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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;Every entry. ✔ = has its own page; - = below the significance bar for now (promotable as the registry grows).&lt;br /&gt;
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- ✔ [[Acting-Sage-Inquirer]] · House of Open Wounds ch 48-51 - a rank within the School of Correct Speech (Inquirers); Prassel now holds it, elevated from Fellow-Inquirer&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Alkhand]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 7-10; Days of Shattered Fait ch 1-50 - the Usmiat royal title; the &amp;quot;appropriate Usmiat title&amp;quot; for a ruling monarch&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Almuer]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 18-20 - a sage or wise man; literally &amp;quot;one whose ghost is worthy of preserving&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Appointments Secretary to the Commission]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 41 - the Commission official who would name the next Perfector&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Auntie]] · City of Last Chances ch 34&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Awkward Questions]] · House of Open Wounds ch 17 - a drinking game Banders mentions playing&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Bashonin]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 7; Days of Shattered Fait ch 2 - title held by Tarcomir as Lor&amp;#039;s emissary&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[bell-making]] · House of Open Wounds ch 41 - Cosserby&amp;#039;s derisive term for his Sonori work; used by Banders as a dismissal&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[bird-badge insurgents]] · City of Last Chances ch 11 - Shrievsby&amp;#039;s dismissive term for the resistance cells operating in Ilmar&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Blessed]] · House of Open Wounds ch 20 - a term for openly-consecrated priests of foreign gods serving in the Pal military; Pirisytes recognizes them &amp;quot;wearing the uniform. Actual priests of actual gods&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Bride of the Sea]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 9 - a rank within the Fisher King cult; Vestry held this position before her defiance&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[chucker-outer]] · City of Last Chances ch 44 - the Vultures&amp;#039; (or the underworld&amp;#039;s) term for a bouncer; Hellgram&amp;#039;s role at the Anchorage&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Claw of Ffen]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 7 - the title held by the current champion of Eres Ffenegh, invoking the dead crab god Ffen; the Widow uses it mockingly to address Kiff&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Cohort-Archivist]] · House of Open Wounds ch 11; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1 - a teaching/administrative role; the refectory teacher holds this title with two other full-time jobs&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Cohort-Inquirer]] · House of Open Wounds ch 23&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Cohort-Invigilator]] · House of Open Wounds ch 23; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 2-5; Days of Shattered Fait ch 1-43 - sings a Pal marching song at a fire; Masty stops to listen and feels briefly better&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Cohort-Monitor]] · House of Open Wounds ch 23-35; Days of Shattered Fait ch 42&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Companion-Archivist]] · City of Last Chances ch 18 - a rank within Correct Erudition held by Nasely&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Companion-Invigilator]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5-6; Days of Shattered Fait ch 42 - rank; Benallers&amp;#039; rank; one below Fellow&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Companion-Monitor]] · House of Open Wounds ch 48 - rank Prassel offers Festle within The Deathless&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Custodian]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 4&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[drill statlos]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 40 - a military drill authority; the dead&amp;#039;s stamping would make &amp;quot;a drill statlos weep&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Dusarch]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 20-31 - title of the ruler of Lucibi, who died without heir, prompting the throne&amp;#039;s auction&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[factora]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 4 - the Palleseen colonial term for a merchant&amp;#039;s business premises or trading post in an occupied territory&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Families]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 5-17 - the term used for members of a clan in Eres Ffenegh; the two attackers are called &amp;quot;the Families man&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;the junior Families man&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Fammi]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 10 - a Palleseen term of familiar equals, equivalent to &amp;quot;mate&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Feggs]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 41 - pejorative used by Fowlett for the Os-Fferegh; &amp;quot;She wants the Feggs to remember today for ten generations&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Fellow rank]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 40 - the officer grade of the forward company officers Fowlett summons&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Fellow-Archivist]] · House of Open Wounds ch 35; Days of Shattered Fait ch 7&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Fellow-Broker]] · City of Last Chances ch 37; House of Open Wounds ch 50; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 7 - unnamed officer on Scaffesty&amp;#039;s staff; shoots at Lidlet in defiance; dies from the withdrawn blessing&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Fellow-Inquirer]] · City of Last Chances ch 37-40; House of Open Wounds ch 23-51; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1-6; Pretenders to the Thro ch 29 - the rank Angilly holds at the chapter&amp;#039;s start, before promotion&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Fellow-Invigilator]] · House of Open Wounds ch 32-35; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 2-5; Days of Shattered Fait ch 42 - a rank within the Invigilators; Ostrephy&amp;#039;s rank; Angilly calls her &amp;quot;Magister&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Fellow-Lodge]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 8&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Fellow-Monitor]] · City of Last Chances ch 37; House of Open Wounds ch 43; Days of Shattered Fait ch 42&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Fellow-Trustie]] · City of Last Chances ch 49 - a rank imposed by the Pals on Gownhall masters, making them simultaneously responsible to the Pals and to their colleagues; Vorkovin is the first mentioned holder&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Fellows]] · House of Open Wounds ch 45 - a rank; Maserley&amp;#039;s and Thurrel&amp;#039;s level&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Flossy]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 6 - the nickname used for Professor-Invigilator Flockersly outside his office; &amp;quot;It breeds complacence that he can use against his interdepartmental rivals&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Gabble]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 4 - old soldier&amp;#039;s slang for valuable-but-religious loot that might bring you before Correct Speech if found in your pack&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Gak]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 42 - a contractual word/clause; Caecelian writes it into her binding, and speaking it after the transfer causes Wattery&amp;#039;s head and one arm to fall from her body; it is the lethal clause of the contract&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[ghost work]] · House of Open Wounds ch 39 - Prassel&amp;#039;s term for the classified assignment &amp;quot;Higher Orders&amp;quot; have put her on; she &amp;quot;always wanted ghost work. Until now&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[God the grudging healer]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 40 - the God Loret formerly followed; his followers &amp;quot;did not even defend themselves&amp;quot; against the Dead Companies; Loret &amp;quot;displeased God&amp;quot; and fled&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[God-fevers]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 8 - the Usmiat name for illnesses that strike foreigners in Usmai, blamed on local deities taking offence; Kilbery, as a Pal, rejects the explanation&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[god-smuggling]] · House of Open Wounds ch 24 - Jack&amp;#039;s former trade in Ilmar: spiriting deities out of the city to keep them from the Decanters; the charge for which he was imprisoned&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[gone native]] · City of Last Chances ch 11 - the condition afflicting those trapped in the Reproach; they shed their former identities, adopt courtly titles and an antique Maric idiolect, and lose all reaction to the physical threats around them&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Grand Moerend]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 5-18&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Heir]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 18&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Hellieur]] · City of Last Chances ch 16-43; Pretenders to the Thro ch 5 - (not in this chapter text; listed in reference only)&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[hooley-hooley-hailey]] · House of Open Wounds ch 17 - Palleseen imitation of Maric speech; used as a racial caricature in the authorised play; Jack asks if it is a thing&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Hop to!]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 12 - the Loruthi command to activate batons fitted with Loruthi tablethi.&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Hullseer]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 50 - title of the leader of the Cotto pirates; held by Orhuhst&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Incorrect Exchange]] · City of Last Chances ch 1 - the crime of begging or unlicensed trade; Yasnic risks it&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Incorrect Speech]] · City of Last Chances ch 1; House of Open Wounds ch 45 - the crime of speaking against Occupier orthodoxy; arrests made for it&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Izzy]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 35 - familiar nickname for Istreddy used within the Heretics&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Junior phal]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Junior sympaticos]] · House of Open Wounds ch 3 - a couple of Alv&amp;#039;s students washing bloody clothes from the previous day&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Kama]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 28 - a nickname Gorbudan used for Dekamran; Dekamran refuses to let anyone else use it&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Keeper of the Fifth Key]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 4 - a title held by Coregan; &amp;quot;a very grand way of describing a relatively minor personality within the administrative hierarchy of the palace&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Kepishi]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 8-10; Days of Shattered Fait ch 4-40 - a term for Palleseen people; Gorbudan calls them &amp;quot;killers of gods, devourers of ways&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[know Gil]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 4&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Lemon blood fever]] · House of Open Wounds ch 19 - a wasting disease with &amp;quot;a gauntness&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;yellowness to the skin&amp;quot;; Ollery carries a tonic that can stave it off&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Louse Speaker]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 8-33&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Maestra]] · City of Last Chances ch 37&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Maestro]] · City of Last Chances ch 35-37 - Gownhall teachers Shantrov invokes as potential leaders; Vidsya dismisses them&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Magister]] · House of Open Wounds ch 3-51; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 6-8; Days of Shattered Fait ch 2-38; Pretenders to the Thro ch 23-29 - a form of address; calling Banders &amp;quot;Magister&amp;quot; would be a court-martial offence as &amp;quot;Disrespect to the uniform&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Man of peace]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 5 - term the demon uses for Jack, apparently a descriptor tied to his Maric identity&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Mesne-Lord]] · City of Last Chances ch 5 - a title from Allor&amp;#039;s pre-Occupation social order; Blackmane would have held it had the Pals not conquered Allor.&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Misericord]] · House of Open Wounds ch 11 - a dagger; Prassel refused to use one to cull extra corpses from the convalescence wards&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Necromantic Unnatural]] · House of Open Wounds ch 27 - classification applied to a person who is a walking corpse animated by a bound ghost (applied to Festle in the reference list; the chapter shows the phenomenon directly)&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[No kings, no masters]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 42 - the motto of Hell&amp;#039;s revolutionaries, spoken by Caeleen, echoed by Devil Jack and Niev&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Old Cause]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 35 - regimental nickname for The Old Cause / Fowlett, short for &amp;quot;of Death&amp;quot;; used by her own people&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Old Eyeball]] · House of Open Wounds ch 45 - epithet for Scaffesty&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Orcoba period]] · City of Last Chances ch 5 - a historical/artistic period referenced in Ivarn&amp;#039;s note describing a stolen desk.&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Oslamn]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 12&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Pal company conjurer]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 24 - a type of practitioner who summons monsters for military use&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Pel phrase]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 27 - the single-word command trigger for a Palleseen charged rod; &amp;quot;the first word of the language so many foreigners learned&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Peost]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 7-10; Days of Shattered Fait ch 5-48 - a name used for the Palleseen state and its advisors; &amp;quot;Those men and women clustering about the Peost throne with their hand about that nation&amp;#039;s throat, they were advisors&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Perfector]] · City of Last Chances ch 10-40; House of Open Wounds ch 7; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 3-10; Days of Shattered Fait ch 1-42; Pretenders to the Thro ch 7-40 - the title and office held by Culvern over Ilmar as individual occupied territory; appointed by the Temporary Commission of Ends and Means&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[phantom velvet]] · City of Last Chances ch 12 - a euphemism for death; &amp;quot;They will be wearing the phantom velvet already&amp;quot; means they are already dead&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[piutarma]] · House of Open Wounds ch 17 - an Ilmari word meaning both &amp;quot;auntie&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;someone who runs a gang, a criminal boss&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[plum post]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 2 - slang for a desirable, low-risk foreign posting&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Political Oversight]] · House of Open Wounds ch 49 - a function exercised by a Fellow-Inquirer who visits the camp; mentioned only by title&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Pragmatic Flexibility]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 7 - &amp;quot;The term from Pal philosophy&amp;quot; for Drathel&amp;#039;s quality of believing and disavowing things in the moment; &amp;quot;the scholars were still out on whether it was a good thing or not&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Priestess of the High Fane]] · House of Open Wounds ch 46 - Tallifer&amp;#039;s former religious title, restored when Mazdek chooses her&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Probationary Citizen]] · City of Last Chances ch 5 - a title the Palleseen occupation authorities apply to Blackmane, marking his legal precariousness.&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Professor-Invigilator]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 6 - the rank of Professor-Invigilator Flockersly&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[rasophore]] · City of Last Chances ch 1-19 - a title used by Ruslav to address Yasnic as a priest; no further gloss given&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Regulars]] · House of Open Wounds ch 1 - native Palleseen soldiers; contrasted with Accessories.&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Resident]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5-10; Days of Shattered Fait ch 6 - the Palleseen diplomatic/military representative posted in a foreign land; the position Angilly is being sent to fill&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[robe-bearer]] · City of Last Chances ch 1 - term for a priest of the Mahanic Temple; Yasnic disclaims it&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Sage-Archivist]] · City of Last Chances ch 6-40; House of Open Wounds ch 35-37 - murdered by the Indwellers; Fleance says &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;d murdered the Sage-Archivist&amp;quot; and that the event broke his control over the Game&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Sage-Inquirer]] · City of Last Chances ch 37; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 3; Pretenders to the Thro ch 20 - the rank Meller holds; the highest Palleseen officer in the region&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Sage-Monitor]] · House of Open Wounds ch 20; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 3 - once complimented Pirisytes&amp;#039;s positive attitude&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Sand Life]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 8 - street slang among Sand Lanes kids for their knife-and-gang existence; &amp;quot;Half of them would be dead before they made two decades&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[scar-mail]] · House of Open Wounds ch 23 - slang for the accumulated flogging scars on a person&amp;#039;s back (&amp;quot;Got room for more stripes or is it all scar-mail already?&amp;quot;)&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[senior phal]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 10 - a level of schooling in Pallesand; Gil compares her breathlessness to &amp;quot;a girl in senior phal, sneaking out with a boy for the first time&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Serpent&amp;#039;s Fang]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 5-14&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Sier]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 8-10 - a Palleseen title of address for a respected superior; Angilly uses it to avoid committing to a Usmiri category of address&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[simulacratia]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5 - a class of demon Benallers considers for area surveillance; &amp;quot;a clutch of low-grade demons just released over a wide area with some basic pattern-recognition instructions&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Skystones]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 12 - local argot for the Palleseen artillery rounds, equated with shooting stars and meteorites.&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Sonorist]] · House of Open Wounds ch 8-34 - Cosserby&amp;#039;s profession; a maker and maintainer of Sonori (and, in practice, prosthetics); the name derives from the Sonori&amp;#039;s bell-like sound&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Specialist]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 16-40&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Standard bottle procedures]] · City of Last Chances ch 37 - Nisbet&amp;#039;s euphemism for Palleseen crowd-control measures; &amp;quot;may not suffice&amp;quot; against the labourers march&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[strategic withdrawal]] · House of Open Wounds ch 14 - the euphemism used in dispatches for what is plainly a retreat; Prassel uses the phrase acidly&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[sympaticos]] · House of Open Wounds ch 3 - students of sympathetic magic; Alv&amp;#039;s students are washing bloody clothes&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[tab]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 37 - slang shorthand for tablethi as a unit of value; &amp;quot;over a hundred thousand tab, all in&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the Alkhani]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 9 - title of the Alkhand&amp;#039;s wife/wife-in-title&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the demonist]] · House of Open Wounds ch 11 - epithet Maric Jack uses for the conjurer who saved him; Prassel hated this person; likely refers to Maserley&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the Difficult Wives Club]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 32-49 - humorous self-designation for Happy Jack (lover of Caecelian, &amp;quot;the Viper&amp;quot;) and the Under-warden (husband of the centipede monster): &amp;quot;Jack the Viper&amp;#039;s beloved and the Under-warden. The founder members of the Difficult Wives Club.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the duty Companion]] · House of Open Wounds ch 22 - a rank/role; Spinnerly holds it; Banders curries favour with him&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the echo]] · House of Open Wounds ch 10 - Cosserby&amp;#039;s word for the thing present but unacknowledged: the coming major battle&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the falling priest]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 34 - the demon assassin&amp;#039;s epithet for Jack, referencing his former priesthood and current strait&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the gap]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 1 - what remains when a demon dies: not a body but &amp;quot;an absence made tangible,&amp;quot; a hole where the demon &amp;quot;fell out of the world and back Below&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the Hammer]] · City of Last Chances ch 28-48 - the workers&amp;#039; action of abandoning the mills to confront the Duke and Armigers; &amp;quot;Wielding the Hammer was always just abandoning the mills to go remind the Duke and the Armigers who it was put money in their posh velvet purses&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the killing word]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 47 - the activation word for a tableth weapon, spoken in Pel; firing a baton or rod requires speaking it.&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[The Knife Witch of Jarokir]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 8 - Kilbery&amp;#039;s invented nickname for Tally, the surgeon who runs the Fever Lodge; he fabricates a backstory of a king, a queen, and a slit throat&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the Loopholes]] · House of Open Wounds ch 40-51 - shorthand for The Ninety-Seven Loopholes, the binding legal text of the poison-condiction scheme&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the Louseocracy]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 33 - Flint&amp;#039;s derisive name for what the Tesemer would have made of Usmai had they succeeded in conquest five hundred years ago&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[The Old Knife]] · Pretenders to the Thro ch 2-34 - the fierce winter wind off the sea at Eres Ffenegh, named by poets; arrives as the siege stalls; &amp;quot;As much a part of the city as her sainted ancestor, and not banished so easily&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the option]] · House of Open Wounds ch 43 - the act of accepting God&amp;#039;s healing, which renders a soldier unable to fight without dying; the prisoners in the barracks are those who took it&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the Rain Life]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 2-9; Days of Shattered Fait ch 2-50 - a label for the Diplomatic Office&amp;#039;s work, coined by a poet since excised from the approved canon; &amp;quot;what passes over a nation before the storm comes, putting out fires&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the ribbons]] · City of Last Chances ch 6 - powder-blue strips students must wear at their belts by Pal statute; a political signal, worn or removed by conviction&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the ship of suspicion]] · House of Open Wounds ch 45 - Tallifer&amp;#039;s metaphor for the point at which one is irrevocably marked by the Correct Speech crowd&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the Tally officer]] · House of Open Wounds ch 6; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 2 - referenced as a figure of strict Palleseen bureaucratic accountability&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the Tally&amp;#039;s script]] · House of Open Wounds ch 6 - the soldiers&amp;#039; name for the marking system on a whipped man&amp;#039;s back, in reference to the Tally Officer ensuring &amp;quot;every bad student completed their lines&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[the Unclean]] · House of Open Wounds ch 45 - epithet applied to Lochiver&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Third Degree Cap]] · City of Last Chances ch 15 - a Divinati hat, &amp;quot;the folded-over kind with a tassel&amp;quot;; locals call it &amp;quot;a sock&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Tiger-Crab]] · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 6; Days of Shattered Fait ch 5-15 - the creature involved in the previous Resident&amp;#039;s fatal &amp;quot;hunting accident&amp;quot; in Usmai; Angilly has no context for it&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[twelveday]] · City of Last Chances ch 1 - old Ilmari calendar unit, now illegal to use&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Unhappy Jack]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 49 - the stage of grief Jack passed through after losing his wife, between &amp;quot;Happy Jack&amp;quot; and his current hollow grimness; characterised by weeping, red eyes, demands made of an absent God&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Usmiri inclusive and exclusive we]] · Days of Shattered Fait ch 47 - Usmiri has a linguistic distinction Pel lacks: the &amp;quot;we&amp;quot; that includes the listener versus the &amp;quot;we&amp;quot; that is only the speaker and others.&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Volunteers]] · House of Open Wounds ch 41 - euphemism for bound Whitebellies with tablethi strapped to their necks and empty coppers before them, to be commanded as ghost-ammunition sources&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[votaress]] · City of Last Chances ch 9; House of Open Wounds ch 49 - an Allorwen sacred intermediary between worlds who formalises agreements for the benefit of her people; Mother Semprellaime&amp;#039;s former training&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[White Manor]] · City of Last Chances ch 12; House of Open Wounds ch 37 - used as a verb (&amp;quot;You do not know enough to come here and White Manor me&amp;quot;), meaning to attempt to extract premium prices or to affect airs of high-status dealing; the youth had been told he&amp;#039;d get thirteen pence &amp;quot;at White Manor&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- ✔ [[Working Against the Perfecture]] · City of Last Chances ch 24 - the charge on the official poster condemning the healer, Ruslav, the student girl, and Ivarn Ostravar; the chapter notes no common crimes were smeared on them, unlike usual Palleseen practice&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;baton-fodder&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · House of Open Wounds ch 35 - slang term for expendable soldiers; Thurrel tells the demon to &amp;quot;round us up another batch&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;bawd&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · House of Open Wounds ch 7 - the operator of a circle house; Mother Semprellaime&amp;#039;s trade&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;birds&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · City of Last Chances ch 10&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;bludgeons&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · Days of Shattered Fait ch 30 - Flint&amp;#039;s term for large wooden tankards (as opposed to &amp;quot;small sticks,&amp;quot; i.e. standard cups)&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;brute-work demon&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · Days of Shattered Fait ch 38 - a classification of demon suited to labour and violence, which Pel (designed for easy learning) suits as a language&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;camp followers&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · House of Open Wounds ch 37 - the profession and legal fiction by which those purveying &amp;quot;mortal or infernal flesh&amp;quot; register as seamstresses and laundresses in the Pal census&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;comedy horse&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · House of Open Wounds ch 36 - Lidlet&amp;#039;s term for the stretcher she and the other bearer carry (&amp;quot;the comedy horse that was their stretcher&amp;quot;)&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;demon chit&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · House of Open Wounds ch 45 - epithet for Caeleen&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;excursion permit&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · House of Open Wounds ch 23 - a document invented by the Landwards Battalion Logistics Department, not present in Forthright Battalion or elsewhere&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;foul-shot&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · House of Open Wounds ch 33 - Tallifer&amp;#039;s term (with uncertainty: &amp;quot;Or that&amp;#039;s the word&amp;quot;) for the Loruthi ammunition; implies that if nothing gets septic, there is a deeper problem&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;god smuggler&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · House of Open Wounds ch 2 - a charge brought against the prisoner; a crime that does not exist on the usual list and had to be invented for him&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;idiot passes&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · House of Open Wounds ch 26 - an additional document that Landwards Battalion instituted for Accessories to carry when entering a city; Palleseen Regulars and officers do not need them&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Islerwoman&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · Days of Shattered Fait ch 1 - term used by the Cotto pirate for a foreigner from the islands/Archipelago; used &amp;quot;like a title of honour&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;knocking shops&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · House of Open Wounds ch 31 - brothels; &amp;quot;one of the various knocking shops around here&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;living curse&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · City of Last Chances ch 17 - the Old Duke&amp;#039;s last wickedness, foisted onto the man who was hanging him; a term the narrator uses without full explanation&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;negotiators&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · House of Open Wounds ch 50&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;niece-cousin&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · Days of Shattered Fait ch 8 - a Cotto kinship label for very distant familial connection that still carries obligation&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;phal education&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · House of Open Wounds ch 36 - formal military or institutional education; Lidlet has &amp;quot;No phal education but top-grade credentials from the schools of life and military regulations&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;quacksalvers&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · City of Last Chances ch 10 - practitioners in Mirror Allor; along with fortune-tellers and curse-mongers&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;seachild&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · Days of Shattered Fait ch 36-40 - the Cotto epithet for Loret, marking her as holy through the Fisher King&amp;#039;s consecration; &amp;quot;sacred to them&amp;quot; because &amp;quot;all the blood shed for either cult ran into&amp;quot; the same ocean&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;statlos&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · City of Last Chances ch 1-36; House of Open Wounds ch 2-9; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1-2; Days of Shattered Fait ch 12-33; Pretenders to the Thro ch 40 - a social/military rank below officer status; Angilly&amp;#039;s father was &amp;quot;a mere statlos&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;succubus&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · House of Open Wounds ch 9 - A type of demon in a woman&amp;#039;s shape, made to be &amp;quot;a mirror to desires&amp;quot;; Caeleen is one&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;the meat grinder&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · House of Open Wounds ch 45 - colloquial term for the interlocking arms of the Palleseen war machine&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;trustie&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · City of Last Chances ch 8-26 - Hoyst&amp;#039;s assistants at the scaffold; they &amp;quot;hauled the levers in perfect unison, practised as clock-tower figures&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;wineglass&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; · Pretenders to the Thro ch 10&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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