Traitor's Knot (76 page)

DAELION FATEMASTER—‘entity' formed by set of mortal beliefs, which determine the fate of the spirit after death. If Ath is the prime vibration, or life-force, Daelion is what governs the manifestation of free will.

pronounced: day-el-ee-on

root meaning:
dad—
king, or lord;
i'on—
of fate

DAELION'S WHEEL—cycle of life and the crossing point that is the transition into death.

pronounced: day-el-ee-on

root meaning:
dad—
king or lord;
i'on—
of fate

DAENFAL LAKE—located on the northern lake-shore that bounds the southern edge of Daon Ramon Barrens in Rathain.

pronounced: dye-en-fall

root meaning:
daen—
clay;
fal—
red

DAKAR THE MAD PROPHET—apprentice to Fellowship Sorcerer, Asandir, during the Third Age following the Conquest of the Mistwraith. Given to spurious prophecies, it was Dakar who forecast the fall of the Kings of Havish in time for the Fellowship to save the heir. He made the Prophecy of West Gate, which forecast the Mistwraith's bane, and also, the Black Rose Prophecy, which called for reunification of the Fellowship. At this time, in the service of Arithon, Prince of Rathain.

pronounced: dah-kar

root meaning:
dakiar—
clumsy

DANIA—wife of Rathain's former
caithdein
, Steiven s'Valerient. Died by the
hand of Pesquil's head-hunters in the Battle of Strakewood, Third Age 5638; Jieret Red-beard's mother.

pronounced: dan-ee-ah

root meaning:
deinia—
sparrow

DAON RAMON BARRENS—central principality of Rathain. Site where Riathan Paravians (unicorns) bred and raised their young. Barrens was not appended to the name until the years following the Mistwraith's conquest, when the River Severnir was diverted at the source by a task force under Etarran jurisdiction.

pronounced: day-on-rah-mon

root meaning:
daon—
gold;
ramon—
hills/downs

DARI S'AHELAS—crown heir of Shand who was sent to safety through West Gate to preserve the royal lineage. Born following the death of the last Crown Prince of Shand, subsequently raised and taught by Sethvir to manage the rogue talent of a dual inheritance. Her mother was Meiglin s'Dieneval, last survivor of the old
caithdein's
lineage of Melhalla, which was widely believed to have perished during the massacre at Tirans. However the pregnant widow of Egan s'Dieneval had escaped the uprising and survived under a false name in a Durn brothel.

pronounced: dar-ee

root meaning:
daer—
to cut

DARKLING—city located on the western side of the Skyshiel Mountains in the Kingdom of Rathain.

pronounced: dark-ling

root meaning:
dierk-linng—
drake eyrie

DAVIEN THE BETRAYER—Fellowship Sorcerer responsible for provoking the great uprising in Third Age Year 5018, that resulted in the fall of the high kings after Desh-thiere's conquest. Rendered discorporate by the Fellowship's judgment in Third Age 5129. Exiled since, by personal choice. Davien's works included the Five Centuries Fountain near Mearth on the splinter world of the Red Desert through West Gate; the shaft at Rockfell Peak, used by the Sorcerers to imprison harmful entities; the Stair on Rockfell Peak; and also, Kewar Tunnel in the Mathorn Mountains.

pronounced: dah-vee-en

root meaning:
dahvi—
fool;
an—
one ‘mistaken one'

DAWR s'BRYDION—grandmother of Duke Bransian of Alestron, and his brothers Keldmar, Parrien, and Mearn.

pronounced: dour

root meaning:
dwyiar—
vinegar wine

DEITH—clansman of Rathain, and the youngest of Jieret's Companions, who were the fourteen child survivors of the massacre of Tal Quorin in Third Age Year 5638. Currently among the group of scouts guarding the free wilds in Deshir.

pronounced: dee-ith

root meaning:
d'—
prefix for behind;
ieth—
to stand, to plant, to fix in place

DESH-THIERE—Mistwraith that invaded Athera from the splinter worlds
through South Gate in Third Age 4993. Access cut off by Fellowship Sorcerer, Traithe. Battled and contained in West Shand for twenty-five years, until the rebellion splintered the peace, and the high kings were forced to withdraw from the defense lines to attend their disrupted kingdoms. Confined through the combined powers of Lysaer s'Ilessid's gift of light and Arithon s'Ffalenn's gift of shadow. Currently imprisoned in a warded flask in Rockfell Pit.

pronounced: desh-thee-air-e (last ‘e' mostly subliminal)

root meaning:
desk—
mist;
thiere—
ghost or wraith

DESHIR—north-western principality of Rathain.

pronounced: desh-eer

root meaning:
deshir—
misty

DHARKARON AVENGER—called Ath's Avenging Angel in legend. Drives a chariot drawn by five horses to convey the guilty to Sithaer. Dharkaron as defined by the adepts of Ath's Brotherhood is that dark thread mortal men weave with Ath, the prime vibration, that creates self-punishment, or the root of guilt.

pronounced dark-air-on

root meaning:
dhar—
evil;
khiaron—
one who stands in judgment

DHIRKEN—lady captain of the contraband runner,
Black Drake.
Reputed to have taken over the brig's command by right of arms following her father's death at sea. Died at the hands of Lysaer's allies on the charge of liaison with Arithon s'Ffalenn, Third Age Year 5647.

pronounced: dur-kin

root meaning:
dierk—
tough;
an—
one

DIARIN s'GANNLEY—daughter of the
caithdein's
lineage of Tysan, handfasted to marry a Westwood clan chieftain when she was abducted and forced to marriage by the Mayor of Hanshire.

pronounced: die-are-in

root meaning:
diarin—
a precious, or coveted object

DIEGAN—once Lord Commander of Etarra's garrison; given over by his mayor to serve as Lysaer s'Ilessid's Lord Commander at Avenor. Titular commander of the war host sent against the Deshans to defeat the Master of Shadow at Tal Quorin; high commander of the war host mustered at Werpoint. Also brother of Lady Talith. Died of a clan arrow in the Battle of Dier Kenton Vale in Vastmark, Third Age 5647.

pronounced: dee-gan

root meaning:
diegan—
trinket a dandy might wear/ornament

DIER KENTON VALE—a valley located in the principality of Vastmark, Shand, where Lysaer's war host, thirty-five thousand strong, fought and lost to the Master of Shadow in Third Age 5647, largely decimated in one day by a shale slide. The remainder were harried by a small force of Vastmark shepherds and clan scouts from Shand, under Caolle, who served as Arithon's war captain, until supplies and loss of morale broke the Alliance campaign.

pronounced: deer ken-ton

root meaning:
dier'kendion—
a jewel with a severe flaw that may result in shearing or cracking

DURN—town located in Orvandir, Shand.

pronounced: dern

root meaning:
diem—
a flat plain

DYSHENT—town on the west coast of Instrell Bay in Atainia, Tysan.

pronounced: die-shent

root meaning:
dyshient—
cedar

EAST HALLA—principality in Melhalla.

pronounced: east hall-ah

root meaning:
hal'lia—
white light

EASTWALL—city located in the Skyshiel Mountains, Rathain.

EDAN—boy recruit for the Light, chosen for talent.

pronounced: eh-dan

root meaning:
e'dian—
the clay

EI'AN IST'THALIENT—a stingingly pointed colloquial insult, and a warning; roughly ‘a particularly rock-headed fool bound for disaster'.

pronounced: ee-eh-an eest-thal-ee-ent

root meaning:
ei—
‘a' in the specific form;
an-
one;
ist'thal-
closed, hard or stubborn head, contrary-minded—
ient-
suffix that indicates a state of fullest evolution, or ‘the most'.

EILISH—Lord Minister of the Treasury at Avenor.

pronounced: eye-lish

root meaning:
eyalish—
fussy

ELAIRA—initiate enchantress of the Koriathain. Originally a street child, taken on in Morvain for Koriani rearing. Arithon's beloved.

pronounced: ee-layer-ah

root meaning:
e—
prefix, diminutive for small;
laere—
grace

ELDIR s'LORNMEIN—King of Havish and last surviving scion of s'Lornmein royal line. Raised as a wool-dyer until the Fellowship Sorcerers crowned him at Ostermere in Third Age 5643 following the defeat of the Mistwraith.

pronounced: el-deer

root meaning:
eldir—
to ponder, to consider, to weigh

ELKFOREST—free wilds located in Carithwyr, Havish.

ELLAINE—daughter of the Lord Mayor of Erdane, became Princess of Avenor when she married Lysaer s'Ilessid, mother of the heir apparent, Kevor, who is believed to be deceased.

pronounced: el-lane

not from the Paravian

ELSSINE—town on the coast of Alland, Shand.

pronounced: el-seen

root meaning:
elssien—
small pit

ELTAIR BAY—large bay off Cildein Ocean and east coast of Rathain; where the River Severnir was diverted following the Mistwraith's conquest.

pronounced: el-tay-er

root meaning:
al'tieri—
of steel/a shortening of original Paravian name;
dascen al'tieri—
which meant ‘ocean of steel,' which referred to the color of the waves

EMRIC s'GANNLEY—former
Caithdein
of Tysan, and father of Diarin s'Gannley who was once handfasted to the clan chieftain of Westwood.

pronounced: em-rick

root meaning:
am'ric—
plenty, ‘state of wealth'

ENITHEN TUER—seeress living in the town of Erdane. Originally a Koriani sister who was freed from her initiate's vow of service by Fellowship Sorcerer Asandir's intervention.

pronounced: en-ith-en too-er

root meaning:
en'wethen—
far-sighted;
tuer—
crone

ENNA—girl-child who was once a weaver's apprentice.

pronounced: enn-na not from the Paravian.

ERDANE—old Paravian city later taken over by Men. Seat of old princes of Camris until Desh-thiere's conquest and rebellion. Erdani-meaning, from Erdane.

pronounced: er-day-na with the last syllable almost subliminal

root meaning:
er'deinia—
long walls

ERIEGAL—second youngest of the fourteen child survivors of the Tal Quorin massacre known as Jieret's Companions. Renowned as a shrewd tactician, he was ordered to serve Jieret's son Barach as war captain in the Halwythwood camp rather than fight Lysaer's war host in Daon Ramon Barrens in Third Age Year 5670.

pronounced: air-ee-gall

root meaning:
eriegal—
snake

ERLIEN s'TALEYN—High Earl of Alland;
caithdein
of Shand, chieftain of the forest clansmen of Selkwood. Once fought Arithon s'Ffalenn at sword-point over an issue of law bound over by Melhalla's
caithdein
and also as a trial of a sanctioned crown prince's honest character.

pronounced: er-lee-an

root meaning:
aierlyan—
bear;
tal—
branch;
an—
one/first ‘of first branch'

ETARRA—trade city built across the Mathorn Pass by townsfolk after the revolt that cast down Ithamon and the High Kings of Rathain. Nest of corruption and intrigue, and policy-maker for the North. Lysaer s'Ilessid was ratified as mayor upon Morfett's death in Third Age Year 5667. Raiett Raven subsequently appointed as ruling High Chancellor. Also the seat of the Alliance armed forces.

pronounced: ee-tar-ah

root meaning:
e—
prefix for small;
taria—
knots

ETTIN—river that empties into Rockbay Harbor at the border between Shand and Havish.

pronounced: et-tin

root meaning:
e'tennd—
the slow

EVENSTAR
—first brig stolen from Riverton's royal shipyard by Cattrick's conspiracy with Prince Arithon. Currently of Innish registry, running merchant cargoes under joint ownership of Fiark and his sister Feylind, who is acting captain.

FALGAIRE—coastal city on Instrell Bay, located in Araethura, Rathain, famed for its glass-works.

pronounced: fall-gair—to rhyme with ‘air'

root meaning:
fal'mier—
to sparkle or glitter

FALLOWMERE—north-eastern principality of Rathain.

pronounced: fal-oh-meer

root meaning:
fal'ei'miere—
literally, tree self-reflection, colloquialism for ‘place of perfect trees'

FATE'S WHEEL—see Daelion's Wheel.

FELLOWSHIP OF SEVEN—sorcerers bound to Athera by the summoning dream of the dragons and charged to secure the mysteries that enable Paravian survival. Achieved their redemption from Cianor Sunlord, under the Law of the Major Balance in Second Age Year One. Originators and keepers of the covenant of the compact, made with the Paravian races, to allow Mankind's settlement on Athera in Third Age Year One. Their authority backs charter law, upheld by crown justice and clan oversight of the free wilds.

FEITHAN—widow of Jieret s'Valerient, Earl of the North, and
caithdein
of Rathain.

pronounced: faith-an

root meaning:
feiathen—
ivy

FEYLIND—daughter of a Scimlade fisherman and Jinesse, twin sister of Fiark, currently master of the brig
Evenstar
a merchant brig of Innish registry.

pronounced: fay-lind

root meaning:
faelind'an—
outspoken or noisy one