ascians

"It was destroyed long ago by the weapons of the Ascians," I told her.

If you don't wake to your business soon, Petronax, you'll be north fighting the Ascians."

It is shown that intelligent Ascians are very well able to express, by means of approved sentences only, meanings that exceed those of the quoted sources.

In order to prevent the Ascians from ever developing critical thought (and subsequently inciting revolts), the language is limited as to make it impossible to express it.

All the while Maxellindis and me were together you were Autarch, but mostly they said you were off fighting the Ascians.

People said their marrying was good--she could stay in the House Absolute and take care of the Commonwealth while he took care of the Ascians."

He adds that among the Ascians, the lilim are real-females born with the ability to reproduce asexually and potentially to overrun the world with their kind.

There were merchants who had tried to make rich profits on supplies needed by the army, camp followers who had spied for the Ascians, and a sprinkling of sordid civil criminals.

Although Ascian is their mother tongue, adult Ascians don't understand plain Ascian sentences, unless they are direct quotations from governmental propaganda materials (called Correct Thought).

So did Thrax; the Pelerines, so far as I had been able to discover, wandered somewhere among their peaks and chasms, nursing the wounded of the endless war against the Ascians.

Those wide, old-fashioned mantles originated with shepherds (who wear them still), and were passed from them to the military in the days when the fighting with the Ascians took place here in the cool south.

And a hundred more besides: Ascians, tall Idas, and grim-mouthed Casdoe with little Severian in her arms; Guasacht and Erblon with our green battle flag.

The language is spoken by the inhabitants of the "northern continents" of the future earth, the Ascians, who are enslaved by their masters (the Group of Seventeen) in a way much like the people of Oceania in George Orwell's book 1984.