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