SIEF MACATHAN, JUNIOR—firstborn son of Jessamy and Sief, dead at one week of age.
SIEF MACATHAN, LORD—member of King Donal’s council of state and also the Camberian Council.
SIEFFANY MACATHAN DE COURCY—eldest daughter of Jessamy and Sief MacAthan, wife of Aurélien de Courcy.
SÍLE, QUEEN—second wife to King Malcolm Haldane, mother of Richard.
SILKE ANNE ELIZABETH ROISIAN HALDANE, PRINCESS—second daughter of Donal King of Gwynedd and Queen Richeldis.
SOBBON VON HORTHY, PRINCE—sovereign Prince of Thalia and Hort of Orsal.
SOFIANA VASTOUNI, PRINCESS—elder daughter of Prince Mikhail of Andelon and Princess Ysabeau.
STASHA, PRINCESS—wife of Prince Khoren Vastouni of Andelon.
*STEVANA DE CORWYN, LADY—deceased heiress of Corwyn, granddaughter of Stiofan Duke of Corwyn; second wife of Keryell Earl of Lendour, mother of Alyce, Vera, Ahern, and Marie.
*STIOFAN DE CORWYN, DUKE—great grandfather of Alyce de Corwyn.
*TAYCE FURSTÁNA, LADY—first cousin of Festil I King of Gwynedd, wife of Lord Richard du Joux; their son was Dominic du Joux, first Duke of Corwyn.
THOMAS CARDIEL—younger brother of Alinor.
TIARNÁN MACRAE, SIR—an aide to King Donal.
TIPHANE, LADY—a lady-in-waiting to Queen Richeldis.
TREVOR UDAUT—a squire in 1090, just raised from page at that Twelfth Night.
URIEN, KING—Haldane monarch who died at Killingford.
*URRACCA, PRINCESS—consort of the last sovereign Prince of Meara, mother of twin sisters Roisian and Annalind and also of Magrette.
URSIC, DUKE—Duke of Claibourne.
VERA LAURELA (DE CORWYN HOWARD—younger twin sister of Alyce, but raised by and believed to be the daughter of Lord Orban Howard and Lady Laurela.
VIVIENNE DE JORDANET, LADY—member of the Camberian Council.
WILCE MELANDRY, SIR—nephew of Iolo, sheriff of Ratharkin.
WILLIAM MACCARTNEY, ARCHBISHOP—Archbishop of Rhemuth.
XENIA NUALA JARONI SWYNBETH, PRINCESS—first daughter and third child of Donal King of Gwynedd and Richeldis.
*YSABEAU, PRINCESS—late wife of Prince Mikhail of Andelon, mother of Sofiana and Michendra.
ZOË BRONWYN MORGAN—a student at Arc-en-Ciel, eldest daughter of Sir Kenneth Morgan.
*denotes a character is already deceased when first mentioned.
APPENDIX II
Index of Places
ARC-EN-CIEL, CONVENT OF NOTRE DAME D’—royal convent and school just outside Rhemuth.
ARDEVALA—a holding of Michon de Courcy.
ARKELLA—manor of Sir Evan Sullivan, north of Ratharkin; location of a Portal.
ARX FIDEI SEMINARY—one of the principal seminaries in Gwynedd, north of Rhemuth.
BELDOUR—capital city of Torenth.
BREMAGNE—kingdom across the Southern Sea from Gwynedd.
CAERIESSE—legendary land that sank beneath the sea.
CARTHANELLE—royal manor north of Nyford, summer seat of the Dukes of Carthmoor.
CARTHMOOR—holding of Prince Richard Duke of Carthmoor.
CASSAN—duchy in northwest Gwynedd.
CASTEL DEARG—Jared McLain’s seat in Kierney.
CASTLE CYNFYN—seat of the Earl of Lendour, in the town of Cynfyn.
CASTLE RUNDEL—an hour’s ride from Culdi.
COAMER MOUNTAINS—mountain range marking part of the border between Gwynedd and Torenth.
CONCARADINE—free port on the River Eirian.
COROTH—capital of Corwyn.
CORWYN—ancient duchy in southeast Gwynedd, seat of the Deryni dukes of Corwyn.
CÙILTEINE—marcher town in the southwest of Gwynedd.
CYNFYN—capital of Lendour, and Keryell’s seat.
DESSE—northernmost navigable point on the River Eirian, several hours’ ride south of Rhemuth.
DHASSA—free holy city in the Lendour Mountains.
DJELLARDA—capital of the princely state of Andelon.
EASTMARCH—county in northeast Gwynedd.
FESSY—village in Bremagne, site of an apparition seen near an ancient holy well, where the Ordre de Notre Dame d’Arc-en-Ciel began.
GWYNEDD—principal kingdom of the Eleven Kingdoms, seat of the Haldane kings.
HOWICCE—kingdom linked with the Kingdom of Llannedd, southwest of Gwynedd.
JÁCA—sovereign principality, one of the Forcinn States.
JENADÛR—Sé Trelawney’s family seat.
KHELDISH RIDING—portion of the old Principality of Kheldour.
KHELDOUR—ancient principality in northern Gwynedd.
KIERNEY—earldom in northwest of Gwynedd, a secondary holding of the Dukes of Cassan.
KILLINGFORD—site of a decisive battle in the great Gwynedd-Torenth War of 1025.
KILTUIN—small river-port town in Corwyn, north of Coroth.
KINDALOO—a village north of Ratharkin and Arkella, in Meara.
LENDOUR—earldom north of Corwyn.
LLANNEDD—Kingdom linked with the Kingdom of Howicce, southwest of Gwynedd.
MARLEY—earldom in northeast Gwynedd.
MEARA—formerly independent principality west of Gwynedd, now a province of Gwynedd.
MORGANHALL—Sir Kenneth Morgan’s estate.
NUR HALLAJ—sovereign principality adjacent to the Forcinn States.
NUR SAYYID—great university in R’Kassi.
NYFORD—capital of Carthmoor; ancient market town and port.
ORSALIA—ancient name of part of Trailia, whence derives the title “Hort of Orsal.”
PURPLE MARCH, THE—area north and west of Rhemuth, adjoining Kierney.
PWYLLHELI—capital of Llannedd.
RATHARKIN—provincial capital of Meara.
REMIGNY—capital of Bremagne.
RHANAMÉ—great seminary in R’Kassi.
RHEMUTH—capital of Gwynedd.
RHENDALL—county in northeast Gwynedd.
RHONDEVALA—where Michon’s son Aurelien and Jessamy’s eldest daughter live.
R’KASSI—kingdom to the south of the Forcinn States, famous for its horses.
ST. BRIDGET’S ABBEY—convent near Cùilteine.
ST. HILARY’S WITHIN-THE-WALLS—royal basilica adjoining the royal palace in Rhemuth.
SOSTRA—a Corwyn town adjacent to the Torenthi county of the same name.
TORENTH—principal kingdom east of Gwynedd.
TRALIA—more recent name of the sovereign principality ruled by the Hort of Orsal.
TRANSHA—small border county in northwest Gwynedd.
TRE-ARILAN—ancestral home of the Arilan family.
TRURILL—barony between Gwynedd and Meara.
VALORET—former capital of Gwynedd; seat of the Archbishop of Valoret, Primate of All Gwynedd.
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