Post by Fiwana on Jul 15, 2009 9:59:32 GMT -5
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Between: an area of nothingness and sensory deprievation between here and there. Can take you between two places geographically or two times in history. (The later being called 'Timing it')
Candidate: One who is Searched and therefore eligible to Stand on the Hatching Sands for a chance to Impress.
Clutch: A 'litter' of eggs a female lays. (Dragon or Flit)
Dawn Sisters: trio of stars visible from Pern
Deadglow: Stupid. Also sometimes used to refer to mentally retarded people.
Dragonrider: One who has Impressed and successfully completed Weyrling Training. Congrats.
Fellis Juice: Used to dull internal pain.
Firestone: phosphine-bearing mineral which dragons chew to and swallow to their second stomachs in order to produce flame.
Flits (Firelizards): Cousins to dragons, about the size of a raven. Can breathe fire without chewing firestone. Unable to 'talk' like dragons, instead they show their bonded images and send feelings. Can go between.
Hold: Small villiage like places where non-dragonriders and non-weyr folk live; cut into mountains and hillsides. Holds that are under the protection of a certain Weyr tithe to said Weyr as a sort of payment for protection from Thread.
Honorific: When a male impresses, their name is shortened. I.E.: Deavon - D'von. Usually one drops a vowel, but can drop more if wanted.
Impression: When riders and dragons become telepathically and empathetically connected for life.
Interval: 200 turns in which no Thread falls. Long Intervals last about 400 years. Queens tend to lay fewer eggs during intervals.
Klah: stimulating hot drink made of tree bark and tasting faintly of cinnamon.
Numbweed: medicinal cream which is smeared on wounds and kills all feeling; used as an anesthetic.
Pass: 50 Turns in which Thread falls on Pern. In the few Turns before a Pass, Queen dragons begin to lay greater number of eggs to increase the number of dragons.
Rise: when a dragon begins to fly to be mated with. The female bloods kills, along with the males before she takes off and is chased.
Runnerbeast: animal that is used to plough, race, transport Holdfolk primarily. Resembles a horse.
Sevenday: A week. Sevenday = seven days... Get it?
Thread: mycorrhizoid spores from the Red Star, which are spun off onto Pern and devour any organic material they touch. They can destroy whole fields and forests within minutes.
Touching: when Candidates touch hardened dragon eggs to get a feel and comfortness with them. Does not inhibit the egg.
Turn: a Pernese year
Watch-wher: Nocturnal reptile distantly related to dragons.
Weyr: Home of dragons and their riders
weyr: A rider and dragon's den in which they sleep.
Weyrling: One who was a Candidate, but Impressed. Now you're a Weyrling! Good job.
Wherries: Similiar to a turkey, but the size of an ostrich. Eaten by dragons.
I once again thank Avangelis Weyr for this information
Terms To Know-
Between: an area of nothingness and sensory deprievation between here and there. Can take you between two places geographically or two times in history. (The later being called 'Timing it')
Candidate: One who is Searched and therefore eligible to Stand on the Hatching Sands for a chance to Impress.
Clutch: A 'litter' of eggs a female lays. (Dragon or Flit)
Dawn Sisters: trio of stars visible from Pern
Deadglow: Stupid. Also sometimes used to refer to mentally retarded people.
Dragonrider: One who has Impressed and successfully completed Weyrling Training. Congrats.
Fellis Juice: Used to dull internal pain.
Firestone: phosphine-bearing mineral which dragons chew to and swallow to their second stomachs in order to produce flame.
Flits (Firelizards): Cousins to dragons, about the size of a raven. Can breathe fire without chewing firestone. Unable to 'talk' like dragons, instead they show their bonded images and send feelings. Can go between.
Hold: Small villiage like places where non-dragonriders and non-weyr folk live; cut into mountains and hillsides. Holds that are under the protection of a certain Weyr tithe to said Weyr as a sort of payment for protection from Thread.
Honorific: When a male impresses, their name is shortened. I.E.: Deavon - D'von. Usually one drops a vowel, but can drop more if wanted.
Impression: When riders and dragons become telepathically and empathetically connected for life.
Interval: 200 turns in which no Thread falls. Long Intervals last about 400 years. Queens tend to lay fewer eggs during intervals.
Klah: stimulating hot drink made of tree bark and tasting faintly of cinnamon.
Numbweed: medicinal cream which is smeared on wounds and kills all feeling; used as an anesthetic.
Pass: 50 Turns in which Thread falls on Pern. In the few Turns before a Pass, Queen dragons begin to lay greater number of eggs to increase the number of dragons.
Rise: when a dragon begins to fly to be mated with. The female bloods kills, along with the males before she takes off and is chased.
Runnerbeast: animal that is used to plough, race, transport Holdfolk primarily. Resembles a horse.
Sevenday: A week. Sevenday = seven days... Get it?
Thread: mycorrhizoid spores from the Red Star, which are spun off onto Pern and devour any organic material they touch. They can destroy whole fields and forests within minutes.
Touching: when Candidates touch hardened dragon eggs to get a feel and comfortness with them. Does not inhibit the egg.
Turn: a Pernese year
Watch-wher: Nocturnal reptile distantly related to dragons.
Weyr: Home of dragons and their riders
weyr: A rider and dragon's den in which they sleep.
Weyrling: One who was a Candidate, but Impressed. Now you're a Weyrling! Good job.
Wherries: Similiar to a turkey, but the size of an ostrich. Eaten by dragons.
Pernese Oaths/Curses-
"By the Egg"
"By the First Egg"
"By the egg of Faranth"
"Great Faranth"
"Scorch it"
"Shards"
"By the shards of my dragon's egg"
"Shells"
"Shards and Shells"
"Through Fall, Fog and Fire"
"By the Egg"
"By the First Egg"
"By the egg of Faranth"
"Great Faranth"
"Scorch it"
"Shards"
"By the shards of my dragon's egg"
"Shells"
"Shards and Shells"
"Through Fall, Fog and Fire"
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I once again thank Avangelis Weyr for this information