Ferebeast – antelopelike herd animals but dangerous, the males having a wickedly barbed tail and sharp horns that curve up, back, and forward like grappling hooks. Those horns are powerful weapons; no less ominous are the formidable jaws with large grinding teeth. The smaller females have straighter horns and lack the barbed tails, but they, like the males, can deliver deadly kicks with their cloven hooves, and they have the same crushing jaws.
Graufish — small but tasty freshwater fish generally caught by netting.
Shalkors – large predatory birds that can prey on small or newborn livestock as well as on wild creatures
Woolerees – burrow-dwelling mammals the size of a badger. Shy and non-aggressive, they do not hesitate to use their long claws and dorsal spines to protect their dens and their young against invaders. They’ve been known to disembowel large predators and walk away unharmed.
PLANTS
Babwood trees — trees grown for lumber. Their hard wood is used in building and prized for furniture making
Caronut trees — tall trees that produce a nutritious nut much favored for use in baking, cooking, roasting, and eating as snacks right off the tree. Animals love these nuts, so trees may attract bears and smaller mammals
Chirberry bush — a shrub with tasty berries that ripen throughout the summer
Fimble — a wild herb used in baking in former times, believed to have magical properties
Saddleberry bushes — low shrubs with berries loved by animals, both wild and domestic, but not used as food by people.
Tormand plant — A tall, leafy plant, cultivated for its stem, which produces a thick oil with many uses.
Wistweed — a weed that grows along riverbanks and in marshland throughout northern Arucadi. Its small, delicate yellow flowers are sometimes gathered and used in making a tea believed by some to have medicinal powers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
E. Rose Sabin lives in Pinellas County, Florida, where for many years she taught Spanish and English to middle school students. During those years she used her summer vacations to travel extensively in Mexico, Spain, and other Spanish-speaking countries, but since retiring from teaching to become a professional writer of fantasy and science fiction her travels are limited mainly to science fiction and fantasy conventions. She has had many short stories published, and her writing has won several awards, including, in 1992, Andre Norton’s Gryphon Award for the unpublished manuscript of A School for Sorcery, a novel inspired by her teaching career.
Her published works not part of the Arucadi Series include the science fiction Terrano Trilogy novels Shadow of a Demon, The Gift of the Trinde Tree, and Touch of Death, and stand-alone fantasy novels Seduction of the Scepter, Were House, A House Full of Dreams, Deathright, and The Twisted Towers, as well as a fantasy novel for young teens, To the Far Side of the Forest, and a children’s chapter book, Grandy’s Grand Inventions.
Previous books in the Arucadi Series are Mistress of the Wind, Bringers of Magic, A Mix of Magic, and Deniably Dead. Cat and Cobra, also an Arucadi novel, is not a part of the series arc but is a separate, stand-alone novel, a coming of age story.
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