CAMRIS—north-central principality of Tysan. Original ruling seat was the city of Erdane.
pronounced: cam-ris
root meaning: cairn - cross; ris - way 'cross-road'
CAOLLE—past war-captain of the clans of Deshir, Rathain. First raised, and then served under, Lord Steiven, Earl of the North and caithdein of Rathain. Planned the campaign at Vastmark and Dier Kenton Vale for the Master of Shadow. Served Jieret Red-beard, and was feal liegeman of Arithon of Rathain; died of complications from a wound received from his prince while breaking a Koriani attempt to trap his liege in Third Age Year 5653.
pronounced: kay-all-eh, with the 'e' nearly subliminal
root meaning: caille - stubborn
CARITHWYR—principality in Havish, once a grass-lands breeding ground for
the Riathan Paravians. Now produces grain, cattle, fine hides, and also wine,
pronounced: car-ith-ear
root meaning: ci'arithiren - forgers of the ultimate link with prime power. An old colloquialism for unicorn.
CATTRICK—master shipwright hired to run the royal shipyard at Riverton; once in Arithon's employ at Merior by the Sea, now in charge of the shipworks for Duke Bransian s'Brydion at Alestron.
pronounced: cat-rick
root meaning: ciattiaric - a knot tied of withies that has the magical property of confusing enemies
CILADIS THE LOST—Fellowship Sorcerer who left the continent in Third Age 5462 in search of the Paravian races after their disappearance following the rebellion.
pronounced: kill-ah-dis
root meaning: cael - leaf; adds - whisper, compound; cael'adeis colloquialism for 'gentleness that abides'
CILDEIN OCEAN—body of water lying off Athera's east coast.
pronounced: kill-dine
root meaning: cailde - salty; an – one
CORITH—island west of Havish in the Westland Sea. Site of an old drake lair, and a ruined First Age foundation. Here the council of Paravians convened during siege, and their appeal brought the Second Dreaming by dragons, which enacted the summoning of the seven who became the Fellowship Sorcerers.
pronounced: core-ith
root meaning: cori - ships, vessels; itha - five
CORRA—wife of Fiark, and mother of his children,
pronounced: cor-ah
root meaning: cor - ship; ar'ia - little etheric being'a benevolent sprite that brings good fortune to shipping endeavours. CORTEND—company sergeant, under Talvish's command.
pronounced: core-tend
root meaning: koria'tiend - one who keeps order; orderly spirit
CRESIDEN—Dame Dawr's most trusted man-servant,
pronounced: cress-i-den
root meaning: criess - honest; i'den - light of manner, courteous
D'AEDANTHIC—desert dialect, the name by which the Biedar tribe of Sanpashir refer to Davien.
pronounced: die-dan-thick
root meaning: d'ae - fire; danthic - hands
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 shore of Daenfal Lake, which bounds the southern edge of Daon Ramon Barrens in Rathain.
pronounced: dye-en-fall
root meaning: daen - clay; fal - red
DAKAR THE MAD PROPHET—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. At this time, in the service of Arithon, Prince of Rathain.
pronounced: dah-kar
root meaning: dakiar - clumsy
DAON RAMON BARRENS—central principality of Rathain. Site where Riathan Paravians (unicorns) 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.
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
root meaning: daer - to cut
DARKLING—city located on the western side of the Skyshiel Mountains in the Kingdom of Rathain.
pronounced: dark-ling
root meaning: dierk-linng - drake eyrie
DASCEN ELUR—splinter world off West Gate, where the heirs of three crown lineages lived in exile, with intent to spare the royal blood-lines from the upheaval that followed the Mistwraith's invasion.
pronounced: das-en el-ur
root meaning: dascen - 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 the Fellowship's judgement 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,
pronounced: dah-vee-en
root meaning: dahvi - fool; an - one 'mistaken one'
DAWR s'BRYDION—grandmother of Duke Bransian of Alestron, and his brothers Keldmar, Parrien, and Mearn.
pronounced: dour
root meaning: dwyiar - vinegar wine 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: desk - mist; Mere - 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
DHIRKEN—lady captain of the contraband runner. Black Drake. Reputed to have taken over the brig's command by right of arms following her father's death at sea. Died at the hands of Lysaer's allies on the charge of liaison with Arithon s'Ffalenn, Third Age Year 5647.
pronounced: dur-kin
root meaning: dierk - tough; an - one
DIER KEN
TON VALE—a valley located in the principality of Vastmark, Shand, where Lysaer's war host, thirty-five thousand strong, fought and lost to the Master of Shadow in Third Age 5647, largely decimated in one day by a shale slide. The remainder were harried by a small force of Vastmark shepherds and clan scouts from Shand, under Caolle, who served as Arithon's war-captain, until supplies and loss of morale broke the Alliance campaign,
pronounced: deer ken-ton
root meaning: dier'kendion - a jewel with a severe flaw that may result in shearing or cracking.
DURN—town located in Orvandir, Shand. Birthplace of Meiglin s'CHeneval.
pronounced: dern
root meaning: diern - a flat plain
EAST HALLA—principality in Melhalla.
pronounced: east hall-ah
root meaning: hal'lia - white light
EASTWALL—city located in the Skyshiel Mountains, Rathain. EAST WARD—fishing and trade town located on the eastern coast of Fallowmere, in Rathain.
EASTTAIR—fortified town located on the East Halla peninsula, in Melhalla.
pronounced: ee-ass-tay-er
root meaning: e'ast - small cove; taer - calm
EBRAR—an elite captain, dedicate to the Light, serving under Sulfin Evend.
pronounced: ee-brar
root meaning: ebair - reliant, steady; i'er - the line
ELAIRA—initiate enchantress of the Koriathain, currently serving the order as a wandering independent. Originally a street child, taken on in Morvain for Koriani rearing. Arithon's beloved.
pronounced: ee-layer-ah
root meaning: e - prefix, diminutive for small; laere - grace
ELDIR s'LORNMEIN—King of Havish and once the last surviving scion of s'Lornmein royal line. Raised as a wool-dyer until the Fellowship Sorcerers crowned him at Ostermere in Third Age 5643 following the defeat of the Mistwraith. Now father of four children.
pronounced: el-deer
root meaning: elder - to ponder, to consider, to weigh
ELLAINE—daughter of the Lord Mayor 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
not from the Paravian
ELSSINE—town on the coast of Alland, Shand. Best known for its granite quarries and tempered steel.
pronounced: el-seen
root meaning: elssien - small pit
ELTAIR BAY—large bay off Cildein Ocean and east coast of Rathain; where the River Severnir was diverted following the Mistwraith's conquest.
pronounced: el-tay-er
root meaning: al'tieri - of steel'a shortening of original Paravian name; dascen al'tieri - which meant 'ocean of steel' which referred to the colour of the waves
ENTTHEN TUER—seeress living in the town of Erdane. Originally a Koriani sister who encountered the Biedar tribes in Sanpashir, and on the basis of their influence, was freed from her initiate's vow of service by Fellowship Sorcerer Asandir's intervention.
pronounced: en-ith-en too-er
root meaning: en'wethen - far-sighted; tuer - crone
ERTEGAL—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 Year 5670.
pronounced: air-ee-gall
root meaning: eriegal - snake
ERLIEN s'TALEYN—High Earl of Alland; caithdein of Shand, chieftain of the forest clansmen of Selkwood. Once fought Arithon s'Ffalenn at sword-point over an issue of law bound over by Melhalla's caithdein and also as a trial of a sanctioned crown prince's honest character. Father of Kyrialt sTaleyn.
pronounced: er-lee-an
root meaning: aierlyan - bear; tal - branch; an - one'first 'of first branch'
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'flessid was ratified as mayor upon Morfett's death in Third Age Year 5667. Site where Arithon defeated the Kralovir necromancers in Third Age Year 5671. Also the seat of the Alliance armed forces.
pronounced: ee-tar-ah
root meaning: e - prefix for small; taria - knots
EVENSTAR—first brig stolen from Riverton's royal shipyard by Cattrick's conspiracy with Prince Arithon. Currently of Innish registry, running merchant cargoes under joint ownership of Fiark and his sister Feylind, who is master.
FALLOWMERE—north-eastern principality of Rathain.
pronounced: fal-oh-meer
root meaning: fal'ei'miere - literally, tree self-reflection, colloquialism for 'place of perfect trees'
EARSEE—coastal harbour on the Bay of Eltair, located in East Halla, Melhalla.
pronounced: far-see
root meaning: faersi - sheltered'muffled
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.
FEITHAN—widow of Jieret s'Valerient, Earl of the North, and caithdein of Rathain, handfast to the Companion, Sidir.
pronounced: faith-an
root meaning: feiathen - ivy
FEIYD ETH SA—Biedar dialect, from Sanpashir, meaning 'look at this!'
pronounced: fay-eed-eth-saa
root meaning: feiyd - look; eth - at; sa - this
FENNICK—man-at-arms from the royal guard at Avenor, once honour guard to Prince Kevor, now reprieved and reassigned as one of Lysaer s'Ilessid's personal guard by Sulfin Evend.
pronounced: fen-nick
not from Paravian
FEYLIND—daughter of a Scimlade fisherman and Jinesse, twin sister of Fiark, currently master of Evenstar, a merchant brig of Innish registry,
pronounced: fay-lind
root meaning: faelind'an - outspoken or noisy one
FFEREDON-LI—ancient Paravian word for a healer, literally translated 'bringer of grace' and the name given to Elaira by an Araethurian seeress on the hour of Fionn Areth's birth.
pronounced: fair-eh-dun-lee
root meaning: ffaraton - maker; li - exalted grace
FIANZIA—(ANZIA, diminutive form) wife of Mearn s'Brydion.
pronounced: fie-an-zee-ah
root meaning: ffianzia - jade FIARK—son of a Scimlade fisherman and Jinesse, twin brother of Feylind, currently a merchant factor at Innish, also handles all of Arithon's covert shore-side affairs. Husband of Corra.
pronounced: fee-ark
root meaning: fyerk - to throw or toss
FIONN ARETH CAID'AN—goatherd's child born in Third Age 5647; fated by prophecy to leave home and play a role in the Wars of Light and Shadow. Laid under Koriani spellcraft to mature as Arithon's double, then used as the bait in the order's conspiracy to trap the s'Ffalenn prince. Rescued from execution in Jaelot in 5669-70. Currently in the protective custody of the Prince of Rathain, in company with Vhandon and Talvish at Alestron.
pronounced: fee-on-are-eth cayed-ahn
root meaning: fionne arith caid an - one who brings choice
FIRSTMARK—port town located on the shore of Rockbay Harbor, in Radmoore, Melhalla. Known for its wine and hides.
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 healer's hospice, not from the Paravian
GANISH—trade city located south of Methlas Lake in Orvandir, Shand.
/> pronounced: gan-eesh
root meaning: gianish - a halfway point, a stopping place
GEVARD—officer from the Telzen garrison, allied with the Blessed Prince.
pronounced: gev-ard
not from the Paravian
GLENDIEN—a Shandian clanswoman, wife to Kyrialt s'Taleyn, formerly the heir designate of the High Earl of Alland.
pronounced: glen-dee-en
root meaning: glyen - sultry; dim - object of beauty
GREAT WAYSTONE—see entry for Waystone.
GRIMWARD—a circle of spells of Paravian making that seal and isolate the dire dreams of dragon haunts, a force with the potential for mass destruction. With the disappearance of the old races, the defences are maintained by embodied Sorcerers of the Fellowship of Seven. There are seventeen separate sites listed at Althain Tower.
HALLIRON SEN ALDUIN—native of Innish who became Masterbard of Athera in Third Age year 5597, after Murchiel. Son of Al'duin, husband of Deartha, and teacher of Arithon s'Ffalenn. Died of an injury dealt by the Mayor of Jaelot in year 5644.