The Mouldwarp Republic - legendary subterranean polity, rebels against monarchical oppression who fled underground, exanding their tunnels and hideaways into a country-spanning egalitarian underland
Firenewts have much higher tolerance for heat - their pipes can be much shorter than humans' without burning their lips & lungs - and they are not "evil" so much as "constantly suffering from mild-to-moderate stimulant psychosis" due to "smoking a ton of crack"
The Scorpion's Web - a sprawling network of moldering qanats, cisterns, and under-roads surrounding the forbidden city of Tlincal - vital shelter for those crossing the desert, but also a stalking-ground for the parasitoid scorpion-men
There's a lake which is the only place in the world where it's permissible to commit suicide - most drown, but some will row out some ways and drink poison or slit their throats - the lake's god receives prayers for the restoration of honour, for an end to pain, for vengeance - the lake's shore peppered with sickos offering to help
Word Corner:
-Virate: Title of ruler
-Suberose: Has a corky texture
-Lureln: Rhine dialect, meaning "murmuring"
-Pelf: Money, especially when gained in a dishonest or dishonourable way
-Biotope: An area of uniform environmental conditions providing a living place for a specific assemblage of plants and animals
-Gare: Coarse wool on the legs of a sheep, a dock-basin on a waterway, a pier or wharf, a train station, greedy or covetous. Gare-fowl is another name for a great auk.
-Oleaginous: Rich in, covered with, or producing oil - oily or greasy - exaggeratedly and distastefully complimentary
-Chlorochrous: Having a yellow-green colour
-Flavescent: Yellowish or turning yellow
-Albicant: Whitening or becoming white
-Atrous: Jet-black
-Diremption: A sharp division into two parts
-Omnium-Gatherum: An unorganized collection or mixture of various things
-Jackeen: Pejorative term for someone from Dublin, Ireland - a contemptuous designation for a self-assertive worthless fellow
-Flush: A period where tea plants grow new leaves
-Salep: Flour made from the tubers of the orchid genus Orchis. These tubers contain a nutritious, starchy polysaccharide called glucomannan. Salep flour is consumed in beverages and desserts, especially in the cuisines of the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, notably in the Levant, where it is a traditional winter beverage.
-Adumbrate: Report or represent in outline, indicate faintly, foreshadow or symbolize, overshadow
-Beot: A proclamation given to enemies before battle telling them how you are going to kill them - naming targets, how many you will kill, how you will kill them, etc.
-Drumble-dor: A bumblebee, a beetle, a dandelion, a blundering person
-Gleed: A hot coal
-Hollybob: A branch of holly
-Murdrum: The killing of an unknown man
-Wark: Old English, an ache
-Welkin: The sky or heaven
-Lea: An open area of grassy or arable land
-Corybantic: Wild, frenzied
-Luppan: Possessing large wings, or having the appearance of possessing large wings
-Tangzhong: Also called "water roux" or "yu-dane" - a paste of flour cooked in water or milk which is used to improve the texture of bread and increase the amount of time it takes to go stale
-Pruritus: Medical term for itching
-Shatter Belt: Strategically-positioned regions that are deeply internally divided and encompassed in the competition between the great powers - also another term for fault line
-Rill: A very small brook or any of several long, narrow, meandering valleys or trenches that are devoid of water on the Moon's surface
-Ingwet: Cave-slime, mold
-Labile: Liable to change, easily altered, easily broken down or replaced
-Wolver: One that behaves like a wolf, one that hunts wolves
-Flehmening: A behaviour in which an animal curls back its upper lip exposing its front teeth, inhales with the nostrils usually closed, and then often holds this position for several seconds. It may be performed over a site or substance of particular interest to the animal, or may be performed with the neck stretched and the head held high in the air.
-Jejune: Naive, simplistic, superficial - dry & uninteresting writing and/or ideas
-Inquiline: An animal that lives commensally in the nest, burrow, or dwelling place of an animal of another species.
-Orgulous: Haughty
-Pundendum: External genitalia, especially of a woman
-Vaticination: Prediction, the act of prophesying
-Shool: To drag or scrape along, to loaf or idle about begging, to shovel
-Obmutescence: Becoming or staying silent/mute
-Septentrion: The northern regions, north
-Interlard: To vary by intermixture
-Repine: Feel or express discontent, fret, languish
-Chrestomathy: Selection of passages from an authour or set of authours, designed to help in learning a language
Dry curry ration
The Miserable Sisters of Pox are the tumultuous & tumourous daughters of the god-cancer Vaprak
A hexmap with several locations/enemies that risk various diseases, and shrines or wisewoman-types scattered about that can cure one each - and each having their associated complications that characters seeking a cure will become entangled in
-perhaps the right sacrifice or defilement can reverse such a shrine, letting you curse your enemies of the disease rather than cure yourself of it
Gripplies carry grippe... of course... grippelies... the sickness that makes you "croaky"...
A character missing their teeth... carry a mortar & pestle at all times to mash their food to edibility...
Monster or object that exists in two planes simultaneously - perhaps living rift/verge
-perhaps two monsters or other such things linked across planes by an extra-spatial "umbilical"
A form of theatre performed by projecting the actors' shadows onto the surface of hot air balloons, entirely gestural, with a view of all sides being necessary to understand the whole story as characters walk "off-stage" only to arrive into another scene - the wealthy employ runners to keep them up to date on happenings on other sides
Just steal the death-curse of the linnorms from pathfinder if you kill a linnorm you get its death-curse and every sort of linnorm has its own sort of death-curse just give that to some monster or another
-perhaps embodied by a bird or somesuch that flies out of the monster's mouth on death and into yours, so that there can be counter-play
A glass centipede, lives in caves, echolocates by the rapid tap-dancing clacking of its chelicerae - dumb in the way insects are but falls in love with human voices, wants to cuddle up around your throat
A terrier which was sized to humans as regular terriers were to rats would be terrifying... one shake from such a thing would irrepairably ruin your spine... a hundred human beings so ruined in an hour... giants are placing bets...
Names: Vasalerat, Shashagosa, Addegastus, Solatio, Lentibelsinea, Hascell, Robin King Agbisherea, Arkhebalataia, Mossassul, Hamorda-morda, T'Jem, Buchevult, the Hushlands, Lyr Branwen, Scrome Blapherd, Mirramessa, the Stonies, Lindhog, Dumaruga, Sarconensis, Imrane, Ogdala, Scrammatelia
-Other Names: Dire Ulixes, Perfidious Albion, Nectanebos, Nystagmus, Modredus, Sonthonax, Aristide, Orfeo & Heurodis, Deirdriu Anbroin, Maesalynbeth, Indolent Semyon, Free Lance Ypolita, Yrento, Voivode Cyrus, Strong-Thewed Uruk, Loathsome Margot, Siglief, Gaheirn, Dirnemir, Berbiolette
The Plane of Shadows is outer space, figuratively - maybe literally - lightless and barren, distances and bodies stretched monstrously like shadows before a waning sun - and also like the deep sea, a little light a great danger in the darkness
The red bark of Edat, also called Ozouga, or Sacoglottis gabonensis, is used by the Efik people among others to increase the potency & preservation of palm wine - also protects the brain from some of the negative effects of ethanol
A race of giants - they are storks transformed - in one place they are giants, and when they migrate they become birds
Burgherlars of the Stolen City
A lake of the moon and a lake of the sun - the lake of the moon is cold by day & hot by night - the lake of the sun the opposite
Okay so it's like that coffee they pull out of civet poop but first another animal eats the civet and another different animal eats that animal and so on however many times until the civet and all the rest are digested and pooped out and then you go and get the coffee
Perchance Bullet: Full of circuitry - lodges in the brain, traps mind in virtual reality based off their memories and fantasies, preserves it well past the point of bodily death
Cassadaga (a Seneca Indian word meaning "Water beneath the rocks") is a small unincorporated community located in Volusia County, Florida, United States, just north of Deltona. It is especially known for having many psychics and mediums, and has consequently been named the "Psychic Capital of the World".
Steal rooms from Blue Prince to use as dungeon rooms... e.g. the rotunda... and/or Blue Prince dungeon, draft dungeon rooms from deck, limited "hand" each time
Duergar - mistranslation - doer-gar, the sons of doer - dwarf-clan which believes the key part of creation is the act of creation, the suffering undergone to create - venerate mothers & slaves - other clans include the seer-gar, makers of lenses and suchlike, who believe creation can't be complete without full perception and understanding of the created - holder-gar, who believe that creation is nothing without possession of the created
The Green Planet, the heaven of Obad-Hai, is the source of orcworts, barometz, seed roaches, barnacle geese, and so on, brought to the world by spelljammers and suchlike some time ago
Old Tooth-and-Nails - a once-human boogeyman - his nails got longer and longer, his teeth more plentysome, until his flesh and bone were just a fist-sized lump on a body made of yellowed teeth and nails
The lumps on the Ephesian Artemis's chest aren't breasts, but instead the testicles of sacrificial bulls - Tim Ward
From Bogleech - there's something out there that when it gets cancer, its cancer starts flying around and building monolithic cities
Lovecraftiana: DNA is an ultraterrestrial invention, panspermically seeded in primordial soup throughout the universe - hence why beasts from beyond the local cluster can eat humans - it's a sort of self-evolving coordinate system for hyper-dimensional travel & transfers - blast a baryonic universe with the stuff once and an eon later it'll have made a knot of "shortcuts" and "wiring" - also why eldritch entities are concerned with blood, bloodlines, hybridization, etc. - Yog-Sothoth busted in Lavinia Whateley to save 5 meta-minutes on its trip to the brane-store
-"when the stars are right" is when these connections are such that the ultraterrestrial wills of Cthulhuoids can interface with their dormant drone bodies in the baryonic universe
-plot by cult to steal skull of ancient human which was preserved in now-melting permafrost - plan to clone them from the DNA in its teeth, under suspicion that they were a blessed one of the outer gods
A village scattered with corpses - some roofs & frames collapsed - the corpses died of falling from a great height, and have grown scales in patches - they worshiped a dragon-god, and tried to ascend - they failed, or were rejected, and fell
Dishevelled man in a cabin in the woods - insists you come inside, help him barricade, that there are flesh-eating zombies that have the place surrounded - in fact he is a flesh-eating zombie repressing awareness of that, but will revert if you allow yourself to be locked inside or question too muc
Theo-sci-fi universe wherein the Mormons are more-or-less right... corner of the galaxy wherein the post-humously baptized - undead starship-godlings - lord over worlds dreamed in death... dvergrian species created from the unconscious memories of rotting, being consumed... treated uncomfortably by the united worlds of the celestial kingdom, home to those uncomfortably between the celestial and the telestial
Dyson Dust: Spaceborne micro-inorganisms, ultimately artificial though naturally-evolved, found in an increasing number of solar systems. Believed to be descended from self-replicating swarms meant for the construction of Dyson spheres and similar cosmic mega-structures, which emergently began to turn cannibalistic, cancerous, and small.
Whatever happened to Blackbeard's head?
-transplanted onto generations of admiral-bodies in the british navy
-affixed to control-cortex of nuclear submarine of secret pirate-nation
-took over Davy Jones' locker
Masked dancing dogs
-from NBateman: magic ring which allows wearer to command beast wearing matching collar
Oceanic scavengers have difficulty dismantling whale carcasses because they have trouble getting enough leverage to bite through the thick hide & blubber - same in space?
From dream: beast that is so evil that when one is born God sends an angel to chop off its head - they are able to survive with just the brainstem
Paired will-o'-wisp & monster that can mimic voices - pretending to be adventurer with torch spotted from a distance - lure prey into traps
-candles rendered from the fat of brains smashed out from the skulls of those in the throes of strong emotion - the smoke/light of these candles induces emotion, and/or psychometrically frames things illuminated
Curse of the forest demon - swaps a hunter's head with that of the animal they slew - there is a beast now roaming the forest with a human head and human cunning
Bungus - chitin-based protein computer hybrid species of fungus & insect forming crawling, sporulating environmental suffusion of computation
Immortal jellyfish babyman - like that jellyfish that rejuvenates into nymph stage or whatever - giant fetus with man's face floating in artificial womb-tank attached to wire mother robot
The stone-like forms of the ultima-men stand proud in niches in the valley - it is they who will walk the earth when all other peoples are less than bones - stories are whispered into their ears while sweet scents are wafted up to their nostrils, so that they will be remembered into eternity - the wrathful plead and entreat for the ultima-men's sleeping ghosts to enter into their bodies, make them huge and strong for a time, before they collapse under their living mass
-some barbarians have learrned a tattoo-magic that limits the ghost growth to a limb or other part of the body, preventing or delaying its lethal conclusion
-barbarian-preserves maintained by the city-state (ir empire or what have you), synth-religiously imbued with their cultural values while living in hardening conditions, released as counter to invasions
The pseudo-modernist fantasy state is enabled by outsourcing the functions of the bureaucracy to hell - tax-devils, tithe-devils, surveillance-devils, officer-devils, finance-devils, etc.
-excess population absorbed by crusader-states in the Infinite Abyss, essentially Blood War proxies
Planet where immortal super-organisms devour their own children to maintain genetic fitness
-Dodola - moon around gas giant (Perun), supplies trawling stations with metals, water, and food - red storm follows it around its orbit from within the gas giant like the pupil of an enormous eye, paranoia common among moon's populace
-Sinterklaas - world where hacker commune diverted mass drivers' payloads to attempt to create anarchist abundance paradise
-Clio - planet in a pseudo-binary star system, orbiting a brown dwarf which itself orbits a low-mass star - solar-powered hyper-refridgerated facilities containing ultra-efficient, memory-focused computers encoded with unknown knowledge, and countless sophisticated info-viruses besides
Void husks
Contagious chaos
Super-string weavers & their harmonic masters
Tarot taro - root crop which feeds on the fulfillment of prescribed fates, favoured by those in marginal environments who do not value or believe in their own agency
Class based on roguelike card drafting
Black pyramids swimming off the coast - more the size of a truck than a pyramid pyramid - their stones sing with the whales, the kelp grows strange where they drift
