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Kyrene
Senior Scribe
South Africa
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 Posted - 15 Apr 2024 : 08:44:30
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“alarphons” – Common:- the internal investigators among “the War Wizards” who kept all “war wizards” honest (Swords of Dragonfire by Ed Greenwood; So saith Ed - January 11, 2005)
“bullyblades” – Common:- “thickneck muscle” hired on a long-term basis, such as gangs hired by most nobles and wealthy non-nobles as bodyguards, enforcers, or “hireswords” (Swords of Dragonfire by Ed Greenwood; Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood; Ed Greenwood on Twitter - April 21, 2019; The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood)
“clout” – Common:- a very tight leather, cloth, or cord belt worn around the hips with a long, diaper-like strip of rectangular cloth passed between the legs, up through the front and back of the belt to dangle down (Swords of Dragonfire and The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood; So saith Ed - April 8, 2004)
“courtesan” – Common:- a professional “hostess” employed by a ruler at his court, to entertain (need not have a sexual role at all, but usually does; tone of voice or local knowledge implies sexual side of the profession if it exists) important visitors (So saith Ed - June 28, 2007)
“dethma” – Common:- a tight cloth, or soft, well worn leather breast-binding or sling (Swords of Eveningstar and Swords of Dragonfire by Ed Greenwood; So saith Ed - April 8, 2004)
“doxy” – Common:- a term for a mistress or prostitute, especially applied to women who are shared by a select roster of men (So saith Ed - June 28, 2007)
“escort” – Common:- a term for either gender that implies the acting ability and training to function as “arm candy” in social situations such as revels, feasts, and formal gatherings as persons of breeding, not necessarily sexual partners (So saith Ed - June 28, 2007)
“lady of the evening” – Common:- a term for a female that implies the ability to function as an “escort” (So saith Ed - June 28, 2007)
“madwits” – Common:- see “mad-wits” (Swords of Dragonfire and The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood)
“nightblade” – Common:- a euphemistic term for a penis; a skilled “hiresword” employed as a commando (The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood; Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“thicknecks” – Common:- thugs (Swords of Dragonfire by Ed Greenwood; Ed Greenwood on Twitter - April 21, 2019; So saith Ed - June 9, 2006)
“Wizards of War, the” – Common:- same as “War Wizards, the” (Swords of Eveningstar, Swords of Dragonfire and The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood) |
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Kyrene
Senior Scribe
South Africa
729 Posts |
Posted - 17 Apr 2024 : 11:32:54
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“ardanthe” – Common:- a type of plant found in the King’s Forest of Cormyr, the sap of which could be used to wash hair, giving it a pleasant smell (Swords of Eveningstar by Ed Greenwood)
“arnark” – Common:- a type of tree, the rotting boughs of which were used for sprouting kitchen mushrooms (Swords of Dragonfire by Ed Greenwood)
“behelshrabba” – Common:- a type of drug (Swords of Dragonfire and The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood)
“blackmask” – Common:- a type of drug (Swords of Dragonfire and The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood)
“blanketfeast” – Common:- picnic (Swords of Eveningstar by Ed Greenwood)
“brownfin” – Common:- a type of freshwater fish (Swords of Eveningstar by Ed Greenwood)
“cat-hours” – Common:- the small hours of the night (The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood)
“cavanter” – Common:- a type of shrub found in the King’s Forest of Cormyr that produced edible buds (Swords of Eveningstar by Ed Greenwood)
“darkswords” – Common:- bandits (The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood)
“deadsleep” – Common:- a type of drug that caused short-duration deathlike unconsciousness when used (Swords of Dragonfire by Ed Greenwood)
“dirlagraun” – Common:- a diplacer beast (The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood)
“duskfeathers” – Common:- a type of bird (Swords of Dragonfire by Ed Greenwood)
“er” – Draconic:- (possessive prefix used for relationships) my (Ed Greenwood in Greenwood’s Grotto on Discord - September 22, 2023)
“firesparkle” – Common:- a type of wine (The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood)
“firewine” – Common:- a type of wine (Swords of Dragonfire by Ed Greenwood)
“Gift, the” – Common:- the ability to wield “the Art” (Ed Greenwood on Twitter - June 8, 2022; Ed Greenwood on Twitter - August 25, 2023)
“glowfire” – Common:- a colloquial name for Saerloonian Glowfire; phosphorescent (Swords of Eveningstar and Swords of Dragonfire by Ed Greenwood)
“groundcat” – Common:- a type of wild cat the size of a weasel (The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood)
“haemdra” – Untheric:- a term for all Untheric ten to twenty year olds that didn’t exhibit “the Gift” and serve as unpaid laborers (slaves in all but name, though they had rights to food, shelter and good treatment) for that decade ere the state gave them some land of their own and full citizenry (Ed Greenwood on Twitter - June 12, 2021)
“Harcrimmiting!” – Common:- a Tempuran specific “Motherf*cking!” (The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood)
“hardiclaw” – Common:- a type of poison that caused paralysis and then death (Swords of Eveningstar by Ed Greenwood)
“kour” – Draconic:- master (Ed Greenwood in Greenwood’s Grotto on Discord - September 22, 2023)
“lackspells” – Common:- see “lackspell” (The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood)
“larrack” – Common:- a type of wine served (steaming) in Saerloon (The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood)
“laskran” – Common:- a type of drug (Swords of Dragonfire and The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood)
“malacht” – Untheric:- duke (Ed Greenwood on Twitter - June 12, 2021)
“malachtam” – Untheric:- a duchy (Ed Greenwood on Twitter - June 12, 2021)
“malrayess” – Untheric:- duchess (Ed Greenwood on Twitter - June 12, 2021)
“mrimmon jelly” – Common:- a type of jelly made from “mrimmon trees,” used as a condiment on the royal cheese platters (The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood)
“mrimmon tree” – Common:- a type of tree, from which “mrimmon jelly” is made (The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood)
“murensul” – Thorass:- a nutbrown stain for cloth made by boiling three abundant marsh-plant roots together (Ed Greenwood in Greenwood’s Grotto on Discord - September 19, 2023)
“musterdelvys” – Common:- a mixed grey woollen cloth, much like our real-world musterdevillers (The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood)
“nauthus” – Common:- a fatty thickener for gravies and cooked sauces that together with nutmeg acted as a deadly, and swiftly virulent, poison (Swords of Dragonfire by Ed Greenwood)
“nightbeak” – Common:- a type of vulture of the Stonelands (Swords of Eveningstar by Ed Greenwood)
“portal drink” – Common:- what sages of “the Art” termed the phenomenon of non-living items that vanished from creatures traversing portals (Swords of Dragonfire by Ed Greenwood)
“Qaethur, the” – Common:- a worn and chipped gemstone carved into a shallow relief depiction of a human face that can awaken “the Gift” (The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood)
“rethren” – Common:- a type of tree-cat (Swords of Eveningstar by Ed Greenwood)
“riskin” – Common:- a type of small brown bird partial to “cavanter” buds (Swords of Eveningstar by Ed Greenwood)
“rubyfire” – Common:- a type of wine (The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood)
“shimmerweave” – Common:- a fabric that has the same high-shine “sheen” as glossy (“satin weave”) silk or real-world nylon; when candlelight reflects off it, the result is a “shimmer,” hence its name (Swords of Eveningstar, Swords of Dragonfire and The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood; Ed Greenwood in Greenwood’s Grotto on Discord - May 2, 2023)
“sneak-coins” – Common:- a Cormyrean term for ‘Sembian’ cabals or even formal syndicates who covertly try to gain control of businesses in Cormyr, and attempt to secure influence in the realm by bribery, blackmail, and otherwise influencing officials, or nobles (Swords of Eveningstar by Ed Greenwood)
“swordjacks” – Common:- armed bodyguards (Swords of Dragonfire by Ed Greenwood)
“thaelur” – Common:- a type of drug from the beast-cities of the South that gives a sensation of intense bodily pleasure, and short-lived freedom from pains in the joints (Swords of Dragonfire and The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood)
“thaerefoil” – Common:- a type of plant with edible leaves, which if consumed raw, or as a tea made from them, prevented erections (Swords of Eveningstar by Ed Greenwood)
“treecloak” – Common:- a Cormyrean term applied by the druids to the priests of all the woodgods (Swords of Eveningstar by Ed Greenwood)
“urdolphim” – Untheric:- a term for Unther’s travelling traders (Ed Greenwood on Twitter - June 12, 2021)
“Weavemaster” – Common:- a term for anyone who had mastered (understanding its workings enough to not need the trappings of arcane magic) “the Weave” so they could work magic by silent act of will, rather than conventional casting (Ed Greenwood on Twitter - June 8, 2022)
“wildsnarl powder” – Common:- a very rare, and priced to match, powder used to defeat most divination magic (Swords of Dragonfire by Ed Greenwood) |
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Kyrene
Senior Scribe
South Africa
729 Posts |
Posted - 18 Apr 2024 : 08:43:36
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“allbeholdings” – Common:- same as “marvel masques”
“alleyblades” – Common:- a Waterdhavian term for non-professional street louts and others who behave rudely and violently and are lowlife, opportunistic thieves and scavengers who lurk in alleys and carry knives or homemade weapons to threaten or to defend themselves with (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“anvil-and-flower” – Common:- the term for “chalk-and-cheese” (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“anyhail” – Common:- anyhow; anyway (Swords of Eveningstar, Swords of Dragonfire and The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood; Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“bebolt” – Common:- same as “belbolt” (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“blue eyes” – Common:- edible grapes named for their colour that grow in halfling-fist-sized clusters (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“bolt” – Common:- see “belbolt” (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“bondsman” – Common:- the most common term for someone who holds lands under a contract that sets forth conditions (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“bright spear” – Common:- a term for a male prostitute who tries to dress, act, and speak like “highborn,” both to dazzle young clients and to attract customers interested in nobility (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“brightbirds” – Common:- a perfectly polite, neutral Sword Coast term for two people who are courting but not necessarily intimate (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“brightcoin” – Common:- a polite (unless twisted by words attached to it) term for the socially rising (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“bright-fisted-coin” – Common:- a term for one who is ramming one’s own success down the throats of friends, acquaintances, and anyone within reach or earshot, or the practice of such behaviour (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“brightheart” – Common:- a Waterdhavian term for someone your heart is set on (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“buck” – Common:- a jocular (not to be used in front of parents, priests, or disapproving relatives) Waterdhavian way of describing a male lover (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“casking” – Common:- a Sword Coast term for the damage done (even if no casks are involved in a particular incident) by “casksmashers” (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“casksmashers” – Common:- a Sword Coast term for vandals (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“clevershanks” – Common:- a male know-it-all (Swords of Eveningstar by Ed Greenwood; Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“clevertongue” – Common:- a female know-it-all (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“coin lass” – Common:- same as “coin-lass” (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“coin mountain” – Common:- the current term for a fabulously wealthy person (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“daggerboard” – Common:- same as “side-dagger”
“darkhall” – Common:- the term for any run-down hovel, from cottages to mansions (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“dayblood” – Common:- a polite term for someone new to thievery (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“doe” – Common:- a polite (and bardic) Waterdhavian way of describing a female lover (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“drawn-dagger agents” – Common:- the polite term for a spy, hired killer, or outside-the-law facilitator, usually for a wealthy patron or a guild (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“drippingly brightcoin” – Common:- a term for one who is ostentatious in spending, blindly adherent to fashion, and inclined to display put-on manners (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“dullblades” – Common:- inexperienced, untested, or untrustworthy “hireswords” sent on the most dangerous assignments and deemed expendable (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“fancylad” – Common:- a “fancyman” if the speaker is older than the person being spoken of (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“fancylass” – Common:- a disapproving Sword Coast pejorative term for a female suitor (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“fancyman” – Common:- a disapproving Sword Coast pejorative term for a male suitor (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“fancynames” – Common:- the Waterdhavian term for pseudonyms (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“fang gangs” – Common:- a Waterdhavian term for Dock Ward and South Ward street gangs who use knives and carve gang “sigils” on their forearms (or less conspicuous places) and on their victims (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“far-wares merchant” – Common:- a term for someone who sells goods from afar, but might not necessarily ship them (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“fastfists” – Common:- a Waterdhavian term for non-professional street louts and others who behave rudely and violently and are belligerent at that very moment, such as when drunks spill out of a tavern spoiling for a fight (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“fillbelly” – Common:- the dwarven term for edibles eaten to sustain life rather than for pleasure (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“filly” – Common:- a jocular (not to be used in front of parents, priests, or disapproving relatives) Waterdhavian way of describing a female lover (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“fresstel” – Common:- same as “marvel masques”
“fumblehands” – Common:- a term for clumsy thieves (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“grandiques” – Common:- same as “marvel masques”
“hardjaws” – Common:- a term that refers to garrulous tavern regulars (Swords of Eveningstar by Ed Greenwood; Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“hidecoin” – Common:- a term for a prostitute of either gender who is so slick in manner and deft in solicitations that only a few clients know their trade at all (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“highborn” – Common:- a polite term for nobles or relating to nobility (Swords of Eveningstar and The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood; Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“highcoin lady” – Common:- a term for a female prostitute who tries to dress, act, and speak like “highborn,” both to dazzle young clients and to attract customers interested in nobility (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“highcoin lass” – Common:- a “high-coin girl” who is “glim,” better dressed than everyday commoners and generally higher class (Swords of Eveningstar and The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood; Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“highmantle” – Common:- a term for someone who is successfully superior or refined in manners (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“holynose” – Common:- a mildly offensive (akin to using “cop” for “policeman”) term for a priest (Swords of Eveningstar, Swords of Dragonfire and The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood; Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“keghands” – Common:- male tavern servers (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“laugh-lad” – Common:- a term for a male prostitute charging “high-coin” who is “glim,” better dressed than everyday commoners and generally higher class (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“locksters” – Common:- the Dragon Reach term for owners and guardians of warehouses (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“long-cask merchant” – Common:- a term for someone who deals in goods that have made a long journey, whether the wares are actually shipped in casks or not (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“malakram” – Common:- the Calishite term for a theatrical style of play using masks and choruses (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“mare” – Common:- same as “filly”
“marvel masques” – Common:- the term for tableaux in festivals and the revels of the wealthy where the actors are usually provocatively clad women (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“masqueladra” – Common:- the Chessentan term for a theatrical style of play using masks and choruses (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“mongery” – Common:- the usual term for anything made of metal that’s not a tool or a weapon (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“murdath” – Common:- the Dragon Reach and Moonsea name for a rectangular stone building like a “standath” but with no cellars beneath (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“newcoin” – Common:- a pejorative term that refers to those who are newly rich and spending to show it off (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“nightblood” – Common:- a general term, devoid of judgement, for a thief (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“Orcs is trouble” – Common:- (or, in full: “Orcs is always trouble”) an old upcountry saying (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“roofwrack” – Common:- the term for any really dilapidated “darkhall” (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“rose” – Common:- a mild term for a submissive female; a Waterdhavian term for a suitor, or “the one I long to have as my partner, or we both desire to be together, but haven’t yet actually become intimates” (So saith Ed - February 16, 2005; Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“sellswords” – Common:- see “hiresword” (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood; Crown of Fire by Ed Greenwood)
“Shadowed” – Common:- a term for especially capable and accomplished “Martyrs” brought back to life by the goddess and augmented in some way (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“sharpjaws” – Common:- a Waterdhavian term for posers who pretend to be hard, violent types, but who are usually thrill-seeking teenagers (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“side-dagger” – Common:- a term for long sideburns (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“snatch-runners” – Common:- a pejorative (used for those too foolish to avoid being caught soon) term for idiotically reckless thieves, even if their crimes don’t actually involve snatching or running (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“softshadow” – Common:- a term for a deft, veteran thief (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“stag” – Common:- a polite (and bardic) Waterdhavian way of describing a male lover (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“standath” – Common:- the Dragon Reach and Moonsea name for a rectangular stone building that has cellars (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“steed” – Common:- same as “buck”
“Stormsenders” – Common:- same as “Stormheralds”
“strongdark” – Common:- (derived from “darkened strong room”) a room with many stub walls concealed by black curtains that the occupants can hide behind if attacked (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“swirlcloaks” – Common:- a term for those trying to copy “highborn” accents, phrases, fashions, gestures, and pastimes (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“thrusters” – Common:- a term for tirelessly ambitious social climbers (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“thurdrixes” – Common:- the collective term for hair products that change hair colour or cause hair growth (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“toughs” – Common:- a general Waterdhavian collective term for non-professional street louts and others who behave rudely and violently with an attitude of habitual street loiterers (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“turncoin” – Common:- same as “coin-lad” (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“vanishcoin” – Common:- a term for anyone who cheats on a business deal, thereby making coin disappear (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“wenches” – Common:- (not a disrespectful term) female tavern servers (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood) |
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Kyrene
Senior Scribe
South Africa
729 Posts |
Posted - 19 Apr 2024 : 09:58:53
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“Aerdruth” – Common:- (after the long-dead Tethyrian credited with concocting the recipe) a variety of sharp-flavoured (like real-world extra old Cheddar) orange, crumbly local Tethyrian cheese; see also “Hammaree” (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“baeranth” – Common:- a mixed meat (the smoked meat of cattle, goats, and hogs) pie or tart with a peppery gravy inside that is the most popular everyday evening meal for Tantrans (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“blackbark soup” – Common:- the stewed bark of four or five different sorts of forest bushes eaten (usually served cold) by the elves, and which tastes and looks a little like a thick beef stew (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“blalatha soup” – Common:- a soup (usually served cold) eaten by the elves which is made from certain mushrooms, diced and then boiled (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“blooddrop” – Common:- a hardy plant, growing low to the ground with bright red berries (that taste like cooked onions) local to the North (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“blood-drops” – Common:- beets sliced very thinly, fried in oil, and then dusted with salt and various spices (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“bowl feast” – Common:- the Inner Sea term for sitting around the “giantgrass” stew-pot dipping wedges of stale bread into it, which is then eaten with alternating bites of strong cheeses (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“branchcat” – Common:- a tree-climbing cross between a mink and a raccoon (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“brownbuds” – Common:- brown Faerûnian wild forest radishes (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“chethlachance” – Common:- a type of board game (The Halls of Stormweather by Various edited by Philip Athans; Ed Greenwood on Twitter - November 8, 2018)
“chokevine” – Common:- a type of forest vine (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“coushoots” – Common:- the green new shoots of “chokevine” or “thaelthorn” eaten as vegetables by the elves (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“daintyfish skewers” – Common:- skewers of twenty “silverflash” dipped in herbed butter and sizzled over a flame until they’re crunchy (Volo’s Guide to the North by Ed Greenwood)
“darblalatha soup” – Common:- a soup (usually served cold) eaten by the elves which is made from certain mushrooms, diced, then fried with leeks, and then mixed and boiled (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“dartflash” – Common:- small-human-palm-sized, bony silver fish prevalent in the River Reaching in the Heartlands (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“dreel” – Common:- (due to their appearance, sometimes called “trollfingers”) short, fat, green-black river eels prevalent in the River Reaching in the Heartlands from the Misty Stair cascades to below Skull Gorge (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“druth” – Common:- a brown flatfish that resembles the detached sole of a leather moccasin found in the Akanamere (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“fivestar” – Common:- a regional name for a “noble” (gold coin) used in Selgaunt (The Halls of Stormweather by Various edited by Philip Athans)
“giantgrass” – Common:- the tall broadleaf reeds that grow thickly along the Chessentan and northern Turmish coast; when boiled or stewed, they exude a gummy essence used as a thickener in many kitchens and such a stew is nourishing in itself (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“green wine” – Common:- a wine of the drow made from “orbloren” distilled in a mixture of water and the juice of crushed “marrult” (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“greenspears” – Common:- same as “spears” (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“haendur soup” – Common:- a soup (usually served cold) eaten by the elves which is made by simmering glow worms with seasoned sharp-tasting leaves (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“Hammaree” – Common:- (after the long-dead Tethyrian credited with concocting the recipe) a variety of sharp-flavoured (like real-world extra old Cheddar) orange, crumbly local Tethyrian cheese; see also “Aerdruth” (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“hand pies” – Common:- meat-and-gravy-filled, savoury palm-sized pastries of an astonishing variety of ingredients and tastes popular in the Heartlands, the Dales, and the Savage Coast North (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“honeydrops” – Common:- thumb-sized candies of honey mixed with an edible gum and spices (to provide flavour and keep the honey from melting and running in hot conditions) popular in Calimshan, the Vilhon, Mulhorand, Raurin, and Chessenta (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“hooroun” – Common:- moose, always marinated with herbs when eaten by the elves (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“hotspice” – Common:- curried (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“hotwhips” – Common:- a term for spring onions (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“Hulorn” – Common:- the hereditary title of the merchant-mayor of Selgaunt (The Halls of Stormweather by Various edited by Philip Athans)
“klooer roots” – Common:- edible licorice-like roots of a parched wilderland bush (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“kurlath leaves” – Common:- the broad green leaves of a wild, shade-loving ground plant useful for removing salt (when boiled briefly with) or wrapping things in (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“laumberry” – Common:- a hardy plant, growing low to the ground with honey-sweet, orange, tiny berries local to the North (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“llur” – Common:- see “llurdren”
“llurdren” – Common:- (or just “llur”) a clear, faintly yellow, bitter white wine from southern Tethyr (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“loalurr” – Common:- pistachio nuts (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“lulleth” – Common:- a thick stew eaten by the elves made of either muskrat, shrew, vole, or “branchcat” (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“marrult” – Common:- an abundant, gray Underdark fungus that grows against stone walls in clusters of flat, dun-hued scaly scabs (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“marruth” – Common:- (sometimes disparagingly called root pies by dwarves and humans) pastries into which spiced and herbed mashes of vegetables have been baked and rolled into “rallow leaves” to keep them from rotting, and carried for eating cold by elves on the move (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“mraedin” – Common:- a very dark, rich nutbread (akin to pumpernickel) served in Tantran inns (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“mursk” – Common:- fat, slow-moving, green-brown fish that are unpleasantly oily in taste, but can be fried, allowing the cook to skim off the oil for use in lamps (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“orbloren” – Common:- an abundant, greenish Underdark rock fungus that grows on moist rock walls (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“Orthin” – Common:- (after its long-dead first maker) a soft, buttery yellow thin-rinded goat cheese made by the halflings of Corm Orp (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“penny” – Common:- a regional name for a “steelpence” used in Selgaunt (The Halls of Stormweather by Various edited by Philip Athans)
“rallow leaves” – Common:- heavy, oily, waterproof broadleaves (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“roseapple” – Common:- a mild-flavoured apple-like fruit that grows at the thorny junctures of the “rosethorn” eaten by the elves (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“rosethorn” – Common:- a type of vine that grows abundantly in the Heartlands (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“runsun” – Common:- the Tethyrian term for light afternoon snacks that began their existence as field meals for farm workers (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“sarkul” – Common:- savoury smoked fish (fish immersed in honey and seasonings, and then hung and smoked for several days) popular in Tantras (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“searshoots” – Common:- wild Faerûnian vine onions, a staple of elven cuisine (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“silvereyes” – Common:- a fish stew eaten by the elves made of “silverflash” and other small forest stream fish (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“silverflash” – Common:- a little baitfish used to make “daintyfish skewers” and “silvereyes” (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood; Volo’s Guide to the North by Ed Greenwood)
“sornstag” – Common:- roasted “hotspice” venison eaten by the elves (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“sugar bladders” – Common:- confections wrapped in pig’s bladders, heated on metal plates over fires to drive out their moisture, tied shut, and then painted all over with “tansel” popular as appetizers (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“surkyl” – Common:- porcupine eaten by the elves with its belly slashed to insert leek and herbs, then rolled in clay and fire-baked so that the hide and quills can be removed (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“taece” – Common:- trail food which resembles brown, finger-length sardines and is made of fire-dried, tiny forest-stream fish eaten (whole, bones and all) by the elves (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“talyth” – Common:- a cracker the size of a small human palm with a thin slice of sausage on top, and various sorts of herbs, spices, and mushed-down-flat foodstuffs in between (lightly baked to glue it together) popular in Sword Coast cities, Cormyr, Westgate, and Sembia (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“tansel” – Common:- an egg- and plant-based mixture that provides an airtight seal (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“tath” – Common:- a term for wine that is poor or very ordinary (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“thaelthorn” – Common:- a type of forest vine (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“thaenwing” – Common:- spiced-and-diced grouse, partridge, quail, and “woodguth” eaten by the elves (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“tharberry” – Common:- a hardy plant, growing low to the ground with large, beige-to-white, chewy berries local to the North (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“traethe” – Common:- a kind of wild radish that grows abundantly across the Heartlands (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“trollfingers” – Common:- see “dreel”
“warm” – Common:- the offer, or act of fortifying a drink with some kind of “throatslake” (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood)
“woodguth” – Common:- wild turkey (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood) |
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“City of Bards, the” – Common:- an honorific term for Myth Drannor (Cormanthyr: Empire of Elves by Steven E. Schend, Kevin Melka)
“City of Brotherhood, the” – Common:- an honorific term for Myth Drannor (Cormanthyr: Empire of Elves by Steven E. Schend, Kevin Melka; The Fall of Myth Drannor by Steven E. Schend)
“City of Craft, the” – Common:- an honorific term for Myth Drannor (Cormanthyr: Empire of Elves by Steven E. Schend, Kevin Melka)
“City of Love, the” – Common:- an honorific term for Myth Drannor (Cormanthyr: Empire of Elves by Steven E. Schend, Kevin Melka; The Fall of Myth Drannor by Steven E. Schend)
“City of Magic, the” – Common:- an honorific term for Myth Drannor (Cormanthyr: Empire of Elves by Steven E. Schend, Kevin Melka)
“City of Peace, the” – Common:- a term for Myth Ondath (Cormanthyr: Empire of Elves by Steven E. Schend, Kevin Melka; Volo’s Guide to All Things Magical by Ed Greenwood, Eric L. Boyd)
“City of Shadows” – Common:- a term for Skuld (Volo’s Guide to All Things Magical by Ed Greenwood, Eric L. Boyd)
“City of Song, the” – Common:- the most common honorific term for Myth Drannor (Cormanthyr: Empire of Elves by Steven E. Schend, Kevin Melka; The Fall of Myth Drannor by Steven E. Schend)
“City of Spells, the” – Common:- an honorific term for Myth Drannor (The Fall of Myth Drannor by Steven E. Schend)
“Towers of Beauty, the” – Common:- an honorific term for Myth Drannor (Cormanthyr: Empire of Elves by Steven E. Schend, Kevin Melka) |
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