Lexicon:Modern/Brosdhun

Brosdhun
Stage	Modern CLT
Pronunciation	/ˈbɾos.ðun/
Part of speech	Noun
Etymology	from Brosdh; the second element is no longer construed
Related words	Brosdh, Dorath, Kelva

Brosdhun — the mine line of the Brosdh. Bred small and short in the leg to work a low gallery.

Notes

A working line rather than a separate animal. Smaller than the surface sort by half, wider in the shoulder, and calm in the dark to a degree that has been deliberately bred for over centuries. It hauls the ore carts from the face to the shaft and back. It lives below and is brought up rarely, and a Brosdhun that has worked a seam for years goes half-blind and continues working, since the gallery it knows requires very little seeing. Miners are sentimental about them in a way carters are not about a surface Brosdh. They are named, fed by hand, and a pit that loses one has a poor week. What happens to a Brosdhun when the seam is worked out is a thing miners do not much like discussing.