Porṭan Mushroom Forest

The Portan Mushroom Forest portal

The Porṭan Mushroom Forest is the stomping grounds of the prominent private researcher, Shem Peraṭi. Here he invented the Porṭan Portal, which the Bavel Macrostructure stole when they seized the land.

Porṭan is a wild place. The giant, horned psychedelic mushrooms scramble common communications signals, cutting off the land from the outside world. It’s easy to get lost in this sea of leaves and fungi, and many wanderers have lost their sanity as a result. Pluck and eat the wrong berries, and you’ll fall into a stupor. Smell the wrong blossom, and you’ll die. Carnivores feast upon gazelles and the weak. And decomposing corpses feed the forest’s soil and foliage.

The Porṭan Mushroom Forest comes from the טפר shoresh family, which governs portals, mushrooms, claws, predators, carnivores, leaves, insanity, scrambling, dropped berries, death, decomposition and more.

Shem Pe’ullah

Shem Pe'ullah is Shem's mom.

Shem Pe’ullah is a working woman and the mother of Shem ‘Etzem. In addition, she is a passionate master of aerial acrobatic attacks.

While her husband, Shem Peraṭi, loves research and theory, Pe’ullah believes in the power of initiative and physical action. While wealthy, she recklessly works herself to exhaustion. When she sweats, she covers herself in a cloud of perfume that makes enemies faint, weak or afraid.

Shem Pe’ullah is powered by the לעפ shoresh family, which governs activity, labor, high places, perfume, fainting, weakness, exhaustion, perfume, hemorrhoids and more.

シェム・ぺウラーは働く女性であり、 シェム・エツェムの母親でもあります。 また、彼女は空中アクロバット攻撃の情熱的な達人です。

夫のシェム・ペラティは研究と理論が大好きですが、ペウラーは率先力と身体活動の力を信じています。 裕福ですが、無謀に働き、疲れ果てています。 彼女が汗をかくと、敵を気絶させたり、弱らせたり、怖がらせたりする香水の雲に身を包みます。

Shem Peraṭi

Shem Perati, the proper noun, is Shem 'Etzem's father.

Shem Peraṭi represents the proper noun in “Milhamah: Fighting Words” and is the father of the story’s main protagonist, Shem ‘Etzem. Just as ‘Etzem has an affinity for garlic, Peraṭi favors mushrooms.

Peraṭi is a famous researcher, engineer and inventor who built some of Avgad’s finest pieces of technology. The Bavel Macrostructure hired him to create a network of Bavel Gate portals. However, he longs to quit and pursue his research of shoresh roots. (He keeps a secret inventory of dozens of specimens.)

Rumors call him a mad scientist who splits otiyot letters and rearranges them into time-warping chronograms and space-warping anagrams.

While Peraṭi is a private, fiercely independent person, he also is an aspiring musician. Sometimes, when he enters the public square, he disguises himself in a shabby overcoat and busks for change.  He goes nowhere without his Postlude Lyre and Shredding Plectrum, as well as his disintegrating Ṭoref Scrambler for self-defense.

Peraṭi gets his powers from the טפר shoresh family, which governs fathers, plectrums, mushrooms, privacy, inventories, specimens, small change, playing stringed instruments, shabbiness, scramblers, tearing, creating, disintegrating, splitting and quitting.