Post by panther on Jul 8, 2009 15:23:11 GMT -5
Terms of Interest:
Agenothree: a common chemical on pern HNO3 (Nitric acid)
Between: an area of nothingness and sensory deprivation between here and there.
Black rock: Analogous to coal.
Day Sisters: a trio of stars visible from Pern
Dawn Sisters: an alternative name for Day sisters
Deadglow: a numbskull, stupid, derived from glow.
Fellis: a flowering tree
Fellis juice: a juice made from the fruit of a fellis tree; a soporific
Firestone: phosphine-bearine mineral which dragons chew to produce flames, makes queens infertile.
Glow: a light-source which can be carried in a hand basket.
Hold: a place where common people live; oriiginally they were cut into the mountains and hillsides.
Impression: the joining of a dragon's and his/her rider to be at the moment of a dragon's hatching.
Interval: the period of time between passes, usually lasts 200 Turns.
Klah: a hot stimulating drink made of tree bark and tasting faintly of cinnamon.
Looks to: Is impressed by.
Long interval: Generally twice as long as an Interval, in which no thread falls.
Month: Four sevendays
Numbweed: a medical cream which, when smeared on wounds kills all feeling; used as an anesthetic
Pass: a period of time in which the Red star is close enough to pern to drop Thread on Pern.
Pern: Third of the star Rukbat's five planets it has two natural satellites.
Red Star: Pern's step sister planet, it has an irratic orbit.
Rukbat: a yellow star in the sagitarian sector, has five planets and two asteroid belts.
Sevenday: the equivalent of a week on Pern
Thread: (mycorrhizoid) spores from the Red Star, which descend on Pern and burrow into it, devouring all organic material they encounter.
Turn: a Pernese year
Whatch-wher: a nocturnal reptile, distantly related to dragonkind.
Weyr: a home of dragons and thier riders.
weyr: a dragon's den
Weyrsinger: the Harper for the dragonriders, usually a rider himself.
Wherries: a type of fowl roughly resembling the domestic turkey of Earth, but about the size of a ostrich.
Withies: water plants resembling reeds.
Pernese Oaths:
By the egg
By the first egg
By the egg of Faranth
By the shards of my dragon's egg.
Shells
Scorch it
Shards
Through Fall, Fog and Fire.
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Abortion considered a necessary in the Weyr, but considered evil in the Holds and Hall
Ballads songs sung by a harper for entertainment or for teaching
Bathing Pool a pool adjoining sleeping caverns in the weyr, hold, and hall
Beachberry a low-growing, fruit-bearing bush, somewhat like a cranberry
Benden Wine made at the Benden Hold; in both white and red; it was known as the best wine on Pern
Baltknives used as eating utensils; also used as a tool for fighting
Conclave Annual gathering of the Lord Holders or the Weyrleaders (sometimes both) for the discussion of All-Pern business, including the confirmation of new Lord Holders and establishment of new Weyrs.
Couch a bed; covered with rush bags for a mattress, are wrapped with wherry skins, then topped with sleeping furs
Cromcoal expensive alternative to fuelwood
Doors most doors in Weyrs are simply cloth hung across an opening; doors in Holds are made of cloth, wood and/or metal
Dragon eye colours
Green- sleeping, pleasure
Red- hunger, anger, sexual agitation and desire
White- extreme danger
Lavender/Purple- stress
Yellow- fright, anger, anxiety
Orange- uncertainty, suspicion
Rainbow- agitation
Blue/Green to Blue- general well-being, love
The speed with which the eyes whirl indicates the intensity of the emotion
Dragon speed dragons are able to go up to 30 mph in straight flight
Dragon Poker a game with cards
Dragon sounds
bellow- alarm, irritation, calling for attention
bugle- greeting, information, joy
croon- pleasure, reassurance, apology
humming- hatching
keen- death cry
moan- distress, anxiety
squeal- fear, surprise
warble- complacent, gratitude
whimper- deep sadness
Drudge dimwitted workers used for menial labor
Duel an accepted form of combat in hold and craft; not accepted in Weyrs because of the danger to losing dragon when a duel was fatal
Eye Rock an aid located on the eastern wall of each Weyr telling when the Red Star will Pass; the Red Star must shine through the Eye Rock to herald Fall; it is set ingeniously and immovably into the Star Stone
Feather Herb plant used to relieve fever
Feeding Grounds the area to a weyr where herd animals are kept for the dragons to hunt for food
Fertilizer diluted agenothree
Fightting Straps straps of wherhide placed on a dragon to aid in riding and mounting; in Games, or any strenuous flying; the straps have hooks which attach to the belt of the rider's flying jacket
Fingerfish sea fish common to Pernese oceans
Finger Rock an aid in telling when the Red Star will Pass; located at each Weyr; also marks Winter Solstice
Fingertails fish; resembles Terran carp with a whip tail
Fireheights where watchdragon perches and where watchfires are maintained; firestone is usually kept here
Fire-head an illness caused in the Southern Continent; symptoms include a high fever, head ache, spots in front of the eyes, cold-like symptoms, and sensitive skin
Fire Lizard/Flitter a small sized dragon; it is said that the dragons came from the fire-lizards; they are the same colors and proportions as the dragons
Fishroll type of fish and bread combination
Flasks for wine and other spirits
Flat fish fish commonly found in Half-Circle Sea Hold area
Fostering often in the Hold, Hall, and in the Weyr if a parent isn't able to raise their children the children would be fostered out to adults who wanted to raise extra children; many uses in fostering are for the Weyrleaders, the masters in crafthalls, the Lord Holders many children, journeymen, and many other occasions where a parent would not be in the best position to raise children
Fosterling a child who has been fostered out
Foster Parent a mother or father who has taken of the responsibility of raising a fosterling
Furs the bedding used by weyrfolk and holdfolk
Games Dragon Olympics; prowess in flying, flaming, etc., shown and prizes distributed; usually during Intervals to keep Threadfighting skills active
Gather an important event hosted at a Hold; competitions with dragons, runners, or fire-lizards; items are sold by the representatives of each Craft
Green Fruit common to Southern Continent
Grubs worm-like animals that eats Thread
Hatching when a dragon clutch hatches and Impression of the dragonets takes place; eggs are mottled, except for the gold queen egg, when there is one
Hatching Grounds where a Queen dragon lays her clutch of eggs; usually inside a volcano but can be anywhere with sands heated by underground fires or gasses; large; tiered seats cut into the rock for spectators
Herd Beasts a cow-like animal
Hold home of the common people of Pern; originally they were cut into the mountains and hillsides
Honorific Contractionsafter impression the name of a dragon rider is shortened for convenience and to show the formality granted to a dragon rider; women often did not honorific their names
Impression the joining of mind of a dragon and his or her rider-to-be at the moment of the dragon's hatching
Impression feast held after Impression to honor the new riders othwise known as a hatching feast
Looking metal highly polished metal plate for use as a mirror
Marks money (a currency)
Marshberry- a Pernese plant
Mating Flight the flight taken by a female dragon for mating purposes.
Meatroll meat and bread combination
Mosstea medicinal potion to be taken internally or externally
Needlethorn Plant a spine-throwing bush; shoots its thorns toward anything that touches it; looks like a cactus; needles are used for syringes
Night Hearth a hearth just inside the kitchen with a pot of klah and a cauldron of stew or soup for midnight snacks or people just getting off Watch or coming off night sweep patrol, etc.
Packtails fish; resembles Terran monkfish, salt water fish
Phosphine Emission- what a dragon spouts after chewing firestone
Pinkroot plant used to ease bellyache
Pluffbelly fish common to Pernese seas
Queen the highest ranking female dragons; the egg producers
Queen Rider any weyrwoman that rides a queen classed female, but usually refers to the junior queen riders
Queen's Wing Queen dragons who fly Threadfall, their riders wielding flame-throwers; this wing flies below the other wings to pick off excess Thread; also, the pregnant female riders of the fighting dragon who can still ride, the weyrlings before they join their own wings and the recovered injured riders before returning to their own wing
Redfruit citrus fruit common to Southern Continent
Redwort plant used to combat infection
Rockmites shellfish
Rushbags bags filled with rush, usually used for mattresses
Search when dragonriders go out looking for likely Impression candidates
Search Rider a rider or group of riders who look for perspective dragon riders, both male and female riders
Seasalt Pernese spice
Skybroom Pernese tree found mostly in Lemos
Silverfish long, thin dark-colored fish that swims in shallow water
Soft Carbon Stick like a pencil
Sour Plums Pernese fruit
Spicecakes bread food of Pern
Spiceroot Pernese spice
Spider-Claws a shellfish; resembles Terran crab with many pairs of jointed legs
Spongewood Pernese tree
Star Stones an aid in telling when the Red Star will Pass; rectangular; watchrider always beside it; located two dragonlengths behind the Finger Rock; enormous, chest-high to a tall man, polished surface, incised by two arrows (one pointing due east toward the Finger Rock, the other slightly north of due east, aimed directly at the Eye Rock)
Submarine Bodies fish; COMMON TO THE OCEAN
Sweetbread pastry
Sweeting jelly or jam
Sweet Oil used on a dragon's hide
Sweetsand Soap; odor freshener; becomes mud-like when mixed with water
Teaching Ballads ballads written to teach of the past
Threadscore wound inflicted by Thread
Timing It an expression used when going between times
Tubers edible roots
Tuft Grass plant used to relieve fever
Tuft Seens seeds taken from above plant for medicinal purposes
Tunic a long shirt type item of clothing
Weyrbrat a child living in a Weyr
Weyrharper- a harper posted to a Weyr; weyrsinger
Weyrhide type of leather; coming from wherries, used for jackets, pants, helmets, and other items
Weyrleader rider of the dragon (king) that mates with the senior queen of the Weyr; when the Queen dies, the Weyrleader remains until a new Queen rises to mate; if his bronze or brown flies the new senior Queen, then he remains the weyrleader, or a new Weyrleader takes his place
Weyrledge the entrance or door leading to the weyr
Weyrling an inexperienced dragonrider under the tutelage of the Weyrlingmaster
Weyrliing Barracks where weyrlings stay until their training is complete and they are promoted to a fighting wing
Weyrlingmaster trains weyrlings on all facets of Weyr life and dragon care; a dragonrider himself.
Weyrmates Pernese for marriage in the Weyr; usually mates would entail that the female dragon would not allow any other dragon to mate with her when she rises, allowing the riders to be mates
Weyrwoman Weyrwoman - rider of the senior queen of a Weyr
weyrwoman refers to any woman who lives in a Weyr; usually a rider of a Junior Queen
Whersport a daytime beast, smaller than a watchwher but larger than the fire lizards, indigenous to the southern continent
Wineskins instead of bottles
Wing fighting complement of dragons; a minimum of 12 riders
Wingleader leader of a Wing; a king rider
Wingmate fellow members of a wing
Wingrider a member of a fighting wing
Winsecond second in command to the wingleader.
Wood Pulp to write on, stacks in sheets, holds ink
Yellow fruit citrus common to the Southern Continent
Yellow-Stripes fish common to Pernese waters, not salt water
Yellow Tail fish common to Pernese waters
Note: Though this covers a few of the Pernese Flora and Fauna, an extended article will be added to the boards to show exactly what's around =3
