Mother of Lies

THE GODS

Anziel, goddess of beauty

Cienu, god of mirth and chance

Demern, god of law and justice

Eriander, god-goddess of sex and madness

Hrada, goddess of crafts and skill

Mayn, goddess of wisdom

Nastrar, god of animals and nature

Nula, goddess of pity

Sinura, goddess of health

Ucr, god of prosperity and abundance

Veslih, goddess of the hearth and home

Weru, god of storm and battle

Xaran, goddess of death and evil (known as the Mother, the Old One, Mother of Lies, Womb of the World, amp;c.)

PRINCIPAL MORTALS

Most of the characters in the story are initiates of mystery cults, meaning each has sworn allegiance to a single god or goddess. They are listed here with their loyalties and their locations at the end of Children of Chaos:

On the Florengian Face

Doge Piero, ruler of the city of Celebre, is reported to be near death.

Dogaressa Oliva Assichie, his wife, is reported to be acting as his regent.

Marno Cavotti, a Hero of Weru, is leading the Florengian Resistance, from an unknown location.

Stralg Hragson, bloodlord of the Heroes of Weru (“the Fist of Weru”), location unknown, is still fighting a war he began fifteen years ago.

On the Vigaelian Face

The Children of Hrag:

Saltaja Hragsdor, Stralg Hragson’s sister and greatly feared regent-and a Chosen of Xaran, known as the Queen of Shadows-is asleep in the palace at Tryfors.

Horold Hragson, her youngest brother, a Hero of Weru and satrap of Kosord, is on his way to Tryfors to reclaim his fugitive wife, Ingeld Narsdor, because it is only his marriage to her that gives him legal claim to rule as consort of Kosord.

(Ingeld Narsdor, a Daughter of Veslih and hereditary dynast of Kosord, is in a boat heading downstream from Tryfors, but knows by pyromancy that Horold is heading in her direction.)

Cutrath Horoldson, son of Horold and Ingeld, a Hero of Weru, is in the fortress at Nardalborg, waiting to cross over the Edge to fight in the Florengian war.

Heth “Hethson,” a Hero of Weru and bastard son of Therek Hragson, is commandant of Nardalborg.

The children of Doge Piero:

Eldest son Dantio, who is also a Witness of Mayn known as Mist, is driving a chariot cross-country in the Tryfors area.

Son Benard, a Hand of Anziel, is fleeing Kosord in the same boat as his lover, Ingeld, knowing that he will die if Horold’s warbeasts catch him.

Son Orlad (formerly Orlando), a newly initiated Hero of Werist, is in the Tryfors area, having just killed Therek Hragson.

Daughter Fabia, a Chosen of Xaran, is traveling with Benard, fleeing a forced betrothal to Cutrath Horoldson.

Others:

Arbanerik Kranson, a Hero of Weru and hordeleader of “New Dawn,” the Vigaelian rebels, is believed to have his headquarters not far from Tryfors.

Horth Wigson, a Ucrist reputed to be the richest man in Vigaelia, and Fabia’s foster father, is with Fabia.

Deceased but relevant to the story:

Karvak Hragson, a Hero of Weru and satrap of Jat-Nogul, was slain in self-defense by Paola Apicella.

Paola Apicella, a Chosen of Xaran, originally Fabia’s wet nurse and later her foster mother and wife of Horth Wigson, was slain by Perag Hrothgatson on Saltaja’s orders in retribution for the death of her brother Karvak.

Perag Hrothgatson, a Hero of Weru, was slain by Fabia for murdering Paola.

Therek Hragson, a Hero of Weru and late satrap of Tryfors, lies dead on a hillside near the city, slain by Orlad Celebre.