GLOSSARY

der Halrik-Schattenthe Halrik Shadow

Fanon (Anvil of War)

Definition

What the children of Kasr Halrik call the four-metre triangle to the left of the gatehead that no embrasure reaches, and the drainage channel beneath it; present in every kasr built to the book, and recorded in no book. Six Kasrkin and a party of the 331st took the gatehead of Kasr Nihil through it.

German alternatives

  • der tote Winkel; der Ablaufkanal

German forms to avoid

  • Halrikschatten; Schatten von Halrik

Coined in

Kasr