Read Across the Face of the World Online
Authors: Russell Kirkpatrick
Tags: #Fantasy Fiction, #Revenge, #General, #Fiction, #Fantasy, #Immortality, #Immortalism, #Imaginary Wars and Battles, #Epic
Across the Face of the World (76 page)
| Dona Mihst | |
| Pronunciation guide: | Doh -na Mist |
| Definition: | The city built on the sacred site of the Rock of the Fountain in the Vale of Youth |
| Etymology: | First Men, down of mist, later corrupted to dunamis. First Men, power |
| Drozzakalven | |
| Pronunciation guide: | Drohzz -uh-cal-vin |
| Definition: | Small cavern, filled with glow-worms, part of the Adunlok cave system |
| Etymology: | Widuz, dazzle cavern |
| Druim Corrie | |
| AKA: | Drum Mountain |
| Pronunciation guide: | Droo -im Coh -ree |
| Definition: | Widuz name for Drum Mountain, a broad, low peak at the southern end of the Remparer Mountains |
| Etymology: | Widuz, drum rock |
| Druin | |
| Pronunciation guide: | Drew -in |
| Definition: | Youth of Loulea, large boy who bullies others and is keen on Stella |
| Etymology: | Firanese, brown |
| Drum Mountain | |
| AKA: | Druim Corrie |
| Definition: | The nearest of the Remparer peaks to the Westway, just north of Inverell |
| East Bank Road | |
| Definition: | Little-used road following Aleinus River through Piskasia |
| Ehrenmal | |
| Pronunciation guide: | Air -en-mall |
| Definition: | Town in western Favony on the north bank of the Aleinus River |
| Etymology: | First Men, bad blood |
| Eremos | |
| AKA: | Hermit, the |
| Pronunciation guide: | Air -ee-moss |
| Definition: | The prescient given name of the Hermit of Bandits' Cave |
| Etymology: | Ancient Straux, solitary man |
| Factor of Malayu | |
| Definition: | The chief administrator of Malayu, the largest city in Bhrudwo and the known world |
| Falla | |
| AKA: | Flowermask |
| Pronunciation guide: | Fell -ah |
| Definition: | The flowermask used in the Midwinter Play to represent spring |
| Etymology: | Of uncertain origin |
| Faltha | |
| Pronunciation guide: | Fal -thuh |
| Definition: | Continent-sized area covering north-western hemisphere, an amalgam of sixteen independent kingdoms, (see Falthwaite End, Withwestwa Wood) |
| Etymology: | Common Tongue, contraction of Falthwaite, itself a corruption of Withwestwa |
| Falthwaite End | |
| Pronunciation guide: | Fal -thwayte |
| Definition: | Farm on a hillock just north of Loulea. Renowned as the northernmost point reached by the First Men |
| Etymology: | Old Falthan, cultivated land |
| Fanajokull | |
| Pronunciation guide: | Fan -ah- yock -ill |
| Definition: | Massive ice plain to the north of the Plains of Pollerne |
| Etymology: | Firanese, ice water fan |
| Fania | |
| Pronunciation guide: | Far -nee-yuh |
| Definition: | Young woman of Loulea Vale, friend of Stella, keen on Druin |
| Etymology: | Firanese, fern |
| Farr Storrsen | |
| Pronunciation guide: | Far Store -sin |
| Definition: | Older son of Storr of Vinkullen, a thin, angular man |
| Etymology: | Firanese, far |
| Favony | |
| Pronunciation guide: | Fah -vone-ee |
| Definition: | One of the Sixteen Kingdoms of Faltha, located on the plains of central Faltha north of Straux |
| Etymology: | First Men, hot wind |
| Fealty, Knights of | |
| Definition: | These knights were said to have driven the Destroyer out of Faltha a thousand years ago. They were led by Conal Greatheart |
| Fealty, Lay of | |
| Definition: | Verse epic recounting the story of Conal Greatheart and the Knights of Fealty |
| Feerich | |
| Pronunciation guide: | Fee -ritch |
| Definition: | Young man of Loulea Vale, supposedly a dullard |
| Etymology: | Firanese, foeman |
| Fells, the | |
| Definition: | Mountain range of northern Firanes, separating coastlands from harsh uplands of interior |
| Fenbeck River | |
| AKA: | Mossbank River |
| Definition: | Fodhram and Treikan name of the Mossbank River, tributary of the Sagon River (see Mossbank River) |
| Etymology: | Fodhram, marsh brook |
| Fenni, the | |
| Pronunciation guide: | Fen-ny |
| Definition: | Race of losian dwelling on the moors (Myrevidda) of inland Firanes |
| Etymology: | Fenni, ancient people |
| Ferdie | |
| Pronunciation guide: | Ferr -dee |
| Definition: | Husband of Foilzie, property owner of Instruere, recently deceased |
| Etymology: | First Men, shrewd |
| Fernthicket | |
| Definition: | Fodhram village deep in Withwestwa Wood, home of Axehaft, the Fodhram Warden |
| Fiannan Road | |
| Pronunciation guide: | Fee- yarn -in |
| Definition: | Path connecting the Westway to Ciennan, the capital city and chief port of Plonya |
| Etymology: | Plonyan, fair path |
| Firanes | |
| Pronunciation guide: | Firr-uh- ness |
| Definition: | Westernmost of the Sixteen Kingdoms of Faltha. Named for the sunrise on the heights of the Jawbone Mountains |
| Etymology: | First Men, Fire Cape |
| First Men, the | |
| Definition: | Those called north from Jangela by the Most High to live in the Vale of Youth; also applies to those exiled from the Vale who settled in Faltha, and to their descendants |
| Firststep Falls | |
| Definition: | First rapid in Mossbank Cadence |
| Flame of the East | |
| Definition: | Fenni name for the Destroyer |
| Flowermask | |
| AKA: | Falla |
| Definition: | The common tongue rendering of Falla, the flowermask used in the Midwinter Play to represent spring (see Falla) |
| Fodhram | |
| Pronunciation guide: | Fodd -rum |
| Definition: | A short-statured losian race dwelling in the forests of Withwestwa, woodsmen, hunters, farmers and traders |
| Etymology: | Fodhram, woodsman |
| Foilzie | |
| Pronunciation guide: | Foyl -zee |
| Definition: | Widow of Instruere, tenement-owner, shoemaker and stall-holder |
| Etymology: | First Men, help mate |
| Fonndelva | |
| Pronunciation guide: | Fonn- dell -vuh |
| Definition: | River of inland Firanes, separating the Fells and Havanger Range |
| Etymology: | Firanese, wide stream |
| Fort Brumal | |
| Pronunciation guide: | Broo -mull |
| Definition: | Abandoned trading post at the western terminus of the Southern Run, previously known as Fort Ermine |
| Etymology: | Fodhram, brumous = wintry |
| Freta | |
| Pronunciation guide: | fray -tuh |
| Definition: | Small denomination coin common to northern Faltha |
| Etymology: | Of uncertain origin |
| Fuirfad | |
| AKA: | Realm of Fire, Way of Fire |
| Pronunciation guide: | Foo-ir- fadd |
| Definition: | The lore and religion of the First Men, the teachings which enabled them to follow the Most High |
| Etymology: | First Men, fire path |
| Furist | |
| Pronunciation guide: | Few -rist |
| Definition: | Arkhos (leader) of the House of Landam in exile, founder of Sarista |
| Etymology: | First Men, to be admired |
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