Merchant ship

Small river boat piloted using one's serpentine lower body. Usually has room for only one passenger.

Elf in the lamian language. Typically used by lamia to address elves.

Mixed blood between ke’lania and lania’el. Derogatory.

Boa lamia. Larger and can constrict (no venom).

Lamia with characteristics of both boa and viper lamia without being a mix. Large, fast, and venomous. Only the royal family is this subspecies (at least officially)

Viper lamia. Smaller, faster, and have fangs and a venomous bite.

“River people.” The people who pilot aazh boats to ferry others through and across waterways

Person who identifies as a gender other than their physical sex at birth. Elven term.

Intersexed (hermaphroditic specifically). This term is applied only to the royal family, as this is common amongst them.

The art of directing and controlling magic through sigils (special characters) either etched into a substrate or immaterial. Groups of sigils are called "arrays"

Lightning (elven term)

Used to finish words to masculinize them.

Literally "of the holy." A term of respect used similarly to "Your Majesty" or "Your Holiness"

Royalty. The highest class in Jii’Kalagan society, outside of the Temple.

Empress.

Head of the Temple of Jaezotl. The most powerful position in the Empire of Jii’Kalaga.

Classless. Reserved for foreigners and special cases

Merchant. The highest class below nobility (ussen and hssen).

Peasant. lowest class in Jii’Kalagan society (above the classless)

Acolyte of the Temple of Jaezotl.

Holy People. People of the Temple of Jaezotl and technically the highest

class in the Empire. However, this is the generic term as within the

Temple, there are many classes.

Holy guard (low ranking). Rank-and-file guards/soldiers of the Temple of Jaezotl.

Priestess(Priest) of the Temple of Jaezotl.

Soldier or guard (low ranking). Often shortened to “tanir” which is derogatory.

Nobility. This class has its own internal (informal & formal)

divisions, but ranges from Barons to Dukes effectively and are almost

always landed.

High priest of the Temple of Jaezotl. And yes, if you’re following the

definitions parallel to the non-temple divisions, this means that the

Hssyri river is above this class.

A province in southwestern Jii'Kalaga.

A range of mountains in central Jii’Kalaga

Largest port city in the Empire of Jii’Kalaga, and the only one open to foreigners. Located in the Hssyri River delta.

Capital of the Empire of Jii’Kalaga. Located at the confluence of the Hssyri River and the Greatriver (also known as the Ean).

River that merges into the Hssyri and flows through much of the elven homeland. Known as the "Ean" river in the lamian language

“The Spring of All Life.” The headwaters of the Hssyri river. Also refers to the temple complex and holy site at this location.

Also Hssyri’llesu, but that term is archaic and largely unused. Massive holy river that

travels the length of Jii’Kalaga. River is usually dropped as the title

Hssyri (meaning highest holiness roughly) is used.

The island where elves originated from.

Empire of the lamia and elves. A crowned theocracy.

“All (unified) River” The name of a monument in Ess’Sylantziis, at the confluence of the Hssyri and Greatriver.

The landmass (subcontinent, really) that Jii’Kalaga is on.

A holy city in the Hssyri Delta, near the river’s mouth.

A province in west-central Jii’Kalaga

Legendary serpent manifestation of the Serpent God, Jaezotl.

Also known as the Serpent God. Deity worshipped in Jii’Kalaga.

Copper Tail, Silver Fang, and Gold Scale are the most commonly used

coins, in order of value. 1 Scale is 10 Fangs and 1 Fang is 10 Tails.

There are also higher denominations of scales used for large-scale

transactions, each with an embedded gemstone. The most valuable of

these, the Emerald Scale, has a value of 1000 Gold Scales.

Day celebrating the founding of the Empire.

Festival heralding the end of the wet season and the start of the dry season.

Festival heralding the end of the dry season and the start of the wet season.