Guns Of Icarus Online
Off-Topic => The Pit => Topic started by: Piemanlives on January 04, 2014, 05:47:11 pm
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I guess it's time to bring it back. Welcome to the description, for those of you unfamiliar with the description game it goes like this.
We a start off with a phrase say "Belcher" the next person to post has to define "belcher." For instance "Belcher is the nickname for a light class of engine, while cheap creates a loud belching sound as it operates, irritating both the vessels crew and nearby wildlife." that person then has to post a term or phrase for the next person to define.
I'll start us off
Yard Dog
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Back in the old days, when ships with more than 4 people still roamed the skies, there were more classes than 'Pilot' 'Engineer' and 'Gunner'
The 'Yard Dog' was the crewman who was in charge of all things that you could look through.
He was not only a master spotter, being able to see ships seemingly miles away, but he was also proficient in the range-finder.
Because the most famous 'Yard Dog' used a strange system of 'inches' and 'yards,' and refused to call out targets in the standard meters, he was referred to as a 'Yard Dog.'
The name stuck, and soon applied to all spotters.
Strum-dinger.
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A "Strum-Dinger" is a Derogatory slur commonly used to describe unskilled musicians working in the cheapest of bars in Cathedral;
they were given this name as to the fact that they commonly strummed their instruments and dinging their glasses of cheap alcohol together in hopes of attracting attention.
Pun-Cannon
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The Pasha-Type Utility Nexus Artillery piece, or simply Pun-Cannon as referred to by artillery units is a self-propelled unit able to serve a variety of purposes. For instance the Pasha is fitted with an auxiliary pulley system allowing it to act as a crane when a more dedicated piece of equipment is unavailable. Multiple PUN's are able to link together allowing crews to pass ammunition, to make room for crews to sleep in, or to build an improvised battle wall.
Hermes
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The Hermes, a type of engine, was designed to achieve the highest thrust to weight ratio possible in the space required for a light engine, thus, It was named after Hermes, the greek good of messengers and swift travel; Harnessed in many raider ships, the Hermes engine is central to success, as it allows for many quick getaways.
(sounds like this thread would be useful for muse to reap ideas for game elements from.)
Enobaria
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(Where do you think Sir Issac Phillips of Chaladon came from?)
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(heh.)
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(Where do you think Sir Issac Phillips of Chaladon came from?)
This thread is back. My life is complete.
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Enobaria is a fuel additive used to drastically improve engine output, however, the gas emits is so toxic, a single whiff will kill a full grown man. As such, it's manufacturers immediately discontinued production. So now the only way to get Enobaria is to find bottles of it which can sell for as much as 5 tons of gold per liter, or to make it yourself, which has been known to cause many cases of explosions and toxic fumes.
Moskalet
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Moskalet is the name of the seclusive group responsible for the manufacturing of almost three quarters of the Burren and Middle Plains' flare guns. However, the company does have a shady history of intercepting and raiding merchant ships for the resources, but at least Moskalet does donate half of its proceeds to housing refugees from war-torn areas.
Geirmundr
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Geirmunder refers to an engineer who does not clean out old engine grease before applying new engine grease. Engines maintained by a Geirmunder will be serviced in record time. Unfortunately leaving an engine in the care of a Geirmunder for too long will result in poor performance due to "Gear Mud."
Roctapeling
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"Roctapeling"
The correct term here is "Roctapelled".
This reverse to the old experiment Muse used to work on when they started to use highly trained sealife as weapons.
The word excists of 3 parts. Rocket, Octopus and Propelled.
Muse experimented in a way to creata Rocket Propelled Octopusses, these could be the ancesters of the T.A.R. (Trained Aqualife Re-used) barrel.
The R.P.O. (Rocket Propelled Octopus) device could only be mounted on the back of the ship due to its design.
As the R.P.O. devise lanched the octopus would get scared and produce ink, clouds would turn black and the ink would hurt the engines and made nasty spots on your clothing.
The R.P.O. device was later cancelled by the higher command of Muse because a one use only was too inefficient.
Muse has destroyed every evidence of this experiment but few still know.
All the squids are placed in barrels and used for future projects.
Squirrelfunding
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Squirrel Funding is the act of squirreling away large amounts of money for later use.
Holice
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Holice is the name for an airship dock, originally invented in the Arashi League, it is a large structure with two clamps on either side of the boat. A pilot navigates his ship up to the holice and descends into it, where it is clamped in place.
Scrapdunes
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Scrapdunes, despite the name, have nothing to do with the battle arenas know as 'Desert Scrap' or 'Battle on the Dunes' but instead have to do with the mass junkyards theorized to be scattered through the world.
These 'scrapdunes' are said to contain meaningless junk and worthless trinkets, if an adventurer was lucky (or daring!) enough to find one.
These untold treasures of mediocrity have never been found (be it because they are hidden so well, because they don't exist, or nobody has ever looked for them, nobody knows for sure), so 'Searching for scrapdunes' has become a common idiom among the people, meaning 'putting a lot of work into something that reaps no reward'
Bell-hopper
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Someone who hops over from ship to ship to ring the legendary SCRUM bell that exists on a pyramidion.
Yeshan Chang-Hen
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Chang-Hen was the first person ever who saw a skywhale. He also saw the very first skywhale being born out of a cloud.
Chang-Hen is now known as a honorable outcast and drunkard.
Oliver Coltness.
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Oliver Coltness (shortened to O.Coltness (Pronounced Oh-Cult-ness))
is the worship of the family of Oliver Colt, the Inventors of the Colt handgun, one of the most widely used hand weapons in all of the Burren.
Anglean Raid-Baker
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While the fixation of "Baker" is often used as joke, Anglean Raiders of this profession have a distinct love of hammers, using these specially made weapons of war many serve as combat engineers among Anglean fleets and raiding parties, many have also been known to use a torch as a weapon in pinch, however Anglean High Command stresses that doing so may or may not cause the device to explode, while very few cases have been reported, it may be out of pride, or rather the inability to explain how a hand torch exploded during use.
Haraden Drive Yards
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A company located in Iscadon, they specialise in making top quality drive engines for many airships. Haraden, the founder, wanted an engine that can give out maximum output with very little power and fuel.
Burren Sand Slug
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A largish invertebrate that inhabits the Arashi Desert, it is most recognizable by its crystalline exoskeleton and it's large spikes that jut out of its back, while not necessarily hostile it is vastly territorial, however Sand Slugs tend to inhabit communes of 10-20 other slugs, this dis includes the young as they are born from eggs as the commune migrates from hunting ground to hunting ground, often times they will either form their own commune or if they arrive in their parent commune, often times it will be vastly smaller then when the young was born, hence the low local population. On rare occasions a mass of sand slugs can be found burrowing underground, why they do this or how they do so without compromising either the rock face or the sand dunes is still a mystery.
Umorlia
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A metal alloy that was created during the Great War. It's molecular structure was 10x stronger than steel but can be mended and shaped much easier. The concentration of which metals to combine has been lost in time as the war destroyed many factories and killing of these who process the knowledge. Scraps can be found in any part of the world and it is highly sought after in many markets.
Vangun
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The Vangun was a colloquialism for a small band of soldiers, especially trained by Yesha for tactical close-quarters combat. They wore heavy armour plating and carried pistols. They would charge in on over-armoured Squids and defunct ships on suicide charges before boarding the target vessel. Their leader was Count Van der FitzOulsen. During a rather difficult confrontation with some Angleans, there stemmed The Legend of Van's Gun, cementing the nickname.
Spattlepick.
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The dangerous and worst picks in contracts. These are the ones where established air captains hardly touch. They are usually taken by start up captains.
Blacken Smoke
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Blacken Smoke, a favorite amongst the best pilots, is a type of tar specially designed that when used with engines, lingers around in the air for far longer than standard tar does. The substance is hard to find, but when found often commands a high price. This substance is a favorite amongst the best pilots due to its difficult-to-use nature. However, with this difficulty comes also great perks. The tar does vastly larger amounts of damage to anyone caught inside, thus justifying the price and the time spent mastering the use of the substance.
Chaladonian Bulkhead.
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The strongest man in all of Chaladon, The Bulkhead became a local cultural symbol after he allegedly lifted the bough of a crashed airship off of a house while rescuers saved the trapped occupants. Whether this myth is genuine is yet to be decided, as The Bulkhead is under strict orders not to engage in discussion with other nations for fear of his capture.
Brushcannon.
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A compact air cannon that simply does as it is named, brush small objects away. It is mainly used by dock workers to clear the area of debris. But it can also be used as a weapon by loading the barrel with any projectile. A simple yet reliable piece of equipment, brushcannons are easy to produce and to maintain as its parts are interchangeable with common materials.
Terror of Abyssal Gulf
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A local legend described only in the least tangible of senses. The anomaly is present within a few miles of the appropriately named bay at the far edge of Anglea's territory. Abandoned for centuries, compasses flair and spin, altimeters flay wildly, bells ring, ships creak, people scream.
It is chronicled as being "A shadow, dark as night. No mind can comprehend its majestic poignancy on the human psyche. Pure unbridled petrification of all sense and courage. It is a mar on the mind, a blemish on the brain."
Many crews have lost their lives to this mysterious force.
Wranglewrought.
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Wranglewrought: A wrought iron cage used to capture airships without dealing significant damage to the ship, cargo, or crew. Initially designed by Sky Marshall Howard Wrangle, and named in his honor.
Bomfer Stomper
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The Bomfer Stomper is a device supposedly devised by Sir Isaac Philips of Chaladon. Phillips purportedly created it after an explosion of a pipeline in a major refinery he was visiting revealed a cavern that contained relics from the Pre-war Era. The Bomfer Stomper uses a mixture of moonshine and kerosene to fuel its engines, which are connected to its small balloon. The Bomfer Stomper harnesses the engines to propel and create rotary force that allows a complex mechanical system to automatically fly around and fire an attached heavy carronade, which it gets the name from, using an abstract technological device to harness morse code patterns it receives from a radio to determine how it flies, and if it will fire its carronade. However, its use is limited do line-of-sight only, as it lacks a device to send feedback regarding the area surrounding it.
Arkicar
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An arkicar is a small blimp that is tethered to a cable and towed between two locations. Similar to the archaic chairlift or gondola, this machine is most often used in traversing hilly terrain, such as in Yeshan mountain ranges.
Despair Fog
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Native to the frozen north, Despair Fog is the result of Ice Drakes, an ice faring lizard, exhaling large amounts of steam, a result of their biological process to keep warm. While it'll often cool quickly, the difference in temperature is enough to weaken the ice around them, often this now cooled byproduct will linger in the area for sometime, warning travelers of weak ice and the like.
Ilshara
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A legend, folk tale, or an actually deity, Ilshara has been spoken many times by the people of the League. Many say that it takes it's home in the blinding desert hunting, scavenging, watching. It acts as a protector of sorts as guiding travellers trapped in sandstorms, but it's personality can turn on a dime attacking those without mercy. Scores of people claim to have seen this beast, some tried to hunt it as well for proof of its existence. Those who claim to have been near it and we're close to touching or capturing it says that a blinding light and a rush of sand can be seen from where it stood before it vanishes.
Blade of Nomeclair
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"Blade of Nomeclair" is the pseudo-fan blade used in ship engines to achieve maximum thrust from propeller engines.
dunefilth
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Dunefilth is what dock workers describes airships who come to port carrying objects and debris. It is usually tons of sand that gets stuck to many of the nooks and crannies as well as metal bits from destroyed vessels.
Collock
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A Collock is a large bird, known for its delicious meat, and stupidity. The bird is harvested by many voyaging captains low on food, and is sold in many markets where the birds migrate. The most effective form of harvesting the birds has been catching them in nets strung between two ships. The birds fly into the nets, and their long, awkward necks get stuck in the rungs of the net. Hence the popular phrase used by sailors, "caught like a Collock in a net."
Frodge
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Oh Frodge Off!
the one explaining me this is amazingly nuts.
A.S.A.P. (Advanced Senpuku Aleternative Positioning.)
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A.S.A.P, Or Advanced Seppuku Alternate Positioning is a method of honorary ritualistic suicide developed for use by the Yeshan Elites as a way to evade capture in the event of a defeat.
Steam-powered hydraulic airship sling.
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A device to deploy airships into the air and combat faster, these slings are owned by those wealthy enough to install such devices at a high enough altitude. These slings are dangerous if handled poorly as it can rip the hull in half. Still under heavy development, many operators chose to use them as, despite the setbacks, the result yield great success in deploying defensive vessels in the air.
Kove Berries
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A shrivelled and sour fruit found growing on extremophile bushes in the arid deserts and wastes to the south and west. They are named after an old patron deity of mercy and kindness, preserved in the culture of Arashi. These berries, with their plants' roots extending deep into the dry soil, have saved the lives of many shipwrecked and stranded crews.
Pongle Bracket.
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A simple drunk dare game where many an airman play. It is a tilted open box with pegs littering randomly across the board, on the bottom hold slots of different dares that are written on a piece of paper. The game goes, one man drops a disk from the top, a pongle, and watch as it hits the many pegs on its way down determining the man's dare. Funny, simple, and humiliating to the ones who have gotten the worst dares.
Prietula
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Prietula is a large settlement within the canyon walls of eastern Yesha, a popular trade port for airman traveling either way due to it's convenient location and hardy drinks. Well protected from attack due to the fact that any attacker will have to traverse the canyon it's self, which is laden with nooks and crannies in which are hidden devious traps and weapon emplacements, making it a hazardous and often profitless venture.
The Paritian Raiders
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The Paritian Raiders rejuvenated humanity's interest in producing music. Only old tapes and records of music had been found before, but The Raiders decided to produce music of the new age. They distributed their music on mechanically carved records and gave each town they visited a single gramophone designed to play their creations. Their airship was sadly shot down during a live-fire exercise by the Yeshan military as they were making too much noise in the vicinity.
Locoproptor.
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Often deranged and insane, or at least looking at them from an outward perspective one would get that from a first glance, especially if they look at the jobs possible causes of death, which happens to be 5 pages long. Locoproptor's get the job done, if only because they'll do pretty much everything, from running courier work to maintaining tunnel systems in Firnfeld and elsewhere. Locopropters are commissioned workers, working a job for a company because either they're short handed or they just need the extra muscle to get things done with little trouble. While they typically only take normal labor contracts on occasion they have been known to take, other work. They've been known to take some of the strangest mercenary contracts available from time to time, from running ten different routes at the same time to ensure a package gets to its destination in once piece to sabotaging guild trade vessels without ever letting on it was them.
Claver's Redoubt
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"Claver's Redoubt " is a rocky outcropping at the edge of the great dessert made infamous by mercenary captain Nathanial Claver. For 26 years Claver lead raids in to Yeshan territory amassing a great deal of wealth and making a mockery of the Yeshan armed forces. He was eventually tracked down to the the Rocky outcropping that bears his name where he made a last stand. The ensuing battle was one of the fiercest in Yeshan history. The accounts from both sides are mandatory reading in the Yeshan war academy.
Banshee's Pass
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A complicated cave system located in the Abermar Valley, its underground tunnels are hazardous as stalagmites and stalagtites riddle the circling and floors. But it is provides merchants quick passage between the different cities in the region, if one is very knowledgeable of the tunnels. Merchants are not the only ones who also uses the tunnels, bands of raiders and pirates call the caves home and have developed a style of fast flying to travel and attack their prey. The roar of their engines echo along and bounce off the walls creating a horrifying sound to those who hears it. This tactic is used to both scare the traveling merchants and to attack quickly. One such area in the many caves see the most attacks, a single large dark cavern named aptly Banshee's Pass as the amount of noise sounds that of an angry banshee.
Silver Night
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One of the oldest events on any historical record, "The Raid of Silver Night" was one of the first major forays pirate fleets made in the Burren prior to the incursion met by the Icarus and her captain Gabriel. The fleet originated in Southern Firnfeld, where the deep crevasses and high mountain ranges would provide ample cover for the gathering of pirate forces. Over the course of 2 months pirates of the northern fringe gathered as they prepared for the trek south. At the time however a majority of the force was aboard some of the few remaining armored vehicles and aircraft of the time. It gained the name "Silver Night" due to the frost encrusted upon them glittering silver under the moonlit sky upon their first encounter. After 10 weeks, no less than 16 settlements were pillaged, over 500 people either killed or had subsequently gone missing, to top it all off 2 experimental airships were looted from their hangers near the waning days of the incursion. Over the next few years pirates would begin fielding these crafts in combat and use them as mobile command stations, often entire pirate groups would collapse after the destruction of their vessels, in fact the final incursion met by Gabriel may as well have ended major pirate raids for the next several decades, due to the number of craft seemingly destroyed by him and the crew that would eventually follow him into Tura. Even though major pirate forces would once again appear, The Burren would be much better prepared to fend them off as they took battle in the skies.
White Glint
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The White Glint was the name of the flagship of the notorious Anglean captain Clint "Golden Glint" Herring. He got this nickname from the set of shiny gold teeth in his upper jaw. (He lost his original teeth in a terrible fishing accident)
His ship was a very fast and agile one, equipped with six extremely powerful and yet quiet engines. To this day it is not clear where he acquired them. He had the entire vessel painted white from prow to stern and every metal piece dulled or covered with bleached linen, so it would not reflect the sunlight.
Captain Herring used his unique ship to sneak up on unsuspecting ships travelling the foggy skies anywhere between the Chill Sea and the Black Channel.
His immense success was aided by a misconception. Every sailor travelling north knew the story of Golden Glint and White Glint, yet few had ever seen them and lived to tell the tale. Therefore, everybody expected the pirate ship to look like a white, silvery glint among the clouds. They all always realised too late that the ship was simply named after its narcissistic captain.
Galvanic agitator
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Contrary to the technical sounding nature of the term, "Galvanic Agitator" refers to a ring leader of Anvalan Underground during the Electricity Riots of the mid 1940's. Durring that troubled decade the wealthy of the over city began lighting their homes with electricity generated in vast Acid pools located in the under city. The noxious fumes and occasional ruptured vats caused a severe drop in the standard of living of the poorer citizens of Anvala. In addition wide spread electricity use had not yet made its way down to the lower rungs of society. Certain charismatic individuals convinced large portions of the population that the battery pools and the strange power they produced were heretical and needed to be destroyed. The city watch used the code word "Galvanic Agitator" to refer to such people, believing the population would be fooled into thinking they were referring to a piece of equipment and not the ringleaders of the mob. The last Electricity Riot occurred in 1952 and was mostly attended by board upper middle class teenagers who longed for the the social injustice of times past. By that point zoning laws and the mass production of electric devices had made the generation and use of electricity a positive across the entire spectrum of society.
Melandering
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A broken state of mind, melanders show pilots or crew members wearing a blank expression and going about "business" onboard a ship. Engineers going about repairing equipment that has been repaired, gunners holding down the trigger on an empty turret , to pilots mindlessly turning the helm. Usually contracted after a major battle of sorts, it can be a form of extreme PTSD, reacting to imaginary scenarios playing in their heads. There is no one way to bring them out of this state with treatments ranging from a simple water to the face or extreme therapy. But it cannot be treatable at all as there a re a few cases where crewmen are stuck in this state of mind.
Belmore Ranght
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Hailing from the city state of Belmore, a Ranght is a high position in the cities hierarchy. Often associated with the Militant trading houses, a Ranght's position typically they are the houses voice should the head be "Incapacitated" in anyway such it would bar them from duty for extended periods of time. They typically hold important administration roles within the houses business, organizing expeditions to other cities, meeting with important clients, and more importantly leading war parties against other houses. As the houses are typically competing for the same contracts they often plan against one another, from hiring pirates to raid convoys to attack each other in broad daylight. The city is often thrown into chaos when a house war is in session, wars which often upset the balance of power. The city's ruling council has their hands full keeping the houses going to war with one another, most Ranght's detest the ruling council, thinking that their house should be the one in control. Fortunatly the city militia is under the command of civilian operators, whose loyalty to the council is unquestioned.
Hagishpah
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A local delicacy, Hagishpah originated from Dampfstadt in the Three Bays region. It mainly consist of seafood from the lake where the city resides. A delicate recipe, it has a long cooking time which needs 14 hours to complete, during which spices are added during different part of the process. Visitors to the city claim that it has a distinct aroma because of the blend of the spices and meat. When consumed, the meat is thick, yet tender to bite.
Oculevator
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Oculevators are large telescope mounted watch towers. Often built into city walls or fortresses they provide an excellent view range to their operators. Oculevators consist of the tower proper, whether this be a prebuilt defensive tower or a purpose made structure. An elevator like device that carries the operator to the scope's control platform. And finally the telescope itself, with several different range of lenses allowing for distance changes, a radiowave device and several signal flags allowing communication with allied forces. The crew consists of the telescope's operator, the radio operator, the signal officer, a single guardsmen, and the elevator operator. This tends to be a dangerous position to hold as more often than not oculevators are high value targets.
The Deep Sea Fish Loves You Forever
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A classic children's song about a huge fish that resembles a skywhale. While this song may seem ridiculous it does carry some merit, as several bone finds have emerged near Sylka proving that once there were humongous beasts carrying a bone-structure not fit for flight.
Lyrics of this song vary greatly among different regions, but almost every town has a version. Some even claim that a man's origin can be traced from his interpretation of "The Deep Sea Fish Loves You Forever".
The Spiral Slack
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When a clumsy airhand forgets to tie up a mooring line, the rope can be seen below the ship spiraling around in the wind, bright as a flag. While most mistakes caused by spiral slacks are harmless, many mistakes such as a loose hydrogen vent have been fatal. Said airhand is doomed to be called "Spiral Slack" until somebody else joins the crew who is stupider than he or she. Every crew has one, it seems, so common that it's become an unofficial rank in most millitaries, fit only for swabbing the decks and arranging cargo.
Fishgliding.
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Colonel Raphvitz von Gersch was a madman of his time. He proposed that men take to the skies as do birds because he was short on intelligence and hydraulic balloon gas pumps. He suggested outfitting ships with retractable aerodynamic surfaces that could be used to create lift without the use of lighter-than-air gas. He tested his idea by launching a retired Goldfish class navy runabout off the top of the wreckage of The Leviathan. It had no balloon, only these new-fangled 'wings' that everyone was so suspicious of. The goldfish reached its top speed in the air but fuel was scarce. Sadly, the pilot was unaware of the workings of these wings, and so reversed his engines to a stop. He promptly fell out of the sky to a very bumpy landing.
Roll-tacking.
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When Jean-Jacques Fiz d'Eau first presented his new invention, riggers and ship's carpenters all across the known world drank to his health and thanked whatever gods they prayed to for their kindness.
Fiz D'Eau's Roll-Tacker was a tool that allowed sailors to quickly join together large sheets of cloth, a process that up to this point was done by hand and with needle and yarn. Crewmen would often be busy for days after a battle, simply trying to put the envelope of the balloon back together. The Roll-Tacker shortened this time down to a matter of a few hours. Urgent repairs could now even be undertaken in the heat of battle.
The fantastic device actually looks quite gruesome. A large, curved magazine feeds small tacks onto a rotating, vertical wheel. The engineer using it holds the two grips of the tacker and pushes the wheel along the seam of the fabrics that are to be connected. The tacks are punched into the cloth via a spring-powered mechanism and a supporting awl curves the pins once inside to secure their position.
The only power needed for the contraption to work is provided by a spiraled spring which has to be rewound every two minutes, but savvy mechanics quickly modified the tacker to run on steam, petroleum or voltaic current. The resulting machine could easily work five times as fast as the original, but devices "improved" by less gifted mechanics could just as easily stud the utilising swabbie with dozens of curved nails in a matter of seconds.
Callipygian Purple
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Callipygian Purple is a special dye used by those of the order of the Callipygian, a flower though which many aliments could be healed with various parts of the plant. The order of the Callipygian wear robes dyed this particular shade of purple as a way to show their royal background. For to join such a illustrious group of people you must be able to trace your ancestry back to a royal house of the Old Times. Of course many people within the order are no more that ordinary people who have procured fake documents of the royal lines.
Callipygian Purple dye though does possess another odd trait... its growing nature can cause the fabric to stick together or even to the person wearing it. Indeed the leader of the Order cannot remove the cloak due to wearing it for 2 weeks straight. It also turns the skin a bluey purple tinge which only adds fuel to the royal fire as to having blue royal blood in their veins.
Carpicular Tranperigan
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A Carpicular Tranperigan is a revolutionary type of drivetrain that changed the world of airship engines practically overnight. Before its invention, conventional engines had very tempermental methods of power delivery. This often resulted in two engines outputting significantly different amounts of power while on the same throttle setting. This would cause airships to drift off to one side. The Carpicular solution, invented by Chung's Choice, unified the power delivery into a central gearbox which was then applied through a differential.
This type of drivetrain became a matter of controversy within the world of power units. The advantage of this new Tranperigan were obvious and engine manufacturers fought to acquire this new technology. It was eventually leaked when George's Curiosity captured a Pyramidion class airship that carried engines concealing the new power delivery system.
Engelpin.
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The Engelpin was a invention of chance. During the early years of the war several ships were wreaked on the rocks of the northern fords. One of the sailors, First officer Edward of The Guardian, waited for rescue watching as other ships began to crumble under the constant barrage of the harsh weather. He began work on a way to link ships together to strengthen what little was left and perhaps join the ships together. Although he could salvage a lot of materials but he couldn't put them together in a way that was flexible to withstand the weather but strong enough to keep it together...
That day the Englepin was made... a double ended linking pin system that allowed any material to be attached together. Using the mechanism he managed to rebuild a ship to flyable condition and save the other stranded sailors.
The name was made due to the shape of the pin being like that of angles wings and the initial of the creators name and thus the Englepin was made.
Quental Horsaline
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Contrary to popular belief, Quental Horsaline is not made out of horses.
Developed by the company Quental, located in the city Qinjuru, their brand of horsaline is that of high quality. Horsaline is a special lubricant used for any moving parts of an airship. Is more efficient than the average gear grease, horsaline can be used in small quantities without overheating the machine if overworked. Many different brands of horsaline started come to after the success of Quental and their product, but none can beat the quality nor the effectivness of Quental.
Nightgale Brandy
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The story of Gulbert Shwegroth and his Nightgale Brandy is a tale of terrible failure and an unexpected success.
Shwegroth was a fairly wealthy entrepreneur who made a fortune through technology trades with the Yesha Empire. Although he was Anglean born and raised, he never felt a strong connection with his people. As a sophisticated and educated businessman he had little affection for these rough, even outright barbaric Pirates and Raiders.
One late night after enjoying several bottles of his favourite Mercantile Import Brandy, so the story goes, he had an idea that would change his life for ever. He decided to "civilise" the Angleans, but not through sermons or bribery, but something a lot more basic and less suspicious: through the power of alcohol.
All the people from other nations he'd come into contact with, all of them respectable and intelligent businessmen themselves, shared a fondness for choice liquors. Tastes ranged from sweet Brandy to Whiskey and rice wine, but nobody seemed to ever voluntarily imbibe the burning grain alcohol the Anglean raiders seemed to enjoy.
Mr Shwegroth deduced that the crude nature of the Angleans was caused by the simple alcoholic beverages they drank.
To fight this problem, Shwegroth set up the Shwegroth Distillery in Orrell, and only a few months later the first bottles of his new Nightgale Brandy rolled off the conveyor belts.
He had put a lot of thought into his product. The sweet taste of the drink would refine the blunt minds of the pirates, while the heroic name would inspire more and more of them to buy it. Within only a couple of years, Shwegroth was sure, Anglea would enter a new Golden Age thanks to him.
Needless to say, his plan failed. Miserably.
The Nightgale Brandy was a success, and very much so indeed, but that was about it. The drink was just as cheap as the home-brewed moonshine sold in the taverns, but it was well-made and tasty. This caused a sudden thirst for southern drinks throughout the Republic and sent a new wave of piracy across the Chill Sea. Hundreds of airship captains raced south, each one determined to find the most exquisite liquor.
While Gulbert Shwegroth watched his dream fall to pieces, he also made fortune after fortune with his Nightgale Brandy and soon the characteristical large copper fermentation vats and bottling plants could be found in every major city of the land.
However, if you should ever venture into an Anglean tavern, don't be surprised if nobody knows what "Nightgale" is. Although Shwegroth meant well when he created the name, it is just a little bit too hard to pronounce when drunk and so it is more commonly referred to as "Nightingale" or "Nightie", and today the expression "flipping the bird" is a common expression for getting absolutely wasted.
Gabalingo
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A reeeeallllly specitaly drink, gabalingo is started off with straining any type of rum through two left socks into a boiler. As the rum is being heated, it is then mixed with carn-ations and a rare root beer called Rigto. It was first made by drunkards off the island of Talu and become popularised as a challenge drink.
Zipperoc
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An illicit drug said to enhance a gunners skill, the mixture is a delicate balance of opium and gunpowder. Results may vary as some gunners may improve, degrade, or fall into bouts of hysteria.
granauch
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The crusty topping you get when you properly prepare a Anglean creme brulee by placing the dessert just below the flames of a burning airship. Incredibly expensive to pull of properly, most chefs simply opt to toast the custard under a flame-thrower for a similar, but inferior effect.
Unlit lob runner
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Lob Runners are specialty ships, small and armed with a single large artillery cannon, they are mostly favored by pirates and Anglea for their speed and maneuverability. An Unlit Lob Runner is a term used for Lob Runners whose cannon has been modified to produce little light when fired.
Valclen
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A highly concentrated medicine developed by The Order. Mixed with juices of berries that have numbing effect, Valclen is a excellent pain killer that is injected into the body. But because of the high concentration, it is giving in small amounts as if given more than prescribe, the affected area or even the whole body can be permanently numb.
Crunc
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A colloquial term for the sound made when a forgetful engineer leaves a spanner inside an engine block upon rebuild and tries to kickstart it. This has lead to 'Crunc' becoming a slang term for an engineer who doesn't follow standard procedure, often cutting corners.
Hychgloph.
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A colloquial term for the sound made when a forgetful engineer leaves a spanner inside an engine block upon rebuild and tries to kickstart it. This has lead to 'Crunc' becoming a slang term for an engineer who doesn't follow standard procedure, often cutting corners.
Hychgloph.
Hychgloph-
A small Anglean hamlet situated on the border between Anglean Firnfield and Fjordland Glowwater. Hychgloph is rife with conflict and piracy, its denizens making their living collecting the debris falling from the sky daily in violent, bloody skirmishes. Hychglophans are a stout bunch, living in hollowed out hills and other underground dwellings all connected with a labyrinthine series of tunnels. These tunnels are necessary to prevent village casualties caused by the constant rain of sharp metal and stray bullets, but the tunnels have also been the unwitting demise of many a curious child who has gotten lost below.
Domitian.
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An anglicization of the Yeshan phrase "dou mi tian" (豆米田; literally: bean and rice fields). Beans and rice are staple foods in the Empire and hence are viewed as basic necessities. Yeshans use the term "dou mi tian" to refer to anything that is of great importance but often overlooked. Indeed, while the humble beans and rice are cheap and placed in low regard when compared to rare and expensive foods, they are undeniably the foundations upon which the Empire is built. The word "domitian" still retains the gist of the Yeshan phrase and is used to refer to something that is fundamental or elementary (e.g. domitian theory, domitian techniques).
Schophere.
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The Schophere is the projectile-generator of the Hades cannon. While the hades cannon does use up ammuniton, the Schophere is used to charge, ignite, and launch said ammunition. It has been found in many other places in use that generally revolve around heating and ballistic projectiles, such as the secret location of the Cake factories, or as a protective thief-killer of a Blacksmith's home. However, care must be taken to secure any Schopheres correctly, otherwise the uncontrolled charge can cause it to explode and burn down surrounding airships, houses, or pastries.
Tarmtanoa
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An old snake oil type elixir, Tarmtanoa is a cheaply made alcohol created by lowly merchants from the Mercantile Guild. It was advertised as an one all cure all drink that can cure any ailments. Many believed that it did have amazing curing abilities but it was the alcohol content that numbs the brain of reason and pain. After much time, accidents have occurred from people becoming too drunk from this elixir that an investigation started. But before any real evidence had been collected, the merchants disappeared without a trace taking with them the money of the Guild. Today Tarmtanoa is a highly sought after drink as the rarity of it now has prices going up to the thousands.
Conddle
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Conddle is the Anglean name for a small, airborne cetacean. They are about three meters in length and look very much like a bloated seal. Unlike their large cousins, the legendary sky whales, Conddles are not able to stay in the air indefinitely. They rest on mountaintops and use their small flippers to flutter from rock to rock. They mainly eat plants, but once in a while they will attempt to catch passing birds - and always fail miserably.
Because of their clumsy behaviour in the air, inept Anglean pilots are sometimes called Conddles.
Cataglottist
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A cataglottist, commonly mistaken by the small amount of peasantry who have been educated for a cataloger, is the person in charge of the munitions and rations made for most journeys, with a reduced payment for the amount of items used during the trip upon return. Although at first this seems a simple job, given that the companies they work for seek a profit, and most airships that fly out ports never come back after a run in with pirates or a opposing faction fleet, this forces a cataglottist to think carefully and distribute supplies with a reasoning and cold head; if the heavily armed trading fleet leaves today, hand out to them a hefty amount of ammo and food, and when they return get a large paycheck, but should an adventurer fly out boldly into the sunset, be wary of how long he would last, and give him minimum requirements for a return trip in one day to help downgrade losses should he fall prey to pirates. Cataglottists are quite hated in the country as well, because although they give low prices for food, they can also limit the amount of supplies you have, forcing you to come back within a limited amount of time, effectively setting how long you can travel and forking up huge bills for small unsuccessful expeditions that ran short due to a lack of food.
Anglean Scavenger (from Yesha's view)
(OOC: In the event that we can't describe things from the view of other factions, replacement word is Flygiarian Powder.)
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July 3, 301 A.B.
FR:Jingshan Foward Patrol Joint Base, Jingshan
TO:Central Command, Chang-ning
From The Desk of Colonel [REDACTED]
General [REDACTED] I am here to inform you of the increasing raids from these Anglean Scavengers. These are not your normal Republican dogs that usually harass the trading ships that enter through the canyons up in the northern part of our borders. No Sir don't let the name scavengers fool you, these men are different, they have some more intelligance to actually plan their ambushes on the passing merchant ships then to simply rush out like lunaics and madmen. During the past few months, recent reports filied through that ships were being entangled into large nets or that certain paths through the area that highly dense smoke engulfs ships disorienting crews. Each attack so far has been conducted with only two Squid-class ships and some ground assistance. These ships are not the standard Anglean, they are far more silent and deadly, with the men on the ground just as the same. With their name being scavengers, after they trap or fully disable the ship, any working componets and cargo of value is stripped and taken leaving the crews stranded on land befroe any of our partols find them. I respecfully ask Sir that if you can allocate more resources to help deter this threat from our borders and to provide a more safe passage for travelers. Also to blast those Anglean scum out of the sky.
Colonel{REDACTED]
League Vermin (From a Mercantile point of view. If not Broiled Cassu.)
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Warning to all Merchants flying the skies this day: Watch out for the League Vermin that stalk the dusty skies, and seek to burn and pillage!
These vermin fly about on ships aiming to pull us down to the ground by popping our balloons and force us into hand-to-hand combat, where they will be able to use all of their hellish brute strength to overpower us, like beasts of the sand. They prey on the defenseless who venture so much as lay a toe inside their sandy pit, and recently their raids have expanded further and further. Watch out for the signature rush of a single, scrapped ship to warn you of any incoming League Vermin though, because for all their strength, they're severely lacking in a reasonable mind. Conversely, be worried for your life should you be captured by one.
Jin-Riaand Ammunition
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Warning to all Merchants flying the skies this day: Watch out for the League Vermin that stalk the dusty skies, and seek to burn and pillage!
These vermin fly about on ships aiming to pull us down to the ground by popping our balloons and force us into hand-to-hand combat, where they will be able to use all of their hellish brute strength to overpower us, like beasts of the sand. They prey on the defenseless who venture so much as lay a toe inside their sandy pit, and recently their raids have expanded further and further. Watch out for the signature rush of a single, scrapped ship to warn you of any incoming League Vermin though, because for all their strength, they're severely lacking in a reasonable mind. Conversely, be worried for your life should you be captured by one.
Jin-Riaand Ammunition
F*** the Arashi.
Jin-Riaand Ammunition-
Jin-Riaand, or Spirit-Wrath, is the Yeshan term for Lochnagar shot. Some black market ammo suppliers use the term 'Jin shot' to refer to improvised Lochnagar illegally cooked up by independent arms suppliers. Real Jin-Riaand is different from Lochnagar in name only, but Jin shot is a much more volatile cocktail, which depending upon the recipe can melt a gun emplacement into a dripping puddle of slag.
Doolean Manufacturing
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Doolean Manufaturing is the leading company for surface vessels. As airships rule in the Age of Air, there is still a small need for surface ships. Located in the bay city of Andelata, Doolean Manufacturing design and builds ships from fishing vessels and and small transports to combat naval ships. Not as long as those found on the sands of the Dunes nor carry the same amount of firepower, Doolean combat ships are large enough to dock a Goldfish class airship and enough guns to take on a Galleon class. Their main source of profit comes from both the Order and Guild as both faction extensively use the waters around them. As well as fishing and coastal trade companies surrounding Abyssal Gulf.
Hassum
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Hassum is a volatile chemical used in Lesmok ammunition. It is stabilized with the addition of the other compounds, but it is responsible for the odd ring shaped waves emanating from the barrel of a firing weapon.
Logic cogitator
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You want me to do what?
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Cogitate, obviously. Pay attention!
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Who do you want logic to cogitate with exactly? I think we all have a right to know.
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A. SOMEONE DESCRIBE A LOGIC COGITATOR
B. Not someONE, someTHING.
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Logic Cogitator- A one of a kind room where DJ Logicalia goes to think on life, the universe and everything. It's true state is never truly known as it does continuously change to Logicalia's liking much to the cabin boys expense
The great tale of Captain Aramoth
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The Great Tale of Captain Aramoth is a book that you will likely find on practically any airship that is fancy enough to carry a bookshelf which is actually used to house books instead of boxes of spare bolts and washers. People who sit and listen to the tale will feel an otherworldly dread creeping through them if they listen to the tale more than once because, even though the title is the same, the story is always different each time.
This book is a prank, agreed upon by a large coalition of shipping companies and factions as a great way to muck around with crew members that they don't like. The covers of the book are easily transferred to any other book so that it may take on the identity of the infamous Aramoth's Tale.
Some defectors have insisted that the book is in fact completely blank. Captains or officers that are in on the joke simply make up a tale from scratch each time. Such reports have remained unconfirmed.
Sever The Lenning Line.
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Sever The Lenning Line is a common saying that is used to imply that what ever is being done is able to have disastrous effects in the situation at hand.
Loch in the gat? Well you might as well sever the Lenning line while your at it!
The phrase itself is referencing a event in which the Yeshian navy's supplies was cut mid campaign by Arashi Pirates at a small settlement with the name of Lenning. This forced the Yeshians to go and send a sizable force back to defend the settlement from attackers and in the end taking heavy losses during the battle effectively ending the offensive.
The world famous Ionized ship combobulator
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Sever The Lenning Line is a common saying that is used to imply that what ever is being done is able to have disastrous effects in the situation at hand.
Loch in the gat? Well you might as well sever the Lenning line while your at it!
The phrase itself is referencing a event in which the Yeshian navy's supplies was cut mid campaign by Arashi Pirates at a small settlement with the name of Lenning. This forced the Yeshians to go and send a sizable force back to defend the settlement from attackers and in the end taking heavy losses during the battle effectively ending the offensive.
The world famous Ionized ship combobulator
You're*
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The World Famous Ionized Ship Combobulator is a device created by crazy inventor, Deadalus. Supposedly the device can power a ship by using ionized particles. Deadalus goes around the world showing it to different audiences, but many scientists consider it a impossible hoax.
Habgobbing
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Habgobbing
A term used for when a crew member is being lazy and talking to much. "Will you quite Habgobbing and get back to work?"
Electrostatic Spindle
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The electrostatic spindle is a balloon component that acts similar to a gyroscope, keeping the ship upright at a right angle to the surface.
Shark toothing
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A modified beak of a Pyramidion, shark toothing is the process of adding sharp, triangular plates to the beak. The plates are arranged such that it resembles the many rows of teeth found in a shark.
The Mystery of Marsh Bay.
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The mystery of Marsh Bay is a noted event in which a Yeshan vanguard of Galleons and Pyramidions flew into the bay's airspace and were never seen again. Reports from the locals claim there were flashing lights, and no noise other than soft splashing. Investigators found nothing but the last half metre of a Pyra's beak, sheared off incredibly cleanly.
Turtling
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Turtling is the name of a recently born Turt. Found exclusively in the Chaladon Sound, Turtlings hatch during the warm fish harvest season in the Order. A combination of a turtle and an unknown animal, some say Turts are a genetic mutation that escapeded from a Chaladon science facility. Others state they evolved during the Age of Dust to better suit their environment. Their origins still unknown, Turts help maintain the ecosystem of the Sound through regulating the kelp population.
Nimruden
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Nimruden is a popular insult that sprang up around Lord's Leap. It's a combination of Nimrod and Rude, mixed with the local accent creating Nimruden.
Carbuncle Flight Pattern
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A Carbuncle Flight Pattern is a newly developed tactic straight from Yesha, involving a flare gun, a chute vent, and hydrogen. When in a large amount of cloud cover, fire the flare to reveal your position. After approximately 10 seconds, pump hydrogen into your balloon and rise out of the flared cloud. The enemy should be tempted into either firing on your previous position, or rushing straight into the cloud cover, where you can shoot back down by activating the chute vent and slamming into the enemy. It is so named because of the large, bright distraction used in the manouever.
Gogglecopter
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The gogglecopter was a failed early attempt at one man flight, of Chaladonian origin. It was a set of goggles and a helmet, with a large motor and propeller on top. Suffice to say, the weight is far more then the average human neck could bear, and so most est subjects were either crippled, or killed in each attempt. There have not been any further advancements in this design in many decades.
Vargon Bleach
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The vargon bleach was made by the evil vargon empire from spaec by the evil vargon empress and was made with the ultimate ingrediant.... VARGON. It was then sent to earth and manufactured and everyone's clothes were too....far gone for repair......... :3
Milkintosh 5000
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The vargon bleach was made by the evil vargon empire from spaec by the evil vargon empress and was made with the ultimate ingrediant.... VARGON. It was then sent to earth and manufactured and everyone's clothes were too....far gone for repair......... :3
Milkintosh 5000
dude, GOI canon friendly please. Space isn't
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The vargon bleach was made by the evil vargon empire from spaec by the evil vargon empress and was made with the ultimate ingrediant.... VARGON. It was then sent to earth and manufactured and everyone's clothes were too....far gone for repair......... :3
Milkintosh 5000
dude, GOI canon friendly please. Space isn't
Not space carn... spaec. They came from a desert called spaec. And were a ruthless band of villains called vargon. they were almost as big as a empire and the leader. (A queen ) made teh vargon bleach to destroy everyone's clothes..cause why not.
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Cause Why Not: an excuse to do something due to a lack of reasons to not do it.
Bump
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Bump is a gentle ram used to move allies into position when their engines are down
BFS
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BFS is raider slang for Big Fat Ship. Usually a term reserved for large, slow, and weakly armed trader vessels.
Poignant Shuffle
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Poignant Shuffle: The slow walk the captain and crew of a munker perform on as they travel from the docks to their ally crew's next of kin.
Shrike Matching
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Shrike Matching is the name of a pastime powder monkeys are quite fond of. They take incendiary bullets, light them with a match, then throw them at each other. The loser, generally the one who either quits or needs to hospitalized first, is known as the Shrike.
engine fuzz
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Black, toxic grit that builds up on an engine routinely pumped full of Kerosene, but NOT routinely cleaned.
Arc lock
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When a powder monkey goes to a swabbie to try and improve his gun, the most common occurrence is arc lock, where the mount becomes fixed and the gun is unable to turn.
Colonial Hobgoblar
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A campfire story told by many, the story differs from region to region, but each story has the basic plot. It is about a group of colonist traveling the lands until them come upon a plain near a forest. Finding the soil to be fertile, they settled in the region using the wood from the forest as building material. Unbeknownst to them something lurks deep in the dark forest, dark and evil. During night watches strange howls can be heard at odd times. While nothing has occurred since the howling started, several residents grow weary and decide to send out a hunting party to find the source. A group of 15 able bodied men went in at the bright dawn of the morning, but only 4 made it back at night with a warning, a warning to return back where they came from or else. Most of the villagers adhere to the warning and leave immediately while a handful stubbornly stay.
They next day though a heavy fog covers the almost empty town and the remaining occupants. The howling is heard inside the square which turns into mancanical laughter. Soon the laughter dies down, and all is silent until a calm voice comes out from seemingly from thin air.
"Tis your end."
The story usually ends with the storyteller goes quiet and a partner of his sneaks up behind the group and says the final line, ending with laughter.
Electrobine
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The Electrobine, is a highly conductive, specialty wire. Designed by the great Anglean scientist, Bine, from scraps of old world tech and his own ingenuity.
Pyrofracture Matrix
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A highly complicated set of formulas, the Pyrofracture Matrix was created to test the durability of different metal alloys under punishment of different types of fire before fracturing.
Star One
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On of the only stars in the sky that keeps it relative position in the sky, and as such, is often used as a guiding point for captains to navigate by.
Dove-wing Cannon
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Dove-wing cannon: A cannon that shoots low power projectiles that make next to no noise when fired because they use winged projectiles launched by compression springs. Being slow, and significantly effected by wind forces, drag, firing ship's velocity, and numerous other environmental factors, they are notoriously difficult to aim accurately. However with a skilled gunner, they can deliver highly potent explosive charges that the other ship most certainly did not hear coming.
Flipside running
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Dove-wing cannon: A cannon that shoots low power projectiles that make next to no noise when fired because they use winged projectiles launched by compression springs. Being slow, and significantly effected by wind forces, drag, firing ship's velocity, and numerous other environmental factors, they are notoriously difficult to aim accurately. However with a skilled gunner, they can deliver highly potent explosive charges that the other ship most certainly did not hear coming.
Flipside running
(Firstly Queso, that sounds awesome)
Flipside running is a particular move used by Mobula pilots. Through a complex system, utilizing hydrogen and luck, the mobula can be flown upside down. The advantage of this is that it can be used as a bomber.
West Chaladonian Turnpike
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As soon as I typed that description I wanted to make that gun...
Also flipped Mobula theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmtgmdCYlO8
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It would the most pia gun, but the most worth it if it hits............I desire this.
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Dove-wing cannon: A cannon that shoots low power projectiles that make next to no noise when fired because they use winged projectiles launched by compression springs. Being slow, and significantly effected by wind forces, drag, firing ship's velocity, and numerous other environmental factors, they are notoriously difficult to aim accurately. However with a skilled gunner, they can deliver highly potent explosive charges that the other ship most certainly did not hear coming.
Flipside running
(Firstly Queso, that sounds awesome)
Flipside running is a particular move used by Mobula pilots. Through a complex system, utilizing hydrogen and luck, the mobula can be flown upside down. The advantage of this is that it can be used as a bomber.
West Chaladonian Turnpike
What
Dude
The mobula should already flip upside down
if you did though, you'd never flip it back.
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West Chaladonian Turnpike, located in the city of Nysa it is the first track of a new high speed sport. Inspired by the win of Sir Issac Philips in the Rocket Race, the Turnpike is the first official mapped race track for Squid racing. Squid racing has been increasing its popularity in various regions of the world with makeshift tracks, but at the Turnpike each obstacle, straightaway, and turn has been specifically designed to optimise the Squid's performance. Competitions are held almost each weekend as dozen of racers flock to the city.
Sea of Devils' Devil
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A region known for a high amount of Pirates and Privateers. Originally used as a desolate sea-region where factions would smuggle secret technology across due to lack of any inhabitable islands. First given name Sea of Devil's after Pirates started to crowd the region, catching wind of possible trade-routes to plunder. Renamed after most factions employed privateers to quell the amount of pirates in the area, creating a colossal mess of ships going after other ships.
Meander Flying
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Commonly used as a diversionary tactic among privateers, a large ship such as the Galleon or Mobula is disguised as a merchant vessel and meanders along a route set up for ambush. Pirates think it easy prey, and when they get close, the disguise is ripped off, guns start firing, and the rest of the privateers emerge from the scenery to fight.
Torque Actuator
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The footpedal-activated device that rotated Heavy guns. One of the many odd instances of electric drive in the sky.
Birthday Flare
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A curious coming of age custom, the birthday flare has become revered in Chaladon. The youth, stripping naked, ties flares to their limbs. Once this is done, they jump through a ring of fire which ignites the flares. Landing on the other side, they must complete a special dance. If they do complete it, they are considered to be of strong will and destined for glory. If they don't, everyone laughs as syup is poured on them.
Denial of Nimbus
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Denial of Nimbus. A technique rarely used in modern combat because of the way it contributed to the near destruction of the world. In essence it was the use of tar clouds inside of a rain producing nimbus cloud to cause it to drop it's rain early, before it moved into enemy territory where it would water their crops. Those that remember the tactic speak not of it, lest dishonorable warriors try to use the tactic once again. It is one thing to control the skies. It is something entirely different to deny the rain.
Reverse inverted reinversion maneuver.
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A very roundabout method of turning the Mobula upright again.
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A very roundabout method of turning the Mobula upright again.
gotta give us a new word or phrase to go on Koali.
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Umber Root
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Umber Root - A special cheer developed for Sir Francis Umber, Team Captain for the Fernfield sky polo team. Captain Umber was widely disliked amongst the Sky Polo establishment for his unorthodox maneuvers and tendency to cause unnecessary collateral damage. However a rebellious youth element latched on to his bombastic personality to ensure he was popular enough to never be fully expelled from the game. To show support for Captain Umber, his fans would make a low pitched hooting sound that could be detected among more traditional applause. This hooting became known in the Sky Polo Community as the Umber Root.
Astrotanking
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Astrotanking was a failed series of attempts to fly higher and higher. It became known as thus, because the ships designed for it, were being built with a metallic tank on the deck. Designed to protect the crew, it ended up making the ships to heavy to fly more than 10 feet off the ground.
Anvalan electric-flange
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First developed in Anvala, electric-flanges is an effective but dangerous method of combining flanges. Using an enormous amount of energy, using this method cause several explosions and accumulated a high death count. But when successful, this binding is extremely strong and can handle extreme battle stresses. The risks greatly outweighs the rewards and the Council promptly cancel any further endeavor.
The Signal Eye of Lookout (Lookout, as in the town near the Eastern Ridge)
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A huge, and by huge we mean pre-war cannon huge, flare gun mounted in the very center of the town of Lookout. Though theoretically operational, it's strange, bat-silhouette shaped ammunition, being as large and as oddly shaped as it is, is very rare.
The Hand of God
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A trinket of the legendary rogue captain Jey Suss, the Hand of God was said to be able to confer a ship with enough turning power to make even possible for a Galleon to out maneuver a Squid.
After the tragic departure that saw Jey Suss leaving behind his whole crew to ascend to the skies one last time with his ship, the famed trinket was never seen again.
Another famed trinket known commonly as "Phoenix Claw" is thought to be an experiment to reproduct the Hand of God.
The Fold
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A legendary piloting maneuver, The Fold is supposedly done with a Squid, and catching a certain type of tailwind. The result is traveling thousands of kilometers in a single night. Sadly, no pilot in living memory has been able to accomplish this feat.
The Magnanimous Air Symphony
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Once a Captain, hearing the combined sound of all his clan's airships firing at once, mixed with the crushing of enemy ships in mine fields and this caos' echoes in the infamous Canyon,
-the one that runs between Anglea and Yesha-
started behaving like a madman, claiming that he has heard the song of the wind and the sky, a song that had in it all the sounds of the world, later bards and other captains would call such an event in a more poetical way: "The Magnanimous Air Symphony".
Noblesse Oblige
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The Noblesse Oblige, commonly called the Noble's Oblige, is the historical treaty which brought the Baronies under the crown.
The Pongar Theory
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"The Pongar Theory" is the name that the scientific community of Chaladon decided to assign to the experiments of the
mad drunk scientist Alphonsus Pongar, who, after the first war-ready designs of the Mobula were released, theorized that with a special propellant, he could ascend to altitudes so high that he could see the whole world from above.
Even if he failed many times, he finally Magee to create a special thingie to make his modified Mobula go far higher than any ship.
For the fact that nobody ever saw him again after his take off, the scientists of the time decided to value as real the Theory.
A merchant's kiss
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The order by which a guildsman legally assassinates a rival through the Guild's assassin society.
The Anglean and the Sky Whale
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"The drunk anvalan proudly on the deck stood
Riding on his ship
While having a rather bad mood
Of a moving flying big thing he saw the tip
Slowly moving on starboard
Loudly he shouted alarming his equipe
"Bring your ass here Astramord!
And tell what you see!"
"A flying whale sir! Let' shoot with all the guns we have aboard!"
The Anglean and the Sky whale is a popular song among angle an fisherman, it sings about a captain who engages a fight with a great sky whale, fighting it for a whole day, and winning in the end.
It is thought that it was born to mock the story of a drunken man that alarmed every village on the coast for claiming to have seen a flying whale.
Others presume that it is an actual real event, only mistaken for fiction for the fact that usually this kind of stories are sang and told by drunk angleans.
The Firnfeldian Dance
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A special type of jig, limited to only a square meter in performance area, that the Airmen of Firnfield use to warm up mid-air.
Rolling Coal
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The name of a Yeshan group of troubadours. "The rolling coals" have been employing very special kind of music, making them famous and appreciated even among people like Angleans.
Iscadonian jump
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In reference to a legendary Guildsman, this jump refers to a jump off a Mobula, into the thick of a pitched battle, in order to sell ammunition.
Enuff dakka
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"Enuff dakka" is a particle of the phrase "Der iz not enuff dakka", where dakka stands for firepower.
Usually it's a phrase used by the mercenary group called "Greenskins".
Baneblade
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A huge prewar tank, fitted with enough guns and firepower to gut a Galleon in one shot from it's main cannon, and as tall as 5 men standing on top of one another. The most famous is The Fortress of Arrogance, a black beast of a machine dwelling deep within Anglea, being worked on day and night.
Dreadnaught
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Angleans always loved heavy armours and mechanised infantry.
The dreadnaught is the combination of the two, permitting a single soldier to be as dangerous and as durable as a tank, while also giving them a more than decent amount of mobility.
The earlier prototypes were called jokingly by the engineering crews "Killer cans".
Captain Indrick Boreale
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Pilot and leader of the infamous raider group, the Blood Magpies, known for stealing anything remotely valuable or shiny, and wearing heavy, blood red armor. Likes to go for the eyes.
MEHTAL BAWKSES
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The exclamation that became famous among the followers of the pirate lord Carron, who said it after seeing a battalion of angleans "air marines" hiding into armoured transports.
Quote: "The cowards! They hide in mehtal bawkses!"
Battlefleet Gothic
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A sub division of the Baronies military. A naval fleet, that appears to be a floating castle of a style referred to as Gothic.
Arashi Sand Water
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A meteorological event that mixes the vast arashi desert land with occasional water.
Being large chunks of the desert made by impermeable sand, the water and the sand don't mix, creating this mirage-like event, with water and sand coexisting.
Captain Bruce of the Lee familiy
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A mythical figure in Yeshan history, Captain Bruce was the first Captain of the Emperor's Guard. He was so skilled, it was said he could send a man flying from an inch of distance in one punch.
An Anglean Coup De Grace
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Anglea is a very cold and harsh place, if you get really badly hurt there, you are most likely to die, slowly and painfully.
Killing a persone in such a miserable state is considered acceptable, as you are saving them from an otherwise slow and painful death.
To grant such a death to opponents or prsioners with death sentence is seen as a honorful, rightful and compassionate act.
So, executing ''An Anglean Coup De Grace'' is to grant a person a quick and painless death, to save them from agony.
Like A Chaladonian Punch
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A snide remark often used by Yeshans, implicating weakness. The same remark is used by Angleans to refer to the innovative technology of Chaladon, as they are the only other faction with high technology.
Once upon a moonlight fjord
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"Once upon a moonlit fjord" it's the beginning of a horror story famous throughout the Baronies, where a man slaughtered in one night every person at a wedding party.
Dirty like an Anglean boot
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Due to the frequency in which Angleans tread through, oil, grease, blood, mud, and various other fluids, the phrase has been used to mean a thing is so filthy, that it is liable to cause a serious infection. Angleans, by the way, are fond of stomping on their opponents.
A Skywhale's Lament
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The winds that howl trough the ambush-filled canyons north of Yesha product numerous sounds, one of these sounds remembers one of a whale. Since stories about Skywhales have been going around forever, some speculated that some whale-like sounds are actually emitted by Skywhales. As they echo triugh the canyons, they assume a lament-like sound.
Thus the so called ''Skywhale's Lament'' was born.
As generous as a Baron
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The militaristic culture of the Baronies has prioritized ship and munition production over all other facets of the economy including food and medical needs. As a result the only thing a Baron of the Fjords can be generous with is bullets and ships. The expression "As generous as a Baron" has come to mean throwing ships and bullets at a problem that would normally be solved with food and medicine.
Glindrolling
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A not well specified and understood economic maneuver used by the Guild merchants to make every job offered by the Guild appear more appealing, even in the case that they would mean an almost certain death.
Anvalan kiss
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A particularly violent ram, often performed at the start of an engagement in order to force crews to stumble, or even fall off the ship. Unwary traders are often greeted in dangerous areas by a raider Anvalan kiss.
Chaladonian Horse
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A species of horse native to the isle of Chaladon.
It's twice the height of a conventional horse and has two hearts and 2 sets of lungs - necessary to survive and prosper in the rich vegetation and acidically fertilised fields.
Baronite Charge
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A violent, out of place, tactically unsound and dangerous en masse ramming attack.
Having a very knightlike behaviour sometimes, some airship battlegroups from the Baronies form up and charge the enemy lines like they were on the ground on horseback.
While it may function against outflanked enemies, resulting in a devastating advantage for the Baronite fleets, it may also result in a disastrous high amount of losses in case the enemy had a clear line of fire on the charging vessels.
This also led to the heavy armoured prows on many mass produced Baronite vessels like the Crusader.
Lord-Castellan Ursarkar Creed
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Infamous for his tactical genius, one of his more memorable, and yet tame exploits was the careful arrangement of over 50 Galleons to look like a Baronies castle, only for the invading raiders to find out that the fat, juicy target in front of them was in fact a trap made of pain and high explosive rockets. Good friends with Governor General Vance "Motherfucking" Stubbs.
The Skywhale's Palace
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A flying fortress, having a strong resemblance to a whale.
It's the actual residence of the cultists of Lord Dick Tim, the One that looks for the Skywhales.
It has a ridiculous ammount of firepower, and actually has a headfigure made of whale bones.
Governor General Vance "Motherfucking" Stubbs
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Governor General Vance "Motherfucking" Stubbs is an Anglean general that doubles as the Governor/Mayor of a small, but elite town of highly trained soldiers called "Guardsmen". Reknowned for taking towns from other factions, implementing new laws that benefit the populace, and moving on. Once lost 100 huge artillery platform airships. They were, according to his secretary, "misplaced" during transport. Infamous for this event, leading to people to comment that compared to the TACTICAL GENIUS (tactikal jinyas) of Creed, he is tactically inept.
He then usually shoves an artillery Galleon down the throat of whoever said it in front of him.
Got his nickname from rumours of entire town's worth of women throwing themselves at him, but due to his preference for older women, usually chose the mother of the previous mayor.
Overall, a true man's man.
Apollo's Gaze
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Apollo was the name of a deity of sunlight of the Old World, and coincidentally it was also the name of the madman that invented the homonymous Lens Array.
The Apollo's Gaze was how people referred to a full barrage of that weapon, which prototype also had a ridiculously long range, effectively demolishing anything within the captain's sight.
For a while after its invention Captain Apollo travelled trough the lands as a mercenary, and he was also a heavy target of Guild bounty hunters, as his weapon was truly devastating and perfectly functional.
Upon retirement, he sold the blueprints of the gun to the a Guild general, that then spread the usage of the weapon throughout the regular army.
Fun fact: when drunk, once, after seeing an Anglean heavy tank being shipped trough the air-harbour, he yelled with a hilarious voice "IT IS THE BANEBLADE!"
His crew joked about that forever after.
Gungnir
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A Gungnir is an Elite crewman of an Anglean persuasion. Both a highly skilled gunner and engineer, they are equipped with three ammo types and engineering tools. Due to Anglea's low population, many airmen have had to double down and become a Gungnir.
Anglean Diplomacy
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''How did the negotiations go?''
''We ended up showing them some of ye old Anglean diplomacy.''
''... How many dead then?''
''Almost a dozen on both sides.''
Being the Angleans very direct and not masters of diplomacy, the so called Anglean Diplomacy is a worldwide-know and used joke about events when groups of people end up discussing by shooting each other.The first event of Anglean diplomacy happened when the embassies of Anglea and the Baronies met each and pissed off each other and only started discussing humanely after almost every memeber of both armed escorts had been killed in a firefight.
Cadian Conga (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6--w8e8zIcM)
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The Cadian Conga refers to this special elite troops waiting in line to receive their equipment. Further the line they go, the amount of supplies on them clank with each step they take to the next station. With the amount of noise being generated, they joke at it being some form of background music and in line for a conga.
Demon of Angel's Head
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"The Angel" is a peculiar mountain in the middle of the sea between the Baronies and the Order, it is characterised by having a nigh-symmetrical shape, making it look like a head with two wings.
Its shape have always made it a very famous guarding and resting point, where both sea sailors and air sailors alike would rest for a while during their journeys across the sea.
This all changed as an unidentified man overnight killed every person present there at the moment.
Leaving no survivors, nobody knew that this madman now had control of the Angel.
More and more vessels that went to the Angel started to disappear.
People started to talk about a demon, that would fly out of the Angel's head and prey upon the living around there.
Hearing about this oxymoronic name, and also that that trading route was compromised, patrols started to investigate, both the Baronies and the Order lost at least one patrol team to the Demon.
Then a voluntary kill-team Baronies-Order joint operation went there and engaged the Demon.
Thanks to their smart commander, they managed to down the Demon while suffering almost no losses.
But still people tell the stories about a shadowy figure, that every full moon comes from behind the Angel's Head and hovers over the resting crews, only to disappear with the sound of a heavy flak shot.
John "Long" Silver
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Captain John Silver, reknowned for his age and long, silvery beard, was a feared and respected sky captain.
Poop deck
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The "poop deck" is the lower deck on bigger ships, where people go if they have to defecate and the official toilet is already occupied or out of order.
The poop deck is officially the lower one, as multiple attempts, expecially on civilian ships, to poop from higher decks ended up with many a man b img covered in stinky, sticky, turd.
Feeble Jack's grip
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Usually used to refer to a frayed, old harpoon rope, as the rope is much easier to break than usual.
Valhallan Jig
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The Valhallan jig is refered to as "the Drunken pirate twerking"
Which is a condition where if we allow a skycaptain to drink copious amounts of hard liguor strong enough to paralyze three skywhales, he or she, will often jump up onto the nearest elevated surface, usually a table, and commit the act of shaking their ass and right leg like a form of dancing.
Unfortunately, this is NOT SIMPLY a form of dance.
In actuality, the person's liver has been overwhelmed in alchohol and has subsequently shut itself down in an attempt to preserve itself. Usually the person passes out before hand, but by some strange phenomenon, the person continues to drink. Given how much alchohol the person has consumed, they will not notice the Intense burning sensation and feeling of numbness where their liver is located and continue to drink.
Within an average of three minutes later, the alchohol concentration in their blood begins to paralyze their lower body starting with their right leg.
The shaking is caused by the left leg violently trying to move while slowly losing their motor functions and them climbing is a cry for help from their subconcious.
There is no cure.
The only cure is to use a flare gun on them and set them ablaze as the valhallan jig slowly shuts down the victims organs. They will die not knowing they ARE dying.
So the fire lets them know and expedites the slow process.
There are an average of 437 cases a year.
Drink responsibly.
-Shipwide Decapitation.
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Rather obvious. When a whole ship full of incompetents is executed on board, and the next crew assigned usually has to mop up the blood. Often practiced by the Baronies.
Coke vs. Pepsi Debate
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An example of humanity trying to prove that what they like is better than someone else despite each side having their own strengths and weaknesses.
Its kinda like the Anime vs manga debate, or the conflicts over religion.
All of them are equally stupid and you shouldnt give a shit about how they are better than someone else and just appriciate for what they are.
But you know...Humanity.
- a skywhale.
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-A bassian drop
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Refers to a peculiar type of attack used by a sonic weapon called the Bassian Resonator. Supposedly based off of an old world music type, often called EDM, or Electronic Dance Music, known for the heavy use of high powered bass effects. The Bassian Drop is when the device is overcharged, releasing a massive "dub wave" of epic proportions. The pressure caused from smaller variations can pop eardrums and disrupt the inner ear. Larger, heavy mounts may shift the position of crewmen at close range, deflect slow moving projectiles like Hades shots, and more serious cases of the symptoms mentioned above. It is theorized that a large enough Bassian Resonator, with enough energy, could produce enough sonic overpressure to snap bones, bruise flesh, or even partially liquefy a grown man.
Hurricane Heavy Gatling Cannon
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Like then name suggests, the Hurricane gatling cannon is a weapon seen by many as a monstrosity, since its raw firepower capabilities.
Counting over 4 (and even more if the engineers have the permission to modify it) standard gatling guns all attached to each other, the Hurricane is the weapon of choice of heavy ships and fortresses to deal with lighter airships and planes.
While having enough ammo to keep the gun firing for more than a few minutes is often a logistical nightmare, it pays off during combat, as everything short of a Galleon class airship will have all it's reactive armor stripped down and the crewmen torn to shreds.
Anduin's song
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Anduin's song is the music made when you slit a mans throat while simultaneously blowing air down his mouth, closing and opening his wound to produce different tunes.
Apparently used in ritual sacrifices by a long gone cult of mad men. They believed that killing family and loved ones this way would allow their beloved enter the next life, free of strife and burden, carried by the song of their own mutilated throat. Some last second tonguing may have happened too, but scholars are as of now undecided.
-A moist tangerine
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"A moist tangerine" actually has two definitions.
The first one being slang or a pun or sorts in the old tongue of chaladon to some form of sexual position in bed or the use of fruits in bed. How? Well...thats not important or appropriate. Ask a chaladon.
It could also be derogatory to a person that sleeps around and destroys relationships, but the point is...
The first definition is ambiguously sexual.
The second one is much more violent.
It refers to an assasination manuver by Arashi sand raiders in which a pair of high speed squids rapidly disconnect the balloon of their victim at high altitude and accellerate the falling ship with harpoons into the ground. The result is the victim ship promptly collapsing in on itself and crushing everything with the force of gravity.
Where does tangerine come from? Its a crude remark to the amount of guts, blood, and brain matter splattered all over the walls when a salvage ship discovers a victim ship killed this way.
-Sundered Nostalgia
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Sundered Nostalgia is the name that Chaladonians give to the cataclysm that damaged the world at the end of the great war.
Dr Manfred's portable raider radar.
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Detects aggression (somehow) within people by measuring brainwaves in it's surrounding environment.
Alarms usually take the form of beating drums.
Zeus's Roar
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A phenomenon caused when a Galleon's engines are at full power in a canyon. The resulting echoes have been dubbed as Zeus's Roar.
The Badge of the Shattered Engine
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The badge of the shattered engine is a derogatory trinket given to engineers who have survived an engine exploding in their face.
The reason it's an insult to engineers is because...to quote an engineer..."if he fixed it right, it wouldn't have exploded in his face to begin with. Captains abuse em and gunners wreck them, so the fact they didnt explode before this engi shows this engis incompetence."
-Night of the black burning squid.
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A night in which heretical skysailors burn black squids. They whish do this to express their rage at good squids. The squid's are black, because "evil" things are apparently black.
All in all it's a pretty stupid and heretical festival celebrated by squid-attack survivors.
What is an Arashi fork?
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The Arashi Fork is a right of passage to the desert people. Upon reaching the age of maturity, they set out alone into the desert, with only a beaten up junker, and a single canteen. The name refers to the critical point, where the young man or woman must navigate through the desert with nothing but what the desert provides.
A Guildsman's Glare
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Renowned for their politeness and political savvy, a Mercantile Guildsman's glare is, surprisingly, often enough to cow even battle hardened Angleans. Therefore, whenever someone's glare is particularly venomous, they are said to have a Guildsman's Glare.
Chaladonian Conga
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The chaladonian conga comes in two flavors.
The first is simple. This is an event for a chaladonian festival known as the "Green sun"
And is usually held on 14th of the new solar calender. Here, chaladonials host various stands of entertaining proportions similar to the festivals held by the old nation of japan.
Alchohol is however, blown out of proportion, leading up to the Chaladonian conga. A dance where half the town drink and dance until they pass out.
Many outsiders often confuse this with a epidemic of fatal diseases as the entire town of people often sleep in the worst locations almost like they died where they stood.
The second refers to a Raid by Chaladonian Airships in which a fleet wiped out a town in a recent border skirmish. The Admiral of the fleet however, thought it would be comical to bombard the city to the tempo of a conga song.
Witnesses recall watching the destruction in blatant horror, but couldnt shake the feeling that the barrage was "catchy" and "upbeat"
Needless to say, the town was wiped off the map. Never to be recolonized again.
-Angleas frozen melodies.
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Oftentimes the various glaciers and ice caves scattered all over Anglea have various holes riddled through them from gunfire and natural phenomena. The strong winds present in the region blow through them, making haunting, disembodied music come from the landscape surrounding Airmen. These have come to be believed to be spirits, trapped in the ice, singing, as most visitors are unaware of the science behind the songs.
The Kool-Aid Man
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A wonderous Baronite medic. This particular man was always in the heat of battle, helping and protecting whoever he could.
He's particulary renown for working in tandem with expert demo teams, in order to break trough walls, barricades and other various obstacles.
He's very know among other medics for the use of a red-colored beverage, that actaully is a cocktail of multiple combat drugs, pain suppressors and other stimulants. Such beverage is strangely always cool, and being also a very useful aid it's reffered as Kool-Aid.
Many soldiers say that every time they see the ''Kool-Aid Man'' they arenear a wall, and even if a door isright next to it, the medic always blows up the wall to reach them.
Captain Strangherl's Fury
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Captain Strangherl's Fury is an event during the Great Chaladonian/guild border skirmish in which 8 coastal Guild cities were properly leveled in Chaladons name.
Captain Strangherl is known throughout the lands as "The crestfallen sunderer", A captain with a reputation of being one of the rare few to own an Ancient naval battleship still in working order.
Similar to the battleship wrecks found in the Dune sea, Strangherl and his salvage company took it upon themselves to put together the "USS Thumderong hearts" and make it sea worthy as it did, 200 years ago.
Needless to say, he and his company were successful and went from a salvaging group to the proud owner of the largest manmade object in the age of Skies.
Now, during the border-skirmish, Chaladon paid top dollar for Strangherls services as he and his 200 year old battleship shocked the world through the destruction of 8 coastal cities within guild territories.
His 8 pre world war artillery cannons properly obliterated anything in todays time from range, and he smashed any defending guild fleet with a devestating volley of 40/75/and 20 mm cannons.
Many guild lives and valuables were lost that week. And the event became known as "The Depressing Crash."
- Yesha's Thunder Run.
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I was writing this when Skymonger beat me to the punch, but I don't wanna waste it...
When Captain Strangherl witnessed his home town burnt to cinders by a group of raiders, he took his Galleon, his crew, and fought off 4 raider ships simultaneously, knowing that he would be torn to shreds by their incoming reinforcements. After taking out the first four, his ship was in tatters. Making a decision, he steamed straight for the leader's Squid, under full moonshine, buffed engines, and willing the ship to go faster. The squid was torn almost in half from the impact, and as the two ships plummeted towards the cold ground of Firnfield, Strangherl jumped ship, onto the enemy squid, and seized ahold of the Captain. Whispering into the raider's ear, hands around his neck, he said, "Do you know the difference between choking and strangulation?"
Bathed in the glow of dying fires, when they finally hit the ground the broken, asphyxiated body of the enemy captain broke Strangherl's fall.
Nonetheless, he took his surviving crew and disappeared into the night, only to be heard of in legends and tall tales about a single Galleon, tattered and half wrecked, destroying whole patrols of slavers and raiders before vanishing into the mists.
All deceased enemy crewmen found in the wreckage had telltale bruising around their necks.
-A story passed around campfires by drunk sailors. Based very much in truth.
Yesha's Thunder Run is an extremely treacherous group of narrow canyons, barely wide enough for an airship. Named such because the echo of engines reverberating through it in the right way sounds like crashing thunder in a lightning storm.
Bulwark Ultra-Heavy Infantry
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Bulwark ultra heavy infantry is a classification of "homeguard" used by Anglean militaries with the sole purpose of defending the Frozen fortresses they are stationed at with unholy ferocity.
Much like how Anglean raiders are arguably one of the scariest to fight off next to Arashi Skirmishers, Bulwark Infantry are arguably one of Hardest to kill off next to Baronies Royal knights.
Armed with a Submachinegun, Hammer, Two absurdly large Plates of steel attached to their shoulders, and a Retractable shield on their arm, its quite obvious that these men arent backing down for anything other than Overwhelming odds.
Many attackers often run away in terror after seeing these men shrug off tank shells and Aerial bombardments from galleons, and consider them to be warriors of god.
The fact that they also love to charge in and crush enemies with their shield and hammer also add to the nightmare fuel and reputation of these men.
(Nice story Shade, it could be backstory)
-Arashi's Midsummer Winter.
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A incredibly rare meteorological phenomenon. In the heart of the Arashi desert there has been a record of two snowfalls Midsummer night. The term has been attributed to rare, lucky events that do not last long.
The Honor of Lochnagar
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(Thanks, Skymonger. And sorry Carn I got nothin')
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The Honor of Lochnagar
The honor of Lochnagar refers to a written letter of acknowledgment by the guild engineering corps in which a gunner handcrafts, tweaks, and fires his or her own Lochnagar munitions. The letter is usually a recommendation for any gunner thinking of entering a field of engineering as handling and subsequently enhancing Lochnagar ammo improperly usually results in explosive injuries.
The fact that the owner of this letter does this on a regular basis means they are demonstrating a fair amount of engineering prowess and are used to things exploding in their face.
A trait quite important to engineers of the Sky.
- The Unholy Moonshine.
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Some kind of satanic moonshine for sale at less scrupulous ports.
the lead shavings are engraved with various symbols and words of evil, and the alcoholic part of the fuel is brewed and 'blessed' by their dark priests, while the actual fuel portion is made of small animals and children.
- hearsay by traumatized engineers who thought they could handle moonshine but were unable to accept their inability to.
Atlas Titan
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The titan Atlas was a being of the legends of old, and was know to bear the weight of the world on his shoulders.
The Atlas class titan is one of the Old World Air-Battleships that can be found most frequently around the souther wasteland amidst the desert. It is also the one most easily reproducible with today's technology, sometimes prototypes of it can be found in the hands of extremely rich merchants, that use it as a super-heavy freighter with some self-defence, anti-ship armaments.
Daneel Olivaw
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Daneel Olivaw is a famous Arashi gentleman pirate.
While he did steal, plunder, and kill, he had a code of honour, and was always exceedingly polite with his captives, should he take any. Never leaving a woman unsatisfied, a tale untold, or a mug of ale undrunk, he truly is an example for others to follow.
His outstanding bounty is extraordinarily high due to having taken many a noble maiden to his chambers.
Shrek the Ogre
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Shrek the ogre is a legend of strange proportions similar to skywhales.
Much like how people repeatively mention a mythical beast in skywhale tales...
People around the globe mention a strange fat green creature lumbering about in lush areas of the world.
Many Skycaptains often spot it in Chaladonian territories, where it it still prominantly green, but recently people have been spotting it in the arashi desert and the Firfeld wrecks.
What it is, we are unable to verify. Many skycaptains immediately change course to photograph the beast, only to find nothing but disaster and wasted efforts.
One rich Guildsman DID however fund a massive search effort for Shrek.
Brought in armies from Chaladon, The Guild, and the Baronies when he was spotted in the wastes.
The Three armies promptly surrounded the wastes, and a capture team with the guildsman was sent in.
No one but the Guildsman was found.
Found sniffling in pure terror beneath a dune...The team of 48 men in powered military exoskeletons were later found as dismembered body parts across the entire wastes, and no evidence of shrek was found.
- Heaven's Stratospheric Purge.
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The unholy flatulence of a Sky Whale.
The legendary Sky-Flounder.
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skyflounder- a man whos calling was to be a sailor but he could not as he was a rare race well a mutant who lived in a pool on a island in the sky yet one day sailors landed here and so he joined there crew but they bullied him for being a mutant until he earned his name by taking down a entire fleet as the captain because the real captain had been knocked out and so he made a ship named sky fish and one day he mated with a lady having little mutants until it became a big race but then the hunters came finding that this was the best tasting food ever and so the race was eaten other than skyflounder who now wanders the skys
dracmanda seer
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Elizabeth Dracmanda was the empress of an enormous commercial empire in the Guild.
She died after an assassin was sent by a rival consortium. She left behind her daughter Beatrice and an un-named man, that during Elizabeth's life acted as a councellor, who was simply referred as the ''Dracmanda Seer''.
While little Beatrice grew up, she survived multiple assassination attempts, always protected by the seer, who acted as a blade in the darkness, striking Beatrice's enemies before they could do anything to harm the girl.
After thier death, that occurred by natural causes, all this story was found in a diary of her, making the now dying Dracmanda guild a subject of many tales among the people.
The weeping sage
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A Legendary Quest Master and mad god controlling adventures behind the scenes. Often said to roll dice to determine the outcome of an adventuring party's actions. Known among his followers as the Sage of Eyes (https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/a-geeks-guide-corporation-of-occult-research-and-extermination.330378/), it is known that his dice are fickle and have a great hate of his godly liver, as while he wishes for suffering, the dice grant many criticals and good fortune among the party more often than not, driving him to drink.
A favourite drink of his followers is a salty, strong alcohol called "Sage Tears"
(seriously he's one of the best quest masters on Spacebattles)
Will of the Sky
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Will of the sky is just another saying for being adrift without engines in a hot air balloon or disabled airship.
To follow where ever the wind takes you, that is the will of the sky.
Of course, it also applies to Furious lightning storms, Blizzards, and Acid raid. For it is the will of the sky to attempt to kill you and impede you every step of the way.
- A nice relaxing flight.
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"A nice relaxing flight." is a euphemism for throwing a self entitled passenger or crew member off the side of an airship at altitude. Example "The provost's son kept complaining about the grit when we were flying through a sand storm so I made sure he had a nice relaxing flight."
The Burren's Shimmy
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Legends foretold from the days of old. Sailors witness the green flares as the Sun descends below the waves.
Many Arashi have noted similar properties occurring when the Sun touches the dunes of the burren.
Arashi Bone Breaker Trials.
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The Arashi Bone Breaker Trials are a cornerstone of Arashi engineer culture. To test their ability to salvage anything, the young engineers must compete in various tests of strength and endurance. These include the Mallet Throw, the Tar Run, and the Bulkhead Carry.
The Tale of Guntar of Anglea, and Lars the Baron
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''The Tale of Guntar of Anglea, and Lars the Baron'', otherwise known as ''The Tale of Moster-eater Guntar and Whale-killer Lars'' are one of the products born from peaceful relations between the Republic and the Baronies.
In the first day after the Great War of Old, the Baronies and the Republic were still forming and pioneers reached for the Firnfeld in order to claim more lands for thier people.
The Tale begins with a meeting of two such pioneers: Guntar, the paragon anglean, was intent of wrestling a beached shark into submission as he was found by Lars.
Lars helped Guntar carry the shark to his ship, only to see that it had been destroyed.
Lars offers to help Guntar by letting him sail for a while on his own ship... only to get shipwrecked after being attacked by a whale.
Thus, began their journeys together.
Troughout the Tale, Guntar appears to be the strongest among the two, always ready for a fight, yet he is as much honest as he is strong, he is also the most serious among the couple.
Lars on the other hand appears to be the more dextrous than his fellow, yet weaker, more mischevious and prone to make jokes.
The central part of the Tale shows how they got thier nicknames:
Guntar, Lars and some firnfeldlander were travelling towards a village from which no one had heard anything for weeks.
Suddenly they are attacked by a pack of snow tigers. Many men die with thier neck bitten of by the great feline, and as such Guntar decides to give them thier own medicine; after killing by axe a couple of tigers, he jumps onto one, and starts furiously biting its neck.
In the evening Guntar had a new tiger-pelt coat and a liking for raw tiger meat.
After leaving said village, the couple is attacked by some whales. Being most of the time under the water, little could they do against the whales; then Lars did something that many man would consider idiotic, while Guntar considered genious: he jumped onto the back of a whale that was getting back under water, and started stab it into it's head with his sword. Other whales wanted to help the attacked one, but they only gave themselves as targets for the furious Lars, who it is said that killed three whales that day.
The Tale ends with them getting back to the port to which Guntar was planning long ago to bring the shark he wrestled and, after saying farewell to eachother and exchanging gifts (a snow-tiger fur cloak and a whale skin jacket), going back to their own homes.
Many historians from both Anglea and the Baronies have found enough evidence to sustain the historicity of the fact.
''The Guildman and the wolf''
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"The Guildsman and the Wolf is a metaphorical play on words regarding an ongoing 35 year feud between the Mercantile Guilds and the Wolf Bandits.
The guilds, having been established in the vastness, constantly ship trade goods too and from Chaladon through Abermar valley. The Wolf bandits, Established at the bottom of the Abermar valley, set the groundwork for an Ongoing war of raids between the two proud sides.
The Funny thing is, Wolf bandits are among the more decent kind of bandits in the world, you wouldn't know at a first glance given how they often wear Gray Wolf hides and Shaman masks to terrorize their foes.
Yet, having been established in a river valley, they were always well off in resources and never actively raided passing ships unless they were in dire straits, picking targets that had absolutely what they needed through their information networks and never slaughtering indiscriminately.
Now, the reason for their feud is...A Certain notable Guildsmen had apparently gotten sick of his Cargo ships being raided, even if the losses were barely noticeable in his accounts.
His response was a small fleet from Arashi comprised of Bandit hunters. Their job was to tail a Raid fleet from the Wolf bandits to one of their homes and Promptly turn the place into ash as a threat.
And so they did.
Not a single person was spared in the Massacre. Women, children, it made no difference to these hunters, all were bandits to be burned alive in their eyes.
And so, to this day, All wolf bandits actively seek out Guild ships in violent revenge for the lack of mercy that single greedy guildsman had.
(Side note. Apparantly this Guildsman had a Stroke and died when he saw his profits plummet after 2 months of Wolf raids, But wolf bandits continue due to the belief that another Guildsman is just the same.)
Wolf bandits no longer raid ships from Chaladon or any other faction ship in Abermar valley, they hunt guild ships as a matter of honor with rapid and Furious interventions.
A sentiment that has them secretly kept well armed and trained by both the Baronies and the Angleans.
-Echoes of a Past once lost.
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It is said that somewhere in the twisting ice caverns of Anglea, a Pre-War monitoring station still lives, sending broadcasts for help on a regular basis. Captains routinely pick up echoing SOS calls through their radios, a quirk of the caverns. Following them, they either freeze, or give up and turn back, suffused with guilt.
Why is Anglea Full of Bullshit: A Novel
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A novel written by a group of retired elite marauders that got too fed up with the Anglean system and went rogue.
The novel is full of jokes and has also some state secrets in it, even if sometimes they are so outrageous that readers are not sure whether they are joking or for real.
The writers are wanted with a decent bounty on thier head, as thier group is composed nowadays by at least one veteran gone rogue from each faction.
Nobody actaully know how the hell do they manage to publish thier books. ''Why is Anglea Full of Bullshit: A Novel'' is the book that made the group famous, other best sellers are ''The Baronies and thier bullets: The lovestory'', ''How a chicken stalled a Yeshan invasion'', ''Nothing burns as well as a Chaladonian tree'', ''How to offend a Guildsman'' and its sequel ''How NOT to offend a Guildsman'' (the sequel is actually one page long and has written in it You can't.
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Crow's Bullshit Compendium
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A novel written by a group of retired elite marauders that got too fed up with the Anglean system and went rogue.
The novel is full of jokes and has also some state secrets in it, even if sometimes they are so outrageous that readers are not sure whether they are joking or for real.
The writers are wanted with a decent bounty on thier head, as thier group is composed nowadays by at least one veteran gone rogue from each faction.
Nobody actaully know how the hell do they manage to publish thier books. ''Why is Anglea Full of Bullshit: A Novel'' is the book that made the group famous, other best sellers are ''The Baronies and thier bullets: The lovestory'', ''How a chicken stalled a Yeshan invasion'', ''Nothing burns as well as a Chaladonian tree'', ''How to offend a Guildsman'' and its sequel ''How NOT to offend a Guildsman'' (the sequel is actually one page long and has written in it You can't.
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Crow's Bullshit Compendium
(that is better than I ever expected out of wondering about Anglea's hax and putting that down)
A thick, thick tome that Captain Crow of Cainhurst compiled about things he finds to be bullshit.
Rivaled in thickness only by the bestselling "How to Offend a Guildsman".
The Vast-er Vastness
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Rivaled in thickness only by the bestselling "How to Offend a Guildsman".
(http://i.imgur.com/8E1ZpwL.gif)
That really cracked me XD
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The Vast-er Vastness
''What happens when you throw a massive ammount of heavy explosives in the wasteland?'' once asked himself one of the many Chaladonian mad scientists.
A region of the Vastness, around a three hours worth flight north of Selogorod, bear very recent scars, as it is fileed with craters of recent explosions, as Oes-amabi Nlad'en threw around 700.000 kilograms worth of demolition explosives, only to see the eventual result.
A merchant, passing by, was said to be criticizing hiw barren the Vastness was, only to remain shocked at how even more barren was that particular area.
The crew of that ship still remember the struggle the captain went trough to describe the scene.
Apparently it took him an entire hour of continuous thinking to come out with ''Vast-er''.
Even the locals nowadays call that place the ''Vast-er Vastness''.
The captain's name have been since forgotten and many theorize his actual surname was Vaster, rendering the situation even more of a joke.
''You stink like a weaponized baloon''
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A deadly insult among aeronauts, it compares ones body odor to primitive gases once used to fill balloons, and now which are banned according to several treaties as "unholly assaults against the olfactory system".
Skywhale symposium
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The Skywhale Symposium is a nickname for an apparent "Skywhale Migration"; that is, the reported sightings of the mythical beasts move much further south, surprisingly down into the Vastness. It's said you can hear their haunting cries for miles, almost like a great debate.
Moonbuster Cannon
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The name of a Cannon from records dug up in Anglea, it apparantly had enough power to launch manmade objects into space, hence having enough power to puncture anything in existance.
Unfortunately, only two prototypes were built, and the project was ultimately scrapped for weaker, more cost effective Cannons.
One such protoype is seen sticking out of a mountain on Northern fjords.
And there is an ongoing effort to dig it out and reverse engineer it.
- A Forge gun.
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A Forge gun is an incredibly expensive, rare, and powerful weapon. Gravity based, it projects a stream of physics defying "gravitons" towards objects, snagging them in a bubble of anti-gravity allowing the gun to move them at will. Heavy, requiring vast amounts of power, and obscenely expensive, it is rarely deployed, and only by high ranking members of Chaladon, Yesha, and the Guild. slightly more widespread in Anglea.
Often used in (de/re)construction efforts.
Forge Monitor
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As un-inspired as it may seem, the Forge monitor is the system that permits to control a Forge gun.
Costing as much as 56 times more than the gun itself, it's one of the ''most common'' Old World relics used by either the wealthiest or more advanced military forces of the world.
Rumors are that actually only Anglea have the possibility to find such devices, and any other state in the world have actually bought one from them.
''Most common'' as in: every supreme general in the world have seen one at least once
The floating city of Dalaran
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The floating city of daralan WAS infact the name of a Manmade castle designed by jonathan stephenson in the before-war year of 1912.
The Castle was powered and kept airborne by an incredibly rare quality of liquid in which a massive amount of steam pressure could be created infinitely from it, without the use of boilers or replenishment.
However, stephenson went mad from the prospect that his powersource would be abused by british military makers, so he built Daralan in the middle of London, underground over 4 long years.
Upon activation, he froze half of london and several British home guard regiments and three Destroyers.
The Castle Exploded in the Thames river, and with it, the source of infinite steam power and stephenson himself.
-Cloud eater myth.
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The cloud eater myth was a story made soon after the end of the Old World Great War.
The myth was a mystification of the brutal strategy that was the Nimbus Denial strategy, which is believed to be one of the causes for the Vastness barren lands.
Recon Operation Front Line copter
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The ROFL Copter, a helicopter used for forward recon and scouting, often laughed at because of it's bizarre appearance, is an Anglean advancement in air power that is quite good at it's job.
LMFAO
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The Lift Magnifying Fighter Auxiliary Ordinance, is a rare and experimental ammo used by elite units. The bullets actually cause whatever they become embedded into, to defy gravity. Used to disable water vessels, break sieges, and dramatic public assassinations, they are ridiculously expensive, dangerous and time consuming to make. A single bullet can take a year, 1,000 crowns, and on average can detonate three times before completion.
Skywhale Riders
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What it says on the tin.
Great warriors, riding armored skywhales into combat, capable of matching and exceeding most airships. Mounted weapons are incredibly common.
Project ATLAS
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Project Atlas.
Now most things beginning with "project" often came from the Icy depths of Anglea from the Old world. Usually refering to an Advanced tech development that can no longer be made today in the Age of Sky.
Atlas however...came from Arashi. Buried beneath 500 tons of sand, and incarcerated in its own Tomb of Titanium walls, it was quite obvious someone of the past took drastic measures to keep whatever was being created here from ever seeing the light of day.
With good reason.
Atlas is a Biological weapon designed with being Atmospherically dispersed over continents through the use of microscopic spores. Upon contact with moisture, the spores Rapidly grow to 200 times their size and effectively bury the source of moisture in a horrific fungal mass. Think of a small sugar crystal suddenly being large enough to crush a car upon contact with water.
Then imagine it inside someone's lungs.
The few surviving samples were pulled from Arashi and Taken to Anglea where they were analyzed by Blackguard technicians before being Properly burned.
-The Solaris Disaster.
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An experiment gone wrong, the Solaris Ordnance Launcher, or S.O.L for short, was a Chaladonian weapons platform used to fire a deadly new rocket. S.T.A.R, Strategic Tactical Arlen Rupture, was developed to emit a large blinding light to distract enemies, as it lights up, it also sends out deadly rays of heat to literally melt its victims. Developed by scientist, Jauque Arlen, he developed the chemical mixture that gives this bomb its potent proprieties. Testing took place on the Northeast coast of Chaladon above the Sea of Devils during the winter nights as the Winter Lights masked any of the explosions making it seem like with is part of the yearly phenomenon. It's fifth test, Professor Arlen himself was present and recommended to increase the mixture to display its might in front of the top brass. The first four test slowly increased the amount of how much was used in the bomb, what the Professor suggested was 10x more than that of the fourth test. Complying, his men created the bomb but strongly pleaded with the man not to fire it.
"Nonsense, this is perfectly safe. In fact I myself will launch it," Were his last words spoken before taking his personal ship with a S.O.L launcher out in the middle of the ocean. Off in the distance, much of the Chaladonian military stand idle as a single contrail is seen before immediately exploding not even 50 feet from Arlen's ship. The light was bright enough, citizens in Arcca thought it was an early sun rise. Once the light has settled and the darkness coming back, nothing was left of either Arlen or his craft. Dub too dangerous in large amounts, the military disband the project and Classified reports named the accident "The Solaris Disaster."
The Raven of Lord's Leap By Scarlet Rosewood
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The Raven of Lord's leap by Scarlet Rosewood is a strange Black Covered book Handwritten by the "Red Shamen of Arashi", Scarlet Rosewood.
Scarlet is a woman of mystery, possessing a figure so old and spindly, you can't understand how she lives and breathes without collapsing into a pile of ashes.
But, despite how she looks, she always insists that she is only 63, even if its been 20 years since the last time someone saw her.
Inside the Raven are several hundred thousand pages detailing Ancient rituals pertaining to 'Satanic spells' or 'Black magic' coming from years before the end of the Last great civilizations.
In addition to these inscriptions, there are just as many stories describing the Red shamen's Travels Across the desert and World.
This is where things get interesting, should you get past the fear of being condemned. In her Stories it describes civilizations of the past and their way of life. How people ate, lived, worked, what their homes were like, how their Society grew, And what ended that civilization.
She even adds in more specific details in her records by recording people's names and languages in their entirety.
Most would call the Raven to be fiction and nothing more.
However, there have been recent excavations deep beneath Anglea and Arashi of unidentifiable Civilizations that were so shockingly accurate to the Ravens Stories that one would believe that Scarlet was there.
And so her Mysteries grow.
---The Hallowed ground of Yesha.
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The Hallowed Ground of Yesha,
Those fukken glorified rocks,
The unbreachable temple,
The Lair of the Dragon and the Tiger,
The inheritance of the Old World.
Many are the names given to this mythical, yet real, place. It was once known only by the Emperor himself, as it was the place where it was said that the two strongest divinities of the Yeshan pantheon lived.
The common folk simply call it "the Hallowed Ground", and foreigners simply add "Yeshan" before "Hallowed".
Monks there called it the "Lair" and many sacrifices to honour the Tiger and the Dragin were had. It is such a beautiful place geographically that anyone who would go there would drop their jaw in disbelief that something so nice and not-dead could exist outside of Chaladon.
Only the High Priest and the Emperor themselves had the possibility to enter it, and no other.
During the early Arashi Independence Wars it acted as a fortress too, and somehow, despite outnumbering the yeshans 7:1 the siege of the temple was a complete failure that costed the Arashi a lot of their combat momentum, causing them to fall before the counter attack of the Imperial armies.
And that' sway it is called "the unbreachable temple".
"Those fukken glorified rocks" is the name that very polite and gentle geologists from the Baronies gave the place after they managed to sneak into the territory in order to find any valuable information about why that place was so much revered.
It is called also the "Inheritance" of the Old World by the Angleans, or more like "thier inheritance".
Only few times the Republic went to war with the Empire, and every time Anglea was doing it out of lust for new relics, as those who have much, desire even more.
-"My ship for an engineer!"
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A proclamation frequently shouted by Barons stranded in foreign ports. The Barons themselves, frequently train in piloting, leaving tasks like repairs, fall to subordinates. When these subordinates quit, the Barons shout, willing to give the ship to the engineer who can fix it, then piloting it back home, where the Baron promptly gets another out of dry docks.
The Man Below the Ice, by Theodore Fair wind
(Skymonger, Lord's Leap is the capital of the Baronies, and the Raven is a symbol of them as well)
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The Man Below the Ice, by Theodore Fair wind
(Skymonger, Lord's Leap is the capital of the Baronies, and the Raven is a symbol of them as well)
(Didn't know that. Guess i still need to learn about the factions.)
In the After war year of 1915 in the Age of Airships, The baronies had enacted several snow expeditions through what is now known as Finfeld.
Their purpose was to chart out moderately safe passages of flight to the borders of Anglea at Utentana city.
One such expedition evidently had lost their way in a snowstorm. Instead of heading west, they got sidetracked 200 miles northward and continued heading in that direction until they stopped near the present day city of Thula.
It was there that the Barons found it.
A Giant Mechanical Hand jutting itself out of a cliff.
Till that day, only Angleans had dug up ancient Engines and small sized Automatons in their frozen home yet here was a Giant mechanical hand the size of a small building in near perfect condition.
For obvious reasons, The Baron expedition attempted to hide their discovery from anyone until they were able to dig it out and see what the hand was attached to.
And they were able to successfully do so for Three months.
That is, until the publication of this newspaper column by Theodore Fair wind.
Being a recollection of his journey with the expedition, Theodore painted a bright target on the Baronite Excavation to the Angleans.
A small skirmish of words and threats ensued over the Half excavated Metal man for two years, but in the end, both sides gave up over trying to claim sole ownership. Anglea had the expertise to make ancient technologies work, and the Barons had the resources to continue the expedition so far from their homes.
To this day, the Town of Thula has a mix of Baronite and Anglean descent as the city is a treasure trove of lost technologies for both sides to enjoy.
--- A Guild-crash by Henry Cloud
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A written account of the infamous "Guild Crash", where due to the age of Airships rushing in headlong, the Guild's massive cargo planes fell entirely out of favour and it seemed they were in dire straights, and nobody could trade. The economy ground to a halt, and people starved for years until a proper fleet was built.
Super Tengan Toppa Gurren Lagann
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A flamboyant Yeshan boy, together with a busty redhead and some friend of his once discovered a functioning War Dreadnought of the Old World.
That was before the Age of Air, so many dreadnoughts were scarcely salvaged and we're still functioning.
This dreadnought came to be inhabited by the trio, that brought the flying monster back into the air.
Some of those who saw it flying said that it had a strong resemblance to a drill, others expanded the quote to the famous form we know today:
"It was the drill that pierced the heavens."
Its name was apparently Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, and belonged to the Old World faction of the Ni-pon Empire.
Some may think that they would do many battles against the other sky titans that at that age flew around. They actually did for a while, then Anglea happened: even without the technology to fly, Angleans were still capable to board flying ships.
In a moment of panic the trio lost control of the flying titan, and crashed it on an Anglean mountain.
With the trio and some boarders dead, the Anglean high command was happy to have obtained such an awesome quantity of Old World tech.
The man who sold the world
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The legendary tale of the founding member and president of the Mercantile Guild, who, due to the fact all his enemies were keeping him from starting a business, bought a large chunk of the wastes for almost dirt cheap, about the price of a single, easy cargo run on a Goldfish.
With this land, he started the single most profitable conglomeration of merchants since the War.
As he gained access to more and more resources and rare goods, from every corner of civilization, he found that he had amassed, quite simply, an empire.
Seeing as how he had wormed him and his company into the deepest recesses of all the great factions, without whom they would be greatly decreased in power and ability, it is said that the man who sold that initial country's worth of barren, desolate wasteland was the Man Who Sold the World.
Wei Shen
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Chief in command of the yeshan Sleeping Dogs intelligence unit, Wei Shen is and was one of the most famous infiltrators in history, as he gave problems to every adn any faction opposing Yesha.
Despite being an infiltrator, his stealth skills were not what made him legendary, but in act were his martial arts (and the fact that knocked out barehanded an Anglean Force Commander with his whole Honor Guard).
Senator Armstrong
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A legendary pre-war Senator of immense martial might and football prowess. Totally insane, with a Darwinist political philosophy, he kidnapped hundreds of children to turn into perfect, unfeeling soldiers, but was stopped by a lone man wielding only a sword; Raiden.
Raiden
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raiden- a sky mage the best in the lands yet his rival one day payed for his exile by bribing his home town mayor after he framed him for steeling- raiden was asian his mother and father died long ago and he never remembered there names, but what he did know was they died to his magic after he was possesed by a sky demon that used his magic against them- he is now sitting in a shit shack hardly eatting real food and easting feeces
Dracana SENTRA portal DIGTION
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''Dracana SENTRA portal DIGTION'' is the 45th paragraph of Chapter 53 of the Compendium Omnium Stercum Bovis (aka Compendium of All Bullshit) and spans from the beginning to the end of page 6378. The author is unknown, many baronite priests have deemed it heretical and worth of being censored, but since most of the nobility finds its content hilariously idiotical no alteration has befallen the Dracana SENTRA portal DIGTION.
Maybe it's the fact that it is a text-wall without punctuation, maybe it's because it's written in runes, maybe it's because the book itself is slippery and one can't look at the same page for more than a few seconds, but, noone today is capable of reading trough the obscure words of this enigmatic paragraph.
''Funnily nonsensical.''- the Royal Library
"It needs more obscure meanings. There are too many words."- Imperial Grammar Network
Compendium Omnium Stercum Bovis aka Compendium of All Bullshit
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Compendium Omnium Stercum Bovis aka Compendium of All Bullshit- it was a item a gem that brain washed the owner to make bullshit stuff and then enchant it to be a killer monster yet they could be killed just by disproving the bull shit so it was easy to defeat them till omnium came and made the most bull shit story that it would take years to prove it all as bullshit untill a hero of great site and reading who was thought to be a joke hero managed to prove it all as bull shit in 1 day and then there was a parade for him 1 time then they for got him i learned this from a acient sage who has lived for 100s of years
john the alchoal and blood magic sage
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A perpetually, endlessly, incredibly drunk man constantly suffering from anemia due to believing that he can control his own blood through magic. This may be because his blood could ostensibly used as high octane Squid Race fuel.
Top Fuel Airship Racing
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a sport made for young men when drunk af they would drive till they are sick and there are 2 game modes last to throw up wins or who ever throws up most
sky fish of blood and doom sky demon lord
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''sky fish of blood and doom sky demon lord''
Is the supposed translation of the name of one of the oldest epic poems from Nothern Yesha.
The actual name would be "The sky dragon and the sky demon'' and, while having every aspect an epic tale would have, it also resembles a battle report of a duel of heavy airships. Archaeologists today from all over the world theorize that this epic poem is actually describing one of the last air battles that happened between the last surviving air-dreadnaughts during the Old War.
Multiple researchers have located the place of that battle via the approximate descriptions in the poem. The location would be along the Nothern yeshan Coasts, just in front of Anglea.
While many salvaging operations had been conducted, no proof of the validity of the theory could be found.
Speculations keep coming out tho, as some think that the two titanic airships have fallen into that sea, that is renown to be very deep in that area, others state defiantly that Anglea have already salvaged them both.
The Lion from midnight
(Also, necromancy! Yeah! Make the Pit deep again!)
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The Lion from Midnight is an old, old story about a roaming guardian in the Fjords that takes the form of a giant, majestic black lion, protecting innocents and preying on those who would prey on others. It only shows up on deep, moonless, foggy nights. There are usually 1-2 sightings a year, with more frequency denoting 4, or even 5!
Batman.
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Me.
Robin?
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Also you.
Whitaker's Blast Bottle.
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Old Whitaker of the Burren was a strange fellow. He was a speed demon and a prankster. His bottle contained a vile liquid which could make vessels reach backbreaking speeds. The drink also had the unusual side effect of making drinks explosive... one drop in a mercs drink and the taverns plumbing will be put to the test.
The Wall
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A fun game until Shinkurex let it die. Also, Donald Trump's wet dream.
The Description Game
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My receptacle of reasons I hate all of you.
I don't really hate all of you.
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A quote made by Pie.
Chaladonian tea
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A curious concoction of herbal supplements, Alcohol, hallucinogenic mushrooms, Apples, sugar, honey, and gunpowder shavings commonly found in chaladon. Strangely good for your skin and produces a warm feeling of happiness and dreams.
Side affects include: Loudness, incoherant screaming, uncontrollable dancing, Stripping, Violent brawls while smiling, and of copious amounts of sweat.
"Popular in Anglea"
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Usually used as a sarcastic remark about over-preparedness. Weaponry, ammo, food, water, and everything else one might need to survive slung over one's body makes for an odd fashion statement... but it's popular in Anglea.
FruitFucker 9000
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The name of the ship with the pilot who was obsessed with finding new ways to pleasure himself. He died after charging in through no man's land.
Artisan's Special Order
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The Artisan's Special Order is a slang term used by engineers. Typically it is used to refer to pretentious aristocrats who wish to extravagantly modify their airships, in the most impractical of ways. An popular example involves a rich Fjord Baron wanting his entire ship coated in gold plating, even the balloon. Needless to say, the term is used negatively.
Anglean personnel canon
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An anti-personnel personal cannon used by certain Anglean shock troops. A downsized Barking Dog is supremely effective at laying whole squads low with a storm of widespread, shotgun blasts of razor sharp projectiles. Somewhat impractical, but the terror factor is not to be underestimated.
Chaladonian peach
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A Chaladonian Peach is a name for a young, female socialite from Chaladon.
The Golden Cloud
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A tale told by small villages who don't know how the sunrise and sunset work, about a magical airshipman who can turn clouds into solid gold, but comes only at certain times.
The most foul art of necromancy.
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A practice used by ancient gods called Players. These Players would communicate with each other and their followers in a place called the Forum. The most foul art of necromancy was used to reawaken old conversations long after they had died.
Journeys of a Guildsman's Accountant
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Commonly believed to be a mere novel about an unfortunate series of events happening to an anonymous accountant from the Merchant Guild, it is actually a very detailed encyclopaedia that treats in depth many aspects of the societies met by said accountant.
Currently is one of the most used books by the students of anthropology of the Guild universities.
"Three men and a keg"
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An amusing, commonly told tale about three airmen, an empty keg, and their quest to fill it.
They ask a brewer to fill it, and he will if they get him a new tap.
They ask the blacksmith for a tap, and he'll hand it over if they get his bellows stitched up.
They ask a seamstress to fix it, and she will if they can get her wool.
They ask a farmer for the wool, and he'll give it to them if they can fix his tractor.
They ask the machinist to fix it, and he will if he can join their crew.
They ask the merchant to provide the extra supplies they'll need, and he'll do it if they can get a courier to run his package to Yesha.
And so on. It changes with everyone who tells it, and seems to get longer every time.
A whomping willow
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While everybody believes, rightfully, that the Angleans are the greatest gun-nuts and craziest fighters in the known world, sometimes even the oft-meek Chaladonians manage to surprise the world.
The entire landmass of Chaladon is filled by multiple clusters of trees, that effectively keep a lot of soil under the cover of darkness 24/7.
Such a fact proved to be a problem for the Chaladoninas during the early meetings between the locals and outsiders, as many raiders and outlaws would come from the forests and approach even larger settlements under the cover of darkness.
To combat such a problem the Chaladonians, ever fond of the nature of The Nature, found a way to "weaponize" the trees.
First of all, there is the need to explain that the Chaladonian Willow is one of the biggest kind of trees found in the Island of Chaladon, and they are capable of holding on them even extremely heavy things, and hide them too. With this in mind, let's now explore the birth of the Whomping Willow.
The Chaladonian Defense Council thought about the weaponization in a rare moment of Nature induced enlightenment and chose the Salix Gigas Chaladonis as its main subject given the size of the tree. This project saw the usually peaceful Chaladonians creating big deadly weapons capable of taking down most airships of the beginning of the Age of Flight.
The heavy weapons platform would be placed upon the willow and hidden behind its leaves, the gunner would then shoot with the overglorified Chaladonian version of a flak cannon and take down invading airships, or overkill any man stupid enough to engage on foot such a defence system.
In the early days of Flight, when airships were barely more than flying coffins, visibility was minimal and the design of most air vessels was the most utilitarian possible, so, when another wave of would-be air-pirates tried to reach Chaladon, the first victims of the Whomping Willow were completely oblivious of what hit them and simply made legends about the Fury of the Forest appear.
This knowledge is widespread to the outside world today for the fact that these AA defence systems are outdated and many ships, the Chaladonian own Squid in primis, can quickly outmanoeuvre the WWs.
A nice thing to note is that to this day remains as a tradition in Chaladon to gift a piece of willow root to someone you want to never see again, or even want to kill.
The Fury of the Forest
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The Fury of the Forest is an old old wive's tale about the famous "Whomping Willow" defense system implemented by Chaladon ages ago, concocted by the cowardly and dazed survivors of the first pirate raid on Chaladon after it's installation. It says the trees themselves lashed out with explosive fury, branches and leaves whipping out to strike at airships and rend them in twain, flashing wildly, bright light and noise everywhere, and the thunder of their mighty creaking bringing to mind the wrath of whatever gods remain above.
The Library of Beliefs
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An ancient structure from before the Great War, the Library of Beliefs catalogued all know religions, philosophies, political theories and other such things. The location was lost long ago, and modern scholars believe that it exists either below the Arashi desert, or deep in the frozen tundra of Anglea.
Like a Yeshan's barrel.
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"Like a Yeshan Barrel" - A phrase of mockery used in the Arashi League Oasis Towns... if you're dehydrated, you're like a yeshan barrel... dried up and filled with spice ready to loot.
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"Like a Yeshan Barrel" - A phrase of mockery used in the Arashi League Oasis Towns... if you're dehydrated, you're like a yeshan barrel... dried up and filled with spice ready to loot.
A phrase taken from the famous adventure book "Me, my coat and my hat: a pink dyed adventure" narrating the journeys and the discoveries of the one and only Mann. Still to this date, apparently 86 years after its first pubblication, the book is a best seller among yougsters and a headache for philologists, who can't apparently decide if the main character of the book is fictitious or real.
"You ok there buddy?"
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"You ok there buddy?"
A scathing words often employed by seasoned gunners, engineers, and pilots when another member of the crew cannot seem to do their job correctly.
Threading the needle
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Used to describe any pinpoint maneuvers needed to avoid something, whether that be weaving through a cloud of hwatcha rockets with minimal damage or navigating the tightest parts of the Paritian ruins, you're threading the needle.
Sky's Judgement
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An ancient superstition popular among older aeronauts. It speaks of a massive storm appearing out of nowhere, one that utterly decimates the airships of overly confident pilots.
Gunner's Bane
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An overly drammatic way to say that the gunner hurt their wrists, or more generally their hands and arms in such a manner that doesn't let them shoot as well as they usually do.
"You are as lucky as a sky captain's parrot!"