The Following Terms are of Vandyrus and its greater connected strata and may be useful to understand certain documents, passages or even common phrases:
Ereth – An obscure and rather archaic Vandyrian word, Meaning something akin to existential essence or a “greater foundational spiritual purpose“, such as in The Ro’Edyne Cycle’s:
- “weaving new blood into Roedon’s ereth”
Grundy – Slang: Meaning something fundamentally true on a gut level even if aetheric or elusive:
- “Physics, for all it’s mad witchcraft be the grudy basics of natural order.”
Wrathian – Describing institutional cultural cruelty:
- “Don’t get caught, lest ye’ find yerself mired in Wrathian tortures!“
Perforated – Common slang for being shot with a rifle or a smaller slug leaving a hole:
- “Ka’s blood! Damn raven sniper near got me perforated!”
Boogy – Bad Loot; The opposite of booty or ‘good/worthwhile Loot’. Often meant to describe junk or folly filler:
- You’ve got nothin’ to gamble with, mere scrap & boogy!”
Sko’Gore – An engine that burns composited waste through alchemical means:
- “Aye! We have a chassis, just need guns and a mean Sko’gore”
Ul’Dyne – Very ancient, Pre-civilizational, pre-historic:
- “Amidst the sparse and ul’dyne spires of the Kartongan wastes”
Alchetanger – A sealed glass tank with a metal cap, often kept in vaults of shrines: