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Jul. 30th, 2006 06:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stevenehrbarI've been reading Exalted products lately. I have run into the following in the Lunars:
(Salic patrimony is distinct from the "Salic Law", which is a rule of determining who is the eligible heir in a system of primogeniture that was generally accepted in Continental Europe.)
And the following in both Scavenger Sons and the 2e corebook:
Now, why am I saying "Get a Web browser"? Because the definitions of primogeniture and breechloader are available at m-w.com.You're editing these things on a computer, after all. Maybe you can't afford a reasonable dictionary, but you still can access one.
[M]any tribes practice primogeniture: the splitting of lands and valuables among the surviving offspring of a dead chief.Er, no. Priomgeniture is the practice of the eldest (son) inheriting the whole. Division among all offspring is a form of obligatory partible inheritance. For example, Salic patrimony, the inheritance rule that resulted in the division of Charlemagne's kingdom, and produced so many itty-bitty statelets in Germany.
(Salic patrimony is distinct from the "Salic Law", which is a rule of determining who is the eligible heir in a system of primogeniture that was generally accepted in Continental Europe.)
And the following in both Scavenger Sons and the 2e corebook:
All firewands are breechloaders. The firedust must be loaded down the the front of the barrel[.]The technical term for the front of the barrel is the muzzle, thus the term muzzle-loader for guns loaded that way. A breechloader is loaded from the rear.
Now, why am I saying "Get a Web browser"? Because the definitions of primogeniture and breechloader are available at m-w.com.You're editing these things on a computer, after all. Maybe you can't afford a reasonable dictionary, but you still can access one.
