leviathan dictionary
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ClankersSocieties and people who make use o machines powered by steam, diesel, and clockwork.
Germany and Austria-Hungary are the leading Clanker powers.
Clanker WordsW
A walking machine. In other words, a orm o transport that uses legs instead o wheels.
l d D d oughtThe largest and most power ul class o military walker.
l d F ig t A smaller class o military walker, more or pursuit than combat.
l d Co v tt A small training walker.
U-bo t A German abbreviation or underboat, or what we would call a submarine.
M ch iThe Clanker word or all things mechanical.
e ct iDitto, but electricity.
Steampunk takes place in imaginary worlds where technology went in di erent directions thanin our own world. Inspired by proto-science fction like HG Wells and Jules Verne, steampunk
imagines steam power, clockwork, and other Victorian technologies achieving amazing levels osophistication. Other orgotten technologies, like airships, are also popular.
Wh t i t mpu ?
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DarWInIsTsSocieties and people who use Charles Darwinstechnique or altering the li e threads ospecies, making use o abricated animalsinstead o machines. England and France are
the leading Darwinist powers.
Darwinist Terms
Bo f A scientist who makes abricated animals.
Mo y luddit A person in a Darwinist society who nds
abricated animals ungodly or rightening.
ai b t Any abricated animal that fies.
Hyd og B th A abricated animal that creates its ownhydrogen in order to become lighter than air.
Hux y a c dOne o the rst hydrogen breathers, designedby Thomas Huxley. Made rom the li e threadso jelly sh.
e ph ti
A dra t animal based on the elephant.lupi Tig qu
A combat animal based on both the wol andthe tiger.
M mmothi A dra t animal based on the extinct woolymammoth, used in colder climates.
M g liz dReptiles that can carry and repeat messagesusing the voice o the sender. Like a parrot,
but a lizard.F ch tt B tFabricated bats used in combat. They dropfechettes (small, sharp metal bolts) on theenemy.
Natural Beasts in the Book
Budgi A kind o bird, o ten used as pets.
thy ciThe scienti c name or the Tasmanian tiger, adog-like predator ound in Australia.
Naval Terms
Bo uThe head o training and equipment aboarda ship.
k xo An alarm.
s xt t A device or navigating using the stars.
MiddyShort or midshipman, a young boy taken intothe navy as an apprentice o cer.
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How to curse like a middie:
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Crap. (variations clart-rag, clart-sna fing)B i g spid !
A general curse o surprise and disbelie .
Bum- gSomeone who you would like to see dipped inclart.
God Wou d An old curse, sometimes shortened toZounds!
Some Scottish Terms
y c umNonsense.
P ooZits.
squic A very small amount. A bit.
T tti bogi A scarecrow.
s opClothes.
C v -boot ,F cy bootSomeone too clever (or ancy) or theirown good.
Other Terms
P im , Qu t
( ci g t m )These are all parries (de ensive maneuvers) in
encing. They involve blocking the end o theopponents sword with the blade o yours.
Mo g tic M i g A le t-handed marriage between two peopleo unequal social rank ( or example, a nobleand a commoner). In a morganatic marriage,the children do not inherit titles or lands.
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