Plain of the White Bones - A large plain with a very wide, shallow sink in the desert beyond northern Hybron. It is called so because of its striking feature of the ancient bone corpses of two massive yaryebu bulls (mammoths) that once battled to the death and both died there. Their bones remain there on the plains and it became a holy place and a pilgrimmage site to the tribals people in and around Hybron. Great religious meetings, holy rites and momentous decisions that affect more than one tribe are held there. It is considered the holiest place in the world to tribes who still serve the First Pillar.
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Qutan - A mountain kingdom in the Far East.
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Rhe - A small desert town in Western Hybron, just over one week’s travel from the ruins of Ancient Assenna. Many of the people who live there are related to the wild desert tribe of the Raea.
Rhuctium – A major city in Hybron south of Jhis. It is an important city of learning and is well known for its plays and theaters and the arts.
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Senetta’s House – A brothel for genetically changed or enhanced people or freaks owned and by Senetta, the madam of Yilphaeus
Sidunna – A stretch of desert that encompasses the salt basin south of Jura. From time to time there are fights over control over this basin. Salt is very valuable in many parts of this world and is used as ladre (money) when there is no coin.
Soudan Mountains (See Habad) – A large mountain range that stretches from beyond north-western Egi through northern Hybron. In Hybron the same mountains are known as the Habad Mountains.
South Lands – Lands and kingdoms south of the Middle World. Also refers to the southernmost continent of Chialis.
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Tarkal –A large island fortress city built by King Kufun on the largest island in the Gaspa Sea and under the dominion of Jura. The islets are large formations along the sea coast of Dakanar and through the South Ocean and the Gaspa Sea towards the southern coast of Hybron. Kufun has built military towns on a few of these islets. On the largest one he built Tarkal, a base for his navy.
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Uzimor – A village southwest of Jhis within a cedar and poplar forest. Has olive groves.
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Waters of Mabellus (or Mabelat) – The great cistern in Yilphaeus.
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Yilphaeus - A major city in central Egi.
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Zapulia - Once known as Ellah under the era of the Red Kings, it is a kingdom just east of Hybron. It was once part of Hybron and was invaded one hundred years ago by a king from the Far East and annexed as part of his own kingdom. King Kili, a warlord and the grandfather of King Temez came up from his homeland of the South Ocean islands with a great fleet of ships and overtook the kingdom of Ellah, deafeating the ruling king from the Far East and then began a series of expansions west. King Temez's father, King Zapul, continued the western expansions and warred with the inhabitants of land of Ellah and the city-state of Jhis in an effort to expand his domain westward. Renaming the land Zapulia, he captured the three large and prosperous cities, Yallas-by-the-Sea, Yallas-of-the-Valley and Yallasa (capital of ancient Ellah) and declared them as being part of the Zapulian kingdom. The Gaspa Sea is off its southern coast. It is characterized by very fertile farming land, forests and grassy steppes in the eastern parts of the land.
Zazor – A smaller river (than the Mowret) that runs north to south along the Hybronian border, intersects with the Mowret in northern Egi. It flows from the Llordis Sea and flows into the Gaspa.
Zikiluwai Islands – A series of islands in the South Ocean (South Ocean islands), the largest one being Zikiluwai. These islands are home to the Jilianite peoples.
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Tribes, People, Places and Languages
Most tribes people live in the desert around Hybron or outlying areas in other lands. They are nomadic. Some settle in towns or villages around the perimeters of Hybron, Egi or other kingdoms for part of the year but still retain most of their wild roots in the desert. The exception are the Strabians of Egi who took over the city and rule it. They are no longer "wild" people any longer but have retained their tribal affiliations and religion and this influence is felt and seen everywhere in Egi, especially Egium. Most tribal people, especially those around Hybron are of the Aishanna-La religion. The difference is that they use teraphim (mainly for legal or business issues) while the Aishanna-La in the large cities do not. Tribal worship is also less formalized. All peoples of the planet originally descended from a tribe, somewhere. Some city people can trace which tribe(s) they descended from even if they differ greatly from their wilder counterparts. Some tribes no longer exist but most original tribes still exist, presently. There were originally twenty-four chiefs, the first men, and from these twenty-four chiefs and their wives came twenty-four tribes. Eight of these tribes have died out centuries ago or became assimilated into the other tribal groups or into the cities.
Aishanna-La - Once the principal religious and cultural group that created the original culture, kingdom and society in Hybron. They remain one of the main religious groups in Hybron. The Aishanna-La, like all people on Chialis, are ethnic descendents of the tribal people. The Aishanna-La retained the religion and deity of their tribal ancestors. The Karig, Raea, Makebites, Elapu, Arvadites and other tribes also worship Airend-Ur but tribal worship is less formal than is the worship of the Aishanna-La, who have become "civilized" through living in large cities over the centuries. Theirs is a monotheistic religion based around temple services such as animal sacrifices on holy days, and readings of the Law and the Writings, and accounts of the holy men in the past,all written in their holy book, called the Aishanna. They worship the Father-god deity, also called the First Pillar, named Airend-Ur.
Alharan – Universal tongue of the planet. Also it is the official tongue in Hybron. also known as Alhar.
Arvadites - A southern desert tribe in Hybron, they still call Hybron the Land of Arvad. Fierce and war-like, in the past they warred with the Karigites and the Raea.
Corelian - Pallinonians who live in the city of Corela. Pallinona is a land of villages and large, powerful hill towns. The largest hill towns are sometimes referred to as cities, of which the northern town of Corela is the most powerful. Its largest rivals are Tidua, Murrinecci and Lavuso. Lavuso is a coastal town but by it having the most important port in Pallinona it is counted as one of the most influential "hill" towns.
Dach - One of the Great Ridge Lands. Land of the Dachish people.
Dyrland - A land of the Great Ridge. A land bridge appears every seven years and connects it with Pallinona. It is a land of dark, vast forests and a mysterious mountain range of three mountains: Blacry, home of the Ohdrifrid, enemies of the Dyrlanders, Rain Mist and Fog Head.
Egian – Main tongue of Egi.
Elapu - A South Land tribe, they travel to and from the South Lands into Hybron and Egi by way of the Golden Road for trade. They live and travel around the Sidunna and it is in the Sidunna that the best quality salt in the world is found. The Elapu tribe mainly trades salt. The Elapu are a very wealthy tribe and powerful and often clash with the king of Jura over control of the Sidunna Basin.
Futu (Futites) - A South Land tribe that lives and travels in the jungles of Funda.
Gilphaens - A tribe that lives in the high deserts of Egi. They do not worship the First Pillar. Some work as mercenaries for the Egian kingdom or as slave traders. Theyare synomymous with the word: ruthless.
Harushian - A tribe that lives on the grassy plains in and around Rur. Fierce and savage they often war and fight with the Rurrians and the surrounding peoples, are involved in the slave trade and pillage and carry off women from surrounding villages and towns.
Icyt - A land of the Great Ridge, neighboring Dyrland on its eastern border.
Ific - Land of the Ificthians. One of the Eastern Lands.
Jili – Tongue spoken by the people of the Zikiluwai islands and the surrounding isles. Tongue spoken by the Jilianites.
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sp; Karig (Karigites) - An eastern tribe, one of the largest and most powerful tribes in the Middle World region. One of the tribes that carries the Reshain bloodline.
Makebe (Makebites) - A major tribe of the South Lands, they mainly travel and live in the great deserts beyond Jura. They refer to their places of residence as the Makebe.
Nacharites (See Ostrites) – Also known as Sons of the Mountain or Domites. Some of them live in the mountain village of Nachar during the fall and winter seasons and are nomadic tribes of the northern mountains.
Nalian - A western people, who originated from Nal, a small island kingdom west of Pallinona. Some have migrated to Egi and Hybron and settled mostly in Egium and Rhuctium, respectively, bringing with them an entertainment called 'theater'. Nalian theater is different from Rurrian theater in that they do not use shadow puppets. Coming to Hybron, their own theater culture becomes influenced by the Rurrians' theater style.
Oshen - One of the Great Ridge Lands. Land of the Oshenish.
Ostra (Ostrites) - One of the tribes that live in the North Lands, on the icy, snowy plains. A group that broke from this tribe and migrated south to the Habad Mountains are called the Sons of the Mountain, they originally came from the icy northern plains of the North Lands as well. The forefather of the Sons of the Mountain became part of the Aishanna-La and moved his people south. Thus they became known as the Sons of the Mountain.
Petra (Petrites) - A tribe that lives in the North Lands. At times they war with the Ostrites.
Qutanese – People of the far eastern mountain top kingdom of Qutan.
Raea (Raeanites) - A powerful and large tribe in western Hybron. Inhabit the town of Rhe.
Rur (Land of the Rurrians or the Rurriana) - It is a large kingdom and land of grassy steppes east of Zapulia. Some Rurrians have migrated over the eyars to Hybron and with them brought a form of entertainment called 'theater'.
Shirpul – Major tongue spoken in Hybron. Most in Zapulia speak Shirpul. It is the main tongue of Zapulia. Shirpul borrows heavily from Alharan, Jili and Ificya.
Sons of the Mountain (See Ostrites) - An offshoot and related tribe of the Ostrites who followed their forefather who broke off from his kin from worshiping their gods and began following Airend-Ur. They are also called Lower Ostrites because they moved south from the far north snow plains, the ancestral home of the Ostrites and other northern tribes.
Strab (Strabian) - One of the major tribes of the Middle Land kingdoms, after the Age of Empires, some of the shaikhs fell away from the worship of the First Pillar and turned to worhsiping the moon goddesses and other gods of night and darkness. Later, most of them would follow this path. They moved southward to Egi and took up residence and through machinations took over the land and began ruling it. They, too, carry the Reshaim bloodline.
Ulu – Official tongue spoken in Jura.
Volgur -
Ysen (Ysennish) - A kingdom and its people that reside in the Great Ridge Lands.
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Months of the Year
Aiphaz (September)
Udipaz (October)
Chipaz (November)
Kiphaz (December)
Lali (January)
Nali (February)
Zali (March)
Din (April)
Sin (May)
Pin (June)
Zin (July)
Yin (August)
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Names of Characters
A, B
Abgaron – A dragon, son of Garon (Turok)
Abulom - Prophet of the moon goddess, Elyshe
Airend-Ur – Supreme God, the First Pillar, the One who created all things. Lord of the Deep Heavens
Alin – One of Teraht’s twin sons. The elder twin.
Amat – Arena master in Jhis. An Egi native.
Anet (Anetaliat) – A little girl fostered by the Scions of the Citadel. Anet is the daughter of noble families, Egian on her mother’s side and Hybronian on her father’s side. She is a seer and visionary and grows up to become a desert prophetess.
Aquillus – Rabshekah, cupbearer and chief palace official. Deceased.
Bakku – A former temple scribe who worked under the old Kushigyar. A political schemer who works as a royal messenger for the king. Has connections in Egium and at the.
Berenice – The leader and Mother at the Citadel in Gamina. She is the foremost healer of the Citadel and in Hybron and is a minor seer.
Betal - Sister of Lord Hasor. Youngest daughter of Lady Ketmal.
C
Caina – King Khalit’s herald.
Caius – A Gilphaen tribesman and Mercenary.
Caullas – An official from Galieh.
Culyma – High priestess of the temple of Nimnet and astrologer to Queen Taliat.
D
Dahlan – The last Red King before the Dark Age.
Dahlan Ka Rajek – Former elder chief shaikh of the Karig. Deceased at the age of one hundred-forty. Great grand-father of King Khalit Ka Dahlan. Distant descendant of the Red Kings.
Dana – Fish goddess of Zapulia.
Demos – A young scribe from a wealthy family sympathetic to the Old Ways who secretly works with Ilim and Eliaz.
Demostus – Demos’s father, a wealthy textile merchant who married into minor nobility.
Diti Nutal – The former queen of Hybron and queen consort of King Khalit. Cast aside because she did not bear children, her title was downgraded to The Most Honored Lady Diti. Later assassinated by the new queen.
E, F
Eilannat (Lady Eilannat) – Taliat’s mother.
Eliaz – A temple Ainash scribe.
Erdeth – Captain of a merchant ship in Zapulia.
Erol – Powerful and evil alchemist of Yilphaeus, Egi. He created a fake star-sword for King Teraht to counter-act the true prophecy.
Fricka – Gray messenger cat of queen Diti.
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Garon – See Turok.
Garu – An old Ainash priest, part of the noble and priestly council of the Golden Temple.
Gelgud (the sojourner) - Egian and Hybronian god of travelers and pilgrims.
Gikunda-giki – Dragon son of Lumu, from Jurite and Makebite religion and legends.
H
Harech – Regular patron of Marashiah’s tavern.
Hari – Third wife and sister of Hec.
Hasor of Hazad (Lord Hasor Hazad) – Kaisha’s husband, only son of Lady Ketmal, secend eldest of her children and Lord of the House of Hazad. House of Hazad was an old and respected noble house in northern Hybron.
Hec – Sun god in Hybron.
Helia – Second wife and sister of Hec.
Helus – Evil brother of Hec, god of the dark fires to heathens.
Heros – Brother of Hec and forger of weapons
Hetar – Queen of the sun, Hec’s first wife and sister.
Hinurayu – Brother of Hec, singer and musician of lays and dirges and songs of battle and glory.
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Igun Tybbl-Awat – One of the most powerful nobles, a former kushiman who hated King Khalit. Father to Silam the high priest. Tybbl-Awat is an old noble and priestly family that goes back to the Veiled Time. An ancient family.
Ilim Gulin na-Shayin – Ainash priest and prophet. From an old and revered priestly family, the Shayin. The Shayin family line died out with Ilim, the last of that line. he late rejected the corruption of the Golden Temple and was appointed by The First Pillar to prophesy the doom of Jhis and Hybron and the coming of the Red King.
Izingu – A book in the Aishanna named after the Makebite scribe who penned it.
Ina – One of Senetta’s servants. She runs Senetta’s house and domestic affairs.
Injol – A dakhmin from the village of Gorokai in Egi, of Gilphaen origin. His true name is Jalon ni Dulon (Jalon, son of Dulon.)
Isetu – Egian god of wealth.
K, L
Khalit Ka Dahlan (Also Khalit-Aisu) – Great grandson of elder Dahlan Ka Rajek. Current King of Hybron, a b
arbarian king who did not ascend to power but took it from the lords of the city-state government of Jhis and then took over the other city-states and consolidated all of them under his rule. He is of the powerful Karig tribe.
Kelamm – Ancient holy prophet.
Keshi ‘i Dalaz – Elder and a shaikh of the Raea tribe
Ketmal of Hazad (Lady Ketmal) – Kaisha’s mother-in-law, Lady of the House of Hazad.
Kufun (King Kufun I) – King of Jura.
Kufun II (King Kufun II) - Son of King Kufun I
Lia - A young girl first given in infancy to the temple of Hetar to be raised as a priestess. She, like Anet, is an adept, a visionary dreamer. Her father is Ochorus, a Hatchet Man. Her mother is unkown.
Lumu – An evil god or demon in Jurite and Makebite religion
Luz – A friend of Ochorus, a thief. Eventually befriends Rhajit and Rapheth.
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Marashiah-Degar – Tavern owner in Rhuctium.
Medella – Ancient Aishanna-La desert prophetess. The book in the Holy Aishanna with her name was penned by the scribe Lur.
Milukem – Ancient fabled black sailor, godly hero and scourge of South Land pirates.
Mina - The high-priestess of Hetar's temple.
Mytal – a friendly drunk that helps Demos find Senetta’s house.
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Netaliat (Lady Netaliat) – Anet’s mother and a noble woman of the House of Seht. Elder sister of Eilannat. Deceased. Her father, a nobleman from Hybron, is also deceased.
Nasim – a young man of the Raea tribe, great-nephew of Keshi’i.
Nisrok – Egian crocodile god, god of the Mowret whose sons are the crocodiles. Also called lord of the leviathans.
Norda – Older woman, friend to Queen Diti and lady of the court during the reign of King Khalit. From the Great Ridge lands. Deceased.
Ochorus – A head Hatchet Man for the Ainash and spy for the queen who switches loyalties from the queen’s and the Ainash's employ to Zarhaz's employ. Dies trying to rescue his daughter at the temple of Nimnet.
Q, R
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