2 The sToryTeller’s Thesaurus

Table oF ConTenTSThe SToryTeller’S TheSauruS 1

FanTaSy, hiSTory, and horror 1James m. Ward and anne K. BroWn 1

inTroduCTion 8WhaT maKes This BooK differenT 8The sToryTeller’s responsiBiliTy: research 9WhaT This BooK does noT conTain 9a Whisper of encouragemenT 10

ChapTer 1: CharaCTer building 11

gender 11

age 11

phySiCal aTTribuTeS 11size and Body Type 11facial feaTures 12hair 13

SpeCieS 13

perSonaliTy 14

phobiaS 15

oCCupaTionS 17advenTurers 17civilians 18organizaTions 21

ChapTer 2: CloThing 22sTyles of dress 22cloThing pieces 22

CloThing ConSTruCTion 24

ChapTer 3: arChiTeCTure and properTy 25

arChiTeCTural STyleS and elemenTS 25

building maTerialS 26

properTy TypeS 26

SpeCialTy anaTomy 29

ChapTer 4: FurniShingS 30

ChapTer 5: equipmenT and ToolS 31

advenTurer’S gear 31

general equipmenT and ToolS 31

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Chapter 1 —humanliKe groups: giant (cloud, fire, frost, hill, mountain, sky, stone, storm), goblin, hobgoblin, orc, ogre, merfolk, rakshasa, troll

human groups

USAGE NOTE: At one time, humans were described in terms of three races: black (Negroid), yellow (Mongoloid), and white (Caucasoid). This classification was replaced by narrower cat-egories comprising Black (Sub-Saharan Africa), Brown (South Asians), Red (Native American), Yellow (East Asian), and White (European). In modern times, however, DNA studies have re-vealed no scientific racial distinctions among humans, and the term “race” is becoming obsolete. Scientists no longer divide the human species into races since no clear biological borders exist between groups. Current trends divide humans based upon ethnicity or populations, and ethnic groups are often subdivided by nationality, tribe, or location.

Authors need to be diligent about research in describing human groups and should take care to use terminology that is correct in historical contexts. Hundreds of ethnic groups have been docu-mented; this number increases exponentially when mixed-ethnicity individuals are included. The list that follows is a sampling of some of the more prominent groups.

human eThnic groups: Aboriginal Australian, Acadian, Acelmese, Adyghe, Afar, African-Amer-ican, Afrikaner, Aimaq, Akuapem, Akyem, Albanian, Amish, Andalusian, Ansar, Arab, Asian, Aymaras, Azeris, Bahrani, Badui, Baka, Balinese, Bakongo, Balkars, Baltic German, Bamar, Bamileke, Banat Swabians, Bantu, Bashkirs, Basque, Batswana, Bavarian, Bedouin, Belarusian, Berber, Bhotia, Bosniak, Brahmin, Bret-on, Briton, Cajun, Cantonese, Castilian, Celt, Cornish, Cossack, Créole, Cuman, Czech, Danish, Dorian, Dutch, Egyptian, English, Eskimo, European, Fars, Fir Bolg, Finn, Flemish, Frank, French, French Canadian, Frisian, Gael, Galacian, Georgian, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Han, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hindi, His-panic, Hmong, Hui Chinese, Hungarian, Hun, Hutterite, Hutu, Icelander, Inca, Indian, Irani, Iranian, Irish, Italian, Jakaltek, Jamaican, Japanese, Jassic, Javanese, Jewish, Karelian, Ket, Khufi, Kongo, Korean, Kurd, Latvian, Lebanese, Leonese, Liechtenstein, Lithuanian, Luhya, Massai, Macedonian, Madeiran, Magyar, Maltese, Manchu, Manx, Maori, Mbochi, Memon, Mennonite, Mestizo, Mexican, Mon, Mongol, Montene-grin, Moor, Moravian, Moriori, Moro, Naga, Negrito, Ni-Vanuatu, Norwegian, Nubian, Okinawan, Pacific Islander, Palestinian, Pashtun, Parsi, Pennsylvania Dutch, Pennsylvania German, Persian, Phoenician, Pict, Polish, Polynesian, Portuguese, Puerto Rican, Punjabi, Quechuas, Roma, Romanian, Russian, Sami, Samoan, Sardinian, Saxon, Scottish, Selkup, Senegalese, Serb, Sherpa, Sicilian, Sinti, Slav, Slovak, Slovene, Somali, Spanish, Sudanese, Swahili, Swazi, Swede, Swiss, Tagalog, Taiwan, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Toltec, Tonga, Tongans, Transylvanian, Turk, Tutsi, Ukrainian, Valencian, Vandal, Venda, Venetian, Vietnamese, Visayan, Volga German, Welsh, Wu, Yakuts, Yanomami, Yugoslav, Zambo, Zapotec

naTive american peoples: Abenaki, Accohannock, Achomawi, Acoma, Ahtna, Ak Chin, Alabama, Aleut, Algonquian, Alutiiq, Apache, Ashiwi, Aztec, Beaver, Blackfoot, Caddo, Catawba, Cay-use, Chemehuevi, Cherokee, Cheynne, Chickasaw, Chicora, Chilcotin, Chimakum, Chinookan, Chippewa, Chitimacha, Choctaw, Chontal, Cheyenne, Cochiti, Coeur d’Alene, Comanche, Cree, Creek, Crow, Cupik, Esaw, Eskimo, Fox, Haidi, Ho-Chunk, Hopi, Huron, Hupa, Inokinki, Inuit, Iroquois, Kickapoo, Kiowa, Kuna, Laguna, Lakota, Lenape, Lumbee, Lummi, Maya, Mohican, Menominee, Modoc, Mohave, Mohawk, Muckleshoot, Narragansett, Naskapi, Navajo, Nez Percé, Oglala, Ojibwa, Onondaga, Oneida, Osage, Otie, Passamaquoddy, Pawnee, Penobscot, Pima, Potawatomi, Powhatan, Pueblo, Sauk, Seminole, Seneca, Shaw-nee, Shoshone, Sioux, Tohono, Washo, Wea, Wendat, Winto, Yaqui, Yuma, Yupik, Zuni

perSonaliTyangry: annoyed, antagonistic, cross, contemptuous, enraged, fuming, furious, hostile, incensed, infuri-ated, irate, heated, livid, mad, outraged, peeved, pissed off, seeing red, ticked off

grouchy: bitchy, bitter, cantankerous, crabby, cranky, grumpy, ornery, witchy

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ChapTer 11: aSTronomy and ChemiSTry

aSTronomygeneral vocaBulary: absolute magnitude, absolute zero, albedo, altitude, antimatter, antipodal point, aphelion, apogee, apparent magnitude, asteroid, astronomical unit, atmosphere, aurora, aurora australis, aurora borealis, axis, azimuth, big bang, binary, black hole, blueshift, bolide, celestial equator, celestial poles, celestial sphere, cepheid variable, chaos, chasma, chondrite, chondrule, chromosphere, circumpolar star, circumstellar disk, comet, conjunction, constellation, corona, cosmic ray, cosmogony, cosmology, crater, dark matter, density, disk, Doppler effect, double star, dwarf planet, eccentricity, eclipse, ecliptic, ejecta, electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic spectrum, ellipse, elliptical galaxy, elonga-tion, equinox, escape velocity, event horizon, extinction, extragalactic, extraterrestrial, eyepiece, faculae, filament, finder, fireball, flare star, galactic halo, galactic nucleus, galaxy, gamma ray, geosynchronous orbit, globular cluster, granulation, gravitational lens, gravity, greenhouse effect, heliopause, heliosphere, hydrogen, Hubble’s law, hydrostatic equilibrium, hypergalaxy, ice, inclination, inferior conjunction, infe-rior planet, international astronomical union, interplanetary magnetic field, interstellar medium, iono-sphere, iron meteorite, irregular galaxy, irregular satellite, jansky, jet, Kelvin, Kepler’s first law, Kepler’s second law, Kepler’s third law, kiloparsec, Kirkwood gap, Kuiper belt, Lagrange point, lenticular galaxy, libration, light year, limb, luminosity, lunar eclipse, lunar month, lunation, Magellanic clouds, magnetic field, magnetic pole, magnetosphere, magnitude, main belt, major planet, mare, mass, matter, merid-ian, metal, meteor, meteor shower, meteorite, meteoroid, millibar, minor planet, molecular cloud, nadir, nebula, neutrino, neutron star, Newton’s first law of motion, Newton’s second law of motion, Newton’s third law of motion, nova, nuclear fusion, obliquity, oblateness, occultation, Oort cloud, open cluster, opposition, orbit, parallax, parsec, patera, penumbra, perigee, perihelion, perturb, phase, photon, photo-sphere, planemo, planet, planetary mass object, planetary nebula, planetesimal, planitia, planum, plasma, precession, prominence, prograde orbit, proper motion, protoplanetary disk, protostar, pulsar, quadrature, quasar, quasi-stellar object, radial velocity, radiant, radiation, radiation belt, red giant, redshift, regular satellite, resonance, retrograde motion, retrograde orbit, right ascension, ring galaxy, Roche limit, rota-tion, satellite, scarp, Seyfert galaxy, shell star, shepherd satellite, sidereal, sidereal month, sidereal period, singularity, small solar system body, solar cycle, solar eclipse, solar flare, solar nebula, solar wind, solstice, spectrometer, spectroscopy, spectrum, spicules, spiral galaxy, star, star cluster, steady state theory, stellar wind, stone meteorite, sunspot, supergiant, superior conjunction, superior planet, supernova, supernova remnant, synchronous rotation, synodic period, tektite, telescope, terminator, terrestrial, terrestrial plan-et, tidal force, tidal heating, transit, trans-neptunian object, trojan, ultraviolet, umbra, universal time, Van Allen belts, variable star, visible light, Virgo cluster, visual magnitude, wavelength, white dwarf, X-ray, X-ray astronomy, X-ray star, yellow dwarf, zenith, zodiac, zodiacal light

asTeroids: Aaltje, Aase, Abnoba, Abundantia, Academia, Achilles, Ada, Adalberta, Adelaide, Adele, Adelgunde, Adelheid, Adelinda, Adeona, Admete, Adolfine, Adorea, Adrastea, Adria, Adriana, Aegina, Aegle, Aemilia, Aeolia, Aeria, Aeternitas, Aethra, Agamemnon, Agathe, Aglaja, Agnes, Agnia, Agrippina, Aguntina, Ahrensa, Aida, Aidamina, Alagasta, Alauda, Albert, Alekto, Alemannia, Aletheia, Alexandra, Algunde, Alice, Alinda, Aline, Alkeste, Alkmene, Alleghenia, Alma, Alphonsina, Alsatia, Alstede, Althaea, Altona, Amalasuntha, Amalia, Amalthea, Amanda, Ambrosia, Amelia, America, Amherstia, Amicitia, Amneris, Ampella, Amphitrite, Anacostia, Ana-hita, Anastasia, Andromache, Angelica, Angelina, Ani, Anna, Anneliese, Annika, Antigone, Anti-kleia, Antiope, Antonia, Apollonia, Appella, Aquitania, Ara, Arabella, Arachne, Aralia, Arduina, Arequipa, Arete, Arethusa, Argentina, Ariadne, Arizona, Armenia, Armida, Armor, Arne, Arsinoe, Artemis, Aschera, Asia, Aslog, Aspasia, Asplinda, Asporina, Astarte, Asteria, Asterope, Astraea, Atala, Atalante, Ate, Athalia, Athamantis, Athanasia, Athene, Athor, Atossa, Atropos, Augusta, Auravictrix, Aurelia, Aurora, Ausonia, Austria

asTeroids WiTh unusual names: Annefrank, Asimov, Benfranklin, Bilbo, Bradbury, Bratfest, Conandoyle, Dahl, Elvis, Gershwin, Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, James Bond, Jabberwock, Jack London, Mis-terrogers, Mr. Spock, Pink Floyd, Pocahontas, Roddenberry, Tolkien

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AlphAbeticAl indexrubber bridge: Card Games 5

rubber cement: Office/School/Writing Supplies 5

rubber guitar pick: Music Accessories

rubber raft: Human-Powered Watercraft 9

rubber scraper: Kitchen Utensils 5

rubber: Boa 15; Roofing Materials 3; Wizard’s Goods 5

rubbers: Boots 2

rubble: Castle Anatomy 3

rubella: Diseases 12

rubellite tourmaline: Standard Gems 21

rubellite: Minerals 10

rubicelle: Minerals 10

rubidium: Elements 11

rubing: Cheese International Varieties 6

ruby fuschite: Minerals 10

ruby jack: Minerals 10

ruby red: Lips 1

ruby spinel: Minerals 10

ruby sulfur: Minerals 10

ruby zoisite: Minerals 10

ruby: Dragon 16; Minerals 10; Red 20; Standard Gems 21; Star Gems 21

ruby-zoisite: Standard Gems 21

rucksack: Accessories 2; Containers and Vessels 5

rudder fish: Wild Saltwater Fish 15

rudder: Boat/Ship Anatomy 9

ruddy: Expletives 20; Skin Types and Features 1

rude: General Emotions 20; Negative 1

rudra (goddess of dead): Indian Pantheon 14

rudraksha bead: Objects in Magic and Religion 19

rue anemone: Garden Perennials 10; Wildflowers 10

rue: Garden Perennials 10; Objects/Activities Connected to Lore 19; Shrubs 10

ruff and honours: Card Games 5

ruffian: Fighter 1; Villain 20

ruffle: Garment Pieces 2

rufous: Brown 20; Owls 15

rufous-banded: Owls 15

rufous-legged: Owls 15

round ray: Wild Saltwater Fish 15

round the world: Poker Card Games 5

round: Cake 6; Cheeks 1; Ears 1; Face 1; Gem Cuts 21; Mouth 1; Nose 1; Shield Types 7; Vocal/Speech Quality 1; Windows 3

round-bottom flask: Laboratory Equipment 5

round-eared: Bats 15

rounded arch: Castle Anatomy 3

rounded: Cheeks 1; Chin 1

roundel: Charges 19

roundhead: Bludgeons 7

roundwood: Deciduous Trees 10

rousette: Bats 15

rout: General Combat Vocabulary 7; Locomotion 9; Moves 7

route: Roads 9

router table: Large Tools

router: Computer Equipment 5; Power Tools

rove: Beetle 15; Locomotion 9

rover: Barbarian 1; Wanderer 1

rowan: Deciduous Trees 10; Unusual Edible Fruits 6

rowboat: Human-Powered Watercraft 9

rowdy: Loud 20

royal blue: Blue 20

royal casino: Card Games 5

royal gala: Apples 6

royal gramma: Aquarium Saltwater Fish 15

royal sail: Boat/Ship Anatomy 9

royal: Character Building 1; Python 15

royale: Ballet Terms 13

royale: Facial Hair Beard 1

royalty: Styles of Dress 2

rQ-11 raven unmanned: U.S. Navy Aircraft 8

rQ-170 sentinel: U.S. Air Force Aircraft 8

rQ-4 global hawk: U.S. Air Force Aircraft 8

rQ-5 hunter unmanned: U.S. Navy Aircraft 8

rQ-7 shadow unmanned: U.S. Navy Aircraft 8

ru: Symbols in Magic and Religion 19

rub: Art Techniques 13; Clean 20

rubato: Tempo/Mood 13

rubber bands: Teeth Dental Work 1