Privacy Guard: a company leasing uniformed guards to governments and other institutions all over the Federation.
Ragga, Elnos: Noria Melcott’s boyfriend. He is a student at Solantha academy and one of the few mages who believes in equality amongst the races. He and Noria can often be found working together, developing new magi-tech devices.
Randor, Wilam: executive at The Butcher’s Block, a meatpacking company that advertises in the Shifter Courier.
Recca: the world of humans, mages, and shifters.
Residah: the mages’ book of scripture that holds Resinah’s teachings.
Resinah: the first mage, whose teachings are of paramount spiritual importance for the mages. Her statue can be found in the mage temples, which are off-limits to non-mages and magically hidden from outsiders.
Resistance: a movement of revolutionaries and malcontents planning to overthrow the mages and take control of the Northia Federation. Over the past months they have become bolder and more aggressive, using terrorist attacks with civilian casualties. They are financially backed by the still-to-be identified Benefactor.
Romana, Nila: a human Enforcer on the Main Crew and Brin Maxon’s partner, known for relying on her looks first, her fighting skills second.
Rowanville: the only neighborhood of Solantha where all three races mix.
Sandin Federal Bank: a bank with branches in all fifty states of the Federation; its Canalo manager was Danrian Warin. It was shut down after Sunaya brought a scheme of “interest-free loans,” financed with illegally mined gold, to the Chief Mage’s notice.
Serapha charms: paired amulets that allow two people, usually a couple, to find each other via twinned stones imbued with a small part of their essence. Normally, only the wearer can take a serapha charm off.
Shifter: a human who can change into animal form and back by magic; they originally resulted from illegal experiments by mages on ordinary humans.
Shifter Courier: Solantha newspaper specifically geared towards the shifter population.
Shifter Royale: an illegal underground betting concourse where kidnapped and drugged shifters were forced to fight against each other, sometimes to the death. Discovered and exposed by Sunaya, with help from Boon Lakin and Annia Melcott, after her cousin Mika had been kidnapped by the organizers.
Shiftertown: the part of Solantha where the official shifter clans live.
Shiftertown Inspector: a shifter appointed by the Shiftertown Council to police shifter-related crime. He has deputies who assist him. The position is currently held by Boon Lakin, a jaguar shifter, appointed after the murder of his predecessor Roanas Tillmore.
Sillara Tarenan: a shifter Enforcer and early victim of the silver murders.
Solantha: the capital of Canalo State, a port city on the West Coast, home of Sunaya Baine.
Solantha Palace: The seat of power in Canalo, where both the Chief Mage and the Mages Guild reside. It is located near the coast of Solantha Bay.
Solin Endeman: a human, employed by Warin Danrian to sell tickets to the Shifter Royale.
Taili the Wolf: in shifter legend, the very first shifter (a female).
Tanzarite: a rare semi-precious stone.
Talcon, Garius: the former Deputy Captain of the Enforcers Guild. Sunaya discovered he was in league with Petros Yantz, the man behind the silver murders, and killed him in self-defense.
The Twilight: a bar in Rowanville where Sunaya used to bartend.
Tillmore, Roanas: The former Shiftertown Inspector and father figure/mentor to Sunaya. He was poisoned while digging into the silver murders, prompting Sunaya to take over the investigation.
Traxtoline: an explosive material, expensive and unstable.
Tsu-Wakan: a Coazi warrior whose tribe lives on the Mexia plains
Tua: a legendary and highly dangerous race of very long-lived beings with powerful magic, who sometimes cross from their own world into Recca, most frequently in Manuc.
Turain: a small town north of Solantha, where the Shifter Royale took place.
Ur-God: the name the humans call the Creator by.
Vanit, Laro: foreman of the Enforcer Crew to which the late Sillara Tarenan belonged.
Witches’ End: a pier in Solantha City, part of the Port, where immigrant magic users sell their wares and services.
Yantz, Petros: the former Chief Editor of the Herald. He fled the city after Sunaya discovered he was behind the silver murders, and is still at large.