Destiny’s Conflict: Book Two of Sword of the Canon

by Janny Wurts

  pronounced: core-ith

  root meaning: cori – ships, vessels; itha – five, for the five harbours

  COSACH s’VALERIENT—current Earl of the North and Caithdein of Rathain, husband of Jalienne, father of Esfand and Cordaya.

  pronounced: co-sack s-val-er-ee-ent

  root meaning: cosak – bluster; val – straight; erient – spear

  DACE MARLEY—name of a valet in service to Lysaer s’Ilessid.

  pronounced: days mar-lee

  root meaning: dace – two; marle – quartz rock

  DAELION FATEMASTER—“entity” formed by set of mortal beliefs, which determine the fate of the spirit after death. If Ath is the prime vibration, or life-force, Daelion is what governs the manifestation of free will.

  pronounced: day-el-ee-on

  root meaning: dael – king, or lord; i’on – of fate

  DAELION’S WHEEL—cycle of life and the crossing point that is the transition into death.

  pronounced: day-el-ee-on

  root meaning: dael – king or lord; i’on – of fate

  DAENFAL—town located on the northern lake-shore that bounds the southern edge of Daon Ramon Barrens in Rathain. Site of Arwent ferry, and also the ancient necropolis where Paravians once honoured their dead.

  pronounced: dye-en-fall

  root meaning: daen – clay; fal – red

  DAENFAL LAKE—lake that bounds the southern edge of Daon Ramon Barrens in Rathain.

  pronounced: dye-en-fall

  root meaning: daen – clay; fal – red

  DAKAR THE MAD PROPHET—formerly an apprentice to Fellowship Sorcerer, Asandir, during the Third Age following the Conquest of the Mistwraith. Given to spurious prophecies, it was Dakar who forecast the fall of the Kings of Havish in time for the Fellowship to save the heir. He made the Prophecy of West Gate, which forecast the Mistwraith’s bane, and also, the Black Rose Prophecy, which called for reunification of the Fellowship.

  pronounced: dah-kar

  root meaning: dakiar – clumsy

  DALDARI—surname of an Ettin family.

  pronounced: doll-dar-ee

  root meaning: dal – fair; diere – life

  DALIANA sen EVEND—descendant of Sulfin Evend chosen by Asandir to stand heir to the lineage.

  pronounced: dah-lee-ahn-a sen-ev-and

  root meaning: dal – fair; lien – harmony; a – feminine diminutive; sen – descended of; eiavend – diamond

  DAON RAMON BARRENS—central principality of Rathain, where Riathan Paravians (unicorns) once bred and raised their young. Barrens was not appended to the name until the years following the Mistwraith’s conquest, when the River Severnir was diverted at the source by a task force under Etarran jurisdiction. Site where a combined Sunwheel war host led by Lysaer sought to corner the Master of Shadow, and met defeat against clan war bands under Jieret s’Valerient in Third Age 5670.

  pronounced: day-on-rah-mon

  root meaning: daon – gold; ramon – hills/downs

  DARI s’AHELAS—crown heir of Shand who was sent to safety through West Gate to preserve the royal lineage. Born following the death of the last Crown Prince of Shand, subsequently raised and taught by Sethvir to manage the rogue talent of a dual inheritance. Her mother was Meiglin s’Dieneval, last survivor of the old caithdein’s lineage of Melhalla, which was widely believed to have perished during the massacre at Tirans. However, the pregnant widow of Egan s’Dieneval had escaped the uprising and survived under a false name in a Durn brothel.

  pronounced: dar-ee sa-hell-as

  root meaning: daer – to cut; ahelas – mage-gifted

  DASCEN ELUR—splinter world beyond the western Worldsend Gate, connected to Mearth; primarily ocean with scattered archipelagos, including kingdoms of Amroth, Rauven, and Karthan, birthplace of Lysaer s’Ilessid and Arithon s’Ffalenn.

  pronounced: dass-sen ell-ur

  root meaning: dacsen – ocean; e’lier – small land

  DAVIEN THE BETRAYER—Fellowship Sorcerer responsible for provoking the great uprising in Third Age Year 5018, that resulted in the fall of the High Kings after Desh-thiere’s conquest. Rendered discorporate by Shehane Althain’s defences in Third Age 5129. Exiled since, by personal choice. Davien’s works included the Five Centuries Fountain near Mearth on the splinter world of the Red Desert through West Gate; the shaft at Rockfell Peak, used by the Sorcerers to imprison harmful entities; the Stair on Rockfell Peak; and also, Kewar Tunnel in the Mathorn Mountains. Restored as a corporate being through Asandir’s interaction with the Great Drake, Seshkrozchiel in the banishment of the Scarpdale grimward in Third Age 5671. Bound into the dragon’s service until Luhaine took his place when the drake hibernated in Third Age 5923.

  pronounced: dah-vee-en

  root meaning: dahvi – fool; an – one “mistaken one”

  DEAL—trade town known for lumber, located in Gent, Havish.

  pronounced: deal

  root meaning: dayal –moss grown

  DESHIR—north-western principality of Rathain.

  pronounced: desh-eer

  root meaning: deshir – misty

  DESH-THIERE—Mistwraith that invaded Athera from the splinter worlds through South Gate in Third Age 4993. Access cut off by Fellowship Sorcerer, Traithe. Battled and contained in West Shand for twenty-five years, until the rebellion splintered the peace, and the High Kings were forced to withdraw from the defence lines to attend their disrupted kingdoms. Confined through the combined powers of Lysaer s’Ilessid’s gift of light and Arithon s’Ffalenn’s gift of shadow. Currently imprisoned in a warded flask in Rockfell Pit.

  pronounced: desh-thee-air-e (last “e” mostly subliminal)

  root meaning: desh – mist; thiere – ghost or wraith

  DHARKARON AVENGER—called Ath’s Avenging Angel in legend. Drives a chariot drawn by five horses to convey the guilty to Sithaer. Dharkaron as defined by the adepts of Ath’s Brotherhood is that dark thread mortal men weave with Ath, the prime vibration, that creates self-punishment, or the root of guilt.

  pronounced dark-air-on

  root meaning: dhar – evil; khiaron – one who stands in judgement

  DIEGAN—born an Etarran dandy, brother of Princess Talith, commanded Lysaer s’Ilessid’s war host, responsible for the deaths of Arithon’s witnesses after the debacle in the harbour at Werpoint, and again, with the mass slaughter of the twenty-five picked survivors from the Havens, died regretful of his drastic miscalculation on the field at the Battle of Dier Kenton Vale in Third Age 5647.

  pronounced: dee-gan

  root meaning: diegan – a dandy’s ornament, or trinket

  DOLCIE—kitchen scullion in a gentleman’s house in East Bransing.

  pronounced: doll-see

  DURN—trade town located in Orvandir, Shand. Birthplace of Meiglin s’Dieneval.

  pronounced: dern

  root meaning: diern – a flat plain

  DYSHENT—trade port known for timber on the coast of Instrell Bay, Tysan.

  pronounced: dye-shent

  root meaning: dyshient – cedar

  EAST BRANSING—town located on the coast of Instrell Bay in Tysan.

  pronounced: bran-sing

  root meaning: brienseng – at the base, at the bottom

  EFFLIN—formerly a croft holder near Kelsing, and older brother of Tarens and Kerelie.

  pronounced: eff-lin

  root meaning: e – prefix for small; ffael – dark; en – suffix for “more”; effaelin – a dark mood

  ELAIRA—initiate enchantress of the Koriathain, currently serving the order as a wandering independent. Originally a street child, claimed in Morvain for Koriani rearing. Arithon’s beloved, became handfast to Rathain in Third Age 5672.

  pronounced: ee-layer-ah

  root meaning: e – prefix, diminutive for small; laere – grace

  ELKFOREST—free-wilds forest located in Gent, Havish. Site of the Queen’s Glade.

  ELLAINE—daughter of the Lord May
or of Erdane, once Princess of Avenor by marriage to Lysaer s’Ilessid, and mother of Kevor s’Ilessid, who became an adept of Ath’s Brotherhood.

  pronounced: el-lane

  ELSHIAN—Athlien Paravian bard and master luthier whose prized instrument is held by Athera’s titled Masterbard.

  pronounced: el-shee-an

  root meaning: e’alshian – small wonder, or miracle

  ELTAIR BAY—body of water on the eastshore of Rathain.

  pronounced: el-tay-er

  root meaning: dascen al’tieri – ocean of steel

  ENITHEN TUER—sister of the Koriathain, released by Asandir of the Fellowship, seeress who resided in Erdane and hosted the s’Ilessid and s’Ffalenn princes after their arrival in Third Age Year 5637. Provided the Biedar knife that Sulfin Evend used to free Lysaer s’Ilessid from the influence of necromancy in Third Age 5670, deceased.

  pronounced: en-ith-en too-er

  root meaning: en-wethen – far-sighted; tuer – crone

  ERDANE—originally a Paravian town given over to Mankind’s rule; became the seat of the old Princes of Camris and the s’Gannley blood-line until the uprising that followed Desh-thiere’s conquest in Third Age 5015. Became an iniquitous nest of necromancy in the years following, then the site of the True Sect High Temple of the Light since the Great Schism in 5683, and where the conclave of priests signed the doctrine into the First Book of Canon Law in 5691.

  pronounced: er-day-na with the last syllable almost subliminal

  root meaning: er’deinia – long walls

  ERIEGAL—second youngest of the fourteen child survivors of the Tal Quorin massacre known as Jieret’s Companions. Renowned as a shrewd tactician, he was ordered to serve Jieret’s son Barach as war-captain in the Halwythwood camp rather than fight Lysaer’s war host in Daon Ramon Barrens in Third Age 5670. Tried and executed for crown treason in 5674.

  pronounced: air-ee-gall

  root meaning: eriegal – snake

  ESFAND s’VALERIENT—Caithdein of Rathain’s heir designate in Third Age 5922, son of Cosach s’Valerient and Jalienne and brother of Cordaya.

  pronounced: es-fand s’val-er-ee-ent

  root meaning: esfan – iron; ‘d – suffix for behind; val – straight; erient – spear

  ETARRA—trade city built across the Mathorn Pass by townsfolk after the revolt that cast down Ithamon and the High Kings of Rathain. Nest of corruption and intrigue, and policy-maker for the North. Lysaer s’Ilessid was ratified as mayor upon Morfett’s death in Third Age 5667. Site where Arithon defeated the Kralovir necromancers in Third Age Year 5671. Also the seat of the Alliance armed forces. Ruled by Lysaer s’Ilessid, in residence since the Great Schism in Third Age 5683, until the mayor’s authority was usurped by the True Sect priests in Third Age 5923.

  pronounced: ee-tar-ah

  root meaning: e – prefix for small; taria – knots

  ETTINMERE SETTLEMENT—insular village located in the Storlain Mountains in Gent, Havish.

  pronounced: et-tin-meer

  root meaning: etennd’miere – a place that parted ways, slowed down and went separate

  ETTINVALE—vale that holds Ettinmere Settlement.

  pronounced: et-tin vale

  root meaning: e’tennd – slow down, be lazy

  FAECHAA—Ettin dialect for lying cad.

  pronounced: fay-chaa

  root meaning: ffaecha – inconstant lover, cad

  FALGAIRE—trade port famed for glass-ware, located on the west shore of Instrell Bay, Tysan.

  pronounced: fall-gay-er

  root meaning: fal’miere – to sparkle or glitter

  FALWOOD—free-wilds forest located in West Shand.

  pronounced: fall-wood

  root meaning: fal – tree

  FATE’S WHEEL—see Daelion’s Wheel.

  FELLOWSHIP OF SEVEN—sorcerers bound to Athera by the summoning dream of the dragons and charged to secure the mysteries that enable Paravian survival. Achieved their redemption from Cianor Sunlord, under the Law of the Major Balance in Second Age Year One. Originators and keepers of the covenant of the compact, made with the Paravian races, to allow Mankind’s settlement on Athera in Third Age Year One. Their authority backs charter law, upheld by crown justice and clan oversight of the free wilds.

  FFERETON s’DARIAN—centaur armourer who forged the twelve Blades of Isaer, including Alithiel, carried by the s’Ffalenn heirs.

  pronounced: fer-et-on s’dar-ee-on

  root meaning: ffereton—craftsman, maker; s’darian—

  FFIATHLI OT SANIENT, DASIL AM’N I’CUEL’IEN LAIRE—Asandir’s call in Paravian to summon his stallion. “True light in darkness, lend me the grace of your choice.”

  pronounced: fee-ath-li ot san-ee-ent day-seel am’n i-kew-el-ee-en layer-e

  root meaning: fiathli – true light; ot – in; sanient – darkness, emphatic form; dasil – lend; am’n –one’s/me; i’cuel’ien – yours/your actualized form; laire – grace

  FIADUWYNNE—site of a Second Age focus circle, and a vast complex of healer’s gardens and telir orchards, located in south Lanshire, Havish at the banks of the River Lithwater.

  pronounced: fee-ah-dew-win-e – with the last syllable nearly subliminal

  root meaning: ffiadu – to make whole; wynne – orchard

  FIONN ARETH CAID’AN—born in Araethura in Third Age 5647, shape-changed as Arithon’s double by Koriathain as bait for an entrapment, rescued from execution for Arithon’s crimes in Jaelot 5660-70, died fighting in the Siege of Alestron in Third Age 5671.

  pronounced: fee-on ar-reth cay-dan

  root meaning: fionne arith caid an – one who brings choice

  FIVE CENTURIES FOUNTAIN—a well in the Red Desert of Rasinne Pasy built and endowed by Davien, as a test of Mankind’s wisdom, specifically to determine whether men were fitted for long-term rule, its properties bestow five hundred years of longevity upon anyone who partakes of the water.

  FORTHMARK—city in Vastmark, Shand. Once the site of a hostel of Ath’s Brotherhood. By Third Age 5320, the site was abandoned and taken over by the Koriani Order as a healers’ hospice.

  GAEMAR—craftsman from Daenfal, employed by the rich to engineer clever fancies.

  pronounced: gay-mar

  GALLEY-MEN’S REST—a disreputable port dive on Instrell Bay in East Bransing, Tysan.

  GESTRY s’LORNMEIN—heir designate of Havish, crowned High King of Havish in Third Age 5922. Died on the field at Lithmarin, wielding the crown jewels in defence of the kingdom during The Hatchet’s invasion in Third Age 5923.

  pronounced: guess-tree slorn-main

  root meaning: geies – obligated duty; tieri – steel; liernmein – to centre or bring into balance

  GLENDIEN—a Shandian clanswoman, wife to Kyrialt s’Taleyn, formerly the heir designate of the High Earl of Alland; mother to Arithon’s bastard daughter, Teylia, conceived in the confluence at Athir in Third Age 5672.

  pronounced: glen-dee-en

  root meaning: glyen – sultry; dien – object of beauty

  GREY KRALOVIR—see Kralovir.

  GREAT WAYSTONE—see entry for Waystone.

  GRIMWARD—a circle of Paravian spells that seal and isolate the dire dreams of dragon haunts, a force with the potential for mass destruction. Since disappearance of the old races, the defences are maintained by embodied Sorcerers of the Fellowship of Seven. Of seventeen separate sites listed at Althain Tower, thirteen are still active.

  HALDUIN s’ILESSID—founder of the s’Ilessid royal lineage in First Age Year One, bearing the attribute of justice.

  pronounced: hal-dwin sill-ess-id

  root meaning: hal – white; duinne – hand; liessiad – balance

  HALWYTHWOOD—forest located in Araethura, Rathain. Current clan lodge of High Earl Cosach’s band.

  pronounced: hall-with-wood

  root meaning: hal – white; wythe – vista

  HANATHA—a matron from Ettinmere Settlement.

  pro
nounced: ha-nay-tha

  root meaning: hani-atha – busybody

  HANSHIRE—port town on the Westland Sea, Tysan; birthplace of Sulfin Evend; mayors historically opposed to royal rule made it a hotbed of unrest in the rebellion, in an ancient alliance with the Koriathain.

  pronounced: han-sheer

  root meaning: hansh – sand; era – place

  HASPASTION—ghost of the dragon contained in the grimward in Radmoore.

  pronounced: has-pass-tee-on

  root meaning: hashpashdion – Drakish for black thunder

  HASIDII—ancient lineage of the Biedar tribes.

  pronounced: has-sid-ee

  root meaning: hai shidi – stigma, Biedar dialect

  HAVISH—one of the Five High Kingdoms of Athera as defined by the charters of the Fellowship of Seven. Ruled by a queen apparent, after the death of Gestry s’Lornmein. Crown heritage: temperance. Device: gold hawk on red field.

  pronounced: hav-ish

  root meaning: havieshe – hawk

  HAVKIEL HALTFOOT—Ilitharis Paravian mason whose wrath threw down the Arch of Tolgrath in the First Age, when Seardluin invaded from the east and attacked and killed his kin in Lithmere.

  pronounced: have-kee-el

  root meaning: hav – centre; kiel – pity

  HERTHOV—Vivet’s ugly suitor, from Ettinmere.

  pronounced: herth-off

  root meaning: hierthov – toad

  HIGHSCARP—city sited near the stone quarries on the coast of the Bay of Eltair, located in Daon Ramon, Rathain. Also contains a sisterhouse of the Koriani Order.

  IAMINE s’GANNLEY—woman who founded the caithdein’s lineage for Tysan.

  pronounced: ee-ahm-meen-e sgan-lee

  root meaning: iamine – amethyst; gaen – guide; li – exalted or in harmony

  ICUELAN AM-JIASK EDAEL I’TIER—your feal prince attends you.

  pronounced: ee-kway-lan am-jee-ask ee-dah-el it-ee-er

  root meaning: i’cuelan – your, with prefix for “light”/focused intent; am-jiask – state of being bound by faith; edael – prince; i’itier – one who holds the light, attends

  ILITHARIS PARAVIANS—centaurs, one of three semi-mortal old races; disappeared after the Mistwraith’s conquest, the last known departure by Third Age 5100. They were the guardians of the earth’s mysteries.