Lexicon:Modern/epifeil

epifeil
Stage	Modern CLT
Pronunciation	/ˈe.pi.feɪl/
Part of speech	Noun
Etymology	from Middle ēpikfēl, from Proto epikfeil; middle syllable lost through frequency of use
Related words	craeshwy, choepei

epifeil — a failure so total and so public that it passes out of shame into story.

Notes

Distinguished from an ordinary disaster by the telling. An eipikfeil is a thing that gets recounted, usually by the person it happened to, and the recounting is the point — a man who can tell his own eipikfeil well has recovered from it. In Stormharbor the best of them enter the Skald repertoire and outlive everyone involved.