Peter Brett: The Daylight War

Ichach: Damaji of the Khanjin tribe.

Imisandre: Jardir’s eldest sister, one year younger than he. Married to Ashan. Mother of Asukaji and Ashia.

Inevera: (1) Jardir’s powerful dama’ting First Wife. Kaji tribe. Also known as the Damajah. (2) Krasian word meaning ‘Everam’s will’ or ‘Everam willing’.

Jama: Lesser Krasian tribe. Enemies of the Khanjin.

Jardir: The seventh son of Kaji, the Deliverer. Once a great house, the line of Jardir lasted more than three thousand years, slowly dwindling in number and glory until its last son, Ahmann Jardir, restored the line to glory.

Jayan: Jardir’s first Sharum son by Inevera. Later appointed Sharum Ka.

Jiwah: Wife.

Jiwah Ka: First wife. The Jiwah Ka is the first and most honoured of a Krasian man’s wives. She has veto power over subsequent marriages, and can command the lesser wives.

Jiwah Sen: Lesser wives, subservient to a man’s Jiwah Ka .

Jiwah’Sharum: Literally ‘wives of warriors’, these are women purchased for the great harem of the Sharum during their fertile years. It is considered a great honour to serve. All warriors have access to their tribe’s jiwah’Sharum , and are expected to keep them continually pregnant, adding warriors to the tribe.

Jurim: Dal’Sharum who trained with Jardir. Kaji tribe. Later one of the Spears of the Deliverer.

Kad’: Prefix meaning ‘of’.

Kai’Sharum: Krasian military captains, the kai’Sharum receive special training in Sharik Hora and lead individual units in alagai’sharak . The number of kai’Sharum in a tribe depends on its number of warriors. Some tribes have many, some just one. Kai’Sharum wear dal’Sharum blacks, but their night veils are white.

Kaji: The name of the original Deliverer and patriarch of the Kaji tribe, also known as Shar’Dama Ka, the Spear of Everam, and various other titles. Kaji united the known world in war against demons some thirty-five hundred years past. His seat of power was the lost city of Anoch Sun, but he also founded Fort Krasia.

Kaji had three artefacts for which he was famous: (1) The Spear of Kaji — the metal spear he used to slay alagai by the thousand. (2) The Crown of Kaji — bejewelled and moulded in the shape of powerful wards. (3) The Cloak of Kaji — a cloak that made him invisible to demons, so he could walk freely in the night.

Kaji’sharaj: Training barracks for boys of the Kaji tribe.

Kajivah: Mother of Ahmann Jardir and his three sisters, Imisandre, Hoshvah, and Hanya. Widow of Hoshkamin Jardir. Once considered cursed for bearing three daughters in a row.

Kasaad: Inevera’s father. Crippled khaffit . Former Sharum .

Kaval: Gavram asu Chenin am’Kaval am’Kaji. Drillmaster of the Kaji tribe. One of Jardir’s dal’Sharum instructors during his Hannu Pash .

Kenevah: Damaji’ting of the Kaji tribe during Inevera’s dama’ting training.

Kevera: Damaji of the Sharach tribe.

Khaffit: A man who takes up a craft instead of becoming a Holy Man or warrior. Lowest male station in Krasian society. Expelled from Hannu Pash, khaffit are forced to dress in the tan clothes of children and shave their cheeks as a sign that they are not men.

Khaffit’sharaj: Training camps set up by each tribe for the kha’Sharum .

Khanjin: Lesser Krasian tribe. Enemies of the Jama.

Kha’Sharum: Able-bodied khaffit Jardir has made into low-skill infantry. Kha’Sharum wear tan robes, turbans, and night veils to show their khaffit status.

Kha’ting: Non- dama’ting blood relatives of Jardir. Kha’ting are given special training, and are considered blood of the Deliverer. As with dama’ting , the punishment for striking a kha’ting is death or the loss of the striking limb.

Khevat: Kaji dama who trains Jardir in his youth. Father of Ashan.

Lonely road: Krasian term for death. All warriors must walk the lonely road to Heaven, with temptations on the path to test their spirit and ensure only the worthy make it to stand before Everam to be judged. Spirits who venture off the path are lost.

Loremaster: Dama who have dedicated themselves to the study of ancient texts. Researchers and career academicians, they stay out of politics for the most part, teaching nie’dama their basic lessons.

Maji: Jardir’s second Majah son, a nie’dama who will have to fight Aleverak’s heir for the Majah Damaji throne.

Manvah: Mother of Inevera. Wife of Kasaad. Successful basket weaver.

Mehnding tribe: The largest and most powerful tribe after the Majah, the Mehnding devote themselves wholly to the art of ranged weapons. They build the catapults, slings, and scorpions used in sharak , quarry and haul the stones for ammunition, make the scorpion bolts, etc.

Melan: Dama’ting daughter of Qeva. Granddaughter of Kenevah. Former rival of Inevera. Lover of Asavi.

Nie: (1) The name of the Uncreator, feminine opposite to Everam, and the goddess of night and demonkind. (2) Nothing, none, void, no, not.

Nie’dama: Nie’Sharum selected for dama training.

Nie’dama’ting: Krasian girl who is in dama’ting training but is too young to take her veil. Nie’dama’ting are given great respect by men and women alike, unlike nie’Sharum , who are less than khaffit until they complete the Hannu Pash .

Nie Ka: Literally ‘first of none’, a term for the head boy of a nie’Sharum class, who commands the other boys as lieutenant to the dal’Sharum drillmasters.

Nie’s Abyss: Also known as the Core. The seven-layered underworld where alagai hide from the sun. Each layer is populated with a different breed of demon.

Nie’Sharum: Literally ‘not warriors’, name for boys who have gone to the training grounds to be judged and set on the path to dal’Sharum, dama , or khaffit.

Nie’ting: Barren women. The lowest rank in Krasian society.

Night veil: Veil worn by dal’Sharum during alagai’sharak to hide their identities, showing that all men are equal allies in the night.

Omara: Abban’s widowed Kaji mother, considered cursed for bearing several daughters in a row, until the birth of Abban, her youngest.

Oot: Dal’Sharum signal for ‘beware’ or ‘demon approaching’.

Par’chin: ‘Brave outsider’; singular title for Arlen Bales.

Pig-eater: Krasian insult meaning khaffit. Only khaffit eat pig, as it is considered unclean.

Push’ting: Literally ‘false woman’, Krasian insult for homosexual men who shun women altogether. Homosexuality is tolerated in Krasia only so long as the men also impregnate women and add to their tribe.

Qasha: Jardir’s Sharach dama’ting wife.

Qeran: One of Jardir’s Kaji dal’Sharum drillmasters during his Hannu Pash. Later crippled, he is taken in by Abban to train his kha’Sharum hundred.

Qezan: Damaji of the Jama tribe.

Savas: Jardir’s Mehnding dama son.

Scorpion: A Krasian ballista, the scorpion is a giant crossbow using springs instead of a bowstring. It shoots thick spears with heavy heads (stingers) and can kill sand and wind demons outright at a thousand feet, even without wards.