SAGA OF SEVEN SUNS: historical and legendary epic of the Ildiran civilization.
SALIBA, SHARON: sensor technician aboard the Kutuzov.
SANDOVAL, SHERI: representative from the Roamers to the Confederation.
SAREIN: sister of Estarra and Celli, lives in self-imposed exile in the Wild.
SEPTA: small battle group of seven ships in the Ildiran Solar Navy.
SEWARD, ISHA: retiring Speaker for the Roamer clans, successor to Del Kellum.
SHANA REI: fearsome creatures of darkness that preyed upon the Ildiran Empire long ago.
SHELUD: green priest, brother of Aelin.
SHEOL: binary planet under heavy tidal stresses, site of lava-mining operations led by Lee Iswander.
SHIZZ: Roamer curse.
SKYMINE: ekti-harvesting facility in the clouds of a gas giant planet, usually operated by Roamers.
SKYSPHERE: audience chamber of the Prism Palace.
SOLIMAR: green priest, married to Celli, who tends a terrarium dome in Fireheart Station.
SONG OF THE BREEDEX, THE: Klikiss historical chronicle transcribed and translated by Anton and Margaret Colicos.
SPEAKER: Roamer leader.
SPIRAL ARM: the section of the Milky Way Galaxy settled by the Ildiran Empire and Terran colonies.
SWIMMER: otterlike Ildiran kith that spend most of their time in the ocean.
SWOOPER: small skybike used around skymining operations.
TAIT, MATTHEW: navigator aboard the Kutuzov.
TAL: military rank in Ildiran Solar Navy, cohort commander.
TAMBLYN, JESS: one of the heads of Academ school, married to Cesca Peroni.
TAMBLYN, TASIA: administrator of Kett Shipping, married to Robb Brindle, father of Xander.
TAMBORR’S DEMENTIA: disease being studied on Pergamus.
TAMO’L: one of Nira’s halfbreed children, daughter of a lens kithman. She runs sanctuary domes for misbreeds on the planet Kuivahr.
TARKER: architectural specialist working on Eljiid.
TELINK: instantaneous communication used by green priests via the worldtrees.
TERITHA: Roamer colony, site of a disaster caused by failed life support.
TERRAN HANSEATIC LEAGUE: former commerce-based government of Earth and Terran colonies, dissolved after the death of Chairman Basil Wenceslas at the end of the Elemental War. Also called the Hansa.
THEROC: forested planet, home of the sentient worldtrees.
THERON: a native of Theroc.
THISM: faint racial telepathic network, centered on the Mage-Imperator, that binds all Ildiran people.
THREE H’S: Admirals Handies, Harvard, and Haroun in the CDF.
TOM ROM: guardian and majordomo of Zoe Alakis.
TORA’M: Ildiran swimmer kithman on Kuivahr.
TORINO, MILLI: Garrison’s supervisor at the Lunar Orbital Complex.
TRANSPORTAL: Klikiss instantaneous transportation network.
ULDO’NH, QUL: maniple commander in the Ildiran Solar Navy.
ULIO: large trading complex in open space, frequented by traders of all sorts.
ULIO, MARIA: founder of the Ulio transfer hub.
VACONDA: wilderness planet, site of the Alakis forest watchtower station.
VANH, LARA: Klikiss researcher on Eljiid.
VAULT OF FAILURES: document crypt in Mijistra containing ancient discarded weapons designs developed for use against the Shana Rei.
VERDANI: organic-based sentience, manifested as the Theron worldforest.
VERNE: cargo ship flown by Xander Brindle and Terry Handon.
VOECKS, ALAN: tactical officer aboard the Kutuzov.
VORACIOUS CURIOSITY: Rlinda Kett’s private ship.
VUORAL: small, obscure Confederation settlement on the Klikiss transportal network.
WARGLOBE: crystalline sphere used by hydrogues.
WARLINER: largest class of Ildiran battleship.
WENCESLAS, CHAIRMAN BASIL: former leader of the Terran Hanseatic League.
WENTALS: sentient water-based creatures.
WHISPER PALACE: traditional seat of power in the Terran Hanseatic League, where the figurehead Great Kings ruled.
WHISTLERS: possibly sentient cacti on Eljiid.
WILD, THE: unexplored continent on Theroc.
WINGO, MERCER: first officer aboard the Kutuzov.
WISSKOFF, ZACHARY: manager and maître d’ of Rlinda Kett’s Arbor restaurant.
WORLDFOREST: the interconnected, semisentient forest based on Theroc.
WORLDTREE: a separate tree in the interconnected, semisentient forest based on Theroc.
WULFTON: active star, home of numerous faeros.
YAZRA’H: daughter of the Mage-Imperator, skilled warrior and bodyguard. She is the mentor of Muree’n.
ZAN’NH, ADAR: Ildiran military officer, eldest son of Mage-Imperator Jora’h, Adar of the Ildiran Solar Navy.