by Janny Wurts
pronounced: hal-eer-on sen al-doo-win
root meaning: hal - white; lyron - singer; sen - denotes paternal descent; alduin - scribe
HALWYTHWOOD—forest located in Araethura, Rathain. Current main campsite of High Earl Barach's band, predominantly survivors of the Battle of Strakewood and Daon Ramon's late war.
pronounced: hall-with-wood
root meaning: hal - white; wythe - vista
HANHAFFIN—river running through Selkwood in Alland and emptying into the Cildein Ocean.
pronounced: han-haf-fin
root meaning: hanha - evergreen; affein - a dance step
HANSHIRE—port city on the Westland Sea, coast of Korias, Tysan; reigning official Lord Mayor Garde, father of Sulfin Evend; opposed to royal rule at the time of Avenor ,s restoration. Haven for Koriathain at the time of the uprising, with strong ties to the Senior Circle.
pronounced: han-sheer
root meaning: hansh - sand; era - place
HASPASTION—ghost of the dragon contained in the grimward located in Radmoore.
pronounced: has-past-ee-on
root meaning: hashpashdion - Drakish for black thunder
HAVENS—an inlet on the north-eastern shore of Vastmark, Shand, now known as the site of the massacre enacted by the Spinner of Darkness, preceding the Battle of Dier Kenton Vale, Third Age Year 5647.
HAVISH—one of the Five High Kingdoms of Athera as defined by the charters of the Fellowship of Seven. Ruled by Eldir s'Lornmein. Crown heritage: temperance. Device: gold hawk on red field.
pronounced: hav-ish
root meaning: havieshe - hawk
HIGHSCARP—city sited near the stone quarries on the coast of the Bay of Eltair, located in Daon Ramon, Rathain. Also contains a sisterhouse of the Koriani Order.
HILGRETH—war-captain in Selkwood, under Lord Erlien, High Earl of Alland.
pronounced: hill-greth
root meaning: huell - one who protects; gireth - gauntlet, war glove
I'CUELAN AM-JIASK EDAEL I'lTCER—your feal prince attends you.
pronounced: ee-kway-lan am-jee-ask ee-dah-el it-ee-cr
root meaning: i'cuelan - your, with prefix for 'light' or focused intent; am-jiask - state of being bound by faith'feal; edael - prince; i'itier - one who holds with light'attends
I'ENT CUELAN AM-JIASK EDAEL AMEINNT-HUELL I'TTERI—your feal prince attends, with protective intent—raised to the emphatic state, of personally claiming fullest responsibility, as the oath-bound prince who protects.
pronounced: ee-ent kway-lan am-jee-ask ee-dah-el am-ee-int hoo-well ee-tee-er-ee
root meaning: i'ient - to hold by light, promise by willing intent; cuelan -your; am-jiask edael - feal prince; am - state of being; iennt - by light intent, extreme emphatic form; huell - one who protects; i'tieri - one who attends
ILITHARIS PARAVIANS—centaurs, one of three semimortal old races; disappeared after the Mistwraith's conquest, the last guardian's departure by Third Age Year 5100. They were the conservators of the earth's mysteries.
pronounced: i-li-thar-is
root meaning: i'lith'earis - the keeper'preserver of mystery
INNISH—city located on the southcoast of Shand at the delta of the River Ippash. Birthplace of Halliron Masterbard. Formerly known as 'the Jewel of Shand' this was the site of the high king's winter court, prior to the time of the uprising. Home port of Evenstar, and Fiark's business as trade factor,
pronounced: in-ish
root meaning: inniesh - a jewel with a pastel tint
ISAER—power focus, built in the First Age in Atainia, Tysan, by the Ilitharis Paravians, to source the defence works of the Paravian keep of the same name.
pronounced: i-say-er
root meaning: i'saer - the circle
ISFARENN—etheric Name for the black stallion ridden by Asandir.
pronounced: ees-far-en
root meaning: is'feron - speed maker
ISHLIR—town on the eastshore of Orvandir, Shand.
pronounced: ish-leer
root meaning: ieshlier - sheltered place
ITHAMON—Historically significant in the First Age, site of a Paravian focus, a Second Age Paravian stronghold, and a Third Age ruin; built on a fifth lane power-node in Daon Ramon Barrens, Rathain, and inhabited until the year of the uprising. Site of the Compass Point Towers, or Sun Towers. Became the seat of the High Kings of Rathain during the Third Age and in Third Age Year 5638 was the site where Princes Lysaer s'Ilessid and Arithon s'Ffalenn battled the Mistwraith to confinement.
pronounced: ith-a-mon
root meaning: itha - five; man - needle, spire
ITHILT—peninsula bordering Minderl Bay, in eastern Rathain.
pronounced: ith-ilt
root meaning: ith - five; edit - a narrows
ITHISH—city located at the edge of the principality of Vastmark, on the south-coast of Shand. Where the Vastmark wool factors once shipped fleeces.
pronounced: ith-ish
root meaning: ithish - fleece or fluffy
ITISHEALDLANT—to wish, or to bring lightness to a disrupted state'a splash, or shattering ripple raised to the emphatic - idiomatic for the energetic impact of a disruptive event.
pronounced: ih-tee-shee-al-dee-ahnt
root meaning: i - prefix to specify by light; tishealdeant - splash, emphatic form IVEL—blind splicer from southcoastal Shand, once hired by Arithon at Merior.
pronounced: ee-vel
root meaning: iavel - scathing
IYAT—energy sprite, and minor drake spawn inhabiting Athera, not visible to the eye, manifests in a poltergeist fashion by taking temporary possession of objects. Feeds upon natural energy sources: fire, breaking waves, lightning, and excess emotion where humans gather.
pronounced: ee-at
root meaning: iyat - to break
JAELOT—city located on the coast of Eltair Bay at the southern border of the Kingdom of Rathain. Once a Second Age power site, with a focus circle. Now a merchant city with a reputation for extreme snobbery and bad taste. Also the site where Arithon s'Ffalenn played his eulogy for Halliron Masterbard, which raised the powers of the Paravian focus circle beneath the mayor's palace. The forces of the mysteries and resonant harmonics caused damage to city buildings, watch keeps, and walls, which has since been repaired. Site where Fionn Areth was arraigned for execution, as bait in a Koriani conspiracy that failed to trap Arithon s'Ffalenn.
pronounced: jay-lot
root meaning: jielot - affectation
JERVAUD—watch captain of the lower wall garrison at Alestron, under Mearn's command.
pronounced: jeer-vald
root meaning: jier - pointed; vald - wit
JEYNSA—daughter of Jieret s'Valerient and Feithan, born Third Age 5653; appointed successor for her father's title, caithdein of Rathain.
pronounced: jay-in-sa
root meaning: jieyensa - garnet
JIERET s'VALERIENT—former Earl of the North, clan chief of Deshir; caithdein of Rathain, sworn liegeman of Prince Arithon s'Ffalenn. Also son and heir of Lord Steiven. Blood parted to Arithon by sorcerer's oath prior to the battle of Strakewood Forest. Came to be known by head-hunters as Jieret Red-beard. Father of Jeynsa and Barach. Husband to Feithan. Died by Lysaer s'Ilessid's hand in Daon Ramon Barrens, Third Age Year 5670.
pronounced: jeer-et
root meaning: jieret - thorn
JINESSE—mother of Fiark and Feylind, wife of Tharrick, resident of Innish.
pronounced: jin-ess-e
root meaning: jienesse - to be washed or pale; a wisp
KALESH—town at the mouth of the harbour inlet from the Cildein Ocean, enemy of Alestron.
pronounced: cal-esh
root meaning: caille'iesh - stubborn hold
KEIR'VE ARISH—an insulting embarrassment, idiom for a fool in Biedar tribal dialect.
pronounced: kee-aar vay aah-ree-ch
root meaning: keir've arish - translated as 'one caught with wet feet'<
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KELDMAR s'BRYDION—younger brother of Duke Bransian of Alestron, older brother of Parrien and Mearn.
pronounced: keld-mar
root meaning: kieVd'maeran - one without pity
KEVOR—son and heir of Lysaer s'Ilessid and Princess Ellaine; born at Avenor in Third Age 5655. At age fourteen, in his father's absence, he exercised royal authority and averted a riot by the panicked citizenry of Avenor. Thought dead by Khadrim fire in Westwood, but survived via an interaction with Ath's Brotherhood. Became an adept in Third Year 5670, at the hostel in Northerly, Tysan.
pronounced: kev-or
root meaning: kiavor - high virtue
KEWAR TUNNEL—cavern built beneath the Mathorn Mountains by Davien the Betrayer; contains the maze of conscience, which caused High King Kamridian s'Ffalenn's death. Arithon Teir's'Ffalenn successfully completed the challenge in Third Age Year 5670.
pronounced: key-wahr
root meaning: kewiar - a weighing of conscience
KHADRIM—drake-spawned creatures, flying, fire-breathing reptiles that were the scourge of the Second Age. By the Third Age, they had been driven back and confined in the Sorcerers' Preserve in the volcanic peaks in north Tysan.
pronounced: kaa-drim
root meaning: khadritn - dragon
KHARADMON—Sorcerer of the Fellowship of Seven; discorporate since rise of Khadrim and Seardluin levelled Paravian stronghold at Ithamon in Second Age 3651. It was by Kharadmon's intervention that the survivors of the attack were sent to safety by means of transfer from the fifth lane power focus. Currently working the wardings to defer a minor invasion of wraiths from Marak.
pronounced: kah-rad-mun
root meaning: kar'riad en mon - phrase translates to mean 'twisted thread on the needle' or colloquialism for 'a knot in the works'
KHETIENN—name for a brigantine built at Merior and owned by Arithon; also a small spotted wildcat native to Daon Ramon Barrens that became the s'Ffalenn royal device.
pronounced: key-et-ee-en
root meaning: kietienn - small leopard
KORIANI—possessive and singular form of the word 'Koriathain'; see entry.
pronounced: kor-ee-ah-nee
KORIAS—south-western principality of Tysan.
pronounced: kor-ee-as
root meaning: cor - ship, vessel; i'esh - nest, haven
KORIATHAIN—order of enchantresses ruled by a circle of Seniors, under the power of one Prime Enchantress. They draw their talent from the orphaned children they raise, or from daughters dedicated to service by their parents. Initiation rite involves a vow of consent that ties the spirit to a power crystal keyed to the Prime's control.
pronounced: kor-ee-ah-thain - to rhyme with 'main'
root meaning: koriath - order; ain - belonging to
KRALOVIR—term for a sect of necromancers, also called the grey cult, destroyed by Arithon s'Ffalenn in Third Age Year 5671.
pronounced: kray-low-veer
root meaning: krial - name for the rune of crossing; oveir - abomination
KYRIALT sTALEYN—once heir designate and youngest son of the High Earl of Alland, Lord Erlien s'Taleyn, Caithdein of Shand, now bestowed as liegeman to Arithon of Rathain as a debt of honour.
pronounced: key-ree-alt
root meaning: kyrialt - word for the rune of crossing with the suffix for 'last' which is the name for the rune of ending.
LANSHIRE—northernmost principality in the Kingdom of Havish. Name taken from the wastes at Scarpdale, site of First Age battles with Seardluin that blasted the soil to slag.
pronounced: lahn-sheer-e
root meaning: lan'hansh'era - place of hot sands
LAW OF THE MAJOR BALANCE—founding order of the powers of the Fellowship of Seven, as taught by the Paravians. The primary tenet is that no force of nature should be used without consent, or against the will of another consciousness.
LIENRIEL RIVER—crosses the free wilds of Alland, and joins the Hanhaffin inside of Selkwood, in the Kingdom of Shand.
pronounced: lee-en-ree-ell
root meaning: lien - to love; riel - silver
LIESSE s'BRYDION—Duchess of Alestron and wife of Duke Bransian.
pronounced: lee-ess
root meaning: liesse - state of accord, based from the word 'a note in harmony'
LIRENDA—former First Senior Enchantress to the Prime, Koriani Order; failed in her assignment to capture Arithon s'Ffalenn for Koriani purposes. Currently under the Prime Matriarch's sentence of punishment,
pronounced: leer-end-ah
root meaning: lyron - singer; di-ia - a dissonance - the hyphen denotes a glottal stop
LORN—town on the northcoast of Atainia, Tysan.
pronounced: lorn
root meaning: loern - an Atheran fish.
LUGGER'S ISLET—a barrier island located off the shore of East Halla, popular as a haven for galleys during winter storms.
LUHAINE—Sorcerer of the Fellowship of Seven - discorporate since the fall of Telmandir in Third Age Year 5018. Luhaine's body was pulled down by the mob while he was in ward trance, covering the escape of the royal heir to Havish.
pronounced: loo-hay-ne
root meaning: luirhainon - defender
LYRANTHE—instrument played by the bards of Athera. Strung with fourteen strings, timed to seven tones (doubled). Two courses are 'drone strings' set to octaves. Five are melody strings, the lower three courses being octaves, the upper two, in unison.
pronounced: leer-anth-e (last 'e' being nearly subliminal)
root meaning: lyr - song, anthe - box
LYSAER s'Ilessid—prince of Tysan, 1497th in succession after Halduin, founder of the line in Third Age Year One. Gifted at birth with control of Light, and Bane of Desh-thiere. Also known as Blessed Prince since he declared himself avatar for the following known as the Alliance of Light.
pronounced: lie-say-er
root meaning: lia - blond, yellow or light, saer - circle
MARAK—splinter world, cut off beyond South Gate, left lifeless after creation of the Mistwraith. The original inhabitants were men exiled by the Fellowship from Athera for beliefs or practices that were incompatible with the compact sworn between the Sorcerers and the Paravian races, which permitted human settlement on Athera. Source of the Mistwraith, Desh-thiere, and the free wraiths that threaten Athera.
pronounced: maer-ak
root meaning: m'era'ki - place held separate
MATHIELL GATE—last gate to the inner citadel in Alestron, Paravian built to withstand the fires of dragons. It was the Mathiell garrison who secured the span guarding incursion from the Wyntok Gate during the uprising that threatened clan rule in Third Age Year 5018.
pronounced: math-ee-ell
root meaning: mon'thiellen - sky spires
MATHORN MOUNTAINS—range that bisects the Kingdom of Rathain east to west.
pronounced: math-orn
root meaning: mathien - massive
MEARN s'BRYDION—youngest brother of Duke Bransian of Alestron. Former ducal emissary to Lysaer s'Ilessid's Alliance of Light. Husband of Fianzia.
pronounced: may-arn
root meaning: mierne - to flit
MEDLIR—name used by Arithon when he travelled incognito with Halliron Masterbard as apprentice in Third Age Years 5638 to 5647.
pronounced: med-leer
root meaning: midlyr - phrase of melody
MELHALLA—High Kingdom of Athera once ruled by the line of s'Ellestrion. The last prince died in the crossing of the Red Desert. Currently stewarded by the Teiren's'Callient.
pronounced: mel-hall-ah
root meaning: maelhallia - grand meadows'plain - also word for an open space of any sort.
MEIGLIN s'DIENEVAL—the legitimate daughter born to the widow of Egan s'Dieneval in Third Age 5019, just after his death in the slaughter of the rebellion. Heart's love of the last High King of Shand for one night, just prior to his death while fighting the Mistwraith. A weaving by the Biedar
of Sanpashir, done at the behest of the last Centaur Guardian, ensured the union would bring conception, and the birth of Dari's'Ahelas. Also named Anshlien'ya in desert dialect, as the dawn of hope.
pronounced: mee-glin s-dee-in-ee-vahl
root meaning: meiglin - passion; dim - large; eval - endowment, gifted talent
MERIOR BY THE SEA—small seaside fishing village on the Scimlade peninsula in Alland, Shand. Once the temporary site of Arithon's shipyard. Birth place of Fiark and Feylind.
pronounced: mare-ee-or
root meaning: merioren - cottages
METHISLE FORTRESS—a Paravian keep on an islet in Methlas Lake in Orvandir, currently overseen by the Guardian of Methisle, the Master Spellbinder, Verrain.