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WYGON
S Diurnal Six-stemmed creatures seemingly made of pipe cleaners, they are fast and bright. Tbisi, First Mate of the
Toorine Trader
, is Wygonian.

XYRICIS
N Nocturnal Giant armadillos, they trade with many hexes. The Tindler was a far-traveling Xyricis.

YIMSK
(N) Off-camera in the book. Plankton-eaters mostly of deep water, who somewhat resemble the nautilus.

ZANTI
(H) Off-camera in the book. These shocking relatives of the electric eel have managed to build quite an effective and modern culture on the sea floor; their coop trade with Wuckl gives the latter fishing rights in exchange for some goods not possible to manufacture under water.

Appendix II: Races of the Northern Hemisphere

The key is the same as for the Southern Races in Appendix I. All names in the North are Southern approximations, hence compromises. Even their seas, mountain ranges, etc., have no common names unlike the standard system in the South, so Southern designations are used throughout. None of the following hexes have atmosphere in common with the others or close to that of any Southern hex, although a few inhabitants, notably the Bozog and Yugash, can travel without protection because they don't breathe in the normal sense of the word.

ASTILGOL
N Diurnal The legendary Diviner and The Rel were Astilgolians. Symbiotic creatures resembling a set of hanging crystal chimes on which is set an invisible bowl with little flashing lights. Silicon eaters.

BOZOG
H Diurnal Two eggs sunny side up, full of gritty little balls, and with cilia beneath. Can form the liquid in their sacs into tentacles, etc. and can stick to walls.

CUZICOL
N Nocturnal Metallic yellow flowers with hundreds of sharp spikes, they stand on two spindly legs. One operated on Mavra and Joshi in the Yaxan Embassy.

MASJENADA
S Diurnal Blown glass swans without heads or feet, they can combine and alter their body material, and have the annoying habit of flying through each other with no ill effect.

OYAKOT
H Diurnal Like enormous drab puff-balls with spikes, they are actually a very pleasant, normal sort of folk. They like their oxygen frozen.

PUGEESH
S Nocturnal Little brown disks surrounded by ten thin tentacles. Tribal and easily frightened if they fail to kill you; can induce dreamy lethargy but melt in any heat.

UBORSK
S Diurnal Amorphous sand-dwellers who have become middlemen in the trade between Bozog and Wohafa.

UCHJIN
N Nocturnal Hard people to talk to, they resemble smears of paint dripping in midair.

WOHAFA
H Diurnal Balls of bright yellow light out of which shoot hundreds of lightning-like tentacles. Able to turn energy into matter and one kind of matter to energy and back to something else, making them everybody's favorite trade partner.

YUGASH
H Diurnal These creatures of stable energy that resemble pale red hooded cloaks without wearers and fade in bright light can take over your body if you let them—or don't watch them carefully.

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Quest for the Well of Souls

Table of Contents

THE WARS OF THE WELL, PART II
Kyrbizmyth, a Hex to the South of the Overdark
Makiem
South Zone
North Zone
Glathriel
Dasheen
Glathriel
South Zone
Glathriel
Agitar
Everod, off the Ecundo Coast
Nocha
Ecundo
Hookl
Wuckl
Oolakash
Wuckl
Near the Ecundo-Wuckl Border
Hygit, Chief Port of Wuckl
Mucrol
South Zone
Ortega's Office, South Zone
Yaxa Embassy, South Zone
Yugash, then Masjenada
Oyakot, Nearing the Pugeesh Border
Wohafa
Bozog, the Launch Site Five Hours Later
The Launch Complex Four Hours Later
Bozog, the Launch Site Next Day
Aboard the New Harmony Shuttle
New Pompeii
The Other Side of the Bridge
Underside
Topside
Underside
Topside
Underside
Aboard the Shuttle
An Unnamed Star in M-51
Appendix I: Races of the Southern Hemisphere
Appendix II: Races of the Northern Hemisphere