A to Z of Iourn

Walker, Cadence: First cousin of Kaylas Chiesa. Born in Autumn 203 to Heidi and Edmund Walker. She was named after the Cadence Walker that married Aelius Thorn back in Autumn 188.

Walker, Cavark: Only son of Mabel and Esher Walker, born in Winter 193. Cavark has always followed his father's teachings of tolerance, compassion and understanding. This is what led him to join the town militia - a desire to help people. Unjustifiably proud of being second in command of the militia for many seasons (unjustificable because there are only four of them) he respected his superior Vitor Grushko as an honourable man who primed Cavark with a rudimentary knowledge of swordsmanship. When Vitor was revealed to be a murderer on 34 Chillbone 204, Cavark stepped up and took over the militia, but has found his faith in human nature badly shaken. Cavark married Etna Miller in Summer 198, and the pair had one daughter, Barris. In the Spring of 200 Cavark was patrolling the outskirts of the Wyrwood when he noticed several crows circling over an item in the bushes. It was a baby half-orc, that could not have been more than a few hours old. He took it home and convinced his wife to nurse the infant back to health. Cavark (and Esher) stood before the council, championing the life of the half-orc and eventually they won the right to led Nits stay in the village. Cavark brought up Nits in his own image, and was extremely proud when Nits joined the militia in the summer of 204.

Walker, Chas: First cousin of Kaylas Chiesa. Born in Spring 200 to Heidi and Edmund Walker. Chas has an amazing affinity for mushrooms and, ever since a boy, has been able to name any type of edible or inedible fungus in the Bear's Reach region. The rest of the village considers him suitably strange. Chas married Elizabeth Miller in Winter 203, and has a son called Winston.

Walker, Dot: First cousin of Kaylas Chiesa. Born in Autumn 201 to Heidi and Edmund Walker. An excessively giggly young girl who has been promising to grow out of her annoying habbits for the best part of seven years. She is much like her mother, some say.

Walker, Edmund: Kaylas Chiesa's uncle by marriage. Born into the Walker family in Autumn 194, Edmund is the twin brother of Ellen Walker (now Ellen Farmer). A dashing young man who finally tamed Heidi Chiesa and made an honest woman of her. Heidi and Edmund were married in Winter 199 and produced seven children, five of which survive. Edmund is tall and dark with excessively bushy eyebrows and sad belief he can play the ukulele.

Walker, Elizabeth (née Miller): First cousin of Kaylas Chiesa by marriage. Born into the Miller family in Summer 200. A baker's daughter who met her intended by continually deliverin gloaves of bread he hadn't asked for until he noticed her, she married Chas Walker in Winter 203. Elizabeth is the mother of Winston Walker, and also helps to nurture her husband's fungus farm.

Walker, Elmer: First cousin of Kaylas Chiesa. Born in Spring 202 to Heidi and Edmund Walker. Elmer died when he was four seasons of age after he was bitten by something while swimming in Higham Dip.

Walker, Emily: First cousin of Kaylas Chiesa. Born in Spring 201 to Heidi and Edmund Walker. Heidi was very close to her brother, Nurgen and saw him drown under the ice when she was eleven seasons of age. This profoundly effected her. She has become obsessed with death, and keeps to her room burning candles and other foul smelling thinks she gets from Dominic Dyer in the hope of conjuring up the spirit of her dead brother.

Walker, Esher: Ageing and decrepit patriarch of the Walker family, Esher was born in Autumn 187 on the Scarstone Spit and he and his mother had to be rescued before the tide came in. Esher married Mabel Dyer in Autumn 194 and has six children: May, Bernadette, Anna, Isobel, Gina and Cavark (his only son). A tolerant and open minded-man, Esher has tried to instill in his children patience, and an ability to see the world through another's eyes. He is extremely proud of Cavark for taking in the infant half-orc, Nits, when most of the town wanted to flush it into the sea. He is also extremely close to his son-in-law, Ras Smith, whom he sees as a kindred spirit. Esher was windowed in Winter 200 and since then has thrown his energies into the council.

Walker, Etna (née Miller): Born to parents Sheldon and Fyana in Spring 194, Etna married the affable and charming Cavark Walker in Summer 198, and the pair had one daughter, Barris.. She greatly admires and respects her husband's compassion and his ability to stand up for what is right regardless of the cost to himself. She was a little uncertain when he suggested taking in an infant half-orc that Cavark discovered, but she soon warmed to the idea, and she treats Nits like her own son.

Walker, Heidi (née Chiesa): Aunt of Kaylas Chiesa. Heidi was born in Autumn 195, the second and last child of Sigmund and Carlotta Chiesa. A stunningly attractive, red-headed girld Heidi embarked upon a string of torrid affairs in her youth before eventually settling for Edmund Walker, whom she married in Winter 199. Since then Heidi seems to have been content to sit back and make babies although after seven children (five of whom survive) she has called a halt to the production line. A firm friend to her brother Skellan and his wife she can often be found around their farmstead.

Walker, Joan (née Goodie): Born into the Goodie family in Spring 187, Joan was married to Percy Walker in Summer 193. She had five children: Adelaide, Ellen, Edmund, Aishling and Kimberley. She died in Winter 203 at the age of sixty-seven seasons.

Walker, Mabel (née Dyer): Born into the Dyer family in Spring 188, Mabel was married Esher Walker in Autumn 187. She produced six children in her eventful life: May, Bernadette, Anna, Isobel, Gina and Cavark (her only son). Mabel died in Winter 200 from pneumonia. She was fifty-one seasons of age.

Walker, Nits: The only half-orc in the village of Bear's Reach, Nits was discovered only hours after his birth in Spring 200 by constable Cavark Walker. Cavark convinced his wife, Etna, to nurse Nits back to health and won Nits a place in the village. Nits is extremely grateful to his father, and since Summer 204 he has served beside him in the militia. Nits has suffered from a form of narcolepsy all his life. He falls asleep at the most inopportune moment and sometimes cannot be roused for days. Nits is cheerful and knows there is prejudice against him, but thinks that a winning smile and being unending nice and cheerful to everyone he meets can overcome any problem. He is not stupid though. He believes that his mother is someone who lives in the village who fell pregnant to an orc, concealed the pregancy and then abandoned him as soon as he was born. Nits doesn't blame his mother for this, and he respects her privacy by not trying to discover her identity. To Nits, Cavark and Etna are his parents, and Barris his sister.

Walker, Nurgen: First cousin of Kaylas Chiesa. Born in Summer 200 to Heidi and Edmund Walker, Nurgen was a devil-may-care adventurer. He was tragically killed in Winter 203 when he fell through the ice of Higham Dip and drowned.
Walker, Percy: Ex-patriach of the Walker family born in Autumn 185. He married Joan Goodie in Summer 193 and had five children: Adelaide, Ellen, Edmund, Aishling and Kimberley. Percy died in Autumn 200 and his place on the village council was taken over by his cousin, Esher.

Walker, Sarah: First cousin of Kaylas Chiesa. Born in Autumn 202 to Heidi and Edmund Walker. Sarah is more than a little sticky-fingered and has been caught lifting any number of small objects she finds unattended on peoples windowsills, tables or in their pockets. She has been reprimanded on more than one occasion but the magpie-like Sarah is incorrigible.

Wallon: Norandan town.

Wardens: Guardians of Seletine Park, clad in green leather and the only ones allowed to ride horses within the parkland.

Warmakers: Members of the Church of Contention.

Watchers on the Cusp of Oblivion: Also known as the Watchers, this is a faith of the god Mortis primarily concerned with death, passing and loss. Clerics of this religion officiate at funerals. The Watchers detest undead in all its forms and will oppose it where they find it. They also have an abiding hatred of resurrection in any form, and will seek to thwart it when they can. This led to the war between the Watchers and the Firestarters that broke out on 3rd Suntask 20, and raged for more than a month.

Watermaster/Watermistress: An archaic term for Wavemistress within the Church of Water.

Wavemaster/Wavemistress: High priest in the Church of Water.

Waveservant, Llaeric: One of the thirteen companions of Scarman Thorn who came to Bear's Reach in 38 LE. A fundamentalist Sharrashan priest.

Ways: Technically, the name given by the dwarves to any labyrinthine stretch of subterranean tunnels; but normally applied to the specific tunnels that connect the dwarven holds to the north and south of the Straits of Gunstadtan. The Ways run beneath the sea linking the Heart of Underbarren with great dwarf-hold of Kulhâzan. Trained deep-guides are necessary to interpret the cunning markers carved into the stone, to find the path through the Ways. Without such a guide one would undoubtedly blunder into the dark and evil creatures that lurk there, or become forever lost in the identical tunnels.

Weary Gondolier: Inn located in Sorgar.

Weary Traveller: Inn located in the Village of the Eighteen Churches. The landlady is a human called Lysas, who is a member of the Odyssian Church.

Weaver [mistress]: An imposing tree-trunk of a woman, and proprietess of The Spinning Top in Kelrin. Mistress Weaver does close business with the Order of the Seventh Moon who send monks to her to complete their Trial of Temptation. She is not above running a book on the outcome.

Weaver, Belle (née Walker): Born into the Walker family in Spring 188, she married Rufus Weaver in Autumn 192. Belle Weaver is now enjoying a semi-retirement allowing her various daughters and grandchildren to service her needs. She has five children (Verona, Magda, Ellis Havelock and Curly), five grandchildren and one great grandchild.

Weaver, Curly: Only son of Rufus and Belle Weaver, born in Autumn 193. Curly was so named do to his incredible thick head of hair. Unfortunately he lost it all when he was fourteen and so his name is wholly inappropriate. Curly married Kimberley Walker in Summer 198. He has five children: Mulberry, Jasmin, Vitto, Gina and Kaleel.

Weaver, Edna (née Farmer): Second cousin once removed of Thorn Njedelstrom. Daughter and elder child of Gellem and Adelaide Farmer. Born in Summer 200, Edna was married to Mulberry Weaver in Summer 204. She then left the family farm to work with the weavers. The pair have one child called Korn. Edna is a simple, vacuous girl with very little grip on reality, although she is extremely pretty.

Weaver, Fulton: Born into the Weaver family in Winter 185, Fulton was once the Chronicler of Bear's Reach. He recorded all births, deaths and marriages and kept the great ledger of events up to date. When he died in Autumn 199 the duties passed to his nephew, Havelock, who had taken a keen interest in the work.

Weaver, Gaynor (née Cooper): First cousin once removed of Thorn Njedelstrom. Gaynor was the second child of Knarris and Lily Cooper. She was born in Summer 200, and married Vitto Weaver early in the Autumn of 204. The union has yet to be blessed with a child, mainly because Gaynor hasn't the room. She has a habit of taking in strays and she has filled her home with orphaned fox cubs, rabbits, birds with broken wings and the like.

Weaver, Havelock: Fourth child of Rufus and Belle Weaver, born in Autumn 194. From a very early age, Havelock always had his nose in a book. He spent most of his childhood in the company of the old Chronicler, his uncle Fulton. By the time Havelock was in his early teens, he understood the ins and outs of the filing system and Fulton began to trust him to record details for himself. When Fulton died in Autumn 199 after falling from a ladder while trying to reach a particularly heavy ledger, Havelock was the obvious choice to succeed him despite being only twenty seasons at the time. Havelock has not disappointed. His duties as Chronicler have not left Havelock with much of an opportunity to get married, have a job any hobbies or much of a personality. However, he fills a vital role in the community that most other people are far to lazy to do.

Weaver, Kimberley (née Walker): Born into the Walker family (fortunately a different branch from that of her mother-in-law) in Spring 193. Kimberley married Curly Weaver in Summer 198. She has five children: Mulberry, Jasmin, Vitto, Gina and Kaleel.

Weaver, Korn: Second cousin twice removed of Thorn Njedelstrom. Baby born late in the summer of 204 LE and currently the only son of his parents Mulberry and Edna.

Weaver, Mulberry: Thorn Njedelstrom's second cousin once removed by marriage. Born in Summer 199, Mulberry married Edna Farmer in early Summer 204. The couple currently have one son, Korn who was born in late Summer 204. Mulberry married Edna for her looks and now finds that her lack of intelligence is driving him nuts.

Weaver, Rufus: Current patriarch of the Weaver family, born in Spring 188. He married Belle Walker in Autumn 192, and they are the oldest couple still living in the village. They had five children: the twins Verona and Magda, Ellis, Havelock and Curly.

Weaver, Vitto: Thorn Njedelstrom's first cousin once removed by marriage. Vitto is a young, slightly rotund man, who enjoys a life of sitting down and weaving baskets, fishing nets and blankets. He has no ambition except to eat well, sleep much and live a generally quiet life. He is in no hurry to have a child and encourages his new wife, Gaynor, in her hobby of collecting sick animals.

Wenneb: Wizard in the employ of Fenton Pryde. He was charged with the task of protecting the bandit-lord O'Keef, but was killed by the Chosen of Narramac on 43rd Suntask 204. His spell-book was later given to Misgon.

West Cross: Norandan town.

West Uris Road: Road in Norandor from Uris to Timberlake via Vrex Cross.

Westerland: Duchy of Norandor ruled from Narrisham by Duke Gardoneaux.

Weston: One of the soldiers in the retinue of Baron Tannith Swift who came to Bear's Reach on 30 Chillbone 204. One of the guards who allowed Arax Chandar to escape two days later. He was placed on guard duty outside the Old Mill to make sure it did not happen again. He pursued Vitor Grushko into the Whittenwood on 34 Chillbone. It is not known whether he still lives.

Westram, Obadiah: One of the thirteen companions of Scarman Thorn who came to Bear's Reach in 38 LE. Obadiah was a servant of the god, Vítaeous.

Weybridge: Large town in Umbria. Driskal is the squrie here.

Weyland: Small logging and subsistence farming community high in the Cullbarren Peaks with a population of about 100 people. Weyland has an increasing problem with hostile goblins, leading to more than half the population of the village to leave and make the difficult journey to Timberlake. When visited by the Chosen of Narramac in Lollmeadow 204, Weyladn was a community on the verge of collapse.

Wheel: Tavern in Uris.

White Bear Peak: The eastern post mountain of the Cullbarren Peaks, located thirty miles to the north of Bear's Reach. White Bear Peak is about four thousand feet high and was of religious significance to the Bearmen who once lived in the area. It is the source of the River Running.

Whiteheart, Arok: One of the thirteen companions of Scarman Thorn who came to Bear's Reach in 38 LE. A mystic dedicated to the moon gods.

Whisper Vaults: Old dwarven mines located very close to Kovar in Kerikal so called because of the vast tunnels that run through them magnify even the smallest sound. Once home to thousands of dwarves, the Vaults were abandoned when something evil took over them. No dwarf and few Men have ventured into the vaults in hundreds of seasons. The ranger Wulf, knows the Vaults however, and led the Chosen of Narramac through them on 30th Midsummer 204.

Whisper: Beautiful and deadly. Whisper is an albino and a renowed assassin. She embarked on Narramac's great quest of Brightday 204, and was teamed with Josepp, Drasha, Misgon, Deerkor and Kismo. On 38 Brightday Whisper came an inch from murdering Ravenna but was stopped by the intervention of the Lady Drasha. When the party clashed with Deerkor, Kismo and Josepp in the Maw of Io two days later, Whisper was not to be seen. It was assumed that she was trapped within the Maw of Io when the portal closed, but she was encountered again on 25 Heathaze 204 when she tried for the Blade of Hope in the Ceremony of the Sword. To the relief of the Chosen of Narramac, she failed.

White Suite: A luxurious six-bedroom apartment located in the Royal Palace in Uirs. The suite was given to the Chosen of Narramac as their quarters on 14th Suntask 204. According to Lady Drasha, the suite used to be the private abode of Narramac and is located where the wizard could keep an eye on the king's tower.

Whittenwood: A truly ancient evergreen woodland that surrounds Bear's Reach and covers much of the northerly Arm of Uros.

Wilderlands: Name given to the western portion of Calclafique that is outside the civilised democratic enclave. The Wilderlands are a counterpaine of sparse woodland, plains and desert that is inhabited by nomands, bandits and monsters.

Wildmen: The name given by most 'civilised' people to the barbarian hordes of Kerikal. The Üganthé actually quite like the term, and use it themselves.

Wildred: A member of the Chosen of Narramac's domestic staff. He is a carpenter, groom and general odd-job man.

Wildshape: The greatest power of druid is his ability to change his shape. Wildshaping has its dangers and druids have been known to be so completely swept up in their new form to remain that way forever. Wildshaping is something of a narcotic to the Order - once they start, they don't like to stop. Druids who can wildshape are known as the Accepted.
Windslá: Norandan Town.

Witch Wyrd: Title given to Sarakite. Its exact meaning is unknown.

Withers, Durlan: Member of the Council of Adventure of overseer of the activites of the Guild of Adventurers in the dwarven land of Gunstadtan. A human himself, Durlan has a close relationship with the ambassador to dwarves, Niergan.

Wold: Semi-autonomous hobbit land within Norandor.

Woldwood: Large forest located within The Wold.

Wraith Haunt: Area of northern Norandor infamous for its wandering undead creatures. Such creatures seldom emerge from the area, and there has not been a sizeable incursion since late in 201 LE. An expedition sponsored by Silas Reshen in Scatterseed 204 discovered the reason for this was the rise of a powerful undead 'witchwyrd' called Sarakite who seemed to have dominion over all such creatures. This was reported to the church of the Watchers. In the Brightday of 204 it was noted by the party (2), that ghouls had inexplicably wandered far to the south of the Wraith Haunt and were threatening the main road between Oakholme and Northmeet. To the locals of the area, the place is commonly called The Haunted Wood.
Wrardin, Aldous: Noradon representative on the Council of Adventure.
Wren: Member of the Bombastic cell that entered Caled Castle on 1st Lollmeadow 204. She was later determined to be the long lost Rio Shai'ir.

Wulf: A very well known and respected ranger in northern Kerikal. Wulf has long hatred of orcs, but was willing to put those feelings aside to work with Goretooth in the campaign in the Plains of Acheron in Midsummer 204. He met the Chosen of Narramac on 30th Midsummer and fought by their side in the following days. Wulf radiates a quiet charisma and is obviously someone you can respect and depend upon. Many other rangers idolise him.

Wulgarth, Krydon: Lord High General of the Church of Contention shortly after it was formed in 33 LE. He was responsible for creating the Eighth Battalion.

Wyrwood: A wood of evergreen and deciduous trees that cushions Bear's Reach from the Whittenwood beyond.