The Iron Dragon's Word-Hoard (Part II)

I have fallen behind on this blog more than ever before.  Mea culpa. I have been so deeply involved writing The Iron Dragon's Mother that I simply have not had the mental energy to post here. I'll try -- honest! -- to do better.

Meanwhile, just to give you an idea of how the novel is going, here's the list I'm keeping of proper nouns, odd words, and non-standard usages in the text. There are a couple of spoilers hidden in it, but it would take a sharp eye to spot them. And it's subject to change. I doubt Samgrass will retain his name into the final version, though I may give it to somebody else.

To give you some idea of how it's going, you can view a previous version of this list which I posted last September here.

A

the Abyss

the Academy

Acting Chief Conspirator (Lady Jane Iron)

aeons (not eons)

Aerth

Aerugo

the Age of Fire

Alanna

Aleister Crowley

Alqualondë

the Amberwine

the Anonymous Everyhaint

Lieutenant Anthea

Missy Argent

Ashling

Astarte

Atil-Khazaran

Atlantean

Aurvang Hogback, Shorty (a red dwarf)

Averno

Avernus

B

the Baldwynn

banshees

rue Barguest

Barquentine, Barquentine of House Pleiades, Lord Pleiades, Barkers, Barky Bark

basilisk

bat-riders

The Battle of Zhoulu

Beltaine

Ben Morgh

Bessie Long Gone

birth-gate

the Black Stone

the Blinded Cockatrice

Blood Moon

the Bohemian coast

Bolshy Kitezh

the Book of Air

the Book of Steel

Brianna

Brocéliande, Brocéliandean (adj.)

Brocielande Station

Bugatti

bullbeggar

butterfly chips

C

Caitlin, Caitlin of House Sans Merci, Captain Caitlin, Cat, Katiboo, Katie Gallowglass,

            Ms. Gallowglass

Candlemas-daisies

Carcassonne, the free city of Carcassonne

Cathay

the Cathedral of Law

centaurs

Chanel

changeling

Château Sans Merci

Chesterfield

the Chronicles of Klepsis

Class Four artifact

Class Three artifact

Clerical and Data Entry

Clerical Services

Clever Gretchen

cluricaun

coast guardians

cockatrice

Cockaygne

cold iron

Columbine (mask)

the Conquest of Penthesilea

the Conspiracy

Cornouaille

Corpse-Eater Squadron

the Croaker

crone, crones

cyborg hounds

D

Dahut, Dahut merc’h Gradlon

the Dark Lady

Daughter of Night

Daughters of Lilith

Day of the Sow

Day of the Urchin

declaration of corruption

declaration of prophesy  

Deirdre

the Demiurge

the Department of Sanitation

Descent of the Turbine

devoir

the Division of Corruption

the Division of Persecution

the Dogger Bank

doolie

the Dowager

Downton Abbey

the Dragon Corps

Duesenberg

Dunstan

Dunvegan, the flag of

Dvārakā

E

early-onset transcendence

Echloë

Edderkopp, Counselor Edderkopp

Eidum

Elektra, daughter of Olympia, daughter of Hephaesta, of the line of Hekate

elf, elf-lady, full-elven

Employee Relations, ER

the Empyrean

Enya

Erodiade

Esme

Europa (not Europe)

Eve, Mother Eve

Evoe

the Examiner

F

Faerie

Felix Culpa

feriers

fey, feys, the fey

Fiji mermaid

Fingolfinrhod, Rod, Roddie, Fin-fin

Fiona

Wing Commander Firedrake

fire-giantess

fire spirits

fire-worms

Dame Fortuna

the French Quarter

Annable Frowst

G

Gabriel hounds

Kate Gallowglass

the Garden

Gatling gun

Gdansk

geas

gendarmerie

ghost crabs

La Ghoulerie

giant

gillyflowers

glamoured

Glass Mountain

gnomes

goblin

the Goddess

gooly-doll

goro-jumo

the Governance of Babylon

Gradlon

grand-maman, Grand-maman

the Green Man’s barn

Gretchen, Clever Gretchen (not Gretel)

Graywand

Grimalka

the Guardian of the Gate

gwisin

H

hags

haints

the Hanged God

Hans

heavenreich

Hel

Lady Hel

Helen V.

Helheim

Hello Kitty

hen-wife

Her Absent Majesty

Her Absent Majesty’s Dragon Corps

herm

hex-house

hex-word

hippocamp

hippogriffs

hobs

hob-lanterns

the holey stone

Homie

Annie Hop-the-Fence

the Horn of Holmdel

horned-god’s paintbrush

the horns of Elfland

Hot-Box Hannah

Hôtel de la Gare

Hour of the Bat

Hour of the Snake

hulder

humblebees

humminggirls

Hyperuranion

I

imps

the Industrial Revelation (not Revolution)

Information Technology

Innis Thule

Innis Thule AFB

Innocent Jenny

The Interbahn

iPad

Lady Jane Iron (Acting Chief Conspirator)

Istledown

the Italian Quarter

J

jack roller

Jeremy

Jill

Josie

jungle buzzard

K

Ana Kashalyi (Temporary Head Conspirator)

Kawasaki Fūjin

kelpie

Kernunnos

kingsfoil

Kit Kats, Kit Kat bar

kobold, kobold’s carry

korrigans

Kraken-class submersible

L

the Labrys and the Maze

Lemuria, Lemurian  

Les Miz

Letzpfenniger

ley lines

license of persecution  

lingam

Lion City

Llys Helig

Lolly Underpool

Loosh

the Lords of the Forge

the Lords of the Rails, a Lady of the Rails

love-philtres

the Lurker Within

lutin

lux aeterna

M

madhouse mirror (not funhouse mirror)

Maeve

magic, magick, magickal, magicks, magicked (depending on usage) CHECK!

Maglite

Lord Maker (the Demiurge)

Mandrake Chews

Marlboro

the marthambles

martlet

Meririm Phosphoros

Meryl

metasequoias

Minerva

Misabel

Miss Moneypenny

Missy Tibbs, Tibbsy

Mistress Nobody

Mjibilandege (City Without Birds)

monocorn

moondust (drug)

moon melons (not moonmelons)

Mother Eve

Mother of Goats

Mother Sunshine (Helen)

Mu

N

naginis

Fata Narcisse of House Syrinx

necromancers

Ned, Neddie-boy

Nettlesweet Underwood, Nettie

Niederdeutsch

nightmare (drug)

night market

Noctiluca

Nuit de Crystal

nymph 

O

Oceanus

ogre, ogres, ogress

Olous

oliphaunt

Olympia

Orlando (Raven)

P

pain perdu

paradise

Patek Tank Américaine

pattern juggler

Pavlopetri

Pepsi

Perdita

Pheia

the Plague Carnival

Lord Pleiades (Barquentine)

poppet

Port Royal

Port Salemo

Portunus (mask)

Powers

Q

Queen Mab’s lace

Queenie

Quicksilver of House Carcassonne

quintroon

R

Rabbit of House Oneiros, Rabbit

Raguel

rattler

Raven, Orlando

reptilarium

Le Républicain Salemo

revenants

Ritz Crackers

Rodolphe

Rosaleen

Royal Harlindon (regimental tie)

runagate

rune sticks

Rungholt

rusalka

S

Saeftinghe

Samsāra

rue Saint-Jean

Samgrass

Sans Merci (Lord San Merci, Lady Sans Merci, Chateau Sans Merci, Charlotte of House Sans Merci, Captain Senile, etc.)

Saoirse

Sasha, the Frost Queen

Satie’s Gnossiennes

satyrs

Scrabble

Scythian lamb

sea-elves

sea-nymphs

the Second Kentauroi War

seely (holy)

selkies

the seven hells

Shipping and Receiving

Shorty, Aurvang Hogback

Shylock

Sibyl

the Siege of Mount Othrys

Singer

sirens

Peggy Slugabed

smoke spirits

Snake

soul surgeons

snow sprites

sphinx cubs

old Spite

spirit candle

steroma

surgeon-archimage

swamp gaunt

sweetling (endearment applied by Finn to Caitlin)

sylvans

House Syrinx

T

Tartessos

Temporary Head Conspirator (Ana Kashalyi)

Themis, Feller, Garuda, and Bran

Thonis Heracleion

thumblings

tian

titans

toadflax

toadflesh

trow

twiglady

Tylwyth Teg, Teggish (adj.)

Tyrannosaurus

U

Ultima Thule

unicorn

the Unseely Court

the Upstairs Crew

urym lens and thummyn stone

V

Velcro

Veneta

Via Regina di Mago

W

the Wall of Martyrs

the Wędrowiec Zmroku [Dusk Treader]

wharf pixies

white ladies (a flower)

the White Ladies

Whitemarsh

Will

the Winged God

Wonder Wand

woods-fey

woodwoses

Word of Power

World’s End

Worm (dragon)

wraiths

writ of anathema

writ of dowagerhood  

wyvern

X

Xerox

Y

the Year Eater

Ys

Ysault

Z

Zmeya-Gorynchna, of the line of Zmeya-Goryschena, of the line of Gorgon, Zmeya-Gorynchna, 1108, the Worm 


Above: There's my desk with the typescript of a much earlier chapter and, atop it, the cloth-covered second dedicated notebook for the novel and my current carrying-around notebook, open to a significant page.

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