Opal stumbled out into the other room, clutching her throat as though she couldn’t breathe. Chert followed her, but when he tried to put his arms around her, she flailed at him in her misery and he retreated. Since he could think of nothing else to do he came back to the bed and took the boy’s hand; after a moment of trying to pull his fingers free, the boy who looked like Flint relaxed and let him hold it. Helpless and weary, all thought of what had just happened to him outside the city gates swept aside, at least for now, Chert sat this way for an hour, calming a terrified child while his wife cried and cried in the other room.
Appendix
Adcock—one of the royal guard under Vansen’s command.
Agate—Funderling woman, a friend of Opal’s.
Agnes—daughter of Finneth and Onsin.
Anazona—Briony’s youngest maid.
Andros—a priest, proxy to Lord Nynor.
Angelos—an envoy from Jellon to Southmarch.
Anglin—Connordic chieftain, awarded March Kingdom after Coldgray Moor
Anglin III—King of Southmarch, great-grandfather of Briony and Barrick.
Amssa—Queen of Southmarch, Olin’s second wife
Antimony—a young Funderling temple brother
Argal the Dark One—Xixian god, enemy of Nushash
Autarch—Sulepis Bishakh am-Xis III, monarch of Xis, most powerful. nation on the southern continent of Xand
Avin Brone—Count of Landsend, the castle’s lord constable
Axamis Dorza—a Xixian ship’s captain
Back-on-Sunset-Tide—Skimmer extended family
Barrick Eddon—a Prince of Southmarch
Barrow—a royal guard
Baz’u Jev—a Xandian poet
Beetledown—a Rooftopper
Big Nodule (Blue Quartz)—Chert’s father
Blackglass—a Funderling family
Boulder—a Funderling.
Brambinag Stoneboots—a mythical ogre.
Bratchard, Lord—a nobleman.
Brenhall, Lord—a nobleman.
Brigid—a serving-woman at the Quiller’s Mint.
Briony Eddon—a Princess of Southmarch.
Brother Okros—physician-priest from Eastmarch Academy.
Caddick—soldier of the Southmarch royal guard, known as “Longlegs.”
Calkin—a Skimmer.
Caradon Tolly—Gailon’s younger brother.
Caylor—a legendary knight and prince.
Chaven—physician and astrologer to the Eddon family.
Chert (Blue Quartz)—a Funderling, Opal’s husband.
Cheshret—Qinnitan’s father, a minor priest of Nushash.
Child of the Emerald Fire—a Qar tribe.
Chryssa—Chief Acolyte of the Hive Temple in Xis.
Cinnabar—a Funderling magister.
Clemon—famous Syannese historian, also called “Clemon of Anverrin.”
Cloudwalker—another name for Perin, the sky god.
Collum—Willow’s younger brother.
Collum Dyer—one of Vansen’s soldiers.
Comfrey M’Neel—a noblewoman.
Conary—proprietor of the Quiller’s Mint.
Cononc, Sivonmc, and Iellic tribes—”primitive” tribes who lived on. Eion before conquest by the southern continent of Xand
Cusy—chief of the Favored (eunuchs) of the Royal Seclusion in Xis
Daman Eddon—Merolanna’s husband, King Ustin’s brother
Dannet Beck—Raemon Beck’s cousin
Dawet dan-Faar—envoy from Hierosol
Dab Dawley—a Southmarch guard
Dawtrey—a legendary knight, sometimes called “Elf-spelled”
Derla—wife of Raemon Beck
Dimakos Heavyhand—one of the last chieftains of the Gray Companies
Donal Murray—onetime captain of the Southmarch royal guard
Droy Nikomede—a.k.a. “Droy of Eastlake,” a Southmarch noble
Durstin Crowel—Baron of Graylock
Dunyaza—Qinnitan’s friend, an acolyte of the Hive
Earth Elders—Funderling guardian spirits.
Eats-the-Moon—a Qar of the Changing tribe.
Ellis—Merolanna’s maid.
Elan M’Cory—sister-in-law of Caradon Tolly.
Ena—a young Skimmer girl, Back-on-Sunset-Tide clan.
Enlo—god of the harvest.
Erivor—god of waters.
Euan Dogsend—Chaven’s friend, “the most learned man in Blueshore.”
Evander—Syannese count, envoy to Southmarch.
Ever-Wounded Maid—a character out of legend.
Evon Kinnay—friend of Gailon Tolly, son of Baron of Longhowe.
Ewan—Finnith’s son.
Falk—a Southmarch guard.
Fergil—son of Finneth and Onsin.
Ferras Vansen—Captain of the royal guard.
Finton—Raemon Beck’s younger son.
Finn Teodoros—a writer.
Finneth—a woman of Candlerstown.
Funderlings—sometimes known as “delvers,” small people who specialize in stonecraft.
Gailon Tolly, Duke of Summerfield—an Eddon family cousin
Gar Doiney—a scout
