The Shattered City
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Temple of the Market Saints — located on the Avleurine hill. The Market Saints are the patron saints of all traders and merchants.
Tierce — capital city of Reyenna, and where Velody, Delphine and Rhian come from. When Tierce disappeared, Reyenna became a barony of the duchy of Lattorio.
Trajus Alysaundre — third Duc d’Aufleur; see also ‘Gardens of Trajus Alysaundre’.
Velody — friend to Rhian and Delphine; dressmaker. Member of the Creature Court; rank: King; Power and Majesty; creature: little brown mouse.
Vestalia — a rural festival on the ninth day of Lucina in which people dress up in milkmaid costumes, aprons and other ‘peasant’ attire. Other features are green paper lanterns and sacrifices of honey, cake, bread and salt. The day is also considered sacred to bakers and millers.
Via Ciceline — a vibrant shopping strip in the heart of the wealthy Centrini district.
Via Silviana — a narrow street crammed between the affluent Vittorine hill and the shabby, bustling Giacosa commercial district. The shop belonging to Velody, Rhian and Delphine stands at the halfway point between Vittorine and Giacosa, under the Sign of the Rose and Needle.
Vittorine — one of the hill districts of Aufleur; also extends below the foot of the hill into an upmarket shopping district that meets the thriving merchant district of Giacosa.
Warlord — member of the Creature Court; see ‘Mars’.
Xandelian — one of the districts of Aufleur. Also the name of the current ruling ducal family, whose members include Ynescho, Augusta, Artorio, Isangell and Ashiol. One of the twelve Great Families of Afleur.
Ynescho Xandelian — the Old Duc, grandfather to Isangell, Ashiol, Bryn, Keil, Jemmen, Zade and Phage, father of Artorio and Augusta. Ruled with an iron fist until his wits gave way; his wife, Duchessa Givette, took over as his Regenta.
Zafir — an eastern country rich with culture, source of the popular ‘princessa and djinn’ plays that are a regularly revived trend in the Aufleur theatres and musettes.
Zero — member of the Creature Court; rank: courteso to Poet; creature: weasel.
NOTES
The Fasti of Aufleur
The Aufleur calendar, or ‘Fasti’, has three named days: the Kalends (first of the month), the Nones (nine days before the Ides) and the Ides (full moon — which falls more or less in the middle of the month). Generally people only refer to days in relation to these: for example, ‘it was four days after the Ides’, ‘it was two days before the Kalends’.
The day after each Kalends, Nones and Ides is ‘nefas’ (unlucky).
‘Market-nines’ refers to the market-day that happens every nine days in the city, but falls on different days each year, and thus is not part of the permanent calendar.
Months of the Year
Venturis (winter)
Lupercal (winter)
Martial (spring)
Aphrodal (spring)
Floralis (spring)
Lucina (summer)
Felicitas (summer)
Cerialis (summer)
Ludi (autumn)
Bestialis (autumn)
Fortuna (autumn)
Saturnali (winter)
About the Author
Tansy Rayner Roberts is the author of the award-winning Splashdance Silver and its sequel, Liquid Gold. She has also published a children’s book in an ABC Books multi-author series. Power and Majesty, the first book of the Creature Court series, was published in 2010. Tansy lives in Tasmania with her partner and daughters.
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