floater slightly derogatory term used for aquatic peoples by landgoing peoples
Foerlinteul C Orbital
FOIADSFBF First Original Indigent Alien Deep Space Farers’ Benevolent Fund (Morthanveld)
Forelight pre-dawn light cast by Rollstar
Gadampth C Orbital
Gavantille Prime waterworld planet, Morthanveld space
Gazan-g’ya a Crater of Sursamen
Gilder’s Lament, the tavern, Pourl
Godded a Shellworld with a Xinthian at its core
Grahy Morthanveld planet, Lesser Yattlian Spray
Grand Zamerin exalted rank of the Nariscene (see also Zamerin)
Greater Army combined armies gathered by Hausk to resist Deldeyn and invade their level
Great Palace Rasselle, L9S
Great Park Rasselle, L9S
Great Ship type of very large Morthanveld ship
Great Tower one of six fortifications within Rasselle
Guime a Rollstar of L8S
habiform technically correct term for what is usually called terraforming; altering any already existing environment to suit it to the needs of one or more species
Heavenly Host Deldeyn religious sect tyl Loesp empowers
Heisp Nariscene colony system
Hemerje ducal palace near the Great Park, Rasselle
Heurimo a fallstar of L9S
Hicture a region of L8S
Hicturean Tower (L8S, not far from Pourl)
Hollow World see Shellworld
House of Many play by Sinnel
Roofs, The
Hyeng-zhar cataract on the Sulpitine river, L9S, aka the Falls
Hyeng-zharia Mission religious order; controlled the Falls’ excavation
Hyeng-zhar Settlement ever-temporary city, the Falls, Sursamen
Ichteuen (Godwarriors) fight for Sarl; L8S
Illsipine Tower Sursamen
Imperial Procreational on Nariscene homeworld; regulates
College Spawnings
Incremental re a Shellworld, term given to one whose levels occur in exponential increments (hence aka Exponential)
injectiles any organisms or mechanisms capable of being injected (usually into metre-scale entities, in context especially humans)
In Loco’d placed under care (Morthanveld term)
Inner Caferlitician region of space
Tendril
interior star artificial suns emplaced by secondary Shellworld species within these worlds; anti-gravitational, pressing against ceiling of given level; most mobile (Rollstars); some not (Fixstars)
Ischuer city, Bilpier
Jhouheyre city-cluster, Oct planet of Zaranche
Jiluence a Monthian (megawhales) ancestral homeworld
Mottled re a Shellworld, term given to one whose Surface is partially (mostly) free of atmosphere, with significant areas – within large, high-walled (normally original) Surface features – of nominally inhabitable pseudo-planetary environments, called Lifebowls
Multiply Inhabited re a Shellworld, one with more than one intelligent species in residence
Nameless City of L9S; long buried metropolis being uncovered by the Hyeng-zhar
nanorgs nano-scale organisms; often aka injectiles (though this covers non-biological material too)
Natherley a Rollstar of L9S
nearpole direction (opposite of farpole)
Nearpole Gate a main gate of Pourl city, L8S
Nestworld usually, and always in context of Morthanveld, a type of artificial habitat composed of multiple twisting tubes, complexly intertwined and generally water-filled
Night re a Shellworld, places within a level which are totally or almost totally dark, over the horizon from both direct and reflected sunlight or vane-blocked
Oausillac a Fixstar of L9S, Sursamen
Obor a Rollstar of L8S, Sursamen
Oerten Surface crater, Sursamen
Optimae name given to Culture, Morthanveld, etc. by more lowly civilisations; roughly equivalent to HLI
Oversquare re a Shellworld, levels beyond which increasing separation of secondary supporting filaments branching from Towers no longer allows intra-filament inter-Tower travel (usually in top half of levels); opposite of undersquare
Pandil-fwa Tower Oct transport Tower, Sursamen
Parade Field Pourl, L8S
Pentrl a Rollstar of L8S
Peremethine Tower Oct transport Tower, Sursamen
Pierced re a Shellworld, a level-accessible Tower
Placed placed under care (Morthanveld term)
Pliyr star, Morthanveld space
Pourl region and capital city of Sarl, L8S
Prasadal planet, Zoveli system
Prille country on Sketevi
Primarian type of large Oct ship
Prime re a Shellworld, term given to structure of world as originally built by Veil
Quoline river, draining the Quoluk Lakes
Quoluk Lakes of L8S, near Pourl
Quonber module platform, Prasadal
Rasselle Deldeyn capital city, L9S
Reshigue city, L8S
roasoaril fruit plant, L8&9S (refinable)
Rollstars Shellworld interior stars which move
roving scendship (Oct) scendship air- and underwater-capable
Safe (multi-million-year) re a Shellworld, term given to one with no recent history of world-caused gigadeaths
saltmeat (Sarl) salted meat
Sarl people and kingdom, L8S, Sursamen (also planet)
scend tubes tubes scendships use
scendship ship which ascends or descends within a Shellworld Tower
Scholastery recessional university, like a secular monastery devoted to learning
Schtip district of Pourl, L8S
scrimp dismissive name for Falls workers
seatrider C skeletal AG device; personal transport
Secondary re a Shellworld, term given to structural additions