by James Enge
Aruukaiaduun ("Rope makers"): One of the original three treaty packs; they predominate on Nekkuklendon; their colors are blue and gold.
Dhaarnaiarnon: volcano north of Wuruyaaria.
Dhuskudheiu: Goweiteiuun cantor, later singer on the Innermost Pack.
Ekhaiasuteiuun ("the border-runners"): name of the outliers on admission to the treaty; electoral colors are green and gold.
gnyrrand ("growler"): leader of a pack's electoral band in a Year of Choosing.
Goweiteiuun ("Ghost-hunters"): the original treaty pack (so they claim); they predominate on Iuiunioklendon; electoral colors are blue and red.
harven coruthen ("chosen-not-given"): a Dwarvish term for voluntary associations as strong as blood kinship.
Hlupnafenglu ("Steals-your-food"): insane never-wolf, irredeemable; later: Morlock's apprentice.
Hrutnefdhu ("Skinmaker"): a castrato who served as trustee in the Vargulleion.
Hurs krakna (untranslatable): a Dwarvish expression of surprise or dismay.
Hwinsyngundu: cantor in the Sardhluun electoral band.
Iacomes: non-werewolf who created the Vargulleion.
Iolildhio: pimp in Dogtown.
Iuiolliniu: easily bewildered outlier guard.
Iuiunioklendon: second-highest mesa of Wuruyaaria; the Goweiteiuun predominate.
Khretnurrliu ("Man Slayer"): bestial semiwolf killed by Morlock in the Vargulleion.
Khretvarrgliu ("Beast Slayer"): the name given Morlock by the irredeemables for killing Khretnurrliu.
Khuwuleion ("the Stone Lair"): prison for female citizens kept by the Sardhluun.
Lakkasulakku: inept thief, later Morlock's apprentice.
Lekkativengu ("Clawfinger"): irredeemable semiwolf; chosen as backup by Olleiulu.
Liudhleeo ("Remembers-best"): healer of the outlier pack; mate of Hrutnefdhu; friend to Wuinlendhono.
Liuunurriu: semiwolf book vendor in the Shadow Market.
Luyukioronu Longthumbs: inept artist and murderer; capable forger.
Naaleiyaleiu: Goweiteiuun cantor, later singer on the Innermost Pack.
Neiuluniu: bookie who cheats Lakkasulakku.
Nekkuklendon: third mesa of Wuruyaaria; the Aruukaiaduun predominate.
never-wolf: (1) a human being (i.e., a non-werewolf); (2) a slur for werewolves who never assume the night shape.
Neyuwuleiuun ("Lair-weavers"): One of the original three treaty packs; they predominate on Runaiaklendon; electoral colors are red and green.
nightwalker: a werewolf unable to assume the day shape.
Norianduiu: Aruukaiaduun gnyrrand.
Okhurokratu: white-haired city watcher.
Olleiulu ("One-eye"): Rokhlenu's right-hand semiwolf among the irredeemables.
Orlioiulu: dog-faced bookie in Dogtown.
plepnup (plural: plepnupov): a castrated werewolf.
Rogerius: a bronze head in the workshop of lacomes.
Rokhlenu ("Dragonkiller"): born Slenkjariu in the Aruukaiaduun Pack.
Ruiulanhro: runs a smoking den among the outliers.
Rululawianu: yellow semiwolf who escapes on New Year's Night.
Runaiaklendon: fourth and lowest mesa of Wuruyaaria; the Neyuwuleiuun predominate.
Runhuiulanhu: ape-fingered irredeemable.
ruthen coharven ("given-not-chosen"): a Dwarvish term for blood relatives.
Rywudhaariu: the gray eminence of the Aruukaiaduun, who framed Rokhlenu.
Sardhluun ("Bear-killers"): the fourth treaty pack; electoral colors are black and green.
Skuiulaalu: First Singer when the novel begins.
Slenginhuiuo ("Fur-like-silk"): Wuinlendhono's mother.
Slenkjariu ("Fur-like-wires"): Rokhlenu's name before he killed the dragon.
Snekknafenglu: thug-for-hire.
Snellingu: scar-faced City Watcher.
Spilloiu ("Spot"): pet human in an easy reader.
Taakhyteiu: a fast werewolf, irredeemable.
Ullywuino: prostitute in Dogtown.
Ulugarriu ("Ghosts-in-the-eyes"): legendary immortal maker of Wuruyaaria.
Uyaarwuionien ("third half-lunation of the second moon"): Brenting, the third month
Vargulleion ("the Beasts' Lair"): prison for male citizens; kept by the Sardhluun.
vifna: a term in Moonspeech meaning roughly "gall; nerve; an impressive disregard for norms."
werowance: presides over internal pack affairs.
Wuinlendhono ("Born-in-dark-call"): first wolf of the outlier pack (later the Ekhaiasuteiuun or "border-runners").
Wurnafenglu ("Moon-stealer"): prison-commander; gnyrrand of the Sardhluun electoral band.
Wuruklendon: first and highest mesa of Wuruyaaria, where the Well of Shadows and the Stone Tree are located.
Yaarirruuiu: irredeemable; later Rokhlenu's campaign reeve; still later a singer on the Innermost Pack.
ames Enge lives with his children in northwest Ohio, where he teaches classics at a medium-sized public university. His short fiction has appeared in Swords and Dark Magic (Eos, 2010), in the magazine Black Gate, and elsewhere. His previous novels are Blood of Ambrose (Pyr, 2009), which was listed on Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading for 2009, and This Crooked Way (Pyr, 2009).
*A "bright call" is the time (roughly 7.5 days) when Trumpeter, the smallest and fastest moon, is aloft. See appendix A on calendar and astronomy.
Table of Contents
One: Council of the Gods
Two: Death by Water
Three: The Vargulleion
Four: Undying
Five: Visitors
Six: Dragonkiller
Seven: Words
Eight: Eyeless Night
Nine: Madness
Ten: Method
Eleven: New Year's Night
Twelve: The Outliers
Thirteen: The Sardhluun Standard
Fourteen: Fund-Raising
Fifteen: Quarry
Sixteen: Offers Made; Offers Refused
Seventeen: Fight and Bite
Eighteen: Wisdom at World's End
Nineteen: Electrum
Twenty: A Long Night
Twenty-one: Night Shapes
Twenty-two: The Shadow Market
Twenty-three: War in the Air
Twenty-four: Shadow and Substance
Twenty-five: Friends and Foes
Twenty-six: Death of a Citizen
Twenty-seven: Long Shots
Twenty-eight: The Stone Tree
Twenty-nine: Election Results
Thirty: Makers Meet
Thirty-one: Plans and Devices
Thirty-two: Last Words
Appendix A: Calendar and Astronomy
Appendix B: Names and Terms
It was the last bright call*