Guide
Terms that appear once in the sources and do not yet have an entry.
Things that appear in the sources but about which I could not find enough to fill a page. When a third statement turns up, the term moves to an entry of its own.
This page is also a map of what I do not know: every single-line item is the name of a gap.
| Term | The one thing I know | Source |
|---|---|---|
| urf | Each ledge on the Mountain of Being. Plural A’râf; the people’s name for the mountain comes from it | Treatise, 12b |
| Adem | Leave to enter the mountain is his to give. Those asked who he is do not answer | Record 1 |
| elif — lâm — mîm — sâd | Four letters cut into the gate of the Mountain of Being. I could find no one to ask their meaning | Record 1 |
| the tree that shines like gold | Stands at the summit of the Mountain of Being; at that height the only light. Its name appears in no source | Record 1 |
| crown | Mark of rank among the fire nation; taken from the head of the defeated | Treatise, 12b |
| guild | The order of masters among the earth nation; a master’s word counts there as a bond | Treatise, 12b |
| turban | Mark of standing among the water nation; its folds are not given at birth but earned | Treatise, 12b |
| İncikent | The island where the records are kept. The document I hold was copied from there | Treatise, colophon |
| Registers of Devran | The water nation’s series of registers; my text comes from leaf 12b of the seventh | Treatise, colophon |
| ney | A reed instrument named in the parchment I found at the gate | Deep Silence |
| the library inscription | “no answer is given, it is written / no question is asked, it is read” — above the door of the water nation’s libraries | Record 2 |