Words Steven Erikson uses waaaayyyyy too much

Post by **Cole** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:05 am

efficacy
patina

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Post by **I'm Murrin** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 12:58 pm

I would say crepuscular, but I like the word too much.

Post by **Cole** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 2:30 am

Hey, I like patina. I just don't expect to see it three times on the same page!

Post by **lucimay** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 2:55 am

Murrin wrote:I would say crepuscular, but I like the word too much.

hahahaha

meee tooooo!

thanks Marv for this thread!! (dabnabbit why didn't i think of that)

singular
dispair

Post by **Sorus** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 3:41 am

"must needs" and "none the less" Probably not quite what you had in mind, but the first things that came to my mind...

"crepuscular" is an awesome word

(Though how often do you get to use it?)

Post by **Spiral Jacobs** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 9:28 am

"scowl". As I said in another thread, this is literally on every page.

Post by **Farm Ur-Ted** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:21 pm

I'm reading G of the Moon now, and he seems to use "glacier" and "glacial" a lot, but not in normal situations.

Post by **dANdeLION** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:00 pm

Detritus...I mean, come on. Shake it up a little; try debris, garbage, trash, junk.....

Post by **Farm Ur-Ted** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 9:53 pm

Ok, I'm about halfway through D-Gates now, and found a good example of glacial (p. 386):

He screamed, pain lancing through him with glacial fire.

I also caught the bugger using percipience (p. 404). Did he steal it from SRD, or the other way around?

She does! Such percipience in the lass as to sense my every thought-as if she could hear them aloud.

Post by **Darujhistan** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 1:55 pm

"Skittering"

Most fantasy authors need a Thesaurus.

Post by **drew** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 6:06 pm

Hood.

Or Hood's Breath.

Is that the Only curse people have?

Post by **Farm Ur-Ted** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:07 pm

Hood's Balls is better. And he really does have balls, by the way.

Post by **Holsety** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:39 am

As far as Hood-related curses, I would put money down that

Spoiler

we'll be hearing about "Hood's Tusks" eventually.

Post by **[Syl]** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 1:37 pm

There's actually a pretty long chapter about curses in RG.

Post by **[Syl]** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:37 pm

Reading through MoI today and read another one : Togg's Tongue.

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:23 am

How many times do we hear someone say, "Jesus Christ!" in rl?

Post by **Phantasm** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:59 pm

Beru fend seems to be quite popular.

Post by **Holsety** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:13 am

Syl wrote:Reading through MoI today and read another one : Togg's Tongue.

Honestly I remember people saying "Togg's Teats" more than this one. W/e though.

Post by **drew** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:59 pm

Potsherds (In DG anyways)

Post by **aliantha** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 4:01 am

Grimaced. Or alternately, "bared his teeth".

Here's some stuff about curses from RG. It's a discussion between Redmask and Toc Anaster:

"Togg's teats, Redmask, that's a long speech coming from you."
"I hold words in contempt, Anaster Toc. What do you mean when you say 'Togg's teats'?"
"Togg's a god."
"Not a goddess?"
"No."
"Then its teats are--"
"Useless. Precisely."
"What of the others? 'Hood's Breath'?"
"Hood is the Lord of Death."
"Thus...no breath."
"Correct."
"Beru's mercy?"
"She has no mercy."
"Mowri fend?"
"The Lady of the Poor fends off nothing."
Redmask regarded the foreigner. "Your people have a strange relationship with your gods."
"I suppose we do. Some decry it as cynical and they may have a point. It's all to do with power, Redmask, and what it does to those who possess it. Gods not excepted."
"If they are so unhelpful, why do you worship them?"
"Imagine how much more unhelpful they'd be if we didn't." At whatever Anaster Toc saw in Redmask's eyes, he then laughed.

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Words Steven Erikson uses waaaayyyyy too much

Words Steven Erikson uses waaaayyyyy too much