> This is verging very close to being off-topic and
> non-Gloranthan, but not quite.
If you want to use this vocabulary to describe Gloranthan things in the future with any chance of anyone understanding what you're saying, definitions are essential. Especially when your meanings differ significantly from how we'd use the words in everyday life.
> Everything with discrete (material or immaterial)
> existence is a _being_ ; everything with its own
> soul, essence, or spirit is an _entity_.
Right.... you know, this list needs a permanent glossary somewhere. That's a great definition, with good examples (snipped), and a useful distinction to make.
And it also means that almost anything I'd normally refer to as an entity (I design databases for a living) is, in your terms, a being: probably. "Department" does not have a soul, essence, or spirit, but it does have discrete existence. I can apply a primary key to it. "Employee" would be an entity (assuming you accept the existence of RW souls etc, but then if not, the distinction is meaningless anyway.)
Shifting terms slightly in the direction of the Heortlings, "clan" would be a being, the clan wyter would be an entity, and each member of the clan would also be an entity. "sword" - being (usually). Am I on the right lines?
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