The Unholy Consult (Aspect-Emperor #4)

Battle of Imogirion—The disaster that ended Illisser?’s attempt to surprise the Vile with a sea invasion. Scarcely one hundred Ishroi survived to sail back to their mansion. Of these, all but one—the famed Moryror—would die in the tempests that wracked their return.

Battle of Imweor—Also known as the First Battle of the Horde. The inaugural battle between the Great Ordeal and the Horde in the summer of 4132, so named for the ancient province that witnessed it. After spending several weeks retreating before the advancing Great Ordeal, sheer numbers and starvation triggered the Horde to attack. Unbeknownst to the Ordealmen, the Consult had shadowed their progress with several Yokes, divisions of chained Sranc that they unleashed in the Ordeal’s rear as the Horde descended upon them. The battle would have proved the expedition’s first great disaster, were it not for the Scions, who encountered the Consult Legion whilst foraging for food to the south of the host.

Battle of Isal’imial—Also known as the Abandon, the final open battle of the C?no-Inchoroi Wars, where Nil’giccas, leading the Ishroi of Siol and Injor, threw the last of the Inchoroi back into the Inc?-Holoinas.

Battle of Kiyuth—An important engagement between the Imperial Army of Nansur and the Scylvendi, fought in 4110 on the banks of the River Kiyuth, a tributary of the Sempis river system. The overconfident Scylvendi King-of-Tribes led his people into a trap laid by Ikurei Conphas, the Nansur Exalt-General. The resulting defeat was unprecedented, given that it occurred on the Jiünati Steppe.

Battle of Ma?n—A minor battle fought between Conriya and Ce Tydonn in 4092.

Battle of Mehsarunath—The first great battle fought between the gathered might of Kyraneas and the host of the No-God on the Attong Plateau in 2154. Though Aurang, the No-God’s Horde-General, won the battle, the Kyranean High King, Anaxophus V, was able to escape with much of his host intact, setting the stage for the far more decisive Battle of Mengedda the following year.

Battle of Mengedda, the Second—The desperate battle where Anaxophus V and his southern tributaries and allies made their victorious stand against the Horde of the No-God in 2155. Widely regarded as the most important battle in history.

Battle of Mengedda, the Fourth—The battle where the so-called Vulgar Holy War under Nersei Calmemunis suffered utter destruction at the hands of the Kianene under Skauras ab Nalajan in 4110.

Battle of Mengedda, the Fifth—The first decisive battle fought between the First Holy War and the Kianene, in 4111. Plagued with organizational problems and dissension among its commanders, the First Holy War, under the nominal command of Prince Coithus Saubon, was caught by Skauras ab Nalajan and his Kianene host on the Plains of Mengedda with only half of its available strength. From morning to late afternoon, the Inrithi managed to beat back innumerable Kianene charges. When the remainder of the First Holy War arrived on the Fanim flank, the will of the Kianene broke and they were routed.

Battle of Paremti—A minor battle fought between Conriya and Ce Tydonn in 4109, and the first military victory of Prince Nersei Proyas. Historically significant because Proyas had his cousin, Calmemunis, whipped for impiety, an act that many historians claim precipitated Calmemunis’s decision to prematurely march with the so-called Vulgar Holy War.

Battle of Pir Minginnial—Second Battle of the Ark, which ended in the dramatic defeat of the assembled Mansions after Nin-janjin struck down Cu’jara Cinmoi. Often referred to as simply “the Battle,” Pir Minginnial is widely eulogized in Nonmen treatises and lays for the sheer number of legendary heroes butchered there, as well as for the five centuries of woe that followed.

Battle of Pir Pahal—First great contest on the Fields of Elene?t between the Inchoroi, under Sil, King-After-the-Fall, and the Nonmen under Cu’jara Cinmoi, who would strike down Sil and seize the Heron Spear. The Inchoroi fled back to the Inc?-Holoinas so complete was the Nonmen victory. Facing crises elsewhere in his empire, Cu’jara Cinmoi instituted what has come to be called the Second Watch.

Battle of the Slopes—Name given to the prolonged contest between the Kianene and the Ainoni at the Battle of Anwurat.

Battle of Tertae Fields—The improbable victory of the First Holy War over Kascamandri and his Fanim host outside of Caraskand in 4112 that sealed the power of Anas?rimbor Kellhus over the Inrithi.

Battle of Trantis Bay—The decisive sea battle where the Kianene fleet, using Cishaurim, was able to annihilate the Imperial Nansur fleet under General Sassotian in 4111, thereby denying the First Holy War its primary source of water for its march across Khemema.

Battle of Tywanrae Fords—One of three disastrous defeats suffered by Akksersia and its allies at the hands of the Horde of the No-God. Tywanrae is often evoked by Mandate scholars as an example of the limitations of using Chorae alone to cope with enemy sorcerers in battle.

Battle of Zirkirta—A major battle fought between the Kianene host of Hasjinnet ab Skauras and the Scylvendi under Yursut urs Muknai on the Jiünati Steppe in 4103. Though their cavalry proved no match for the Scylvendi, and Hasjinnet himself was slain, the Kianene were quick in recovering, and most of the ill-fated expedition survived.

Battleplain—See Mengedda Plains.

Battles of Agongorea—See Apocalypse.

Bayal—A semi-mountainous fiefdom in northern Galeoth, widely thought accursed.

Believer-King—Epithet belonging to Zaudunyani Kings during the Kellic Empire.

Bengulla (4103—12)—Son of A?ngelas and Valrissa.

benjuka—A subtle and ancient game of strategy played by caste-nobility throughout the Three Seas. A derivative of the more esoteric mirqu played by Nonmen, the first extant references to benjuka date back to the so-called Nonmen Tutelage (555—825).

Betmulla Mountains—A minor mountain range forming the southwestern frontier of both Xerash and Amoteu. The traditional location of the lost Nonman Mansion of Illisser?.

Biaxi, House—One of the Houses of the Congregate, and traditional rival to House Ikurei.

billows—Name of the specialized robes worn by sorcerers and witches of all Schools throughout the Great Ordeal. Typical robes possessed dozens of silk bolts as long as ten cubits or more, which, with the assistance of a specialized Cant, would writhe about the wearer when unfurled, providing some measure of protection from any thrown or fired Chorae.

Bios—The principle of living things independent of the soul.

Black Heaven—Sranc name for the No-God, translated from Iruturu-ka (Agurzhoi).

Black Iron Seat—The throne of the Nonman King of Ishterebinth, hewn from the spot where, during the Siege of Ishterebinth (2147-9), Aurang struck the ensorcelled Mirinotic Gates with the Sun Lance (sister of the Heron Spear) before it exploded. The impact crater forms the seat of the throne, with the slag thrown by the strike constituting the back and sides, and the remaining thickness of the Gate making the base.

blood-of-the-onta—A common term for what Zarathinius called the “ink” of the Mark.

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