Realms Lexicon

Conversational

• anyhail: "anyhow" or "anyway"
• glim: beauty
• glimmer: beautiful
• mayhap: perhaps
• outland goods: foreign goods (not pejorative)
• X: x

Food & Drink

• evenfeast: dinner
• highsunfeast: lunch
• morningfeast, mornfeast: breakfast
• X: x
• X: x
• X: x
• X: x

Time

• X: x
• highsun: sun
• on the morrow: tomorrow
• this night: tonight
• X: x
• X: x

People

• clevershanks (m), clevertongue (f): know-it-all, wise ass
• hardjaws: a regular at a tavern, a "bar fly"
• outlander: foreigner (not pejorative)

Occupations

• hay-nose: bumpkin or hick
• highborn: noble (polite use)
• highnose: noble (pejorative)
• holy-nose: priest (only slightly pejorative, like using "cop" for policeman)
• tavernmaster, innkeep(er): bartender
• X: x
• X: x

Races

• Drow: the Dark Elves, the Dark Ones, the Accursed (by elves)
• Dwarves: the Stout Folk, anvil-hammerers (diminutive or contemptuous)
• Elves: the Fair Folk, Tel'Quessir ("the People", by elves)
  • Sun Elves: gold elves, Ar'Tel'Quessir ("the People of the Sun", by elves)
  • Moon Elves: silver elves, Teu'Tel'Quessir ("the People of the Moon", by elves)
  • Wood Elves: copper elves, Or'Tel'Quessir ("the People of the Wood", by elves)
  • Dark Elves: drow, Ssri'Tel'Quessir ("the People of the Dark", by elves)
• Gnomes: the Quiet Folk
• Halflings: the Quick Folk, the Sly Folk (mostly humans and dwarves, once considered diminuitive, but now a badge of pride), hin (by halflings)
• Humans: the manyhanded (by halflings and elves), oroosh ("never-stopping talkers", by treants), hurbryn ("heavy-footed", by halflings, gnomes, satyrs, other sylvan and fey creatures)
• Korred: the Dancing Folk
• Ogres: Beast-men
• Orcs: the Mighty (by orcs), slaugh ("mud-wallowing-dogs", by elves, a term that is creeping into sylvan usage)
• Satyrs: the Free Folk
• Svirfneblin: deep gnomes, the Deep Folk
• Collective Terms: Phrases for multiple races, usually made by a single race in reference to others
  • the Proud Peoples: dwarves and elves collectively (by humans)
  • Ugrukh: any non-orc intelligent race; using a term meaning "broken bones," a reference to wounded, defeated, slaves and those too weak to defend themselves or be worthy of attention.
  • Worms: lesser goblinkin, by orcs