by Tom Toner
Pearn
Moon of Humaling, Prism Investiture
Piris-Perzumin
Country of the Murmurian Domain, Thunderclouds
Port Bonifacio
Honey/fuel moon, Amaranthine Firmament
Port Halstrom
Moon of the Prism Investiture, where the inhabitants are said to bleed from their mouths
Port Maelstrom
Tethered moon of Vaulted Epsilon Eridani, Amaranthine Firmament
Port Rubante
Tethered moon of Vaulted Sirius, Amaranthine Firmament
Proximo Carolus
Vaulted Land closest to the Old World, Amaranthine Firmament
Pruth-Zalnir
Lacaille moon, Prism Investiture
Sarine City
Capital city of the First Province, Old World
Sea Hall of Gliese
Palace in the Firmamental capital, Gliese, Amaranthine Firmament
Sepulchre
Ancient Amaranthine treasure hoard beneath the Girdis Mountains of Port Maelstrom
Silakbo
Star in the outer reaches of the Prism Investiture
Stole-Havish
Vulgar moon, Prism Investiture
Surath
County of the Oyal-Threheng, Old World
Tail
Land in the Westerly Provinces, Old World
Tau-Ceti; the Last Harbour
Formerly the twenty-fourth Solar Satrapy; fourteen planets, Prism Investiture
Tenth Province
Southern Province of the Old World, bordering the Nostrum Sea
Thornhill
Town in Milkland, Drolgins, Prism Investiture
Thrasm
Ancient Amaranthine prison on the Tethered moon of Port Maelstrom
Unzat City
Funnel-city in Dozo, Harp-Zalnir, Prism Investiture
Vaulted Alpho
Vaulted Land, Amaranthine Firmament
Vaulted Ectries
Vaulted Land, Amaranthine Firmament
Vaulted Sirius
Vaulted Land, Amaranthine Firmament
Vaulted Tamilo
Vaulted Land, Amaranthine Firmament
Vaulted Wise
Vaulted Land, Amaranthine Firmament
Voliria
Star in the outer reaches of the Prism Investiture, said to be the home of the Jurlumticular
Vrachtmunt
Vulgar country in the southern hemisphere of Drolgins, Prism Investiture
Westerly Provinces
Wild, internally governed Provinces west of the First and Second, Old World
Wherla
Moon of Humaling, Prism Investiture
Woenmouth
Moon at the edge of the Prism Investiture
Yire
Island in the Westerly Provinces, Old World
Zeliolopos
Largest of Tau Ceti’s gas giant planets, Prism Investiture
Zeliovastus
Gas giant planet of Tau Ceti, Prism Investiture
Zuo
City on Pruth-Zalnir, Prism Investiture
VEHICLES
Coilship
Pre-Decadence Voidship of the Immortal kingdoms
Corbita
Wheelhouse owned by Jatropha
Epsilon India
Pifoon-made Voidship, now owned by the Oxel. Lycaste and Perception’s home
Gorgonn
Lacaille Colossus battleship
Grand-Tile
Lacaille Colossus flagship
Hasziom
Lacaille-made Voidship, captured by the crew of the Epsilon India above Port Rubante
Push-gig
Bicycle-like contraption stolen by the Awger Billyup
Vastuz
Lacaille Poacher class Voidship
Wilhelmina
Amaranthine ship of Decadence, liberated from the Sepulchre of Port Maelstrom and commandeered by Cunctus and his gang
Yustafan
Lacaille Colossus battleship
MISCELLANEOUS
Age of Decadence
(AD 9000—AD 10,550) Period of Amaranthine prosperity and technological innovation
Artery
Melius causeways through the Provinces
Bilocation
The ability—unique among the Amaranthine—to telegraph oneself magnetically between the poles of planets, made possible through the alignment of iron particles in their blood
Bloodfruit
Meaty foodstuff, grown
Crule
Melius unit of measurement, roughly equivalent to a mile
Diaphene
Amaranthine skycharge bomb, stolen long ago
Ducats
Currency of the Firmament
Fizzbomb
Lacaille bomb
Hollowing Lathe
Colossal machine used to scoop planets and turn them into Vaulted Lands
Leperi
The ancient language of the Epir, still spoken by the Spirits of their machines
Lumen rifle/pistol
Expensive and relatively rare Prism weapon, fires lasers
Middle Ingwese
Drolgins dialect
Modan
Westerling language, Old World
Orifice sea
Thin area of the crust of a Vaulted Land, bored for structural support and to allow access; often filled with water
Overlight
An effect of superluminal travel, whereby the light of every star blends together
Quarter
Basic Melius unit of time, equivalent to three hours
Reflective
The onomatopoeic, aeons-old language of the Thunderclouds, spoken all across the galaxy clusters
Ring book
Book of metal plates popular in the Provinces
Saint Anthony’s Mouth
Hole at the bottom of the lagoon of Impio, Drolgins, Prism Investiture
Shameplague of the
Sexually transmitted disease Old World
Skycharge
Amaranthine bomb, capable of turning the air to boiling steam
Sparker
Prism weapon, fires explosive rounds like fireworks
Spring rifle/pistol
Crude Prism weapon, fires bolts with a loaded spring
Stickmen
Ancient but frequently defective Amaranthine army of Decadence, built from a special fabric
Superluminal
Faster than light-speed
Tetraluminal
Speeds above superluminal
The Magic Mirror
Ancient Amaranthine invention, capable of viewing the events of the past
The Shell
Contraption capable of preserving and transmitting a soul
Thresholds
Enormous and exceedingly ancient hollow-chambered bulbs; a method of travelling across galaxies in times long past
Unified
The language of the Amaranthine
Uyua
The sensation of fear, but experienced from a place of safety
Vaulted Land
Hollowed planet in the Firmament, containing an artificial sun and interior continents
Wheelhouse
Large rolling wheel, often made of wood, girdled with a ring of balconies and living spaces; used as transport and dwelling on the Old World
Zest
Westerling alcohol
TOM TONER was born in Somerset, England, in 1986. After graduating with a degree in fine art from Loughborough University and the FHSH in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, he moved to Australia, teaching life drawing and working in an art gallery near Melbourne. Upon returning to England he completed his debut novel, The Promise of the Child. Toner currently lives in London.
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