Amish - A people of the past that, among others, makes up the larger portion of the Quailor people.
Ana von der Vogelweide – Ludmilla’s choice of a name if her baby is a girl.
Angelonde – A daughter of Sur Sceaf.
Angrar – The god of the Pitters which is the one and only god they zealously worship.
Annie – Wife of Khem as well as a close friend of Sur Sceaf. She is one of the few remaining Blacks freed from Pitter enslavement camps and chose Khem as the only Black Man she ever knew.
Apache Tribe – Another name for the Ndee who are located in the Arid Zone and throughout the White Mountains. They are one of the more successful tribes in repelling the Pitters, who will take great measures to avoid them.
Arundel III – Sur Sceaf and Paloma’s firstborn son and heir apparent of the Herewardi Kingdoms. He was a man of great expectations.
Aryfae – One of Sur Sceaf’s daughters.
Ascended Elven Masters – men, women, wizards, and witches who excelled sufficiently to be granted admission to the upper kingdoms where the star races live.
Atla – A lore master accompanying Long Swan and Brono to deliver messages to Sur Sceaf on the trek and act as ambassadors for the Herewardi. He is one of Sur Spear’s sons.
Baldur – The most beautiful and beloved of the gods who was killed on accident by a mistletoe twig shot into his eye through the trickster Loki’s plot. Before he was killed he begat the ancestor of one of the Herewardi bloodlines, a bloodline of extreme beauty and comeliness destined to fulfill many great prophecies of the latter days and the coming time of refreshment when the Gods would come forth among the sons of men in great glory..
Bear Chaser – A Sharaka hunter.
Bergita – One of the Quailor Ludmilla’s two oldest daughters.
Bev Taylor – A member of the jury that is considering whether Sur Sceaf is the father of Gal Fawkes’ child or not.
Billy Bad Ass – A donkey stud who threw many a good mule.
Black Brotherhood – The Dark League of Pitter Commissars who swear their oaths and allegiance to the Emperor upon the calcified brains of the Emperor’s murdered sister, the Papessa.
Blooms Alone – Taneshewa’s neice and the daughter of Sparrow Hawk.
Bnnimin – The son and assistant to Rabbi Amschel. A Jywdic youth who along with his older brother was marked to accompany Sur Sceaf on his whaling expedition.
Bo Miller – A Rogue come to Witan Jewell to fetch Gal Fawkes for his friend Jig Peck.
Boar Clan- a Red Man clan among the Klamath Tribe.
Brekka- The pugnacious daughter of Sur Sceaf and Lana who desires to be a shield-maiden and the first Lady Knight.
Brono - A lore master accompanying Long Swan and Atla to deliver messages to Sur Sceaf on along the trek and act as ambassadors for the Herewardi. He is a son of Sur Spear.
Brother Yoder – A Quailor man. He was hosting the Dycons at his home when the Massacre at Salem began and in which his wife and unborn child were slain before he could save them.
Bruna – A cute Quailor girl. Flirts with the young bloods, Ilkchild, and Redelfis.
Buffalo Chiefs – Chiefs of the Buffalo Nations who live scattered in the Montan and across the Plains.
Buffalo Nations – Tribes of Red men who occupy the plains and mountains of the Montan and up through the Kanada.
Bull Clan – A clan within the Klamath Tribe
Captain Scroggins – The captain of The Blue Oyster, the boat on which Jig Peck was a fisherman.
Captain Scylding – Herewardi captain of the guard in Witan Jewell.
Celswith – The Herewardi jester at Fort Rock.
Chanting Drum – A revered Sharaka Shaman.
Chief Monasaka – Chief of the Ochoco and an ally of the three tribes who is a personal friend of the Wose.
Clotilde – A wife of Sur Spear, known for her divisive nature. She was banished from Sur Spear’s swannery and resides in Charly’s Harbor with her son Melyngoch where she instigated the trial of Gal Fawkes v. Lord Sur Sceaf so as to further her son’s political standing.
Colomba Rogues – A Rogue tribe of whites composed mostly of fisherman along the Colomba River. They become allies of the three tribes and are often referred to as the River Folk.
Copperlocks - see Brekka
Cornelius Halterman – A Quailor man known as the first patriarch of Salem. Who buried the Holy Jars containing a prophetic message to future Quailor generations beneath the Ineffable Tree.
Council of Women – The appendant leadership body of the Herewardi. They determine whether the Herewardi will go to war or not and make all domestic laws.
Crippled Wolf – A Sharaka scout. The first to spot the arrival of the survivors from the Massacre at Salem.
Crooked Boar – A Red Man of the Boar Clan who defected to the Pitters when Jakob Inteus Walker was acting as a spy among the allied peoples. He is a tracker with the group of Pitters that capture and torture Sur Sceaf in the first book and the beginning of the second.
Crooked Jack – A Herewardi fyrd commander under Sur Sceaf and Sur Spear. He is a gravely battle hardened and deeply trusted advisor to Sur Sceaf. The jack-daw is his family sigil and thus he is sometimes referred to as Jacky Doo.
Crying Bear – A sad lonely Sharaka, who ended her days without a lover.
Dak – Shortened nickname of Mendaka.
Dancing Crow – A Sharaka man that Shining Moon briefly loved before she was married to Sur Sceaf.
Dancing Rabbit – Wife of Onamingo and mother of Taneshewa. She is from the Cherokee tribe.
Daniel – A young Rogue and the son of Shug Moss
Deep Voice – A Sharaka Chief. He is put in charge of organizing the Hickoryans and Presters while at DiAhman. He plays the role of the Booger Chief in the Booger Dance.
Dietrich Donnerbergen – The Quailor wainright/wagon-builder. He builds the birthing wagon for the trek, so that pregnant women might ride smoothly for the duration of the long journey.
Doctor Walter Shanks – an extraordinary Quailor doctor whose gift was discovered early in his youth. He is the husband of Ludmilla (Lana Durer’s sister), continued to develop his young genius. Sur Sceaf had shown so muchs confidence in Shanks that he allow him to sew up his wounds at the budding age of seven. He goes on to train under Sur Sceaf’s sister’s Fish Doctors and by his teens becomes the head healer of the Hospitalers.
Dog Soldiers – The title given to Red Men braves.
Dominikers – Humans who serve the Pitter Empire as merchants, and tax and tithe collectors among all nations under their thumb.
Donya Margarita del Borego – The second wife of Pyrsyrus. An Espagnol woman from the Taxus. Was the wife of Ilker before he was lost in battle.
Dori Linsner - A Quailor survivor of the Salem Massacre. Rescued at Woonstone by Sur Sceaf’s fyrds
Dunkards - A people of the past that, among others, helps to make up the Quailor people.
Dycons – Men who form an administrative body of the Quailor, operating under the High Priests.
Eats the Ground – Horse Taneshewa Rides
Elder Moot – Another name for the Roufytrouf or Syr-Alfim.
Elfbeard – Once a warrior who served under Sur and Sur Spear. He was most known for his hunting skills and hounds and was a beloved friend of Sur Sceaf. He has a back story of being the rejected lover of Sagwi when they were young, but because of his practicing of polygamy she chose another whom she did not love as well.
Elflocks the cat – A jaguarundi pet of the Silver Queen Va-Eyra.
Elflocks the person – A young man of Herewardi lore derived from a story of young lovers from different tribes who die for their love involving the story of the founding of The Maiden’s Head by the sea.
Elfwin Ev’Rhettson - A Herewardi young blood who is part of the young blood twelver that goes with Mendaka to find Sur Sceaf and kill the Pitters that captured him. The name Ev’Rhettson indicates his paternity is not known and that he
was conceived legitimately during the Mayfest.
Elfy – the nickname for Ilkchild.
Elijah von Hollar – The brother of Ludwig von Hollar and chief high priest of the Quailor. Sur Sceaf’s great uncle and ally of the alliance of the three tribes.
Elk Clan – One of the Klamath clans
Elka – Supportative of Sur Sceaf’s wives during the trials of Gal Fawkes v. Lord Sur Sceaf. She is Sur Spear’s thirteenth wife who brings the news to Sur Sceaf’s wives when Sur Sceaf was first accused of impregnating then abandoning a Rogue girl named Gal Fawkes.
Elrus – A past prophet and seer who had open communion with the gods and the Elves and other heavenly beings. It is he who established the Elven Monestaries in Taxus.
Emperor of Pitterdom – Hryre Seath
Ephrata Society – The highest order of the Quailor priesthood.
Ernst – A Quailor present at the Durers during dinner.
Ethel – Lana and Sur Sceaf’s daughter. The youngest child of Lana. Two years old in Book II
Eugeners – Human Rogue Tribesmen who due to their mistrust of the polygamous Herewardi formed an alliance with the Pitters, thus allowing the Pitters to build a Zonga on the Whilamut whereby they had a foothold into the West.
Eurydice Verushka von der Vogelweide – Newborn daughter of Rudolf and Verushka von der Vogelweide. Named by Lilith. AKA Veru
Ev’Rhett - One of “The Twins.” A boy of around 7 or 8 years. The son of Swan Hilde and Sur Sceaf.
Eva Scheible - A Quailor survivor of the Salem Massacre. Rescued at Woonstone by Sur Sceaf’s fyrds
Evangeline – The deceased wife of Hartmut Hagele, slain by a Pitter Rat Pack when ambushed during a berry picking foray.
Face-of-Stars – A young Tlingit woman. The daughter of Raven’s Tongue. She is a budding medicine woman, knowledgeable in plants and medicines.
Faechild – Sur Sceaf’s third wife and of royal Baldurean descent. Sister of Ilkchild and daughter of Ilker.
Faehunig – Lover that rejected Long Swan and eloped with his best friend Saxwulf on the day she was meant to wed Long Swan.
Faelocks the cat) – A jaguarundi pet of the Silver Queen Va-Eyra.
Faelocks the person – A young woman of Herewardi lore who dies for her love in the story of The Maiden’s Head.
Faewylf – Second wife of Pyrsyrus. Daughter of Lord Saxwylf. Travels with Pyrsyrus to escort the three tribes to Witan Jewell.
Fairchild – A Herewardi young blood from the coast. He is part of the young blood twelver that goes with Mendaka to find Sur Sceaf and kill the Pitters that captured him.
Fire Fang – Ilkchild’s palamino horse
Flamma – A wife of Sur Spear who lends her support to Sur Sceaf’s wives during the trial of Gal Fawkes v. Lord Sur Sceaf.
Flicka – One of the fish nurses that attends Sur Sceaf as a healer.
Flying Wolf- The Sharaka name of Ludwig von Hollar
Folk Moot – Any meeting of the Herewardi people
Folk Mouth – The oral history of the Herewardi people stretching back into legend.
Fort Colomba – a fortification of the Colomba Rogues on the Colomba River.
Forty-Four Laws – the sacred laws that govern the Herewardi tribes.
Franz – A Quailor man. Elijah’s heir to the position of Chief High Priest.
Fress – One of Donya’s shepherd dogs.
Freya – The Herewardi goddess of fertility, AKA The Good Goddess
Friedrich Durer – Lana’s father and Sur Sceaf’s father-in-law and a devout Quailor man.
Frink Glen Clan – A combination clan composed of Sharaka and Klamath tribesmen who keep their flocks and herds in the High Desert. They were attacked by one of the first acts of coordinated aggression in the West by the Pitter legions.
Fritz Baron – Fromer’s predecessor. A deceased Quailor dycon. He was well loved by the people.
Fritz Hagele – Hartmut’s brother. A Quailor man. He died at the Battle of Salem, riding the Herewardi horse, Titus into battle.
Fritz von Aalen – Joseph von der Vogelweide’s entered apprentice metalsmith.
Fritz Walner – A young Quailor man, part of the Retrenchment movement that was captured at the Massacre at Salem, rescued from Pitters by Sur Sceaf and his fyrds.
Fromer Muckenschnabel – A Quailor dycon, head of the Retrenchment Core and Movement and constant thorn in High Priest Elijah’s side, as well as Sur Sceaf’s. His zealotry causes much mayhem among the allied tribes and the Quailor especially. AKA Old Mosquito Beak, Mosquito.
Fur Puller – Going Snake’s tri-color hound pup
Fyrd – A band of 144 elite Herewardi warriors. The men usually remain part of the same fyrd most of their lives, serving under a single heretoga. They begin their bonding as a military unit while still young blood warriors.
Gal Fawkes – A young woman from the Rogue Tribe of Coquille. She comes to Witan Jewell along with Clotilde and Melyngoch to accuse Sur Sceaf of impregnating and abandoning her.
Georg – A zealot Quailor dycon, but does not support Fromer in his subversions against Elijah and Sur Sceaf.
Gideon – The hero, as described in the bible.
Gisela – A strong-willed woman and one of the fish nurses that Va Eyra places in charge of Sur Sceaf’s healing after his ordeal in the pit. Her smothering attention and strictness grate on Sur Sceaf’s patience.
Gmunders - Quailor family
God’s Retrenchment Core – The leadership of the Retrenchment Movement among the Quailor who constitute a new order of the most stalwart believers in conservative Quailorism.
Goddess Syn – a Herewardi goddess of protection
Godhi – Herewardi priests in the synagogue of Odhin versed in the lore of Herewardom, its history, traditions, and implementation of blessings.
Going Snake – Mendaka’s youngest son whom we first encounter at age seven years old. His hound Fur Puller was the catalyst for the encounter of Taneshewa and Sur Sceaf.
Goldie – A cute Quailor girl. Flirts with the young bloods, Ilkchild, and Redelfis.
Govannon – The master-wizard from the White Mountains of the Apache who rejected being an ascended master in order to remain on Ea-Urth to serve his people. He is half Herewardi and half Apache as well as the adoptive father of Wilona the White and was known to be the greatest metallurgist and sword-artificer of all times.
Green Beetles – The youngest order of Herewardi messengers within the Herewardi Kingdom. They are page-boys who are usually around the age of young puberty.
Gretta von der Vogelweide – The middle daughter of Rudolf von der Vogelweide’s oldest brother.
Griselda Mersfelder- A Quailor woman and an old friend of Lana’s.
Gustav Richter – A Quailor Retrencher captured at Salem. Later rescued by Sur Sceaf’s fyrds in the Battle of Woonstone.
Gutwein - A Quailor survivor of the Salem Massacre. Rescued at Woonstone by Sur Sceaf’s fyrds
Gutweins - Quailor family.
Habraham – A Quailor High Priest Quorum Leader and devout supporter of the alliance. AKA Hab, Haby
Hagele – Quailor family.
Haligewaecca – A Herewardi High Priestess and the presiding wife of a bride covey.
Hanna Walner – A young girl stolen by the Pitters at the Massacre of Salem and thence taken to be sold to the Growling.
Hans Schneckenhaus – A Quailor dycon whom Fromer tries to recruit for spying against the High Priests and Sur Sceaf. He refuses the task.
Hartmut Hagele – Perhaps Sur Sceaf’s closest friend among the Quailor. He is a man grieving, for his wife was killed by the Pitters while she was out picking berries. He once was a high priest and highly honored Ephrata member, but was removed from his stations of authority due to his inability to perform his duties under the burden of depression. Aka Old Hard Mud, the Black Hatter.
Heber – A Prester ambassador, come to investigate the alliance between the three tribes. He has come with Willard and Rip.
A slender balding man with a barrel chest and a penchant for riddles.
Heilige Schrift –the Quailor Holy Books.
Heimdall – A Herewardi god who is the hearkener of the gods. Legend says he can even hear the growing of the yew tree and the wool of a sheep’s back lengthen. He hears and records the cries of Odhin’s peoples.
Heinrich – A Quailor man. As a young man he was a fishing buddy of Sur Sceaf’s in Salem. He married a Rogue woman. Travels with the Quailor to Glide Garth after the Massacre.
Heinrich Stoltzfuss – A Quailor man. The son of Amanda Stoltzfuss. Was a friend of Sur Sceaf in his youth. He left the Quailor to live with the River Folk. Married a Rogue girl.
Heratoga – A leader of an Herewardi army composed of either one or many fyrds.
Herefax – The firstborn son of Pyryrus
Hereric – A Herewardi man who was father of Alfhere. (Heretoga of the Salem fyrds)
Hereward – Ancient longfather of the Herewardi people. He is the Ur-Father of the Herewardi tribes and the founding progenitor of the same.
Herewardi – The descendants of an enclave of scholars, priests, and warriors, who restored the tribe of Hereward in the early days before the collapse of civilizations.
Herewose – A son of Pyrsyrus. Travels with his father on the trek.
Herman Kesselmacher – A huge Quailor man sometimes referred to as the Giant. Quiet and reserved, he is shunned by the Quailor community. As of Book II it is unknown what crime he has committed for which he is being stigmatized and shunned but he carries the aged woman Lila Stobie in his arms during the trek, earning him much respect among both the Herewardi and Sharaka. AKA the Kettlemaker, The Quailor Giant
Hickoryans – The human inhabitants of the south eastern portion of Panygyrus, who form secret alliances and shadow governments against the oppressive Pitter Empire. They name themselves in honor of the hickory tree which is known for its strength, endurance, and deep-rootedness.
High Lord Syrus – Another name for King Sur Spear
High Priests Quorum – A religious and governing body of the Quailor people.
Horst the Baker – A Quailor man with a reputation for making the best of breads.
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