Last of the Wilds

by Trudi Canavan

  reyer – animal for riding and pulling platten

  shem – domestic animal bred for milk

  shrimmi – freshwater shellfish

  spikemat – spiney creature of reefs

  spinerake – landwalker name for flarke

  takker – large snake

  tiwi – insects that make a hive

  veez – cute, telepathic pet that can speak

  vorn – wolf-like animals

  woodfish – tasteless fish

  yern – deer-like, limited telepathy

  yeryer – venomous sea creature

  CLOTHING

  circ – circular overgarment worn by Circlian priests and priestesses

  octavestim – garb of the Priests of Gareilem

  tawl – overgarment worn draped over shoulders, fastened at throat

  tunic – dress for women, shirt for men

  undershift – undergarment for women

  FOOD

  wafercakes – fried, flakey pastry

  firespice – spice from Toren

  nutmeal – paste made from nuts, Si

  flatloaf – dense bread

  rootcakes – patties of boiled and fried roots

  DRINK

  ahm – drink of Somrey, usually warmed and spiced

  drai – Elai drink

  jamya – ceremonial drink of Pentadrians

  kahr – Sennon drink

  teepi – Siyee drink

  teho – drink of Sennon

  tintra – Hanian drink

  tipli – Toren drink

  DISEASES

  hearteater – disease that attacks lungs

  lungrot – disease that, funnily enough, rots the lungs

  woundrot – the festering of a wound

  BUILDINGS

  wayhouse – place for travelers to stay in

  safehouse – place where Dreamweavers can stay

  blackstone – stone that is dark colored

  whitestone – stone that is pale colored

  OTHER

  canar – Sennon coin

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  Many thanks:

  First to “The Two Pauls” and Fran Bryson, who read the roughest of all rough drafts. Also to Jennifer Fallon, Russell Kirkpatrick, Glenda Larke, Fiona McLennan, Ella McCay, Tessa Kum for their feedback. To all my readers, especially all my readers on Voyager Online. And, finally, to Diana Gill and the Eos team, and to Matt Stawicki for the fabulous cover illustrations.

  About the Author

  TRUDI CANAVAN is the author of the bestselling Black Magician trilogy—The Magician’s Guild, The Novice, and The High Lord—as well as Priestess of the White, Book One of her Age of the Five trilogy. She lives in a little house on a hillside, near a forest, in the Melbourne suburb of Ferntree Gully in Australia. She has been making up stories about things that don’t exist for as long as she can remember, and was amazed when her first published story received an Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story in 1999. A freelance illustrator and designer, she also works as the designer and Art Director of Aurealis, a magazine of Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction. You can visit her website at www.trudicanavan.com.

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  Other Books by

  Trudi Canavan

  Age of the Five Trilogy

  LAST OF THE WILDS

  PRIESTESS OF THE WHITE

  Forthcoming

  VOICE OF THE GODS

  The Black Magician Trilogy

  THE HIGH LORD

  THE NOVICE

  THE MAGICIAN’S GUILD

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  LAST OF THE WILDS. Copyright © 2006 by Trudi Canavan. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks.

  EPub Edition © DECEMBER 2006 ISBN: 9780061807893

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