The Runes of the Earth: The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - Book One (97 page)

Forbidding:
a wall of power

Forestal:
a protector of the remnants of the One Forest

Fostil:
a man of Mithil Stonedown; father of Liand

Foul's Creche:
the Despiser's home, Ridjeck Thome

Furl Falls:
waterfall at Revelstone

Furl's Fire:
warning fire at Revelstone

 

gaddhi
, the:
sovereign of
Bhrathairealm

Gallows Howe:
a place of execution in Garroting Deep

Galt:
a
Haruchai,
a Master of the Land; one of the Humbled

Garroting Deep:
a forest of the Land

Garth:
Warmark of the Warward of Lord's Keep

Gay:
a Winhome of the Ramen

ghohritsar:
a Waynhim

ghramin
:
a Waynhim

Giantclave:
Giantish conference

Giantfriend:
title given first to Damelon, later to Thomas Covenant

Giants:
the Unhomed, ancient friends of the Lords; a seafaring people of the Earth

Giantship:
a stone sailing vessel made by Giants;
dromond

Giantway:
path made by Giants

Giant Woods:
a forest of the Land

Gibbon:
the na-Mhoram; leader of the Clave

Gilden:
a maple-like tree with golden leaves

Gildenlode:
a power-wood formed from the Gilden trees

Glimmermere:
a lake on the plateau above Revelstone

Gorak Krembal:
Hotash Slay, a defense around Foul's Creche

Gossamer Glowlimn:
a Giant, the First of the Search

Grace:
a Cord of the Ramen

Graveler:
one who uses stone to wield the Sunbane

graveling:
fire-stones, made to glow by stone-lore

Gravelingas:
a master of the stone-lore

Gravin Threndor:
Mount Thunder

Great Desert, the:
a region of the Earth; home of the
Bhrathair
and the Sandgorgons

Great Swamp, the:
Lifeswallower, a region of the Land

Grey Desert, the:
a region south of the Land

Grey River, the:
a river of the Land

Grey Slayer:
plains name for Lord Foul

Greywightswath:
a region north of the Soulsease River

Greshas Slant:
a region in the Center Plains

griffin
:
lion-like beast with wings

Grim
, the:
(also the na-Mhoram's
Grim
) a destructive storm sent as an attack by the Clave

Grimmand Honninscrave:
a Giant; Master of Starfare's Gem; brother of Cable Seadreamer

Grimmerdhore:
a forest of the Land

Guard, the:
hustin;
soldiers serving the
gaddhi

Guardian of the One Tree, the:
mystical figure warding the approach to the One Tree;
ak-Haru Kenaustin Ardenol

 

Haft:
commander of an Eoward

Halfhand:
title given to Thomas Covenant and to Berek

Hall of Gifts, the:
large chamber in Revelstone devoted to the artworks of the Land

Hamako:
sole survivor of the destruction of During Stonedown

Hami:
a Ramen Manethrall

Handir:
a
Haruchai
leader, the Voice of the Masters

Harbor Captain:
chief official of the port of
Bhrathairealm

Harn:
one of the
Haruchai
, protector of Hollian

Haruchai:
a warrior people from the Westron Mountains

Healer:
a physician

Hearthrall of Lord's Keep:
a steward responsible for light, warmth, and hospitality

Heart of Thunder:
cave of power in Mount Thunder; Kiril Threndor

Hearthcoal:
a Giant; cook of Starfare's Gem; wife of Seasauce

Heartthew:
a title given to Berek Halfhand

heartwood chamber:
meeting-place of a Woodhelven, within a tree

Heer:
leader of a Woodhelven

Heft Galewrath:
a Giant; Storesmaster of Starfare's Gem

Herem:
a Raver, Kinslaughterer,
turiya

Hergrom:
one of the
Haruchai

High Lord:
leader of the Council of Lords

High Lord's Furl:
banner of the High Lord

High Wood:
lomillialor,
offspring of the One Tree

Hile Troy:
a man formerly from Thomas Covenant's world; Warmark of High Lord Elena's Warward

Hiltmark:
second in command of the Warward

Hirebrand:
a master of wood-lore

Hoerkin:
a Warhaft

Hollian:
daughter of Amith, eh-Brand of Crystal Stonedown

Home:
original homeland of the Giants

Horizonscan:
lookout atop the midmast of a Giantship

Horse, the:
human soldiery of the
gaddhi

horserite:
a gathering of Ranyhyn in which they drink mind-blending waters in order to share visions, prophecies, and purpose

Hotash Slay:
flow of lava protecting Foul's Creche; Gorak Krembal

Hower:
a Bloodguard, assigned to Lord Loerya

Hrama:
a Ranyhyn stallion, mount of Anele

Humbled, the:
three
Haruchai
maimed to resemble Thomas Covenant; a reminder to the Masters of their limitations

Hurn:
a Cord of the Ramen

hurtloam:
a healing mud

Huryn:
a Ranyhyn, Terrel's mount

husta/hustin:
partly human soldiers bred by Kasreyn to be the
gaddhi
's Guard

Hyn:
a Ranyhyn mare; mount of Linden Avery

Hynaril:
a Ranyhyn, mount of Tamarantha and then Mhoram

Hynyn:
a Ranyhyn stallion; mount of Stave

Hyrim:
a Lord, son of Hoole

Illearth Stone, the:
powerful bane long buried under Mount Thunder

Illender:
title given to Thomas Covenant

Imoiran Tomal-mate:
a Stonedownor

Infelice:
reigning leader of the
Elohim

Irin:
a warrior of the Third Eoman of the Warward

Isle of the One Tree, the:
location of the One Tree

 

Jain:
a Manethrall of the Ramen

Jass:
a
Haruchai;
a Master of the Land

Jehannum:
a Raver, Fleshharrower,
moksha

jheherrin:
soft ones, misshapen by-products of Foul's making

Jous:
a man of Mithil Stonedown; son of Prassan; father of Nassic; inheritor of an Unfettered One's mission to remember the Halfhand

 

Kalina:
wife of Nassic; mother of Sunder; woman of Mithil Stonedown

Kam:
a Manethrall of the Ramen

Kasreyn of the Gyre:
a thaumaturge; the
gaddhi
's Kemper (advisor) in
Bhrathairealm

Kastenessen:
one of the
Elohim
; former Appointed

Kelenbhrabanal:
Father of Horses in Ranyhyn legends

Keeper:
a Ramen rank; one of those unsuited to the rigors of being a Cord or a Manethrall

Keep of the na-Mhoram, the:
Revelstone

Kemper, the:
chief advisor of the
gaddhi;
Kasreyn

Kemper's Pitch:
highest level of the Sandhold

Kenaustin Ardenol:
a figure of
Haruchai
legend, paragon and measure of all
Haruchai
virtues

Kevin Landwaster:
son of Loric Vilesilencer, last High Lord of the Old Lords

Kevin's Dirt:
smog-like pall covering the Upper Land; invisible from below, it blocks health-sense

Kevin's Lore:
knowledge of power left hidden by Kevin in the Seven Wards

Kevin's Watch:
mountain lookout near Mithil Stonedown

Khabaal:
one of the Seven Words

Kinslaughterer:
a Giant-Raver, Herem,
turiya

Kiril Threndor:
chamber of power deep under Mount Thunder; Heart of Thunder

Koral:
a Bloodguard; assigned to Lord Amatin

Korik:
a Bloodguard

kresh:
savage giant yellow wolves

krill
, the:
knife of power forged by High Lord Loric, awakened to power by Thomas

Covenant

Kurash Plenethor:
region of the Land formally named Stricken Stone, now called Trothgard

Kurash Qwellinir:
the Shattered Hills, region of the Lower Land protecting Foul's Creche

 

Lake Pelluce:
a lake in Andelainscion

Lal:
a Cord of the Ramen

Landsdrop:
great cliff separating the Upper and Lower Lands

Land, the:
generally, area found on the map; a focal region of the Earth where Earthpower is uniquely accessible

Landsverge Stonedown:
a village of the Land

Landwaster:
title given to High Lord Kevin

Law, the:
the natural order

Law of Death, the:
the natural order which separates the living from the dead

Law of Life, the:
the natural order which separates the dead from the living

Lena:
a Stonedownor, daughter of Atiaran; mother of Elena

Lifeswallower:
the Giant Swamp

lianar:
wood of power used by an eh-Brand

Liand:
a man of Mithil Stonedown, son of Fostil; companion of Linden Avery

lillianrill:
wood-lore; masters of wood-lore

Lithe:
a Manethrall of the Ramen

Llaura:
a Heer of Soaring Woodhelven

Loerya Trevor-mate:
a Lord

lomillialor:
High Wood; a wood of power

Lord:
one who has mastered both the Sword and the Staff aspects of Kevin's Lore

Lord-Fatherer:
title given to Berek Halfhand

Lord Foul:
the enemy of the Land; the Despiser

“
Lord Mhoram's Victory
”: a painting by Ahanna

Lord of Wickedness:
a-Jeroth

Lords, the:
the primary protectors of the Land

Lord's-fire:
staff-fire used by the Lords

Lord's Keep:
Revelstone

loremaster:
a leader of ur-viles

Loresraat:
Trothgard school at Revelwood where Kevin's Lore is studied

Lorewarden:
a teacher in the Loresraat

loreworks:
Demondim power laboratory

Loric Vilesilencer:
a High Lord; son of Damelon Giantfriend

lor-liarill:
Gildenlode

Lost, the:
Giantish name for the Unhomed

Lost Deep, the:
loreworks; breeding pit/laboratory under Mount Thunder where Demondim, Waynhim, and ur-viles were created

Lower Land, the:
region of the Land east of Landsdrop

lucubrium:
laboratory of a thaumaturge

lurker of the Sarangrave, the:
monster inhabiting the Great Swamp

 

Mahdoubt, the:
a strange old woman; a servant of Revelstone

Mahrtiir:
a Ramen Manethrall; companion of Linden Avery

maidan:
open land around
Elemesnedene

Maker, the:
jheherrin
name for Lord Foul

Maker-place:
jheherrin
name for Foul's Creche

Malliner:
Woodhelvennin Heer, son of Veinnin