Shadowheart

by Tad Williams

  Tulim—twenty-third in the line of succession

  Tyron—famous Kracian bard and poet

  Ultin—a prince of Xis

  Unforgiven—a tribe of manlike Qar

  Upsteeplebat—Queen of the Rooftoppers of Southmarch

  Uwin—priest who replaced Father Timoid

  Vasil Zeru—White Hounds quartermaster

  Volofon—a mercenary from Ikarta in Krace

  Weasel—one of the Temple Dog scouts

  Whitewound—Ettin clan from Bluedeeps

  Willow—A pixilated girl

  Xergal—Xixian name for Kernios

  Ximander—famous scholar

  Xosh—Xixian name for Khors

  Xyllos—a sea monster

  Yermun—Xixian name for Immon the Gatekeeper

  Zoaz—Xixian god, groom of the solar chariot

  PLACES

  Ancestor’s Blood—Qar name for the Sea in the Depths

  Anglin Parlor—Hendon Tolly’s temporary throne room

  Argas River Valley—in southern Silverside

  Blue Lamp Quarter—a district of Xis

  Brewer’s Store Cavern—a cavern between the temple and Funderling Town

  Cavern of Winds—a series of connected chambers in the Funderling Mysteries

  Counting Room—a large cavern underneath Southmarch

  Crying Hill—site of a famous battle between Qar and Dreamless

  Dunletter—a town in the hills of Brenland

  Frannac—Connordic island

  Gem Street—the main processional in Funderling Town

  Glittering Delights—Qar name for Sandsilver’s Dancing Room

  Grasshill Bridge—in mainland Southmarch

  Great Delve—a large Stormstone tunnel leading under Brenn’s Bay to the mainland

  Initiation Hall—the center of the Maze

  Iron Reach—passage above the Metamorphic Brothers temple

  Kalebria—a southern city, once part of Syannese empire

  King’s South Cabinet—a room connected to the Erivor Chapel

  Lake Strivothos—a huge inland sea in southern Eion

  Last Hour of the Ancestor—Qar name for Southmarch Castle, esp. the deepest parts

  Last Reach—a tunnel complex in the Funderling Mysteries

  Millwheel Road—a major road that runs into the Coast Road near Southmarch Castle

  Moonless Reach, a long, lightless cavern complex below Funderling Town

  Mudstone Reach—another cavern system beneath Funderling Town

  Ocher Bar—a clay pit near Iron Reach

  Ocsa—Connordic island

  Old Baryte Span—a series of tunnels off the Great Delve

  On. Krisanthe—a Trigonate temple in mainland Southmarch

  Onir Beccan—a town in Blueshore on the edge of Brenn’s Bay

  Potmis Bridge—scene of a famous Syannese military defeat

  Prince Kayne Library—in the royal residence at Southmarch

  Revelation Hall—the last chamber of the Maze before the Balcony over the Sea in the Depths

  Sandsilver’s Dancing Room—a large cavern near the Metamorphic Brothers Temple

  Sharm—Connordic island

  Shoremarket—a square in mainland Southmarch

  Silver River Road—a main road through Kertewall and Silverside

  Skean Egye-Var—Skimmer’s name for M’Helan’s Rock

  Sycamore Tower—the tallest tower in the Orchard Palace

  Stefanian Hills—hills between Brenland and Summerfield

  Tessideme—name for Tessis when it was a village

  Vale of Aulas—a forested stretch between Oscastle and Southmarch

  Weeping Staircase—part of Qul-na-Qar

  White Bank Road—a road near the lagoon in the Outer Keep of Southmarch

  Xan-Horem mountains—Xixian mountains

  Yenidos Mountains—Xixian mountain range

  THINGS (AND ANIMALS)

  A Diversitie of Truthfull Thinges—a book by Ximandros Tetramakos.

  a-recking—toward the right side

  Always Fire—the force that created the Book of the Fire in the Void

  Askorab—AKA “skorpa” AKA “seliqet”: scorpion

  Chastiser—Hammerfoot’s war ax

  Day of Fires—Midsummer’s Eve in Xis

  Day of Smoke—Midsummer’s Day in Xis

  Ghostmaker—a Xandian knife

  guruodir—heavy Funderling stabbing-spears with broad iron spearheads and shafts of oak

  Hormos—a country dance in March Kingdoms

  Kinwar—the Qar re-invasion of Southmarch

  meadowqueen—a wildflower

  Muckle Brown—a flittermouse, bat

  Mykomel—AKA “mushroom jack”, a Funderling liquor

  Royal Spindle Shell—one of the Rooftopper’s sacred artifacts

  Sea Postern—a gate that the Skimmers use to slip in and out between Southmarch harbor and Brenn’s Bay

  Sealskin—the name of Rafe’s boat

  seliqet—Qar word for scorpion

  Seven Gray Birds—a constellation and a group of semi-mythical Qar prophetesses

  Third Hierarchical Conclave—a famous Trigonate religious council

  Torvionos—a southern dance popular at the Southmarch court

  Ul-Ushya Festival—important Xixian yearly celebration

  Yah’stah’s Eye—a Qar name for a star

  Appendix 2

  THE PRINCIPAL GODS OF THE TRIGONATE FAITH AND THEIR DIVERSE NAMES AMONG THE HEATHEN PEOPLES

  PERIN the god of the sky and Thane of Lightnings is called Argal by the Xixians, Cloudwalker, Skylord, and Thunder by the Qar, Hand of the Sky or Lord of the Peaks by the Rooftoppers, and Pyarin by the Skimmers.

  ERIVOR the god of the waters is called Eshervat in the south of Xand, Efiyal by the Xixians, Egye-Var by the Skimmer-folk, and Ocean by the Qar.

  KERNIOS the lord of the underworld is named Xergal by the Xixians, Black Earth by the Qar, and Karisnovois by the Rooftoppers.

  Together, Perin, Erivor, and Kernios are known as the Trigon, the Three, the Brothers, or the Three Brothers.

  DEVONA, goddess of the forest, called Devona of the Harp

  ERILO, god of the harvest, which is why the Qar name him Harvest.

  HILIOMETES the mighty demigod is sometimes called (or confused with) Melarkh, hero of the Xixians.

  HONNOS the god of travelers is called Yunas by the Xixians and Red Stag by the Qar.

  IMMON the Gatekeeper of Kernios is called Yermun among the Xixians and Black Noszh-La by the Funderlings of Southmarch.

  KHORS the first god of the moon, named Xosh by the Xixians and Silvergleam by the Qar.

  KUPILAS the Artificer, god of healing and making and smithing, is called Crooked by the Qar, Habbili by the heathens of Xis, and Kioy-a-pous by the Skimmers.

  MADI ONYENA, mother of Zmeos, Khors, and Zuriyal, called Ugeni by the Xixians; Umdi Onajena by others of the southern lands, and Bird Mother or Breeze by the Qar.

  MADI SURAZEM, mother of the Three Brothers, called Shusayem in Xis and Moisture by the immortal Qar.

  MESIYA the goddess of the moon and first wife of Kernios, called Nenizu by the Xixians.

  SIVEDA is the goddess of the night.

  STRIVOS the god of the wind is sometimes called Invisible by the Qar.

  SVA, the grandmother of the gods, is named Void by the Qar and Zha among the Xixians.

  SVEROS the father of the gods, called Twilight by the Qar and Zhafaris in Xis.

  VOLIOS, god of war, known as Volios of the Measureless Grip or Volos Longbeard is named Okhuz by the Xixians and Bull by the Qar.

  ZMEOS the Horned Serpent, the Great Enemy, called Nushash by the Xixians and Whitefire by the Qar. His sword was also named Whitefire. (In the pagan rites of the Xixians, Zmeos stole and married Zoria to begin the Godwar, not his brother Khors, as our faith teaches.)

  ZO, grandfather of the gods, is called Light by the Qar and Tso by the Xixians

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p; ZORIA the daughter of Perin, mother of Kupilas, and later the wife of Kernios is called Suya by the Xixians and Pale Daughter, Dove, Dawnflower, or Almond Blossom by the Twilight Folk, or Qar.

  ZOSIM the god of crossroads, poets, thieves, and drunkards, called Salamandros in his aspect as a fire god, Shoshem by the Xixians and Trickster by the Twilight Folk.

  ZURIYAL the Merciless, sister of Zmeos and Khors, called Surigali by the people of distant Xis, and Judgement by the Qar.

  The war between the children of Surazem and Oneyna, called the Godwar, is also named the Theomachy or Onyenomachy.