Part 75 (1/2)

Scylvendi-The dark-haired, pale-blue-eyed, and fair-skinned race predominantly concentrated in and around the Jiunati Steppe. One of the Five Tribes of Men.

Seat, the-A symbolic name for the station of Shriah.

Secharib Plains-The vast alluvial tablelands that sweep north from the River Sayut in High Ainon, noted for their fertility (sixty- to seventy-fold crop yields) and dense population.

Second Apocalypse-The hypothetical catastrophe that will inevitably befall Earwa should the No-G.o.d ever walk again. According to the Mandate tradition, Anasurimbor Celmomas, the High King of Kuniuri during the Apocalypse, prophesied that the No-G.o.d will in fact return. The prevention of the Second Apocalypse is the Mandate's ultimate goal.

Seleukara-The commercial capital of Kian, and one of the great cities of the Three Seas.

Selial Column-A division of the Imperial Nansur Army traditionally stationed on the Kianene frontier.

”selling peaches ...”-A common Three Seas euphemism for selling s.e.x.

Sempis River-One of the great river systems of Earwa, draining vast tracts of the Jiunati Steppe and emptying into the Meneanor Sea.

Seokti (4051- )-The Heresiarch of the Cishaurim. (4051- )-The Heresiarch of the Cishaurim.

Sepherathindor (4065-4111)-The Count-Palatine of the Ainoni palatinate of Hinnant, claimed by disease at Caraskand. (4065-4111)-The Count-Palatine of the Ainoni palatinate of Hinnant, claimed by disease at Caraskand.

Seswatha (2089-2168)-The founder of the School of Mandate and implacable enemy of the Consult throughout the Apocalypse. Born the caste-menial son of a Trysean bronzesmith, Seswatha was identified as one of the Few at a very young age and brought to Sauglish to study with the Gnostic School of Sohonc. A prodigy, he became the youngest sorcerer of rank in the history of the Sohonc at the age of fifteen. During this time he became fast friends with Anasurimbor Celmomas, a so-called ”Hostage of the Sohonc,” as the School referred to its resident exoteric students. As this strategic friends.h.i.+p might suggest, Seswatha proved an adroit political operator, both before becoming Grandmaster and after, forging relations.h.i.+ps with important personages across the Three Seas, including Nil'giccas, the Nonman King of Ishterebinth, and Anaxophus, who would become the High King of Kyraneas. These skills, in addition to his peerless command of the Gnosis, would make him the natural, if not the t.i.tular, leader of the various wars waged against the Consult before the Apocalypse. He and Celmomas would become estranged during this time, apparently because Celmomas resented Seswatha's influence over his youngest son, Nau-Cayuti, but legends have long circulated that Nau-Cayuti was in fact Seswatha's son, the product of an illicit union between him and Sharal, the most prized of Celmomas's wives. They would not be reconciled until the eve of the Apocalypse-after it was far too late. See (2089-2168)-The founder of the School of Mandate and implacable enemy of the Consult throughout the Apocalypse. Born the caste-menial son of a Trysean bronzesmith, Seswatha was identified as one of the Few at a very young age and brought to Sauglish to study with the Gnostic School of Sohonc. A prodigy, he became the youngest sorcerer of rank in the history of the Sohonc at the age of fifteen. During this time he became fast friends with Anasurimbor Celmomas, a so-called ”Hostage of the Sohonc,” as the School referred to its resident exoteric students. As this strategic friends.h.i.+p might suggest, Seswatha proved an adroit political operator, both before becoming Grandmaster and after, forging relations.h.i.+ps with important personages across the Three Seas, including Nil'giccas, the Nonman King of Ishterebinth, and Anaxophus, who would become the High King of Kyraneas. These skills, in addition to his peerless command of the Gnosis, would make him the natural, if not the t.i.tular, leader of the various wars waged against the Consult before the Apocalypse. He and Celmomas would become estranged during this time, apparently because Celmomas resented Seswatha's influence over his youngest son, Nau-Cayuti, but legends have long circulated that Nau-Cayuti was in fact Seswatha's son, the product of an illicit union between him and Sharal, the most prized of Celmomas's wives. They would not be reconciled until the eve of the Apocalypse-after it was far too late. See Apocalypse Apocalypse.

Seswatha's Dreams-See Dreams, the Dreams, the.

Seswatha's Heart-The mummified heart of Seswatha, which is the key artifact in the so-called Grasping, the sorcerous rites that transfer Seswatha's memories of the Apocalypse to Mandate Schoolmen. See Mandate, School of Mandate, School of.

Setpanares (4059-4111)-The General in command of the Ainoni contingent of the First Holy War, slain by Cinganjehoi at Anwurat. (4059-4111)-The General in command of the Ainoni contingent of the First Holy War, slain by Cinganjehoi at Anwurat.

Shaeonanra ( (c. 1086- )-”Gift of Light” (Umeritic) The Grandvizier of the Mangaecca who, according to legend, went mad studying the Incu-Holoinas, and whose subsequent acts would eventually see him convicted of impiety and his School outlawed in 1123. The greatest prodigy of his age, Shaeonanra claimed to have rediscovered a means of saving the souls of those d.a.m.ned by sorcery. He reputedly spent his life investigating various soul-trapping sorceries in the hope of avoiding pa.s.sage to the Outside-and to great effect, given that he allegedly continues to live some three thousand years afterward, though in an obscene and unnatural manner. By the fourteenth century the Trysean annals began referring to him as Shauriatas, the ”Cheater of G.o.ds.” 1086- )-”Gift of Light” (Umeritic) The Grandvizier of the Mangaecca who, according to legend, went mad studying the Incu-Holoinas, and whose subsequent acts would eventually see him convicted of impiety and his School outlawed in 1123. The greatest prodigy of his age, Shaeonanra claimed to have rediscovered a means of saving the souls of those d.a.m.ned by sorcery. He reputedly spent his life investigating various soul-trapping sorceries in the hope of avoiding pa.s.sage to the Outside-and to great effect, given that he allegedly continues to live some three thousand years afterward, though in an obscene and unnatural manner. By the fourteenth century the Trysean annals began referring to him as Shauriatas, the ”Cheater of G.o.ds.”

Shakers-The name given to extreme devotees of Onkis who claim that their fits of shaking are the result of divine possession.

Shanipal, Kemrates (4066- )-The Baron of Hirhamet, a district in south central Conriya. (4066- )-The Baron of Hirhamet, a district in south central Conriya.

Shaul River-The second most important river system in the Nansur Empire, after the Phayus.