T’Gor believed different. His plan was to request a special challenge rematch and have Beia throw the fight. He would “kill” her and collect the body as his spoils. Of course, there was the little matter of winning six more fights. With Beia’s additional training and coaching, T’Gor won the six fights and made the special challenge against Beia.
It was this “special challenge bout” that brought Beia to the attention of Aarlen Frielos. Unbeknownst to Beia and T’Gor, the fight had been rigged so BOTH warriors would end up in a three way match and get defeated. This was known to the spectators but not the two warriors. It was Aarlen who made the gave the gift of Tariegron, the great battle blade to Beia right before the fight. The odds ranged from fifty to one to over a hundred-to-one against the two fighters surviving.
The battle was horrendous, invisible block masters, monsters and a host of trickery was turned against them. However, Meridian had not counted on Tariegron’s vorpul edge nor the determination of the two. When the dust had settled they had defeated four Rhinotaurs, a half dozen hidden block masters, and several other fighters. Gasping for breath, facing Meridian’s box the two of them looked up at him defiantly. While Beia stood their glaring at the evil mage, T’Gor stepped back and slammed Beia across the back of the head, knocking her unconscious and “defeating” her for the seventh time. T’Gor claimed her “body” as the spoils. Emotions from this titanic struggle were so high and audience involvement so great that Meridian was forced to release T’Gor who in turn pulled Beia from the arena.
After a brief stint with freedom and recovery, Beia and T’Gor would return to the arena to help others escape the rigged battles including Beia’s younger sister Ess.
On the outside Beia would go through a long recovery and acclimation process. She became “attached” to Cassandra Kel’Ishtauri after serving as bodyguard for her in a few adventures. The gold mage and her friend Dorian would eventually soften the hard exterior of this cold fighting machine and bring out her real emotions and feminine nature.
She would go on to make friends with Talorin Falor, and become the widely regarded teacher of pit fighting techniques. Tal would eventually persuade Beia in backing a campaign to destroy all of Meridian’s arenas.
Years later she would meet and grow close to Aarlen Frielos.
See Also: Falor, Talorin {Tal}, Felspar, Cassandra Kel’Ishtauri
tarkath — Combat and engineer grade rank in the Kriar military equal to a rear admiral. See also Kriar Ranks.
See Also: kriar, kriar ranks
Tarrantil, Bertram — Active member of the Shael Dal wielding the honorary Shaladen weapon Golnir. Bertram is the high Justicar of Ukko, the highest ranking law upholding religious figure on the continent of Sharikar. Bertram is married to Desiray Illkaren Felspar for particular political reasons too complicated to enumerate here. Desiray is also married to Loric Felspar and Brin Ishtarvariku. Bertram has six birth children from a previous marriage to Thamara Narrimar. Recently Bertram married Val’siden D’Tarin (the daughter of Lord Algernon D’Tarin). Bertram has close to thirty adopted sons and daughters.
See Also: D’Tarin, Algernon, Felspar, Desiray Illkaren, Felspar, Loric, shaladen
Techstar, Ivral — Ivral Techstar is the youngest of the Kriar at (only 156,000 years old). Like the rest of her people she was cursed with infertility and sense deprivation by the Jyril. Complex genetic locks prevented the Kriar from cloning or engineering away the reproductive and sensory disorder. To ensure race survival Kriar extended their lives until a normal reproductive and evolutionary cycle could begin again. In early 1078 N.I.S Cassandra Kel’Ishtauri Felspar cured the Kriar gene lock using the power of Eternity.
Ivral Techstar had previously come in contact with Cassandra because she had been seeking the Kriar’s help in apprehending a rogue Kriar warrior (and political leader) named Daergon Surr. Also during that time Cassandra was still adjusting to the Kriar power matrixes that she had acquired during the quest against Hellzan. The stones had been “healing” her—the end result being a slow metamorphosis to Kriar physiology.
Through Ivral, Cassandra learned about the Jyril curse. She eventually decided to assist the race in reclaiming their normal evolution. A year later she did succeed and became an instant hero amongst the Kriar people. The Kriar government however was wary of Cassandra, this (to them) virtual infant had overcome in a single year what they had spent a thousand millennia trying to defeat. It was decided that a guardian should be assigned to the mage. Ivral being the youngest Kriar, and already knowing Cassandra, was selected to be that liaison. It was decided that “adoption” was the best way to give Cassandra legal citizenship on Homeworld and further assist in the Kriar hierarchy in keeping track of this powerful mage.
Though initially the adoption was a matter of convenience, Ivral eventually came to know and care for Cassandra. After many millennia of being unable to reproduce, the Kriar psyche is rather preoccupied with procreation and child- rearing. To someone a thousand millennia old, Cassandra is still a child. Ivral by stages became in function as well as name—Cassandra’s mother. Dame Techstar (Ivral’s birth mother), eventually became infatuated with her grand-child mostly because of Cassandra’s daughters (Cassin and Annawen) who were children (in human terms) and born Kriar.
The Techstar family has profited enormously by Cassandra’s addition to their ranks, as the mage’s “star status” among Kriar is worth a great deal in favors, media deals, and other “celebrity status” benefits. This, of course, certainly hasn’t hurt Cassandra’s popularity among the members of her adoptive family.
See Also: Felspar, Annawen Kel’Ishtauri, Felspar, Cassandra Kel’Ishtauri, Felspar, Cassin Kel’Ishtauri, Kirikos, Dame, kriar
telepathic — The ability to communicate via mental projection. The capabilities of telepaths ranges from simple impressions that can only be communicated across a room to creatures like the Eternals and pantheon lords that can physically control several creatures across interstellar distances.
telepathy — The ability to project / communicate via mental energies. See telepathic.
See Also: mindspeak
teleport — The act of teleporting. See teleportation.
teleportation — Magical teleportation was originally developed by Mandrimin (c.f.). The simple explanation is that it is a magical process which allows instantaneous transport between two locations. For the technical mage, teleportation involves two phases, the first being the extraction a simulcraic derivation of the source matter from chaotic space, then a fractal compression of the interpolated particulate helices is performed. The corresponding magical data is then compact enough to do matter / energy exchange with the target locale where the simulcra are reconstructed into their approximations. Note that the source and destination are no longer the same, but extremely accurate approximations created out of the templates located in mathematical space. [Complicated isn’t it? That’s why it takes special training to be a mage! ]
temporal — Of or pertaining to Time.
tenday — Like it sounds—ten days.
Teritaani — A human-like elder race that live in the remote parts of the Ring Realms. Aarlen Frielos is a notable member of the Teritaani.
Terranath, Damrosil — Damrosil is a 2nd generation member of the Band of the Crescent Moon. She has freebooted across many planets and participated in numerous adventures. Damrosil was a longtime companion of Tiernia Nirvanae and the two of them had numerous encounters with the Dream Merchants and their operatives. Damrosil and Tiernia grew apart in their later years as Tiernia settled down to build a bard school. Damrosil went on to fight in the Arcturan Death Spectacles and made the acquaintance of Beia Targallae.
Damrosil escaped the arena and shortly thereafter assumed leadership of the Jhandris’Kul clan of Myrigynes. Several years later, Beia also escaped the spectacles and returned to her home among the clans. Itching to begin adventuring again, Damrosil willingly stepped down from her seat as queen and gave the p
osition to Beia. It was shortly after this period that the Eternal Yi began the reformation of the Protectorate with the help of Cassandra Kel’Ishtauri Felspar. By that time, Damrosil had already found the Shaladen blade Cybersong. Since Damrosil had bonded with the weapon, and few better warriors existed, the protectorate asked her to join their ranks. Damrosil accepted. Damrosil has the distinction of being the first of the indoctrinated warriors of the Shael Dal.
Tournament details: All-World’s Tournament of 1089, winner 14th circle, All-World’s Tournament of 1093, winner 15th circle, placed in top 10 of unlimited play in 5 entered tournaments. Damrosil is a veteran tournament warrior with over 312 victories at various ranks. She spent some years in the Arcturan Death Spectacles and has trained extensively with Beia Targallae. Beia and Damrosil often compete in tag-team unlimited class tournament play. When together they have never failed to place below the top 10.
See Also: Felspar, Cassandra Kel’Ishtauri, shaladen, Targalle, Beia {Regaura} (Queen)
Titaan — One of the core worlds of the Ring Realms, the planet from which the Band of the Crescent Moon hails (among others).
titles/honorifics — There are many uses of title and honorifics in the fiction of the Ring Realms. This chart lists most of them collectively.
Titles/Honorifics/Styles
Rank/Title:
Arminwen
Translation/Address:
High Daughter
Notes/Description:
Elvish style. Used to address a princess. The word ‘Arminwen’ is similar to arwen and comes from the same roots, ‘ari’ which is girl, wen which is a shortening of wenna’fal which is ‘child of’. Min in elvish means high. So, the literal translation is high girl child.
Rank/Title:
Arwen
Translation/Address:
Daughter
Notes/Description:
Elvish style. The word ‘arwen’ is really an elven variant of their word for daughter which is ‘ari-wenna’—ari is girl, wenna is a shortening of wenna’fal which is ‘child of’. Arwen is used contextually as a title of respect to woman who is of lesser rank. Kalindinai addresses Wren as Arwen because she is the daughter of a Duke.
Rank/Title:
Baron/Baroness
Translation/Address:
The Right Honourable
Notes/Description:
The style for Baron/Baroness is usually spoken “The Right Honorable Lord/Lady…” Mostly, this is to distiguish this rank from a the simple address “milord/milady”
Rank/Title:
Count/Countess
Translation/Address:
Milord/Milady
Notes/Description:
The address form “My Lord” or “My Lady” or simply “Lord” or “Lady” is a catch-all term of respect especially in situations where peerage becomes muddled. In the Ring Realms, mages, clerics of power along with immorts share an unspoken peerage even if they do not have an official given title.
Rank/Title:
Dom’Ista
Translation/Address:
Father of Power
Notes/Description:
This title is exclusive to the Elves.
Rank/Title:
Dukes/Duchesses
Translation/Address:
Grace (Highness)
Notes/Description:
Depending on region, a Duke/Duchess may be addressed as ‘your grace’ in rare instances as ‘your highness’. In most kingdoms in the Ring Realms act as regional governors that answer to the King. Note: that the City of Cosmodarus from which Wren hails, her father and mother carry the the title Duke and Duchess. The population of Cosmodarus alone is actually larger than the biggest Kingdom on Titaan. However, Cosmodarus is a free city, and has no rulership over other lands. Vanidaar and Euriel being the high-generals of the defending army were given the honorific of Duke and Duchess to accord them (and identify) the level of respect they deserved. Before they were given higher titles Vanidaar and Euriel held the titles Baron and Baroness. As neither of them is particularly pretentious they often go by their lesser titles and consider it no slight when addressed by them. They are quite often mistakenly identified and introduced by these lower titles.
Rank/Title:
Emperors/Empresses
Translation/Address:
Imperial Majesty
Notes/Description:
On Titaan the only dynasties to ever exist were in Silissia and Pedon. None currently exist. A dynasty is a conglomerate of multiple kingdoms and are sometimes known as empires or alliances.
Rank/Title:
Elven Peerage
Translation/Address:
N/A
Notes/Description:
Because of the age of the elven language and it’s decent from the common roots of the Numinorians and Silcanna, Elven honorifics are used by many races and cultures as a form of “common peerage”. The Elven dialect and its nuances are considered to be “noble” or “educated” tongue particularly appropriate to diplomacy and tact.
Rank/Title:
Governor/High Commissioner/Prime Minister/Secretary-general
Translation/Address:
Excellency
Notes/Description:
A number of high government positions use the style “excellency” and like milord/milady it is something of a catch-all when the correct style is not known by the addressor. ‘Your Excellency’ is actually the correct style when addressing Euriel and Vanidaar Kergatha, the Baron and Baroness who govern the city state of Cosmodarus.
Rank/Title:
Grand Dukes/Grand Duchesses
Translation/Address:
Royal Highness
Notes/Description:
On Titaan, only Corwin has this title (who ranks just below the king). It is a lesser used title because a kingdom must be large enough to have enough Dukes that a second organizational tier is necessary beneath the King. This level of title is typically only used in dynasties where regions within neighboring kingdoms have a sort of governing regional sub-king.
Rank/Title:
King/Queen (Elven)
Translation/Address:
Dom’Ista/Matradomma
Notes/Description:
Means “father of power”, somewhat close to all father. Matradomma is quite literally ‘mother of mothers’. Domma is the respectful form of address to older woman or a woman of higher station.
Rank/Title:
King/Queen (Human)
Translation/Address:
Majesty
Notes/Description:
There are variants of this style used in various kingdoms and on the different worlds of the realms but ‘your majesty’ is the most common form of address.
Rank/Title:
Matradomma
Translation/Address:
mother of mothers
Notes/Description:
This title is only used by the Elves.
See Also: dom’ista, Myrgul, Duke, Matradomma, T’Evagduran, Kalindinai (Queen)
Tradeholme, Edmund (King) — King of the realm of Ivaneth.
Tymoril — Dragon that traveled with Kegari. She accompanies Bannor extensively while he is in Gladshiem. See also Kegari.
See Also: dragon
— U —
Ukko — Pantheon lord, god of the atmosphere and lord of the Vanir. Ukko is to the Vanir what Odin is to the Aesir. Laramis and Irodee serve Ukko as avatars.
See Also: De’Falcone, Irodee, De’Falcone, Laramis
— V —
Vale, Corim Erik — Corim Vale is a well-known tournament competitor, scholar, and treasure hunter. He is also a devotee in the ways of Mataya, following the lore-knight’s code of ethics. In 1094 at the Blackstar Tournament he was overall winner in three events. He has an exceptional tournament record spanning 253 bouts, 211 victories, 31 draws, with only 12 losses.
For several cycles Corim toured the tournament circuit, using his winnings to further his studies and finance his trea
sure hunting. In the various tournament towns he would tell stories, pass along information, and teach on various subjects making him known as a kind of pseudo-bard.
As a solo adventurer he was moderately successful, not easily able to penetrate deeply into the wild lands without the support of an entire exploration group. All of the magic items in his personal arsenal are the result of those explorations. Corim’s solo treks in the wilderness were sharply curtailed when he ran afoul of a large and rather irritable green dragon. The creature did it’s best to eat him but soon found his sharp sword and tournament honed strength made him a rather unpalatable meal. The encounter left scars on the fighter that will not be soon forgotten.
One of Corim’s unusual abilities is his unusually strong metapathic talent. Metapaths, like empaths, can sense the emotions of others, however metapaths actually manipulate the emotions and mental states of others around them. Corim comes into this ability unusually late in life, and the first manifestations of the talent are raw and uncontrolled. When unfocused, this talent can evoke an instinctive hostile reaction in the creatures it touches. This caused Corim quite some trouble until Cassin Kel’Ishtauri Felspar and Annawen Kel’Ishtauri Felspar help him get the ability under control.
Not long after the dragon incident, Corim decided to take root and formalize his scholarly studies. He heard that the Falorian academy for warriors paid its instructors well and decided that it would make a good substitute for constantly wandering from kingdom to kingdom pursuing the various tournaments. With his tournament record in hand he set out to qualify for the coveted 7th circle teaching position.
It was in the school that he made the acquaintance of Ceraph, Talorian Falor’s Elf talent scout. Due to the effects of Corim’s metapathic ability, Ceraph becomes infatuated with him. It is also around this time that Corim has an encounter with Beia Targallae. It is shortly thereafter that Corim becomes involved with Meridian Arcturan and the Death Spectacles.
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