Of Fire and Night - Kevin J. Anderson [248]
Forrey, Karlton—first Roamer to set up operations at Forrey's Folly, which ended in disaster.
Forrey's Folly—Roamer outpost.
frak—slang term for fracture-pulse drone.
Frederick, King—previous figurehead ruler of the Terran Hanseatic League, assassinated by hydrogue emissary.
Frick, Anselm—Palace District businessman.
fungus reef—giant worldtree growth on Theroc, carved into a habitation by the Therons.
Gale'nh—experimental half-breed son of Nira Khali and Adar Kori'nh, third oldest of her children.
Goff, Boris—Roamer skyminer.
Gold, Sullivan—administrator of the Hansa's modular cloud harvester at Qronha 3, now held prisoner on Ildira.
Golgen—gas giant where Ross Tamblyn's Blue Sky Mine was destroyed, bombarded by comets targeted by Jess Tamblyn. Wentals have made it safe for skymining again.
Goliath—first expanded Juggernaut in EDF fleet.
green priest—servant of the worldforest, able to use worldtrees for instantaneous communication.
GU—Analytical compy assigned to work with Kotto Okiah.
Guiding Star—Roamer philosophy and religion, a guiding force in a person's life.
Hall of Rememberers—central building of the rememberer kith, where the Saga of Seven Suns is compiled and memorized.
Hansa—Terran Hanseatic League.
Haphine—gas giant.
Happiness—former Klikiss world, colonized by neo-Amish group.
Huck, Tabitha—engineer aboard Sullivan Gold's cloud harvester at Qronha 3, now held captive at Ildira.
Huystra, Jeremiah—leader of neo-Amish farmers on Happiness.
hydrogues—alien race living at cores of gas-giant planets.
Hyrillka—Ildiran colony in the Horizon Cluster, devastated by recent rebellion led by Designate Rusa'h.
Idriss, Father—ruler of Theroc, husband of Mother Alexa, father of Reynald, Beneto, Sarein, Estarra, and Celli.
Ildira—home planet of the Ildiran Empire.
Ildiran Empire—large alien empire, the only other major civilization in the Spiral Arm.
Ildirans—humanoid alien race with many different breeds, or kiths.
Isix cats—sleek feline predators native to Ildira; Jora'h's daughter Yazra'h keeps three of them.
Isperos—hot planet, site of Kotto Okiah's failed mining base.
Jack—first Great King of the Terran Hanseatic League.
jazer—energy weapon used by the Earth Defense Forces.
Jora'h—Mage-Imperator of the Ildiran Empire.
Juggernaut—large battleship class in the Earth Defense Forces.
Kamarov, Raven—Roamer cargo ship captain, destroyed along with his cargo ship by Patrick Fitzpatrick III.
Keffa, Smith—hydrogue prisoner and experimental subject.
Kellum, Del—Roamer clan leader, in charge of the Osquivel shipyards.
Kellum, Zhett—daughter of Del Kellum.
Kett, Rlinda—merchant woman, captain of the Voracious Curiosity.
Khali, Nira—female green priest, lover of Jora'h, mother of Osira'h.
kith—a breed of Ildiran.
kleeb—derogatory term for an EDF cadet.
Klie'f—senior member of the Ildiran scientist kith.
Klikiss—ancient insectlike race, long vanished from the Spiral Arm, leaving only their empty cities.
Klikiss robots—intelligent beetlelike robots built by the Klikiss race.
Klikiss Torch—a weapon/mechanism developed by the ancient Klikiss race to implode gas-giant planets and create new stars.
Kolker—green priest, friend of Yarrod, stationed on Sullivan Gold's modular cloud harvester at Qronha 3, now held captive on Ildira. He has lost his treeling.
Kori'nh, Adar—leader of the Ildiran Solar Navy, killed in suicidal assault against hydrogues on Qronha 3.
Kosevic, Brion—executive officer aboard the Goliath.
Kowalski—Roamer clan.
Kowalski, Oscar—head of operations at Forrey's Folly.
KR—Analytical compy assigned to work with Kotto Okiah.
Lanyan, General Kurt—commander of the Earth Defense Forces.
lens kithmen—philosopher-priests who help guide troubled Ildirans, interpreting faint guidance from the thism.
Lightsource—the Ildiran version of Heaven, a realm on a higher plane composed entirely of light. Ildirans believe that faint trickles of this light break through into our universe and are channeled through