material too)
Natherley: a Rollstar of L9S
nearpole: direction (opposite of farpole)
Nearpole Gate: a main gate of Pourl city, L8S
Nestworld: usually, and always in context of Morthanveld, a type of artificial habitat composed of multiple twisting tubes, complexly intertwined and generally water-filled
Night: re a Shellworld, places within a level which are totally or almost totally dark, over the horizon from both direct and reflected sunlight or vane-blocked
Oausillac: a Fixstar of L9S, Sursamen
Obor: a Rollstar of L8S, Sursamen
Oerten: Surface crater, Sursamen
Optimae: name given to Culture, Morthanveld, etc. by more lowly civilisations; roughly equivalent to HLI
Oversquare: re a Shellworld, levels beyond which increasing separation of secondary supporting filaments branching from Towers no longer allows intra-filament inter-Tower travel (usually in top half of levels); opposite of undersquare
Pandil-fwa Tower: Oct transport Tower, Sursamen
Parade Field: Pourl, L8S
Pentrl: a Rollstar of L8S
Peremethine Tower: Oct transport Tower, Sursamen
Pierced: re a Shellworld, a level-accessible Tower
Placed: placed under care (Morthanveld term)
Pliyr: star, Morthanveld space
Pourl: region and capital city of Sarl, L8S
Prasadal: planet, Zoveli system
Prille: country on Sketevi
Primarian: type of large Oct ship
Prime: re a Shellworld, term given to structure of world as originally built by Veil
Quoline: river, draining the Quoluk Lakes
Quoluk Lakes: of L8S, near Pourl
Rasselle: Deldeyn capital city, L9S
Reshigue: city, L8S
roasoaril: fruit plant, L8&9S (refinable)
Rollstars: Shellworld interior stars which move
roving scendship: (Oct) scendship air- and underwater- capable
Safe: (multi-million-year) re a Shellworld, term given to one with no recent history of world-caused gigadeaths
saltmeat: (Sarl) salted meat
Sarl: people and kingdom, L8S, Sursamen (also planet)
scend tubes: tubes scendships use
scendship: ship which ascends or descends within a Shellworld Tower
Scholastery: recessional university, like a secular monastery devoted to learning
Schtip: district of Pourl, L8S
scrimp: dismissive name for Falls workers
seatrider: C skeletal AG device; personal transport
Secondary: re a Shellworld, term given to structural additions to world added by later possessors
shade: areas on a Shellworld level without direct sunlight (effect severity varies with shell diameter, vane geometry, etc.)
Shellworld: artificial planet, part of ancient megastructure; also known as Hollow World and Slaughter World (archaic)
Shield world: see Shellworld
Shilda: province of Sarl, L8S
silse: collective term for class of Shellworld creatures which transport silt particles from seabeds and other aquatic environments to land, via hydrogen sacs, evaporation, clouds and rainfall
Sketevi: continent on Bulthmaas
Slaughter World: see Shellworld
SlimHull: type of Morthanveld ship
Sournier: county within Sarl, L8S
Spiniform: (world) a partially collapsed Shellworld
spiniform: applied to species, indicates a spiny, pointed body type
Stafl: C Orbital
Stalks: slightly derogatory term used for landgoing peoples by aquatic peoples
Starfall: (rare) phenomenon occurring when the remains of an exhausted Shellworld interior star fall from the ceiling of a level to its floor; generally catastrophic
Sterut: Nariscene Globular Transfer Facility
Sull: Deldeyn region, L9S
Sullir: Deldeyn regional capital, L9S
Sulpitine: river, L9S
Superintendent: judicial rank, Sursamen Surface
Sursamen: Arithmetic Shellworld, orbiting Meseriphine
Swarmata: the detritus of competing MHEs
SwellHull: type of Morthanveld ship
Syaung-un: Morthanveld Nestworld in the 34th Pendant Floret
Taciturn: of a species, one which is especially uncommunicative
tangfruit: C fruit, pan-human edible
terraf: short for terraformed; a planet so amended, or any other large-scale constructed environment (see habiform)
Tertiary Hulian Spine: region of space; location of Meseriphine
thin-film: screen; goes over eyes to show virtual reality (Morthanveld term)
Tierpe Ancestral: port, Syaung-un
tink: dismissive name for Falls worker
T’leish: sub-group of Morthanveld, on Gavantille Prime
Tower: re a Shellworld, a hollow supporting column or stem, normally with vacuum inside, also used as transport tube
Tresker: a Rollstar of L9S
tropel trees: C flora; common on ships
Twinned Crater: Surface crater, Sursamen
Uliast: general, Sarl army
undersquare: see oversquare
unge: drug, smoked; L8&9S
