Titles

When addressing others, these are the proper terms to use:

Recipient	Title
Leader of the Council of Four	Grand Duke
Member of the Council of Four	Duke
Head of a noble house	Patriar
Heir to a noble house	Young patriar
Non-heir nobles	Messere
Former head of a noble house	Old patriar, or ’ol patriar (less formal)
Honorary	Saer (male) or goodwoman (female)

Realmspeak

The following terms are commonly used in the realms:

Modern term	Realmspeak	Meaning
Agile/sleek	Lalandath	Used to describe people whose movements are accentuating their natural beauty
Amorous/Lusty/ Ravenously hungry	Rivvim	Used to describe sexual desires or extreme hunger. For example, “Thinking of Davian makes me so rivvim” or “I was so rivvim I could eat that fish raw!”
Angry	Darburl
Anyway/Anyhow	Anyhail
Astonished/impressed	Galad	A nonsense word meaning “I’m impressed” or “I’m astonished” (the word includes the “I’m”, so a person will just say “Galad”). Another phrase for astonishment is “Happy dancing hobgoblins!”
Audible alarms	Time bells	A term used to describe any sort of alarm noise or the tools making it, like temple bells, wake-up gongs, etc.
Barflies	hardjaws	Garrulous tavern regulars
barkeep	Inkeeper/ Tavernmaster	The person in charge of running the inn or tavern. Usually (though not always) the proprietor
Beau	Rose	A term to describe a person you are romantically perusing, for example “she’s my rose” or “I want you to be my rose”
beauty/beautiful		glim/glimmer
Beautiful (person), handsome	Spurnarmor
Breakfast	Morningfeast/ Mornfeast
Dinner	Eveningfeast/ Evenfeast
Escort/courtesan/ prostitute	Hidecoin/ highcoin lady (female) or bright spear (male)/ highcoin lass (female) or laugh-lad (male)/ coin lass (females) or turncoin (male)	While all these terms are used for prostitutes, there are big differences between them. A Hidecoin is a high-end escort, while a coin lass/turncoin are the lowest of prostitutes, working in alleyways. Highcoin lady and Bright spear are usually courtesans who cater to higher cliental or those who wish to simulate a more high-end experience. Highcoin lass and laugh-lads usually work at brothels, and are cleaner and more expensive than coin lass and turncoin.
Foreigner	Outlander
Foreign goods	Outland goods
Glad, heart-lifting, exhilarating	Thael	For example, “I always get thael when I see her”
Hick	Hay-nose/ Bumpkin	Unintelligent or provincial “country folk”
Hogwash	Badaulder	Nonesense, dismissive
Holy power	Power	Describing divine magical powers
Hothead	Scorchkettles	Used to describe people who habitually deliver impressively blistering words to someone in public
Know-it-all	Clevershanks (men) or Clevertongue (women)
Lover	Doe/filly/mare (for women) or Stag/buck/steed (for men)	Doe and Stag are more poetic, bardic words to describe female and male lovers, while filly/buck are more youthful and common. Mare/Steed are usually reserved for those who exchange many lovers, for example “Allandra is a mare” or “Laradon is such a steed”. While youths often use it as a compliment, it is also often used pejoratively by the older nobility, for example “Your son is a steed, when will he finally settle down?”
Lunch	Highsunfeast
Magic	Art or The Art
Marvelous, exciting	Brightstar	Expressing admiration, pleased sensation, excitement, etc.
Noble	Highborn (polite) or Highnose (rude)
Noon	Highsun
Nouveau Riche/ “New money”	Brightcoin/Newcoin (pejorative)	Additionally, the term “Thruster” is used to describe a person with social ambitions.
Priest	Holy-nose (pejoratively)
Swill	Throatslake (gulletfire, for beer or wine)	Used to describe the worst types of alcoholic drinks
Tomorrow	On the morrow
Tonight	This night
Try	Kell	Used to express disbelief at a future attempt of a nigh impossible feat, for example “Are you really going to kell climbing that mountain?” or “I’m going to kell stealing that painting.” It is not used in polite conversation

Curses

Modern curse	Realms’ curse
Damn it (not religious)	Hrast
Dung	Naeth
Fuck you/Fuck off	Sabruin
Go drown yourself, right now and painfully	Straek
God damn it	Haularake
God damn it!	Sark (more powerful form of Haularake)
Hell take us all	Hells!
Screw	Stlarn/Stlarning
Shit	Naed