eldraeic language
cagál (n.): faeces; excrement; shit; solid animal biowaste. Note for translators: This is the word you’re looking for, which serves equally for technical, medical, and casual usage. It is not considered pejorative or vulgar per se, but certain comparisons or equivalencies may be depending on context. Variants include tracagál
eldraeic language
sashĂr: Most usually glossed “glamour”, sashĂr refers to a willfully accepted ambijective illusion embracing and enhancing beauty (aelva) and attractiveness/pleasingness (delĂ©kith); a concept foundational to high culture (meressif), fashion, and the personal arts. raĂŻthal: The plenum; the “universe”; the cosmos as a whole. Literally “all objects/entities”, it conveniently
default
living debtstyle: Living scandalously in debt or accumulating debts faster than one can reasonably be expected to repay them (not simply monetary debts, but also long-term oath-contracts, promises, favor-trades, other commitments, or even reputational liabilities). Used to indicate that the speaker considers the referent to be unreliable, “on the road
Imperial Exploratory Service
Thirty-Six Paths of Illumination, the (n.): A memetic mystery cult designed for the Imperial Exploratory Service by the Word of Command, ICC, the Thirty-Six Paths are designed as a means of handling severe cases of exodeism (q.v.). In many cases, when primitive species conclude that it is necessary and
Cultural Crossovers
Again, you know how this works… * Ooh, monologue-ing. That’s a good sign. * Well, someone forgot the first rule of mucking about with poorly understood paleotech artifacts, didn’t they? * Mind-zapping scepters work much better, I feel, when they don’t change your eye color. * Free from freedom? Well, someone
diplomacy
kchellis> So, what’s the problem this time? socularios> Cleaning up the diplomatic fallout from last night’s dinner at the Isliar Primarchy embassy. kchellis> What could possibly happen at a Primarchy dinner? Those things are so boring that you’re tempted to shoot yourself in the
Repository of All Knowledge
The Alathciera (lit. “weave-of-knowledge”) is the great encyclopedia published by the Repository of All Knowledge. It is a hypermedia encyclopedia containing 3×1218 bits of information, making up 2×1211 articles, based on the Repository’s 9,000 years of scholarship, and making up an abridged set of the full
ethics
…is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness. For he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost
military
Cirys superzorcher (n.): A hypothetical weapons system in which the various elements of a Cirys swarm (q.v.) are equipped to function as the radiative elements of a phased-array laser. Such an array, with an effective aperture equal to the diameter of the swarm, would theoretically be able to deliver
eldraeic language
el tramĂ©zashĂĂ«l eslĂ©vár (n.): Empire of the Star; the largest and oldest eldraeic polity. Broken up, this phrase reads: tra (DESCRIPTION OPERATOR) – mĂ©z (METAPHORIZATION OPERATOR) – ashĂĂ«l (star) — eslĂ©v (empire) – ár (PREDICATION OPERATOR), which is to say in long-gloss, “the empire which is like unto a (metaphorical) star”. Replacing this with
death
Inspired by this comment: I’ve always been of the opinion that, given the Associated Worlds’s existing tech base and attitudes towards continuity of personal identity and such, there must be a “small” subculture of thrill-seekers who deliberately expose themselves to lethal danger purely out of curiosity as to
paracoercion
“…as to your avowed intention to institute a Universal Income, we welcome such systems – as evidenced by our own Citizen’s Dividend – as an excellent answer to paracoercive states. (Para-, in this case, meaning “not really”, but having initially solved the ethical problems of true coercion, which is to say