se-de-li · W208

sedeli · rogue / stealth agent · ✅

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First use	DND-004, D&D Classes (S653): la-se-de-li se-de

Composition

se (perception/sense) + de (decrease/reduction) + li (social agent). Head: li (agent-type). Modifier: se-de (perception-decrease) = one who reduces their own perceptibility. Right-branching: se-(de-li) = perception-kind-of-decrease-person. Key distinction from si-de (W098, misinformation = signal-decrease): se-de is evasion of detection (reducing others' ability to perceive you); si-de is degradation of the signal itself.

Notes

W207. First attested DND-004 (S653). D&D Classes batch. The rogue's defining activity: making themselves unperceptible. Contrast si-de (W098, misinformation): si-de degrades the signal; se-de evades the detector. A rogue who deceives (disinformation tactics) uses si-de; a rogue who hides uses se-de. se-de-li collapses both rogue subtypes (assassin/thief) into the stealth frame, as hiding is the base class feature. Cross-class: distinct from zo-ki-li (W212, ranger) who also moves through the world unseen — the ranger's defining compound is motion through living environments, not perception-evasion.

Related

se (primitive: perception/sense), de (primitive: decrease), li (primitive: social agent), si-de (W098: misinformation — signal-decrease, important contrast), zo-ki-li (W212: ranger — motion in living world, different approach to unseen movement)

In the corpus

1 attestation.

S#	Tonesu
S653	la-se-de-li se-de A rogue evades detection.
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