Eldraeic Word of the Day: Ulath-Urlar
ulath-urlar: The lowest form of self-deception; being deceitfully kind to oneself, and needlessly flattering the prettiness of one’s adopted worldview.
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Eldraeic Word of the Day
Eldraeic Word of the Day: velle
velle: river (SUBJECT is a river of land mass LOCATION, draining watershed SOURCE into DESTINATION) This word also provides the -vel root found in many of Eliéra's river names of historical Alteníän origin, including most famously the Maethevel, which is born on the slopes of the Imperial Mountain,
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Eldraeic Words of the Day
halla: forest, specifically a tamed forest used for dwelling, silviculture, lumbering, coppicing, hunting, parkland, etc. Oppose loth. loth: forest, specifically wild forest not used for any purpose. Oppose halla. (Note that this is a very important distinction on Eliéra, which has a lot of forest cover, and it is important
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Eldraeic Modifier of the Day: boz
In formal Eldraeic, the modifier boz indicates that a word is being used in a vernacular (possibly referring to a local dialect or borrowing, although most commonly indicating a way the word has come to be used in Trade) fashion, rather than in accordance with its proper definition. The modifier
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Eldraeic Words of the Day
grangár: to consume, to ingest, (alternative) to eat glágrang: intemperate consumption, gluttony alathglágrang: (“knowledge-gluttony”) intemperate absorption of knowledge; essentially, the tendency to disappear into the library and not be seen until days later, passed out on a heap of books, having succumbed to the irresistible temptation of so much knowledge