APPENDIX ONE

CHARACTERS AND PLACES IN ENNEA MÓN

The Spirits

‘Chamen, Spirit of Stone

Agent “Mason,” chosen realm, Rortherrod

Ghibli, Spirit of the Wind

Agent “Hunter,” chooses no country

Lautan, Spirit of the Sea, “the Munificent”

Agent “Sailor” (first unnamed, then Mikil), chosen realm, Lortherrod

Mìngyùn, Spirit of Fate

Agent “Spinner” (Destra)

Nargis, Spirit of Fresh Water

Agent “Water Bearer” (first Tiklok, then Nana), chosen realm, Weirandale

Pozhar, Spirit of Fire

Agent “Smithy,” chosen realm, Oromondo

Restaurà, Spirit of Sleep and Health

Agent “Healer” (Myrnah), chosen realm, Wyeland

Saulė, Spirit of the Sun

Agent “Peddler,” (Gunnit is agent-in-waiting), chosen realm, Alpetar

Vertia, Spirit of Growth

Agent “Gardener,” chosen realm, the Green Isles

Weirandale

THE EIGHT WESTERN DUCHIES (WEST TO EAST)

Northvale

Prairyvale

Woodsdale

Lakevale

Maritima—includes city of Queen’s Harbor

Riverine—includes Cascada

Crenovale

Vittorine

THE THREE EASTERN DUCHIES ACROSS THE BAY OF CINDA (WEST TO EAST)

Androvale—contains Gulltown (port city) and Wyndton (country village)

Patenroux

Bailiwick—Barston (major city)

THE FORMER GENERATION ON THE THRONE

Queen Catreena the Strategist (deceased)

Consort: King Nithanil of Lortherrod (abdicated)

THE ROYALS

Queen Cressa the Enchanter (deceased)

Consort: Ambrice, Lord of the Ships (deceased)

Cerúlia, the princella

PEOPLE IN CASCADA

Lord Regent Matwyck

Lady Tirinella, his wife (deceased)

Lordling Marcot, his son

Eyevie, his (lost) favorite sister

Duchette Lolethia, later Matwyck’s betrothed

Heathclaw, his secretary

Gourdo, seamaster currently in port

Gunnit, a goatherd, sent to Cascada

Hiccuth, a stableman

Lemle, Wren’s friend from Wyndton, now in Cascada

Murgn, nephew of Yurgn; leader of Matwyck’s Marauders

Nana, a nursemaid, now Water Bearer

Ryton, Cerúlia’s former tutor

Vilkit, chamberlain, appointed by Matwyck

Whitsury, a Brother of Sorrow

LORD MATWYWCK’S COUNCILORS:

Duke Burgn, second son of General Yurgn

Lady Fanyah, formerly Cressa’s lady-in-waiting

Duchess Latlie

Lordling Marcot, the regent’s son

Prigent, also treasurer of the realm

General Yurgn, also general of the Armed Forces

VISITING WEIRANDALE ARISTOCRACY:

Lady Dinista, former lady-in-waiting to Queen Cressa, now married to younger Lord Retzel

Duke Favian of Maritima

Duchess Gahoa

Duke Inrick of Crenovale

Duchess Pattengale

THE QUEEN’S SHIELD: QUEEN CRESSA

Sergeant Yanath

Branwise

Pontole

WEIR SEAMASTERS

Gourdo

Wilamara

IN OR NEAR WYNDTON

Duke Naven

Duchess Naven

Five unnamed daughters

Captain Walmunt, head of the duchy guard

Stahlia, a weaver

Percia, her daughter

Nettie, friend of Percia

Dewva, friend of Percia

Tilim, her son

Ackerty, a landowner

Carneigh, a blacksmith

Goody Gintie, the midwife

Goddard, a healer

Hecht, peacekeeper who replaced Wilim

Rooks, retired/injured sergeant

Lemle, Rooks’s nephew, Wren’s friend

Nellsapeta, a Sister of Sorrow

Alliance of Free States:

Fígat—contains Latham and the Scoláiríum

Jígat—contains Jutterdam

Vígat—contains Sutterdam

Wígat—contains Yosta

IN SUTTERDAM

Hartling, a potter and owner of a once-thriving pottery business

Jerinda, his wife and business manger (deceased)

Hake, their eldest son

Thalen, their middle son

Harthen, their youngest son (deceased)

Norling, Hartling’s older sister

Ikas, a wheelwright, squad leader of the Defiance

Sansam, a member of Ikas’s squad

Pallia, a candlemaker

IN JUTTERDAM

Bellishia, a leader of the Defiance from Yosta

Dwinny, a healer

Hulia, a fisherwoman

Nothafel, a boatman

Rellia, the overall leader of the Defiance

THE SCOLÁIRÍUM OF THE FREE STATES, LOCATED IN THE TOWN OF LATHAM, REACHED BY FERRY FROM TROUT’S LANDING

Rector Meakey

Andreata, tutor of Ancient Languages

Granilton, tutor of History (deceased)

Graville, his son (deceased)

RAIDERS (SURVIVORS)

Commander Thalen

Cerf, a healer

Dalogun, seventeen-summers-old archer

Eli-anna, an archer from Melladrin

Eldie, her sister who stayed in Melladrin

Fedak, cavalry

Hake, quartermaster, Thalen’s older brother

Jothile, cavalry

Kambey, weapons master

Kran, swordsman

Quinith, quartermaster, originally a reader at the Scoláiríum

Tristo, Thalen’s adjutant, formerly a street orphan from Yosta

Wareth, cavalry scout

ORO OCCUPIERS

Lumrith, fifth-flamer

Murnaut, head of the Occupying Force

Lortherrod

King Nithanil, abdicated

Ilkula, his mistress

King Rikil, the current king

Unnamed wife and two sons

Prince Mikil, the king’s younger brother

Arlettie, Mikil’s wife

Gilboy, Mikil’s adopted son

In the Green Isles

SLAGOS (SECOND-LARGEST ISLAND)

Gardener, Agent to Vertia

Shetdrake, an officer of the Green Isles Bank who travels to Pilagos

Zillie, innkeeper of the Blue Parrot

PILAGOS (LARGEST ISLAND AND CAPITAL)

Magistrar Destra, head of the government, originally from the Free States

Bajets, seamaster of Island Dreamer

Hake, Thalen’s brother, quartermaster to the Raiders

Mikil, prince of Lortherrod

Arlettie, Queen Cressa’s former maid, now Mikil’s wife

Gilboy, adopted son of Mikil and Arlettie

Olet, owner of Olet’s Olive Oil and Spicery

Quinith, former student at the Scoláiríum, quartermaster to the Raiders

Oromondo

Smithy, Agent to Pozhar

Sumroth, rises from commander to general

Zea, his wife, works for the Library of Reverence

Alpetar

Peddler, Agent of Saulė

Culpepper, a hostler in Tar’s Basin

The Sweetmeadow Refugees

Gunnit, a ten-summers-old shepherd

Linnsie, his mother

Saggeta, Gunnit’s neighbor and friend

Orphans

Aleen, eight summers old

Addigale, a toddler

Alloon, four summers old

Limpett, four summers old

Wyeland

SALUBRITON

Betlyna, an assistant healer

Ciellō, a mercenary from Zellia

Myrnah, a healer, Agent to Restaurà

Hunter, Agent of Ghibli

Tockymora, landlady of the Bread and Balm Recovery House

Damyroth, one-legged amputee

Hope, a melancholic

Jitneye, heart patient

Lymbock, hepatitis sufferer

Phénix

Sezirō, wounded patient from Zellia