Heart of the Staff: Complete Appendix

by Carol Marrs Phipps & Tom Phipps

particularly the female known as Longbark, are claimed to possess a magical intelligence which the Fairies regard highly. A number of wizard's staves and rods have been made from Longbark's branches, including the Great Staff of Power. The Fairies make a slightly bitter tea from their leaves which is similar to yerba mate, except that its alkaloid concentration is four to five times as strong as that of mate and must be drunk with milk. The Fairies also make bread which can be kneaded from a glutinous flour made from its acorns.

  every - everych (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  every bit - everydel (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  everyone, every one - everych oon (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  evil - evyl (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  Evil Rod (Great Staff of Power) - Olc Slat (Goblish-Beakish).

  Evil Shaft (Great Staff of Power) - Drok-Palather (Gwaelic).

  evil spirit - gnydy n. (trollish).

  example - exemple (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  exceed - exceden 3rd pers. pl. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  exceeding(ly) - excedynge (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  except - save (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  exceptional - excepciounal (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  excrement, shit - kaoc'h n. (Headlandish).

  excrements - kaoc'hiou n. pl. (Headlandish).

  Excrement of a black dog! - Kaoc'h ki du! (Headlandish).

  Excrement of a blue dog! - Kaoc'h ki glas! (Headlandish).

  Excuse me, please! - Digarezit ac'hanon mar plij. (Headlandish).

  Extended Council (of the Circle) - the Council of the dragons expanded at the New Dragon Caves to include Elves and Humans.

  eyas - a hawk which has been freshly brought from the nest.

  eye - fnanar n. (trollish).

  eye - yhe (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  eye - llygad (Old Niarg Standard).

  eyes - eyn (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  eyes - sulacha n. (Jutish Elven and Old Gwaelic Elven).

  fail - fayle 1st pers. sing., 2nd pers. sing., 3rd pers. sing. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fail - faylen 3rd pers. sing. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  failed - yfayled (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  failing - faylynge (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  failure - fayle n. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fair - fayr a. (Archaic Modern Niarg) - fair.

  Fairies - Homo sapiens viridihirsutensis R. a race of humans indigenous to the primeval oak forests of Fairy Valley and to the lands which became the Chokewoods under Razzorbauch's enchantment, characterized by alabaster-white skin, eyes with emerald green irises, pointed ears and brilliant green hair that has metallic iridescence in sunlight and which develops bright yellow streaks with advancing age much as the hair of other races turns grey or white. They are, like their Elven cousins, highly intuitive and predisposed to magical abilities. However, their attunement with their surroundings far exceeds that of the Elves and has become a specialized involvement with the green world, particularly with oak trees. Barring accidents, they are immortal.

  Fairy ring oilbird - Steatornis mycocyclo-speleoecetes R., a distant relative of nightjars which lives in the vast caverns beneath the fairy rings, living on spoilt fruit and raising three to four pairs of squabs a year on the rocky ledges of the cave walls. Though the Fairies who live below the mushroom rings keep their caverns well lit by the deliberate cultivation of glow lichen, the oilbirds are able to navigate in total darkness using low frequency echolocation in the form of audible clicking. They are so named due to the Fairies' habit of extracting a medicinal oil from the fat of the squabs which smells like scorched rubber and induces astonishingly rapid healing of wounds, particularly burns.

  Fairy - Ffairye n. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  falconry - shawkeyrys n. (Gwaelic Elven).

  falcons - faucones n. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  family - ken (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fang - fonge (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fangs - fonges (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  far - fer (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  farewell, bye - farwel (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  Farewell! - Farwell! (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fart - rhechen n. f. (Old Niarg Standard).

  fart - rhechu v. (Old Niarg Standard)

  fart - trefnifyrd n. (trollish).

  farter - brammer (Headlandish).

  farting - scaoil broim asat (Jutish Elven and Old Gwaelic Elven).

  farting - fartyng (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fates - destenkys (Gwaelic).

  fat head - pyrdsystnyn nipsnaf n. (trollish)

  father - athair (Jutish Elven and Old Gwaelic Elven).

  father - fader (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  Fatherland - Mammvro n. (Headlandish) (dragon reference to their homeland on the Dark Continent).

  fat hole - veyfnafan nipsnaf n. (trollish).

  favor - favore (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  favored - favorede (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  favorite - favour n. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fawn, suck up - vyfjapf v. (trollish).

  fear - bygwl n. (Old Niarg Standard).

  fear - fere n. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fear - fere 1st pers. sing. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fear - feren 1st pers. pl., 3rd. pers. pl. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fear - yferen 1st pers. pl. perf. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  feast - feste (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  feathers - fetheres (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fed - fedd 1st pers. pl. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fed - yfed p. pple. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  feed (to feed) - feden inf. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  feed - fedist 2nd pers. sing. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  feeding (of feeding) - fedyng, fedynge (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  feel - feele (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  feel - yfele perf. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  feels - feleth 3rd pers. sing. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fellow - felawe (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fetch - fechyn inf. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  few - fewe (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fiddlesticks - fithel stikkes (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  Fie! - Fy! (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fiend - feende (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fiendly - feendly (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fiery nightshade - Solanum igneus R., a foot tall annual herbaceous nettle of the dry washes of the Northern Continent's Black Desert, with inch diameter red tomato- like fruits which are enveloped by tomateo-like husks. The fruits contain such concentrations of oxalic acid that prolonged exposure to the pulp of such fruits will blister the hands of those foolish enough to handle it unprotected. In the past few years, it has begun showing up as a weed in vegetable gardens around the town of Niarg, well up the coast from the Black desert.

  fight - ymladd n. m. (Old Niarg Standard).

  (To) fight against evil...To fight for Niarg...To fight for virtue, Knight! - Ymladd yn erbyn drwg...Ymladd dros Niarg...Ymladd dros rhinwedd, Marchog! (Old Niarg Standard).

  fill (to fill) - fille inf. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  filth - gyrn n. (trollish).

  filthy - brwnt (Old Niarg Standard).

  filthy pigs - moch budur (Old Niarg Standard).

  final - fynal (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  finally - fynaly (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  find - fynde n. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  find - fynde 1st pers. sing. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  find (to find) - fynden inf. (before consonants) (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  find (to find) - fynt inf. (before vowels) (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  find (will find) - yfynden 3rd pers. sing. fut. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  find - yfynde 1st pers. sing. perf. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  find - yfyndest 2nd pers. sing. perf. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  finds - fyndeth 3rd pers. sing. (before h) (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  finds -
fynt 3rd pers. sing. (before a) (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fine - fyn (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  finish - fenysch(e) (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fire - fyr n. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fire-head - penn-tan (Headlandish).

  fire head dragons - dragons with red feathered crests, living further inland on the Dark Continent than the turquoise crested dragons of the Mammvro which were made featherless and turned into beasts of burden by Razzorbauch.

  fire scorpions - Centruroides lucidis R., a highly luminescent and venomous scorpion of the Black Desert of the Northern Continent whose melanin has been replaced by luciferin, the light producing pigment in fireflies. Sightings of these are claimed by the Fairies to fortell events of great consequence.

  Fire Sprites - Homo sapiens luciferestris R. a diminutive and highly luminescent human whose melanin has been replaced by luciferin, the light producing pigment in fireflies. Fire Sprites glow with such intensity that many who have gotten fleeting glimpses of them have mistakenly reckoned them to be engulfed in flames, though in daylight their skin is an almost translucent alabaster white. They inhabit the utterly lightless lava tubes of the volcanic formations in the Eternal Mountains of the Eastern Continent. They communicate with one another and with other races of humans almost exclusively with thought projection and extra sensory perception (ESP), reserving their arcane and mysterious language for their singing of eerie aeolian chorals in the echoes of their caverns.

  first - arrdsey (trollish).

  first - ffirst (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  first fruit - primycies (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  Firstfather - Arrdseyphnyrpheyfne (trollish).

  Firstmother - Arrdseyphnyrma (trollish).

  fish - fissh, fyssh n. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fisherman - eeasteyr (Gwaelic Elven).

  fisherman - pyscador (Gwaelic).

  fisherman - pysgotwr n. (Old Niarg Standard).

  fishermen - eeasteyryn (Gwaelic Elven).

  fishermen - pyscadoryon (Gwaelic).

  fish market - margey eeast (Gwaelic Elven).

  fish market - marghas puskes (Gwaelic).

  five - fyve (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  flame - flaumbe n. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  flat - snyrfuynipryoyayi (trollish).

  flatulence - fnadsa nafarjor n. (trollish).

  Flatulence without noise or force is pointless, you excrement of a blue dog! - Bramm hep trouz na c'hwezh a zo labour difrouez, Kaoc'h ki glas! (Headlandish).

  flee - fleen inf. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fled - yfled (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fled - ffleden 3rd pl. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  flesh - flessh (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fling (to fling) - flyng, flynge inf. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fling - taflu v. (Old Niarg Standard).

  flippin' door - dor c'hoarier koukou (Headlandish).

  Flippin' tarnation! - Kurun c'hoarier koukou! (Headlandish).

  flour - floure, flowre (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fly (to fly) - fleen inf. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fly - hedfan vn. (Old Niarg Standard).

  foe - foo n. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  folks - folkes n. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  follow - followe 1st pers. sing. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  follows - folweth 3rd pers. sing. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  following - folwynge 3rd pers. sing. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  follow me - phnyrsifndyrija (trollish).

  fool - dyyp n. (trollish).

  fool - foole (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fools - moal-hushtagh n. (Gwaelic Elven).

  foot - fote n. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  forbidden - arabat a. (Headlandish).

  forbidden - yn gwahardd (Old Niarg Standard).

  forest - fforest n. f. (Old Niarg Standard).

  forest - koadeg n. f. (Headlandish).

  forest, the - ar goadeg n. f. (Headlandish).

  forests - fforydd n. f. (Old Niarg Standard).

  forests - koadegi n., also, koadegou n. (Headlandish).

  forests, the - ar c'hoadegi n. (Headlandish).

  foretell - fortellen (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  forever - for evere (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  forget (to forget) - forget, foryet inf. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  forget - forgeten 3rd pers. pl. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  forgive - for-yeve (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  (you) forgive - forgiff thou (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  forgiven - foryeven (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  forgot - forgat 1st sing., 3rd sing. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fork (hay, manure, potato) - fforch (Old Niarg Standard).

  forthright - forth-right (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  found - fond 3rd pers. sing. (before vowels) (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  found - fonde 3rd pers. sing. (before consonants) (Archaic Modern Niarg)

  found - founde (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  found - fownde (han ben fownde) 3rd pers. pl. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  found - yfounde perf. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fountain - ffynnon n. (Old Niarg Standard).

  free (to free) - fre inf. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  freed - freeden 1st pers. pl., 3rd pers. pl. (Archaic Modern Niarg)

  freedom - rhyddid n. m. (Old Niarg Standard)

  fresh - fresshe (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  friend - cara n. (Jutish Elven and Old Gwaelic Elven).

  friend - carrey a. (Gwaelic Elven).

  friend - frend (before vowels), frende (before consonants) n. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  friends - frendes (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  friendship - frendshipe (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fringed maidenhair - Ginkgo fimbriflabella R., is a deciduous gymnosperm that lives in waste and burnt over areas where woods meets grassland. It seldom grows taller than 35 to forty feet. Its leaves are deeply lobed with closely spaced fingers, scarcely broader than one mm, giving the tree its name. Its wood is almost white and very soft, and it seldom lives more than 65 to 75 years. Along with plums, crabapples and hawthorns, it is amongst the first woody species of trees to invade after a section of forest is completely burnt off by fire.

  from - from, fro (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fruit - fruyt (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fucking - 'hoari koukou (Headlandish).

  fucking - swyving a. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  furlong - 220 yards, 1/8th mile.

  full - ful (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  fully - ful (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  gallop - lhigey (Gwaelic Elven).

  game - fadayyrrphif n. (trollish).

  garden - gardyn n. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  gardens - gerddi n., pl. (Old Niarg Standard).

  gasping - gaspynge (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  Gastron's Staff of Power - the Great Staff of Power.

  gather - gader, gadere 2nd pers. pl. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  gather (to gather) - gaderen inf. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  gathered - gadered, gaderyd, gadrede (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  gave - yave, yavest 2nd pers. sing. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  gave - ygeve (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  gave - had yiven 3rd sing. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  gentle trot - drid bog (Gwaelic Elven).

  get - geeten 3rd pers. pl. fut. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  get - gete 2nd pers. sing., 2nd pers. pl., 3rd pers. pl. fut. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  get - geten 3rd pers. sing. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  get - geten, gete inf. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  get - offspring, decendants, a child (Middle English).

  gets - get, gettes 3rd pers. sing. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  ghost - bwg n. (Old Niarg Standard).

  ghost - gnydy n. (trollish).

  giant - foawragh a. (Gwaelic Elven).

  giants
- Gigantopithecus blacki R., also known as howlers or howlies or tall men, gigantic secretive nocturnal hominids that walk upright and live just below the tree line of the Sunset Mountains and in other isolated areas of the Northern Continent. Males range from eight to ten feet tall and can weigh more than eleven hundred pounds. Females range from seven to eight and a half feet tall and weigh half that of the males. Both sexes are entirely covered with a shaggy, nearly black dark brown hair, except for the palms of their hands, the soles of their feet and the forehead and cheeks of the males, and the entire faces of females. The irises of their eyes can be brown or bright blue, whilst the whites of their eyes are black. Their faces are broad and flat in a manner suggestive of the orangutan. Their jaws are V- shaped like those of humans, allowing a bipedal upright carriage of the skull, setting them apart from the great apes. Their molars are far heavier in proportion than those of humans, making them able to masticate whole nuts and other roughage impossible for humans to chew. Their jaw muscles cover the sides of their heads and are anchored to a prominent boney sagittal crest running along the top of their skulls, rather than merely being anchored around the temples as in modern humans. Not only do they walk fully erect in the manner that we do, but their leg bones are similarly proportioned to ours and their toes point forward and are not used for grasping as in the great apes. Additionally, their hands have the prominent thumbs of human hands, further setting them apart from the apes. And whilst their arms are enough longer in proportion to their bodies than humans' to suggest those of the great apes, they are not long enough to facilitate their knuckle walking quad-ambulation. Both sexes produce an intensely musky pungence that hangs in the air after their passage. It is claimed that the sex of the individual who released a given odor can be reliably determined by human observers who have been around them long enough to become familiar with the creatures. It is not known whether they have voluntary control over the scent. The females ovulate every twenty-eight days like humans rather than having a seasonal estrus as do the apes, and they form life long pair bonds. It is evident that the young are dependent upon their parents throughout their development and take a long time to reach maturity, though just what that length of time happens to be is unknown. They seem not to have a verbal language, though they utter groans and much grunting in close proximity to other individuals, and they make loud long wails (described as hair raising) which can be heard for miles on still nights. What they do have instead of speech is an astonishing and articulate system of sign language, able to ask questions and to convey detail about specific conditions and entities removed in space and time. They also scratch hieroglyphs and crude drawings in the dirt and on rocks and tree trunks. Though they never have been known to shape stone tools, they are quite handy at using un-worked stones and well chosen sticks as tools. They have never been known to use fire. However they have the incessant habit of stripping fibers from all sorts of plants and scattering about occasional twists of them where they have been. They also tie up bundles of such fibers into pallets and effigies which observers captured by them have seen being used as dolls for the female young.

  giant - gyaunte (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  giant - jyant (Gwaelic).

  giant lyoth - see lyoth.

  giant's - jyanty (Gwaelic).

  giant wellness plant - slanaghey foawragh (Gwaelic Elven).

  gift - yifte n. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  girl - merch (Old Niarg Standard).

  girl - merc'h (Headlandish).

  give - yefst 2nd sing. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  give - yevest 2nd pers. sing. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  give - yeveth, yeve 2nd pers. pl. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  give - yive 1st pers. sing. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  give - yive 1st pl., 2nd pl., 3rd pl. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  give (to give) - yive, yiffe inf. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  give birth - fnadiphnigyd v. (trollish).

  given - yiven past pple. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  giver - gyvere n. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  gives - gyveth 3rd sing. (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  giving - yeving (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  glamourie - a spell that changes the appearance of the one upon whom the spell is cast.

  glee - gle, glee, glewe (Archaic Modern Niarg).

  glow lichen - Cladonia antrolucidus R., a close relative of the reindeer lichen