Skull Worm – A Pitter commissar.Known to be especially brutal and severe.
Smoking Duck – a talking chief
Smoking Thunder – a Cheyenne shaman and medicine man.
Smoking Toad – A brave that claims Standing Bull has taken valor that does not belong to him.
Snake Clan – One of the clans composed of both Klamath and Sharaka peoples.
Snake Horse – Onamingo’s right hand man. A Cherokee. Husband of Morning Bird. Fought for Sur Sceaf in the battle of Frink Glen.
Snowmen – The Red Men tribes of the northern Kanada.
Sparrow Hawk – The older sister of Taneshewa. Daughter of Onamingo and Dancing Rabbit.
Spirit Chiefs – Powerful medicine men who have distinguished themselves through talents and services. They come from many Red Men tribes.
Standing Bull – A member of the Klamath tribe who joined the Sharaka at DiAhman and was rejected for the most part from the Klamath tribe for his rebelliousness within the tribe and his rakish fornication. He is the foremost of the ruffians that accosted Sur Sceaf on the trail to DiAhman. He stood as opposition to the plan of uniting the three tribes.
Starkwulf – The original name of the Wose, the former king in Zamora.
Stays-Her-Ground – A Sharaka woman.
Stone Face – One of the Brothers Three. He is a far-seer. The brother of Mole Finger and Rags.
Sun Cryer – A great Red Man chief from the Buffalo Nations.
Sur Sceaf – One of the youngest of the 44 sons of Sur Spear. He possesses lineage from all three of the three tribes, Herewardi, Quailor, and Sharaka. He is commissioned by the Roufy-Trof to lead the three tribes.
Sur Spear – The high king of Herewardom. The father of Sur Sceaf, Pyrsyrus and Va-Eyra. Aka Syrus, and the Traveler
Swan Hilde – The fourth wife of Sur Sceaf. She is also a member of the Roufy-Trof and a witch (wise-woman) of the Herewardi.
The Swan People – A name for the Herewardi.
Tah-Man-Ea – Onamingo’s great great grandfather, as well as Thunder Horse’s.
Talbot – Faehunig’s father. Eldest brother of Paloma.
Taneshewa – Daughter of the Red King Onamingo. Sur Sceaf courts her to be his seventh wife.
Thor – The Herewardi god of thunder.
Three Doves – One of the little girls in Taneshewa’s extended family
Thunder Beings – The gods of the Sharaka and Red Men
Thunder Horse – The chief medicine man of the Sharaka. The brother of Sagwi and Redith. An advisor to all who seek wisdom.
Thuryridamus – A Pitter commissar. Younger brother of Hryre Seath.
Turtle Duck – A Cherokee/Sharaka man who took on the Herewardi ways and moved to the coast to become a merchant of the sea.
Twelver – A wolf-pack or twelve members of a fyrd. The smallest unit of a fyrd.
Tyr – The Herewardi god of war and justice.
Tyranis – Another name for Tyr
Ullr – One of the oldest of the Herewardi gods. Sometimes acts in the stead of Odhin.
Ur-Fyr – The spiritual inspirations as described and felt by the Herewardi.
Va-Eyra – Sur Sceaf’s sister, daughter of Sur Spear. She is the Queen of the High Desert, the Silver Queen, the Cat Queen. Her see is at Fort Rock.
Valkyries – The supernatural escorts of the spirit world, who guide dead warriors to their proper assignments amongst the gods.
Vardropi – A race of trans-humans created by Dr. Vardrop and his wife. They are composed of genes from man, wolf, and rat.
Waelwulf – The grandfather of Govannon. He was a wizard and master artificer. Mentored Govannon in the ways of metallurgy.
Walking Turtle – was meant to be Rolling Thunder’s replacement for the Ring Ritual of the Eclipse. He was at the coast when he was needed, so Sur Sceaf took his place.
Washington – (President George Washington) described as a past chief before the rise of the Evil Generation.
White Eagle – Sur Sceaf’s guide through the camps of Red Tribes at DiAhman.
White Fire – Sur Sceaf’s stallion.
White Horse Order – An order created for distinguished men and women of all human tribes, who work for encouraging the perfection of all mankind.
Wind Chaser – A counselor of Mesculara the Apache.
Wolfpack – A group of twelve warriors within a fyrd.
Woon – Another name for Odhin.
The Woondigo – Red Men call the Wose, Woondigo. Once a legendary creature of the mountains, Wose took on the moniker to strike fear into his enemies.
Wose – The name for a man of grief, who atones for his losses by extricating himself from society and seeking personal ways to gain rake and ruin over the enemies who have done them harm. Starkwulf becomes the best known wose and is thus called the Wose.
Wyrd Sisters – According to the Herewardi, they are the three sisters of fate and preceded the gods and the creation of the earth. They are beings of untold power.
Xelph – A Sharaka youth, highly gifted in plant lore. Though Sharaka, he was born with golden hair and raised among the Herewardi, as was his parents’ wish. He is a dear friend of Arundel and Long Swan.
Yellow Horse – A little boy found at the battle of Frink Glen. First adopted by Muryh, but raised by Sur Sceaf. Is the Herewardi jester.
Yggd – An old Herewardi wayfaring man, encountered by Sur Sceaf in the high desert. Gives Sur Sceaf prophetic advice for the guidance of the three tribes.
Yggep Walker – The daughter of Queen Gloomulah of the Poison Lands. Acts as a spy for the Pitter Zonga of Eugene in an effort to break the gates of the Umpqua.
Young Bloods – The highest station of youthful warriors in training. They have obtained the skills to engage in armed combat and partake in military operations.
Zootchise – A famous Apache chief who allowed the Herewardi under Leofric to sojourn for a season in the White Mountains. He provided Leofric’s people with sanctuary, resources, and back up security during the exodus of the Herewardi from the Taxus to the Umpqua.
Author Biography
Russ Howard was born in the north end of the Shenandoah Valley. He grew to manhood in rural West Virginia, where the mountaineer culture conveyed to Russ a sense of fierce independence, which is a running theme in his books. In his youth his first passion was for the animals he kept, an assortment of creatures from owls and pigeons to chipmunks and foxes. As he entered adolescence he developed an obsession for running and became an accomplished cross-country and track athlete.
His education spanned across international borders. He attended four major universities in three states and for a number of years he lived abroad as a student in various German cities as well as Kitzbuhl, Austria. During his stint there he learned to love and appreciate the German tongue and culture.
He is greatly influenced by English literature, Germanic, Keltic, and Slavic mythology. He is an admirer of the operatic genius Richard Wagner, the political innovator and democratic theorist Thomas Jefferson, and reveres J.R.R. Tolkien as the greatest modern story-teller. Russ’s spiritual philosophies have been condensed from sources of mysticism and Kabballah. He especially praises the works of Rudolph Steiner, Bruno Bettelheim, and Martin Buber.
Most of his life he worked as a Mental Health Investigator, and a Marriage, Family and Child Therapist. Now Russ lives with his wife Kathryn, a dancer, in Roseburg, Oregon. He spends his time as an avid gardener, small-scale farmer, and shepherd.
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