Glossary¶
Everything the estate names is English; Polish is the language it shows to narrators and players. Each term has its English name, the identifier code and addresses use, the Polish label a reader sees, and where a Polish form is still read, such as a tag key narrators type in the lore repository.
| Term | Identifier | Polish label | Polish read where | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| session | session |
sesja | @sesja? no — sessions are headings in lore |
a run of play in chat, one page per session |
| narrator | narrator |
narrator | — | runs sessions; narratorzy is the standing group label |
| skill points | sp |
PU (Punkty Umiejętności) | @PU: block in lore (world grammar) |
the award unit; sp_start, sp_total, sp_earned, sp_overflow = STARTOWE, SUMA, ZDOBYTE, NADMIAR |
| Council | council |
Rada | — | rules on disputes and awards; standing group council |
| character | character |
Postać | lore path Postaci/ |
a player's figure; entity type |
| player | player |
Gracz | lore tag @gracz (world grammar) |
a person owning characters |
| non-player character | npc |
NPC | lore path NPC/ |
entity type |
| group | group |
Grupa | lore path Grupy/ |
entity type |
| location | location |
Lokacja | lore path Lokacje/ |
entity type |
| map | map |
Mapa | lore path Mapy/ |
entity type |
| item | item |
Przedmiot | lore path Przedmioty/ |
entity type; coin is an item by denomination |
| coin | coin |
moneta, monety | — | currency holdings |
| thread | thread |
wątek | — | a plot line as a relation |
| reserved topics | reserved_topics |
tematy zastrzeżone | — | a player's topics no session may touch; sensitive class |
| sealed | sealed |
zastrzeżone | fence :::zastrzeżone accepted beside :::sealed |
ruling 44's per-object visibility |
| unseal | unseal |
odpieczętuj | dashboard label | reverse of a seal |
| vault | vault |
sejf | — | the sops-encrypted credential store; directory vault/, commands nerthus-config vault …; nerthus-config sejf is a tombstone that exits 2 |
| rules | rules |
reguły | — | stored decision models, rules/<name>/<version>.json in the metadata corpus |
| events (corpus) | events |
zdarzenia | — | the signed-event corpus; repository keeps the corpus naming convention repozytorium-zdarzen |
| transcripts (corpus kind) | transcripts |
logi | — | repository repozytorium-transkryptow-*; the in-lore archive directory nerthus.logs/ is an existing path and stays |
| annotations (corpus kind) | annotations |
adnotacje | — | repository repozytorium-adnotacji-* |
| works (corpus kind) | works |
dzieła, dziel | — | repository repozytorium-dziel-* |
| moderation (corpus kind) | moderation |
moderacja | — | repository repozytorium-moderatorskie-*; roles moderator (MC), senior_moderator (SMC) keep their acronyms as labels |
| lore (corpus kind) | lore |
fabuła | — | repository repozytorium-fabularne-* |
| metadata (corpus kind) | metadata |
metadane | — | repository repozytorium-metadanych-* |
| samples (retired store) | samples |
próbki | — | repozytorium-probek-dev, discontinued |
| settle | settle |
rozliczenie | — | the monthly skill-points batch |
| award | award |
przyznanie | — | a session's skill-points grant |
| eligibility (election) | eligibility |
uprawnienie (WYBORY → UPRAWNIONY) | — | rule output eligible / ineligible |
| owner (of a character) | owner |
należy do | lore tag @należy_do (world grammar) |
canonical relation owned_by |
| session form (name) | session_form |
forma sesyjna | lore tag @forma_sesyjna (world grammar) |
claim-ledger routing |
| people (metadata dir) | people/ |
Osoby | — | identity records, sops |
| characters (metadata dir) | characters/<id>.yaml |
Postaci/Gracze | — | one YAML per lore page, source: names the lore path |
| who is | /who-is |
/kto-to (alias) |
Discord | bot command |
| report | /report |
/raport (alias) |
Discord | bot command |
| close | /close |
/zamknij (alias) |
Discord | bot command |
| settle (bot) | /settle |
/rozlicz (alias) |
Discord | bot command |
| monitoring channel | — | #szary-monitoring |
Discord | a channel name, data in the inventory |
| consent | consent |
zgoda | — | ruling 21 |
| pending change | change |
zmiana oczekująca | — | ruling 9 |
| ruling | ruling |
orzeczenie | — | a Council decision as data |
| gate | gate |
— | — | an H-P/H-C question to the operator |
| corpus | corpus |
korpus | — | a git repository the estate reads or writes; kinds lore metadata moderation transcripts annotations works |
| site | site |
— | — | one Postgres and the instances that share it |
| host | host |
— | — | a machine; a site spans one or more hosts over a WireGuard mesh |
| instance | instance |
— | — | one nerthus serve process, running one or more roles |
| role | role |
— | — | what an instance does: fetch load read write worker bot migrate, live bridge reserved |
Retired words¶
A retired word is read as its canonical. Pages describing Nerthus.Core still use some of them, because that is the system they describe.
| Retired | Read as |
|---|---|
sejf |
vault |
reguly, reguły |
rules |
zdarzenia |
events |
logi |
transcripts |
adnotacje |
annotations |
dziel |
works |
kto-to |
who is (/kto-to stays a bot alias) |
Rada |
Council |
PU |
skill points (@PU: stays the lore block's key) |
Postać |
character |
Gracz |
player |
sesja |
session |
wątek |
thread |
town |
site |
replica |
host |
primary |
instance (the one holding the write lock) |