by Watson Davis
Magesight:
An alteration/extension to human sight that allows the caster to view magical fields and unshielded spells
Material Realms:
The planes of humans
Morrin:
A human southland kingdom bordering the Onei wastes and the ranges of the Icefang, and Broken Ice clans
Multiverse:
The Realms
Nayen:
A human race from a southern continent with powerful magic and powerful armies
Northerner:
The Nayen word describing anyone from the continent the Onei call Dotolu
Oneday:
The first day of the week
Onei:
A hybrid human race unique to the Dotolu continent magically altered to survive in cold and high altitudes
Orc:
A hybrid human race unique to the infernal Realms, with different skin tones and tusk configurations based on their origin
Pa lis rowlai:
A magical command
Pike:
A long pole-weapon used by foot soldiers
Pipit:
A small songbird
Priggo:
Useless weaklings in an orcan tongue
Realms:
Planes of existence containing one or more worlds, each with specific gods and magical proclivities
Rus:
A human southland kingdom bordering the Onei wastes and the ranges of the Skybears, Brightfoxes, and Icefangs
Sand tiger:
A species of tiger of the Ohkrulon desert
Shria:
The southernmost kingdom on the Dotolu continent
Skybear:
An Onei clan with Ehan the Skybear as their principle deity
Snow tiger:
A tiger magically adapted to live in the snow and ice
Snowfox:
White arctic foxes
Southlander:
An Onei term for the human kingdoms and principalities on their continent south of the Onei Wastes
Spellsword:
Soldiers in the Nayen Imperial army capable of limited magic use
Stone:
An elemental Realm
Summoning:
The magical act of transporting creatures from one Realm to another
Tesoro:
Once a kingdom of the southern continent but a long-time province of the various Nayen empires
The Summoned:
A creature magically transported from one Realm to another, normally to perform a specific function or job
Timyiskil:
A human city on the Hafbergen coast
Turning:
Occurs when a person’s soul flees their body and they are converted into a wight
Wight:
A human whose soul has fled but the body has remained animated normally because of a curse or infernal spell, or because of the wickedness of the soul originally living in the body
Wind:
An elemental Realm
Wyrm:
A degenerate dragon species with wings and hind-legs; Ice-wyrms are particular to the Onei wastes, having scales of white, silver, or blue for camouflage.
Cast List
Abbess Agano:
An aged healer and priestess from Nayengim, stationed in Shria and Hafbergen from an early age
Agholor:
A Shrian sword-master who fights for Arcled and the Ghostwalkers
Aissal:
A coulven healer summoned from her world by the Morrin to help fight against the infernal encroachment on a non-infernal Realm
Aram:
A human of Arcled’s Ghostwalkers
Archbishop Diyune:
A religious leader of the Nayen empire
Arcled:
An orc summoned to fight as a lieutenant for the Nayen empire who styles his group as the Ghostwalkers
Bard:
A reindeer of the Brightfox clan
Brantha:
An Onei slave girl of the Greathouse clan working at the Trowel and Hammer inn
Caldane:
An Onei shaman-in-training of the Brightfox clan
Cole:
Prince of Morrin, Silmon’s younger brother
Collean:
A woman in Timyiskil
Daran:
An Onei of the Skybear clan
Darila:
An Onei slave girl of the Greathouse
Darril:
A guard/sergeant
Dayjro:
A mid-level Tesoran healing-master at Diyune’s monastery
Drema:
One of Arcled’s Ghostwalkers
Dyuh-mon:
A Nayen mage
Eddard:
An Onei shaman of the Brightfox clan
Enita:
A reindeer of the Brightfox clan
Farara Icefang:
One of the Queens of Windhaven
Fi Cheen:
A monk from Nayengim, Overseer of Diyune’s monastery’s slaves
Firgal:
An orc guard
Fosler:
Rucker’s father, Silverhewer’s brewmaster, once a resident of Timyiskil
Frontin:
Junior Deputy of Fizer
Gartan:
The empress’ Onei assassin
General Esmela Silverhewer:
A General of the Nayen empire
Gerom:
A Skybear shaman
Glesener:
Minister of Fizer
Gonnar Highsmith:
An orc Ghostwalker
Haral:
A southlander trader
Huber:
A Nayen monk
Iacobel:
Horse-rancher and farmer of Fizer who works directly for Lord Kye-harue of Nayen
Joosten:
Fizerian, daughter of the owners of the Elderberry Inn
Karisa:
Onei slave girl of the Ironserpent clan
Kouba:
An orc of Arcled’s Ghostwalkers
Kye-harue:
Nayen nobleman charged with the administration of the Shrian district containing Fizer
Lenya:
An Onei huntress of the Brightfox clan
Lo Yogui:
The Overseer before Fi Cheen
Lollingworth:
A human lieutenant of the Nayen empire from Shria
Lyi Mum:
Governor of Nutath Behdoka of Nayen
Lyu-ra:
A monk from Nayengim, junior assistant to the Overseer
Martee:
A southlander citizen of Fizer
Mistress Pleshe:
A coulven healer summoned from her world by the Morrin to help fight against the infernal encroachment on a non-infernal Realm
Mokos the Wise:
A king of Windhaven
Noami Eshon:
One of Diyune’s bishops and a master magician
Otton:
A human guard
Renaud:
Sheriff of Fizer
Ruag:
One of Arcled’s men
Rucker:
A boy from Timyiskil
Silmon:
Crown prince of Morrin, also used as an alias by Caldane
Soti:
A master at the monastery in charge of student assignments
Spot:
A palomino gelding from Fizer
Standon:
A cobbler’s slave in Fizer
Surto:
A human lieutenant of the Nayen empire from Tesoro
Syo-see:
A monk from Nayengim, senior assistant to the Overseer
Tethan the Great:
Founder and ruler of the Onei Kingdom of Windhaven
Trillas:
Senior Deputy of Fizer
Valen:
An Onei of the Skybear clan
Vellin:
The creature who rules the Nayen empire as their empress
Werens
:
A Greathouse shaman
Zee:
A reindeer of the Brightfox clan
Watson Davis discovered fantasy and science fiction, magic and technology, Isaac Asimov and Robert E. Howard, when he was a young impressionable boy in Houston, Texas. He wrote his first robot apocalypse short story at eleven, delved many a dungeon and battled many a vampire while pursuing a degree in mathematics, and penned books of swords and sorcery and military space opera. He now lives in Spain in a villa overlooking the Mediterranean.
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