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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

Esterian River Valley—in Syan, most populous place in Eion Falopetris—capitol of Ulos, home of Chaven

Firstford—main city of Silverside

Funderling Town—underground city of Funderlings, in Southmarch Great Gable—Rooftopper sacred spot

Great Kertish Road—a road between Silverside and Kertewall Hakka—islands off the coast of Xand

Hallia Fair—a town in Kertewall

Harbor of Kalkas—Hierosolian harbor

Harbor of Nektarios—Hierosolian harbor

Hierosol—once the reigning empire of the world, now much reduced; its symbol is the golden snail shell

Hive—a temple in Xis, home of the sacred bees of Nushash Holy Wainscoting—Rooftopper sacred spot

Iyar—country in Xand

J’ezh’kral Pit—a place out of Funderling myth

Jellon—kingdom, once part of Syannic Empire

Karalsway—a road in Marrinswalk

Kertewall—one of the March Kingdoms

Kinemarket—a town in Marrinswalk

Kolkan’s Field—manorial farm outside Southmarch, site of the last

Qar/human battle

Krace—a collection of city-states, once part of Hierosoline Empire Kulloan Strait

Lake Strivothos—a large lake (really a bay) at the center of Southern

Eion

Lander’s Port—a Marrinswalk fighing town

Landsend—part of Southmarch, Brone’s fief, colors red and gold Landsman’s Market—a disctrict in Hierosol with a famous market Lantern Broad—widest street in Tessis

Lily Gate—gate leading out of the Seclusion into the city of Xis Little Stell—Daler’s Troth town

Mandrake Court—inner court of the Orchard Palace in Xis Marash—a Xandian province where peppers are grown March Kingdoms—originally Northmarch, Southmarch, Eastmarch and

Westmarch, but after the war with the Qar constituted by Southmarch and the Nine Nations (which include Summerfield and

Blueshore)

Market Road—one of Southmarch’s main roads

Market Square—main public space in Southmarch

Marrinswalk—one of the March Kingdoms

Meadows of the Moon—pastures for the horses of the Qar Mihan—a nation in Xand

Mount, The, aka Midlan’s Mount—rock in Brenn’s Bay upon which

Southmarch is built

Mount Sarissa—mountain in southern Eion (“lance”)—visible from Hierosol, has “neighbors”

Mount Xandos—mythical giant mountain that stood where Xand now lies

Northmarch Road—the old road between Southmarch and the north Nyoru—chief city of Tuan

Observatory House—Chaven’s residence

Odeion—a theater

Onir Diotrodos—Syannese town

Onir Soteros—a district in Hierosol

Onsilpia’s Veil—a large city in Silverside

Oscastle—a city in Marrinswalk

Pomegranate Court—an outer court of the Orchard Palace Port Road—a main road running along the mainland Southmarch seafront

Qirush-a-Ghat—cavern towns of the Qar; name means “Firstdeeps” Quarry Square—a meeting-place in Funderling Town Qul-na-Qar—ancient home of the Qar or Twilight People Raven’s Gate—entrance to Southmarch Castle’s inner keep Reheq-s’lai—Wanderwind Mountains

Rimetrail—a magical river that separates Everfrost from Xandos Royal Highway—sometimes called King Karal’s Road, in Syan, leading all the way to Tessis

Sailmaker’s Row—a street near the docks in Great Xis Salt Pool—underground sea-pool in Funderling Town Sandy Head

Sania—a country in Xand

Sessio—an island kingdom in the south of Eion

Settesyard—capitol of Settland

Settland—small, mountainous country southwest of the March Kingdoms; ally of Southmarch

Shadowline—line of demarcation between lands of Qar and human lands Shehen—“Weeping,” Qar name for Yasammez’ house Shivering Plain—site of a great Qar battle

Siege of Always-Winter—a mythical castle

Silent Hill—a place behind the Shadowline

Siris—Akuanis family county in northeastern Hierosol Sirkot—legendary city in the southernmost part of Xand Skimmer’s Lagoon—body of water inside Southmarch walls, connected to Brenn’s Bay