@saxbrightwell umbo is the back beak of the bivalve! A veliger is a fancy name for larval bivalves! Pediveliger refers to them developing a foot (needed for them to settle!) Spat is what young bivalves are called after they've first settled down and are going through metamorphosis! #clamFacts #clamjargon #dwarvish

Kalshodar Reflex Armour Type-D

Since the inception of the Kalshodar, three millennia ago, there have been four Marks or Types of #ReflexArmour, that is how well it is built.

Prior to the use of Reflex Field equipped #armour, right at the beginning, a heavy suit of #Dwarvish mithril-steel was the order of business. Sturdy, resilient, and darn well imposing in its day but very heavy and hell to wear in the heat or cold.

#scifiworlds #conceptart #Empyraeum #EmpyraeumCycle #AlanJFisher

Kalshodar Reflex Armour Type-D

Since the inception of the Kalshodar, three millennia ago, there have been four Marks or Types of #ReflexArmour, that is how well it is built.

Prior to the use of Reflex Field equipped #armour, right at the beginning, a heavy suit of #Dwarvish mithril-steel was the order of business. Sturdy, resilient, and darn well imposing in its day but very heavy and hell to wear in the heat or cold.

#scifiworlds #conceptart #Empyraeum #EmpyraeumCycle #AlanJFisher

Have you ever noticed that modern drug names seem to draw off JRR Tolkien languages? The antivirals in Paxlovid are nirmatrelvir and ritonavir, which sound fully Elvish to me. Meanwhile, antibody-based medications all end in -ab, eg bamlinivab, casirimivab, imdevimab, etesimivab, etc. Tell me those don't sound dwarvish.
#covid #LOTR #Tolkien #Elvish #Dwarvish