People
Abdmago - Aygiff - Hanniumm's father
Adalwin - Faehin - One of King Sharrukin's royal physicians and Aefflaed's lorthew
Abirami - Aygiff/Faehin michis - Hanniumm's son
Accalia - Wolf - a female wolf that bonded with Abirami
Aefflaed - Faehin - doctor that nursed Hanniumm back to health and then fell in love with him. Abirami's mother
Aho - Maunin - Small child who was a patient of Dr. Aefflaed
Anapa - Evianian - Nephthys' brother and one of the three great generals of the Vael wars. Killed during the massacre of Evonium.
Ashur - Maunin - Younger brother of Luqa, son of Palakh and Khannah - Aefflaed's closest neighbors
Asur - Evianian - Menna and Setti's father who died while they were young
Balto - Aelacrin - Adviser in King Sharrukin's court
Caifas - Maunin - Elder of the farming community Aefflaed served
Cairbre - Vaelintrien - Galchobhar's uncle and mentor; one of the last of the cursed Vaelintriens to attempt to kill Hanniumm
Doreena - Maunin - a patient of Aefflaed from the farming community
Dubhshlaine - Vaelintrien - Galchobhar's cousin who took over the Burku kingdom and put himself up as the great Dhiaga
Essai - a victim of the knight of Gibborim mentioned by Nicte
Emmita - Maunin - a patient of Aefflaed from the farming community
Enheduanna - L'entian - Queen of the Burku kingdom, married to King Sharrukin
Eun - Naksian - Puabi's guard while she was held captive in the capital
Falx - Gyrfalcon - a falcon that bonded with Hanniumm
Galchobhar - Vaelintrien - one of the three great generals of the Vael emperor, traitor to his kind, head mage of the Burku kingdom
Gerlach - Ceratecian - Replaced Itzel as Puabi's guard while she was held captive in the capital
Gewargis - Maunin - a farmer
Gouyen - Neulahdian - infant orphaned and left to die, whom Abirami and Semiramis found and raised as part of the family
Hadwin - Scyphozome - errand boy for King Sharrukin's court during the battle of the Alerian Plains where Cairbre met his end
Hanniumm - Aygiff - One of the three great war generals of the Vael wars, triskelion warrior, who falls in love with Aefflaed and who's Abirami's father
Hrafn - Ceratecian - Head foreman of Marad's quarry
Iamesu - Evianian - king of Jazirah
Iside - Evianian - Wife of Asur and former mayor of Marad. Menna and Setti's mother who died when they were young
Istir - Maunin - Luqa and Ashur's little sister and Palakh and Khannah's daughter, closest neighbors to Aefflaed
Itzel - Scyphozome - Puabi's guard while she was held captive in the capital. Was replaced due to suspicions of treason to the Dhiaga
Jamba - Brown Bear - a bear that bonded with Hanniumm
Kaleo - Loxor - worker in Marad's quarry who befriends Abirami and tells him of his father
Khannah - Maunin - mother of Luqa, Ashur and Istir. Married to Palakh and closest neighbor to Aefflaed
Ku'Aya - Aelacrin - Abandoned from a very young age on the streets of Marad, adopted by Abirami and Semiramis into the family
Leilani - Loxor - Kaleo's wife
Luqa - Maunin - Ashur and Istir's older brother and son of Palakh and Khannah, Aefflaed's closest neighbors
Maclochlainne - Vaelintrien - Head sage of the Vael empire who cast the blood curse during the Evonium massacre
Malcuno - Maunin - odd herbologist who heals Ku'Aya and Abirami of creeping ice and then falls in love with and joins Semiramis in her pursuit to free Galchobhar from the Dhiaga.
Marnita - Maunin - patient of Aefflaed from the farming community
Menna - Evianian - Setti's older sister. Orphaned when Asur and Iside were killed, then was taken in by Abirami and Semiramis
Muska - Maunin/Evianian michis - messenger for the village where Aefflaed resided
Nephthys - Evianian - Anapa's sister and wife of Hanniumm who died just before the Evonium massacre
Nicte - Scyphozome - Yakxin's twin, member of king Sharrukin's Anun'ngal and guard to princess Puabi before the fall of the Burku kingdom
Nuhro - Maunin - Head royal physician for King Sharrukin
Palakh - Maunin - Khannah's husband and father to Luqa, Ashur, and Istir. Closest neighbor to Aefflaed
Plystky - Nyuki - messenger bee in Ku'Aya's hive
Puabi - L'entian - princess of the Burku kingdom and daughter of King Sharrukin and Queen Enheduanna.
Qanaya - Maunin - Keeper of the peace/officer in the village where Aefflaed resided
Semiramis - Maunin - Member of King Sharrukin's anun'ngal, served as palace head gardener and tutor to Puabi before the fall of the Burku kingdom, and parental guardian of Abirami, Ku'Aya, Menna, Setti, and Gouyen after their parents died or when they were found abandoned.
Setti - Evianian - Menna's younger brother and son of Asur and Iside. Adopted by Abirami and Semiramis after his parents died while he was an infant
Sharrukin - L'entian - King of the Burku kingdom
Shaear - Bawl - insect in Ku'Aya's hive that she uses to hold the back braid of her hair
Shimokeen - Maunin - father of Semiramis and head counselor to King Sharrukin
Sigeberht - Faehin - small boy Abirami takes an interest in after losing control of his essence and running around with amnesia
Sluaghadan - Vaelintrien - last emperor of the Vael empire
Tarvis - Wolf - a wolf that bonded with Hanniumm
Tut’ankh - Evianian - leader of King Sharrukin's evianian troops and a leader of the resistance after the Burku kingdom fell
Ulhas - Neulahdian - sole male and leader of the nomadic tribe of Neulahdians who finds and rescues Abirami in the desert
Wemba - Faehin - fat doctor from Valel'sea who treats Abirami's injuries after his first encounter with the wild Aemirok
Yaxkin - Scyphozome - Nicte's twin brother, member of king Sharrukin's Anun'ngal and guard to princess Puabi before the fall of the Burku kingdom, and one of the leaders of the resistance after the fall of the Burku kingdom
Yunuen - Scyphozome - foreman at Marad's quarry
Terms
Anun’ngal - means mighty warriors and is a independent squad of top fighters in King Sharrukin's army
Dalit - undesireables, untouchables, someone to be ostracized and avoided
Dhiaga - (self-proclaimed) god-like emperor
Essence - magic system of the world of Kaphar
Falakhin - maunin version of a hand grenade
Gaaban - essence-imbued boxers that stretch and shrink with an Aygiff's transformations
Gula-nin - medicine lady; a child's term of endearment
L'ent - a derogatory term given to people who are seen as being 'square' or a 'goody-two-shoes' or 'uptight'
Lorthew - teacher or sensei
Michis - mixed blood
Orvin - seed of an Orvin tree that kids tend to use as a toy
Reka - an insult meaning fool or stupid
Locations
Aleria - City south of the capital of the Burku kingdom/Vael empire
Apsu - River that runs down from the Ekur mountains, skirts around Valel'sea and down past Marad then around to skirt the forest just south of Marad and then out to sea just below the bay in which the port city of Traiana resides
Azupiranu - Name for the capital city of the Burku kingdom. Found to the east of the Ekur mountains, on the other side of the Apsu river. City's name changed Dioltas after the Dhaiga overthrew the Burku kingdom and set up a second Vael empire
Baozhu - City in the land of Seres, north of the Burku Kingdom
Burku - The kingdom governed by King Sharrukin found to the east of the Ekur mountains whose capital city is Azupiranu
Dioltas - The capital city of the second Vael empire, ruled by the Dhiaga. Formerly, the city of Azupiranu, renamed after the fall of the Burku empire
Ekur - Mountain range dividing the lands of Seres and Burku from the desert and the distant lands of Kemet
Evonium - Capital of the first Vael empire, destroyed in the Evonium massacre that marked the end of the great Vael wars
Jazirah - An island nation ruled by evianians
Ka'gal - A inn found in the city of Dioltas used as the headquarters for the resistance
Kaphar - Name of the world
Kemet - the kingdom to the west of Ekur mountains and past the desert
Luohua - The red district area inside the city of Baozhu
Maaterra - the legendary world in which ancient lore says the ancients of Kaphar came from
Marad - Quarry town to the south of Valel'sea between the forest that lies at the base of the Ekur mountains and the Apsu river
Noraeya - A small town to the south of Aleria, close to the sea
Onoba - A small hamlet off the coast of the sea just south east of Noreaya where Hanniumm grew up. Onoba was destroyed during the Vael wars and its inhabitants scattered to the seas or sold as slaves throughout the Vael empire
Puluhtu - A hidden mountain inside the Ekur mountain range where the mythical Aemirok resides
Seres - The land to the north of the Burku kingdom
Tahta Sakanu - Sight of the final battle of the Vael wars when the alliance under King Sharrukin defeated the armies of the Vael empire
Traiana - Port town to the south west of Marad, hidden in a cape at the base of the Ekur mountains where the mountain chain meets the sea
Valel'sea - City north of Marad at the base of the Ekur mountains, between the mountains and the Apsu river
Vael - Empire of Vaelintriens. After failing to conquer the world, the Vaelintrien empire vanished and its people became extinct save one survivor. This survivor overthew the Burku empire and began the second Vael empire, naming himself the great Dhiaga
Abdmago - Aygiff - Hanniumm's father
Adalwin - Faehin - One of King Sharrukin's royal physicians and Aefflaed's lorthew
Abirami - Aygiff/Faehin michis - Hanniumm's son
Accalia - Wolf - a female wolf that bonded with Abirami
Aefflaed - Faehin - doctor that nursed Hanniumm back to health and then fell in love with him. Abirami's mother
Aho - Maunin - Small child who was a patient of Dr. Aefflaed
Anapa - Evianian - Nephthys' brother and one of the three great generals of the Vael wars. Killed during the massacre of Evonium.
Ashur - Maunin - Younger brother of Luqa, son of Palakh and Khannah - Aefflaed's closest neighbors
Asur - Evianian - Menna and Setti's father who died while they were young
Balto - Aelacrin - Adviser in King Sharrukin's court
Caifas - Maunin - Elder of the farming community Aefflaed served
Cairbre - Vaelintrien - Galchobhar's uncle and mentor; one of the last of the cursed Vaelintriens to attempt to kill Hanniumm
Doreena - Maunin - a patient of Aefflaed from the farming community
Dubhshlaine - Vaelintrien - Galchobhar's cousin who took over the Burku kingdom and put himself up as the great Dhiaga
Essai - a victim of the knight of Gibborim mentioned by Nicte
Emmita - Maunin - a patient of Aefflaed from the farming community
Enheduanna - L'entian - Queen of the Burku kingdom, married to King Sharrukin
Eun - Naksian - Puabi's guard while she was held captive in the capital
Falx - Gyrfalcon - a falcon that bonded with Hanniumm
Galchobhar - Vaelintrien - one of the three great generals of the Vael emperor, traitor to his kind, head mage of the Burku kingdom
Gerlach - Ceratecian - Replaced Itzel as Puabi's guard while she was held captive in the capital
Gewargis - Maunin - a farmer
Gouyen - Neulahdian - infant orphaned and left to die, whom Abirami and Semiramis found and raised as part of the family
Hadwin - Scyphozome - errand boy for King Sharrukin's court during the battle of the Alerian Plains where Cairbre met his end
Hanniumm - Aygiff - One of the three great war generals of the Vael wars, triskelion warrior, who falls in love with Aefflaed and who's Abirami's father
Hrafn - Ceratecian - Head foreman of Marad's quarry
Iamesu - Evianian - king of Jazirah
Iside - Evianian - Wife of Asur and former mayor of Marad. Menna and Setti's mother who died when they were young
Istir - Maunin - Luqa and Ashur's little sister and Palakh and Khannah's daughter, closest neighbors to Aefflaed
Itzel - Scyphozome - Puabi's guard while she was held captive in the capital. Was replaced due to suspicions of treason to the Dhiaga
Jamba - Brown Bear - a bear that bonded with Hanniumm
Kaleo - Loxor - worker in Marad's quarry who befriends Abirami and tells him of his father
Khannah - Maunin - mother of Luqa, Ashur and Istir. Married to Palakh and closest neighbor to Aefflaed
Ku'Aya - Aelacrin - Abandoned from a very young age on the streets of Marad, adopted by Abirami and Semiramis into the family
Leilani - Loxor - Kaleo's wife
Luqa - Maunin - Ashur and Istir's older brother and son of Palakh and Khannah, Aefflaed's closest neighbors
Maclochlainne - Vaelintrien - Head sage of the Vael empire who cast the blood curse during the Evonium massacre
Malcuno - Maunin - odd herbologist who heals Ku'Aya and Abirami of creeping ice and then falls in love with and joins Semiramis in her pursuit to free Galchobhar from the Dhiaga.
Marnita - Maunin - patient of Aefflaed from the farming community
Menna - Evianian - Setti's older sister. Orphaned when Asur and Iside were killed, then was taken in by Abirami and Semiramis
Muska - Maunin/Evianian michis - messenger for the village where Aefflaed resided
Nephthys - Evianian - Anapa's sister and wife of Hanniumm who died just before the Evonium massacre
Nicte - Scyphozome - Yakxin's twin, member of king Sharrukin's Anun'ngal and guard to princess Puabi before the fall of the Burku kingdom
Nuhro - Maunin - Head royal physician for King Sharrukin
Palakh - Maunin - Khannah's husband and father to Luqa, Ashur, and Istir. Closest neighbor to Aefflaed
Plystky - Nyuki - messenger bee in Ku'Aya's hive
Puabi - L'entian - princess of the Burku kingdom and daughter of King Sharrukin and Queen Enheduanna.
Qanaya - Maunin - Keeper of the peace/officer in the village where Aefflaed resided
Semiramis - Maunin - Member of King Sharrukin's anun'ngal, served as palace head gardener and tutor to Puabi before the fall of the Burku kingdom, and parental guardian of Abirami, Ku'Aya, Menna, Setti, and Gouyen after their parents died or when they were found abandoned.
Setti - Evianian - Menna's younger brother and son of Asur and Iside. Adopted by Abirami and Semiramis after his parents died while he was an infant
Sharrukin - L'entian - King of the Burku kingdom
Shaear - Bawl - insect in Ku'Aya's hive that she uses to hold the back braid of her hair
Shimokeen - Maunin - father of Semiramis and head counselor to King Sharrukin
Sigeberht - Faehin - small boy Abirami takes an interest in after losing control of his essence and running around with amnesia
Sluaghadan - Vaelintrien - last emperor of the Vael empire
Tarvis - Wolf - a wolf that bonded with Hanniumm
Tut’ankh - Evianian - leader of King Sharrukin's evianian troops and a leader of the resistance after the Burku kingdom fell
Ulhas - Neulahdian - sole male and leader of the nomadic tribe of Neulahdians who finds and rescues Abirami in the desert
Wemba - Faehin - fat doctor from Valel'sea who treats Abirami's injuries after his first encounter with the wild Aemirok
Yaxkin - Scyphozome - Nicte's twin brother, member of king Sharrukin's Anun'ngal and guard to princess Puabi before the fall of the Burku kingdom, and one of the leaders of the resistance after the fall of the Burku kingdom
Yunuen - Scyphozome - foreman at Marad's quarry
Terms
Anun’ngal - means mighty warriors and is a independent squad of top fighters in King Sharrukin's army
Dalit - undesireables, untouchables, someone to be ostracized and avoided
Dhiaga - (self-proclaimed) god-like emperor
Essence - magic system of the world of Kaphar
Falakhin - maunin version of a hand grenade
Gaaban - essence-imbued boxers that stretch and shrink with an Aygiff's transformations
Gula-nin - medicine lady; a child's term of endearment
L'ent - a derogatory term given to people who are seen as being 'square' or a 'goody-two-shoes' or 'uptight'
Lorthew - teacher or sensei
Michis - mixed blood
Orvin - seed of an Orvin tree that kids tend to use as a toy
Reka - an insult meaning fool or stupid
Locations
Aleria - City south of the capital of the Burku kingdom/Vael empire
Apsu - River that runs down from the Ekur mountains, skirts around Valel'sea and down past Marad then around to skirt the forest just south of Marad and then out to sea just below the bay in which the port city of Traiana resides
Azupiranu - Name for the capital city of the Burku kingdom. Found to the east of the Ekur mountains, on the other side of the Apsu river. City's name changed Dioltas after the Dhaiga overthrew the Burku kingdom and set up a second Vael empire
Baozhu - City in the land of Seres, north of the Burku Kingdom
Burku - The kingdom governed by King Sharrukin found to the east of the Ekur mountains whose capital city is Azupiranu
Dioltas - The capital city of the second Vael empire, ruled by the Dhiaga. Formerly, the city of Azupiranu, renamed after the fall of the Burku empire
Ekur - Mountain range dividing the lands of Seres and Burku from the desert and the distant lands of Kemet
Evonium - Capital of the first Vael empire, destroyed in the Evonium massacre that marked the end of the great Vael wars
Jazirah - An island nation ruled by evianians
Ka'gal - A inn found in the city of Dioltas used as the headquarters for the resistance
Kaphar - Name of the world
Kemet - the kingdom to the west of Ekur mountains and past the desert
Luohua - The red district area inside the city of Baozhu
Maaterra - the legendary world in which ancient lore says the ancients of Kaphar came from
Marad - Quarry town to the south of Valel'sea between the forest that lies at the base of the Ekur mountains and the Apsu river
Noraeya - A small town to the south of Aleria, close to the sea
Onoba - A small hamlet off the coast of the sea just south east of Noreaya where Hanniumm grew up. Onoba was destroyed during the Vael wars and its inhabitants scattered to the seas or sold as slaves throughout the Vael empire
Puluhtu - A hidden mountain inside the Ekur mountain range where the mythical Aemirok resides
Seres - The land to the north of the Burku kingdom
Tahta Sakanu - Sight of the final battle of the Vael wars when the alliance under King Sharrukin defeated the armies of the Vael empire
Traiana - Port town to the south west of Marad, hidden in a cape at the base of the Ekur mountains where the mountain chain meets the sea
Valel'sea - City north of Marad at the base of the Ekur mountains, between the mountains and the Apsu river
Vael - Empire of Vaelintriens. After failing to conquer the world, the Vaelintrien empire vanished and its people became extinct save one survivor. This survivor overthew the Burku empire and began the second Vael empire, naming himself the great Dhiaga