TWOLAS - 08 - Stormed Fortress

by Janny Wurts

  CAMRIS—north-central principality of Tysan. Original ruling seat was the city of Erdane.

  pronounced: cam-ris

  root meaning: cairn - cross; ris - way 'cross-road'

  CAOLLE—past war-captain of the clans of Deshir, Rathain. First raised, and then served under, Lord Steiven, Earl of the North and caithdein of Rathain. Planned the campaign at Vastmark and Dier Kenton Vale for the Master of Shadow. Served Jieret Red-beard, and was feal liegeman of Arithon of Rathain; died of complications from a wound received from his prince while breaking a Koriani attempt to trap his liege in Third Age Year 5653.

  pronounced: kay-all-eh, with the 'e' nearly subliminal

  root meaning: caille - stubborn

  CARITHWYR—principality in Havish, once a grass-lands breeding ground for

  the Riathan Paravians. Now produces grain, cattle, fine hides, and also wine,

  pronounced: car-ith-ear

  root meaning: ci'arithiren - forgers of the ultimate link with prime power. An old colloquialism for unicorn.

  CATTRICK—master shipwright hired to run the royal shipyard at Riverton; once in Arithon's employ at Merior by the Sea, now in charge of the shipworks for Duke Bransian s'Brydion at Alestron.

  pronounced: cat-rick

  root meaning: ciattiaric - a knot tied of withies that has the magical property of confusing enemies

  CILADIS THE LOST—Fellowship Sorcerer who left the continent in Third Age 5462 in search of the Paravian races after their disappearance following the rebellion.

  pronounced: kill-ah-dis

  root meaning: cael - leaf; adds - whisper, compound; cael'adeis colloquialism for 'gentleness that abides'

  CILDEIN OCEAN—body of water lying off Athera's east coast.

  pronounced: kill-dine

  root meaning: cailde - salty; an – one

  CORITH—island west of Havish in the Westland Sea. Site of an old drake lair, and a ruined First Age foundation. Here the council of Paravians convened during siege, and their appeal brought the Second Dreaming by dragons, which enacted the summoning of the seven who became the Fellowship Sorcerers.

  pronounced: core-ith

  root meaning: cori - ships, vessels; itha - five

  CORRA—wife of Fiark, and mother of his children,

  pronounced: cor-ah

  root meaning: cor - ship; ar'ia - little etheric being'a benevolent sprite that brings good fortune to shipping endeavours. CORTEND—company sergeant, under Talvish's command.

  pronounced: core-tend

  root meaning: koria'tiend - one who keeps order; orderly spirit

  CRESIDEN—Dame Dawr's most trusted man-servant,

  pronounced: cress-i-den

  root meaning: criess - honest; i'den - light of manner, courteous

  D'AEDANTHIC—desert dialect, the name by which the Biedar tribe of Sanpashir refer to Davien.

  pronounced: die-dan-thick

  root meaning: d'ae - fire; danthic - hands

  DAELION FATEMASTER—'entity' formed by set of mortal beliefs, which determine the fate of the spirit after death. If Ath is the prime vibration, or life-force, Daelion is what governs the manifestation of free will.

  pronounced: day-el-ee-on

  root meaning: dael - king, or lord; i'on - of fate

  DAELION'S WHEEL—cycle of life and the crossing point that is the transition into death.

  pronounced: day-el-ee-on

  root meaning: dael - king or lord; i'on - of fate

  DAENFAL—town located on the northern shore of Daenfal Lake, which bounds the southern edge of Daon Ramon Barrens in Rathain.

  pronounced: dye-en-fall

  root meaning: daen - clay; fal - red

  DAKAR THE MAD PROPHET—apprentice to Fellowship Sorcerer, Asandir, during the Third Age following the Conquest of the Mistwraith. Given to spurious prophecies, it was Dakar who forecast the fall of the Kings of Havish in time for the Fellowship to save the heir. He made the Prophecy of West Gate, which forecast the Mistwraith's bane, and also, the Black Rose Prophecy, which called for reunification of the Fellowship. At this time, in the service of Arithon, Prince of Rathain.

  pronounced: dah-kar

  root meaning: dakiar - clumsy

  DAON RAMON BARRENS—central principality of Rathain. Site where Riathan Paravians (unicorns) bred and raised their young. Barrens was not appended to the name until the years following the Mistwraith's conquest, when the River Severnir was diverted at the source by a task force under Etarran jurisdiction.

  pronounced: day-on-rah-mon

  root meaning: daon - gold; ramon - hills'downs

  DARI s'AHELAS—crown heir of Shand who was sent to safety through West Gate to preserve the royal lineage. Born following the death of the last Crown Prince of Shand, subsequently raised and taught by Sethvir to manage the rogue talent of a dual inheritance. Her mother was Meiglin s'Dieneval, last survivor of the old caithdein's lineage of Melhalla, which was widely believed to have perished during the massacre at Tirans. However the pregnant widow of Egan s'Dieneval had escaped the uprising and survived under a false name in a Durn brothel.

  pronounced: dar-ee

  root meaning: daer - to cut

  DARKLING—city located on the western side of the Skyshiel Mountains in the Kingdom of Rathain.

  pronounced: dark-ling

  root meaning: dierk-linng - drake eyrie

  DASCEN ELUR—splinter world off West Gate, where the heirs of three crown lineages lived in exile, with intent to spare the royal blood-lines from the upheaval that followed the Mistwraith's invasion.

  pronounced: das-en el-ur

  root meaning: dascen - ocean; e'lier - small land

  DAVIEN THE BETRAYER—Fellowship Sorcerer responsible for provoking the great uprising in Third Age Year 5018, that resulted in the fall of the high kings after Desh-thiere's conquest. Rendered discorporate by the Fellowship's judgement in Third Age 5129. Exiled since, by personal choice. Davien's works included the Five Centuries Fountain near Mearth on the splinter world of the Red Desert through West Gate; the shaft at Rockfell Peak, used by the Sorcerers to imprison harmful entities; the Stair on Rockfell Peak; and also, Kewar Tunnel in the Mathorn Mountains,

  pronounced: dah-vee-en

  root meaning: dahvi - fool; an - one 'mistaken one'

  DAWR s'BRYDION—grandmother of Duke Bransian of Alestron, and his brothers Keldmar, Parrien, and Mearn.

  pronounced: dour

  root meaning: dwyiar - vinegar wine DESHIR—north-western principality of Rathain.

  pronounced: desh-eer

  root meaning: deshir - misty

  DESH-THIERE—Mistwraith that invaded Athera from the splinter worlds through South Gate in Third Age 4993. Access cut off by Fellowship Sorcerer, Traithe. Battled and contained in West Shand for twenty-five years, until the rebellion splintered the peace, and the high kings were forced to withdraw from the defence lines to attend their disrupted kingdoms. Confined through the combined powers of Lysaer s'Ilessid's gift of Light and Arithon s'Ffalenn's gift of Shadow. Currently imprisoned in a warded flask in Rockfell Pit.

  pronounced: desh-thee-air-e (last 'e' mostly subliminal)

  root meaning: desk - mist; Mere - ghost or wraith

  DHARKARON AVENGER—called Ath's Avenging Angel in legend. Drives a chariot drawn by five horses to convey the guilty to Sithaer. Dharkaron as defined by the adepts of Ath's Brotherhood is that dark thread mortal men weave with Ath, the prime vibration, that creates self-punishment, or the root of guilt.

  pronounced dark-air-on

  root meaning: dhar - evil; khiaron - one who stands in judgement

  DHIRKEN—lady captain of the contraband runner. Black Drake. Reputed to have taken over the brig's command by right of arms following her father's death at sea. Died at the hands of Lysaer's allies on the charge of liaison with Arithon s'Ffalenn, Third Age Year 5647.

  pronounced: dur-kin

  root meaning: dierk - tough; an - one

  DIER KEN
TON VALE—a valley located in the principality of Vastmark, Shand, where Lysaer's war host, thirty-five thousand strong, fought and lost to the Master of Shadow in Third Age 5647, largely decimated in one day by a shale slide. The remainder were harried by a small force of Vastmark shepherds and clan scouts from Shand, under Caolle, who served as Arithon's war-captain, until supplies and loss of morale broke the Alliance campaign,

  pronounced: deer ken-ton

  root meaning: dier'kendion - a jewel with a severe flaw that may result in shearing or cracking.

  DURN—town located in Orvandir, Shand. Birthplace of Meiglin s'CHeneval.

  pronounced: dern

  root meaning: diern - a flat plain

  EAST HALLA—principality in Melhalla.

  pronounced: east hall-ah

  root meaning: hal'lia - white light

  EASTWALL—city located in the Skyshiel Mountains, Rathain. EAST WARD—fishing and trade town located on the eastern coast of Fallowmere, in Rathain.

  EASTTAIR—fortified town located on the East Halla peninsula, in Melhalla.

  pronounced: ee-ass-tay-er

  root meaning: e'ast - small cove; taer - calm

  EBRAR—an elite captain, dedicate to the Light, serving under Sulfin Evend.

  pronounced: ee-brar

  root meaning: ebair - reliant, steady; i'er - the line

  ELAIRA—initiate enchantress of the Koriathain, currently serving the order as a wandering independent. Originally a street child, taken on in Morvain for Koriani rearing. Arithon's beloved.

  pronounced: ee-layer-ah

  root meaning: e - prefix, diminutive for small; laere - grace

  ELDIR s'LORNMEIN—King of Havish and once the last surviving scion of s'Lornmein royal line. Raised as a wool-dyer until the Fellowship Sorcerers crowned him at Ostermere in Third Age 5643 following the defeat of the Mistwraith. Now father of four children.

  pronounced: el-deer

  root meaning: elder - to ponder, to consider, to weigh

  ELLAINE—daughter of the Lord Mayor of Erdane, once Princess of Avenor by marriage to Lysaer s'Ilessid, and mother of Kevor s'Ilessid, who became an adept of Ath's Brotherhood.

  pronounced: el-lane

  not from the Paravian

  ELSSINE—town on the coast of Alland, Shand. Best known for its granite quarries and tempered steel.

  pronounced: el-seen

  root meaning: elssien - small pit

  ELTAIR BAY—large bay off Cildein Ocean and east coast of Rathain; where the River Severnir was diverted following the Mistwraith's conquest.

  pronounced: el-tay-er

  root meaning: al'tieri - of steel'a shortening of original Paravian name; dascen al'tieri - which meant 'ocean of steel' which referred to the colour of the waves

  ENTTHEN TUER—seeress living in the town of Erdane. Originally a Koriani sister who encountered the Biedar tribes in Sanpashir, and on the basis of their influence, was freed from her initiate's vow of service by Fellowship Sorcerer Asandir's intervention.

  pronounced: en-ith-en too-er

  root meaning: en'wethen - far-sighted; tuer - crone

  ERTEGAL—second youngest of the fourteen child survivors of the Tal Quorin massacre known as Jieret's Companions. Renowned as a shrewd tactician, he was ordered to serve Jieret's son Barach as war-captain in the Halwythwood camp rather than fight Lysaer's war host in Daon Ramon Barrens in Third Age Year 5670.

  pronounced: air-ee-gall

  root meaning: eriegal - snake

  ERLIEN s'TALEYN—High Earl of Alland; caithdein of Shand, chieftain of the forest clansmen of Selkwood. Once fought Arithon s'Ffalenn at sword-point over an issue of law bound over by Melhalla's caithdein and also as a trial of a sanctioned crown prince's honest character. Father of Kyrialt sTaleyn.

  pronounced: er-lee-an

  root meaning: aierlyan - bear; tal - branch; an - one'first 'of first branch'

  ETARRA—trade city built across the Mathorn Pass by townsfolk after the revolt that cast down Ithamon and the High Kings of Rathain. Nest of corruption and intrigue, and policy-maker for the North. Lysaer s'flessid was ratified as mayor upon Morfett's death in Third Age Year 5667. Site where Arithon defeated the Kralovir necromancers in Third Age Year 5671. Also the seat of the Alliance armed forces.

  pronounced: ee-tar-ah

  root meaning: e - prefix for small; taria - knots

  EVENSTAR—first brig stolen from Riverton's royal shipyard by Cattrick's conspiracy with Prince Arithon. Currently of Innish registry, running merchant cargoes under joint ownership of Fiark and his sister Feylind, who is master.

  FALLOWMERE—north-eastern principality of Rathain.

  pronounced: fal-oh-meer

  root meaning: fal'ei'miere - literally, tree self-reflection, colloquialism for 'place of perfect trees'

  EARSEE—coastal harbour on the Bay of Eltair, located in East Halla, Melhalla.

  pronounced: far-see

  root meaning: faersi - sheltered'muffled

  FATE'S WHEEL—see Daelion's Wheel.

  FELLOWSHIP OF SEVEN—sorcerers bound to Athera by the summoning dream of the dragons and charged to secure the mysteries that enable Paravian survival. Achieved their redemption from Cianor Sunlord, under the Law of the Major Balance in Second Age Year One. Originators and keepers of the covenant of the compact, made with the Paravian races, to allow Mankind's settlement on Athera in Third Age Year One. Their authority backs charter law, upheld by crown justice and clan oversight of the free wilds.

  FEITHAN—widow of Jieret s'Valerient, Earl of the North, and caithdein of Rathain, handfast to the Companion, Sidir.

  pronounced: faith-an

  root meaning: feiathen - ivy

  FEIYD ETH SA—Biedar dialect, from Sanpashir, meaning 'look at this!'

  pronounced: fay-eed-eth-saa

  root meaning: feiyd - look; eth - at; sa - this

  FENNICK—man-at-arms from the royal guard at Avenor, once honour guard to Prince Kevor, now reprieved and reassigned as one of Lysaer s'Ilessid's personal guard by Sulfin Evend.

  pronounced: fen-nick

  not from Paravian

  FEYLIND—daughter of a Scimlade fisherman and Jinesse, twin sister of Fiark, currently master of Evenstar, a merchant brig of Innish registry,

  pronounced: fay-lind

  root meaning: faelind'an - outspoken or noisy one

  FFEREDON-LI—ancient Paravian word for a healer, literally translated 'bringer of grace' and the name given to Elaira by an Araethurian seeress on the hour of Fionn Areth's birth.

  pronounced: fair-eh-dun-lee

  root meaning: ffaraton - maker; li - exalted grace

  FIANZIA—(ANZIA, diminutive form) wife of Mearn s'Brydion.

  pronounced: fie-an-zee-ah

  root meaning: ffianzia - jade FIARK—son of a Scimlade fisherman and Jinesse, twin brother of Feylind, currently a merchant factor at Innish, also handles all of Arithon's covert shore-side affairs. Husband of Corra.

  pronounced: fee-ark

  root meaning: fyerk - to throw or toss

  FIONN ARETH CAID'AN—goatherd's child born in Third Age 5647; fated by prophecy to leave home and play a role in the Wars of Light and Shadow. Laid under Koriani spellcraft to mature as Arithon's double, then used as the bait in the order's conspiracy to trap the s'Ffalenn prince. Rescued from execution in Jaelot in 5669-70. Currently in the protective custody of the Prince of Rathain, in company with Vhandon and Talvish at Alestron.

  pronounced: fee-on-are-eth cayed-ahn

  root meaning: fionne arith caid an - one who brings choice

  FIRSTMARK—port town located on the shore of Rockbay Harbor, in Radmoore, Melhalla. Known for its wine and hides.

  FORTHMARK—city in Vastmark, Shand. Once the site of a hostel of Ath's Brotherhood. By Third Age 5320, the site was abandoned and taken over by the Koriani Order as a healer's hospice, not from the Paravian

  GANISH—trade city located south of Methlas Lake in Orvandir, Shand.

/>   pronounced: gan-eesh

  root meaning: gianish - a halfway point, a stopping place

  GEVARD—officer from the Telzen garrison, allied with the Blessed Prince.

  pronounced: gev-ard

  not from the Paravian

  GLENDIEN—a Shandian clanswoman, wife to Kyrialt s'Taleyn, formerly the heir designate of the High Earl of Alland.

  pronounced: glen-dee-en

  root meaning: glyen - sultry; dim - object of beauty

  GREAT WAYSTONE—see entry for Waystone.

  GRIMWARD—a circle of spells of Paravian making that seal and isolate the dire dreams of dragon haunts, a force with the potential for mass destruction. With the disappearance of the old races, the defences are maintained by embodied Sorcerers of the Fellowship of Seven. There are seventeen separate sites listed at Althain Tower.

  HALLIRON SEN ALDUIN—native of Innish who became Masterbard of Athera in Third Age year 5597, after Murchiel. Son of Al'duin, husband of Deartha, and teacher of Arithon s'Ffalenn. Died of an injury dealt by the Mayor of Jaelot in year 5644.