Holder of Lightning

Storm Deer, a giant deer, previously thought extinct

A board game similar to chess

Poet

The "Coming Back," the prophesied return of magic To slay your own kin; one of the worst crimes

A term meaning that the land is owned by the person living there; to b to be one step down from being RBocha, or nobility

The police of the large cities, or the personal protectors of a tiarna, also "guard;" the plural is gardai

Stringed instrument, guitar Grandfather

Grandmother

"A man is better than his birth"

An analgesic used for headaches and minor pain, non-addictive, but no near as strong as anduilleaf

An extinct or mythical carnivore of the land The cloch na thrintri that Jenna holds A tunic worn under the cloca "Good morning!"

Knifefang Lamh Shabhala Leine

Maidin maith

Mam

Milaran

Miondia

Morceint

Oenach

Pledge-son/ daugh ter

Quern

RB

RBocha

Saimhoir

Scrudu

Seanoir

Siur

Stirabout

Taisteal

Tanaise RBg The Badger

Tiarna Tuath Turves Uaigneas Uisce Taibhse

Wind sprites

Saimhoir Terms:

Mother

A breakfast griddle cake from Inish Thuaidh, sprinkled with molasses.

The Lesser Gods A fairly large denomination coin

An assembly held on regular occasions to transact the private and publ the Tuath

A Bunus Muintir term, a younger person adopted by an Elder as his or

A stone mill using for grinding grain and corn King

The nobility

The name the blue seals call themselves

The test which allows a Holder to fully open all of Lamh Shabhala's cap fatal

The Eldest, the oak trees of Doire Coill and the other Old Growth fores

"Sister"

A meat stew

The "Traveling," an itinerant group of peddlers of anything, from orph to hard goods

The Heir-Apparent

A constellation used for navigation, as the snout of the badger always p north

The title "Lord"

Kingdom

Turf cuttings, peat

The Banrion Thuaidh's ship: "Loneliness"

Literally "Water Ghost," a race of intelligent creatures living in fresh-w sometimes antagonistic to humans

Nearly transparent, small and sentient herd creatures, once thought to be entirely mythical, nocturnal

Bradan an The "Salmon of the Mage-Lights," the analogue of a cloch na thrintri

Chumhacht

Bull Adult male seal, bulls are less common, and are "shared" by several ad

Adult female seal

Cow

Haul out Land-cousin

May the currents bring you fish Milk-mother

The term for leaving the water for the shore Those humans with Saimhoir blood in their ancestry

A common polite greeting

The cow who suckles a youngling, not necessarily the same cow who gave birth to the infant. In Saimhoir soci-ety, the young suckled by another cow. There is generally a stronger attachment to th than the birth-mother (unless, of course, they happen to be the same).

A seal who has shared the milk of the same mother

Milk-sister/bro

ther

Nesting Land

Saimhoir

Seal-biter

Sister-kin

Inish Thuaidh, only on this island the Saimhoir breed, on the northwest shores

The name the blue seals call themselves

The shark, which feeds on seals

A term of endearment

The cloch na thrintri A human

Sky-stones

Stone-walker

Sweetfish

Any of the small fish that make up the bulk of the Saimhoir’s diet

WaterMother

Winter Home

The chief god of the Saimhoir. It is possible, though not proved, that th is simply another manifes-tation of the human’s Mother-Creator

The peninsula of Talamh an Ghlas, where the currents

are warmer and the fish more plentiful during the coldest months

The Daoine Calendar:

The Daoine calendar, like that of the Bunus Muintir, is primarily lunar-based. Their "day" is considered to start at sunset and conclude at sunrise.

Each month consists of 28 days; there is no further separation into weeks. Rather, the days are counted as being the "thirteenth day of Wideleaf" or the "twenty-first day of Capnut."

The months are named after various trees of the region, and are (in translation) Longroot, Silverbark,

Wideleaf, Straightwood, Fallinglimb, Deereye, Brightflower, Redfruit, Conefir, Capnut, Stranglevine, Softwood, and Sweetsap.

The solar year being slightly more than 365 days, to keep the months from recessing slowly through the seasons over the years, an annual two-fold adjustment is made. The first decision is whether there will be addi-tional days added to Sweetsap; the second proclaims which phase of the moon will correspond to the first day of the month that year (the first day of the months during any given year may be considered to start at the new moon, quarter moon waxing, half moon waxing, three-quarter moon waxing, full moon, three-quarter moon waning, half-moon waning, or quarter moon waning). The proclamation is announced at the Festival of Gheimri (see below) each year — any extra days are added immediately after Gheimri and before the first day of Longroot. All this keeps the solar-based festivals and the lunar calendar roughly in line.