Ugren (oo-ghren): a very rare universal bonding mixture; also used in the southlands to imply unbreakable permanence in an arrangement or situation.
Va (vah): a rigid frame covered with a thick, stretched hide, partially filled with grit or sand; a va is generally held in the hands and rocked back and forth to produce an ocean wave-like, shhhhing sound.
Vaa ha’inn-va ne (vah-ah high-inn-vah neh): Rough translation: Master, I am yours. Formal phrase of total submission from a very old version of the southern tongue. Almost entirely forgotten in the modern era.
Wae (way): One of the Four Gods of the Northern Church pantheon; represents Water. Wae can take any form; in his kindly incarnation he is often drawn as a great, wavering blue horse made from the coldest water of the deeps. His dark side is depicted in forms with a dark, shiny surface, like treacherous black ice—often a snake is drawn for this. Wae’s strength is that of the waters, both still and quick, and the mountain glaciers.
Wailer: Street-slang for the tath-shinn.
Ways, the: A series of passages linking areas with an active ha’reye or ha’ra’hain presence. Travel through these passages generally requires the active cooperation of a ha’rethe or ha’ra’ha, and is essentially instantaneous regardless of intervening distance.
Yin: Rough translation: unbreakable commitment, cage, or permanence of spirit. Teyanain word; its meaning changes depending on context.
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