Peaks.pronounced: kar-mackroot meaning:
KARTHAN – kingdom in splinter world Dascen Elur, through West Gate, ruled by the pirate kings, s’Ffalenn descendants of the prince sent into exile at the time of the Mistwraith’s conquest.pronounced: karth-anroot meaning:
KARTHISH – from Karthan, term denoting nationalitypronounced: karth-ishroot meaning:
KELSING – town immediately south of Erdane, located in Camris, Tysan. Nearest inhabited site to the old earl’s court which served as summer quarters for the Koriani Prime and her Senior Circle at the time of Lysaer and Arithon’s arrival through West Gate.pronounced: kel-singroot meaning:
KHADRIM – flying, firebreathing reptiles that were the scourge of the Second Age. By the Third Age, they had been driven back and confined in a warded preserve in the volcanic peaks in north Tysan.pronounced: kaa-drimroot meaning:
KHARADMON – sorcerer of the Fellowship of Seven; discorporate since rise of Khadrim and Seardluin levelled Paravian city at Ithamon in Second Age 3651. It was by Kharadmon’s intervention that the survivors of the attack were sent to safety by means of transfer from the fifth lane power-focus.pronounced: kah-rad-munroot meaning:
KIELING TOWER – one of the four Compass Point or Sun Towers standing at Ithamon, Daon Ramon Barrens, Rathain. The warding virtue that binds its stones is Compassion.pronounced: kee-el-ingroot meaning:
KORIANI – possessive form of the word, Koriathain; see entrypronounced: kor-ee-ah-nee
KORIAS – southwestern principality of Tysanpronounced: kor-ee-asroot meaning:
KORIATHAIN – order of enchantresses ruled by a circle of eight seniors, under the power of one Prime Enchantress. They draw their talent from the orphaned children they raise, or from daughters dedicated to service by their parents. Initiation rite involves a vow of consent that ties the spirit to a power channel keyed to the Prime’s control.pronounced: kor-ee-ah-thain (thain rhymes with ‘main’)root meaning:
LANSHIRE – northwestern principality of Havish. Name taken from wastes at Scarpdale, site of First Age battles with Seardluin that seared the soil to a slag waste.pronounced: lahn-sheer-e (last e is nearly subliminal)root meaning:
LIRENDA – First Senior Enchantress to the Prime, Koriani order; Morriel’s intended successor.pronounced: leer-end-ahroot meaning:
LUHAINE – sorcerer of the Fellowship of Seven – discorporate since the fall of Telmandir. Luhaine’s body was pulled down by the mob while he was in ward trance, covering the escape of the royal heir to Havish.pronounced: loo-hay-neroot meaning:
LYRANTHE – instrument played by the bards of Athera. Strung with fourteen strings, tuned to seven tones (doubled). Two courses are ‘drone strings’ set to octaves. Five are melody strings, the lower three courses being octaves, the upper two, in unison.pronounced: leer-anth-e (last e being nearly subliminal)root meaning:
LYSAER s’ILESSID – prince of Tysan, 1497th in succession after Halduin, founder of the line in Third Age year 1. Gifted at birth with control of Light, and Bane of Desh-thierepronounced: lie-say-erroot meaning:
MADREIGH – senior scout, Deshir clans. One of the eleven who stood to Jieret’s defence in the battle of Strakewood Forest.pronounced: mah-dree-ah (ah is near subliminal)root meaning:
MAENALLE s’GANNLEY – Steward and
MAIEN – nickname for Maenalle’s grandson, Maenol.pronounced: my-enroot meaning:
MAENOL – heir, after Maenalle s’Gannley, Steward and
MAINMERE – town at the head of the Valenford River, located in the principality of Taerlin, Tysan. Built by townsmen on a site originally kept clear to free the second lane focus in the ruins further south.pronounced: main- meer-e (e is subliminal)root meaning:
MARIN ELIATHE – Paravian high king murdered in his own hall by an assassin in Second Age 1542.pronounced: mahr-in el-ee-athroot meaning:
MARL – earl of Fallowmere and clan chieftain at the time of the battle of Strakewood Forest.pronounced: marlroot meaning:
MATHORN MOUNTAINS – range that bisects the kingdom of Rathain, east to west.pronounced: math-ornroot meaning:
MATHORN ROAD – way passing to the south of the Mathorn Mountains, leading to the trade City of Etarra from the west.pronounced: math-ornroot meaning:
MEARA – daughter of Steiven, earl of the north, and Dania; older sister of Jieret.pronounced: mere-ahroot meaning:
MEARTH – city through the West Gate in the Red Desert. Inhabitants all fell victim to the Shadows of Mearth, which were created by the Fellowship sorcerer Davien to protect the Five Centuries Fountain. The Shadows are a light-fuelled geas that binds the mind to memory of an individual’s most painful experience.pronounced: me-arthroot meaning:
