Perry
A spoiled rotten page at Rathgar’s Keep. (Sword)
Petar
Potboy at the Inn of the Green Man. (LHM)
Peter Ringwright
A Valdemaran tradeguildsman and co-conspirator in the secret alliance between slavers and the Lake Evendim pirates. (Arrows)
Petras
Capital city of Rethwellan. (Oath, Storm, Sword, Winds)
Phellip
Having survived a colddrake attack, he was worried about further trouble, based on previous experience. Vanyel could hardly blame him. (LHM)
Pheregrul
Kethry’s family name; the Pheregruls were members of the Fifty Noble Houses of Mornedealth. By her father’s day, the name was an empty title. The House estates had dwindled to a decaying mansion in the Old City and the family perks to little more than an open invitation to Court functions and permission to hunt in the Royal Forests. (Oath)
Phoenix
A Haighlei legend of an Air-Spirit and Fire-Spirit combined. The legend became the basis for a classic dance performed at the Palace called, “Phoenix Dancing with Dragon”. (Gryphon)
Phryny
The astronomical body that Herald-Mage Kilchas planned to study the night he died, while watching the conjunction between Phryny and Aberdene’s Eye, a celestial event which only occurred once in a hundred years, and he was anticipating seeing it. (LHM)
Piel
Shandi’s most romantic and least sensible suitor. After Shandi was Chosen, he mooned about brokenheartedly, making a pest of himself. In his foolish posturing and fantasizing, he stood out in the rain until he caught cold and then expected Keisha to cure his ills. (Owl)
Pig and Potion
A tavern in Carter’s Lane in Petras, it offered good food, fine drink, and various forms of accommodations. The inn was especially noted for its excellent brewmaster. (Oath)
Pig and Stick
A tavern in Highjorune in Lineas where Minstrel Renfry worked. Vanyel, in his disguise as Valdir, had looked there in hopes of getting a job, but Renfry’s presence chased him off. Later, the two men struck up an acquaintance and Renfry was surprisingly helpful and sympathetic to the threadbare character Vanyel was portraying. When Vanyel fled Highjorune, he went to The Pig and Stick looking for the older man. Renfry tipped him off on how to escape the city, and coaxed the taverns cook into supplying the Herald-Mage with food for his journey. (LHM)
Pillars of Wisdom
They stand at either side of the gates between this world and the world of the Dead, invoked during the death-curse ritual against an Oathbreaker. Formed of ethereal glowing mist, and bracketing the Gate of Judgment, the Pillars allow those wronged by the Oathbreaker to return long enough to find just revenge. (Oath)
Pine forest
The only name given to a location on the Guard’s maps, a heavily wooded area east of White Foal Pass near the Karse border that Lord Marshal Weldon speculated was the place where the Karsites would try to flank Valdemar’s army and press forward their invasion. He assigned Lan to hold off the attack there, using whatever means necessary to stop the Karsites. (BB)
Pires Nieth
A Blood Mountain Master mage in Ancar’s pay. The bastard son of a noble family, he briefly assumed the crown of Hardorn until he discovered that the Eastern Empire’s army was pouring over the border, when he abandoned the crown and fled. (Winds)
Poidon
A hertasi who demonstrated for Skan a backspin pointe dance maneuver his species regularly used at Harvest Festival. Skan adapted the move for aerial combat. (Gryphon)
Poison-vellis
A plant to be avoided. Forst Reach fosterling Jyllian compared Vanyel’s aloof behavior to one reacting to poison-vellis. (LHM)
Pol (Herald)
A teacher at the Collegium and the Herald present when Lavan was chosen, Pol was married to Healer Ilea, and their daughters were Healer-trainee Elenor, Bard Kaika, and Healer Amaly. The daughter of his Companion Satiran, Kalira, became Lavan’s Companion. Fortyish, of medium height, Pol possessed a little bit of every Heraldic Gift, in a weak yet active form. This made him extremely valuable in teaching new trainees until they were ready to work with a herald mentor who would develop their Gifts. Pol befriended and taught Lavan Chitward all he knew about being a responsible herald. Lavan never wanted to use his Firestarting Gift on a human until Pol was attacked and blinded by a Karsite assassin. After the Karsite army was burned to ash along with Lavan, Pol accompanied Elenor and a few of Lavan’s friends to the spot where Lavan was killed and nurtured a firecone tree there in memory of the Herald. (BB)
Polda
A town that proved to be an important defensive battle site in the Mage War. The Sixth Wing gryphons fought there. (Gryphon)
Poldara
A Valdemaran town Rubrick might have had to detour to, if Loden’s bridge fell. (Storm)
Poldarn
The drunken thief who taught Kanshin his trade. (Gryphon)
Polden (General)
One of Ma’ar’s officers. (Gryphon)
Pomera
A fruit served in k’Sheyna Vale. (Winds)
Ponjee
A village Tarma and Kethry were trying to reach on one of their journeys, hindered by the bad luck talisman they had acquired. (Oath)
Portal
A Mage Gate created by the internal energy of a powerful Adept. It must be constructed by only one person, and is entirely dependent upon him or her to erect both entrance and exit, as no two people see the same place in exactly the same way, and building a portal is a precise weaving of magic, though others can feed the gate-builder power. (BV)
Potter
A village built by a community of workers in clay, it was so small it was no more than an isolated cluster of buildings around a public well. Guildmaster Egon and his kindred and workers lived in this tiny settlement, churning out works of art in pottery. (Oath)
Power Stone
One of Urtho’s most important magical artifacts. (Gryphon)
Power-nexus points
The term Ancar used to describe nodes. (Winds)
Power-poles
Falconsbane wanted to construct these with the ley-lines he tried to steal magically from k’sheyna Vale. Poles are produced by a mage’s own energy or energy from another mage’s body. (Winds)
Power-theft
Some mages can tap and steal power from others whose Gift is weaker than theirs. As a crime, it falls under the provenance of the clergy, and ranks between rape and larceny. (LHM)
Preadeth
One of Falconsbane’s mages who was sacrificed to acquire the power-pole. (Winds)
Preatur (Lord)
Father of an uncommonly bautiful and seductive daughter whose presence wreaked havoc among Valdemar’s Guard at Court. King Randale issued orders, via Herald-Mage Vanyel, for Preatur to either marry off his daughter or take her home, else the Crown would find a husband for her. (LHM)
Predain
A neighboring realm of Tantara, and Amberdrake’s homeland. As a boy, Amberdrake was sent to study in Predain. Ma’ar became Prime Minister to Predain’s King, until the monarch died without an heir. Ma’ar then became the country’s Warrior-King and began his conquests. (Gryphon)
Presen (Herald)
A Herald who assigned Princess Elspeth to attend city court as part of her duties as Herald intern. (Sword)
Pretera
A Shin’a’in term meaning “grasscat.” (Oath)
Pretera’sedrin
The Children of the Grasscats, a Shin’a’in Clan. (Oath)
Pretor (Herald)
A Herald who died in the line of duty, he was one of the many familiar faces now gone when Vanyel returned from his mission to the Karsite border. (LHM)
Priestess of the Sunlord
A servant of the main Karsite divinity. Prior to Solaris’s times they were not permitted to wear the gold robe of their hierarchy’s top rank. (Oath)
Priests’ Staff
&
nbsp; After the miracle of Solaris at Midwinter, the staffs of the false Karsite priests turned brittle and disintegrated. The staffs of the true priests burst into bloom. Ulrich’s staff was covered with flowers. (Storm)
Prime-focus
A stone used by a mage to assist his spell. The stones match and amplify resonances from the mage. Like harmonics of a note, a mage will have a variety of stones that suit his or her personal vibrations. The stone that most closely matches is ranked as the primary, followed by the secondary, and so on. The most effective prime-focus stone should be large and flawless. Often a mage will be able to work better with a large clear secondary stone than a smaller or flawed primary focus stone. Herald-Mage Vanyel had always worked with a secondary focus stone until Stefen gave him a large flawless piece of amber, the Herald-Mage’s preferred prime-focus stone. (LHM)
Privilege Tax
A remission in part of the taxes due for a community which has contributed a citizen to the Heraldic Circle. (Arrows)
Prophet, The
She was a Karsite fanatic who claimed to be the religion’s original Prophet reborn in a female’s body to prove the Deity’s Oneness. She brought Vkandis Sunlord’s immense wooden shrine to the final battle of the Karsite War against Valdemar to inspire the troops. That gave Kerowyn a chance to finish the Prophet’s reputation, and the war, by sending the shrine up in flames. (Storm, Sword)
Prophet-King
A young zealot, probably no more than twenty years old, who rose to become the leader of the Karsite anti-mage crusade. The Prophet’s exhortations set his entire country upon a killing spree, giving rise to the Cleansing Fires. Some of his agents even tried to penetrate Valdemar. (LHM)
Protea
Kestra’chern assigned to attend a group of tervardi little ones during the evacuation of Urtho’s camp. (Gryphon)
Provost-Marshal
The dignitary heading the Herald’s Collegium, he has special powers to enforce discipline as well as to secure prisoners before they are brought to trial. As part of his duties, he maintains the infamous book containing Herald-trainees’ demerits. The Provost-Marshal’s main function is to coordinate between Collegia, Court, and Haven’s municipal authorities, smoothing out any problems concerning town and government. (Arrows)
Prytheree Ford
A Holding west of Forst Reach, beyond the untamed woodlands. (LHM)
Pyreen
Dyheli doe assigned to carry a magical decoy and move as though she were an object being transported and escorted by a heavily guarded caravan. (Owl)
Qorthes
The capital city of Baires. (LHM)
Queen's Own
See Monarch's Own
Quenta
A translator of Grindel's Discourses on Unnatural History. (Oath)
Quenten
A White Winds Master-class mage who served under Kerowyn in the Skybolts and became their chief mage. (Owl, Sword, Winds)
Querna shena Tale'sedrin
Emissary from the Tale'sedrin Shin’a’in to Valdemar and a Swordsworn history-keeper, she was killed along with Ulrich when Tremane ordered the assassination of Valdemar's envoys. (Storm, Winds)
Quorn
One of Falconsbane's underlings, sent to gather information about Ancar. (Winds)
Racing Clubs
The divisions among the offspring of the Fifty Noble Houses of Mornedealth. They began as racing clubS: the Blues, Greens, Reds, Yellows, and Blacks, but competition among the clubs degenerated into duels and crime. (Oath)
Racky Loder
A Shonar area youngster who took sheep out of town to graze and was among the children lost in the Mage-Storm blizzard until Tremane led a rescue party to save them. Racky was later appointed to be one of King Tremane’s pages, helping to carry the train of the long theatrical cape that the new king had to wear on special occasions. (Storm)
Radevel
One of Vanyel’s cousins who took over the training of Forst Reach’s novice fighters when Jervis moved on. (LHM)
Radiance
A title of respectful address to the Son of the Sun. (Storm)
Raebuck
A cervine prized by gryphons as prey. (Gryphon)
Raf
A pickpocket with Bazie when Skif was in the gang. He was caught and served time as a prisoner on the border with Karse. (TT)
Rafe (Herald)
A Herald with Farsight and Mage-Gift, he was trained by Treyvan as part of a weather control team. (Winds)
Rafe Alder
One of Keisha’s five brothers. (Owl)
Rag and bone men
Responsible for sweeping out fireplaces and ovens in prosperous homes. They sell the ashes to soap-makers and tanners, and the ends of logs to the poor for their fires. (TT)
Ragges
One of Kero’s spies who worked undercover in Hardorn. (Winds)
Rainbird dance
A Shin’a’in custom where maidens wave scarves during the dance. (Storm)
Raindance
A Tayledras scout. (Owl)
Rainlance
One of the Tayledras Elders who solemnized the joining of Snowfire and Nightwind. (Owl, Winds)
Rainstar
A Tayledras Adept. (LHM)
Rainwind k’Vala
A k’Vala Vale Tayledras scout whose bondbird is a falcon. (Owl)
Rainwind k’Sheyna
A Tayledras scout with a permanent limp. (Winds)
Raival leaves
A tree in Valdemar known for the spectacular golden hue it turns in the autumn. (Arrows)
Ralf
A palace groom. and one of Talia’s friends. (Arrows)
Rana (Herald)
A character in a story Elspeth told Skif to discourage him from tailing her like a mooncalf, thinking he was in love with her. (Winds)
Rana Trilvy
A pregnant Errold’s Grove resident. Keisha spent a lot of her time calming the new expectant mother’s nerves, especially as the birth became imminent. (Owl)
Randale (King)
The grandson of Queen Elspeth the Peacemaker, son of Herald-Mage Darvi. King of Valdemar during Vanyel’s time. Life-bonded to Healer and Herald Shavri, he slowly succumbed to a long wasting ailment. In the year before Randale’s death, his unbearable pain was kept at bay by Bard Stefan’s Gift, prolonging his life. Despite his pain, Randale grew from the young boy who assumed the throne unexpectedly after his father’s early and unexpected death to become a superb monarch. (LHM)
Randel
The bridegroom of Lord Baron Dudlyn’s granddaughter. (Oath)
Randel’s Raiders
A mercenary Company Idra served with before she formed the Sunhawks. (Oath)
Randon (Lord Marshal)
The Lord Marshal of Valdemar, and a Councillor during Queen Selenay’s time. (Arrows)
Ranolf (Healer)
Pol’s son-in-law, wed to Amaly, and a Healer like her. (BB)
Raschar Jadrevalyn (King)
Heir to the Rethwellan throne, he killed his sister Idra and attempted to kill his brother Stefen to be sure of his position. Stefen opposed Raschar’s reign, so Idra came home to help decide who should inherit. Orignally she was for Raschar but she changed her mind to Stefen when she saw the tyranny Raschar planned for the kingdom. Before she could declare her vote, Raschar kidnapped, raped, and killed her. He met his death at Idra’s hands when she was brought back from the dead temporarily by an Oathbreaker Ceremony led by Tarma, Kethry, and Jadrek. (Oath)
Rashi (Herald-trainee)
A Herald-trainee and the son of a pigkeeper, he was skilled in certain protective spells as yet unmastered by the rest of Treyvan’s magery class. (Winds)
Raslir
He was Kerowyn’s orderly in the Skybolts who had one arm, but was a talented masseur. (Sword)
Ratha
She was the sister of Wendi, one of the adolescent girls at Court. (LHM)
Ratha
One of the species making up Urtho’s Third Army, wh
ich fled far northward to the land that was to become Iftel. The ratha are to mountain cats what the kyree are to wolves. (Gryphon)
Ratha (Companion)
He was Eldan’s Companion and helped Kerowyn rescue his Chosen from a Karsite priestess. (Sword)
Rathgar
Kerowyn’s father and the ex-commander of a mercenary Company. (Sword)
Raven Clan
They were one of the Northern tribes; their land lay beyond Snow Fox and Wolverine territories. Darian’s parents became members of this clan after being transported there by a Change-circle. (Owl)
Ravenscroft
A prominent noble house of Valdemar where Governess Gaytha was from before she became Housekeeper at the Collegium in Talia’s time. (Arrows)
Ravenwing
A Tayledras scout and Wintersky’s lover, her bondbird is a cooperihawk. (Owl)
Ravenwing
A Tayledras maker of feather masks. Darkwind has a collection of her artistic creations hanging on the walls of his ekele. (Winds)
Ravenwing
A shaman during the time after the Cataclysm when the Kaled’a’ln returned to their homeland, which had been turned into blasted crater, and made the decision to divide the tribes. Her clan was Taylesederin, foremost in demanding that magic be eliminated from the people’s lives. She began the shamanic weaving, set up regulations for shamans and their apprentices, for every clan, and created Kal’enedral. Her Seeking and calling evoked the Goddess to grant the Plains to the Shin’a’in, naming the blood sacrifice they must pay for that gift. (Winds)
Reaycha
A young gryphon paired with Talsheena. They were assigned to handle the points farthest from the power web during the effort to bring down Falconsbane. (Winds)
Red fox tribe
A Northern Tribe raided by Wolverine warriors, who crippled the men and carried off the boys and young women. (Owl)
Red Nose Inn
A ramshackle tavern outside Haven’s west wall. (LHM)
Redel (Lord)
Vanyel’s fellow student at Weaponsmaster Kayla’s training school and a master of the light sword. (LHM)
Redhawk
Kaled’a’in Senior officer of the young Silver Gryphons. (Owl)
Redoak
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