Terminology · 75 entries
The customs, laws, crafts, rites, curses and titles of Erôth, and the particular words its people use for them when a plain one will not do Read the full account →
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150-year family-seats rule The allowance is 150 years old, and was made for a family holding four seats.
Amultan marriage law The oaths hand over a name, and everything the name is holding.
Cam A perishable Yovance delicacy, kept for weddings and anniversaries.
Chantry wartime triage doctrine Aid to anyone who asks. Only the critically injured come inside.
Commending a soul to Krelene What may be done instead of a burial, for one who died in a fire-festival.
Common calendar Thirteen months of four seven-day weeks, counted from Peredhel's founding.
The conjured "Whent" A construct wearing a captive lieutenant's face, made to carry one piece of news.
Conqueror A strategy game; Leon Yaegar taught Koa to play it.
The council's vote arithmetic (Haudh-Gwenn) Eight seats, nine votes, and the tie belongs to the chair.
Currency Brass to prince, six units, six nicknames, and what each one signals.
The curse-break was seen across Idir The whole country lit, and not everyone was looking at the same morning. ◆
"Dan" (the song) His best-known song, and nobody has been told who it is about.
Dark fire A flame with no light and no heat, and it is not combustion. ◆
Draazstone hospitality & the calling-gift The gift at the door is a welcome, and the welcome has a prison behind it.
Dream shield His own spell against the nightmares, at a dream catcher a casting.
"The dreaming" Where the mind goes when the body stops, and the soul stays.
Elemental nodes Mól tappings of the inner planes. Still findable, and a few still working.
Fire-festivals Braziers, burnt effigies, and old battles played out for a summer crowd.
The five triggers of the Haudh-Gwenn curse Five firings, four of them parties who came to break it. ◆
"Friend of Vigil" What an outsider is given, and what an outsider gives up, for the run of a hidden town.
G'lin honour-oath A vow staked on the swearer's own honor, and not a promise.
Gish Amulta's mage-warriors, under a name the Peren meant as an insult.
Hetman Held for life, and revocable. Small business in peace, and command in war.
Hunger cycle What the sword wanted, how loudly, and how soon it wanted again. ◆
Ideopan A person's own chosen set of patron gods.
Idiran curses Seven keeps. Three fell together at sunrise, and the rest still stand. ◆
Idiran naming custom No family names up-region; a person is named for where they are from.
In Ikhtar Peredhel's conquest-servitude "choice" system
Kijinxi clan-naming Clan first, person second: the name states an allegiance before it states a man.
Leon's banner doctrine Four places that cannot be the banner, and one that will not trade with the first of them.
Lord / Lady Grayeras: private titles House titles, used indoors, and worth nothing in law.
Loshev fire-raids A night of arson in Loshev, set by hand and laid at Orsugo's door.
Majlath The city three regional rulers govern from, twenty-seven times over.
"Mama's Boy" A song about a lord's incompetence, his slavers and his mother, sung at him.
Mana burn The wasting that takes a mage never taught to cast.
Martyr's Day The Martyr's day of forgiveness, kept once in four years.
Meadthing Midsummer, the best food anybody has, and a year of grudges settled with an open hand.
`mette-hina` rite The last-born gives up the family name at twenty, and must earn another.
Mól alchemy The Empire's alchemy, readable only out of a broken cipher.
Mól clans as pre-imperial nations Seven nations that agreed to be one empire, and left seven keeps behind. ◆
Mól electrum weapon-craft The electrum is the pattern, and the pattern is the weak point. ◆
Mól gem-cleaving / stone-cleaving The cut that readies a stone to hold an elemental.
Mól inner-plane soul-cosmology A soul joins the inner planes at death, and not before. ◆
Mól jelly / goop The reagent that comes out of the ruins, and makes other work go faster.
Mól open vessels / awakening Objects made to be woken, and what waking one costs the person who does it.
Mól-metal stone The gray, ore-veined stone of Mól work, and nobody alive can make it.
Motes Thin places in the veil, one to each element. One has been walked.
Mubārazah The honor duel. Refusing it is the insult.
Peredhel cup-inverting custom The cup goes upside-down when the drink is done.
Peredhel military ranks Nine Masters of War, one to a province prince; High Commander beneath them.
Peren blade An officer's sword, and a tell, because the untrained cannot hold it.
The Peren War Peredhel against Amulta, and cold for most of it.
Planar diffusion after a curse-break One tree burns cold, the other grows without stopping. ◆
Prince title rule A province prince is styled by his province, plus -hîr.
Pyrotechnics The Congress art of shaping fire that already exists.
Ranks of the blade The sword kept its masters, and one of them could be called back to answer. ◆
Rifts Ways through to the Beyond, torn by spirit-calling.
Road music Mikhail's family tradition: songs made on the spot, out of whatever is in front of you.
Runaway-Peren "cargo" / the lash tattoo The captives are runaway Peren; a single lash on the forearm marks the leadership.
The sleeping entity beneath Haudh-Gwenn Shut under the ruins by the Mól, and eating the city it sleeps beneath. ◆
Song of the fire of Meshtes The well-known ballad of the burning of Meshtes.
Spark of Vroga The sign that the Breaker of Chains has noticed a fighter.
Spell-monger A plain demonym inside the Congress; an insult outside it.
Sword dance Customary steps around a saber at speed, and the nearest thing they keep to a chronicle.
Tazion steel Better than Draz Steel, and only for sale in the far north.
Three moons of Aurôrum Awalan monthly, Sarie fortnightly, Bah'is once in years.
Threefold Bond One man was mended, and three of them are carrying the cost. ◆
The Trail A year alone, walked in the sixteenth year. Come back and you are one of them.
Two-ring Mól lock It takes two rings, on two people, at the same door.
Vigilantism (Haudh-Gwenn law) Ranked with treason, and judged by the council itself.
Waypoint network of Idir The keeps are doors into one another, and the map rooms are the locks. ◆
"Where the wound is inside the land" The mouth of the lair, and the only place a god left an ear. ◆
Wraith affliction / spectral possession Specters out of the keep, riding living men. ◆
Wraithblade curse mechanics How the sword chooses a man, and how it travels from him to the next. ◆
Yalwī al-ʿAql The Mól word for a mind-twister, out of stories told to children.
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