Sur Sceaf – One of the youngest of the 44 sons of Sur Spear. He possesses lineage from all three of the three tribes, Herewardi, Quailor, and Sharaka and is thus commissioned by the Roufytrof to lead the three tribes to the safety of the coast. AKA Surrey, The Archer
Sur Spear – The high king of Herewardom. The father of Sur Sceaf, Pyrsyrus, and Va-Eyra. Aka Syrus, Sasa, and the Traveler.
Surrey- This is the familial and the diminutive name for Lord Sur Sceaf.
Swan Hilde – The fourth wife of Sur Sceaf. She is also a member of the Roufytrof, Lore Master, and a witch (wise-woman) of the Herewardi.
Swan Ray – Ilker’s youngest wife who is now married to Pyrsyrus but the marriage remains unconsummated as she scorns to share his bed. She grieves unendingly for her lost husband. She is a seeress, and claims that Ilker yet lives. No one believes her and she is considered delusional by most who know her. She is no longer respected as a seeress, as people believe her gift is clouded by her grief.
Syr Elf – A Herewardi boy and the son of Va Eyra. Heir to the Kingdom in the high desert, and Fort Rock.
Syr-Alfim – another name for the Roufytrof.
Syrus – AKA Sur Spear’s familial name.
Tah-Man-Ea – the great great grandfather of Onamingo and Thunder Horse.
Taneshewa – Daughter of the Red King Onamingo. Sur Sceaf courts her to be his seventh wife.
Tensee-A place name of the Hickoryan Lands in the South.
The Ancient One-A name by which some refer to Odhin but also to Old Wayfarers and Travelers.
The Balmors- People who come from or live in the city of Balmor on the East Coast in the land of Merry Land.
The Carp Doctors – The nurses and doctors at Fort Rock. Renowned for their knowledge of healing, they are called the Carp Doctors because of the scale like pattern on the suits they wear.
The Cat Queen – see Va Eyra
The Council of the Three Tribes – The council made up of representatives from the Herewardi, Sharaka, and Quailor tribes. Created in an effort to pool resources and engender intertribal cooperation.
The Desert Rose – see Va Eyra
The Great White Lodge-The secret brotherhood that permeates many cultures, races, and peoples.
The Growling – This is a race of humans who suffer a deforming skin disease causing them to have blisters and blains all over their entire bodies. They are the subjects of Queen Gloomulah, who is the queen of the Underground.
The Owl Spirit – A Sharaka spirit entity.
The Quailor Giant – see Herman
The Sire Sheaf – A Sire Sheaf refers to the sheaf of barley laid over for the next season’s planting and thus are a select group of children from the royal bloodline elected, preserved, and chosen to act in accordance with the will of the Roufytrof and their master plan. It is a secret Herewardi organization, AKA the Seventh Kingdom and is composed of men and women of the Herewardi interspersed among the peoples of Panygyrus. They act as spies and educators spreading good will for the Herewardi tribe until the ends of the master plan are fulfilled.
The Swan People – A name for the Herewardi. AKA The White Swan People
The White Brotherhood – Select members from various tribes and peoples who may not join, but must be chosen to come into the White Lodge.
The Woondigo – What the Red Men call the Wose. Once a legendary creature of the mountains, Wose took on the moniker to strike fear into his enemies.
Thomas Lawrence – A Quailor boy who drowned in a pond while Sur Sceaf and Hartmut were boys.
Thord – Son of Pyrsyrus and Faewylf. While Pyrsyrus is away on the trek, Thord rules the kingdom in the Sand Wand Islands in his stead.
Three Doves – One of the little girls in Taneshewa’s extended family.
Thulebelle – A Quailor’s mule
Thunder Beings – The gods of the Sharaka and Red Men
Thunder Horse – The chief medicine man of the Sharaka and brother of Sagwi and Redith. A shamanic advisor to all who seek wisdom. Called “Coon Boy” when he was little.
Tillamook Rogues – A band of Rogues that lives on the western coast in Tillamook.
Tiny Owl – A Sharaka girl and love interest of Herewose the son of Pyr.
Titus – A white horse gifted to Hartmut by Sur Sceaf which subsequetly died in the Battle of Salem.
Tlingit Tribe – A gifted sea going tribe of natives living in the North of Panygyrus and through the western parts of La Kanada.
Turtle Duck – A Cherokee man who first lived among the Sharaka but later took on the Herewardi ways of polygamy and moved to the coast to become a merchant of the sea. Mendaka mentions him as a friend.
Twelver – A wolf-pack or twelve members of a fyrd which constitutes the smallest unit of a fyrd.
Tyr – The Herewardi god of war and justice. Also known as Tyranis – Another and older name for Tyr. Those of his bloodline are often referred to as the Tyrtons or Teutons, and such is the bloodline of Sur Sceaf.
Ullr – One of the oldest of the Herewardi gods. Sometimes acts in the stead of Odhin. Like Odhin, he takes great delight in shape-shifting to visit his seed in middle earth.
Ur-Fyr – The spiritual inspirations as described and felt by the Herewardi. The fire by which all men may be led inward and upward to know God.
Ursula Tautorus – A kind Quailor woman who knew Sur Sceaf when they were young and used to make Sur Sceaf and his friends food while she listened to their stories of adventure.
Va-Eyra – Sur Sceaf’s sister, and the daughter of Sur Spear. She is known as the Queen of the High Desert, the Silver Queen, and the Cat Queen. Her see is at Fort Rock and she is High Priestess of the Rose Rood.
Valkyries – The supernatural escorts of the spirit world, who guide dead warriors to their proper assignments amongst the gods and oft times protect them from harms unknown.
Vardropi – A race of trans-humans created by Dr. Vardrop and his wife out of the seed codes of man, wolf, and rat. They inhabit the far north in La Kanada at a place called Quirenopolis of Toront.
Verushka von der Vogelweide – Wife of Rudolf and sister of Lana. Rudolf refuses to let her and the children leave for the Exodus, so she reluctantly stays behind, much to her and the children’s doom.
Walners - Quailor family.
Walter Weiss – A Quailor man who taught Sur Sceaf the Holy Scriptures in his youth.
Walter Wetzel – A Quailor dycon who refuses to take part with Fromer in subverting Elijah and Sur Sceaf’s authority.
Watchers – Sky beings placed in charge of shepherding Odhin’s children in mortality.
Wenzel – A Quailor youth and the son of Elijah von Hollar
White Fire – Sur Sceaf’s stallion.
White Horse Order – An order created for distinguished men and women of all human tribes, who work for encouraging the perfection of all mankind with in the just and regularly constituted laws of the White Lodge.
Willard – A Prester ambassador come to investigate the alliance between the three tribes. He has come with Heber and Rip.
Wind Chaser – A counselor of Mesculara the Apache.
Wind Chaser – Xelph’s father. A Sharaka man.
Wind Whistler – Mendaka’s horse. A Paint.
Wolfpack – A group of twelve warriors within a fyrd.
Woon – Another name for Odhin.
Wose – The name for a man of grief, who atones for his losses by extricating himself from society and seeking personal ways to gain rake and ruin over the enemies who have done them harm. Starkwulf becomes the best known wose and is thus called the Wose.
Wselwulf – A Herewardi young blood and tracker and the son of the revered Herewardi hunter, Elfbeard. Wselwulf’s tracking enables Mendaka and the young bloods to locate Sur Sceaf in the pit and to find and kill the Pitters that captured him.
Wyrd Sisters – According to the Herewardi, they are the three sisters of fate and preceded the gods and the creation of the earth. They are beings of untold power and hold t
he keys to all advancement in the heavens.
Xelph – A Sharaka youth, highly gifted in plant lore and as with many Sharaka, he was born with golden hair and raised among the Herewardi according to his parents’ wish. He is both the dear friend of Arundel and Long Swan and like a son to Sur Sceaf.
Yellow Horse – A little boy found at the battle of Frink Glen. First adopted by Muryh, but raised by Sur Sceaf and later chose to become a Herewardi jester.
Yggd – An old Herewardi wayfaring man, encountered by Sur Sceaf in the High Desert who gives Sur Sceaf prophetic advice for the guidance of the three tribes.
Young Bloods – The highest station of youthful warriors in training. They have obtained the skills to engage in armed combat and partake in military operations.
Zepheniah Ishmael – Ludmilla’s choice name if her baby is a boy.
Zerrubabel – One of the young Quailor men chosen to unearth the Holy Jars from beneath the Ineffable Tree. He is honored for his good deeds and knowledge of the Holy Book.
Zrael the Shepherd – A Quailor Shepherd whose name was originally Israel.
For a complete list of names for the series up to date, go to TheKingofThreeBloods.com
Author Biography
Russ Howard was born in the north end of the Shenandoah Valley. He grew to manhood in rural West Virginia, where the mountaineer culture conveyed to Russ a sense of fierce independence, which is a running theme in his books. In his youth his first passion was for the animals he kept, an assortment of creatures from owls and pigeons to chipmunks and foxes. As he entered adolescence he developed an obsession for running and became an accomplished cross-country and track athlete.
His education spanned across international borders. He attended four major universities in three states and for a number of years he lived abroad as a student in various German cities as well as Kitzbuhl, Austria. During his stint there he learned to love and appreciate the German tongue and culture.
He is greatly influenced by English literature, Germanic, Keltic, and Slavic mythology. He is an admirer of the operatic genius Richard Wagner, the political innovator and democratic theorist Thomas Jefferson, and reveres J.R.R. Tolkien as the greatest modern story-teller. Russ’s spiritual philosophies have been condensed from sources of mysticism and Kabballah. He especially praises the works of Rudolph Steiner, Bruno Bettelheim, and Martin Buber.
Most of his life he worked as a Mental Health Investigator, and a Marriage, Family and Child Therapist. Now Russ lives with his wife Kathryn, a dancer, in Roseburg, Oregon. He spends his time as an avid gardener, small-scale farmer, and shepherd.
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