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Rivvil - human. Mildly scornful variant of the drow name for men.
Shebali - outcast. This is used to refer to those expelled from drow society for crimes or disfavour. Also used by other races as a mildly derogative term implying non-belonging.
Farung - literally means 'not dwarf'. It's use in context is derogatory and indicates the deepest of contempt by those of dwarven origin.
Keddack - a dwarven concept somewhat similar to the elven "caparch". A keddack is one whose life has been saved by another, at great personal risk to the saver. The keddack becomes a keddack by choice, vowing a life-long kinship and promise to watchover the saver when they are together - it is not a promise of servitude or pledge of lifetime bodyguard, as the two may go their seperate ways for whatever reason. Some choose to become a cho-keddack, which equates to "a life for a life", i.e. the debt is effectively repaid when the life saving is reversed. A keddack who fails, or discovers the death of his once-saviour, will normally claim the right to kill the one who has killed their friend.
Retniw Bakk - the ancient formal version of dwarven. Laboriously slow and full of honourifics. Not really a different language, but a highly stylized form of modern dwarven. The modern version deletes and circumvents most of Retniw Bakk. It is used mainly for ceremonies and sometimes oaths.
Skrind - rockworm. Usually used as an insult.
Sjarl'nach - an expletive, literally translated as 'shit'.
Stonefall - translation of a frequently used dwarven profanity that originally only denoted tunnel collapse.
Stonesoiler - translation of an offhand dwarven insult for the disfavoured.
