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
Foerlinteul: 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
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
Incremental: 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 Tendril: 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
Kiesestraal: 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
Lesser Yattlian Spray: region of space
Lesuus: plate, Gadampth
level: re a Shellworld, one of the world’s spherical shells
lifebowls: see mottled
Logarithmic: re: a Shellworld, term given to one whose levels occur in exponential increments (hence aka Exponential)
Machine Core/level: level immediately surrounding a Shellworld Core
Meast: water-nest city, Gavantille Prime
Meseriphine: star in the Tertiary Hulian Spine
MHE: Monopathic Hegemonising Event (usually runway nanotech)
MOA: Mysterious Object from Afar
Moiliou: Hausk family estate, L8S
Mottled: re a Shellworld, term given to one whose Surface is partially (mostly) free of atmosphere, with significant areas — within large, high-walled (normally original) Surface features — of nominally inhabitable pseudo-planetary environments, called Lifebowls
Multiply Inhabited: re a Shellworld, one with more than one intelligent species in residence
Nameless City: of L9S; long buried metropolis being uncovered by the Hyeng-zhar
nanorgs: nano-scale organisms; often aka injectiles (though this covers non-biological
