The Curse of the Mistwraith (99 page)

RIATHAN PARAVIANS – unicorns, the purest and most direct connection to Ath Creator; the prime vibration channels directly through the horn.

pronounced: ree-ah-than

root meaning:
ria
to touch;
ath
– prime life force
ri’athon
– one who touches divinity

ROCKFELL – deep shaft cut into Rockfell Peak, used to imprison harmful entities throughout all three ages. Located in the principality of West Halla, Melhalla; became the warded prison for Desh-thiere.

pronounced: rock-fell

root meaning not from the Paravian

ROCKFELL VALE – valley below Rockfell Peak, located in principality of West Halla, Melhalla.

pronounced: rockfell vale

root meaning not from the Paravian

SAERIAT
– name of the brigantine captained by Avar of Karthan, defeated and burned in engagement against seventeen warships of Amroth.

pronounced: say-ree-at

root meaning:
saer
– water;
iyat
– to break

s’AHELAS – family name for the royal line appointed by the Fellowship sorcerers in Third Age year I to rule the High Kingdom of Shand. Gifted geas: farsight.

pronounced: s’ah-hell-as

root meaning:
ahelas
– mage-gifted

s’DARIAN – family name for a line of centaurs who were master armourers in the First and Second Ages. Most renowned was Ffereton who forged the twelve Blades of Isaer, Alithiel being for his natural son Durmaenir.

pronounced: dar-ee-an

root meaning:
daer’an
– one that cuts

s’FFALENN – family name for the royal line appointed by the Fellowship sorcerers in Third Age year 1 to rule the High Kingdom of Rathain. Gifted geas: compassion/empathy.

pronounced: fal-en

root meaning:
ffael
– dark;
an
– one

s’GANNLEY – family name for the line of earls of the west, who stood as
caithdein
and stewards for the kings of Tysan.

pronounced: gan-lee

root meaning:
gaen
– to guide;
li
– exalted, or in harmony

s’ILESSID – family name for the royal line appointed by the Fellowship sorcerers in Third Age year 1 to rule the High Kingdom of Tysan. Gifted geas: justice.

pronounced: s-ill-ess-id

root meaning:
liessiad
– balance

s’LORNMEIN – family name for the royal line appointed by the Fellowship sorcerers in Third Age year 1 to rule the High Kingdom of Havish. Gifted geas: temperance

s’PERHEDRAL – line of sunchildren whose issue succeeded Athera’s High Kingship after Enastir, who died heirless.

pronounced: per-heed-rall

root meaning:
para
– great;
hedreal
– oak

s’VALERIENT – family name for the earls of the north, regents and
caithdein
for the high kings of Rathain.

pronounced: val-er-ee-ent

root meaning:
val
– straight;
erient
– spear

SEARDLUIN – vicious, intelligent cat-formed creatures that roved in packs whose hierarchy was arranged for ruthless and efficient slaughter of other living things. By the middle of the Second Age, they had been battled to extinction.

pronounced: seerd-lwin

root meaning:
seard
– bearded;
luin
– feline

SETHVIR – sorcerer of the Fellowship of Seven, served as Warden of Althain since the disappearance of the Paravians in the Third Age after the Mistwraith’s conquest.

pronounced – seth-veer

root meaning:
seth
– fact;
vaer
– keep

SEVERNIR – river that once ran across the central part of Daon Ramon Barrens, Rathain. Diverted at the source after the Mistwraith’s conquest, to run east into Eltair Bay.

pronounced: se-ver-neer

root meaning:
sevaer
– to travel;
nir
– south

SHAND – one of the Five High Kingdoms of Athera, cut by South Strait, the portion on the western shore being West Shand.

pronounced: shand

root meaning:
shand
– two

SHANDIAN – refers to nationality, being of the Kingdom of Shand

pronounced: shand-ee-an

root meaning:
shand
– two

SITHAER – mythological equivalent of hell, halls of Dharkaron Avenger’s judgement; according to Ath’s adepts, that state of being where the prime vibration is not recognized.

pronounced: sith-air

root meaning:
sid
– lost;
thiere
– wraith/spirit

SKELSENG’S GATE – chain of cliff caves in the foothills of the Skyshiel Mountains, abutting Daon Ramon Barrens in Rathain. Became a temporary holding-place for the Mistwraith just after captivity.

pronounced: skel-seng rhymes with ‘tell bring’

root meaning:
skel—
many;
seng—
cave

SKYRON FOCUS – large aquamarine focus-stone, used by the Koriani Senior Circle for their major magic after the loss of the Great Waystone during the rebellion.

pronounced: sky-run

root meaning:
skyron
– colloquialism for shackle
s’kyr’i’on
– literally ‘sorrowful fate’

SKYSHIEL – mountain range that runs north to south along the eastern coast of Rathain.

pronounced: Sky-shee-el

root meaning:
skyshia
– to pierce through;
iel
light/ray

STEIVEN – earl of the north,
caithdein
and regent to the Kingdom of Rathain at the time of Arithon Teir’s’Ffalenn’s return. Chieftain of the Deshans at the Battle of Strakewood Forest.

pronounced: stay/vin

root meaning:
steiven
– stag

STRAKEWOOD – forest in the principality of Deshir, Rathain; site of the battle of Strakewood Forest.

pronounced: strayk-wood to rhyme with ‘stray wood’

root meaning:
streik
to quicken, to seed

TAERLIN – southwestern principality of Kingdom of Tysan

pronounced: tay-er-lin

root meaning:
taer
– calm;
lien
– to love

TAL QUORIN – river formed by the confluence of watershed on the southern side of Strakewood, principality of Deshir, Rathain, where traps were laid for Etarra’s army in the Battle of Strakewood Forest.

pronounced: tal quar-in

root meaning:
tal
– branch;
quorin
canyons

TALERA s’AHELAS – princess wed to the king of Amroth on the splinter world of Dascen Elur. Mother of Lysaer s’Ilessid, by her husband; mother of Arithon, through her adulterous liaison with the pirate king of Karthan, Avar s’Ffalenn.

pronounced: tal-er-a

root meaning:
talera
– branch or fork in a path

TALIENNSE – Paravian princess rescued from Khadrim attack by Kamridian s’Ffalenn, for which the Isaervian sword Alithiel was awarded to the s’Ffalenn royal line.

pronounced: tal-ee-en-se

root meaning:
talien
– precious;
esia
– feather

TAL’S CROSSING – town at the branch in the trade road that leads to Etarra and south, and northeastward to North Ward.

pronounced: tal to rhyme with ‘pal’

root meaning:
tal
branch

TANE – father of Grithen, heir to the earldom of Erdane.

pronounced: tain to rhyme with ‘main’

root meaning: branch

TANE – father of Grithen, heir to the earldom of Erdane.

pronounced: tain to rhyme with ‘main’

root meaning:
tane
– sire, father

TANLIE – mother of the dead child that Arithon brought in from the horse knacker’s yards in Etarra.

pronounced: tan-lee

root meaning:
tun
– brown;
lie
note struck in harmony

TASHAN – Elder on Maenalle’s clan council, present at the west outpost at the time of Grithen’s raid on the Pass of Orlan.

pronounced: tash-an

root meaning:
tash
– swift, quick;
an
– one

TASHKA – daughter of Lady Dania and Steiven s’Valerient, earl of the north and
caithdein
of Rathain.

pronounced: tash-ka

root meaning:
tash
– quick/swift;
ka
– girl