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Glossary and Dramatic Personae

A quick and casual glossary and dramatis personae for Sythyry's journal so far. Sorry about the lack of sorting.

Name	Summary	Details
Cani	Prime Species	Dogfolk. See the World Tree web page
Gormoror	Prime Species	Bearfolk. See the World Tree web page
Herethroy	Prime Species	Cricketfolk (3 genders: male, female, co-lover). See the World Tree web page
Khtsoyis	Prime Species	Aerial cephalapods. See the World Tree web page
Orren	Prime Species	Otterfolk. See the World Tree web page
Rassimel	Prime Species	Raccoon folk. See the World Tree web page
Sleeth	Prime Species	Non-anthropomorphic panther folk. See the World Tree web page
Zi Ri	Prime Species	Miniature dragons. (one sex: hermaphrodite) See the World Tree web page
Sythyry	Zi Ri student	The fictional author of this journal. Zie is about thirty World Tree years old (twenty Earth years)
Vheshrame	City	A big, important city-state, where most of the action takes place, and where Sythyry is going to school
Hezimikkinen	Zi Ri	Hezimikkinen and Sythyry are siblings. Hezimikkinen is several centuries older.
Choinxeia	World-Branch	The world-branch (equivalent of "continent" on the World Tree) that Vheshrame is on
Teapot Street	Street	Where Sythyry et al's apartment is.
Dustweed	Herethroy	Sythyry's roommate: an ugly, unpopular Herethroy studying Aquador and Herbador. Sythyry thinks zie's a co-lover (the third Herethroy gender).
Thery	Rassimel woman	Teltheryan oa Vinness, studying literature and theology; Sythyry's apartment mate, Havune's roommate within the apartment; Yarwain's girlfriend.
Iska	Rassimel woman	Very foreign student Sythyry rejected as a roommate.
Havune	Cani man	Sythyry's apartment mate, Havune's roommate.
Lady Melicanthe ky Hybrasil	Rassimel woman	Court painter to the Duke of Vheshrame. In-world justification for M.C.A. Hogarth, who did the LJ icon of Sythyry.
Nestrune Kreslink	Rassimel man	Crown Prince of Daukrhame; classmate of various people
Sprowlween Hall	Building	One of the academic buildings. The Green Tile Classroom is in it.
Koimarth	Cani	Professor of Tempador
Yarwain	Rassimel man	Student; Thery's boyfriend
Amberwave	Herethroy co-lover	One of Sythyry's parent's servants; Sythyry got "special services" from zir until zie complained.
Spirshash	Orren man	Classmate and occasional love interest of Sythyry's; married to 2-3 other Orren
Whisli	Orren	whisli
Flooosh	Orren woman	Baker; friend of Sythyry; occasionally played by beetiger
Cafe du Fronde	Cafe	Student Hangout
chub-beetles	beetle	One of Sythyry's favorite takeout foods
~mother~	Zi Ri	One of Sythyry's parents; the one zie grew up with.
Oostmarine	Orren man	Spirshash's husband
Tillissa	Orren woman	Spirshash's wife
Real-Eel	Orren woman	Advanced student; Sythyry's occasional love interest; former girlfriend of Nestrune
offirrah	condiment	Fermented snakes with garlic and hot pepper. Yum!
Glikkonen	Zi Ri	Sythyry's grandparent; almost as old as the universe, very famous. See the World Tree sourcebook.
Milkrather Grill	Cafe	A bad place to get sallad.
Pazi-Pazi	cat	Sythyry's pet cat.
Tethezai	Rassimel woman	Art student; painter of a portrait of Sythyry's roommates. Occasional vehicle for M.C.A. Hogarth again.
transaffectionate	sexual orientation	Attracted to people of other species. A World Tree analog of "homosexual" or "bisexual", but of course species matters more than gender. Transaffection is perfectly acceptable in some places for some species, absolutely abhorrent in others, and everywhere in between. In a cosmopolitan place like Vheshrame, it is generally tolerated, though not taken as seriously as cisaffectionate attachments.
Poptaloop	bun	little sticky buns with a dot of sweet bean paste at the top
Sneaky Veffu	mouse	Any mouse sighted in Sythyrys' apartment
Ghirbis Vlaan	Rassimel woman	One of Sythyry's Evil Neighbors