This Glossary covers terms introduced in the chapter listed above.
You do not need to read any of the Glossary posts in order to enjoy the story. However, if you find it helpful to reference the Glossary to remind yourself of what a word means, I have provided this selection of terms used in the story for your convenience and enjoyment.
Please be aware that later Glossary posts will contain information relevant to later chapters, which may mean they will contain spoilers if you haven't read those chapters.
As you read the story, if you encounter a word you hoped to look up that is missing from the glossary, let me know in the comments, and I'll add it!
GLOSSARY
ACCORD: see Galactic Accord
ALCHEMY: chemistry
ALCHEMIST: chemist
APPRENTICE SCHOOL: the school for adolescent children on the Daughter of the Generations, roughly equivalent to high school
AQUARIAN: a human living on Aquarius
AQUARIUS: the Aquarians' name for Bridger, also known as Trappist-1E
ARCHIVIST: historian
BASIC SCHOOL: the school for the youngest children on the Daughter of the Generations, roughly equivalent to elementary school
BELBIRNEL: one of the 15 Families
BELL: a division of the day on the Daughter of the Generations. There are eight Bells a day, signaling mealtimes and the start of various work and study shifts
BLACK SEAS: outer space
BLEND: the process of receiving clivia spores to trigger changes in the mind and body that allow a person to adapt to Aquarius's natural environment
BREW: someone born via the Womb rather than naturally
BRIDGER: The oldest of the Four Sisters. Also known as Aquarius or Trappist-1E
CARRIAGE: a car on the maglev train
CHIRUGEON: medical professional
CIRCLE: a class of students (example: Law Circle or Elementary Grammar Circle)
CLIVIA: one of two sentient Aquarian lifeforms. Also known as the First People. A flying creature with long fur-like filiments
DAUGHTER OF THE GENERATIONS: an ancient intersteller generation ship
DESCENT: the first destruction of the Trellis, which destroyed half of the planet's settlements and killed millions of people
EIGHTY-EIGHTH / EIGHTY-EIGHTH GENERATION: the eighty-eighth generation born on the Daughter of the Generations, which will be the first to grow to adulthood off of the ship if the Great Mission is successful
ENDLESS JOURNEY: the journey of the Daughter of the Generations to its destination
ETERNAL RADIANCE: the ship that brought humanity to Aquarius. Formerly believed to be a god
FAMILY: an extended family of people with similar Legacies of Mind, with the exception of the Unemd Family
FIRST BELL: one of eight Bells, when the main interior lights turn on in the Irt lodgement deck and most people wake
FIRST PEOPLE: one of two sentient Aquarian species. Also known as clivias
FLYERS: lander pilots
FOUR SISTERS: four sentient planets. (Bridger, Mover, Seer, and Thinker)
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Garden of Night: Beneath Devouring Eyes #3
Science FictionBru, a child created by the Womb of the Daughter of the Generations colony ship, is the first of her kind in 200 years, and the ship's natural-born inhabitants don't know what to do with her. Brews, as people like her are called, are supposed to pos...
