Lexicon:Modern/Chirska
| Chirska | |
|---|---|
| Stage | Modern CLT |
| Pronunciation | /ˈxiɾs.ka/ |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Etymology | from Middle chirīskā, from Proto chirik |
| Related words | Neska, Gyrska, Chirk, Graen |
Chirska — the small vermin of granaries, stores and walls. The commonest pest in the Known World.
Notes
Small, quick, and prolific past all reason. It gets into anything, breeds faster than it can be killed, and has defeated every trap anyone has designed in nine centuries of trying. Every household deals with it, every warehouse budgets for it, and no city has ever been free of it. An ordinary nuisance, entirely unremarkable, and the reason the Neska exists. Engineered pre-Fall as a food-denial weapon, released into enemy territory to destroy stored grain. Naturalized so completely that nobody has any idea it was ever anything but vermin.