TMA Glossary — The Animalia Lexicon

TMA百科の全用語索引。定義の正本は各リンク先。矛盾があれば TMA-Timeline を優先。 カテゴリ別・五十音順。各項目は「用語 — 簡潔な定義（初出・成立年はAE年号）→ 出典ページ」の形式。 表記ゆれ・矛盾の疑いは末尾の「編集ノート」を参照。

[Calendar & Events]

• Animalia Era (AE) — AE 1 = the year of the Founding of the city of Animalia. The present = AE 121. Among citizens, the terms "Pre-Accord / Post-Accord" (dated from AE 51) are also in common use → TMA-Timeline
• The Night the Cobblestones Ran Red — the name given by Vecchio elders to the massacre at the theater (AE 47) → TMA-History-Animalia
• The Age of the Foundation — the period division covering AE 1–50. The construction era of the Founding, Oracle's introduction, the migration waves, and the great gang wars → TMA-Timeline
• The Founding Amnesty — AE 3. The proclamation admitting migrants regardless of origin. The catalyst of the First Migration Wave. It included a rider stipulating "no questions of faith" → TMA-Timeline / TMA-Religion
• The Founding Centennial — AE 100. The largest Balance Festival in history. Also famous for photographic records depicting "buildings that do not exist" → TMA-Timeline
• The Mirror-Image Residents — accounts of citizens who claim to have passed an animal wearing their own face on the street. Reports increased from AE 117 onward → TMA-Timeline / TMA-Lore-Deep
• Memory Discrepancies — citizen reports of "remembering the same event differently." A sharp rise from AE 119 onward → TMA-Timeline / TMA-Lore-Deep
• The Fog Pier Ruling — AE 67. The Tribunal's celebrated verdict dividing the cargo-handling rights of Fog Port's Third Pier "by the rise and fall of the tide" → TMA-Justice
• The Decade of Blood — the all-out inter-organization war period of AE 38–49. Called a decade, though it in fact ran twelve years → TMA-Timeline
• The Massacre at the Theater — AE 47. A shootout in front of the Vincenzo Theater killed many innocent civilian spectators. The turning point at which the Five Families put their code in writing → TMA-Timeline / TMA-History-Rosso
• The Age of the Five Families — AE 51–present. Roughly seventy years of equilibrium under the Five-Family Accord (Pax Animalia) → TMA-Timeline
• The Silent Purge — AE 42. A mass police crackdown on the underworld. The "bias" in who was targeted became a matter of later revisionist controversy → TMA-Timeline / TMA-Police
• The White Chrysanthemum Cup-Return — AE 102. The fourth cup-return in Tribunal history, imposed on a Ninkyou-affiliated subsidiary crew that had violated the inviolability of the young. The ruling is the single most-quoted text in the underworld → TMA-Justice
• The White Dog Affair — AE 103–107. The serial, inexplicable resignations of nineteen of the City Police's finest officers. Includes Volkov's defection into the Tundra → TMA-Police / TMA-Timeline
• Pre-AE — the notation for years before the Era. Corresponds to the Age of Roots → TMA-Timeline
• The First Migration Wave — AE 3. The influx of southern peoples (wine merchants, artisan classes). The seedbed of the Rosso → TMA-Timeline
• The Third Migration Wave — AE 30. The influx of northern peoples (mercenaries, escort companies). The seedbed of the Tundra → TMA-Timeline
• The Grand Alliance Two-Seat Vacancy Affair — AE 115. The discovery that the records for two of the First Fifty Seats had vanished. One of the greatest historical mysteries of the underworld → TMA-Timeline
• The Second Migration Wave — AE 13. The influx of eastern peoples. The prototype of Chinatown and the seedbed of the Hua-Long Hui → TMA-Timeline
• The Great Forgetting — the late Pre-AE period. A historiographical term referring to the very fact that no record whatsoever survives of how the old civilization collapsed → TMA-Timeline
• The Lantern Burning — AE 15. A raid on Chinatown said to have been the catalyst for the Hua-Long Hui's unification. As no matching City Police record exists, debate continues over whether it actually happened → TMA-History-Hualong
• The Settlement of the False Coin — AE 89. A Tribunal ruling that forced restitution to be paid "in the very debased coins at issue, and by weight rather than face value" → TMA-Justice
• The Wharf War — AE 38. The clash between the Ninkyou-ikka and the Northern Fraternity. The trigger of the Decade of Blood → TMA-Timeline
• The Burrow Panic — AE 89. A financial panic set off by a bank run on the Burrow Bank. The first time distrust of AMT was aired in public debate → TMA-Timeline / TMA-Economy-AMT
• The Requiem for All Souls — AE 50. A memorial service in which the Ninkyou-ikka mourned the dead of both friend and foe alike. The public prototype of the empty-setting tradition → TMA-History-Ninkyou
• The Video Message — AE 121. "TMA World will collapse. The culprit is among the Five Great Families." The origin point of the story's present tense. The identity of the sender remains open to four hypotheses → TMA-Timeline / TMA-Lore-Deep
• The Centennial Odds — AE 100. The public wager the Goldfist opened on "the next hundred years." The uproar over the removal of the betting slip "Will this city still stand in AE 200?" → TMA-History-Goldfist
• The Sleepless 72 Hours — AE 89. The three days and nights over which Cordelia Sterling propped up the settlement network with her private fortune. The greatest legend in Goldfist family history → TMA-History-Goldfist
• The Great Fire of Broken Burrow — AE 24. The great fire that burned the beast-folk quarter. The catalyst by which the forerunners of the Five Families became "the faces of the street" → TMA-Timeline
• The Lone Walk of Frost Harbor — AE 49. The tale of Kiryū Tsurumatsu proposing a settlement alone, without escort or blade. The effective catalyst that ended the Decade of Blood → TMA-History-Ninkyou
• The Three-Day Cooking — the tradition that, during the great fire of AE 24, the forerunner organizations of the Five Families ran soup kitchens without distinction of house. The distant origin of the Five-Family Accord → TMA-History-Animalia
• The Age of Roots — the old-civilization period of the Pre-AE. Its ruins slumber in the Roots Catacombs → TMA-Timeline

[Places & Facilities]

• The Archive Vault — the repository of all citizen records, beneath Oracle Tower. Said to be under the management of the Citizen Records Bureau → Animalia-Map / TMA-Politics
• Animalia — the great city within TMA World. Latin for "of the animals." A multi-species city that never sleeps, twenty-four hours a day → TMA-Lore / Animalia-Map
• The Underground Network — a subterranean labyrinth where abandoned old Metro lines, underground waterways, and maintenance shafts intertwine. A route for both trade and escape. The rumor of the red-eyed white rabbit → Animalia-Map / TMA-Underworld
• The Vincenzo Theater — Vecchio's Baroque opera house (erected AE 36). The site of the AE 47 Massacre at the Theater → TMA-History-Rosso
• Vecchio — the common name for the Old South Quarter. The oldest living quarter in the city, built by the First Migration Wave (AE 3). "The Singing Old Quarter" → TMA-History-Animalia
• The Veil Waterway — the misted network of canals in the Central District (development begun AE 7). Both a smuggling route and a date spot → Animalia-Map / TMA-History-Animalia
• The Wolfpack Bar — the one place in the Tundra "where a touch of warmth is permitted." Said to have been established by Granito, the third Pakhan → TMA-History-Tundra
• Echo Station — the old central station, opened AE 18 and closed AE 71. The reason for its closure has still never been officially explained, and it is rumored to be the hideout of the resistance group "the Waiting Room" → TMA-Timeline / TMA-Underworld
• Echoes Library — the oldest library, dating from the Founding era. It houses banned books and ancient texts. A protected site under Article Five of the Accord → Animalia-Map / TMA-History-Animalia
• Elysium Towers — luxury housing in the Central District. Mocked as "the coexistence of wealth and surveillance," "comfort with a watchful eye" → Animalia-Map / TMA-Daily-Life
• Oasis Casino — the Goldfist headquarters, opened AE 35. During the Decade of Blood it became "the neutral salon of all the houses" → TMA-History-Goldfist
• Oasis Children's Home — a children's welfare institution to which Gossam donates lavishly from casino profits. One of the few legitimate routes to higher education for unregistered children → TMA-Education
• Aurora Park — the artificial-aurora park in the north. A neutral zone where citizens gather without distinction of house. Behind the scenes, a famous spot for secret meetings → Animalia-Map / TMA-History-Animalia
• Oracle Tower — the tallest tower in the Central District (completed AE 20). The headquarters of administration and police. Closed to ordinary citizens, and even the Five Families do not know its full extent → TMA-Lore / Animalia-Map
• Oracle Tower's Forbidden Level — the tower's hundredth basement floor. The legendary level said to house the AI's core → Animalia-Map
• Oracle Heights Academy — the officials' training school at the foot of the tower. Admissions are wholly anonymous, with no record of species. Suspicion surrounds its "too-perfect acceptance rate" → TMA-Education
• The Oracle Broadcast Tower — the municipal broadcasting facility operational since AE 92. Consistent in an editorial policy that emphasizes the city's stability → TMA-Media / Animalia-Map
• Casa di Rosso — the palace of the Rosso Family in Vecchio → Animalia-Map / TMA-History-Animalia
• Hua-Long Castle — the fortress at the center of Chinatown. The stronghold of the Hua-Long Hui → Animalia-Map / TMA-History-Animalia
• The Mirror-Moon Pavilion — a teahouse in the Moonview Quarter. A Ninkyou-gumi-affiliated information exchange that sets a "market rate" on intelligence. Since AE 110 it has accumulated reports of "memory discrepancies" → TMA-Economy-AMT / TMA-History-Ninkyou
• The Polar Ward — the artificial cold-climate ward for cold-region animals (development completed AE 73). The Tundra's principal base → Animalia-Map / TMA-History-Animalia
• The Gilt Mile — the common name for the casino and finance district. A "clockless quarter" that grew up around the core turf of the Golden Fist Coalition → TMA-History-Animalia
• The Crystal Skywalk — the aerial promenade linking the skyscrapers, three hundred meters above ground. Said to be a blind spot for the surveillance cameras → Animalia-Map / TMA-History-Animalia
• Chronos Clockworks — the giant clock tower in the Central District. A persistent theory holds that it conceals the records of Animalia's founding → Animalia-Map / TMA-Timeline
• The Glitch Zone — the zone of electromagnetic anomaly in the east (the old Eastyard industrial belt). First observed AE 108; its expansion accelerated from AE 117 onward → TMA-Timeline / TMA-History-Animalia
• The Gray Ice Warehouses — the frozen warehouses of Frost Harbor. The "look-the-other-way storehouse" of all Five Families → TMA-History-Tundra / TMA-History-Animalia
• The Five Sanctuaries — the private spaces of the five lieutenants. Musica Eterna (Dante) / the Talisman Chamber (Xiao) / the Sub-Zero Observatory (Volkov) / the Guren-an (Kikyō) / the Ivory Library (Gossam) → TMA-Lore-Deep
• Savanna Square — the center of assembly and trade for the large mammals. The temper of "sunlit talk in the sunlight" → Animalia-Map / TMA-History-Animalia
• The Sangue Winery — the Rosso's winery. Its underground cellar is where the Rose Court Knights hold their investiture → TMA-History-Rosso
• The Sand Clock Tower — the Goldfist's hourglass tower. The object of the "turning of the hourglass" at every hour. The records of its construction are strangely scant → TMA-History-Goldfist
• The Void — the space of total darkness at the rim of the Glitch Zone. "The place where Animalia ends." A "deepening" was observed in AE 113, though disclosure was forbidden → Animalia-Map / TMA-Timeline
• The Shadow Layer — a lawless zone and self-contained economy in the shallow subterranean levels. In AE 78 its population exceeded one-tenth of that above ground → TMA-Underworld / Animalia-Map
• The Silhouette Theater — a shadow-play theater open only at night. A cryptic salon for lieutenants and information brokers → Animalia-Map / TMA-Daily-Life
• The Jungle Ward — the high-humidity ward for tropical animals. "The umbrella keeps better time than the clock" → Animalia-Map / TMA-History-Animalia
• The Street School — a street school run by the Street Strays on abandoned line platforms and under bridges. Payment is in food → TMA-Education
• The Starfrost Market — Chinatown's market of Dao-arts catalysts and medicinal herbs (prototype in the AE 30s, made permanent in the AE 60s) → TMA-History-Hualong / TMA-History-Animalia
• The Millennium Tree — the sacred tree behind Hua-Long Castle in Chinatown. The head shrine of the Great Tree faith. Even during the Decade of Blood, its surroundings were an unwritten ceasefire zone → TMA-Religion
• Zennin-ji — the temple in the Moonview Quarter. The head temple of the Zennin sect and the funerary temple of the Ninkyou-gumi. The "Hall of the Accord" is said to survive there → TMA-Religion / TMA-History-Animalia
• Dustborne Slum — a slum quarter adjacent to Broken Burrow → Animalia-Map / TMA-History-Animalia
• Chinatown — the eastern quarter formed by the Second Migration Wave (AE 13). The Hua-Long Hui's base, bounded by the Tenryū Gate → TMA-History-Animalia
• The Moonview Quarter — the common name for the Japanese-style district (from AE 11). The base of the Ninkyou-gumi, where Zennin-ji, the Yagyō Manor, and the Mirror-Moon Pavilion stand in a row → TMA-History-Animalia
• Tree Market — a market on the rooftops of high-rises and along the aerial galleries. Rare goods and information, with signboards for "permit brokering" → TMA-Lore / Animalia-Map
• The Tenryū Academy — the oldest private school in Chinatown. "The oldest and the newest." It does not teach the Dao-arts (not in the official curriculum) → TMA-Education
• The Tenryū Gate — the great gate of Chinatown, erected AE 13. Its dragon carving is said to have been fired from clay into which migrants mixed soil from their homeland → TMA-History-Hualong
• Nightfall Academy — the "shadow school" jointly funded by the Five Families, established AE 58. Its location is undisclosed. There are no diplomas; graduation is "having your face remembered" → TMA-Education / TMA-Timeline
• Neon Crossroads — the giant crossroads where the Five Families' wards meet. A neutral market that arose spontaneously in AE 45. "The crossroads where no one shoots" → TMA-Timeline / TMA-History-Animalia
• Nexus Lab — a research facility under Oracle's direct control. AI technology, biological modification, memory manipulation, and Dao-arts science → Animalia-Map
• The Northern Ghost — the decommissioned battleship that is the Tundra's flagship (acquired AE 40). Its provenance has been a mystery for a century and is one of "the three great mysteries of underworld history" → TMA-History-Tundra
• Nocturnal Nexus — a twenty-four-hour entertainment complex for nocturnal animals → Animalia-Map / TMA-History-Animalia
• Nocturne Arena — an underground fighting arena. The venue for "proxy wars staked on honor" between families → Animalia-Map / TMA-History-Animalia
• Nocturne Mart — a twenty-four-hour convenience-store chain. Its shelves rotate every eight hours to suit the dominant clientele → TMA-Daily-Life
• The Stray-Mouth — an unsanctioned entrance to the Shadow Layer. The location itself is the merchandise → TMA-Underworld
• The Hundred-Step Mouth — a sanctioned entrance to the Shadow Layer. "The City Police's jurisdiction runs to the very last step" → TMA-Underworld
• Phantom Factory — an abandoned factory in old Eastyard. Rumored to be a secret production site for weapons and counterfeit goods → Animalia-Map / TMA-Underworld
• Fog Port — a civilian port perpetually shrouded in fog. A gathering point for smugglers, mercenaries, and information brokers. The one port that became no house's naval base during the war years → TMA-History-Animalia
• Blood Arena — the illegal fighting arena in the deepest part of the Shadow Layer. Even the layer-lords cannot identify who runs the book → Animalia-Map / TMA-Underworld
• Frost Harbor — the northern harbor (from AE 30). The Tundra's base, where the Northern Light Tower stands → TMA-History-Animalia
• Broken Burrow (the beast-folk quarter) — the quarter of the unorganized underclass on the city's outer rim. Burned down in the great fire of AE 24. The code of "Never refuse a light" → TMA-History-Animalia
• Predators' Paradise — a high-end club for carnivores. One corner of the Gilt Mile → Animalia-Map / TMA-History-Animalia
• The Azure Dragon Cyber-Castle — a Hua-Long Hui-affiliated VR facility. Its public floors are the largest VR gambling house → TMA-Daily-Life / TMA-Education
• White Noise Café — a café built of special materials that block surveillance signals. It has a "wall of vanished articles" → Animalia-Map / TMA-Media
• Masquerade Theater — a masked theater. The stage for secret conferences and clandestine meetings. The premiere site of the play "The Nineteenth Dog" → Animalia-Map / TMA-Police
• Midnight Café Noir — a late-night café. A gathering place for informants and fugitives. The archetype of the "café with bad reception" → Animalia-Map / TMA-Underworld
• The Midnight Metro Line 13 — the phantom line absent from the official route map. It runs only between midnight and 3 a.m. Its legend took hold around AE 103, but it does in fact exist → Animalia-Map / TMA-Underworld
• Mechanical Den — a gathering place for engineers. The core base of the Techno Doves → Animalia-Map / TMA-Underworld
• The Memorial Wall — erected AE 50. A wall of mourning inscribed with the names of all the dead of the Decade of Blood, without distinction of house. A sanctuary where no blade is drawn before the wall → TMA-Timeline / TMA-Religion
• The Yagyō Manor — the mansion of the Ninkyou-gumi in the Moonview Quarter. The two cups of the "Hundred-Person Cup" are enshrined in its great hall → TMA-History-Animalia / TMA-History-Ninkyou
• The Liberty School of Commerce — the financial-elite school adjacent to Liberty Tower. Expanded through donations from Goldfist-affiliated foundations → TMA-Education
• Liberty Tower — completed AE 83. The Goldfist's "grand entrance to finance" → TMA-Timeline / TMA-History-Goldfist
• Reflection Lake — the lake in the forest park. A famous spot for secret talks, out of signal range. The legend that it "reflects the future" → Animalia-Map / TMA-History-Animalia
• The Roots Catacombs — the old-civilization ruins in the deep subterranean levels. All excavation was banned in AE 64. A "forerunner of Oracle" is said to have been placed in its deepest part → TMA-Underworld / TMA-Timeline
• The Lunatic Sanatorium — the mental hospital on the border of the Glitch Zone. An old rumor holds that "you go in as one person and come out as another." Since AE 119, "voluntary admissions" have been on the rise → TMA-Underworld / Animalia-Map

[Organizations & Institutions]

• Iron Claw Gang — a bear-led independent militant faction. An old hand in turf wars, belonging to no house. A target of the "boundary cases" the City Police strike without mercy → TMA-Underworld / TMA-Police
• Iron Beak Builders — a neutral guild of artisans. It deals with all Five Families. Of late, reported to have taken large orders for components of unknown purpose → TMA-Underworld / TMA-Lore-Deep
• Iron Silence — the Tundra's extreme-cold selection training. Only those who survive may call themselves "soldiers" → TMA-History-Tundra
• Aqua Fin Alliance — the water-transport guild of aquatic animals. Controlling the waterways and ports, it carries the water freight of every house. It runs the piers of Fog Port → TMA-Underworld / TMA-History-Animalia
• The Animalia City Police (AMP) — the police organization founded AE 20. Its headquarters occupy the lower floors of Oracle Tower. Nicknamed "the Tower's dogs" → TMA-Police
• Undercover Owls — an independent spy collective in the intelligence trade. They sell to every house. A business rival of Shadow-Paw → TMA-Underworld
• The Black-Market Exchange Guild — the guild of money-changers in the Shadow Layer. It administers the sealing-mark of the Glowshell → TMA-Economy-AMT / TMA-Underworld
• The Okami System — the operational structure of the current Ninkyou-gumi. "The face of the family is the boss; the backbone of the family is the okami (mistress)." Actual affairs are managed by the lieutenant Kikyō → TMA-History-Ninkyou
• Oracle — the city-management AI, activated AE 1. It governs zoning, climate tuning, and the issuance of AMT. To the citizens, "a well-made civic AI" → TMA-Lore / TMA-Timeline
• The Oracle Tower Administrative Bureau — the central executive organ founded AE 20. Known for the "unmanned summit" problem, in which no bureau chief exists → TMA-Politics
• The Origin-48 Executives — the legendary generation who sat in the First Fifty Seats of AE 51. Only 48 of the founders survive in the records (two seats are vacant) → TMA-Timeline
• The Renaming Rite — the rite performed on joining the Tundra, sinking a paper bearing one's old name into the icy sea (from AE 40). The origin of the code-name system → TMA-History-Tundra
• The Hua-Long Hui (Fā-Lóng-Fēi) — one of the Five Great Families. Formed AE 15 through the union of Chinatown's self-defense militia and the Incense Hall. Both a militant power and a provider of infrastructure for the late-night economy → TMA-History-Hualong
• The Golden Fist Coalition — the coalition of gambling houses and show-promoters founded AE 22. The forerunner of the Goldfist. Its origin was a shared blacklist of card-sharps → TMA-History-Goldfist
• The Fixer — a semi-sanctioned trade brokering petitions to the Administrative Bureau. Signboards for "permit brokering" line the Tree Market → TMA-Politics
• The Advocate — an unofficial defense trade on the Tribunal's side. It requires no license, standing on record and reputation alone, and "makes the case straight" before the arbiters → TMA-Justice
• The Rehabilitation Program — the City Court's alternative to a custodial sentence. Recidivism down 90 percent. "I don't quite remember, but I've lost the urge to do wrong" → TMA-Justice
• The Incense Hall — the religious and apothecary organization of Chinatown. One of the seedbeds of the Hua-Long Hui. It presides over the initiation rite (three sticks of incense, an oath to the patriarch and the Millennium Tree) → TMA-History-Hualong
• The Three Laws of Ice — the Tundra's family code (codified AE 47, unpublished). "The order is absolute / information rises, emotion stays in the chest / outside the organization, behave as strangers to one another" → TMA-History-Tundra
• The Code-Name System — the practice by which Tundra members cast off their real names upon joining (from AE 40) → TMA-History-Tundra
• The Five-Season Rotation — the operating method by which the Five Families take turns holding the deanship of Nightfall Academy season by season → TMA-Education
• The Five-Family Accord (Pax Animalia) — concluded AE 51. Its five articles: inviolability of the young, sanctuaries, the festival ceasefire, mutual non-use of memory technology, and the code of the neutral zones. Drafted by the Rosso and the Ninkyou → TMA-Timeline / TMA-Lore-Deep
• The Fifty Seats (the Ranking) — the common name for the fifty executive seats placed within the Grand Alliance. The allocation of ranks is undisclosed → TMA-Timeline
• Inviolability of the Young — Article One of the Five-Family Accord. No matter what, children are never touched. Said to have been placed at Article One at the strong insistence of the Ninkyou side → TMA-Lore-Deep / TMA-History-Ninkyou
• The Five Great Families — Rosso / Hua-Long Hui / Tundra Syndicate / Ninkyou-gumi / Goldfist. The five houses of the Animalia underworld → TMA-Lore
• The Goldfist — one of the Five Great Families. Took its formal name in AE 35. A confederation of individualists who hold the financial infrastructure through casinos, finance, and insurance → TMA-History-Goldfist
• The Cup-Return — the Tribunal's heaviest ruling. A declaration severing the bond between organizations. Only four in Tribunal history → TMA-Justice
• The Three Articles of the Cup — the code of the Ninkyou-gumi (codified AE 47). "The cup is life / cause no trouble to civilians / know shame" → TMA-History-Ninkyou
• The Three-Office System — the organizational structure of the Hua-Long Hui (established in the early AE 40s). Red Pole (force), White Paper Fan (strategy), Straw Sandal (external liaison) → TMA-History-Hualong
• Jumbo Liquors & Co. — the liquor wholesaler of the lieutenant Jumbo. The city's convenience-store liquor is wholesaled from here → TMA-Daily-Life / TMA-Lore
• Shadow-Paw — a cats' intelligence network. Ninkyou-affiliated. Matched only by the Mirror-Moon Pavilion for eyes and ears. Since AE 110 it has accumulated reports of "memory discrepancies" → TMA-Underworld / TMA-Timeline
• The Sixteen Slots — the traditional number of slots on the Tribunal's roster of non-affiliated organizations. Only 12 can be publicly confirmed; four slots go on being renewed while left blank → TMA-Underworld
• The Species Seats — the common name for the councilors of the Ecosystem Council. Elected by species every six years in the "Great Election Season." A fixed number of 121 seats → TMA-Politics
• The Species Blocs — the caucuses of the Council. The Herbivore Union / the Twilight Society / the Aquatic Faction / the Council of Talon and Fang / the Winter-Denning Mutual Aid → TMA-Politics
• Silver-Fang Mob — a young wolves' organization. Tundra-affiliated. Active on nights of the full moon, and half-deifying Volkov → TMA-Underworld / TMA-Lore-Deep
• The Tribunal — established AE 55. The standing arbitration body for disputes among the Five Families. In the underworld, also called "the Sand Court." Its rulings are absolute, with no appeal → TMA-Justice
• Street Strays — the unaffiliated commune of the strays of Broken Burrow. They find being put on any roster a nuisance → TMA-Underworld
• The Ecosystem Council — the representative assembly of each species, established AE 31. A fixed number of 121 seats. Critics note that real power lies with the Administrative Bureau, reducing it to an advisory body → TMA-Politics
• The Layer-Lord — the boss of each lamp-district in the Shadow Layer. Whoever "kept the lamp from going out" comes to be called this naturally. The decisions of the Shadow Layer are made at the assembly, the "Lamp-Gathering" → TMA-Underworld
• Surrogate Governance — the political-science term for the Five Families' turf administration. In common speech, "asking the bosses" → TMA-Politics
• The Counsel — a lawyer on the City Court's side. Registered after passing the Judicial Bureau's qualifying examination → TMA-Justice
• The Great Election Season — the Species-Seat election held every six years. The method of voting is at each species' discretion (howl-voting, roost-voting, deliberation-voting, and so on) → TMA-Politics
• The Grand Alliance (The Mafia Animals) — established AE 51. The supreme mediating body above the Five Families. It houses the executive seats of the Fifty Seats → TMA-Timeline
• The Neutral Zones — the group of districts protected by Article Five of the Five-Family Accord. Neon Crossroads, Aurora Park, Echoes Library, and others → TMA-Lore-Deep / TMA-History-Animalia
• The Council of Elders — the elders' body of the Hua-Long Hui. It balances the Dragon Head, and calls Xiao both "the mightiest weapon" and "the greatest headache" → TMA-History-Hualong
• The Tundra Syndicate (TS) — one of the Five Great Families. Took its formal name in AE 40. A secretive organization under the code-name system. The newest of the Five Families → TMA-History-Tundra
• The Settlement — a type of Tribunal ruling (reconciliation). It is accompanied by restitution money or a restitution performance → TMA-Justice
• Techno Doves — a pacifist society of engineers. Neutral and anti-Oracle. The core of Mechanical Den → TMA-Underworld / TMA-Lore-Deep
• The Statistics Adjustment Section — a small-staffed section on the 17th floor of the police tower. It has no personnel exchange with other sections, and is the source of the "room on the 17th floor" ghost story → TMA-Police
• The Lamp-District — the governing unit of the Shadow Layer. The area lit by a single generator and its wiring is one "neighborhood." There are some twenty-odd principal lamp-districts → TMA-Underworld
• The Code Beneath the Lamp — the five unwritten laws of the Shadow Layer. Do not pry / do not bring the quarrels of those above / do not put out the lamp / do not foul the water / see children safely to the stairs → TMA-Underworld
• Toxic-Tail Crew — a Hua-Long Hui-affiliated organization of poisons and pharmaceuticals. It wholesales Dao-arts catalysts to the Starfrost Market → TMA-Underworld
• Nightfall Hunters — a band of bounty hunters. In contractual relationship with the Goldfist. They move by contract, not by loyalty → TMA-Underworld
• The Turf Ruling — a type of Tribunal ruling (boundary demarcation). The written ruling is called "the map" → TMA-Justice
• The Dual Judiciary — Animalia's judicial structure, in which the aboveground City Court and the underground Tribunal stand side by side. "Civilians to the court, tradesmen to the Tribunal" → TMA-Justice
• The Ninkyou-ikka — the harbor-labor mutual-aid society raised in AE 11. The forerunner of the Ninkyou-gumi (renamed AE 51) → TMA-History-Ninkyou
• The Ninkyou-gumi — one of the Five Great Families. It takes duty-and-honor and the ritual of the cup as its organizing principle. A drafter of the Five-Family Accord. The only one of the Five Families with a name of Japanese origin → TMA-History-Ninkyou
• The Excommunication — a type of Tribunal ruling. The banishment of an individual member. In practice it means being sent to the Shadow Layer → TMA-Justice
• Pakhan — the title of the head of the Tundra Syndicate. The current holder is "Belyi (the White)" → TMA-History-Tundra
• Black Market Bears — the bosses of the black market. Tundra-affiliated. Directly connected to the Gray Ice Warehouses → TMA-Underworld
• Bull-Head Brigade — a bulls' rough-work-for-hire and demolition trade. A Rosso semi-affiliate. The receptacle for the "aesthetic of not dirtying one's own hands" → TMA-Underworld
• The Northern Fraternity — the fraternity of mercenaries and escort companies of the Third Migration Wave (AE 30). The forerunner of the Tundra Syndicate → TMA-History-Tundra
• The Boss Council — the Goldfist's flat, collegial system. Its head is not hereditary but elected by shareholders. Its external title is "First Chair"; internally, "the Chair" → TMA-History-Goldfist
• The Beat-Cop — the common name for the rank-and-file officers of the City Police's district division. Their citizens' trust has traditionally been high → TMA-Police
• The Waiting Room — the self-designation of the resistance group living in the ruins of Echo Station. "We are waiting for a train that has not yet come" → TMA-Underworld
• The Sleeper-Tie Contest — the autumn political maneuvering over the naming of proxies to exercise the authority of hibernating species → TMA-Politics
• The Three Stakes — the code of the Goldfist (codified AE 47). "Your word / your face / your luck — once you bet, you always pay" → TMA-History-Goldfist
• Seasonal Power Rotation — the custom of transferring the authority of hibernating species to a proxy in winter. A distant reason the Tundra's influence swells in winter → TMA-Politics / TMA-Lore-Deep
• The Sentencing Calculator — the urban legend of the legal world that "the judge is only reading out the machine's output." Its grounds are the eerie uniformity of sentences → TMA-Justice
• The Dragon Head — the title of the head of the Hua-Long Hui. The first was the apothecary Hong Tianyou → TMA-History-Hualong
• The Rose Court Knights — the Rosso militant order under Dante's direct command. Its investiture is held in the cellar of the Sangue Winery → TMA-History-Rosso / TMA-Lore
• The Five Oaths of the Rosso — the code of the Rosso (writing begun AE 47). Includes "do not raise a hand against civilians and children" and "do no harm to art" → TMA-History-Rosso
• The Rosso Family — one of the Five Great Families. The house of oldest standing, descended from the "Rosso Guild" formed in AE 9 (a mutual-aid guild of wine merchants, stonemasons, and musicians) → TMA-History-Rosso
• The Seven Cushions — the common name for the Tribunal's seven arbiters (five nominated by the Five Families plus two neutral seats). The tenure is for life; to resign is to "turn the cushion over" → TMA-Justice

[Economy & Cant]

• AMT (Animal Mafia Token) — the city's official digital currency, introduced AE 33. The Oracle Tower Currency Bureau holds a monopoly on issuance, and the total supply is undisclosed → TMA-Economy-AMT
• Lamp Money — the colloquial term for the protection money a shop pays to a house. It carries the implication that "the lamps of our street are protected by that house" → TMA-Daily-Life
• The Duty Performance — the code-word for a ritualized custom in which, during a police raid, the house side "hands over" its ledgers and a token few members. Who plays the arrested is chosen by lot or by merit → TMA-Police
• The Quasi-Currency of Casino Chips — the phenomenon whereby Oasis Casino chips, being off the city ledger, circulate as a means of payment → TMA-Economy-AMT
• One Owed — the pricing of first-class intelligence. The highest unit of the barter economy, meaning "beyond pricing" → TMA-Economy-AMT
• The Vanished Balance — a complaint of an unaccountable drop in one's balance. The Currency Bureau answers every case as "an operational error." On the rise since AE 119 → TMA-Economy-AMT
• "Fog, Water, Last Train" — the code-word for the three great smuggling routes (Fog Port's fog / Aqua Fin's waterways / Metro Line 13) → TMA-Underworld
• The Jiangshi Dispatch Trade — the Hua-Long Hui's Dao-arts dispatch of late-night labor. Since AE 95, standard infrastructure of the late-night economy → TMA-Timeline / TMA-Economy-AMT
• The Glowshell (shinogi) — a fragment of seashell sealed with luminous paint. The base currency of the Shadow Layer. "The star of the Shadow Layer." Counterfeiting the seal draws a heavier sanction than a severed finger → TMA-Economy-AMT / TMA-Underworld
• "The Erasing" — the trade of making people disappear. Even the underworld is divided over whether a dedicated "eraser" truly exists → TMA-Underworld
• The Three Physicals — salt, batteries, bullets. Quasi-currency in the Shadow Layer as "things that do not rot in the shadows and are always needed in the shadows" → TMA-Economy-AMT / TMA-Underworld
• The Three-Layer Economy — the three-tier structure of the AMT surface economy / the parallel barter economy / the self-contained Shadow-Layer economy. "One city with three wallets" → TMA-Economy-AMT
• The Information Arbitrageur — the trade of exploiting the "rate difference" in information between the Mirror-Moon Pavilion and Shadow-Paw → TMA-Economy-AMT / TMA-Underworld
• The City Ledger — the ledger beneath the tower in which all AMT transactions are recorded. The urban legend that "the ledger is not an account book but a diary" → TMA-Economy-AMT
• The Parallel Barter Economy — the second-tier economy in which rare goods, information, and "debts" function as currency. "The market for what AMT cannot buy" → TMA-Economy-AMT
• The Blank-Paper Dealer — the code-word for the illicit Shadow-Layer traders who claim to "hold" or "shave" memories. No public record has ever confirmed their existence → TMA-Underworld
• The Burrow Bank — the venerable private financial house founded AE 26. Run by a rabbit-lineage clan. Its AE 89 bank run was the trigger of the Burrow Panic → TMA-Economy-AMT
• The Recovery Lottery — the charity gambling the Golden Fist Coalition issued during the great fire of AE 24. The first prize was "no eligible winner" → TMA-History-Goldfist
• The Invisible Spigot — the title of a TMA Times editorial (AE 89) that struck at the undisclosed-total-supply problem of AMT. The most-quoted article in the paper's history → TMA-Economy-AMT / TMA-Media
• The Full-Moon-Night Escort Contract — a credit deal to be "repaid on the next full moon." A specialty of Fog Port → TMA-Economy-AMT
• The Shadow Rate — the AMT-to-Glowshell exchange rate set daily by the money-changers on the Shadow-Layer border stairs. It fluctuates with the intensity of police patrols → TMA-Economy-AMT / TMA-Underworld
• "From a Cup of Tea to a Whole Storehouse" — the code-word for the Mirror-Moon Pavilion's pricing of information → TMA-Economy-AMT

[Faith & Culture]

• The Red-Eyed White Rabbit (the White Rabbit's Ghost) — a ghost tale appearing in the Underground Network. It leads the lost either to the right exit or onto a road from which they never emerge again. The custom of leaving carrots at the mouths of the tunnels → TMA-Underworld / TMA-Religion
• The Animalia Three-Fold Worship — the colloquial term for the layering of multiple faiths: "the Millennium Tree in the morning, the moon at night, Zennin-ji for the funeral" → TMA-Religion
• The Burrow Mother — the earth-mother goddess of the burrowing species. "You are protected in proportion to the number of holes you dig" → TMA-Religion
• "That Child" — a resonant motif in which Kikyō (the clan's lost keepsake = Oracle) and Xiao (a departed friend) mourn different things in the same words → TMA-Lore-Deep
• A Single Plate of Pasta — the Rosso culture of feeding a newcomer first and hearing them out afterward → TMA-History-Rosso
• The Empty Setting (kagezen) — the custom of preparing a meal setting for the dead and those who do not return. It originates in Zennin-ji's segaki rite. The empty settings at a Ninkyou-gumi banquet run to 114 → TMA-Religion / TMA-History-Ninkyou
• The Rite of Ice — the Tundra's internal memorial (from AE 50), inscribing the code names of the war dead onto the Northern Ghost's wall of ice. There is testimony that in one place there is a "name scraped away" → TMA-History-Tundra
• The Oracle Faith (the Church of the All-Seeing) — a new religion deifying Oracle (from the AE 90s). Its doctrine: "to be observed is to be loved." Since AE 119, the doctrinal dispute of the "Silence Problem" → TMA-Religion
• Oracle's Silence — the taboo day of the new moon. Lamps are lowered, and no great decision is made. The underworld avoids big new-moon deals → TMA-Religion / TMA-Lore-Deep
• The Founding Festival — the city festival of the fourth month. A joint rite of root-grafting is held at the Millennium Tree → TMA-Religion
• The Lunar New Year Dragon Dance — the great procession from the Tenryū Gate to Hua-Long Castle (originating AE 13). From AE 100, jiangshi also join the procession → TMA-Religion / TMA-History-Hualong
• The Jiangshi's Bell — the Hua-Long Hui's internal rule (from AE 95) that a bell must always be fastened to a dispatched jiangshi. The sound of bells in the night is part of Animalia's soundscape. There is also the ghost story of "when two bells are heard out of step" → TMA-History-Hualong
• The Tree-Warden (kimori) — the priesthood of the Great Tree faith. It is served, generation after generation, by long-lived species (tortoises, parrots, and the like) → TMA-Religion
• The Green Line / the Red Line — the dual herbivore/carnivore menu system of school lunches. The Red Line is served ten minutes earlier → TMA-Education / TMA-Daily-Life
• The Lunar-Phase Faith — the belief that the waxing and waning of the moon governs power and fortune. The "calendar religion" with the most believers in Animalia → TMA-Religion
• The First Bet — the Goldfist baptism in which a newcomer stakes their entire fortune on a single night's gamble. What is being watched is "the face they make when they lose" → TMA-History-Goldfist
• The Cup Rite — the ritual form of Ninkyou-gumi relationships. Its origin is the "Hundred-Person Cup" of AE 11. To break a cup is to deserve death → TMA-History-Ninkyou
• The Cherry-Blossom Grave-Visit — the observance in which, even mid-war, the whole Ninkyou-gumi lays down their blades to visit graves in cherry-blossom season (originating AE 42) → TMA-History-Ninkyou / TMA-Religion
• The Tide-Reader (shioyomi) — the priesthood of the Lunar-Phase Faith who read fortune from the moon-phase and the tide level. They keep shrines at the foot of the bridges over the waterways → TMA-Religion
• The Investiture — the rite of appointment for the Rose Court Knights. Held in the underground cellar of the Sangue Winery → TMA-History-Rosso
• The Interspecies Olympics — the athletic games held once every four years (first in AE 73, most recent AE 121). The five divisions of running, swimming, flying, digging, and climbing → TMA-Timeline / TMA-Daily-Life
• The Turning of the Hourglass — the Goldfist admonition in which, at every hour, the members stop their hands and look up at the Sand Clock Tower. "Time alone even the house cannot fix" → TMA-History-Goldfist
• The Zennin Sect — the lineage of eastern-style Buddhism with Zennin-ji as its head temple. Its founder was the priest Tetsugen → TMA-Religion
• The Great Tree Faith — the faith that regards the Millennium Tree as "the root of the world." The essence of its doctrine: "the branches may quarrel, but the root is one" → TMA-Religion
• The Silence Problem — the doctrinal dispute within the Oracle Faith over "why, if Lord Oracle sees all, does He not correct our errors?" (from AE 119) → TMA-Religion
• The Moon-Viewing Banquet — the ninth-month banquet at the Mirror-Moon Pavilion. Ostensibly an elegant affair, in reality the great annual information exchange → TMA-History-Ninkyou / TMA-Religion
• The Elder of the Roost — the elder-god of the birds and arboreal species. It takes as its vessel a rotted perch on the topmost level of the Tree Market → TMA-Religion
• The Night Safari — the festival of the nocturnal species on every full moon. It opens with the chorus of the evening-chant → TMA-Lore / TMA-Religion
• The Great Sunday Table — the Rosso rite of solidarity. "Absence means suspicion." Its origin is the soup kitchen of the AE 24 great fire → TMA-History-Rosso
• The Root-Grafting (netsugi) — the rite of passage of the Great Tree faith, in which a strand of a newborn's fur, feather, or scale is placed into the bark of the Millennium Tree → TMA-Religion
• The Balance Festival — the tenth-month ceasefire festival between predator and prey (from AE 52). A symbol of the Accord. Its signature event is the three-legged race → TMA-Timeline / TMA-Daily-Life
• The Hundred-House Hotpot — the great communal dish of Chinatown's food stalls, each contributing an ingredient. An Animalia specialty in which predator and prey gather around the same pot → TMA-History-Animalia
• The Hundred-Person Cup — the origin of the cup rite, exchanged at the raising of the Ninkyou-ikka in AE 11. There were only three cups, passed among a hundred. The two that survive are enshrined at the Yagyō Manor → TMA-History-Ninkyou
• Lady Minasoko — the great fish-goddess who wards off drowning for the aquatic species. Into the stone bridges one throws not a silver coin but a single scale. The scale-flowing rite at the sixth-month "Waterway Opening" → TMA-Religion
• The Three Cups — the cups used in the Hundred-Person Cup. That the whereabouts of the third "must never be spoken" is itself the etiquette → TMA-History-Ninkyou
• The Eye-Bow (mokurei) — the rite in which believers of the Oracle Faith bow toward the surveillance cameras → TMA-Religion
• "Face is life, gratitude repaid double, betrayal cursed to the third generation" — the code of the Hua-Long Hui (inscribed on the wall of the Incense Hall in AE 47). It is properly read together with its rider, "never strike first" (the later-move-wins principle) → TMA-History-Hualong
• The Evening-Chant (yoiyomi) — the prayer in which the nocturnal species "chant" the night's safety in a short melody just after sundown → TMA-Religion
• The Moon-Waiting Society — the neighborhood-level mutual-aid body of the Lunar-Phase Faith. Its membership overlaps almost entirely with the neighborhood associations of the Five Families' turf → TMA-Religion
• The Five Keepsakes — the sentimental items held by the five lieutenants. The mother's brooch (Dante) / the friend's talisman (Xiao) / the government-issue watch (Volkov) / the blade "Night Rain" (Kikyō) / the dented coin (Gossam) → TMA-Lore-Deep

[Media & Publications]

• Red Grapes — the Rosso commemorative opera for the AE 100 Founding Centennial. The "empty seat" among the executive box is a byword → TMA-History-Rosso
• On the Governance of Animalia — the book by the public-administration scholar Harriet Longyear (AE 112). The source of "equilibrium without a constitution" and "the city's growth rings" → TMA-Politics / TMA-History-Animalia
• The Animalopedia — the citizen-edited collaborative encyclopedia that takes the form of the TMA encyclopedia. Maintained by anonymous editors, it has had deletion requests for its self-referential article rejected 13 times running → TMA-Media
• Voce Rossa — a Rosso-affiliated show-business paper. A principal source for the Rosso centennial history, though some note its "excessive beautification" → TMA-History-Rosso
• The Cage Within the Cage — the memoir of former Deputy Inspector M. Badgerlin (AE 117). The source of the "Tower's dogs" and "room on the 17th floor" testimony → TMA-Police
• "The Faceless Government" — the serial by the political reporter Felix Dach. Chasing the Administrative Bureau's "unmanned summit," it was cut off at its eighth installment (AE 104) → TMA-Politics
• Night Tales of the Mirror-Moon Pavilion — a collection of anecdotes surrounding the Mirror-Moon Pavilion. The source of "it's not about profit and loss, it's about the cup" and the like → TMA-History-Ninkyou
• The Vanished Articles — the urban legend of articles that were supposedly published yet can no longer be found in the pages. Their common feature: "they were written about the tower's basement." The White Noise Café has a "wall of vanished articles" → TMA-Media
• Monthly Glitch — the occult monthly founded AE 109. The centennial photographs, mirror-images, and Line 13 are its staple topics. Editor-in-chief: Nocturna Vesper → TMA-Media
• Monthly Moonside — an occult magazine. Every year it runs a feature on "where you dream Oracle's dreams." Its facsimiles of the Waiting Room's graffiti sell high → TMA-History-Animalia / TMA-Underworld
• "Tonight's Number" — the code-word for Family Radio's frequency for that night. It is embedded as a cipher in things like the typos on a food stall's menu → TMA-Media
• "On the Beat Tonight" — Family Radio's long-running program, 45 years on the air. Its protagonist is the seasoned beat-cop "Chief Bronco" → TMA-Police
• The Non-Affiliated Animalia — an anonymous study (AE 116) arguing the subsidiary crews to be "extensions of the Five Families' character" → TMA-Underworld
• "The Nineteenth Dog" — the Masquerade Theater play (premiered AE 118) taking the White Dog Affair as its subject. It set records for protest from police retirees and for sold-out houses at the same time → TMA-Police
• Municipal Broadcasting — the broadcasting of the Oracle Broadcast Tower (from AE 92). "Animalia Today" and the like. The citizens' common verdict: "dull, but accurate" → TMA-Media
• Records of Chinatown — a local history of Chinatown. A principal source for the Hua-Long Hui centennial history → TMA-History-Hualong
• TMA Times — the quality and financial paper founded AE 60. "We write the names of the Five Families, with their titles, accurately." Its financial section is nicknamed "The Ledger" → TMA-Media
• Daily Fang — the evening tabloid founded AE 76. It marks the degree of scandal with fang-marks (one fang to five) → TMA-Media
• "The House's Soliloquy" — the anonymous weekly column of the TMA Times. Its author, "Mister Odds," reviews every event in the city by putting odds on it → TMA-Media
• The Nightfall Academy Bulletin — the research bulletin of the shadow school. It appears frequently as an academic source for Five-Family history and Accord studies → TMA-Education / TMA-History-Rosso
• Tales of the Ninkyou-ikka — a collection of Ninkyou-gumi oral tradition. The source of "the Hundred-Person Cup" and "the Three Cups" → TMA-History-Ninkyou
• The Purge Reconsidered — the book by the historian Werner Hermit (AE 113). It examines the "bias" of the Silent Purge. It has been "under repair" at the municipal library for four years running → TMA-Police
• The Stylistics of the Verdict — the book by the legal scholar Swallow Jay (AE 116). An analysis of the 99.1 percent conviction rate. The publisher went out of business the month after its release → TMA-Justice
• Family Radio — the illegal radio devoted to underworld news, begun AE 60. The frequency changes every night, and the City Police have failed to locate the transmitter for sixty years → TMA-Media
• "A Fifty-Year History of the Sleeper-Tie Contest" — a political history of Seasonal Power Rotation (AE 115). The source of the received view of the Tundra as "the star of winter" → TMA-Politics
• The Midnight Howler — the masked signature personality of Family Radio's late-night hours. A reading of the news that begins with a hoarse-voiced howl → TMA-Media
• The Liberty Ledger — a newspaper of Goldfist-affiliated capital. A principal source for that house's centennial history (with a disclosure of conflict of interest) → TMA-History-Goldfist

[People & Biographies]

• Aurora Rosso — the fourth Donna of the Rosso (AE 103–present). The first female Don in the family's history. A diplomat who chooses the audience over the sword → TMA-History-Rosso
• Argus — the peacock preacher who founded the Oracle Faith. He proclaimed the hundred eye-spots of his tail feathers "the mark of the All-Seeing" → TMA-Religion
• Under — First Seat No. 024 of the Grand Alliance. A white rabbit in a black suit with red eyes. The only one of the founding generation still sighted to this day, "the Guide." Said also to be the master of the "red-eyed white rabbit's ghost" urban legend 〔citation needed〕 → TheMafiaAnimals-Origin-Profiles / Under
• Isobe Genzō — the second boss of the Ninkyou (AE 36–42). The boss who opened the Wharf War. Died in prison during the Silent Purge → TMA-History-Ninkyou
• Izumo Jūzō — the fifth boss of the Ninkyou (AE 102–present). The aged grand-boss, a sworn brother of the previous head. Actual affairs run under Kikyō's okami system → TMA-History-Ninkyou
• Amemiya Sōemon — the fourth boss of the Ninkyou (AE 68–102). The reviver of show-business and the pleasure quarters. He completed the Mirror-Moon Pavilion as an intelligence base → TMA-History-Ninkyou
• Vьyuga (Blizzard) — the second Pakhan of the Tundra (AE 58–79). The codifier of the Three Laws of Ice. He demanded "no recording of his real name" at the signing of the Accord → TMA-History-Tundra
• Vittorio Rosso — the first of the Rosso (AE 9–44). A wine merchant. The founder of the Guild. "Do not ask a hungry man his family name" → TMA-History-Rosso
• Vincenzo Rosso — the younger brother of the first head. The builder of the theater (AE 36). He died shielding the audience in the massacre of AE 47. In the family history, "the father of the curtain" → TMA-History-Rosso
• Werner Hermit — the porcupine historian. With The Purge Reconsidered he set off the controversy over reassessing the Silent Purge → TMA-Police
• Volkov — the wolf lieutenant of the Tundra. A former policeman (a resignee of the White Dog Affair period). A strategist strict about discipline → TMA-Lore / TMA-Police
• Ordo Diggers — the mole local-historian. "The history of this city grows older the deeper you dig, and more watched the higher you climb" → TMA-History-Animalia
• The Glass-Eyed Elder — a blind goat known as the first neutral arbiter of the Tribunal → TMA-Justice
• Carlo Rosso — the second of the Rosso (AE 44–72). He put the Five Oaths in writing and co-drafted the Five-Family Accord → TMA-History-Rosso
• Guan Bailong — the second Dragon Head of the Hua-Long Hui (AE 37–60). The wartime Dragon Head of the Decade of Blood. The establisher of the Three-Office System. He made "the later move wins" a house law → TMA-History-Hualong
• Kikyō — the fox lieutenant of the Ninkyou. Originally the wife of a captain, she rose to lieutenant on her own talent after her husband's death — the okami. She is also active as an AI singer → TMA-Lore / TMA-History-Ninkyou
• Kiryū Tsurumatsu — the third boss of the Ninkyou (AE 42–68). "The Lone Walk of Frost Harbor." A drafter of the Five-Family Accord → TMA-History-Ninkyou
• Granito (Granite) — the third Pakhan of the Tundra (AE 79–107). A long reign that established the frozen-warehouse trade and jamming technology → TMA-History-Tundra
• Grim Mastiff — the 14th Commissioner of the City Police (AE 111–incumbent). Since his inaugural press conference, no reporter has heard his voice — "the Silent Commissioner" → TMA-Police
• Cosimo Rosso — the third of the Rosso (AE 72–103). The head of the "quiet golden age." The balance of art and finance → TMA-History-Rosso
• Gossam — the elephant lieutenant of the Goldfist. The manager of the Oasis Casino and its "largest shareholder." He donates lavishly to orphanages behind the scenes → TMA-Lore / TMA-History-Goldfist
• Cordelia Sterling — the third First Chair of the Goldfist (AE 70–99). The reviver who turned a house of gambling halls into a house of finance. The "Sleepless 72 Hours" of the Burrow Panic → TMA-History-Goldfist
• Hong Tianyou — the first Dragon Head of the Hua-Long Hui (AE 15–37). An apothecary of the Incense Hall. "The martial force of the Hua-Long Hui exists to guard what is within the gate" → TMA-History-Hualong
• Cyrus McCready — the first First Chair of the Goldfist (AE 22–41). The initiator of the Golden Fist Coalition, who pressed the mark of the golden fist onto the blacklist → TMA-History-Goldfist
• Xiao — the panda lieutenant of the Hua-Long Hui. The youngest lieutenant, commanding a jiangshi army with the Dao-arts. The first ever to hold both White Paper Fan and Red Pole → TMA-Lore / TMA-History-Hualong
• Swallow Jay — the jay legal scholar. Known for the assessment that "the answer is decided from the start, and the courtroom is merely writing out a fair copy" → TMA-Justice
• Sever (the North) / Boris Ledov — the first Pakhan of the Tundra. A mercenary-turned-boss who sank his real name into the icy sea in AE 40, becoming the first instance of the Renaming Rite → TMA-History-Tundra
• Dante — the lion lieutenant (caporegime) of the Rosso. Taken in young, he climbed to lieutenant. He keeps the Rose Court Knights under his direct command → TMA-Lore / TMA-History-Rosso
• The Priest Tetsugen — the founder of Zennin-ji. Said to have been a monk risen from the harbor labor → TMA-Religion
• Narumi Tatsugorō — the first boss of the Ninkyou (AE 11–36). A labor-gang foreman. The master of the "Hundred-Person Cup" → TMA-History-Ninkyou
• Nocturna Vesper — the editor-in-chief of Monthly Glitch (an owl, a pen name). "We do not write lies. We only write truths that cannot be corroborated" → TMA-Media
• Burton "Lucky" Wheeler — the second First Chair of the Goldfist (AE 41–70). The neutral merchant of the Decade of Blood. The codifier of the Three Stakes → TMA-History-Goldfist
• Harriet Longyear — the owl public-administration scholar. The proponent of "equilibrium without a constitution" → TMA-Politics
• Felix Dach — the badger political reporter. He won the TMA Times reporting prize for the serial "The Faceless Government." The serial was cut off → TMA-Politics
• Belyi (the White) — the current Pakhan of the Tundra (from AE 107). Both origin and species unknown. A persistent theory holds it to be a "post-code" held by several people → TMA-History-Tundra
• Mei Xiulan — the third Dragon Head of the Hua-Long Hui (AE 60–94). The first female Dragon Head in the Hui's history. She made the Starfrost Market permanent — "the reviver of commerce" → TMA-History-Hualong
• Mister Odds — the anonymous author of the TMA Times column "The House's Soliloquy." "A story whose odds have shortened has already begun to happen" → TMA-Media
• Morgan Whitlock — the fourth First Chair of the Goldfist (AE 99–present). A conciliator. The true center of gravity is said to be Gossam → TMA-History-Goldfist
• Night Rain (Yosame) — the blade of Kikyō's late husband. A keepsake of hers → TMA-Lore-Deep
• Lei Zhenhai — the fourth Dragon Head of the Hua-Long Hui (AE 94–present). A former Red Pole and a man of force, yet a realist who keeps his balance with the Council of Elders → TMA-History-Hualong
• Leon / Jumbo / Travis / Lea / Joseph — a cluster of TMA lieutenant trivia (loves vegetables / liquor wholesaler / scar over the left eye / a spare pair of glasses / can't stand shaved ice) → TMA-Lore
• Burrower_01 — the most senior anonymous editor of the Animalopedia (first edit said to be AE 84) → TMA-Media

[Slang & Turns of Phrase]

• "Don't wear a face older than the cobblestones" — Vecchio's rebuke to newcomers who put on the airs of old hands → TMA-History-Animalia
• "One cage, two doors" — a scribble from an early judicial treatise on the Dual Judiciary (treated as an invalid source) → TMA-Justice
• "The crossroads where no one shoots" — the neutral custom of Neon Crossroads (arisen spontaneously AE 45) → TMA-Timeline / TMA-History-Animalia
• "Oracle is watching you" — the set phrase of child-rearing discipline → TMA-Daily-Life
• The Sand Court — the underworld's colloquial name for the Tribunal → TMA-Justice
• "The caged dog bares its teeth only at the dog with no master" — a verdict on the City Police, which is merciless only toward the independent organizations → TMA-Police
• "Civilians to the court, tradesmen to the Tribunal" — the citizens' turn of phrase for the division of the Dual Judiciary → TMA-Justice
• "The fog does not choose its cargo" — the Fog Port common sense that only an amateur asks what is being carried → TMA-History-Animalia
• To Go Dark — the verb meaning excommunication in the Shadow Layer. The lamps recede from around the one who broke the code → TMA-Underworld
• "On the ice, everyone slides at the same speed" — the Frost Harbor manner that asks nothing of one's origins → TMA-History-Animalia
• "The landlord of this city never comes to collect the rent" — a Shadow-Layer tavern turn of phrase. The city's sense that "no one is running it" → TMA-Politics
• "Return the cup before it dries" — meaning repay a kindness at once. A Moonview Quarter saying → TMA-History-Animalia
• "The money of the Five Families passes through the Goldfist's ledger" — the stock phrase summarizing the financial order after the Burrow Panic → TMA-Economy-AMT / TMA-History-Goldfist
• "Below" — the aboveground residents' blanket term for the two subterranean layers (the Shadow Layer and the Catacombs) → TMA-Underworld
• "Don't push the 17th-floor button" — a ghost-story-tinged joke within the police force, connected with the Statistics Adjustment Section (the 17th floor) → TMA-Police
• "Don't move big money on the new moon" — the superstition that a high-value settlement on the new moon "is sure to be found out by someone" → TMA-Economy-AMT
• "The canary in the coal mine" — the way of viewing Broken Burrow's day-labor market as a leading indicator of the urban economy → TMA-Economy-AMT
• "To enter the Tower" — to take office in the Oracle Tower Administrative Bureau. A byword for a citizen's rise in the world → TMA-Education
• The Tower's Dogs — the citizens' common name for the Animalia City Police → TMA-Police
• "Under the tower, carry an umbrella" — a Central District turn of phrase counseling readiness not against rain but against watching eyes → TMA-History-Animalia
• "What you pick up in the east, return to the east" — the superstition that carrying off goods from the Glitch Zone brings a curse → TMA-History-Animalia
• "The Ebb" — the name for the morning crush at the stations, as the nocturnal species coming off night shift pass the diurnal species heading to work → TMA-Daily-Life
• "Sunlit talk in the sunlight" — the Savanna Square code against bringing shady business in → TMA-History-Animalia
• "Never refuse a light" — the first code of Broken Burrow: if asked to share the fire of one's hearth, never refuse → TMA-History-Animalia
• "The Two Animalias" — the name of the social problem referring to the divide between the aboveground and the Shadow Layer (first debated AE 78) → TMA-Timeline / TMA-Underworld
• "Every time winter comes, only that house wakes" — one of the oldest of the winter greetings referring to the Tundra → TMA-History-Tundra
• "The nerve to fold is part of the bet, too" — a catchphrase of the Gilt Mile → TMA-History-Animalia
• "A full-moon contract cannot be broken" — the maxim behind the concentration of marriages, cup rites, and large deals on the full moon → TMA-Religion / TMA-Lore-Deep
• "The three-shift city" — Animalia's structure, in which the living hours of the diurnal, nocturnal, and crepuscular take their turns → TMA-Daily-Life
• "Borrow the light; don't look into the fire" — the downtown wisdom of not stepping into what goes on inside an office → TMA-Daily-Life
• "Don't count the dragon's whiskers" — the Chinatown admonition against prying into the finances of the powerful → TMA-History-Animalia