Childgatherers

Childgatherers are ammonite officials, sent out by the Wise to peoples tributary to the Commonwealth, to select children from among them with which they are to pay the flesh-tithe to the Masters in Osrakum, at their annual ritual of the Rebirth

Raveners

Raveners are predatory saurians native to the Earthsky

Heaveners

Heaveners are immense saurians, native to the Earthsky, who have extremely long neck that give the impression of raising their heads high into the sky; the Plainsmen consider them sacred to the Sky Father

Earthers

Earthers are huge, four-horned saurians, native to the Earthsky and closely-related to the huimur of the Commonwealth. When attacked, earthers form a defensive wall, with their horns facing outward in what the Plainsman all a ‘hornwall’

Rootearth

The rootearth is the area covered by the roots of a mother tree and is the home territory of the hearth whose mother tree it is

Huskmen

A huskman is an enemy warrior who has been denied sky burial and, instead, has been mummified by sun-desiccation. The Plainsmen set these huskmen as guards on the entrance to their koppies when they are away on their migrations

The Mother’s Backbone

the Mother's Backbone

The Mother’s Backbone, or simply ‘the Backbone’, is a basalt dyke intrusion that runs north to south down the western edge of the Earthsky

Djada

djada bales attached to a Plainsman saddle-chair
djada bales attached to a Plainsman saddle-chair

Djada is strips of dried meat, woven into rope that the Plainsman carry with them wrapped into bales that they thread onto the back pole of their saddle-chairs

Dragons

The term ‘dragon’ is one commonly used to refer to a ruhuimur of the legions—ruhuimurs form one arm of a legion, the other being its aquar mounted auxiliaries

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