A Shadow on the Glass (80 page)

Lilis:
A street urchin in Thurkad.

Link, Linking;
also
Talent of Linking:
A joining of minds, by which sensitives’ thoughts and feelings can be shared, and support given. Sometimes used for domination.

Llayis:
Llian’s father, a scribe.

Llian:
A Zain, and a master chronicler and a teller. A great student of the Histories.

Magister:
A mancer and chief of the High Council of Iagador. Mendark has been Magister for a thousand years.

Maigraith:
An orphan brought up and trained by Faelamor for some unknown purpose. A master of the Secret Art.

Mancer:
A wizard or sorcerer; someone who is a master of the Secret Art.

Mantille:
An Aachim; Karan’s paternal grandmother.

Master Chronicler:
One who has mastered the study of the Histories, and graduated with highest honor from the College.

Master of Chanthed:
Currently Wistan. The Master of the College of the Histories is also nominal leader of Chanthed.

Meldorin:
The large island that lies to the immediate west of the Sea of Thurkad and the continent of Lauralin.

Mendark:
Magister of the Council of Iagador, until thrown down by Thyllan. A mancer of strength and subtlety,
though lately insecure due to the rise of his long-time enemy, Yggur.

Mirror of Aachan:
A device made by the Aachim in Aachan, for seeing things at a distance. In Santhenar it changed and twisted reality, and so the Aachim hid it away. The Mirror also developed a memory, retaining the imprints of things it had seen. It was stolen by Yalkara and used to find a warp in the Forbidding and to escape back to Aachan.

Nadiril:
The head of the Great Library in Zile. Nadiril the Sage is also a member of the Council of Iagador.

Narcies:
Tragic heroine of the
Lay of the Silver Lake
.

Narne:
A town and port at the navigable extremity of the Garr.

Necroturge:
One who has communion with the dead.

Neid:
see Lake Neid.

Nelissa:
A
member of the Council of Iagador and Prime Just of the Great Conclave.

Nightland:
A place, distant from the world of reality, wherein Rulke is kept prisoner.

Old human:
The original human species on Santhenar, and still by far the most numerous.

Orist:
A land of swamps and forests on the south-west side of Meldorin; the land of Yggur. Fiz Gorgo is there.

Orstand:
A justice and member of the Council. Mendark’s oldest friend.

Pash-lar
Whelm word for the Mirror of Aachan.

Pellban:
Fifth master of Chanthed and author of the
Lay of the Silver Lake
.

Pender:
A boatman who has fallen on hard times.

Perion, Empire of:
The Great Empire of Kandor. It collapsed after the Sea of Perion dried up.

Pitlis:
A great Aachim of the distant past, whose folly betrayed the great city of Tar Gaarn to Rulke and broke the power of the Aachim. He was the architect who designed Tar Gaarn and Alcifer. He was slain by Rulke.

Port Cardasson:
The port of Thurkad.

Proscribed Experiments:
Sorcerous procedures designed to find a flaw in the Forbidding which could be used to banish Rulke forever. Hazardous because of the risk of Rulke taking control of the experimenter.

Preddle:
A walled city on the Hirthway.

Quilsin:
A land to the south of Orist.

Qwelt:
A badly scarred man who worked in a stable in Preddle.

Rael:
An Aachim, half-cousin to Karan.

Read:
Truth-reading. A way of forcing someone to tell the whole truth.

Recorder:
The unknown person who set down the tales of the four great battles of Faelamor and Yalkara, among many other tales. He is thought to have taken the Mirror (after Yalkara finally defeated Faelamor and fled Santh) and hidden it against some future need.

Rulke:
A Charon of Aachan, known also as the Great Betrayer. He enticed Shuthdar to Aachan to make the golden flute, and so began all the troubles. After the Clysm he was imprisoned in the Nightland until a way could be found to banish him back to Aachan.

Santhenar, Santh:
The least of the Three Worlds, occupied by the old human peoples.

Sard tree:
A tall tree that dominates the swamp forests of Orist.
Its papery bark is used for writing scrolls and its sweet sap for brewing lasee.

Sea of Thurkad:
The long sea that divides Meldorin from the continent of Lauralin.

Secret Art:
The use of magical or sorcerous powers.

Secret of the Charon:
The method of making and using the flute.

Sending:
A message, thoughts or feelings sent from one mind to another.

Sentinels:
Devices that keep watch and sound an alarm.

Shand:
An old man who works at the inn at Tullin, and is more than he seems.

Shazmak:
The forgotten city of the Aachim, in the mountains west of Bannador.

Shuthdar:
An old human of Santhenar, the maker of the golden flute. After he destroyed the flute and himself, the Forbidding came down, closing off the Way between the Worlds.

Sith:
A free city and trading nation built on an island in the River Garr, in southern Iagador.

Skeet:
A carrier bird, gray or blue-gray. Large, ugly and illtempered.

Skretza:
An untranslatable word of offense.

Slukk:
A Whelm epithet (very offensive).

Span:
The distance spanned by the stretched arms of a tall man. About six feet, or slightly less than two meters.

Stassor:
A city of the Aachim, in eastern Lauralin.

Sundor:
Once a proud city in central Meldorin, now just a village.

Sweetcake:
A thin round biscuit, between a bread and a tea-cake, but hard; sweetened with honey and flavored with petal water.

Syndics:
A ruling Council of the Aachim, sometimes a panel of judges. None can lie to them in formal trial.

Szdorny:
An Aachim term for one who is cunning and clever. It denotes both admiration and disapproval.

Tale of the Forbidding:
Greatest of the Great Tales, it tells of the final destruction of the flute by Shuthdar. The Forbidding sealed Santhenar from the other two worlds.

Talent:
A native skill or gift, usually honed by extensive training.

Tales of the Aachim
An ancient summary history of the Aachim, prepared soon after the founding of Shazmak.

Tallallame:
One of the Three Worlds, the world of the Faellem. A beautiful, mountainous world covered in forest.

Tallia:
A trusted lieutenant of Mendark. She is a mancer and a master of combat with and without weapons.

Tar:
A silver coin widely used in Meldorin. Enough to keep a family for several weeks.

Tar Gaarn:
Principal city of the Aachim in the time before the Clysm; it lay east of Crandor.

Tell:
A gold coin to the value of twenty silver tars.

Teller:
One who has mastered the ritual telling of the tales that form part of the Histories of Santhenar.

Tensor:
The leader of the Aachim. He sees his destiny as to restore the Aachim and finally take their revenge on Rulke, who betrayed and ruined them. He is proud to the point of folly.

Terror-guard:
The Whelm.

Three Worlds:
Santhenar, Aachan and Tallallame.

Thurkad:
The timeless city, the most ancient in all of Santhenar, and the wickedest. A very populous city on the River Saboth and the Sea of Thurkad. Seat of the Council and the Magister.

Thyllan:
Warlord of Iagador and member of the Council.
He intrigues against Mendark and overthrows him as Magister.

Tiltilluin
and
Tintilluin:
Twin mountains guarding the high pass from Tullin to Bannador.

Tintinnuin:
A volcanic peak south of Tullin.

Tiriel:
Lover of Narcies, tragic heroine of the
Lay of the Silver Lake
.

Tirthrax:
The principal city of the Aachim, in the Great Mountains.

Tolryme:
A town in northern Bannador, close to Karan’s family seat, Gothryme.

Triune:
A double blending—one with the blood of all Three Worlds, three different human species. They are extremely rare and may have remarkable abilities.

Trusco:
The captain of the college guard and Wistan’s only friend.

Tullin:
A tiny village in the mountains south of Chanthed. Shand lives there.

Turlew:
A bitter, failed chronicler, now Seneschal to Wistan.

Twisted Mirror:
The Mirror of Aachan. So called because it does not always show true.

Vartila:
The leader of a band of the Whelm, and rival to Jarkun.

Voice:
The ability of great tellers to move their audience to any emotion they choose by the sheer power of their words.

Vuula:
Karan’s mother, who killed herself after the death of Galliad.

Wahn Barre:
The Crow Mountains. Yalkara, the Mistress of Deceits, had a stronghold there, Havissard. A place of illomen.

Walf:
A smuggler who guided Maigraith and Karan to Fiz Gorgo.

Way Between the Worlds:
The secret, forever-changing and ethereal paths that permit the difficult passage between the Three Worlds. Closed off by the Forbidding.

Whelm:
Presently servants of Yggur, his terror-guard; formerly Ghâshâd.

Wistan:
The seventy-fourth Master of the College of the Histories and of Chanthed.

Yalkara:
The Demon Queen, the “Mistress of Deceits.” The last of the three Charon who came to Santhenar to find the flute and return it to Aachan. She took the Mirror and used it to find a warp in the Forbidding, then fled Santh leaving the Mirror behind.