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  1. ShadowPlay
  2. TAD WILLIAMS
  3. ShadowPlay
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Author’s Note
  6. Contents
  7. Prelude
  8. PART ONE
  9. MASKS
  10. 1
  11. Exiles
  12. 2
  13. Drowning
  14. 3
  15. Night Noises
  16. 4
  17. The Hada-d’in-Mozan
  18. 5
  19. At Liberty
  20. 6
  21. Skurn
  22. 7
  23. Chasing the Jackals
  24. 8
  25. An Unremarkable Man
  26. 9
  27. In Lonely Deeps
  28. 10
  29. Crooked and his Great-Grandmother
  30. 11
  31. A Little Hard Work
  32. 12
  33. Two Yisti Knives
  34. 13
  35. Messages
  36. 14
  37. Hunted
  38. PART TWO
  39. MUMMERS
  40. 15
  41. The Boy in the Mirror
  42. 16
  43. Night Fires
  44. 17
  45. Bastard Gods
  46. 18
  47. Questions with No Answers
  48. 19
  49. Voices in the Forest
  50. 20
  51. A Piece of the Moon’s House
  52. 21
  53. The Deathwatch Chamber
  54. 22
  55. A Meeting of the Guild
  56. 23
  57. The Dreams of Gods
  58. 24
  59. Three Brothers
  60. PART THREE
  61. MACHINES
  62. 25
  63. The Gray Man
  64. 26
  65. Rising Wind
  66. 27
  67. The Players
  68. 28
  69. Secrets of the Black Earth
  70. 29
  71. Bells
  72. 30
  73. The Tanglewife
  74. 31
  75. The Dark-Eyed Girl
  76. 32
  77. Remembering Simmikin
  78. 33
  79. The Crocodile’s Roar
  80. 34
  81. Through Immon’s Gate
  82. 35
  83. Blessings
  84. 36
  85. The False Woman
  86. 37
  87. Silence
  88. 38
  89. Beneath the Burning Eye
  90. 39
  91. City of the Red Sun
  92. 40
  93. Offered to Nushash
  94. 41
  95. Kinswoman to Death
  96. 42
  97. The Raven’s Friend
  98. 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