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Perilous Circumstances
Amongst the old biddies of Battal, those who are uncomfortable at the thought of (say) MooMaa blighting their crops and salting the earth with the dried tears of the children he's orphaned, refer to any and all wars, massacres, brutalities, acts of blasphemous magic and so on as "perilous circumstances." For instance, in this passage from near the end of Book 12:
The old women looked out on the ashen fields where Reyarteb fell once more. Brethlendentra shook her head and uttered, "Such perilous circumstances we've been in. At least they're done with."
"Or are they?" Grundblatkthab interjected. "For what has fallen may rise again."
Brethlendentra connected her cane, a rusted old soldier's mace, to Grundblatkhab's head, breaking it apart like an egg filled with cottage cheese and blood.
"That'll shut you up," Brethlendentra said.
"Perilous circumstances" later became a slang term for sex amongst the fans of ELOTH:TES. Perilous Circumstances is also the name of the female lead from The Resundering and Beyond, one of the book cycles of ElemenstorLance.
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