did we ever do before we had ten words for dirt?"

Main northern rock clan: Unknown
Clan Sizes: Unknown
Under (historically): Areas of Finland, Norway, Germany, and the upper north of Russia.
Height: Short
Muzzle: Rounded
Swimming: Disliked, although enjoys water in its' frozen form.
Talent: Knowledge

The history of the īsggle is one that has been lost mostly through time and a sad history of mass illness. Although no one quite knows what happened, a population of many clans numbering each in the thousands is now only one single handful, with many of those just barely getting by. The trademark of this race, besides their short height (the smallest of all fraggles) and their brightly colored long hair (which serves as both a snow shield for their sensitive eyes, and natural camouflage) is a thicker fur coat than all other fraggles, making clothing of little use to them even in the coldest climates. Specially developed pads on the soles of their feet also make walking on ice an easy and fun actitivity and lead to their native love of 'ice dancing'.
But unlike all other fraggles the īsggles first love is knowing things, and anything with words or a melody or a method of doing is quickly snapped up by their edger minds. Always working twice as hard at everything they do, even if whatever needs doing seems unimportant, is their own brand of silliness. While each īsggle is good at one or two things as a rule, what their kind as a whole brought into all of the Fraggle Rocks of the word ages ago was thousands upon thousands of human words. Because the īsggles main drive was to know more than to understand however, many of those words lost their meanings as they are known to us and came to mean something very different in the fraggles world. The words that did not change at all however were those of illnesses, germs, and viruses, which the īsggle grew to know very well under very bad terms. The magical documents that contain this history, long held by the oldest members of the once main clan are known as the Book of the Venerated Cough (a dictionary of diseases) and The Book of the Humble Sneeze (a collection of records of illnesses and deaths). For this reason the few remaining īsggle are not well known for being happy, even when they are.

I'm glad you like it . I know most of my ideas are made up but I like to think they still make sense.

Oh yes, they do, and I like the way it's all so thought out! And that's right, Boober is the smallest of the fraggle 5, isn't he? Maybe he has some history with the isggles? BTW, I just noticed when you got to the isggles, but each name ends in the same way, like it has the same root word.

Excited about the update; more soon please!

Merggle (The Ocean fraggles)
Motto:
"The world begins again in the Tree of Life."

Other Fraggles' Comments on the Merggles:
"They have fins? Really?"

Main lower rock clan: Unknown
Clan Sizes: Medium (100-200)
Under: Nearly every ocean and salt water pocket in the world, but mostly the Pacific.
Height: Short to Medium
Muzzle: Varied
Swimming: Necessary for life.
Talent: Ecology

The most striking features of the Merggles are webbed fin like fingers, lack of body fur, and impressive tails which make up nearly half their body length. As a race, they must not be far from water for more than an hour or they risk dying. Closely resembling the mermaids we humans know from legends (for good reason), they are also (because of their sheer number), the type of fraggle most often seen by humans. They are also the type least seen by other fraggles as few have gills like they do, (and for all their love of swimming, hardly any others ever travel into open waters or hidden salt water ponds).

When anyone comes to know what the Merggle use their true talent for they might think that the race is very serious, but this is far from the truth. In fact the fraggle kind whose unknowing job links most closely with the magic is actually the...um..least intelligent of them all, and very silly. Their minds are only large enough to contain one emotion at birth, which then becomes the one ruling feature of how they view life and their personality.

None the less, it is their talent for turning the waters under the worlds many fraggle rocks with their tails that tempers the magic, keeping it flowing, and the plants above growing just so. As such Merggles are very in touch with the balance of nature and the first to feel if anything should go wrong above or below water.
A Tree of Life (often a type of Banyan, to use a human name) is the center of a tribes' meeting place, and besides purifying their waters, serves as a nesting grounds, where every Merggle begins and ends life, never traveling more than a few miles from home if it can be helped.

He is a isggle . And they are all based on the same root word but that comes later...
I'm glad you like them, everything has to be just so because these details run under how my FR works and most of the fraggle fives history as it gets written down. My notepad document is crazy . Even though most of it is made up, it is all based on real things and tiny details from the series and grew from there

Which, in my opinion, is the best way to do things, basing them on reality and small details from the show.

Eep! I totally forgot, I've been working so hard on To Sing and Winds and The Chronicles of Golden Apple (working title)..Another part is almost edited and readable :3 *pats text file of DOOM*

Ripaggle (The River Fraggle)

Motto: "Water is life, with life we go."
Other Fraggles' Comments on the Ripaggle:
"'Swim as well as one and you'll have something to brag a'bout.."


Main eastern rock clan: The underground river Bongo*
Clan Sizes: Large (900-1000)
Under: Mainly India, with the main river running from the Arabian Sea to the Red Sea.
Height: Short
Muzzle: Rounded
Swimming: Loved, necessary for life every five days.
Talent: Communication

The clearest unique feature of the Ripapple is their apparent lack of eyes. What appears to be plain skin over the eye area is actually a specially evolved 3rd eyelid that protects their otherwise very fragile eyes from dehydration when journeying outside water.
One of the more intelligent types of fragglius, they know many languages, and are also credited with inventing the very first glasses in all the Fraggle Rocks ages ago, to help with their poor eyesight on land.

Cut off from nearly every other type of their cousin races, the Ripaggle have been ruled by a single fraggle called King Sweeny for three generations. Highly self-righteous and claiming to only be following a more ancient Rule of The Rock, their ruler enforces a heavy handed cast system as well as strict guidelines from songs and games.
More than anything, this has worn away at the Ripaggles' cheerful natures, giving rise to normally human customs such as jail, slavery, and true theft, which in turn has led to their everyday use of locks.
Many Ripaggle dream of traveling to other fraggle lands to sing freely, but are kept in home waters by horrible tales of sea monsters lurking just beyond the ruins of the king's subterranean castle (Which, for all his slaves hard work, being made by fraggles, never was anything but a ruin.)

Ripaggles all seem to share a bewildering attachment to cows, often chancing the dangers of being near humans if it means getting within petting distance of one.

Footnote: * Mention of the king and places in this entry can be found in the episode "Home Is Where the Trash Is."

You continue to come up with fascinating Fragglian relatives.

Solggle (The Sun Fraggles)

Motto: "Travel lite, reach high, sing of your heart."

Other Fraggles' Comments on the Solggle:
"Good thing they don't like getting together much, the caves might not be able to take it..."

Main rock clan: None
Clan Sizes: Unknown
Under: (Historically) South Africa
Height: Tall
Muzzle: Pointed
Swimming: Liked
Talent: Spirituality

One of the oldest types of fragglius it is unclear if the Solggles height and appearance is a sign of all that the fragglus has evolved from or what they are slowly growing to be again (by fraggle logic, which is not very helpful or clear to start with). The tallest of all fragglius, the Solggle have pronounced ear stalks, the male versions of which are flexible at hatching and (unlike female stalks) grow harder with age. Historic paintings often picture all of their kind with long curled horns decorated with hanging feathers, but the truth in those stories is uncertain.

The Solggle are well known nomads by nature, roomered to travel in caravans of no more than twelve, and hardly ever staying in one place for more than a year.
Rarely, when a family group, (or more often a single Solggle), does choose to settle in a certain place, their uncanny ability to compensate for whatever is lacking in, and add balance to, the already present fragglius culture around them is almost overpowering at first.
Driven by their kinds strong sense of inner faith in fulfilling a personal life mission and being 'useful', a single Solggle can be a force for great or less than savory good in the areas of the arts, religion, healing, or even material advancements.

Since they are often very self-indulgent at best and overly passionate about their own missions at worst, most Solggle prefer to life mate other types of fragglius. For this reason, pure Solggle are very rare. Although, two sharing the same life mission in such a way as to understand one another and mate is not unheard of (the subject is a popular element in most classical fraggle romance literature)...

Solggle all share a strong sense of empathy with the magic of the many Fraggle Rocks and pray to it daily, choosing a single favorite object to serve as a sort of 'altar'. They are very fond of the sun, seeing it as the physical embodiment of this magical power. Myth has it that the Solggle first grew so tall, in fact, just trying touch it...