Illawor—Coastal province of ancient A?rsi.
Illisser?—“The Lighthouse” (Aujic). One of the great Nonman Mansions before the Breaking of the Gates, located in what Men now call the Betmulla Mountains. “Sepil himi loi’nu muomi,” the nameless poet of Six-Skins-Folded writes of the Illisser?: “The Sea is their Deepest Deep.” The Illisseri love of the sea is the primary reason they remain at the margins of Nonman lore as inherited by the Three Seas.
Imbeyan ab Imbaran (4067—4111)—Sapatishah-Governor of Enathpaneah and son-in-law of the Padirajah, slain at Caraskand.
Imburil—“Newborn” (Aujic). Nonman name for the Nail of Heaven.
Imimor?l—The central figure of Nonman scriptures, named “Father of the False” in The Chronicle of the Tusk, and in Mannish traditions, a once-glorious God imprisoned deep in the earth as punishment for teaching sorcery to the Nonmen. According to C?nuroi traditions, Imimor?l was not imprisoned within the earth, but sought refuge in the “Deepest Deep,” those places the gods could not judge because they could not see. Though Ajencis famously attributes the Nonman aversion to open sky to his theory of “vital accommodations,” the Nonmen themselves see this predilection as a sacred observance of Imimor?l’s ancient straits—as well as the best way to find oblivion upon their deaths.
Im’inaral Lightbringer (?—?)—Hero of Siol struck down beneath the original gatehouse of Min-Uroikas by Sil, the Inchoroi King.
Imirsiol—“Hammer of Siol” (Gilc?nya). Legendary blade forged for Oir?nas by the arcane smith Viriml? once the Hero grew Tall.
Imhailas, Gawol (4093—4132)—Exalt-Captain of the E?thic Guard, rumoured to be the lover of Anas?rimbor Esmenet, summarily executed by the Inchausti in 4132 for harbouring the fugitive Empress during the Shrial Insurrection.
Immiriccas (?—?)—Son of Cinial’jin, called the Goad, the Malcontent, the Despiser. Sentenced to death in the month preceding the Second Battle of the Ark, his sentence was committed to his Kinning, who sold him to Ishoriol as a battle slave, a role which saw him heaped with glory, for none bore the Vile more hatred. His notoriety allegedly secured the affections of Mu’miorn, the most coveted lover in the Citadels, and long-time paramour of Nil’giccas. Claiming the Seal of the House Primordial, the Nonman King assumed the claims-of-grievance belonging to Cu’jara Cinmoi, and commanded the execution of Immiriccas. Strife between Injori Ishroi and the Dispossessed Sons of Siol followed, a rift that was only partially healed when Nil’giccas commended Immiriccas to Emilidis, who asked the condemned Ishroi to choose between execution and sorcerous transmogrification—eternal life bound to the Amiolas.
Imperial Army—A common name for the standing Nansur army.
Imperial Precincts—The name given to the grounds of the Andiamine Heights.
Imperial Saik—The School indentured to the Nansur Emperor.
Imperial Sun—The primary symbol of the Nansur Empire.
Imperial Synod—The highest council of the Greater Congregate, held in the Synodine on the Andiamine Heights, tasked with advising the Aspect-Emperor.
Impromta, The—The anonymously written collection of the Warrior-Prophet’s earliest sermons and aphorisms.
Imrothas, Sarshressa (4054—4111)—Man-of-the-Tusk, Palatine of the Conriyan province of Aderot, claimed by disease at Caraskand.
Incariol—“Lord Wanderer” (Ihrims?). Enigmatic Nonman Erratic companion of Lord Kosoter. Also known as Cleric.
Incarnal—Name given to the battle-madness suffered to varying degrees by the Holca.
Incest Song of Linqiru—Famous Nonman lay recounting the scandalous love affair that produced Cu’jara Cinmoi.
And hidden from the sky,
in the deepest of the Holy Deep,
they conceived the very point of the spear,
Cu’jara Cinmoi, cast upon
godhead, arrogance-that-is-joy,
conjoining the very blood their birth had torn asunder,
as holy Tsonos and Olissis …
Inchausti—The personal bodyguard of the Holy Shriah following the institutional reforms of Anas?rimbor Maithanet, selected from the most faithful and formidable of the Shrial Knights.
Inchoroi—“People of Emptiness” (Ihrims?). A mysterious and obscene race that, according to legend, descended from the void in the Inc?-Holoinas. Calling themselves the Iyisk?, the Inchoroi have always claimed (during brief truces with the C?nuroi) to be shipwrecked upon the World, the victims of a cataclysm that brought them flaming down from the Void. In truth, however, they have come to extinguish all life, believing that destroying all souls upon our World will shut it against the Outside, thus saving their souls from damnation should they die.
Inc?-Holoinas—“Ark-of-the-Skies” (Ihrims?). The great vessel that brought the Inchoroi from the heavens and became the golden heart of Golgotterath. All scholars agree that the Inc?-Holoinas was some kind of ship built to sail the sky, that it crashed some time prior to the inscription of the Tusk, but only a rare handful concede the claim that it sailed the Void proper, which is to say, between stars. The most compelling rebuttal of this fanciful notion comes from Ajencis himself, who pointed out that the stars would move relative one another were they not uniformly embedded in a sphere hanging a fixed distance about the sky. Since the relative positioning of the stars is identical in star charts inked from different corners of the World, we can be assured that the Inc?-Holoinas “came from someplace distant, but not far away.” This, the Great Kyranean concludes, means the Inc?-Holoinas must hail from the Outside and not the stars.
This disagreement in origins forms the basis of the two different families of speculation on the Inc?-Holoinas, with Nonmen and Far Antique Mannish accounts generally insisting it’s a vessel constructed to cross the Void, and with more recent Mannish accounts agreeing that it’s a vessel constructed to escape damnation in the Outside. Where the former accounts hold the occupants to be “aliens,” monstrosities from another World, the latter accounts claim the Inchoroi were in fact ciphrangi—demons, in effect.