Lachlei (43 page)

People, Places, and Things in Lachlei

Lochvaur

Cahal
—
chief guard and
Chi’lan
warrior.

Elrys
—
Council Member.

Fialan
—
King of the
Lochvaur
, killed by Areyn Sehduk.

Haellsil
—
Infant son of Lachlei and Fialan.

Kellachan
—
cousin to Lachlei and Fialan.

Kerri
—
Younger
Chi’lan.

Kian
—
Chi’lan
warrior who brings the bodies of Fialan and his men back.

Kieran
—
Chi’lan
warrior who sits on the Council.

Lachlei
—
queen of the
Lochvaur
,
Chi’lan.

Laewynd
—
Leader of the high council member.

Lochynvaur
—
Father of Lachlei.

Moira
—
Council Member.

Talar
—
Council Member.

Tamar
—
Chi’lan
warrior.

Tarchon
—
Council Member.

Tragar
—
Chi’lan
in charge of guarding Haellsil.

Silren

Akwel
—
Areyn Sehduk’s guise.

Cara
—
daughter of Silvain.

Galen
—
a noble who served Akwel.

Haukel
—
a rebel Silren, loyal to Rhyn’athel.

Silvain
—
king of the Silren, son of Elisila.

Tora
—
a rebel Silren, loyal to Rhyn’athel.

Elesil

Conlan
—
King of the
Elesil.

Hakan
—
guard of Conlan.

Laddel

Ladara — granddaughter of Laddel, mother of Lachlei.

Laddel
—
King of the Laddel, son of Ni’yah.

Ladsil
—
son of Laddel.

Telek
—
Ni’yah’s
Laddel
name.

Wynne
—
Lachlei’s personal lady-in-waiting.

Eltar

Imdyr
—
mother of Allarun
—
Wyrd Blood
—
Last of Areyn’s and Fala’s line.

Tarel
—
Eltar
guard.

Braesan
—
The Undead

Eshe
—
Chi’lan
Soldier.

Kiril
—
Chi’lan
Soldier,
Shara’kai,
bronze-skinned.

Lochalan
—
Father of Fialan.

Lochvaur
—
Son of Rhyn’athel, founder of the
Lochvaur
kindred.

Redel

Redhael
—
Father of Redkellan

Redkellan
—
King of the Redel

Redsil
—
Redel soldier

Demons

Flayer
—
an arch-demon

Slayer
—
an arch-demon that took a warhorse’s form

Place names and terms

Adamantine
—
An ore when tempered is stronger than the hardest substance. Has magical properties as well. Scarce in
Elren
, it exists primarily in
Athelren
although there are ore deposits in
Tarentor
.

Ansgar
—
a younger race, less warlike but shorter lived than
Eleion

Athel’cen
—
Three gods who were born from the Wyrd. Considered the most power of the gods.

Athelren
—
World of the gods

Caer Lochvaren
—
Main city of the
Lochvaur

Chi’lan
—
Lochvaur warriors dedicated to fighting for Rhyn’athel

Darkling Plain
—
The boundary plain between the
Lochvaur
lands and other lands to the east.

Demons
—
Are more or less twisted creations of Areyn Sehduk designed to carry out his orders. Unlike
Eleion
and
Ansgar
, they have no life-force beyond their bodies, but have no concept or fear of death. They can’t be reasoned with nor do they have a free will. They do their master’s bidding and their emotions mirror the dark emotions of Areyn Sehduk. There are many types of demons, but the ones that the
Eleion
recognize are the Heath-stalkers (lesser demons), Yeth Hounds, life-leeches, and Arch-demons.

Eleion
—
a race of people with long lives, but still mortal, who are the descendants of the gods.

Elren
—
Land of the Living

Fyr
-Dragons
—
creatures who exist within the
Fyr

Fyren
—
Fialan’s and later, Lachlei’s sword. Lochvaur’s first sword, forged from adamantine from
Athelren
.

Heath-stalkers
—
The Heath-stalkers are the lesser and most plentiful demons. Called Heath-stalkers because before the Truce, they would travel the wilderness in search of victims. They feed off the blood and souls of the living.

Iamar
—
Second moon

Lochvaren
—
Land of the
Lochvaur.

Mani
—
moon of ominous portents.

Nine Kindreds
—
The
Eleion
split into nine clans or kindreds, named after the founder. They are
Lochvaur
,
Lochel
,
Redel
,
Elesil
,
Silren
,
Laddel
,
Haell
,
Eltar
, and
Falarel
.

Nine Worlds
—
In this universe, there are nine separate worlds, each connected to each other through the World Tree, which is the source of the Web of Wyrd. The Wyrd runs throughout the Nine Worlds. Originally, there had been just the Web of Wyrd, which created the gods. Rhyn’athel is credited with created the Nine Worlds and fixing them to both the World Tree and the Wyrd, although there had been previous worlds created by lesser gods and goddesses such as Harbard and Fala. Most of those worlds are only half-worlds, coexisting with the Nine. The main worlds in question are:
Tarentor
,
Isa
,
Jotunnren
or
Jotnar
,
Elren
, and
Athelren
. The other three worlds of Rhyn’athel aren’t mentioned, but they’re considered lesser aspects of
Athelren
as
Isa
and
Jotnar
are considered lesser aspects of
Tarentor
. Of all the worlds,
Jotnar
is perhaps the most
Elren
-like place.

North Marches
—
a town and later an area that bordered the northern part of Lochvaren. Under dispute between the
Silren
,
Eltar
, and
Lochvaur
.

Shara’kai
—
half blood, usually a mix between
Ansgar
and
Eleion

Tarentor
—
Land of the Dead
—
Areyn’s Realm

The
Fyr
—
The fire of creation and destruction

The World Tree
—
The structure or universe which holds the Wyrd, the
Fyr
, and the Nine Worlds together.

Tomah
—
First moon.

Yeth Hounds
—
Demon hounds of Areyn Sehduk.

Gods, Goddesses, and Dragons

Areyn Sehduk
—
god of death,
Athel’cen.

Elisila
—
goddess of the heavens.

Fala
—
goddess of the earth and darkness, associated with night.

Haegl
—
black Fyr-dragon.

Harbard
—
god and guardian of the Wyrd. Guardian of the Gateways.

Issa
—
goddess of winter/ seasons.

Jera
—
goddess of the spring/ harvests.

Ni’yah
—
the wolf-god, trickster,
Athel’cen.

Nim’he
—
goddess of the sea.

Rhyn’athel
—
god of warriors,
Athel’cen.

Sowelu
—
god of the sun

About the Author

M. H. Bonham, (sometimes known as Margaret H. or even Maggie Bonham to throw off her publishers) is a six-time awarding winning professional author. She started her career as a rocket scientist (yes, it is rocket science) and quickly switched to a software engineer and systems administrator, where she insisted that Y2K was just a figure concocted for how much a computer geek can make in one day after convincing the newspapers the world’s computer systems are going to crash.

 Taking her money and running, Maggie learned through racing sled dogs that dogs are a lot like computers (they don’t do anything you want unless you speak their language and can be just as stubborn). She holds the prestigious three-time Red Lantern Award at the American Dog Derby (the oldest sled dog race in North America) and was featured in the Ashton Daily News as the only musher whose ten-dog team chased a Pomeranian into the backyard of the local gossip columnist. Despite such harrowing experiences, she has braved whiteouts in Wyoming and swamps in Minnesota (as well as the fearsome Idaho Pomeranian) and learned much about dog and wolf behavior. She’s a world-renown expert in canine behavior and training having been published by Penguin Putnam, John Wiley and Sons, Barrons Educational Series, TFH, Sterling, Dragon Moon Press and Yard Dog Press. She’s lost count how many articles she has published in various consumer and trade magazines and websites, but figures it’s over a hundred by now. Otherwise, she has no life because she has 27 books in print.

 She is the author of
Prophecy of Swords
and
Runestone of Teiwas
, both heroic fantasy books in the Swords of Destiny Series published by Yard Dog Press, which share the world with Lachlei. Her next book with Dragon Moon Press will be
Howling Dead
, a cyberpunk werewolf mystery/romance. Her work has also appeared in the
Four Bubbas of the Apocalypse, Small Bites, Houston, We’ve Got Bubbas, A Time To
... and
Flush Fiction
anthologies and
Lorelei Signal, Kidvisions
and
Tales of the Talisman
magazine, and
Amazon Shorts
. She writes science fiction, fantasy, and mystery, having taken courses appropriate to a software engineering background such as Anglo Saxon, Latin, and Beowulf. When she’s not racing her geriatric sled dogs, she’s climbing mountains, hiking, and practicing Shotokan Karate (she’s a brown belt) and Ninjitsu. She is currently working on her master’s degree in Liberal Studies. She shares her home at 4000 ft – where most people swear there isn’t any oxygen and you can’t find that altitude on the high altitude directions for cake– with four Malamutes, six Alaskan Huskies, a tortoiseshell cat, the deer, elk, foxes, coyotes, mountain lions, bobcats, and bears, and her husband, Larry, who indulges her lunacy. Visit her website at www.shadowhelm.net and www.lachlei.com, and visit her blog at shadowhelm.livejournal.com.