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Torian Glossary

abstainers: religious agnostics

across the pond: When in Toriana, a reference to Great Britain or Europe; when in Great Britain or Europe, a reference to Toriana (“pond” being the Atlantic Ocean)

aid-solicitor: legal representative provided by the Crown to defendants who can’t afford to hire a barrister

ambrotype: photography that uses chemicals (silverblack) to etch images on glass plate negatives

annum: year

apothecary: pharmacy

Aramantha: the island homeland of the Aramanthan, destroyed by mysterious forces that caused it to break up and sink beneath the sea

Aramanthans: a race of superhuman magic practitioners who ruled the world before the rise of mankind

bacco: tobacco

barrister: attorney

bathboy: a male attendant/masseur who works at public baths for women

beater: a uniformed police officer who patrols the streets, usually on foot

believer: someone who believes in magic

belowground: beneath street level

binding: a stone or other object that can contain psychic energy until its release is triggered by touch or proximity

black: very strong, thrice-brewed tea

blackpot: a coal-fueled boiler

blacks: formal suit worn by high-class male servants

bloodbane: one of the highly toxic magic poisons used in snuffballs

blower: a chamber that uses air leeched from the city’s tubes to dry wet items

blue ruin: gin

blues: people of aristocratic birth

bookmaker: printer

braves: warrior class of native Torian people

BrewsMaid: an automatic tea maker

bronze, bronzen: a theatrical cosmetic that temporarily darkens the skin

brown: Talian currency

bruiser: a large or physically intimidating man; thug

bucks: clothing made of buckskin

bum: ass

calendula: an herbal tincture used as a topical disinfectant

care kit: first-aid kit

carri: steam-driven carriage

carriwright: maker of steam-driven carriages

cartlass: a girl or woman who sells food and/or beverages from a portable cart on the street

cashsafe: a hidden, locking recess in a private home where money and other valuables are kept

catchalclass="underline" an extending/grasping device with a pinchers at one end

Church: the Torianglican Church, the only religion recognized and approved by the Crown; the Church of England

clearstone: quartz

clopboard: building siding made of planks recovered from abandoned horse barns

coal burner: engine that runs on coal

coddles: cod cut into chunks

collar: vicar

commoner: an ordinary, untitled individual; someone of low birth

conciliator: mediator

cosh: bludgeon

coin: money

crispie: potato chip

croke: croquet

Crown, the: the English monarchy as well as its authority over Toriana

crowswalk: a viewing deck that encircles the upper portion of a building

dear: costly

deathmage: magical practitioner licensed to kill

deb: debutante

detector: a magic practitioner (generally employed by the court) who uses touch to discern truthfulness

digger: miner

dink: a small or short man

dipper: strip of treated paper that changes color when exposed to poison or drugs

drawers: underwear

drips: syphilis

Druuds: mortal magic practitioners who captured and imprisoned the Aramanthans to end the mage wars

ducklings: children

echo: device used to detect hidden objects

elshy: hellchild

entitlement: inheritance of title and property

exormage: exorcist who nullifies curses and rids people and places of demon infestation

faeriestale: fantasy stories told to children

fete teller: the humblest of fortune-tellers who set up tents at village fetes to do many readings for very little money

fichu: a shoulder wrap, usually made of lace

firebrigader: fire fighter

fishncrisp: a shop that sells fish fillets fried together with potatoes cut in various shapes

flat: apartment

flathouse: a building that has been divided up into flats

Fleers: remnant members of the American rebel forces who fled west after losing the war to England

flystick: a clear glass rod containing live lightning bugs, used like a flashlight or lantern

foundling: abandoned orphan

freeclaiming: a social practice caused by the shortage of women among the original colonies, which allowed men to kidnap and hold captive unprotected or abandoned women

freedman: ex-convict

fry bread: bread fried in bacon drippings

furrin, furriners: slang for foreign, foreigners

garms: garments

gaslamp: exterior lighting powered by natural gas

geclass="underline" girl (common, casual; generally used to refer to females of the merchant class)

get the sack: be fired

gildstone: marble

ginger: woman with red hair

glass: common term for ambrotype glass plate negative

glassed: photographed

glasshield: windshield

glassies, glassines: protective, preservative glass coatings applied to documents

glasslung: terminal respiratory disease caused by inhaling sparkglass; suffered by painters and construction workers

gogs: protective eyewear

goldstone: building made of blocks of pyrite-flecked granite

gone off: suffered a mental breakdown

gowners: dressmakers who specialize in creating gowns for wealthy society women

gravecart: hearse

Great Uprising, the: Toriana’s name for the failed revolutionary war against England