TWOLAS - 06 - Peril's Gate (99 page)

DARKLING—city located on the western side of the Skyshiel Mountains in the Kingdom of Rathain. pronounced: dark-ling root meaning:
dierk-linng
—drake aerie

DASCEN ELUR—splinter world off West Gate; primarily ocean with isolated archipelagoes. Includes kingdoms of Rauven, Amroth, and Karthan. Where three exiled high kings' heirs took refuge in the years following the great uprising. Birthplace of Lysaer and Arithon. 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, which resulted in the fall of the high kings after Desh-thiere's conquest. Rendered discorporate by the Fellowship's judgment 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 Pit, 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
r
oot meaning:
dahvi
—fool, mistake;
an
—one 'mistaken one'

DESHANS—barbarian clans who inhabit Strakewood Forest; principality of Deshir, Rathain. pronounced: desh-ans 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 defense 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.
p
ronounced: desh-thee-air-e (last 'e' mostly subliminal) root meaning:
desh
—mist;
thiere
—ghost or wraith

DESHIR—northwestern principality of Rathain. pronounced: desh-eer root meaning:
deshir
—misty

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.
p
ronounced: dark-air-on
r
oot meaning:
dhar
—evil;
khiaron
—one who stands in judgment

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

DIEGAN—once Lord Commander of Etarra's garrison; given over by his mayor to serve as Lysaer
s'Ilessid
's Lord Commander at Avenor. Titular commander of the war host sent against the Deshans to defeat the Master of Shadow at Tal Quorin; high commander of the war host mustered at Werpoint. Also brother of Lady Talith. Died of a clan arrow in the Battle of Dier Kenton Vale in Vastmark, Third Age 5647. pronounced: dee-gan
r
oot meaning:
diegan
—trinket a dandy might wear
.'
ornament

DIER KENTON VALE—a valley located in the principality of Vastmark, Shand, where the war host thirty-five thousand strong, under command of Lysaer
s'Ilessid
, fought and lost to the Master of Shadow in Third Age 5647. The main body of the forces of light were decimated in one day by a shale slide. The remainder were harried by a small force of Vastmark shepherds under Caolle, who served as Arithon's war captain, until supplies and morale became impossible to maintain, pronounced: deer ken-ton
r
oot meaning:
dien'kendion
—a jewel with a severe flaw that may result in shearing or cracking

DORIK—officer of the Alliance, sunwheel division from Etarra.
p
ronounced: door-ick

DRIMWOOD—forest located in the principality of Fallowmere, Rathain. pronounced: drim-wood root meaning:
driem
—fir tree

DURMAENIR—centaur, son of the armorer who forged the twelve Blades of Isaer. Sword Alithiel was fashioned for Durmaenir, who died in battle against Khadrim in the First Age. pronounced: dur-may-e-neer root meaning:
dir
—stone;
maenien
—fallen

EAFINN—one of the fourteen Companions, the only children of the clans of Deshir to survive the Battle of Strakewood. Served Prince Arithon at the Battle of Dier Kenton Vale in Vastmark. Died at the hands of headhunters in Third Age Year 5669. Survived by a son. pronounced: ee-yah-finn root meaning:
liaffen
—pale yellow hair

EARLE—Second Age ruin located in West Shand, south of the Salt Fens. Fortress where the Mistwraith's first incursion was fought, until Davien the Betrayer caused the uprising; also, where Seannory bound the four elements to conscious presence, in event Athera had need, pronounced: earl root meaning:
erli—
long light

EASTWALL—city located in the Skyshiel Mountains, Rathain.

ECKRACKEN—king drake who died by the Salt Fens in West Shand; his bones are guarded by a grimward located on the peninsula in West Shand near the ruins of Earle, and his mate's remains rest on the waste continent Kathtairr. pronounced: ack-rack-in
r
oot meaning:
aykrauken—
scorcher

EDAL—next to youngest daughter of Steiven and Dania s'Valerient. pronounced: ee-doll
r
oot meaning:
e
—prefix, diminutive for small;
dal
—fair

ELAIRA—initiate enchantress of the Koriathain. Originally a street child, taken on in Morvain for Koriani rearing, pronounced: ee-layer-ah
r
oot meaning:
e
—prefix, diminutive for small;
laere
—grace

ELDIR s'LORNMEIN—King of Havish and 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. pronounced: el-deer
r
oot meaning:
eldir
—to ponder, to consider, to weigh

ELLAINE—Erdani woman, became Princess of Tysan when she married Lysaer
s'Ilessid
, mother of the heir apparent, Kevor.
p
ronounced: el-lane

ELTAIR BAY—large bay off Cildein Ocean and east coast of Rathain; where River Severnir was diverted following the Mistwraith's conquest.
p
ronounced: el-tay-er
r
oot meaning:
al'tieri
—of steel
.'
a shortening of original Paravian name;
dascen al'tieri
—which meant 'ocean of steel', which referred to the color of the waves

ERDANE—old Paravian city, later taken over by Men. Seat of old princes of Camris until Desh-thiere's conquest and rebellion.
p
ronounced: er-day-na with the last syllable almost subliminal root meaning:
er'deinia
—long walls

ERLIEN s'TALEYN—High Earl of Alland;
caithdein
of Shand, chieftain of the forest clansmen of Selkwood. pronounced: er-lee-an stall-ay-en
r
oot meaning:
aierlyan
—bear;
tal
—branch;
an
—one
.'
first 'of first one 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, pronounced: ee-tar-ah
r
oot 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
r
egristry, running merchant cargoes under joint ownership of Fiark and his sister Feylind, who is acting captain.

FALGAIRE—coastal city on Instrell Bay, located in Araethura, Rathain, famed for its glassworks.
p
ronounced: fall-gair—to rhyme with 'air' root meaning:
fal'mier
—to sparkle or glitter

FALLOWMERE—northeastern principality of Rathain. pronounced: fal-oh-meer
r
oot meaning:
fal'ei'miere
—literally, tree self-reflection, colloquialism for 'place of perfect trees'

FATE's WHEEL—see Daelion's Wheel.

FELLOWSHIP OF SEVEN—Sorcerers drawn to Athera in the Second Age by the dreams of the dragons, and bound to the charge of upholding Paravian survival. Keepers of the compact, they stand surety for the points of concordance made with the Paravians which permitted human refugees to settle on the continent of Paravia. Authors of charter law, which governed the balance of natural law, and the justice of the high kings. Since the departure of the Paravians, the Sorcerers also shoulder the charge of minding the weal of the land. They act in accord with the Law of the Major Balance, which honors the law of free will, and which demands that no consciousness should be imposed upon without permission.

FEITHAN—wife of Jieret s'Valerient, Earl of the North, and
caithdein
of Rathain. pronounced: faith-an root meaning
ifeiathen
—ivy

FENNICK—man-at-arms from the royal guard of Avenor, assigned as bodyguard to the heir apparent, Prince Kevor.
p
ronounced: fen-nick

FIONN ARETH CAID'AN—shepherd 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.
p
ronounced: fee-on-are-eth cayed-ahn root meaning:
fionne arith caid an
—one who brings choice

FIRSTMARK—city on the coast of Rockbay in Radmoore, Shand.

FORTHMARK—city in Vastmark, Shand. Once the site of a hostel of Ath's Brotherhood. By Third Age 5320, the site was
a
bandoned and taken over by the Koriani Order as a healer's hospice.
r
oot meaning not from the Paravian

GACE STEWARD—Royal Steward of Avenor. pronounced: gace—to rhyme with 'race' root meaning:
gyce
—weasel

GANISH—trade city located south of Methlas Lake in Orvandir, Shand.
p
ronounced: rhymes with 'mannish' root meaning:
gianish
—a halfway point, a stopping place

GERY—man-at-arms in Etarra's sunwheel company.
p
ronounced: gerry

GREAT WAYSTONE—amethyst crystal, spherical in shape, the grand power focus of the Koriani Order; lost during the great uprising, and finally recovered from Fellowship custody by First Senior Lirenda in Third Age 5747.

GRIMWARD—a circle of dire spells of Paravian making that seal and isolate forces that have the potential for unimaginable destruction. With the disappearance of the old races, the defenses are maintained by embodied Sorcerers of the Fellowship of Seven. There are seventeen separate sites listed at Althain Tower.

HADGE—scout tracker, with Etarra's sunwheel field company.
p
ronounced: hadj

HALDUIN
s'Ilessid
—founder of the line that became High Kings of Tysan since Third Age Year One. The attribute he passed on, by means of the Fellowship's geas, was justice, pronounced: hal-dwin root meaning:
hal
—white;
duinne
—hand

HALLIRON MASTERBARD—native of Innish, Shand. Masterbard of Athera during the Third Age; inherited the accolade from his teacher Murchiel in the year 5597. Son of Al'Duin. Husband of Deartha. Arithon's master and mentor. Died from an injury inflicted by the Mayor of Jaelot in the year 5644. pronounced: hal-eer-on root meaning:
hal
—white;
lyron
—singer

HALWYTHWOOD—forest located in Araethura, Rathain. Current main campsite of Earl Jieret's band, predominantly survivors of the Battle of Strakewood. pronounced: hall-with-wood root meaning:
hal
—white;
wythe
—vista