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Law of Life, the:
the natural order which separates the dead from the living

Law-Breaker:
title given to both High Lord Elena and Caer-Caveral

Lax Blunderfoot:
a name chosen by Latebirth in self-castigation

Lena:
a Stonedownor, daughter of Atiaran, mother of Elena

lianar:
wood of power used by an eh-Brand

Liand:
a man of Mithil Stonedown, son of Fostil; companion of Linden Avery

Lifeswallower:
the Great Swamp

lillianrill:
wood-lore; masters of wood-lore

Lithe:
a Manethrall of the Ramen

Llaura:
a Heer of Soaring Woodhelven

Loerya:
a Lord, wife of Trevor

lomillialor:
High Wood; a wood of power

Longwrath:
a Giant; Swordmainnir name for Exalt Widenedworld

Lord:
one who has mastered both the Sword and the Staff aspects of Kevin’s Lore

Lord-Fatherer:
title given to Berek Halfhand

Lord Foul:
the enemy of the Land; the Despiser

“Lord Mhoram’s Victory”:
a painting by Ahanna

Lord of Wickedness:
a-Jeroth

Lord’s-fire:
staff-fire used by the Lords

Lord’s Keep:
Revelstone

Lords, the:
the primary protectors of the Land

loremaster:
a leader of ur-viles

Loresraat:
Trothgard school at Revelwood where Kevin’s Lore is studied

Lorewarden:
a teacher in the Loresraat

loreworks:
Demondim power-laboratory

Loric Vilesilencer:
a High Lord; son of Damelon Giantfriend

lor-liarill:
Gildenlode

Lost, the:
Giantish name for the Unhomed

Lost Deep, the:
a loreworks; breeding pit/laboratory under Mount Thunder where Demondim, Waynhim, and ur-viles were created

Lostson:
a Giant; later name for Exalt Widenedworld

Lower Land, the:
region of the Land east of Landsdrop

lucubrium:
laboratory of a thaumaturge

lurker of the Sarangrave, the
: monster inhabiting the Great Swamp

Magister, the:
former Forestal of Andelain

Mahdoubt, the:
a servant of Revelstone; one of the Insequent

Mahrtiir:
a Manethrall of the Ramen; companion of Linden Avery

maidan:
open land around
Elemesnedene

Maker, the:
jheherrin
name for Lord Foul

Maker-place:
jheherrin
name for Foul’s Creche

Malliner:
Woodhelvennin Heer, son of Veinnin

Mane:
Ramen reference to a Ranyhyn

Maneing:
Ramen ceremony of becoming a Manethrall

Manethrall:
highest Ramen rank

Manhome:
main dwelling place of the Ramen in the Plains of Ra

Marid:
a man of Mithil Stonedown; Sunbane victim

Marny:
a Ranyhyn; mount of Tuvor

marrowmeld:
bone-sculpting;
anundivian yajña

Master:
commander of a Giantship

Master, the:
Clave-name for Lord Foul

master-rukh,
the:
iron triangle at Revelstone which feeds and reads other
rukhs

Masters of the Land, the:
Haruchai
who have claimed responsibility for protecting the Land from Corruption

Mehryl:
a Ranyhyn; mount of Hile Troy

Melenkurion:
one of the Seven Words

Melenkurion
Skyweir:
a cleft peak in the Westron Mountains

Memla:
a Rider of the Clave; one of the na-Mhoram-in

mere
-son:
name or title given to Esmer

merewives:
the Dancers of the Sea

metheglin:
a beverage; mead

Mhoram:
a Lord, later high Lord; son of Variol

Mhornym:
a Ranyhyn stallion; mount of Clyme

Mill:
one of the Seven Words

Minas:
one of the Seven Words

mirkfruit:
papaya-like fruit with narcoleptic pulp

Mishio Massima:
the Ardent’s mount

Mistweave:
a Giant

Mithil River:
a river of the Land

Mithil Stonedown:
a village in the South Plains

Mithil’s Plunge, the:
waterfall at the head of the Mithil valley

Moire Squareset:
a Giant; one of the Swordmainnir; killed in battle by the
skurj

moksha:
a Raver, Jehannum, Fleshharrower

Morin:
First Mark of the Bloodguard; commander in original
Haruchai
army

Morinmoss:
a forest of the Land

Morninglight:
one of the
Elohim

Morril:
a Bloodguard, assigned to Lord Callindrill

Mount Thunder:
a peak at the center of Landsdrop

Muirwin Delenoth:
resting place of abhorrence; graveyard of
quellvisks

Murrin:
a Stonedownor, mate of Odona

Myrha:
a Ranyhyn; mount of High Lord Elena

na-Mhoram, the:
leader of the Clave

na-Mhoram-cro:
lowest rank of the Clave

na-Mhoram-in:
highest rank of the Clave below the na-Mhoram

na-Mhoram-wist:
middle rank of the Clave

Naharahn:
a Ranyhyn mare; mount of Pahni

Narunal:
a Ranyhyn stallion; mount of Mahrtiir

Nassic:
father of Sunder, son of Jous; inheritor of an Unfettered One’s mission to remember the Halfhand

Naybahn:
a Ranyhyn; mount of Branl

Nelbrin:
son of Sunder, “heart’s child”

Nicor,
the:
great sea-monsters; said to be offspring of the Worm of the World’s End

Nom:
a Sandgorgon

North Plains, the:
a region of the Land

Northron Climbs, the:
a region of the Land

Oath of Peace, the:
oath by the people of the Land against needless violence

Odona:
a Stonedownor, mate of Murrin

Offin:
a former na-Mhoram

Old Lords, the:
Lords prior to the Ritual of Desecration

Omournil:
Woodhelvennin Heer, daughter of Mournil

One Forest, the:
ancient forest covering most of the Land

One Tree, the:
mystic tree from which the Staff of Law was made

Onyx Stonemage:
a Giant; one of the Swordmainnir

orcrest:
a stone of power; Sunstone

Osondrea:
a Lord, daughter of Sondrea; later high Lord

Padrias:
Woodhelvennin Heer, son of Mill

Pahni:
a Cord of the Ramen, cousin of Sahah; companion of Linden Avery

Palla:
a healer in Berek Halfhand’s army

Peak of the Fire-Lions, the:
Mount Thunder, Gravin Threndor

Pietten:
Woodhelvennin child damaged by Lord Foul’s minions, son of Soranal

pitchbrew:
a beverage combining
diamondraught
and
vitrim
, conceived by Pitchwife

Pitchwife:
a Giant; member of the Search; husband of the First of the Search

Plains of Ra, the:
a region of the Land

Porib:
a Bloodguard

Power of Command, the:
Seventh Ward of Kevin’s Lore

Pren:
a Bloodguard

Prothall:
High Lord, son of Dwillian

Prover of Life:
title given to Thomas Covenant

Puhl:
a Cord of the Ramen

Pure One, the:
redemptive figure of
jheherrin
legend

Quaan:
Warhaft of the Third Eoman of the Warward; later Hiltmark, then Warmark

quellvisk:
a kind of monster, now apparently extinct

Quern Ehstrel:
true name of the Mahdoubt

Quest for the Staff of Law, the:
quest to recover the Staff of Law from Drool Rockworm

Questsimoon,
the:
the Roveheartswind; a steady, favorable wind, perhaps seasonal

Quilla:
a Heer of First Woodhelven

Quirrel:
a Stonedownor, companion of Triock

Ramen:
people who serve the Ranyhyn

Rant Absolain:
the
gaddhi

Ranyhyn:
the great horses of the Plains of Ra

Ravers:
Lord Foul’s three ancient servants

Raw,
the:
fjord into the demesne of the
Elohim

Rawedge Rim, the:
mountains around
Elemesnedene

Reader:
a member of the Clave who tends and uses the
master-rukh

Rede, the:
knowledge of history and survival promulgated by the Clave

Revelstone:
Lord’s Keep; mountain city formed by Giants

Revelwood:
seat of the Loresraat; tree city grown by Lords

rhadhamaerl:
stone-lore; masters of stone-lore

rhee:
a Ramen food, a thick mush

Rhohm:
a Ranyhyn stallion; mount of Liand

rhysh:
a community of Waynhim; “stead”

rhyshyshim:
a gathering of
rhysh
; a place in which such gathering occurs

Riddenstretch:
a region north of the Soulsease River

Rider:
a member of the Clave

Ridjeck Thome:
Foul’s Creche, the Despiser’s home

rillinlure:
healing wood dust

Rime Coldspray:
a Giant; the Ironhand of the Swordmainnir

Ringthane:
Ramen name for Thomas Covenant, then Linden Avery

ring-wielder:
Elohim
term of reference for Thomas Covenant

Rire Grist:
a Caitiffin of the
gaddhi
’s Horse

Rites of Unfettering:
the ceremony of becoming Unfettered

Ritual of Desecration, the:
act of despair by which High Lord Kevin destroyed the Old Lords and ruined most of the Land

Rivenrock:
deep cleft splitting
Melenkurion
Skyweir and its plateau; there the Black River enters Garroting Deep

River Landrider, the:
a river of the Land, partial border of the Plains of Ra

Riversward:
a region north of the Soulsease River

Rockbrother:
Swordmainnir name for Stave

Rockbrother, Rocksister:
terms of affection between humans and Giants

rocklight:
light emitted by glowing stone

roge Befylam:
Cavewight-form of the
jheherrin

Rohnhyn:
a Ranyhyn; mount of Bhapa after Whrany’s death

Roveheartswind, the:
the
Questsimoon

Rue:
a Manethrall of the Ramen, formerly named Gay

Ruel:
a Bloodguard, assigned to Hile Troy

Ruinwash, the:
name of the River Landrider on the Lower Land

rukh:
iron talisman by which a Rider wields the power of the Sunbane

Runnik:
a Bloodguard

Rustah:
a Cord of the Ramen

Sablehair Foamheart:
a Giant, also called Filigree; mate of Soar Gladbirth; mother of Exalt Widenedworld

sacred enclosure:
Vespers-hall at Revelstone; later the site of the Banefire

Sahah:
a Cord of the Ramen

Saltheart Foamfollower:
a Giant, friend of Thomas Covenant

Saltroamrest:
bunk hold for the crew in a Giantship

Salttooth:
jutting rock in the harbor of the Giants’ Home

Salva Gildenbourne:
forest surrounding the Hills of Andelain; begun by Sunder and Hollian

samadhi:
a Raver, Sheol, Satansfist

Sandgorgons:
monsters of the Great Desert of
Bhrathairealm

Sandgorgons Doom:
imprisoning storm created by Kasreyn to trap the Sandgorgons

Sandhold, the:
the
gaddhi
’s castle in
Bhrathairealm

Sandwall, the:
the great wall defending
Bhrathairain

Santonin:
a Rider of the Clave, one of the na-Mhoram-in

Sarangrave Flat:
a region of the Lower Land encompassing the Great Swamp

Satansfist:
a Giant-Raver, Sheol,
samadhi

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