Nantilla, Couras (4089— )—Ordealman, Earl of Pikka, General of the Cengemi in the Great Ordeal of Anas?rimbor Kellhus.
Narindar—In Kunniat and Inrithi lore, the Gods own assassins. A number of assassination cults have arisen across the Three Seas over the ages, but none could approach the dread commanded by the Narindar. In one sense, the term is a catch-all for those souls, sometimes hapless, who find themselves the instrument of some divinity’s retribution. The only thing conjoining these “Anointed Narindar” with the Narindarj?, the clerics of Ajokli who worship the Trickster with contracted murders, is the Unerring Grace, the degree to which eternal necessity, or Fate, guides their actions. For some Narindar—such as the Yatwerian “White-Luck Warrior”—the Unerring Grace is absolute, and the assassin acts in utter accord with what has already happened. For others, the Grace resolves and fades much as inspiration.
Narnol, Coithus (4065— )—Ordealman, Believer-King of Galeoth, and elder brother of Coithus Saubon.
Narradha, Hringa (4093—4111)—Man-of-the-Tusk, youngest brother of Prince Hringa Skaiyelt, slain at Mengedda.
Nascenti—The nine primary disciples of Anas?rimbor Kellhus, the so-called “Thanes of the Warrior-Prophet.”
Nasueret Column—Also known as the “Ninth Column.” A Column of the Nansur Imperial Army, traditionally stationed on the Kianene frontier. Their device is the Black Imperial Sun halved by an eagle’s wing.
Nasurius—One of many rumour-skewed names attributed to Anas?rimbor Kellhus during his rise to power.
Nau-Cay?ti (2119—2140)—“Blessed Son” (Umeritic). The youngest son of Celmomas II and the famed “scourge of Golgotterath.” Nau-Cay?ti is famed for his heroism and martial brilliance during the dark days after the fall of A?rsi (2136), when K?niüri stood alone against Golgotterath. Many of his exploits, such as the Slaying of Tanhafut the Red and the Theft of the Heron Spear, are recounted in The Sagas.
Naures River—An important river system in eastern Nilnamesh.
Nausk Mausoleum—The Far-Antique temple in Kelmeol where, according to legend, the bones of the Meori High-King Aratrula the Mad are interred. Convinced of his own damnation, Aratrula fairly enslaved his nation attempting to build a Mausoleum, allegedly lined in plates of lead, that might keep his souls safe from the Outside.
Nautzera, Seidru (4038— )—A senior member of the Mandate Quorum. See Mandate.
Near Antiquity—Sometimes called the Ceneian Age. The historical period beginning in 2155 (the end of the Apocalypse) and ending with the Sack of Cenei in 3351. See Far Antiquity.
Neberenes (4067—4124)—An Ainoni Zaudunyani informant.
Nele?st Sea—A large inland sea located in northwestern E?rwa that formed the traditional northern frontier for those nations arising from the Aumris River Valley.
Nenciphon—The administrative capital of Kian, and one of the great cities of the Three Seas, founded by Fan’oukarji I in 3752.
Nerga?ta—A semi-mountainous fiefdom in northwestern Galeoth, renowned for the quality of its wool.
Nersei, House—The ruling House of Conriya since the A?knyssian Uprisings of 3742, which saw the entire line of King Nejata Medekki murdered. The Black Eagle on White is their device.
Nerum—A minor port city and the administrative capital of Jurisada, located on the coast just south of Amoteu.
nesh—Sheyic term meaning “chattel of.”
Neuropuncture—The D?nyain art of producing various behaviours by probing the exposed brain with fine needles.
New Covenant—The revision of religious law, canonized in 4114, occasioned by the revelations of Anas?rimbor Kellhus, the Rehabilitation of Sorcery, and the Manumission of the Feminine being among the most remarkable.
Nganka’kull ut Imbaroon (4087— )—Satakhan of High Holy Zeum.
Ngarau (4062— )—The Grand Seneschal to Ikurei Xerius III.
Niehirren Halfhand (c. 3450—c. 3500)—Legendary Lord of the Sakarpi Pale famed for actually surviving five years on the open Istyuli (after being exiled).
Nihrims?l—One the Nine Mansions of E?rwa and the only Mansion not derived from Siol, located on the southernmost spur of the East Yimaleti, lost shortly after the Breaking of the Gates of Thayant—following the destruction of its ancient rival, Siol. What little is known regarding Nihrims?l comes refracted through the lens of Ishori?l, which though unified with Nihrims?l through the marriage of Sin’niroiha and Tsinir?, remained thoroughly Tsonic in custom and outlook. Though all sources agree that Nihrims?l alone was not founded by Siol, they universally deride its claim to be the true House Primordial, and the alternate mythology wherein Tsonos and Olissis murder Imimor?l while he slumbered, before fleeing the wrath of their siblings to found Siol.
Nikussis, Gamag (4090— )—The Imperial Scrollmaster of the Andiamine Heights.
Nil’giccas (?—4132)—The Nonman King of Ishterebinth and Nihrims?l, eldest son of Sin’niroiha and Tsinir?. Known as King-upon-the-Summit, Lightbearer, Mantutor and many other names in the legends and histories of Men and Nonmen. Following the death first of Cu’jara Cinmoi and then Sin’niroiha, Nil’giccas would become the de facto leader of the war against the Vile following the disasters of the Womb-Plague and Pir-Minningial.
Nilnamesh—A populous Ketyai nation on the extreme southwest edge of the Three Seas, famed for its ceramics, spices, and stubborn refusal to relinquish its exotic versions of Kiünnat either to Inrithism or to Fanimry. Primarily for geographical reasons, the fertile plains to the south of the Hinayati Mountains have long enjoyed cultural and political independence from the Three Seas. Casidas was the first to remark that the Nilnameshi were an “inward people,” both in the sense of their obsession with the plight of their souls and in their utter disdain for outland Princes. Only two periods in their history cut against this tendency. The first is the Old Invishi period (1023—1572), when Nilnamesh was united under a series of aggressively expansionist Kings based in Invishi, which is now the traditional spiritual capital of Nilnamesh. In 1322 and then again in 1326, Anzumarapata II inflicted crushing defeats on the Shigeki, and for some thirty years compelled tribute from the proud river kingdom. Then, in 2483, Sarnagiri V, leading a coalition of Princes, was routed by Triamis the Great, and Nilnamesh found itself a province (albeit an unruly one) for more than a thousand years.
The era following the collapse of the Ceneian Empire is commonly called the New Invishi period, though none of the ancient city’s Kings has been able to hold more than a fraction of Nilnamesh for more than a generation. During the Unification Wars, Nilnamesh would prove one of the most difficult nations for the Zaudunyani to conquer and pacify.
Nimeric, Anas?rimbor (2098—2135)—The son of the hero Mygella and King of A?rsi until its destruction in the Apocalypse. See Apocalypse.
nimil—The Nonmen steel forged in the sorcerous furnaces of Ishterebinth.