Llothgar [Info, glossary, etc.]

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Tales and information about the barbaric lands of Llothgar

The Lands



The lands of Llothgar are like many of the people who dwell within it: harsh, rough, and enduring.

The realm lies beyond the boundaries of most known worlds. To reach it is by way of a gateway that only handfuls of Llothgarians have ever travelled through.

Terrain is rocky in many of the northeastern areas along its craggy edges where the cruel waves of the Enbohk ocean lies. To the north is a are foothills where the climate it temperate to cold with thick snowfall and few villages exist. East lies gentler lands that yield more from the ground of crops and the forests are thick with trees and wildlife. More villages are located within this region. To the southern areas of Llothgar, beneath the sharp, cruel jags of mountains lies desert and the Bloodspear tribes. Few Llothgarians go there with the rumors that those kill intruders and feast on their flesh and blood.

A few islands dot the eastern coastline and little is known of the lands beyond the hills to the far north.

NOTE: Some of this will grow in detail as writing progresses

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The Known Tribes

Each tribe has a region and every tribe has a bloodline that leads it. It is not unheard of for someone to think his own bloodline is better than that of the one leading and challenge the rights to it. If the leader is killed by the one challenging, then that person takes over the tribe - this has never been done by a woman.

Some few are nomadic (listed under Other), travelling from land to land within Llothgar. Any tribe can do war upon another and some raid or perform cues. But all meet up, once every five years in a meeting considered a truce of truces that lasts a week where trade and talks happen (Sometimes to make some friends amongst each other and others new enemies).


Northern Tribes
Name of Tribe: Hel'Murein (Hell'Moor-Ayne)
Leader: Mril Ut'Noren
Region: Mountainous, rocky where the treeline stops
Weather: Cool to cold most of the years, freezing w/ multiple feet of snow in the winter months
Clothing: Furs and leathers are worn throughout the year in heavy layers
Homes: Long-houses (Open-plan houses made of wood with no partitions or true rooms. Firepites are permanently dug into the ground at the center of each and entire families are known to share them)
Trade Worth: Furs, leather, meat, gems (jewels) and metal ore (for weapons) dug out of the mountains, and weapons
Traditions/Ways: It is common to have more than one wife. Death ? bodies are buried.

Southern Tribes
Name of Tribe: Kuhe'Ohvai (Koo'Aw-Vay) (Also known as the Warspears)
Leader: Unknown
Region: Desert with water buried deep in caverns miles beneath the ground with hills and flat terrain
Weather: Less than an inch of rain a year. Arid, hot with temperatures at dangerous 100+ Degrees (F) in the winter during the day and -10 in some areas of the desert in the middle of the summer months at night
Clothing: Unknown
Homes: Unknown
Traditions/Ways: Much that is known about the Warspears is speculation and rumor. Even hardened warriors go into the deserts of the Kuhe'Ohvai

Eastern Tribes
Name of Tribe: Bal'triv (Ball-Triv)
Leader: Durg Shur'Nok
Region: Coves and inlets with sand one the beaches and grassy, hilly terrain
Weather: Temperate weather normally, but into Fall months are storms and gales
Clothing: Light leathers, cotton and flax used for clothing most of the year
Homes: Stone-brick homes made in the shape of small, round hills with holes in the top to allow cookfire smoke to escape. Tents are used sometimes but this tribe is not nomadic.
Trade Worth: Salt-Fish (Fish that has been kept in barrels of large grain salt for a month to cure), silk, and salt.
Traditions: Sons are more priced due to the labor of the work of the sea and salts and daughters are more prone to work with gathering and making silk. Death ? bodies are taken to sea on boats to be given back to the ocean that gives them much in return


Western Tribes
Name of Tribe: Se'Leqi (Sa'Lokee)
Leader: Gracus u'Lor
Region:
Weather:
Clothing: Light to heavy leathers, wool, furs worn in layers depending on the weather and region
Home: Tents are lived in and used. This tribe is nomadic most of the year throughout their own region
Trade Worth: Wool, furs, horses, and leather
Traditions: Death ? bodies are buried


Others
The Hei'Kor
There are some who live in villages throughout all of the known regions except for Warspears territory. These are called the Hei'Kor (Lost) that lay no claim to any of the tribes and try to live more peaceful lives than those of warriors. Also known as farmers and fishers.
The term Hei'Kor is also an insult (to be lost, senseless, or without knowledge of defense).

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(As it has occurred to me with writing about it here and there, more and more words are being used in this made up language. Here are some that I have used so far and will be adding to it as I go along -- and remember to! )
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A

agrisor - a cave torch used by those who leave within the mountains

alvaiir - heart-fire. Meaning more specifically when someone is passionate about someone or something.

arlzan - long blade

B

bahsraii - sweet dreams

C

calif - the ancient white tree that never bears fruit or leaves. Said to be a place where some go to mourn and remember the dead. Some believe it's a way to bed the gods to ferry and keep well the souls of the dead.

D

delmuroh -a bitter cocoa (no sugar) enjoyed by the heartier warriors

di' (dye) - daughter of (example di'Poran would mean daughter of Poran)

E

en' - removed / stricken from

etishar -

F

fael - gentle
fael'sar - gentle breeze
faetra - blood/honor
faetra'arlzan - blood blade (long blade)
Faetra'arlzaen - Bloodblades (warriors of the Se'Leqi who carry the long-swords)

G

gar - land

ghetra - dagger

gutnoran - slur, meaning One who cannot fight well or fight at all


H

Hel - wolf-like creatures that reside only in the mountains known and inhabited by the Hel'Murein.

Hei'Kor - a group of people claiming no tribe in particular. It is also an insult (to be lost, senseless, or without knowledge of defense).


I

ianalsa - silk

ianalsii - dance silks

ianaljar - silk veil (used in dancing)


J

jira - is a particular flower of blue and white that blooms once a year at the foothills of the northern mountain ranges in Llothgar

K

kaimora - mountains

kultraguns - eastern wildcats with a reddish brown and black sleek/short coat and fierce teeth and black claws

kulbalik - northern wild cats with white, grey, and black thick, soft coat with fierce teeth and white claws.

L

lor - boar-like creature known to the plains peoples

lloth - life

llothgar - - lifeland/homeland


M

ma' - high/great

Ma'torak - Highlord/King


N

nalgut - Hel'Murein long-houses/homes made of wood. Open-floor planned homes with firepits, wooden support posts and beams.

nesipas - meaning four-petaled, to have 4 petals (usually a rare flower growing at the treeline of the northern mountains, purple and red in color). NOTE: Nesipas is what s'jira named the 4-winged little fae-like creatures she discovered in RhyDin's Glen. They are tiny creatures without clothing and bright red or yellow and red hair.

O

oshen - open

oshen kaimora - open mountain / cave

P

pl'turai - slave honor. It was a time when a slave could compete against others of that same, low status win prizes of cloth, weapons, gold, and other things for the one who owned her. It was a time to bring riches to that Tent and higher status and honor for their Master.


Q

qualyur - crazy / madness (a state of being for someone who has gone mad)

qualyuri - a person who has gone mad


R

raika - inked marking (tattoo on flesh or stain on wood)

rashk - fire bowls/braziers (both plural/single use)

ruhn - water reed


S

s' - little (used before a word to show it is a small version of something. Example: To say dagger it would be "ghetra". So say it is a little dagger, it is "s'ghetra". Or s'jira would literally be "little flower".)

sar - breeze

se' - fire

Se'vrasi - Fire Flower (slang/incorrect use even among the Llothgarians since it should be se'jira literally mean Fire Flower, but this flower is poisonous. Vrasi has taking on meaning in slang for a person or thing that is beautiful but deadly.)

sha - mother

Sha'toran - Mother Rock, the place the Hel'Murein make their stationary home

shan - to kneel down

sharl - to kneel low / to beg

sharl'shan - the singular word used for slave(s) (also used as a slur)

sharl'shani - plural of sharl'shan

shul - never

Shul ut'Vir -- Never To Belong (Outcast)

T

toran - rock

torak - lord

turaplae - Winter / Dying Season

tyfan - an orange colored fruit from Llothgar. About the size of a small Earth lime, but tastes sweet and tart -- all at once.

U

uavik - A three-layered short cloak with a whole in the center, an oval, long center panel and one for the back and front. It was made of oiled, sturdy hide that allowed snow and rain not to sit on it too long and a hood to cover a sharl?shan?s head. It had no fanciful or pelts to it or a lining of plant-wool to add another layer of warmth. The length of it varied, but normally was as long as their knees

u' - son of

u'Lor - son of Lor

ut' - belong to/ from or of

V

vir - to belong

vrasi - poisonous beautiful flower

W

walgru - break/broken

walgru'zah - broken lake(s)


X

xi - skin/animal skin used for clothing

xi'ku - boots

xi'maell - leather wraps with ties to cover the feet of sharl'shani during winter or rocky terrain

xi'yan - sandals



Y

yan - feet

Z

zah - lake(s)