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| [image]Mage [page 11] "From the towns in its high valleys and the ports on its dark narrow bays many a Gontishman has gone forth to serve the Lords of the Archipelago in their cities as wizard or mage, or, looking for adventure, to wander working magic from isle to isle of all Earthsea." |
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| [image]Wraithe [page 22] "They gathered on the hillside, and yet always there were wraiths and ghost- shapes among them, and other shapes that ran and stabbed from behind with spear or knife, and vanished again." |
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| a ghost or ghostlike image of someone, esp. one seen shortly before or after their death. |
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| [image]Pallet [page 30] "Over his pallet was a window that looked out on the sea, but most often the shutters must be closed against the great winds that blew all winter from the west and north." |
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| [image]Rote [page 30] "Very glad he was to learn this lore, for without it no mere rote- learning of charms and spells will give a man true mastery." |
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| mechanical or habitual repetition of something to be learned |
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| [image]Lore [page 67] "There were certain runes on certain pages of the Lore-Book that seemed familiar to him, though he did not remember in what book he had ever seen them before." |
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| a body of traditions and knowledge on a subject or held by a particular group, typically passed from person to person by word of mouth. |
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| [image]Abate [page 42] "Rainwater dripped from the hem of the master's cloak, but he stood stout as a winebarrel on his bit of decking and looking down at Ged he asked, "Can you abate this wind, lad?"" |
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| (of something perceived as hostile, threatening, or negative) become less intense or widespread. |
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| [image]Fathomless [page 59] "He saw that in this dusty and fathomless matter of learning the true name of each place, thing, and being, the power he wanted lay like a jewel at the bottom of a dry well." |
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| Very deep (especially of water deeper than a lead line can measure); bottomless; unfathomable or incomprehensible |
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| [image]Drone [page 68] "Townsfolk and Masters and students and farmers all together, men and women, danced in the warm dust and dusk down all the roads of Roke to the sea-beaches, to the beat of drums and drone of pipes and flutes." |
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| a low continuous humming sound. |
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| [image]Sunder(ed) [page 74] "It sundered, and a pale spindle of light gleamed between his opened arms, a faint oval reaching from the ground up to the height of his raised hands." |
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| [image]Fealty [page 78] "It was early spring when at last the Master released him, sending him first to offer his fealty to the Archmage Gensher." |
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a feudal tenant's or vassal's sworn loyalty to a lord.
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