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In the Court of Dragons (Fiction)

2022-06-14T00:45:03Z

63.155.101.91:

[[File:Cover-CourtofDragons.jpg|200px|thumb|right|First Edition Cover]]

Second reader-sponsored short story collection.

==Publication Data==
*Series: Fallowtide
*Publication Date: 19 December 2020
*Editions: Ebook, Paperback
*Revisions: 1
*Reader-Commissioned Book

== Blurb ==
'''Loose ends don't tie themselves'''

Sweeping cultural changes sound very good on paper. But in the lives of normal people, even the ones who stand to benefit, those changes can be a challenge... one they might not have even asked for. In the Court of Dragons collects eight stories of the period after the events of the Chatcaavan War, focusing on changes both personal and widespread: old favorites return and new characters make their debut as we follow the effects of the war on everything from the imperial harem to the nascent Eldritch newsroom. What are the Faulfenza up to in the capital? What was the fate of the palace castrates? And who taught an Eldritch to... bungee jump?

This reader-commissioned collection includes stories written by the author at reader request. Come home to the Alliance with these tales of hope, renewal, comedy, and romance.

==Table of Contents==
* “[[Honorless Wounds (Fiction)|Honorless Wounds]]"
* “[[“The Leader(Fiction)|The Leader]]”
* “All Paths Lead (to the God)”
* “Page of Swords”
* “The Waiting Cradle”
* “The Color of the Sky at Sunrise”
* “Claimed”
* “The Call”

==Tags and Content Notes==
*Tags: romance, comedy, shenanigans, heart-warming, children, young adults, changes, evolutions
*Rating: PG for references to war, violence, and adult situations

==Buy Links==
* https://books2read.com/courtofdragons

==Characters==
<categorytree mode="pages" hideroot="on">In the Court of Dragons Characters</categorytree>

[[Category:Fallowtide Series]] [[Category:Reader-Commissioned Fiction]] [[Category:Short Fiction]]

== References ==

<references />

File:Illo-Sedirylstwins.jpg

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== Summary ==
[[Adaise Galare|Adause]]and [[Raenor Galare]], Sediryl and Jahir's first children.

[[Category:Eldritch Images]] [[Category:General Images]] [[Category:Character Portraits]]
[[Category:Other Eldritch Character Images]]

File:Illo-Sedirylstwins.jpg

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== Summary ==
Adaise and [[Raenor Galare]], Sediryl and Jahir's first children.

[[Category:Eldritch Images]] [[Category:General Images]] [[Category:Character Portraits]]
[[Category:Other Eldritch Character Images]]

Eldren

2022-06-03T00:35:40Z

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The Eldritch language. Dumped from back of the book backmatter. You can view the [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTKG9NwBB5oFVBvv5EKDKpJtlmQlAO6bskOkKjnPyBuS9t2Db0hHqIUME_8-Xb50xzcQfm7j4eMmrI1/pubhtml?gid=1012258331&single=true existing vocabulary for Eldren here].

==History==
Like many of the languages of this setting, Eldritch was originally a conlang, created by the people who would become the Eldritch as a way to set themselves apart from the people they fled. It was constructed by non-linguists, using their conception of what would make a language difficult to learn, which for them involved agglutinating words, shifting the meaning of words based on their vocabulary, instating a formal grammar that differed from the 'vulgar' spoken commonly; and designing the words for maximum difficulty in pronunciation (for people who knew very few languages with unusual phonetic features).

Language tends to shift more quickly across generations, and the Eldritch have had very few of those since landing. Additionally, their populations are small and not breeding quickly. As a result, the language hasn’t undergone as much of the natural transformation that would have streamlined and broadened it into something more naturalistic.

===Eldren in the Alliance===

As part of the Veil and agreements with the [[Alliance]], only five people outside the Eldritch may learn Eldren: one master trainer and one interpreter (both [[Seersa]]) and three military personnel. [[Laniis Baker]] is one of those who has been permitted to learn the language. Anyone else who picks up any of the language accidentally must not spread it.<ref name="etw-1">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref>

==Known words and their meaning==
*Muial, drama, <ref name ="Eldren Father"> Father's Honor, Kindle page 147 of 224</ref>
*Shaval, triumph, <ref>Father's Honor, kindle page 154 of 224</ref>
*Ouveliath, humilating <ref>Father's Honor, kindle page 155 of 224</ref>

(isnt there a spread sheet that can be linked to? Since the words need be forward and back?)

==Grammar==
===Word Formation and Pronunciation===
Eldritch is an aggressively agglutinating language: if it can make a word longer by grafting things onto it to add meaning, it will, and if that makes it harder for non-native speakers to pronounce anything without stumbling, so much the better. It’s also fond of vowels, and almost inevitably if you see an Eldritch word with more than one adjacent vowel, they’re pronounced separately. There are also no “silent” vowels (so Galare is not ‘Gah lahr’, but ‘gah lah reh’ or ‘gah lah rey’ depending on your regional accent). There are some cases where I’ve misspelled things, or I’ve continued to write out diphthongs instead of using diacritics, but for the most part if you pronounce every single letter you see in an Eldritch word separately, you’ll probably be doing it right.
===Phonemes===
* Accepted Consonants: p, b, t, d, k, g, f, v, th, s, z, sh, jz, h, ch, m, n, l, r, y.
* Accepted Vowel Sounds: ah, au, ae, eh, ii, ih, oo, oh, uh

===Color Modes===
Color modes are used to shade meaning in words. According to [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]], "so much insult could be given by changing a single syllable that it trained one to be careful with word choice."<ref name="etw-01">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref> There are three pairs and one neutral modes, used to inflect word meanings by means of a prefix:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;
|-
!Mode
!Prefix
!Emphasis
!Opposite
!Description
|-
| style = "background-color:#f2f2f2;" |gray
|''a''
|normal
| none
|style = "text-align: left; | the normal/neutral mode, and requires no modifiers. It has one, though, if one wants to be obvious about one’s neutrality.
|-
| style = "background-color:#d1d1e0;" | silver
|''ei''
|hopeful
|shadowed
|style = "text-align: left; | the positive, hopeful shading, not as certain of itself as gold
|-
| style = "background-color:#8585ad;" |shadowed
|''ie''
|negative, slightly
|silver
|style = "text-align: left; | gives negative (cynical, sarcastic, ironic, dreadful, foreboding, fearful, etc) connotations to words
|-
| style = "background-color:#ffbb33;" |gold
|''ue''
|joyful
|black
|style = "text-align: left; | the extreme positive end of the emotional spectrum, with the best assumed of everything
|-
| style = "color:#ffffff; background-color:#14141f;" |black
|''eu''
|dark
|gold
|style = "text-align: left; |gives violent, angry, dire, or morose connotations to words, and is the extreme negative end of the emotional spectrum
|-
| style = "background-color:#ffffff;" |white
|''io''
|holy
|crimson
|style = "text-align: left; | refers to things of the spirit, of higher motives and holy powers, things that are ephemera; often used for mind powers
|-
| style = "color:#ffffff; background-color:#b30000;" |crimson
|''oi''
|sensual
|white
|style = "text-align: left; | gives a suggestive, vulgar, earthy, worldly, or concrete turn to words
|}

In the spoken language, these moods are indicated with single-syllable prefixes; in the written, with colored ink. Color modes are carried into other formats, like music.

==Written Language / Orthography==
Eldren is written with standard Latin/English letters. 
In hand-written communication (between Eldritch) they use cursive, disguising the fact that it is the Latin alphabet since even before the proto-Eldritch left Earth cursive was falling out of common use. They use dip pens with steel(?) nibs. <ref>''Father's Honor'' some chapters</ref>
During the Veil, when writing on [[tablets]] to members of the Alliance, they used [[Universal]]. The few Seersa who were taught Eldren were not given any written material, so they took any notes themselves, presumably in Universal (or being Seersa, the successor to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet| International Phonetic Alphabet]?) 
Now that the Veil has dropped, and after the events of ''Father's Honor'', it can be assumed that cursive letter forms are going to be added into tablets as an option as Eldren is to be the language of the Naval Academy.

==Relationship Terms==
One of the most egregious points of failure in Eldren involves the vocabulary of family. The Eldritch didn’t think through the implications of their self-engineered longevity on fidelity and child-rearing. Even the first generation after landing, which lived about 500 years, wasn’t prepared for the issues that came up in families where the same couple might have children who are in completely different generations, and someone’s grandson might be older than their father’s brother. The problems were far more glaring than they were in humans, particularly amid the first generation which wasn’t yet having the fertility problems of later generations. The Eldritch had already generously decided they wanted to consider each generation a cohort, like a big ‘family’... which is where the custom of calling everyone in your generation ‘cousin’ comes from. But when they actually got down to the business of marrying, breeding, and rearing those future cohorts, they started running into age-related awkwardness. “One should like,” they said, “for one’s aunt to be both older and more worthy of deference due to her greater experience in life.”

Which is really what the Eldritch wanted. They wanted to use family relation labels as a shortcut for clarifying who is supposed to hush and listen to their elders, or betters. This is why Sediryl, who is genetically Liolesa’s cousin, decides eventually to call her ‘aunt': it’s an acknowledgment that Liolesa is due respect as an elder family member, no matter the actual genetic relationship.

Because it's useful to know who’s actually related to you or not, Eldritch use some modifiers, which is where we get things like ‘House-cousin,’ ‘near-cousin’, and ‘far-cousin.’ But even these are vague and poorly standardized. Prefacing a family-word with ‘House’ indicates you’re in the same House (a collection of families that have submitted to a single authority to which they are related either by blood or marriage, almost invariably a matriarch). ‘Near’- anything indicates blood-relation, and close consanguinity on top of that. ‘Far-cousin’ can mean either blood-relationship but distant consanguinity, or it can mean ‘member of the same generation’ or it can mean ‘person whose consanguinity I’m not sure of, except that we’re probably related.’ Plain ‘cousin’ could mean any of the above.

In plainest of terms, ‘aunt/uncle’ and ‘cousin’ are hazy terms more concerned with demarking generational divides, not with literal consanguinity. Unless, of course, it’s being used for the latter purpose.

===Examples: Sediryl, Fassiana, and Liolesa===
Having established that ‘aunt’ and ‘uncle’ are mostly generational terms of respect, we have to get to the ‘great-‘ appellation, which is a most often used as a marker of formality. Your aunt is someone you might see often and expect to have a personal relationship with. Your great-aunt, though, is someone of more power and position. Sediryl’s use of it for Fassiana, who is head of the northern branch of the Galare families, is a nod to Fassiana’s rank on top of the acknowledgment of Fassiana as coming from a prior generation. That later Sediryl decides to call Liolesa just ‘aunt’ is a form of intimacy.

One has to remember that geography plays a role in the perception of these relationships. Because traveling takes time on the Eldritch homeworld, it’s rare that someone might interact frequently with members of the older generation that are not part of the immediate family. Correspondence is popular, though, and this is where most of the ‘aunts’ and ‘uncles’ might find an opportunity to become more important role models and mentors to their younger family or House members.

The reverse is not always true, as an aside. Fassiana can call Sediryl ‘niece’ or ‘great-niece’ interchangeably. Some people might use ‘great-niece’ or ‘great-nephew’ as a way of putting the youngers in their place, but it’s rare. Personality in the case plays more of a part on whether the elder in the relationship observes the nuances.

===Examples: Jahir and Sediryl===
We learn in multiple novels that Jahir has been avoiding Sediryl because first-cousin marriages are considered anathema among the Eldritch… which gives one to wonder how they keep track, when the actual word can have so many meanings. Nevertheless, keeping track actually is important. The Eldritch population isn’t enormous, and the wealthy upper class is a slim minority of that already tiny number. In a culture without the technology to correct for genetic malformations, the stricture against close relations with close relations is practical. And the Eldritch do keep detailed family trees, and are obsessed with bloodline—within their immediate families. Most of them don’t care at all to track other Houses’ lineage with the same mania they do their own.

The stricture against cousin-marriage, then, is applied to cousins within the same House. Sediryl and Jahir’s problem, by Eldritch social standards, was not that they were first-cousins (though they are), but that they are both Galare, and worse, both from the western Galare families. Minimizing the complexity of genetic tracking to a simple tenet to marry outside your House keeps things easier—no need to look up the bloodlines—and helps maintain the alliances between politically like-minded Houses. One of the reasons there are any neutral Houses at all in the divide between Liolesa’s aggressive pro-outworld policies and Surela’s coterie of anti-Alliance Eldritch is that a neutral House can reasonably expect to entertain marriage proposals from both sides of the aisle; indeed, they must, and do their best to balance the number of attachments to each political group in order to keep from being perceived as a partisan. This is by no means easy, but by walking that line, they have access to a broader genepool… and because of that, it is a sad fact that the neutral Houses, on the whole, have more and healthier children. If Galare had not had secret access to reproductive technology, it might have eventually lost precedence as the ruling dynasty because of politically-induced inbreeding. That Galare’s enemies would also have crumbled would be little consolation, as the neutral Houses have spent so long avoiding any political temerity that they would be poorly positioned to save the species in the wake of the ‘extremists’ collapsing.

So, Sediryl and Jahir: both Galare, both from the same geographical area. The scandal is less the literal consanguinity and more the implied one (which in this case, correctly forecasts the genetic truth). Fortunately for them, they don’t have to worry about lack of modern gynecology/obstetrics.

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Language]] [[Category:Eldritch]]

Eldren

2022-06-03T00:28:41Z

63.155.101.91: /* Known words and their meaning */

The Eldritch language. Dumped from back of the book backmatter. You can view the [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTKG9NwBB5oFVBvv5EKDKpJtlmQlAO6bskOkKjnPyBuS9t2Db0hHqIUME_8-Xb50xzcQfm7j4eMmrI1/pubhtml?gid=1012258331&single=true existing vocabulary for Eldren here].

==History==
Like many of the languages of this setting, Eldritch was originally a conlang, created by the people who would become the Eldritch as a way to set themselves apart from the people they fled. It was constructed by non-linguists, using their conception of what would make a language difficult to learn, which for them involved agglutinating words, shifting the meaning of words based on their vocabulary, instating a formal grammar that differed from the 'vulgar' spoken commonly; and designing the words for maximum difficulty in pronunciation (for people who knew very few languages with unusual phonetic features).

Language tends to shift more quickly across generations, and the Eldritch have had very few of those since landing. Additionally, their populations are small and not breeding quickly. As a result, the language hasn’t undergone as much of the natural transformation that would have streamlined and broadened it into something more naturalistic.

===Eldren in the Alliance===

As part of the Veil and agreements with the [[Alliance]], only five people outside the Eldritch may learn Eldren: one master trainer and one interpreter (both [[Seersa]]) and three military personnel. [[Laniis Baker]] is one of those who has been permitted to learn the language. Anyone else who picks up any of the language accidentally must not spread it.<ref name="etw-1">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref>

==Known words and their meaning==
*Muial, drama, <ref name ="Eldren Father"> Father's Honor, Kindle page 147 of 224</ref>
*Shaval, triumph, <ref>Father's Honor, kindle page 154 of 224</ref>

==Grammar==
===Word Formation and Pronunciation===
Eldritch is an aggressively agglutinating language: if it can make a word longer by grafting things onto it to add meaning, it will, and if that makes it harder for non-native speakers to pronounce anything without stumbling, so much the better. It’s also fond of vowels, and almost inevitably if you see an Eldritch word with more than one adjacent vowel, they’re pronounced separately. There are also no “silent” vowels (so Galare is not ‘Gah lahr’, but ‘gah lah reh’ or ‘gah lah rey’ depending on your regional accent). There are some cases where I’ve misspelled things, or I’ve continued to write out diphthongs instead of using diacritics, but for the most part if you pronounce every single letter you see in an Eldritch word separately, you’ll probably be doing it right.
===Phonemes===
* Accepted Consonants: p, b, t, d, k, g, f, v, th, s, z, sh, jz, h, ch, m, n, l, r, y.
* Accepted Vowel Sounds: ah, au, ae, eh, ii, ih, oo, oh, uh

===Color Modes===
Color modes are used to shade meaning in words. According to [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]], "so much insult could be given by changing a single syllable that it trained one to be careful with word choice."<ref name="etw-01">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref> There are three pairs and one neutral modes, used to inflect word meanings by means of a prefix:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;
|-
!Mode
!Prefix
!Emphasis
!Opposite
!Description
|-
| style = "background-color:#f2f2f2;" |gray
|''a''
|normal
| none
|style = "text-align: left; | the normal/neutral mode, and requires no modifiers. It has one, though, if one wants to be obvious about one’s neutrality.
|-
| style = "background-color:#d1d1e0;" | silver
|''ei''
|hopeful
|shadowed
|style = "text-align: left; | the positive, hopeful shading, not as certain of itself as gold
|-
| style = "background-color:#8585ad;" |shadowed
|''ie''
|negative, slightly
|silver
|style = "text-align: left; | gives negative (cynical, sarcastic, ironic, dreadful, foreboding, fearful, etc) connotations to words
|-
| style = "background-color:#ffbb33;" |gold
|''ue''
|joyful
|black
|style = "text-align: left; | the extreme positive end of the emotional spectrum, with the best assumed of everything
|-
| style = "color:#ffffff; background-color:#14141f;" |black
|''eu''
|dark
|gold
|style = "text-align: left; |gives violent, angry, dire, or morose connotations to words, and is the extreme negative end of the emotional spectrum
|-
| style = "background-color:#ffffff;" |white
|''io''
|holy
|crimson
|style = "text-align: left; | refers to things of the spirit, of higher motives and holy powers, things that are ephemera; often used for mind powers
|-
| style = "color:#ffffff; background-color:#b30000;" |crimson
|''oi''
|sensual
|white
|style = "text-align: left; | gives a suggestive, vulgar, earthy, worldly, or concrete turn to words
|}

In the spoken language, these moods are indicated with single-syllable prefixes; in the written, with colored ink. Color modes are carried into other formats, like music.

==Written Language / Orthography==
Eldren is written with standard Latin/English letters. 
In hand-written communication (between Eldritch) they use cursive, disguising the fact that it is the Latin alphabet since even before the proto-Eldritch left Earth cursive was falling out of common use. They use dip pens with steel(?) nibs. <ref>''Father's Honor'' some chapters</ref>
During the Veil, when writing on [[tablets]] to members of the Alliance, they used [[Universal]]. The few Seersa who were taught Eldren were not given any written material, so they took any notes themselves, presumably in Universal (or being Seersa, the successor to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet| International Phonetic Alphabet]?) 
Now that the Veil has dropped, and after the events of ''Father's Honor'', it can be assumed that cursive letter forms are going to be added into tablets as an option as Eldren is to be the language of the Naval Academy.

==Relationship Terms==
One of the most egregious points of failure in Eldren involves the vocabulary of family. The Eldritch didn’t think through the implications of their self-engineered longevity on fidelity and child-rearing. Even the first generation after landing, which lived about 500 years, wasn’t prepared for the issues that came up in families where the same couple might have children who are in completely different generations, and someone’s grandson might be older than their father’s brother. The problems were far more glaring than they were in humans, particularly amid the first generation which wasn’t yet having the fertility problems of later generations. The Eldritch had already generously decided they wanted to consider each generation a cohort, like a big ‘family’... which is where the custom of calling everyone in your generation ‘cousin’ comes from. But when they actually got down to the business of marrying, breeding, and rearing those future cohorts, they started running into age-related awkwardness. “One should like,” they said, “for one’s aunt to be both older and more worthy of deference due to her greater experience in life.”

Which is really what the Eldritch wanted. They wanted to use family relation labels as a shortcut for clarifying who is supposed to hush and listen to their elders, or betters. This is why Sediryl, who is genetically Liolesa’s cousin, decides eventually to call her ‘aunt': it’s an acknowledgment that Liolesa is due respect as an elder family member, no matter the actual genetic relationship.

Because it's useful to know who’s actually related to you or not, Eldritch use some modifiers, which is where we get things like ‘House-cousin,’ ‘near-cousin’, and ‘far-cousin.’ But even these are vague and poorly standardized. Prefacing a family-word with ‘House’ indicates you’re in the same House (a collection of families that have submitted to a single authority to which they are related either by blood or marriage, almost invariably a matriarch). ‘Near’- anything indicates blood-relation, and close consanguinity on top of that. ‘Far-cousin’ can mean either blood-relationship but distant consanguinity, or it can mean ‘member of the same generation’ or it can mean ‘person whose consanguinity I’m not sure of, except that we’re probably related.’ Plain ‘cousin’ could mean any of the above.

In plainest of terms, ‘aunt/uncle’ and ‘cousin’ are hazy terms more concerned with demarking generational divides, not with literal consanguinity. Unless, of course, it’s being used for the latter purpose.

===Examples: Sediryl, Fassiana, and Liolesa===
Having established that ‘aunt’ and ‘uncle’ are mostly generational terms of respect, we have to get to the ‘great-‘ appellation, which is a most often used as a marker of formality. Your aunt is someone you might see often and expect to have a personal relationship with. Your great-aunt, though, is someone of more power and position. Sediryl’s use of it for Fassiana, who is head of the northern branch of the Galare families, is a nod to Fassiana’s rank on top of the acknowledgment of Fassiana as coming from a prior generation. That later Sediryl decides to call Liolesa just ‘aunt’ is a form of intimacy.

One has to remember that geography plays a role in the perception of these relationships. Because traveling takes time on the Eldritch homeworld, it’s rare that someone might interact frequently with members of the older generation that are not part of the immediate family. Correspondence is popular, though, and this is where most of the ‘aunts’ and ‘uncles’ might find an opportunity to become more important role models and mentors to their younger family or House members.

The reverse is not always true, as an aside. Fassiana can call Sediryl ‘niece’ or ‘great-niece’ interchangeably. Some people might use ‘great-niece’ or ‘great-nephew’ as a way of putting the youngers in their place, but it’s rare. Personality in the case plays more of a part on whether the elder in the relationship observes the nuances.

===Examples: Jahir and Sediryl===
We learn in multiple novels that Jahir has been avoiding Sediryl because first-cousin marriages are considered anathema among the Eldritch… which gives one to wonder how they keep track, when the actual word can have so many meanings. Nevertheless, keeping track actually is important. The Eldritch population isn’t enormous, and the wealthy upper class is a slim minority of that already tiny number. In a culture without the technology to correct for genetic malformations, the stricture against close relations with close relations is practical. And the Eldritch do keep detailed family trees, and are obsessed with bloodline—within their immediate families. Most of them don’t care at all to track other Houses’ lineage with the same mania they do their own.

The stricture against cousin-marriage, then, is applied to cousins within the same House. Sediryl and Jahir’s problem, by Eldritch social standards, was not that they were first-cousins (though they are), but that they are both Galare, and worse, both from the western Galare families. Minimizing the complexity of genetic tracking to a simple tenet to marry outside your House keeps things easier—no need to look up the bloodlines—and helps maintain the alliances between politically like-minded Houses. One of the reasons there are any neutral Houses at all in the divide between Liolesa’s aggressive pro-outworld policies and Surela’s coterie of anti-Alliance Eldritch is that a neutral House can reasonably expect to entertain marriage proposals from both sides of the aisle; indeed, they must, and do their best to balance the number of attachments to each political group in order to keep from being perceived as a partisan. This is by no means easy, but by walking that line, they have access to a broader genepool… and because of that, it is a sad fact that the neutral Houses, on the whole, have more and healthier children. If Galare had not had secret access to reproductive technology, it might have eventually lost precedence as the ruling dynasty because of politically-induced inbreeding. That Galare’s enemies would also have crumbled would be little consolation, as the neutral Houses have spent so long avoiding any political temerity that they would be poorly positioned to save the species in the wake of the ‘extremists’ collapsing.

So, Sediryl and Jahir: both Galare, both from the same geographical area. The scandal is less the literal consanguinity and more the implied one (which in this case, correctly forecasts the genetic truth). Fortunately for them, they don’t have to worry about lack of modern gynecology/obstetrics.

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Language]] [[Category:Eldritch]]

Eldren

2022-06-03T00:27:47Z

63.155.101.91: /* Known words and their meaning */

The Eldritch language. Dumped from back of the book backmatter. You can view the [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTKG9NwBB5oFVBvv5EKDKpJtlmQlAO6bskOkKjnPyBuS9t2Db0hHqIUME_8-Xb50xzcQfm7j4eMmrI1/pubhtml?gid=1012258331&single=true existing vocabulary for Eldren here].

==History==
Like many of the languages of this setting, Eldritch was originally a conlang, created by the people who would become the Eldritch as a way to set themselves apart from the people they fled. It was constructed by non-linguists, using their conception of what would make a language difficult to learn, which for them involved agglutinating words, shifting the meaning of words based on their vocabulary, instating a formal grammar that differed from the 'vulgar' spoken commonly; and designing the words for maximum difficulty in pronunciation (for people who knew very few languages with unusual phonetic features).

Language tends to shift more quickly across generations, and the Eldritch have had very few of those since landing. Additionally, their populations are small and not breeding quickly. As a result, the language hasn’t undergone as much of the natural transformation that would have streamlined and broadened it into something more naturalistic.

===Eldren in the Alliance===

As part of the Veil and agreements with the [[Alliance]], only five people outside the Eldritch may learn Eldren: one master trainer and one interpreter (both [[Seersa]]) and three military personnel. [[Laniis Baker]] is one of those who has been permitted to learn the language. Anyone else who picks up any of the language accidentally must not spread it.<ref name="etw-1">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref>

==Known words and their meaning==
Muial, drama, <ref name ="Eldren Father"> Father's Honor, Kindle page 147 of 224</ref>
Shaval, triumph, <ref>Father's Honor, kindle page 154 of 224</ref?>

==Grammar==
===Word Formation and Pronunciation===
Eldritch is an aggressively agglutinating language: if it can make a word longer by grafting things onto it to add meaning, it will, and if that makes it harder for non-native speakers to pronounce anything without stumbling, so much the better. It’s also fond of vowels, and almost inevitably if you see an Eldritch word with more than one adjacent vowel, they’re pronounced separately. There are also no “silent” vowels (so Galare is not ‘Gah lahr’, but ‘gah lah reh’ or ‘gah lah rey’ depending on your regional accent). There are some cases where I’ve misspelled things, or I’ve continued to write out diphthongs instead of using diacritics, but for the most part if you pronounce every single letter you see in an Eldritch word separately, you’ll probably be doing it right.
===Phonemes===
* Accepted Consonants: p, b, t, d, k, g, f, v, th, s, z, sh, jz, h, ch, m, n, l, r, y.
* Accepted Vowel Sounds: ah, au, ae, eh, ii, ih, oo, oh, uh

===Color Modes===
Color modes are used to shade meaning in words. According to [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]], "so much insult could be given by changing a single syllable that it trained one to be careful with word choice."<ref name="etw-01">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref> There are three pairs and one neutral modes, used to inflect word meanings by means of a prefix:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;
|-
!Mode
!Prefix
!Emphasis
!Opposite
!Description
|-
| style = "background-color:#f2f2f2;" |gray
|''a''
|normal
| none
|style = "text-align: left; | the normal/neutral mode, and requires no modifiers. It has one, though, if one wants to be obvious about one’s neutrality.
|-
| style = "background-color:#d1d1e0;" | silver
|''ei''
|hopeful
|shadowed
|style = "text-align: left; | the positive, hopeful shading, not as certain of itself as gold
|-
| style = "background-color:#8585ad;" |shadowed
|''ie''
|negative, slightly
|silver
|style = "text-align: left; | gives negative (cynical, sarcastic, ironic, dreadful, foreboding, fearful, etc) connotations to words
|-
| style = "background-color:#ffbb33;" |gold
|''ue''
|joyful
|black
|style = "text-align: left; | the extreme positive end of the emotional spectrum, with the best assumed of everything
|-
| style = "color:#ffffff; background-color:#14141f;" |black
|''eu''
|dark
|gold
|style = "text-align: left; |gives violent, angry, dire, or morose connotations to words, and is the extreme negative end of the emotional spectrum
|-
| style = "background-color:#ffffff;" |white
|''io''
|holy
|crimson
|style = "text-align: left; | refers to things of the spirit, of higher motives and holy powers, things that are ephemera; often used for mind powers
|-
| style = "color:#ffffff; background-color:#b30000;" |crimson
|''oi''
|sensual
|white
|style = "text-align: left; | gives a suggestive, vulgar, earthy, worldly, or concrete turn to words
|}

In the spoken language, these moods are indicated with single-syllable prefixes; in the written, with colored ink. Color modes are carried into other formats, like music.

==Written Language / Orthography==
Eldren is written with standard Latin/English letters. 
In hand-written communication (between Eldritch) they use cursive, disguising the fact that it is the Latin alphabet since even before the proto-Eldritch left Earth cursive was falling out of common use. They use dip pens with steel(?) nibs. <ref>''Father's Honor'' some chapters</ref>
During the Veil, when writing on [[tablets]] to members of the Alliance, they used [[Universal]]. The few Seersa who were taught Eldren were not given any written material, so they took any notes themselves, presumably in Universal (or being Seersa, the successor to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet| International Phonetic Alphabet]?) 
Now that the Veil has dropped, and after the events of ''Father's Honor'', it can be assumed that cursive letter forms are going to be added into tablets as an option as Eldren is to be the language of the Naval Academy.

==Relationship Terms==
One of the most egregious points of failure in Eldren involves the vocabulary of family. The Eldritch didn’t think through the implications of their self-engineered longevity on fidelity and child-rearing. Even the first generation after landing, which lived about 500 years, wasn’t prepared for the issues that came up in families where the same couple might have children who are in completely different generations, and someone’s grandson might be older than their father’s brother. The problems were far more glaring than they were in humans, particularly amid the first generation which wasn’t yet having the fertility problems of later generations. The Eldritch had already generously decided they wanted to consider each generation a cohort, like a big ‘family’... which is where the custom of calling everyone in your generation ‘cousin’ comes from. But when they actually got down to the business of marrying, breeding, and rearing those future cohorts, they started running into age-related awkwardness. “One should like,” they said, “for one’s aunt to be both older and more worthy of deference due to her greater experience in life.”

Which is really what the Eldritch wanted. They wanted to use family relation labels as a shortcut for clarifying who is supposed to hush and listen to their elders, or betters. This is why Sediryl, who is genetically Liolesa’s cousin, decides eventually to call her ‘aunt': it’s an acknowledgment that Liolesa is due respect as an elder family member, no matter the actual genetic relationship.

Because it's useful to know who’s actually related to you or not, Eldritch use some modifiers, which is where we get things like ‘House-cousin,’ ‘near-cousin’, and ‘far-cousin.’ But even these are vague and poorly standardized. Prefacing a family-word with ‘House’ indicates you’re in the same House (a collection of families that have submitted to a single authority to which they are related either by blood or marriage, almost invariably a matriarch). ‘Near’- anything indicates blood-relation, and close consanguinity on top of that. ‘Far-cousin’ can mean either blood-relationship but distant consanguinity, or it can mean ‘member of the same generation’ or it can mean ‘person whose consanguinity I’m not sure of, except that we’re probably related.’ Plain ‘cousin’ could mean any of the above.

In plainest of terms, ‘aunt/uncle’ and ‘cousin’ are hazy terms more concerned with demarking generational divides, not with literal consanguinity. Unless, of course, it’s being used for the latter purpose.

===Examples: Sediryl, Fassiana, and Liolesa===
Having established that ‘aunt’ and ‘uncle’ are mostly generational terms of respect, we have to get to the ‘great-‘ appellation, which is a most often used as a marker of formality. Your aunt is someone you might see often and expect to have a personal relationship with. Your great-aunt, though, is someone of more power and position. Sediryl’s use of it for Fassiana, who is head of the northern branch of the Galare families, is a nod to Fassiana’s rank on top of the acknowledgment of Fassiana as coming from a prior generation. That later Sediryl decides to call Liolesa just ‘aunt’ is a form of intimacy.

One has to remember that geography plays a role in the perception of these relationships. Because traveling takes time on the Eldritch homeworld, it’s rare that someone might interact frequently with members of the older generation that are not part of the immediate family. Correspondence is popular, though, and this is where most of the ‘aunts’ and ‘uncles’ might find an opportunity to become more important role models and mentors to their younger family or House members.

The reverse is not always true, as an aside. Fassiana can call Sediryl ‘niece’ or ‘great-niece’ interchangeably. Some people might use ‘great-niece’ or ‘great-nephew’ as a way of putting the youngers in their place, but it’s rare. Personality in the case plays more of a part on whether the elder in the relationship observes the nuances.

===Examples: Jahir and Sediryl===
We learn in multiple novels that Jahir has been avoiding Sediryl because first-cousin marriages are considered anathema among the Eldritch… which gives one to wonder how they keep track, when the actual word can have so many meanings. Nevertheless, keeping track actually is important. The Eldritch population isn’t enormous, and the wealthy upper class is a slim minority of that already tiny number. In a culture without the technology to correct for genetic malformations, the stricture against close relations with close relations is practical. And the Eldritch do keep detailed family trees, and are obsessed with bloodline—within their immediate families. Most of them don’t care at all to track other Houses’ lineage with the same mania they do their own.

The stricture against cousin-marriage, then, is applied to cousins within the same House. Sediryl and Jahir’s problem, by Eldritch social standards, was not that they were first-cousins (though they are), but that they are both Galare, and worse, both from the western Galare families. Minimizing the complexity of genetic tracking to a simple tenet to marry outside your House keeps things easier—no need to look up the bloodlines—and helps maintain the alliances between politically like-minded Houses. One of the reasons there are any neutral Houses at all in the divide between Liolesa’s aggressive pro-outworld policies and Surela’s coterie of anti-Alliance Eldritch is that a neutral House can reasonably expect to entertain marriage proposals from both sides of the aisle; indeed, they must, and do their best to balance the number of attachments to each political group in order to keep from being perceived as a partisan. This is by no means easy, but by walking that line, they have access to a broader genepool… and because of that, it is a sad fact that the neutral Houses, on the whole, have more and healthier children. If Galare had not had secret access to reproductive technology, it might have eventually lost precedence as the ruling dynasty because of politically-induced inbreeding. That Galare’s enemies would also have crumbled would be little consolation, as the neutral Houses have spent so long avoiding any political temerity that they would be poorly positioned to save the species in the wake of the ‘extremists’ collapsing.

So, Sediryl and Jahir: both Galare, both from the same geographical area. The scandal is less the literal consanguinity and more the implied one (which in this case, correctly forecasts the genetic truth). Fortunately for them, they don’t have to worry about lack of modern gynecology/obstetrics.

==References==
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Liolesa Galare

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[[File:liolesa.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Liolesa Sketch]]

Empress of the [[Eldritch]] Empire. Head of the [[Galare (House)|Galare]], the imperial House.

Pronounced ''lee-OH-less-AH.''<ref name="etw-pg">"Pronunciation Guide," ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'' backmatter</ref>

==Physical Description==
Has tawny/light brownish-amber eyes. She shares the shape of her face and chin with [[Hirianthial]] and his brother Baniel. The combination (face shape and eyes) are reminiscent enough of [[Jerisa Galare|Jerisa]] that some of the older Eldritch approved of Maraesa's selection of her for heir based on the resemblance. <ref name="priv">Author's private notes</ref>

===Powers===
*see discussion for quotes about her powers
*Touching anyone, even briefly, makes her see how they fit into the Pattern, which makes her uncomfortable; she doesn't touch because (as often as not), she prefers not to start deciding where to slot people so they will best serve the Pattern. <ref name="fc-04" />
*"My talent comes and goes at its own pleasures, not mine." Liolesa said. "And I still have the responsibility of action when it leaves me bereft of counsel. One can not be paralyzed by the future's uncertainty, cousin... because the future is forever uncertain. That is our salvation, for otherwise we surely be hunted by insanity." <ref name="LioLass1"/> Laisrathera, Kindle page 313 of 388, 79%</ref>

==Nickname==
Liolessa is called Lia in the story [[Beacons (Fiction)|Beacons]]

==Biography==
===The Heir===
Liolesa was born before the Pelted were even engineered on Earth, and she was heir when [[Maraesa]] made the treaty with them. She was invested as the heir during a winter ceremony, and her vigil gatekeepers were her confessor from childhood, [[Tasisaressa Delen Galare | Elder Tasisaressa]]; and Hirianthial, who joined the [[Swords]] when Liolesa was selected by Maraesa as her heir. <ref name="mp-pv">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) | Major Pieces]]'', "Prophet's Vigil"</ref> (In what is perhaps a demonstration of what time does to memory, Hirianthial tells [[Reese]] at some point that Liolesa had been heir since birth. <ref name="rph-04" />) At the time, her chief concern was the growing class divide in the Eldritch population, between those who labored and those who ruled them... but during her vigil, she had a vision of a future that would ask far more of her than the oversight of the Eldritch's society. It was also during that vigil that her nascent talent for Pattern-sensing bloomed. <ref name="mp-pv" />

After she became heir, [[Maraesa]] sent her on several missions to the Alliance, acting as her ambassador. She also took multiple covert trips off-planet over a period of two centuries. Her cover for these trips was meditation retreats to the [[convents |Convent of Saint Wilthelmissa]]. Some of these trips involved helping others, as when she escorted [[Fassiana]] to the Alliance to find her help conceiving. (And also when she discovered she was infertile herself.<ref name="FC13">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) | Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 13</ref>) Some of those trips furthered her love affair with [[Pieter]] (a human geneticist). <ref name="RP3">''[[Rose Point (Fiction) | Rose Point]],'' Part Three</ref> Hirianthial, who was at the time the captain of her White Sword contingent, didn't know about these trips off-world.

She chose her personal emblem after her vigil: a white flower twining around a sword.<ref name="RP2">''[[Rose Point (Fiction) | Rose Point]],'' Part Two</ref>

===The Queen===
The moment she saw [[Fasianyl Mina Jisiensire]] enter her throneroom with [[Sellelvi]] at her side, she'd known that her people would one day include more than the Eldritch. <ref name="fc-04">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) | Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 4</ref>

It is not long after she's crowned that she ceases to use Hirianthial's milk name.

[[Maia]]'s hiring must have taken place around the 430s BA as her code date is listed at 430 BA. This feels off to me, though.

===The Empress===
Liolesa is over 600 years old and is of an age with [[Hirianthial]].<ref name="er-01">''[[Earthrise (Fiction) | Earthrise]]'', Part One</ref> Not long after he married, she began hoping that he and Laiselin would produce a daughter she could tap as heir, having begun to see errors in Bethsaida that would render her unsuitable.<ref name="priv">Author's private notes</ref> But Laiselin died in childbirth, and Hirianthial left the planet not long after. She gave him the work of discovering the whereabouts of the missing Eldritch (most of whom were taken by the slave trade). Six years prior to the misadventures that necessitated his rescue, Liolesa began cultivating merchants, including the human trader [[Reese Eddings]], sending her an encrypted message and enough money to rescue her from debt. <ref name="er-01" />

===Timeline===
All dates are best guess at this point, but will be treated as canonical unless some error crops up.
* Liolesa was born in 2289, 191 years after the Eldritch left Earth and 42 years after Maraesa took the throne.
* The Pelted were engineered on Earth 52 years after she was born, and the Pelted [[Exodus]] occurred 82 years after her birth, which made her a young lady at the time of their departure.
* Liolesa was 182 years old when the Alliance was formed.
* The Eldritch allied with the Pelted during Maraesa's reign, in 2549. Liolesa was 260 years old at that point, and already the heir.
* In 2551, when it became rumored that Eldritch were disappearing from the Alliance, she was 262 years old. The treaty with the Alliance was only 2 years old at that point, and the rumors weren't taken seriously; some Eldritch believed the disappearances were Eldritch giving up on the planet and choosing to go their own way.
* She was 322 years old when the Rapprochement took place in 2611, and 341 years old when the [[Treaty of Za'ara]] was signed between the Chatcaavan Empire and the Alliance.
* She was 365 years old in 2654 when Maraesa stepped down and she took the throne.
* At the point of the [[First Chatcaavan War]] in 481 BA, Liolesa is 663 years old.

==Family==
* Mother: [[Rylaniel Jesa Galare]]
* Father: Toltheniv Delen Galare
* Spouse: none
* Children: none
* Other family: Maraesa was Rylaniel’s sister. Rylaniel’s brother, [[Theval Jesa Galare|Theval Jesa]], married [[Sylfani Sarel Jisiensire]], and these were Hirianthial and Baniel’s parents. Liolesa’s other cousins, Maraesa’s two children, were Besinir Jesa (m) and Anariel Jesa (f)—the latter is the one who produced Bethsaida’s father.

==Quotes==
* "If we wait to act until we're certain, we will never act." <ref name="FC13"/>
* "One cannot be paralyzed by the future's uncertainty, cousin... because the future is forever uncertain. That is our salvation, for otherwise we would surely be hunted by insanity. We live too long, to also live without surprise." <ref name="lais-24">''[[Laisrathera (Fiction) | Laisrathera]]'', chapter 24</ref>
* "Go on, then, dear one. Let us put an end to this era in our history and move on to brighter days and better deeds." <ref name="lais-24">''[[Laisrathera (Fiction) | Laisrathera]]'', chapter 24</ref>
== Quotes illistrating her powers and limits ==
* "When I am mistaken, it is usually disastrous" (at least one story in Major Pieces, Patience (Fiction), also elsewhere)
*"And how many worlds did your civil war catapult into tumult?
"One, Liolesa said, "But unlike you, one is enough to serve us our extinction"
*"Not even her sense of the weave had hinted that what she'd needed done, what she'd hoped she would earn with his sacrifice, would be accomplished in such a fashion.
*"That there might be occasional surprises in their life struck her as a blessing." -- Major Pieces, Patience (Fiction)
*" Her single sops to the political necessities were Hirianthial and one of Delerenenard's legal secretaries, and of those she brought the one more because of the Pattern than any need to present a powerful front to her allies. She'd known that Hieranthial's services as a surgeon would be called for--had suspected, feeling it, that it was Sediryl's wyrd to return a chastened woman bot one who would survive with the right elements in attendance. Liolesa had taken care to ensure that they were, and having done so, felt no concern."
* There is a quote that impliesFasianyl Mina that Liolesa will live for at least a thousand years, and maybe millennia. It is from her Virgil.

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==The waiting Cradle:==

===Quotes about her===
* "When our Empress keeps a secret, the only people who learn about it are the goddess and herself." (Fassiana, in ''Healer's Wedding'', chapter 5)
* "This from the woman who took the sword as her personal emblem in defiance of the customs that mandated hat a woman should bear the seal and shield alone?" Laisrathera p 297, 75%, chapter 23
* (some quotes are about humor, some about a point needed, some about information. This one because, being unexpected, I found humorous:) So, he does. Prithee, marry him directly, and do not wait." To say who she said it to would be spoiler. Laisrathera, page 305

==Trivia==
* During the Solstice Vigil, Liolesa received toys from [[Bryer]], [[Irine]], [[Sascha]], and [[Kis'eh't]] - a ball of goo that always bounced back to shape, no matter how hard it was thrown, smashed, or torn; a sliding metal puzzle; a bead that projected a starfield; a pocket sized board that could be used to play four different games; and a palm sized palomino horse plush. From [[Hirianthial]], she received a Book of Hours from the [[Convents |Convent of Saint Wilthelmissa]] and from [[Reese]], a pouch hammock of pastel cords with a matching blanket of pale yellow and pillows of white and cloud blue. <ref name="rph-04">''[[A Rose Point Holiday (Fiction) |A Rose Point Holiday]]'', Chapter 4</ref>
* likes almond liqueur
* does not admit people to her private morning time until she likes them, and doesn't stand on formality during that period <ref name="fc-04" />
* has a health scan "every century or so" <ref name="FC13"/>
* had conversations with [[Hirianthial]], before she was chosen as Heir, about whether "there was any use plundering what was left of the ship for parts to make their lives more tenable, and if there was anything left worth scavenging"<ref name="mp-pv">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) | Major Pieces]]'', "Prophet's Vigil"</ref>
* When Liolesa wants to disarm her enemies, she wears a perfume involving ambergris and thorn marten musk. <ref name="er-01" />

===Body Language===
*is capable of ridiculous feats of bodily self-control (to the point of her pupils not changing size). Lets her guard down around people she knows and likes, though. <ref name="FC13"/>

==References==
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Inu-case

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Colony world where [[Hirianthial]] was being held prisoner when [[Liolesa]] sent [[Reese]] to rescue him. Located in [[Sector Andeka]]. Gravity heavier than Earth. The solar system has an asteroid belt.

Has location "Nurera (a city), Bath-Etu".

It is 11 days (normally 16 but the [[TMS Earthrise]]'s engines were retrofitted 6 years ago) from [[Starbase Fos]] to Inu-Case (through [[Crown (Zone) |Sector Epta]] and most of [[Sector Andeka]]). <ref name="er-01">''[[Earthrise (Fiction) | Earthrise]]'', Part One</ref>

The nearest starbase to Inu-case is [[Starbase Kappa |Kappa]], normally 6 hours away, but the [[TMS Earthrise]] does it in 4 hours by redlining the Well drive the whole way. <ref name="er-01" />

22 hr day

Has sheep as only trade item

And is colder than Earthrise Cargo Bay but not as cold as Earthrise Engineering

== Quotes ==
(Narritive)(Reese) Fresh warm air, redolent with spices and the scent of fecund soil and sun warmed incense--Reese shuddered. She's been born to the recirculated air on Mars.

==References==
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Earthrise

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Saul Ferry

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The Hinichi who served as the Kesh's assistant on [[Kerayle]] in the novel ''Rose Point''.

==Appearance and Personality==
His coat was an awkward patchwork of ginger and red and gray; his eyes a brown unremarkable in color, but comfortable, and comforting. In build, lanky, and probably stronger than he looked, but he didn’t move with the grace of an Eldritch or the power and confidence of the typical Hinichi male.

He was… just a man. An average-looking man, unthreatening.<ref name="call">''[[In the Court of Dragons (Fiction) |In the Court of Dragons]]'', "The Calling"</ref>

==Biography==
Born on the planet of Covenant, which is the oldest [[Hinichi]] colony; he has family on [[Hinichitii]], however, and grew up traveling between the planets.

We first see him during ''[[Rose Point (Fiction) |Rose Point]]'', on [[Kerayle]], where he says he ended up because he wanted some time away from Alliance culture, so he could just be himself, rather than part of some group -- "the token Christian, the token Pelted, the token loyal, honorable and stoic wolfine." (He admits, though, that he's still all of those things.) <ref name="rp-01">''[[Rose Point (Fiction) |Rose Point]]'', Part One: Blood</ref> He was injured when the Rekesh's raiding party stole Hirianthial and the stallion Kumiss.

He later accepted Reese's offer of employment: "I'll miss Kerayle, but... they've got too many things to work out there, and I'm tired of sitting on the sidelines while they do it." He said, also, "Maybe in a year or two they'll have figured things out, and I can go back."<ref name="call" />

* Mechanic
* Security training (significant)
* Yes, Christian (Hinichi flavor) <ref name="call" />

===Family===
On Covenant:
* Parents Leah and Jesse Ferry
* Younger sister (12 years younger): Miriam
* Aunt (father's sister) and uncle: Abilene and Rufus, and their children Nathan, Zachariah, and Jordan (f)

On Hinichitii:
* Aunt (mother's sister) and uncle: Hannah and Silas Tober (they had six children)
* Fond of cousin Thaddeus, Hannah's eldest son

===Timeline===
* Was assigned to Surela in late spring (probably) of 481 BA.

==Quotes==
* "Do they have to be bought to be worth something?" (In response to a question about who would buy horses)<ref name="rp-01" />

* "And now you’re about to ask what I’m doing here. And the answer is . . . maybe some of us are tired of the Alliance culture too. Starting somewhere fresh, somewhere a little less . . . connected . . . to everything else . . . it’s nice to deal with local issues. Not to have to worry about intergalactic politics when making decisions that you’d think would only affect yourself. It’s nice to just be yourself, and not some group."<ref name="rp-01" />

* "I might have wandered far from home. And I might have had my own doubts, and my own dark nights of the soul. But it's amazing how a cry for help clarifies things." <ref name="call" />

==Trivia==
* Likes horses, and can take care of them/ride them.<ref name="rp-01" /> When he takes Hirianthial for a ride on the Kesh's horses, he observes that Hirianthial doesn't ride like an amateur, and guesses that the Eldritch is 'older than my great-grandparents' and has probably been riding longer than Saul's been alive.
* Wears a cross <ref name="call" />

==References==
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Liliarana Delen Galare

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Lili, [[Sediryl Nuera Galare | Sediryl's]] cousin. The Heir to the Northern Galares.

==Physical Characteristics==

==Biography==
Pretends to be a featherhead, but is in actuality a very canny observer and analyst of local politics. She was always smart and hiding it (with her mother's subtle help), but she lacked ambition, and wasn't very interested in the outworld. Her entire goal in the beginning was to play a game: 'can I make everyone at court like me, and dismiss me as non-threatening.' The coup at Ontine, however, changed her dramatically, made her far more interested in politics and in doing something with her intellect. (This is foreshadowed in ''[[Girl on Fire (Fiction) |Girl on Fire]]'' when [[Fassiana]] observes of her, "One has two choices: play dumb, or be ruthless. And my daughter doesn't have a ruthless bone in her body, alas. Not yet, anyway.")<ref name="gof-27">''[[Girl on Fire (Fiction) |Girl on Fire]]'', chapter 27</ref>

She's looking forward to turning her eye toward a broader stage because Eldritch internal politics has become too predictable to her. <ref name="fc-04">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', chapter 4</ref>

==Quotes==
* "Why would I want an intelligent man, when an intelligent man would be depressed and restive as my husband? You know as well as I do how little men are allowed to turn their hands to when they marry someone of our rank." <ref name="gof-27" />

* "I can't blame you for believing the mask when I wore it intending to fool you. I didn't want to, you understand, but... you would have cleaved to me had you seen through it, and then no one would have believed it. You never suffered fools, Sediryl." <ref name="hw-07">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'', chapter 7</ref>

* "I find ordinary triumphs and tragedies more poignant now that I understand that losing a mother, or a home, is horror enough without dressing it up in angst and ribbons. So perhaps, at last, we understand each other a little better than we might have, those years ago when first we walked Ontine together."<ref name="hw-07" />

* "No one comes of age in this court without learning to act as if one is observed at all times. And our servants are ubiquitous, and see to our every need. I have been surrounded by listening ears and watching eyes all my life."<ref name="hw-07" />

* "She owes me some largess after thinking me a feather-head for so long. Or at least, she believes she does and I am willing to trade on that to protect us." <ref name="hw-17">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) | Healer's Wedding]],'' Chapter 17</ref>

* "It was real when so much of what we do is not. And it stripped away all pretense and forced us to look at the truth… which is that most of us could not make good on anything we claim. Women professing to power, who cannot feed their tenants or make a baby stay in their wombs. Men boasting of strength, who cannot kill and shy from bloodshed. Lord [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]] never played our game. He didn’t respect our rules… or… no. He did, but they were the rules we have long since stopped believing in. He forced us to confront our hypocrisy. It did not go over well." <ref name="fc-01">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', chapter 1</ref>

* "I never overindu--cousin, really! You want me to... to what, exactly? Fly around with you across the country, handing chickens to the impoverished?"
:"Yes?"
:Lili paused. "I have never picked up a chicken."
:"Have you even seen one?"
:A long pause. "I have seen a duck?"
:"Close enough," Sediryl said. <ref name="fc-01" />

* "I will weed with you, cousin, and even find it satisfying. But not in trousers." <ref name="fc-06">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', chapter 6</ref>

==Trivia==
* loves romances
* speaks Universal naturally, because she is a Galare, cousin! <ref name="hw-07" />
* has earrings that let her communicate with [[Maia]] <ref name="fc-01" />
* reminds herself not to frown or grimace, sometimes by touching her face <ref name="fc-04" />
* her favorite tarts are apple<ref name="fc-04" />

===Names===
* calls her mother "Mama" <ref name="hw-07" />
* calls Sediryl "cousin" <ref name="hw-07" /><ref name="fc-01" /><ref name="fc-06" />

* nearly everyone calls her "Lili", although Sediryl sometimes uses "cousin", and there's the occasional "lady Lili" from Maia <ref name="fc-20">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', chapter 20</ref>

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