by Janny Wurts
pronounced: meth
root meaning: meth - hate
METHURI—METHURIEN (plural form) an 'yaf-related parasite that infested live hosts and altered them for the purpose of creating new hosts. Extinct by the Third Age.
pronounced: meth-you-ree
root meaning: meth'thieri - hate wraith
MI A'DAELIENT—address given by a liegeman or woman to acknowledge the realm's queen.
pronounced: mee ah-day-ell-ee-ent
root meaning: mi - my; a' - feminine prefix; daelimt - ruler bearing crown rank.
MINDERL BAY—body of water inside of Crescent Isle, off the eastshore of Rathain.
pronounced: mind earl
root meaning: minderl - anvil
MISTWRAITH—see Desh-thiere.
MORRIEL—Prime Enchantress of the Koriathain since the Third Age 4212. Instigated the plot to upset the Fellowship's compact, which upset seven of the magnetic lanes on the continent. Her death on winter solstice 5670 left an irregular succession, resolved by the elevation of an incompetent initiate, Selidie, who had been chosen to facilitate an unprincipled act of possession by Morriel, which usurped the young woman's body.
pronounced: more-real
root meaning: moor - greed; riel - silver
MORVATN—city located in the principality of Araethura, Rathain, on the west coast of Instrell Bay. Elaira's birthplace.
pronounced: mor-vain
root meaning: morvain - swindler's market
MYRKAVIA—island located in Rock Bay Harbor, off the coast of Havistock, in Havish.
pronounced: meer-kay-vee-ah
root meaning: miere - reflection; kavia - spruce tree
NAI FFIOSH E'ELEN SLIET-THT—no false tiny steps,
pronounced: naye fee-owsh e'el-en slee-et-thee
root meaning: nai - no; fftosh - false; e'elen - diminutive for short, small, tiny; sliet-thi - step with suffix for plural
NARMS—city on the coast of Instrell Bay, built as a craft centre by Men in the early Third Age. Best known for dyeworks.
pronounced: narms
root meaning: narms - colour
NORTHSTOR—trade port at the northern tip of the East Halla peninsula, and Vaststrait.
pronounced: north stor
root meaning: stor - summit or apex of a triangle
ORVANDIR—principality located in north-eastern Shand.
pronounced: or-van-deer
root meaning: orvein - crumbled; dir - stone
PARAVIA—name for the continent inhabited by the Paravians, and locale of the Five Kingdoms.
pronounced: par-ay-vee-ah
root meaning: para - great; i'a - suffix denoting entityship, and raised to the feminine aspect, which translates as ' inclusive of, or holding the aspect for greatness'
PARAVIAN—name for the three old races that inhabited Athera before Mankind. Including the centaurs, the sunchildren, and the unicorns, these races never die unless mishap befalls them; they are the world's channel, or direct connection, to Ath Creator.
pronounced: par-ai-vee-ans
root meaning: para - great; i'on - fate or great mystery
PARRIEN s'BRYDION—younger brother of Duke Bransian s'Brydion of Alestron, Keldmar, and older brother of Mearn. Husband of Tiassa. Broke Arithon's leg in Third Age Year 5654, and in restitution awarded Rathain's prince the service of two s'Brydion retainers, Talvish and Vhandon.
pronounced: par-ee-on
root meaning: para ient - great dart
PELLAIN—trade town located on the inland bounds of East Halla, Melhalla.
pronounced: pell-ayn
root meaning: peil - odd; ai'an - hidden one
PERDITH—trade town located on the east shore in East Halla, Melhalla, known for its armourers.
pronounced: per-dith
root meaning: pirdith - anvil
QUAID—trade town in Carithwyr, Havish, lying inland along the road from Los Mar to Redburn. Famous for fired clay and brick,
pronounced: qu-wade
root meaning: cruaid - a clay used for brickmaking.
RAIETT RAVEN—brother of the Mayor of Hanshire; uncle of Sulfin Evend. Considered a master statesman and a bringer of wars. Served as High Chancellor of Etarra, ruling in the absence of the ratified mayor. Died in Arithon's purge of the Grey Kralovir necromancers from Etarra, Third Age 5671.
pronounced: rayett
root meaning: raiett - carrion bird RANNE—royal guardsman of Avenor, once honour guard of Prince Kevor, reprieved and reassigned to Lysaer's personal guard by Sulfin Evend.
pronounced: ran
root meaning: ruann - a fledgling hawk
RATHAIN—High Kingdom of Athera ruled by descendants of Torbrand s'Ffalenn since Third Age Year One. Device: black-and-silver leopard on green field. Arithon Teir's'Ffalenn is sanctioned crown prince, by the hand of Asandir of the Fellowship, in Third Age Year 5638 at Etarra.
pronounced: rath-ayn
root meaning: roth - brother; thein - tower, sanctuary
RAUVEN TOWER—home of the s'Ahelas mages who brought up Arithon s'Ffalenn and trained him to the ways of power. Located on the splinter world, Dascen Elur, through West Gate.
pronounced: raw-ven
root meaning: rauven - invocation
REDBURN—town located in a deep inlet in the northern shore of Rockbay Harbor in Havistock, Havish.
pronounced: red-burn
not from the Paravian
RIATHAN PARAVIANS—unicorns, the purest, most direct connection to Ath Creator; the prime vibration channels directly through the horn.
pronounced: ree-ah-than
root meaning: ria - to touch; ath - prime life-force; an - one; ri'athon - one who touches divinity
RIVERTON—trade town at the mouth of the Dswater River, in Korias, Tysan; once the site of Lysaer's royal shipyard, before the site burned by Cattrick's sabotage in Third Age Year 5654.
ROCKBAY HARBOR—body of water located on the southcoast, between Shand and West Shand.
ROCKFELL PEAK—mountain containing Rockfell Pit, used to imprison harmful entities throughout all three Ages. Located in West Halla, Melhalla; became the warded prison for Desh-thiere.
pronounced: rock-fell
not from the Paravian
s'AHELAS—family name for the royal line appointed by the Fellowship Sorcerers in Third Age Year One to rule the High Kingdom of Shand. Gifted geas: far-sight. Also the lineage that carries the latent potential for the rogue talent for far-sight and prophecy, introduced when the caithdein's lineage of s'Dieneval became crossed with the royal line in Third Age 5036, resulting in Dari's birth in winter, 5037.
pronounced: s'ah-hell-as
root meaning: ahelas - mage-gifted
SAMAURA—a third-rank Koriani healer.
pronounced: sam-your-ah
root meaning: s'a'moara - a woman who holds close, or is tenaciously possessive
SANPASHIR—desert waste on the southcoast of Shand. Home to the desert tribes called Biedar.
pronounced: sahn-pash-eer
root meaning: san - black or dark; pash'era - place of grit or gravel
SANSHEVAS—town on the south shore in Alland, Shand, known for citrus, sugar, and rum.
pronounced: san-shee-vas
root meaning: san - black; shievas - flint
SAYSHA—a Koriani Senior with an enhanced talent for telepathy.
pronounced: say-shaa
root meaning: saisha - to listen
s'BRYDION—ruling line of the Dukes of Alestron. The only old blood clansmen to maintain rule of a fortified city through the uprising that defeated the rule of the high kings.
pronounced: s-bry-dee-on
root meaning: baridien - tenacity
s'CALLIENT—lineage of the Caithdeinen of Melhalla, Fellowship chosen to succeed s'Dieneval after the fall of Tirans.
pronounced: scal-lee-ent
root meaning: caillient - most extreme form of 'fixed' or stubborn - 'immovable'
SCARPDALE—waste in Lanshire, Havish. Created by a First Age war with Seardluin. Site of the Scarpdale grimward.
pronounced: scarp-dale
not from the Paravian
SCIMLADE TIP—peninsula at the south-east corner of Alland, Shand.
pronounced: skim-laid
root meaning: scimlait - curved knife or scythe
SECOND AGE—Marked by the arrival of the Fellowship of Seven at Crater Lake, their called purpose to fight the drake spawn.
s'DIENEVAL—lost lineage of the Caithdeinen of Melhalla, the last to carry the title being Egan, who died at the side of his high king in the battle to subdue the Mistwraith. The blood-line carried strong talent for prophecy, and was decimated during the sack of Tirans in the uprising in Third Age Year 5018, with Egan's pregnant wife the sole survivor. Her daughter, Meiglin, was mother of Dari s'Ahelas, crown heir of Shand.
pronounced: s-dee-in-ee-vahl
root meaning: dien - large; eval - endowment, gifted talent
SEARDLUIN—drake-spawned, vicious, intelligent cat-like predators that roved in packs that sought ruthless slaughter of other living things. Battled to extinction by the middle of the Second Age for the sake of Paravian survival. Remnant recall of them can arise in the dreams of grimwarded drake haunts.
pronounced: seerd-loo-win
root meaning: seard - bearded; luin - feline
SEITHUR—Biedar tribal dialect, meaning one whose choice will determine the future.
pronounced: see-thur
root meaning: seithur - one whose choice affects all generations to come
SELIDIE—young woman initiate appointed by Morriel Prime as a candidate in training for succession. Assumed the office of Prime Matriarch after Morriel's death on winter solstice in Third Age Year 5670, at which time an unprincipled act of possession by Morriel usurped the young woman's body.
pronounced: sell-ih-dee
root meaning: selyadi - air sprite
SELKWOOD—forest located in Alland, Shand.
pronounced: selk-wood
root meaning: selk - pattern
SESHKROZCHIEL—name for the female dragon who was mated to Haspastion.
pronounced: sesh-crows-chee-ell
root meaning: seshkrozchiel - Drakish for blue lightning
SETHVIR—Sorcerer of the Fellowship of Seven, also trained to serve as Warden of Althain since Third Age 5100, when the last centaur guardian departed after the Mistwraith's conquest.
pronounced: seth-veer
root meaning: seth - fact; vaer - keep
SEVRAND s'BRYDION—heir designate of Duke Bransian of Alestron.
pronounced: sev-rand
root meaning: sevaer'an'd - one who travels behind, a follower
s'FFALENN—family name for the royal line appointed by the Fellowship Sorcerers in Third Age Year One to rule the High Kingdom of Rathain. Gifted geas: compassion'empathy.
pronounced: s-fal-en
root meaning: ffael - dark, an - one
s'GANNLEY—lineage of the Earls of the West, once the Camris princes, now bearing the heritage of Caithdein of Tysan. Iamine s'Gannley was the woman founder.
pronounced: sgan-lee
root meaning: gaen - guide; li - exalted or in harmony
SHADDORN—town located on the Scimlade Tip in Alland, Shand.
pronounced: shad-dorn
root meaning: shaddiern - sea turtle
SHAMD—High Kingdom on the south-east corner of the Paravian continent, originally ruled by the line of s'Ahelas. Current device, purple-and-gold chevrons, since the adjunct kingdom of West Shand came under high crown rule. The old device was a falcon on a crescent moon, sometimes still showed, backed by the more recent purple-and-gold chevrons.
pronounced: shand - as in 'hand'
root meaning: shayn or shiand - two'pair
SHANDOR—trade port located on the westshore of Rockbay Harbor, in West Shand.
pronounced: shan-door
root meaning: cianor - to shine
SHEHANE ALTHAIN—Hitharis Paravian who dedicated his spirit as defender and guardian of Althain Tower.
pronounced: shee-hay-na all-thayn
root meaning: shiehai'en -to give for the greater good; alt - last; thain -tower
SHIPSPORT—city located on the Bay of Eltair in the principality of West Halla, Melhalla.
SIDIR—one of the Companions, who were the fourteen boys to survive the Battle of Strakewood. Served Arithon at the Battle of Dier Kenton Vale, and the Havens. Second-in-command of Earl Jieret's war band. Handfast to Feithan, widow of the former Earl of the North,
pronounced: see-deer
root meaning: i'sid'i'er - one who has stood at the verge of being lost.
s'ILESSID—family name for the royal line appointed by the Fellowship Sorcerers in Third Age Year One to rule the High Kingdom of Tysan. Gifted geas: justice.
pronounced: s-ill-ess-id
root meaning: liessiad - balance
SILVERMARSH—large bog located south of Daenfal Lake, in West Halla, Melhalla.
SINDELLE—wife of Keldmar s'Brydion of Alestron.
pronounced: sin-dell-e
root meaning: san - black, dark; ael - destiny; 'e - suffix for future in potentia
SITHAER—mythological equivalent of hell, halls of Dharkaron Avenger's judgement; according to Ath's adepts, that state of being where the prime vibration is not recognized.
pronounced: sith-air
root meaning: sid - lost; Mere - wraith'spirit
SIX TOWERS—trade town located in Orvandir, Shand.
SKYRON FOCUS—large aquamarine focus stone, used by the Koriani Senior Circle for their major magic after the loss of the Great Waystone during the rebellion.
pronounced: sky-run
root meaning: skyron - colloquialism for shackle; s'kyr'i'on - literally 'sorrowful fate'
SKYSHTELS—mountain range that runs north and south along the eastern coast of Rathain.
pronounced: sky-shee-ells
root meaning: skyshia - to pierce through; iel - ray
SLTESHENG DHAVI! AYKRAUKITEN KIEL'D'MAER TTEND! - Slinking fool! Scorch your pitiless spirit!
pronounced: slee-shing dah-vee! aye-croak eh-een kee-eld-may-er tee-end
root meaning: sliesheng - slinking; dhavi - fool; aykrauk - to scorch; i'ien - an ill wish sent upon you, by intent; kiel'd'maer - pitiless; tiend - spirit
SOUTHSHIRE—town on the southcoast of Alland, Shand, known for shipbuilding.
pronounced: south-shire
not from the Paravian
sTALEYN—lineage of the Caithdeinen of Shand.
pronounced: stall-ay-en
root meaning: tal - branch; an - one'first 'of the first branch' STARBORN—name for the Fellowship Sorcerers used by the Biedar tribe of Sanpashir.
STORLAINS—mountains dividing the Kingdom of Havish.
pronounced: store-lanes
root meaning: storlient - largest summit, highest divide
STRAKEWOOD—forest in the principality of Deshir, Rathain; site of the battle of Strakewood Forest, where the garrison from Etarra marched against the clans under Steiven s'Valerient and Prince Arithon, in Third Age Year 5638.
pronounced: strayk-wood similar to 'stray wood'
root meaning: streik - to quicken, to seed
SULFIN EVEND—son of the Mayor of Hanshire who holds the post of Alliance Lord Commander under Lysaer s'Ilessid. Spared Lysaer from his dark binding to the Kralovir Necromancers, and in the course of that awakened the talent of his outbred clan lineage: of s'Gannley descent, through Diarin s'Gannley, who was abducted and forced to marry his great grandsire. Bound to the land in Third Age 5670 when he swore a caithdein's oath at Althain Tower as part of his bargain with Enithen Tuer, who in turn imparted the ceremonial knowledge and the Biedar knife used to sever the etheric cords the cult used to enslave victims.
pronounced: sool-finn ev-end
root meaning: suilfinn eiavend - colloquialism, diamond mind 'one w
ho is persistent'
SUNCHILDREN—common name for Athlien Paravians, see entry.
SUNLOOP—a device for augury, wrought by the Fellowship Sorcerer Ciladis, and completed in Third Age 5129, which was designed to reflect the first return of sunlight to Paravia, following the Mistwraith's invasion. s'VALERIENT—family name for the Earls of the North, regents and caithdein for the High Kings of Rathain.
pronounced: val-er-ee-ent
root meaning: vol - straight; erient - spear
TAL QUORIN—river formed by the confluence of watershed on the southern side of Strakewood, principality of Deshir, Rathain, where traps were laid for Etarra's army in the battle of Strakewood Forest, and where the rape and massacre of Deshir's clan women and children occurred under Lysaer and head-hunters under Pesquil's command in Third Age Year 5638.