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“live coal”

12 fragments across 12 traditions carry this sense. Every one of them opens a name; not a single tradition here uses this sense to close one.

Across the traditions

Reverse entry

They cluster in 3 families, most of them tabletop. No single tradition hoards it: the deepest, Bard, has 1.

Bard


Tabletop

Ember initial

  • Emberlyre

    Ember live coal + lyre small harp

    live coal small harp

  • Emberweaver

    Ember live coal + weaver spinner

    live coal spinner

  • Emberreed

    Ember live coal + reed piping cane

    live coal piping cane

D&D


Tabletop

Ember initial

  • Emberlume

    Ember live coal + lume light

    live coal light

  • Emberfalls

    Ember live coal + falls cascade

    live coal cascade

  • Embershard

    Ember live coal + shard broken sliver

    live coal broken sliver

Dragon


Creatures

Ember initial

  • Emberwrath

    Ember live coal + wrath kindled fury

    live coal kindled fury

  • Embershroud

    Ember live coal + shroud burial cloth

    live coal burial cloth

  • Emberhoard

    Ember live coal + hoard piled treasure

    live coal piled treasure

God


Creatures

Ember initial

  • Embertide

    Ember live coal + tide sea's pull

    live coal sea's pull

  • Emberwalker

    Ember live coal + walker wanderer

    live coal wanderer

  • Emberrender

    Ember live coal + render tearer

    live coal tearer

Monk


Tabletop

Ember initial

  • Embermercy

    Ember live coal + mercy stayed hand

    live coal stayed hand

  • Embersash

    Ember live coal + sash tied belt

    live coal tied belt

  • Emberquill

    Ember live coal + quill feather pen

    live coal feather pen

Necromancer


Tabletop

Ember initial

  • Emberwinna

    Ember live coal + winna wind

    live coal wind

  • Emberlira

    Ember live coal + lira dirge

    live coal dirge

  • Emberurna

    Ember live coal + urna urn

    live coal urn

Phoenix


Creatures

Ember initial

  • Emberrisen

    Ember live coal + risen raised again

    live coal raised again

  • Emberborn

    Ember live coal + born brought forth

    live coal brought forth

  • Embercrest

    Ember live coal + crest crowning tuft

    live coal crowning tuft

Pirate


People

Ember initial

  • Ember One-Hand

    Ember live coal + one-hand one hand

    live coal, called the one hand

  • Ember the Deep

    Ember live coal + the deep deep

    live coal, called the deep

  • Ember Silvertongue

    Ember live coal + silvertongue silver tongue

    live coal, called the silver tongue

Sorcerer


Tabletop

Ember initial

  • Embertouched

    Ember live coal + touched the marked

    the marked of the live coal

  • Embercalled

    Ember live coal + called the summoned

    the summoned of the live coal

  • Emberscion

    Ember live coal + scion young shoot

    young shoot of the live coal

Warlock


Tabletop

Ember initial

  • Embersigned

    Ember live coal + signed hand set

    hand set to the live coal

  • Embertaken

    Ember live coal + taken carried off

    carried off to the live coal

  • Embersworn

    Ember live coal + sworn oath-bound

    oath-bound to the live coal

Witch


People

Ember initial

  • Emberfell

    Ember live coal + fell rocky hill

    live coal rocky hill

  • Emberash

    Ember live coal + ash ash timber

    live coal ash timber

  • Emberchar

    Ember live coal + char scorched black

    live coal scorched black

Wizard


People

Ember initial

  • Embergate

    Ember live coal + gate portal

    live coal portal

  • Embermaster

    Ember live coal + master adept

    live coal adept

  • Emberhand

    Ember live coal + hand grasp

    live coal grasp

Senses that travel together

See also

Each of these shares at least two traditions with “live coal”. Senses that keep turning up in the same sets usually belong to one semantic field — the small vocabulary a naming tradition returns to again and again.

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