The Key to Creation (70 page)

BELLUC
  captain of the slave galley
Moray
.

BIENTO NA-CURIC
  Saedran painter, Aldo’s father.

BOOK OF AIDEN
  Aidenist holy book.

BORA’S BASTION
  capital city of Alamont Reach.

BOURAS
  legendary Father of All Serpents, supposedly girdles the world.

BROECK
  destrar of Iboria Reach, father of Ilrida, grandfather of Tomas.

BURIAN NA-COWAY
  Saedran model-maker.

BURILO
  the son of the Missinia soldan, Omra’s cousin.

CALAVIK
  capital city of Iboria Reach.

CALAY
  capital city of Tierra.

CAPTAIN’S COMPASS
  a compass that always points home.

CHARTSMAN
  a Saedran navigator possessing perfect memory.

CIARLO
  brother of Adrea, lame in one leg, prester of the town of Windcatch.

CINDON VORA
  father of Criston, a fisherman lost at sea.

CITHARA
  daughter of Cliaparia and Omra, now raised by Istar.

CLIAPARIA
  Omra’s second wife.

COMDAR
  leader of Tierran army and navy.

CORAG
  one of the five reaches of Tierra, a mountainous region led by Destrar Siescu.

CRISTON VORA
  captain of the
Dyscovera
, survivor of the Luminara expedition. Criston is married to Adrea (Istar), who was lost in a Urecari raid.

DESERT HARBOR
  new settlement on the edge of the Great Desert, from which sand coracles launch, devastated in bandit raid.

DESTRAR
  the leader of one of the five Tierran reaches.

DOLICAR
,
YAL
  confidence man who moves back and forth from Uraba to Tierra.

DRIFTWOOD READER
  a fortune teller who can determine the future by studying the whorls in a piece of driftwood.

DYSCOVERA
  Tierran ship built to explore the seas and find Terravitae, captained by Criston Vora.

EDICT LINE
  the boundary agreed to by the leaders of Tierra and Uraba, dividing the world in half.

ENIFIR
  Anjine’s handmaiden, wife of Guard-Marshall Vorannen.

ENOCH DEY
  crewman aboard the
Dyscovera
.

ERIETTA
  one of the five reaches of Tierra, mainly rangeland, led by Destrar Unsul.

ERIMA
  ur-sikara from Lahjar, successor to Lukai.

EYE OF UREC
  symbol painted on the sails of Uraban ships.

FASHIA’S FOUNTAIN
  important shrine to Urecari faith.

FENNAN
  prester in the village of Windcatch.

FIRUN
  old Aidenist slave at Gremurr mines, household servant to Tukar.

FISHHOOK
  symbol of the Aidenist church.

FROST GIANTS
  legendary titans who live in the cold, can bring winter with a breath.

FYIRI
  prominent sikara aboard the
Al-Orizin
.

GART
  young son of Destrar Unsul.

GOLDEN FERN
  fern with mythic properties, supposedly planted by Urec before he became the Traveler. Anyone who finds the fern is destined for greatness.

GOLDEN FERN
  first ironclad warship in Uraban navy.

GREAT DESERT
  arid wasteland in the south of Uraba.

GREMURR
  secret Uraban mines on the northern coast of the Middlesea, in Tierran territory.

GRIGOVAR
  member of the
Al-Orizin
’s crew, former reef diver from Lahjar.

HANNES
  prester serving aboard the
Dyscovera
, once saved by Criston Vora. Years earlier, he also lived in Ishalem as a spy learning about the Urecari faith.

HIST
  subcomdar of the Tierran army.

HUTTAN
  soldan of Inner Wahilir, husband of Kuari, charged with building a large church in Ishalem.

IAROS
  nephew of Destrar Broeck, heir apparent of Iboria.

IBORIA
  one of the five reaches of Tierra, the region to the far north, led by Destrar Broeck.

ILRIDA
  daughter of Destrar Broeck, second wife of King Korastine and mother of Prince Tomas; she died of tetanus.

IMIR
  former soldan-shah of the Urabans, father of Omra, now retired.

INFINITA
  sturdy sailing ship designed for a voyage to Terravitae.

INNER WAHILIR
  one of the soldanates of Uraba.

ISHALEM
  the holy city considered the center of both the Aidenist and Urecari religions, burned in a great fire and now reclaimed by Uraba.

ISTALA
  second daughter of Adrea by Omra.

ISTAR (1)
  young wife of Zarif Omra, died in childbirth.

ISTAR (2)
  First Wife of Soldan-Shah Omra, mother of Saan, Adreala, and Istala; formerly Adrea, wife of Criston Vora.

IYOMELKA
  mysterious woman living on an isolated island, mother of Ystya.

JAVIAN
  cabin boy aboard the
Dyscovera
.

JENIROD
  eldest son of Destrar Unsul of Erietta.

JERARD
  old prester aboard the
Luminara
, killed by a sea serpent.

JIKARIS
  khan of the Nunghal-Ari.

JORON
  third son of Ondun, who remained behind in Terravitae when Aiden and Urec sailed away.

KEL
  rank of captain in the soldan-shah’s palace guards.

KEY TO CREATION
  mysterious powerful object sought by Urec and Aiden.

KHALIG
  Uraban merchant, chosen by Kel Unwar as a messenger to Calay to deliver Tomas’s head.

KHENARA
  port city on Oceansea coast of Uraba.

KIRK
  Aidenist church.

KJELNAR
  Iborian shipwright, builder of
Dyscovera
and her first mate.

KORASTINE
  king of Tierra, father of Anjine and Tomas.

KRAKEN
  enormous monster from the depths of the sea.

KUARI
  First Wife of Soldan Huttan from Inner Wahilir.

LAHJAR
  port city on Oceansea coast of Uraba, the farthest settlement south.

LANDING DAY
  Aidenist festival commemorating the landing of Aiden’s Arkship.

LANNI
  wife of Sen Aldo na-Curic.

LEO NA-HADRA
,
SEN
  old Saedran scholar, adviser of King Korastine, teacher of Aldo na-Curic.

LEVIATHAN
  terrible sea monster that destroyed the
Luminara.

LIGHTHOUSE AT THE END OF THE WORLD
  isolated outpost where Mailes watches the rest of the world through a magical lens.

LITHIO
  First Wife of Soldan-Shah Imir, mother of Omra.

LUKAI
  former ur-sikara of the Urecari church, killed after a plot to poison Omra.

LUMINARA
  magnificent exploration vessel dispatched from Tierra to discover the world, sunk by the Leviathan.

MAILES
  keeper of the Lighthouse at the End of the World, exiled by Ondun and cursed to remain there.

MATEO BORNAN
  childhood friend of Anjine, now subcomdar in the Tierran army, liaison to the throne.

MIA
  sailor aboard the
Dyscovera
.

MIDDLESEA
  vast sea to the east of Ishalem.

MISSINIA
  one of the soldanates of Uraba.

MORAY
  slave galley in the Middlesea, captained by Belluc.

NAORI
  second wife of Soldan-Shah Omra, mother of his sons.

NIKOL NA-FENDA
,
SEN
  Saedran chartsman on the
Luminara
.

NUNGHAL
  race inhabiting the Uraban continent to the south of the Great Desert. They are composed of two branches, the nomadic Nunghal-Ari and the seafaring Nunghal-Su.

NUNGHAL-ARI
  nomadic branch of the Nunghals.

NUNGHAL-SU
  seafaring branch of the Nunghals.

OCEANSEA
  vast sea to the west of Ishalem.

OLABAR
  capital city of Uraba.

OLA NA-TEN
,
SEN
  Saedran physician.

OLBA
  turbanlike head covering, usually white, worn by Urecari men.

OMIRR
  Soldan-Shah Omra’s eldest son, by his second wife Naori; the zarif of Uraba.

ONDUN
  creator of the world; father of three sons, Aiden, Urec, and Joron.

OUTER WAHILIR
  one of the soldanates of Uraba.

PELITON
  capital city of Erietta Reach.

PILGRIM’S PATH
  processional path up the hill to the Arkship in Ishalem.

POL
  young son of Destrar Unsul.

PRESTER
  an Aidenist priest.

PRESTER-MARSHALL
  leader of the Aidenist church.

QUANAS
  captain of the
Sacred Scroll
.

RAATHGIR
  name of the Iborian ice dragon, whose horn is said to be a talisman to ward off sea serpents.

RAATHGIR
  ironclad ship from Gremurr, captained by Iaros.