P. Hodgell - Bound in Blood

Dure:a Caineron cadet in Gorbel’s ten-command, also a Falconeer

dwar:a forced sleep that promotes healing

Earth Wife, the:also known as Mother Ragga; fertility goddess representing the earth

Earth Wife’s Favorite:a role in a Merikit rite, usually undertaken by a young man who acts as the Earth Wife’s lover while pretending to be her son

East Kenshold:a Kencyr border keep on the Eastern Sea

Eaten One, the:one of the Four; represents water

Ebonbane, the:the mountain range that separates the Eastern Lands from the Central Lands

Erim:a Knorth cadet; one of Jame’s ten-command

Escarpment, the:three-hundred-foot-tall cliffs on the northern edge of the Southern Wastes

Falconer, the:the blind master of hawks at Tentir, who also teaches all Shanir with the ability to bond to other creatures

Falconeer:one of the Falconer’s class

Fall, the:some 3000 years ago, the current Highlord, Gerridon, betrayed his people when promised immortality by Perimal Darkling. This caused the Kencyrath’s flight to Rathillien.

Falling Man, the:one of the Four; represents air

Fash:one of Gorbel’s ten-command

Four, the:Rathillien’s elemental powers, represented by the Eaten One (water), the Falling Man (air), the Earth Wife (earth), and the Burnt Man (fire) real people who suddenly at the point of death found themselves gods due to the activation of the Kencyr temples

fungit:a silver coin from the Central Lands, often struck with curses

Ganth Gray Lord:the former Highlord; Jame and Torisen’s father

Gari:a Coman cadet, bonded to insects

Gen:a board game of strategy

Geof:Lord Brandan’s one-armed servant

Gerraint:father of Ganth

Gerridon:twin of Jamethiel Dream-weaver, also known as the Master, who as Highlord betrayed the Kencyrath to Perimal Darkling in return for immortality; see the Fall

Ghill:a Knorth Kendar, son of Merry and Cron

Gorbel:present Caineron Lordan

Gran Cyd:the queen of the Merikit

Gray Land:where the unburnt Kencyr dead walk

Graykin:Jame’s servant; Caldane’s Southron, bastard half-caste son

Greshan Greed-heart:Knorth Lordan before Jame, uncle to Jame, brother to Ganth

Grimly Holt, the:wood on the edge of the Great Weald where Grimly’s pack lives

Hallick Hard-hand:Knorth commander during time of Greshan; father of Harn

Harn Grip-hard:Torisen’s randon friend and war-leader, a former commandant of Tentir, also a berserker who fears that he is losing control

Hatch:a Merikit boy

Hathir:an ancient kingdom paired with Bashti on either side of River Silver

Haunted Lands, the:land north of Tai-tastigon, under the influence of Perimal Darkling, where Jame and Torisen were born during their father’s exile

haunts:anything that has been tainted by the Haunted Lands and is therefore neither quite dead nor quite alive; usually mindless

Hawthorn:a Brandan captain at Tentir

Heart of the Woods:a place of ancient power, near where the battle of the Cataracts took place

Higbert:one of Gorbel’s ten-command

High Keep:the Min-drear border keep far to the north, home of Rue

High Kens:a highly formal and archaic version of the Kencyr language

Highlord:leader of the Kencryath, always (at least until now) a Knorth

Hollens:Lord Danior of Shadow Rock, also known as Holly

Honor’s Paradox:where does honor lie, in obedience to one’s lord or to oneself?

Hurlen:a town of wooden towers on islets at the convergence of the Silver and Tardy Rivers

Immalai:an Arrin-ken of the Ebonbane

imu:a little clay face, dedicated to Mother Ragga

Index:a scrollsman herbalist who studied the Merikit

Iron-jaw:Ganth’s war-horse, now a haunt

Ishtier:a renegade priest of the Priests’ College

Ivory Knife, the:one of the three lost objects of power whose least scratch is fatal, now guarded by Bane

Jame:also called Jamethiel Priest’s-bane and (incorrectly) Jameth; Torisen’s twin sister, but ten years his junior

Jamethiel Dream-weaver:caused the Fall, twin sister of Gerridon and mother of the twins Jame and Tori

jewel-jaws:a type of carnivorous insect

Kirien:a scrollswoman and the Jaran Lordan

Jorin:a blind, Royal Gold hunting ounce, bound to Jame

Jurien:Jaran Highborn and Randon Council member

Kallystine:Caineron’s daughter, Torisen’s consort for a time, who slashed Jame’s face

Karidia:the Coman Matriarch

Karnid:religious fanatics who live in the Southern Wastes. Their torture permanently scarred Torisen’s hands.

Kenan:Lord Randir of Wilden, father of Shade, son of Rawneth

Kencyrath:The Three People, chosen by the Three-Faced God to fight Perimal Darkling

Kendar:one of the Three People, usually servant class

Keral:a darkling changer

Kest:a Knorth cadet; one of Jame’s ten-command

Kibben:the Caineron cadet whom Gorbel ordered to stand on his head

Kibbet:his brother; one of Gorbel’s ten-command

Killy:a Knorth cadet; one of Jame’s ten-command

Kindrie Soul-walker:a Shanir healer, first cousin to Jame and Torisen

Kin-Slayer:sword belonging to Torisen

Kinzi:great-grandmother to Torisen

Kithorn:northernmost of the Riverland keeps, now on Merikit land; Marc’s former home

Korey:Lord Coman of Kraggen

Kothifir:a city on the edge of the Southern Wastes, called the Cruel

lawful lie:Kencyr singers (and some diplomats) are allowed a certain poetic license with the truth

lordan:a lord’s designed heir, male or female

Lower Huddles:a field near Hurlen where battle of Cataracts took place

lymers:hounds, scent trackers

Lyra Lack-wit:Lord Caineron’s young daughter, sister to Kallystine

Ma:a Merikit house-wyf

maledight:a Shanir who can kill with a curse

Marc (Marcarn):Kendar friend of Jame, seven foot tall, ninety-five years old, a former warrior

Marrow:cadet guard, Knorth

Massacre, the:nearly thirty years ago, shadow assassins killed all the Knorth ladies except for Tieri; no one knows why, but Jame has her suspicions

Master, the:Gerridon

Master’s House, the:where Jame went when her father drove her out; the House extends back down the Chain of Creation from fallen world to world, stopping just short of Rathillien

Merikit:a native hill tribe, living north of Kithorn