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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)