food and drink
Pressed bean curds are a common item in many Eliéran cuisines, in recipes both savory and sweet. I refer to them using this long description since, despite being identical in many ways and produced from the same small group of plants, they are one of the very few foodstuffs to
Conclave of Linguistics and Ontology
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
eldraeic language
Perhaps due to their unusually wide variability across a large number of trait-clines, the variety of ciseflish trade cants have no word cognate to race. When one is needed, they borrow the Eldraeic word kaelídárath, which is technically defined as “true-breeding phenotypically-distinct group taxonomically junior to subspecies”¹ and whose original
Aurí Péng
If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be thought remains unthought; if what must be thought is not thought, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, apprehension
eldraeic language
As people have been requesting more linguistics and vocabulary, welcome to the first article in our new approximately-weekly series, Speak Eldraeic Like a Semi-Literate Barbarian. (From the remarkably unpopular Like a Semi-[whatever] Barbarian series of self-help books.) It will consist of a series of chapters discussing different features of
eldraeic language
tramorán an-enlét: (lit. “red gift”) Related in concept to the trafidúr an-enlét (“blue gift”), that social manipulation in which a gift that cannot be balanced by the recipient with an equal gift is used to create a favor-debt, the tramorán an-enlét is an attractive gift designed to cause harm by
Guardians of Our Harmony
So, you wanted to know about the Guardians of Our Harmony? They’re the thought police. Well, okay, not like that. That’s what paranoid outworlders would say, but really, they’re more like the thought paramedics. There’s a quotation from their ur-founder which I think appears in Vignettes,