automation
warmbody: a career that exists in certain “economically quirky” parts of the emerging markets, the warmbody – also sometimes known by the unusual sobriquet “rent-a-squishie” – reflecting an unwillingness to accept the realities of industrial magic and need to preserve “traditional” employment at all costs. From the corporate perspective, warmbodies serve to
eldraeic language
vetel i-seldá (n.): 1. Employee (lit. “seller of time”). 2. Hireling (pej.) 3. Flunky, lackey, stooge. (v. pej.) vetel i-seldá remains the currently accepted term in Trade Eldraeic for an employee, under the quasicontractual doctrine practiced in many polities, despite being a reuse of the original term in formal Eldraeic
worldbuilding
First, the note, which is regarding Fan. As I commented over on G+: So, the worst part is, I wrote this partly because it seemed like a good application of the words, and partly because it was an idea stuck in my brain that needed to be written down so