Glossary

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  • Aerith - Spirit of air, space, emptiness, and voids

  • Artificers - magician-inventors of the First Age

  • Arisen Rexus - a general in the Kharupani army and later emperor during the Lost Years that followed the Yawning and subsequent cataclysm

  • Athlaya - the Borean Poet name for Aerith

  • Battle of Kingdom's Fall - a battle fought between the Sun's Own of Yorenth, the Wiccars, and the Eradomin with disastrous consequences for all involved

  • Bellgard - a port city on the westernmost tip of the Wravellian Sea

  • Book of Dreaming - a holy text in Yorenth that describes the achievements of deified members of the Solorien family

  • Book of Primes - a book of ritual magic from the First Age 

  • Borean Poet - language historically spoken in the Northern lands​

  • Calligone - Spirit of darkness, mists, shrouding, and the unknown

  • Cailir - a Wiccar clan known throughout the world for their line of female seers

  • Crescian - Spirit of chaos and order

  • crowner - coroner

  • Drithas - Borean Poet name for Crescian

  • Elder-knights - honorific title for warriors in the Wiccar clans belonging to a recognized knight's order

  • Eradomin - a people native to the Northern lands known for their martial prowess and unusual 

  • Erángal - a relic from the First Age, said to be mirrored and difficult to see, either containing hidden knowledge or granting the wielder certain seer's abilities depending on which rumors you believe

  • Fäendhmar - an ancient Northern word for the Spirits with murky origins somewhere in Old Era

  • false merryfern - a plant with alchemical properties

  • filcher's bane - alchemical compound used in lock crafting

  • Followers of Their Return - religious separatists in Yorenth pushing for a return to a nomadic way of life and a focus on worshiping the Spirits

  • glowmoth - a bioluminescent nocturnal insect which is farmed in the desert surrounding Telhav for glowmoth silk dust, an alchemical ingredient with hallucinogenic properties

  • Golh - a midwinter feast day celebrated by both Wiccars and Eradomin

  • Greater darkflower - alchemical ingredient with hallucinogenic properties

  • Greenflower - a village in the Middevale

  • Greenwoods - Tellurn's untouched domains

  • jewel-dock - a plant with alchemical properties

  • Kharupan - a lost city located between Yorenth and Bellgard on the Western Road

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  • marks - Sentinel currency, with sunmarks being gold pieces, moonmarks being silver pieces, and starmarks being brass pieces

  • Middevale - the narrow strip of land between the Southern Realm of the Sentinel and the Northern lands

  • Minodas - Sentinel day of the week

  • Noblegard - Bellgard's city guard

  • Old Era - the name of the sprawling Northern territory above Castle Forlorn and the Wiccar lands

  • The Outlands - Yoren name for the lands outside the bounds of known territories, rumored to have monsters dwelling in them

  • pawn's malady - a plant-derived poison used by the Rooks

  • Pentaculum - a lost First Age relic that's said to be able to temper or amplify magical fields

  • Prime - Wiccar noble title across all the clans

  • Quormanth - an island city-state on the Wravellian Sea

  • Rook - one of the underground guilds in Yorenth, often paid to carry out assassinations

  • Ronin - a Wiccar clan that was found mysteriously murdered

  • Riparus - Spirit of rivers, water, depths

  • Saeria - an independent territory across the Wravellian Sea

  • Sarthura - Borean Poet name for Calligone

  • Sledge - mining district of Yorenth​

  • smudger - match-keeper in Yorenth's fighting rings

  • Sol - honorific title for warriors in the Sun's Own

  • Solq - Spirit of fire, light, guidance

  • Sun's Own - elite soldiers that make up Yorenth's city guard and Queen Attiqah's personal guard

  • stoneflesh - a skin disease that the Eradomin are particularly susceptible to, but Wiccars are immune to

  • Telhav - a rural village near Yorenth

  • Tellurn - Spirit of growth, earth, and substance

  • ​Threydas - Sentinel day of the week

  • Whispess - Wiccar noble title within the Cailir clan given to its seers

  • Wiccar - name for the once nomadic clans that live throughout the Northern lands

  • Yawning - a rending of worlds that occurred at the end of the First Age from an unknown event lost to history