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• 15:30, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page File:Navy war.png
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• 15:30, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Naval Warfare (Created page with "right|thumb|300x300px|An engagement opens at eight hundred yards. It may be decided before anyone thinks of closing. War at sea in Teraell: rifled cannon, clockwork rigging, a living colony in the hold, and the question of why anyone still boards. == Vessels == See Vessels of Teraell for the four classes and the pirate hull. == Clockwork at sea == ; Rifled naval cannon : Effective aimed fire at eight hundred to twelve hundred yard...") Tag: Visual edit
• 15:21, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Retreat (Created page with "The Oathbond produces specific attitudes toward withdrawal, and they vary sharply with context. ; Tactical withdrawal during an offensive : Acceptable and expected. You chose the fight, your city is not under threat, and preserving your army preserves your people. A general who retreats intelligently has shown good leadership; the obligation to protect your own people's lives overrides the abstraction of battlefield honor. ; Tactical defensive retreat :...") Tag: Visual edit
• 15:20, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Siege (Created page with "When a campaign reaches the city walls the character of warfare changes completely. Rifled accuracy makes defense extraordinarily powerful: defenders behind walls pick off attackers at three to five hundred yards, and direct assault is suicidal. ; Starvation and supply cutting : Sieges are usually decided this way. Surround the city, cut the supply lines, wait. Time works against the besieger, whose army degrades in the field. ; Formal approaches : Trenches dug progress...") Tag: Visual edit
• 15:20, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Armies of the City-States (Created page with "Six cities, six armies, and each is its city in arms. == Shining Reach == A professional standing army with a ''Foelkhaer'' (militia) behind it: precise coordinated open order, individual marksmanship, sophisticated small-unit work, and an aesthetic of movement that feels almost like choreography. Officers are career professionals and a commission is prestigious. A ''Servaeth'' is a man with a checkable fact in hi...") Tag: Visual edit
• 15:20, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Land Warfare (Created page with "{{Bible|section=6.1}} How armies fight on the ground in Teraell, now that the Skaerflint kills at three to five hundred yards. == Infantry == Dispersed open order is universal. Soldiers use terrain and advance by bounds, one group covering while the other moves; they engage at long range with individual aimed fire and coordinate in small tight units rather than large formations. The '''''Roeta''''' is the basic tactical body everywhere...")
• 15:19, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page File:Longmuzzelclockworkgun.png
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• 15:15, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Skaerflint (Created page with "{{Bible|section=6.1}} thumb|right|300px|A Forgegate-locked Skaerflint. The lock is the difference. The '''Skaerflint''' is the standard weapon of every military in the Known World, made by every city that has smiths. Nobody arms soldiers entirely from a foreign supplier and no one sane would. Forgegate's are better than most, and the difference is the lock: a mechanism that takes precision the other cities can match with effort but not at Forg...") Tag: Visual edit
• 15:14, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page File:Clearhldarmy.png
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• 15:02, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Warfare and Law (Created page with "right|thumb|300x300px|A Roeta advancing by bounds. One element shoots while another loads and watches. How Teraell fights, and why it mostly doesn't. Six city-states, none of which can conquer another: a world that has seen its share of wars and never a world war. The Pact of Reason sends disputes between cities to arbitration; what remains is piracy, the Frontier, the feud and the duel, and the standing armies and...") Tag: Visual edit
• 14:25, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Wild Animals of the Frontier (Created page with "What lives in the forests and jungles outside the walls is not all deadly. This list is shorter than it should be, for two reasons: nine centuries of surviving engineered predators has hollowed out the natural world, leaving what is small, fast, flies, or lives close to people and beneath the notice of the big killers; and recording the wild is rarely done, because doing so is dangerous. There may be species surviving that nobody has documented. What is noticeable about...")
• 14:25, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Vermin (Created page with "; Chirska : The small vermin of granaries, stores, and walls, and the most common pest in the world: small, quick, prolific, into everything, defeating every trap, breeding faster than anyone can kill it. Every household deals with it, every store budgets for it, every city is haunted by it. It is the reason Neska are kept. ''Chirk'' is the thin scratching squeak a Chirska makes inside a wall — the warning before the damage — and a person who says they heard chir...")
• 14:24, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Pets and House Animals (Created page with " ''Beira'' is the word for a pet — an animal kept for company rather than work. A Vennek is never called one; asleep by the fire it is still thought to be working. ; Gyrska : The household and ship line of the Neska, and probably the most common pet in the world. See Neska#The Gyrska. ; Household Wysk : Kept everywhere — inquisitive, chatty, standing on anything that will hold them and investigating anything that moves, greeting the household's return wi...")
• 14:24, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page File:Kravoen hunted.png
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• 14:19, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Kravoen (Created page with "{{Infobox creature|name=Kravoen|image=Kravoen_hunt.jpg|caption=A boat at the line. The hunt begins when someone says ''closer''.|gloss=whale|role=Hunted|habitat=The northern seas; the Waedhra grounds|size=About twenty-five Streid (eighty feet); the weight of a small ship|kept=Wild; hunted by Stormharbor|danger=Does not seek out vessels; once crossed, does not stop until it or the attacker is dead|used_for=Kravoe — the oil every clockwork in the world runs on; meat and...") Tags: Recreated Visual edit
• 14:19, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Fraeska (Created page with "{{Infobox creature|name=Fraeska|gloss=reef colony (a living desalinator)|role=Food|habitat=A circulated tank in the hold of every ocean-going ship|kept=Kept; colonies are split from a parent stock, never raised from nothing|used_for=Taking the salt out of seawater|lexicon=Fraeska}}The '''Fraeska''' is a reef animal kept aboard ships in a circulated tank to take the salt out of seawater. Seawater is pumped in and kept moving past the colony; the animals consume the salt a...") Tag: Visual edit
• 14:19, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Serwy (Created page with "{{Infobox creature|name=Serwy|gloss=silkworm|role=Food|habitat=Racks in residential buildings in Clearhold, and nowhere else|kept=Kept|used_for=Shilkra — the finest fiber in the world|cities=Clearhold|lexicon=Serwy}}A small insect kept for the thread of the cocoon it spins, which is '''Shilkra'''. It is raised indoors on racks in residential buildings in Clearhold and nowhere else. Raising Serwy is slow and exacting: the temperature must be perfect, the feed ju...") Tag: Visual edit
• 14:18, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Nywich (Created page with "{{Bible|section=4.4}} {{Infobox creature | name = Nywich | gloss = bee | role = Food | habitat = Every agricultural ring in the world | size = About half again the size of a honeybee | kept = Kept; engineered | used_for = Pollination; Nyona (honey); Skoerd | cities = All; Stormharbor · Forgegate · Eldershore | lexicon = Nywich }} A small pollinating insect about half again the size of a honeybee, broad-bodied, calm, and hardy across t...")
• 14:18, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Eledh (Created page with "A lean long-legged riding animal five feet at the shoulder in side view, short dense dappled dark brown-gray coat, lower legs shading into rough scaled texture, narrow angular head with forward-set eyes, two swept-back bony protrusions above the eyes, a line of small bone nodules running down the neck, hard pointed front hooves and curved spurs on the back hooves, standing alert in broken forest light, painted natural-history illustration, muted brass and iron palette, p...") Tag: Visual edit
• 14:18, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Chichei (Created page with "{{Infobox creature|name=Chichei|gloss=chicken (farm bird)|role=Food|habitat=Yards, coops against walls, waystation enclosures, everywhere|kept=Kept; engineered|used_for=Eggs all year; meat|lexicon=Chichei}}'''Chichei''' are farm birds — larger than one might expect, broad-bodied, short-legged, calm, and tolerant of confinement. They lay all year rather than seasonally, which makes them one of the most important farm animals in the world: cheap to feed, reliable, and th...") Tag: Visual edit
• 14:18, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Baechri (Created page with "{{Infobox creature|name=Baechri|gloss=sheep / goat (highland ruminant)|role=Food|habitat=Thin moorland, rocky highland, mountain slopes — Stormharbor's coast and Clearhold's heights|kept=Kept|used_for=Fleisk, milk, hard cheese, meat; the Draebaech pack line|cities=Stormharbor · Clearhold|lexicon=Baechri}}Sure-footed and stocky, the '''Baechri''' walks any ground — thin moorland, rocky highland, mountain slope — and turns land that grows nothing into land t...") Tag: Visual edit
• 14:17, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Skae (Created page with "{{Bible|section=4.4}}{{Infobox creature|name=Skae|gloss=cormorant (diving fishing bird)|role=Hunted|habitat=Stormharbor's shallows; the Iron Coves|kept=Kept, worked about fifteen years, and — unusually — named|used_for=Fishing from small boats on a line|cities=Stormharbor · The Iron Coves|lexicon=Skae}}A dark long-necked bird that sits low on the water and dives to depths that seem improbable for its size. A trained '''Skae''' works from a light line: it div...") Tag: Visual edit
• 14:17, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Kaeva (Created page with "{{Infobox creature|name=Kaeva|gloss=hunting bird (a walking one)|role=Hunted|habitat=Open ground in every city's territory; caravans|kept=Kept; attached itself to people before anyone thought to keep it|used_for=Hunting small game on foot|cities=Shining Reach · Stormharbor|lexicon=Kaeva}}Long-legged and bold, the '''Kaeva''' is as apt to run something down as to stoop on it. Unlike most hunting birds it hunts on foot, walking grass and scrub with a bony spur abo...") Tag: Visual edit
• 14:17, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Broek (Created page with "{{Infobox creature|name=Broek|gloss=messenger bird (not a homing pigeon)|role=Wild|habitat=Roedhaven lofts, garrison posts, households|kept=Kept|used_for=Carrying messages between fixed points; company, unwisely|lexicon=Broek}}The '''Broek''' is a clever black bird trained to fly between fixed points. It is not a homing bird: it goes only where it was taught to go, so the route is the valuable thing rather than the bird. A Broek that knows three routes or more is worth a...") Tag: Visual edit
• 14:16, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Slyva (Created page with "{{Infobox creature|name=Slyva|gloss=otter (harbor animal)|role=Wild|habitat=Eldershore's harbor; southern rivers; households in the south|kept=Kept; bred from the wild Waeva by Eldershore|used_for=Harbor work — retrieving, carrying lines, checking moorings, driving fish|cities=Eldershore|lexicon=Slyva}}Long, sleek, and built for the water: sinuous, thick-tailed, dense fur that sheds water, a low ridge of bone along the spine that wears smooth in older animals, and...") Tag: Visual edit
• 14:16, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Neska (Created page with "{{Infobox creature|name=Neska|gloss=cat (granary hunter)|role=Wild|habitat=Granaries, docks, warehouses; the Gyrska line in every home and on every ship|size=Small, long-bodied|kept=Kept; engineered|used_for=Killing Chirska; the Gyrska for company|lexicon=Neska}}The '''Neska''' is long-bodied and spotted, with a ringed tail longer than the rest of it, low to the ground, sinuous, and built to follow prey into any hole rather than wait at the mouth. It climbs easily, keeps...") Tag: Visual edit
• 14:16, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Wysk (Created page with "{{Infobox creature|name=Wysk|gloss=meerkat / herding animal|role=Wild|habitat=Every herd and agricultural ring; households everywhere|size=Small|kept=Kept; native, domesticated after the Fall|used_for=Herding Baechri; the alarm that sends herders back behind the wall|lexicon=Wysk}}Small, upright, and almost never silent, the '''Wysk''' has bony ridges along the forearms and back and stands on its hind legs to see over tall grass, often. Troops of eight or ten guide a flo...") Tag: Visual edit
• 14:15, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Vennek (Created page with "{{Bible|section=4.4}} {{Infobox creature | name = Vennek | gloss = dog (guard animal) | role = Wild | habitat = Everywhere: farms, yards, homes, caravans | size = Dog-sized | kept = Kept; engineered | used_for = Guarding herds, killing Svaekoil, holding the dark around a caravan | lexicon = Vennek }} The '''Vennek''' is a dog-sized creature that slopes to the rear, its forequarters carrying most of its weight and a jaw entirely out of proportion to t...")
• 14:14, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page File:Vaelith.png
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• 14:03, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Vaelith (Created page with "{{Infobox creature|name=Vaelith|image=Vaelith.jpg|gloss=horse (riding animal)|role=Riding|habitat=Every city; wild stock persists on the Frontier|size=About a Streid and a half (five feet) at the shoulder|kept=Kept and wild; native, never engineered|danger=Dangerous from both ends; never approach an unfamiliar one from behind|used_for=Riding, cavalry, outriding|cities=All; Eldershore exports the best|lexicon=Vaelith}}The '''Vaelith''' is the riding animal of the Know...") Tag: Visual edit
• 14:03, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Wallach (Created page with "{{Infobox creature|name=Wallach|gloss=water buffalo|role=Haulage|habitat=Eldershore's Ireis fields; a few in Clearhold's wet lowlands; nowhere else|kept=Kept|used_for=Plowing, harrowing, and hauling in standing water|cities=Eldershore · Clearhold|lexicon=Wallach}}The '''Wallach''' is heavy, slow, and strong, with hooves splayed wide to spread its weight over mud. It moves across ground a Dorath would sink into, stands half-submerged for hours without protest, an...") Tag: Visual edit
• 14:02, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Draebaech (Created page with "{{Infobox creature|name=Draebaech|gloss=pack goat / mule of the mountain|role=Haulage|habitat=Clearhold's passes, terraces, and upper paths; a smaller line in Stormharbor|kept=Kept; the pack line of the Baechri, bred by Clearhold; always breeds true|used_for=Everything hauled above the last cart road|cities=Clearhold · Stormharbor|lexicon=Draebaech}}The '''Draebaech''' is the pack line of the Baechri: tall, long-legged, poor-coated, high in endurance and lon...") Tag: Visual edit
• 14:02, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Brosdh (Created page with "{{Bible|section=4.4}} {{Infobox creature | name = Brosdh | gloss = donkey / pony (small draft beast) | role = Haulage | habitat = Every city street, mill, and river | size = About the size of a Vaelith | kept = Kept; native, domesticated after the Fall | used_for = Carts, drays, barges, mill wheels, night-soil barrels | lexicon = Brosdh }} Where the Dorath hauls long distances, the '''Brosdh''' carries everything else. Stocky, barrel-bodied, and...")
• 14:01, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Dorath (Created page with "{{Infobox creature|name=Dorath|image=Dorath_ring.jpg|gloss=ox / draft beast|role=Haulage|habitat=Every city and road; Eldershore breeds the finest|size=Nearly two Streid (about six feet) at the shoulder; 2,000–3,500 Weith|kept=Kept; feral herds exist|used_for=Hauling; meat, milk, cheese, leather, and bone when it can no longer pull|cities=All; Eldershore · Forgegate · Clearhold · Shining Reach|lexicon=Dorath}}The '''Dorath''' is the great draft anima...") Tag: Visual edit
• 14:00, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page File:Dorath circle.png
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• 13:56, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Glaenith (Created page with "{{Infobox plant|name=Glaenith|gloss=light-stone|type=Minerals|grown=Mined in the mountains; Clearhold is one of the largest exporters|used_for=Ground fine and sealed into a Kwlei, where it glows for months|cities=Clearhold · Stormharbor|lexicon=Glaenith}}'''Glaenith''' is the light-stone: the only known mineral in Teraell that does something, with no equivalent in our world. It is mined in the mountains, ground fine, and sealed into a Kwlei — a glass sphere...") Tag: Visual edit
• 13:55, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Minerals of Teraell (Created page with "What the Known World digs out of the ground. Mining is shallow work: drift mines and adits following seams near the surface, worked close to the walls where the ground is defended. Nobody sinks a deep shaft far from a city, because a working needs supply, relief, and a way home, and all three cross ground that can kill you. What is reachable is worked; what is not is not thought about. == Metals == ; Aern — iron : The commonest working metal: tools, nails, hinges, wh...") Tags: Recreated Visual edit
• 13:55, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Dangerous Fauna and Flora (Created page with "right|thumb|300x300px|Glaera web-light on a mountain slope at night. The mountain's lanterns lead nowhere good. What lives outside the walls wants to kill you. Twenty-three things are named here. Every city has its list of lesser dangers and every waystation knows what hunts around it, but these twenty-three are known the world over, taught to children, and marked on every chart. They are not evenly spread; each holds its own piece of count...") Tags: Recreated Visual edit
• 13:55, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page What Is No Longer Here (Created page with "'''Fellwyr''' appears in the early registers and nowhere in the modern ones. It was a mid-sized predator that took herds and yard beasts and generally left people alone, recorded season by season through the first centuries — losses tallied, rewards posted, hunts organized across every agricultural ring in the world. Then the entries thin, and stop. The last credited account is nearly three hundred years old. It is assumed gone, which is not the same as known to be go...") Tag: Visual edit
• 13:55, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Insects (Created page with "; Wyrma : A biting fly of wet and standing ground, small and persistent, out from the first warm days until frost. It breeds in still water, so it is common in Eldershore's Ireis fields and on northern moorland; it is why a Wallach wallows more than the heat accounts for, why nobody camps near still water if there is drier ground within a mile, and why waystations burn smoky fires in the evening. ; Nochwyn : The night-singing insect of warm evenings, barely audible a...") Tag: Visual edit
• 13:54, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Birds (Created page with "The wild birds of the Known World. For the kept ones see Broek, Kaeva, Skae, and Chichei. ; Spirra : The small hedgerow songbird on every hedge, wall, and eave in the world. It nests in the agricultural rings and takes a small share of grain nobody bothers to calculate. ; Ravna : The black scavenging bird of roads and battlefields. It follows armies, caravans, and herds and is the first thing to appear when any of them has gone. A bony ridge along each w...") Tag: Visual edit
• 13:54, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Fishing and the Sea Harvest (Created page with "''Poena'' is the word for all fish, from the smallest freshwater kind to the largest creature of the open sea. Salted, smoked, dried, or fresh, Poena is the cheapest protein in any coastal city and the only reliable one in some. Most native fish carry a line of small bone plates along the lateral line, more pronounced in deep-water kinds than river kinds — the most common sight on a fishmonger's slab, and one nobody discusses. ; Haerl : The staple fish of the northern...") Tag: Visual edit
• 13:53, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Animals of Teraell (Created page with "{{Bible|section=4.4}} thumb|right|300px|A Dorath team closing its ring around a stopped wagon. The animals people keep in the Known World, by what they do. Every English name here is a translation, not an identification — see Meta:Conventions. What lives outside the walls and wants to kill you is under Dangerous Fauna and Flora. Thirteen animals do most of the labor of the world; seven are kept for what they produce; five kinds of fish...")
• 13:52, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Template:Infobox plant (Created page with "<includeonly>{| class="teraell-infobox" ! colspan="2" class="teraell-infobox-title" | {{{name|{{PAGENAME}}}}} |- {{#if:{{{image|}}}|{{!}} colspan="2" class="teraell-infobox-image" {{!}} [[File:{{{image}}}|280px]]{{#if:{{{caption|}}}|<div class="teraell-infobox-caption">{{{caption}}}</div>}} {{!}}-}} {{#if:{{{gloss|}}}|! English gloss {{!}}{{!}} {{{gloss}}} <small>(translation, not identification)</small> {{!}}-}} {{#if:{{{type|}}}|! Type {{!}}{{!}} {{{type}}} {{!}}-}} {{...") Tag: Recreated