The Vildecaz Talents: The complete set of Vildecaz Stories including Nimuar's Loss, The Deceptive Oracle and Agnith's Promise (85 page)

Enicanthus Moon
  – in the Fourth or Fifth month

Enzboarth River
  – major Boarthine river

Eoques-ware
[YO-kwes] – porcelain-like pottery

Eralinee
[Eh-rah-LEE-nay]  – goddess of spring

Erianthee
[Air-ee-AHN-they]  –  Duzna of Vildecaz, younger daughter of Nimuar

Fading Light
  – early winter in the Porzalk Empire, one of the five yearly festivals, ends at the Solstice

Fah
  – the Fourth World, triangularly south of Theninzalk and Pomig; socially and religiously matrilineal; in terms of actual property, patrilineal.

Fah-Harej School
[FAH- Hah-REHZH]  – Fahnine magical school, looked down upon by others for religious reasons (Fah-Harej does not endorse any specific worship)

Fahnine
  – of or pertaining to Fah

Fahnine schow-rat
[SKOW]  – a large, dangerous rodent from Fah

Farmentij Rapids
[Fahr-MEHN-tihzh]  – on the River Dej

Fauthsku
[FOWTH-skoo]  – important eastern Province of the Porzalk Empire

Fauthskyo
[FOWTH-sky-oh]  – of or pertaining to Fauthsku

Ferzal
[FEHR-zahl]  – river-woman pilot

Firnach
[FIHR-nahtch]  – the consort of a Firnij

Firnal
[FIHR-nahl]  – the territory held by a Firnij

Firnij
[FIHR-nihzh]  – a rank between warlord and nobles of the first (lowest) degree, male or female

Firnine
[FIHR-neen]  – of or pertaining to Firnijs

Firnoi
[FIHR%+noy]  – the family of a Firnij

Firefly Moon
  - In the Sixth or Seventh month

First Day
  – the beginning of the year, 379 days long, with 13 months of 29 days apiece and seven day weeks, with two days left over at the beginning and end of the year

Fisher Moon
  – in the Seventh or Eighth month

Fithnoj
[Fihth-NOHZH]  – Vildecazin traveling cook

Foluch
[FOH-lootch]  – Vildecaz Castle spell-hound

Founding Day
  – festivals practiced in cities on Theninzalk, said to be left over from The Cataclysm

Freimach
[Fray-MATCH]  – mythic rebuilder of Ymiljesai

frost-leopard
  – very dangerous big cat from Poemig

Frozen Moon
  – in the Twelfth or Thirteenth month, usually the last moon of the year

gaihups
[GUY    -hups]  – long, full robe worn by professional magicians and scholars

gainnel
[gayn-NEHL]  – a Justice’s formal robes

Gajbehr
[GAHZH-behr]  – blood-bay gelding

Ganarch Bog
[GAHN-artch]  – a particularly nasty swamp in the Vildecaz game preserve

Ganveth River
  – runs along the northwest border of Udugan.

Garinekoree
[Gah-
rih
-neh-KOH-ray] – goddess of strategy and treachery, of espionage, politics, and malific influences

Garminrich
[Gahr-MIHN-ritch]  – senior groom at Vildecaz Castle

Garvalin
[GAHR-vah-leen]  – river-man with a barge for hire

Gathering Crops
  – late summer-early fall in the Porzalk Empire, one of the five yearly festivals

gaunel
  – [gow-NEHL] – long-sleeved, ankle-length, basic women’s garment, often with elaborate sleeves

Gaxamirin, Zervethus
[
Gahx
-ah-MIHR-in, Zehr-VEY-thoos]  – Imperial Scholar from Thenir

gayling
  – small coin worth about $1.50 but much prized for being resistant to spells

Gaz-owl
[GAHZ]  – a rare species of Aon owl often bred in semi-captivity

Giuynee
[Geeoo-EYE-nay] – Vildecaz Castle waiting-woman

Glade of Tsampaj
[Tsahm-PAHZH]  – semi-sacred clearing in the Vildecaz game preserve; in early spring filled with tsinwaj flowers

Gleimai of the Drowned World
[GLAY-my]  – juggler from Tirin-Dzur, Blaugrex’s sister

Godrienee
[Goh-dree-EI-nay]  – Dowager Empress of the Porzalk Empire

Golozath Oracle
[Goh-LOH-zahth]  – a powerful Oracle residing in a cave in the Valdishan Escarpment

Goptou
[Gohp-TOO]  – Fahnine city

Goptoun-satin
[Gohp-TOON]  – cloth from Goptou on Fah

Goriach [
GO-ree-ahtch]  – title for a Provincial Archmagistrate

Gnocarnaz
[Nyo-CAHR-nahz]  – trading town on the Boarthine Plateau

Greenleaf Moon
  – in the Fifth or Sixth month

Gremilvee
[Greh-MEEL-vay]  – large town in Porcaz near Tiumboj

gremmi bontaj
[GREHM-mee bohn-TAHJ] – obscenity roughly equivalent to fuck; significantly worse than bontaj alone

Guild of Boatwrights and Sailmakers
  – one of three international and intercontinental guilds; this one is centered in the Drowned World

Guild of Merchants and Traders
  – one of three international and intercontinental guilds; this one is centered on  Pomig

Guild of Scholars and Priests
  – one of three international and intercontinental guilds; centered in Fah’s Hidden City of Cynee

Guild of Rectification
  – founded by Somanee:  an international and intercontinental High Guild that maintains rates of exchange, standardizes weights and measures, and adjudicates all disputes in such matters; centered on Haverartbow.

guin
[GWEEN]  – womens’ underblouse, usually sheer with ornamented collar

Guinar, Moncaz
[GWEE-nahr, Mohn-CAHZ]  – one of Dom Guyon’s aliases

Guinee
[GWEE-nay]   – goddess of mists and fog; one of the children of Reonoj

Gunoj
[GOO-nohzh]  – capital city of Niegee

Guyon, Delionaj
[GOOEE-yon, Deh-lee-OH-nahzh]  – Yao of the Drowned World, and Doms’ estranged father

Guyon, Doms
[GOOEE-on, DOHMS] – Drowned World nobleman, troubador-stage-magician, and finder of the lost

Haorein-brocade
[HOW-rain]  – very rare cloth from Pomig

Haraj
[Hah-RAHZH]  – festival held around the Winter Solstice, usually in the middle of the Twelfth Month; one of the five yearly festivals

Hardach
[HAHR-datch]  – leader and betrayer of the Armies of Tsmai

Harro-aen
[HAHR-rohw-eyen]  – of or pertaining to Harro-ae

Havelon, Morcoz
[HAH-veh-lohn, MOHR-cohz]  – one of Kloveon’s couriers.

Haverartbin
[Hah-vehr-ART-bihn]  – of or pertaining to Haverartbow

Haverartbow
  – [
Hah
-vair-ART-boh]  – the First World, the largest continent on the Great World, west of the Drowned World and the Maestrich Ocean, east of Pomig and Theninzalk, in the southeast facing the Bazdalt Ocean

hedge-chickens
  – something like large quail

Hevomaj, The Stalwart [
HEY, voh-mahzh]  – god of the Boarth Range and the Valdishan Escarpment; grandson of Agnith, the second son of Tsoraj and a mortal woman

Heignith
[HAY-nyth]  – Banorin’s daughter

Herebarzit
[Heh-reh-BAHR-ziht]  – keeper of the Meadow-Stage House

Hevomaj Stream
[HEY-voh-mahj]  – runs in front of Vildecaz Castle to the River Dej

Hirc
[HEERK]  – the land controlled by a Hircar

Hircar
[Heer-KAHR]  – title of regional warlords in northern Theninzalk and Haverartbow territories

Hircar, The
  – elaborate travelers’ inn near Tiumboj

Hircaj
[Heer-KAHZH]  – the heir or approved successor of an established Hircar

Hircean
[Heer-KEYEN]  – of or pertaining to Hircars

Hirco
[Heer-KOH]  – a blood-relative of a Hircar

Hircolein
[Heer-koh-LINE]  – an in-law of a Hircar

Horbenech-bread
[HOR-behn-etch]  – special bread served to guests and at official feasts

Hovanthroee Bridge
[
Hoh
-vahn-THROW-ei]  – over the River Dej, connecting Otsinmohr to Vildecaz, about four leagues above Valdihovee, the largest of three such bridges

Howei, Krunn
[Hoh-WAY, KROON]  – city magician for Valdihovee

Hunters’ Moon
  – in the Eleventh or Twelfth month

Hunting Mists
  – late autumn regional festival in most northern Provinces of the Porzalk Empire, and semi-autonomous northern states

hupslan
[HOOPS -lahn] – standard male garment, similar to a Roman dalmatica, or a heavy, long-sleeved, ankle-length choir-robe

Hyacinth Moon
  – in the Third or Fourth Month, after the Crocus Moon

Hyneimoj, the Ineffable
[HIGH-nay-mohzh]  – goddess of mammals, hunting, games of chance, land-based storms, and going to war; the first daughter of Agnith, and mother of Hevomaj, among others, and twin to Analahor, the Inspirational

Ihntof
[IHN-tohf]  – the palace-master in the Svalen-Tu myth

Imperial College of Porzalk
  – the major university for the Porzalk Empire

Increasing Verdure
  – spring in the southern part of the Porzalk Empire, one of the five yearly festivals

ioraj
[YOH-rahzh]  – a gryphon-like creature, a winged feline with the head of a Gaz- owl.

irytex-wool
[ihr-EYE-tehks]  – soft, warm wool from an angora-like goat

Iseon
[Ih-SAY-ohn]  – god of the Boarthine Peninsula

Ixfeon
[Icks-FAY-ohn]  – god of reliability stubbornness, resolution, and fixity

jaem-cotton
[ZHEYEM]  – particularly soft cotton from the Zarzalk region of the Porzal Empire

jalai
[ZHAH-lie]  – caftan-like dressing-robe

Jaloin-geese
[Zhah-low-EEN]  – geese native to Pomig, prized for their rich, dark meat