Honor's Paradox

Lexicon

Addy—Shade’s gilded swamp adder

Aden Smooth-face—a senior randon and Lord Ardeth’s younger brother

Adiraina—the Ardeth Matriarch, beloved of Kinzi

Adric—Lord Ardeth

Anise—one of Jame’s ten-command, killed by the Noyat

Anku—leader of the Merikit war maids, older sister of Gran Cyd

Argentiel—That-Which-Preserves

Arrin-ken—the third of the Three People of the Kencyrath; huge, catlike beings who act as judges

Arrin-thar—use of claws or clawed gloves in combat

Ashe—a haunt singer

Bashti—one of the ancient kingdoms of the Central Lands

Bashtiri shadow assassins—assassins who, thanks to special tattooing, are invisible and can cast their shadows

Bear—Sheth’s brain-damaged elder brother, a former randon and Jame’s teacher in the Arrin-thar

Beauty—a darkling wyrm

Bel-tairi—a Whinno-hir, formerly Kinzi’s, now Jame’s

blackheads—parasitical fish from the Silverhead

Blackie—a nickname for Torisen

Boden—Lord Brandan’s heir and nephew

bonefire—a bonfire containing a Burnt Man’s bone

Bran—a Brandan randon who teaches obscure weaponry

Brant—Lord Brandan of Falkirr

Brenwyr—Lord Brandan’s maledight sister

Brier Iron-thorn—once a Caineron, now second in charge of Jame’s ten-command

Brithany—Ardeth’s gray Whinno-hir mare

Burley—the small stream that runs down beside Tentir to join the Silver River

Burning Ones—servants of the Burning Man, mostly kin-slayers

Burnt Man, the—the one of the Four who represents fire

Burr—Torisen’s Kendar servant

Caldane—Lord Caineron

Cataracts, the—where the Kencyr Host and the Waster Horde met in battle

Chain of Creation—a series of parallel universes connected through threshold worlds like Rathillien

changer—one of the Master’s servants, who can assume any shape

Chingetai—chief of the Merikit

Clary—a Coman ten-commander

Cloud—Sheth’s warhorse

Commandant—title of the head of the randon college

Corvine—a former Knorth Oath-breaker who has become a Randir sargent

Cron—a Knorth Kendar

d’hen—a Tai-tastigon knife-fighter’s coat

Da—a Merikit woman who acts as a man; housebond of Ma

Damson—one of Jame’s ten-command

Dar—one of Jame’s ten-command

Dari—Ardeth’s son and would-be heir

Dark Judge—blind Arrin-ken obsessed with justice

Death’s-head—a rathorn

Director—title of the head of Mount Alban, the current one a blind Kendar

direhounds—gaze-hounds used to run down prey

Distan—Ardeth’s daughter, Pereden’s consort, Timmon’s mother

dreamscape—the collective dream world of the Kencyrath

Drie—an Ardeth cadet; Timmon’s half-brother and former whipping boy

Dure—a Caineron cadet bound to a trock

dwar—a deep, healing sleep

Earth Wife, the—the one of the Four who represents the earth

Eaten One, the—the one of the Four who represents water

Erim—one of Jame’s ten-command

Essiar—Lord Edirr, twin of Essien

Essien—Lord Edirr, twin of Essiar

Falconeer—any member of the Falconer’s class

Falconer—blind teacher of those Shanir with bonds to animals

Falkirr—Lord Brandan’s keep

Fall, the—when Gerridon betrayed the Kencyrath to Perimal Darkling

Falling Man, the—the one of the Four who represents air

Fash—one of Gorbel’s ten-command

Four, the—Rathillien’s elemental powers

Ganth Gray Lord—Jame and Torisen’s father

Gari—a Coman cadet with an affinity to insects

Gen—a board game

Gerraint—Ganth’s father

Gerridon, Master of Knorth—the Knorth Highlord who betrayed his people to Perimal Darkling

Ghill—Cron’s young son

Ghost Walks, the—apartments where the Knorth lived at Gothregor before the Massacre

Glendar—Gerridon’s younger brother, who became Highlord after the Fall

Gnasher—wolver King of the Woods

Gorbel—Caldane’s son and heir

Gothregor—the Knorth keep

Gran Cyd—queen of the Merikit

Graykin—Jame’s Southron, half-bred servant

Gray Lands—qhere the souls of the unburnt dead walk

Gray-leggings—Gorbel’s warhorse

Greshan Greed-heart—Ganth’s older brother; Jame and Tori’s uncle

Grimly—Torisen’s friend, a wolver poet

Hathir—one of the ancient kingdoms of the Central Lands

Hatch—a young Merikit

haunt—anything that has been tainted by the Haunted Lands and is therefore neither quite dead nor quite alive; usually mindless, but not in the case of Ashe

Haunted Lands, the—lands to the northwest of Rathillien undercut by Perimal Darkling

Hawthorn—a Brandan captain

Higbert—one of Gorbel’s ten-command

Highborn—the first of the Three People; ruling class of the Kencyrath

Hinde—a Randir acolyte who can cause earthquakes

Holly—Hollens, Lord Danior

Holt, the—where Grimly and his wolvers live

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

housebond—Merikit term for a husband

Hurl—a Coman cadet

Ice Maid—a Merikit girl offered to the Eaten One as his/her Favorite

imu—primitive image associated with the Earth Wife

Index—a scrollsman who specializes in the Merikit and on locating information

Ivory Knife, the—one of the three objects of power, whose least scratch means death

Jame—our heroine

Jameth—a nickname which she hates

Jamethiel Dream-weaver—Jame and Torisen’s mother, consort of the Master

Jedrak—former Lord Jaran

Jorin—Jame’s blind hunting ounce

Karnid—a resident of Urakarn

Kedan—temporary lord of the Jaran

Kenan—Lord Randir

Kencyr—generic term for any member of the Kencyrath

Kencyr Houses—[see chart]

Kencyrath—the Three People; chosen by the Three-Faced God to stop Perimal Darkling

Kendar—the second of the Three People; usually bound to a Highborn

Keral—a darkling changer

Killy—one of Jame’s ten-command

Kindrie Soul-walker—a healer, cousin to Jame and Torisen

King of the Wood—the wolver who leads the wolvers of the Deep Weald

Kinzi Keen-eyed—Jame and Tori’s great-grandmother

Kirien—the Jaran Lordan

Kothifir—a great city on the edge of the Southern Wastes

Krothen—current king of Kothifir

Kruin—Krothen’s father

Lawful Lie, the—the singer’s prerogative to stretch the truth

lodge-wyf—a Merikit woman who owns a lodge and therefore can have housebonds

lordan—a lord’s heir

Ma—a Merikit lodge-wyf

Macarn—Jame’s elderly Kendar friend

Mack—a mouse

maledight—a Shanir who can kill with a curse

Marc—a Kendar friend of Jameth

Massacre, the—some thirty years ago, shadow assassins killed all the Knorth ladies except for Tieri; no one knows why

Master, the—Gerridon

master-ten—the cadet in charge of a barracks

Merikit—a northern hill tribe

Mick—a mouse

Mint—one of Jame’s ten-command

Molocar—a type of massive, powerful hound

Mother Ragga—the Earth Wife

Mount Alban—the Scrollsmen’s College

Mouse—an Edirr cadet and Falconeer

Moyden—a scrollsman who knows about prehistory of the Southern Wastes

Mullen—a Knorth Kendar whose name Torisen forgot

Narsa—an Ardeth cadet; Timmon’s lover

Nemesis—the incarnation of That-Which-Destroys

Niall—one of Jame’s ten-command

Nidling—chief of the Noyat

Noyat—a northern hill tribe under the influence of Perimal Darkling

Nusair—Caldane’s son, killed by a changer

Oath-breaker—a Knorth who refused to follow Ganth into exile

Obidin—Gorbel’s five-commander

Odalian—a prince of Karkinaroth

Old Blood—a Shanir

Old Tentir—the fortress part of Tentir, as distinct from the cadets’ barracks

ounce—a hunting cat the size of a serval

Pereden Proud-prance—Ardeth’s favorite son

Perimal Darkling—an entity eating its way down the Chain of Creation from threshold world to world

pook—a strange little dog capable of tracking across the folds in the land

Prid—a Merikit girl

Quill—one of Jame’s ten-command

Ran—term of respect for a randon officer

Randiroc—the exiled Randir Lordan

randon—officer class

Randon Council—nine senior randon, one from each house, who alternate as Commandant of Tentir

rathorn—an ivory-clad, horned beast rather like a cross between a horse and a dragon

Rawneth—the Randir Matriarch

Reef—Randir master-ten

Regonereth—That-Which-Destroys, the Third Face of God

River Snake—the chaos serpent which extends down the length of the River Silver’s bed

Rowan—Torisen’s steward

Rue—Jame’s servant; one of her ten-command

Sar—title of respect for a randon sargent

scrollsman—a scholar or singer

scythe-arms—a weapon composed of two double-pointed blades of unequal length

Sene—a combination of the Senetha and the Senethar

Senetha—dance form of the Senethar

Senethar—unarmed combat composed of earth-moving, fire-leaping, wind-blowing and water-flowing

Senethari—a master or teacher

Shade—a Randir cadet, Kendar daughter of Lord Randir

Shanir—Kencyr with special powers or traits; all have at least some Highborn blood

Sheth Sharp-tongue—Caineron war-leader and current commandant of Tentir

shwupp—a subterranean scavenger that traps its prey in muddy pits

Silver Steps, the—the series of falls between the Silverhead and the River Silver

Silverhead, the—the headwater of the Silver

singer—a scrollsman or scrollswoman entitled to use the Lawful Lie

soul-image—the image that embodies each person’s soul

soulscape—the collective space where all Kencyr soul-images overlap

Southern Host, the—the largest standing Kencyr army, employed by King Krothen of Kothifir

Storm—Torisen’s warhorse

Tarn—a Danior cadet and Falconeer

Tentir—the randon college

Thal—a Tastigon god

Those-who-returned—Kencyr who tried to follow Ganth Gray Lord into exile, whom he drove back

Three-Faced God, the—the god of the Kencyrath, composed of Creation, Preservation, and Destruction

Timmon—the Ardeth Lordan

Tirandys—a darkling changer; also Jame’s Senethari or teacher

Torisen Black Lord—Lord Knorth, Highlord of the Kencyrath; Jame’s twin brother

Torvi—Tarn’s Molocar

Trishien—the Jaran Matriarch

trock—an omnivorous creature that looks like a rock

Tungit—a Merikit shaman

Twizzle—Gorbel’s pook

Tyr-ridan—three individuals who represent the Three Faces of God

Urakarn—a city on the eastern edge of the Southern Wastes

Vant—Jame’s former five-commander and master-ten

war maid—a Merikit woman who chooses to fight and hunt like a man

Waster Horde—a cannibalistic mass of people who endlessly circle the Southern Wastes

watch wierdling—a leather-encased Merikit corpse that acts as a watchman

Weald, the—the greater forest, of which the Holt is part

Whinno-hir—near immortal equines, allies of the Kencyrath

White Hills, the—where Ganth battled the Seven Kings and lost

White Knife, the—the agent of an honorable death, modeled on the Ivory Knife

Willow—Marc’s little sister

Winter War—an annual military exercise carried out within Tentir

Witch of Wilden—Rawneth

Wither—Spokesman for Kenan

wolver—werewolves or wolfmen who change at will

Women’s World, the—most Highborn women belong to this largely secret society

wyrm—a darkling crawler, or very large creepy-crawly with a poisonous bite

yackcarn—big, ugly beasts; a cross between wooly mammoths and warthogs

Yce—Torisen’s wolver pup

yondri-gon—threshold-dwellers; Kendar without a lord who take on temporary service with a house