Rash (4073—4112)—The nickname of Houlta, Man-of-the-Tusk, and a caste-menial Zaudunyani agitator, slain in the Battle of Caraskand.
Rauschang, Hringa (4054—4014)—The King of Thunyerus and father of Skaiyelt and Hulwarga.
Reduced—Name given those who have entered the Gloom, the final stage of the Dolour, when the sheer repetition of anguish has burned away the behaviour of anguish, leaving the soul with only the most fundamental routines of survival.
Remonstrata—The name of the complex comprising the Imperial Court in the Andiamine Heights.
Restored Empire—For some in Nansur, the cherished goal of restoring all the “lost provinces” (the territories seized by the Kianene) to the Nansur Empire.
Revenging—Name given to the wars following the Womb-Plague. See C?no-Inchoroi Wars.
Ribbaral—Section of Dagliash once housing smithies and other workshops.
Ring Mountains—The range that encircles Golgotterath, typically called “the Occlusion” in Mandate scholarship.
Rite-of-the-Spring-Wolves—A rite of passage marking the transition of Scylvendi adolescent boys to manhood.
Rohil River—The easternmost of the three major river systems draining into Lake Hu?si.
Round of Horns—Famed constellation visible in the skies of the Ancient North.
Ruminations—The magnum opus of Stajanus II, the so-called Philosopher-Emperor who ruled Cenei from 2412 to 2431.
Ru?m—The innermost citadel of Asgilioch, often called the High Bull of Asgilioch, destroyed by an earthquake in 4111.
rushru—Zeumi term for the moral significance of concrete circumstances.
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Saccarees, Apperens (4092— )—Ordealman, Grandmaster of the Mandate in the Great Ordeal of Anas?rimbor Kellhus. The so-called Kellian Reconstitution of the Mandate in 4123 led to the dissolution of the Quorum and the adoption of the more autocratic, “magisterial form” of governance characteristic of the other Major Schools. A prodigy as a child, Saccarees was selected by the Aspect-Emperor to become the first Grandmaster of the Mandate. In arcane circles, he is widely rumoured to be the only soul lacking Anas?rimbor blood able to perform Metagnostic Cants.
Sack of Sarneveh—One of several Orthodox Ainoni cities plundered by the Zaudunyani during the Unification Wars, noteworthy for the subsequent dissemination of the Toll, and the knowledge that some five thousand children had been butchered. The historian Hem-Maristat notes that following the infamous pamphlet, Kellhus ceased his meticulous account of lives lost.
Sacral Enclosure—Name of the private, octagonally shaped Imperial gardens following the Kellian renovation of the Andiamine Heights.
Sacred Hewer—Inris Hishid (Ham-Kheremic). Title awarded to champions of the Sranc Pits.
Sacred Lands—A name for Xerash and Amoteu, the two lands that figure directly in The Tractate.
Sadu’waralla ab Daza (4084— )—Ordealman, Chieftain of the Low Imit, General of the Khirgwi contingent in the Great Ordeal of Anas?rimbor Kellhus. A sufferer of the apoplexy, he is famed across the Three Seas for visions confirming the identity of the Aspect-Emperor, even though the Khirgwi are renowned for refusing to relinquish their ancient forms of devil worship.
Sagland—Southernmost province of Sakarpus, whose inhabitants (“Saglanders”) are thought simple and weak for being spared the rigours of the Pale.
Sag-Marmau (c. 2094—2143)—Husband of the legendary Ysilka, prominent in the Book of Generals (in The Holy Sagas) first as the General who saves the Ordeal from the disarray and dismay following the murder of General En-Kaujalau, and then as the General who witnesses Initiation, the birth of the No-God and the beginning of the Apocalypse.
Saik—The Anagogic School based in Momemn and indentured to the Nansur Emperor. The Saik, or the Imperial Saik as they are often called, are the institutional descendants of the Saka, the notorious state-sanctioned School of Imperial Cenei, who for a thousand years dominated the Three Seas under the aegis of the Aspect-Emperors. For centuries they existed as an organ of the Nansurium, and at war with the Cishaurim on an almost perpetual basis. The Accession of Anas?rimbor Kellhus as Aspect-Emperor of the Three Seas saw them largely divested of their state affiliations, simply because the new ruler already possessed his Saka: the School of Mandate.
saka’ilrait—“Trail of Skulls” (Khirgwi). The Khirgwi name for the route taken by the Holy War across Khemema.
Sakarpic—The language of Sakarpus, a derivative of Skettic.
Sakarpus—A city of the Ancient North located in the heart of the Istyuli Plains, and, aside from Atrithau, the only city to survive the Apocalypse. Originally a trade outpost on the caravan route delivering ?meri wares in exchange for Shigeki spices, the fortunes of Sakarpus long depended on the fortunes of trade in E?rwa. The “Lonely City,” as it was called even in Far Antique days, grew as the civilization developing around the Three Seas came to covet the status conveyed by Norsirai textiles and manufactured goods. As Kyraneas and Shir waxed as markets, so did Sakarpus wax as a regional power. The most shrewd of its many decrees in those days, was the Chorae Toll, the demand that merchant families donate Chorae as the price of purchase for (generally lifelong) trade indulgences, a practice which lead to the accumulation of the famed Chorae Hoard—which, legend insists, induced the No-God to bypass the city during the Apocalypse.
Post-apocalypse, the collapse in trade and the Sranc domination of the Istyuli transformed the enterprising character of the Sakarpi into a defensive one. The Pale was organized, consisting of a network of fortified towers scattered across the plains to the north of Sakarpus and on the headwaters of the River Vindauga, or “Sagland,” the breadbasket of the city.
Sakthuta—A mountain in the Hethantas overlooking the River Kiyuth.
Sampileth Fire-singer (1658—1712)—Legendary Far Antique Magi credited with inventing the famed Dragonhead Cant, as well as founding the Surartu, the precursor to the Scarlet Spires.
Sanathi (4100—?)—The daughter of Cnaiür and Anissi.
Sancla (4064—4083)—Achamian’s cellmate and lover during his adolescence in Atyersus.
Sankas, Biaxi (4066—4132)—The Patridomos of House Biaxi, and confidant of Anas?rimbor Esmenet. Granted Consulship of Nansur after the arrest of Cutias Pansulla in 4132. Found murdered in the Andiamine Heights the autumn of that same year.
Sansor—A nation of the Three Seas and tributary of High Ainon.
Sansori—The language of Sansor, a derivative of Sheyo-Kheremic.
Sapatishah-Governor—The title of the regional, semi-autonomous rulers of the various provinces of Kian during the time of the Kianene Empire.
Sapatishah’s Palace—The name given by the Men of the Tusk to Imbeyan’s palace in Caraskand, located on the Kneeling Heights.
Sapmatari—The lost language of Nilnameshi labouring castes, a derivative of Vaparsi.
Sappathurai—A powerful mercantile city in Nilnamesh.