Place Names

 

 

Abayara: the first moon

 

Adalian: Sileria’s southern port city, famous for its Temple Market

 

Alizar: Sileria’s rich diamond mines

 

Amalidar Mountains: a western mountain chain which includes many sites where the shallah rebels are active

 

Belitar: Baran’s home

 

Britar: a shallah village; there’s a Valdani fortress north of Britar

 

Cavasar: Sileria’s western port city

 

Chandar: the village nearest to the sacred caves of Dalishar

 

Dalishar Caves: a remote, sacred site on Mount Dalishar in western Sileria, the caves become a rebel base

 

Mount Darshon: this massive, snow-capped, active volcano in eastern Sileria is the home of Dar, the destroyer goddess

 

Ejara: the second moon

 

Emeldar: Josarian’s native village, in western Sileria

 

Gamalan: Tansen’s native village, in eastern Sileria

 

Garabar: a mountain and also the name of a town in western Sileria

 

Golnar: a village in western Sileria

 

Great Northern Desert: north of Valdania

 

Idalar River: this river, which is the primary water supply for Shaljir, has been fought over for years by Kiloran and Baran 

 

Illan: a town on the Idalar River

 

Islanar: a town in western Sileria

 

Lake Kandahar: the site of Kiloran’s home—which has long been a closely guarded secret

 

Kashala: a Kintish port city

 

Kintish Kingdoms: a loose association of states on the mainland east of Sileria 

 

Kinto: the founding state of the Kintish Kingdoms, and the state in which the Palace of Heaven is located

 

Liron: Sileria’s eastern coastal city, perched on the sacred rainbow-chalk cliffs of Liron

 

Malthenar:  a western shallah village which became infamous as the site of a massacre

 

Marendar: a village in the east; home of Jagodan, leader of the Lironi clan

 

Middle Sea: the inland sea that surrounds Sileria

 

Mount Niran: Guardians camp in ancient painted caves above the gossamer forests on this mountain in western Sileria

 

Moorlands: a large mainland region inhabited by perpetually warring tribes, located west of Sileria 

 

Mount Orlenar: Josarian’s uncle stables some sheep in an abandoned Kintish shrine here; this is where Tansen and Josarian meet for the first time

 

Orban Pass: a hard day’s ride from Cavasar, this where Josarian first killed Outlookers and became an outlaw; the pass leads from the coast to the Amalidar Mountains 

 

Otherworld: the place of the afterlife in traditional Silerian religion  

 

Palace of Heaven: the central seat of power in the Kintish Kingdoms, home of the Kintish High King

 

Santorell Palace: located in Shaljir, this is the seat of power in Sileria

 

Santorell Square: a public square in Shaljir, overlooked by Santorell Palace

 

Shaljir: the capital of Sileria

 

Sileria: a mountainous island nation in the Middle Sea; conquered 1,000 years ago by the Moorlanders; invaded eight centuries ago by the Kintish Kingdoms when the Moorlanders pulled out; seized from the Kints two centuries ago by the expanding Empire of Valda in their wars of conquest, and now still ruled by the Valdani

 

Sirinakara River: the vast mainland river that flows north into the Middle Sea

 

Sirkara: “heart of the world,” an ancient name for the Middle Sea

 

Lake Ursan: located in western Sileria

 

Valda/Valdania: capital city/empire, on the mainland north of Sileria 

 

Zilar: wealthy town in northern Sileria, home of a famous gold-tiled Kintish temple

 

Zilar River: a tributary of the Shaljir River