Dragon Alliance Dark Storm : Dark Storm (83 page)

Talestra
(tell-es-tra). The special bodyguards for Stalenjh and the Usurper Five, consisting of the toughest and cruelest of the death knights in Morgathia; however, these knights don’t have the intellect to secure their own lands.

Talon
Covenant
. Group of powerful sorcerers that control the Morgathian Empire in conjunction with Tiamat and her Usurper Five court.

Geography
and Location Key

Adelif
Peninsula
(a-dell-if). The peninsula that Machren Weir is located at the tip of, on the southeast portion of the Alliance.

Allghen
Forest
(ahl-gehn). A central northern forest in the Alliance territory, home to the largest elf clan with Denaris and Eladra, as the elven monarchs.

Ariana
(air-ee-ahn-a). A desert kingdom of the eastern Ontaror region, with very evil and aggressive tendencies; it has the extremist Kallysh religion as its center.

Aserghul
(az-er-ghoul). The Morgathian capital city and site of Tiamat’s five-tower fortress.

Askala
Island
(ass-kul-la). A large island that lies just over a thousand miles off the Northwest coast of the Alliance. It is now a territory of the republic but was once inhabited by large populations of white dragons, ice giants, and gnolls, which plagued the small local communities who survived on fishing, small agriculture, and limited trading, but now mostly cleared by the Alliance and the weirs and has large repositories of gemstones and mineral wealth.

Atlean
City
(at-lee-un). A key port city on the Alliance’s west coast and second largest city in the entire republic.

Battle
Point
. The original site of the final and massive battle of the Last Great Dragon War, now the location of a large detached Alliance trade city right in the middle of the unsettled lands.

Canaris
Twins
. (kah-nahr-is). A large sub continent island pair that is known for its large expanse of lush wild jungles and fierce giant lizards. Home to many primitive tribes.

Columbrian
(kul-um-bree-han). A port town on the southwestern coast of the Alliance.

Conesquen
River
(kon-es-kwin). A river on the extreme eastern border of the Alliance that marks the border between the Alliance and the Ismer Emirates.

Dagrad
(da-grad). The capital city of Shidan.

Donlan
(dahn-lan). The largest city in Freiland.

Draconia
(drah-kon-ee-a). Alliance Capital City, the center of government, commerce, and culture to the republic.

Draden
(dray-den). A mid-sized city and province on the eastern border of the Alliance in the shadow of Keystone/Draden Weir and gateway to the unsettled lands by the only break or gap in the Gray Mountain chain. The city lies just to the north of Draden Weir along the Severic River.

Eresta
Lake
(air-es-ta). The large lake that sits at the base of Eladran Weir and is the headwaters for the Conesquen River. It is very deep and over fifty miles across. The lake is claimed by the bronze dragons that inhabit Eladran Weir. It is a prime trade route between Eladran and Machren Weirs, as well as the cities and provinces that surround the weirs.

Fathracia
(fa-thray-sha). A port city on the southwest coast of the Alliance, no adjacent weir.

Ferran
Mountains
(fair-ahn). A rugged mountain chain located on the northwest coast of the Alliance and home to the largest dwarf kingdom, also the source of much of the iron and gemstones in the Alliance.

Freiland
(free-lend). An island kingdom located a few hundred miles to the direct west of the Alliance and the closest ally of the Dragon Alliance Republic.

Handsdown
. A trading village forty miles east of Battle Point.

Hasera
(ha-sahr-ah). A northern inland port city of Ariana.

Ian
(ay-an). A small kingdom in the Southern Ontaror chain that has strong defensive ties to the Alliance but still remains very independent.

Imiana
(ee-mee-ahn-ah). A city on the tip of the Adelif Peninsula that Machren Weir overlooks and protects. A vibrant port city renowned for its beaches, merchants, and parties, Imiana is the jewel on the end of the stick of the Adelif Peninsula; it takes trade in from the many coastal islands and from all over the southern seas.

Ismer
Emirates
(iz-mehr). A conglomerate of small independent kingdoms to the Alliance’s southeast border.

Kaskar
(kas-kar). The loosely held massive but self serving kingdom
of northern nomadic horse clans with Elsidor as its capital.

Kestal
Lake
(kes-tull). A large mountain-fed lake to the direct east of the Ferran Mountains.

Lucian
Forest
(lu-shee-ahn). A sizable forest on the border of the southern portion of the Gray Mountain chain just north of Eladran Weir.

Maiden
Mountains
. A small mountainous area just to the west of Draconia, named for its usual state of being shrouded in fog or mist because of the small but focused waterfall.

Milstra
River
(mill-stra). A river that flows around Battle Point through the unsettled lands and eventually empties into the massive Ontaror inland sea of the center kingdoms.

Minara
(min-ah-ra). Underground portion of the dwarves’ capital city of Ferranor in the Ferran Mountains.

Missora
River
(mis-or-ah). The river that flows from the Crystal Lake at Talinor to the sea at Lancastra.

Naterah
(na-tehr-ah). The capital city of Ariana.

Northern
Kingdoms
or
Northern
Ontaror
Sea
Kingdoms
. The series of kingdoms that lie on the northern shores of the Ontaror Sea and southern end of the unsettled lands. They formed the Northern Ontaror Confederation.

Ontaror
Sea
(on-tehr-or). The great inland sea that lies east of the Alliance and separates the northern and southern kingdoms.

Savegsol
(sav-ug-sul). The oasis city in the desert plains between Lancastra and Eladran Weirs, basically in the middle southern portion of the Alliance; it is a renowned stop or waypoint for travelers who are traversing the southern breadth of the Alliance.

Severic
River
(sev-er-ik). The main waterway that flows from east to west from High Mountain Weir past Draden Weir, past Talinor Weir, and to Draconia emptying into Sauric Bay.

Shanaris
(shah-nahr-is). Drow capital underground city.

Shidan
(shee-dahn). The desert kingdom in the Southern Ontaror chain that borders the Ontaror Straits and the Southern Sea. It is known for its treachery and assassin guilds, but especially the Black Scarab assassins.

Southern
Islands
. A general term for the series of islands that stretch from off the southern coast of the Alliance’s Adelif Peninsula several thousand miles east to the Morgathian coasts. One of the larger islands is home to a settlement from Freiland from centuries ago called Southland to the almost continent-sized island pair called the Canaris Twins.

Southern
Ontaror
Kingdoms
. Several smaller kingdoms that are mostly comprised of emirates and theocracies that lie between the southern shores of the Ontaror Sea and the southern ocean.

Talinor
(tal-in-oor). A large dwarf city located in the center of the Alliance along the Severic River and the Talinor Mountains directly across from Talinor Weir.

Weirs

Language
Key

Draconic
Words

dackesh
(dah-kesh). Honored thanks.

dacul
(dah-kuhl). Fool.

nineyak
(nein-yok). No.

Onaba
ham
(oh-na-ba-hahm). The sacred Draconic word for honored friend and comrade, who is dedicated to fight evil, a standard dragonrider greeting.

pogach
(po-gosh). One of the worst curses or insult in Draconic, loosely translated as being ultimately foolish.

preitoras
(pray-tour-us). Sentinel or guardian, name given to land dragons by the metallic dragons, who were once employed to guard dragon eggs on the hatching grounds.

Rethem
Sidelfis
(reth-em-zee-del-fis). Roughly translates to “to always faithfully guide those we serve.”

salvach/selvach
(sahl-vash). Lowly servant or indentured slave.

sapsprech
(sop-sprek). Chromatic insult to humans, means “talking monkeys.”

scheilsach
(shyl-sak). Draconic word for excrement.

verstek
(ver-stek). Vermin.

yahsesh
(ya-sesh). Yes/affirmative.

yvonalch
(yah-vulnch). Witch

Dwarvish
Words

Jevya
(yev-ya). The dwarvish word for the Creator.

raproch
(ra-prok). Trusted/honored comrade.

taloshj
(tahl-oj). Dwarvish for cleric or holy man.

Elvish
Words

mogra
tree
(ma-gruh). Tree from which the elves harvest a particularly useful sap.

rescula
se
solrela
(rez-kuhl-a zee sul-rell-ah). Elf prayer for the soul of a vanquished drow, similar to the one the metallics use for a slain chromatic.

salinvesh
(sal-in-vesh). An elvish curse word in a drow dialect meaning “scum” or “vermin”; the actual elvish word is
salvesh
(sal-vesh).

Characters

Ablich
(a-blick). Senior lieutenant and executive officer of the Draden Weir’s infantry company.

Akiser
(a-kyzer). One of the platoon leaders in the Draden Weir garrison, holds the rank of lieutenant.

Aleslade
(el-a-slade). Sea elf king.

Altmed
(alt-med). Rider of the silver dragon Baranth of Eladran Weir, a very skilled shooter with his dragonstone-powered crossbow.

Andellion
(ann-dellion). A midlevel wizard assigned to the Battle Point Legion.

Andrace
(on-drace). Rider of the silver dragon Auroranth, wife of Padonan and midlevel lady wizard.

Annan
(ah-non). Half-elf wife to Mkel and midlevel healer, rider of the Draden Weir silver dragon Silvanth.

Ashram
(ash-rom). Morgathian Talon sorcerer and Talon Covenant member, overlord of the northwest province of the Morgathian Empire.