The Ships of Merior (86 page)

PESQUIL - Mayor of the Northern League of Head-hunters, at the time of the battle of Strakewood Forest. His strategies cause the Deshir clans the most punishing losses.

PRANDEY
- Shandian term for gelded pleasure boy.

QUAID - trade city in Carithwyr, Tysan; inland along the trade road from Losmar to Redburn. Famous for fired clay and brick.

RADMOORE DOWNS - meadowlands in Midhalla, Melhalla.

RATHAIN - High Kingdom of Athera ruled by descendants of Torbrand s’Ffalenn since Third Age Year One. Sigil: black and silver leopard on green field.

RAUVEN TOWER- home of the s’Ahelas mages who brought up Arithon s’Ffalenn and trained him to the ways of power. Located on the splinter world, Dascen Elur, through West Gate.

RENWORT - plant native to Athera. A poisonous mash can be brewed from the berries.

RIATHAN PARAVIANS - unicorns, the purest and most direct connection to Ath Creator; the prime vibration channels directly through the horn.

ROCKFELL PIT - deep shaft cut into Rockfell Peak, used to imprison harmful entities throughout all three ages. Located in the principality of West Halla, Melhalla; became the warded prison for Desh-thiere.

ROCKFELL VALE - valley below Rockfell Peak, located in principality of West Halla, Melhalla.

s’AHELAS - family name for the royal line appointed by the Fellowship sorcerers in Third Age Year One to rule the High Kingdom of Shand. Gifted geas: farsight.

SANPASHIR - desert waste on the southcoast of Shand.

SAVRID
- merchant brig chartered to transport armed men from Minderl Bay to Merior.

s’BRYDION - ruling line of the Dukes of Alestron. The only old blood clansmen to maintain rule of their city through the uprising that defeated the rule of the high kings.

SCIMLADE TIP - peninsula at the southeast corner of Alland, Shand.

SEARDLUIN - drake-spawned, vicious, intelligent cat-like predators that roved in packs whose hierarchy was arranged for ruthless and efficient slaughter of other living things. By the middle of the Second Age, they had been battled to extinction.

SECOND AGE - Marked by the arrival of the Fellowship of Seven at Crater Lake, their called purpose to fight the drake spawn.

SETHVIR - Sorcerer of the Fellowship of Seven, served as Warden of Althain since the disappearance of the Paravians in the Third Age after the Mistwraith’s conquest.

SELKWOOD - forest located in Alland, Shand.

SEVERNIR- river that once ran across the central part of Daon Ramon Barrens, Rathain. Diverted at the source after the Mistwraith’s conquest, to run east into Eltair Bay.

s’FFALENN- family name for the royal line appointed by the Fellowship sorcerers in Third Age Year One to rule the High Kingdom of Rathain. Gifted geas: compassion/empathy.

s’GANNLEY family name for the line of Earls of the West, who stood as
caithdein
and stewards for the Kings of Tysan.

SHADDORN - trade city located on the Scimlade peninsula in Alland, Shand.

SHAND - High Kingdom on the southeast corner of the Paravian continent, originally ruled by the line of s’Ahelas. Device is falcon on a crescent moon, backed by purple and gold chevrons.

SHANDIAN - refers to nationality, being of the Kingdom of Shand.

SHIP’S PORT- town on the coast of Eltair Bay located in West Halla, Melhalla.

SICKLE BAY - body of water located inside the Scimlade Peninsula in Alland, Shand.

S’ILESSID - family name for the royal line appointed by the Fellowship sorcerers in Third Age Year One to rule the High Kingdom of Tysan. Gifted geas: justice.

SITHAER - mythological equivalent of hell, halls of Dharkaron Avenger’s judgement; according to Ath’s adepts, that state of being where the prime vibration is not recognized.

SKYRON FOCUS - large aquamarine focus-stone, used by the Koriani Senior Circle for their major magic after the loss of the Great Waystone during the rebellion.

SKYSHIEL - mountain range that runs north to south along the eastern coast of Rathain.

s’LORNMEIN - family name for the royal line appointed by the Fellowship sorcerers in Third Age Year One to rule the High Kingdom of Havish. Gifted geas: temperance.

SORCERERS’ PRESERVE- warded territory located by Teal’s Gap in Tornir Peaks in Tysan where the Khadrim are kept confined by Fellowship magic.

STEIVEN - Earl of the North,
caithdein
and regent to the Kingdom of Rathain at the time of Arithon Teir’s'Ffalenn’s return. Chieftain of the Deshans until his death in the battle of Strakewood Forest. Jieret Red-beard’s father.

STORM WELL - Gulf of Stormwell, body of water off the northcoast of Tysan.

STRAKEWOOD - forest in the principality of Deshir, Rathain; site of the battle of Strakewood Forest.

SUNCHILDREN - translated term for Athlien Paravians.

SUN TOWERS - translated term for the Paravian keeps still standing on the site of the ruins of Ithamon in Daon Ramon Barrens, Rathain. See Ithamon.

s’VALERIENT - family name for the Earls of the North, regents and
caithdein
for the High Kings of Rathain.

TAERLIN - southwestern principality of Kingdom of Tysan. Also a lake of that name, Taerlin Waters in the southern spur of Tornir Peaks. Halliron teaches Arithon a ballad of that name, which is of Paravian origin, and which commemorates the First Age slaughter of unicorn herd by Khadrim.

TAERNOND - forest in Ithilt, Rathain.

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.

TAL’S CROSSING - town at the branch in the trade road that leads to Etarra and south, and northeastward to North Ward.

TALERA s’AHELAS - princess wed to the King of Amroth on the splinter world of Dascen Elur. Mother of Lysaer s’Ilessid, by her husband; mother of Arithon, through her adulterous liaison with the Pirate King of Karthan, Avar s’Ffalenn.

TALITH - Lord Diegan’s sister; betrothed lady of Lysaer s’Ilessid.

TALLIARTHE
- name given to Arithon’s pleasure sloop by Feylind; in Paravian myth, a sea sprite who spirits away maidens who stray too near to the tide mark at twilight.

TASHAN - Elder on Maenalle’s clan council, present at the raid on the Pass of Orlan.

TEAL’s GAP - pass in the northern spur of Tornir Peaks in Tysan, which passes through the Sorcerers’ Preserve.

TEIR - title fixed to a name denoting heirship.

TELMANDIR - mined city that once was the seat of the High Kings of Havish. Located in the principality of Lithmere, Havish.

TELZEN - city on the coast of Alland, Shand, renowned for its lumber and saw millworks.

THALDEINS - mountain range that borders the principality of Camris, Tysan, to the east. Site of the Camris clans’ west outpost. Site of the raid at the Pass of Orlan.

THARIDOR - trade city on the shores of Instrell Bay in Melhalla.

THARRICK - captain of the guard in the city of Alestron assigned charge of the duke’s secret armoury.

THIRD AGE - marked by the Fellowship’s sealing of the compact with the Paravian races, and the arrival of Men to Athera.

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.

TIRANS - trade city in East Halla, Melhalla.

TIRIACS - mountain range to the north of Mirthlvain
Swamp, located in the principality of Midhalla, Kingdom of Melhalla.

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.

TORNIR PEAKS - mountain range on western border of the principality of Camris, Tysan. Northern half is actively volcanic, and there the last surviving packs of Khadrim are kept under ward.