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.