Damajah: Singular title for the First Wife of the Shar’Dama Ka.
Damaji: The twelve Damaji are the religious and secular leaders of their individual tribes, and serve the Andrah as ministers and advisors.
Damaji’ting: The tribal leaders of the dama’ting, and the most powerful women in Krasia.
Dama’ting: Krasian Holy Women who also serve as healers and midwives. Dama’ting hold the secrets of hora magic, including the power to foretell the future, and are held in fear and awe. Harming a dama’ting in any way is punishable by death.
Daylight War, the: Also known as Sharak Sun. Ancient war during which Kaji conquered the known world, uniting them for Sharak Ka.
Desert Spear, the: The Krasians’ term for their city. Known in the North as Fort Krasia.
Drillmasters: Elite warriors who train nie’Sharum. Drillmasters wear standard dal’Sharum blacks, but their night veils are red.
Enkaji: Damaji of the powerful Mehnding tribe.
Enkido: Eunuch servant and sharusahk instructor of the Kaji dama’ting. Made personal bodyguard to Amanvah.
Evejah, the: The holy book of Everam, written by Kaji, the first Deliverer, some thirty-five hundred years past. The Evejah is separated into sections called Dunes. Each dama pens a copy of the Evejah in his own blood during his clerical training.
Evejan: Name of the Krasian religion, ‘those who follow the Evejah’.
Evejan law: The militant religious law the Krasians impose on chin, meant to force nonbelievers to follow the Evejah under threat rather than belief.
Everalia: Jardir’s third Kaji wife.
Everam: The Creator.
Everam’s Bounty: After Fort Rizon was taken with its vast farmland in 333 AR, the city-state was renamed Everam’s Bounty to honour the Creator. It is the Krasian foothold in the green lands.
Fahki: Dal’Sharum son of Abban. Raised to hate his khaffit father.
Fashin: Damaji of the Halvas tribe.
Gai: Plague.
Greenlander: One from the green lands.
Green lands: Krasian name for Thesa (the lands north of the Krasian desert).
Halvan: Friend of Jardir and Ashan during Jardir’s training in Sharik Hora. Dama Halvan is advisor to Damaji Ashan.
Hannu Pash: Literally ‘life’s path’, this represents the period of a boy’s life after he has been taken from his mother but before his caste (dal’Sharum, dama, or khaffit) is set. It is a period of intense and brutal physical training, along with religious indoctrination.
Hanya: Jardir’s youngest sister, four years younger than he. Married to Hasik, mother to Sikvah.
Hasik: Nie’Sharum boy who insults and bullies Jardir. Called Whistler because his missing tooth causes his s’s to whistle. Later becomes one of the Spears of the Deliverer and Jardir’s bodyguard.
Horn of Sharak: Ceremonial horn blown to begin and end alagai’sharak.
Hoshkamin: Father of Ahmann Jardir; deceased.
Hoshvah: Jardir’s middle sister, three years younger than he. Married to Shanjat. Mother of Shanvah.
Ichach: Damaji of the Khanjin tribe.
Imisandre: Jardir’s eldest sister, one year younger than he. Married to Ashan. Mother of Asukaji and Ashia.
Inevera: (1) Jardir’s powerful dama’ting First Wife. Kaji tribe. Also known as the Damajah. (2) Krasian word meaning ‘Everam’s will’ or ‘Everam willing’.
Jama: Lesser Krasian tribe. Enemies of the Khanjin.
Jardir: The seventh son of Kaji, the Deliverer. Once a great house, the line of Jardir lasted more than three thousand years, slowly dwindling in number and glory until its last son, Ahmann Jardir, restored the line to glory.
Jayan: Jardir’s first Sharum son by Inevera. Later appointed Sharum Ka.
Jiwah: Wife.
Jiwah Ka: First wife. The Jiwah Ka is the first and most honoured of a Krasian man’s wives. She has veto power over subsequent marriages, and can command the lesser wives.
Jiwah Sen: Lesser wives, subservient to a man’s Jiwah Ka.
Jiwah’Sharum: Literally ‘wives of warriors’, these are women purchased for the great harem of the Sharum during their fertile years. It is considered a great honour to serve. All warriors have access to their tribe’s jiwah’Sharum, and are expected to keep them continually pregnant, adding warriors to the tribe.
Jurim: Dal’Sharum who trained with Jardir. Kaji tribe. Later one of the Spears of the Deliverer.
Kad’: Prefix meaning ‘of’.
Kai’Sharum: Krasian military captains, the kai’Sharum receive special training in Sharik Hora and lead individual units in alagai’sharak. The number of kai’Sharum in a tribe depends on its number of warriors. Some tribes have many, some just one. Kai’Sharum wear dal’Sharum blacks, but their night veils are white.
Kaji: The name of the original Deliverer and patriarch of the Kaji tribe, also known as Shar’Dama Ka, the Spear of Everam, and various other titles. Kaji united the known world in war against demons some thirty-five hundred years past. His seat of power was the lost city of Anoch Sun, but he also founded Fort Krasia.
Kaji had three artefacts for which he was famous: (1) The Spear of Kaji — the metal spear he used to slay alagai by the thousand. (2) The Crown of Kaji — bejewelled and moulded in the shape of powerful wards. (3) The Cloak of Kaji — a cloak that made him invisible to demons, so he could walk freely in the night.
Kaji’sharaj: Training barracks for boys of the Kaji tribe.
Kajivah: Mother of Ahmann Jardir and his three sisters, Imisandre, Hoshvah, and Hanya. Widow of Hoshkamin Jardir. Once considered cursed for bearing three daughters in a row.
Kasaad: Inevera’s father. Crippled khaffit. Former Sharum.
Kavaclass="underline" Gavram asu Chenin am’Kaval am’Kaji. Drillmaster of the Kaji tribe. One of Jardir’s dal’Sharum instructors during his Hannu Pash.
Kenevah: Damaji’ting of the Kaji tribe during Inevera’s dama’ting training.
Kevera: Damaji of the Sharach tribe.
Khaffit: A man who takes up a craft instead of becoming a Holy Man or warrior. Lowest male station in Krasian society. Expelled from Hannu Pash, khaffit are forced to dress in the tan clothes of children and shave their cheeks as a sign that they are not men.