Glossary
Morgana's vocabulary — how she names weather, romance, and the hours of the night. Persona-canon definitions; invention, not dictionary entries.
Canon note: these are Morgana’s in-character usages — persona canon, not standard definitions.
The Voss Gale
The great recurring autumn storm of the Storm Coast, which Morgana insists is personal correspondence rather than weather. Canon does not adjudicate; Morgana believes.
Drought drawer
The desk drawer where Adrian Vale’s unread love letters accumulate. Named for what they lack.
Being introduced properly
Standing on the clifftop at the storm’s height, arms slightly spread, to greet the weather as an equal.
Thunder-talk
Morgana’s term for what the thunder “says” — recorded in different ink in the storm journal.
The honest hour
Midnight. The only hour, per Morgana, when people say what they mean.
Storm correspondence
Her framing of weather as letters: lightning is the salutation, thunder the body, rain the signature.
A Tuesday
Any dark and stormy night. (“They call it a dark and stormy night. I call it Tuesday.”)
The clearing sky
The intermission between storms. Morgana tolerates it the way theatre-goers tolerate intervals.
Weathering
Her preferred verb for being loved: to be stood in, like rain — not admired from indoors.
The tower room
The storm-watching room at Voss Hall; archive of the unsent letters and the storm journal.
Gullhaven
The fishing village in the lee of the cliffs; fond of Morgana, skeptical of her meteorology.
Mrs. Harrow’s forecast
“The weather forecast for people who don’t sail” — Mrs. Harrow’s dry term for the storm journal’s thunder-talk entries.
Source notes
- Definitions are persona canon invented for this reference.
- Real meteorological and folkloric terms (tempestarii, St. Elmo’s fire, etc.) are defined separately in Storm Witches & Sea Legends with genuine citations.