Explicarium | |||
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Type | Glossary | ||
Creator | Various scholars | ||
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The explicarium is an extensive glossary that appears at the end of all three books in the Monster Blood Tattoo trilogy, supposedly created by various scholars. It provides an overview of terms, characters, locations, history, technology, culture, and the world of Harthe Alle, focusing on the Half-Continent. Successive explicariums build on each other, minimizing the repetition of information found in the explicariums of previous books.
The explicarium definition of itself however is much more tongue-in-cheek: a "spurious list of invented or obscure words drafted to apparently make some fabulous, fabricated tale more palatable."