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- ✔ [[Admonitory Debrief]] · House of Open Wounds ch 37 - a qualification and practice of Correct Speech involving interrogation and torture (needles, wires, vices); Inquirers are required to maintain currency in it&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Alborandi mystery]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 15 - the principle that those who don the Alborandi mask are unmade; their former selves, debts, and identities are entirely erased-&amp;quot;Where does the knot go, when the string is pulled loose? Where the song, when the singer falls silent? Not even the ghost of it remains.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[alchemy]] · House of Open Wounds ch 32 - considered superstition and demi-magic, rejected by the Schools; Ollery&amp;#039;s treatise made it rationally acceptable; Ollery wields it as a weapon (the poisoned dinner)&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Alkhalend two-tier prisoner system]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 4 - lesser officials hold prisoners in private cellars pending a decision &amp;quot;from on high&amp;quot;; the seriously guilty go to the House of Hard Angles; there are no watch houses because the Tesemer guard the streets but cannot be trusted with prisoners&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Alv&amp;#039;s exercises]] · House of Open Wounds ch 3 - small, controlled passes performed in the space of a broom closet, every muscle under strict mental control, no reliance on instinct or body memory&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[balance]] · House of Open Wounds ch 11&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Basic Arcane]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 11 - the training course both Dantell and Quellery completed; Dantell invokes it to argue Quellery must handle artillery targeting, not just demons&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[baton drill]] · House of Open Wounds ch 36 - referenced as &amp;quot;the proper sequence of parade-ground baton drill,&amp;quot; part of the military discipline Lidlet likens to religious rules&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[baton dueling]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 2 - &amp;quot;the new way the locals like&amp;quot;; two people at range with levelled rods &amp;quot;gabbling out the command words to punch holes in one another&amp;quot;; considered &amp;quot;too civilized&amp;quot; by Gil&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[binding writ of good faith]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 14 - an Allorwen conjurer-tradition contract, enforceable within its stated walls by demon power; creates an &amp;quot;enforceable truce&amp;quot; for negotiation; previously used by Allorwen conjurer-lords&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Charter of Correct Conduct]] · City of Last Chances ch 37 - legal code governing parlay rules; Vorkovin cites specific paragraphs and appendix sections of it&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Charter of Correct Thought]] · City of Last Chances ch 37 - legal code the Pal officer reads from to declare the students in breach; invoked throughout the ultimatum&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[circle house conjuration]] · House of Open Wounds ch 9 - Banned under Pal rationality but practised openly when expedient; the Statlos is disgusted to find Jack in a brothel associated with it&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[clavamachy]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 8 - the men&amp;#039;s half of Usmai&amp;#039;s ancient duelling tradition, fought with the clavar&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[conditional healing]] · House of Open Wounds ch 18 - the mechanism by which Maric Jack&amp;#039;s healing operates: it restores health but reverses instantly if the healed person raises a hand against another; not a &amp;quot;curse&amp;quot; by Jack&amp;#039;s insistence but &amp;quot;the way it is&amp;quot;; intent is the determining factor&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[conjuration]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 6; Pretenders to the Thro ch 32 - the application of demons to industrial and military use; Professor-Invigilator Flockersly severed it from &amp;quot;superstition and ritual&amp;quot; and brought it into Correct Appreciation&amp;#039;s remit&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Conjuration of demons]] · City of Last Chances ch 9 - the &amp;quot;vile trade&amp;quot; Guame practises; the Pals consider it a &amp;quot;primitive Allorwen&amp;quot; corruption; Guame calls up &amp;quot;beasts of alluring guise&amp;quot; for clients&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[contract-based conjuration]] · House of Open Wounds ch 25 - the Allorwen method of binding demons through individually negotiated contracts and clauses; &amp;quot;conjuration is compulsion&amp;quot;; the contract itself is payment, giving the demon &amp;quot;strength&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;essential thingness&amp;quot; usable as infernal currency; careless drafting invites retribution or frolics&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Correct Scholarship]] · City of Last Chances ch 5 - awards and badges of rank worn on a sash by prominent members of the Occupation Perfecture.&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Culvern&amp;#039;s curse]] · City of Last Chances ch 40 - a wasting affliction on Culvern that makes his skin corrupt, his pores ooze, and his body stink so foully that his staff&amp;#039;s robes must be burned weekly; its origin is unknown; &amp;quot;cruel ideas&amp;quot; now arise naturally in his brain&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[decaning techniques]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5 - Bracite methods of producing raw magic; &amp;quot;Correct Erudition is still learning from&amp;quot; them&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[decanting]] · City of Last Chances ch 2-23; House of Open Wounds ch 7-44; Days of Shattered Fait ch 6-41; Pretenders to the Thro ch 4-7 - the Palleseen practice of extracting magical power from captured magicians (&amp;quot;magicians ripe for interrogation or decanting&amp;quot;)&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[demon contracts]] · City of Last Chances ch 22; Days of Shattered Fait ch 42; Pretenders to the Thro ch 24 - the binding mechanism by which a demonist compels a demon; a short contract is more dangerous than a long one; the contract is &amp;quot;the thin end of the lash&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;the handle&amp;quot; is how the contract-maker holds power; a demon can write and activate a contract itself&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[demon-contract magic]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 4 - the Allorwen practice of binding entities from the Realms Below through legal-style contracts with &amp;quot;eleven pages of subclauses, provisos and small print&amp;quot;; no blood sacrifice required; the contract alone is the binding; there are pro forma templates&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Divinati balance]] · House of Open Wounds ch 39 - Alv&amp;#039;s cosmology: every taking of an ill or debt creates an imbalance that must be repaid; &amp;quot;Imbalance, that was the killer, the worst sin in the world&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Divinati magic]] · House of Open Wounds ch 4 - a healing discipline in which the healer absorbs the patient&amp;#039;s injury onto their own body, visibly burning and disfiguring themselves&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Divinati sympathetic magic]] · House of Open Wounds ch 46 - a discipline in which wounds are thrown via a tableth-socketed rod or self-inflicted injury; the Divinati philosophy is to be &amp;quot;the still centre of everything,&amp;quot; absorbing and reflecting wounds without exporting them&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[final appendix paragraph nine]] · City of Last Chances ch 43 - a clause Aullaime was taught to embed in every contract she negotiated: if a party&amp;#039;s own agents are prevented from fulfilling their responsibilities, the negotiator may replace or vary terms at her absolute discretion&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Forbiddance]] · City of Last Chances ch 31 - a type of magic Hellgram draws as a &amp;quot;wire-sharp sigil&amp;quot; that &amp;quot;glimmered, silver-green&amp;quot;; repels Fleance temporarily; described as &amp;quot;not of the Wood, nor of here, nor anywhere&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Gaeledh]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 9-41&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[ghost-chain deployment]] · House of Open Wounds ch 27 - a military doctrine in which ghosts are sealed in copper jars, thrown by a squad-portable trebuchet-style launcher behind enemy lines, and leap host-to-host draining each living body&amp;#039;s life essence to fuel the next leap; Prassel identifies &amp;quot;problem nodes&amp;quot; and Killingly confirms the chaining mechanic&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[ghost-launcher operation]] · House of Open Wounds ch 41 - necromantic barrage of possessed ghosts; requires coppers, tablethi, protective wards; &amp;quot;troops held in case of need&amp;quot; as ammunition source&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[ghost-mills]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 44 - Drathel&amp;#039;s speculative idea for a new Decanter direction: mass-processing ephemeral remains to harvest tiny wisps of power, which she judges &amp;quot;vastly inefficient&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[God&amp;#039;s healing strictures]] · City of Last Chances ch 19 - God heals only the faithful who live by His rules: no harm, no violence, a life devoted only to peace and the betterment of others; &amp;quot;Rules and axioms... were what wove gods from the cosmos. Cut through them and they sprang back into nothing.&amp;quot; Approximately thirty thousand words of theology wrap the kernel.&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[God&amp;#039;s selective healing]] · House of Open Wounds ch 30 - God heals some people (Jack, Lidlet) but explicitly refuses Banders, with no stated reason&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[identic bleeding]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 23 - the process by which centuries of storage eroded individual identities within the Dead Companies, blurring distinct names into a handful of shared labels&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[illegal honour duels in Usmai]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 2 - duels against the Alkhand&amp;#039;s pronouncements; illegal unless explicitly permitted; first-blood or surrender conventions for Usmiat participants, but foreigners fight &amp;quot;to the death&amp;quot; because they are &amp;quot;truly civilized&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[industrial conjuring]] · City of Last Chances ch 43 - the mass-contracting of demon labour for mill and factory machinery, replacing the old bespoke circlecraft; the new art &amp;quot;knew none of the old checks and balances of Allorwen custom&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Jack&amp;#039;s bargain]] · House of Open Wounds ch 44 - the arrangement by which Jack&amp;#039;s healing (or Lidlet&amp;#039;s healing of Cosserby) binds the healed person, marking them as taken from death and making them suspect in the purge&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Lensing and thaumatic landscape calculations]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 19 - a technical discipline Aspel studies; she carries a &amp;quot;good authority&amp;quot; on the subject as armour against local magical threats&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Literate Form]] · City of Last Chances ch 6 - a Gownhall class conducted in Pel, &amp;quot;worthlessly formulaic,&amp;quot; taught by a bored lecturer enforcing &amp;quot;Palleseen Correctness&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Loret&amp;#039;s storm]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 22 - an unnamed power in Loret; described as &amp;quot;the thunder,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;the lash of the storm that&amp;#039;s in her&amp;quot;; a Louse Monk recognizes it as &amp;quot;a thing beyond all the mysteries of the Louse Monks&amp;quot;; she cannot afterward explain what she did&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Loruthi Trade Missions]] · House of Open Wounds ch 20 - a mercantile domination system: &amp;quot;used the milled edges of their coins to burrow into the hierarchies of whichever kingdom or despotate they decided was profitable,&amp;quot; producing domination without uniformed soldiers&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Lycanthropists]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 19-35 - a military discipline from which Istreddy was discharged; he retains visible dagger-tooth scars from his service&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Lycanthropy]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 12 - Istreddy&amp;#039;s second trade; he transforms into a lupine beast under stress, called back by someone speaking his name.&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Maserley&amp;#039;s contracts]] · House of Open Wounds ch 11 - binding agreements for demons; a thousand close-written pages of conditions; still insufficient for complex tasks like targeted assassination&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[massed possession]] · House of Open Wounds ch 46 - a necromantic bombardment technique: ghosts are sealed in copper canisters and fired at the enemy as directed ammunition; a &amp;quot;spear&amp;quot; of loyalist spectres guides the rest&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[minor correction]] · House of Open Wounds ch 6 - military punishment administered by the Butcher in three grades (four, six, twelve lashes); the exact count must be verified by the Tally Officer&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Moeribandi death cult theology]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 5 - the afterlife of the old Empire: the Favoured pass to a sterile paradise; the un-Favoured are reborn until they qualify; a few special dead remain in their bodies to teach; the whole world will end sterile and cold&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[necromancy]] · House of Open Wounds ch 1-2&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[old covenant]] · City of Last Chances ch 47&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Pal characters]] · House of Open Wounds ch 14 - a writing system inscribed inside Sonori casings; Cosserby is &amp;quot;inscribing&amp;quot; them as part of repairs&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Pal surveillance of religious dissidents]] · City of Last Chances ch 19 - the School of Correct Speech comes &amp;quot;trawling for religious dissidents&amp;quot;; whole departments of the Palleseen Sway are devoted to monitoring public bloodshed and crowd gathering&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Pal-standard lights]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 35 - maritime light-codes exchanged between ship and shore at Alkhalend; running them identifies a Palleseen vessel and now compels swift berthing to avoid complaints.&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Palleseen demonist contract law]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 38 - contracts are the &amp;quot;long spoon&amp;quot; by which demonists bind demons; a demon in the chain of command has no contractual restraint on harming humans below it, only the soldier&amp;#039;s discipline&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[ritual duel]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 26&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Schools of Correct Thought]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 11-35 - the collective name for the five Palleseen governing Schools, each partitioning a sphere of governance.&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Sign of the Forlorn Hope]] · House of Open Wounds ch 1&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[skiamachy]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 8-10 - a martial practice at the Usmiat court; the Alkhand&amp;#039;s daughter has taken up foreign street-fighting alongside it&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[soldiers&amp;#039; tricks of the Great War]] · City of Last Chances ch 42 - the everyday craft of Hellgram&amp;#039;s trench warfare: conjured swords and helms, pepped-box pistols, vials of decanted sleep, soul-bonds, possession grenades; &amp;quot;just a regular trench-digger&amp;#039;s artifice&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Sonoristics]] · House of Open Wounds ch 14 - the discipline of constructing and maintaining Sonori battle constructs; described as not yet fully freed from its Jarokiri religious origins; Cosserby hopes a future symposium will produce a &amp;quot;fully rational plan&amp;quot; for Pal-built constructs&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Sorthist&amp;#039;s wasps]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 13 - a supernatural attack that caused Oparan&amp;#039;s blindness but &amp;quot;had not been able to touch the inner eye&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[soul-linking]] · City of Last Chances ch 42 - the military practice of Hellgram&amp;#039;s people; two soldiers &amp;quot;linked soul to soul, two halves together&amp;quot;; the war made Hellgram into &amp;quot;a hilt&amp;quot; and his wife &amp;quot;his blade&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[spent magic]] · House of Open Wounds ch 47 - a scavenging pretext Thurrel uses as his cover story when asked where he goes; implies a regulated economy of magical residue the army collects&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[sympathetic magic]] · House of Open Wounds ch 1-45 - Alv&amp;#039;s discipline: the healer finds the &amp;quot;asymmetry of flow&amp;quot; in a patient, draws the injury or sickness into themselves, then dissipates it through exercises; transfer to a willing, trained &amp;quot;receptacle of harm&amp;quot; is possible, but passing harm to an unwilling or untrained subject violates the balance&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[sympathetic transfer]] · House of Open Wounds ch 39 - the Pallessan tactical application of Divinati sympathetic healing: moving an injury from one body to another in a chain, intended to pass harm onto the enemy; Alv insists this is not her discipline&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[sympathetic wound-transfer chain]] · House of Open Wounds ch 41 - Callow&amp;#039;s technique: injuries surgically extracted from bound Accessories, passed along a human chain, projected toward a distant target via observation tower&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the Allorwen conjuration tradition]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5 - bespoke negotiation between conjurer and demon; &amp;quot;a precisely tailored service. A tool for all tasks, if one has the will and the wit to achieve it&amp;quot;; Benallers&amp;#039; training&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the Anchorwood as a thoroughfare between worlds]] · City of Last Chances ch 42 - the forest crosses between realities; Hellgram&amp;#039;s people &amp;quot;never guessed at the existence of the Anchorwood&amp;quot;; its borders can be sensed (&amp;quot;the differential of realities&amp;quot;)&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the ancient contracts of Allorwen]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 34 - bespoke, personal arrangements between conjurer and demon, negotiated wit against wit; contrasted with the Palleseen preference for &amp;quot;faceless hosts&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[The Butcher&amp;#039;s Ladder]] · House of Open Wounds ch 33 - classification of injuries in ascending severity, from mundane physical to unnatural contagion; eight categories&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the calendar reform]] · City of Last Chances ch 1 - imposition of a seven-day week replacing the old twelveday; using the old calendar invites fines and arrest&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the Chastising Fire]] · House of Open Wounds ch 24 - Tallifer&amp;#039;s curse invoked: &amp;quot;The Chastising Fire eat you from your guts out!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the clan election system]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 9 - each clan in Eres Ffenegh elects a grandee by common vote (&amp;quot;coloured stones in the box&amp;quot;); grandees must keep their people fed and entertained to retain the position; an egalitarian structure from the city&amp;#039;s founding, though kin-succession is common in practice&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[The compass]] · House of Open Wounds ch 17 - star-shaped piste combat; fighters circle and launch exchanges only when aligned with an axis of the star, ritual combat &amp;quot;designed to be performed in the round&amp;quot;; three strikes to win&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the Dead Eye]] · House of Open Wounds ch 2 - a necromantic ability to see into the interstitial space between the material world and the Eroding Abyss where ghosts are caught; unlocks under &amp;quot;the lidless scrutiny&amp;quot; of proper mental exercises&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the demon&amp;#039;s knot]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 18 - the binding agreement sworn before the talks, with Hell as arbitrator, which compels all present to refrain from violence; Brandery&amp;#039;s verbal &amp;quot;permission to strike&amp;quot; releases a party from it&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the Duke&amp;#039;s curse]] · City of Last Chances ch 13 - a wasting affliction that rots the flesh and keeps the bearer alive beyond death; passed from the Old Duke to Culvern at the moment of execution; possibly sourced from an Allorwen witch, an ended noble line, or the Anchorwood/Indwellers; immune to Palleseen medicine, Correct Thought, and reportedly to Allorwen quacksalvers and Maric healers&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[The Eye&amp;#039;s ward]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 27 - the Lighthouse is the crux of all the city&amp;#039;s warding, &amp;quot;all that twisty way the air works&amp;quot;; the Eye can also be turned outward as a weapon against the Pal army&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the fog-paths]] · City of Last Chances ch 25 - the Indwellers&amp;#039; ability to walk through the fog into &amp;quot;other places&amp;quot; - buried halls, tombs, forgotten chambers, &amp;quot;the ghosts of forest groves long fallen to the axe&amp;quot;; places that exist only because &amp;quot;the fog remembered&amp;quot; them&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the God contract]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 29 - a rumour from the war with the Loruthi: a soldier signs a paper, and if badly wounded, God heals them at a price; the Palleseen repurposed an &amp;quot;ignorant superstition&amp;quot; into something &amp;quot;reliable and useful&amp;quot;; signed in war camps, spread to the Archipelago&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the House of Hard Angles&amp;#039; true purpose]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 44-45 - the building is not merely a prison but a ghost-collecting, power-harvesting system built by the Moeribandi Empire; its architecture funnels ghosts in and drains ambient magical energy to the crypt&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the Indwellers&amp;#039; mist]] · City of Last Chances ch 20 - a chill, damp, autumn-scented fog that rolls from the Anchorwood&amp;#039;s trees toward the city, through which the Indwellers walk and which renders the Palleseen soldiers irrelevant; walls become &amp;quot;no more substantial than flattened-out creases&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the infernal contract system]] · City of Last Chances ch 16 - demons are bound by contracts with the Kings Below; if a demon fails within its warranty, the Infernal Realms owe a replacement with penalties; wards are physical brands and runed irons; the Kings Below &amp;quot;hate paying additional charges&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[The last argument of Alkhands]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 15 - the ogrodon charge, described as an argument that &amp;quot;would not stop for spearpoints or arrows or the walls of forts&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[The Naming Bond]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 39 - the &amp;quot;absolute and indivisible link between the label and the thing it described&amp;quot; between conjurer and demon; the chapter&amp;#039;s revelation is that this connection &amp;quot;extended both ways,&amp;quot; that a demon can know a conjurer through their true name just as the conjurer knows the demon. &amp;quot;Only when the second name was set down did it become a binding agreement.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the Occupation]] · City of Last Chances ch 1-27 - Palleseen rule over Ilmar; three years underway; locals recruited as collaborators in pale-grey uniforms; Correct Thought ideology&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the Ordnances of Correct Appreciation]] · City of Last Chances ch 39 - legal code of Correct Appreciation; volume seven, article eight hundred and forty-two second subsection forbids a second execution after a sentence has been carried out&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the Palleseen education and assignment system]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 2 - a prescribed curriculum (philosophy, history, science, mathematics, approved literature) in orphanages like Thorntree House, leading to assignment to one of the Schools at sixteen, then to a career posting&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the Palleseen rank and department iconography]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 2 - designed to be &amp;quot;instantly comprehensible, for both practical and ideological reasons&amp;quot;; shoulder markings encode rank, office, and department&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[The Palleseen Sway]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 2-28 - the sphere of Palleseen imperial control; Usmai is to be formally absorbed into it, accepting Palleseen law&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the Palleseen treatment of priests]] · House of Open Wounds ch 3 - the chapter enumerates the options: kill them, re-educate them, tolerate them while letting them &amp;quot;weave enough nooses for the whole congregation,&amp;quot; or send them to a battalion for medical experimentation&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the posthumous consecration ritual]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 20 - a vast Moeribandi rite that crowned a dead boy as King of Death, infusing him with the essence of a thousand ghosts; the only way the title can be held&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the stone]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 13 - a spreading petrification disease in Oparan&amp;#039;s lungs and blood; &amp;quot;little shards&amp;quot; of stone migrate through his body and will eventually tear his heart&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the Successor States&amp;#039; succession]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 9 - when there is one throne and multiple children, the daughter is married off, the warrior prince claims the crown, and the defeated rival brother is made into a skull&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the Successor-State succession cycle]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 7-8 - pattern in which a strong &amp;quot;Big Man&amp;quot; gains power, has too many heirs, and the succession collapses the state&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the twelveday cycle]] · City of Last Chances ch 3 - the recurring interval at which the Game is held&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[The two modes of the Occupation]] · City of Last Chances ch 28 - Orvechin&amp;#039;s formulation: under the Pals, pressure &amp;quot;would only get tighter or, at best, stop getting tighter for now&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the Vulture identity drill]] · City of Last Chances ch 34 - Carelia&amp;#039;s ritual of naming and rejecting the Shrike, Heron, and Raven to assert Vulture supremacy; no rehearsal, Evene must prompt the responses&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[The wall as one-use weapon]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 41 - the Gaelensreach is a Gaeledh construct that can only be brought down once; its animation is the &amp;quot;breath of Ffen&amp;quot; transmuted into will; &amp;quot;the last argument of the Os-Fferegh, which they&amp;#039;ve never deployed before because it&amp;#039;s a trick you can only do once&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[The Warden structure]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 29 - the necromantic architecture of the House of Hard Angles establishes a notional &amp;quot;head&amp;quot; to keep the imprisoned ghosts in line; the Warden is either a captured necromancer or a creature from the Waygrove, bound by wards that permit entry but not exit&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the wedding]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 40 - Orhuhst&amp;#039;s declaration that the Fisher King and the Shark Queen are one; &amp;quot;the oldest of old ways and the newest of new. Experimental theology.&amp;quot; Proclaimed after the shark consumes the faith&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the Wood&amp;#039;s gates]] · City of Last Chances ch 6 - the Anchorwood opens and closes its passage to the outside; the Indwellers &amp;quot;never came to Ilmar save when the moon was right&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[tradecraft]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 4 - the skill of espionage, concealment, and improvisation under constraint; Gil uses it to hide a blade and cut her bonds&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[ward-work]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 33 - the military magical purpose of the sigil-net; Quellery calls it &amp;quot;some pretty punchy ward-work&amp;quot; and the chapter implies it involves the dead (&amp;quot;He had no brief for the dead, and if they were being played foul, well, that was the world&amp;quot;)&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Wards]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 5 - protective conjurations; drawn in charcoal on stone, sewn into clothing (three witch-hunters&amp;#039;-worth in Abellaime&amp;#039;s garments), thrown in the air as finger-figures&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;barricading&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · City of Last Chances ch 32 - the practice of throwing desks, chairs, cabinets, and furniture across streets to create cover and slow a charge; students and the Siblingries begin it around Gownhall Square&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;conjoined camp&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · House of Open Wounds ch 23 - the arrangement by which Forthright Battalion and Landwards Battalion share a camp with no marked boundary, justified as preventing &amp;quot;unhealthy rivalries&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;demon nature&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · Pretenders to the Thro ch 1 - demons from Hell do not sleep; Ghastron &amp;quot;consented to lie in this bed&amp;quot; and do &amp;quot;a decent impression&amp;quot; of sleep but it is not native to him&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;disciplinary tribunals&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · House of Open Wounds ch 18 - conducted by Inquirers like Sherm; the army&amp;#039;s mechanism for handling misdemeanours; running &amp;quot;dawn til dusk&amp;quot; due to Uncle&amp;#039;s alcohol ban&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;duel of words&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · Pretenders to the Thro ch 37 - the form of challenge the woman&amp;#039;s demon squire issues to the Lich Queen, in place of a physical duel; &amp;quot;Blood and strength do not tempt her&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;exorcism working&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · Pretenders to the Thro ch 40 - Dantell&amp;#039;s field discipline; she cast &amp;quot;a much broader net&amp;quot; than the ward placement required&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;feral transition&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · House of Open Wounds ch 27 - the state a ghost enters when it goes mad or loses its coherence after a containment failure; one of the causes of the five squad losses&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;first wave / second wave&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · House of Open Wounds ch 21 - the assault structure; the first wave takes the initial fire; the second wave includes stretcher bearers, intelligencers, reinforcements, and patchers&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;leaking god-power in the ground and air at Eres Ffenegh&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · Pretenders to the Thro ch 23 - the &amp;quot;leaking power of a dead god&amp;quot; infuses terrain and sky, making standard artillery aim unreliable; salvos curve into the sea or return to the gun&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;re-education&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · House of Open Wounds ch 20&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;sun lance&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · House of Open Wounds ch 33 - an inherited promise/boast Varinecthes made centuries ago; now partially ineffective due to smoke obscuring targets&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;the binding ritual&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · Days of Shattered Fait ch 14 - a Moerend ceremony that preserves a dead person&amp;#039;s ghost inside their own skull, so that the ghost feels it still exists and remembers who it was; described as a very close cousin to the ritual used on demons, and identical to the one used to preserve the ghosts of poets and scholars for teaching&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;the mechanics of magic&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · Pretenders to the Thro ch 1 - described through Varinecthes&amp;#039;s experience: one must &amp;quot;corkscrew your mind through the various contortions any individual act of magic required,&amp;quot; find where the power is, force it into the exact right shape &amp;quot;through those extra spaces and directions&amp;quot;; described as unnatural, like &amp;quot;trying to nail soup to the wall&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;the storm&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · Days of Shattered Fait ch 22&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;the view through the drapes&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · Pretenders to the Thro ch 7 - looking out from the Pandaemonium&amp;#039;s private room reveals a landscape of red light, partial flame, pale things driven over parched plains, a bronze city on distant peaks, shrieks and screams; implies a window onto the Realms Below&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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