Bilpier: Nariscene planet, Heisp system
black-backed borm: C animal
Botrey’s: gambling/whore house in Pourl’s Schtip district
Bowlsea: body of water filling Prime depression in Shellworld
brattle: bush, L8&9S, Sursamen
bravard: lusty, drinking, up-for-a-fight kind of man
Bulthmaas: planet in Chyme system where Xide Hyrlis found
camoufield: (C) projected field camouflaging objects
Chapantlic spirit: type of booze (see bell-goblet)
Charvin: a county of Sarl
Cherien: ridge, near Sarl city, L8S
Chone: a star in the Lesser Yattlian Spray
Chyme: stellar system, home of Bulthmaas
CleaveHulclass="underline" type of Morthanveld ship
Clissens: a Rollstar of the Ninth, Sursamen
cloud trees: flora, L8&9S, Sursamen
Conducer: (species) those which make habit of taking over and (usually) exploiting structures, artefacts and habitats built by earlier civilisations — from ancients to the recently Sublimed
Core: solid centre of a Shellworld
crackbalclass="underline" C game played with solid wooden ball
Crater: re a Shellworld, a high-walled habitable area on Surface
crile leaf: cocoa-like drug, chewed; L8&9S
Curbed Lands: type of (originally Deldeyn) province
cut-rot: gangrene (Sarl term)
Dengroaclass="underline" town, L8S, beneath the D’neng-oal Tower
deSept: Nariscene clanlet without a Sept or major clan/family
Despairationals: extremist group, Syaung-un
Dillser: ducal house by Boiling Sea of Yakid, L9S
director generaclass="underline" high rank of the Morthanveld
Disputed: re a Shellworld, one whose Towers are not all controlled by the same species
D’neng-oal Tower: Oct transport Tower, Sursamen
Domity: a Rollstar of L8S
Enabler: (machine) device used to find ways to communicate with alien species and artifacts
Evingreath: a town on the Xilisk road from Pourl
Exaltinates: elite troops under Chasque
Exaltine: top Sarlian religious rank; chief priest
Exponentiaclass="underline" see logarithmic
facing: direction; from facing direction of world’s rotation (opposite of backing)
Facing Approach Street: near royal palace in Pourl
Falls Merchant Explorer: guild of merchants exploiting Falls
Falls, the: cataract on the Sulpitine river, L9S (aka the Hyeng-zhar)
Far Landing: peripatetic port on far side of Sulpitine from the Settlement
farpole: direction to pole of world furthest from Sarl heartlands (opposite of nearpole)
Feyrla: river, Xilisk, L8S
Fifth deSept: minor, unaligned clanlet, Nariscene/Sursamen
Filigree: complexes of Shellworld Tower ceiling supporting inverted buttresses
Fixstars: Shellworld interior stars, unmoving
floater: slightly derogatory term used for aquatic peoples by landgoing peoples
Foerlinteuclass="underline" C Orbital
FOIADSFBF: First Original Indigent Alien Deep Space Farers’ Benevolent Fund (Morthanveld)
Forelight: pre-dawn light cast by Rollstar
Gadampth: C Orbital
Gavantille Prime: waterworld planet, Morthanveld space
Gazan-g’ya: a Crater of Sursamen
Gilder’s Lament, the: tavern, Pourl
Godded: a Shellworld with a Xinthian at its core
Grahy: Morthanveld planet, Lesser Yattlian Spray
Grand Zamerin: exalted rank of the Nariscene (see also Zamerin)
Greater Army: combined armies gathered by Hausk to resist Deldeyn and invade their level
Great Palace: Rasselle, L9S
Great Park: Rasselle, L9S
Great Ship: type of very large Morthanveld ship
Great Tower: one of six fortifications within Rasselle
Guime: a Rollstar of L8S
habiform: technically correct term for what is usually called terraforming; altering any already existing environment to suit it to the needs of one or more species
Heavenly Host: Deldeyn religious sect tyl Loesp empowers
Heisp: Nariscene colony system
Hemerje: ducal palace near the Great Park, Rasselle
Heurimo: a fallstar of L9S
Hicture: a region of L8S
Hicturean: Tower (L8S, not far from Pourl)
Hollow World: see Shellworld
House of Many Roofs, The: play by Sinnel
Hyeng-zhar: cataract on the Sulpitine river, L9S, aka the Falls
Hyeng-zharia Mission: religious order; controlled the Falls’ excavation
Hyeng-zhar Settlement: ever-temporary city, the Falls, Sursamen
Ichteuen: (Godwarriors) fight for Sarl; L8S
Illsipine Tower: Sursamen
Imperial Procreational College: on Nariscene homeworld; regulates Spawnings
Incrementaclass="underline" re a Shellworld, term given to one whose levels occur in exponential increments (hence aka Exponential)
injectiles: any organisms or mechanisms capable of being injected (usually into metre-scale entities, in context especially humans)
In Loco’d: placed under care (Morthanveld term)
Inner Caferlitician Tendriclass="underline" region of space
interior star: artificial suns emplaced by secondary Shellworld species within these worlds; anti-gravitational, pressing against ceiling of given level; most mobile (Rollstars); some not (Fixstars)
Ischuer: city, Bilpier
Jhouheyre: city-cluster, Oct planet of Zaranche
Jiluence: a Monthian (megawhales) ancestral homeworld
Keande-yi: region near Pourl, L8S
Keande-yiine: Tower in region near Pourl, L8S
Khatach Solus: Nariscene homeworld
Kheretesuhr: archipelagic province, Vilamian Ocean, L8S
Kiesestraaclass="underline" a fading Rollstar of L9S
Klusse: city, Lesuus Plate
krisk nuts: caude stimulant, L8&9S
Kuertile Pinch: region of space
Lalance: continent, Prasadal
lampstone: carbide
Lemitte: general, Sarl army
Lepoort: plate, Stafl Orbital