Ghoset—An ancient Wracu spawned during the C?no-Inchoroi Wars.
Gielgath—An important Nansur city located on the Meneanor coast.
Gierra—The God of carnal passion. One of the so-called Compensatory Gods, who reward devotion in life with paradise in the afterlife, Gierra is very popular throughout the Three Seas, particularly among aging men drawn to the “aphrodisica,” Cultic nostrums reputed to enhance virility. In the Higarata, the collection of subsidiary writings that form the scriptural core of the Cults, Gierra is rarely depicted with any consistency, and is often cast as a malign temptress, luring men to the luxury of her couch, often with fatal consequences.
Gift-of-Yatwer—Epithet for the White-Luck Warrior.
Gilc?nya—The tongue of the Nonmen Quya and the Gnostic Schools, thought to be a debased version of Auja-Gilc?nni, the so-called “ground” (or first) tongue of the C?nuroi.
Gilgallic Gate—An immense gate located at the westernmost point of Momemn’s walls.
Gilga?l—The God of war and conflict. One of the so-called Compensatory Gods, who reward devotion in life with paradise in the afterlife, Gilga?l is perhaps the most popular of the Hundred Gods. In the Higarata, the collection of subsidiary writings that form the scriptural core of the Cults, Gilga?l is depicted as harsh and skeptical of Men, continually demanding proof of worth from those who would follow him. Though subordinate to the Thousand Temples, the Gilgallic Cult boasts nearly as many priests, and perhaps receives more in the way of sacrificial donations. Also known as the Dread Father of Death, the All-Taker, the Wielder, the Breaker-of-Heroes, among many other epithets.
Ginsil (2115—c. 2147)—The wife of General En-Kaujalau in The Sagas, who pretended to be her husband to fool the assassins coming to kill him.
Gin’yursis (?—2152)—Nonman King of Cil-Aujas, famously slain by the very Meori refugees (under the leadership of Nosol) he sheltered from the No-God during the Apocalypse.
Giolal—Name of the forests to the east of Ishterebinth reserved since ancient days for hunting.
Girgalla (1798—1841)—An ancient K?niüric poet famed for his Epic of Sauglish.
Girgash—A nation of the Three Seas, located on the mountainous northern frontier of Nilnamesh, and the only Fanim nation aside from Kian.
Girgashi—The language of Fanic-Girgash, a derivative of Sapmatari.
Girgilioth—A ruined city on the south bank of the River Sempis, which was once the capital of Kyranean-occupied Shigek but was destroyed following Kyraneas’s demise in the Apocalypse.
gishrut—A traditional Scylvendi drink made from fermented mare’s milk.
Gloom—Final stage of the Dolour, suffered by the Reduced. See Dolour.
Gnosis—The branch of sorcery once practiced by the Gnostic Schools of the Ancient North but now known only to the Schools of Mandate and Mangaecca. Unlike Anagogic sorcery, Gnostic sorcery is leveraged through the use of the Abstractions, which is why Gnostic sorcerers are often referred to as Philosopher Magi. The Gnosis was first developed by the Nonmen Quya, who imparted it to the early Norsirai Anagogic sorcerers during the Nonman Tutelage, 555—825.
Gnostic Cants include: the Bar of Heaven, the Bisecting Planes of Mirseor, the Cirroi Loom, the Compass of Noshainrau, the Cross of Arches, the Ellipses of Thosolankis, the Entelechy Theorems, the First Quyan Fold, the Mathesis Pin, the Noviratic Warspike, the Odaini Concussion Cant, the Ribs of Gottagga, the Seventh Quyan Theorem, the Third Concentric, the We?ra Comb, and the High Titirgic Axiom.
See sorcery.
Gnostic Schools—Those Schools that practice the Gnosis. Only two such Schools, the Mangaecca and the Mandate, survive, though prior to the Apocalypse some dozen or so Gnostic Schools were in existence, the Sohonc foremost among them.
Goat’s Heart, The—The famed book of fables by Protathis.
God, the—In Inrithi tradition, the unitary, omniscient, omnipotent, and immanent being responsible for existence, of which Gods (and in some strains Men) are but “aspects.” In the Kiünnat tradition, the God is more an abstract placeholder than anything else. In the Fanim tradition, the God is the unitary, omniscient, omnipotent, and transcendent being responsible for existence (thus the “Solitary God”), against which the Gods war for the hearts of men.
Gods, the—Supernatural inhabitants of the Outside possessing human characteristics and figuring as objects of ritual and worship. See Hundred Gods, the.
Goken the Red (4058—4117)—Man-of-the-Tusk, notorious pirate and Thunyeri Earl of Cern Auglai.
Golgotterath—The nigh impregnable stronghold of the so-called Consult, located to the north of Nele?st Sea in the shadow of the Yimaleti Mountains. Called Min-Uroikas by the Nonmen during the C?no-Inchoroi Wars, Golgotterath did not become significant to human history until its occupation by the Mangaecca School in 777, who excavated the Inc?-Holoinas and raised vast fortifications about it.
The greater complex is utterly dominated by the twin Horns of the Inc?-Holoinas, but the vast mound of black basalt comprising their foundation approaches their mass. The Nonmen called it ?riq?, or the “Scab,” (the name later adopted by the K?niüri) because they believed as much literally: that the Wicked Ark had struck the World to its fiery blood. The network of monumental fortifications securing the base of the Horns follows the cliffs comprising the Scab’s perimeter. These cliffs encircle the whole of the Scab, rendering the curtain walls upon them all but impossible to overcome—save, famously, for a great ramp running from the foot of the Upright Horn (the one inhabited) to the plains of ?gorrior to the southeast. This was where history would shed the most blood.
The Is?phiryas relates that during the C?no-Inchoroi Wars, the Inchoroi raised what the Nonmen called ?lil’uroikar, or the “Portal-obscene,” to guard the ?gorrior, an apparently metal-skinned structure razed by the Nonmen upon their conquest of the Ark. Following their reoccupation of Min-Uroikas, the Consult raised Gwergiruh, the hated gatehouse of what would come to be called ?bil Maw, the Extrinsic Gate of Golgotterath, along with two vast towers, Corrunc and Domathuz, to guard the self-same stretch of barren earth. Where the Inchoroi had used the ramping slopes beyond to house their slaves, the Consult blasted them into a series of nine terraces, or “Risers” as the K?niüri called them, each rimmed in more fortifications, a climbing succession of walls that would be called the Oblitus. Upon the Ninth Riser they constructed the High Cwol, a citadel that would have boggled for its dimension, had it not served as porch to the golden immensity of the Upright (or High) Horn. Within the High Cwol lay the dread ?bil Noscisor, the Intrinsic Gate.
Unlike the Nonmen, the Sons of Men never succeeded in avenging the countless souls lost attempting to overcome these foul constructions.
Gonrain, Hoga (4088— )—Man-of-the-Tusk, second-eldest son of Earl Gothyelk.