Tad Williams: Shadowplay

“I am. But where am I?”

“Don’t you know?” The physician shook his head slowly. “You are in Funderling Town, of course, underneath Southmarch Castle.”

“Southmarch...?” Ferras Vansen looked around the chamber again in stunned amazement, then took a staggering step toward Chaven and the Funderlings, causing some of the little men to raise their weapons in alarm. Vansen fell to his knees, raising his arms in the air to praise all the gods, then the crowd of Funderlings watched with worried faces him as he threw himself down on the floor, laughing and weeping, and pressed his face against the blessed solidity of the stone.

Aduan—former king of March Kingdoms, husband of Ealga, and builder of M’Helan’s Rock lodge

Aesi’uah—Yasammez’ chief eremite, of Dreamless blood

Aislin—a Skimmer tanglewife

Alessandros—Anissa’s father, grand viscount of Devonis

Ananka—baroness, former mistress of King Hespter, now Enander’s.

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

Anissa—queen of Southmarch, Olin’s second wife

Annon—a demigod, son of Kernios, killed by Jikuyin

Argal—Xandian name for Perin

Argal the Dark One—Xixian god, enemy of Nushash

Arimone—the autarch’s paramount wife

Arjamele—one of Qinnitan’s neighbors at her childhood home

Ashretan—Qinnitan’s sister

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

Ayona, Countess—wife of Perivos Akuanis

Azinor of the Onyenai—a god, one of Zmeos’ sons by Zuriyal

Baddara—an innkeeper in Lander’s Port

Barrick Eddon—a prince of Southmarch

Barrow—a royal guard

Barumbanogatir—a demigod, child of Sveros

Baz’u Jev—a Zandian poet

Bazilis, Favored—envoy for autarch

Beetledown—a Rooftopper

Berkan Hood—the Tollys’ lord constable

Birin, Lord of the Evening Mist—a god, one of Perin’s sons, killed in the God War

Bloodstone Smoke Quartz— magister of Smoke Quartz family

Brabinayos Boots-of-Stone— Hierosoline name for Barumbanogatir

Brigid—a serving woman at the Quiller’s Mint

Briony Eddon—a princess of Southmarch

Brother Lysas—Pelaya’s and Teloni’s tutor

Caprock Gneiss, Highwarden— important Funderling of the Fire Stone House

Captrosophist Order—school of mirror-lore, founded in Tessis

Caradon Tolly, Duke of Summerfield—second oldest Tolly brother

Caylor—a legendary knight and prince

Celebrants of Mother Night—Qar order/subspecies/cult

Chakkai—a people of the southern Perikalese mountains

Chaven—physician and astrologer to the Eddon family

Chert Blue Quartz—a Funderling, Opal’s husband

Cheryazi—Qinnitan’s sister

Children of the Emerald Fire—a Qar tribe

Cinnabar—a Funderling magister

Collum Dyer—one of Vansen’s soldiers

Conary—proprietor of the Quiller’s Mint

Conoric, Sivonnic, and Iellic tribes —“primitive” tribes who lived on Eion before conquest by the southern continent of Xand

Crooked —Qar name for Kupilas

Daikonas Vo—a Perikalese White Hound

Dandelon—a character in Hewney’s King Nikolos

Dawet dan-Faar—envoy from Hierosol

Dawtrey—a legendary knight, sometimes called “Elf-spelled”

Devona—a goddess, aka “Devona of the Harp”

Devonai kings—ancient line of Hiersoline royalty

Dimakos Heavyhand—one of the last chieftains of the Gray Companies

Doirrean—young Prince Olin’s nursemaid

Donal Murroy—onetime captain of the Southmarch royal guard

Dowan Birch—a player in Makewell’s Men

Dreamless—also known as “Night Men”

Drows—a race behind the Shadowline, related to Funderlings

Durstin Crowel—baron of Graylock

Ealga Flaxen-Hair—former queen of March Kingdoms, wife of King Aduan

Earth Elders—Funderling guardian spirits

Effir dan-Mozan—a Tuani merchant

Eilis—Merolanna’s maid

Elan M’Cory—sister-in-law of Caradon Tolly

Ena—a young Skimmer girl, Backon-Sunset-Tide clan

Enander II—king of Syan

Eneas—son of Enander, prince of Syan and heir to throne

Erasmios Jino—Marquis of Athnia, aide to King

Enander of Syan Eri—Chaven’s oldest brother

Eril—an Akuanis family servant

Erilo—god of harvest

Erivor—god of waters

Erlon Meaher—a court poet in Southmarch, rival of Tinwright

Eshervat—Xixian name for Erivor

Estir Makewell—sister of Pedder Makewell

Fanu—a relative of Idite

Febis—cousin of the autarch

Feival Ulian—a player in Makewell’s Men

Ferras Vansen—captain of the Southmarch royal guard

Finn Teodoros—a writer

Four Sunsets—the fairy who owned Dragonfly

Funderlings—sometimes known as “delvers,” small people who specialize in stonecraft Gailon Tolly, Duke of Summerfield —an Eddon family cousin

Geral Kelty—one of the Southmarch guards lost behind the Shadowline

Gil—a potboy at the Quiller’s Mint

Grandfather Sulfur—a Funderling elder of the Metamorphic Brothers

Gray Companies—mercenaries and landless men turned bandits in wake of the Great Death

Great Mother—goddess worshipped in Tuan

Gregor—a laundry worker

Gregor of Syan—a famous bard

Guard of Elementals—a tribe of the Qar

Gyir—a Qar, Yasammez’ captain, aka “Gyir the Storm Lantern”

Habbili—a god, the crippled son of Nushash

Harsar—Ynnir’s counselor

Hendon Tolly—youngest of the Tolly brothers, Guardian of Southmarch

Hesper—King of Jellon, betrayer of King Olin

Hijam Marukh, aka “Stoneheart”— captain of the autarch’s Leopard guards

Hiliometes—a legendary demigod and hero

Idite—Effir dan-Mozan’s wife

Ikelis Johar—High Polemarch (chief general) of Xis

Iomer M’Sivon—Baron of Landers Por

Irinnis—foreman of military engineers, Hierosol

Jacinth Malachite—a female magister

Jeddin—chief of the autarch’s Leopard guards

Karal—king of Syan killed by Qar at Coldgray Moor

Kaspar Dyelos— Chaven’s mentor, aka “Warlock of Krace”

Kayyin—“real” name of Gil the potboy

Kearn Tinwright—Matt Tinwright’s father, a tutor

Kellick Eddon—great-grandnephew of Anglin, first of Eddon family March Kings

Kelofas—a Hierosoline noble

Kendrick Eddon—prince regent of Southmarch, eldest son of King Olin

Kernios—god of earth and death, one of the Trigon brothers

King Nikolos—Syan monarch who moved the Trigon out of Hierosol

Kiril—Pelaya’s brother

Krisanthe—Queen Meriel’s mother, the twins’ grandmother

Kupilas— god of healing, also known as “Habbili” and “Crooked”

Lady Simeon—a lady-in-waiting during the twins’ youth

Lander III—son of Karal, king of Syan, aka “Lander the Good,” “Lander Elfbane”

Lawren—the old Earl of Marrinscrest

Lida—Elan M’Cory’s maid

Lisiya Melana of the Silver Glade— demigoddess, one of the nine daughters of Birgya and Volios

Lord of the Peak—a Rooftopper deity

Lorick Eddon—Olin’s older brother, who died young

Losa—a laundry worker

Ludis Drakava—Lord Protector of Hierosol

Madi Surazem—goddess of childbirth