Contents ( 98)
- ShadowPlay
- TAD WILLIAMS
- ShadowPlay
- Acknowledgements
- Author’s Note
- Contents
- Prelude
- PART ONE
- MASKS
- 1
- Exiles
- 2
- Drowning
- 3
- Night Noises
- 4
- The Hada-d’in-Mozan
- 5
- At Liberty
- 6
- Skurn
- 7
- Chasing the Jackals
- 8
- An Unremarkable Man
- 9
- In Lonely Deeps
- 10
- Crooked and his Great-Grandmother
- 11
- A Little Hard Work
- 12
- Two Yisti Knives
- 13
- Messages
- 14
- Hunted
- PART TWO
- MUMMERS
- 15
- The Boy in the Mirror
- 16
- Night Fires
- 17
- Bastard Gods
- 18
- Questions with No Answers
- 19
- Voices in the Forest
- 20
- A Piece of the Moon’s House
- 21
- The Deathwatch Chamber
- 22
- A Meeting of the Guild
- 23
- The Dreams of Gods
- 24
- Three Brothers
- PART THREE
- MACHINES
- 25
- The Gray Man
- 26
- Rising Wind
- 27
- The Players
- 28
- Secrets of the Black Earth
- 29
- Bells
- 30
- The Tanglewife
- 31
- The Dark-Eyed Girl
- 32
- Remembering Simmikin
- 33
- The Crocodile’s Roar
- 34
- Through Immon’s Gate
- 35
- Blessings
- 36
- The False Woman
- 37
- Silence
- 38
- Beneath the Burning Eye
- 39
- City of the Red Sun
- 40
- Offered to Nushash
- 41
- Kinswoman to Death
- 42
- The Raven’s Friend
- Appendix
Siveda—goddess of night
Skimmers—a people who make their living on and around water Soryaza—mistress of the laundry, former Hive acolyte Surigali—Xixian goddess
Suya—Xandian name for Zoria
Sveros—old god of the night sky, father of Trigon gods Talibo—Effir’s nephew
Tane, King—ancient Vuttish king known as Tane the White and T’chayan
Redhand
Tedora—Axamis Dorza’s Hierosoline wife
Teloni—Pelaya’s sister
Thallo—a Heiosoline queen from the imperial period Timoid, Father—Eddon family mantis (priest)
Tirnan, Havemore—Brone’s former factor, later castellan of Southmarch Travertine, Highwarden—important Funderling of Water Stone House Trigon—priesthoods of Perin, Erivor, and Kernios acting in concert Trigonarch—Head of Trigonate Church, chief religious figure in Eion Turley Longfingers—a Skimmer fisherman, Back-on-Sunset-Tide clan Twelve Families—governing body of old Hierosol
Twilight People—another name for the Qar
Tyne Aldritch, Earl of Blueshore—an ally of Southmarch, killed by Qar Ueni’ssoh—Jikuyin’s adviser, one of the Dreamless
Umdi Onajena—the Xixian name for Madi Onyena
Upsteeplebat, Queen—monarch of the Rooftoppers
Urekh—a god, wore wolf-armor
Urrigijag the Thousand-Eyed—Funderling name for Immon
Ustin—King Olin’s father
Utta—aka “Sister Utta” or “Sor Utta,” a priestess of Zoria and Briony’s tutor—full name: Utta Fornsdodir
Uvis White-Hand—a god, wounded by Kernios
Vanderin—a Syannese poet
Vermilion Cinnabar—wife of Quicksilver magister
Volios of the Measureless Grip—a son of Perin, god of war Waterman—a player
Whispering Mothers—a Qar tribe
White Daughter—a name for Zoria
Widowmakers—Jikuyin’s troop in ancient days
Willow—a young woman
Xarpedon—name of several autarchs of Xand
Xergal—Xandian name for Kernios
Ximander—a mantis, “writer” of a famous book
Xosh—Xandian name for Khors
Yaridoras—a Perikalese White Hound
Yarnos of the Snows—a god
Yasammez—Qar noblewoman, aka “Lady Porcupine” Yazi—a laundry girl from Ellamish border country
Yirrud—a god, son of Rud and Onyena
Yisti—Sanian metalworkers of Funderling blood
Ynnir the Blind King—lord of the Qar, “Ynnir din’at sen-Qin,
Guardian of the Fireflower, Lord of Winds and Thought,” aka “Son of the First Stone”
Zamira—Chaven’s sister
Zmeos—a god, Perin’s nemesis
Zoria—goddess of wisdom
Zosim—son of Erilo, god of playwrights and drunkards Zsan-san-sis—chieftain of the Children of the Emerald Glow
PLACES
Akaris—an island between Xand and Eion
Aldritch Stead—castle of Tyne Aldritch, late earl of Blueshore
Ardos Perinous—a mountain town in Syan
Badger’s Boots—a Southmarch inn
Basilisk Gate—main gate of Southmarch Castle
Blessed Lady of Night—a temple of Siveda, in Tessis
Brenland—small country south of the March Kingdoms
Brenn’s Bay—named after legendary hero
Cat’s Eye Street—a street in Xis
Chakki’s Hole—a district in the northestern corner of central Tessis Citadel Hill—small palatine hill of Hierosol
Coast Road—a road in Marrinswalk
Coiner’s Point—a pramantony of Landsend
Coldgray Moor—legendary battleground, from a Qar word, “Qul
Girah”
Creedy’s Inn—tavern in Greater Stell
Dagardar—trading port of Tuan, also a famous siege by the troops of the old autarch Parnad
Daneya Street—a waterfront street in Hierosol, haunt of prostitutes Dawnwood—site of a battle between Qar and demigod Deep Library—a place in Qual-na-Qar
Doros Kallida—Syannese town
Ealingsbarrow—human settlement now ruined behind the Shadowline Eastmarch Academy—university, originally in old Eastmarch, relocated to Southmarch at the time of the last war with the Qar Eion—the northern continent
Ellamish—border country to Xis
Emberstone Reach—in the Funderling Depths