HOYTE: Onetime First Officer of the Black Diamond, set up Royce to kill Jade, sent Royce to Manzant Prison, killed by Royce

IBIS THINLY: Head cook of the imperial palace

IMP: Slang for Imperialist

IMPERIALISTS: Political party that desires to unite all the kingdoms of men under a single leader who is the direct descendant of the demigod Novron

IMPERIAL PALACE: Seat of power of the New Empire

IMPERIAL SECRETARY: Caretaker of Empress Modina, charged with making her publically presentable

JACOB DERNING: See Derning, Jacob

JADE: Assassin in the Black Diamond, girlfriend of Merrick, mistakenly killed by Royce

JENKINS TALBERT: Squire in Tarin Vale

JEREMY: Guard at Essendon Castle

JERISH GRELAD: Teshlor Knight, first Guardian of the Heir, protector of Nevrik

JERL, LORD: Nobleman, neighbor of the Pickerings known for his prize-winning hunting dogs

JEWEL, THE: Head of the international Black Diamond thieves’ guild, also known as Cosmos DeLur

JIMMY: Tavern worker at The Laughing Gnome

JOQDAN: \jok-dan\ Warlord of the Tenkin village of Oudorro

JULIAN TEMPEST: Chamberlain of the kingdom of Melengar

KAZ: Calian term for anyone with mixed elven and human blood

KENDELL, EARL: Nobleman of Melengar, loyal to Alric Essendon

KHAROLL: Long dagger

KILE: Name used by Erebus when sent to Elan, performs good deeds in the form of a man

KILNAR: City in the south of Rhenydd

KNOB: Baker at the imperial palace

KRINDEL: Prelate of the Nyphron Church and historian

KRIS DAGGER: Weapon with a wavy blade, sometimes used in magic rituals

LAMBERT, IGNATIUS: Chancellor of Sheridan University

LANAKLIN: Once ruling family of Glouston, currently in exile in Melengar, opposes the New Empire

LANDONER: Professor at Sheridan University, tried and burned for heresy

LANKSTEER: Capital city of the Lordium kingdom of Trent

LAUGHING GNOME, THE: Tavern in Ratibor

LAVEN: Citizen of Ratibor

LEIF: Butcher at the imperial palace

LENARE PICKERING: Daughter of Count Pickering and Belinda, sister of Mauvin, Fanen, and Denek

LINGARD: Capital city of Relison, kingdom of Trent

LINROY, DILLNARD: See Dillnard Linroy

LIVET GLIM: Port Controller at Tur Del Fur

LONGWOOD: Forest in Melengar

LOTHOMAD THE BALD: King of Lordium, Trent, expanded territory following the collapse of the Steward’s Reign, pushing south through Ghent into Melengar, where Brodric Essendon defeated him in the Battle of Drondil Fields in 2545

LOWER QUARTER: Impoverished section of the city of Medford

LUGGER: Small fishing boat rigged with one or more lugsails

LUIS GUY: Sentinel of the Nyphron Church, killed Fanen Pickering

LURET: Imperial envoy to Hintindar

MAGNUS: Dwarf, killed King Amrath, sabotaged Arista’s Tower, discovered entry into Avempartha, rebuilding Winds Abbey

MANDALIN: \man-dah-lynn\ Capital of Calis

MANZANT: \man-zahnt\ Infamous prison and salt mine, located in Manzar, Maranon; Royce Melborn is the only prisoner to have been released from it

MARANON: \mar-ah-non\ Kingdom in Avryn, ruled by Vincent and Regina, member of the New Empire, rich in farmland

MARES CATHEDRAL: Center of the Nyphron Church in Melengar, formerly run by Bishop Saldur

MARIBOR: \mar-eh-bore\ God of men

MARIUS, MERRICK: See Merrick Marius