Ramile: lady of the Sarl court
Renneque,: the lady Silbe
Savidius Savide: Oct Peripatetic Special Envoy, Sursamen
Seltis: old tutor of Ferbin’s — now Scholastery Head Scholar
Senble: Holse’s wife
Shir Rocasse: tutor to Oramen
Shoum: director general of Morthanveld Strategic Mission
Sinnel: ancient Sarl playwright
Skalpapta: Alien Greeting and Liaison Officer, GS
Sordic: old master of painting, Sarl
Tove Lomma: childhood friend of Oramen; later his equerry
Tulya Puonvangi: C ambassador, on
Tagratark: Towermaster of Vaw-yei Tower, Sursamen
Tareah: Sarl doctor
Tchilk: Nariscene Barbarian Relational Mentor, Baeng-yon Crater
Toark: child Djan Seriy rescues from burning city
Tohonlo: one of tyl Loesp’s lieutenants (also Toho, as child)
Truffe: second cousin to Ferbin
Turminder Xuss: (Handrataler) Djan Seriy’s drone
tyl Loesp: Mertis; Hausk’s 2nd in command
Utaltifuhl: Nariscene Grand Zamerin of Sursamen
Vaime: the lady Anaplia; mother of Djan Seriy
Volhrd: of Sournier, knight of Sarl
Werreber: senior general; becomes field marshal, army chief
Wudyen: duke; Hausk’s brother
Xessice: whore, Hyeng-zhar Settlement
Xide Hyrlis: C outcast, military commander for Nariscene
Xidia: young lady at court (named after Xide Hyrlis)
Yariem Girgetioni: Deputy Acting Zamerin, Sursamen
Yilim: senior officer in Hausk’s army
Zandone: Sarl actor and impresario
Zeel: young Djan Seriy’s pet mersicor
Zourd: (Expanded Version Five) Cumuloform, 13th, Sursamen
Culture Full Names
Astle-Chulinisa Klatsli LP Quike dam Uast
Meseriphine-Sursamen/VIIIsa Djan Seriy Anaplian dam Pourl
Sholz-Iniassa Jerle Ruule Batra dam Ilyon
Stafl-Lepoortsa Xide Ozoal Hyrlis dam Pappens
Species
Aeronathaurs: Tensile; see Xinthia
Aultridia: upstart species that evolved from parasites living under carapaces of Xinthia; mat-like/Pelliform (also “Squirmiform”, term of abuse); LLI
Avians: bird species; L5S variety methane gas-going
Birilisi: Avian species much given to excessive narcoticism; MLI
Bithians: (L0S) gilled whale-size creatures, waterborne; HLI
caude: giant winged creature, tameable and rideable; L8&9S
choup: Sarl equivalent of dog; L8&9S
chunsel: warbeast, later of burden and traction; L8S
Culture, the: mongrel humanoid civilisation; HLI
Cumuloforms: cloudlike O2 beings; L4S
Deldeyn: same species as Sarl, one level down; allied to the Aultridia, seen as antagonistic to the WorldGod and so enemies of the Sarl; L9S
hefter: beast of burden and traction; L8&9S
Hydrals: black hole smoker species; L13S
Iln: aero-spiniform HLI aeons ago; wrecked Shellworlds, destroyed Veil tombs; believed extinct/missing
Inheritors: see Oct
Involucra/Veil: Shellworld builders, HLI aeons ago
lyge: giant winged creature, tameable and rideable; L8&9S
mersicor: large quadruped, tameable and rideable; L8&9S
Monthia: pan-species very large ocean-going creature-type
Morthanveld: Nariscene mentors; spiniform waterworlders, HLI
Nariscene: Sarl mentors; insectile, MLI
Nuersotise: humanoid; one of the contending species on Prasadal
Oct/Inheritors: claim descent from Involucra; control (most) travel within Towers of Sursamen and many other Shellworlds; octal Waterworlders; LLI
ossesyi: quadruped warbeasts; L8S
Pelagic Kite: atmospheric waterworlders; sail air over water-worlds; term also used for surface-going kited bioships; L5S
rowel: quadruped pack beast; L8&9S
ryre: quadruped, equivalent of cat; L8&9S
