Traitor's Knot Part 50

p.r.o.nounced: ith-ish root meaning: ithish - fleece or fluffy IYAT.

energy sprite, and minor drake sp.a.w.n inhabiting Athera, not visible to the eye, manifests in a poltergeist fas.h.i.+on by taking temporary possession of objects. Feeds upon natural energy sources: fire, breaking waves, lightning.

p.r.o.nounced: ee-at root meaning: iyat - to break JAELOT.

city located on the coast of Eltair Bay at the southern border of the Kingdom of Rathain. Once a Second Age power site, with a focus circle. Now a merchant city with a reputation for extreme sn.o.bbery and bad taste. Also the site where Arithon s'Ffalenn played his eulogy for Halliron m.a.s.t.e.r.b.a.t.*rd, which raised the powers of the Paravian focus circle beneath the mayor's palace. The forces of the mysteries and resonant harmonics caused damage to city buildings, watchkeeps, and walls, which has since been repaired. Site where Fionn Areth was arraigned for execution, as bait in a Koriani conspiracy that failed to trap Arithon s'Ffalenn.

p.r.o.nounced: jay-lot root meaning: jielot - affectation JERIAYISH.

sixth-rank initiate priest of the Light who had a seer's talent. Died of madness during the Alliance war host's invasion of Daon Ramon Barrens in Third Age Year 5670.

p.r.o.nounced: jeer-ee-ah-yish root meaning: jier'yaish - unclean magic JEYNSA.

daughter of Jieret s'Valerient and Feithan, born Third Age 5653; appointed successor for her father's t.i.tle, Caithdien of Rathain.

p.r.o.nounced: jay-in-sa root meaning: jieyensa - garnet JIERET s'VALERIENT former Earl of the North, clan chief of Des.h.i.+r; caithdein of Rathain, sworn liegeman of Prince Arithon s'Ffalenn. Also son and heir of Lord Steiven. Blood pacted to Arithon by sorcerer's oath prior to the battle of Strakewood Forest. Came to be known by head-hunters as Jieret Red-beard. Father of Jeynsa and Barach. Husband to Feithan. Died by Lysaer s'Ilessid's hand in Daon Ramon Barrens, Third Age Year 5670.

p.r.o.nounced: jeer-et root meaning: jieret - thorn KALESH.

town at the mouth of the harbor inlet from the Cildein Ocean, enemy of Alestron.

p.r.o.nounced: cal-esh root meaning: cattle'iesh - stubborn hold KAMRIDIAN s'FFALENN Crowned High King of Rathain, a tragic figure who died of his conscience under the fated influence of the maze in Kewar Caverns, built by Davien the Betrayer under the Mathorn Mountains.

p.r.o.nounced: cam-rid-ee-an root meaning: kaim'riadien - thread cut shorter KELDMAR s'BRYDION younger brother of Duke Bransian of Alestron, older brother of Parrien and Mearn.

p.r.o.nounced: keld-mar root meaning: kiel'd'maeran - one without pity KEVOR.

son and heir of Lysaer s'Ilessid and Princess Ellaine; born at Avenor in Third Age 5655. At age fourteen, in his father's absence, he exercised royal authority and averted a riot by the panicked citizenry of Avenor. Commonly held to have died by Khadrim fire in Westwood, but in fact was spared by an interaction with Ath's Brotherhood. Became an adept in Third Year 5670, at the hostel in Northerly, Tysan.

p.r.o.nounced: kev-or root meaning: kiavor - high virtue KEWAR TUNNEL.

cavern built beneath the Mathorn Mountains by Davien the Betrayer; contains the maze of conscience, which caused High King Kamridian s'Ffalenn's. death.

p.r.o.nounced: key-wahr root meaning: kewiar - a weighing of conscience KHADRIM.

drake-sp.a.w.ned creatures, flying, fire-breathing reptiles that were the scourge of the Second Age. By the Third Age, they had been driven back and confined in the Sorcerers' Preserve in the volcanic peaks in north Tysan.

p.r.o.nounced: kaa-drim root meaning: khadrim - dragon KHARADMON.

Sorcerer of the Fellows.h.i.+p of Seven; discorporate since rise of Khadrim and Seardluin leveled Paravian stronghold at Ithamon in Second Age 3651. It was by Kharadmon's intervention that the survivors of the attack were sent to safety by means of transfer from the fifth lane power focus. Currently working the wardings to defer a minor invasion of wraiths from Marak.

p.r.o.nounced: kah-rad-mun root meaning: kar'riad en mon - phrase translates to mean 'twisted thread on the needle' or colloquialism for 'a knot in the works'

KHETIENN.

name for a brigantine built at Merior and owned by Arithon; also a small spotted wildcat native to Daon Ramon Barrens that became the s'Ff alenn royal device.

p.r.o.nounced: key-et-ee-en root meaning: kietienn - small leopard KIELING TOWER.

one of the four compa.s.s points, or Sun Towers, standing at ruin of Ithamon, Daon Ramon Barrens, in Rathain. The warding virtue that binds its stones is compa.s.sion.

p.r.o.nounced: key-eh-ling root meaning: kiel'ien - root for pity, with suffix for 'lightness' added, translates to mean 'compa.s.sion'

KORIANI.

possessive and singular form of the word 'Koriathain'; see entry.

p.r.o.nounced: kor-ee-ah-nee KORIAS.

south-western princ.i.p.ality of Tysan.

p.r.o.nounced: kor-ee-as root meaning: cor - s.h.i.+p, vessel; i'esh - nest, haven KORIATHAIN.

order of enchantresses ruled by a circle of Seniors, under the power of one Prime Enchantress. They draw their talent from the orphaned children they raise, or from daughters dedicated to service by their parents. Initiation rite involves a vow of consent that ties the spirit to a power crystal keyed to the Prime's control. p.r.o.nounced: kor-ee-ah-thain - to rhyme with 'main'

root meaning: koriath - order; ain - belonging to KOSHLIN.

influential trade minister from Erdane, renowned for his hatred of the clans and his support of the head-hunters' leagues.

p.r.o.nounced: kosh-lynn root meaning: kioshlin - opaque KRALOVIR.

term for a sect of necromancers, also called the grey cult.

p.r.o.nounced: kray-low-veer root meaning: krial - name for the rune of crossing; oveir - abomination KYRIALT s'TALEYN heir designate and youngest son of the High Earl of Alland, Lord Erlien s'Taleyn, caithdein of Shand.

p.r.o.nounced: key-ree-alt root meaning: kyralt - word for the rune of crossing with the suffix for 'last,' which is the name for the rune of ending.

LANs.h.i.+RE.

-northernmost princ.i.p.ality in the Kingdom of Havish. Name taken from the wastes at Scarpdale, site of First Age battles with Seardluin that blasted the soil to slag.

p.r.o.nounced: lahn-sheer-e root meaning: lan'hansh'era - place of hot sands LAW OF THE MAJOR BALANCE.

founding order of the powers of the Fellows.h.i.+p of Seven, as taught by the Paravians. The primary tenet is that no force of nature should be used without consent, or against the will of another consciousness.

LEYNSGAP.

a narrow pa.s.s in the Mathorn Mountains in the Kingdom of Rathain.

p.r.o.nounced: lay-ens-gap root meaning: liyond - corridor LIESSE s'BRYDION d.u.c.h.ess of Alestron and wife of Duke Bransian.

p.r.o.nounced: lee-ess root meaning: Hesse - state of accord, based from the word 'a note in harmony'

LIRENDA.

former First Senior Enchantress to the Prime, Koriani Order; failed in her a.s.signment to capture Arithon s'Ffalenn for Koriani purposes. Currently under the Prime Matriarch's sentence of punishment.

p.r.o.nounced: leer-end-ah root meaning: lyron - singer; di-ia - a dissonance - the hyphen denotes a glottal stop LITHMERE.

princ.i.p.ality located in the Kingdom of Havish.

p.r.o.nounced: lith-mere root meaning: lithmiere - to preserve intact, or keep whole; maintain in a state of harmony LOS MAR.

a city located in the westsh.o.r.e of Carithwyr, Havish. It's best known for its libraries and scholars. p.r.o.nounced: loss-mar root meaning: liosmar - letters, written records LUHAINE.

Sorcerer of the Fellows.h.i.+p of Seven - discorporate since the fall of Telmandir in Third Age Year 5018. Luhaine's body was pulled down by the mob while he was in ward trance, covering the escape of the royal heir to Havish.

p.r.o.nounced: loo-hay-ne root meaning: luirhainon - defender LYRANTHE.

instrument played by the bards of Athera. Strung with fourteen strings, tuned to seven tones (doubled). Two courses are 'drone strings' set to octaves. Five are melody strings, the lower three courses being octaves, the upper two, in unison.

p.r.o.nounced: leer-anth-e (last 'e' being nearly subliminal) root meaning: lyr - song; anthe - box LYSAER s'ILESSID prince of Tysan, 1497th in succession after Halduin, founder of the line in Third Age Year One. Gifted at birth with control of Light, and Bane of Desh-thiere. Also known as Blessed Prince since he declared himself avatar.

p.r.o.nounced: lie-say-er root meaning: lia - blond, yellow or light; saer - circle MACHIEL.

caithdein of the realm of Havish. In service under High King Eldir at Telmandir.

p.r.o.nounced: mak-ee-el root meaning: mierkiel - post, pillar MAENELLE s'GANNLEY former steward and caithdein of Tysan; put on trial for outlawry and theft on the trade-roads; executed by Lysaer s'Ilessid at Isaer, Third Age 5645.

p.r.o.nounced: may-nahl-e (last 'e' is near subliminal) '

root meaning: maeni - to fall, disrupt; alii - to save or preserve/colloquial translation, 'to patch together'

MAENOL.

heir, after Maenalle s'Gannley, Steward and caithdein of Tysan.

p.r.o.nounced: may-nail root meaning: maeni'alii - to patch together MAINMERE.

town at the head of the Valenford River in Taerlin, Tysan.

p.r.o.nounced: main-meer root meaning: maeni - to fall, disrupt; mierereflection, colloquial translation, 'to disrupt continuity'

MARAK.

splinter world, cut off beyond South Gate, left lifeless after creation of the Mistwraith. The original inhabitants were men exiled by the Fellows.h.i.+p from Athera for beliefs or practices that were incompatible with the compact sworn between the Sorcerers and the Paravian races, which permitted human settlement on Athera.

p.r.o.nounced: maer-ak root meaning: m'era'ki - a place held separate MARETHA s'CALLIENT daughter of the caithdein of Melhalla.

p.r.o.nounced: mar-ee-tha root meaning: mier'atha - kindly MATHIELL GATE.

last gate to the inner citadel in Alestron, Paravian built to withstand the fires of dragons. It was the Mathiell garrison who secured the span guarding incursion from the Wyntock Gate during the uprising that threatened clan rule in Third Age Year 5018.

p.r.o.nounced: math-ee-ell root meaning: mon'thiellen - sky spires MATHORN MOUNTAINS.

range that bisects the Kingdom of Rathain east to west.

p.r.o.nounced: math-orn root meaning: mathien - ma.s.sive MATHORN ROAD.

way pa.s.sing to the south of the Mathorn Mountains, leading to the trade city of Etarra from the west.

p.r.o.nounced: math-orn root meaning: mathien - ma.s.sive MEARN s'BRYDION youngest brother of Duke Bransian of Alestron. Former ducal emissary to Lysaer s'Ilessid's Alliance of Light.

p.r.o.nounced: may-arn root meaning: mierne - to flit MEDLIR.

name used by Arithon when he traveled incognito with Halliron m.a.s.t.e.r.b.a.t.*rd as apprentice in Third Age Years 5638 through 5647.

p.r.o.nounced: med-leer root meaning: midlyr - phrase of melody MELHALLA.

High Kingdom of Athera once ruled by the line of s'Ellestrion. The last prince died in the crossing of the Red Desert.

p.r.o.nounced: mel-hall-ah root meaning: maelhallia - grand meadows,'plain - also word for an open s.p.a.ce of any sort.

MERIOR BY THE SEA.

small seaside fis.h.i.+ng village on the Scimlade peninsula in Alland, Shand. Once the temporary site of Arithon's s.h.i.+pyard.

p.r.o.nounced: mare-ee-or root meaning: merioren - cottages METHISLE.

small body of land in Methlas Lake, site of Methisle Fortress in Orvandir.

p.r.o.nounced: meth root meaning: meth - hate METHSp.a.w.n.

an animal descended from a host warped by possession by a methuri, an iyat-related parasite that infested live hosts. Though the Methuri were destroyed by the Third Age, their cross-bred, aberrated descendants continue to breed mutant offspring in Mirthlvain Swamp. p.r.o.nounced: meth root meaning: meth - hate METHURI.

METHURIEN (plural form) an iyat-related parasite that infested live hosts and altered them for the purpose of creating new hosts. Extinct by the Third Age.

p.r.o.nounced: meth-you-ree root meaning: meth'thieri - hate wraith MIRTHLVAIN SWAMP.

bog-lands located in Midhalla, Melhalla; filled with dangerous, cross-breeds engendered from drake sp.a.w.n. Guarded by the Master Spellbinder, Verrain.

p.r.o.nounced: mirth-el-vain root meaning: myrthl - noxious; vain - bog, mud MISTWRAITH.

see Desh-thiere.

MORNOS.

town on the westsh.o.r.e of Lithmere, Havish.

p.r.o.nounced: more-nos root meaning: moarnosh - a coffer where the greedy store valuables.

MORRIEL.

Prime Enchantress of the Koriathain since the Third Age 4212. Instigated the plot to upset the Fellows.h.i.+p's compact which upset the seven magnetic lanes on the continent. Her death on winter solstice 5670 left an irregular succession.

p.r.o.nounced: more-real root meaning: moar - greed; riel - silver NARMS.

city on the coast of Install Bay, built as a craft center by Men in the early Third Age. Best known for dyeworks.