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Hebraun's white stallion march streiciwr brenhinol unicorn.

  Violet - Rose's childhood friend, escorted to Rose's 16th birthday party by Prince Chadwick of Ellsmore.

  Virtue - Queen Minuet's mare march streiciwr brenhinol unicorn, twin to Vindicator.

  Vorona - gammer spinster who became the first queen of Baile Tuath (Balley Cheery in later times when she shot a troll in the lava tubes of Mount Sliabh (Mount Furor).

  Vortigern - (Overking) the King of Gwael.

  Vyfjapf - troll captain under Fnadiphnignyd. He lost his head to Lukus at Oilean Gairdin.

  Vyrgan - (shit) one of Fnanar's brutes who lost his arm to a strike falcon.

  Vyrpudi - troll scout under Fnadiphnignyd who found Oilean Gairdin. Was captured by Arwr.

  Vyrnydpifn - (bum) second of Fnanar's brutes killed by a strike falcon.

  Warren - a Fairy from Gerddi Teg who had seen dragons on a trip to the Black Desert.

  Waso - the captain under General Coel who pursued Neron, Sulacha, Olloo and Obbree.

  Wilmer and Jake - see Poopkink and Poopdink.

  Wind - dragonet.

  Wiz - Hubba Hubba's name for Wizard Razzmorten.

  Worryface - Spitemorta's name for Private Huna. See Huna.

  Wy Gen - (egg chin) man from the corner table at Tafarn Coch who gave General Coel directions.

  Yann-Ber - of the House of Dark (House of Penn is that of his mother), Demonica's husband, son of Emperor Azenor, disowned heir to the throne of Pennvro (Head) and the Dark Empire, brother of Karl-Veur.

  Yann-Yves - seaman sent by Captain Per-Vari to summon Captain Waso.

  Yestin - colonel, Gwaelian mercenary commandant of Castlegoll.

  Ymladd of Ash Fork - father of Herio.

  Yuna - Karl-Veur's wife, of the House of Egg (Vi).

  Dragons, Strike Falcons, Unicorns and Their Riders

  by mount:

  Aalid (male strike falcon, first) - Obbree

  Abracadabra - Razzmorten

  Ash (female dragon) - Ariel

  Avel (female dragon) - Lily

  Baase (male strike falcon) - Olloo

  Blaise (female dragon) - Meri Greenwood (temporary)

  Brand (male dragon) - Renny and Aden (temporary)

  Cabbyl - Tramman

  Caggey (strike falcon) - Roseen

  Cairys (strike falcon) - Lilee

  Carrey (female strike falcon) - Rose

  Cinder (male dragon) - Olloo (temporary)

  Coady (male strike falcon) - Karl-Veur

  Coileach (Kellagh to Vorona's subjects) (male strike falcon) - Vorona

  Cook (female dragon) - Roseen (temporary)

  Crak-taran (temporary loan from the Gwaels) - Demonica

  Cronney (strike falcon) - Nessie

  Dewr - King James

  Drid Bog (pack unicorn) - Obbree

  Dyswryans (temporary loan from the Gwaels) - Spitemorta

  Eflamm (male firehead) - Sergeant Llygad

  Enoil (female strike falcon, second) - Obbree

  Flame (male dragon) - Herio

  Flash (male dragon) - Sergeant Byrn

  Gwenole - Demonica

  Gwynt (male unicorn) - Herio

  Jeelys (male strike falcon) - Tramman

  Laora (female dragon) - Edward

  Lhigey (unicorn?) - Obbree

  Margh (unicorn) - Captain Perran

  Mas (unicorn, 1000 yrs ago) - Olloo

  Mwg (male dragon) - Sulacha

  Mystique (mare unicorn) - Rose

  Ned - Llewyrch

  Niall - Aedan

  Nightshade - Spitemorta

  Onner (strike falcon) - Doona

  Scabhta (strike falcon) - Sulacha

  Scorch (male dragon) - Daniel

  Sheba - Abaddon

  Sheshey (male strike falcon) - Inney

  Shimmer - Soraya

  Sidoor (male strike falcon) - Fuzz

  Skead - Inney

  Smoke (male dragon) - Neron

  Smorigagh (wild strike falcon hen, mate of Baase) - Olloo

  Starfire - Lukus

  Stepper - Lance

  Tashtey (strike falcon) - Sorcha

  Toast (female dragon) - Abaddon

  Vindicator (stud) - King Hebraun

  Virtue (mare) - Minuet

  by rider:

  Abaddon - Toast (female dragon)

  Abaddon - Sheba

  Aden and Renny (temporary) - Brand (male dragon)

  Aedan - Niall

  Ariel - Ash (female dragon)

  Byrn - Flash (male dragon)

  Daniel - Scorch (male dragon)

  Demonica - Crak-taran (temporary loan from the Gwaels)

  Demonica - Gwenole

  Doona - Onner (strike falcon)

  Edward - Laora (female dragon)

  Fuzz - Sidoor (male strike falcon)

  Hebraun - Vindicator (stud)

  Herio - Flame (male dragon)

  Herio - Gwynt (male unicorn)

  Inney - Sheshey (male strike falcon)

  Inney - Skead

  James - Dewr

  Karl-Veur - Coadey (male strike falcon)

  Lance - Stepper

  Lilee - Cairys (strike falcon)

  Lily - Avel (female dragon)

  Llewyrch - Ned

  Llygad - Eflamm (male firehead)

  Lukus - Starfire

  Meri Greenwood (temporary) - Blaise (female dragon)

  Minuet - Virtue (mare)

  Neron - Smoke (male dragon)

  Nessie - Cronney (strike falcon)

  Obbree - Aalid (male strike falcon, first)

  Obbree - Enoil (female strike falcon, second)

  Obbree - Drid Bog (pack unicorn)

  Olloo (temporary) - Cinder (male dragon)

  Olloo - Baase (male strike falcon)

  Olloo - Smorigagh (wild strike falcon hen, mate of Baase)

  Olloo - Mas (unicorn, 1000 yrs ago)

  Captain Perran - Margh (unicorn)

  Razzmorten - Abracadabra

  Renny and Aden (temporary) - Brand (male dragon)

  Rose - Carrey (female strike falcon)

  Rose - Mystique (mare unicorn)

  Roseen (temporary) - Cook (female dragon)

  Roseen - Caggey (strike falcon)

  Sorcha - Tashtey (strike falcon)

  Soraya - Shimmer

  Spitemorta - Nightshade

  Spitemorta - Dyswryans (temporary loan from the Gwaels)

  Sulacha - Mwg (male dragon)

  Sulacha - Scabhta

  Tramann - Jeelys (male strike falcon)

  Tramman - Cabbyl

  Vorona - Coileach (Kellagh to Vorona's subjects) (male strike falcon)

  Gazetteer

  Altan Ollmhor - (Huge Gorge) a mile and a half deep canyon cut by the Wraith River where it runs along the eastern feet of the Mynoedd Machlud (Sunset Mountains).

  Arabat Enez - Forbidden Island, Demonica's keep.

  Arfordir yn Gwahardd - Forbidden Coast, the coast separating the Black Desert from Mor Dannedd, the Sea of Teeth.

  Argent Abbey - a great abbey next to Niarg Castle.

  Argentowre - a great tower at the front corner of Argent Abbey with a huge bell to ring the hour.

  Argos Ocean - the ocean east of the Eastern Continent and the Dark Continent, called Mor Bras Argos by the Gwaels.

  Ash Fork - village in Niarg, burnt to the ground by Brutus of Goll, just north of the Gold River and just south of southern tip of the Ash Mountains.

  Ash Lake - a lake east of Ash Fork on the Loxmere River, just east of the confluence of the Gold and Loxmere rivers.

  Ashmore - a flat scrubland used for grazing, north and north-west of Ash Fork, Where Hebraun first engaged the Golls.

  Ash Mountains - a small mountain chain running north and south along the border between Niarg and Loxmere.

  Ash River - flows east out of the Ash Mountains to a confluence with the Loxmere River where the Loxmere flows into the Jut of Niarg (Jutwoods), west of Oyster Cove.

  Ashw
ind - Gastron's manor house on the edge of Ash Fork.

  Bae Ar Goll - (Lost Bay) bay on the Forbidden Coast (Arfordir yn Gwahardd) of the Black Desert, where it meets the Sea of Teeth (Mor Dannedd), southeast of the New Dragon Caves.

  Baile Gairdin - (Garden Village) (Balley Garey in later times) the original village of both the Gwaelic Elves and the Jutish Elves.

  Baile Tuath - (Country Town) (Balley Cheery in later times) village of the Gwaelic Elves in the Great Strah.

  Balley Cheerey - (Country Town) (Baile Tuath in earlier times) village of Gwaelic Elves in the Great Strah.

  Balley Garey - (Garden Village) (Baile Gairdin in earlier times) the original village of both the Gwaelic Elves and the Jutish Elves.

  Bay of Niarg - an inlet of the Orin Ocean with the Port of Niarg at its far western end.

  Beak Castle - see Caisteal-Beak and Caistealbeak.

  Beakmoor, the - see Beakmore.

  Beakmore - an extensive region of fens surrounding Caistealbeak, known as the Gobbler Marshes during the Peppermint Forest days.

  Bedd - abreviated name for Bedd Chwiorydd Tair, which see.

  Bedd Chwiorydd Tair - Tomb of the Three Sisters (Towmb of the Three Susters), an extinct volcano with two craters in the southern Pitmaster's Kettles, with a hot spring and an extensive system of lava tubes, especially a very large one connecting the two craters. So named for three fairy sisters imprisoned there with their traitorous brother by Razzorbauch, using the Heart of the Staff.

  Black Desert - vast black sand desert, west of the Chokewood Forest and north of the Dread Sea.

  Boneshire - small kingdom on the north border of Niarg, bordering on the south-west, west and north with Lardshire.

  Border Way - a road running along the border of Ellsmore and Loxmere.

  Brastyr Cleth - see Northern Continent.

  Brastyr Howldrehevel - see Eastern Continent.

  Brastyr Tewl - see Dark Continent.

  Bratin - the capitol of Bratin Brute.

  Bratin Brute - small kingdom north of Cyclopsia and south of the Jut of Niarg.

  Bratin Hall - the castle of Bratin Brute, sometimes called Theranholm.

  Caislean Oilean Gairdin - the royal castle of Oilean Gairdin proper.

  Caisteal-Beak - the Beak castle in the midst of Beakmore, known as the Gobbler Castle in the Peppermint Forest days.

  Caistealbeak Proper - the village surrounding Caistealbeak.

  Caistealbeak - Caistealbeak Proper and the outlying orchards and farmlands which are surrounded by the fens known as Beakmore or the Beakmoor (called Gobbler Marshes in the Peppermint forest days).

  Camys Margey Eeast - Gwaelic Elven for Fish Market Cove, on the northern coast of the Strah.

  Carraig Faire - (Lookout Rock) later known as Creg Boyal Arrey.

  Castle Goll - located in north central Goll, due south of where Duradan Deannaigh lies in the Jut of Niarg.

  Castlegoll - the town surrounding Castle Goll.

  Castle Niarg - north of the Port of Niarg.

  Castle Theranholm - the castle of Bratin Brute.

  Cauldron Lake - a great flooded volcanic crater at the far north end of Pitmaster's Kettles.

  Chocolate Swamp - between the Gobbler Castle and the Dragon Caves.

  Chocolate Volcano - the preferred dragon reference to the Fudge Volcano.

  Chokewood Forest - (Chokewoods) south of Goll and Cyclopsia. Was created by the wizard Razzorbauch when he used the Heart and the Great Staff to permanently change all of the forest's black and red oaks (Quercus) to choke oaks (Pseudoquercus horridus R.) to serve as a vast plantation for enslaved dragons from the Dark Continent.

  Chokewoods - see Chokewood Forest.

  Circle - the vault which housed a great circular table around which the Extended Council began gathering as soon as the refugees joined the dragons at the New Dragon Caves.

  Cradle's Castle - see Leskycastel.

  Creg Boayl Arrey - (Lookout Rock) once known as Carraig Faire, an isolated orange sandstone rock, 121 feet high by ninety yards long, sticking out of the great glacial plain of the Great Strah near Balley Cheerey.

  Cwm Eryr - valley in the Ash Mountains that opens onto Ashmore, where King Hebraun slew the Golls.

  Cyclopsia - realm of the Cyclopses between Chokewoods, Braten Brute and Goll.

  Cyclops Plateaus - where Ownlee and Spike live, next to the Valley of Illusions, in Cyclopsia.

  Cyclops Road - highway from Gollsport and Fairy Valley Junction into Goll.

  Darcastle - See Dark's Castle. Name for Dark's Castle which came into use during Spitenorta's empire.

  Dark Continent - Tywyllwch (Old Niarg Standard), Dorchadas (Jutish Elven), Brastyr Tewl (Gwaelic), Mooar-Rheynn Dorraghey (Gwaelic Elven), Douar-Noz (Headlandish), Mor-Thir Dorch (Goblish-Beakish).

  Darkland - the name used during the time of Spitemorta's empire to refer to Headland and all the other lands of the Dark Continent not part of Demonica's estate.

  Dark's Castle - the home of Emperor Azenor and the seat of the Dark Continent.

  Darcove - See Dark's Cove. Name for Dark's Cove which came into use during Spitenorta's empire.

  Dark's Cove - where Rose and Fuzz land with Yann-Ber.

  Deadmoors, the - a vast tableland desert in the Wilderlands, immediately west of the Great Barrier Mountains and north of the Black Desert, littered with Triassic plant and animal fossils from about 225 million years ago.

  Deatalamh - see Northern Continent.

  Diona - (Dog Town, Ellsmore Proper) Ellsmore's capitol and their only town.

  Diona Castle - royal residence of Ellsmore.

  Doarlish - (Gap) in later times and Doras (Door) in the early days, also called Vorona's Gap, a narrow open fault in the bedrock of the Eternal Mountains due East of Baile Gairdin used as a pass to the Great Strah.

  Dog Towne - name for Diona, capitol of Ellsmore.

  Doras - (Door) in the early days and Doarlish (Gap) in later times, also called Vorona's Gap, a narrow open fault in the bedrock of the Eternal Mountains due East of Baile Gairdin used as a pass to the Great Strah.

  Dorchadas - (Darkness) see Dark Continent.

  Douar Benniget Mountains - (Cemetery Mountains) a mountain chain running from Head (Pennvro) south-south-east, past the east edge of the Fire Domes to the south shores of the Dark Continent.

  Douar-Noz - (Darkland) see Dark Continent.

  Dragon Caves - a limestone cavern system claimed by the Dragon Clan, inland from Dragonsport on the Orin Ocean, immediately south of Pirate Isle, saddling a break in the Dragon Mountain chain, interrupting the folding and faulting of the mountain chain proper with a landscape of sinks and collapsed caverns, also referred to as mountains.

  Dragon Mountains - the name of the mountains on the Northern Continent which run north into the Orin ocean, forming the Pirate Isle Archipelago. During the last ice age of 14,000 to 10,000 years ago, known as the Loxmere Glaciation, the sea level dropped, receding from the Gulf of Orin, leaving a vast Alpine basin that connected the mountains of the archipelago to the mainland.

  Dragonsport - abandoned sukere shipping port on the Orin Ocean, south of Pirate Isle and south of the Gulf of Orin, adjacent to the Dragon Caves.

  Dread Sea - the ocean south of the Black Desert on the Northern Continent.

  Dreeym Feeacklagh - Toothy Ridge, the name for the Eternal Mountain Divide during the time of Spitemorta's empire.

  Droim Fiacail - Toothy Ridge, the name for the Eternal Mountain Divide during the time of the Elven exodus onto the Strah.

  Duiche Fhiain - Jutish Elven for Wilderlands, which see.

  Dunes - a large area of shifting sand hills between the Grog Meadows west of the Dragon Mountains and the south-western coast of the Northern Continent.

  Duradan Deannaigh - Jutish Elven village massacred by the Marooderyn Imshee, one half mile south of the Loxmere River, two leagues upriver from the mouth of the Gold River.

  Dyfnaint - see Swydd Dyfnaint.

  Eas
tern Continent - Lobhadh (Jutish Elven), Gwael (Old Niarg Standard), Gwaremm (Headlandish), Yn Cheer My Hiar (Gwaelic Elven), Brastyr Howldrehevel (Gwaelic), Fearann Ear (Goblish-Beakish), Fafnafaf (trollish).

  Eglos-Derowek - (Oak Grove Church) a ring of stone pillars outside Jyantylesk.

  Ellsmore - small kingdom landlocked by Far on the north and by Loxmere on the west, south and east except for shipping access to the Port of Niarg and Niarg Bay by way of the Shallow Sand River.

  Enchanted Land - a part of Goll and Cyclopsia that includes the Enchanted Mountains, Fairy Valley, the Fairy Mountains and the Valley of Illusions.

  Enchanted Mountains - part of the Enchanted Land, west of Fairy Valley.

  Eternal Mountains - Sleityn Beayn, western mountains of the Eastern Continent.

  Fafnafaf - see Eastern Continent.

  Fair Gardens - see Gerddi Teg.

  Fairy Range - see Fairy Mountains.

  Fairy Mountains - part of the Enchanted Land, east of the Fairy River, north of Fairy Junction in Cyclopsia.

  Fairy River - forms the southern border of Cyclopsia.

  Fairy Valley - part of the Enchanted Land, a large valley of the Fairy River, with the Fairy Mountains forming its eastern range and the Enchanted Mountains forming its western range.

  Fairy Valley Junction - small town in Cyclopsia where Goll's overland trade route joins the Fairy River on its way to Gollsport and the Gulf of Orin.

  Far - small kingdom near the Port of Niarg, bordered by Niarg on the north, west and East, by Loxmere on the south-west and by Elsmore on the south-east.

  Fates' Hospital for the Sick - the hospital which Minuet and Bethan worked in, across the road from the Silver Dragon and down the road from the Yellow Rose Tavern.

  Fearann Ear - (Eastern Land) see Eastern Continent.

  Fen - Elven village, one league down the coast of the Jut of Niarg from Oyster Cove.

  Fforest y Gogledd - see Northern Forest.

  Ffynnon - (Fountain) a large artesian spring which feeds the South Branch of North Fork of the Loxmere River.

  Fire Domes - extinct red obsidian volcanoes making up the western flank of the southern Douar Benniget Mountains, along the eastern Mammvro region, the ancestral home of the dragons in the south-western Dark Continent.

  Forbidden Coast - see Arfordir yn Gwahardd.

  Forbidden Island - Arabat Enez, Demonica's keep.

  Forest Primeval - (Forest Primycies) the vast virgin oak forest that once covered all of the Fairy Valley and all of what was turned into the Chokewood Forest by Razorbauch.

  Forest Primycies - (Forest First Fruits) Meri Greenwood's reference to the Forest Primeval.

  Fudge Volcano - (Chocolate Volcano, so called by the dragons) a volcano in the Peppermint Forest of the Chokewoods, created by Razzorbauch to feed his captive dragons.

  garden isle of the Jutwoods (Jutish) Elves - Oilean Gairdin (Irish) (Jutish Elven and Old Gwaelic Elven).

  Gerddi Teg - (Fair Gardens) Meri Greenwood's subterranean village in the Great North Woods.

  Gerdditowre - the bell tower of Gerddi Teg, with a bell so massive that its peals could be faintly heard and felt on the mountainside above.

  Giant's Cradle - see Jyantylesk.

  Glan Da - see Northern Continent.

  Gnyrjan ntu Afajoy - (Plenty to Eat) trollish for Northern Continent.

  Gobbler Castle - in the midst of the Gobbler Marsh (see Caisteal-Beak).

  Gobbler Marsh - (Marshmallow Marsh) extensive fens surrounding the Gobbler Castle from the Peppermint Forest (Chokewoods) to the Chocolate Swamp, known as Beakmore (or the Beakmoor) to the Beaks, making up the outer reaches of their Kingdom of Mar.

  Gold Lake - a lake on the crater of an extinct volcano at the southern end of the Pitmaster's Kettles, origin of the Gold River.

  Gold River - connects Gold Lake and Loxmere River.

  Goldtown - town one league south of Gold Lake.

  Goll - bordered by the Great Barrier Mountains and the Great Wilderlands on the west, the Jut of Niarg on the north, the Enchanted Mountains and Cyclopsia on the south-east, Bratin Brute on the north-east and the Chokewood Forest on the south.

  Gollmoor - wild area near Castle Goll, used for grazing.

  Gollsburgh - a town in Goll.

  Gollsport - Goll's seaport outside it's borders, leased from Cyclopsia.

  Golltowre - a great tower next to Castle Goll with a huge bell to ring the hour.

  Grand Hill - (Rhiw Mawreddog ), the abandoned lookout for Goldtown, atop an extinct volacno.

  Great Barrier Mountains - form Niarg's western border and the eastern border of the Great Wilderlands.

  Great Boreal