Against All Things Ending

by Stephen R. Donaldson

  Gay: a Winhome of the Ramen

  ghohritsar: a Waynhim

  ghramin: a Waynhim

  Giantclave: Giantish conference

  Giantfriend: title given first to Damelon, later to Thomas Covenant and then Linden Avery

  Giants: the Unhomed, ancient friends of the Lords; a seafaring people of the Earth

  Giantship: a stone sailing vessel made by Giants; dromond

  Giantway: path made by Giants

  Giant Woods: a forest of the Land

  Gibbon: the na-Mhoram; leader of the Clave

  Gilden: a maple-like tree with golden leaves

  Gildenlode: a power-wood formed from the Gilden trees

  Glimmermere: a lake on the plateau above Revelstone

  Gorak Krembal: Hotash Slay, a defense around Foul’s Creche

  Gossamer Glowlimn: a Giant; the First of the Search

  Grace: a Cord of the Ramen

  Graveler: one who uses stone to wield the Sunbane

  graveling: fire-stones, made to glow and emit heat by stone-lore

  Gravelingas: a master of rhadhamaerl stone-lore

  Gravin Threndor: Mount Thunder

  Great Desert, the: a region of the Earth; home of the Bhrathair and the Sandgorgons

  Great One: title given to Caerroil Wildwood by the Mahdoubt

  Great Swamp, the: Lifeswallower; a region of the Land

  Greshas Slant: a region in the Center Plains

  Grey Desert, the: a region south of the Land

  Grey River, the: a river of the Land

  Grey Slayer: plains name for Lord Foul

  Greywightswath: a region north of the Soulsease River

  griffin: lion-like beast with wings

  Grim, the: (also the na-Mhoram’s Grim) a destructive storm sent by the Clave

  Grimmand Honninscrave: a Giant; Master of Starfare’s Gem; brother of Seadreamer

  Grimmerdhore: a forest of the Land

  Guard, the: hustin; soldiers serving the gaddhi

  Guardian of the One Tree, the: mystic figure warding the approach to the One Tree; formerly ak-Haru Kenaustin Ardenol; now Brinn of the Haruchai

  Haft: commander of an Eoward

  Halewhole Bluntfist: a Giant; one of the Swordmainnir

  Halfhand: title given to Thomas Covenant and to Berek

  Hall of Gifts, the: large chamber in Revelstone devoted to the artworks of the Land

  Hamako: sole survivor of the destruction of During Stonedown

  Hami: a Manethrall of the Ramen

  Hand: a rank in Berek Halfhand’s army; aide to Berek

  Handir: a Haruchai leader; the Voice of the Masters

  Harad: one of the Seven Words

  Harbor Captain: chief official of the port of Bhrathairealm

  Harn: one of the Haruchai; protector of Hollian

  Harrow, the: one of the Insequent

  Haruchai: a warrior people from the Westron Mountains

  Healer: a physician

  Heart of Thunder: Kiril Threndor, a cave of power in Mount Thunder

  Hearthcoal: a Giant; cook of Starfare’s Gem; wife of Seasauce

  Hearthrall of Lord’s Keep: a steward responsible for light, warmth, and hospitality

  Heartthew: a title given to Berek Halfhand

  heartwood chamber: meeting-place of a Woodhelven, within a tree

  Heer: leader of a Woodhelven

  Heft Galewrath: a Giant; Storesmaster of Starfare’s Gem

  Herem: a Raver, Kinslaughterer, turiya

  Hergrom: one of the Haruchai

  High God: title given to the lurker of the Sarangrave by the Feroce

  High Lord: leader of the Council of Lords

  High Lord’s Furl: banner of the High Lord

  High Wood: lomillialor; offspring of the One Tree

  Hile Troy: a man formerly from Covenant’s world; Warmark of High Lord Elena’s Warward

  Hiltmark: second-in-command of the Warward

  Hirebrand: a master of lillianrill wood-lore

  Hoerkin: a Warhaft

  Hollian: daughter of Amith; eh-Brand of Crystal Stonedown; companion of Thomas Covenant and Linden Avery

  Home: original homeland of the Giants

  Horizonscan: lookout atop the midmast of a Giantship

  Horrim Carabal: name given to the lurker of the Sarangrave

  Horse, the: human soldiery of the gaddhi

  horserite: a gathering of Ranyhyn in which they drink mind-blending waters in order to share visions, prophecies, and purpose

  Hotash Slay: Gorak Krembal, a flow of lava protecting Foul’s Creche

  Hower: a Bloodguard, assigned to Lord Loerya

  Hrama: a Ranyhyn stallion; mount of Anele

  Humbled, the: three Haruchai maimed to resemble Thomas Covenant in order to remind the Masters of their limitations

  Hurn: a Cord of the Ramen

  hurtloam: a healing mud

  Huryn: a Ranyhyn; mount of Terrel

  husta/hustin: partly human soldiers bred by Kasreyn to be the gaddhi’s Guard

  Hyn: a Ranyhyn mare; mount of Linden Avery

  Hynaril: a Ranyhyn; mount of Tamarantha and then Mhoram

  Hynyn: a Ranyhyn stallion; mount of Stave

  Hyrim: a Lord, son of Hoole

  Illearth Stone, the: powerful bane long buried under Mount Thunder

  Illender: title given to Thomas Covenant

  Imoiran Tomal-mate: a Stonedownor

  Inbull: a Warhaft in Berek Halfhand’s army; commander of the tenth Eoman, second Eoward

  Infelice: reigning leader of the Elohim

  Insequent, the: a mysterious people living far to the west of the Land

  Interdict, the: reference to the power of the Colossus of the Fall to prevent Ravers from entering the Upper Land

  Irin: a warrior of the Third Eoman of the Warward

  Ironhand, the: title given to the leader of the Swordmainnir

  Isle of the One Tree, the: location of the One Tree

  Jain: a Manethrall of the Ramen

  Jass: a Haruchai; a Master of the Land

  Jehannum: a Raver, Fleshharrower, moksha

  Jerrick: a Demimage of Vidik Amar, in part responsible for the creation of quellvisks

  Jevin: a healer in Berek Halfhand’s army

  jheherrin: soft ones, misshapen by-products of Lord Foul’s making

  Jous: a man of Mithil Stonedown, son of Prassan, father of Nassic; inheritor of an Unfettered One’s mission to remember the Halfhand

  Kalina: a woman of Mithil Stonedown; wife of Nassic, mother of Sunder

  Kam: a Manethrall of the Ramen

  Karnis: a Heer of First Woodhelven

  Kasreyn of the Gyre: a thaumaturge; the gaddhi’s Kemper (advisor) in Bhrathairealm

  Kastenessen: one of the Elohim; former Appointed

  Keep of the na-Mhoram, the: Revelstone

  Keeper: a Ramen rank, one of those unsuited to the rigors of being a Cord or a Manethrall

  Kelenbhrabanal: Father of Horses in Ranyhyn legends

  Kemper, the: chief advisor of the gaddhi; Kasreyn

  Kemper’s Pitch: highest level of the Sandhold

  Kenaustin Ardenol: a figure of Haruchai legend; former Guardian of the One Tree; true name of the Theomach

  Kevin Landwaster: son of Loric Vilesilencer; last High Lord of the Old Lords

  Kevin’s Dirt: smog-like pall covering the Upper Land; it blocks health-sense, making itself invisible from below

  Kevin’s Lore: knowledge of power left hidden by Kevin in the Seven Wards

  Kevin’s Watch: mountain lookout near Mithil Stonedown

  Khabaal: one of the Seven Words

  Khelen: a Ranyhyn stallion; mount of Jeremiah

  Kinslaughterer: a Giant-Raver, Herem, turiya

  Kiril Threndor: chamber of power deep under Mount Thunder; Heart of Thunder

  Koral: a Bloodguard, assigned to Lord Amatin

  Korik: a Bloodguard

  Krenwill: a scout in Berek Halfha
nd’s army

  kresh: savage giant yellow wolves

  krill, the: knife of power forged by High Lord Loric; awakened to power by Thomas Covenant

  Kurash Plenethor: region of the Land formally named Stricken Stone, now called Trothgard

  Kurash Qwellinir: the Shattered Hills, region of the Lower Land protecting Foul’s Creche

  Lake Pelluce: a lake in Andelainscion

  Lal: a Cord of the Ramen

  Land, the: generally area found on the map; a focal region of the Earth where Earthpower is uniquely accessible

  Landsdrop: great cliff separating the Upper and Lower Lands

  Landsverge Stonedown: a village of the Land

  Landwaster: title given to High Lord Kevin

  Latebirth: a Giant; one of the Swordmainnir

  Law, the: the natural order

  Law of Death, the: the natural order which separates the living from the dead

  Law of Life, the: the natural order which separates the dead from the living

  Law-Breaker: title given to both High Lord Elena and Caer-Caveral

  Lax Blunderfoot: a name chosen by Latebirth in self-castigation

  Lena: a Stonedownor, daughter of Atiaran, mother of Elena

  lianar: wood of power used by an eh-Brand

  Liand: a man of Mithil Stonedown, son of Fostil; companion of Linden Avery

  Lifeswallower: the Great Swamp

  lillianrill: wood-lore; masters of wood-lore

  Lithe: a Manethrall of the Ramen

  Llaura: a Heer of Soaring Woodhelven

  Loerya: a Lord, wife of Trevor

  lomillialor: High Wood; a wood of power

  Longwrath: a Giant; Swordmainnir name for Exalt Widenedworld

  Lord: one who has mastered both the Sword and the Staff aspects of Kevin’s Lore

  Lord-Fatherer: title given to Berek Halfhand

  Lord Foul: the enemy of the Land; the Despiser

  “Lord Mhoram’s Victory”: a painting by Ahanna

  Lord of Wickedness: a-Jeroth

  Lord’s-fire: staff-fire used by the Lords

  Lord’s Keep: Revelstone

  Lords, the: the primary protectors of the Land

  loremaster: a leader of ur-viles

  Loresraat: Trothgard school at Revelwood where Kevin’s Lore is studied

  Lorewarden: a teacher in the Loresraat

  loreworks: Demondim power-laboratory

  Loric Vilesilencer: a High Lord; son of Damelon Giantfriend

  lor-liarill: Gildenlode

  Lost, the: Giantish name for the Unhomed

  Lost Deep, the: a loreworks; breeding pit/laboratory under Mount Thunder where Demondim, Waynhim, and ur-viles were created

  Lostson: a Giant; later name for Exalt Widenedworld

  Lower Land, the: region of the Land east of Landsdrop

  lucubrium: laboratory of a thaumaturge

  lurker of the Sarangrave, the: monster inhabiting the Great Swamp

  Magister, the: former Forestal of Andelain

  Mahdoubt, the: a servant of Revelstone; one of the Insequent

  Mahrtiir: a Manethrall of the Ramen; companion of Linden Avery

  maidan: open land around Elemesnedene

  Maker, the: jheherrin name for Lord Foul

  Maker-place: jheherrin name for Foul’s Creche

  Malliner: Woodhelvennin Heer, son of Veinnin

  Mane: Ramen reference to a Ranyhyn

  Maneing: Ramen ceremony of becoming a Manethrall

  Manethrall: highest Ramen rank

  Manhome: main dwelling place of the Ramen in the Plains of Ra

  Marid: a man of Mithil Stonedown; Sunbane victim

  Marny: a Ranyhyn; mount of Tuvor

  marrowmeld: bone-sculpting; anundivian yajña

  Master: commander of a Giantship

  Master, the: Clave-name for Lord Foul

  master-rukh, the: iron triangle at Revelstone which feeds and reads other rukhs

  Masters of the Land, the: Haruchai who have claimed responsibility for protecting the Land from Corruption

  Mehryl: a Ranyhyn; mount of Hile Troy

  Melenkurion: one of the Seven Words

  Melenkurion Skyweir: a cleft peak in the Westron Mountains

  Memla: a Rider of the Clave; one of the na-Mhoram-in

  mere-son: name or title given to Esmer

  merewives: the Dancers of the Sea

  metheglin: a beverage; mead

  Mhoram: a Lord, later high Lord; son of Variol

  Mhornym: a Ranyhyn stallion; mount of Clyme

  Mill: one of the Seven Words

  Minas: one of the Seven Words

  mirkfruit: papaya-like fruit with narcoleptic pulp

  Mishio Massima: the Ardent’s mount

  Mistweave: a Giant

  Mithil River: a river of the Land

  Mithil Stonedown: a village in the South Plains

  Mithil’s Plunge, the: waterfall at the head of the Mithil valley

  Moire Squareset: a Giant; one of the Swordmainnir; killed in battle by the skurj

  moksha: a Raver, Jehannum, Fleshharrower

  Morin: First Mark of the Bloodguard; commander in original Haruchai army

  Morinmoss: a forest of the Land

  Morninglight: one of the Elohim

  Morril: a Bloodguard, assigned to Lord Callindrill

  Mount Thunder: a peak at the center of Landsdrop

  Muirwin Delenoth: resting place of abhorrence; graveyard of quellvisks

  Murrin: a Stonedownor, mate of Odona

  Myrha: a Ranyhyn; mount of High Lord Elena

  na-Mhoram, the: leader of the Clave

  na-Mhoram-cro: lowest rank of the Clave

  na-Mhoram-in: highest rank of the Clave below the na-Mhoram

  na-Mhoram-wist: middle rank of the Clave

  Naharahn: a Ranyhyn mare; mount of Pahni

  Narunal: a Ranyhyn stallion; mount of Mahrtiir

  Nassic: father of Sunder, son of Jous; inheritor of an Unfettered One’s mission to remember the Halfhand

  Naybahn: a Ranyhyn; mount of Branl

  Nelbrin: son of Sunder, “heart’s child”

  Nicor, the: great sea-monsters; said to be offspring of the Worm of the World’s End

  Nom: a Sandgorgon

  North Plains, the: a region of the Land

  Northron Climbs, the: a region of the Land

  Oath of Peace, the: oath by the people of the Land against needless violence

  Odona: a Stonedownor, mate of Murrin

  Offin: a former na-Mhoram

  Old Lords, the: Lords prior to the Ritual of Desecration

  Omournil: Woodhelvennin Heer, daughter of Mournil

  One Forest, the: ancient forest covering most of the Land

  One Tree, the: mystic tree from which the Staff of Law was made

  Onyx Stonemage: a Giant; one of the Swordmainnir

  orcrest: a stone of power; Sunstone

  Osondrea: a Lord, daughter of Sondrea; later high Lord

  Padrias: Woodhelvennin Heer, son of Mill

  Pahni: a Cord of the Ramen, cousin of Sahah; companion of Linden Avery

  Palla: a healer in Berek Halfhand’s army

  Peak of the Fire-Lions, the: Mount Thunder, Gravin Threndor

  Pietten: Woodhelvennin child damaged by Lord Foul’s minions, son of Soranal

  pitchbrew: a beverage combining diamondraught and vitrim, conceived by Pitchwife

  Pitchwife: a Giant; member of the Search; husband of the First of the Search

  Plains of Ra, the: a region of the Land

  Porib: a Bloodguard

  Power of Command, the: Seventh Ward of Kevin’s Lore

  Pren: a Bloodguard

  Prothall: High Lord, son of Dwillian

  Prover of Life: title given to Thomas Covenant

  Puhl: a Cord of the Ramen

  Pure One, the: redemptive figure of jheherrin legend

  Quaan: Warhaft of the Third Eoman of the Warward; later Hiltmark,
then Warmark

  quellvisk: a kind of monster, now apparently extinct

  Quern Ehstrel: true name of the Mahdoubt

  Quest for the Staff of Law, the: quest to recover the Staff of Law from Drool Rockworm

  Questsimoon, the: the Roveheartswind; a steady, favorable wind, perhaps seasonal

  Quilla: a Heer of First Woodhelven

  Quirrel: a Stonedownor, companion of Triock

  Ramen: people who serve the Ranyhyn

  Rant Absolain: the gaddhi

  Ranyhyn: the great horses of the Plains of Ra

  Ravers: Lord Foul’s three ancient servants

  Raw, the: fjord into the demesne of the Elohim

  Rawedge Rim, the: mountains around Elemesnedene

  Reader: a member of the Clave who tends and uses the master-rukh

  Rede, the: knowledge of history and survival promulgated by the Clave

  Revelstone: Lord’s Keep; mountain city formed by Giants

  Revelwood: seat of the Loresraat; tree city grown by Lords

  rhadhamaerl: stone-lore; masters of stone-lore

  rhee: a Ramen food, a thick mush

  Rhohm: a Ranyhyn stallion; mount of Liand

  rhysh: a community of Waynhim; “stead”

  rhyshyshim: a gathering of rhysh; a place in which such gathering occurs

  Riddenstretch: a region north of the Soulsease River

  Rider: a member of the Clave

  Ridjeck Thome: Foul’s Creche, the Despiser’s home

  rillinlure: healing wood dust

  Rime Coldspray: a Giant; the Ironhand of the Swordmainnir

  Ringthane: Ramen name for Thomas Covenant, then Linden Avery

  ring-wielder: Elohim term of reference for Thomas Covenant

  Rire Grist: a Caitiffin of the gaddhi’s Horse

  Rites of Unfettering: the ceremony of becoming Unfettered

  Ritual of Desecration, the: act of despair by which High Lord Kevin destroyed the Old Lords and ruined most of the Land

  Rivenrock: deep cleft splitting Melenkurion Skyweir and its plateau; there the Black River enters Garroting Deep

  River Landrider, the: a river of the Land, partial border of the Plains of Ra

  Riversward: a region north of the Soulsease River

  Rockbrother: Swordmainnir name for Stave

  Rockbrother, Rocksister: terms of affection between humans and Giants

  rocklight: light emitted by glowing stone

  roge Befylam: Cavewight-form of the jheherrin

  Rohnhyn: a Ranyhyn; mount of Bhapa after Whrany’s death

  Roveheartswind, the: the Questsimoon

  Rue: a Manethrall of the Ramen, formerly named Gay

  Ruel: a Bloodguard, assigned to Hile Troy

  Ruinwash, the: name of the River Landrider on the Lower Land