BEELZEBUB
Demon. Also known as ‘Lord of the Flies’. In the Bible, Beelzebub is known as the Prince of Evil Spirits.
BLACK ANNIS
Queen of Hags. Cannibalistic, with a taste for the flesh of young children. Due to her great age she is unable to cross as freely between the worlds as she used to.
BRIER
Crystal glass Faery. Child of the Eom and Fenn. Drinks blood, kills with sound waves from her voice.
BRIGHID
The Triple Goddess of inspiration, healing and fire, also patron of smithcraft. Often seen in the form of a beautiful white swan. So popular that the Catholic Church was unable to suppress her totally, as they did with other gods and goddesses; and so Brighid became a Christian saint.
BWANI
One of the original wizards who abducted the Eom from the Azephims inside the Web. Bwani incurred the wrath of the goddesses and is transformed into stone to become one of the Blest Circle of Nine.
CHARMONZHLA
Legendary Azephim angoli. The persecution angel.
CHARON
Miser ferryman of the dead. Charon only accepts souls to transport across the River Styx to the Underworld if they have a coin under their tongue to pay their fare.
THE CHOSEN ONE
According to the Tremite Book of Life, the child born of the Crossa who is Bluite-Bindisore is the Chosen One. The Chosen One is believed to have legendary powers, including the power to reactivate the Eom, and to be able to enter the Great Shell and influence the Dreamers to sleep more soundly.
THE CIRCLE OF NINE WIZARDS
Bwani, Claw, Edwen, Josem, Harbog, Ejillahm, Steppm, Aaambll, Dewf.
CITTI
One of the triple Headhunter Crones.
DEMETER
The goddess who represents the fertile earth and the ripened grain of harvest. Beautiful, with hair like ripened grain.
DIOMONNA
Queen of the Imomm Faeries.
DREAMERS
Three women, sisters who lie inside the Great Shell dreaming the known worlds into existence.
ELLIE-JANE
Bluite, stolen by the Imomm to help rear Maya in the Hollow Hills.
ELOIS
Ancient serpent king who according to legend once ruled New Baffin.
EMILY ROBSON
Elderly lady, long-term inhabitant of the Blue Mountains.
EMMA
A Bluite Crossa, niece of Johanna Develle.
EPONA
The horse goddess. Also a fertility goddess.
ESMIR
One of the triple Headhunter Crones.
EYEBLE
Ancient serpent king who according to legend once ruled New Baffin.
EZIHHIAM
Legendary angel of false prophets.
FENN
Imomm changeling who was left on Earth with Emma Develle and stolen by Ishran and Sati. Fenn was raised in the Wastelands.
FREYA
Goddess of witchcraft, sex, love and magic, battle and death. Blonde and beautiful. Freya travels in a chariot drawn by cats.
GELDOZ
Hybrid bull man of the Weldon race. Mary’s assistant in Faia.
GREAT MOTHER
According to Eronth mythology, the Great Mother was Lepso, the wife of the giant Amira. As Lepso, she belched forth all the suns, planets and moons, creating countless worlds. Great Mother is also slang in Eronth for the earth, for the divine feminine force within everything.
GWHYZEMONNA
Legendary angel of war and organised crime.
GWYNDION
Webx. Shootling of Tanzen and Rozen.
HADES
Dark Lord of the Underground. Third brother of Demeter and abductor of Persephone.
HECATE
The goddess of the moon and of the Underworld. Dwells in the Underworld beside Hades and Persephone, Hypnos, Thanatos and Morpheus. A triple goddess, she is also the goddess of purification. None dare to gaze upon the face of the Dark Mother Hecate. Also known as the Mother of Monsters and the Keeper of the Keys.
HEL
Goddess of the dead. Has been described as being half black and half white. She is responsible for catastrophes such as plagues.
HERMZEZA
Legendary angel, a slaughterer of the innocents. A child killer and foetus destroyer.
HLER
God of the sea. Both worshipped and feared by sailors. His wife is the sea goddess Ran. Hler has nine daughters (the Billow Maidens).
THE HORNED ONE
Alternative name for the Stag Man.
HORUS
Athena owl. Horus belongs to Rudmay, the famed Tremite Scribe. He is often mocked in New Baffin for his dandyish qualities and his fondness for composing poems to Rudmay.
HYPNOS
Deity of sleep.
ISHRAN
Dark angel Lord. Son of Seleza. He is the Ghormho.
JABI
Ilkama belonging to Khartyn.
JAMIS
One of the Headhunter Crones.
JIG BOY, SON OF ELVEN FOOT
A Winski scribe who records the Winski Book of Life.
JOHANNA DEVELLE
Emma’s aunt, a renowned Crossa and children’s book illustrator.
JOSEPH
Geldoz assistant to the Tremite Scribes.
KALIEGRAVES
Crone in New Baffin. A survivior of the Great Flood of Unah.
KATH / KATHLEEN
Girlfriend of Larry Owens/Lazariel.
KEEPER OF THE KEYS
See Hecate.
KHARTYN
Highly respected Crone of Faia village.
KING PYSPHORRUS
Great-great-grandfather of Diomonna, Queen of the Imomm.
KORE
Alternate name for Persephone, used specifically to refer to her inherent regenerative power.
KRYSSTI
Maid to Mary, High Priestess of Faia. In reality, a Sea Hag disguised by Glamour.
LARRY OWENS/LAZARIEL
Fallen angel from the Heztarra Galaxy. One of the early founders of Light Vision. Lazariel is the name that Larry Owens changes to. Lazariel means fire of god, servant of the lion.
LIGHTCASTER
A witch-hunter. A negative energy that lives off prejudice, misogyny, superstition and hatred. Mainly located in the worlds dominated by patriarchal religions. Shunned in many of the known worlds, including Eronth. To all outward appearances the Lightcasters are charming, well educated and slightly dandyish in appearance. There has been no recorded evidence of female Lightcasters. Parasitical and cunning, they are masters of psychology and can rouse a mob in seconds. They tend to work alone and are immortal. They could only ever be destroyed if there was no discrimination or hatred remaining in any of the known worlds, which seems a highly unlikely event, for as Khartyn points out, ‘In the heart of the bright mother lies the dark mother, in the heart of the dark mother, is the bright mother’.
LIGHT VISION
Theresa, Alice, Roger, Alan, David, Minette, Sophie, Lazariel, Ishran.
LOOZ DREM
Children who have died suddenly or under violent circumstances. Unable to accept their deaths, they become trapped in the known worlds. Sometimes referred to as the demon children.
MARY
High Priestess of Faia. A Crossa hailing from the Blue Planet, Mary’s true origins lie in the Heztarra Galaxy.
MAYA
The Chosen One, daughter of the Stag Man and Emma.
MEDEA
A devotee of the goddess Hecate. A great sorceress.
MODGUD
Servant of the Underworld. Stands guard on a golden bridge on one of the paths that lead into the world of the dead.
MOTHER OF MONSTERS
See Hecate.
MORPHEUS
Deity of dreams.
NARZIEL
The blind tollkeeper who guards the border between Faia and the Wastelands.
NORNS
Divine beings who shape t
he fate of allkind. Urd is the eldest sister (deals with the past). Verdandi, the middle sister, deals with the present. Skuld, the youngest, focuses on the future. The Norns are mischievous, and love to play tricks with allkind, confusing and altering their destinies.
PAN
A god of the wilderness. He loves to play the windpipes. Pan is associated with the darker side of nature. Pan is also associated with the feeling of ‘pan’ic and terror.
PEPE
Sinister black cat belonging to Emily Robson.
PERSEPHONE
Queen of the Underworld, beloved daughter of Demeter and abducted wife of Hades. Also known as the Maiden or Kore.
PHINEAS PROSPER
Struggling salesman of New Baffin.
PHOOKA
Malevolent energy that resides in the Wastelands, hibernating for most of the year. Walks on the night of Salhmain, creating death and destruction.
PRICKER
A Lightcaster. One of the names that Lightcasters like to refer to themselves as, due to their method of torturing witches by pricking them over their bodies.
PYSPHORRUS
See King Psyphorrus.
RACHEL
Demon child. One of the Looz Drem.
RASHKA
The Glazrmhom. Ishran’s second hatched sister.
RAN
Goddess of the sea. She collects drowned beings in her net and takes them to the bottom of the ocean.
ROSEDARK
Apprentice to Khartyn the Crone.
ROZEN
Hostling of Gwyndion. Elder and keeper of the Eom.
RUDMAY
Tremite Scribe.
SAMMA
Meerwog, devoted friend to Gwyndion.
SATI
Bindisore and wife of Ishran. Khartyn’s ex-apprentice. Is the Glazrmhom egg to Emma.
SELEZA
High Priestess of the Azephim angels. Based in the Web-Kondoell. Ishran’s Hosthatch.
SHAMBZHLA
Ancient Warrior Sea Queen Hag.
SIMEON
Hermaphrodite from New Baffin.
SNAER
Snaer is the name for Old Man Snow. Snaer’s father is Frost.
SNAKE CRONE
A shaman from the snake people. The Snake Crone crosses continually between worlds, giving aid and healing where it is needed.
STAG MAN
The Horned God. A being of great power and mystery. Primordial energy. Totally aligned with the Dreamers, the Horned God is reclusive and rarely seen. Soul-mate to Emma.
ST THERESE OF LISIEUX
Popular Catholic saint. Also known as the little flower. St Therese died aged twenty-four in 1897 in the Carmelite monastery in Lisieux, France. Beatified in 1923, she was canonised in 1997 by Pope John Paul who proclaimed her a doctor of the Church in recognition of her influence on spirituality throughout the world. There are numerous reports of miracle cures and conversions in respect to St Therese. She remains one of the more popular Catholic saints because of her simple, humble teachings. Her relics have been travelling the world since 1995, drawing record numbers of crowds.
TANZEN
Hostling of Gwyndion. Webx elder and keeper of the Eom.
THANATOS
Deity of death.
VERONICA STEWART
On-air journalist for Australia Tonight.
WALDMICHEN
Wood nymph. A form of the goddess Freya. She is attended by rabbits. She owns a mill where she grounds old beings into young.
WOLEMOONX
Tremite Scribe. Also known as ‘old Woolly’.
About the Author
Josephine Pennicott was born in Tasmania and spent her early childhood in Papua New Guinea. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a major in painting, and is a graduate of the Australian College of Journalism. In 2001 she won the Scarlet Stiletto, Australia’s premier award for female crime writers. In 2003 she won the Kerry Greenwood Prize.
Josephine’s paintings and writings reflect her interest in myth, magic, fairytales, dreams and transformation. She has travelled widely throughout Europe, India and Asia.
Josephine lives in Sydney with her writer/musician/television producer, partner David, her Maltese dog Alfie, and a black fluffy cat called Smuchi. Her goals for her life are to keep studying and creating, and to be found annually in the departure lounge at Sydney airport.
You can visit Josephine on her website at — www.josephinepennicott.com
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
David, huge, unending, thanks for your wisdom, wit, infinite patience, grammar and spelling skills, and for always believing in me. You give the shadows meaning.
I am blessed to have Selwa Anthony as my agent. Thank you Selwa for your kindness and strength. You are my dream made flesh.
Also the Simon & Schuster crew. In particular, Julia Collingwood, Glenda Downing, Ian Tonkin and Helen Golic. Nick Stathopoulos for his very beautiful artwork. Ian and Simon Irvine for their map skills.
To my dear friends who have supported my books. Rhondda Hollis, Annie Mistler, Kelly Reeves, Bill Kalogeropoulos, the Rieper Family, Shannon Leard, Kym Harvey. My mad French Canadian frog friend Karine Gadbois and Celine Leroy in Paris. Also Phil Pennicott for his beautiful literate, funny emails. Alfie, Smuchi and Brownie for their unconditional love. And profound thanks to Di, Chris and Kaya in Cornwall for their support and friendship when I visited the Museum of Witchcraft for research.
My family, Ian and Barbara Pennicott and Ann and George Levell for always loving and supporting me no matter what strange highways I have ventured along.
Lastly, to the wonderful strangers who bought my books and wrote those fabulous emails to me. To each and every one of you. Thanks for sharing the journey. You Know Who You Are.
May Your Dreamers Always Hold You Tightly. Blessed Be Josephine
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