Glossary of Kyrkjan terms

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Some terms found on Frostbite may be unfamiliar to you – some are terms for types of landscape. Others are terms the wolves of Kyrkja use to describe the world around them. Terms will be added as they are born.

“Era of Man” – The time when humans filled the world, prior to the change. None remember this era first-hand, but it figures strongly in legends and stories. Relics of the Era of Man are rare, but do exist, as evidenced by some of the strange ruins in Kyrkja.

“The Change” – The period of decline for mankind, caused by a global pandemic which wiped away nearly all of the human population. Those that survived exist now only in very small isolated pockets – no humans have been seen near Kyrkja since the Change first occurred. While the near-extinction took place in just under a year, the Change refers to a wider scope of time – the time that was taken for plants and erosion to reclaim man’s lands, ‘changing’ them back into natural areas, and for populations of domesticated animals to either die off, dilute back into wild gene pools, or become full feral in their own right. “The Change” took roughly fifteen years to stabilize, or, one generation.

“Wild Era” – The current era, the time since the Change.

“Kyrkja” – the land inhabited by the wolves of Frostbite, taking place in a section of what was once known as western Norway.

"kyrkjan" - of or belonging to Kyrkja - it's wolves, wildlife, and landscape.

“Dancing lights, spirit lights” – The Aurora Borealis

"Fjord" - Geologically, a fjord (pronounced /ˈfjɔrd/ ( listen) or /ˈfiː.ɔrd/) is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created in a valley carved by glacial activity. (soruce: wikipedia)

"Loch" - Loch is a term for a lake or a sea inlet, originally used in Gaelic, but adopted into other European terminology, as well as North America. In Kyrkja, it refers to any lake or non-glacially formed inlet (usually flatter and gentler than the steep fjords).