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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Allorwen circlecraft|Allorwen circlecraft]]
| City of Last Chances ch 43
| the traditional practice of binding an infernal being into marriages and coming-of-age ceremonies; "the gift your family gave you, the blessing on your road"
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Allorwen conjuring|Allorwen conjuring]]
| House of Open Wounds ch 7
| the magical tradition of Allor, involving pacts with Those Below; suppressed by the Palleseen conquest "Almost a decade" ago
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Allorwen demon lore|Allorwen demon lore]]
| Pretenders to the Thro ch 32
| the scholarly framework Jack has learned, which holds that Hell is "not a place like the world" and cannot take in a human being
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Allorwen traditions|Allorwen traditions]]
| House of Open Wounds ch 25; Pretenders to the Thro ch 5
| the conjuration system of Allor based on individual artisanal contracts with demons; "semi-religion" governing Allorwen society; conjuration for carnality was banned under Pal statute; nine is an auspicious number
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Allorwen vocabulary for demons|Allorwen vocabulary for demons]]
| House of Open Wounds ch 25
| a whole vocabulary that "splits these demonic hairs more finely" than Pel, which cannot translate the distinctions between a demon's nature and its personhood
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/barreau|barreau]]
| City of Last Chances ch 15
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Bracite rainbow myth|Bracite rainbow myth]]
| House of Open Wounds ch 21
| the original Bracites walked roads that became rainbows, bringing them to a "promised land of plenty"
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Bracite royalist loyalism|Bracite royalist loyalism]]
| House of Open Wounds ch 30
| the belief that the rightful king's return will "sweep the foreign filth from our shores and restore our land to greatness"; includes a one-armed general, wolfcat statues, and ritual dress (robes, ceremonial hat, chin-paint)
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Bracite traditional dress|Bracite traditional dress]]
| Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5
| open-fronted robes, bare chests, ornate belts, single-edged knives thrust through the belt
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Butterfly Houses|Butterfly Houses]]
| House of Open Wounds ch 22
| Bracite religious/cultural institution where initiates perform a ritual that resembles butterflies; visitors receive dancers and entertainment
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/capped wages proclamation|capped wages proclamation]]
| City of Last Chances ch 38
| a historical decree by the Old Duke forbidding workers to ask for more pay; rolled back after a march
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Carcer faith|Carcer faith]]
| Pretenders to the Thro ch 10
| an old religion whose sacristy was beneath the Pandaemonium; "now thoroughly defiled and disempowered"; the chapter treats it as the indigenous faith of the location
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Champion's code|Champion's code]]
| Pretenders to the Thro ch 36
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/chaq and hazard|chaq and hazard]]
| City of Last Chances ch 27
| a gambling game played at the Anchorage; Cheryn was a participant at Langrice's "famous high-stakes invitational"
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Charter of the Temporary Commission of Ends and Means|Charter of the Temporary Commission of Ends and Means]]
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 1
| document displayed on the wall of Slate House; Palleseen members learn it by rote
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Clarethism|Clarethism]]
| City of Last Chances ch 21
| the name, found "in the old books," for the faith Yasnic practises; Ivarn calls it "that old heresy" dead for two generations; its stricture for followers is "do no harm. Lift no hand against your fellows, nor incite others to"
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/coinsy|coinsy]]
| House of Open Wounds ch 36
| a game of chance or gambling; Lidlet "won" a pair of gloves at it
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Correct Thought|Correct Thought]]
| City of Last Chances ch 1-48; House of Open Wounds ch 2-26; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 3; Days of Shattered Fait ch 27
| the overarching Palleseen governing ideology and code of rules; Brocklesby's career ladder, the legal framework, and the philosophy of discretion are all framed through it. Distinct from the five administrative Schools (Correct Erudition, Correct Appreciation, Correct Exchange, Correct Conduct, Correct Speech)
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Cotto kinship|Cotto kinship]]
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 8
| a Cotto concept of extremely distant but real familial obligation: "in the sea blood smells blood"; Hullseer Orhuhst calls the stabbed Pal woman "niece-cousin"
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Cotto sea-gods|Cotto sea-gods]]
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 50
| the Shark Queen and the Fisher King (her groom), and "all the sea-gods, the storm gods, the powers of sudden violence, hunger and rage"; the Cotto mark sacred sigils on ship-rails and deck for ceremonies at dusk
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Cross|Cross]]
| Pretenders to the Thro ch 16
| a card game played in pairs "like a brace of fencers"; cards named include Head of the Serpent, Ruined King, Four Batons, Lovers
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Culling List|Culling List]]
| Pretenders to the Thro ch 11-40
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Demon-mask prohibition|Demon-mask prohibition]]
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 5
| Usmai inherited the old Empire's loathing of demons; their representation is strictly controlled and forbidden even on a duelling mask
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Divinati cosmology|Divinati cosmology]]
| House of Open Wounds ch 39
| Alv describes Erinael as "a creature of radiance," "the receptacle of divine power," an angel in Divinati philosophy, "a class of being that dwelled Above, as demons did Below"
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Divinati healing|Divinati healing]]
| House of Open Wounds ch 41
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/divine tattooing|divine tattooing]]
| City of Last Chances ch 19
| Nihilostes bears "the insect features of her god" tattooed on her body; the ritual "took two days of agony as she sweated and writhed in the smoke"
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Festival of Milk and Flowers|Festival of Milk and Flowers]]
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 11
| a Usmai festival after which the Alkhand renews treaties with the nation's strange allies; includes a "frog god's writ" granting a night of licence; Gil slept with Dekamran during it
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Fisher King cult|Fisher King cult]]
| House of Open Wounds ch 47; Days of Shattered Fait ch 28-35; Pretenders to the Thro ch 4-41
| a conquered people's religion, "consigned to the pyre of a murdered history" by Correct Speech; name, practices, rites, regalia, holy places, and priests all erased; only a handful of scraps survive, gathered clandestinely by collectors like Thurrel
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/hooley-hooley language|hooley-hooley language]]
| House of Open Wounds ch 21
| Jack's native tongue; Tallifer uses the term dismissively; speaking it in the open risks Correct Speech attention
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Jarokiri religion|Jarokiri religion]]
| Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1
| suppressed; holding religious views is "expressly banned"; the priestess is called "a sacrificer of children, a slave to monstrous divinities"
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Jarokiri shepherd song|Jarokiri shepherd song]]
| House of Open Wounds ch 21
| an old song from the grazing lands of Jarokir; Lochiver plays it on his flute to stave off the group's nerves
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Loruthi literature|Loruthi literature]]
| Pretenders to the Thro ch 39
| books printed by the people of Lor in Pel but using the language subversively; a war-effort project to spread "morally corrupting literature" behind enemy lines
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Mahanic teaching|Mahanic teaching]]
| City of Last Chances ch 45
| religious doctrine Lemya grew up with: "The cursed were without hope. They must lift it or perish and be damned."
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Mahanic Temple faith|Mahanic Temple faith]]
| City of Last Chances ch 10
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Mahanism|Mahanism]]
| City of Last Chances ch 1
| dominant faith that expanded to "fill all the available faith"; actively spoke against other religions
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Maric poetry|Maric poetry]]
| City of Last Chances ch 6
| an art form the Palleseen restrict to Pel instruction; "you literally couldn't convey Maric poetry in the language of the Occupiers"
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Misery and Wickedness|Misery and Wickedness]]
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 36-42; Pretenders to the Thro ch 34
| Caeleen's creed and revolutionary motto; the only leverage the powerless have on the world, recast as nobility
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Moerend creed|Moerend creed]]
| Pretenders to the Thro ch 37
| the Moeribandi morbid religion, "very, very concerned with death, and the stewardship of that which endures beyond it"; held that "demons were the great enemy of humanity"; "light on massacres and exterminations"
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Moerendi theology of death|Moerendi theology of death]]
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 14
| speaks of death, reward, and return; the Moerends believed in judgment and rebirth for the dead
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Moeribandi ornament|Moeribandi ornament]]
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 18
| grey, sombre decorative tradition of the old Empire; tapestries of the dead judged by death-gods, paintings of skull-faced Almuers, actual collected bones
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/monastic dissolution of marriage|monastic dissolution of marriage]]
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 13
| in Usmai, taking monastic vows dissolves all marriage bonds; a spouse may leave by entering an order, "from the least beggar to the Alkhand"
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Moru|Moru]]
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 18-25
| a religious tradition or sect within the Moerend death cult; acolytes wear loose robes, its texts are "dusty" and "vast," and its practices include sacred self-starvation and skull-face paint
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Moru painting|Moru painting]]
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 19
| a death-cult practice involving skull imagery painted on the face; Premath had it done; the servants were stopped from shaving his scalp, so his hair is growing back
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Moru scripture|Moru scripture]]
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 21
| the earliest scripture of the Successor States; identifies demons as the Enemy because the old Empire fought the Despotate which "had demons up the wazoo"
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Old Morib|Old Morib]]
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 39
| "the ancient Imperial tongue," now used only in religious rite; Arkanith speaks his address in it
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Oloumanni chaos cults|Oloumanni chaos cults]]
| House of Open Wounds ch 24
| "nasty little chaos and murder cults" of Oloumann carried across the Palleseen Sway by the Palleseen conquest itself
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Orundama|Orundama]]
| Lives of Bitter Rain ch 9
| Thunder Month, the Usmiat rainy season lasting almost three months; the waterfall doubles in volume
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Outreach Appointments Manual|Outreach Appointments Manual]]
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 34
| the short-form document defining the Resident's three duties, approved by the Temporary Commission of Ends and Means
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Pal canon|Pal canon]]
| House of Open Wounds ch 11
| the Palleseen literary/official canon; excises writers whose work is deemed irrational even in metaphor
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Pal doctrine|Pal doctrine]]
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 44
| a Palleseen/Pallesand principle: "You had to show people the error of their ways"
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Pal marching song|Pal marching song]]
| House of Open Wounds ch 23
| a song "comparing a variety of named officers to the arse ends of pack animals from across the world"; known by most of the regulars
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Pal philosophy|Pal philosophy]]
| House of Open Wounds ch 1
| "the Pal philosophy prefers to strip away the trappings of ritual from its magical practices," though Prassel still uses gestures "for concentration."
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Palleseen theology of death|Palleseen theology of death]]
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 14
| colloquially "the Pals"; holds that a ghost returns to the fabric of the world upon release
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Pel|Pel]]
| City of Last Chances ch 1-48; House of Open Wounds ch 4-50; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5-10; Days of Shattered Fait ch 1-47; Pretenders to the Thro ch 2-37
| the Palleseen language, "the perfect language, easy to learn, clear in meaning, the ideal means to communicate Correct Thought"; distinct from the now-extinct native Palleseen
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Perfection|Perfection]]
| City of Last Chances ch 48; House of Open Wounds ch 8-10; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1-2; Days of Shattered Fait ch 37; Pretenders to the Thro ch 7-31
| the Palleseen ideological product they export; territories must "accept perfection" to enter the Sway
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Preamble to On The Practice of Provincial Assimilation|Preamble to On The Practice of Provincial Assimilation]]
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 43
| a document approved by the Temporary Commission of Ends and Means, prescribing removal of non-collaborating administrations and control-claimants in inducted territories
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Scapegoat at the gallows|Scapegoat at the gallows]]
| City of Last Chances ch 9
| the practice Guame expects after a great man's death: "the first thing those in power wanted to see was the sacrifice of the lowly"
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Seadragon cult|Seadragon cult]]
| Lives of Bitter Rain ch 3
| a Faraslendi religion whose altars "run red every spring-tide" with sacrifice; Lasaret considers it "exactly the sort of thing perfection cannot co-exist with for long"
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Snailness|Snailness]]
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 16
| the ideologically pure concept the village monks revere; they avoid snails as food by doctrine
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/spring-tide|spring-tide]]
| Lives of Bitter Rain ch 3
| a recurring Faraslendi observance (roughly six months away) at which the Seadragon cult sacrifices
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Targallen's work on Parabolic Lensing|Targallen's work on Parabolic Lensing]]
| Pretenders to the Thro ch 21
| a mathematics text Aspel is reading; "the ancient and true mathematics that describes all possible worlds"
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Taumachy|Taumachy]]
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 8-48
| mentioned in the final battle: "Taumachists" fight alongside the defenders; animated wooden animals (a crab the size of a mule, toy tigers, a jointed serpent) are used as weapons
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Tevits|Tevits]]
| Pretenders to the Thro ch 4
| a card game of sacred/divinatory origin, secularised by soldiers; three cards per player plus a face-up spread of "fates" in the centre; originated outside the Archipelago
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/the Alborandi severance|the Alborandi severance]]
| Lives of Bitter Rain ch 9
| Usmiat custom by which a spouse enters the Alborandi order to dissolve marriage bonds; once a year the masked monks unmask at the pools so freed members may go free
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/the Allorwen ritual wedding|the Allorwen ritual wedding]]
| Pretenders to the Thro ch 20
| a form of symbolic union (as the Allorwen do with demons) that the narrator used to gain access to the necropolis's power; she calls her status "Consort"
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/the approved canon|the approved canon]]
| Lives of Bitter Rain ch 2
| the limited body of Palleseen-approved literature and poetry; the poet who coined "Rain Life" has been excised from it
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/the ball game|the ball game]]
| House of Open Wounds ch 28
| a sport played in the Magnelei stadium with a hard ball, underdressed Bracite participants, and extremely enthusiastic crowds; incomprehensible to outsiders
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/The Boat Songs|The Boat Songs]]
| Pretenders to the Thro ch 10
| songs of the fishing fleet and trading costers; banned by the Loruthi under penalty of death for even humming a line; now sung as rebellion with the Pals at the gate
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/the Bracite fox saying|the Bracite fox saying]]
| Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5
| "They hold them up, so you look out in the fields and you see the tail, but... maybe the fox isn't there?"; a saying about false flags and phantom threats; Bracinta supposedly has magic foxes
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/the Cleansing|the Cleansing]]
| Lives of Bitter Rain ch 7
| the public divorce rite of Usmai; the wife removes her jewellery, unbinds her hair, receives a mask from the Alborandi, and leaves as one of them
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/the dawn service at the Lighthouse|the dawn service at the Lighthouse]]
| Pretenders to the Thro ch 24
| a ritual of watching the sun over the sea, instituted by the Pope of Tides, binding all Fisher King cult members to early attendance
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/The Day of Milk and Flowers|The Day of Milk and Flowers]]
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 9-31
| annual festival in Usmai involving the burial of surrogate demon-jars, the frog Kakrops emerging from his cave, public dancing, garlands, and a suspension of normal sexual mores for one day and night
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/the Faraslandi sea cult|the Faraslandi sea cult]]
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 17
| a religious group; one of its priestesses performed "the magic fish thing" and has been arrested
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/The Fisher King's cult|The Fisher King's cult]]
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 36-40
| a resurgent sea-cult devoted to "the old lord of the isles," the Fisher King; induction involves a cliff-edge fall, blood-mixing, and tasting of blood and rain; the Palleseen suppressed it before this book's period; its god is "the old lord of the isles" and its followers revere "blood and fear and death"
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/The Great Night|The Great Night]]
| House of Open Wounds ch 11
| Palleseen writer's phrase for the world of superstition and unreason; the writer was excised from the Pal canon for personifying an abstract
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/the Hospitaller pamphlet|the Hospitaller pamphlet]]
| Pretenders to the Thro ch 34
| the document the Hospitallers cult is built around; Jack does not own a copy
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/the light-goes-out belief|the light-goes-out belief]]
| Pretenders to the Thro ch 15
| the teaching, held by multiple religions, that "with each conjuration, a little light goes out of the world to be locked in the coffers of the Kings Below"
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/The Marriages of Orllemande|The Marriages of Orllemande]]
| Pretenders to the Thro ch 24
| a book in verse with woodcut illustrations, encoding Allorwen arcane lore in symbols and allusions; one of the items the Widow has Jack retrieve from the Varinaen
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/The Night of Milk and Flowers|The Night of Milk and Flowers]]
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 10
| the night of the Day of Milk and Flowers, when Kakrops grants permission to transgress social and marital boundaries; music, tokens, acrobats, and the exchange of favours across all districts of Alkhalend
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/the old religion of Ffen|the old religion of Ffen]]
| Pretenders to the Thro ch 3
| referenced once: criminals were offered to the justice of Ffen, the Crab
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/the old work songs|the old work songs]]
| City of Last Chances ch 34
| songs "that came into the city with the fieldhands when the factories first opened," sung by the Hammer Districts crowd
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/the Os-Fferegh clan kin network|the Os-Fferegh clan kin network]]
| Pretenders to the Thro ch 15
| the practice by which displaced residents of Eres Ffenegh beg at the doors of clan kin for shelter during the siege; those refused, immigrants, outcasts, or the stubborn "hunkered down and barred their doors"
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/the Pal curse|the Pal curse]]
| House of Open Wounds ch 42
| a cultural epithet for Palleseen ambition; "just ambition, the old Pal curse. Two young stars vying for the same firmament"
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/the Pal fencing tradition|the Pal fencing tradition]]
| Lives of Bitter Rain ch 2
| fencing taught among orphanage students on a "star-shaped piste"; a "garnish" to an officer's skillset; Ostrephy's disapproval prefigures a coming institutional condemnation ("the stern eye of perfection won't start to frown at the tradition for at least another decade or so")
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/The Peak and the Port|The Peak and the Port]]
| City of Last Chances ch 32-38
| a patriotic song of Ilmar, banned by the Palleseen along with "so much else"; an obscene student version also exists
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/the Pledge|the Pledge]]
| House of Open Wounds ch 40
| a form drafted by Lidlet by which a soldier pre-commits to accepting God's faith if healed; Jack calls it "insurance with God" and rejects it as sacrilege
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/the Precepts|the Precepts]]
| Lives of Bitter Rain ch 2
| Palleseen doctrinal texts; children expected to recite them without hesitation
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/the prisoner docket|the prisoner docket]]
| House of Open Wounds ch 3
| a document signed off by a processing NCO assigning a prisoner to a unit; Banders notes that high-ranking officers "only read the headings and not the details"
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/the Pursuit|the Pursuit]]
| City of Last Chances ch 4
| the elaborate courtship game the Armiger families passed down, now practised by Lodge soldiers; the anticipation and seeking matter more than consummation
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/the roster|the roster]]
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 47
| a special roster on Outreach's books for Palleseen who have killed a king or equivalent; considered a matter for commendation.
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/the Stick-Man dare|the Stick-Man dare]]
| House of Open Wounds ch 44
| an orphanage game in which children sneak into the sea-caves at night to strike the Fisher King statue; "the Stick-Man" was what the children called the defaced statue of the Fisher King
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/The Synthesis of a Rational Alchemical Framework|The Synthesis of a Rational Alchemical Framework]]
| House of Open Wounds ch 32
| Ollery's treatise; gave alchemy a logical, rational framework acceptable to the Schools; revolutionised medicine and other fields; saved Ollery from execution
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/the True Speech|the True Speech]]
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 11
| the Tesemer word for their own language, which they are losing; they "desperately lard" their fading memories of it with significance
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/The Varatsin marriage to the Wood|The Varatsin marriage to the Wood]]
| City of Last Chances ch 47
| a symbolic wedding of the city to what lay beyond the Wood, practised under the Varatsins and the old covenant; the keeper of the Anchorage officiated; the practice died with the Varatsins
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/the waiver of authority|the waiver of authority]]
| House of Open Wounds ch 27
| a mandatory extension-of-duties form signed by Scaffesty requiring Prassel to bottle the ghosts of patients who die in the experimental hospital without individual consent
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Toad religion|Toad religion]]
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 27
| the "local toad religion" of Usmai whose god was killed approximately twenty days prior; understood to be the Usrani worship of Kakrops
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Usmai duelling tradition|Usmai duelling tradition]]
| Lives of Bitter Rain ch 8
| the ancient practice in which men fight with clavar and women with skia; men cannot duel women; practiced in sand circles
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Usmiri|Usmiri]]
| Lives of Bitter Rain ch 10; Days of Shattered Fait ch 1-34
| the language of Usmai
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Varatsin coat of arms|Varatsin coat of arms]]
| City of Last Chances ch 40
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| [[The Tyrant Philosophers/Zenotheus's doctrine|Zenotheus's doctrine]]
| City of Last Chances ch 19
| Zenotheus lays eggs in the hearts of kings, harbinger of upheaval and change, bringer of chaos; permits Its followers and priests to "have a good time"; It is also "the Bringer of the World's Wounds"
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| '''chaq'''
| City of Last Chances ch 3-27
| "that ancient clash of tiles and symbols of obscure origin"; played in tile-forts with face-up and face-down pieces
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| '''circle houses'''
| City of Last Chances ch 2-43
| establishments where one can have "something conjured up in the image of his heart's desire"; a trade the Allorwen in Mirror Allor control
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| '''Copper as the metal of magicians'''
| Pretenders to the Thro ch 13
| in Os-Fferegh / Allorwen practice, copper is the metal of conjurers; Kaele and others dye their hair copper to signal the Pandaemonium's dual brothel-and-conjuring function
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| '''mance'''
| City of Last Chances ch 15
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| '''Maric winter underwear'''
| House of Open Wounds ch 3
| Maric underwear extends to the knees with a built-in vest, owing to bitter winters; Marics lack a tradition of en masse unisex washing facilities
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| '''Os'''
| Pretenders to the Thro ch 26
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| '''poetic houses'''
| House of Open Wounds ch 26
| a local Bracite tradition where one drinks superior tea, listens to verses, and has one's future read from tea leavings
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| '''the old factory songs'''
| City of Last Chances ch 6
| Maric songs from the riverside mills before the Occupation; singing them is "Incorrect Thought"
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| '''the old School song'''
| Days of Shattered Fait ch 28
| a reference to a song associated with Correct Speech interrogation methods; Dalry is "actually hurt" that Gil assumes he still practices
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