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 Some courts of a sophisticated bent, however, have managed to acquire a kind of specialist niche in society, functioning as the equivalent of an assassin's guild - their targets are arranged by contract rather than at their own discretion. Though rarely legal in any formal sense, the political realities of their host cities may prevent them from being actively prosecuted."
+"Shaking your head is generally considered rude among takma during a conversation; if you don't keep your face pointed toward the other person, it suggests inattentiveness or boredom with what they're saying."
+"In the event of a sudden Ǣdyihòzhis collapse, the other city-states turn on each other while trying to carve up the remnants, particularly the Ǣdyihòzhis system of control over the Giant's Gap that separates the Inner and Outer Seas. Whoever wins that particular piece of real estate could plausibly be in a really good position to found themselves a new thalassocratic empire, though it will help if they're able to co-opt some of their possible rivals in the process.
+The fact that the so-called Rebel Royals - disaffected potential heirs to the Ǣdyihòzhis throne - have been in exile in Palkidam may lend that city some legitimacy to its bid."
+"The ghyṑl is a very large marine animal of Avishraa found in the southern oceans. A scaly creature with gills, with the approximate shape and build of a Kronosaurus, it is renowned for its ferocity and is known to occasionally attack ships traveling the open ocean. Its tusks, nearly half a meter long, are highly prized by the seafaring Abethine states as status symbols, and those who can plausibly claim to have obtained one from a living creature are lionized.
+Peirèm, an early heroine of Ǣdyihòzh and the ancestor of the city's Grand Princesses, is recorded as having been one of the few who wrested a ghyṑl tusk from its original owner. While the original tusk has apparently been lost or destroyed, a brass and silver horn was created in its likeness and serves as the badge of office of the Grand Princess."