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Last Life Glossary

by Alexey Osadchuk

From Max’s Prior Life

  1. The Colonel – Warden of Super Max prison
  2. Lord Darem and Darem Junior – (Jack Smith) Dodger’s antagonists
  3. Thais – Jack’s adopted sister
  4. Vadoma – Jack’s adopted mother, gypsy, and witch
  5. Lord Carter – Jack’s erstwhile employer
  6. Mamoru Yamada – Jack’s teacher for sword fighting, etc.

Max’s Family & Associates

  1. Maximillian Renard – Jack’s new life, around 18
    • Bertrand Fournier – Max’s valet, around 60, sinewy, below average height, son of a miller
    • Jacques – former soldier with gray eyes, porter and lover of Madame Richard
    • Kevin Barlow – son of merchant from Foggy Isles, gifted with amber energy and rescued from slavery in Sardent
    • Gunnar – rescued from slavery in Sardent, native of western Astland
    • Sigurd Hansen – Avant stryker, tall stocky with long gray hair in a bun and beard in braids with hideous burn scars on cheeks shaped like runes, heretic of Hoar the Wicked
      • Aelira – snow leopard shifter, wife of Sigurd with snow-white hair and light blue eyes
    • Lucas Denvers – Jacques army buddy with culinary skills and dreams of becoming an innkeeper
    • Sergeant Tom Davis and boys – Jacques army buddy
    • Susanna Marino – junior accountant at Dept of Carts and Wagons, fled Atalia, descendant of the Aghuane (sylvan heritage)
    • Sophia-Verena von Mirbach – Duchess of Wurttemberg, Princess of Astland, daughter of Conrad the Fifth, blond with turquoise-colored eyes
    • Captain Druton – commander of Max’s flotilla (Otter, Tortoise, Golden Bass, Sea Snake)
    • Mathieu Chabrolle – personal attorney
    • Leo von Grimm – stryker
    • Hans Krause – quartermaster, one-handed (no right hand)
    • First Borns
      • Itta – Nisse, homebody and home guard
      • Ignia – Fayret, fire
      • Vaira – Efirel, wind
      • Selina – Lunari, dreams and tides
      • Lorin – Hejdelf, guardian of livestock
    • Remy Dormal – manager, hired away from Weber & Sons
    • Zacharias Beron – financial advisor
    • Horses
      • Chickadee – previously lame white-coated beauty bought from circus at Herouxville
      • Shadow – Württemberg mistral
  2. Ferdinand de Gramont (the Lion) – Max’s father, executed by beheading by the king
    • Margarita – Wife, interred at convent for the mentally ill at the Temple of the Most Luminous Mother
    • Henri – eldest son, executed
    • Phillippe – second son, executed
    • Nadine – first daughter
    • Patricia – second daughter
    • Valerie – 20yr old youngest daughter, with green eyes
    • Gerald Lambert – Max’s teacher, executed with Max’s father and brothers
  3. Heinrich de Gramont (the Shrimp) – Max’s uncle who betrayed his brother to the king
    • Chatherine de Gramont – wife of Heinrich
    • Gabriel – eldest son
    • Francois – younger son
    • Yveline – Count’s youngest daughter
    • Marielle – Count’s oldest daughter, exact copy of her mother
    • Bruno Foulon – senior aide to the steward for the Count
  4. Duchess Jeanne du Bellay – Stone Lady, Max’s aunt
  5. Pascal Legrand – Max’s estranged grandfather, merchant of the Golden Hundred, head of Legrand and Sons trading house
    • Isabelle Legrand – Max’s oldest aunt
    • Anna Legrand Renard – Max’s mother who died at childbirth
    • Adeline Legrand Beauchard – Max’s second aunt
    • Alain Beauchard – Adeline’s son
    • Margarita Camure – second cousin of Pascal Legrand
  6. Fox Den Staff
    • Marc Ducos – Butler
    • Charles Simon – Servant at the Gate
    • Agnes Cassault – Senior Cook
      • Josie – daughter and long-time partner of Max from childhood to teen, danced with Max
    • Benedict – quiet, industrious gardener, spying for Duchess de Clairmont
    • Romen Siville – assistant to Agnes the chef, spy of Count Heinrich
    • Denise – flirty maid, spying for secret chancery
    • Jean-Claud Sylvain – Tailor
    • Michel Roupe – Jeweler

Abbeville

  1. Monsieur Robert – physician
  2. Vincent de Lamar – professional duelist
  3. Vivienne Leroy – Actress with wavy light chestnut hair, fine cheekbones, pointed chin, big slightly sloping eyes the color of dark amber, object of prior Max’s affections
  4. Madame Richard – House Manager for Max’s apartment complex
  5. Jacques – former soldier with gray eyes, porter and lover of Madame Richard
  6. Beatrice (Trixie) – Max’s erstwhile maid with chestnut hair
  7. Monsieur Moreau – Attorney
  8. Patrick Dupree – Trixie’s fiancee
  9. Bugeau – Deputy Director of the Abbeville Chancery
    • Rebecca (Becks) – maid of Monsieur Bugeau
  10. Leon Weber – Weber and Sons trading house, richest in Abbeville
    • Wife, 50yrs old
    • Gerard – eldest son, killed by highwaymen
    • Lucy – Eldest daughter, 20yrs old
    • Ruben – Son, 14 yrs old
  11. Trebolt – crime boss, Max’s debtor, owner of Yellow Turtle gambling den
    • Paul Lepetit – bookmaker
    • Crab – bald, broad-shouldered bruiser
    • Beetle – short, thin with curly hair
    • Block – taciturn ugly giant
    • Goldfinch – a grubby child who helped find Bertrand
    • Bull – doorman for Paul Lepetit
    • Gaston Barbier – the Butcher, Trebolt’s closet confidant
    • Chevalier de Nevers – Max’s erstwhile friend who was working for Trebolt betrothed to Irene Danet, daughter of Zacharie Danet
      • Jack Evans – mercenary
      • Zacharie Danet – wealthy cloth merchant, debtor of prior Max
  12. Betty Gilbert – daughter of head of Gilbert trading house with dirty blonde hair, blue eyes, and freckles
  13. Law Enforcement
    • Jerome Tonnerre – Seargeant of the Second Cohort
    • Henri Morelle – second in command of Jerome, red-headed giant
  14. Count Theodore de Angland
    • Viscount de Angland – betrothed to Viscountess de Brionne, big-nosed, stocky
      • Chevalier Daveluy – friend at duel yard
      • Viscount de Goddard – friend at duel yard
      • Baron de Jamet – friend at duel yard
  15. Count de Brionne – Lord of Abbeville
  16. Ursula Hoog – Artifactor from Ashland with gray hair and green eyes
  17. Guy Arnault – owner of Mace and Poleaxe armory, Jacques old army buddy
  18. Lada – witch from Astland with coal-blacked hair and dark green eyes
  19. Gaspard Mercier – owner of bookshop
  20. Baptiste Harcourt – pawn broker, distant relative of the second most influential city councilman
    • Jaco – his son
  21. Monsieur Dormael/Dormal – clerk at Weber Trading house

Westerly Fort / Toulon

  1. Louis de Rohan, Baronet, Captain, Commander of the Fort
    • Jean Tassen – Lieutenant, from merchant family
    • Brossard – Lieutenant, co-conspirator with Rohan & Buket
    • Maitre Jacob – gifted with dark green energy, alchemist
    • Leonard Vidal – chevalier
    • Baron von Brunon – from east Astland career military family
    • Baron von Holtz – from east Astland
    • Sergeant Ravel – suffers from stomach ailment
    • Samdan and Barlas – Steppe-native guides/scouts
    • Gobert – local secret chancery agent
    • Theodore Vincent – ex-Lieutenant, injured by a strange fall
      • Clementine – Wife, housekeeper
      • 2 daughters
  2. Roland Buquet – caravan leader, retired sergeant from royal legion
  3. Poor Saps – peasant recruits for shadow patrol
    • Pierre – died from crossbow bolt of assassin
    • Jeremie – rescued from slavery in Sardent
    • Kevin Barlow – son of merchant from Foggy Isles, gifted with amber energy and rescued from slavery in Sardent
    • Gunnar – rescued from slavery in Sardent, native of western Astland
    • Claude – rescued from slavery in Sardent
    • Luc – rescued from slavery in Sardent
  4. Guild of the Nightwolves – an assassin guild with wolf spellswords
  5. Tomcat – leader of the street children at Sardent
  6. Arvid Ulsson – Northlander who was looking after purchased slaves for his maternal uncle
  7. Chariez – Caravan leader in Briard
  8. Monsieur Cluzet – meticulous and scrupulous attorney in Sardent
  9. Monsieur Mollet – owner of inn and small manor in Toulon
  10. Renegade Strykers
    • Louis de Valence – Wild Duke
    • Tikka – Cat shape changer (Lutine)
    • Claude Bunel
    • Derek Grant
    • Zoe de Namur – Wild Duke’s lover
  11. Lao Tribe
    • Mongwo – spirit-talker
    • Salalee (Sal) – grand daughter of Mongwo
    • Toghkwos (Togh) – grand son of Mongwo
    • Mak’ya – chief hunter
    • Hass – hunter
  12. Tao Tribe
  13. Rao Tribe
  14. Mao Tribe
  15. Venona of Clan Frostwind – prisoner of Wild Duke for 2 years
  16. Marquise Carl de Crepon – Mayor of Toulon
  17. Eric Judor – money lender

Vestonia

  1. Carl the Third the Victorious – the King of Vestonia
    • Phillipe – first son, 30 yrs old, looks to Duke de Bauffremont (red)
    • Heinrich – martial second son, allied with Craonnes (blue)
      • Baron von Herwart – Heinrich’s best swordman
      • Vincent de Lamar – Heinrich’s swordsman
      • Viscount Andre de Chatillon – black haired, fashionable, strong, sinewy, agile, one of the top swordsmen of Herouxville
      • Marquess Olivier de Hangest – red-haired, big, heir to dukedom
      • Gaspard Craonne – blond, youngest son of Damien, head of Craonne banking empire
    • Louis – third son, patron of the arts (green)
      • Baron Jean-Louis de Levy – personal perfumer, red-haired, short, plump, wide and open face with freckles
      • Olivier de Belmont – chamberlin
    • Bastien – youngest son who died at sea
      • Adele – grand daughter, 13 or 14 yrs old
      • Captain de Scalon – Princess’s guard captain
    • Kiko (Baron Armand de Lusignan) – Royal Jester, hunchback
    • Marcel de Gaben – Shadow of the king
    • Lambert de Vergy – Chancellor
    • Arnauld de Garnier – court astrologer
      • Jean-Paul Boucheron – top student of Arnauld who raved that appearance of fox tail comet will bring drastic changes to entire royal family (the comet appeared the same time Max was reborn)
    • Ruben Garelle – king’s senior healer
    • Lambert de Courtenay – personal secretary to the king
    • Maitre Sarsonne – the royal executioner
  2. Duke Edouard de Clairmont – Marshal of Vestonia
    • Louisa – wife, first lady of bedchamber to the Queen of Vestonia
    • Christine – daughter, died at child birth
    • Gauthier – son, died defending the king
    • Countess Francois de Puzet – younger sister of Duke de Clairmont
      • Viscount Jean de Puzet – son
    • Count Guilleme de Leval – friend and comrade, right hand
      • Pierre de Leval – eldest son
        • Viscount de Saladens
        • Viscount de Ardant
      • Samuel Kroner – captain of a 3rd legion cohort of 400 heavy infantry
    • Frederic de Bozon – comrade
  3. Duke Claude de Bauffremont – eldest brother of the Queen of Vestonia (from Astland)
    • Tikka – Cat shape changer (Lutine)
    • Count Etienne de Broglie – short with long, curly blond hair and big birthmark on his left temple, 30yrs old
  4. Duke Robert de Gondy – largest landholders south of Vestonia, ruler of Aquitaine
    • Ducal Crest – Red and blue escutcheon supported by a pair of rampant manticores crowned by a six-toothed golden crown
    • Eric/Erique – heir, marquess
    • Blanca – daughter, marchioness
    • Count Armand de Lorraine – trusted confidant of the duke sent to advise Eric
  5. Duke de Hangest – Marshal of Vestonia
    • Marquis Olivier de Hangest – red-haired, big, heir to dukedom
    • Marquis Louis de Hangest – with Fifth Legion at Sapphire Citadel
  6. Charles Harcourt – novelist
  7. Marquise de Coligny – danced with Marielle de Gramont
  8. Count de Marbot – Neighbor of Count de Gramont in dispute for Forest of Thilez (yew trees), owner of Chateau de Toury
    • Viscount Emile – the Toad, the lizard
      • Gabrielle de Marbot – Emile’s mother
    • Viscountess Aurelie – 28 yr old barren
      • Geraldine – personal maid
  9. Thomas Gilbert – head of Gilbert trading house for wine, originally from Foggy Isles, shipwrecked in Vestonia
    • Thomas Jr – was in love with Anna Legrand, killed while in Shadow Patrol
    • Betty Gilbert – daughter
    • Baronet Kurt von Lau – son-in-law from Astland
  10. Craonne – banking family
  11. Henry Puree – head of Department of Carts and Wagons, secret chancery
    • Susanna Marino – agent at secret chancery, fled Atalia, descendant of the Aghuane (sylvan heritage)
  12. Lord Edouard Gray – most powerful Stryker of Vestonia
    • Robert Bolton – arms bearer
    • Gaston de Gaulle – arms bearer
    • Cecilia Black – stryker from Foggy Isles
  13. Count de Blois – invaded Lord Gray’s fief (likely instigated by Duke de Gondy)
  14. Viscount Bastien de Tosny – Watchmaker, collector of artifacts & antiquities
    • Arnaud Lefevre – assistant
    • Zacharias Beron – financial advisor
  15. Pierre Claverie, pikeman escorting the Princess at Luminous Mother’s temple
  16. Frederic de Moati – grandmaster of Stone Knights / Order of the Gray Rock – mission is to exterminate the True gifted
    • Theodore de la Roche – elder knight
  17. Jean-Claude Sylvain – younger son of Robert Sylvain, one of Herouxville’s top tailors, personal tailor for Max
  18. Duke de Harcourt – uncle of King Carl who failed in his usurpation, previous owner of Sunstone Palace on Eagle Island outside of Herouxville
  19. Maestro Gamblin – Orchestra leader at Duchess du Bellay’s ball
  20. Maitre Dugary – top capital city healer
  21. Brima – pack mother of Nightwolves Guild of werewolf assassins
    • Kervan – Matagot who lives by the Werewolves den
  22. Madleyn – elder mother of witch coven
    • Yvonne – youngest daughter
    • Lucille – herbal shop front person
  23. Basile Bleroux – Elder of the Order of Potters, leader of clan of spellswords, badger
    • Ulf – artifactor who created wolf amulets
  24. Charles Boursari – founder of House de Boursari, owner of the Moneychanger’s square Exchange
  25. First Borns
    • Kervan – Matagot who lives by the Werewolves den
    • Hardwick – brownie
    • Hartal – Matagot
    • Silfen – dreamling
    • Gervin – Matagot living by Order of the Potter’s castle
  26. Mercenary Guilds
    • Gaspard Fontaine – Master of Flaming Spears
    • Red Axes
    • Souls of Steel
  27. Gilbert de Ambrelle – Grandmaster of Amber Guild of mages
    • Marquis Robert de Talleyrand, grandmaster, distant cousin of Duke de Bauffremont
    • Samira Clemand – stryker attached to 3rd Legion
  28. Armand de Valmont – commandant of Gray Towers (dungeon for aristocrats)
  29. Gaston Laforte – Captain of Legion of Last Chances
  30. Count de Brisse – Bresmont’s count
  31. Pierre Girot – performing troupe playing in Bresmont
  32. Yavlina – coven mother in Bresmont
  33. Count de Rondi – former ambassador to Conrad V of Astland, head of an ancient house, attracted the eye of Queen Sophia, mother of Conrad V

Bergonia

  1. Count Thomas de Durfort – ambassador to Atalia, executed by Atalian
  2. King of Bergonia – sacrificed by the Scarlet Priests
    • 2 sons – killed in battle with Atalians
  3. Sapphire Citadel – large fortress built by ancient masters at the foot of a range of sheer cliffs used by Sapphire Guild as redoubt and treasury
    • Count Etienne de Mornay – Stryker, met with Max in Northland, from one of the wealthiest and most ancient family, a Royal relation, trained at Sapphire Guild
    • Marquise de Latille – most powerful avant trained at Sapphire Guild, disappeared in the Frosty Gloom (northern Shadow)
    • Aldrich van Klausen – of Klausen & sons trading company, Mage-Artificer, member of Sapphire Guild
    • Motto of guild: “The Star in the Crown — the Sapphire among stones”
  4. Chateau Gardien – guard fortress at the valley entrance to Sapphire Citadel
    • Maitre Chamot and ballista crews
  5. Baron Hilaire Reese – leader of Mertonian archers from Foggy Isles, a clan of Glenns
  6. Count Robert de Lacquert – owner of castle in eastern part of Bergonia, part of maternal relative Etienne de Mornay’s entourage to Northland
  7. Count de Poitiers – marshal during the time when Carl III’s father was the king
  8. Baron Louis de Rochand – comrade of Francois de Gramont while fighting the Atalians
  9. Count Charles de Rolenne – new commander of the Estonian army in Bergonia

Northlands

  1. Konung Bjørn Sharptooth – Ruler of Vintervald
    • Margaret – Queen
    • Astrid the Swift – daughter with pale blond with blue eyes, gifted
    • Erik – youngest son, light hair and dark blue eyes
      • Magnus – black-haired companion
      • Knut – red-haired companion
    • Olaf the Gray – eldest son
    • Ulf Wolfheart – second son
    • Crest – a bear rampant
  2. Helga the Valiant – pseudo-Thais with dark eyes, raven locks, dimples, healer
    • Jarl Siguard Bloodsword – Helga’s father and elder brother of Queen Margaret, Astrid’s mother
    • Crest – Black Boar’s head on yellow
  3. King Harold Graywolf – war lord allied with werewolves and Frost priests
    • Ivar the Raven – son of Harold
  4. Frost priests of Hoar – wears white robes with deep hoods
    • Thomas – Stryker
    • Greta – Stryker
    • Eimund Larsson – Priest
    • Gird Rante
    • Ulrich Jensen
    • Jan Burns – commander of five strykers
    • Sister Fria – Hrimthur (ice demon)
    • Brother Valder – Soul Catcher
    • Keyvan – hrimthur
    • Aisel – hrimthur
  5. Council of 5 Jarls- at war with Harold
    • Jarl Gunnar Fiercebear – younger brother of Bjorn Sharptooth
    • Jarl Torstein, Stonehands – best hand to hand fighter in Northland
  6. Leif Rene – one-legged owner of Copper Cauldron tavern, army buddy of Jaques with Vestonian father and Northlander mother
  7. Count Etienne de Mornay – close relation of Royal family in Bergonia, trained at Sapphire Guild
    • Pierre Leger – 3rd valet
  8. Blades of Dusk – most famed and oldest guild of mercenaries, newly located at Icy Cliff fortress on the outskirts of Fjordgrad
    • Herman von Salm – grandmaster of the guild
    • Armando Marino – gatekeeper, assistant to the commander of Icy Cliff fortress
    • Gisa Fellen – business manager
    • Sigurd Hansen – Avant stryker, tall stocky with long gray hair in a bun and beard in braids with hideous burn scars on cheeks shaped like runes, heretic of Hoar the Wicked
      • Aelira – snow leopard shifter, wife of Sigurd with snow-white hair and light blue eyes
  9. Albrecht Lothar – artifacts at Fjordgrad’s crafting district, master weapon smith
  10. Eirik Irontooth – head of Clan Brownwolf of Varglund (wolf glade) – ulfhednar (shape shifter)
    • Sverre Moonbeast – can speak to regular wolves
    • Agmund Gray – relative of Eirik, from Clan Moonwolf
  11. Baron Pierce Butler – from Foggy Isles, one of the top Steel Guild trained strykers
    • Picked by Duke Arcedekne to participate in the Great Trial
  12. Olaf Birdwatcher – younger son of the chief of Clan Snowhair, Magnus Thunder, with power of forest spirits
    • Magnus Thunder – clan chief, father of Olaf
  13. Minna the Flame – mage trained by the Sun Guild
    • Picked by Duke of Carinthia to participate in the Great Trial
  14. Arik Thunder – head of the largest of the eastern clans – Winterband Clan, considered a coward by Sharptooth
    • Ivar Lackfinger – younger brother

Atalia

  1. Alfonso V the Pious – King of Atalia
    • Adrian – eldest son and heir, prince, crest: 3 gold lilies on scarlet
    • Luigi di Belmonte
    • Hugo di Spinola – sole son and heir, Marquis de Spinola
      • Duke Fernando de Spinola – father, crest: black griffon on red
        • Baron di Valio – Herald
    • Angelo Doria
    • Marquis de Prelle
  2. Guido Sordi – Assassin leader
  3. Duke Ricardo di Lorenzo the Golden Lion – most renowned general, 50 yrs old, Marshal of Atalia, born in south Atalia, has Costa del Sol seacoast estate
    • Tony Nappo – personal secretary
    • Countess de Laroc – a fling
    • Count Antonia di Salva – sworn to the Duke, excellent cavalryman
    • Count Sergio di Alcaraz – maternal uncle of the duke, commands the First Legion
      • Viscount Carlo di Alcaraz – eldest son, general of the Second Legion
    • Count Marco di Milatto – commander of the Third Legion with Prince Adrian and Duke di Spinola
  4. Order of the Scarlet Shield – vow to exterminate all True Gifted
    • Alberto di Lanzi – Gray Reaper, commander of Scarlet Knights occupying Margraviate de Valier
    • Brother Enrico – elder priest
  5. Rivlian crossbow men / mercenaries – from eastern principality of Rivlia famous for warriors and artisans
  6. Currency
    • Gold Real
    • Silver Escudo
  7. Jacques Sarreaux – Pharmacist, Order’s Atalian spy a Gondreville

Astland

  1. Conrad the Fifth – beheaded and quartered at Wolfsburg by Otto the Second, the Usurper
    • Sophia-Verena von Mirbach – Duchess of Wurttemberg, Princess of Astland, daughter of Conrad the Fifth
    • Steel Duke – nephew of Conrad V, tortured to death by Baron von Neumark
  2. Baron von Herwart’s Father – fought for Conrad at Battle of Luneburg
  3. Otto the Second the Usurper / the Brave – eldest son of Duke of Meerane, trained in Gray Guild of Mages, 40 yrs old
    • Duke of Merano – younger brother of Otto
    • Wilhelm von Lander – Chief Minister, younger son of an impoverished noble family, trained in Gray Guild of Mages
    • Charles de Flavy the Destroyer – Captain of the Royal Guards
  4. Savage Hearts mercenary guild – moved to Foggy Isles after battle of Luneburg
    • Kurt von Hartha – captain, trained in Diamond Guild along with Sigurd
    • Georg von Linz the Hedgehog – right hand of Kurt
    • Lorin – Hejdelf, guardian of livestock
    • Leo von Grimm – stryker
    • Hans Krause – quartermaster, one-handed (no right hand)
    • Erika Bern – werebear
    • Thavin Brinn – head scout, true-gifted Glenns (forest people from Foggy Isles)
    • Kaylinn Brinn – wife of Thavin, herbalist, true-gifted Glenns (forest people from Foggy Isles)
    • Elsa Backer – Georg’s ward
  5. Marquis Konrad von Dassel – leader of Uncrushables mercenaries group
    • Baron Friedrich von Neumark (the Fenrax) – avant
    • Dietrich von Neumark – brother

Margraviate de Valier

  1. Margrave de Valier
    • Coat of arms: massive mountain surrounded by clouds/fog which symbolizes Shadow Pass in deep blue and silver. Sword in the background symbolizing the determination of the margraviate to protect its borders from any an all threats. The sigil was framed by oak branches – a symbol of strength and endurance (nobility and dignity)
    • Motto: Endurance and Loyalty
  2. Chevalier Jean Duval – owner of castle and land in northwest, one of three smugglers, the least supplier, who supplied Sapphire guild with Shadow goods
    • Molchun – Stryker
    • Togrul – Stryker
  3. Baron di Festa – biggest supplier of Shadow goods to Sapphire guild, sided with Scarlets
  4. Baron Vincent de Vilar – third supplier of Shadow goods, tortured to death by Gray Reaper of the Scarlets
  5. Raymond – Priest of Forefather
  6. Jacob the Gray – headman of Bonvalle village
  7. Savages under Georg von Linz the Hedgehog
    • Uwe
    • Aksel
    • Unnamed
  8. Lord Khaldrekar – hrimthur, one of the greatest masters of the Hoar’s rituals

Deities/Supernaturals/Heroes

  1. Adelaide – Goddess of Balance
  2. Most Luminous Mother – Goddes
  3. Forefather – God
  4. Hoar – Ancient Hrimthur/Ice Demon of the north who requires blood sacrifices, Demon of the Eternal Winter (not a god according to first borns), Accursed One
  5. Wizards of the Brejvin Waste – Aurings
  6. Meemeeteh the Great Mother (of Shadow tribes)
  7. Goddess Anorak Goldenhair
  8. Robert the Brilliant
  9. Eswain the Shadow Master and Lord of Mysteries, God of trickery, deceit and illusion who had stolen a bag containing Stones of Wisdom from the Forefather
  10. Alirel – Goddes of Love
  11. Lady Serenna – legendary princess-sorceress from folklore
  12. Tarren – god of wisdom and time, with head of a hawk
  13. Zeptis – Lizard god
  14. Limnora – Nyad sister of Lizard god
  15. Liviona – goddess of balance
  16. Reverse
    • Most Luminous Remigius
    • Oliver
    • Inesc

Shadow

  1. Known Shadows
    • Heavenly Veil / Wing of the Twilight Owl / Owl’s wing, Shadow of Strix
      • Appeared 300+ years ago to cover the heart of the world’s most densely populated continent
    • Southern Continent covering a huge swath of the Yellow Desert
    • Svartvald (Black Forest) – Middle of Northland
    • Above the Red Ocean
  2. Shadow Patrol – drafted and volunteers protecting people from Shadow creatures
  3. Gifted
    • True Gifted – born with inherent magic reservoir
      • Witches
      • Spells words
      • Druids
      • Forest princes
      • Mountain lords
    • Shadow-Touched / Shadow Mages
      • Healers – use crimson and azure
      • Strykers – combat mages, use lilac
        • Initiate
        • Expert
        • Medius
        • Avant
        • Absolute
      • Artifactors – use brown/gray mana
      • Alchemists – use emerald and amber
  4. Energy Stones (Bruts)
    • Red/Crimson – speeds up regeneration
    • Brown – reinforces energy channels
    • Green/Emerald – stimulates energy, fills up reservoir faster
    • Amber – protects from toxins, acids, poisons, etc.
    • Lilac –
    • Azure
    • Turquoise – increases the size of energy reservoir and enlarges channels
    • Black
    • Gold – can change energy system of gifted people into a golden reservoir, can change a normal person into a powerful gifted one

Geography

  1. Vestonia
    • Herouxville – Capital divided into old and new city by Legha river.
    • Westerly Fort (2 hrs walking from Toulon) – north east corner next to shadow lands, 500 miles from Abbeville (~40 days travel)
      • Thiviers – town on the trail
      • County of Male – in dispute with Gouffier
      • County of Gouffier
    • Chagny – city on the trail
    • Sardent – second largest city in county of Macon
      • Briard – small town on the border between two counties
    • Barony of Valff – County Gramont, north east of Vestonia on the border of Astland
    • Colmar – closest port to Toulon
    • Abbeville
    • Margraviate de Valier (Shadow Pass) – exclave in Bergonia
    • Roanne – a small town not far from the capital, gathering place for mercenaries
    • Bresmont – muster point for royal armies
  2. Atalia
  3. Eastern Caliphate
  4. Western Caliphate
  5. Astland
    • Wolfsburg – Capital
      • Granite palace
    • Duchy of Wurttemberg in western Astland
  6. Foggy Isles
  7. Bergonia – mountainous state famed for master artifactors
    • Romont – capital with population of 25,000
    • Contern – third largest city with population of 20,000, famous for markets
      • Chateau de Vertmar
    • Cheran – southern fortress city (north to Vestonia, east to Bergonia)
    • Imperial track along Dravar hills to descend to Felvina valley
    • Gondreville
    • Royal track going east in Valley of Winds – north to Gray Foothills, southeast to Atalia
    • Miroir river
    • Montelago – village of 30 households
    • Western foothills at the Valley of Hills
  8. Northland
    • Fjordgrad – capital of Vintervald
  9. Steppes of the Great Khanganate
  10. Kingdom of Claron
    • Velehrad – Capital
  11. Margraviate de Valier
    • Fort de Gris – capital
    • Stony Creek river – river dividing Bergonia from the Margraviate
    • Bonvalle, Beaujolis, and Clairvaux villages in fugitive Baron di Festa’s land

Money

  1. 1 Imperial Gold = 100 Silver Crowns = 1000 Thalers
  2. 1 Silver Crown = 10 Thalers = 1000 Oboles
  3. 1 Thaler (Silver) = 100 Oboles
  4. 1 Obole (Copper)

Kingdom of Claron

  1. King Olgerd III the Proud – king of Claron, avid player of “Towers and Spies”, 55 yrs old, Sangwald (blood mage), true-gifted
    • Magda – Vetala who fed on the blood of its victims
    • Edmund – eldest son leading two legions against nomadic incursions
    • Roderic – second son leading a legion defending border against Bergonia
    • Algis – youngest son leading a legion defending the southern coast against pirates
  2. Veslav – leader of clan of strigoi in Darkvale
  3. Prince Yar – leader of Snowburg, powerful werewolf
  4. Prince Ratibor – assassinated ruler of Skaligrad killed along with son and daughter
    • Princess Ladislava – his witch wife
  5. Radwiga – elder mother of coven of witches in Velehrad city

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