January 4, 2018: moira \ MOI-ruh \ noun; 1. (among ancient Greeks) A person’s fate or destiny. 2. Classical Mythology. ( initial capital letter) a. The personification of fate. b. Moirai, the Fates. Stewart arrived at the bar early, which according to all the articles he had read and all of his friends, was […]
January 3, 2018: patrician \ puh-TRISH-uh n \ noun; 1. A person of noble or high rank; aristocrat. 2. A person of very good background, education, and refinement. Iris shifted awkwardly in her seat, wishing she had chosen something a little less fashionable and a little more comfortable to wear. But then, a meeting […]
– Early 4690 AR, Western Ustalav – A dapper elven nobleman arrives in the small town of Evenvale and practices his charms on the local women. Despite assurances that he hails from the very upper echelons of Kyonin aristocracy, the town’s young ladies peg him quite rightly as a cheat, phony, and general prevaricator, likely […]
Hazel, One. In retrospect, Hazel had to admit: she was lucky. She had so much. She had grown up surrounded by love, with a mother and two wonderful aunts in a house that smelled always of cookies and sweets. She had been given an extraordinary education in the forest that surrounded her home on all […]
May 4, 2011: bushwhack \ BOOSH-hwak \ verb; 1. To defeat, especially by surprise or in an underhanded way. 2. To make one’s way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc. It happened, she supposed, when she was bushwhacking through the woods. Her father, incidentally, would have called it a stroll, but […]
May 3, 2011: purlieu \ PUR-loo \ noun; 4. A piece of land on the edge of a forest, originally land that, after having been included in a royal forest, was restored to private ownership, though still subject, in some respects, to the operation of the forest laws. When the king gifted Gemma’s […]
May 2, 2011: dandle \ DAN-dl \ verb; 1. To move (a baby, child, etc.) lightly up and down, as on one’s knee or in one’s arms. All she had wanted was a babe to dandle on her knee, someone to bundle up in blankets and coo at, and love. That was all she […]
Taffeta, One. In looking back, Taffeta could only describe her life as being singularly uninteresting. Because of her kingdom’s relative isolation her bevy of handmaidens were all from the surrounding countryside and woefully unqualified to discuss anything of any interest, her wardrobe was filled to the brim with silks in colours and cuts that were […]
Rose, One. Upon reflection, Rose supposed she had had a rather singular childhood. Her father had taken her hunting for the first time when she was two, for example. True, it had only been as bait, but even she had to admit that such depth of hunting experience at such a young age was quite […]
