Terms of Venery for the Bless'd Lands

Terms of Venery are terms used for animals collectives. Venery is an archaic word used for hunting, so Terms of Hunting is just as valid.

A Poison of Wyrms & A Tomb of Dragonslayers.


Since the Bless'd lands are believed to be an invaded hunter's heaven, it makes sense to me that the Terms of Venery are divine gospel; everything is organized by them. Or was, since dragons made society collapse and what not.

Some interesting IRL ones are a Sloth of Bears, a Sounder of Buffalo, a Coalition of (male) Cheetahs, and a Plague of Grackles.

Some IRL ones relevant for the Bless'd Lands are a Cackle of Hyenas and a Pack of Direwolves.

Now onto the fun ones.

A Painting of Gods. Drawing on the Mesoamerican themes here, where painting was also writing and this is how the priests often worshiped.

An Armageddon of Dragons. Pretty obvious why, but also since Tiamat is the Goddess of Armageddon (among other things), this makes the most sense to me.

A Poison of Wyrms. For the more mutated dragons.

A Love of Dragon Wives. Paradoxical, since they don't actually love dragons, but the act of slaughtering them, so it works out.

A Tomb of Dragonslayers. Old Dragonslayers are outdated and are pretty much relics, hence people calling them a tomb.

A Prophecy of Drakes. Because seeing drakes means that, somewhere nearby, there be dragons.

A Curse of Bonfires. Bonfires attract the souls of the dead and from them come both curses and blessings, so this sounded cool to me.

A Crown of Kings. The Old Opal Kings who used to rule with the god's aid are referenced to by this term when their wraiths gather.

A Wail of Widows. Burned Widows rarely gather; when they do, their wails are their defining traits.

A Hysteria of Insects. Insects in the Bless'd Lands are mutated, and their swarms are made up of weird colonies of different species.

A Hunt of Gatherers. Pretty easy to understand.

A Hysteria of Priests. Many consider the nonsense of insect swarms to be equal to the nonsense of Handless Priests.

A Library of Scribes. On account of their clay tablets.

A Well of Men. A social caste, those who are well-off and liberal with their resources.

A Shame of Poor. Another social caste, for those who are poor and who must go outside the city to find resources to live. Basically adventurers.

A Truth of Operas. Another social caste, referring to the opera singers who sing of past glories.

A Hope of Women. Another social caste, referring to women who are prospective Dragon Wives.

A Worm of Hunters. Another social caste, referring to the average people of the City of the Dragon Wives.

Will work on more in my spare time. 

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