Glossary

Akh-tazi: A ruined temple in Neron, thousands of years old.

Armach-nesti: A small elven kingdom, home to the Silvanaes.

Aurim: A vast empire that covered much of Taladas, smashed in the First Destruction.

Chaldar: A tower of solid flame that once stood in the midst of Hitehkel.

The Dreaming Green: A forest north of the Tamire, home to the merkitsa elves.

Greytooth: The tallest of the Hoarspine mountains.

Hitehkel: A sea of molten rock at the center of Taladas, where Aurim stood before the Destruction. Also called Hith's Cauldron.

The Hoarspine: A line of sharp, icy mountains that cut through the Panak Wastes.

Hosk: The western half of Taladas, divided by the Tiderun into northern and southern parts.

The Imperial League: An empire of minotaurs and humans that covers much of Southern Hosk.

Indanalis: The Boiling Sea, a long channel of superheated water between Southern Hosk and Hith's Cauldron.

Marak: Several valleys in the central Steamwalls, home to clans of kender.

Neron: A little-known jungle land in the southeast of Taladas.

Panak: A frozen wasteland in the north of Taladas.

Rainward Isles: A piece of Aurim that survived the Destruction, now home to kingdoms of refugees.

Starshimmer: A lake in the heart of the Marak valleys.

Steamwalls: A range of volcanic mountains in the east of Southern Hosk, on the Indanalis coast.

Suluk: A kingdom of the Rainward Isles.

Syldar: An island in the southwest of Taladas, home to fishermen and bloodthirsty tribes.

Taladas: A continent on the northern hemisphere of the world of Krynn.

The Tamire: A vast stretch of grasslands and steppes, covering much of Northern Hosk.

Thenol: A human realm in Southern Hosk, ruled by evil priests and necromancers.

Tiderun: A shallow strait running east-west across the middle of Hosk. Also called the Run.

Amaguik: A clan of Ice People who take the Spirit Wolf as their totem beast.

Anho-ti: The snow lodge of a makau, the heart of an Ice People village.

Astakha: A martial art perfected by Manithite monks.

Boyla: The prince of the Uigan, the highest lord of all the Tamire.

Cha'asii: A small, reclusive race of aboriginal elves in the jungles of Neron.

Cham ka: A complicated dice game of the Ice People.

Chapak: A battle-axe used by the kender.

Fianawar: A hardy race of dwarves who dwell among the Steamwall mountains.

Heerikil: A Silvanaes term for non-elves.

Hoopaui: A kender bow, used to hurl rocks instead of arrows.

Hosk'i imou merkitsa: Clans of barbaric elves native to the Dreaming Green. Also simply known as the merkitsa.

Hulder: A mysterious, elf-like people once common in Hosk, now almost never seen.

Ice People: Tribes of humans who rove across the Panak Wastes.

Ishka: A large, pulpy fruit from Syldar; sweet and yellow when ripe, but very sour when still green.

Kazar: A nation of barbarians native to the Tamire, all but exterminated by the Uigan.

Khot: A minotaur obscenity, often used by soldiers.

Krahd: A clawed hammer, used by the folk of the Rainward Isles.

Makau: A shaman and sorcerer, the leader of an Ice People tribe.

Ningasuk: Stone statues erected by the Ice People to ward against the Uitayuik. Also called the Patient Folk.

Shalukh: A curse-word in the tongue of the Rainwards.

Shivis: A boardgame popular in the Imperial League, also used by the minotaurs as a tactical tool.

Shuk: A curved Uigan saber.

Silvanaes: An elf people of Southern Hosk, descended from survivors of an ill-fated expedition from Ansalon.

Tegin: A Uigan clan-lord, answerable only to the Boyla.

Tenach: A warrior sworn to protect and serve a Uigan lord.

Uigan: A powerful people of horse-riding nomads, native to the Tamire.

Ulashu: The leaves of a Neroni tree, chewed by the cha'asii for stamina.

Yagrut: A Uigan profanity.

Yarta: A root chewed by the Uigan to give energy.

Yakuk: A dragon-bone totem, in the shape of a beast, that stands in the middle of an Ice People village.

Zharka: A minotaur war trumpet, made from a dragon's horn.

Abaqua: A primitive race of ogres from Northern Hosk.

Akitu-shai: The cha'asii name for the yaggol. Also called Crawling Maws.

Amaguik: The spirit of a makau, appearing as a halfwolf, half-man.

Bauvan: A ghostly woman who roams old battlefields, searching for her slain husband.

Disir: A race of thickly armored savages who dwell beneath the Rainwards.

Horax: A huge, many-legged worm with a thick carapace and razor-sharp mandibles.

Huraj: The Uigan name for the horax.

Nasif: Giant, sharp-antlered deer herded by the Ice People.

Othlorx: Outcast dragons of Taladas who refused to join the Dark Queen in her war on Ansalon.

Sakalaminuik: Shaggy snow-ogres native to the Hoarspine.

Skrit: An enormous, flea-like creature of the Tamire, with an impenetrable shell.

Skyfisher: A large, ugly carrion bird, usually found among ruins and on battlefields.

Tan-amat: The merkitsa name for a hippogriff.

Uitayuik: White-eyed specters of men who died in the blizzards of Panak.

Vaka-te-nok: A burrowing creature with many tentacles, found in the jungles of Neron.

Winlesh: The merkitsa name for a Vaka-te-nok.

Yaggol: An ancient, degenerate race of Neron. They have bulbous, hairless heads and masses of tentacles where their mouths should be, and can also force their way into people's thoughts.

Astar: The god of the elves, a hunter and bowman.

Erestem: The Queen of Darkness, now slain.

Gilona: The goddess of knowledge and learning.

Hith: A god of deceit.

Jijin: The god of the Uigan, a warrior and protector.

Jolith: A human war god, revered in the League.

Lunis: The red moon, called Lunitari in Ansalon.

Manith: A god of contemplation.

Mislaxa: A healing goddess known across Taladas.

Morgash: A god of sickness and decay.

Nuvis: The black moon, called Nuitari in Ansalon.

Sargas: The warrior god of the minotaurs.

Solis: The silver moon, called Solinari in Ansalon.

Zai: A goddess of the sea and storms.

Dread Winter: The troubled times immediately prior to the Second Destruction, when much of Taladas was covered in snow and ice.

First Destruction: Taladan term for the Cataclysm, when the gods rained fire upon Krynn. Also called the Great Destruction.

Godless Night: The years after the Second Destruction, during which both gods and magic vanished from the face of Krynn.

Second Destruction: The Second Cataclysm, caused by the Chaos War.