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Glossary
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Ae - Many Kymbrians us this word to say yes, or affirmative.
Aio - A Kymbrian greeting
Ambax - Personal guard
Arbiter - A high judge
Asel - Gaelland word for a person with no autonomy.
Atyr/Atyress - Southwestern Kymbrian lord/lady.
Aulos - Long double pipe instrument.
Aurgani - A Mithran servoi born to serve in the military. A slave soldier.
Bloodlined - A gilla born into servitude. All of their descendants will also be gilla.
Brigada - Around 300 soldiers.
Brosthun - Born without the presence of a father.
Bunk - Not real, made up.
Cac - Old Roman word for feces that has come back into fashion with the lower classes.
Carnyx - Ancient war horn with a long skinny neck and bulbous head fashioned after a boar.
Catcher - A person whose profession is to catch runaway gilla.
Cened - The Kymbrian senate.
Citarra - A string instrument with eastern origins that consists of 5 to 7 strings and usually played with a planch.
Cumber - Of little mind, useless.
Cumberwhirl - Stronger version of cumber.
Dalarwain - The right hand to a leader.
De - Deity/deities.
Decanus - The head of a large group of peacekeepers.
Denge - A Skaldan word for a band of warriors/soldiers of around 50 members.
Dep, or deppid - Stupid/idiotic.
Drib - A little bit. Small amount.
Druidi - Descendants of the druids.
Dux - An old Germani word of Roman origin meaning Lord, or landlord.
Fluet - Single pipe instrument.
Gilla - A person with no autonomy. A slave.
Geissi - A prohibition, or demand placed on someone, usually given by a magistrate, arbiter, or druidi priest.
Gobb - A sneaky liar. An insincere suck-up.
Golden sickle - Reference to the druidi cutting mistletoe with uncorrupted metal. Also used as a metaphor for viewing an everyday object with reverence.
High-patrician - Extremely rich aristocrat with a hierarchy unto themselves. Most have ancient blood-lines.
Ja - A Rheatian word from a southern Skaldane influence meaning yes/affirmative.
Jib - Flattery. A lot of talk that means nothing.
Joy house - A place to drink, gamble, and dance.
Legrix - Military rank equivalent to a lieutenant.
Lick of the tongue - Cure, cured.
Lin-segni - A terrible pleasure gilla tradition.(book 2)
Low-patrician - Usually new money with little family history. Low and high tend to occupy opposite spheres of social influence.
Magistrate - Local judge.
Martial gilla - A bloodlined gilla whose single purpose is to protect their owner.
Nodens - Celtic deity associated with healing, the sea, hunting, and dogs.
On Stutter - Electric machinery that has malfunctioned.
Overrun the cup - Too much.
Peacekeeper - Uniformed people who patrol the streets for criminality.
Peacer - Slang term for peacekeeper.
Pig-haves - Derogatory term for the rich.
Pleasure gilla - A bloodlined gilla trained in the carnal arts and leisure activities.
Pleasure palace - A place where pleasure gilla live and work.
Rib tickler - A joke.
Servoi - A Mithran word for someone with no autonomy.
Rutta - A short string instrument played with a bow.
Seven doors - Doors of the afterlife.
Smerd - A Rheatian curse word for shit/fuck.
Steel screw - Workhouse.
Teyrn - King/Queen.
The Stints - Poorest area of Londinium.
Thrall - Skaldan/Norse word for a person with no autonomy.
Thrall-born - Someone born as a thrall.
Torix - Military leader equivalent to a captain.
Trup - Harlot. Derogatory term towards women.
Veneti - Zarmatian word meaning a person with no autonomy.
Vigiles - Firefighters.
Wain - Leader.

