Quick lookup of recurring terms and names. Full development history for each is in 00_Versioning_and_Provenance.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Areshnaat (Areshatlas) | Current name for the setting; continuous lineage from Eoferan (2023) through Perimoria (2023-04 onward). Matches the areshatlas Vercel project. |
| Eoferan | The setting's earliest working name (Jan 2023) — same WUBRG pantheon structure as later Perimoria, but entirely different nation names. |
| Perimoria | The setting's second working name (Apr 2023 onward) — where the current continent, conlangs, and deity roster were locked in. |
| Egunjain | A region, not a world-name — the Dwarven Kingdoms' far-northern homeland. |
| Orystria | Supreme/detached god of the pantheon; unseen for generations, entombed at the center of the orbits of the five moons. |
| The Five Mothers | Alarisse (White), Luminara (Blue), Noctyra (Black), Ignissa (Red), Sylvanna (Green) — the mono-color goddesses beneath Orystria, each with a Right-Hand Son. |
| Najmii Empire | Arabic/Moorish/Latin-coded empire anchoring the setting's ~17-polity continent. |
| Sil'K'uhlam Empire | MesoLatin (Maya/Aztec/Roman)-coded empire in the Tezcalar region, druidic practices. |
| Kasbahya | Arabian/Turkish-coded halfling culture, underground kasbahs, home to a thieves'-guild. |
| Dwarven Kingdoms | Three realms — Emerald, Garnet, Onyx — in Egunjain, under a supreme "Emperor of Gems." |
| Karakeel | Per author clarification: the dwarven language by the Areshnaat era, not a kingdom name. |
| Paktonyelv | Trade language of the Goblin Exploration Guild; Hungarian-filtered Spanish. |
| Bocafalante | Goblin (Gobifalante) conlang; Hungarian structure, Portuguese vocabulary. |
| Kovács | Hobgoblin conlang; Hungarian structure, Russian vocabulary. |
| Eladrin | Former Fae-army soldiers, left behind in the material plane when the Fae were exiled to the Feywild after losing an ancient war against Giants and a "Dragonhorde." Conflicts with The Age of Poking Things's later origin myth — unresolved, see that page. |
| High Elves | Japanese Edo-period-coded elf culture; source of the setting's four-moon calendar. Per The Age of Poking Things (2026), uplifted from Australopithecus-like proto-hominids by a reckless Summer Eladrin naturalist — the "Year of the Apology" scene. |
| Maktaba Fahm Hikma | "Library of Understanding/Wisdom" — the in-world scholarly institution behind the formal sapient-species taxonomy. |
| The Four Moons | White, Red, Green, Blue — White matching Earth's own moon exactly. |