*Sindel, former HighDruid of Mudrun, Snowbelle’s newman name before she wasreincarnated as a nymph.
*Slivver, the puppeteerminder placed on Aquitain to monitor his movements.
Snowbelle, a powerfulnymph druidess with a strange past, Queen of Argenta.
*Somanller, Llanlleanclan leader.
*Squalash, Elder Waterelemental and Waverider of the Great Sea
Rob Theolaur,Panmagican name of Aquitain.
Rori, courageous youngassistant shaman in Jeti tribe of reptilian little people.
The Orc, tough alienfighter in Zephira’s expedition.
The Lady, The Lady ofthe Jungle, The Goddess of Nature. The druid’s deity.
The Omen, a magicalsentient wand of great power in the possession of the Barrapeople.
*The Rat Catcher,mysterious feline servant of Llanlorian.
T’Kwala, translates asThe Enlightened one; the name of the Bear of Chaos.
Teena Theolaur,Aquitain’s mother, a powerful mind wizard healer.
Whooshoo, Elder AirElemental, Master of the East wind
Sanson, Crin Enforcer,Captain of Queen Snowbelle’s guard.
Xentos, Crin Taskmasterof Queen Beatrice, friend of Miranda.
*Yllandril, Royalhealer, imprisoned Llanllean wife of Llalorax given a small stonespider body by Aquitain on escaping a soul crystal. Llanlorian’ssister.
Zephira, (Melanie), ayoung female wizard protector, Aquitain’s cousin.
Terminology
Agent of Chaos, acreature employed to perturb the balance of nature.
*antimagic zone, anarea in which magic powers and their effects will not work.
*Astaria, the gateworldcontaining the pathway between Mudrun and Moonmist controlled byLlanlorian.
aura, the visual imageof a creature’s spirit.
aura sight, a power orpower-like ability that allows a creature to see the spirit aura ofanother creature.
barra, a large two pacelong vicious predatory fish.
Barra people, a clan ofreptilian little people whose sprit totem is the barra fish.
body container, acreature’s body that houses its spirit.
buckler shield, smallshield about size of a dinner plate often fixed to forearm.
chaos matter, alsocalled mind clay, a clay-like material that can be mentallymanipulated by mindwizards to form objects. Its origin isunknown.
charm, magical way ofinfluencing another person’s actions to your advantage.
city mind, an innatetelepathic method of communication similar to a mindlink used bythe Crin allowing them to be in continual contact with theirQueen.
collective mind, a mindcomposed of a large number of small pieces donated by a group ofsentient creatures. It behaves more or less like a committee ratherthan an individual.
construct, a magicallycreated living machine, often newman shaped, that is capable offollowing simple instructions (a living robot).
creature, an autonomousliving unit comprising a sentient or non-sentient spirit occupyingand controlling a body container capable of independent movementand decision making.
Crin, a species ofnewman-sized sentient ant-like creatures.
crystal sight, a formof sight available to Aquitain which allows him to see thestructure inside crystals. (similar to the stone sight that stoneelementals use to navigate underground).
*dead magic zone, anarea made of rock that avidly absorbs magic essence.
dispel magic, a powereffect that causes other power effects to be countered, removed orterminated.
Divine Power, agod-like Power or deity.
Divinity Seed, a smallpiece of divine knowledge forbidden to mortals.
domination, magical wayof taking absolute control of another person’s mind so that you mayforce them to do your commands.
Draconic, high alanguage of power used by the dragons, language in which powers arewritten by other sentients.
Draconic, low a spokenlanguage used by the dragons and many races whom deal or arerelated in some way with dragons.
druid, a sentientcreature devoted to preserving nature especially animals andplants. A servant of the Goddess of Nature locally called The Ladyof the Jungle.
Druid Council ofMudrun, the governing body of Mudrun.
elemental, a creaturewhose body container is composed of fire, water, stone or air anduses magic essence as food.
elements, the fiveelements, fire, water, stone, air and ectoplasm.
*Elendari, race ofwhite skinned Moonmist sentients closely related to newmans.
fey, an organiccreature that can use magic essence as food.
fairie world, alternatetrivial name of Moonmist.
Fount, also Fount ofWisdom, legendary creatures with strange powers.
*Gatekeeper, Lord andcontroller of the gates of a gateworld
gateway or gate, amagic portal allowing instant transport to a second portal locatedon a different world. Permanent gateways are hugely expensive tocreate and are closely controlled with restricted access. Temporarygateways require great magical skill to open and only exist forvery short durations.
*gateworld, a miniatureworld created by a Power, hosting permanent gateways to severallocations.
*glamour, asemi-permanent magical illusion used by the Elendari to cover theirbodies.
isoform of magic, oneof the four physical states of magic essence.
innate ability, apower-like ability that all individuals of a specific, oftennon-sentient creature type are born with and can use for offence ordefense.
Little People, severalclans of different colored small sentient reptilian people with amysterious past. Each clan has a spirit animal totem.
jeti, a sleek blackjungle cat.
K’wala people, clan oflittle people whose spirit totem is the bear.
Jeti people, clan oflittle people whose spirit totem is the jeti (jungle cat).
Llanllean, a sentientshape changing spider that lives on Moonmist (pronouncedthanthean).
Logicon, a newman sizedsentient intelligent slime creature that has evolved a complexlogic based society and uses polyhedral mobile body shells as amode of transport, protection and status.
magical effect, aneffect in the physical world caused by the use of a magical powerthat expends some magical essence.
magic essence, a formof energy/matter that can be manipulated to do work. It exists ingaseous, liquid, solid and ectoplasm isoforms.
mask, alias Mask ofChaos alias Jacintra’s Image, powerful sentient magic mask designedto cause trouble.
memory crystal, a smallwalnut sized crystal that contains a small bit of the usersmind.
memcrystal, anabbreviated name for a memory crystal.
mantras of Yith, sevensacred methods of mind manipulation. 1st mantra is a method ofremembering, 2nd mantra is a method of forgetting.
*meta-elemental, acreature showing mixed elemental and organic features.
mind clay, also calledchaos matter, a clay-like material that can be mentally manipulatedby mind wizards to form objects. Its origin is unknown.
mind wizard, ancientterm for mind wizard.
mindlink, a mind wizardmethod of private bi-directional mental telepathy.
mindspeak, local namefor mental telepathy, unidirectional mind to mindcommunication.
Moonmist, a primitivemagic rich world linked to Mudrun in a strange way.
*mothra, local name formoth radiants. Tiny meta- elementals with a curious ability to formcollective minds.
Mudrun, a world of vastoceans and two continents covered in jungles with a mysteriouspast.
newman, race ofhuman-like people excelling in magic technology that spreadthroughout the universe in search of the ultimate knowledge.
nymph, an alluringsentient female fey creature reputed to lure unwary male Newmansand Elendari to their deaths by excessive sexual pleasure.
organic, creatures thatcan live without magic essence, most animals and plants.
owl-bear, an magicallyengineered monstrous aberration.
Panmagica, thecity-state of knowledge, hub of the universe.
trixie, geneticallychanged white scaled little people on
