Darkened Blade: A Fallen Blade Novel (28 page)

Sunrunning—
Blade slang for maintaining a shroud in bright daylight.

Sunside—
The shadowside term for more legitimate operations.

Sword of Heaven—
The military arm of the Son of Heaven and one of five branches of the church hierarchy. Also called the Templars.

Sword Rig—
An arrangement of leather straps and blackened steel D-rings that allows a Blade to attach their swords and other tools in a variety of configurations.

Sylvani—
The Others who populate the Sylvani Empire south of the eleven kingdoms. Allied with the element of light.

Sylvani Empire—
Sometimes called the Sylvain, a huge empire covering much of the southern half of the continent. Ruled by a nonhuman race, it is ancient and hostile to the human lands of the north.

Sylvaras—
First emperor of the Sylvain and greatest of the gods who rose from the First. Allied himself with Heaven in the godwar.

Sylvas—
Capitol of the Sylvani Empire.

Tamar—
A river in the Magelands with its headwaters near Uln.

Tangara
—
God of glyphs and runes and other magical writing.

Tavan—
One of the five great university cities of the Magelands.

Templars of Heaven—
The military arm of the Son of Heaven and one of five branches of the church hierarchy. Also called the Sword of Heaven.

Thauvik IV, or Thauvik Tal Pridu, the Bastard King—
King of Zhan and bastard half brother of the late Ashvik.

Thiess—
A Shade, familiar to Javan. Takes the shape of a huge horned owl.

Thieveslamp/Thieveslight—
A dim red magelight in a tiny bull’s-eye lantern.

Thiussus—
A Shade, familiar to Nuriko. Takes the shape of a nine-tailed fox.

Thornbrindle—
A thick shrub with many long thorns.

Tien—
A coastal city, the thousand-year-old capital of Zhan.

Tolar—
A branch of the Others living within the Sylvani Empire, mostly in the wastes. Allied with fire.

Toragana—
Lady Signet of Heaven, preceptor of the Hand of Heaven.

Triss—
Aral’s familiar. A Shade that inhabits Aral’s shadow. Takes the form of a small dragon.

Twins, the—
Eyn and Eva, the patron goddess or goddesses of the Dyads. Sometimes represented as one goddess with two faces, sometimes as a pair of twins, either identical or conjoined.

Uthudor—
A Durkoth scholar of the earth.

Vesh’An—
Shapechanging Others. Originally a part of the same breed that split into the Sylvani and Durkoth, the Vesh’An have adopted a nomadic life in the sea. Allied with water.

Voice of Heaven—
The priesthood devoted to the Emperor of Heaven, answering directly to the Son of Heaven, and one of five branches of the church hierarchy.

Voros—
A Master Blade, long dead.

Vrass—
A Shade, familiar to Maryam. Takes the form of a hydra.

Wall of the Sylvain—
Or simply the wall. A giant magical warding in the shape of a five-thousand-mile wall made by the forces of Heaven to bind the buried gods and the magic-using Others into the lands of the Sylvani Empire.

Xin—
A onetime journeyman Blade.

Yellow Springs
—
A valley of hot springs in the mountains above Varya, considered to be a place of healing by the locals.

Yellowtide—
A small river that feeds into the Evindine. It runs hot and smells faintly of sulfur because of its origins in the hot springs of the valley of Yellow Springs.

Yinthiss. A Shade, familiar to Malok.

Zara—
A Master Blade who died at the fall of the temple.

Zass—
A Shade, familiar to Devin. Takes the form of a tayra, essentially, a giant weasel.

Zhan—
One of the eleven human kingdoms of the East. Home to the city of Tien.

Zhen-Ki—
The Binder of Demons, one of the many gods of the eleven kingdoms.

Zissatha
—
A Shade, familiar to Parsi. Takes the form of a giant rat.

A complete glossary for all the Fallen Blade novels can be found at: kellymccullough.com/the-fallen-blade-story/fallen-blade-master-glossary-spoilers.

Bronze Sixth Kip (sixer)

Bronze Kip

Bronze Shen

Silver Half Riel

Silver Riel

Gold Half Riel

Gold Riel

Gold Oriel

(370 days in 11 months of 32 days each, plus two extra 9-day holiday weeks: Summer-Round in the middle of Midsummer, and Winter-Round between Darktide and Coldfast)

Winter-Round extra nine-day week of holidays

1. Coldfast
   
2. Meltentide
   
3. Greening
   
4. Seedsdown
   
5. Opening
   
6. Midsummer, which has an extra (festival) week in the middle
   
7. Sunshammer
   
8. Firstgrain
   
9. Harvestide
   
10. Talewynd
    
11. Darktide
    

1. Calrensday—
   In the beginning.
   
2. Atherasday—
   Hearth and home.
   
3. Durkothsday—
   Holdover from the prehuman tale of days.
   
4. Shansday—
   The middle time.
   
5. Namarsday—
   Traditional day for nobles to sit in judgment.
   
6. Sylvasday—
   Holdover from the prehuman tale of days.
   
7. Balorsday—
   Day of the dead.
   
8. Madensday—
   The day of madness when no work is done.
   

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