pronounced: sky-run
root meaning: skyron – colloquialism for shackle; s’kyr’i’on – literally ‘sorrowful fate’
SKYSHIELS—mountain range that runs north and south along the eastern coast of Rathain.
pronounced: sky-shee-ells
root meaning: skyshia – to pierce through; iel – ray
s’LORNMEIN—royal lineage of Havish, founded by Bwin Evoc in First Age Year One. Gifted geas: temperance.
pronounced: slorn-main
root meaning: liernmein – to centre, restrain, bring into balance.
SOUTHSHIRE—town on the southcoast of Alland, Shand, known for shipbuilding.
pronounced: south-shire
not from the Paravian
SOUTH STRAIT—body of water and passage from Rockbay Harbour into South Sea.
STORLAINS—mountains dividing the Kingdom of Havish.
pronounced: store-lanes
root meaning: storlient – largest summit, highest divide
SULFIN EVEND—son of the Mayor of Hanshire who held the post of Alliance Lord Commander under Lysaer s’Ilessid. Spared Lysaer from his dark binding to the Kralovir necromancers, and in the course of that awakened the talent of his outbred clan lineage: of s’Gannley descent, through Diarin s’Gannley, who was abducted and forced to marry his great grandsire. Bound to the land in Third Age 5670 when he swore a caithdein’s oath at Althain Tower as part of his bargain with Enithen Tuer, who in turn imparted the ceremonial knowledge and the Biedar knife used to sever the etheric cords the cult used to enslave victims. Named the Heretic Betrayer by the True Sect in the belief he corrupted the avatar, Lysaer. Ancestor of Daliana sen Evend.
pronounced: sool-finn ev-end
root meaning: suilfinn eiavend – colloquialism, diamond mind ‘one who is persistent’
SUNCHILDREN—common name for Athlien Paravians, see entry.
SUNWHEEL—heraldic symbol adopted by the religion of Light, and the device of the True Sect.
s’VALERIENT—family name for the Earls of the North, regents and caithdeinen for the High Kings of Rathain.
pronounced: val-er-ee-ent
root meaning: val – straight; erient – spear
TAERLIN—southeastern principality of Tysan, also a lake in the southern spur of Tornir Peaks.
pronounced: tay-er-lin
root meaning: taer – calm; lien – to love
TAFE ALEMAN—innkeeper in Kelsing, Tysan known to give work to destitutes.
pronounced: tayf
not from the Paravian
TAL QUORIN—river formed by the confluence of watershed on the southern side of Strakewood, principality of Deshir, Rathain, where traps were laid for Etarra’s army in the battle of Strakewood Forest, and where the rape and massacre of Deshir’s clanwomen and children occurred under Lysaer and head-hunters under Pesquil’s command in Third Age Year 5638.
pronounced: tal quar-in
root meaning: tal – branch; quorin – canyons
TALITH—Etarran princess; former wife of Lysaer s’Ilessid, estranged from him and incarcerated on charges of consorting with the Master of Shadow. Eventually murdered by a conspiracy of Avenor’s crown council, when an arranged accident caused her fall from Avenor’s tower of state in Third Age 5653.
pronounced: tal-ith – to rhyme with ‘gal with’
root meaning: tal – branch; lith – to keep/nurture
TALLA s’CRIADIEN—a countrywoman healed by Asandir.
pronounced: ta-la
root meaning: tal – branch; a – feminine diminutive; cor’ia’dreien – a shipmate or shipping partner
TARENS—town-born crofter from Kelsing, brother of Efflin and Kerelie, nephew of Saffie and Fiath, uncle to Paolin and Chan.
pronounced: tar-ens
root meaning: tirans – tier’ain - protect
TEIR—masculine form of a title fixed to a name denoting heirship.
pronounced: tayer
root meaning: teir’s – successor to power
TEIREN—feminine form of Teir.
pronounced: tear
root meaning: teiren – female successor to power
TEIRIENT—queen.
pronounced: tear-ee-ent
root meaning: tierient – female successor to power in the emphatic form
TEIR’II’DAEL—Paravian title given to a Fellowship-sanctioned crown prince.
pronounced: tay-er ee’eh die-el
root meaning: teir’ii’dael – the emphatic form of colloquial ‘successor to power’
TELIR—a rare fruit once cultivated by Paravians that made fine brandy.
pronounced: tell-leer
root meaning: telir – sweet
TELMANDIR—seat of the High Kings of Havish in Lithmere, Havish. Ruined during the uprising in Third Age Year 5018, rebuilt by High King Eldir s’Lornmein after his coronation in Third Age Year 5643.
pronounced: tel-man-deer
root meaning: telman’en – leaning; dir – rock
TEYLIA—bastard daughter of Arithon Teir’s’Ffalenn and Glendien, widow of Kyrialt, born in Third Age Year 5672, sworn into the Order of the Koriathain by her own will at three years of age.
pronounced: tay-lee-ah
root meaning: tien – dream; lie – note struck in harmony; a – female diminutive
THALDEIN—mountain range that borders Camris in Tysan, site of the Camris clans west outpost.
pronounced: thall-dayn
root meaning: thal – head; dein – bird
TIENELLE—high-altitude herb valued by mages for its mind-expanding properties. Highly toxic. No antidote. The leaves, dried and smoked, are most potent. To weaken its powerful side effects and allow safer access to its vision, Koriani enchantresses boil the flowers, then soak tobacco leaves with the brew.
pronounced: tee-an-ell-e (last ‘e’ mostly subliminal)
root meaning: tien – dream; iel – light/ray
TORBRAND s’FFALENN—founder of the s’Ffalenn line appointed by the Fellowship of Seven to rule the High Kingdom of Rathain in Third Age Year One.
pronounced: tor-brand
root meaning: tor – sharp, keen; brand – temper
TORNIR PEAKS—mountain range on western border in Camris, Tysan. Northern half is actively volcanic, and there the last surviving packs of Khadrim are kept under ward.
pronounced: tor-neer
root meaning: tor – sharp, keen; nier – tooth
TORWENT—fishing town and smuggler’s haven located on the coast of Lanshire, Havish, just south of the border. Descendants of many outbred clan lineages live there since the exodus to escape persecution under Lysaer s’Ilessid the pretender in Third Age Year 5653.
pronounced: tore-went
root meaning: tor – sharp; wient – bend
TRAITHE—Sorcerer of the Fellowship of Seven. Solely responsible for the closing of South Gate to deny further entry to the Mistwraith. Traithe lost most of his faculties in the process and was left with a limp. Since it is not known whether he can make the transfer into discorporate existence with his powers impaired, he has retained his physical body.
pronounced: tray-the
root meaning: traithe – gentleness
TREY—diminutive of Traithe.
TRUE SECT—offshoot branch faith of the religion of Light formed after the Great Schism, when the avatar turned apostate to the doctrine in Third Age Year 5683.
TYSAN—one of the Five High Kingdoms of Athera as defined by the charters of the Fellowship of Seven. Ruled by the s’Ilessid royal line. Device: gold star on blue field.
pronounced: tie-san
root meaning: tiasen – rich
URMALA—town-born croft woman from Kelsing.
pronounced: ur-ma-la
root meaning: urmala – cow
VALENFORD—town located in south Tysan, on the barge route at the River Valendale.
root meaning: valen – braided
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bsp; VASTMARK—principality located in south-western Shand. Highly mountainous and not served by trade-roads. Its coasts are renowned for shipwrecks. Inhabited by nomadic shepherds and wyverns, non-fire-breathing, smaller relatives of Khadrim. Site of the grand massacre of Lysaer’s war host in Third Age 5647.
pronounced: vast-mark
root meaning: vhast – bare; mheark – valley
VERRAIN—master spellbinder, trained by Luhaine; stood as Guardian of Mirthlvain when the Fellowship of Seven was left short-handed after the conquest of the Mistwraith.
pronounced: ver-rain
root meaning: ver – keep; ria – touch; an – one
original Paravian pronunciation: verria-an
WARDEN OF ALTHAIN—alternative title for the Fellowship Sorcerer, Sethvir, who received custody of Althain Tower and the powers of the earth-link from the last centaur guardian to leave the continent of Paravia in Third Age Year 5100. Prior to then, the titled post was held by a Paravian.
WAYSTONE—spherical-cut amethyst used by the Koriathain to channel the full power of all enchantresses in their order, lost during the great rebellion that threw down the rule of the high kings, and recovered from Fellowship custody by Lirenda in Third Age Year 5647. Currently useless to the order, due to Arithon’s arranged sabotage, which has infiltrated a stray iyat into the stone’s matrix in 5671.
WESTLANDS—originally a term for the western kingdoms of Tysan, Havish, and West Shand. Evolved to mean a specific set of mannered customs mostly practised in Tysan after the great uprising that threw down the high kings in Third Age Year 5015.
WHITEHOLD—city located on the shore of Eltair Bay, Kingdom of Melhalla.
Acknowledgments
My grateful thanks and steadfast appreciation goes to the following individuals for their invaluable support and assistance:
Jeff Watson, Andrew Ginever, Lynda-Marie Hauptman, Gale Skipworth, Charles Whipple, Angus Bickerton, Teri Wiegand, Stefan Raets and Sandra Jacobs
Jonathan Matson
Emma Coode, Sarah Hodgson, Jane Johnson and all of the Voyager Crew
and above all, my husband, Don Maitz, whose constant love and unflagging support exceeds all words.
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