Valour and Victory (49 page)

Fifty-first
Ryzck: Known as the Susa’s Own and who perform tasks directly
ordered by the Susa of the Vada, the only Ryzck to contain more
than one Ryzcka

Fireoil: A
substance that burns even in the wettest of conditions

Fort:
Defensive site where the crew and families of the WCPS
Electra
fled to before being overrun by the convicts some
months after landing (Wolves) - it became the ruling centre and
capital of the Kingdom of Murdoch (Courage) – the principal royal
palace is situated here.

Forty:
Sanduntan

Fountains
Head: Waterfall in south western Lind and the location of the most
westerly Holad station in the Lands of the Lind

Galland:
Confederation A prosperous and large group of islands in the Great
Eastern Sea and allied to the Kingdom of Murdoch

Garda: Regular
army of Argyll, its headquarters are at Settlement

Gingrootbeer:
Spicy soft drink

Great Eastern
Sea: Vast ocean east of Argyll containing hundreds of islands

Gtran: Large
vicious cat-like predators that inhabit the snowy mountain ranges
of the northern continent

Gtratha: High
Council of Lind

Gtrathlin:
Leader of the Gtratha

Greenfruit: A
northern fruit that is available during winter and summer

Hallam:
Northern island in the Great Eastern Sea

Hand:
Measurement used to calculate the height of both Lind and horses
and measuring four inches

Hero of
Galliard: Weaponsmaster Rhian, later Susa of the Vada. Galliard is
a small island in the Great Eastern Sea (Honour)

Holad: Medical
section of pack

Hope’s Point:
An area to the east of Dunetown

Ilyei Estuary:
Inlet on the southern coast of Vadath where lies both a fishing
village and a Vada Supply Station

Innellan: A
port on the eastern seaboard of Argyll

Inner Sanctum:
The room within the Vada Stronghold where is kept the records of
those serving and who have once served with the Vada. It also
contains the books containing those vadeln who have died in the
pursuit of their duty

Intoxication:
Armed merchant and passenger ship that plies its trade between the
Islands and Settlement

Island Chain:
The traditional route the Larg take to attack the north and
situated just south of Settlement, home of the Garda.

Jeza: Eat

Jezdic: Zebra
like and intractable animal

Juvenis: First
Staticum (year) Officer Trainees of the Garda of Argyll

Kala: Caffeine
drink made from the nuts of the allst tree

Karku:
Southern equivalent of kurka

Kran: (Dglai):
Commander

Kranan:
(Larg): Leader of kohort (kohort) squad

Kranj: (Larg):
Part of kohort, numbering eight

Kura: Docile,
woolly, short-legged goat-like animal

Kurka: Dried
trail ration meat, usually made from kura

Lachesis: The
fate that assigns a person’s destiny

Lai: Legendary
beings of Lind mythology

Lai: (Lai):
Golden skinned rtath of the Daiglon

Larg: (Larg):
Warlike wolf-like denizens of southern continent

Largan:
(Larg): Leader of all the Larg

Larya: Frigate
in the Argyllian Navy

Lian: Woods or
forests

Lin: Litter of
Lind pups

Lind: Peace
loving wolf-like denizens of northern continent

Lindling:
Human word for Lind young, not often used

Lindar:
Warrior section of pack. All Lind, male and female over thirteen
summers fight in one of the three ryz of the Lindar of their
pack

Little Sisters
of the Poor: Nursing Order of Nuns from the Kingdom of Murdoch.
They wear white habits

Little Rover
Inn: Inn at Dunetown belonging to Innkeeper Talan and where Zak,
Zala, Tala, Hilla, Rilla and Zilla grew up

Ltscta: Lind
youngling

Lucky Lind: A
pub at the Vada port

Lungtrel:
Multi coloured river fish

Mahler: A town
in the Kingdom of Murdoch and where the main priestly seminary is
located

Malinon:
Northern bird that sings a fine tune

Malinon:
Argyllian merchant ship

Mayflower:
Small Argyllian merchant coastal ship

Middle Sea:
Sea between the northern and southern continents

Militia of
Argyll: Made up of the general population, the Militia is
responsible for helping the Garda in their own Ward and can be
called up in time of need

Militia of
Vadath: Made up of men and women of fighting age and who have not
paired with a Lind, the Militia is responsible for aiding in the
defence of the northern continent

Months of the
Year Dunrhed:
Vadrhed-Lokrhed-Sanrhed-Rakrhed–Dunthed-Vadthed-Lokthed-Santhed–Rakthed

Murdoch: Human
Country in the southern continent ruled by the ex-convicts (and
their descendants) from the WCPS
Electra
. It is also the
name of the river that bisects the Kingdom north to south.

N.C.O.: Non
commissioned officer

Nad:
Nothingness

Nadlian: Area
of land with no trees, grasslands

Nahoko: (Lai
and Dglai): Detailed fact finding probe of the Diaglon, five of
them landed in the middle of AL 607

Numbers 1-10:
Dun, Vad, Lok, San, Rak, Olf, Tak, Zan, Echt, Duntan

Ondis: Insects
that live in swarms and who look like and live s similar life to
the locusts of planet Earth

Order of the
Grey Nuns: Teaching Order of Nuns of the Kingdom of Murdoch

Pilli: Small,
edible darting red fish found in the rivers of the northern
continent

Pisonberry :
Poisonous green berry which resembles the greenfruit

Pointy Peak:
Pointed mountain near Dunetown and used by mariners as a reference
point for navigation

Port Charles:
Eighth ward port in Argyll

Port
Lutterell: Main port of eastern Argyll, most of its traffic is
composed of merchantmen plying their trade between the mainland and
the islands, also the base for the Argyllian Navy

Prestonvale:
Town in the Duchy of Bentwood

Priests of the
Holy Temple: Rulers of the Island of Hallam and members of a strict
religious sect

Ptatch:
Ride

Quorko: (Lai
and Dglai): Scout ship of the Dglai

Raging Jezdic:
An Inn at Vada

Rai: (Lai):
Blue skinned lost rtath of the Diaglon

Raki: Section
of the Avuzdel

Ratroot:
Poison, very fast working but painful to take

Relentless:
Pirate slaver-galley

Rdha: A snack
meal

Relm: A piece
of paper or parchment of letter size

Rhan: Sun
(day)

Rhed: Hot

Rhedhrehl:
Summer season

Ricca: A
rice-like crop grown in the south

Rtath:
Pack

Rtatha:
Pack-range

Rtathen:
Pack-mates

Rtathlian:
Pack-woods

Rudtka:
(Larg): Small southern burrowing animal like a rabbit with short
ears

Ruza: Hero

Rybak: Planet
Wolf, home of the Lind and the Larg and named after the James Rybak
who found it

Ryz: Battle
line

Ryzck: Troop
of Vada, made up of thirty-four vadeln-pairs and one commanding
vadeln-pair

Ryzcka: Vada
Troop Commander

Satalrdn:
Many

Sbnai: (Lai):
Red skinned lost rtath of the Daiglon

Senis: Second
Staticum (year) Officer Trainees of the Garda of Argyll

Sheld:
(Dglai): a measure of gravitational levels

Silver Star
Honour: Star awarded to brave vadeln-pairs of the Vada

Sinetad Rtath:
Secret Pack of Lind who live on the north western fringes of Lind
and who have been reputed for years to have been guarding a great
secret

Smaha: Red
numbing medicinal root

Southern Trade
Route: This runs from Settlement at the south-easterly tip of
Argyll to Vada, the Stronghold of the Vada in Vadath.

Standard:
Language spoken by the humans when they arrived on Rybak – as the
years progressed the language has shifted to take account of words
of Lindish and of the Larg

Stasya: River
which flowed into Stewarton during the early years, by the seventh
century barely a trickle because of the dam which was built in AL
200 to provide a clean water supply for the growing town

Staticum: The
year designations of Officer Trainees in the Garda. Training takes
two years and in the first year they are designated First Staticum,
in their second year Second Staticum. First year Trainees take the
rank Juvenis, second year Trainees the rank Senis

Stickleweed:
Maroon coloured, fast growing weed whose leave stick to clothes,
hair and fur

Stewarton:
City of Argyll, situated inland beside Lake Stewart

Stronghold: A
name used to describe the section within the town of Vada where the
Vada HQ is

Summoner of
Death: The name for the Botan amongst the Avuzdel

Supply
Station: Vada stations that are dotted around Argyll, Vadath and
Lind for the use of travelling vadeln-pairs

Susa:
Commander of a Lindar, of the Vada and of the three sections of the
Avuzdel

Susa’s Own:
The Fifty-first Ryzck of the Vada, under the direct command of the
Susa and the only one that contains more than one Ryzcka and four
Vadryzkas

Susalai:
Supreme Commander of the Avuzdel

Susyc: Overall
Commander of the Armies of the North

Svan: (Dglai):
time measurement, around a candle-mark long

Symington:
Baronage located in the Duchy of Brentwood

Tan: 0
(Zero)

Technicians
Guild: Guild in Argyll responsible for all technical and inventive
matters

Thed: Cold

Thedhrehl:
Winter season

Thibaltines:
Enclosed Order of Nuns of the Kingdom of Murdoch. They wear black
habits

Tran: Moon
(night)

Tranet: Edible
freshwater flatfish

Trent Reef:
Name of the line of rocks and small islands that run from the south
western tip of Lind to the southern continent

Uplamoor: Town
in the middle of the Duchy of South Baker

Vada: Cavalry
(Lind/human)

Vada: The
township that has grown up around the Vada stronghold

Vadath:
Country between Argyll and Lind on the northern continent, ruled
jointly by humans and Lind

Vadeln-pair:
Paired life-mate (Lind/human), often shortened to vadeln or
pair

Vadryz: Squad
of Vada, made up of eight vadeln-pairs

Vadryza: Vada
squad commander of which there are four in each Ryzck; of eight
vadeln-pairs each

Valdka: Cloudy
white alcoholic drink

Volat:
Needless slaying of any creature

Vuz: Small
striped river animal (if spoken softly)

Walda: A long
thick leafed grass grown in both northern and southern continents
and used for fodder, thatching and other myriad uses

Washington:
Town in the Duchy of Bentwood

WCCS
Argyll
: Colony Ship that survived the cosmic storm

WCPS
Electra
: Prison Ship that survived the cosmic storm

Whitebush: A
plant that generated white roots that can be cooked and eaten

Western Isles:
A prosperous and large group of islands in the Great Eastern Sea
and allied to the Kingdom of Murdoch

Wral: Large
bear-like animals that inhabit the riverbanks of the snowy
mountains of the northern continent

Zarova: Long
necked camel-like meat animal

The Dukedoms of
the Kingdom of Murdoch in Order of Precedence

North Baker:
South Baker: Smith: Cocteau: Van Buren: Gardiner: Brentwood: Sahara
(Vacant): Duchesne: Graham

The Royal and
Noble Protocol Ranks within the Kingdom of Murdoch in Order of
Precedence

It was King
Elliot the Second (20-93) (reigned 73-93) who formalised and made
law the rank structure of the nobility. Women cannot hold land or
rule in their own right. All females take the feminine equivalent
of their husband’s title, except for a Daughter-Heir of one of the
9 Dukedoms. Her husband becomes the Son-Heir then Duke on the death
of his father-in-law and she will become his Duchess. If a Prince
marries a Daughter-Heir, he retains the title Prince, becomes
Prince-Heir and then Prince-Duke but his wife does not assume the
title of Princess. A direct male descendant of a Duke may use the
title Lord, other nobles use the title Sir. All ladies of noble
birth may use the sobriquet Lady except for unmarried daughters of
a Thane.

Ranks:-
King/Lord Prince Consort : Queen : Crown-Prince (Heir to Throne) :
Crown-Princess : Crown-Prince-Heir (Son of Crown-Prince) :
Prince-Duke (Married to Daughter-Heir and reigning Duke)
:Prince-Heir (Married to Daughter-Heir) : Prince : Princess : Duke
: Duchess : Lord Marshall (Overall Commander of the Armies of
Murdoch) :Duke-Heir (Son-Heir to Dukedom of one of the 9 Dukes) :
Count (Son of a Duke) : Count (Eldest son of a Count, known as
Count Heir) :Countess (Count’s wife) : Contessa (Daughter-Heir to
Dukedom of one of the 9 Dukes) : Contessa (Daughter or
Granddaughter of a Duke) : Margrave (Younger son of a Count) :
Margrave (Eldest son and Heir of a Margrave, known as Margrave
Heir) : Margravess (Margrave’s wife) : Margravessa (Daughter of
Granddaughter of a Count) : Baron (Younger son of a Margrave) :
Baron (Titled but not descended from a Duke) : Baron (Eldest Son
and Heir of a Baron, known as Baron Heir) : Baroness (Baron’s wife)
: Baronessa (Daughter or Granddaughter of a Margrave) : Kellen
(Younger son of a Baron) : Kellen (Titled but not descended from a
Duke) : Kellen (Eldest Son and Heir of a Kellen, known as Kellen
Heir) : Kellene (Kellen’s wife) : Kellessa (Daughter or
Granddaughter of a Baron) : Thane (Younger son of a Kellen) : Thane
(Titled but not descended from a Duke) : Thane (Eldest son and Heir
of a Thane, known as Thane Heir) : Thanene (Thane’s wife) :
Thanessa (Daughter or Granddaughter of a Kellen)