a cooking system for the DungeonVerse

It is no great secret, the Gyre is a place of terrible power, it bestows dark blessings and dark gifts to those who explore it. There is a thematic element of the student spending time isolated in the wild, free from distraction and civilization, and they hone their skill. Now these are almost always swordsmen or mystics who sit under waterfalls for days at a time.

The Gyre is a potent wilderness, and what skills are practiced there grow sharp with disquieting speed.

The cost is just risking your life.

Plenty of people venture in and never come out.

It is worth a second thought if you're a craftsman or artisan. Is the Gyre worth risking everything?

In the Cosmic Era, science has advanced to the point that synthetic humans can be made, robots so similar to humans that it requires scientific testing to determine the truth.

Radial Noise was a clandestine project that gathered genetic and engramic data from specific people

A child who has been groomed and prepared for a specific purpose

AKA Westworld

Shibboleth - a custom, principle, or belief distinguishing a particular class or group of people, especially a long-standing one regarded as outmoded or no longer important.

Direct Neural Programming had been the dream of many education 'reformists' and technocrats. The perfect way to teach skills, divorced almost completely from the requirement that human teach human. One single avatar of a skill could be used to propagate that skill until it became obsolete. Billions were poured into its development and marketing, thirsted for by corporations, the military, and politicians, each group wanting the surface and the sinister. But it was not to be.

What is arcanotech? It's breaking the laws of physics for fun and profit.

A mythical tale in wide circulation within the Dragon Empire about the Dragon, one of the First, and its Nine Off-springs

While someday this will be available in the twenty three GIP soft leather bound volume set, this abbreviated version is here for your viewing

Sagas are the 'oral tradition' of Kerren. Sure they are written down, but they tell stories of The Days of the Ships, of Onterio, of Earlier Days. In addition to history, they are used to teach moral lessons and Preserver Ideals to the younger generations. Though the Sagas, one learns to of Kerren and how to be Kerrenese.

A composite calendar devised by magi based on the movement of the stars rather than the movement of the moon or the sun.

A transcription, beyng the seminal introduction by Mr S J Ponsuler to the theory and praxis of Dracapodemy, the studie of Dragons' migration patterns. This tome ys to be founde in the librarie of Anserne University, alonge with many years of copies of the Dracapodemyst's Almanac not to mention verious othere tomes on the subjecte.

(Another submission I'm transferring over to the main site from the fora).