Vale-Lore

First Appearance and Context

• Identified in a standard reference entry as the umbrella for martial practice and the study of strategy and war, with usage marked specifically for New Orth and tied to the Ringing Vale tradition.
• In a hierarch’s admonition about a young fraa “practicing his vlor on local runagates,” the term is used for concrete, small‑scale application of training.

Concept and Description

Vale‑Lore—commonly shortened to “vlor”—is an omnibus term in New Orth covering armed and unarmed martial arts alongside the study of military history, strategy, and tactics. Within the mathic world it is strongly associated with the avout of the Ringing Vale, where a math founded in A.R. 17 has long specialized in these disciplines.

• Scope: armed and unarmed practice; military history; strategy; tactics.
• Register: defined and labeled in New Orth; widely understood across maths via shared usage.

Use in Current Discourse

• In everyday speech, especially in extramuros settings and in Fluccish, the shortened form “vlor” is frequent and tends to emphasize the martial‑arts side of the term over its more academic aspects.
• Fraa Lio tries a few “Vale-lore moves” while adjusting to extramuros clothing; Fraa Erasmas remarks that he “knows a little vlor” when contemplating possible confrontation—treating vlor as practical self‑defense (as inferred from context).
• Phrases like “practice your vlor” can refer to drills or real‑world scrapping, depending on context.

Related Concepts and Affiliations

• Strong association with the avout community of the Ringing Vale, whose focus and teaching have made the term a byword for that specialty.
• Period label: defined in New Orth; the clipped form “vlor” appears in both Orth and Fluccish usage.

Current Status

Actively used within maths as a practical and scholarly frame for martial disciplines, and recognized extramuros as a popular entertainment label and academy style.