Sarl: humanoid people exiled/interned within Sursamen; L8&9S
Seedsails: mirror-sailed seed carriers; LlS
spore-wisp: plasma seed of a stellar field-liner
Swimmers: beings from lower levels of gas giant planets; L12S
Tendrils: elongated gas giant species, L6 & 10S
Tubers: black hole smoker species; L13S
Tueriellian: (Maieutic) investigative Seedsail
uoxantch: quadruped warbeasts; L9S
WorldGod, the: being at Core of Sursamen; a Xinthian; L15 & 16S
Veil: see Involucra
Vesicular: surface waterworlders; having gas-filled bladder/sail; L10S
Xinthia: (Tensile Aeronathaur) an Airworlder; giant airships (smaller than dirigible behemothaurs); semi-adapted for high-pressure gaseous/liquid environments and space-capable. Now rare and generally Developmentally/Inherently/Pervasively Senile; see WorldGod, the
Xolpe: humanoid; Nariscene client species, at war
ynt: quadruped equivalent of small tame otter; L8&9S
Zeloy: humanoid, one of the contending species on Prasadal
General Glossary
34th Pendant Floret: region of space
512th Degree FifthStrand: Humanoid Guest Facility, Syaung-un
aboriginistas: those with obsessive interest in ‘primitives’
Aciculate: bush-like
afap: as fast as possible (C)
Altruist: a civilisation purposefully and consistently eschewing naked self-interest
Anjrinh: district in Hicture; home to a Scholastery
Aoud: star/system, home of Gadampth Orbital
aquaticised: (humanoids) fully converted to water-dwelling
Arithmetic: re a Shellworld, term given to one whose levels occur in simple multiples
Articles of Inhabitation: rules by which Shellworld inhabitants live
Aspirant: civilisations wanting to be Involveds
Asulious IV: Morthanveld planet, Lesser Yattlian Spray
autoscender: uncrewed transport within Shellworld Tower
backing: direction (opposite of facing)
Baeng-yon: Surface crater, Sursamen
bald-head fruit: edible by caude, common to L8&9S
Bare: places on Shellworld with no ground cover
Baskers: species type; absorb sunlight directly
bell-goblet: vibrating crystal container used when drinking Chapantlic spirit
billow bed: C bed with 99% AG, multiple soft wisps of material and smart “feathers” able to avoid being breathed in
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
CleaveHull: 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
crackball: 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)
Dengroal: 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 general: 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
Exponential: see logarithmic
