PlaneSpeak Glossary
Kip: Any place a cutter can put his feet up and sleep for a night, especially cheap flophouses in
the Hive or elsewhere. Also, to "call kip" is to make a place a body's home, at least for a while.
Knight of the post, knight of the cross-trade: A thief, cheat, and a liar: clearly
not a compliment unless, of course, that's what the basher wants to be.
Lann: To tell or inform. See "well-lanned".
Leafless tree: The gallows, which is where some berks wind up after they've been
scragged.
Leatherhead: A dolt; a dull or thick-witted fellow. Use it to call someone an idiot. Also an
adjective: "a leatherheaded sod."
Lost: Dead. "He got lost" means he ain't coming back without a resurrection.
Lower planes: Also called the dark planes, or nether regions. The Abyss, Acheron, Baator,
Carceri, Gehenna, the Gray Waste, and Pandemonium, the planes of evil alignment. Fiends
inhabit these dismal planes.
Madmen, the: Another name for the Bleak Cabal.
Mazes, the: The nasty little traps the Lady of Pain creates for would-be dictators. It's also
come to mean any particularly well-deserved punishment, as in, "It's the Mazes for him and I
can't say I'm sorry."
Mark: To make note of something, as in "Spies guard the portal and mark who comes and
goes." To be marked is to be identified, as in "That berk was marked as a Guvner."
Mercykillers: A faction of Sigil that believes in absolute justice. Also called the Red Death.
Minder: A bodyguard. As in, "He's not so tough, but there's a couple of minders watching over
him."
Music: A price a cutter usually doesn't want to pay, but has to anyway. As in, "Pay the music,
or you'll never find your way out of here." Not a literal amount.
Namer: Someone who belongs to a faction in name only, paying lip service to its philosophy
but not dedicated to its principles.
Nick: To attack, cut, or strike someone, often used in threats. It's also used to indicate inflicting
other injury upon a sod, such as stealing from him, as in "I nicked him good, and got his chiv."
Out-of-touch: Outside of the Outer Planes. A body who's on the Elemental Plane of Water
is 'out-of- touch.' This vernacular comes from Sigil, which is considered to be the center of the
multiverse by those who adopted this phrase.
Out-of-town: Like the phrase above, this one's used by Cagers to describe a body who's on
the Outlands.
Outer planes: The Abyss, Acheron, Arborea, Arcadia, Baator, the Beastlands, Bytopia,
Carceri, Elysium, Gehenna, the Gray Waste, Limbo, Mechanus, Mount Celestia, the Outlands,
Pandemonium, and Ysgard. The planes of concept rather than element.
Outsiders: Clueless primes who don't yet know how things work on the planes (and
especially in Sigil).
Park your ears: To eavesdrop, spy upon, or just simply listen intently. "He parked his ears
in the Hall of Speakers to keep up with the very latest chant."
Path: A means of planar travel that requires actual physical movement. Commonly known
paths include the rivers Styx and Oceanus, Mount Olympus, the World Ash Yggdrasil, and the
lnfinite Staircase of Ysgard.
Peel: A swindle, con, or trick. It's often used as a verb. Peeling a tanar'ri is usually a bad idea.
Peery: Suspicious and on one's guard. What a basher should be if she thinks she's going to
get peeled.
Petitioner: A mortal who has died and reformed on the plane of his alignment and/or deity
without memory of his former life. A petitioner's ultimate goal is to become one with the plane
he's occupying, although no one (not even the petitioner) knows the whole dark of this.
Pike it: A useful, all-purpose rude phrase, as in, "Take a short stick and pike it, bubber."
Pike off: To anger someone, as in, "Once he discovers he's been peeled, he's going to be
really piked off."
Planar: Any being native to a plane other than the Prime Material Plane. These are living
beings, not petitioners.
Planar conduit: A wormhole-like connection that links two layers of the same plane, or
(rarely) two layers of two different planes.
Plane-touched: A planar crossbreed. Any offspring of a planar native and a human. Tieflings
are plane-touched, as are aasimar and genasi. Alufiends and cambions are also considered
plane-touched.
Planewalker: A cutter who travels the planes looking for adventure, jink, or glory: a
plane-traveling adventurer. Usually, to refer to someone as a planewalker carries a tone of some
respect, for such individuals are considered capable, knowledgeable, and experienced.
Portal: A doorway allowing passage to (and possibly from) another plane. These are always
found in bounded spaces like archways, and always re- quire a key. Also called gates.
Power: A being of incredible might, drawing energy from those who worship it and able to grant
spells to priests. Also called a deity or god. Someone a body shouldn't ever mess with.
Prime: The Prime Material Plane or someone from that plane. Also a single prime-material
world.
Proxy: A mighty servant of a power: usually a former mortal servant of that power.
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