April
Flower-month:
May
Rose-month:
June
Harvest-month:
July
Weed-month:
August
DeadLeaf-month:
September
Bone-month:
October
Frost-month:
November
Snow-month:
December
MOONWILDFLOWERS: extremely rare, delicate violet flowers that bloom only under the full moon.
Closely associated with Azhure.
MORNINGSTAR SUNSOAR: StarDrifter's mother and a powerful Enchanter in her own right.
She was murdered by WolfStar SunSoar.
MORYSON: Brother of the Seneschal and a disguise used by WolfStar.
MOT: one of the TimeKeeper Demons. Mot is the Demon of dawn and of hunger.
MOTHER, The: either the Avar name for Fernbrake Lake, or an all-embracing term for nature which is sometimes personified as an immortal woman.
MURKLE BAY: a huge bay off the western coast of Tencendor, its waters are filthy, polluted by the tanneries along the Azle River.
MURKLE MOUNTAINS: a range of desolate mountains that run along the length of Murkle Bay. Once extensively mined for opals, they are now abandoned.
MURMURWING: a young Icarii.
NARCIS: one of the nine Icarii Star Gods, Narcis is the God of the Sun.
NECKLET, The: a curious geological feature of Ravensbund.
NIAH: of the once baronial family of Nor. Mother to Azhure, Niah was seduced by WolfStar SunSoar and murdered by Brother Hagen. Niah was the First Priestess of the Order of the Stars. WolfStar promised her rebirth to be his lover for eternity, and her soul was born into Zenith, youngest daughter of Axis and Azhure. In Sinner, Niah and Zenith battled for control of her body and soul, with the result that Zenith forced the Niah-soul into a child she was carrying (fathered by WolfStar), which she gave premature birth to and then killed. WolfStar then carried the corpse of the Niah-infant about with him until it was seized by the Demons for their own purposes.
NINE, The: see the 'Star Gods'. ('The Nine' can also occasionally refer to the nine Priestesses of the Order of the Stars.)
NOR: once the southernmost of the provinces of Achar. Nor was controlled by Prince Yllgaine.
NORDMUTH: the port at the mouth of the River Nordra.
NORDRA, River: the great river that was the main lifeline of Achar. Rising in the Icescarp Alps, the River Nordra flows through the Avarinheim before flowing through northern and central Achar.
OGDEN: one of the Sentinels, brother to Veremund.
ORDER OF THE STARS: the order of nine priestesses who once kept watch in the Temple of the Stars.
ORR: the Charonite Ferryman. Now dead.
PACE: see 'Distances'.
PIRATES' NEST: for many centuries the common name of the Island of Mist and Memory. It was once the haunt of pirates.
PIRATES' TOWN: the town that sat by the northern harbour of Pirates' Nest — or the Island of Mist and Memory.
