wooden posts used for sword practice.
Poignard: Dagger.
Ritters: Teutonic knights.
Racasse: Scorpion fish, with highly toxic spines.
Rebec: Stringed musical instrument.
Scaliger: The ruling house of Verona.
Schiopettieri: Mercenary soldiers under the control of the Lords of the Nightwatch (Signori di Notte)—roughly equivalent to police.
Scuolo: Guilds.
Signoria: The Doge, Ducal councillors, heads of the forty, de facto the government.
Småland: Part of Sweden, near Lake Vattern.
Spleto: Lit split—a port in Dalmatia
Squalos: Trans: sharks. A Jesolo marsh gang of particularly unsavory reputation.
Swabian: From Swabia—southwestern Germany.
Seizin: The act of taking possession, and what is so held.
Surcoat: Loose sleeveless garment with insignia normally worn over armor.
Tintoretto: Artist.
Trompe l’oeil: A still life painting designed to give the illusion of reality.
Veneto: The region of northern Italy, which includes Venice.
Veneze: People of Venice.
Vinland: North America.
Visconti: The ruling House of Milan.
Water-door: In a city of canals: a door straight into the water.
Zianetti’s: Student tavern.
HERBS & DRUGS
Agaric (Fly Agaric): Powerful hallucinogenic and psychotropic.
Artemisia: Source of artisminin, a treatment for malaria.
Belladona: Deadly nightshade. Psychotropic, also containing atropine, used as a cosmetic or part of a cosmetic to dilate the pupils of women’s eyes.
Colt’s Foot: Leaves as wound dressings—anti-inflammatory.
Corn-poppy:
Poignard: Dagger.
Ritters: Teutonic knights.
Racasse: Scorpion fish, with highly toxic spines.
Rebec: Stringed musical instrument.
Scaliger: The ruling house of Verona.
Schiopettieri: Mercenary soldiers under the control of the Lords of the Nightwatch (Signori di Notte)—roughly equivalent to police.
Scuolo: Guilds.
Signoria: The Doge, Ducal councillors, heads of the forty, de facto the government.
Småland: Part of Sweden, near Lake Vattern.
Spleto: Lit split—a port in Dalmatia
Squalos: Trans: sharks. A Jesolo marsh gang of particularly unsavory reputation.
Swabian: From Swabia—southwestern Germany.
Seizin: The act of taking possession, and what is so held.
Surcoat: Loose sleeveless garment with insignia normally worn over armor.
Tintoretto: Artist.
Trompe l’oeil: A still life painting designed to give the illusion of reality.
Veneto: The region of northern Italy, which includes Venice.
Veneze: People of Venice.
Vinland: North America.
Visconti: The ruling House of Milan.
Water-door: In a city of canals: a door straight into the water.
Zianetti’s: Student tavern.
HERBS & DRUGS
Agaric (Fly Agaric): Powerful hallucinogenic and psychotropic.
Artemisia: Source of artisminin, a treatment for malaria.
Belladona: Deadly nightshade. Psychotropic, also containing atropine, used as a cosmetic or part of a cosmetic to dilate the pupils of women’s eyes.
Colt’s Foot: Leaves as wound dressings—anti-inflammatory.
Corn-poppy: