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• Speech, the
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• Hrasht
  The commonest word in the [[Speech, the | Speech]] used to address a fellow wizard: usually translated as "cousin". ([[TWD] [[Category:The Speech]]
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• Charactery
  ...s in the [[Speech, the | Speech]] physically written into the structure of the [[spell diagram]], ''q.v.'' [[Category:The Speech]]
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• Astahfrith
  ...ucted in the open without causing disruption to the indigenous culture/s." The antonym of [[sevarfrith]]. [[Category:The Speech]]
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• Discourse, language of
  ...censions.]] For numerous species scattered through the known universe, the Speech serves both purposes.
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• Star names
  ...the Speech]], or it can mean a star's name for itself (usually also in the Speech, but there are occasional exceptions).
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• Emiwai
  Apparently a word in the [[Speech, the | Speech]] for a valley, canyon or declivity. Also a [[User:Emiwai | ErrantryWiki us
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• Emissary
  ...plies an understanding that the wizard addressed is out on the business of the [[Powers That Be | Powers that Be]]. ([[SYWTBAW]], [[WH]], [[WAW]]) (See also: [[High Road, the]]: [[Formal referents]].)
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• Concept syllables
  A group of syllables in the [[Speech, the | Speech]] which encapsulate the meaning and efficacy of a much longer expression, usually a short [[spell]] [[Category:The Speech]]
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• Speech-borrowing
  ...| language of discourse]] which has been borrowed from the [[Speech, the | Speech]]. ...f a word is remembered. [[Liused]]'s name, as an example, is very likely a Speech-borrowing.
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• Afallonë
  The name in the [[Speech, the | Speech]] of the ancient island usually now referred to as [[Atlantis]].
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• Asdekh
  One of a number of "quantifier" words in the [[Speech, the | Speech]] used to indicate one of several aspects of a spell's strength or purpose. [[Category:The Speech]]
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• Rasaugehil
  The "shorthand" name in the [[Speech, the | Speech]] for the star γ (gamma) Cephei, also known as Errai. ...e type K1 star with the luminosity of approximately 11 Suns. It is one of the stars that take a turn being [[Earth | Earth's]] north Pole Star: it will
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• Enacture
  ...le to manipulate the universe using the [[enactive]] power inherent in the Speech. (See also: [[Science of mind, the]]; [[Enactive recension]]; [[Spells, theory and practice]].)
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• Cahadhwy
  The "shorthand" name in the [[Speech, the | Speech]] for the star α (alpha) Cancri, also known as Acubens.
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• Ur'Senaahel
  The "shorthand" name in the [[Speech, the | Speech]] for the star β (beta) Leonis, also known as Denebola. This is a main-sequence
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• Sevarfrith
  ...s of the acronym indicate general or specific reasons for the restriction. The simple version is often used as shorthand. ...an cultures there are some where wizards have no problem practicing out in the open. Industrialized "modern" cultures are routinely most likely to be ''s
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• Actuator word
  ...tinct from the verbalized version of the [[Wizard's Knot]] which completes the spell's structure ''per se''. ([[WAW]])
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• Ysen
  ...thand" name in the [[Speech, the | Speech]] for the group of stars bearing the Bayer designation &#945; (alpha) Geminis: also known as Castor. ...e stars of type A1 and A5. <i>Ysen </i> is the word used in the Speech for the stars considered as a group: individually, their names are Umnaih, Relewen
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• Aresh-hav
  ...at the intervention might possibly be fatal for the world's inhabitants if the Lone One cannot be otherwise dislodged. ([[WAW]]) [[Category:The Speech]]
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• Methchane
  ...&#946; (beta) Andromedae, also known as Mirach. (Methch&aacute;n&euml; is the proper spelling.) ...ately 75 Suns. It has a brown-dwarf companion about 800 times dimmer than the Sun. ([[SYWTBAW]])
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• Gnaester
  ...arks that his gnaester hurts. (And so would yours, if you'd been emitting the kinds of things ''he'' had.) (The term is more casual than ''llatemn'' or ''eistel''.)
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• Lahirien
  The "shorthand" name in the [[Speech, the | Speech]] for the star &#945; (alpha) Aurigae, also known as Capella. ...It may be an outlying member of the "Taurus moving group" associated with the Hyades star cluster. ([[SYWTBAW]])</p>
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• Avedictory
  ...you." The Avedictory does not have to be delivered in [[Speech, the | the Speech]], though doing so tends to lend it a certain official quality. ...have wide usage right across the known worlds: one of these, "Well met on the Journey", is much used in our own galaxy in endless vernacular forms.
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• Adjunct
  ...to be a wizard, but is normally at least competent in the [[Speech, the | Speech]]. ...that the powers or abilities of the adjunct are at least partially due to the [[Catalyst | catalytic]] or partially catalalytic influence of another bein
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• Hypermantic contagion syndrome
  [[Category:The Speech]]
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• Golem
  ...Also used specifically to denote the original type of construct which gave the class its name. ...nto it in any written form. (Pieces of paper have been used, as have -- in the earliest versions -- small tablets of clay.)
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• Dazel
  ...f a race who are thought to almost all be wizards, due to "something about the way their brains are divided." ...s him somewhat later, he also finds Dazel's utterances rather cryptic, but the tone of them (and their content in light of later events) could possibly be
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• Elthathte
  ...name is spelled with diacriticals: Elth&auml;tht&eacute;. Unfortunately the title line can't handle them.) ...arent magnitude by about 1/10th of a magnitude. This possibly accounts for the shorthand name, which translates most closely into human idiom as "winking"
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• Paramagia
  ...rforming them is not a wizard, and may not even believe in wizardry. Also, the ability to use paramagia successfully. ...nally intended effect. But since the Speech, as the language used to build the Universe, has its own inherent power, even fragments of it will often have
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• Pont
  ...mentions to her in passing that it too has trouble handling "the music of the spheres". ([[TWD]])
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• Syllabic acronym
  ...xcerpted syllables are assembled has a considerable effect on the power of the final acronym. .... The effect is like dealing with a spring wound up very small and tight: the release of energy from such a structure can be very useful, but also very d
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• Ge Hong
  ...aster Embracing Simplicity'', one of the most important reference works of the Taoist canon. ...ard should attempt them, as his attempts to transcribe [[Speech, the | the Speech]] into his local dialect of Chinese have been mangled and rendered useless
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• Phulakic volume
  ...he Speech]], the cognate term used is ''aiyutheneitamal;'' it implies that the confinement is secondary to a judicial proceeding. ...ce in such places is seen by some as an indication that the dark Source of the avatars is also so confined, in a volume with a similar level of seniority
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• Errantry
  The art and business of wizardry, considered as a whole: also, the act of going out to take care of some piece of wizardly business. ...ission or errand in hand is one in which the wizard is acting on behalf of the [[Powers That Be | Powers that Be]].
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• Binding Oath, the
  ...ithdrawal of all energy which has been invested in the being by the [[One, the | One]]. ...which will signal the oath's completion and the release of the being doing the swearing.
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• Ailurin
  ...words is much higher in Ailurin than in most other Earthly languages, with the possible exception of those languages spoken (or sung) by [[cetaceans]]. ([
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• Inhabition
  ...(inadequately, as usual) several [[Speech, the | Speech]]-words involving the association of spirit or power with matter. ...ructs]] like [[Golem | golems]], animated by direct or indirect use of the Speech.
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• Liused
  ...ics wondering whether the Celtic word for the rowan tree, ''luis'', is a [[Speech-borrowing]]. ...ten years before her birth, as the tree is described as very well grown by the time Nita first speaks to it as a [[probationary wizard]] in [[SYWTBAW]].
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• Provocodictory
  The phrase by which a wizard acknowledges the presence of the [[Lone Power]] and directly challenges It. ...[[Michael Power]] issued to the Lone One in the Speech at the beginning of the [[Cosmomachy]]. ([[SYWTBAW]] ''et seq''.)
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• Mmemyn
  ...whom Nita meets while working on [[Kernel | kernel]]-detection routines in the [[Aschetic universe | aschetic]] "practice" universes. Mmemyn is described ...ing from one distinct place when he speaks: Nita gets the feeling that his speech organ is actually his fur. ([[TWD]])
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• Latency
  ...ately age 9-10 to puberty, though as usual there are notable exceptions to the rule. ...n need of the ability to push past preconceived limits -- if only to spite the [[Lone Power]].
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• Rowan wand
  ...as a light source, by requesting the trapped light, in [[Speech, the | the Speech,]] to come on, go off, or burn brighter or darker as necessary. ...of the [[spell circle]] which will enable the reforging and ensoulment of the [[Spear of Light]].)
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• Kernel
  ...that lists all properties of matter and energy in that volume of space and the values to which those properties are set. ...rmally sent to an [[aschetic universe]] so that they can get to grips with the finer points of kernel management without breaking a real universe and ther
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• Wizardly leakage
  ...nt around them: especially used when referring to effects on life forms in the area, though also sometimes implying changes in (theoretically) inanimate o ...culiar abilities and is told that wizardly leakage may be at the bottom of the situation. ([[SYWTBAW]] ''et seq.'')
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• Spell
  ...o a greater or lesser extent, depending on the formality and complexity of the spell. ...t achieved by ordering the Universe around. The effective wizard considers the fabric of physical existence to be a partner in any given wizardry, rather
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• Construct
  ...eproduce themselves. The wizardly definition of life also normally implies the presence of a [[kernel]] or soul; constructs definitely lack these.) ...a specific type, quiescent until being animated by a specific word in the Speech.
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• Rodriguez, Carmela E.
  ...na]] and second oldest sister of [[Kit]], Carmela is the "middle child" of the [[Rodriguez family]]. ...ela's unusual middle name "Emeda" is an acronym made up of the initials of the first names of three of her aunts and two of her uncles. [[AWOM]])
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• Dark Manhattan
  ...wer]], where [[Nita]], [[Kit]] and [[Fred]] find themselves trapped during the events of [[SYWTBAW]]. ...Peryton | perytons]], are by this point mostly intent on getting away from the Lone Power and back to their own Manhattan as soon as possible -- not yet r
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• Wizard's Knot
  ...the flat". (The rationalization most commonly used by wizards on Earth is the so-called [http://katlas.org/wiki/7_4 7<SUB>4</SUB> knot] -- a seven-crossi ...in the universe they assisted in creating under the auspices of the [[One, the | One]].
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• Great Golem of Prague
  ...designed and implemented by the wizard-rabbi [[Judah Loew ben Bezalel]] in the late 1500's. ...he Jews of the Ghetto, Judah Loew decided to build a great Golem to patrol the streets by day and night, stopping intimidation and violence wherever it fo
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