Bloodthirsty Excuse—Memgowa’s term for the use of atrocity suffered to justify the commission of atrocity.
Boatman—The Nonman charged with feeding the Erratics dwelling in the Holy Deep of Ishterebinth, once known as Morimhira, the Father-of-Orphans, Most Ancient Warrior, and uncle of Cu’jara Cinmoi. As the only aged Nonman to be rendered immortal by the Inoculation, he is a perpetual reminder of the mortality and decrepitude his nephew exchanged for the Wombplague.
Bogras, Praxum (4059—4111)—Man-of-the-Tusk, general of the Selial Column, slain at Anwurat.
Bogyar, Thurhig (4000—4132)—Holca Ordealman, descendant of the famed Thurror Eryelk, and Spearbearer to Coithus Saubon during the Great Ordeal.
Bokae—An old Ceneian fort on the western frontier of Enathpaneah.
Boksarias, Pirras (2395—2437)—The Ceneian Emperor who standardized trading protocols within the empire and established a thriving system of markets in its major cities.
Book of Circles and Spirals, The—The magnum opus of Sorainas, providing an entertaining blend of philosophical commentary and religious aphorism.
Book of Devices, The–An oft-revised Nansur military manual depicting the banner devices of their ancestral foes.
Book of Divine Acts, The—The magnum opus of Memgowa, the famed Zeümi sage and philosopher. Though not as commonly read or copied as his Celestial Aphorisms, most scholars consider it a vastly superior work.
“Bowing into the fire”—Zaudunyani metaphor for divine revelation.
Bowl—Caraskand’s central quarter, which is surrounded by five of the city’s nine heights.
Branch of Umiaki—The name given to the switches used in Penance.
Breacher—Mysunsai term used to describe members who renege on their contracts.
Breaking of the Gates—Legendary assault on the Gates of E?rwa, a series of fortified passes through the Great Kayarsus, by the Men of E?nna. Since The Chronicle of the Tusk ends with the determination to invade E?rwa, or the Land of the “Uplifted Sun,” and since the Nonmen Mansions most involved in resisting the Tribes of Men were all destroyed, very little is known either of the Breaking of the Gates or of the subsequent migratory invasions.
Bukris—The God of famine. As one of the so-called Punitive Gods, who command sacrifices through threat and the imposition of suffering, Bukris has no real Cult or priesthood. According to Kiünnat tradition, Bukris is the older brother of Anagk?, which is why Anagkean Cultic Priests typically administer the rites of propitiation during times of hunger.
Burning of the White Ships—One of the more famous acts of treachery during the Apocalypse. Falling back before the Consult legions, Anas?rimbor Nimeric dispatched the A?rsic fleet in 2134 to shelter in the K?niüri port of Aesorea, where it was burned by agents unknown mere days after its arrival, deepening the feud between the two peoples, with tragic consequences. See Apocalypse.
Burulan (4084— )—One of Esmenet’s Kianene body-slaves.
Byantas (2463-2515)—A near antique writer of the Ceneian Empire. His Translations, an account of all the varied customs of the peoples making up the Empire, would render him famous to later generations. The precision of his observations remain unparalleled. The death of those customs in the intervening centuries has had a profound impact on Three Seas thought, embuing it with a historical self-awareness it had not possessed before. Before Byantas, Men were blind to the fundamental transformations wrought by the passage of time. A far smaller fraction of the soul belonged to the realm of the Immutable after him.
Byantas was Excised by Imperial Authorities in 4121 for perhaps this very reason.
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Calasthenes (4055—4111)—Man-of-the-Tusk, a sorcerer of rank in the Scarlet Spires, slain by a Chorae at Anwurat.
Calmemunis, Nersei (4069—4110)—Man-of-the-Tusk, the Palatine of the Conriyan province of Kanampurea, and nominal leader of the Vulgar Holy War.
Canons of Imimor?l—Nonman regulative scriptures outlining a wide variety of largely anachronistic codes of personal and social conduct.
Canons of the Dead—One of six so-called Canons of Imimor?l.
Canted Horn—See Horns of Golgotterath.
Cants—The name given to offensive sorcerous incantations. See sorcery.
Cants of Calling—The family of incantations that enable communications over distance. Though the metaphysics of these Cants is only loosely understood, all long-distance Cants of Calling seem to turn on the so-called Here Hypothesis. One can call only to slumbering souls (because they remain open to the Outside) and only to those residing someplace where the Caller has physically been. The idea is that the “Here” of the Caller can only reach a “There,” or other location, that has been a “Here” sometime in the past. The degree of similarity between Anagogic and Gnostic Cants of Calling has led many to suspect that they hold the key to unravelling the Gnosis.
Cants of Compulsion—The family of incantations that control the movements of an individual’s soul. Typically these include the so-called Cants of Torment, though not always. An insidious aspect of these Cants is that their subject often has no way of distinguishing sorcerously compelled thoughts from his own thoughts. This has spawned a whole literature on the very notion of “will.” If the compelled soul feels every bit as uncompelled as the free soul, then how can anyone truly know himself to be free?
Cants of Scrying—The family of incantations that enable observation from long distances or obstructed vantages.
Canute—A Province of Ce Tydonn, one of the so-called Deep Marches of the Upper Swa.
Caphrianus I (3722—85)—Commonly called “the Younger” to distinguish him from his Ceneian namesake. The Nansur Surmante emperor famed for his wily diplomacy and far-reaching reforms of the Nansur legal code.
Cara-Sincurimoi—“Angel of Endless Hunger” (Ihrims?). Ancient Nonman name for the No-God. See No-God.
Caraskand—A major city and great caravan entrepot of the southwestern Three Seas. The administrative and commercial capital of Enathpaneah.
Carathay Desert—Vast arid region of dunes and gravel flats occupying southwestern E?rwa. Large oases are primarily found along the eastern regions of the desert, but there are skeletal river systems throughout.
Caravaneeri—Name for the route connecting the Three Seas to K?niüri in Far Antiquity.
Carind?s? (4081—4132)—Ordealman, Grandmaster of the Vokalati in the Great Ordeal of Anas?rimbor Kellhus. Known for his pride and mercurial temper, Carind?s? is widely regarded as the soul most responsible for the disaster of Irsulor, where he met his end at the hands of Apperens Saccarees in 4132.
Caro-Shemic—The language of the scriptural pastoralists of the Carathay Desert.
Car?-Ongonean (524—588)—The third God-King of ?merau who, among many things, raised the original Library of Sauglish.