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I had stopped also at Hammerfest and Ragnar's Hamlet, the latter actually, now, a good-sized town.
Its growth might be contrasted with that of Tetrapoli, much further west on the river.
Ragnar's Hamlet began as a small village and, from this central nucleus, expanded. Book 15, Rogue: pg 62 [tLi] |
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The canopy, or zone of the canopies, ranges from about sixty
to one hundred and twenty-five feet high, Gorean measure. The first
zone extends from the ground to the beginning of the canopies above,
some sixty feet in height, Gorean measure. We may perhaps, somewhat
loosely, speak of this first zone as the "floor," or, better, "ground
zone," of the rain forest."
Book 13, Explorers: pg 311 [b] |
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In the level of the emergents there live primarily birds, in particular parrots, long-billed fleers, and needle-tailed lits. Monkeys and tree urts, and snakes and insects, however, can also be found in this highest level. In the second level, that of the canopies, is found an incredible variety of birds,
Book 13, Explorers: pg 311 [b] |
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In the ground zone, and on the ground itself, are certain birds, some flighted, like the hook-billed gort, which preys largely on rodents, such as ground urts, and the insectivorous whistling finch, and some unflighted, like the grub borer and lang gim.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 311 [b] |
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In the cafes I had feasted well. I had had verr meat, cut in chunks
and threaded on a metal rod, with slices of peppers and larma,
and roasted; vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and
honey; a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg; hot Bazi tea,
sugared and later, Turian wine.
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 48 [b] |
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A guard was with us, and we were charged with filling our leather buckets with ram-berries, a small reddish fruit with edible seeds, not unlike plums save for the many small seeds.
Book 7, Captive: pg 305 [b] |
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Medium class for a long ship, or ram-ship, in determined not
by freight capacity but by keel length and width of beam; a
medium-class long ship, or ram-ship, will have a keel length of from
eighty to one hundred and twenty feet Gorean; and a width of beam of
from ten to fifteeen feet Gorean.
Book 6, Raiders: pg 127 [b] |
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The tiny village, Rarir, in which she had been born, lay south of the Vosk, and near the shores of Thassa.
Book 7, Captive: pg 231 [tLi] |
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"Lo Rask," said he. "Rarius. Civitatis Trevis."
Book 7, Captive: pg 266 [b] |
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To my right were the lines of the Aretai. The Aretai themselves, of course, with black kaffiyeh and white agal cording, held their center. Their right flank was held by the Luraz and the Tashid. Their left flank was held by the Raviri, and four minor tribes, the Ti, the Zevar, the Arani and the Tajuks.
Book 10, Tribesman: pg 301 [C] |
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Though the light of the lamp is soft and sensuous, it is quite adequate, by design, to illuminate her; she is under no delusion on this score; her tiniest movements and her subtlest expressions, she knows, will be fully visible to her master. This is as it should be; she is his slave. Some free women, incidentally, insist on making love in the dark, because of their modesty. If such a woman should be enslaved, however, she must learn to perform in full illumination, whether it be in the soft light of a common ravishment lamp or on a dock at midday.
Book 16, Guardsman of Gor: pg 203 [b] |
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<Oryx> celandine, go over to Tasdron and see what you can do to please, eh?
* celandine{tLi} approaches the master, feathers to her knees before Him, and asks gently, <celandine{tLi}> how may this one please You, Master Tasdron? <Tasdron> You can go back to the slavefurs, celandine, unless you have an interesting topic for discussion. I don't see much purpose in cyber serves. I'm Gorean in my lifestyle, because of the philosophy that Norman presented in his rather poorly-written books <Brinlarr> wots he about? <Oryx> takes all kinds, Brin, takes all kinds Conversations in tLi, #the-Lara-inn |
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Again she knelt in the position of the pleasure slave. Her eyes were angry. Excellent, I thought to myself. "She has been diligent?" I asked the slave master. "Yes," he said. I smiled. The girl had fallen into the rebellion of compliance. To avoid the deprivation of food, the whip, she obeyed perfectly, but outwardly. She was trying to retain an island in which she would be her own mistress. She thought she was deceiving us. I did not see that it was mine to do, but doubtless, in time, her master, when he wished, would shatter her, taking this island from her, making her completely a slave. For now, I thought I would let her think she was fooling us. Later, when a master wished, he would, when it pleased him, to her horror, break her totally to his will. Book 10, Tribesman: pp 78-79 [tLi] "I am not tamed," cried Alyena. "No man can tame me!" I turned. "Kneel," said I. "Say 'I am tamed.' " Immediately she knelt. "I am tamed," she said. She smiled. It was the rebellion of compliance. Book 10, Tribesman: pg 103 [tLi] |
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"The journeys between portals are timed," said the first slave, "and if she dallies
she will be given a record-scar." "Yes," said the other, "five record-scars and she will be destroyed." "A record-scar," I said, "is some sort of mark on your records?" "Yes," said the first slave, "it is entered on your scent-tape and also, in odour, inscribed on your tunic." Book 3, Priest-Kings: Pg 104 [tLi] |
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"Red hunters of the polar basin, trading for tea and sugar, have reported the failure of the herd to appear...."
The red hunters lived as nomads, dependent on the migrations of various types of animals, in particular the northern tabuk and four varieties of sea sleen. Their fishing and hunting were seasonal, and depended on the animals. Sometimes they managed to secure the northern shark, sometimes even the toothed Hunjer whale or the less common Karl whale, which was a four-fluked, baleen whale. But their life, at best, was a precarious one. Little was known of them. Like many simple, primitive peoples, isolated and remote, they could live or die without being noticed. Book 12, Beasts: pg ??? (chapter 2, end) [tLi] The red hunters are generally a kind, peaceable folk, except with animals. Two sorts of beasts are kept in domestication in the north; the first sort of beast is the snow sleen; the second is the white-skinned woman. Book 12, Beasts: pg ??? (after pg 74) [tLi] Though they are reticent to speak their own names, have little reservation about speaking the names of others. This makes sense, as it is not their name, and it is not as if, in their speaking it, the name might somehow escape them. This is also fortunate, It is sometimes difficult, if not impossible, to get one of these fellows to tell you his own name. Often one man will tell you the name of his friend, and his friend will tell you his name. This way you learn the name of both, but from neither himself. The names of the Red Hunters incidentally have meaning. Book 12, Beasts: pg 194 [C] |
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The drum of the red hunters is large and heavy. It has a handle and is disk like. It requires strength to manage it. It is held in one hand and beaten with a stick held in the other. Its frame is generally of wood and its cover, of hide, usually tabuk hide, is fixed on the frame by sinew. Interestingly the drum is not struck on the head, or hide cover, but on the frame. It has an odd resonance. That drum in one hand of the hunter standing now in the midst of the group was some two and one half feet in diameter.
Book 12, Beasts: pg 261 [C] |
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The red salt of Kasra, so called from its port of embarkation,
was famed on Gor. It was brought from secret pits and mines,
actually, deep in the interior, bound in heavy cylinders on the backs
of pack kaiila.
Book 10, Tribesman: pg 20 [C] |
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"Look," said Grunt, pointing to the right. A rider, a red
savage, was approaching rapidly. He wore a breechclout and
moccasins. About his neck was a string of Sleen claws. There were no
feathers in his hair and neither he nor his animal wore paint. Too he
did not carrry lance and shield. He was not on the business of war.
He did have a bowcase and quiver, at the thong on his waist was a
beaded sheath, from which protruded the hilt of a trade knife.
Book 18, Blood Brothers: pg 9 [C] |
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"There is a stain on your thigh," I said.
"My Master took my virginity," she said. "You are now a red-silk girl," I said. "Yes, Master," she said, "I am now a red-silk girl." Book 13, Eplorers: pg 200 [C] Similarly, the expression, 'red-silk,' in Gorean, tends to be used as a category in slaving, and also, outside of the slaving context, as an expression in vulgar discourse, indicating that the woman is no longer a virgin, or, as the Goreans say, at least vulgarly of slaves, that her body has been opened by men. Its contrasting term is 'white-silk,' usually used of slaves who are still virgins, or equivalently, slaves whose bodies have not yet been opened by men. Needless to say, slaves seldom spend a great deal of time in the 'white-silk' category. It is common not to dally in initiating a slave into the realities of her condition. Book 18, Blood Brothers: pg 472 [C] |
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My house, incidentally, like most Gorean houses, had no ice chest.
There is little cold storage on Gor. Generally food is preserved by
being dried or salted. Some cold storage, of course, does exist. Ice
is cut from ponds in the winter, and then stored in ice houses, under
sawdust. One may go to the ice houses for it, or have it delivered in
ice wagons. Most Goreans, of course, cannot afford the luxury of ice
in the summer.
Book 16, Guardsman: pg 295 [C] |
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The kaiila rein is a single rein, very light, plaited of
various leathers. There are often ten to a dozen strips of tanned,
dyed leather in a single rein. Each individual strip, interestingly,
given the strength of the rein, is little thicker than a stout
thread. The strips are cut with knives, and it requires great skill
to cut them. The rein, carefully plaited, is tied through a hole
drilled in the right nostril of the kaiila. It passes under the
animal's jaw to the left. When one wishes to guide the animal to the
left one draws the rein left; when one wishes to guide it right one
pulls right, drawing the rein over the animal's neck, with pressure
against the left cheek. To stop the animal one draws back. To start
or hasten the animal, one kicks it in the flanks, or uses the long
kaiila quirt.
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 56 [b] |
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One of the great pleasures of making love to a slave is the
uncompromising exploitation of her marvelous sexual sensitivities,
her helplessnesses, they putting her so much in your power, enabling
you to do with her as you please and obtain from her what you want.
She may be brought up and down, as you please, at your will, at your
mercy, and played like an instrument. She may, if you wish, be held
short of her ecstasy, cruelly, if you desire, or, in a moment, with a
touch, granted it. There are few sights so exciting and beautiful as
a helplessly orgasmic slave crying out her submission and love.
Book 24, Vagabonds: pg 216 [Luther] |
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The plant has many uses besides serving as a raw product in the
manufacture of rence paper... From the stem the rence growers can
make reed boats, sails, mats, cords and a kind of fibrous cloth;
further its pith is edible.
The plant itself has a long, thick root, about four inches think, which lies horizonally under the surface of the water; small roots sink downward into the mud from the main root, and several "stems," as many as a dozen, rise from it, often of a length of fifteen to sixteen feet from the root; it has an excrescent, usually single floral spike. Book 6, Raiders: pg 7 [C] |
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At such times there is drinking of rence beer, steeped, boiled and fermented from the crushed seeds and the whitish pith of the plant.
Book 6, Raiders: pg 18 [C] I had carried about bowls of cut, fried fish, and wooden trays of roasted tarsk meat, and roasted gants, threaded on sticks, and rence cakes and porridges, and gourd flagons, many times replenished, of rence beer. Book 6, Raiders: pg 44 [anaisC/tLi] |
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On my head my Mistress, Telima, had placed a woven garland of rence flowers.
Book 6, Raiders: pg 40 [{destiny}RH] |
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The plant has many uses besides serving as a raw product in the manufacture of rence paper...from the stem the rence growers can make reed boats, sails, mats, cords and a kind of fibrous cloth...
Book 6, Raiders: pg 7 [C] The rence islands, on which the communites of rence growers dwell, are rather small, seldom more than two hundred and fifty feet. Book 6, Raiders: pg 14 [tLi] |
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The rence islands, on which the communites of rence growers dwell, are rather small, seldom more than two hundred and fifty feet. They are formed entirely from the interwoven stems of the rence plants and float in the marsh. They are generally about eight to nine feet thick and have an exposed surface above the water of about three feet; as the rence stems break and rot away beneath the island, more layers are woven and placed on the surface. Thus, over a period of months, a given layer of rence, after being the top layer, will gradually be submerged and forced dower and lower until it, at last, is the deepest layer and, with its adjacent layers, begins to deteriorate. To prevent an unwanted movement of the island, there are generally several tethers, of marsh vine, to strong rence roots in the vicinity
Book 6, Raiders: pg 14 [b] |
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Then, from within the collar, he drew forth a thin, folded piece of paper, rence paper made from the fibers of the rence plant, a tall, long-stalked leafy plant which grows predominately in the delta of the Vosk.
Book 4, Nomads: pg 49 [C] The plant has many uses besides serving as a raw product in the manufacture of rence paper...from the stem the rence growers can make reed boats, sails, mats, cords and a kind of fibrous cloth; further its pith is edible... Book 6, Raiders: pg 7 [C] |
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I had done so, and she had drawn out a handful of rence paste from the wallet at her side, and she fed me.
Book 6, Raiders of Gor pg 28 [b] |
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...further, its pith is edible, and for the rence growers is,
with fish, a staple in their diet; the pith is edible both raw
and cooked; some men, lost in the delta, not knowing the pith edible,
have died of starvation the the midst of what was, had they known it,
an almost endless abundance of food. The pith is also used, upon
occasion, as a caulking for boat seams, but tow and pitch, covered
with tar or grease, are generally used.
Book 6, Raiders: pg 7 [b] |
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The root, which is woody and heavy, is used for certain wooden
tools and utensils, which can be carved from it; also, when dried,
it makes a good fuel...
Book 6, Raiders: pg 7 [b] |
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... from the stem the rence growers can make reed boats, sails, mats, cords and the kind of fibrous cloth...
Book 6, Raiders: pg 7 [b] |
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I was told by Kamchak that once an army of a thousand wagons turned
aside because a swarm of rennels, poisonous, crablike desert
insects, did not defend its broken nest, crushed by the wheel of the
lead wagon.
Book 4, Nomads: pg 27 [C] |
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Rep is a whitish fibrous matter found in the seed pods of a
small, reddish, woody bush, commercially grown in several areas, but
particularly below Ar and above the equator; the
cheap rep-cloth is woven in mills, commonly, in various cities;
it takes dyes well and, being cheap and strong, is popular,
particularly among the lower castes.
Book 6, Raiders: pg 10 [C] |
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Rep is a whitish fibrous matter found in the seed pods of a
small, reddish, woody bush, commercially grown in several areas, but
particularly below Ar and above the equator; the
cheaprep-cloth is woven in mills, commonly, in various cities;
it takes dyes well and, being cheap and strong, is popular,
particularly among the lower castes.
Book 6, Raiders: pg 10 [tLi] It did not, for example, as might have rep cloth, a light, clinging fabric often used for slave garments, make obvious the lineaments of its occupant's figure. Book 24, Vagabonds: pg 377 [R-Flagg/tLi] |
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<artemis> would the noble Afentis like this one to taste His retsina?
<Kastus> you may, little one... but it's plenty strong * artemis carefully sips the aromatic wine, and feels the resin-fumes go to her head Conversations in tLi, #the-Lara-inn |
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No troupe is permitted to perform within city unless it has a
license.... Licenses are commonly renewable, within a given season,
for a nominal fee. In connection with the fees for such matters, it
is not uncommon that bribes are also involved. This is particularly
the case when small committees are involved in the approvals or given
individuals, such as a city's Entertainment Master or Master of
Revels. There is little secret, incidentally, about the briberies
involved. There are even fairly well understood bribery scales,
indexed to the type of troupe, its supposed treasury, the number of
days requested for the license, and so on. These things are so open,
and so well acknowledged, that perhaps one should think of them more
as gratuities or service fees than as bribes. More than one
Master of Revels regards them as an honest perquisite of his
office.
Book 20, Player: pg 10 [b] |
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Its growth might be contrasted with that of Tetrapoli, much further
west on the river. Ragnar's Hamlet began as a small village and, from
this central nucleus, expanded. Tetrapoli, on the other hand, began
as four separate towns, Ri, Teibar, Heiban and Azdal, as legend has
it founded by four brothers. These towns grew together along the
river and were eventaully consolidated as a polity. The four
districts of the city, as might be supposed, reatin the names of the
original towns. The expression "Tetrapoli" in Gorean, incidentally, means "Four Cities" or "Four Towns."
Book 15, Rogue: pg 63 [tLi] |
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The female slave seeks to give all, selflessly, knowing that she, as
she is a mere slave, a rightless animal owned by her master, one who
can be bought and sold at his least whim, can make no claims, that
she deserves nothing, and is entitled to not the least attention or
consideration. There are no bargains made with her, nor arrangements.
Book 21, Mercenaries: pg 435 [b] |
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Accordingly, the main divisions of the
map are Ta-Sardar-Var, and the other seven; taking the Sardar as
our "north pole" the other directions, clockwise as Earth clocks move
(Gorean clock hands move in the opposite direction) would be, first,
Ta-Sardar-Var, then, in order, Ror, Rim, Tun, Vask (sometimes spoken
of as Verus Var, or the true turning away), Cart, Klim, and Kail,
and then again, of course, Ta-Sardar-Var.
Book 4, Nomads: pg 3 (footnote) [tLi] |
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Along the river, of course, many other species of birds may be found,
such as jungle gants, tufted fishers and ring-necked and yellow-legged waders.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 311 [b] |
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"Raymond, he of Rive-de-Boiscruiting," he said. "So, too, is Conrad of Hochburg, and Pietro Vacchi." These men were mercenary captains.
Book 21, Mercenaries: pg 30 [tLi] Many mercenary companies consist of little more than rabbles of armed ruffians, others, like those of Dietrich of Tarnburg, Pietro Vacchi and Raymond, of Rive-de-Boisrack troops, as professional as warriors of Ar or Cosian regulars. Book 24, Vagabonds: pg 46 [tLi] I saw nothing for a time but the crowd, the platform, the people on the platform, and Cosians, for several yards to the right, standard bearers, some even bearing the standards of mercenary companies, probably not in the march, such as that of Raymond Rive-de-Boisians, and soldiers, both foot and cavalry. Book 25, Magicians: pg 90 [tLi] |
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Lana looked out, pointing after it. "A river shark," she
cried, excitedly. Several of the girls looked after it, the fin
cutting the waters and disappearing in the fog on the surface.
Book 7, Captive: pg 79 [b] |
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Her Robes of Concealment were splattered with mud and marsh water,
and in several places the heavy brocade had stiffened and cracked.
The dominant colours of her Robes of Concealment were subtle reds,
yellows and purples, arrayed in intricate overlapping folds. I
guessed it would have taken the slave girls hours to array her in
such garments. Many of the free women of Gor and almost always those
of High Caste wear the Robes of Concealment, though, of course, their
garments are seldom as complex or splendidly wrought as those of a
Ubar's daughter. The Robes of Concealment, in function, resemble the
garments of Muslim women on my own planet, though they are
undoubtedly more intricate and cumbersome. Normally, of men, only a
father and a husband may look upon the woman unveiled.
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 87 [C] I missed in the crowd, the presence of slave girls, common in other cities, usually lovely girls clad only in the brief, diagonally striped livery of Gor, a sleeveless, briefly skirted garment terminating some inches above the knee, a garment that contrasts violently with the heavy, cumbersome Robes of Concealment worn by free women. Book 2, Outlaw: pg 66 [C] |
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They are called rock spiders because of their habit of holding
their legs folded beneath them. This habit and their size and
coloration, usually brown and black suggests a rock and hence the
name. It is a very nice piece of natural camouflage.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 66 [C] |
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Accordingly, the main divisions of the
map are Ta-Sardar-Var, and the other seven; taking the Sardar as
our "north pole" the other directions, clockwise as Earth clocks move
(Gorean clock hands move in the opposite direction) would be, first,
Ta-Sardar-Var, then, in order, Ror, Rim, Tun, Vask (sometimes spoken
of as Verus Var, or the true turning away), Cart, Klim, and Kail,
and then again, of course, Ta-Sardar-Var.
Book 4, Nomads: pg 3 (footnote) [tLi] |
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From a pouch he threw a coin to a man of the village, and another to another man, doubtless one of the other village, called Rorus.
Book 7, Captive: pg 254 [tLi] |
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The high-prowed marsh barge is anchored at both stem and stern. Soon, each drawn by two warriors, the anchor-hooks, curved and three-pronged, not unlike large grappling irons, emerged dripping from the mud on the marsh. These anchor-hooks, incidentally, are a great deal lighter that the anchors used in the long galleys, and the round ships.
Book 6, Raiders: pg 127 [b] The ship on which I was carried was the round ship, or cargo ship, Clouds of Telnus, registered in Cos, but with shipping papers clearing it for the waters of Schendi. It was some twenty feet wide at its broadest point and some one hundred and twenty feet in length. It had two masts, with permanent rigging. It was also equipped with oars, but these were primarily used in entering and leaving a harbor. The round ship, as opposed to the long ship, or war ship, relies predominantly upon its sails. The Clouds of Telnus was said to be a medium-class ship. Its deep hold, I gather, would carry several tons of cargo. Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 322 [b] |
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The Carders and Dyers, incidentally, are sub castes separate from the
Weavers. All are sub castes of the Rug Makers, which itself,
interestingly, perhaps surprisingly, is accounted generally as a sub
caste of the Cloth Workers. Rug Makers themselves, however usually
regard themselves in their various sub castes, as being independent
of the Cloth Workers. A rug maker would not care to be confused with
a maker of caftans, turbans, or djellabas.
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 50 [C] |
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The Spring Equinox, incidentally, is also used for the New Year by
the rune-priests of the North, who keep the calendars of
Torvaldsland. They number years from the time of Thor's gift of the
stream of Torvald to Torvald, legendary hero and founder of the
northern fatherlands. In the calendars of the rune-priests the year was 1,006.
Book 9, Marauders: pg 27 [Tynian] The Forkbeard looked at me, and grinned. "It was set so high," said he, "out of the reach of custom and law, against the protests of the rune-priests and his own men, that none, in his belief, could pay it." Book 9, Marauders: pg 44 [Tynian] We saw thralls, too, in the crowd, and rune-priests, with long hair, in white robes, a spiral ring of gold on their left arms, about their waist a bag of omens chips, pieces of wood soaked in the blood of the sacrificial bosk, slain to open the thing; these chips are thrown like dice, sometimes several times, and are then read by the priests; the thing-temple, in which the ring of the temple is kept, is made of wood; nearby, in a grove, hung from poles, were bodies of six verr; in past days, it is my understanding, there might have been decided, however, a generation ago, by one of the rare meetings of the high council of rune-priests, attended by the high rune-priests of each district, that thralls should no longer be sacrificed ... no signs, however, luckily for thralls, were forthcoming; this was taken as a vindication of the judgement of the high council of rune-priests; after the council, the status of rune-priests had risen in Torvaldsland; this may also have had something to do with the fact that the famine, finally, after four seasons, abated Book 9, Marauders: pg 72 [Tynian] It stood on the small hill, sloping above the assembly field. This hill was set with stones, rather in the manner of terraces. On these stones, set in semicircular lines, like terraces, stood high men and minor jarls, and rune-priests, and the guard of Svein Blue Tooth. Book 9, Marauders: pg 80 [Tynian] The high rune-priest of the thing interposed himself between the violent Blue Tooth and the Forkbeard, who was, innocently, regarding cloud formations. The rune-priest held up the heavy, golden ring of Thor, the temple ring itself, stained in the blood of the sacrificial ox. "On this ring you have sworn!" he cried. Book 9, Marauders: pg 88 [Tynian] |
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... the staple crop was a yellow grain called Sa-Tarna, or
Life-Daughter. Interestingly enough, the word for meat is
Sa-Tassna, which means Life-Mother.
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 43 [b] |
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... the saber, incidentally, which would be somewhat more effective from kaiila back, is almost unknown on Gor...
Book 4, Nomads: pg 123 [C] |
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"The Priest-Kings," said my father, "maintain the Sacred Place in the Sardar Mountains, a wild vastness into which no man penetrates. The Sacred Place, to the minds of most men here, is taboo, perilous. Surely none have returned from those mountains." My father's eyes seemed faraway, as iffocused on sights he might have preferred to forget.
Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor: pg 29 [b] |
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After all, though the Caste of Singers, or Poets, was not a high caste, it had more prestige than, for example, the Caste of Pot-Makers or Saddle-Makers, with which it was sometimes compared.
Book 2, Outlaw: pg 103 [tLi] |
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Perhaps it should only be added that the Gorean master,though often
strict, is seldom cruel. The girl knows, if she pleases him, her lot
will be an easy one. She will almost never encounter sadism or
wanton cruelty, for the psychological environment that tends to breed
these diseases is largely absent from Gor. This does not mean that
she will not expect to be beaten if she disobeys, or fails to please
her master.
On the other hand, it is not too unusual a set of compartments on Gor where the master, in effect, willingly wears the collar, and his lovely slave, by the practice of the delightful wiles of her sex, with scandalous success wheedles her way triumphantly from the satisfaction of one whim to the next. Book 2, Outlaw: pg 53-54 [C] |
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Kajira is perhaps the most common expression for a female slave. Another frequently heard expression is Sa-Fora, a compound word, meaning, rather literally, Chain Daughter, or Daughter of the Chain.
Book 4, Nomads: pg 30 [b] |
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West of Ar's Station on the river I had visited Jort's Ferry, Point Alfred, Jasmine, Siba, Sais and Sulport.
Book 15, Rogue: pg 62 [tLi] Siba is one of the Vosk towns. It lies to the east of Sais. Book 15, Rogue: pg 298 [tLi] |
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"My pursuit of you was foiled," I said, "by the results of the drug you placed in my paga."
"The drug," said Shaba, "was a simple combination of sajel, a simple pustulant, and gieron, an unusual allergen. Mixed they produce a facsimile of the superficial symptoms of Bazi plague." "I could have been killed," I said, "by the mob." "I did not think many would care to approach you," said Shaba. "It was not your intention then that I be killed?" I asked. "Certainly not," said Shaba. "if that was all that was desired, kanda might have been introduced into your drink as easily as sajel and gieron." Book 13, Explorers: pg 154 [C] |
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Among the lelts, too, were, here and there, tiny salamanders, they, too, white and blind. Like the lelts, they were, for their size, long-bodied, were capable of long periods of domancy and possessed a slow metabolism, useful in an environment in which food is not plentiful. Unlike the lelts, they had long stem like legs, but the filaments, in the case of the salamanders, interestingly, are not vibration receptors, but feather gills, an external gill system.
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 247 [C] |
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Salerian Confederation organization otherwise known as the
Four Cities of Saleria , an alliance
of four cities along the
Olni -
Ti ,
Port Olni , Lara, and
Vonda
- formed to rid the Olni River of pirates and to protect inland
shipping. The name comes from the place where the original treaty was
signed, in the meadow of Salerius, which lies on the northern bank of
the Olni between Port Olni and Vonda. [tLi]
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"The entire Salerian Confederation may become involved," said Kenneth.
Book 14, Fighting Slave: pg 171 [b] The fort itself, incidentally, was twice burned, once by soldiers from Port Olni, before that town joined the Salerian Confederation, and once by marauding Dust Legs, a tribe of red savages, from the interior of the Barrens Book 17, Savages: pg 88 [b] "Why is Cos interested in Ar's Station?" "I am not fully sure," I said, "but there could be various reasons, and some of them would seem obvious. As you know much of the friction between Cos and Ar has to do with their economic competitions in the Vosk Basin. Taking Ar's Station would, in a stroke, diminish the major citadel of Ar's, the Salerian Confederation, and the Vosk League. Book 23, Renegades: pg 33 [tLi] The headquarters of the Vosk League is located in the city of Victoria. I suppose there are special historical reasons for this, for Victoria is not centrally located on the river, say, between the delta to the west and the entry of the Olni into the Vosk on the east, which point, incidentally, is controlled by the city of Lara, a member of the Salerian Confederation. Book 23, Renegades: pg 34 [tLi] |
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Vonda was one of the four cities of the Salerian Confederation. The
other cities of this confederation were Ti, Port Olni and Lara. All
four of these cities lie on the Olni River, which is a tributary to
the Vosk. Ti is farthest from the confluence of the Olni and Vosk;
downriver from Ti is Port Olni; these were the first two cities to
form a league, originally intended for the control of river pirates
and the protection of inland shipping; later, downriver from Port
Olni, Vonda, and Lara, lying at the junction of the Olni and Vosk,
joined the league. The Olni, for practical purposes, has been freed
of river pirates. The oaths of the league, and the primitive articles
pertaining to its first governance, were sworn, and signed, in the
meadow of Salerius, which lies on the northern bank of the Olni
between Port Olni and Vonda. It is from that fact that the
confederation is known as the Salerian Confederation. The principal
city, because the largest and most populous, of the confederation is
Ti. The governance of the confederation is centralized in Ti....
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The Salerian Confederation, incidentally, is also sometimes known
as the Four Cities of Saleria. The expression `Saleria', doubtless
owing its origin to the meadow of Salerius, is used broadly,
incidentally, to refer to the fertile basin territories both north
and south of the Olni, the lands over which the confederation
professes to maintain a hegemony. The meadow of Salerius, thus, lies
on the northern bank of the Olni, between Port Olni and Vonda; the
area called Saleria, on the other hand, is, in effect, the lands
controlled by the confederation. Ti, Port Olni and Vonda lie on the
northern bank of the Olni; Lara lies between the Olni and the Vosk,
at their confluence. It is regarded as being of great strategic
importance. It could, if it wished, prevent Olni shipping from
reaching the markets of the Vosk towns, and, similarly, if it wished,
prevent shipping from these same towns from reaching the Olni markets.
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It is interesting to note that the control of piracy on the Olni
was largely a function of the incorporation of Lara in the
confederation. This made it difficult for the pirate fleets,
following their raids, to descend the Olni and escape into the Vosk.
It may also be of interest to note that what began as a defensive
league instituted primarily to protect shipping on a river gradually,
but expectedly, began to evolve into a considerable political force
in eastern known Gor.
In this milieu, then, of suspicion, pride, autonomy and honor, the four cities of Saleria represented a startling and momentous anomaly in the politics of Gor. The league to protect shipping on the Olni, inadvertently but naturally founded in the common interest of four cities, had formed the basis for what later became the formidable Salerian Confederation. Book 14, Fighting Slave: pg 171-172 [tLi/nineve{Rem}] |
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They do have, however, certain clans, not castes, which specialize in certain
matters, for example, the clan of healers, leather workers, salt hunters, and so on
Book 4, Nomads: footnore on pg 12 [tLi] |
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salt leach fauna leach native to the marshes of the Vosk Delta [tLi]
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I flicked a salt leach from the side of my light craft
with the corner of the tem-wood paddle.
Book 6, Raiders: pg 5 [b] I was not particularly surprised at finding a bit of rep-cloth tied on the rence plant, for the delta is inhabited. Man has not surrendered it entirely to the tharlarion, the ul and the salt leach. Book 6, Raiders: pg 6 [b] |
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salt, red victual some of the salt mines in the Tahari Desert Waste area of Klima, deliver a salt, famed on Gor, that is red in color from deposits of ferrous oxide. It is called the Red Salt of Kasra, after its port of embarkation at the juncture of the Upper and Lower Fayeen.[T]
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Most salt at Klima is white, but certain of the mines deliver red saltrom ferrous oxide in its composition, which is called the Red Salt of Kasra, after its port of embarkation, at the juncture of the Upper and Lower Fayeen.
Book 10, Tribesman: pg 238 [Kat] |
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salt, white noun mined by the slaves who manage to live through a punishing march over the white hot crusts of salt of the Tahari Wastes to Klima, for example. Salt, mined from the Tahari makes up 20% of the salt used in various products of Gor. The forced marches to Klima can only be done in the fall, winter, or spring when the surface temperature of the salt crusts reach 160 degree's Farenheit and the air temperature ranges from 120 to 140 degree's. The mining, harvesting, sifting, purifying and packaging process turn out nine qualities of salt which are shipped all over Gor. [T]
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Most salt at Klima is white, but certain of the mines deliver red salt, red from ferrous oxide in its composition, which is called the Red Salt of Kasra, after its port of embarkation, at the juncture of the Upper and Lower Fayeen.
Book 10, Tribesman: pg 238 [C] |
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It had been expected, I gathered, that I would sit at one of the two long side tables, and perhaps even below the bowls of red and yellow salt which divided these tables.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 86 [b] The red and yellow salts of the south, some of which I saw on the tables, are not domestic to Torvaldslands. Book 9, Marauders: pg 187 [b] |
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She stood not more than a hundred yards from the gate of Tesius, in
the city of Samnium, some two hundred pasangs east and south
of Brundisium, a walled city, spared the savageries of war with Cos,
because of her alliance with them.
Book 21, Mercenaries: pg 9 [C] I set my eyes to the southeast, away from the high gray walls of Samnium. Book 21, Mercenaries: pg 13 [tLi] She had been, of course, at one time, before being collared, a free woman of high station, of the city of Samnium. This word, incidentally, is, in effect, the same word as 'Semnium', although in the western coastal dialects it is commonly pronounced as I have given the spelling here. Its original meaning is apparently "Meeting Place," and its application to a building, or a hall for the meeting of councils, is, it seems, a later development. Book 21, Mercenaries: pg 201 [tLi] |
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It is near Turia, in the spring, that the Omen Year is completed,
when the omens are taken usually over several days by hundreds of
haruspexes, mostly readers of bosk blood and verr livers, to
determine if they are favorable for a choosing of a Ubar San,
a One Ubar, a Ubar who would be High Ubar, a Ubar of an the Wagons, a
Ubar of all the Peoples, one who could lead them as one people.
Book 4, Nomads: pg 12 [tLi] ...the haruspexes of the four peoples would be practicing their obscure craft, taking the omens, trying to determine whether or not they were favorable for the election of a Ubar San, a One Ubar, who would be Ubar of all the Wagons. Book 4, Nomads: pg 146 [b] "For the first time in more than a hundred years," said the Paravaci, "there is a Ubar San, a One Ubar, Master of the Wagons!" Book 4, Nomads: pg 334 [tLi] |
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They put honey about her, to attract the tiny black sand flies, which
infest such water holes in the spring.
Book 10, Tribesman: pg 152 [b] Following such rains, great clouds of sand flies appear, wakened from dormancy. These feast on kaiila and men. Normally, flying insects are found only in the vicinity of the oasis. Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 152 [C] |
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On the wall itself over the gate in huge letters there was scrawled
the legend 'Sa`ng-Fori', literally 'Without Chains' but
perhaps better translated simply as 'Freedom' or 'Liberty'.
Book 2, Outlaw: pg 216 [b] |
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and 'sapa' is the word for 'black'
Book 17, Savages: pg 246 [b] |
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"I am offering a libation," he said. "Ta-Sardar-Gor."
"What does that mean?" I asked, my words fumbling a bit, blurred by the liquor, made unsteady by my fear. "It means," laughed Cabot, a mithless laugh, " - to the Priest-Kings of Gor!" Book 2, Outlaw: pg 13 [b] |
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There was no love in my heart for the Priest-Kings, those mysterious denizens of the Sardar Mountains...
Book 2, Outlaw: pg 13 [b] |
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"The Priest-Kings," said my father, "maintain the Sacred Place in the Sardar Mountains, a wild vastness into which no man penetrates."
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 29 [b] |
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Economically, the base of the Gorean life was the free peasant, which was perhaps the lowest but undoubtedly the most fundamental caste, and the staple crop was a yellow grain called Sa-Tarna, or Life-Daughter.
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 43 [C] The northern Sa-Tarna, in its rows, yellow and sprouting, was about ten inches high. The growing season at this latitude, mitigated by the Torvaldstream, was about one hundred and twenty days. This crop had actually been sown the preceding fall, a month following the harvest festival. It is sown early enough, however, that, before the deep frosts temporarily stop growth, a good root system can develop. Then, in the warmth of the spring, in the softening soil, the plants, hardy and rugged, again assert themselves. The yield of the fall-sown Sa-Tarna is, statistically, larger than that of the spring-sown varieties. Book 9, Marauders: pg 102 [b] |
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Interestingly enough, the word for meat is Sa-Tassna, which means Life-Mother. Incidentally, when one speaks of food in general, one always speaks of Sa-Tassna.
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 43 [b] |
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My four commercial voyages had been among the exchange islands, or free
islands, in Thassa, administered as free ports by members of the
Merchants. There were several such islands. Three, which I
encountered frequently in my voyages, were Teletus, and, south of
it, Tabor, named for the drum, which it resembles, and to the
north, among the northern islands, Scagnar.
Book 6, Raiders: pg 137 [tLi] Hilda sat in a great curule chair, carved with the sign of Scagnar, a serpent-ship, seen frontally. Book 8, Hunters: pg 43 [tLi] It is not unusual to encounter a fellow with a jacket of sleen fur, falling to his knees, sewn in the circle stitch of Scagnar, who wears upon his forehead a silken headband of Ar. Book 8, Hunters: pg 45 [tLi] The governance of Lydius, under the merchants, incidentally, is identical to that of the exchange islands, or free islands, in Thassa. Three with which I was familiar, from various voyages, were Tabor, Teletus and, to the north, offshore from Torvaldsland, Scagnar Book 9, Marauders: pg 112 [tLi] There were men here, too, even from Hunjer, Sjkern, Helmutsport and Scagnar itself, on whose cliffs Thorgard's fortress ruled. Book 9, Marauders: pg 239 [tLi] |
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Genserix then, carefully, made two incisions in the face of the infant, obliquely, one
on each cheek. The infant began to cry. Blood ran down the sides of its face, about
the sides of its neck and onto its tiny shoulders. "Let it be taken now," said
Genserix, "to its mother." The woman who had brought the child to the side of the fire now took up the blanket in which it had been wrapped, and, wrapping it again on its folds, took it then from the warrior, and made her way back to the wagon. "These are a warrior people," I said to Feiqa, "and the child is an Alar. It must learn to endure wounds before it receives the nourishment of milk." Feiqa shrank back, frightened to be among such men. On the face of Genserix, and on the faces of those about us, the males, were the thin, white, knife-edge lines, the narrow scars, by which it might be known that each had, in his time, undergone the same ceremony. By such scars one may identify Alars. Book 21, Mercenaries, pg 47 [tLi] "Waste! Dishonor! Misery! Ruin! Tragedy! What if this story should ever get back to the wagons? I am unworthy of my scars!" Book 21, Mercenaries, pg 115 [tLi] |
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On the face of each there were, almost like corded chevrons, brightly colored
scars. The vivid coloring and intensity of these scars, their
prominence, reminded me of the hideous markings on the faces of
mandrills; but these disfigurements, as I soon recognized, were
cultural not congenital, and bespoke not the natural innocence of
the work of genes but the glories and status, the arrogance and
prides, of their bearers.
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The scars had been worked into the faces, with needles and knives and pigments
and the dung of bosks over a period of days and nights. Men had
died in the fixing of such scars. Most of the scars were set in
pairs, moving diagonally down from the side of the head toward
the nose and chin. The man facing me had seven such scars
ceremonially worked into the tissue of his countenance, the
highest being red, the next yellow, the next blue, the fourth
black, then two yellow, then black again.
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The faces of the men I saw were all scarred differently, but each was scarred.
The effect of the scars, ugly, startling, terrible, perhaps in
part calculated to terrify enemies, had even prompted me, for a
wild moment, to conjecture that what I faced on the Plains of
Turia were not men, but perhaps aliens of some sort, brought to
Gor long ago from remote worlds to serve some now discharged or
forgotten purpose of Priest-Kings;
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...but now I knew better; now I could see them as men; and now, more significantly,
I recalled what I had heard whispered of once before, in a tavern
in Ar, the terrible Scar Codes of the Wagon Peoples, for each of
the hideous marks on the face of these men had a meaning, a
significance that could be read by the Paravaci, the Kassars, the
Kataii, the Tuchuks as clearly as you or I might read a sign in a
window or a sentence in a book. At that time I could read only
the top scar, the red, bright, fierce cordlike scar that was the
Courage Scar. It is always the highest scar on the face. Indeed,
without that scar, no other scar can be granted. The Wagon
Peoples value courage above all else. Each of the men facing me
wore that scar.
Book 4, Nomads: pp 15-16 [tLi] |
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In those days it had been a portion of the Rites of Submission, as practiced in Tharna, to strip and bind the captive with yellow cords and place her on a scarlet rug, the
yellow of the cord being symbolic of talenders, a flower often associated with feminine love and beauty, the scarlet of the rug being symbolic of blood, and perhaps of passion.
Book 2, Outlaw: pg 205 [b] |
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"There is something here I think you do not realize," said Harold. "What is that?" I asked. He paused. "That in entering Turia and escaping as we did even bringing tarns to the camp we the two of us won the Courage Scar." I was silent. Then I looked at him. "But," I said, "you do not wear the scar." "It would have been rather difficult to get near the gates of Turia for a fellow wearing the Courage Scar, would it not?" "Indeed it would," I laughed. "When I have time," said Harold, "I will call one from the clan of Scarrers and have the scar affixed. It will make me look even more handsome." Book 4, Nomads: pp 273-274 [tLi] |
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In our sense there is no distinction between a spoken and written language
for the Priest-Kings, though there is an analogous distinction
between linguistic patterns that are actually sensed and those
which are potentially to be sensed, an example of the latter
being the scents of a yet uncoiled scent-tape.
Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 100 [tLi] |
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"...The Nyoka flows into Schendi harbor, which is the harbor of the port of Schendi, and moves thence to Thassa." Schendi was an equatorial free port, well known on Gor. It is also the home port of the League of Black Slavers.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 16 [tLi] Many goods pass in and out of Schendi, as would be the case in any major port, such as precious metals, jewels, tapestries, rugs, silks, horn and horn products, medicines, sugars and salts, scrolls, papers, inks, lumber, stone, cloth, ointments, perfumes, dried fruit, some dried fish, many root vegetables, chains, craft tools, agricultural implements, such as hoe heads and metal flail blades, wines and pagas, colorful birds and slaves. Schendi's most significant exports are doubtless spice and hides, with kailiauk horn and horn products being of great importance. One of her most delicious exports is palm wine. One of her most famous, and precious, exports are the small carved sapphires of Schendi. These are generally a deep blue, but some are purple and others, interestingly, white or yellow. They are usually carved in the shape of tiny panthers, but sometimes other animals are found as well, usually small animals or birds.....The population of Schendi is probably about a million people. The great majority of these are black. Individuals of all races, however, Schendi being a cosmopolitan port, frequent the city. Book 13, Explorers: pg 115 [C] The word Schendi, as nearly as I can determine, has no obvious, direct meaning in itself. It is generally speculated, however, that it is a phonetic corruption of the inland word Ushindi, which, long ago, was apparently used to refer to this general area. Book 13, Explorers: pg 100 [yara{^B^}/tLi] Schendi, located in the vicinity of the Gorean equator, somewhat south of it, provides the ships with a convenient base, from which they may conduct their affairs seasonally in both hemispheres. Book 13, Explorers: pg 101 [tLi] |
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The river and forests teemed with life. Fibrous, medicinal, and
timber resources alone seemed inexhaustible. A new world, untapped,
beautiful, dangerous, was opened by the river. I think it would be
impossible to overestimate its importance.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 309 [B] |
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I observed the scimitar. It was a wickedly curved blade.
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 120 [C] ... with the razor-sharp scimitars of the Tahari... Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 123 [C] Silk, dropped upon the scimitar of the Tahari, divides and falls free, floating, to the floor. Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 60 [C] Gron, bare chested, stood beside him, resting the point of a great, long, curved sword on the tiles at his feet. Book 14, Fighting Slave: pg 118 [C] |
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scimitar oryx fauna (non-Gorean) An
oryx, named for its scimitar-shaped horns, weighing up to 121 Gorean
stone (220 kg/ 480 lb) and inhabiting the sub-desert lands between the true
desert (Sahara) and the grasslands. Feeding on primarily grasses,
it also feeds on legumes, and the leaves and fruit of shrubs and
trees. Like all oryx, it is well-adapted to its arid environment,
and can go for up to nine or ten months without drinking water
by using the moisture in its forage. [tLi]
S | ![[scimitar oryx]](pix/scimitar_oryx.jpg) Scimitar Oryx, oryx dammah © Brent Huffman, 1999 http://www.UltimateUngulate.com |
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Here, too, may be found snakes and monkeys, gliding urts, leaf urts, squirrels, climbing, long-tailed porcupines, lizards, sloths, and the usual varieties of insects, ants, centipedes, scorpions, beetles and flies, and so on
Book 13, Explorers: pg 311 [C] |
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The Scribes, of course, are the scholars and clerks of Gor,
and there are divisions and rankings within the group, from
simple copiers to the savants of the city.
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 44 [C] Many castes, incidentally, have branches and divisions. Lawyers and Scholars, for example, and Record Keepers, Teachers, Clerks, Historians and Accountants are all Scribes. Book 5, Assassin: pg 118 [b] Geographers and cartographers, of course, are members of the Scribes. Book 13, Explorers: pg 213 [tLi] And Shaba had moved in secrecy.... The men with him, I suspected, or most of them, were members of his own caste, geographers of the scribes, perhaps, but men inured to hardships, perhaps men who had been with him in his explorations of Ushindi and Ngao, men he trusted and upon whom he could count in desperate situations, caste brothers. Book 13, Explorers: pg 251 [tLi] |
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<Oryx> You might wish to go to a servery, to serve an Ubar of Port-Kar lumpy paga with celane melon slices, but, My little slavelet, none of that ever appeared in the Scrolls.
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"You said you were no stranger to scrolls," I said.
"To some, Master," she said. "I did not mean to be arrogant. If I have not been pleasing, lash me." "Have you read," I asked, "the Manuals of the Pens of Mira, Leonora's Compendium, the Songs of Dina, or Hargon's The Nature and Arts of the Female Slave?" "No, Master," she said, eagerly. Such texts, and numerous others, like them, are sometimes utilized in a girl's training, particularly by professional slavers. Sometimes they are read aloud in training sessions by a scribe, a whip master in attendance. Most girls are eager to acquire such knowledge. Indeed, they often ply one another for secrets of love, makeup, costuming, perfuming, dance, and such, as each wishes to be as perfect for her master as it lies within her power to be. Book 25, Magicians: pg 193 [b] |
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"It is, of course, a scytale," I said.
"Yes," said Samos, "and the message is in clear Gorean." He had told me what the message was, and we had discussed it earlier. I was curious, however, to see it wrapped about the shaft of the spear. Originally, in its preparation, the message ribbon is wrapped diagonally, neatly, edges touching, about a cylinder, such as the staff of a marshal's office, the shaft of a spear, a previously prepared object, or so on, and then the message is written in lines parallel with the cylinder. The message, easily printed, easily read, thus lies across several of the divisions in the wrapped silk. When the silk is unwrapped, of course, the message disappears into a welter of scattered lines, the bits and parts of letters; the coherent message is replaced with a ribbon marked only by meaningless, unintelligible scraps of letters; to read the message, of course, one need only rewrap the ribbon about a cylindrical object of the same dimension as the original object. The message then appears in its clear, legible character. Whereas there is some security in the necessity for rewrapping the message about a cylinder of the original dimension, the primary security does not lie there." Book 12, Beasts: pg 24 [b] She had been the girl who had brought to the house of Samos the message of the scytale. The scytale had been a marked hair ribbon. Wrapped about the shaft of a spear, thus aligning the marks, the message had appeared. Book 13, Explorers: pg 10 [b] |
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The month of the autumnal equinox is called fully
Se'Kara-Lar-Torvis, but usually simply Se'Kara, The Second Kara, or the Second Turning
Book 2, Outlaw: pg 178 [b] |
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There are, of course, impenetrable, or almost impenetrable, areas in
the jungle. These are generally "second-growth" patches. Through
them one can make ones way only tortuously, cuffing with the
machete or panga, stroke by stroke. They normally occur only
where men have cleared land, and then, later, abandoned it. That
is why they are called "second-growth" patches; they normally
occur along rivers and are not characteristic of the botanical
structure of the virgin rain forest itself.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 313 [b] |
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I wondered, however, if the Second Knowledge, that of the
intellectuals, might not be as carefully tailored to preclude
inquiry on their level as the First Knowledge apparently was to
preclude inquiry on the level of the Lower Castes.
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 58 [b] Those of the High Castes of Gor are permitted by the Priest-Kings only theSecond Knowledge. Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 45 [b] "I am of the warriors," he told me, "which is a high caste. I have been educated in the Second Knowledge, so I know of your world. Your accent marked you as barbarian." Book 7, Captive: pg 334 [tLi] |
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"Second slave," I told her, which, among the river towns, and
in certain cities, particularly in the north, is a way of
indicating that I would take the black wine without creams or
sugars, and as it came from the pouring vessel, which, of course,
in these areas, is handled by the "second slave," the first slave
being the girl who puts down the cups, takes the orders and sees
that the beverage is prepared according to the preferences of the
one who is being served. The expression "second slave," incidentally, serves to indicate that one does not wish creams or sugars with one's black wine, even if only one girl is serving. Book 16, Guardsman: pg 245-246 [b] |
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Month names differ, unfortunately, from city to city, but among the
civilized cities, there are four months, associated with the
equinoxes and solstices, and the great fairs at the Sardar, which do
have common names: the months of the En`Kara, or En`Kara-Lar-Torvis;
En`Var, or En`var-Lar-Torvis; Se`Kara, or Se`Kara-Lar-Torvis; and Se`Var, or Se`Var-Lar_Torvis.
These however, like the other expressions, usually occur in speech only as En'Var and
Se'Var, or The First Resting and The Second Resting.
Book 2, Outlaw: pg 178 [W ] The games in the Stadium of Blades finished their season at the end of Se`Kara, a month following the season of races. Book 5, Assassins: pg 78 [b] |
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I did not know if the victory we had won, for victory it surely
seemed to be, was decisive or not, but I well knew that the
twenty-fifth of Se'Kara, for that was the day on which this battle
had been fought, would not be soon forgotten in Port Kar, that city
once called squalid and malignant, but which had now found a Home
Stone, that city once called the scourge of gleaming Thassa, but
which might now be better spoken of, as she had been by some of her
citizens aforetimes, as her jewel, the jewel of gleaming Thassa. I
wondered how many men would claim to have fought on the twenty-fifth
of Se'Kara, abroad on Thassa.
Book 6, Raiders: pg 280 [tLi] |
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"I confessed my natural slavery," she said, "and then spoke words of self-enslavement."
Book 23, Renegades: pg 372 [tLi] |
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He did so late in spring, on the sixteenth day of the third month, that month which in Ar is called Camerius, in Ko-ro-ba Selnar.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 235 [b] |
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There are four major cities on Cos, of which Telnus is the largest. The others are Selnar, Temos and Jad.
Book 6, Raiders: pg 173 [tLi] |
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She had been, of course, at one time, before being collared, a free
woman of high station, of the city of Samnium. This word,
incidentally, is, in effect, the same word as 'Semnium', although
in the western coastal dialects it is commonly pronounced as I
have given the spelling here. Its original meaning is apparently
"Meeting Place," and its application to a building, or a hall for
the meeting of councils, is, it seems, a later development.
Book 21, Mercenaries: pg 201 [tLi] These inert, suspended, desiccated weights... had been arranged in a line along the Avenue of Adminius, the main thoroughfare of Torcadino, near the Semnium, the hall of the high council, doubtless as some sort of mnemonic and admonitory display. Book 21, Mercenaries: pg 108 [b] We were at the foot of the low, broad steps of the Semnium, the hall of the high council, which building, it seemed, might now serve as the headquarters of the new masters of Torcadino. Book 21, Mercenaries: pg 140 [tLi] |
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Before Suleiman, now, there lay five stones, three sereem
diamonds, red, sparkling, white flecked, and two opals, one a
common sort, milky in color, and the other an unusual flame opal,
reddish and blue.
Book 10, Tribesman: pg 92 [C] |
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Torcodino, on the flats of Serpeto, is a crossroads city. It is located
at the intersection of various routes, the genesian, connecting
Brundisium and other coastal cities with the south. The Northern
Salt Line and the Northern Silk Road, leading respectively west
and north from the east and south, the Pilgrim's Road, leading to
the Sardar, and the Eastern Way, sometimes called the Treasure
Road, which links the western cities with Ar. Supposedly
Torcodino, with its strategic location, was an ally of Ar.
Book 21, Mercenaries: pg 101 [tLi] |
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"Do you understand the significance of the revealing of the navel?" she asked me.
"I believe on Gor," I said, "it is called 'the slave belly'." "It is," she said. "But Gor, of course, does not exist." "Of course not," I said. "Now take the goblet," he said, "and hold the metal against your body, pushing inward." I took the goblet and held it, tightly, to my body. I held the round, heavy metal against me, below my brassiere. "Lower," he said, "against your belly." I then held the goblet lower. "Press it more inward," he said. I did so. I can still feel the cold metal against me, firmly, partly against the silk of my undergarment, partly against my belly. "Now," said he, "lift the goblet to your lips and kiss it lingeringly, then proffer it to me, arms extended, head down." Book 15, Fighting Slave: pg 10 [tLi] "May I serve you wine, Master?" she asked. I turned from the wall. I then had myself under control. I breathed deeply, almost gasping. Unbidden, she went to the shelf where I had placed the shallow, chipped clay bowl of cheap, dark wine, fit for slaves. She then, holding the bowl, knelt again, gracefully, before me. Looking at me, she tossed her head, throwing her dark hair behind her. The slender steel collar was beautiful on her throat. She, holding the bowl with two hands, pressed it back against her belly, low, below the navel. I looked at the edge of the bowl, containing the wine, pressed back, into her flesh. Then she lifted the bowl before her and, gently, turning her head, placing her lips softly upon it, kissed it. She then, with two hands, head down, proffered to me the chipped, shallow bowl. Book 15, Fighting Slave: pg 98 [tLi] "Your drink, Master," said Taphris. He looked at her and, suddenly, frightened, she fell to her knees. She put her head down. She pressed the yellow, rough-skinned half-gourd, brimming with water, deep into her belly. Then she lifted the yellow side of the gourd to her lips and, lingeringly, turning her head, kissed it; then she lifted it to him with both hands, her head down between her extended arms. Book 15, Fighting Slave: pg 261 [tLi/nineve{Rem}] Reucius held the goblet of wine. I had even been permitted to drink from it, from the side opposite to that which had touched his lips. Book 19, Kajira: (end) [tLi] |
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Month names differ, unfortunately, from city to city, but among the
civilized cities, there are four months, associated with the
equinoxes and solstices, and the great fairs at the Sardar, which do
have common names: the months of the En`Kara, or En`Kara-Lar-Torvis;
En`Var, or En`var-Lar-Torvis; Se`Kara, or Se`Kara-Lar-Torvis; and Se`Var, or Se`Var-Lar_Torvis.
These however, like the other expressions, usually occur in speech only as En'Var and
Se'Var, or The First Resting and The Second Resting.
Book 2, Outlaw: pg 178 [W] I did know, further, that a tarn cot for the Steels had been established during Se`Var and riders had been hired. The backing of the faction was a bit mysterious. Book 5, Assassin: pg 169 [tLi] |
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As might be expected there are related expressions for the months of the
solstices, En'Var-Lar-Torvis and Se'Var-Lar-Torvis, or,
again rather literally, The First Resting and the Second Resting
of the Central Fire. These however, like the other expressions,
usually occur in speech only as En'Var and Se'Var, or The First
Resting and The Second Resting.
Book 2, Outlaw: pg 178 [b] |
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<shellie{X}> before a girl asked if you wanted sevice Master
<Oryx> yes, that sounds lovely, I'll take some sevice, with kashpent all over the sevice, prepared like they do in Turia <JamesGrim> whozongit? <Oryx> close, JG * JamesGrim scratches his chin, having come in too late in the game <Oryx> but whozongit is NEVER served with kashpent, the flavors clash <JamesGrim> ahh * shellie{X} smiles and scoots back from Master Oryx's feet... dancing her way to the kitchen, she pulls a sea-shell from one of the lower shelves and takes up a cloth and wipes it carefully, setting it upon the counter. * Oryx watches shellie, KNOWING she remembers how to warm the kashpent JUST right * shellie{X} looks to the looming door of the coldroom, tugging it open, feeling the cold air capture her as she oooh's, spotting the rounded florets of sevice, their leaves so small and fragile, the hues of red and blue and purple blending like a rainbow. she smiles, filling the shell with them * Oryx smiles happily at lil shellie <Oryx> now, THERE's a slave who knows her delicacies! continued... |
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* shellie{X} finds a block of kashpent hidden behind an enormous chunk
of bosk cheese. With delight she bundles the awkwardly shaped rectangle
of bright orange and yellow striped kashpent in a cloth and returns
to the kitchen
* shellie{X} returns to the kitchen and cleans the sevice well, separating the tiny florets and leaves from the stems, she places them in a small copper pot so that she might heat them over the fire, making them more tender, and undoubtedly the juiciest vegetable she knows of. she carries all the the hearth and kneels * shellie{X} sets the copper pot with the sevice directly over the fire to cook, and meanwhile sets the squarish chunk of kashpent in another pot over the grate, so that it will warm and melt slowly. she rises, returning to the kitchen as Master Oryx's delicacy cooks. * shellie{X} slips her hand in a bosk mitt glove, lifting the copper pot of sevice, draining the water from it and arranging it in the seashell. Oh! The colors are more alive, purple and red and blue! * Oryx is glad shellie didn't mix in any of the yellow ones, they're always so bitter continued... |
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* shellie{X} lifts the pot of melted kashpent, pouring the orangey-yellow
cream over the sevice, watching it slip in between the nooks and
crannies of the florets, hardening upon contact. she smiles,
seeing the sevice so beautifullly adorned, the kashpent almost
sparkling as the droplets cling to the buds of the florets and to
the leaves. With a flourish of movement she rises and moves
through the taven
* shellie{X} kneels before him, thighs parting widely, her hands slowly coming down, the steam moving over her face, sliding over the smooth column of her neck, the kashpent painting her with its scent she shivers as it settles just over her heart, she holds her hands out to Master Oryx, offering <shellie{X}> Master, shellie brings you sevice and kashpent, served in a seashell, Turian style! she hopes that the girl's service and the delicacy will both please you. * Oryx leans forward to accept the carefully prepared dish of sevice and kashpent, spears one of the florettes with the skewer that shellie thoughtfully set in the food, and chews thoughtfully The Travels of Oryx con Lara, vol XI |
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"This lake, forming the source of the Ua," I said, "he named Lake Bila Huruma."
"Cross that out," said Bila Huruma. "Write there, instead, Lake Shaba." "I will do so," I said. Book 13, Explorers: pg 455 [W] |
shark, marsh fauna long bodied, nine-gilled inhabitant of the rence island areas of the marsh, they are almost eel-like. [T]shearing blades weapon massive circular blades mounted towards the front of Gorean warships, that would strip the oars of an enemy vessel as she passed close aside her, thus crippling teh victim [tLi]
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shark, northern fauna a species of shark occasionally hunted by the red hunters [tLi]
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shark, river fauna a narrow black vicious carnivorous fish with a triangular dorsal fin which inhabits the rivers of Gor. [T]
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shark, salt fauna a long-bodied (12' or more) carnivorous fish having nine gills situated under the jaw, several rows of triangular teeth, a sickle-like tail, and a sail-like dorsal fin; inhabits brine pits such as those of the Tahari
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Indeed, the galleys of Port Kar, medium and heavy class, carried
shearing blades, which had been an invention of Tersites. These are
huge quarter-moons of steel, fixed forward of the oars, anchored into
the frame of the ship itself. One of the most common of naval
strategies, other than ramming, is oar shearing, in which one vessel,
her oars suddenly shortened inboard, slides along the hull of
another, whose oars are still outboard, splintering and breaking them
off. The injured galley then is like a broken-winged bird, and at
the mercy of the other ship's ram as she comes about, flutes playing
and drums beating, and makes her strike amidships.
Book 6, Raiders: pg 135-136 [tLi] |
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A shelter trench is a narrow trench some four or five feet deep and about eighteen inches wide. The sand, struck by the sun, can reach temperatures on its surface of more than 175 degrees Fahrenheit. Set on rocks, boards of metal some two feet in length, and six inches wide, exposed to the sun, are sometimes used by the nomad women in frying foods. Only a foot or two below the surface, these temperatures are reduced by more than fifty degrees. The trench provides, most importantly, shade from the sun. The air temperature is seldom more than 140 degrees in the shade, even in the dune country. The trench, of course, is always dug with its long axis perpendicular to the path of the sun, that it provide the maximum shade for the longest period of time
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 21 [b] |
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In this discipline the female is forbidden human speech. She is also
forbidden human posture, in the sense that she is not allowed to
rise to her feet. Her locomotion, unless commanded to roll, or
put under similar commands, suitable for a pet, will be on all
fours. Her food will be thrown to her, or put in pans on the
ground. In either case, she must feed without the use of her
hands. She may also, of course, be fed by hand, but, again, will
not be permitted to touch the food with her hands. She may be
taught tricks. Sometimes these are taught as functions of
arbitrary sounds, so that she must learn them as any animal
might, without the benefit of an earlier understanding of the
word used. If she is slow to learn, of course, she is punished,
as would be any other animal. When used, too, it will commonly be
in the modality of the she-quadruped. This discipline is
often used as a punishment, but it may figure in the training of
a new girl. It helps her to understand what she now is, an animal
totally subject to her master.
Book 16, Guardsman: pg 225 [C] |
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"In what slavery, or slaveries, will Master place me?" she asked.
I looked at her position. "Perhaps in these slavery of the she-quadruped," I said. "Master may do so, if he wishes," she said, "if it pleases him, or amuses him." In this form of slavery, which is commonly used for disciplinary purposes, or for the amusement of the Master, the woman is not permitted to arise from all fours; similarly she is not permitted human speech, though she may signify needs and desires by such means as cringing, and moaning and whimpering. Not permitted the use of her hands, save as a means of locomotion, she must also eat and drink from pans set on the floor, or, sometimes to satisfy her thirst, she must lap the water permitted to her from puddles or lick pillages from the tiles; too, it is no uncommon to chain her near her master's feet, while he dines, that he may, if he wishes, throw her scraps of food. She will also be taught tricks, through which paces she may be put for the entertainment of her master's guests, such things as begging, lying down, rolling over, and fetching his sandals in her teeth. And, needless to say, when her master wishes to use her sexually, it will be a position common to the she-quadruped. Book 21, Mercenaries: pg 215 [C] |
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"To all fours," said her keeper.
Immediately she went to all fours. "Describe a circle, of some five paces in diameter, on all fours, as you are now," said her keeper, "and return to this place." I watched her. In this way was she well displayed, and in the attitude of the she-quadruped. She was then again before us, on all fours, head down. "On all fours," remarked a fellow. "In such a posture she does not seem as insolent," said another. "She is not," said another. "No," said another. "A fitting posture for the little she-sleen," said a man. Book 25, Magicians: pg 230 [tLi] "You are now in the modality of the she-quadruped," said my hostess. Lale moaned. My hostess made a sign and Lale was leashed. "Can you understand me, my little she-quadruped?" asked my hostess. "Whimper once for 'Yes,' whimper twice for 'No.' " Lale whimpered once. "Good," said my hostess. "You are a bright little she-quadruped." Book 21, Mercenaries: pg 328 [tLi] |
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Perhaps it is that sort of she-sleen, which, if not properly controlled, tends to be sly, nasty and dangerous, that men have in mind when they sometimes apply that expression to a woman. I do not know. To be sure, as the men say, it seems that even the woman who is a "she-sleen" needs only a strong Master, one who brings her swiftly to her knees and teaches her that she is a female. The husk of the she-sleen, as it is said, can be torn away, never to grow again, leaving behind only the soft flesh of another slave.
Book 22, Dancer: pg 167 [tLi] "She is a she-sleen," said Samos, "vicious and ignoble." Book 9, Marauders: pg 15 [tLi] She moved her body in such a way that there was little doubt of her femaleness, the lovely, cunning she-sleen. Book 24, Vagabonds: pg 143 [tLi] |
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Melina, now a naked slave in sleen collar, was ordered forth on her hands and knees. A sleen leash was attached to her collar and she was marched, as a she-sleen, crawling, abused, to the rape-rack.
Book 11, Slave Girl: pg 238 [{marycat}B] |
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I stopped on the walkway. Ahead, some yards, was a girl dark-haired,
lying on her belly on the walkway, reaching with her hand down to
the canal, to fish out edible garbage. She was barefoot, and wore
a brief, brown rag. I did not think she was a slave. Some free
girls, runaways, vagabonds, girls of no family or position, live
about port cities, scavenging as they can, begging, stealing,
sleeping at night in crates and under bridges and piers. They are
called the she-urts of the wharves. Every once in a while there
is a move to have them rounded up and collared but it seldom
comes to anything.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 47 [C] |
shield, Gorean See shield, roundshinola noun (non-Gorean) thick, brown pungent material. See shit
shield, Kurii noun a wide iron shield, round and four feet in diameter. [T]
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Behind the Kur, to one side, stood two other Kurii. They, like the first, were fearsome creatures. Each carried a wide, round shield, of iron, some four feet in diameter.
Book 9, Marauders: pg 171 [C]
shield, northern noun round and wooden, variously painted, they are reinforced with iron bands, or leather, or small bronze plates. Hung, overlapping over the side of a ship, they are an indication of peaceful intent. [T]
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The shields were round, and of wood, variously painted, some reinforced with iron bands, others with leather, some with small bronze plates
Book 9, Marauders: pg 32 [C]
The helmets of the north are commonly conical, with a nose-guard, that can slip up and down... Their shields, like those of Torvaldsland, are circular, and of wood.
Book 9, Marauders: pg 73 [tLi]
shield, round noun The round shield is formed from concentric, overlapping layers of hardened leather riveted together and bound with hoops of brass. It is fitted with the double sling for carrying on the left arm. Normally the Gorean shield is painted boldly and has infixed in it some device for identifying the bearer's city. [T]
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The round shield, concentric overlapping layers of hardened leather riveted together and bound with hoops of brass, fitted with the double sling for carrying on the left arm, was similarly unmarked. Normally the Gorean shield is painted boldly and has infixed in it some device for identifying the bearer's city. If this shield were intended for me, and I had little doubt it was, it should have carried the sign of Ko-ro-ba, my city.
Book 2, Outlaw: pg 21 [C]
shield, signal noun the men of Torvaldsland use different colored shields as a means of communication. Two that are universal are the red shield which means, 'war', and the white shield meaning, 'peace'. [T]
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There are shield signals, too, however, it might be mentioned, in Torvaldsland, though these are quite limited. Two that are universal in Torvaldsland are the red shield for war, the white for peace.
Book 9, Marauders: pg 181 [b]
shield, Turian noun unlike the common Gorean shield, the Turian shield is oval. [T]
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His long black hair was now tied behind his head. His large wrists had been wrapped in boskhide straps. He wore a helmet and carried the Turian shield, which is oval. In his right hand there was a spear. Over his shoulder was slung the sheath of a short sword."
Book 4, Nomads: pg 113 [b]
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Shu represented by a sign which seems clearly oriental in origin
Book 13, Explorers: pg 9 [C] |
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There is a mock rebellion which is sometimes permitted a slave girl, or
even commanded of her, for the master's amusement. I felt a tear
on my cheek. "Show rebellion," is a command which a girl must, as
any other, obey. Yet it is a terribly cruel command. "Kneel," is
the command which, commonly, puts an end to her rebellion. When a
girl has been permitted defiance it is then all the sweeter, I
gather, to bring her again to her knees before you.
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 155 [tLi] |
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West of Ar's Station on the river I had visited Jort's Ferry, Point Alfred, Jasmine, Siba, Sais and Sulport.
Book 15, Rogue: pg 62 [tLi] Siba is one of the Vosk towns. It lies to the east of Sais. Book 15, Rogue: pg 298 [tLi] |
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Sidge, on the other hand, could be cuneiform
Book 13, Explorers: pg 9 [C] |
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"Side-block girl," in the argot of the slave girl, like "pot
girl" and "kettle-and-mat girl," is a term of disparagement. It
must be admitted there is more prestige in being auctioned from a
major, or central, block than there is in being casually
purchased from a side block. One might as well be sold off a
slaver's public shelf, in a city, or out of a cage, or kneeling
in the mud outside a village, from a "slaver's necklace." To be
sure, a girl who is once sold off a side block may, in time, her
femininity blossoming under the discipline of the whip and the
harsh tutelage of masters, become a treasure, a slave so
beautiful and desirable that men will pay fortunes to have her at
their feet. I wandered over to the left wall to look at some of
the side blocks.
Book 17, Savages: pg 107 [b] |
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The Forkbeard himself now, from a wooden keg, poured a great tankard of ale, which must have been of the measure of five gallons. over this he then closed his fist. It was the sign of the hammer, the sign of Thor. The tankard then, with two great bronze handles, was passed from hands to hands among the rowers. The men threw back their heads and, the liquid spilling down their bodies, drank ale. It was the victory ale
Book 9, Marauders: pg 82 [C] |
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sign of Schendi noun the shackle and scimitar [tLi]
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It had five palms on it, and the sign of Schendi, the shackle and scimitar.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 73 [tLi] |
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Furthermore the collar is fastened by what is, in effect, a signature knot, a complex knot, within a given tribal style, whose tying is known only to the individual who has invented it. It is thus, for most practical purposes, impossible to remove and replace such a collar without the master, in his checking of the knot, by untying and retying it, being able to tell.
Book 17, Savages: pg 214 [b] |
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I smelled the perfumes of the shop, many of which were being blended by hand from signature recipes in the back of the shop. Signature recipes are unique, and secret. They are the result of a perfumer's consultations and experiments, the outcome of an effort to devise the perfect perfume for a given woman, though perhaps relativized to a time of day and mood. A wealthy woman may have as many as ten or fifteen signature recipes, each different. They are called signature recipes not only because they are individualized to a given woman but because the recipe bears the perfumer's signature, indicating that he accepts it as a perfume worthy of his house. These recipes, interestingly, are kept on file in the perfumer's, strong boxes. The ingredients and processing remain the secrets of the perfumer. There are also, of course, perfumes associated with a given house, which may be purchased by more than one woman. These recipes are sometimes, by an extension of usage, also called signature recipes. They are, at any rate, supposedly unique to given houses.
Book 14, Fighting Slave: pg 212-213 [tLi/nineve{Rem}] |
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There were men at the tables, the girls, in
slave bells and yellow silks, serving them.
Book 8, Hunters: pg 55 [C] I noted, and I do not doubt but that it was detected, too, by Marlenus, that her body, as she drew the brief, exotic, degrading silk about her, subtly and mistakably, was shaken by an involuntary tremor of sensuality. Then she was again Verna. I suppose it was the first time her body had felt silk. I have often wondered at the excitement generated in women by the simple feel of silk on their bodies. I gather that it is a sensuous experience. Surely it would be difficult for a woman to wear silk and not, by that much more, be aware of her womanhood. But perhaps Verna's response was not simply to silk. Indeed, that would hardly account for the totality of her involuntary response, her body's betrayal. It was not ordinary silk Marlenus had thrown to her. It was not ordinary silk which she then, for the first time, felt on her body. It was the softest and finest of diaphanous silks, clinging and betraying. It had been milled to reveal a woman most exquisitely and beautifully to a master. It was brief, exotic, humiliating, degrading. It was, of course, slave silk. I wondered if Verna had ever dreamed of herself in such silk. Book 8, Hunters: pp 150-151 [C] |
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"Surely you are aware," said Saphrar, "that a slave cannot own property -- any more than a kaiila, a tharlarion or sleen."
Book 4, Nomads: pg 132 [JD] |
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The expression "red silk," in Gorean, tends to be used as a category
in slaving, and also, outside the slaving context, as an expression
in vulgar discourse, indicating that the woman is no longer a virgin,
or, as the Goreans say, at least vulgarly of slaves, that her body
has been opened by men. Its contrasting term is "white silk," usually
used of slaves who are still virgins, or, equivalently, slaves whose
bodies have not yet been opened by men.
Book 18, Blood Brothers: pg 472 [JD] The bells on my ankles and wrists rustled. I felt his hand on the bit of diaphanous yellow silk I wore in the tavern. Book 7, Captive: pg 355 [tLi] |
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"Look!" cried Pudding. "A silk girl!"
The expression "silk girl" is used, often, among bond-maids of the north, to refer to their counterparts in the south. The expression reflects their belief that such girls are spoiled, excessively pampered, indulged and coddled, sleek pets, who have little to do but adorn themselves with cosmetics and await their masters, cuddled cutely, on plush, scarlet coverlets, fringed with gold. There is some envy in this charge, I think. More literally, the expression tends to be based on the fact that the brief slave tunic of the south, the single garment permitted the female slave, is often silk. Southern girls, incidentally, in my opinion, though scarcely as worked as their northern sisters in bondage, a function of the economic distinction between the farm and the city, are often worked, and worked hard, particularly if they have not pleased their masters. Book 9, Marauders: pg 144 [C] |
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"I do not wish to come home with you now", she said, lightly, a bit of ka-la-na
spilling from the silver goblet she held.
Book 15, Rogue: pg 157 [sultry{IFS}] |
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The men in the silver ship had doubtless been of another world, not this one. I had seen no ships, nor men, such as they, on this world. Besides, for all I knew, they might be even more terrible, and fierce, than those of the black ship.
Book 7, Captive: pg 179 [tLi] I saw the ship descend. For a moment it looked like a falling star, but then it suddenly became clear and substantial, like a broad, thick disc of silver. It was silent and settled on the rock platform, scarcely disturbing the light snow that was scattered on it. Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 21 [tLi] "Frankly," said my father, "I believe the ship was remotely controlled from the Sardar Mountains, as are said to be all the Voyages of Acquisition." "Of Acquisition?" "Yes," said my father. "And long ago I made the same strange journey. As have others." "But for what end, to what purpose?" I demanded. "Each perhaps for a different end, for each perhaps a different purpose," he said. Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 32 [tLi] I rose slowly to my feet, my fibers alive in the wind, my hair torn by its blasts, my muscles each aching and rejoicing in their first movements in perhaps weeks, for I had again entered that silver disk in the White Mountains which was the ship of the Priest-Kings, used for the Voyages of Acquisition, and, in entering, had fallen unconscious. In that state, as once long before, I had come to this world. Book 2, Outlaw: pg 19 [tLi] |
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He turned to one of the closest Priest-Kings. "Bring me a silver tube," he said.
"A silver tube to kill only a Mul?" asked the Priest-King. Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 222 [tLi] After the death of the Mother, Sarm and those who followed him, most of the Priest- Kings for he was First Horn, fled from the chamber to fetch, as it was said, silver tubes. These were charged, cylindrical weapons, manually operated but incorporating principles much like those of the Flame Death Mechanism. Unused, they had lain encased in plastic quivers for a matter of centuries and, yet when these quivers were broken open and the weapons seized up by angry Priest-Kings they were as ready for their grim work as they had been when first they were stored away. I think with one such weapon a man might have made himself Ubar of all Gor. Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg ??? [tLi] |
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... they feed on special Sim plants, extensive, rambling, tangled vine-like plants with huge, rolling
leaves, raised under square energy lamps fixed in the ceilings of the broad pasture chambers...
Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 214 [C] |
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On Gor, the singer, or poet, is regarded as a craftsman who makes strong sayings, much like a potmaker makes a good pot or a saddle-maker makes a worthy saddle. He has his role to play in the social structure, celebrating battles and histories, singing of heroes and cities, but also he is expected to sing of living, and of love and joy, not merely of arms and glory; and, too, it is his function to remind the Gorean from time to time of loneliness and death, lest they should forget that they are men
Book 2, Outlaw: pg 103 [C] |
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Sip roots are extremely bitter. Slave wine, incidentally, is made from sip roots.
Book 18, Blood Brothers: pg 124 A bitter root, which can either be made into a liquid contraceptive, or chewed, for the same result. The effect of the sip root, in most women is effective for three or four months. In the concentrated state, as in slave wine, developed by the caste of Physicians, the effect is almost indefinite, usually requiring a releaser for it remission, usually administered, to a slave, in what is called the breeding wine, or the second wine Book 18, Blood Brothers: pg 319 [C] |
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She lifted up some loops of chain; there were linked ankle rings and linked
wrist rings and a lock collar, all connected by a length of
gleaming chain running from the collar. It was rather lovely It
was too small for a man. I knew, however, it would fit me, perfectly.
"Sirik," said Eta. "Sirik," I repeated. Book 11, Slave Girl: pg 83 [C] After we had left some carpeted corridors, higher in the house, flagstone like tiles, we approached a slender, dark-haired girl who, on her hands and knees, in chains, with a bucket of water, cloths and a brush, in that portion of the corridor, was scrubbing tiles. As we approached, she oriented herself toward us, palms of her hands on the floor, and put her head to the tiles. The chain she wore was a work sirik. It resembles the common sirik but the wrists, to permit work, are granted about a yard of chain. Like the common sirik, it is a lovely chain. Women are beautiful in it. Book 19, Kajira: pg 145 [C] |
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The chain she wore was a work sirik.
It resembles the common sink but the wrists, to permit work, are
granted about a yard of chain. Like the common sirik, it is a
lovely chain. Women are beautiful in it.
Book 19, Kajira: pg 145 [b] |
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I suddenly realized, climbing the ramps of Laura toward the compound, leashed, under guard, carrying a jar of wine on my head, balancing it with my right hand, among my sisters on bondage, breathing the fantastic air of Gor, that I was happy.
Book 7, Captive: pg 96 [tLi] "...don't SISTER me, bitch, and get your smermy claws away from my Master" Overheard in a popular, but odd, Gorean on-line millieu [tLi] |
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There was an accompaniment bysistrums
Book 9, Marauders: pg 33 [C] |
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In the whistling wind, as the need arose, I had called the straps to
her, "One-strap!", "Six-strap!" and so on, and she would draw the
strap. That was the only association between the voice of a man and
the arrangements of the strap harness which the tarn had known.
Book 2, Outlaw: pg 129 [b] |
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"There is plankton here," said Ivar, "that of the banks south of the skerry
of Einar, and the temperature of the water tells me that we are
now in the stream of Torvald, which moves eastward to the coast
and then north."
Book 9, Marauders: pg 56 [tLi] |
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"There is plankton here," said Ivar, "that of the banks south of the skerry
of Einar, and the temperature of the water tells me that we are
now in the stream of Torvald, which moves eastward to the coast
and then north."
bleak as it is, would be only a frozen waste.
Book 9, Marauders: pg 56 [tLi] The most famous rune stone in the north is that on Einar's Skerry, which marks the northland's southern border. Book 9, Marauders: pg 229 [ http://www.angelfire.com/fl5/tasardargor/index.html, tLi] |
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"Where is the Skerry of Vars?" I asked.
"It is five pasangs to the north," said Ivar Forkbeard, "and two pasangs offshore." Book 9, Marauders: pg 270 [tLi] The Skerry of Vars is roughly a hundred foot, Gorean, square. It is rough, but, on the whole, flat. It rises some fifteen to twenty feet from the water. It is grayish rock, bleak, upthrust, igneous, forbidding. Book 9, Marauders: pg 271 [tLi] |
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Too, I jumped when I startled a pack of sking, that small soft-skinned animal that
inhabits the Olni Valley. I laughed at their antics, rolling about one-another trying to
make headway, looking like nothing so much as a pack of complaining Initiates.
The Writings of Oryx con Lara |
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Skjern is an Island in Thassa, muchly distant from Ko-ro-ba. It lies west of
bleak, rocky Torvaldsland, substantially above even the vast,
green belt of the northern forests
Book 7, Captive: pg 198 [tLi/gia{FH}] |
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GLUEDOG has three sub-categories for "slave" listings:
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bath girl See bath girlslave practices
below-deck girl See below-deck girl
bond-maid See bond-maid
coin girl See coin girl
exotic See exotic
flute girl See flute girl
kajiri slave designation plural for kajirus, and also is the proper term for the plural when speaking of both slave genders. See kajiri [tLi]
kajirus slave designation male slave; pl.kajiri See kajirus
kettle-and-mat girl See kettle-and-mat girl
last girl See last girl
luck girl See luck girl
lure girl See lure girl
mul See mul
pierced-ear girl See pierced-ear girl
pot girl See pot girl
red-silk girl See red-silk girl
side-block girl See side-block girl
silk girl See silk girl
slave, chamber slave designation slave of the Priest-Kings restricted to use within a particular chamber; these slaves cannot leave the chamber and are to serve the Freeperson living there fully. [T]
“” S
"I am a chamber slave," she said.
"I don't understand," I said.
"It means," she said, irritably, "that I am confined to this room, and that I am the slave of whoever enters the room."
Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 36 [C]
slave, display slave designation a slave girl whose primary purpose is for the display of her beauty to reflect the affluence of her master; often chained in coffle with other display slaves behind the palanquin or other transport of her master.
“” S
He had used me as a display slave, to enhance his appearance, to add to the effect he might make when he came into the presence of Pietro Vacchi. It is a use for slaves. I was proud that I had been put at his stirrup.
Book 22, Dancer: pg 367 [b]
slave, field slave designation one who works outdoors, usually gardening, fetching wood or water, etc. She is commonly dressed in plain, sturdy slave tunics. Her hair is shorn. [T]
“” S
Her hair had been cropped rather closely to her head, as is not uncommon with field slaves.
Book 25, Magicians: pg 302 [b]
slave, house slave designation a slave whose primary duties are inside the residence. Duties range from personal serving girls to kettle and mat girls. [T]
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I knew I had done wrong, daring to touch Milo, I, he so favored by the master and I only a house slave, but I had been unable to help myself
Book 25, Magicians: pg 312 [b]
slave, limited See limited self-contracting
slave, love a private, personal, and perfect kajira for a Master; see love slave
slave, passion slave designition a slavegirl who has been bred, rather captured; specifically, one that has been bred for a particular trait, such as beauty or slave heat
“” S
or the shape of her lips [tLi] I looked to one side and was startled. Watching us was a woman in Pleasure Silk, of remarkable beauty, yet with a certain subtle hardness and contempt about her. She wore a yellow collar, that of the House of Cernus, and yellow Pleasure Silk. The slave bells, a double row, were locked on her left ankle. About her throat there hung a slave whistle. From her right hand, looped about the wrist, there dangled a slave goad. She was fairly complicated but had extremely dark hair and dark eyes, very red lips; the movement of her exquisite body was a torment to observe; she looked at me with a slight smile, regarding the black of the tunic, the mark of the dagger; her lips were fu11 and magnificently turned, probably a characteristic bred into her; I had no doubt this black-haired, cruelly beautiful woman was a bred Passion Slave. She was one of the most rawly sensuous creatures on which I had ever looked.
"I am Sura," she said,looking at me, "I teach girls to give pleasure to men."
Book 5, Assassin: pg 155 [C]
I wondered if Vika might be a bred slave, a Passion Slave, one of those girls bred for beauty and passion over generations by the zealous owners of the great Slave Houses of Ar, for lips such as Vika's were a feature often bred into Passion Slaves; they were lips formed for the kiss of a master.
Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 53 [b]
slave, personal serving slave designition a slave assigned or owned by the person she obeys. Her duties may include running errands, general cleaning, or caring for personal belongings. [T]
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I have been assigned by my master, Appanius, to Milo, to be a personal serving slave to him, to clean his quarters, run his errands, and such.
Book 25, Magicians: pg 366 [b]
slave, pleasure slave designation a slave trained, and often bred, for the pleasure of men; traditionally, she kneels with her knees spread wide, and her hands either resting on her thighs or, in some cities, crossed behind her, ready for binding [tLi]
“” S
Ear piercing, on Gor, is regarding most cities as the most degrading thing that can be done to a girl. It is commonly done only to the lowest of pleasure slaves.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 92
"Come now, my pretty slaves," said Ginger, "kneel straight. Back straight, heads up. Back on your heels there! Spread those pretty knees. Yes, that is the way men like it. Put your hands, palms down, on your thighs. Good. good. Excellent!"
The girls now knelt in the coffle as pleasure slaves.
Book 17, Savages: pg 155 [C]
The rag she wore, given her knee position, that of a pleasure slave, was high on her thighs. Her hands, her fingers on her thighs, digging into them, as though they would anchor themselves there, half covered it. He grip was partly through the cloth and partly on her thighs.
Book 25, Magicians: pg 320 [b]
I stretched luxuriously in the camisk. "No," I said, lazily, "I think I will be purchased for a pleasure slave."
Book 7, Captive: pg 101 [b]
She was magnificent. She might have been bred from pleasure slaves and she-panthers. She was sinuous and arrogant, desirable, dangerous, feline. I had little doubt that she was swift of mind. She was surely proud and haughty. She was lithe. She was perhaps two inches taller than the average Gorean woman, and yet, due to the perfections of her proportions, as vigorous and stunning as a girl bred deliberately in the slave pens for such qualities.
Book 8, Hunters: pg 127 [tLi]
slave, proxy See slavery, vengence and contempt
slave, public slave designation City-owned slaves who are available to families for a nominal fee, and, because merely the word of the Free Woman who rented her, that She is displeased with the slave's work is enough to have the slave beaten, they strive mightilly to please [tLi]
“” S
It could be perhaps mentioned that such work, cooking, cleaning and laundering, and such, is commonly regarded as being beneath even free women, particularly those of high caste. In the high cylinders, in Gorean cities, there are often public slaves who tend the central kitchens in cylinders, care for the children, but may not instruct them, and, for a tiny fee to the city, clean compartments and do laundering. Thus even families who cannot afford to own and feed a slave often have the use of several such unfortunate girls, commonly captured from hostile cities. Free women often treat such girls with great cruelty, and the mere word of a free woman, that she is displeased with the girl's work, is enough to have the girl beaten. The girls strive zealously in their work to please the free women. Such girls, also, have a low use-rent, payable to the city, should young males wish to partake of their pleasures. Here again, the mere word of the free person, that he is not completely pleased, is enough to earn the miserable girl a severe beating. Accordingly, she struggles to please him with all her might. It is not pleasant, I fear, to be a public slave.
Book 7, Captive: pg 317 [tLi]
slave, salt slave designition a criminal sentenced to mine salt in the brine pits of isolated, desolate Klima [tLi]
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"Do you understand what it is," asked Ibn Saran, "to be sent to Klima -- to be a salt slave?"
"I think so," I told him.
"There is the march to Klima." said he, "through the dune country, on foot, chained, on which many die."
I said nothing.
"And should you be so unfortunate," said he, "to reach the vicinity of Klima, your feet must he bound with leather to your knees, for you will sink through the salt crusts to your knees, and, unprotected, your flesh, by the millions of tiny, heated crystals, would be grated and burned from your bones."
I looked away, in the chains.
"In the pits," he said, "you pump water through underground deposits, to wash salt, with the water, to the surface, and repump again the same water. Men die at the pumps, in the heat. Others, the carriers, in the brine, must fill their yoke buckets with the erupted sludge, and carry it from the pits to the drying tables; others must gather the salt and mold it into cylinders." He smiled. "Sometimes men kill one another for the lighter assignments."
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 124 [tLi]
slave, scribe slave designition a kajir specially trained to fulfil a scribe's duties of accounting and record-keeping, or a Scribe's work slave, performing many of the routine tasks supporting the Scribe's work. [tLi]
“” S
I looked down the long table, and, far to my right, sitting alone at the end of the long bench behind the table, was Luma, my slave and chief scribe. Poor, scrawny, plain Luma, thought I, in her tunic of scribe's cloth, and collar! What a poor excuse for a paga slave she had been! Yet she had a brilliant mind for a the accounts and business of a great house, and had much increased my fortunes.
Book 6, Raiders: pg 224 [vanesa{V}/tLi]
slave, seduction slave designition 1) a kajirus used to seduce a Free Woman into violating the couch law and becoming slave. 2) A kajira used to seduce male slaves, so that they are compromised and thus revert to the seduction kajira's Master [tLi]
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"The handsome, charming, suave, witty Milo," said the fellow, "is a seduction slave."
"A seduction slave?" she wept.
"Yes," he said. "He has much increased my stock of slaves."
She tore at the net, in tears, but helpless.
"Had you, and your predecessors, not been so secretive, so much concerned to conceal your affairs with a slave, Milo's utility as a seduction slave would have doubtless been much diminished by now. On the other hand, the concern for your reputation and such, so natural in you free women, almost guarantees the repeatability, and continued success, of these small pleasant projects."
Book 25, Magicians: pg 8 [tLi]
Lavinia looked up at him, tears in her eyes. He then, I think, from his reaction, clearly recognized her, well recollecting her once a free female, whom he, as a seduction slave, had entrapped for his master, Appanius
Book 25, Magicians: pg 390 [tLi]
"She is pretty, isn't she?' I asked.
"Yes, Master," he said, in misery.
"She is a seduction slave," I said.
Lavinia sobbed, and shook her head. A tear coursed down her cheek.
"Are you not, Lavinia?" I asked.
"Yes, Master," she sobbed.
Book 25, Magicians: pg 433 [tLi]
slave, silk slave designation a male pleasure slave; usually in attendance on a free woman
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"Are there no masters among them?" asked a woman. "Are they all silk slaves?"
"That is my understanding," said the Lady Tima. "They are all the silk slaves of women."
Surely that is false, I thought. I had known large and strong men on Earth. Yet it was true that many such men, of masculine configuration and size, hastened to obey women. They had been taught that they would not be true men unless they did what women wished. On Gor, of course, it is the women who obey, if they have been made slaves.
Book 14, Fighting Slave: pg 157 [b]
The next level of slaves is that of male silk slaves. These usually bring higher prices, on the whole, than female pleasure slaves. This, it seems to me, is purely a matter of supply and demand.
Book 14, Fighting Slave: pg 164 [tLi/nineve{Rem}]
slave, state slave designation a state owned girl may have various duties, ranging from general cleaning to carrying messages. State tunics and collars are uniform, sleeveless and plain. Considered by most states an unenviable slavery. [T]
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It was a tunic resembling that of a state slave, done in the new fashion. The garmenture of the state slave, that of a girl owned by the city itself, some time ago, had been brief, sleeveless and gray, slashed to the waist. The collar worn by such slaves had been gray, matching the tunic, and it had been customary to lock about their left ankle a steel band, also gray, from which depended five small bells, also of gray metal.
Book 25, Magicians: pg 341 [b]
slave, tower slave designation a state slavegirl in any of the cities of Gor; her duties in the apartment cylinders are largely domestic; traditionally, she kneels with her knees together and with her wrists crossed in front of her, as if for binding
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She had not prepared herself a portion but, after I had been served, had knelt silently to one side, back on her heels in the position of a Tower Slave, a slave to whome largely domestic duties would be allotted in the Gorean apartment cylinders.
Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 46 [b]
slave, white silk See white silk
slave, work slave designation a category of slaves consisting of field slaves, stable slaves, etc. These females are considered, like kettle-and-mat girls , to be low slaves. [T]
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Female work slaves, field slaves, stable slaves, and such, like kettle-and-mat girls, are usually considered the lowest of slaves. At any rate, they commonly bring the lowest prices in the markets.
Book 25, Magicians: pg 305 [b]
thrall See thrall
slave, addressing Free by name practice although in some On-Line communities use of all names of Free People is forbidden to slaves, the Scrolls indicate that only a slave's own Owner's (Master's) name was forbidden them [tLi]slaves, objects associated with
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"May I call you Tarl?" she asked.
"Only if given permission," I told her. This was normal Gorean slave custom. Generally, of course, such permission is not even asked, and, if asked would be denied. Sometimes a girl is whipped for even daring to ask this permission.
"A girl asks permission to call her Master by his name," she said.
"It is denied," I said.
"Yes, Master," she said. I would not permit the slave girl to speak my name. It is not fitting that the name of the master be soiled by being touched by the lips of a slave girl.
Book 10, Tribesmen, pg 360 [Nala]
"Forgive me, Master," I whispered.
"Once this evening," said he, "you, a slave, addressed me by my name, rather than as 'Master.'"
"Forgive me, Master," I said. I trembled. I recalled I had cried out, "I love you, Clitus Vitellius!" How foolish I had been. It was a girl's mistake. It would not go unnoticed.
Book 11, Slave Girl: pg 438 [Nala]
I would not use his name to him, directly but I might use it to others, in reference to him.
Book 22, Dancer: pg 71 [Nala]
slave, addressing Master/Mistress practice the proper way to address the Free People of the Gorean community, unless otherwise instructed by the individual Master/Mistress
“” S
Gorean slaves, incidentally, always addresses free men as "Master," and all free women as "Mistress."
Book 7, Captive: pg 73 [C]
slave, commanding gestures practice slave commands are sometimes given by hand-signals or gestures that the girls are rigorously trained in [tLi]
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I held my left hand open, at my waist. She stiffened, and looked at me, angrily. I opened and closed my left hand once. I saw her training in Gorean customs had been thorough. But she never thought that such a gesture would be used to her. She came beside me, and a bit behind me, and, crouching, put her head down, deeply. I fastened my hand in her hair. She winced. Women are helpless in this position.
Book 12, Beasts: pg 409 [C]
He suddenly snapped his fingers and, in the swift double gesture of the Gorean Master, pointed to a place on the dirt floor before him, almost simultaneously turning his hand, spreading the first and index fingers, pointing downwards. I fled to him and knelt before him, my knees in the dirt, in the position of the pleasure slave, my head down, trembling.
Book 7, Captive: pg 143 [C]
slave, disciplining of practice Any Free Person may discipline an insolent or errant slave, when she is not under her Master's (or her Master's Agents') direct care. Otherwise she might do much what she wished, provided only her Master did not learn of it. If she is killed, or injured, he need only pay compensation to her Master, and that only if the Master can be located within a specific amount of time and requests such compensation. [tLi]
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"Any free man may discipline an insolent or errant slave," I said, "even one who is the least bit displeasing, even one he might merely feel like . If she is killed, or injured, he need only pay compensation to her master, and that only if the master can be located within a specific amount of time and requests such compensation." In virtue of such customs and statutes the perfect discipline under which Gorean slaves are kept is maintained and guaranteed even when they are not within the direct purview of their masters or their appointed agents.
Book 20, Players: pg 235 [C]
"You cannot punish me!" she cried. "You are not my Masters!"
"Any Free Person can punish an errant slave girl," I said. "Surely you do not think that her behavior fails to be subject to supervision and correction as soon as she is out of her Master's sight?"
Book 25, Magician: pg 225 [C]
The discipline of a slave may be attended to by any Free Person, otherwise she might do much what she wished, provided only her Master did not learn of it. The legal principle is clear, and has been upheld in several courts, in several cities, including Ar.
Book 25, Magicians: pg 122 [C]
slave, emotions practice a slave should favorably be freely emotional, unable to control them, for they, too, are property of her Master [tehya{L}fg, tLi]
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Emotion is not only positive, but necessary; the mastery of it is not up to the female. It is up to the male. She is to be every bit the writhing, crying, joyful, and utterly female being she can possibly be. It would be cruel to suggest otherwise.
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 17 [tehya{L}fg]
Her feelings were easily hurt, a valuable property in a slave girl. Too, she could not control her feelings, another excellent property in a slave girl. Her feelings, vulnerable, deep, exploitable, in her expressions and on her face, betrayed her, exposing her to men, and their amusement, as helplessly as her stripped beauty. They made har more easily controlled, more a slave.
Book 10, Tribesmen: pp 103-104 [tehya{L}fg]
slave, entering a room practice it is noted in passing that slaves are taught many ways to enter a room; and in Ar, they list 104 ways [LyricWolf, tLi]
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"How many ways are there," I asked, sitting cross-legged in the center of the compartment, on the stone couch, "to enter a room?"
"It depends on the city," said Elizabeth. "In Ar we are the best; we have most ways to enter a room. One hundred and four."
I whistled.
"What about," I asked, "just walking straight through?"
She looked at me. "Ah," said she, "one hundred and five ways."
Book 5, Assassin: pg 204 [tLi]
slave, handling money practice There doesn't seem to be any specific rule against slaves handling money; most Goreans, especially of low caste, usually carry coins in their mouths as Gorean garments lack pockets [tLi]
“” S
I stopped a hurrying slave girl and inquired the way to the compound of Mintar, of the Merchant Caste, confident that he would have accompanied the horde back to the heartland of Ar. The girl was not pleased to be delayed on her errand, but a slave on Gor does not wisely ignore the address of a free man. She spit the coins she carried in her mouth into her hand, and told me what I wanted to know.
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 165 [tLi]
Many Goreans, particularly those of low caste, on errands and such, carry a coin or coins in their mouths.
Book 23, Renegades: pg 29 [tLi]
slave, keeping in ignorance practice it is sometimes deemed appropriate that slaves be deliberately kept in ignorance, i.e., not knowing the names of their captors, their whereabouts, or what is to be done with them, at the Master's whim. [T]
“” S
"We are kept in ignorance!" cried Tela. "They do not let us know anything! We do not know where we are! We do not know (pg. 381) the nature of our captors, or even their number! We do not know what they intend to do with us!"
Book 22, Dancer: pg 381 [b]
slave, killing if not collared practice one of the most believed and accepted ideas about collaring is that a slave can "force" a Master to collar her, otherwise he has to kill her. According to the Scrolls, she can -- if he's a Warrior. This is part of the Warrior Codes, and no other caste accepts their necessity. [kadi/tLi]
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"I can force you to take me," she said. "How?" I asked. "Like this," she responded, kneeling before me, lowering her head and lifting her arms, the wrists crossed. She laughed. "Now you must take me with you or slay me," she said, "and I know you cannot slay me." I cursed her, for she took unfair advantage of the Warrior Codes of Gor.
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 109 [kadi]
slave, lashing for pleasure practice many slaves, especially love slaves, crave the lick of their Master's whip symbolozing her love for him, as slave to master, and her rejoicing in it See also slave, sexual response enhanced by lashing [raina/tLi]
“” S
Excellent slaves are seldom beaten, for there is little, if any, reason to do so. To be sure, such a girl, particularly a love slave, occasionally desires to feel the stroke of the lash, wanting to feel pain at the hands of a beloved master, wanting to be whipped by him because she loves him, in this way symbolizing to herself her relationship to him, that of slave to master, her acceptance of that relationship, and her rejoicing in it.
Book 25, Magicians: pg 124 [raina]
slave, rebelling See rebellion of compliance
slave, sexual response enhanced by lashing practice Goreans believe that lashing a slave improves her response in the furs, and, in fact, her response to the lash can show how well she'll respond otherwise [Krymsun/tLi]
“” S
A Gorean saying has it that a lashed slave is a hot slave.
Book 14, Fighting Slave, pg 367 [Krymsun]
She who writhes best under the lash, so say the Goreans, writhes best in the furs.
Book 17, Savages, pg 230 [Krymsun]
slave, sharing practice Unlike the common on-line misconception, Goreans didn't as a rule share slaves that they cared about with others. The exception to this was the practice of the Red Hunters, adapted from the Inuit among others, of sharing a wife with a guest [Oisin/KN/tLi]
“” S
These girls may be exchanged among the men, but commonly they are not. Most masters are rather possessive about their slaves, particularly if they are fond of them.
Book 16, Guardsman: pg 209 [KN]
I put my hand in her hair and pulled her to her stomach. "Here she is," I told Imnak.
"Master!" she cried.
Imnak took her and turned her over, pulling her on her back across his legs.
"Master!" cried Arlene.
"Imnak has won your use, until he chooses to leave the tent," I told her. "Obey him as though he were your own master."
Book 12, Beasts: pg 228 [Oisin]
slave, thanking practice one does not thank a slave on Gor. There are many, however, who dispute that in practice. [tLi]
“” S
"Thank you," I said.
She smiled at me. "One does not thank a slave," she said.
Book 2, Outlaw: pg 102 [Jezmonde]
slave, touching homestones practice; IRCism it is believed is some quarters that slaves are forbidden to touch a Home Stone. There is no source for this in the Scrolls. [tLi]
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21. a slave is never allowed to touch a HomeStone....ever, however Wagon Camps do not have Homestones.
Kassar Wagon Camp, slave rules (http://www.geocities.com/shariykahds/slave_Rules.html) [la`dina{Seij}]
The ceremony for pledging a homestone is done in this way. You will be called before the Council or the leader of the Community. This is a joyous event, and You should be sure to invite friends who are Gorean to witness this. You will stand before the Homestone of the City. Do NOT touch the stone. to do so is death. The Homestone is sacred. Slaves should NEVER under ANY circumstances touch the Homestone. This is an instant death
Tenchi of Koroba, slave rules (http://members.tripod.com/Tenchi_of_Koroba/id34.htm [la`dina{Seij}]
slave, touching knives See slave, touching weapons
slave, touching legal documents practice a slave is generally not permitted to touch legal documents [tLi]
“” S
Pamela and Bonnie, incidentally, the two enslaved Gorean beauties in attendance on the tables, did not fetch or carry the documents about. This had been done by Philebus of Venna and the Lady Florence. Slaves, generally, are not permitted to touch legal documents. They are slaves.
Book 14, Fighting Slave: pg 279 [tLi]
slave, touching weapons practice Slaves on Gor are certainly allowed to handle knives; it is weapons that they may be forbidden. A "weapon" is something that is made as a weapon, not merely something that can be used as a weapon. If that were so, a pillow would be forbidden. [tLi]
“” S
She had shaved me as I slept. I shivered, thinking of the blade and my throat. "Your touch is light," I said. She bowed her head... She then gathered up the shaving knife, the towels I had used, and the bowl and went to one side of the room. She rinsed the bowl again and set it against the wall to drain dry. She then rinsed and dried the shaving knife and put it in one of the chests.
Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 34 [tLi]
The ulo, or woman's knife, with its semicircular blade, customarily fixed in a wooden handle, is not well suited to carving. It is better at cutting meat and slicing sinew.
Book 12, Beasts: pp 262-263 [tLi]
Similarly in many cities a slave may be slain, or her hands cut off, for so much as touching a weapon.
"Doubtless you would expect her, from time to time," he said, to handle utensils, to serve, for example, in kitchens."
Book 24, Vagabonds: pg 315 [tLi]
Thralls may be slain for so much as touching a weapon. He had taken dirt from beneath the feet of the Forkbeard and, kneeling, had poured it on his head.
"Rise, Thrall," had said the Forkbeard. The young man had then stood, and straightly, head high, before the Forkbeard. The Forkbeard threw him back the ax. "Carry it," said the Forkbeard.
Book 9, Marauders: pg 238[tLi]
slave anniversary noun the celebrating the acquisitions of slavesSlavers caste the sub-caste of the Merchants, one who deals in human merchandise; their caste colors are blue and yellow
“” S
Among many men, it might be mentioned, however, the monthly anniversary of a girl's acquisition would be celebrated each month with special ceremonies and rites is not surprising. These numerous anniversaries are deliciously celebrated, as they may be with a girl who is only a slave, and seldom forgotten; should such an anniversary be forgotten, should it be such that it is commonly celebrated, the girl redoubles her efforts to please, fearing she is to be soon sold
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 66 [C]
slave basket noun a wicker basket strapped to a tarn to transport slaves. [T]
“” S
those that do have the goods of the compartment tied about their necks and are herded to the roof, with whip and slave goad, either to be bound across tarn saddles or thrust bound into wicker slave baskets, covered and tied shut, carried beneath the great birds in flight...
Book 5, Assassin: pg 51 [b]
slave beads noun bina: colorful glass or wooden strings of beads, suitable to be given to kajira at Master's whim. [T]
“” S
I then understood, were lesser beads, cheap beads, beads of little value, save for their aesthetic charm. Indeed, I would later learn that bina were sometimes spoken of, derisively, as Kajira bana. The most exact translation of bina would probably be "slave beads." They were valueless, save for being a cheap adornment sometimes permitted imbonded wenches
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 82 [b]
slave bells noun tiny bells which give off a sensual shimmer of sound; threaded by the dozen on thongs or chains, they may be tied or locked around a girl's ankles or wrists, or attached to her collar; are worn or removed only at the whim of a master
“” S
I heard the jingle of tiny bells, slave bells. I became conscious of a woman's feet, bare, near me. The bells, tiny, in four rows, were thonged about her left ankle.
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 253 [C]
I also purchased a set of slave bells, of the thong as opposed to the lock variety. They are less expensive than the lock variety, also, they may be tied at various places on the body, about the neck, the wrists, the ankle, about the thigh, about the arm, etc; it is delightful to bell a girl, she may not remove them, of course, without her master's permission.
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 49 [C]
slave belly noun the area of the abdomen around the navel; so called because only slavegirls expose their navels
“” S
I tore down one of the hangings, a yellow one, and ripped a narrow strip from it. I wound this about the girl's thighs, low, to reveal her navel. It is called the slave belly. On Gor it is only slave girls who expose, their navels.
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 335 [b]
I cut a length from the red bark cloth, about five feet in length and a foot in width. I wrapped it about the sweetness of her slave hips and tucked it in. I pushed it down so that her navel might be well revealed. It is called the "slave belly" on Gor. Only slave girls, on Gor, reveal their navels.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 334 [b]
slave blanket noun thin blanket woven from the soft fibers of the Rep Plant to protect a slave from the cold. Considered by slaves to be a great generosity on the part of their Master [tLi]
“” S
The cell itself was some eight feet deep and four feet wide and four feet high. I could, thus, not stand in the cell. Its furnishings were only a thin, scarlet mattress and a crumpled slave blanket of rep-cloth.
"I trust you find the accommodations satisfactory," she said.
"Yes, Mistress," I smiled. Indeed, it was the most luxurious cage I had seen. It was dry, and there was a mattress. Short of being chained on furs at the foot of a master's couch, what more could a girl desire?
Book 11, Slave Girl: pp 127-128 [tLi]
For example, when a woman has been slept naked on a hardwood floor without covers, she is likely to come to a much better understanding of the value of a slave blanket.
Book 23, Renegades: pg 326 [tLi]
slave box noun 1) small, iron box, about a yard square, with a door having a viewing aperture of 7"x1/2" in the middle, and a pass-through of 12x2" at the base; a punishment device for slaves; 2) a small ventilated box, barely large enough to contain a slave, sometimes rented for the transport and delivery of slaves after purchase, with tiny holes in the shape of a cursive 'Kef' [tLi]
“” S
I was locked inside. I could see a tiny slit of the outside through the aperture in the iron door, about a half an inch in height and seven inches in width. There was a somewhat larger opening at the foot of the door, about two inches in height and a foot wide. The box itself was square, with dimensions of perhaps one yard square. It was hot, and dark.
Book 7, Captive: pg 314 [b]
We had left Ina in the temporary slave camp, in a rented slave box. I had her climb into the small box in which she then lay down, on her side, her knees drawn up. We had left her in the hood, leash and bracelets. I had then closed the lid to the box, locked it and put the key in my pouch. The rental is a single tarsk bit but you give the keeper two tarsk bits, the second of which serves as a deposit, held against the return of the key. The box itself is of iron and very sturdy. It has various tiny holes in its front wall and in its lid, through which the occupant may breathe. These holes, or rather perforations, are in the shape of the cursive 'Kef', the first letter, as I have mentioned, in 'Kajira', the most common expression in Gorean for a female slave. Also, in a good light, one may use these holes, or perforations, to see if the box is occupied. Girls are normally kept nude in the slave boxes but Ina, of course, was a free woman. If the girl would look out of the box she must do so through the "Kef." Similarly, the light falling through the perforations forms a pattern of dots on her body, also in the form of the Kef. There were about a hundred slave boxes in this storage area. Ina was in 73. This number was also on the key.
Book 24, Vagabonds: pg 424 [b]
slave bracelets noun manacles; there are 3 links between the wristrings
“” S
"What do you have there!" I said He had removed a pair of light bracelets, joined by about five inches of light chain, from his pouch. "Slave bracelets," he said. "Turn around, facing the door, your hands behind your back." Almost numbly I did so. I heard him approach me. Then he stood behind me, quietly, not moving perhaps he was looking at me. Then, suddenly, I felt the two bracelets flung about my wrists, striking them, encircling then and snapping shut."
Book 19, Kajira: pg 132 [C]
She wore on her throat a high , gold collar, with, in front, a large golden loop, some two inches in width. Threaded through this loop, was a golden chain. This chain terminated, at each end, with high, golden slave bracelets. When the girl stands her hands may fall naturally to her sides, each in its bracelet, each bracelet attached to the same chain, which passes through the collar loop. It is a very beautiful way of chaining a girl.
Book 12, Beasts: pg 79 [C]
slave cage noun a small, stout, cord-bound, thick-barred cage, formed of wood, with a sliding wooden gate that is tied into place, used for the transport of a slave [tLi]
“” S
Inside I saw a slave sack and, formed of wood, a small, stout, cord-bound, thick-barred slave cage. Such cages are quite adequate for bound slaves. The hood was then drawn over my head and, by straps, buckled shut under my chin. My feet were kicked then fully from under me. In a moment I felt myself being thrust, doubled up, in a heavy leather sack. My head was then thrust down. The sack was tied shut over my head. The two men then lifted me, helpless in the sack, and placed me in the slave cage. I heard its wooden gate slide down into place. The gate then would have been tied shut.
Book 14, Fighting Slave: pg 220 [C]
slave challenge See kajira canjellne
slave dance noun any of the sensuous and lascivious dances performed by slavegirls to entertain their masters; designed to display the sexual heat of the performer, and invite her use by masters; dances include the Belt Dance, Chain Dance, Dance of the 6 Thongs, Sa-eela, Tile Dance (performed on red tiles), Tether Dance
“” S
To be sure, many of the dances of female slaves are lovely and sensuous; others, of course, are piteous and orgasmic. In all fairness, though, one must note there is some variation from city to city. The institution of female slavery on Gor is doubtless thousands of years old; accordingly it is natural that there should be great complexity and refinement in such a delicious art from as slave dance. There are even, it might be mentioned, hate dances and rebellion dances, or need dances, or love and submission dances; even the hate and rebellion dances, of course, conclude, inevitably, with the ultimate surrender of the girl to her master as a love slave.
Book 14, Fighting Slave: pg 299 [C]
slave fire noun the deep yearning inside a girl, the intense inner passion that flows from her very being, her innate feminitity pulsing from her soul to grip her desires, the evergrowing desire of a kajira in all her beauty that drives her to be pleasing to men [the Lady Amarea]
“” S
Tenalion placed in her hand a silver tarsk.
"So much?" asked the Lady Florence.
"Yes," said Tenalion. "She is beautiful, and in her belly is slave fire. Men will pay high for such a slut."
Book 14, Fighting Slave: pg 300 [tLi/nineve{Rem}]
slave girdle raiment a length of cord tied about a girl to mold a slave tunic to her form and enhance her curves, able to be crisscrossed about the body. [T]
“” S
The cord over Marcus' shoulder, of course, was the slave girdle, which is used to adjust the garment on the slave. Such girdles may be tied in various ways, usually in such ways as to enhance the occupant's figure. Such girdles, too, like the binding fiber with which a camisk is usually secured on a girl, may be used to bind her.
Book 25, Magicians: pg 21 [b]
slave goad noun an electrical device, much like a cattle prod, used for controlling and disciplining slaves
“” S
The slave goad, unknown in most Gorean cities, is almost never used except by professional slavers, probably because of the great expense involved
Book 5, Assassin of Gor: pg 84 [C]
slave gruel (or s. porridge) victual a thick, bland, cold, unsweetened mixture of water and precooked Sa-Tarna meal, often mixed with pieces of chopped fish, on which slaves are often fed. In Torvaldsland, it is called 'bond-maid gruel'. NOTE, before market slaves may be fed richer food [tLi]
“” S
We had been called from our cells well before dawn. Each of us had been forced to eat a large bowl of heavy slave gruel. We wouldn't be fed again until that night.
Book 7, Captive: pg 208
I, mixing the water with the precooked meal, formed a sort of cold porridge or gruel. I then, with my fingers, and putting the bowl even to my lips, fell eagerly upon that thick, bland, moist substance.
Book 19, Kajira: pg 257 [C]
"Girls in training," said Ho-Tu, "partake of the finest of slave porridges."
Book 5, Assassin: pg 126 [b]
slave harness raiment a slave garment or bond not otherwise described. [T]
“” S
There are many varieties of slave harness, incidentally, with various purposes, such as discipline, display and security. Many of them are extremely lovely on a woman, and many, by such adjustments as cinching, tightening, and buckling, may be fitted closely and exquisitely to the individual slave
Book 25, Magicians: pg 109 [b]
slave heat noun the intense need and passion of a slavegirl
“!” S
"A certification of a girl's heat, in certain cities," I said, "is sometimes furnished, with the slaver's guarantee, among the documents of sale. Her degree of heat, in such a situation would also be listed of course, among her other properties, on her sales sheet, posted in the vicinity of the exhibition cages, available twenty Ahn before her sale. It would also be proclaimed, of course, in such a situation, along with her weight and collar size, and such things, from the block, during her sale."
Book 12, Beasts: pg 242 [b]
slave hobble noun a chain consisting of a wrist-ring and an ankle-ring joined by 7" of chain; it is fastned on one ankle and the opposite wrist
“” S
The slave hobble consists of two rings, one for a wrist, the other for an ankle, joined by about seven inches of chain. In a right-handed girl, such as either Aphris or Elizabeth, it locks on the right wrist and left ankle. When the girl kneel, in any of the traditional positions of the Gorean woman, either slave or free, it is not uncomfortable.
Book 4, Nomads: pg 154 [C]
slave hood noun a leather hood, having no opening for eyes, mouth, or ears, which covers a slave's entire head; usually has a gag attachment
“” S
Her head was concealed in a slave hood, buckled under her chin. The construction of this hood was such that it served not only as a blindfold but gag as well, the wadding being sewn to the inside of the hood, and it being held in place by laces, emerging through eyelets, tying behind the back of the neck.
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 146 [C]
slave leash noun a long black leather strap used in a slave dance or when training
“” S
He then went to a chest and from it fetched forth a high, thick, plain, black leather collar with a lock closure. There was a sturdy ring attached to this collar, and attached to the ring, there was a long slave leash of black leather, it was some fifteen feet in length. In most leadings, of course, this amount of length would not be used, but would be coiled in the grasp of the master. The length is useful if the slave is expected to perform leash dances, is to be bound with the leash, or if, it doubled at the master's end, it is to be used to train or discipline her
Book 19, Kajira: pg 336 [C]
slave lips position When this command is given, the slave turns her head up to the Master, her lips pursed in a sensual kissing position. She remains motionless, her lips thusly puckered, and may not move until she is granted the kiss of a Master. Regarded as one of the first commands a slave learns. [tLi]
“” S
"On your back," I snapped. "Make slave lips. Throw apart your legs!"
Swiftly the girl complied, tears in her eyes. She then lay there, her lips pursed to kiss, her ankles widely spread.
I looked down at her. She looked up at me, tears in her eyes.
A girl who is commanded to make slave lips, or who receives the command, "Slave lips," must form her mouth for kissing. She then, commonly, is not permitted to break this lip position until either she kisses or is kissed. Needless to say, a girl cannot speak when her lips are in the unbroken, fully-pursed slave-lips position. The command which commonly follows the "Slave-lips" command is, "Please me."
Book 18, Blood Brothers: pg 111 [tLi]
Similarly, I was not required to respond to certain sorts of commands, for example, to make "slave lips," pursing my lips for kissing, or to writhe slowly before my viewers.
Book 19, Kajira: pg 224 [C]
What could she have shown them in three days? Something, I supposed. Perhaps little more than how to make slave lips and do a little squirming, naked.
Book 23, Renegades: pg 372 [tLi]
slave lipstick See lipstick
slave mat noun a course mat to which area a slavegirl may be ordered for discipline or rape; the girl may not leave the mat unless permitted by her master
“!” S
... they are given mats to sleep on, and later in their training, furs.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 119 [C]
... I hurled her angrily from me to the straw slave mat which lay at the foot of the stone couch.
Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 74 [b]
slave orgasm noun overwhelmingly powerful orgasm in which a slave completely yields to the Master.. after which she can never be anything but a man's slave. [T]
“” S
It is said that a woman who has experienced slave orgasm can never thereafter be anything but a man's slave. She then knows what men can do to her, and what she herself is, a woman. Never thereafter can she be anything else.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 13 [b]
slave oval noun a method of chaining a slavegirl consisting of a hinged iron loop which locks around her waist, with two sliding wristrings and a welded ring in the middle of the back
“” S
I wore the slave oval about my belly, and was neck chained. The slave oval is a hinged iron loop which locks about a girl's waist. Two wrist rings, on sliding loops, are fitted on the oval. It also has a welded ring on the back, through which a slave bolt may be snapped, fastening the girl to a wall or object, or through which a chain might be passed. My wrists were locked in the wrist rings.
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 146 [b]
slave perfume cosmetic perfumes designed to be worn by slave girls; heavier and more sensual than those designed for free women. [T]
“” S
I smelled the slave perfume. I recalled it from the palace of Suleiman Pasha, when the girl, with Zaya, the other slave, had served black wine
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 230 [C]
slave pit noun a slave holding chamber in the Barrens [tLi / }{mana}{]
“” S
We stood within the compound of Ram Seibar, a dealer in slaves. It is a reasonably large compound, for he also handles kaiila. It is, I would estimate, something over three hundred feet square, or, say, a bit less than a tenth of a pasang square. It contains several slave pits but only three were now occupied.
Book 17, Savages: pg 69 [tLi]
The woman, her hands tied behind her, each arm in the rude grasp of the slaver's man, was thrust to the height of the platform, beside the corpulent fellow.
"In addition to our stock of fine merchandise," called the corpulent fellow, "we have just received a new lot of barbarians!"
These would be the same girls of whom I had seen several this afternoon, in the slave pits within the compound.
Book 17, Savages: pg 72` [tLi]
slave pole noun imaginary pole that 'transfixes' a dancing girl, by which she is 'held' during her dance
“” S
I turned to watch the dancer. She danced well. At the moment she writhed upon the "slave pole," it fixing her in place. There is no actual pole, of course, but sometimes it is difficult to believe there is not. The girl imagines that a pole, slender, supple, swaying, transfixes her body, holding her helplessly. About this imaginary pole, it constituting a hypothetical center of gravity, she moves, undulating, swaying, sometimes yielding to it in ecstasy, sometimes fighting it, it always holding her in perfect place, its captive. The control achieved by the use of the "slave pole" is remarkable
Book 10, Tribesman: pg 11 [b]
slave porridge victual See slave gruel
slave rag raiment a brief, rough, sleeveless body scrap, fit only for slaves. See Ta-Teera
“” S
It was with joy, later in the morning, that I felt, thrown against my body by my master, a bit of brown cloth. It was a sleeveless body scrap, a shred of slave rag. It was a few threads, fit for a bond girl. Yet I welcomed it as I might have a gown, with gloves and pearls, from Paris. Now I might not be so revealed to the men. It was the first clothing I had been given on Gor.
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 81 [b]
slave rape noun the sexual use of a slavegirl; may be either tender or brutal, casual or deliberate
“” S
I resisted the impulse, almost overwhelming, to thrust aside the curtain, declaring myself to her, seizing and throwing her to the very tiles of the cosmetics room, there subjecting her to delicious slave rape
Book 16, Guardsman: pg 184 [b]
"Please rape me, Master," she said. "Please subject me to slave rape."
"Why?" I asked. She looked up at me, startled. She squirmed in the bonds. There were tears in her eyes.
"I beg to be raped;" she said. "Please, Master, rape me! Rape me!"
"Why?" I asked.
"Is it not obvious?" she asked, weeping, twisting in the golden straps. I smiled. "I-I," she stammered.
"Say it," I said.
"I-I am hot in my collar!" she wept.
I had had her casually, swiftly, ruthlessly, without sensitivity or tenderness. I had had her as a meaningless piece of slave meat.
"Yes," she moaned, softly, "yes, yes."
Book 16, Guardsman: pg 200 [feral_beast]
slave rape position position This is a disciplinary position wherein the slave is ordered to lie supine and motionless in preparation for usage. [T]
“” S
I went to the side of the room and picked up my sea bag. I threw it to the center of the room. She looked down at it puzzled. It was of heavy blue material, canvas, and tied with a white rope. "Lie down upon it," I told her, "on your back, your head to the floor." She did so. "No, please," she said, "not like this." It is a common position for a disciplinary slave rape. In it the woman feels very vulnerable, very helpless. I then took her.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 202 [C]
slave ring noun a heavy iron ring, c. 1' in diameter, to which a slave may be secured for security, discipline, or any other reason; often found in floors, interior & exterior walls (either 1' or 3' above the ground), attached to the foot of a master's sleeping couch, etc. [tLi]
“” S
He thrust the dark-haired girl to her knees by the seventh collar and snapped it about her neck, turning the key, locking it. It gave her about a two-foot length of chain, fastened to a slave ring bolted into the stone.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 8 [C]
I suppose that sometimes girls might even be chained in such a place, like a dog at a man's feet, or perhaps even on the hard, cold tiles, under the slave ring.
Book 19, Kajira: pg 86 [C]
According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman. Thus when she has been irritable or otherwise troublesome even a Free Companion may find herself at the foot of the couch looking forward to a pleasant night on the stones, stripped, with neither mat nor blanket, chained to the slave ring precisely as though she were a lowly slave girl. It is the Gorean way of reminding her, should she need to be reminded, that she, too, is a woman, and thus to be dominated, to be subject to men. Should she be tempted to forget this basic fact of Gorean life the slave ring set in the bottom of each Gorean couch is there to refresh her memory.
Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 67 [heather{A^}]
slave rouge cosmetic a cosmetic slaves use on their lips [tLi]
“” S
On my lips I wore slave rouge.
Book 7, Captive: pg 327 [tLi]
slave sack noun a heavy leather sack used primarily to transport slaves that ties off on at one end. [T]
“” S
I saw him shaking out the slave sack in the utility room. This was not the first time I had been unchained from the loom and hurried to the utility room. "Get in," he said. I crawled into the sack, and it was pulled up, over my head, and laced shut, I then felt it dragged across the floor. He then lifted it up, partly, I now sitting in it, and left it against a wall. He then left. The confinement was not intended to be one of full security, of course. If it had been, then I would have been bound and gagged within it, that I might not be able, by fingernail or teeth, to attack seams or cut through the leather. Indeed, if I caused the least bit of damage to the slave sack, I had little doubt but what I would be well punished. Confinement in the slave sack is, incidentally, a familiar form of light punishment for a girl.
Book 19, Kajira: pg 27 [C]
Inside I saw a slave sack and, formed of wood, a small, stout, cord-bound, thick-barred slave cage. Such cages are quite adequate for bound slaves. The hood was then drawn over my head and, by straps, buckled shut under my chin. My feet were kicked then fully from under me. In a moment I felt myself being thrust, doubled up, in a heavy leather sack. My head was then thrust down. The sack was tied shut over my head.
Book 14, Fighting Slave: pg 244 [b]
slave stake noun about four and one half feet in length and four inches in width, cut from wood. At its top, about two inches from the end, a groove an inch deep is cut. A long leather tether is attached to a slave's neck and affixed to the stake. It is used for securing a slave for the night, for example. [T]
“” S
"It is a slave stake," I said, "for securing you for the night."
Book 13, Explorers: pg 349 [b]
slave steel noun generic term for collars, chains, siriks, etc. worn by slaves
“” S
These collars are normally measured individually to the girl as is most slave steel. The collar is regarded not simply as a designation of slavery and a means for identifying the girl's owner and his city but as an ornament as well.
Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 158 [b]
slave strap noun a heavy strap or belt which buckles behind the wearer's back; in front, there is a metal plate with a welded ring, through which passes the 4 hort (5") chain of a pair of slave bracelets; designed to keep the wearer's hand before his body
“” S
She wore a slave strap, a heavy strap, buckling in the back. In the front, at her belly, was fixed in the strap, a plate and ring. Through the ring passed a chain, of some five inches in length, each end of which terminated in a bracelet. Her hands were confined before her body.
Book 8, Hunters: pg 65 [b]
slave trap noun a trap of powerful steel that is lined by sharp teeth which snap shut on the slave's leg and locks closed until opened by a key. The trap is locked, unlike an animal trap to prevent it being pried open by strong hands. [T]
“” S
When dealing with men, however, the girls usually demanded, and received, goods of greater value to them, usually knives, arrow points, small spear points; sometimes armlets, and bracelets and necklaces, and mirrors; sometimes slave nets and slave traps, to aid in their hunting; sometimes slave chains, and manacles, to secure their catches.
Book 8, Hunters: pg 31 [tLi]
I fought the heavy, curved steel jaws, but they had locked shut. The Gorean slave trap is not held by a simple, heavy spring as would be the trap for a panther or sleen. Such a spring, by a strong man, with his hands, might be thrust open. This trap had sprung shut and locked. The heavy steel curved snugly about his ankle. The sharp teeth, biting deeply, fastened themselves in his flesh. It could only be opened by key.
Book 8, Hunters: pg 126 [tLi]
slave tunic raiment a simple, sleeveless, pullover tunic of brown cloth, slit deeply at the hips with narrow shoulder straps, little more than strings .Some have a disrobing loop at the shoulder. [T]
“” S
Quickly I reached down and picked up the object, its folds tucked in among themselves. I opened it, and shook it out. It was a brief slave tunic, slit deeply at the hips, with narrow shoulder straps, little more than strings. I looked up at him, gratefully. It was the first garment of my own I had been given on this world.
Book 22, Dancer: pg 155 [b] "A slave tunic," he said, sternly. "Of course, Master," she said, delightedly, "for I am a slave!" It was a sleeveless, pullover tunic of brown rep cloth. It was generously notched on both sides at the hem, which touch guarantees an additional baring of its occupant's flanks.
Book 25, Magicians: pg 21 [b]
slave veil raiment a small triangle of diaphanous yellow silk, worn across the bridge of the nose and covering the lower half of the face; it parodies the heavy veils worn by free women, as it conceals nothing and often arouses the lust of masters
“” S
[She] took the tiny, triangular yellow veil, utterly diaphanous, and held it before her face, covering the lower portion of her face. The veil was drawn back and she held it at her ears. The light silk was held across the bridge of her nose, where, beautifully, its porous, yellow sheen broke to the left and right. Her mouth, angry, was visible behind the veil. It, too, covered her chin. The mouth of a woman, by men of the Tahari, and by Goreans generally, is found extremely provocative, sexually. The slave veil is a mockery, in its way. It reveals, as much as conceals, yet it adds a touch of subtlety, mystery; slave veils are made to be torn away, the lips of the master then crushing those of the slave.
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 70 [C]
slave wagon noun a flat-bedded, barred wagon, like a large cage with a door in the rear, in which many slaves may be transported at one time, their ankles chained to a bar that runs down the center of the floor; tarpaulins are often used to cover the cage & hide the cargo; analogous to an old-fashioned Earth circus wagon
“” S
I ached from riding in the slave wagon. Girls are given only a foot of chain fastened to their ankle rings, which is looped about the central bar, locked in place, in the slave wagon. There are only some folds of canvas to serve as a cushion between your body and the hard boards of the wagon.
Book 7, Captive: pg 207 [b]
Slave Wars noun a series of war on Gor that stabilized laws pertaining to slaves
“” S
"Men find slaves of interest, do they not?" she asked.
"Yes," I said. "Indeed, wars have been fought to obtain beautiful slaves of a given city."
"The Slave Wars!" she said. She was referring to a series of wars, loosely referred to as the Slave Wars, which occurred among various cities in the middle latitudes of Gor, off and on, over a period of approximately a generation. They had occurred long before my coming to Gor. Although large-scale slaving was involved in these wars, and was doubtless a sufficient condition for them, hence the name, other considerations, as would be expected, were often involved, as well, such as the levying of tribute and the control of trade routes. Out of the Slave Wars grew much of the merchant law pertaining to slaves. Too, out of them grew some of the criteria for the standardization of the female slave as a commodity, for example, how, in virtue of her scarcity, her training, and such, she is to be figured as an item of tribute, for example, in terms of domestic animals, given her current market values in the area, and so on, such as verr and tarsks. For example, she might, at a given time, be worth five verr or three tarsks, but she might be worth only a fifth of a sleen or a tenth of a tarn.
Book 24, Vagabonds: pg 271 [C]
slave whistle noun used in issuing signals summoning slaves and so on. [T]
“” S
Also, clipped to the belt, was a slave whistle, used in issuing signals, summoning slaves, and so on
Book 5, Assassin: pg 84 [b]
slave wine victual a black, bitter beverage that acts as a contraceptive; its effect is instantaneous and lasts for well over a month; can be counter-acted with a another, sweet-tasting beverage called "releaser", also called breeding wine or the "second wine". The active ingredient in slave wine is sip root . [rainey/tLi]
“” S
Slave wine is bitter, intentionally so. Its effect lasts for more than a Gorean month. I did not wish the females to conceive. A female slave is taken off slave wine only when it is her master's intention to breed her.
Book 9, Marauders: pg 23 [C]
This is not really wine, or an alcoholic beverage. It is called slave wine I think for the amusement of the Masters. It is extremely bitter. One draught of the substance is reputed to last until the administration of an appropriate "releaser". In spite of this belief however or perhaps in deference to tradition, lingering from earlier times, in which, it seems less reliable slave wines were available, doses of this foul stuff are usually administered to female slaves at regular intervals usually once or twice a year. Some girls, rather cynical ones, I suspect, speculate that the Masters give it to them more often than necessary just because they enjoy watching them down the terrible stuff.
Book 22, Dancer: pg 174 [C]
slave wire noun a closely interwoven latticework of sharp, swaying strands, set at intervals of less than a hort. Serves as a confining fence. its barbs and prongs could cut a slave to pieces. [T]
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The wire was slave wire, with its closely interwoven latticework of sharp, swaying strands, and, numerous and closely set, at intervals of less than a hort, its barbs and knifelike prongs. I shuddered. A slave could be cut to pieces on such wire.
Book 22, Dancer: pg 347 [b]
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The Slavers, incidentally, are of the Merchant caste, though, in
virtue of their merchandise and practices, their robes are
different. Yet, if one of them were to seek Caste Sanctuary, he
would surely seek it from Slavers, and not from common Merchants.
Many Slavers think of themselves as an independent caste. Gorean
law, however, does not so regard them. The average Gorean thinks
of them simply as Slavers, but, if questioned, would unhesitantly
rank them with the Merchants.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 118 [b] |
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Her movements were wooden. The crowd was not pleased. There was only a two
gold piece bid. Then taking the whip from the whip slave the
auctioneer stepped to the disconsolate girl; suddenly, without
warning, he administered to her the Slaver's caress, the whip
caress, and her response was utterly, uncontrollably, wild,
helpless. She regarded him in horror. The crowd howled with delight
Book 5, Assassin: pg 295 [C] Then, before I could realize what he intended, he had subjected Miss Cardwell to what, among slavers, is known as the Whip Caress. Ideally it is done, as Kamchak had, unexpectedly, taking the girl unawares. Elizabeth suddenly cried out throwing her head to one side. I observed to my amazement the sudden, involuntary, uncontrollable response to the touch. The Whip Caress is commonly used among Slavers to force a girl to betray herself. Book 4, Nomads: pg 168 [C] |
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Schendi was an equatorial free port, well known on Gor. It is also the home port of the League of Black Slavers.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 16 [b] |
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One might as well be sold off a slaver's public shelf, in a city, or out
of a cage, or kneeling in the mud outside a village, from a "slaver's necklace"
Book 17, Savages: pg 107 [b] |
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Too, she was doubtless familiar with contempt slaveries
and vengeance slaveries. One form of vengeance slavery
is the proxy slavery, in which one woman, totally innocent, is enslaved and
made to stand proxy for a hated, at-least-temporarily-inaccessibly woman,
even being given her name. The proxy, of course, being enslaved, is truly
enslaved. Even if the hated woman is later captured the proxy is not freed.
She is generally, merely, given away or sold.
Book 18, Blood Brothers of Gor; pages 139-140 [b] <Aloevera> For example, Oryx could capture some hapless girl, and name her "aloevera{O}," and treat her in all ways as if she were me... and there would be not a thing that I could do about it <Aloevera> Think of how a proud free lady would grind her teeth with rage, to have her enemy flaunting around Gor with a proxy slave representing her <Aloevera> Or conversely, I could collar myself a boy, and name him "oryx[A]" <Aloevera> That would make a much better illustration, don't you think? * Aloevera grins <Oryx> you could <Oryx> but then <Oryx> I, as a Free Male <Oryx> could command your collared oryx to do anything I pleased <Oryx> and there would be not a damn thing you could do about it * Oryx grins evilly * Oryx thinks . o O { ok, oryx-slave... cover your Mistress' feet in honey, then release these cute little fire-ants near her } O o . * Aloevera blanches! The Travels of Oryx con Lara, vol XVII |
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Indeed, they often acted as intermediaries between the men of the settlements
and the wilder tribes of the interior, such as the Yellow Knives, the Sleen and Kaiila.
Book 17, Savages: pg 85 [b] |
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I had hardly moved another step when in a flash of lightning, I saw the
sleen, this time a fully grown animal, some nineteen or
twenty feet long, charging toward me, swiftly, noiselessly, its
ears straight against its pointed head, its fur slick with rain,
its fangs bared. Its wide nocturnal eyes bright with the lust of
the kill. With eagerness and a lust that matched that of the
beast itself, I rushed forward in the darkness and when I judged
its leap I lunged forward with the broad-headed spear of Gor. My
arm felt wet and trapped, and was raked with fangs and I was spun
as the animal squealed with rage and pain and rolled on the road.
I withdrew my arm from the weak, aimlessly snapping jaws. A
shudder involuntarily shook me, though I do not know if it was
due to the cold and the rain to the sight of the long, furred
lizard like body that lay at my feet.
Book 2, Outlaw: pg 37 [C] There are many varieties of sleen, and most varieties can be, to one extent or another, domesticated. The two most common sorts of trained sleen are the smaller, tawny prairie sleen, and the large, brown or black forest sleen, sometimes attaining a length of twenty feet. In the north, I am told the snow sleen has been domesticated. The sleen is a dangerous and fairly common animal on Gor, which has adapted itself to a variety of environments. There is even an aquatic variety, called the sea sleen, which is one of the swiftest and most dreaded beasts in the sea. Seasleen are found commonly in northern waters. They are common off the coast of Torvaldsland, and further north. cont'd Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 185 [tLi] |
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In the wild, the sleen is a burrowing, predominantly nocturnal animal. It
is carnivorous. It is a tenacious hunter, and an indefatigable
tracker. It will attack almost anything, but its preferred prey
is tabuk. It mates once a year in the Gorean spring, and there
are usually four young in each litter. The gestation period is
some six months. The young are commonly white furred at birth,
the fur darkening by the following spring. Snow sleen, however,
remain white-pelted throughout their life. cont'd
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 185 [tLi] |
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Most domestic sleen are bred. It is difficult to take and tame a wild sleen.
Sometimes young sleen, following the killing of the mother, are
dug out of a burrow and raised. If they can be taken within the
first two months of their life, which seems to be a critical
period, before they have tasted blood and meat in the wild, and
made their own kills, there is apparently a reasonably good
chance that they can be domesticated; otherwise, generally not.
Although grown, wild sleen have been caught and domesticated,
this is rare. Even a sleen which has been taken young may revert.
These reversions can be extremely dangerous. They usually take
place, as would be expected, in the spring, during the mating
season. Male sleen, in particular, can be extremely restless and
vicious during this period.
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 185 [tLi] |
sleen, forest fauna It is long, up to 20 feet, sinuous, black or brown in color. It resembles a lizard, except it is furred and mammalian. In its attack frenzy it is one of the most dangerous animals on Gor. [T]
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It is long, sinuous; it resembles a lizard, save that it is furred and mammalian. In its attack frenzy it is one of the most dangerous animals on Gor.
Book 7, Captive: pg 155 [b]
There are many varieties of sleen, and most varieties can be, to one extent or another, domesticated. The two most common sorts of trained sleen are the smaller, tawny prairie sleen, and the large, brown or black forest sleen, sometimes attaining a length of twenty feet
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 185 [b]
The animal was some twenty feet in length, some eleven hundred pounds in weight, a forest sleen, domesticated. It was double fanged and six legged
Book 12, Beasts: pg 13 [C]
sleen, gray fauna said to be Gor's finest tracker, this six legged sleen is a furred mammal with silver gray fur. It has an agile, sinuous body, thick as a drum and is 14-15 feet long. The gray sleen has a broad triangular head and a huge jaw with two rows of fangs and a dark tongue. its widely set eyes have slit-like pupils. As is true for all sleens, it has six legs. This breed is relentless and tenacious. It can follow a scent that is weeks old for a thousand pasangs. [T]
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"It is a gray sleen. I raised it from a whelp. Ah, greetings, Borko! How are you, old fellow?"
I would have screamed and reared up, but I was thrust back, helpless, half strangled, scarcely able to utter a sound, to the step. So our masters can control us by our collars. To my terror, then, pushing over my body, to thrust its great jaws and head, so large I could scarcely have put my arms around them, into the hands and arms of my master, was an incredible beast. It had an extremely agile, active, sinuous body, as thick as a drum, and perhaps fourteen or fifteen feet long. It might have weighed a thousand pounds. Its broad head was triangular, almost viperlike, but it was furred. This thing was a mammal, or mamalian. Its eyes now had pupils like slits, like those of a cat in sunlight. So quickly then might its adaptive mechanisms have functioned. About its muzzle were gray hairs, grayer than the silvered gray of its fur. It had six legs.
Book 22, Dancer: pg 161 [b]
sleen, hunting fauna a sleen specially trained to hunt men. Its tail tends to switch back and forth, getting rigid, as it hunts, its ears flatten against its head just prior to its final attack on its prey. [tLi]
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The animal was some twenty feet in length, some eleven hundred pounds in weight, a forest sleen, domesticated. It was double fanged and six-legged. It crouched down and inched forward. Its belly fur must have touched the tiles. It wore a leather sleen collar but there was no leash on the leash loop. I had thought it was trained to hunt tabuk with archers, but it clearly was not tabuk it hunted now. I knew the look of a hunting sleen. It was a hunter of men.
Book 12, Beasts: pg 13 [b]
sleen, mating fauna occurs in the spring, with the male overpowering the virgin female. Sexually stimulating to the watching kajira [tLi]
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The mating of sleen is interesting. The female, if never before mated, flees and fights the male. But he is larger and stronger. At last he takes her by the throat and throws her upon her back, interestingly, belly to belly, beneath him. His fangs are upon her throat. She is at his mercy. She becomes docile and permits her penetration. Shortly, thereafter, their heat growing, they begin, locked together by legs and teeth, to roll and squeal in their mating frenzy. It is a very fierce and marvelous spectacle. It is not unusual for slave girls, seeing this, to kneel at their master's feet and beg their caress. After the female sleen has been taken thusly once, no longer need she be forced. She follows the male, often rubbing against him, and hunts with him. Sometimes she must be driven away with snarls and bites. Sleen, interestingly, often pair for life. Their rutting, however, is usually confined to the spring.
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 185 [tLi]
sleen, prairie fauna the prairie sleen is tawny in color, and are smaller than the forest sleen, but quite as unpredictable and vicious. Domesticated prairie sleen are used for hunting and nocturnal herd sleen are used as shepherds and sentinels. They are released from their cages with the falling of darkness, responding only to the voice of their master. [T]
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I saw a pair of prairie sleen, smaller than the forest sleen but quite as unpredictable and vicious, each about seven feet in length, furred, six-legged mammalian, moving in their undulating gait, with their viper's heads moving from side to side continually testing the winds
Book 4, Nomads: pg 2 [C]
The two most common sorts of trained sleen are the smaller, tawny prairie sleen, and the large, brown or black forest sleen, sometimes attaining a length of twenty feet.
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 185 [b]
sleen, sea fauna aquatic mammal that inhabits the polar seas, following the parsit current in search of their main food source, the parsit fish. There are four main types: black sleen, brown sleen, tusked sleen, flat-nosed sleen. Some remain under the ice year round, mostly dormant but rising every quarter of an Ahn or so to breathe through cracks in the ice. [T]
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There is even an aquatic variety, called the sea sleen, which is one of the swiftest and most dreaded beasts in the sea.
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 185 [C]
The head of a sleen, glistening, smooth, emerged from the water. It was a medium-sized, adult sea sleen, some eight feet in length, some three to four hundred pounds in weight
Book 12, Beasts: pg 285 [b]
The four main types of sea sleen found in the polar seas are the black sleen, the brown sleen, the tusked sleen and the flat-nosed sleen
Book 12, Beasts: pg 38 [b]
sleen, sea, black fauna one of the four main types of sea sleen found in the polar North. [T]
“” S
"I think not," said Samos. "Their winter stores of food, from the ice hunting, will last them for a time. Then they must hunt elsewhere. Perhaps some can live by fishing until the fall, and the return of the black sea sleen."
Book 12, Beasts: pg 38 [b]
sleen, sea, white-spotted fauna its rich fur is used for cloaks. [T]
“” S
And behind them, in a rich swirling cloak of the fur of the white, spotted sea sleen, sword in hand, looking wildly about,
Book 6, Raiders: pg 300 [b]
sleen, snow fauna inhabits the northern regions. Always white in color. [T]
“” S
The hides can serve as harnesses for the snow sleen
Book 12, Beasts: pg 169 [C]
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He now no longer wore the brown and black common to professional sleen trainers.
Book 12, Beasts: pg 78 [C] |
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Lysias, seeing me, flung himself at me. I met his attack The exchange was
sharp. Then he fell at my feet, his helmet rolling to the side,
blood on the sleen-hair crest, that marking it as that of a captain.
Book 6, Raiders: pg 286 [b] |
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She fingered the hilt of the sleen knife.
Book 8, Hunters: pg 133 [C] |
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In the morning I awoke on the sleeping mat in the corner of my apartment, cold and shivering. It was shortly before dawn. I turned off the power switch on the mat and folded back its blanket sides. It was chilly to the touch now, because I had set the chronometric temperature device to turn to cold an hour before the first light. One has little inclination to remain in a freezing bed.
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 60 [b] |
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We had not walked far when we passed a long, worm like animal,
eyeless, with a small red mouth, that inched its way along the
corridor, hugging the angle between the wall and the floor.
"What do you call it?" I asked.
"Oh," said one of the slaves, "it is a Slime Worm. It scavenges on the kills of the Golden Beetle." Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 106 [C] |
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The only exception might perhaps have been the beautiful senior in anthropology, Elicia Nevins. We had been great rivals. But she had only been an anthropology major, whereas I was an English major, and a poetess. But then I recalled the beautiful, intelligent-seeming, hot-eyed slut in the brown rag.
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 48 [tLi/nineve{Rem}] "He stepped back. "Lovely," he said. It came high on my thighs. There was a casualness about it, a carelessness about the shoulders, with respect to my figure. But the binding fiber, bound twice about my belly, and cinched tight, at my left hip, accentuated my breasts and hips. There was a hint of lusciousness, concealed within so apparently negligent a wrapper. It was well contrived, psychologically, to suggest a cheap, but most tasty slut." Book 11, Slavegirl: pp 249-250 [tLi/nineve{Rem}] Tenalion placed in her hand a silver tarsk. "So much?" asked the Lady Florence. "Yes," said Tenalion. "She is beautiful, and in her belly is slave fire. Men will pay high for such a slut." Book 14, Fighting Slave: pg 300 [tLi/nineve{Rem}] |
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"Help me!" I heard, it was the voice of Janice. I moved rapidly toward the
sound of her voice. Some fifty yards into the jungle I stopped.
There, ringing a depression, were more than a dozen small men.
They wore loincloths with vine belts. From loops on the belts
hung knives and small implements. They carried spears and nets. I
do not think any of them were more than five feet in height. I
doubt that any of them weighed more than eighty pounds. Their
features were negroid but their skins were more coppery than dark
brown or black. They did not seem to be one of the black races,
which are usually tall, long-limbed and supple, but their racial
affinities seemed clearly to be more aligned with one or more of
those groups than any others.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 393 [b] |
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Less impressive perhaps but even more essential to the operation of the House were ... its libraries, its records and files; its cubicles for Smiths, Bakers, Cosmeticians, Bleachers, Dyers, Weavers, and Leather Workers.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 111 [C] |
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The common smoke signal is produced by placing greenery, such as branches, leaves or grass, on a fire. The smoke produced is then regulated in its ascent by the action of a robe or blanket, the manner of its releasing being a function of the conventions involved. At night such signals can be conveyed by the number and placement of fires, or by a single fire, alternately revealed and concealed by the action, again, of a robe or blanket.
Book 17, Savages: pg 256 [tLi] |
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"Release this man from the chain," said Ram, indicating me.
"Yesterday he was beaten with the snake." It was not unusual that men
died under the lash of the snake, that heavy coil laced with wire and flecks of iron.
Book 12, Beasts: pg 161 [b] |
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* Oryx watches `davey` snarf the offerings in mid-flight, his fetid breath wafting out over those unfortunate enough to be seated near his cage
Conversations in tLi, #the-Lara-inn |
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The girl, with other youths, had been playing a soccerlike game with the leather ball, with goals drawn in the turf. I had not realized, until too late, that I had been traversing the field of play.
Book 12, Beasts: pg 193 [b] |
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Ho-Hak looked at the man who wore the headband of pearls of the Vosk sorp.
Book 4, Nomads: pg 21 [C] |
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The spear was a typical Gorean spear, about seven feet in height,
heavy, stout, with a tapering bronze head some eighteen inches in
length. It is a terrible weapon and, abetted by the somewhat
lighter gravity of Gor, when cast with considerable force, can
pierce a shield at close quarters or bury its head a foot deep in
solid wood. With this weapon groups of men hunt even the larl in
its native haunts in the Voltai Range, that incredible panther
like carnivore which may stand six to eight feet high at the shoulder.
Book 2, Outlaw: pg 21 [C] |
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There is a little market in simple Laura for the more exquisite goods of
Gor. Seldom will one find there Torian rolls of gold wire,
interlocking cubes of silver from Tharna, rubies carved into
tiny, burning panthers from Schendi, nutmegs and cloves,
spikenard and peppers from the lands east of Bazi, the floral
brocades, the perfumes of Tyros, the dark wines, the gorgeous diaphanous silks of glorious Ar.
Book 7, Captive: pg 86 [tLi] Some of the peppers and spices, relished even by children in the Tharai districts, were sufficient to convince an average good fellow of Thentis or Ar that the roof of his mouth and his tongue were being torn out of his head. Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 46 [C] |
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Actually these are known as the Spider People. They are rational
and speak to humans through the use of a translator device. They
are large spiders that live in the swamps near Ar. Approaching
me, stepping daintily for all its bulk, prancing over the
strands, came one of the Swamp Spiders of Gor, and I caught sight
of the mandibles, like curved knives. He then backed away from me
on his eight legs 1 saw then for the first time that strapped to
his abdomen, was a translation device. They hunt us and leave
only enough of us alive to spin the Cur-lon Fiber used in the
mills of Ar.
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 81 [C] |
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There were crews on these ships armed with grappling irons and each of the ships carried two or more of the spiked planks. These are actually like gangplanks, some five feet in width, to be fastened at one end to the round ship and intended to be dropped, with their heavy spiked ends, into the deck of an enemy ship. The round ship has a substantially higher freeboard area than the ram-ship, which is lower, and so the spiked plank is feasible.
Book 6, Raiders: pg 261 [tLi] |
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springal weapon
a weapon that can fire multiple javelins or arrows at the same time, sometimes mounted on ships.
The springal relied on the tension of a bent beam of wood to supply its power,
as opposed to the ballista which usually denoted a great crossbow operated by the tension of the bow
and the mangonel which drew its power from the torsion of tightly twisted rope.
The trebuchet, by the way, was an invention of the European Middle Ages, relying on a counterweight and was simpler in design and construction than most other seige engines of its time..
[tLi]
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In the lower branches of the "ground zone" may be found, also, small animals,
such as tarsiers, nocturnal jit monkeys, black squirrels,
four-toed leaf urts, jungle varts and the prowling, solitary
giani, tiny, cat-sized panthers, not dangerous to man.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 312 [b] |
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From Sarm's point of view of course your utilization there was simply to curtail the spread of the Empire of Ar, for we prefere humans to dwell in isolated communities. It is better for observing their variations, from the scientific point of view, and it is safer for us if they remain disunited, for being rational they might develope a science, and being sub rational it might be dangerous for us and for themselves if they did so. That is the reason then for your limitations of their weaponry and technology? Of Course, said Misk, but we have allowed them to develop in many areas - in medicine, for example, where something approximating the Stabilization Serums has been independently developed. What is that? I asked. You have surely not failed to notice, said Misk, that though you came to the Counter-Earth more than seven years ago you have undergone no significant physical alteration in that time. I have noticed, I said, and I wondered on this. Of course, said Misk, their serums are not as effective as ours and sometimes do not function, and sometimes the effect wears off after only a few hundred years.
Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 124 [C]< BR> The Stabilization Serums, which are regarded as the right of all human beings, be they civilized or barbarian, friend or enemy, are administered in a series of injections, and the effect is, incredibly, an eventual, gradual transformation of certain genetic structures, resulting in indefinate cell replacement without pattern deterioration. These genetic alterations, moreover, are commonly capable of being transmitted. For example, though I received the series of injections when first I came to Gor many years ago I had been told by Physicians that they might, in my case, have been unnecessary, for I was the child of parents who, though of Earth, had been of Gor, and had received the serum. But different human beings respond differently to the Stabilization Serums, and the Serums are more effective with some than with others. With some the effect last indefinately, with others it wears off after but a few hundred years, with some the effect does not occur at all, with others tragically, the effect is not to stabilize the patteren but to hasten its degeneration. The odds, however, are in favor of the recipient, and there are few Goreans who, if it seems they need the Serum's do not avail themselves of them. Book 5, Assassin: pg 30 [C] They are administered in four shots ...said the Physician. ...The guard took me and threw me, belly down on the platform, fastening my wrists over my head and widely apart, in leather wrist straps. He similarly secured my ankles. The Physician busying himself with fluids and a syringe before a shelf in another part of the room laden with vials. I screamed. The shot was painful. It was entered in the small of my back, over the left hip. They left me secured on the table for several minutes and then the Physician returned to check the shot. There had been apparently no unusual reaction. ...On the first day I had been examined, given some minor medicines of little consequence, and the first shot in the Stabilization Series. On the second, third and fourth day I received the concluding shots of the series. On the fifth day the Physician took more samples. The serums are effective ...he told the guard. Book 7, Captive: pg 93 [C] |
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There was, from one side, a sudden sound of grunting and the cracking of
great staffs, and urging cries from men. Two fellows, brawny
lads, in half tunics, were doing staff contest. Both were good
Book 25, Magicians: pg 40 [b] |
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The other common peasant weapon is the great staff, some six feet in length, some two inches in width
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 139 [C] |
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"Stake position," said Ephialtes to the two women. Immediately they
both lay down, with a sound of chain. It is not unusual to forbid
a rent slave, during her use times, when chained at a stake, to
rise even to her knees.
Book 24, Vagabonds: pg 386 [b] |
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Such matters, I knew, were usually carefully guarded in the Tahari, even
times of relative peace. The other girl cried out in anger at
er, but did not dare rise. "Chain her," said Hassan, indicating the kneeling girl. One of the men, from behind, put ankle rings on her, joined by about a foot of chain. I heard the two, heavy snaps of the locks. He then unbound her wrists and coiled the tether. Before her body he locked her wrists in three-link slave bracelets. "In the sun," said Hassan to two others of his men. They departed and, shortly, returned with a heavy, pointed stake. It was some four feet in height, some four inches in diameter. One man held the stake and the other, with a heavy hammer, drove it deeply, firmly, into the earth, until only some two inches of it were visible. At this end, fastened to a bolted band, fitted into a groove at the termination of the stake was a metal ring. The man who had held the stake then took a snap collar, with chain and snap lock, about a yard in length, and secured the girl, on her knees, by the neck, to the stake. Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 265 [b] |
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Mira was put on her back and her two ankles were bound, widely apart, to
two stakes. Then her wrists were unbound from behind her and
they, too, were bound widely apart, to two stakes.
"What are you doing with me?" begged Mira. "We are staking you out for sleen," said Vinca. "No! No!" cried Mira. The last knot was fastened, she was secured. "Please no!" cried Mira. I handed the sleen knife to Vinca. Mira, blindfolded, felt the blade on her thigh. "No!" she cried. Vinca handed the blade back to me, which I cleaned and replaced in my sheath. Mira, staked out, blindfolded, felt a woman's strong hand take the blood from her thigh and smear it across her belly and about her body. Book 8, Hunters: pg 231 [b] |
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"Stand as a slave", he said. I stood beautifully, back straight, head high, belly sucked in, hip turned. No woman can stand more beautifully than a Gorean slave girl. ‘Excellent’, said Ladletender, smacking his lips.
"Master is pleased?", I said. "Yes", he said. "The slave, too, is then pleased", I said. Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 249 k`tana{tLi} |
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With the point of a knife I dug there and found a small cache of
coins. There were five pieces of gold there, three staters of
Brundisium and two of Telnus, eleven silver tarsks, of various
cities, for such circulate freely, and some smaller coins.
Book 24, Vagabonds: pg 19 [b] "In this sack," said Claudius, "carefully counted, but assure yourself of the matter, are fifteen hundred pieces of gold, stamped staters of Argentum, certified by the mint of the Ubar." Book 19, Kajira: pg 393 [aishaa{O}] It was filled with golden staters, from Brundisium, a port on the coast of Thassa, on the mainland, a hundred pasangs or so south of the Vosk's delta, one reported to have alliances with Ar Book 20, Players: pg 68 [b] "In that purse," he said, "there were eighteen golden staters, from Tyros, three golden tarn disks, one from Port Kar, and two from Ar, sixteen silver tarsks from Tabor, twenty copper tarsks, and some fifteen tarsk bits." Book 21, Mercenaries: pg 85 [b] |
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"What, in pursuing the kaiila, he found," said Ibn Saran. "On a rock there
was scratched this message: Beware the steel tower."
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 22 [b] When this had occurred I had been at the steel tower in the Tahari, the half-buried ship which had housed the destructive device. I gazed at the placid sky. Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 363 [b] |
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What made them such dreaded foes was not so much their intelligence or,
on the steel worlds, their technological capacities, as
their aggressiveness, their persistence their emotional
commitments, their need to populate and expa nd, their innate savagery.
Book 9, Marauders: pg 295 [b] Somewhere up there, beyond atmospheres, beyond the orbits of Gor, and Earth and Mars, in a boulder-strewn enigmatic blackness of space, in the silence of the fragments of the asteroid belt, were the steel worlds, the lairs and domiciles of Kurii Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 362 [b] |
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<Oryx> breeze, STFU! <jaya{GPI}> yes, Master * jaya{GPI} feels upset cuz the Master used foul language at her * Oryx growls, "It means, Slave, Totally Fettered Utterances. What did you THINK it meant? * jaya{GPI} shivers, thinking "Shut the f...." Conversations in tLi, #the-Lara-inn |
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A stimulation cage is an ornately barred, low ceiling cage; it is
rather roomy, except for the low ceiling, about five feet high.
The girl cannot stand erect in it without her head inclined
submissively. In such a cage, and in training, when not in such a
cage, the girl who is housed in the stimulation cage is not
permitted to look directly into the eyes of a male, even a male
slave. This is designed, psychologically, to make the girl
extremely conscious of males. When she is sold, then only, if the
master wished, he may say to her, "You may look into the eyes of
your master." When she, frightened, tenderly, timidly lifts her
eyes to him, if he should deign to smile upon her, the girl then,
in gratitude and joy, at last permitted to relate to another
human being, often falls to her knees before him, an adoring
slave. When next she looks up, his will be stern, and she will
look down, quickly, frightened. "I will try to serve you well,
Master," she whispers. The accouterments of thestimulation-cell
are also calculated with respect to their effect on the slave.
There are brushes, perfumes, cosmetics, slave jewelries, heavy
necklaces, armlets, bracelets, and bangles; there is no clothing;
there are also cushions, bowls of copper and lamps of brass.
Importantly, there are also surfaces of various textures, a
deep-piled rug, satins, silks, coarsely woven kaiila-hair cloths,
brocades, rep-cloth, a tiled corner, a sleen pelt, cloths woven
of strung beads, cloaks of leather, mats of reeds, etc. The point
of this is that the senses and body of the slave, stripped save
for brand and collar, and whatever perfumes, cosmetics or
jewelries she may wear under the instruction of her trainer, are
being taught to be alive, to sense and feel with great
sensitivity; the senses and skins of many human beings, in
effect, are dead, instead of being alert and alive to hundreds of
subtle differences in, say, atmospheres, temperatures, humidity,
surfaces, etc.
Book 10, Tribesman: pg 24 [C] |
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Most sting flies, or needle flies, as the men from the south call
them, originate in the delta, and similar places, estuaries and such,
as their eggs are laid on the stems of rence plants. As a result of
the regularity of breeding and incubation times there tends, also, to
be peak times for hatching. These peak times are also in part, it is
thought, a function of a combination of natural factors, having to do
with conditions in the delta, such as temperature and humidity, and,
in particular, the relative stability of such conditions. Such
hatching times, as might be supposed, are carefully monitored by
rencers. Once outside the delta the sting flies, which spend most of
their adult lives as solitary insects, tend to disperse. Of the
millions of sting flies hatched in the delta each summer, usually
over a period of four or five days, a few return each fall, to begin
the cycle again.
Book 24, Vagabonds: pg 161 [b] |
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I have calculated this figure from the Weight, a Gorean unit of measurement
based on the Stone, which is about four earth pounds
Book 6, Raiders: pg 127 [b] These are long, 134 rectangular bricks, weighing about a stone apiece, or, in Earth weight, about four pounds. Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 138 [b] I then heard my height and weight, in Gorean measurements, thirty and a quarter Gorean stone and fifty-one horts, or approximately, in Earth measurements, one hundred and twenty-one pounds and five foot three and three quarters inches, and a large number of my other measurements being similarly, recounted Book 22, Dancer: pg 127 [b] |
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At "Stones", however, I was genuinely pleased with myself. It has two
players, who take alternate turns. Each player has the same number of
"Stones," usually two to five per player. The stones are usually
pebbles or beads, but in the cities one can buy small polished,
carved boxes containing ten stones, the quality of which might vary
from polished ovoid stones, with swirling patterns, to gems worth the
ransom of a merchant's daughter. The object of the game is simple, to
guess the number of stones held in he other's hand or hands. One
point is scored for a correct guess, and the game is usually set for
a predetermined number of paired guesses, usually fifty. Usually your
opponent tries to outwit you, by either changing the number of stones
held in his hand or, perhaps, keeping it the same.
Book 7, Captive: pg 107 [C] |
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"This is," said Kog, to Samos, "a story skin."
"I understand," said Samos. "It is an artifact of the red savages," said Kog, "from one of the tribes in the Barrens...." "The story begins here," said Kog, indicating the center of the skin. From this point there was initiated, in a slow spiral, to be followed by turning the skin, a series of drawings and pictographs. As the skin is turned each marking on it is at the center of attention, first, of course, of the artist, and, later, he follows the trail, of the viewer. The story, then, unanticipated, each event as real as any other, unfolds as it was lived. Book 17, Savages: pg 36 [b] |
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It is interesting, incidentally, that in the Gorean language, the word for
stranger is the same as the word for enemy.
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 110 [T] |
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"I did ride once before on the back of a tarn," she said bitterly, "to Ar,
bound across the saddle, before I was sold in the Street of Brands."
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 132 [b] |
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I turned down one of the muddy streets, making my way between booths featuring
the wares of pottery and weavers. It seemed to me that if 1 could
find the fair's Street of Coins, that the makers of odds might
well have set their tables there. It was, at any rate, a sensible
thought
Book 12, Beasts: pg 45 [b] |
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The caravan, wagon by wagon, made its way slowly toward Ko-ro-ba's Street
of the Field Gate, which is the southernmost gate of the city.
Book 7, Captive: pg 208 [tLi] |
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"And to where shall I send this slave, kind Scribe," the slaver asked Me.
"As her new collar says, to the-Lara-inn," I replied, rapidly loosing My patience. "I'm not familiar with Lara, beyond the docks. Perhaps..." he paused, waiting. "Oh, just ask anyone. Everyone in Lara knows that tLi is at Number One, Street of Meads." the writings of Oryx con Lara [tLi] |
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It is called the Street of the Writhing Slave. It is dark and narrow,
and not far from the wharves. It has its name from the fact that
most renters of, and dealers in, Coin Girls in Victoria, keep
their kennels on this street. The girls of the day, designated by
a coiled whip pressed against their left shoulder, wearing their
neck chains, with the attached bell and coin box, are sent into
the streets in the late afternoon and expected to return before
the nineteenth Ahn. And woe to the girl who does not return with
a jangling coin box on her neck chain!
Book 16, Guardsman: pg 143 [b] |
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The street veil, worn publicly, is extremely bulky, quite heavy and completely opaque; not even the lineaments of the nose and cheeks are discernible when it is worn;
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 107 [b] |
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strigil noun usually made of metal in a narrow, spatulate form. Used at bathing to scrape the residue of oils and dirt from the skin, cleaning the pores. [tLi]
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"I can force you to take me," she said. "How?" I asked. "Like this," she responded, kneeling before me, lowering her head and lifting her arms, the wrists crossed. She laughed. "Now you must take me with you or slay me," she said, "and I know that you cannot slay me." I cursed her, for she took unfair advantage of the Warrior Codes of Gor. "What is the submission of Talena, the daughter of the Ubar, worth?" I taunted. "Nothing," she said. "But you must accept it or slay me." Furious beyond reason, I saw in the grass the discarded slave bracelets, the hood and leading chains. To Talena's indignation, I snapped the slave bracelets on her wrists, hooded her, and put her on a leading chain. Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 109 [tLi] |
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There was another reason I had brought Miss Blake-Allen, as we may perhaps
speak of her for purposes of simplicity, to the Tahari districts.
Cold, white-skinned women are of interest to the men of the
Tahari. They enjoy putting them in servitude. They enjoy, on
their submission mats, turning them into helpless, yielding slaves.
Book 10, Tribesman: pg 44 [tLi/Sarisha] Among them I saw rough-fibered slave mats, and among those, the coarsest of all, submission mats, on which the female slave may be forced to perform for her master. Book 10, Tribesman: pg 50 [tLi/Sarisha] I regarded her. A thousand memories rushed into my mind, of the vast, tawny Tahari, of its bleakness, and its dunes, of its caravans, of its oases and palaces. In the Tahari culture the submission mat has its place. "In the Tahari," she asked, "might not girls, such as I, kneel on such mats?" "Yes," I said. Many times I had seen such slaves, blond and beautiful, kneeling on such mats before dark masters. Book 18, Blood Brothers: pg 142 [tLi] |
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Sometimes, rather, she, stripped, and presented before officers, is offered
the choice between swift, honorable decapitation and slavery. If
she chooses slavery, she may be expected to step onto a
submission mat, and kneel there, head down, enter a slave pen of
her own accord, or, say, fully acknowledging herself a slave,
belly to an officer, kissing his feet. The question is sometimes put to her in somewhat the following fashion. "If you are a free woman, speak your freedom and advance, now, to the headsman's block, or, if you are truly a slave, and have only been masquerading until now as a free woman, step now, if you wish, upon the mat of submission and kneel there, in this act becoming at last, explicitly, a legal slave." She is the expected, sometimes, kneeling, to lick the feet of a soldier, who then rapes her on the mat. Book 18, Blood Brothers: pg 337 [tLi] It is expected, too, that they will quickly become adept in the manifold labors of the Tahari woman, and, in particular, in their cases, those of the Tahari slave woman. In the latter respect, swiftly are the many meanings of the submission mat taught to them, where their slavery in their master's house or tent begins, but is not likely to end. To it they may be from time to time returned. Book 23, Renegades: pg 440 [tLi] What if she had found herself, for example, tied with wire in an alcove in Brundisium, almost concealed in ropes on a submission mat in the Tahari, wearing a body cage in Tyros, bound to the wheel in the land of the Wagon Peoples, shackled on a sales platform in Victoria, fearing the auctioneer's whip, or prone and chained on one of the swift ships of the black slavers of Schendi? Book 25, Magicians: pg 216 [tLi] |
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"On your belly," I said. She backed off a bit, and went to her belly.
Her hair was before her face, as she, now on her belly before me, looked up at me.
"Now, inch forward," I said, "remaining low on your belly, and when you reach my feet, once again, as before, lifting your head a little, tenderly and humbly, and beautifully, as though you were a slave, lick and kiss them. Good. Good. Now take my foot and place it gently on your head. Very good. Now place it again on the mat, and kiss it again. Good. You may now belly back a little, humbly. Book 21, Mercenaries: pp 410-411 |
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"Kneel in suga, girl!" he commanded, the room shaking. Too, I was too frightened to do anything but kneel demurely, head down, and try to look as small as I could.
Book 24, Vagabonds: pg 145 [tLi] <Oryx> that's funny, Tasdron, My copy of Vagabonds doesn't have that <Tasdron> what's even funnier, Oryx old chap, is that mine doesn't either! Conversations in tLi, #the-Lara-inn |
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Hot Bazi tea I wanted. This is an important trade item in the north. I now knew why.
The southern sugars are also popular. I had originally supposed this was because of their sweetness,
there being few sweet items, save some berries, in the north.
Book 12, Beasts: pg 209 [tLi] With a tiny spoon, its tip no more than a tenth of a hort in diameter, she placed four measures of white sugar, and six of yellow, in the cup; with two stirring spoons, one for the white sugar, another for the yellow, she stirred the beverage after each measure. Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 89 [b] Lola now returned to the small table and, kneeling head down, served us our desert, slices of tospit, sprinkled with four Gorean sugars. Book 15, Rogue: pg 132 [C] |
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Two varities are commonly used, the Red Sugar and the Yellow sugar.
It is believed that the Red Sugar is made from fruits and the
Yellow Sugar from the juices of crushed cane stalks.
"The kajira Index," http://kajira.bytemagick.net/food.html [pyxi] * faith{F_E} lifts a rep cloth to the mug... as she dries it she turns to a small serving shelf that has a temwood tray upon it lined with blue linen, she peers over her shoulder at the Master her light eyes flutter over His form for a fleeting moment, she takes a small basket down and lines it with linen and then places two sweet rocks into it, on yellow and one red as she turns to the warming fires and smiles lifting a lid on a brass kettle Actual serve in #Falcon's_Eyrie on bondage.com. faith, as trained by Elijah [OcL] |
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The sul is a large, thick-skinned, yellow-fleshed, root vegetable.
It is very common on this world. There are a thousand ways in
which it is prepared. It is fed even to slaves. I had had some at
the house; narrow, cooked slices, smeared with butter, sprinkled
with salt, fed to me by hand.
Book 22, Dancer: pg 80 [C] The slave boy, Fish, had emerged from the kitchen, holding over his head on a large silver platter a whole roasted tarsk, steaming and crisped, basted, shining under the torch light, a larma in its mouth, garnished with suls and Tur-Pah. Book 6, Raiders: pg 219 [C] The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, the starchy, golden-brown vine-borne fruit of the golden-leaved Sul plant; the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees; and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes Shrub, a small, deeply rooted plant which grows best in sandy soil. Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 44 [b] |
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My master extended his cup to me, and I, kneeling, filled it with Sul
paga. I pressed my lips to the cup, and handed it to him. My
eyes smarted. I almost felt drunk from the fumes.
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 134 [C] |
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The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, the starchy, golden-brown
vine-borne fruit of the golden-leaved Sul plant; the
curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite,
cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees; and the salty, blue
secondary roots of the Kes Shrub, a small, deeply rooted plant
which grows best in sandy soil.
Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 44 [b] |
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"Sula, Kajira!" said the man. She slid her legs from under her and
lay on her back, her hands at her sides, palms up, legs open.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 77 [C] |
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<Oryx> sula, My kajira <pyxi{OcL}> yes, Master * pyxi{OcL} lets her body fall to the floor before Him, spinning lightly until her dark hair cascades about nearly naked shoulders, gently resting tapering fingers near narrow hips outlined fully despite dark silks that rise on pallid thighs, shapely legs splaying wide for His attention * Oryx growls, "sula-ki" * pyxi{OcL} presses the back of each upward palm deeply to the tiles, tightening the globes of taut round bottom cheeks as she lifts her waist high, thigh muscles quivering with longing and the desire His eyes cannot help but seen in the delta between her widely spaced legs * Oryx EYES a telltale droplet of slavedew forming at the inviting slit in the girl's core Conversations in tLi, #the-Lara-inn |
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First she boiled and simmered a kettle of Sullage, a common Gorean
soup consisting of three standard ingredients, and, as it is
said, whatever else may be found, saving only the rocks of the
field. The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden
Sul, ...the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree
parasite,... and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes shrub...
Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 45 [C] |
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West of Ar's Station on the river I had visited Jort's Ferry, Point Alfred, Jasmine, Siba, Sais, and Sulport.
Book 15, Rogue: pg 62 [tLi] |
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In something like a half of an Ahn we had come to Torcadino's Sun Gate.
Many cities have a "Sun Gate" It is called that because it
is commonly opened at dawn and closed at dusk. Once a Gorean city
closes its gates it is usually difficult to leave the city
Book 21, Mercenaries: pg 102 [b] "There is plenty of time," I assured him. Most cities have a sun gate, sometimes several. They are called such because they are commonly opened at dawn and closed at dusk, thus the hours of their ingress and regress being determined by the diurnial cycle Book 25, Magicians: pg 9 [b] |
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"The Sun Lances," said Grunt, "a warrior society of the Sleen."
Book 17, Savages: pg 314 [b] |
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"You received pleasure from what you did, did you not?" asked the red-haired girl. "The only pleasure I received," said Beverly, "was in being obedient to my master's command." "You received pleasure beyond that," said Bikkie. "I saw." "No!" said Beverly. "You swallowed did you not?" asked the red-haired girl. "I had to," said Beverly, "I am a slave girl." "You are so low," laughed the red-haired girl," that you could receive pleasure from even a man of Earth." "No!" said Beverly. "We saw!" laughed Bikkie. "No!" said Beverly. "Even if he is from Earth," said the red-haired girl, "he is handsome and strong." Book 15, Rogue: pg 285 [tLi] |
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Approaching me, stepping daintily for all its bulk, prancing over the strands,
came one of the Swamp Spiders of Gor. I fastened my eyes
on the blue sky, wanting it to be the last thing I looked upon.
I shuddered as the beast paused near me, and I felt the light
stroke of its forelegs, felt the tactile investigation of the
sensory hairs on its appendages.
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 81 [b] |
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The switch is often used on a girl when she is guilty of minor indiscretions
or tiny misdemeanors. It is thought a fitting instrument for
encouraging a beauty to be more careful or zealous in her service
Book 19, Kajira: pg 85 [C] |
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"Do not harm him," said Kazrak. "He is my sword brother, Tarl of Bristol."
Kazrak's remark was in accord with the strange warrior codes of
Gor, codes which were as natural to him as the air he breathed,
and codes which I, in the Chamber of the Council of Ko-ro-ba,
had sworn to uphold. One who has shed your blood, or whose
blood you have shed, becomes your sword brother, unless you
formally repudiate the blood on your weapons. It is part of the
kinship of Gorean warriors regardless of what city it is to
which they owe their allegiance. It is a matter of caste, an
expression of respect for those who share their station and
profession, having nothing to do with cities or Home Stones.
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 119 [b] |
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He wore beneath his cloak yellow wool, and a great belt of glistening black,
with a gold buckle, to which was attached a scabbard of oiled,
black leather; in this scabbard was a sword, a sword of
Torvaldsland, a long sword, with a jeweled pommel, with double guard.
Book 9, Marauders: pg 50 [b] |
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After the death of Surbus, the woman had been mine. I had won her from him by sword right. I had, of course, as she had expected, put her in my collar, and kept her slave. To my astonishment, however, by the laws of Port Kar, the ships, properties and chattels of Surbus, he having been vanquished in fair combat and permitted death of blood and sea, became mine; his men stood ready to obey me; his ships became mine to command; his hall became my hall, his riches mine, his slaves mine. It was thus that I had become a captain in Port Kar. Jewel of gleaming Thassa.
Book 9, Marauders: pg 50 [tLi] |
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