Information collected by Sinnin, Head Scribe

Stored in the high matron's private library, Halkamas Citadel, Year of the Crown

People

• Anela - A young woman of the Guhla clan, promised to Feroh.
• Bethrun - One of the Xulian executed by the Consul of Azhal.
• Chauk - One of Chelas Sordin's captives.
• Chelas Sordin - [No description provided]
• Daneh - An acolyte of the shemoin.
• Danuh - A member of Feroh's Bokhal clan.
• Dranic - Feroh's father, also one of the names recited in the litany of previous valmai.
• Duleh - One of the shemoin's elders and council members.
• Ebbin - One of Chelas Sordin's captives.
• Ethali - One of Feroh's "aunties".
• Feroh - The scion of Sasnian, one of the three primary branches of the An'Xul.
• Filoh - A member of the Bokhal clan who challenges Feroh's father.
• Galeh - A member of the Bokhal clan who was done away with.
• Gerah - An elder of the shemoin who controls the testing chamber.
• Guhla Sadar - The son of Guhla Wethin, a colleague of Feroh's.
• Guhla Wethin - One of the leaders of the Dyers Guild in Bokhal.
• Haleh - One of the Xulian executed by the Consul of Azhal.
• Hulik - One of Chelas Sordin's captives.
• Ildur - One of Chelas Sordin's captives.
• Joruh - Feroh's uncle, brother to Dranic.
• Kandah - The scion of An'Beloris.
• Karth An'Godias - The Za'al peasant who rebelled against Ithka, father of the empress.
• Kasseh - A shemoin instructor.
• Kerrin - Feroh's shemoin mentor.
• Lamatha - Sadar's betrothed.
• Lonneh - An elder of the Bokhal clan who drives their dream.
• Malino - One of Chelas Sordin's captives.
• Maltos Ketha - The lord who buys Hulik.
• Meroh - The 13th Valmas, allegedly created a pattern of the most power An'Xul to "restart" the Alcar, destroyer of Saylassa.
• Mother Tadra - Feroh's stepmother.
• Nerah - The scion of Xulian, the 17th Valmas, the heir and heretic.
• Ola - A death speaker who helps Feroh escape.
• Palkas - The prime citizen of a region, Ruus.
• Rilka - The foreman overseeing the dungeon captives.
• Ruric - A shemoin instructor.
• Ruthoh - Feroh's fellow student and follower Nerah.
• Sammel - One of Chelas Sordin's captives.
• Selaya - Kerrin's wife.
• Shuleh - The shemoin's subprior.
• Solkah - Feroh's fellow student and follower Nerah.
• Tanic - One of the names recited in the litany of previous valmai.
• Tanor - One of the young men of the Bokhal clan.
• Thulic - A shemoin instructor.
• Thulis An'Uthkaea - Dawn of Uthkaea, the Za'al empresses title.
• Toki - A sailor on the smuggler's vessel.
• Vanic An'Falru - Shemoin Prior and first high priest of the new cult.
• Vetha Kin'Kordas - The chief auctioneer of all Ithka.
• Xulian - The first vanalo to encounter the death power.

Places

• Achona - The Earth Gate, the world.
• Arcanaea - The magus mounts belonging to the league.
• Azhal - The northern district of Ithaca, rebelled.
• Bokhal - Feroh's village, a region of the muzzle.
• Dragonlands - The region from the Spine Wings to the ocean.
• Elkhano - The region called the Dragon's Tail, the pirate kingdoms.
• Ithka - Chief city of the Dragonlands, once ruler of all, location of the Water Gate.
• Karal - A bridge city on the upper canal, conquered by Azhal.
• Kola, Kolas - The southernmost region of the Dragonlands.
• Kotho - The ancient light tower of Ithka.
• Mount Fulaea - The largest mountain of the southern Dragonlands.
• Peraptis - The primary city of the Arcanaea.
• Rokola - A region on the north side of the Lower Canal which seceded from Ithka to join the Kolasi Confederation.
• Ruus - An Ithkan coastal region bordering the Lower Canal on the verge of defecting to the Kolasi confederation.
• Saydolin - The ancient capital region of the Alcar, destroyed two cycles ago.
• Saylassa - The central continent.
• Shukra Sul - The Speakers for Life, the name of the shemoin's temple and cult.
• Silt Sea - The sea linking all the major regions of the Dragonlands.
• The Myriad - The city states on a large peninsula of the southern Silt Sea.
• Telokan - The ancient word for the Water Gate.
• Uthkaea - The ancient city empire that once occupied the Silt Sea.
• Za'al - The bulk of the Dragon's tail, once a land of active volcanos, Uthkaea's tomb district.
• Za'al'dum - The land of tombs.
• Zekaj - A large island in the south silt sea near the Shadow Gate.
• Zo'Athal - The largest port of Za'al, near the empress's palace and the Death Gate.

Things

Groups, Tribes and Organizations

• Achonai - A follower of Achona, a knight dedicated to Achona.
• Alcar - The founders and people of Saydolin, sun practioners.
• An'Beloris - One of the three branches of An'Xul, descended from the second son of Xulian.
• An'Xul - The blood descendants of Xulian.
• Arcanite league - [No description provided]
• Badak - A nomad tribe of central Vailassa.
• Beloris - One of the three branches of An'Xul, second son of Xulian.
• Brathas - A special title among the shemoin, an exorcist.
• chelai - The poets of Ithka, a caste of enchanters, drive the Ithkan dreamers.
• genalo - Humans without any sign of power.
• Harahn - A missing scion branch of the An'Xul, eldest son of Xulian.
• Justicar - A title and position given to the Azhal executioners.
• magus mounts - The ruined remains of Uthkaea now populated by clans of mage-monks.
• maltoi - The historians of Ithka, a caste of enchanters, drive the Ithkan dreamers.
• Sasnian - One of the three main branches of An'Xul, third son of Xulian.
• shemoin - The brotherhood of reformers seeking to find a way to revive their lineage but also live in harmony with the rest of the Dragonlands.
• Sordin - A ruling Ithkan faction.
• telokas - Adherents to the water cult.
• Undusha - A secret cult of cat worshippers with moving sanctuaries, know it by the eyes of their sentinels.
• valmas - The most powerful living An'Xul, the bonder.
• valmasin - The lesser valmai, who possess some power at bonding, used by the Mornae for selective breeding before the Fall of Saylassa.
• vanalo - Humans with any sign of power.

Celestial Bodies and Time

• Bedor - The largest moon, 34 day cycle.
• Beduneh - A festival day celebrating the rise of Bedun, a constellation favored in the Kolas.
• Cassan - The second largest moon, 16 day cycle.
• Sherku - The Leviathan constellation favored by sailors.

Powers, Concepts and Materials

• alcarine - The power in sun light.
• An'ka'ish suralim - Xul prayer, "I am clothed in life."
• boka - An enchanted blue steel made in Azhal.
• drashik - A derogatory term for outsider.
• Godiac - The power of the Godians, associated with living things.
• krima - A seed used to make a scarlet dye.
• sadu - A plant used by the Xul to induce altered states or accelerate their progress, a poison.
• Shulak - A derogatory Ithkan word for anyone showing signs of being Xulian.
• Thura - A sailor's name for the old sea god, called by other people's Barka.
• Vetru - An ancient spirit residing within relics found by Azhal peasants.
• veyshu - A word meaning evil spirit.
• Xuliac - The power of death, opposing power to godiac.
• yuufa - A black fungus smoked in the Dragonlands, sometimes used to identify xulians.

Animals and Plants

• ebana - An antelope like creature common to Saylassa.