Tad Williams: Shadowrise

Chamber-shells—nautilus shells, symbol to Erivor priesthood

Copper Ring—a road around the perimeter of the Funderling Town roads

Crackbolt—Perin’s (Sky man’s) hammer

Day of First Delving—a Funderling religious holiday

Days of Cooling—legendary time in Funderling history and myth

Ever-Wounded Maid—a famous story

Feast of the Rising—Xixian festival at the end of the rainy season

Feast of Onir Zakkas—Trigonate holiday when people wear asphodel crowns

Great Death—plague that killed large part of Eion’s population

Guild Market—yearly gathering of Funderlings

Hartstangle—type of shadowland tree

Henbane Crown—autarch’s ceremonial headgear

Hierosoline—the language of Hierosol, found in many religious services and scientific books, etc.

Horns of Zmeos—a constellation, also called the Old Serpent

Ice Lily—a flower

Iktis—a f itch, a kind of small, burrowing animal in the weasel family

Lastday—end of the tennight

Laws of Shakh Xis—rules to govern second and third Xixian empire

Limestone Gate—a gate that used to be an entrance from the mainland to Funderling Town and its Mysteries

Lonely Ones—another name for Skrikers

Mantis—a priest, usually of the Trigon

Ninth Year War—a famous, watershed war in Xis

Onir Plessos—a temple in Summerfield

Optimarch—a military rank, approx. major

Pass-evil—hand sign made to avert bad luck

Pentecount—a troop, numbering fifty

Perin’s Eye—design on the throne room floor in Tessis

Procession of Penance–a holy festival

Quiller’s Mint—a tavern in Southmarch

Red Serpent Root—a poison

Shining Man—center of the Funderling Mysteries

Shivering Plain—a famous Qar battleground

Silkins—Shadowland creatures

Skrikers—guardians of Sleep

Starfish—small silver coin

Sturgeon—a silver coin, twice as big as a starfish

The Mattock—Metamorphic Brother’s abbot’s symbol of power

Staff, the—another name for Mount Xandos

Tigersbane—poison made from the sap of the Ice Lily

Trigon—the religious power of Eion, a triumvirate of priesthoods (Perin, Erivor, Kernios)

War of Three Favors—a dynastic war in days of Syannese empire

Whitefire—the sword of Yasammez, also a name for Zmeos

Wildsong Night—a holiday evening, also known as Winter’s Eve

Wimmuai—Dreamless word for human slaves

Xawadis—Xixian word for oasis or waterhole

Yanedan—a mountainous island in the southern sea

Zakkas’ Wort—a medicinal herb