Thread Terminology

The thread can use non-obvious terminology at times. Don't understand it? That's OK! Here is a list of some common terms used in the thread, and what they mean.

Polities

 * Thunder Twins: Thunder Horse and Thunder Speakers. Both our vassals, (and Thunder Speaker used to be Thunder Horse's) have similar culture and religion, and are located in much the same region. Often treated as one, even by Academia Nut at times, so shortened to Thunder Twins. Since the Thunder Speaker died, this term is no longer applicable.
 * PTSD-Chan: The Lowland Minors or, in current times, Txolla. Not used as much anymore, but when the Ymaryn annexed them, they had been abused for resources by Xohyr for resources for a long time, and we did not yet know their name.
 * Baby Vamp: Called Western Ymaryn, a troublemaker born from the Ymaryn that have some of the scary traits of the Ymaryn. No longer Extant, now known at the Storm Ymaryn/People, after merging with the Storm Tribes
 * Negaverse: Hypothetical alternative version of Sufficient Velocity playing a different polity. Sometime it also extends to other type of games, like Pandemic Quest.

Names:

 * AN: Academia Nut, the quest author. In omakes, you sometime use different names for alternative universe questmaster.
 * , Macadamia Nut, Academic Fruit, Philosopher Luna: various alternate names for AN, used exclusively in Negaversecontext

Phrases

 * Omake: literally means "Extra" in Japanese. In this context, it means side stories, usually fan written. Can be found on the third post on the first page (Some of the links don't work, and not every omake in the thread is there. Just the ones AN thought were good), the "Sidestory" (Mostly-canon) and "Apocrypha" (Non-canon), "Informational" (useful stuff), and "Staff Post" (for over 4000 pages less than 55 Mod notes is good) tabs at the top.


 * Negaverse: A type of omake, The negaverse is the imaginary quest controlling other nations. They usually take questers and change their name a bit, for instance, Academic Fruit instead of Academia Nut, but try and make the fake comments match the personality and writing styles of the quester involved.


 * The (Damn) Dam, dam-kun: Ever since the Neolithic era, since completing the neolithic Canal megaproject, the Great Dam megaproject has been on our list of available megaprojects. However, stuff keeps coming up. Therefore, the joke is the dam will be completed about when we land on the moon. Currently under construction.

Acronyms

 * HK: Highland Kingdom. A long lived kingdom which has fallen into minority after the Burning of Xohyr and the rise of the Ymaryn Empire in the Lowlands.
 * PiA: Pride in Acceptance. A trait of the Ymaryn which, among other things, absorb refugees from other polities when those polities suffer stability hits.
 * LTE, Long Term Econ: The combination of Econ and Econ Expansion. Often, producing Econ comes at the cost of Econ Expansion, and vice versa, so counting them together can be useful in certain contexts.