Jesolon
One of Kalink’s neighbors. Skif used part of his wall to scale Kallnk’s wall. (TT)
Jess
Bandit, part of Rendan’s gang of ambushers. He was slain by Vanyel. (LHM)
Jessamine
Kestra’chern. Amberdrake considered her as a replacement for Silver Veil, who would have to retire from public service once she married Shalaman. (Gryphon)
Jessamine
Botanical that covers the bitter taste of sleep herbs put in tea. (Gryphon)
Jesto-vath
A shielding spell which seals out bad weather and heats the Interior of a tent or room. Kethry set one around the Sunhawks’ infirmary as well as the tent she and Tarma shared. (Oath)
Jethry
An orphaned gypsy baby, temporarily adopted by Ifor Smithwright of Berrybay. Talia placed the child with the mindhealed Weatherwitch Maeven, curing her guilt and soothing her loss after the death of her own infant. (Arrows)
Jewel
Hertasi assisting the Healers in Ka’venusho. (Gryphon)
Jewel Merchants’ Guild
They employed Justin Twoblade and his shieldbrother Ikan Dryvale as caravan guards. (Oath)
Jiles
A hedge-mage with Lord Leamount’s forces. He and fellow mage Oreden went with the Sunhawks along the secret trail around the Jkathan rebels’ stronghold. (Oath)
Jillian
Inane, flirtatious young woman residing at Haven. Vanyel hoped her father would marry her off soon because she had no common sense, the moral fiber of a hound in heat, and if left to her own devices would sleep her way around the Court. (LHM)
Jillian (Herald)
A Herald with a reputation for being sexually enthusiastic. (Arrows)
Jinian
Hawksnest youngster, age twelve, a budding orator who took herself a bit too seriously. Tarina’s granny-story about the Snow Demon scared her, and perhaps taught her a lesson. (Oath)
Jirkin (Herald-trainee)
Herald-trainee. (BB)
Jisa (Herald)
Vanyel’s daughter by King’s Own Herald Shavri. The world believed Jisa was King Randale’s child out of wedlock. He and Shavri kept secret the fact that Randale was sterile, in case a royal marriage alliance should present itself. Though Shavri was lifebonded to Randale, she desperately wanted a child, so Vanyel conspired with the pair to fulfill her desire. Jisa’s empathic Gifts began manifesting when she was only six. She matured into a levelheaded and very determined young woman who made up her mind to marry Treven, the Heir Presumptive. Eventually she became King’s Own Herald, and Queen Consort, but the moment of her Choosing was put off because her mother’s Companion Taver would Choose her on her mother’s death. (LHM)
Jisette Jelnack
Tyron’s mother, wife of the Silversmith Guildmaster. She became obsessed with punishing Lavan after her son’s death, refusing to accept the truth of Tyron’s cruelties. When she became uncontrollable, King Theran held Judgment and sentenced her to lifetime confinement in the Cloister of Kernos Sequestered. (BB)
Jkatha
The country south of Rethwellan, it borders the Dhorisha Plains. Its capitol is Throne City. It was ruled by Queen Sursha who needed the help of the Sunhawks to help her regain the throne from her greedy brother-in-law. Kethry was from Mournedealth in Jkatha and Kata’shin’a’in is also located in that country. (Oath, Winds)
Jo
Villager Phellip’s small son. Like many others, Jo believed war was exciting and glorious, but Vanyel showed him how terrible and personal it really was. (LHM)
Jodi
Sleepy-eyed, deceptively quiet Sunhawk scout. A pale blonde aristocratic mapmaker, her other specialties were subterfuge and assassination. A good knife-fighter and archer, she avoided positions of command. Her mount, Lightfoot, was a grey mare with battlesteed blood. Jodi was one of the infiltrators who sought a back door to the Jkathan rebels’ stronghold. She retired and became a horsetalker. (Oath)
Jodri
One of Bazie’s former gang members who moved south to be on his own. (TT)
Joffer
One of the White Gryphon mages summoned by Snowstar to search magically for Tad and Silverblade. (Gryphon)
Joffrey (Captain)
Leader of the Wolfling’s mercenary company. (Oath, Sword)
Johen
A herald trainee assigned to act as Ulrich’s aide while the ambassador was at the Palace. (Storm)
Jolene (Companion)
Companion of Herald Evan. (BB)
Jon
Guard posted in the New Palace wing, which holds the Queen’s and Court’s suites. (Arrows)
Jon Hapkins
Proprietor of the Virgin and Stars Tavern. (Arrows)
Jonis Revelath
The legal counsel for half the high-ranking nobility of Mornedealth and Ikan Dryvale’s father. (Oath)
Jonaton
An elderly mage, bent and wizened. Part of one of the new groups put together to defend Valdemar, he was teamed with a Herald and a Sun-priest. (Winds)
Jonne
Border Guardsman who guided Vanyel through unfamiliar territory and later became the Herald-Mage’s lover for a time. An accomplished fighter, Jonne was described as “rather sweet” by Yfandes. (LHM)
Jonny
Former entertainer at Bel’s Inn of the Green Man in Highjorune. As Minstrel Renfry told Vanyel, Bel broke the boy’s hands out of pique, ruining his livelihood. Renfry used that sad event to warn Vanyel, who was replacing Jonny, to watch himself when Bel was in one of her drunken rages. (LHM)
Jonotan (Herald)
One of the younger Heralds whose recent circuit had taken him on patrol at Lake Evendim. He joined Pol’s group for supper in the Collegium. (BB)
Jons
One of Lord Leamount’s sentries. He was ordered to fetch Leamount’s squire in order to round up food and drink for Tarma after her grueling search for a secret trail. (Oath)
Jonti
A young dyheli stag who, with his twin Larak, volunteered to go along on Darian and Wintersky’s forest tracking search. (Owl)
Joserlin Corby
A dissolute young lord, leader of a gang of palace rogues. One of Corby’s crew was used as a tool to ensnare the naive Princess Elspeth into a potential blackmail situation. (Arrows)
Joserlin Corveau
A fosterling at Lord Withen Ashkevron’s keep, he was adopted as heir by Withen’s cousin. Joserlin was sent to Forst Reach to learn how to govern the family holdings. (LHM)
Joshe (Herald)
The Seneschal’s Herald to King Randale, and not comfortable in the position. Young and nervous, he often asked others to check his figures before he reported to the Council. His Companion was Kimbry. (LHM)
Jostumal
Shin’a’in term meaning enemy, literally, “one desiring (your) blood.’ (Oath)
Journeyman Mage
Lower in rank and in magical powers than an Adept or Master, able to use only personal power for magics, rather than tapping into external energy sources. (Oath, LHM, Winds)
Journeyman spell
A self-testing promotion spell of the White Winds School, it calls upon the mage’s personal power and the Lesser Wind of Fire and Earth, the Stable Elements. If that wind rises from the south, it’s a good omen. It circles the mage three times and leaves more power than it took to bring it into being. (Oath)
Judeth (General)
The daughter of a stonemason, she was commander of the Fifth Company during the Urtho’s War. Loyal to the end and beyond, she was the highest ranking officer to come through the Kaled’a’in Gates before the Cataclysm. In its aftermath, she became the military Leader of Amberdrake’s group of refugees and resolved to find them a home that never could be taken by siege. It was Judeth who proposed building a new city of Cliffside terraces on the coast of the Western Sea, a city that would be known as White Gryphon. Later, she helped create the Silvers and became a member of the council. (Gryphon)
/> Judgement
The reading, interpretation, and enforcement of the laws of Valdemar. On rare occasions, the King may hold a public Judgment, as happened in the case of Jisette Jelnack’s insane obsession with Lavan. (BB)
Jumay (Guildmaster)
Gulidmaster and Council member who complained because Vanyel’s plan of recruitment for the military forces was taking so long to produce a seasoned army. (LHM)
Justen
One of the artificer students helping with the boiler project. He was the most seriously injured when the boiler exploded, and lost his legs below the knees. Always enthusiastic, as soon as he had partially recovered, he began making plans for building replacement prostheses. (Storm)
Justen (Herald-Mage)
A Herald-Mage whose Prime Focus stone was a ruby. He was part of the Guardian Web in Vanyel’s time. (LHM)
Justice Glyph
A mage sign that appears above the head of one on whom justice has been rendered. Kethry used a justice glyph to sign her work on Lastel Longknife. She judged him a rapist and cast an illusion upon him to make him appear as a woman. The glyph prevented another mage from taking off the spell. (Oath)
Justin Twoblades
A free-lancer who worked for the Jewel Merchants’ Guild, and a former member of Idra’s mercenary company, he was a weathered-looking blond with short hair. He was shield-brother to Ikan Dryvale. Hadell of the Broken Sword Inn led both men to where Tarma was engaged in weapons practice. Justin offered to pay her for lessons, and after some discussion, she agreed. After helping put Stefan on the throne in Rethwellan, he became an instructor in fighting at Tarma’s school. His wife was Estrel. (Oath)
Justus
Taila’s older brother, a golden-haired angel in appearance, though a sadist who scarred her hand with a poker when she was only nine years old. He was later killed during a border raid a year or two after Talia was Chosen. His cruelty, and the refusal of the Holderkin adults to believe Talia’s side of the burning incident, taught her to be excessively cautious when she went to the Collegium. She was fearful of ever trusting adults again and was especially wary of handsome men, such as herald Kris. (Arrows)
Justyn
Wizard of Errold’s Grove. A true Mage during the war, he was injured during an heroic stand. He never fully recovered from his head wound, and could no longer use the earth- and Mind-magics that he had formerly used reliably. Sent to Valdemar’s frontier, he served Errold’s Grove as healer and hedge-wizard. A thin, dark man, he sounded pleasant but tired to his young apprentice, Darian Firkin. Justyn seemed to Darian to be a failed and pitiable old pensioner. But when the Blood Bear barbarians attacked the town, Justyn marshalled enough of his old powers to delay the tribe at the bridge with a Final Strike, trying to give the villagers time to escape, and nobly and willingly sacrificing himself to that end. Errold’s Grove erected a statue in his memory. (Owl)
Jylen
Hertasi Lyam’s lady friend/lover. (Storm)
Jyllian
One of the numerous fosterlings and cousins living at Forst Reach in Vanyel’s youth. (LHM)
Kadessa
A grasslands rodent so greedy that, given a surplus of food, it would eat itself to death. It is also known for hoarding anything and everything it finds in its nest tunnels. The term “kadessa” is an insult, implying that one is an avaricious miser. (Oath)
Kaika
A Bard and the daughter of Herald Pol and Healer Ilea. (BB)
Kala
A Ghost Cat warrior who shared in the sweat lodge adoption ceremony with Darian and Herald Anda. (Owl)
Kalanel
The name of the Consort-Goddess of Sunlord Vkandis, her worship disappeared from Karse many years ago, and her statue has vanished from its place beside Vkandis in the Temples. (Storm)
Kalink
A rich grain merchant Skif robbed. The man had very little sense and kept a trophy wife and a mistress. Skif broke into his home and robbed his wife of most of her jewelry. (TT)
Kava
A hot beverage popular with Hardornens and at Tremane’s camp in Shonar. (Storm)
Kal she li de’gande, orm she li de’gande
A Shin’a’in oath between close friends, it translates to “I swear my sword to you. I swear my hand to you.” Kira, Jadrie, and Meri swear this oath to each other before the twins are kidnapped. (Oath)
Kalchan Galko
Skif’s cousin and Londer’s eldest son. He ran the Hollybush tavern until he was injured in a raid there, He died three months later while in the prison infirmary, never waking up from his coma. (TT)
Kaled’a’in
After the Great War and Cataclysm, they divided into two groups, under the direction of their Goddess, to become the Shin’a’in and the Tayledras. She asked the Shin’a’in to take stewardship of the Dhorisha Plains because they shunned magic and would not be tempted to use Urtho’s magic devices which were buried in the heart of the Plains. The Goddess gave the Tayledras the job of using magic to cleanse the Pelagiris and lands west of Lake Evendim, lands that were tainted by the sorcery of the Great War. Partnered with specially bred bondbirds, the Tayledras created Heartstones, which collected and tamed the mage-energies of damaged areas and built protected Vales where they lived until the area was safe. They then drained the Heartstone and relocated elsewhere, beginning the cleansing process anew. (BV)
Kaled’a’in Lady
A term for the Goddess, otherwise known as the Star-Eyed (Gryphon)
Kaled’a’in Messenger Bird
Colorful, small, chattering counterparts of the hummingbirds who carry messages for the Tayledras. (Owl)
Kal’enedral
Called Swordsworn by outClansmen, their name actually means both Children of the Sword and Her Sword Brothers. Blood feud is forbidden within the Clans and only Kal’enedral are permitted to take vengeance on outlanders. They swear oath in the following order: First, in service to the Goddess of the New Moon and South Wind; Second to the Clans as a whole; and third to their particular Clan. The Swordsworn to the service of Kal’enel, the Goddess as Warrior, wear dark brown garb unless on blood feud, in which case they are clad all in black. Certain special Kal’enedral wear midnight blue. They are sworn not only to the Goddess as Warrior but also to the Crone and they serve all the clans. They are referred to as Scroll-sworn, and guard the Wisdom of the Shin’a’in, the clans’ collective memories, woven by shamans through thousands of years into rugs that convey the thoughts and emotions of the weavers. The vows of the Swordsworn of all kinds demand them to be chaste and celibate. The Kal’enedral train nightly with the Veiled Ones, the leshya’e Kal’enedral, spirits of Swordsworn who have died, but who continue to manifest in this world to serve their Goddess. (BV)
Kal’enel
The Warrior aspect of the four-faced Goddess, literally, Sword of the Stars. She is also called Enelve’astre, or Star-Eyed, and Da’gretha or Warrior. (Oath)
Kalinda
Herald Shion’s cousin and an incurable gossip. (Winds)
Kalira (Companion)
Lavan’s Companion and the daughter of Satiran, who was Pot’s Companion. Kalira Chose Lavan when he was in the Healers Sanctuary recovering from burns and trauma. Her Chosen had the Gift of Firestarting, but no control over it. Kalira provided that control by life-bonding to Lavan, the only case of Companion and Chosen lifebond in Valdemar’s history. When a Karsite assassin at the Battle of White Foal Pass killed her, Lavan lost whatever had been holding him in this world and sane. He ravaged the Karsite army and the entire pass in revenge, dying in the resulting FireStorm. (BB)
Kally
A Gryphon in the Silvers and Reesk’s partner. (Gryphon)
Kandace
A middle-aged Healer at the healing Sanctuary and an expert in working with sick children. (Owl)
Kanshin
He was a thief in the Haighlel Empire. His father was a master ditch digger, but Kanshin had no intention of following a career of honest work. He started
as a beggar apprenticed to Jacony, but struck out on his own after the old man planned to maim the boy to make him a more effective mendicant. With treachery and skill, Kanshin worked his way up to a form of power in his chosen field, earning enough from his theft to buy slaves and luxuries. He might have continued undetected if he had not formed a partnership with Noyoki, a man who was plotting to kill his brother the king, and rule in his place. Kanshin sold his services to the traitor and when Noyoki was discovered, Kanshin was also captured and his mind stripped. (Gryphon)
Kantor (Companion)
Companion of weaponsmaster Alberich, (though called Silver in the short story introducing these characters in Horse Fantastic). Disguised as an ordinary white horse, Kantor snuck behind the lines in Karse and rescued Alberich from being burned as a witch, a result of Alberich’s untrained use of his Gift of Foresight. (Arrows)
Karal Austreben
Secretary of the Karsite Ambassador to Valdemar Ulrich and a young Priest of Vkandis he was claimed for thc Sunlord by the Priests when he was nine. Sent to the Children’s Cloister, he demonstrated great scholarly abilities and was chosen as an apprentice by the scholar Ulrich. A true godtouchcd soul, Karal was instrumental in bringing together the disparate elements that eventually united to end the Mage-Storms. He was sent a Firecat, Altra, as a sign of Vkandis’ favor and to help him with the heavy destiny he faced. In the crisis of the Mage-Storms, Karal discovered that he was a Channel, someone able to become a conduit for more magical energy than even an Adept can handle. Karal served as a Channel three times during the struggle to end the Mage-Storms and avert the Cataclysm. The last time, when he held the energies of one of Urtho’s devices, he was blinded as a result. He now teaches at Haven’s Collegium, sharing his knowledge of Karsite culture and language with the Heraldic trainees. (Storm)
Karanel
Two sets of twin gods and goddesses, Kerenal and Dina, Karanel and Dara, appeared in a story told by Need. (Winds)
Karathanelan Jadrevalyn (Prince, Consort)
Prince of Rethwellan, father of Elspeth, first husband of Queen Selenay, son of Megrathon and Irenia. A younger son of the royal house of Rethwellan, he came to Valdemar’s court shortly after Queen Selenay had assumed the throne. She was instantly infatuated with the handsome, cultured young prince and rushed into marriage with him. Trouble soon began when he insisted on reigning as equal consort even though no Companion would Choose him. Karathanelan schemed to become King, despite the law, planning to usurp Selenay’s throne. Thanks to Weaponsmaster Alberich’s Gift of Foresight, Queen Selenay was saved and the plotters who intended to ambush her were killed, among them the Prince himself. The official story was that he and his friends were killed in a hunting accident. FortunateLy, Karathanelan’s brother, King Faramentha of Rethwellan, was willing to accept that account even though he knew the truth. He shed few tears over his despised sibling’s demise, and kept relations between his realm and Valdemar cordial. (Arrows)
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