(Shadowmarch #2) Shadowplay

by Tad Williams

  Elfbane”

  Lawren—the old Earl of Marrinscrest

  Lida—Elan M’Cory’s maid

  Lisiya Melana of the Silver Glade—demigoddess, one of the nine daughters of Birgya and Volios

  Lord of the Peak—a Rooftopper deity

  Lorick Eddon—Olin’s older brother, who died young Losa—a laundry worker

  Ludis Drakava—Lord Protector of Hierosol

  Madi Surazem—goddess of childbirth

  Magister Scoria of the Gneiss family

  Makaros (“the Makari”)—Chaven’s family name

  Matthias Tinwright—a poet, aka “Matty”

  Meriel—Olin’s first wife, daughter of “a powerful Brennish duke” Merolanna—the twins’ great-aunt, originally of Fael, widow of Daman

  Eddon

  Mesiya—moon goddess

  Metamorphic Brothers—a Funderling religious order Milios, Bandit-King of Torvio—character from a play Moina Hartsbrook—a young Helmingsea noblewoman, one of Briony’s ladies-in-waiting

  Mokori—one of the autarch’s stranglers

  Muziren Chah—the autarch’s regent in Xis

  Nenizu—Xandian name for Mesiya the moon goddess Nevin Hewney—a playwright and player in Makewell’s Men Nikos—Dorza’s Hierosoline son

  Niram—Chaven’s older brother

  Nodule—Chert’s brother, aka “Magister Blue Quartz” Nushash—Xixian god of fire and chief god of Xis, patron god of the autarchs, Xandian name for Zmeos

  Nynor—Steffens Nynor, Count of Redtree, lord castellan of Southmarch Castle

  Okros Dioketian—Brother Okros’ full name

  Olin Alessandros Benediktos Eddon—son of King Olin and Queen Anissa On. Iaris—an oracle of the Trigonate Church

  On. Zakkas (known as “the Ragged”)—an oracle of the Trigonate

  Church

  Onir Kyma—an oracle with a temple in Southmarch Onir Soteros—“Dreamer Soteros,” an oracle of the Trigonate Church Opal—A funderling, Chert’s wife

  Palakastros—neighbors of the Akuanis family

  Pale Daughter—Qar name for Zoria

  Panhyssir—Xixian high priest of Nushash

  Parnad—father of current autarch, Sulepis, sometimes known as “the

  Unsleeping”

  Pedar Vansen—Ferras Vansen’s father

  Pedder Makewell—actor, sponsor, of troop of players Pelaya—daughter of Count Perivos

  Perin—sky god, called “Thane of Lightnings”

  Perivos Akuanis, Count—steward of the Hierosoline citadel Petris Kopayis—famous Kracian siege tactician

  Phelsas—Hierosoline philosopher, founder of School of Phelsas, postulator of Many Worlds idea

  Pilney—a young player

  Pinimmon Vash—Paramount Minister of Xis

  Prusus—scotarch of Xis, sometimes called “Prusus the Cripple” Puzzle—court jester to the Eddon family

  Pyarin Ky’vos—Skimmer name for Perin

  Qar—race of nonhumans who once occupied much of Eion Qinnitan—an acolyte of the Hive in Xis, later a bride in the autarch’s

  Seclusion

  Quicklime Pewter, Highwarden—important Funderling of the Metal

  House

  Quicksilver—important Funderling family

  Rabbit—a laundry worker

  Rafe—Ena’s friend, Hull-Scraped-the-Sand clan

  Red Stag—the Qar name for the god Honnos

  Robben Hulligan—a musician, friend of Puzzle

  Rooftoppers—little-known residents of Southmarch Castle Rorick Longarren, Earl of Daler’s Troth—an Eddon cousin of Brennish ancestry, related to Meriel

  Rose Trelling—one of Briony’s ladies-in-waiting, a niece of Avin Brone Rud—a god, son of Zo and Sva, aka “Golden Arrow” Rugan—the high priestess of the Hive

  Salamandros—one of Zosim’s holy names

  Sanasu—widow of Kellick Eddon, known as “Weeping Queen” Saqri (of the Ancient Song)—queen of the People, Ynnir’s wife, aka

  “The Sleeping Queen”

  Sard Smaragdine, Highwarden—important Funderling of the Crystal

  House

  Sawamat—Xixian name for Great Mother, a goddess

  Selia—Anissa’s maid, also from Devonis

  Shaso dan-Heza—Southmarch master of arms

  Shoshem—Xandian name for Zosim

  Shusayem—Xandian name for Madi Surazem

  Silas of Perikal—semilegendary knight

  Sisel—Hierarch of Southmarch, chief religious figure in March Kingdoms

  Sister (or “Sor”), Lyris—Pelaya’s tutor

  Siveda—goddess of night

  Skimmers—a people who make their living on and around water Soryaza—mistress of the laundry, former Hive acolyte Surigali—Xixian goddess

  Suya—Xandian name for Zoria

  Sveros—old god of the night sky, father of Trigon gods Talibo—Effir’s nephew

  Tane, King—ancient Vuttish king known as Tane the White and T’chayan

  Redhand

  Tedora—Axamis Dorza’s Hierosoline wife

  Teloni—Pelaya’s sister

  Thallo—a Heiosoline queen from the imperial period Timoid, Father—Eddon family mantis (priest)

  Tirnan, Havemore—Brone’s former factor, later castellan of Southmarch Travertine, Highwarden—important Funderling of Water Stone House Trigon—priesthoods of Perin, Erivor, and Kernios acting in concert Trigonarch—Head of Trigonate Church, chief religious figure in Eion Turley Longfingers—a Skimmer fisherman, Back-on-Sunset-Tide clan Twelve Families—governing body of old Hierosol

  Twilight People—another name for the Qar

  Tyne Aldritch, Earl of Blueshore—an ally of Southmarch, killed by Qar Ueni’ssoh—Jikuyin’s adviser, one of the Dreamless

  Umdi Onajena—the Xixian name for Madi Onyena

  Upsteeplebat, Queen—monarch of the Rooftoppers

  Urekh—a god, wore wolf-armor

  Urrigijag the Thousand-Eyed—Funderling name for Immon

  Ustin—King Olin’s father

  Utta—aka “Sister Utta” or “Sor Utta,” a priestess of Zoria and Briony’s tutor—full name: Utta Fornsdodir

  Uvis White-Hand—a god, wounded by Kernios

  Vanderin—a Syannese poet

  Vermilion Cinnabar—wife of Quicksilver magister

  Volios of the Measureless Grip—a son of Perin, god of war Waterman—a player

  Whispering Mothers—a Qar tribe

  White Daughter—a name for Zoria

  Widowmakers—Jikuyin’s troop in ancient days

  Willow—a young woman

  Xarpedon—name of several autarchs of Xand

  Xergal—Xandian name for Kernios

  Ximander—a mantis, “writer” of a famous book

  Xosh—Xandian name for Khors

  Yaridoras—a Perikalese White Hound

  Yarnos of the Snows—a god

  Yasammez—Qar noblewoman, aka “Lady Porcupine” Yazi—a laundry girl from Ellamish border country

  Yirrud—a god, son of Rud and Onyena

  Yisti—Sanian metalworkers of Funderling blood

  Ynnir the Blind King—lord of the Qar, “Ynnir din’at sen-Qin,

  Guardian of the Fireflower, Lord of Winds and Thought,” aka “Son of the First Stone”

  Zamira—Chaven’s sister

  Zmeos—a god, Perin’s nemesis

  Zoria—goddess of wisdom

  Zosim—son of Erilo, god of playwrights and drunkards Zsan-san-sis—chieftain of the Children of the Emerald Glow

  PLACES

  Akaris—an island between Xand and Eion

  Aldritch Stead—castle of Tyne Aldritch, late earl of Blueshore

  Ardos Perinous—a mountain town in Syan

  Badger’s Boots—a Southmarch inn

  Basilisk Gate—main gate of Southmarch Castle

  Blessed Lady of Night—a temple of Siveda, in Tessis

  Brenland—small country south of the March Kingdoms />
  Brenn’s Bay—named after legendary hero

  Cat’s Eye Street—a street in Xis

  Chakki’s Hole—a district in the northestern corner of central Tessis Citadel Hill—small palatine hill of Hierosol

  Coast Road—a road in Marrinswalk

  Coiner’s Point—a pramantony of Landsend

  Coldgray Moor—legendary battleground, from a Qar word, “Qul

  Girah”

  Creedy’s Inn—tavern in Greater Stell

  Dagardar—trading port of Tuan, also a famous siege by the troops of the old autarch Parnad

  Daneya Street—a waterfront street in Hierosol, haunt of prostitutes Dawnwood—site of a battle between Qar and demigod Deep Library—a place in Qual-na-Qar

  Doros Kallida—Syannese town

  Ealingsbarrow—human settlement now ruined behind the Shadowline Eastmarch Academy—university, originally in old Eastmarch, relocated to Southmarch at the time of the last war with the Qar Eion—the northern continent

  Ellamish—border country to Xis

  Emberstone Reach—in the Funderling Depths

  Esterian River Valley—in Syan, most populous place in Eion Falopetris—capitol of Ulos, home of Chaven

  Firstford—main city of Silverside

  Funderling Town—underground city of Funderlings, in Southmarch Great Gable—Rooftopper sacred spot

  Great Kertish Road—a road between Silverside and Kertewall Hakka—islands off the coast of Xand

  Hallia Fair—a town in Kertewall

  Harbor of Kalkas—Hierosolian harbor

  Harbor of Nektarios—Hierosolian harbor

  Hierosol—once the reigning empire of the world, now much reduced; its symbol is the golden snail shell

  Hive—a temple in Xis, home of the sacred bees of Nushash Holy Wainscoting—Rooftopper sacred spot

  Iyar—country in Xand

  J’ezh’kral Pit—a place out of Funderling myth

  Jellon—kingdom, once part of Syannic Empire

  Karalsway—a road in Marrinswalk

  Kertewall—one of the March Kingdoms

  Kinemarket—a town in Marrinswalk

  Kolkan’s Field—manorial farm outside Southmarch, site of the last

  Qar/human battle

  Krace—a collection of city-states, once part of Hierosoline Empire Kulloan Strait

  Lake Strivothos—a large lake (really a bay) at the center of Southern

  Eion

  Lander’s Port—a Marrinswalk fighing town

  Landsend—part of Southmarch, Brone’s fief, colors red and gold Landsman’s Market—a disctrict in Hierosol with a famous market Lantern Broad—widest street in Tessis

  Lily Gate—gate leading out of the Seclusion into the city of Xis Little Stell—Daler’s Troth town

  Mandrake Court—inner court of the Orchard Palace in Xis Marash—a Xandian province where peppers are grown March Kingdoms—originally Northmarch, Southmarch, Eastmarch and

  Westmarch, but after the war with the Qar constituted by Southmarch and the Nine Nations (which include Summerfield and

  Blueshore)

  Market Road—one of Southmarch’s main roads

  Market Square—main public space in Southmarch

  Marrinswalk—one of the March Kingdoms

  Meadows of the Moon—pastures for the horses of the Qar Mihan—a nation in Xand

  Mount, The, aka Midlan’s Mount—rock in Brenn’s Bay upon which

  Southmarch is built

  Mount Sarissa—mountain in southern Eion (“lance”)—visible from Hierosol, has “neighbors”

  Mount Xandos—mythical giant mountain that stood where Xand now lies

  Northmarch Road—the old road between Southmarch and the north Nyoru—chief city of Tuan

  Observatory House—Chaven’s residence

  Odeion—a theater

  Onir Diotrodos—Syannese town

  Onir Soteros—a district in Hierosol

  Onsilpia’s Veil—a large city in Silverside

  Oscastle—a city in Marrinswalk

  Pomegranate Court—an outer court of the Orchard Palace Port Road—a main road running along the mainland Southmarch seafront

  Qirush-a-Ghat—cavern towns of the Qar; name means “Firstdeeps” Quarry Square—a meeting-place in Funderling Town Qul-na-Qar—ancient home of the Qar or Twilight People Raven’s Gate—entrance to Southmarch Castle’s inner keep Reheq-s’lai—Wanderwind Mountains

  Rimetrail—a magical river that separates Everfrost from Xandos Royal Highway—sometimes called King Karal’s Road, in Syan, leading all the way to Tessis

  Sailmaker’s Row—a street near the docks in Great Xis Salt Pool—underground sea-pool in Funderling Town Sandy Head

  Sania—a country in Xand

  Sessio—an island kingdom in the south of Eion

  Settesyard—capitol of Settland

  Settland—small, mountainous country southwest of the March Kingdoms; ally of Southmarch

  Shadowline—line of demarcation between lands of Qar and human lands Shehen—“Weeping,” Qar name for Yasammez’ house Shivering Plain—site of a great Qar battle

  Siege of Always-Winter—a mythical castle

  Silent Hill—a place behind the Shadowline

  Siris—Akuanis family county in northeastern Hierosol Sirkot—legendary city in the southernmost part of Xand Skimmer’s Lagoon—body of water inside Southmarch walls, connected to Brenn’s Bay

  Sleep—the city of the Dreamless

  Smoking Islands—an archipelago in the sea, far southwest of the Kracian

  Peninsula

  Southmarch—seat of the March Kings, sometimes called “Shadowmarch”

  Square of Three Gods—town square in mainland Southmarch Stoneless Spaces—from Funderling myth, a place of banishment Sublime Canal—the main canal in Xis, which runs through the Orchard

  Palace

  Summerfield Court—ducal seat of Gailon and the Tolly family

  Syan—once dominant empire, still a powerful kingdom in center of Eion Tessis—capitol city of Syan

  Theogonian Gate—a city gate in Hierosol

  Torvio—an island nation between Eion and Xand

  Tuan—native country of Shaso and Dawet

  Tyrosbridge—a principality near the northern Syannese border Ugenion—Syannese town

  Wedge Road—Chert and Opal’s street

  Wharfside—a district of mainland Southmarch

  Whitewood—a forest on the border between Silverside and Marrinswalk

  Willowburn—Elan M’Cory’s family home

  Wolfstooth Spire—tallest tower of Southmarch Castle Xand—the southern continent

  Xis—largest kingdom of Xand; its master is the autarch (adjective, “Xixian”) Zan-Ahmia—country in Xand

  Zan-Kartuum—country in Xand

  THINGS

  Adelfa—head of a Zorian sisterhood

  Arrow Count—a Qar ceremony

  Astion—a Funderling symbol of authority

  Bandit-King of Torvio, The—a play

  Black Wrack—a Skimmer wine

  Blueroot—favorite Funderling tea-herb

  Book of Regret—a semi-mythical Qar artifact/text

  Book of the Fire in the Void—“the source of the music that governs even the gods”

  Book of the Trigon, The—a late-era adaptation of original texts about all three gods

  Council of the Twenty-Seven Families—the leaders of Hierosol

  D’shinna—Tuani word for fairies

  Demia’s Candle—a holiday

  Dragonfly—a Shadowline horse

  Earthstar—spear of Kernios

  Eddon Wolf—the symbol of the Eddon family (silver wolf and stars on black field)

  Ever-Wounded Maid—a famous story

  False Woman, The—a tavern in Tessis

  Fireflower—immortality among the Qar’s ruling family Firmament, The—a theater in Southmarch

  Four Sisters Courtyard—a large courtyard in the Hier
osoline palace Gestrimadi—religious festival in March Kingdoms

  Golden Enomote—an enomote (about two dozen) soldiers who guard the ruler of Hierosol

  Great Zosimia—a holiday, known for religious drama Hierosoline—the language of Hierosol, found in many religious services and scientific books, etc., and the root to the common speech of

  Eion

  Hours of Refusal—a Zorian prayer Kerneia—a holiday Kori-doll—effigy thrown onto Eril’s Night bonfire

  Kossope—a constellation

  Kossope House—a dormitory for servants working in the Hierosoline citadel

  Kulikos or Kulikos Stone—a reputedly magical object Life and Death of King Nikolos, The—a play

  Little Zosimia—a holiday, known for religious drama Mantis—a priest, usually of the Trigon

  Mihanni—object from Mihan

  Morning Star of Kirous—Jeddin’s ship

  Mossbrew—a strong Funderling drink

  Oak Tree—Perin’s hammer

  Onir Kyma—a temple

  Orphan Boy in Heaven, The—a play

  Outcrop—the ceremonial center of the Funderling Stone Cutter’s guild-hall

  Pentecount—a troop, numbering fifty

  Perin’s Forgiveness—a common religious ritual

  Perinos Eio—largest planet in the skies

  Polemarch—a general of Xis of Hierosol

  Prophet’s Day—the day before Kerneia

  Quiller’s Mint—a tavern

  Raging Beast—a monster defeated by Hiliometes in a famous story Salute of the Bone Knife—Qar ceremony

  Seal of War—a Qar gem, object of great importance

  Shanat—a popular Xandian game

  Shining Man—center of the Funderling Mysteries

  Shivering Plain—a famous Qar battleground

  Shouma—a drink with strange properties

  Silver Thing—part of the Rooftopper’s crown jewels Silverbeam—sword of Khors

  Smoke Sacrifice—a Trigonate ritual

  Song of the Owl’s Eye—Qar ceremony

  Soso—Aislin’s rescued gull

  Sun’s Blood—an elixir prepared by the priest of Nushash Taksiarch—a military rank of Xis of Hierosol

  Trigon—the religious power of Eion, a triumvirate of priesthoods

  (Perin, Erivor, Kernios)

  Umeyana—the “blood-kiss”

  War-Stone—a weapon of the Whispering Mothers

  Whitefire—the sword of Yasammez

  Wickeril—a Skimmer liquor