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PENNYFARTHING PRESS
Berkeley, California 1979
To the first Friend of Darkover, DONALD A. WOLLHEIM
FOREWORD
Over the last eighteen months or so, I've watched this concordance grow with surprise, delight and astonishment. I ought to make it clear that this is not anything I did. I wouldn't have been capable of it. I just write novels; and while I can do research, everyone who knows me also knows that I have fiercely resisted any attempt to impose absolute consistency, straightforward chronology, or anything but the most superficial order on the chronicles of Darkover. In fact, I have insisted repeatedly that the Darkover novels are not a "series" at all, but a group of independent novels portraying different aspects of a world —I think it was Ted Sturgeon who called them "the biography of a planet," but in my usual chaotic way, I cannot remember where or in what context he said it. Therefore I have decided to cling to the Emersonian tenet that "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," and to leave the chronology, genealogy and internal consistency of the series, like the location of Dr. Watson's Afghanistan wound, to the speculation of those who like this kind of literary excavation.
To such questions as "Why is Regis Hastur referred to as tall in one book, and not over medium height in another," my only answer has been an embarrassed laugh and a defensive "Because the author has a lousy memory, why do you think?"
But my fans have been astonishingly persistent in demanding that somebody impose order on the series. We have to thank Donald A. Wollheim, First Friend of Dark-over, for publishing book after book in the series, and persuading me that it actually was a known series and that I should keep on writing more books about it. It was Jacqueline Lichtenberg who actually had the idea of a concordance, and actually started making up the first dozen or so cards of theSTAR OF DANGER file, but she was soon so busy with her own series (which is just the kind of orderly, completely-mapped-out, perfectly consistent series which I admire but have no desire to emulate) that Walter Breen took over the task, with a little help from the Friends. And in Walter's competent hands it has remained ever since. I supplied the books and manuscripts, my sketches of the genealogies, and the text of various versions of the "Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda"; I answered dozens of questions about how I pronounced names, discussed the overt and hidden motivations of every character in every one of the novels (including the ones that didn't get published, such as INSOLENCE and QUADRILLE), and allowed him to read the monstrous "X Files" of scenes between characters who never made it into the final drafts of the novels. But the conclusions he has arrived at, including 99% of the linguistic derivations of the words quoted here and the etymology of the Darkovan names, are entirely his own, and I am surprised, delighted and gratified by the way he has proved that there is actually this much internal consistency in the series.
Many years ago I wrote a letter to Ted Sturgeon commenting on the scientific theory in one of his novellas—I am fairly sure it was "The Golden Helix"—and his response was
something like this; "Gee whiz! I'm tickled—I just wrote it, and look, it works\" That's the way I feel now; I just wrote the novels and made up the languages, and gee whiz, they make sense!
I refuse to be blamed—nor can I take credit—for what my subconscious gets up to while my conscious mind is looking the other way. I feel like J.R.R. Tolkien, who said of THE LORD OF THE RINGS, when cornered by critics and interpreters, "It is not about anything but itself." Consciously, I never tried to do anything but to tell a good story and make some important points about human nature. But while I was trying hard to create interesting characters, fascinating plots, and adventures which, I fervently hoped, would glue the reader to the edge of his chair, and hopefully sell out the edition so I could sell my next book, it seems that my subconscious was, behind my back, doing a surprising amount of integration in the process.
Or maybe the answer is more complex than that. Vincent Starrett, writing about "221 B Baker Street," writes "Only those things the heart believes, are true," and speaks with passionate conviction of a level of consciousness where ". . . though the world explode, these two survive, And it is always eighteen-ninety-five." At the very end of the A.A. Milne books the author speaks of an enchanted hill—somewhere—where a little boy and his bear are always playing. In meditation, and in altered states of consciousness, the imaginative seekers have encountered levels, which were once called "astral," where Middle Earth, the bridge of the Enterprise, and Jirel of Joiry can be perceived, not as fantasy but as a very special kind of reality. And once, fairly early in my career, I learned that I was not the only writer who sometimes had the strange feeling that I was writing of something so real that I altered it at my peril. There are things I could not do, in the Darkover context.
I wouldn't say that I believe Darkover exists, somewhere, and I have the imposed task of relaying the news of what's happening there to this level of consciousness. That way lies nothing but a quick trip to the Jet-Propelled-Couch about which Robert Lindner wrote; or to the local funny-farm for an involuntary vacation.
But I wouldn't say I disbelieve it, either. Maybe Randall Garrett, creator of the Lord Darcy stories, is right when he says that in all the possible worlds, everything the mind of man can imagine actually exists—somewhere, or somewhen. It is the work of the novelist to make these worlds real for others.
Or, to put it in the words of Don Wollheim, our First Friend:
"Somehow Darkover lingers in readers' minds as a real thing, as a desired series. . . . Maybe there is such a place?"
I don't know. But I'd like to think so. I believe in Darkover—and this concordance is a thrilling proof to me that a lot of other people believe in it too.
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
CONTENTS
Foreword........................................      vi
To The Reader      ...................................      viii
Chronological Sequence of the Darkover Novels       .........     viii
Guide to Pronunciation of Darkovan Words      ..............     ix
Concordance       .....................................       1
Appendices
The Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda       ................       142
The Ballad Commonly Called "The Outlaw"       ........       145
The Oath of the Comhi-Letzii       ...................       146
Darkovan Proverbs and Proverbial Expressions     .......       148
Some Notes on the New Hebrides Commune Songs      ...       150
The Darkover Noves:
Publishing Histories and Story Summaries       .......       151
Darkovan Genealogies       .........................      156
Aillard Lineage      ............................      157
Aldaran Lineage      ...........................      158
Alton Lineage     .............................      159
Ardais Lineage       ............................      160
The "Forbidden Tower" Nest       ................      161
Hastur Lineage      ............................       162
Ridenow Lineage      ..........................      163
TO THE READER:
Welcome to Darkover.
Welcome to a Secondary Universe as vast and complex as Middle-Earth or the Federation.
Welcome to the Friends of Darkover, while we're about it. These pages will answer most questions you are likely to come up with about Darkover, in much the same way as the STAR TREK Concordance did for the devotees of Mr. Spock. There are entries for practically all families, individuals (including character sketches), officials, ranks, castes, positions, occupations, guilds, planetary origins, races, languages, buildings, settlements, Domains, geographical features, flora, fauna, artifacts, foodstuffs, drinkables, etc., as well as the various Gifts, technical terms and key concepts of matrix technology, mentioned in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover novels.
Separate sections include bibliographic data (including all foreign versions known to us), plot summaries, genealogical tables, collected Darkovan proverbs, and transcriptions of both the complete Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda (which figures so largely in the development of Darkovan mythology and customs) and the "Outlaw" Ballad, the latter furnished with its oldest melody and guitar chords.
If there is anything you need to know about Darkover, and you do not find it in here, even after checking all possible cross-references, let us know. The address is Friends of Darkover Box 72
Berkeley, CA 94701 A supplement will be prepared covering anything omitted,
with entries for whatever Darkover novels are published in the meantime (including STORMQUEEN! published in 1978); details will be in the Newsletter published for the Friends. To subscribe to the Newsletter, write Friends of Darkover.
Other significant omissions from this concordance are the short story "Waterfall" and the revised edition of THE BLOODY SUN, which includes a different etymology for "Jeff Kerwin Jr.," and other major corrections to the history of Darkover. These will also be covered in the supplement.
I hope this will be as much fun for you to read as it has been for me to compile.
I would like to thank Marion Z. Bradley for clarifying some obscure points, and for drafting some of the character sketches; Jacqueline Lichtenberg, for a number of questions she raised and a sheaf of file cards full of suggestions; and particularly Christopher Gilson, whose hobby of linguistics enabled him to make sense out of some of the most obscure Darkovan words. (His contributions herein—mostly etymological—are marked with initials CG.) I would also like to thank the several hundred active Friends of Dark-over for their enthusiasm, which helped spur me to complete this book.
Berkeley, California                                            Walter Breen
July 4, 1978
CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE OF THE DARKOVER NOVELS
To settle numerous disputes on the point, here is the approximately correct sequence of titles in order of Darkovan history. The initials in the left-hand column tell you how the book will be referred to in this concordance.
DL Darkover Landfall (written 1972/published 1972) 
SQ    Stormqueen! (1977/1978) Not published as of this writing. 
SS    The SpellSword (1973/1974)
 FT    The Forbidden Tower (1976/1977)
 SC   The Shattered Chain (1975-6/1976) This overlaps events in preceding two. 
SD   Star of Danger (1964/1965) 
BS    Bloody Sun (1963/1964) 
WD The Winds of Darkover (1970/1970)
HH   Heritage of Hastur (1974/1975)
SA    The Sword of Aldones (1947-8/1962)
PS     The Planet Savers (1959/1962)
WW  The World Wreckers (1971/1971)
There could be some dispute only as between SA and PS. If PS came later, we must postulate that Regis had dyed his hair. If PS came first, we must postulate that Christopher Gilson's guess about Jay/Jason Allision's age is correct at much less than 34: see DARKOVER NEWSLETTER 5. However, it has remained impossible to construct a completely consistent chronology in terms of years before and after any given fixed point, partly because there has been ambiguity about use of Darkovan years vs. Terran Empire years, partly because the books were not originally conceived as a series.
GUIDE TO PRONUNCIATION OF DARKOVAN WORDS
‘ (Separates two syllables; generally indicates elision of a third vowel). 
a      as in father, or more rarely as in cat. 
ae    two separate vowels, not a diphthong. 
ai    nearly as i in mile; originally, two separate vowels. In some mountain dialects rendered as ai in jail. 
au    nearly the oiv of owl. 
ay    similar to ai but both vowels are a little more distinct (prolonged slightly).
b     as in baker.
c      as in cat, in some dialects as the k in kill or keep (but see below). 
ch    as in church; in mountain dialects as if spelled kh (e.g.Raine'ach); in chieri, ch = k + h. 
ci    as ch in child. cu    almost as in quick (e.g. cuere). 
cy   almost as in key. 
d     as in door.
e      as in pet; but note that final e is usually duller and sometimes elided (e.g. Cassild', Jaelle = Jaell', Javanne =
Javann', where the final e represents an archaic final a in female names).
e      as in French e'te', the a of face without its usual glide to ee,
ea    two separate vowels gliding together. 
ee    originally two separate vowels, later a prolonged e. 
ei     two separate vowels gliding together. 
ew   originally eh  +  oo, later elided to nearly the ew of pewter.
f     as in feather.
g     When before a, o or u, as in go. When before e or i, has the zh value of French j, or s as in pleasure. 
gh    (rare) voiced back spirant; like (kh) but voiced. 
h      as in hair. 
i      as in it; occasionally, a very short i as in machine (e.g. Ridenow).
ie     i + e two separate vowels gliding together. 
it     two separate vowels.
j       as s in pleasure.
k     not quite the same as c-. more like the c of cool.
kh   back spirant, as German ach, Scots loch.
l      as in lemon.
ll     prolonged; in some dialects formerly pronounced as
ll in William. 
m as in lemon. 
mh  m + h; no longer the original Celtic/Gaelic nasalized v sound.
n     as in nose. 
ng   ng + g, as in finger. 
o     the pure Italian o, without glide to oo. 
ow   the ordinary English long o with the glide to oo (e.g. Ridenow).
p     as in park, but without the puff of air following.
qu   as in quick (very rare, and usually written cu).
r the Spanish r, too brief for trilling; not the French uvular r, nor the English semivowel. Exceptions follow.
rd    as in heard.
rh    h + r.
rr    rolled, as in Spanish arriba.
s      as in sign.
sh    as in shape.
t      as in tea, but no puff of air following.
th as in thin (rare); shortened when final, and sometimes elided to t.
u     as oo in food but shortened.
v     as in vain.
w     (rare) as in wood; see ew. Generally, u is used instead.
x     (rare) as in axe.
y as i of machine, but when followed by n or r, as the i of pit. Exception: the name Dyan is generally pronounced as though spelled Dayan.
z      as in zero.
The accent normally falls on penultimate syllable. Exceptions are noted in the text.

abortions Outlawed in the New Colonies (i.e. all planets colonized by Terrans) because human females were a valuable natural resource, the only source of new generations, DL 111. In later centuries, among the Comyn, abortions were unthinkable except to save life, infant mortality being high and fertility low due to inbreeding.
accandir (casta) "to lie down together" (accent on last syllable). Ancient expression for sexual intercourse. Respectful mode, without the force of a euphemism, usable "in presence of children," FT 275; "courtly and evasive," WW 155 (176).
acqualle "every, each one"? BS 22. See esa (Sp. cada cual "each one") CG.
Adelandeyo (casta) "Walk with the gods," FT 105. The context is a farewell, in respectful mode, though without the finality of Terran adieu, adios or Elvish namarie fr. adelandir "to walk, to go forward," fr. Terran (Sp.) adel-ante "forward" + (It.) andare "to walk" and cognate forms.
Adereis (accent last syllable) (casta) A village near Armida, FT 80. Is it the same as following entry? The name means "on the right hand," i.e., "the village on the right-hand turn (or fork)" of some old road.
Aderis (casta, cahuenga?) Name of a village in Alton lands, not far from Armida; nearest to the site of the forest fire set by Cyrillon's (q.v.) bandits, SD 69ff.
Meaning of the name is uncertain. The best conjecture, perhaps, derives it from adereis, above. But cf. Terran (Sp.) aderezo "caparison, horse ornaments" (appropriate in that horse-ranch area) or adheris "you are followers or adherents" (appropriate for Alton retainers). It may even have to do with the plant eris (q.v.).
Administrative Archives Of TE; located on Coronis Nine, possibly part of the same planetary system as the ancient Coronis Colony, HH 260.
Adrilinn   Typographical error for Arilinn, BS 13.
adult Status Achieved by boys or girls on their 15th birthday, HH 48, WW 171 (195), SC 90. One is then of legal age to marry, beget a child, legitimize an heir, take an oath (such as the Free Amazon oath or that of allegiance to Comyn), fight a duel, stand responsible for a murder, or enter into any type of contract, under Comyn law.
age of consent Presumably the same as adult status, above, WW 93 (103).
Ages of Chaos A period beginning somewhat over 1,000 years after the original DL settlements, extending more than another millennium, to a few hundred years before the Sharra Rebellion. (The exact period has not been defined because no year-dating system is in use on Darkover.) This period was the apogee of Darkovan mastery of matrix technology, FT 97, but at the same time the
apogee of civil war and the nadir of tolerance or enlightenment. Incessant warfare, using matrix weapons (see Sharra Matrix) and atomic-powered craft, decimated the Comyn and the commoners, exterminated many families, and left large areas of the planet uninhabitable (see Forbidden City, Forbidden Road). The period ended when the surviving Domain lords and heirs, except for the Aldarans (q.v.), signed a promise in their own names and those of their heirs for all times to come, to honor the Compact (q.v.), just devised for the purpose by one of the Hastur Kings, possibly Regis IV? SD 115, FT 98. Events of SQ occurred within this period. Also called Years of Chaos, WD 56(71). Aillard (accent on last syllable) One of the Seven Domains (q.v.), located in the Plains of Valeron;its central estate is called Valeron. The Aillards are matrilineal and gave their comynari independent status in Comyn Council while this body continued to exist. The family name descends through the female line, origin of this custom unknown, HH 108. Aillards are normally 6-fingered, like the Ardais, SC 192. They are allied with the Altons and Ardais by repeated inter marriage. See Aillard, Alton and Ardais Lineages, pp. 156ff.
The original Aillard Gift is unknown. The original direct line being extinct; this name passed to collateral line, a family called Lindir.
Motto—unrecorded.
Colors and devices: Scarlet and grey feathers, FT 297, which circumstance suggests that the /lz7-element in the name has to do with wings: bird-hood inventors? bird trainers?
Three of the Aillard women died in mishandled childbirth during the Worldwreckers' planetary sabotage effort; the midwives were killed by poison before any could be questioned, WW 15 (15).
See also CALLINA, CASSILDE, CLEINDORI, JAELLE, JERANA, LINNELL, MELORA, RAFAEL, ROHAN A, VALENTINE.
aircraft Commonly used by Terrans between Thendara, Caer Donn, Arilinn and Port Chicago, and less commonly elsewhere, though Mapping & Exploration planes and helicopters did sometimes show up in the mountains. Power source of the Terran craft is not specified (but see cerberum drive). They included probably at least two sizes of winged planes in addition to helicopters.
Kermiac of Aldaran (q.v.) owned four light planes and two helicopters, HH 241 ; see also airstrips. These were matrix powered, even after the technique fell into disuse among the Comyn. Desideria (q.v.) used one to fly Melitta and Dan Barron from Caer Donn to the High Windward area, WD 111 (162)—a risky procedure, as it was not definitely known that a suitable airstrip or airfield existed in that region of the mountains.
Numbers following title abbreviations denote page numbers; where second-edition page numbers differ, they are indicated in parentheses: i.e. WW 10 02) notes page 10 in the first edition, page 12 in the second. CG = information contributed by Christopher Gilson. Entry names in italics are names or words of Darkovan origin.   Names which are ALL IN CAPITALS indicate characters who actually appear in any story.
Those formerly used by the Comyn were similar in outward form but matrix powered as late as Kennard Alton's day, BS 71, HH 179, as Regis knew, WW 117 (131). Later training methods no longer yielded enough power to fly planes.
airstrips The Terrans built them at Arilinn, Caer Donn, Port Chicago and Thendara, HH 166, and possibly elsewhere later.
Alanna Given name, female, XXI Century Terran and later casta. In Terran, it is of Gaelic origin—an endearment, fr. Gael alainn 'Beautiful" cf. Eng. Alan.
ALANNA Woman of New Hebrides Commune, surname not given, assigned to pottery-making, DL 106-07; paired with Alastair (q.v.), DL 135; bore him stillborn twins, DL 146.
Alanna No surname given, child of Camilla del Rey, DL 160.
Alanna Hastur y Elhalyn Wife of Rafael Hastur, mother of Javanne and Regis, qq.v., died in childbirth shortly after Rafael's death and Regis's birth, HH 14.

Alanna MacAran Wife of a paxman of Dom Esteban Lanart; lived in Corresanti; mother of Cormac, Hjalmar and Estill, qq.v., and foster-mother of Damon Ridenow, q.v., SS 137.       '
Alar Legendary figure in Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda, (q.v.), p. 142. In the ballad, Alar murdered—or attempted to murder—Cassilda and Hastur with a magical sword "meant to banish, not to slay," but Alar's sister Camilla had on that occasion taken Cassilda's place in Hastur's arms, and thus Camilla was exiled into the shadow-realms, while Cassilda survived to bear the "Son of Hastur," legendary forefather (in one version) of the Seven Domains. The "Treachery of Alar" is proverbial. In popular superstition he is chained in one of the hells, with a she-wolf gnawing his heart. Despite the evil eponym, this name is not rare among the Comyn; it was one of Regis Hastur's (q.v.) given names.
May   derive   from   Terran  (Sp.)  alar,   "trap,  snare, especially one made of horsehair."
ALASTAIR --------   XXI Century Terran, member of New
Hebrides Commune, probably a Highland Scot though surname is not given. Tall, with long red hair which he braided; philosophical anarchist; formerly automobile mechanic, later a gardener, DL 82-85; paired with Alanna, DL 135; fathered her stillborn twins, DL 146. His later children, if any, are not recorded.
ALASTAIR--------Child of Camilla del Rey, possibly by
Rafe MacAran. He and MacAran found matrix crystals (q.v.) in a cave and brought some of them home as gifts for Camilla and her children, DL 159-60. alcoholism A common pitfall among Ardais males, SC 243. It was regarded as a social drawback. Drunkenness on duty was forbidden to the Cadet Guards, HH 75. Aldaran (accent on first and third syllables) One of the Seven Domains, located in the Hellers. Its central estate was in the Caer Donn area. Castle Aldaran's original site is not recorded; its later one (after the Ages of Chaos) was an ancient bandit fortress site, HH 271, at High Kimbi, looking down at the end of Caer Donn valley, HH 166.
Aldarans are tall and very variable in appearance, partly because of repeated Terran intermarriages, partly because of a number of unions with chieri (and reputedly other species—Trailmen, forge-folk?) during Ghost Wind (q.v.) episodes, FT 109. Some were 6-fingered, though due to the Terran intermarriages many were not.
The Aldaran Gift is precognition.
The Aldaran motto is not recorded.
Colors and devices: A double-eagle, probably similar to several Terran (Germanic, Russian) imperial emblems. Colors are not specified, HH 230. This symbol may refer obscurely to the Aldaran Gift: the eagle watching both present and future. The eagle as a mountain bird, fiercely independent, is obvious symbolism for these mountain lords.
Some (though not all) of the Aldarans and their retainers and vassals were cristoforos, presumably because many were educated at Nevarsin and came to accept their teachers' beliefs, especially following the split with the other six Domains which continued to adhere to the religion of the Lord of Light. Probably, too, the Aldarans, knowing long since of their Terran origin, refused to accept the mythology of the Four (q.v.) as having any vestige of truth.
There are dozens of different stories about why the Aldarans were exiled from the Comyn, FT 200. Usually they take some such form as they "sold (Darkover) to the Terrans," SA 30, SD 158, which (if it means anything but abuse) must refer to the Aldarans' early cooperation with the first TE settlements on Darkover. The TE authorities met them before becoming aware of the other Domains, and set up their first spaceport at the Aldaran city of Caer Donn. Only impossible technical difficulties in expanding the space port—this would have required leveling a couple of mountains—induced the Terrans to seek lowland sites, SC 109, HH 165, eventually to sign an agreement with Stefan Hastur granting the Terrans land and leave to construct a spaceport near Thendara, though they never abandoned their old Caer Donn outposts.
DL = DARKOVER LANDFALL / SQ = STORMQUEEN! (not covered in this concordance) / SS = THE SPELL SWORD / FT = THE FORBIDDEN TOWER / SC = THE SHATTERED CHAIN / SD = STAR OF DANGER / BS = BLOODY SUN / WD = THE WINDS OF DARKOVER /HH = THE HERITAGE OF HASTUR / SA = THE SWORD OF ALDONES / PS = THE PLANET SAVERS / WW = THE WORLD WRECKERS
Other contributory reasons: The Aldarans had raised Sharra (q.v.), whose worship had been outlawed centuries before, SA 53 (56), WD 116-7 (154-5). They did not honor the Compact, and allowed their Guards and others to use Terran weapons against bandits, SC 116. This had been going on for many generations before the news reached Thendara, HH 14, WD 114 (151-2). It was doubtless known in the Towers that the Aldarans had been training matrix workers without the old virginity superstitions, WD 115 (152); they probably had retained knowledge of the Year's End rituals (q.v.), as the kireseth grew widespread in Aldaran lands. (The Towers would have had a vested interest in keeping this knowledge secret.)
The most famous of the Aldarans was Kermiac, q.v. ' During his long reign, Melitta Storn and Dan Barron (overshadowed by Storn of Storn, qq.v.) visited Castle Aldaran to seek help, WD 108 (143). Though they found TE personnel (some in Spaceforce uniform) in Kermiac's household as personal guards, WD 112 (148), some wearing contraband weapons, WD 114 (151-2), they learned that Kermiac had no standing army of Guardsmen to send to Storn. His ward, the then teenaged Desideria (q.v.), raised Sharra to rid Storn Castle of the usurping Brynat Scarface and his bandit gang, WD 132-35 (175-9); see Sharra. Later, Desideria returned the Sharra matrix to the forge-folk (q.v.) for veneration on their altars, HH 210, but years afterward reluctantly handed it over to Kadarin (q.v.) only to see it misused: see Sharra Rebellion.
In Kermiac's day and probably later, matrix-powered aircraft were still in use, WD 122 (162), and see KERMIAC.
The Aldarans were liege lords to Storn, HH 210.
Aldaran intermarriage with the Altons doubtless led to the Comyn Council's distrust of the latter, culminating in their refusal to legitimize Kennard Alton's sons by Elaine Aldaran Montray, Lew and Marius (qq.v.). See the Aldaran and Alton Lineages, below, pp. 158-59.
The name is probably from Terran (Sp.) aldran, "one who sells wine to shepherds," or possibly (Gael.) al "generation" + darna "second."
See also BELTRAN, Caer Donn, DESIDERIA, Elaine, Felicia, KENNARD, KERMIAC, LARRY, THYRA. Aldones One of the four major gods of Darkovan religion, usually associated with the Sun; referred to as "Son of Light," FT 234, or "Lord of the Singing Light." In HH 158 and SA 79, based on the Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda, Hastur (q.v.) is Son of Aldones who is the Son of Light. Possibly an Apollo figure. As a god-form, evoked by use of the Sword of Aldones (q.v.). See Four; Spell Swords.
Possession by Aldones through the Sword turned Regis Hastur's hair white in a single hour, SA 153-54 (170-73).
The official Comyn mythology makes all the Domains descendants of Hastur and Cassilda, this Hastur being the Son of Aldones. Compare the official Japanese mythology which described its imperial family as descendants of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu.

ALIDA ARDAIS, Domna. Sister of Dom Gabriel Ardais, younger sister-in-law to Rohana Aillard-Ardais, aunt of Dom Kyril-Valentine Ardais, qq.v. Healer, matrix technician, leronis, trained at Neskaya Tower, SC 199, 205; possessed Ardais Gift (q.v.), SC 278, unintentionally awakened Magda/Margali's (q.v.) laran or telepathic ability, SC 205ff, while healing Jaelle's wound by matrix.
"A small, slight woman with flaming red hair . . . and a kind of indefinable arrogance. . . ," SC 203. The name most probably means "winged."
Alien Anthropology, Department of 1. In Empire University (q.v.), a department commonly training its graduates for TE intelligence work, SC 96; see MAGDA, PETER.
2. Part of civilian wing of TE Medical Services or at least aligned therewith. Dr. Jason Allison (q.v.) was an official in this department, WW 17-21 (15-19), of high enough rank to co-ordinate a planetwide search, "Project Telepath" (q.v.), and to induce the department to send out summons throughout the known Galaxy, to all TE Medical Services on open and closed worlds.
The shared name indicates that a major function has been keeping track of shifting social customs, laws, taboos, etc., to avoid trouble which might follow from Terrans' ignorantly violating them on any world. Magda Lome filed data of this kind assembled in Intelligence work-. SC 96ff, 106ff, 109-111, etc.
Allira (mountain dial, and probably casta) Female given name in Hellers, possibly cognate with various Terran words meaning lyre, harp, or the poetry or music written to be sung to it. Diminutive, Lira, WD 21 (22). See following entry.
ALLIRA STORN Sister of Loran-Rakhal Storn of Storn, Edric Storn, and Melitta Storn, WD 19-20 (20-21); six years older than Melitta, WD 43 (53). Possessed some laran. "A tall, fair-haired, quiet girl . . . with dignity and strength," WD 136 (181), gentle, timid.
Brynat Scarface (q.v.) seized her for his consort in his attempted conquest of Storn Castle. One of his henchmen put on a red robe (in blasphemy, as only Keepers, q.v., wore them) and performed a mock wedding, after which Brynat raped her, WD 22-23 (24-25).
In the original version, she became pregnant and later bore his child; reference to her pregnancy was deleted by the editor, perhaps to avoid any flaw in the "happy ending."
Allison  See Jay, Jason.
Alpha Alpha Centauri's planet; see next two entries.
Alpha Centauri Colony Settled by Terrans before DL; it is not clear whether this or Coronis came first, DL 15. Camilla Del Rey (q.v.) grew up there, DL 20.
The planet had many desert areas, was called Alpha for short, and was probably the source of "Alpha Happy Juice," (q.v.).
"Alpha Happy Juice" Nickname of a contraband euphoriant/psychedelic drug (plant extract?), apparently originating in Alpha Centauri Colony, DL 58.
Alton One of the Seven Domains, located in the Kilghard Hills, its lands extended as far as the Kadarin River. Its central estate and Great House (q.v.) were both called
Armida (q.v.), as was the nearby town. This Domain's ruling family was notable for some of the most powerful telepaths in the known Galaxy; see ESTEBAN KEN-NARD, LEWIS, MARJA, VALDIR. The original family name appears to have been Lanart, though as usual (even as on ancient Terra) the Domain lords took on the name of the Domain as a family name. They were allied by marriage most closely with the Aldarans, and less closely with the Hasturs, Aillards and Ridenows: see the respective genealogical tables, pp. 156ff.
The Alton Gift was forced rapport, SS 118, FT 306, etc., which would open the mind of even a nontelepath to probing inspection and to the thoughts which the Alton wished him or her to experience. This gift was justly feared both as an investigative tool, HH 63, and as a weapon; the unleashed wrath of an Alton with the Gift could paralyze, SS 72, or even kill in seconds without physical contact. (However, Larry Montray withstood the teen-aged Kennard's wrath, SD 133.) Kennard Alton imposed forced rapport on his son Lew (q.v.) to show that the boy was a proper Domain heir with the full Gift; he survived, but resented it lifelong. Knowing that only a true Alton could survive this test, Lew successfully did likewise with his younger brother Marius for the identical purpose (q.v.); however, Marius was murdered shortly afterwards, but buried with full Comyn honors. There being no other Alton heirs, the estates were forfeited when Lew and his daughter Marja (q.v.) went off-world into exile at the end of SA. In WW 13.(11) the family is characterized as extinct.
The Alton Gift was said, SA 101 (112), to be "antagonistic" to the Hastur Gift. The author confesses today to inability to understand this confusing notion. In SA, more than milliseconds' deep rapport between Hastur and Alton is said to be fatal; but, HH 380-81, Regis deliberately opens himself to such deep rapport with Lew.
The Alton motto was "Fortua Montani" = "The luck of the mountains." The Alton device and colors are not specified.
The name Alton may mean "The High One" or "The Tall One" or derive from Aldones (?).
Altons were enough feared that Comyn Council generally resisted any reforms they advocated, and the allegedly random distribution of telepathic dampers in the Crystal Chamber (q.v.) regularly resulted in one directly above the Alton section, SA 32.
The Altons, generations ago, built Comyn Castle, SA 126 (140), and retained a large suite therein. They also had a Thendara town house, to which Larry Montray was invited, SD 34-35. ANDREA CLOSSON Nom de guerre of the chieri Narzain-ye kui, WW 12 (9), 184 (210), in late life in female phase, as head of (for over 200 years, WW 185 (211)) of "Planetary Investments Unlimited" alias "Worldwreckers Inc." (qq.v.). Described as "a woman, quite beautiful and . . . apparently young. He could detect no scars of cosmetic surgery or molding . . . but some tautness around the mouth betrayed that youth had nothing to do with the fair-skinned unlined face and smooth throat. Her voice was deep and quiet . . . her eyes a deep pellucid grey," WW 6-8 (2-5). She described herself as having
been "wanderer, queen, spaceman, courtesan, business woman . . .", WW 11 (8). She returned to Darkover for her worldwrecking operation, in the guise of an animal handler, only to discover at the spring Festival Dance that she was not the last of her people after all; she died holding Keral's baby, the first of a new strain of chieri-
human crossbreeds, WW 183-89 (209-15).
Her chieri name meant "Child of the Yellow Forest."
ANDRES RAMIREZ TE Spaceforce man, HH 54, friend and comrade of Kennard Alton, SA 70 (76), who later attached himself to the Alton household, HH 52-54, becoming its coridom (chief steward) and Kennard's personal assistant. How he became so close to the Altons is unknown; Lew had "never known where he met my father, or why he left the Empire." It may be surmised that Kennard had encountered him during his sojourn on Terra as Wade Montray's foster-son. Lew described him as "an old fussbudget," SA 119 (133), "a squat, ugly Terran, fierce and surly . . . he'd taught me to ride, made toys for Marius, spanked us when we punched each other's heads or raced at too breakneck a pace," SA 70 (76), but also as "the only person alive who accepted me completely for what I was," HH 54. ANDREW CARR Terran, with some inherited "second sight" which proved, on Darkover, to be true laran, SS 74, 76, despite his skepticism about ESP. Fair-haired, like a Dry Towner, FT 21. Spent childhood on an Arizona horse-ranch, FT 27, 49; when he was 18, it was sold for debts, and he joined the Space Service, FT 27; served on eight planets, SS 144. Lonely, a drifter, achieved rapport with Callista Lanart-Alton (q.v.), and later, as sole survivor of the crash of a TE Mapping & Exploring Services plane, is saved by Callista and guided to shelter; he is then about 28, SS 122. He later achieves rapport with Damon Ridenow and Ellemir, takes an important part in locating and rescuing Callista during the Catmen's War, marries her in freemate ceremony, FT 62, becomes part of the four-way marriage (with Damon, Ellemir and Callista) which operates the "Forbidden Tower"; consummated in rapport, FT 341-51.
He began growing his beard—unusual for men his age, FT 267.
There are MacAnndras in HH, possibly but not necessarily including some of Andrew's descendants, though they do come from the Kilghard Hills where these events took place; Ann'dra is the Kilghard Hills equivalent of Andrew, SS 66.
Andrew's laran was of very high order, as he learned within a short time to use a matrix to teleport himself to Callista's side in the Corresanti caves—which would have been quite a feat even for a Tower-trained matrix technician, SS 150.          ' ANDRUSSON READE Assistant Terran Legate in Then-dara, HH 85, under Donnell Ramsay.
Not to be confused with Commander John Reade, founder of the Spacemen's Orphanage (qq.v.). anger As concealment for less permissible emotions: HH 42. That of an Alton could kill in seconds, HH 135, FT 145, 313. Regis felt Danilo's like a physical blow, HH 134. Larry Montray withstood Kennard's, SD 133. Dezi's seemed more threatening than death in a blizzard, FT
145-46, and it nearly killed Damon, FT 313.
Ann'dra Common male given name, equivalent to Terran Andrew, Andre's, Andrea, etc., particularly often found in the Kilghard Hills. Andrew Carr's name was there so rendered, SS 66, FT 62-63, so that his Terran origin became either quickly forgotten or went unnoticed.
The MacAnndra family was minor nobility in the same area; some of Andrew Carr's descendants probably took the same name.
annunciation ceremony In the New Hebrides Commune, formal announcement and celebration of a newly-discovered pregnancy, DL 107.
anti shots Longterm contraceptive injections; abbreviation for anticeptin, DL 65.
Something of the kind was still in use centuries later inTE.
anti-technocrats XXI Century Terran Neo-Luddites, extreme opponents of Terran technology, sworn to destroy the latter, DL 82. Not represented among the colonists. Not to be confused with the New Hebrides Commune people, who were neo-ruralists (qq.v.).
aphrosone Amnesia-producing drug, SA 90 (98-99), a red liquid. Though it leaves scratch-pad or Type A memory intact, so that the drugged person seemingly functions normally, it blocks recording of Type B or C (medium or longterm) memories, by either blocking or abolishing the normal flow of impulses through the hippocampus. Most probably outlawed on all TE planets, though this is not explicit. Its main use would surely have been in crime, to defeat polygraph examinations.
Kadarin forced Lew Alton to take it, HH 342, to bypass Lew's refusal to raise Sharra; presumably he gave him the drug daily on waking, as otherwise Lew's dreams would have been abolished, and Lew testified to recalling his dreams-HH 342-44, SA 90 (99), symbolic nightmares. Under the drug, Lew was induced to father Marja on Thyra (qq.v.), HH 343, SA 89-90 (97-98). Lew's use of the Sharra matrix at Kadarin's orders during this same period resulted in the Sharra Rebellion, the burning of Caer Donn, and the loss of many lives: see Sharra Rebil-lion.
apples Some of Darkover's finest grew at Syrtis, HH 157. Thought to have been a Terran import, possibly as early asDL.
applied psychodynamics TE Medical Service techniques for manipulating minds; special capacities include bringing secondary personalities to consciousness, using a combination of hypnosis and related methods. See JASON, JAY, RANDALL.
One of the elementary theoretical principles is that a "disciplined" (Saturnian, contained, repressed, rigid, etc.) person is sure to contain a well-defined secondary personality, releasable under hypnosis, revealing traits rejected by the primary personality; or, more generally, that almost everyone has latent secondary personalities which can be elicited the same way, PS 14 (13).
Aran  Male given name. Probably of Terran origin via the New Hebrides Commune, as it is the name of a Scottish isle. See also Mac Aran; and cf. the Terran name Aaron. ? Back formation from Scots. Maccaran, MacCarran,
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Aran Elhalyn King (for ceremonial purposes) in Then-dara, FT 30, 300, SC 56; said to be "keeping the throne warm with his royal backside, which is the most useful part of him," SC 111-12. As usual, the real power was vested in the Hastur of Hastur, in this instance Lorill (q.v.). Aran's consort was Jerana Aillard (q.v.), a fitting match.
archfiends Unnamed chief demons, possibly from some cristoforo myth, HH 28; Lew Alton thought the "Lanart angels" (q.v.) should have been named after them. Not to be confused with Zandru, Naotalba, and Alar.
arc lights Common in Thendara Terran Zone, SD 11, in Castle Aldaran, HH 168, and in the spaceports; all but unknown elsewhere on the planet except possibly in other Terran Zones.
Arcturians Inhabitants of Arcturus Colony? on Arcturus IV (q.v.)? nonhumans? not described. In SA 97 (106) their sun-priests were said to wear golden robes, a costume adopted for the Festival by Derik Elhalyn, which suggests that they must have been at least vaguely humanoid.
"Jeff Kerwin Jr.'s" facetious reference to aprocryphal Arcturian crocodile-people or lizard-people, BS 24, may have been an allusion to Aratak's people (HUNTERS OF THE RED MOON, passim), though it is nowhere stated that Aratak came from the Arcturian system.
ARCTURUS IV TE planet, authentic data lacking. According to Johnny Ellers, q.v. (the Baron Munchusen of Spaceforce) a princess from this planet lived surrounded by handmaidens perpetually bound to her by "links of living pseudo-flesh" (whatever that may have been), yet nevertheless allowed herself to be seduced by the aforesaid Ellers, BS 11. The story is apocryphal and not to be taken as indicating anything whatever about the Arcturian colonists or aborigines. It becomes even more incredible if we assume the princess was of the proto-saurian race, BS 24 (see preceding entry). Ardais (accent on last syllable) One of the Seven Domains, located in the Hellers. Castle Ardais was three days' ride beyond Scaravel Pass, beyond Sain Scarp. The Ardais family is normally six-fingered like the Aillards (though not matrilineal). The six fingers testify to repeated chieri crosses and inbreeding. Aillard males especially were hypersensitive and unstable (probably from hormonal swings), often alcoholics, compulsive gamblers, or "lovers of men" unwilling to father heirs. SC 243 and see DYAN, GABRIEL.
The family income derived for centuries from forest management (lumber harvests, nuts, resins, paint and other byproducts) and from importing sulfur from the Dry Towns, principally for making book paper, SC 252.
The Ardais motto, colors and devices are not recorded. The family is allied with the Syrtis and Castamir families, less closely with Altons; see the respective lineages, pp. 156ff.
The Ardais Gift is catalyst telepathy: touch by its possessor awakens latent laran, HH 35, 161; SC 278, and see ALIDA and DANILO. It is rare and was long thought
extinct until Danilo manifested it.
The name Ardais is thought to derive from Terran fr. (Gael.) ard "high, lofty" + ais geog. suffix. .-. = "high-landers."
In some regions it is even pronounced as though spelled ardes.
See ALIDA, DANILO, DYAN, ELORIE, GABRIEL, KYRIL, ROHAN A. Ardcarran One of the Dry Towns (q.v.), SC 15. Nortorious for its brothels or bordellos (qq.v.), which featured boys, passive men, and females of various ages and origins. Garris (q.v.) was bought from one of these establishments by Jalak of Shainsa (q.v.), SC 42.
Rubies were found nearby; being one of the more valuable Dry Towns exports, SC 23.
The name is apparently from Terran (Sp.) ardo "hot" + ?charran "knavish"—hence an accurate characterization of the area and/or its inhabitants. Ariel (accent on first and last syllables) Infant daughter of Javanne Hastur and Gabriel Lanart-Hastur; one of twins, the other named Liriel, HH 79; younger sister of the "Lanart angels"; born a few months before the Sharra Rebellion. Arilinn (accent on first and last syllables) One of the more important towns, somewhat over 1,610 standard kilometers (1,000+ Terran miles) from Thendara, WW 100 (112); situated between twin peaks, BS 73, near the Hidden City (ib.). It is the site of one of the few functioning airstrips on the planet, WW 38 (39), HH 166. It is the site of a museum of nonhuman artifacts, SD 123, of a monument to the martyred Keeper Mirella (or Mare-lie) Hastur (q.v.), HH 278-79, SS 76; and of one of the last, and by far the most prestigious, of the functioning Towers (see following entry). Its Free Amazon Guild House trains midwives, SC 70.
There were two telepathic relays between Arilinn and Thendara, but Linnea bypassed both, WW 100-01 (112-13).
The name may derive from Terran (Sp.) aria "song" + linda "beautiful"; or from Gael, aird, "promontory, height" + linn "generation, incumbency, family" hence "high place of the Domain" or "Tower of the Comyn." Arilinn Tower Located not far from the airstrip, this is the most prestigious of the surviving Towers (see Towers), though not the oldest, FT 87; aprocryphal legend had it nevertheless in operation for 912 generations, BS 74, FT 87, its first Keeper allegedly a daughter of the First Hastur. It was a stone building taller than others in the area, with an arched entrance of translucent blue stone blocked by the Veil (q.v.), BS 76, a trap-matrix which effectively excluded non-Comyn, FT 13, or at least people without functioning laran-. see barrier, trap-matrix, Veil. Beyond the Veil was a matrix-powered elevator; on an upper level an archway leading into an enormous room with tiled floor looking out on a terrace, where some gatherings took place. Stairs led to bedrooms; the Tower was built (during the Ages of Chaos?) to hold thirty people, though at the time of BS its Circle numbered only eight. At the time of HH its personnel changed yearly, some being released (for example, to marriage), others added HH 202, Keepers rotated every
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Armida Ancestral home and Great House of the Domain of Alton, described as "a wide-flung house . . . built of blue-grey stone with wide, spaces of translucence in the stone walls . . ." WD 51 (64). Much of the action of SS takes place in Armida and surrounding villages. Site of a horse-ranch; Regis's mare Melisande was a gift of Ken-nard Alton, as was the (unnamed?) mare ridden by Danilo Syrtis, HH 155. Site of the "Forbidden Tower" experiments conducted by Damon Ridenow as Keeper with a Circle comprising Callista, Ellemir and Andrew Carr during the years following the Catmen's War.
It was ravaged by forest fire about three years before the Sharra Rebellion, when "some of the outbuildings had gone in the backfire." Regis Hastur stayed there with Lew Alton from about age 10 to 12; they became bredin before Regis was sent to Nevarsin.
The casta name means "The Fortified One," evidently alluding not to the usual castle defenses but to ancient matrix weapons.
arms-master Chief swordsmanship instructor in the Cadet Guards, or in Nevarsin, SD 81, HH 22, 28. At the time of the Sharra Rebellion, the Cadets' arms-master was old Domenic di Asturien (q.v.), HH 56. The one at Nevarsin instructed those boys not intending to become monks.
ARNAD RIDENOW (accent on the last syllable) Consort of the Keeper Cleindon' Aillard, real father of the supposed "Jeff Kerwin Jr." (qq.v.), Arnad and Cleindori were attempting to formulate a science of matrix me: chanics (q.v.), free of previous superstitious taboos which were a legacy of the Ages of Chaos—specifically attempting to free Keepers of the taboos of perpetual virginity and avoidance of touch. Both Arnad and Cleindori were murdred by fanatics trying to perpetuate the old tradition, BS 171-176.
The name is possibly either cognate with Terran names (Sp.) Arnaldo, (Fr.) Arnaud, (It.) Arnoldo, (Eng.) Arnold, or derived from arnado "beekeeper," from arna (Sp. dialect) "beehive."
art of double tongues Transl. of a casta phrase meaning "evasive language of diplomatic protocol." HH 18.
Article Four (sc. of Terran Bill of Rights) Quoted, DL 22: "No law shall be made or formulated abridging the rights of any human being to equal work regardless of racial origin, religion, or sex."
Arturian sun-priests Typographical error, SA 97 (106), for Arcturian (q.v.). These are the ones who wore the glittering golden robes.
ASHARA ALTON Ceremonially, "Comyn Keeper," probably at Hali Tower, since the Ages of Chaos, centuries before the Sharra Rebellion. Secluded in the Tower since before Kennard Alton's time, later in what was called "Old Tower" (to distinguish it from the other Tower in Comyn Castle) and later "Ashara's Tower," SA 29, she remained a power behind the other Keepers, committing the crime of possessing them mentally and overshadowing them physically. She appears not to have existed in
the body for many years, manifesting herself on material planes only through a gigantic matrix she had built long before. This matrix—itself existing only partly in the material universe—appears to have formed the legendary "blue room" in Ashara's Tower, SA 77ff (84ff). "A straight tiny figure, almost as small as a child . . . her pale features, almost as smooth as Callina's own, seemed almost fleshlessly pure. But they were old for all that, so old that even wrinkles had been smoothed away by the hand of time. The eyes . . . were colorless too, though in a normal light they might have been blue." Ashara overshadowed Callina (q.v.) during the final battle with the Sharra matrix, SA 154 (173), but was later forced by Dio to leave the physical plane, killing Callina too. This process is "explained" by Dio, SA 156-57 (174-75). No more Keepers were trained as Ashara had been.
ASHARA 'S TOWER In Thendara, in or adjacent to Comyn Castle, SA 77 (84). According to legend, built for the first Keeper millennia ago, long before the Ages of Chaos (apocryphally "before the four moons were cast from the planet") when Thendara was only "a row of mud huts in sight of Nevarsin Peak". Extensively modified for (or by) Ashara after she retired from Hali Tower: past a carven glass door far up in the Tower was a Blue Room in which all directions were obscure; within it was a carven glass throne, on which Ashara allowed her astral or overworld body to manifest as an apparently physical entity. The room was actually a gigantic matrix, through which the discarnate Ashara managed to possess other Keepers, including Callina (q.v.). It was specifically a link to the overworld, said to be a duplicate of Sharra (which could not coexist on the material plane in Darkover, owing to Cherillys' Law, q.v.) and hence existed partly in the overworld.
Called "Old Tower," to distinguish it from the other Tower in Comyn Castle, FT 307.
assassins Evidently a common occupation, sworsdmen or knife-wielders who were hired if one did not wish to go through the formalities of registering a Declaration (q.v.) of Intent-to-Murder. Worldwreckers Inc. (q.v.) agents hired no less than fourteen to kill Regis Hastur, but he managed to evade them all, WW 141 (159), seven in the year preceding the opening of events in WW, 14-16 (12-14); the eighth killed Edric Ridenow, the ninth Jerome Elhalyn, the tenth slew two of Regis' children, etc. An assassin could protect his employer by filing a Declaration of Intent-to-Murder in his own name, which removed the act from jurisdiction of Comyn or Terran authorities and put it under the code duello (q.v.). One assigned by "Andrea Closson" to kill Melora's baby (another son of Regis Hastur) had surgically altered fingerprints, WW 107 (119).
See Declaration of Intent-to-Murder.
astral journeys Travels in the overworld or "grey world" (qq.v.). See SS 125 for description of the beginning of one such journey. After one has left the body behind in the monitor's hands, (s)he reaches destinations by visualizing them precisely.
Auster Common male given name, especially in the Ridenow family; possibly either from Terran (Sp.) austero "severe, rigid" or perhaps austro "south wind," or the
ancient Terran name Alastair. Two Ridenows of this name are mentioned: see following entries.
Auster Ridenow Brother of Dio, Corus and Lerrys, killed on Festival Night by Sharra, SA 112 (125).
"AUSTER RIDENOW" Raised in Spacemen's Orphanage, but had forgotten this, BS 86, after being brought (age 5) to Arilinn Tower by its Circle, BS 98, 139, in the mistaken belief that he was the true child of Arnad Ridenow and Cassilde Aillard. He had the Comyn look and a close resemblance to "Jeff Kerwin Jr.", whom he met in a Thendara foodshop, BS 24, 27-28, and instantly disliked. Feline appearance, aggressive, abrasive personality, unlike most Tower people. In the denouement, he proved to be part Terran and Ragan's twin, son of Jeff
Kerwin Sr., by Cassilda Aillard, with enough laran to work in the Tower Circle, BS 102, 177. Avarra Goddess of night, winter, death and (re)birth, FT 234, and in general of darkness—recession, rest, stillness, opposed to Evanda (q.v.), bright goddess of growing things. Oversees birth and death because of the mystical concept identifying the darkness of the grave and the womb. Her mercy is invoked, but in general she is more feared than loved; "the mercy of Avarra" refers to surcease of suffering, e.g. the death (by spontaneous abortion) of a defective offspring, FT 199; she is the Goddess mentioned in the Oath of the Free Amazons, below, p. 146. "Merciful Avarra" is a plea rather than a description. See Four.

bachelor quarters In TE Headquarters, Thendara. "Jeff Kerwin" lived there, BS 41, as did Magda Lome after separating from Peter Haldane, SC 95ff.
backflow Reversal of directed flow of energons (q.v.) into body; hazardous, fire-like effects, HH 239, 241, FT 162. A three-second backflow severely burned Lew Alton's hand some years before the Sharra Rebellion.
baiting A technique at Arilinn Tower for testing emotional control, FT 24-25.
Balhar Ranger attached to the Alton Domain, hacked to death by Cyrillon's (q.v.) bandits in a raid, to keep him from lighting a warning beacon, SD 63. MZB glosses the name as "Spear-Carrier," in Hellers dialect—a phallic nickname? From Terran (Sp.) bala "missile"?
"Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda" The best-known version of the legend of the origin of the Comyn families comprising the Seven Domains. It tells how Hastur, son of Aldones (qq.v.), fell to land at the Lake of Hali (q.v.), where he met the two women associated with him by legend, Camilla and Cassilda (qq.v.). Both loved him, but he loved Cassilda, and fathered on her a son who became the forefather of the Seven Domains. Rohana sang the ballad, SC 33-36, to Rafaella's rryl (q.v.) accompaniment, to cover the sound of Kindra's instructions for invading Jalak's Great House in Shainsa. Colryn sang it, WD 69 (89), and it is mentioned that both Cleindorf and Allira had sung it. Rohana tells the story briefly to Jaelle, SC 79; Callista describes its events briefly to Andrew, FT 115. Though it is apparently unknown in the Dry Towns, it is known throughout the Domains, especially in the Hellers and Kilghard Hills, and generally sung to one of

several ancient pentatonic tunes, WD 52 (65-66).
Scenes from its story are painted on the chapel walls in Comyn Castle, FT 292.
The full text is in Appendix I, pp. 142-45.
balsam Resin commonly used as a scent for garments (possibly also to repel insects), and as a perfume for hot baths; Rohana specially favored it, SC 84.
bandit fortress Either a forst occupied by bandits (q.v.) or a castle or other fortified place built or taken over by them. Castle Aldaran, at High Kimbi, at one end of Caer
Donn valley in the Hellers, had long ago been the site of one of these, possibly the very building formerly occupied by them, HH 271. See also Sain Scarp. bandits Outlaw gangs, mostly living by raiding and plundering estates, sometimes also by kidnapping noble or wealthy people for ransom. They were also known to kidnap children for slaves or concubines, or for sale to the Dry Towns—presumably for the Ardcarran bordellos, SS 42. Some were quartered in the Cahuenga mountains, others in a variety of hideouts across the Kadarin river from Alton lands, SD 64. Many set up forsts (q.v., and see preceding entry); Rumal's was in the Hellers between Scaravel Pass and Castle Ardais, SC 114, 180, 189. See BRYNAT, CYRILLON, RUMAL, Sain Scarp. bannerman, banner-bearer Any retainer or Guardsman or cadet who carries a Domain's banner in procession, HH 15. Bannermen were routinely part of Domain lords' entourage, HH 24. banshees Huge blind flightless nocturnal birds, predatory and carnivorous, but fortunately torpid in sunlight, SD 110. Like many flightless species, they run very fast. They are taller than a man. Their long trailing wings may be a secondary sexual trait, but their red phosphorescent beaks and razor-sharp claws are strictly functional: they can disembowel a horse or pack-animal at one stroke, SD 105-06, 147. They sense prey by smell, movement and warmth, SD 106, freezing prey in terror by uttering horrendous screams, enabling accurate location for killing. They nest above the timberline, in and near mountain passes, SC 185, but represent a potential hazard even in the lower Hellers, WD 71, (91), 86 (112). Though they prefer horseflesh or pack-animal flesh, they have been known to eat humans, SC 183-85. Their blindness may be an adaptation to glare on permanent snow.
Kennard Alton believed that Cyrillon might have trained them as trackers, SD 107, but there is no evidence for or against this supposition.
Kennard Alton and Larry Montray twice had to elude them, once by Larry's applying pungent medicinal salve to both boys' boots, later by evasive tactics which confused the bird as to its prey's position and direction of movement, SD 146-50.
Magda and Jaelle eluded one, at the cost of a pack-animal, enroute to Sain Scarp, SC 183-85.
The name is from Terran (Gael.) bean sidhe "woman of the Sidhe," or from bean shith "preternatural woman," one whose horrendous wailing portends death; the English form is doubtless influenced by Eng. bane, from ON bani "death," CG. Rafael MacAran first noticed the creature's screams, DL 42; Camilla del Rey identified it, DL 43, 49; Dr. Lewis MacLeod autopsied one, DL 77. In casta and cahuenga the name refers only to this species. bark-tea Common hot sweet drink, brewed from the bark of some unnamed tree. Amazons drank it in Guild Houses, but outside they preferred a hot grain-brew (q.v.), SC 72.
It was vaguely similar to Terran sassafras, DL 134.
barragana A concubine, less disgraced than a prostitute.
The Free Amazon Oath forbade any Amazon to accept
this status, SC 5, 157. Also, a morganatic wife. Comyn
accorded only this status to Kennard Alton's wife Elaine
Aldaran-Montray,   in   order to  avoid  admitting her to Council or granting her sons Domain heirship.
From   Terran   (Sp.),   same   form   and  meaning.  See marriage.
barrier (matrix) A type of trap-matrix (q.v.); see Veil. Specifically, a matrix-operated force field, experienced by any would-be intruder as a wall unless he carried a matrix himself or unless the operator of the barrier let him pass. One of these, called a first-level barrier, was posted at the mouth of the Caves of Corresanti by the Great Cat (qq.v) or one of his people, SS 147. The Veil (q.v.) was a much more sophisticated version.
barrier (telepathic) A mental block against telepathic contact; natural telepathic protection against prying, especially in strong untrained natural telepaths. Beltran of Aldaran had one not even Lew Alton could safely break, which is why Beltran sought a catalyst telepath and had Danilo kidnapped, HH 205, 257-58. Regis Hastur unconsciously erected one to shut out the memory of a donas amizu (q.v.) scene between him (at age 12) and Lew Alton, HH 34-35, thereby abolishing even his memory of having had laran. "Jeff Kerwin, Jr.'s" was "hellish," BS 96. Jaelle's was strong enough that Alida, herself a catalyst telepath, feared to break it down, SC 206. In Terrans the barrier is so reinforced by disbelief that they cannot generally be telepathically affected.
BARRON Terran family name. 1. See Dan. 2. First name not given: mathematics teacher in Third Group, Spacemen's Orphanage, BS 37, 163-64, the only one to admit remembering "Jeff Kerwin, Jr." as a child. It is not known if he was related to Dan Barron.
base camp Initial longterm settlement, DL, near the wrecked ship, at most a few degrees north of the equator, near what was later called New Skye and centuries later Neskaya (qq.v.).
bastard In general not an insult, as the status was not in itself disgraceful, HH 173. Bastards legally bore their mothers' surnames (see Ardais Lineage, p. 159). "The Bastard" was a common Cadet Guards sobriquet for Lew Alton—referring to his nedestro heirship of Alton Domain, not his behavior. A bastard whose paternity was acknowledged could inherit and even take a seat in Comyn Council; but one of unknown paternity was not so lucky: see Son of the Kadarin, "six-fathered."
Bat-Ears Sobriquet of Brynat Scarface's swordbearer, probably from his physical peculiarity, WD 15 (14).
bath houses On the pleasure planet Keef (q.v.), WW 24 (23), this was the common euphemism of polymorphous-perverse Pleasure Palaces, most likely modeled partly on the Turkish baths of ancient Terra and partly on the Roman baths of still more ancient Terran legend. They were reputed to offer many styles of prostitutes, male and female, simulating or even accurately reproducing (or imported from) the customers' planetary cultures.
bathrooms Those in Comyn Great Houses tended to be extremely elaborate. The largest one at Armida was stone floored, with a sunken tub providing hot water from volcanic springs; it also contained a hot-water fountain. It seemed extraordinary luxury to Andrew Carr, SS 62. An equally elaborate one was found in the royal
suite at Castle Aldaran, where Regis Hastur and Danilo Syrtis were quartered, HH 287. Those in Comyn Castle were somewhat similar and also featured hot water, generally scented to the user's pleasure. Lady Rohana favored balsam, SC 84. The one in the Lanart-Alton townhouse in Old Thendara, also with hot water, was tesselated in a dozen colors, SD 35. Bay of Dreams Translates a chieri name for an otherwise unidentified bay (on the main ocean?) containing the island Mormallor—named after the moon (or vice versa?) (qq.v.) The castle of the Lord of Carthon (the one who wooed Kierestelli, qq.v.) was engulfed in this bay, WW 152(172).
beacons Signal devices at border stations, SD 63ff, set up by Valdir Alton, SD 67, for defense against bandits from across the Kadarin. This act—with the expansion of the Ranger network (q.v.)—was taken by Cyrillon (q.v.) as an act of war.
In WD 72 (93), these beacons are described as moat-isolated enormous piles of dried fallen wood and weeds, like tinder, used also for alerting everyone to the arrival of a Ghost Wind (q.v.). On one historic occasion Dan Barron, overshadowed by Storn of Storn, lit a beacon for this exact purpose, WD 78-80 (100-04). See DAN BARRON, Ghost Wind, kireseth, overshadowing, Storn of Storn, Ya-men.
beards Uncommon except among old men, FT 236.
Bearer of Burdens Descriptive of Terran St. Christopher of Centaurus, originally; later in the cristoforo sect centering around Nevarsin (qq.v.), a title of their central deity/archetype/figure of veneration, Cristoforo, usually in the phrase "Holy Bearer of Burdens," HH 68. He was depicted originally as bearing the Divine Child, more recently as "bearing the weight of the world's sorrows"— equated to the archaic Terran mythic figure of Atlas. In the original Terran legend, the man who carried the Christ Child across a stream nearly drowned under his weight; on reaching the other side, the Child told him "This night have you borne upon your shoulders the weight of the world's sorrows," and he received the name of Christophoros (Gk.: "Christ-bearer"). It is conjectured that this Terran saint was a special object of devotion in the Order, and that he was later in some way identified with Father Valentine Neville, represented as carrying stones for building what later was to become Nevarsin Monastery; but the later symbolism appears to be strictly Darkovan.
beautiful folk of the forest Chieri (q.v.), WW 50 (53). Those who sought to rescue Kierestelli (q.v.) lived in the hills across the Kadarin from Carthon, WW 152-53 (172-73).
beautiful one Dr. Judith Lovat's epithet for the chieri whom she saw laying out the dying Marco Zabal, DL 58.
beautiful people  Common epithet for chieri.
"bed, meal and fireside" For a man and a woman to acknowledge sharing these three things made them free-mates (q.v.) by mountain custom having the force of law; see freemate marriage. Lew Alton and Marjorie Scott did exactly this, HH 319.
beds Often very large and intended to be occupied by many people, for body warmth. Jalak of Shainsa (q.v.) occupied such a bed in his Great House, sharing it with Danette and Garris (qq.v.), SC 42. The frontispiece shows this as an elaborately curtained "fourposter" bed (archaic Terran pattern, obsolete in TE) with the wooden bedposts intricately carved with baroque ornamentation including coiled serpents in high relief.
Rumors of such immense beds were long current in the Domains. Regis Hastur referred to a bed in the royal suite at Castle Aldaran as "huge enough to hold a Dry Towner, three of his wives, and six of his concubines," HH 289. This is likely to have been of nearly the dimensions of the legendary Terran (British Isles) "Great Bed of Ware," said to have been some six meters wide, or big enough to sleep twelve adults, and giving rise to gleeful speculations about other activities up to and including orgies.
bell, golden Nickname for the kireseth flower covered with golden pollen, FT 292.
Bellazi  Name of a village in Alton lands, FT 212.
bells Used for local fire alarms, WD 72 (93), SD 68. They are rung in a rhythmic pattern which conveys the location of the fire. They are also used for signaling arrival of a Ghost Wind, WD 79-80 (101-04).
Beltran Aldaran of Aldaran Son  of Kermiac
(q.v.) by Lauretta Storn-Lanart; Domain heir, HH 171. Probably born late in Kermiac's life, as he was about 30 during Kermiac's extreme old age, immediately preceding the Sharra Rebellion. Closely resembled Lew Alton (q.v.): "I have seen twins who were less like," HH 171, 299.
He had a lifelong dream of equality for Darkover as the first of the TE colonies, HH 178-82, and in pursuit of this aim persuaded Kadarin to reclaim the Sharra matrix (qq.v.), stored on one of the altars of the forge-folk after Desideria restored it to them (qq.v.). He proposed to use it to demonstrate native technology to the TE as a bargaining point. But—warped by Sharra—he had Danilo Syrtis (q.v.) kidnapped to make use of his catalyst telepathy to awaken later laran (q.v.), and maltreated Lew in a breach of hospitality thought shameful in the Hellers.
Six years later, political intrigues by Dyan Ardais and the Ridenow brothers forced Comyn Council to accept a politically expedient marriage di catenas between Beltran and the Keeper Callina Aillard, a marriage which fell through when Beltran became aware that Sharra was still active, SA 113 (125), and fled Comyn Castle as if "all the demons were flying on his tail." In spite of everything, Lew Alton referred to him as "a decent sort of fellow," SA 36 (37).
The name is from Terran (Sp.), same spelling, similar pronunciation, equivalent to archaic Terran (Eng.) Bertram.
berries Some species in the mountains are poisonous, SD 140.
berserker Man in altered state of consciousness characterized by extreme violence and preternatural strength, HH 174. See text of ballad "The Outlaw," p. 145.
Bethiah Woman in Alton household at Armida, originally wet-nurse, later foster-mother, to both Ellemir and Callista (qq.v.); at the beginning of the Catmen's War, killed by the catmen who kidnapped Callista from Armida, her eyes being clawed out, SS 24, FT 20.
BETHANY Terran. Woman friend of Magda Lome (q.v.), employed in TE HQ, Thendara Terran Zone, Coordinator's Office, Personnel Division, SC 97.
Bibbledygook Apocryphal star system, mentioned by Regis Hastur. See Fourteenth Planet, WW 20 (18).
Big Ships Common Terran slang, used in Terran Zones and Trade Cities, for interstellar long-range ships (faster-than-light ships), which had made possible the colonization of the known Galaxy atid the establishment of the loose federation known as the Terran Empire (q.v.), BS 5, SD 38, SC 235. They were developed among Terrans many generations after DL.
This name was commonly in use in Spacemen's Orphanage, BS 5.
In earlier days young boys were hired as crew so that they would not be old past reproductive age on making landfall. More recently this became unnecessary as voyages of even 100 light-years could be completed in about 100 days ship time, SD 6. See M-AM Drive.
Bill of Rights See Article Four. Apparently preceded DL and TE.
binoculars Terran luxury item, heavily taxed on import into Darkover, for unknown reasons, SA 14 (11). They could probably have been made locally since Dan Barron taught lens-grinding to the Altons, WD 51 (65), 72 (94).
biofeedback machines Routinely used in TE Medical and Psych Centers throughout TE, not merely on Darkover, for (1) alpha-consciousness training, (2) deep relaxation training, (3) sleep, (4) a variety of experimental purposes. Andrew Carr had gone through a course of training with them, which probably stimulated his laran, SS 101. A matrix (q.v.) is a type of natural mini-biofeed-back device of uncommon efficacy. All such machines essentially provide signals which indicate that one has achieved a desired internal state not ordinarily accessible with unaided senses, thus enabling training in seemingly impossible techniques, e.g. altering body temperature (locally or generally), altering EEC, etc.
bird hood Ancient device used by the blind Storn of Storn in Sunrise Tower, Storn Castle, for astral travel, WD 8 (5), 39 (48). In use it was slipped over his head and could be physically flown, the energy being supplied by a built-in matrix activated by the user's brain. The original purpose may have been sensory deprivation to facilitate astral journeys (q.v.). In the Towers (q.v.) bird hoods were not in use, being rendered unnecessary by advanced matrix training; Storn used one because he had no Tower training.
Possibly one of these was the origin of the traveller's tale cited by Gabriel Ardais of "men with wings for hands, and pots for breathing on their heads," SC 254.
birds There were many unidentified species in the valleys and hills, DL 49, including some predators; some were edible, DL 90, SD 133. Many smaller species built nests lined with shed feathers, encasing eggs in mud-and-straw
walls for insulation. Nectar and resin were common chick foods. They seem to have evolved closely parallel to Terran species. See banshees, hawks, kyorebni, rain-birds.
birth By Domain custom, a husband with laran was expected to remain in rapport with his wife during her entire labor and delivery, HH 28. For a woman to refuse to allow this was a major insult, as when Melora refused Regis Hastur, HH 102. The mysterious and archaic Terran custom of the couvade may originally have had a similar significance, but it is not known if the tribes practising this had anything like laran.
bitch Kindra's epithet for Danette (Jalak's concubine), SC 43. Some equivalent of this term has always been a derogatory epithet for such women throughout the known Galaxy, most probably because of dogs' habits of public indiscriminate copulation.
black rot  Gangrene, FT 200.
blackfruit Species of fruit-bearing trees which grow in the Drylands, so called from the color of the fruit, SC 31, 40. The nearest Terran analog is dates. Its root is used as a cardiac stimulant, FT 200.
blaster TE weapon, of the general class of firearms (side-arms); it fires a silent pulse of a frequency attuned to either instantly coagulating or otherwise denaturing protein—probably in a coherent beam ("tightbeam") comparable to laser beams, otherwise it would be almost equally dangerous to its user, WW 13 (11). Danilo Syrtis (q.v.) obtained one from the TE authorities and carried it as an emergency defense against assassins, WW 14 (12), contrary to Domain law and Compact—blasters were strictly illegal and contraband. Regis and Jason (qq.v.) forced Buck Kendricks (q.v.) to relinquish his, PS 28-29. Not the same as nervegun (q.v.).
Blessed Cassilda Epithet of Cassilda (q.v.), legendary .ancestor of the Comyn, FT 234, 284. See the "Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda," below, p. 142.
blockhead "That's you, blockhead!" HH 60, 375. See hazing.
blood brotherhood Archaic Terran counterpart of oath of bredin, unthinkable to Damon, FT 326.
blood feuds Vendettas, though normally aimed at only one member of a family; legalized by filing a Declaration of Intent-to-Murder in Fair Fight (q.v., and Code Duello). Occasionally a bandit would declare blood feud on a family, as Cyrillon des Trailles did against the Altons, or as Rumal di Scarp did against the Ardais, without legal formalities. (Rumal had more cause, as Lord Ardais had ordered six of Rumal's men hanged from the castle wall, SC 114.)
An unsettled blood feud takes precedence over every other obligation, SA 65 (70), except the two mentioned below. In particular, no marriage can be solemnized, nor even contracted; no heirship settled; no other formal agreement of any kind made until the feud has been ended by death of either party to it, or by withdrawal of the feud by agreement of both parties (as Lew Alton and Kadarin, SA 142 (159), or Danilo Syrtis and Dyan Ardais, HH 372).
The two exceptions: 1. Blood feuds are automatically
halted by de facto truce in travel shelters, SC 124, so that the mutual aid code in such shelters takes precedence; and 2. fighting a forest fire in one's neighborhood automatically imposes truce (see fire truce), because the duty to fight local forest fires takes precedence over every other obligation, WW 36 (37). See fires, forest fires. The ritual formula, BS 143, for declaring blood feud, before a member of Comyn Council, was: "Com'ii, this man's life is mine! When, how and as I can, I claim his life, one to one, and who takes it before I do, settles with me!" To which the ritual response by the member of Comyn Council was "(name), as representative of the Council, I hear your claim and allot this life to you, one to one, seek it or give your own." In practice, this was followed by filing the abovementioned Declaration, SA 18-19 (16), with TE authorities in Thendara, to avoid prosecution. A different formula was in use within Council, HH 369.
Bloody Sun Old Terran poet's term for Darkover's red sun, which had allegedly once been less dim, SA 112 (124), SD 12, etc.
blue unguent Used on wounds "to keep out the cold" and suppress bleeding; probably a local anesthetic as well as an antiseptic, SS 132. Not the same as karalla (q.v.).
"Bob"   Robert Kadarin, HH 1 76. See Kadarin.
bond of the twin-born Believed the strongest of all telepathic linkages, lifelong, SS 60.
"Book of Burdens" Sacred scripture among cristoforos, FT 321.
books Printed locally on paper manufactured from Ardais lumber using (among other ingredients) sulfites from sulfur imported by the Ardais from the Dry Towns, SC 252. Some were printed in casta; Larry Montray was loaned several by one of his TZ instructors, including one on Darkovan geography which helped him during his trek with Kennard Alton, SD 18.
booths Commonly used in outdoor markets. That used by Kindra's band of Free Amazons for trading in the Dry Towns was of woven wicker, SC 27, lightweight, easily collapsible and portable—and inexpensive enough to be no great loss if abandoned. Kindra ordered that it not be struck on the evening planned for rescuing Melora, so that the Shainsa people would not suspect anything, but instead expect the Free Amazons to resume trading the next morning, SC 31. In addition, abandoning the booth lightened their load so that Melora and Jaelle could perhaps be a little more esaily accommodated.
bordellos Ardcarran's were notorious, featuring women, boys and passive men, SC 15. Gwennis (q.v.) threatened to castrate one Shainsa loafer so that he would be thenceforth useful only as a "he-whore" in one of these. See also bath houses, brothels, Golden Cage, House of Lanters, whorehouses.
border patrols On the borders of Domains, to detect bandits and/or invaders, e.g. from the Dry Towns, SC 42. See rangers.
bows and arrows Commonly used for hunting game, DL 73, even into later millennia; their use in warfare was strictly prohibited, as a violation of Compact (q.v.).
bracken Native species of Dryland plant, SC 64; its leaves are of fern-like configuration, to judge from the Terran term used to translate its name.
breda Depending on inflection and mode (qq.v.), this can mean "kinswoman," SS 48, "sister," "cherished sister," HH 234, FT 38, "little sister," WD 101 (132), "close female friend," "darling," SC 70, etc. Spoken by one women to another in intimate inflection and mode, it connotes "lover," no derogatory. See also SC 16, WD 34 (41). Diminutive form: bredilla (q.v.).
Accent varies with inflection and mode. Alludes less to blood kinship than to emotional tone of relationship. Masculine counterpart is bredu, (q.v). Etymology is discussed under bredir.
bredilla   "Little sister," diminutive of breda.
bredillu "Little brother," diminutive of bredu. Most likely the term Lew Alton used to Rafe Scott, HH 203. Often an endearment; like the preceding, not proof of blood kindship but of emotional tone.
The  -ilia,   illu  suffixes  correspond   to Terran (Sp.) diminutive suffixes -ilia, -illo.
bredin Plural of bredu (q.v.), hence according to mode and inflection, "friends/brothers/kinsmen," "kin brothers," "buddies," "sworn brothers," "lovers (male)." Bredin have mutual obligations, HH 31, parallel to those of Terran "water-brothers." The oath of bredin, with exchange of knives, formalizes these obligations, HH 163, SD 151-52, FT 270, 276, 284. Referring to individuals as having sworn the oath of bredin neither implies nor excludes a sexual relationship, but leaves the possibility open without a trace of derogatory attitude. What is formalized is the mutual obligations consequent to love. The same individual may swear this oath with different people; Kennard Alton had done so with both Dyan Ardais and Larry Montray; Damon had done so with Coryn Lanart and Andrew Carr, FT 17, 48, SS, 335. Lew Alton and Regis Hastur were bredin even to a donas amizu culmination (q.v.); Regis later swore the oath with Danilo, but— as seen at the end of HH—this did not involve any lessening of his devotion to Lew. In the Guards many boys paired off as bredin, and passionate friendships were taken for granted especially among those from the Kilg-hard Hills: see Julian Mac Aran, CATHAL LINDIR, etc.
bredir "To cherish, to treat as a brother or sworn-brother, to love," according to inflection and mode. This verb underlies all the related forms in bre- cited above and below. In "The Family Verb," DARKOVAN LANGUAGE REVIEW 1, pp. 12-20, this word's etymology, through that of breda, bredu, bredin, is traced back some 8,000 years prior to the Terran XX Century Space Age. It and its noun relatives function in such a way as to indicate that in Darkovan society horizontal cohesion (among one's peers and age-mates) was originally more important than vertical cohesion (between lords and vassals, employer and employee, superior and inferior ranks generally): "bare is brotherless back"; "brotherhood is a state of mind," or in the more specific Darkovan formulation of the proverb, "Blood kin are forced on you, bredin are chosen." Proverbs (see the list below, p. 148) reveal much  of a people's way of organizing thought,
and the Darkovan variety emphasizes a penchant for doing so in balanced contrasts. Accordingly, bredir is contrasted in this way with gre'thir, cah. gre'zir, "to grind, to pound, to crush, to penetrate sexually with force," etc.; "to destroy" contrasted with "to cherish," "to treat as a vanquished opponent" as against "to treat as a brother.' Gre'zir is the "enemy verb" where bredir is the "family verb." This in turn reflects a very different view of sex from those common among Terrans. (However, bredir neither implies nor excludes sexual sharing. See donas amizu.) bredu "Brother," FT 189; "close friend," SD 112, WW 15 (13), FT 189; "sworn brother," "beloved brother," FT 335; in intimate mode and inflection, spoken by one male to another, it defines the person addressed as "my lover" in donas amizu (q.v.) or homosexual pairing, WW 15 (13), SC 107-08. From the verb bredir, above (q.v.).
See bredin, hidden man, homosexuality, ombredin.
Because of this shift of meanings, the word is taboo in TE communications in any Darkovan language, unless spoken by a native interpreter who knows the proper pronunciation shifts corresponding to the different modes and inflections—these being distinctions Terrans could hardly have learned unless brought up on Darkover. The female counterpart, breda, has parallel shifts of meaning and connotation with distinctions of mode or inflection. Plural: bredin.
The intimate mode/intimate inflection form is approximated as bredu in WW 15 (13), 114, between Regis and Danilo.
bre Slli! "Go make love to yourself." The connotation is not masturbation, but the imputation that a bre'suin (q.v.) rejects loving union with another in favor of himself—i.e. narcissistic arrogance; one of the worst insults that can be hurled at any native in any Darkovan language, though it has competition in the term translated as "six-fathered," SC 15, where used as a noun (direct address form, bre'sui). Only exists in derogatory mode and inflection, vulgar and not good usage. The "-su-" is from Terran (Sp.) suyo, "one's own."
bre'suin "Man who makes love to himself," see preceding entry, WW 35 (36). Abusive epithet used by Cyrillon of Larry Montray, SD 91; cahuenga, possibly also casta, only in impolite/derogatory mode and inflection, vulgar and not good usage. The female form would be bre'suis but has not been encountered.
brick, brick walls The technique for making these evidently dates back to DL; Moray would certainly have insisted on a search for refractory materials, fine clay, sand, limestone, gypsum, etc., for weatherproof brick and mortar. A mortared brick wall was used in constructing the ancient herdsman's shelter in which Andrew Carr (q.v.) managed to survive a storm in the Hellers, SS 30, 32.
bride-price Paid by the prospective husband's family to the prospective bride's family when marriages were arranged, especially di catenas, SS 18. It is not known if the amount was traditionally fixed; most probably it was by agreement between the families, even to the medium of exchange (coin, copper bars, or barter goods).
bridges The Trailmen built them between stands of trees, using heavy vines analogous to Terran lianas, which they wove in situ so that they continued to grow and become extremely durable, DL 36, 76, 137; PS 44 (46-47). For related features, see the description of the Trailmen's city in PS and SD.
"British or Brictish Isles" Terran source of much of Darkover's most ancient folkmusic, as Kadarin told Lew Alton, HH 175. It is now known that the ultimate source was the New Hebrides Commune.
brothels All Terran Zones in every planet in the known Galaxy have them—certainly no fair introduction to women on any planet. On Darkover these were a major source of embarrassment to Thendara's native women, especially Free Amazons, HH 47, SC 283. See bordellos and references thereunder.
"brothers-that-have-life" Translates a Trailmen expression for "animals" as distinct from plants, SD 125.
BRUCE Nom de guerre of one of the two agents who hired "Andrea Closson" to wreck Darkover, WW 6 (3). Cf. STANNARD.
Bruna Leynier, Domna ("Lady Bruna") Sister to a former Lord Alton, generations before Dom Esteban. After her brother was slain, she took the 9-year-old Alton heir under her own protection, made his mother her lifelong freemate, defended the arrangement with her own sword, and commanded the Guards until the boy came of age. Her name remained in the roster of commanders of the Guards, so that the rest of this story was generally believed. Her story became a favorite in Amazon Guild Houses and was the subject of games among young girls in many regions, FT 58, 227.
BRYNAT Legendary bandit of the Hellers, called Brynat Scarface for obvious reasons—here, a seamed scar stretching from one eye to chin. He called himself "Brynat of the Heights" after he seized Storn Castle, WD 15 (14). He made Allira (q.v.) his consort after a blasphemous mock marriage, WD 22-23. His seizure of Storn Castle resulted ultimately in Desideria's raising Sharra (qq.v.) to rid the area of him and his gang, which feat was remembered decades later in the Hellers and indirectly occasioned the reawakening of Sharra and the Sharra Rebellion (qq.v.).
His sword-bearer was called "Bat-Ears" for obvious physical reasons, WD 15 (14).
Beltran  of Aldaran (q.v.) was compared to him for kidnapping Danilo Syrtis, HH 258. See bandits.
BUCK KENDRICKS Terran, member of Spaceforce, quartered in Thendara; "on the wrong side of fifty, seamed and burly and huge, with a split lip and weathered face," PS 24 (23); served earlier on at least a dozen TE planets, PS 24 (23); for eight years before PS he had been an intimate friend of Dr. Jay Allison, but did not even recognize Allison's alter ego Jason, PS 24-25 (23-24), until long into their shared mission to the Trailmen, PS 54-56 (58-60). He carried his blaster m native areas, contrary to Compact and planetwide treaty; Regis Hastur and Jason forced him to relinquish it, PS 28-29, Jason thinking how naked a Spaceforce man looks without it.
He was later associated with TE Legate Daniel Law-ton, SA 116 (129).
burial Usual method of disposing of corpses, SS 41, since the deaths in the first Ghost Wind, DL 62. However, in the Hellers corpses were even more likely to be exposed to the kyorebni, SC 180. Comyn were normally buried in unmarked graves near Lake Hali; Marius Alton was an exception. Domenic Alton's burial is described, FT 195-96.
bush-jumper Undescribed animal species in the Hellers, so named from its gait, SC 136.
butterfly clasp Common type of hair clasp serving the same function as a Terran barrette, with the additional connotation of concealing the nape (q.v.) of the neck, for modesty's sake; all Darkovan women wear them except for unattached (un-freemated) Free Amazons, SC 97. See hair.
The type of clasp worn served as one index to origin, as workmanship differed locally. A poor woman's clasp would be of carven wood or leather; a commoner who could afford it would have one of silver or gilt. Magda Lome's was silver. Callista's was silver; her twin Ellemir's was gilt, both being of Carthon work (filigree) and studded with multi-colored gemstones, SS 46-47. A wealthier woman might wear one of copper; Lady Rohana's was copper with green gems, SC 100.

Cadet Guards, or commonly Cadets. Training cadre for City Guards, Castle Guards, Domain Guards, etc., recruited among 14-year-old sons of Comyn and other noble families, appointment being by commission, the training course being three years long (at least at the time of the Sharra Rebellion, and probably for generations earlier), the cadre limited to twelve cadets in each class.
Their first year was devoted to paramilitary studies, specifically military discipline, drills, parades, unarmed combat consisting of elements of martial arts, swordplay, and related matters, HH 94. Any superior in the Guards was entitled to take any cadet by surprise and throw him; this was part of training in watchfulness, HH23. Dyan Ardais had a reputation for being unnecessarily rough in this game;he had dislocated Lew Alton's elbow, HH 24, and battered Julian MacAran, HH 126-27; the better officers such as Lew Alton did not delight in others' pain.
We are not told anything specific about second or third year studies.
After graduation, Cadets were expected to take commissions in City Guards, Castle Guards, Domain Guards, etc., their service including such tasks as organizing supplies, supervising street patrols (comparable to ancient Terran Military Police), enforcing local laws and ordinances including but not restricted to curfews, etc., HH 22. They were later on call for any needed service to Comyn, e.g. bodyguards, parades, etc.
Training was at Guard Hall, on one of the lower levels of Comyn Castle, Thendara.
Kermiac of Aldaran regarded them as rather an anachronism, HH 214.
caduceus Long after the Sharra Rebellion, a red and blue caduceus was still used as an emblem of the TE Medical Service, though nobody remembered the meaning of the symbol, PS 5 (1),WW55 (59).
Caer Donn Village in the Hellers, at foot of High Kimbi, nine days' ride north of Thendara. Chosen by the Ter-rans at their second arrival as site of TE Headquarters and   first   spaceport,   SC  85,   though  later  on   Stefan
Hastur, Regent, offered (on favorable terms) a tract of flat land near Thendara as better adapted for their purposes. This induced the Terrans to move there; the decision was made at least partly because the terrain around Caer Donn precluded expanding spaceport operations or building roads, HH 14, 91. Caer Donn retained a TE settlement with a small Trade City, HH 86. Contraband weapons were openly worn there during the few months before the Sharra Rebellion, as the Aldarans did not enforce the Compact (q.v.). Before the town burned at the Sharra Rebellion, the Caer Donn area was a synthesis of Terran technology and Darkovan styles, with good roads, HH 165-66, wide city streets, houses with fruit trees and greenhouses, roofs with prismatic solar energy collectors, a waterfall servicing a hydroelectric plant; virtually a model city, HH 201. The TE spaceport was still operational and adjoined an airstrip used by both TE people and the Aldarans, HH 166. Despite removal of main TE operations to Thendara, Caer Donn enlarged over generations from a tiny village into a considerable city. It was burned to the ground in the Sharra Rebellion, but rebuilt by TE in ensuing months.
Magda Lome was born there, as was Peter Haldane, SC 95-96, 176-77, 198.
The name is ultimately of Terran (Gaelic) origin via mountain dialect; Caer = castle, Donn = having to do with Dana or Danu. This may even have been the original name of Castle Aldaran, especially as Hellers dialect retained more of Gaelic than did other Darkovan tongues.
Cahuenga 1. A mountain range, notoriously inhabited by bandits and other riffraff. 2. Anyone from the area. 3. The language of that area, allied with other mountain dialects and with Terran Gaelic, HH 84, 175. 4. A simplified pan-Darkovan lingua franca, basically a patois of casta without most of the grammatical distinctions (let alone those of mode and inflection), HH 84; the simplest form was "spaceport cahuenga," mostly used with off-worlders, SD 24, 61 ff. Cf. SC 99, WD 93 (121), 167, HH 139, WW 87-88 (97). This was the only Darkovan language most Terrans ever attempted to learn; Larry Montray spoke it and casta. It was not generally used by Comyn except to outsiders who did not understand casta, BS 71-72. It retained elements of three ancient Terran tongues (English, Spanish and Gaelic), the last-named from the mountain dialects, HH 175. "Nobody speaks cahuenga well" was a common saying. 5. In derogatory mode and personal inflection, a vulgar epithet, used by Lew Alton of Dyan Ardais, SA 8 (5); there it compared Dyan to mountain bandits.
Directly from Terran place-name Cahuenga, a mountain in California; the name is in the Terran Gabrielino Shoshonean language, and is thought to allude to a resemblance between some part of the Darkovan mountains and their Terran counterpart.
Caillean Common female name in the Hellers; a woman so named lived near Aldaran, HH 315. Possibly cognate with the name Callina, like the next two entries. From Terran (Gael.) cailin "girl."
Caitlia Wife to Loran Syrtis (q.v.); bore him daughters; attended Midwinter Festival at Armida around the time of
the Forbidden Tower scandal, FT 236.
Caitlin Wife di catenas to Kennard Alton, no children, HH 46. The marriage was arranged without consulting either of them; they lived in "perfect indifference."
cakes A common type sold in Old Thendara outdoor food-stalls had a crisp exterior produced by frying in boiling vegetable (?) oil, to be eaten hot; cost two sekals apiece, and delicious to Terran and native tastes alike. Roughly analogous to Terran doughnuts except for shape (twists, not toruses), SD 23.
calendars The Darkovan year of 389 days (each of 28 Terran hours) divides into 38 "tendays" + 9 festival days. Neither the archaic Terran seven-day week nor the Terran month is in use. A cuere (q.v.) is 48 Darkovan years (a cycle about equal to the interval between successive clusters of close quadruple conjunctions of the four moons). It was also the frequency of peaks of outbreaks of Trailmen's Fever epidemics, PS 9 (6).
TE personnel used the TE standard calendar arbitrarily, without reference to local seasonal cycles on any TE planet, for pay records and convenience of TE personnel who might be transferred offworld at any time. In WW 9 (5) and BS 12 are mentioned the standard TE year and month, but the equivalents in seconds or other units are not given. The standard TE year is also called "Empire Record type year," suggesting a length either of the Terran year or of that on whichever planet houses TE central admistrative offices.
CALLINA LINDIR, Domna AILLARD, Comynara Keeper at Neskaya Tower before the Sharra Rebellion, HH 85, 109, 284. As the direct Aillard Line was extinct, she (a close relative) became Lady Aillard. Lew Alton described her as "very slight, with solemn features." She had six fingers, as usual with Aillards, SA 126 (141). Half sister to Linnell (q.v.), kinswoman to Lew, HH 109, SA 28 (27). At or shortly before the Sharra Rebellion she became Keeper at Arilinn, HH 364, and "opened the Hidden City" to Lew and the dying Marjorie when they teleported there. Later overshadowed by Ashara. Lew saw her at Comyn Council: "She had been a girl, quiet, colorless. Now ... a woman and beautiful . . . with fair fragile features," SA 28 (27). He was in love with either her or Dio in her image: it is never certain which—one of the many ambiguities in SA. The Council arranged a political marriage for her with Beltran of Aldaran despite her Keeper status. She died in the aftermath of the final battle between Sharra and Aldones.
The name is accented on the first syllable. Casta, probably from Terran (Gael.) cailin "girl," Eng. colleen. A similar form, spelled Callina but pronounced differently, was in use in Roman Britain.
CALLISTA LANART-ALTON Daughter of Dom Esteban Lanart, Lord Alton; twin sister (sororal, not identical?) to Ellemir (q.v.), SS 17; older sister of Valdir (q.v.). Red hair. Possessed the Alton Gift, SS 115, including precog-nitive flashes, FT 244. At Arilinn from age 13, SS 14, FT 9,24, became Keeper; was to become Leonie Hastur's successor as Keeper, SS 23. Kidnapped, age 20, by cat-men, to prevent her use against the Great Cat (q.v.) and his illegal matrix, and imprisoned in the Corresanti caves, from where, despite being mysteriously barred from her
usual levels of the Overworld (q.v.), she managed to contact the Terran Andrew Carr (q.v.)- Andrew eventually rescued her in concert with Damon Ridenow (q.v.). at the climax of the Catmen's War (q.v.); she later married Andrew in a freemate ceremony, FT 62.
She was a trained singer, FT 62-63, 86-87; played the harp (rryl), FT 77, 86-87, and taught Dom Esteban, FT 264. She had taught Desiderio to monitor, FT 306. Gabriel Ardais wanted to marry her off to his son Kyril, FT 338, when it was learned that her marriage was un-consummated, FT 332. It was consummated in four-way rapport under kireseth, FT 341-51. She was tried, FT 332, for her role in the Forbidden Tower, FT 331-36, and was victorious in the ordeal combat between her circle and Arilinn Tower, FT 352-60. Her daughter may have been fathered by either Damon or Andrew; she did not wish to know which, FT 350.
The name is from Terran (ancient Greek) meaning "most beautiful." Diminutive: Callie, FT 31.
call-over Traditional ceremony at first day of Cadet Guards training season consisting of: 1. loyalty oath to each Guardsman singly; 2. statement from each officer of how many men he could muster, trained, armed, and outfitted; 3. formal rollcall of the three classes of Cadets, with suitable speeches, HH 57ff.
cameras An expensive Terran import, used almost exclusively by TE personnel, SD 50. Possibly native ones could have been constructed later; Dan Barron had taught the elements of lens-grinding to the Altons, and presumably enough was known of organic chemistry for synthesis of films and emulsions. Certainly silver was plentiful enough for negatives, as was paper from Ardais mills.
CAMERON, MARCIA XXI Century Terran, one of the original DL group. She was trying to develop an anti-chapping cream from local ingredients, DL 135. It is not recorded whether she succeeded.
Camilla Commonest female given name in the Kilghard Hills, HH 176. The eponym was believed to be the woman of the next entry, but is now known to be her of the next but one.
Camilla Tragic heroine of the "Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda," whose place she took in Hastur's arms when they were attacked by Alar. She passed into a "realm of shadows," so that Cassilda could bear the Son of Hastur: thus a martyr figure, a sort of archetype of devotion, a tanist or fey twin (see commentary of the Ballad). The "Sorrows of Camilla" became a byword. She was regarded as a demigoddess, HH 176, WD 70 (90), FT 115. The historical basis, if any, is unknown.
CAMILLA DEL REY XXI Century. Lieutenant and First Officer oh the starship which made the original crash landing on Cottman IV, later called Darkover, DL 7, lOff, HH 176. etc. Place of birth not stated, but she was brought up on Alpha Colony, and her native language was Terran Spanish, DL 48. Tall, slender, dark haired. She was trained as an astrogator/navigator, joining Space-force at 15, DL 114, deputizing for Captain Harry Leicester. She became involved with Rafe Mac Aran (q.v.) during the first Ghost Wind, and found herself pregnant

with his child, DL 81, which she wished to abort. DL 114, a process forbidden by colony regulations because of the difficulty of bearing enough children in early years of any colony, DL 111. During one Ghost Wind Rafe and Capt. Leicester fought over her; she later resigned herself to living with Rafe because of his need of her, though she deeply loved Leicester. She worked in a weather station near New Skye, bearing many children, by various fathers, seven of whom survived, DL 159-60.
Name is Terran, ultimately archaic Latin, "unblemished maiden, fit for sacred rites."
Camilla Lanart Youngest sister of Dom Esteban-. mother of Damon Ridenow, FT 300.
CAMILLA N'HA KYRIA Free Amazon. Neutered, SA 24, 134; mercenary soldier, scarred from knife fights, middle aged. She was a member of Kindra's group for thirty years, SC 151, and went on the Shainsa expedition to rescue Melore (q.v.). From a family of small farmers in the Kilghard Hills; mother's name was Kyria Lindir. She later witnessed Magdelen Lome's Oath (see MAGDA). Good fighter, carried a razor-sharp knife, had a macabre sense of humor, SC 141.
candles A common type, devised by the DL people, was made from slow-burning tree resins, DL 78.
Capella IX TE planet. Contained a hospital, where Conner once had been, and where he learned about the poltergeist factor, WW 83 (91).
CARADOC Guardsman in service of Dom Esteban at time of the Catmen's War. He rode with his bredu Eduin (q.v.), taking the catman's stroke meant for Eduin, a wound in calf and upper thigh, healed by Damon Ridenow using a matrix, SS 84ff, FT 81.
He discovered Andrew Carr near death in a snowdrift, FT 144.
Heavy brown beard, heavyset.
The name is Terran (ancient Welsh) fr. caredig "beloved" fr. caro "love"; in a XX Cent. Welsh Caradawg. II Ir. Carthac(h), Eng Craddock.
Carcosa Village across the Kilghard Hills from Armida; site of Castle Hastur. The name is also given to the surrounding district, BS 108.
The name is casta (adjective in form) fr. Caer "castle, fortress" + cogag "crevice" (small valley). It is coinci-dentally found in an archaic Terran fantasy poem about a planet of a twin-sun system, ascribed to one Robert W. Chambers.
card games Common tavern pastime among Guardsmen and Cadets, HH 100. Not described. Probably the games and possibly the cards were Terran imports, though cards could be made locally by Ardais paper mills.
Cargill Terran family name. One of this family grew up in Caer Donn, like Magdalen Lome, SC 109. Cf. the Race Cargill of Door Through Space.
carlo In casta, a term of endearment. Danilo addresses Regis by this term, WW 15 (13); as they were sworn bredin and lovers, this was doubtless in the intimate inflection and mode.
Also spelled caryo. Feminine form would be carta. Probably from Terran (Sp.) caro, cara, "dear, precious, costly," influenced by Gaelic caraich "friend, relative" (male), CG.
CARRHO Trailman of North Nest, first to meet Jason Allison and his party at Trailcity, PS 65-66 (71-72).
Carrial Ridge Site of a forest fire set by Worldwreckers' hired thugs, WW 36-37 (38), probably in the Kilghard Hills.
The casta name may derive ultimately from Terran (Sp.) carril, "furrow."
Carthon 1. Village on the Bay of Dreams, site of the castle of Robardin, Lord of Carthon, legendary nobleman of extreme antiquity; according to legend, quoted by the chieri Narad-zinie, SD 157, Robardin met the chieri Kierestelli (q.v.) by the wells of Reuel (wherever they may have been), wooed and won her, and their union resulted in a son, after whose birth she died; from this son, the first Hastur, and his wife Cassilda, were descended all the Cornyn families. This differs from the version in the 'Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda," below, p. 142, which makes Hastur the son of Aldones, and Cassilda the daughter of Robardin. The castle was engulfed in the Bay of Dreams, WW 152(171).
2. Village of extreme antiquity, possibly named after the foregoing, located on the plain at the bend of the River Kadarin, near the foothills of the Hellers, about a ten day ride from Shainsa, SC 15, 57, 80, WD 34 (41-42), 88 (115). An important crossroads site, suitable for rendezvous or for outfitting expeditions. It was allegedly over 5,000 years old at the time when Jason Allison's expedition into Trailmen's lands assembled personnel and supplies there, PS 26-33 (25-33). This ascribed antiquity may mean that it was the site of one of the original daughter colonies (along with Neskaya, q.v.) settled by DL Terrans.
Butterfly clasps (q.v.) and other metalwork from Carthon were notable for filigree technique, which suggests that the casta name may derive from Terran (Sp.) carton, "filigree ironwork in leaf shape."
East of Carthon, copper rings passed as money, SC 15.
At the time of the siege of Storn Castle, some years after the Shainsa rescue expedition, the River Kadarin changed its course, which destroyed the fertility of nearby lands, killed trees, and rendered the district unfit for human habitation. After the valley folk deserted the area, WD 51 (64), several Dry Town lords moved there and set up Great Houses. As a result nobody could move freely in Carthon without leave of one Lord Rannath, WD 91, 93 (120-23). Dry Towns customs prevailed, so that all women had to have masters, WD 95 (125) and wear Dry Towns chains. These changes had gone on without the Storns becoming aware of them; nevertheless, they had to brave them out, as Carthon was where Dan Barron (overshadowed by Storn of Storn) was to meet Melitta in search of military aid against Brynat Scarface, WD 88ff (115ff).
Evidently the river was induced to return to its original course and the Dry Towners were either expelled or left of their own accord, probably the former, as Carthon was once again flourishing and without Dry Town rulers during the later years of Danvan Hastur's regency and after his death; otherwise Jason Allison could not have outfitted an expedition from there.
See BRYNAT, KIERESTELLI, STORN. Cassilda Female given name common throughout the Domains. Sometimes spelled Cassilde, or the final vowel sometimes elided in spoken language. Though the name is known in Terran Spain, the traditional eponym appears to be she of the next entry. Cassilda Legendary ancestor of the Comyn, WW 153, 175), SD 96, SC 79-80, etc.; protagonist of the "Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda," below, p. 142. Among her many titles and epithets: Cassilda the Blessed, or Blessed Cassilda; Mother of the Seven Domains, SC 32, 22 82; Robardin's Daughter, SC 79, WD 70 (90); Mother of Seveners, FT 284; Lady of the Domains, FT 340, etc. She was referred to as Regis Hastur's "hundred times great grandmother," WW 32 (33). Cyrillon spoke of the Comyn as "the cursed race of Cassild'," SD 96.
Legend has it that she was a chieri and emmasca, becoming woman for the love of Hastur, to bear his son, FT 108. See the commentaries to the Ballad.
Midsummer Festival Night is thought to be either Cassilda's birthday or the anniversary of the day when she found Hastur, or both.
In commemoration of the gifts of Cassilda and Camilla to Hastur, gifts of fruit and flowers are ceremonially presented to the women of Comyn families (and others) at this time, HH 105.
In chapel paintings Cassilda is represented as offering a kireseth flower to Hastur, FT 292. This circumstance led to Damon's rediscovery of the true nature of the Year's End Festival and its sacrament (qq.v.).
Pregnant women leave crimson flowers at Cassilda's shrine on discovering their condition, FT 244. CASSILDA LANART-HASTUR Wife of Danvan Hastur. Named co-custodian of Ellemir at the trial of the Forbidden Tower circle, FT 332. CASSILDE AILLARD Wife of Jeff Kerwin Sr., mother of "Auster Ridenow" and "Ragan." She had fled six years before from Arilinn Tower and remained in hiding ever
since; found and murdered by fanatics along with her kinswoman Cleindori Aillard and Arnad Ridenow. "Aus-ter" and Cleindori's child, given the name of "Jeff Kerwin Jr.", were raised at the Spacemen's Orphanage; "Ragan" was fostered elsewhere, BS 171-76. casta Name of the oldest Darkovan language. This developed out of English, Spanish, and Gaelic languages used among the later descendants of the DL colonists, HH 175; cf. SD 7. It diverged during the ensuing centuries into various local dialects, which eventually became separate languages (see Darkovan Languages and Languages). The chieri spoke an archaic form, WW 49 (52), intelligible only with difficulty even by the Comyn, who in turn spoke a form retaining the forms of address, grammatical complications, modes, and inflections dropped from mountain cahuenga, spaceport cahuenga, etc., SC 14, WW 51 (54). It was understood in the Hellers, though the Hellers language retained so much Gaelic as to be unintelligible elsewhere, and the Hellers version of casta could be understood only with some difficulty. Described as "scholarly," WW 87 (97); the official language of protocol, SC 108, HH 85, 139; that in which concepts of laran sciences are formulated, BS 72.
Both "Jeff Kerwin Jr.", BS 25, and Magda Lome spoke it, the latter with the accent of the Hellers, SC 100, because she had been raised with local children in Caer Donn.
The   name   is   either   from   Terran   (Ital.)  meaning "pure" or Terran (Sp.) meaning "lineage." Castamir Family  of minor  nobility,  some members in Kilghard Hills; of high enough rank that some married into the Comyn.
The name (accented on first and last syllables) is casta and means approximately "having the look of the clain," i.e. the Comyn; its resemblance to a given name (the Usurper of Gondor) in archaic Terran legend is coincidence. See also Crystal, Hilary, Melora, Ruyven. Castle Guard Detachment of the City Guard quartered at, and on duty at, Comyn Castle; sometimes, by extension, the Thendara City Guard generally. Kermiac referred to them in the latter sense as "a police force to keep drunks off the streets," HH 214. There have been Castle Guards since over 300 years before the Sharra Rebellion. castles A board game, vaguely analogous to chess or cam-beluk; each side's pawns and a dragon are scattered onto the board, but can move from initial position by certain rules." Loss of the dragon implies loss of the game, FT 132,214. Castles  Locations of the following are recorded:
Aldaran—zt foot of High Kimbi, at end of Caer Donn valley, near the village of Caer Donn in the Hellers; site of an ancient bandit forst and probably included the original buildings but later expanded; most probably the village was named after it, as the name Caer Donn (q.v.) means "castle of the people of Danu." It is of stone and illuminated by Terran arc lights powered by the nearby waterfall. Aillard--near the saltmarsh areas at the bend of the River Valeron; cobblestone. Very rambling in construction, therefore probably expanded over centuries. Its name
is not recorded, but may have been Valeron (q.v.).
Alton— none; their Great House is at Armida, in the Kilghard Hills; rambling, mostly built around two courtyards ("Manor Court" and "Stable Court"); some of its most ancient walls were built of sun-dried adobe bricks; mostly two-story buildings in archaic style. Later buildings are of blue-gray stone with "wide spaces of translucence in the stone walls," WD 51 (64). See Armida. The name means "The Fortified One."
Ardais—at Ardais village in the Hellers, near the Kadarin; three days' ride beyond Scaravel Pass, beyond Sain Scarp. One of the more ancient; not very large; remains in good repair; looks to all compass points. Bears the family name.
Comyn— in Old Thendara; built by Altons centuries before Danvan Hastur's Regency, probably during the Ages of Chaos. See separate entry.
Elhalyn—not far from Thendara, no other details; said to be constructed of marble, and much more recent than Comyn Castle. As the family name was formerly Hastur of Elhalyn (distinct from Hastur of Hastur), Elhalyn probably means "worshippers at Hali," the castle appears to have been named after the family and to overlook the district of Hali. As the Elhalyn are the royal line, most likely the castle was at one time used for ceremonial purposes; with the extinction of first Elhalyn power (under successive Regencies) and later the direct line, this use became obsolete under Regis's Telepath Council (after WW).
Hastur—sx or near the village of Carcosa, across the Kilghard Hills from Armida, but further south, within sight of the mountains enroute to Dalereuth. It has been described as "an ancient brooding brown fortress, austere and cold . . . not wholly devoid of modern comforts . . . scorn(s) the present ... to live in the past; the ancient chapel, the stone stairways worn uneven by thousands of years, and arched windows peering through foot-thick walls, recall the days when the Hasturs were mighty battle-lords."
Ridenow—it Serrais in the Plains of Valeron (upland plateau), actually a Great House rather than a castle, somewhat similar to Armida but newer; called Serre in the local dialect, meaning approximately "guard" or "stand watch."
Sain Scarp—in the Hellers, beyond Scaravel Pass, about three days' ride short of Ardais on the road from Thendara; see separate entry. This was long occupied by bandits, notably Rumal di Scarp (q.v.).
Storn— within Aldaran Domain, in the Hellers; not too different from Castle Aldaran though smaller; called by a mountain (Hellers) dialect name transl. as "High Windward"; notable for its royal suite, kept for Hastur visitors, and for its Sunrise Tower (q.v.), WD passim.
Unnamed—known only as Cyrillon's Forst, immense, built of local rock, located somewhere in the badlands across the Kadarin from the boundaries of the Alton Domain. It was destroyed by Valdir Alton and a group of other Comyn in their campaign against Cyrillon des Trailles, most probably (as usual in Darkovan custom) Cyrillon being hanged from its walls.
Other similar forsts (q.v.) doubtless existed and may still exist in the unmapped regions, especially in the mountain ranges.
castrati Castrated boys or young men were formerly trained as Keepers, FT 223; obsolete before Varzil's time, FT 251.
cat Slang term for an adult male of lonely and predatory lifestyle, WW 174 (198), where applied to Rondo (q.v.) by one of "Andrea Closson's" spies. Similar terms have been in use in TE for centuries, always with the same basic metaphor; evidently animals of similar proclivities abound in many TE planets, some sapient (see Catmen).
Cataclysm Whatever destroyed Hali Lake during the Ages of Chaos; Varzil (q.v.), restored Hali, FT 251.
catalyst telepath One with the capacity of awakening latent ESP or psi ability of any kind (including laran) by touch. On Darkover this was known as the Ardais Gift, but it was long thought extinct. However, Danilo Syrtis had it, and Regis Hastur discovered the fact when a touch from Danilo awakened his own long dormant laran, HH 35ff. SeeALIDA and DANILO.
The capacity is recorded among ancient Terrans. Georgi Gurdjieff had it; among those he is known to have awakened was Piotr Demyanovich Uspensky, who testified  in  print to  the event.  The notorious  "Guru
.- Maharaj Ji" is reputed to have had it though the awakening he provided was temporary.
catamite! Translation of a cahuenga epithet, highly derogatory, hurled at Regis Hastur by fellow cadets, for con-
--■ sorting with Dyan Ardais (q.v.). Dyan was unpopular, and the idea that Regis might have taken him for a lover was insulting, though in general homosexual liaisons carried no stigma. The implication here was that nobody could possibly have any interest in Dyan except to curry favor by giving him sexual satisfaction, HH 152.
However, Dom Felix Syrtis later used an objurgation to Regis "next to which catamite was a courtly compliment," HH 224. (Cagavrezu = coprophiliac (?).)
catenas Twin bracelets affixed to both parties in a betrothal under the ancient rituals, said betrothal to be followed later by wedding (.see marriage di catenas) after which divorce was all but impossible. Lady Rohana wore hers, as did Gabriel Ardais and other Comyn, much as ancient Terrans wore wedding rings. Callista scornfully compared them to Dry Town women's chains, FT 56. Danvan Hastur put them on Callina Aillard and Beltran of Aldaran, but the betrothal was interrupted by Dyan and Kadarin, whereupon Beltran fled, not to return, SA 113 (125).
From Terran (Sp.) cadenas "bonds," from Latin catenae "chains"; the -as singular form, as in donas, refers to a symmetric pair as a unit (CG).
cat-hags Females of the catmen species; see below. Extremely cruel, SS 137.
CATHAL LlNDIR Boy, age-mate and cousin to Domenic Lanart-Alton (q.v.), swore the oath of bredin with him, FT 268, 283-84, 290; felled him with a wooden practice sword, FT 283-289-90, whereupon Desiderio, under pretense of attending Domenic, killed him by removing his matrix, FT 291-92, 306. Cathal was Domenic's paxman,
FT 287, 291. Dom Esteban loved him enough to want to give him Ellemir as wife, FT 338. catmen Intelligent nonhumans, probably sapient or I.B.'s (q.v.). Cat-faced, green eyed, nocturnal, with sharp fangs; furred with black ear tufts; sharp claws (retract-ability is not recorded); opposable thumbs; secrete musky odors, which horses find intolerable, SS 130,137, this trait shared with cat-like predators on many planets, either as territorial signals or as sexual signals, or both. They can grin, but what emotion (if any) this grimace conveys is unknown. They have no sexual interest in humans, SS 37—nor vice versa (even in Ghost Winds?). Nobody "since Varzil's day" (q.v.) knew anything much about them, except possibly in the Dry Towns—this accounts for great divergence of opinion planetwide as to their intelligence, SS 41. However, as they use metal tools, either of their own manufacture or adapted by them from those obtained by trade from Dry Towns, their sapience is reasonably likely, WD 68 (87). Presumably they learned to speak Dry Towns cahuenga or Dry Towns dialect for trade purposes.
War between them and the Ridenows and other human neighbors during the year before SS—the first half of the Catmen's War—forced some humans to resettle in Alton lands, SS 16.
Catmen and cat-hags torment victims, burn what they cannot use, and leave what they cannot kill outright to die. Their ferocious life style has been imitated by the Dry Towhers, who believe that their own life style contains many features derived from catmen, including (though, alas, not limited to) the elaborate code of kihar (q.v.), WD 68 (87).
Similar species have been reported on other TE planets. It is possible that the Mekhar people of Hunters of the Red Moon are either Darkovan catmen or members of a similar species, as the elaborate code of honor among them closely resembles kihar.
See following entry; also Great Cat. Catmen's War About seventy years before the Sharra Rebellion, during the Regency of Lorill Hastur, while Leonie Hastur was still Keeper at Arilinn, war broke out on the fringes of the Alton and Ridenow Domains between catmen and humans, original cause unknown. Some residents of these lands were forced to resettle in the Alton Domain farther from the borders, SS 16. After the catmen were driven back, the war was thought to be at an end, but one of the catmen leaders, name unknown, generally called afterwards "the Great Cat," somehow obtained a very large unkeyed matrix (possibly one of the matrix weapons dating back to the Ages of Chaos, like the Sharra Matrix, q.v.), and learned to wield it, working havoc with the local ecology, rendering his own warriors invisible, and so on. In order to prevent other matrixes from being used against him, and possibly to learn more about how to wield this one, the Great Cat had some of his people kidnap the Keeper Callista Lanart-Alton (q.v.), which act resumed and escalated the war throughout the Kilghard Hills, climaxed eventually by the battle in the caves of Corresanti (q.v.); the full story is told in SS, passim, cattle Probably Terran imports, originally; used for dairy
purposes and to a limited extent also for beef. They were kept sometimes in wooden stanchions, nailed together with wooden pegs—a technique most likely devised by the long-forgotten New Hebrides Commune, SS 31-32.
caves Found in various mountain areas. Moray ordered Rafael MacAran to search for caves (for shelter) during a geological survey of areas near the DL site, near the equator, DL 108. Some were found, and later exploration disclosed that few yielded the blue crystals later known as matrix crystals (q.v.); this discovery dates to the second generation of colonists, DL 159.
During the ensuing centuries, the Comyn families kept secret the location of the caves containing matrix crystals, lest untrained persons obtain them and cause large-scale ecological damage (see Catmen's War; Great Cat).
The most famous caves on the planet were those in the vicinity of Corresanti, in the Kilghard Hills, SS 134ff. Long before the Catmen's War, they had been used as shelter against the severest winters, when snow lay so deep that neither man nor animal could survive. Later, they were used for storage of food, for cultivation of mushrooms, for aging wines and cheeses, and similar purposes.
Central Coordinating Building Part of the TE Headquarters complex in Terran Zone, Thendara. At the time of the Catmen's War (q.v.), it was one of the very few TE buildings using the native translucent stone for any part of its walls, WD 7 (3). It was probably the site of the Coordinator's Offices until Darkover was assigned a TE Legate, and then used for other offices.
cepheid variables A type of stars (pulsating variables, periodically expanding and contracting), used in XX and XXI Century Terran astronomy for location markers, and particularly for estimating the distance of clusters or galaxies. They have short periods, generally within the range of 4 to 20 TE days, rarely more; they are bluer at maximum brightness than at minimum, the color change often very marked and indicating a total change in spectral pattern. The mathematical relationship between absolute brightness (luminosity) and length of period is consistently reliable, so that comparison of length of period and apparent brightness enables gauging distance of the cluster or galaxy in which they are located, DL 46. They are still used by TE astronomy and astrogation for the same purposes. None are known to have planets suitable for exploration or containing native life.
cerberum drives Fuel or propulsion systems used in TE aircraft on Darkover, during generations up to the Sharra Rebellion, in the absence of available hydrocarbons, BS 71.
chains In the Dry Towns and lands under their control, women were regarded as men's property in the same sense as pack-animals or garments. The badge of such slavery was chains, which reached from left wrist to right wrist via a belt so that when one hand was outstretched for use the other was drawn up to the belt, SC 16. This custom was imposed in Carthon during the Dry Towners' occupation, WD 95 (125). A woman unchained was  automatically  considered  to  be a prostitute and
treated as such (i.e. for the taking), deprived of the few legal protections respectable women had in that culture; for which reason Free Amazons were treated as prostitutes, SC 16.
Chains were affixed at age 12 or 13, most likely at either first menstruation or first obvious development of breasts, SC 19, 56. Their length was variable, depending on the master's leniency (shortening a woman's chains was punitive); they were sometimes allowed to be removed at night (requiring them to be worn continuously was also punitive). Their nature varied to some extent with the master; Melora's were jeweled, SC 26.
Kindra told Jaelle that it is better to wear chains than to believe oneself free and wear invisible chains (i.e. some types of social obligations), SC 286—a basic theme among Free Amazons.
Lady Rohana ultimately came to compare her own catenas (q.v.) to Dry Towns chains, SC 270-71; Callista Lanart scornfully made the same comparison, FT 56.
chaireth (casta, cahuenga) "stranger." So identifying an individual meant that any breach of custom on his part was to be taken as without intended offense, WD 29 (35). The Dry Towns dialect form was charrat, WD 91-93 (120, 123-24). From Terran (Gael.) coigreach "stranger." (CG) Or possibly Sp. charrada "action of a clown," charro, type of provincial village' chagra "uncivilized."
Change Among the chieri, the massive hormonal alterations inducing shift from emmasca (neuter) to either male or female phase, or from male to female or vice versa. A common side effect is extreme temporary instability amounting to psychosis; this is accentuated during the Ghost Winds (q.v.), and is commonly known as Madness of the Change (q.v.). See chieri, WW 161 183).
channels Paths of energy flow between neighboring centers (vortices or chakras), HH 331-35, FT 124-25. They are visible to clairvoyant sight and can be made visible even to those not possessing laran by use of a matrix crystal. Standard diagrams in TE texts on yoga show the accurate locations. Two major channels lie along the spinal column (the Ida and Pingala), winding around it in the so-called serpent paths. The major centers or chakras are near genitals and anus, solar plexus, heart, throat, brow, and atop the head; they are normally closed, but when fully opened and energized they enable various types of manifestations of psi ability (the siddhis) comparable to laran. The channels cam' sexual energy flow as well as psychic energies. See energons, Keeper, laran, threshold sickness.
Clearing the channels, HH 332, 335, is one of a number of healing techniques. In those with laran it is conducive to removing blocks to use of the gift. When done to a Keeper whose conditioning is not total, this can be very painful, especially without kirian, FT 161-64. Kire-seth works immediately, FT 251-52, 274-77, 329-30, 340-41,345-50.
chapels At Armida, FT 233-35; at Edelweiss, HH 234-35; at Comyn Castle, FT 289. All contain altars on which fire can be kindled; all contain paintings of the Four (q.v.) and of Hastur, Cassilda, and Camilla, FT 234, 271, 285, 289, 292-93.
charrat (Dry Towns dialect) "stranger" = chaireth (q.v.) in casta, WD 92 (123).
Charter of the Guild of Free Amazons A document kept at Nevarsin Monastery (q.v.) "since Varzil's day" (probably some centuries ago), SC 157, recognized throughout the Domains as having the force of law; it legitimized the Guild as an honorable alternative to the ancient sexist forms of marriage.
Among other provisions, it forbids Free Amazons to wear swords, SC 214, though permitting them any and all types of work which would be legal for men; it requires a tithe of each Free Amazon's earnings to be paid to the Guild, SC 276, in return for which she has an automatic home in any Guild House in any city where she happens to be at the time; it permits a Free Amazon's daughters to be fostered in the Guild House, whereas her sons over age 5 must be turned over to their fathers or other suitable persons for fosterage (q.v.). It contains the same key provisions found in the Oath, below, p. 146, specifically those forbidding allegiance to any family, clan, household, warden or liege lord, such allegiance being lawfully due only to one's oath-mother, Guild sisters, and employer for the term of one's employment. See Free Amazons; Guild; Guild Houses.
chastity As the channels (q.v.) in the lower part of the body alternatively carry sexual impulses and psychic energies, they are subject to overload if they are used in high-level matrix work (as among Keepers) and in sexual activity at the same time; overload can be very dangerous for the individual. (A foretaste of this is found in threshold sickness, q.v.) In males, high-level matrix work has its own safety valve in impotence—but not in females. Since remote antiquity, high-level matrix work has thus required at least part-time celibacy for female Keepers; sometimes they were neutered to remove any possible temptation, FT 109, but that practice had become obsolete by Varzil's time, FT 251. (Leonie Hastur advocated reviving the practice, FT 224, 229.) Either late in the Ages of Chaos or not long after the Compact, the Year's End ritual went into desuetude, kireseth was outlawed and made taboo, FT 163, 277, keepers were required to be lifelong pledged virgins, and the subject became a superstition, then a taboo, outlasting any knowledge of its original rationale, BS 86, 124, 138-39, 159ff; SA 69 (75). Damon Ridenow learned from Varzil in Timesearch (q.v.) that it had not always been so, and that Keepers' problems in adjusting their channels to the demands of a normal sex life, when their terms were over, were routinely solved by the Year's End ritual (q.v.) with the "sacrament," which proved to be kireseth (q.v.). Damon applied this knowledge in the Forbidden Tower circle, FT 341-51. When she learned of this, Leonie Hastur wanted to die, since her old-fashioned training had ruined her own life and other Keepers' in vain, FT 358-59. Damon's daughter Cleindori (q.v.), whom he had trained, later went to Airlinn, qualified as Keeper, and used her supreme status as such to attempt to abolish the old superstition—for which she was assassinated, BS 171-76. However, Cleindori's successful functioning as a nonvirgin Keeper was remembered, and at other Towers in later decades before the Sharra Rebel-
lion, cautious experimentation confirmed that the old superstition could be safely ignored. This history was an object lesson in the making and unmaking of a taboo. A taboo is by definition a belief that must not be questioned, let alone doubted or challenged; but the courage to do all three in the light of factual knowledge will eventually abolish any taboo. See DAMON, Keepers, LEONIE, Mirella, sexual codes, virginity.
Chastity, Creed of See Creed.
cheese Now thought to have been made first by members of the New Hebrides Commune from milk of local mammals and/or animals imported on the spaceship, before the Terran Empire Big Ships imported cattle. There were numerous types and blends differing according to the types of mammalian milk sources. Corresanti caves (q.v.) were a favored place for aging cheeses, SS 134ff. Some Free Amazons sold cheese, SC 120, presumably in public foodstalls in every village big enough to have the latter.
Cherillys' Law "Everything in the universe has one and only one identical duplicate, except a matrix; two identical matrixes cannot exist in the same universe, and if they could, they would distort space-time. A matrix is the only unique thing in space-time, and thus, existing without any equilibrium point, is able to shift energy," SC 278, SA 51 (53), 86 (94). See KATHIE and ASHARA.
chi Interrogative pronoun "Who? What? How?", SA 117 (130), 161 (181).
chieri Aboriginal humanoids, extremely long-lived, phase-alternating functional hermaphrodites, taller than Terran humans, epicene, silver-haired, with nearly colorless grey eyes, with 6 functional fingers on each hand. For a detailed physical description, see KERAL. They have 46 chromosomes, like Terran (and therefore Darkovan) humans. Like many extremely long-lived species, their reproductive potiential was low—so low that by the time of the Regency of Danvan Hastur they were already an endangered species, so rare that the appearance of one would draw a crowd. Realizing that they were likely to become extinct (their fertility dwindled as the sun cooled, WW 89 (98), they developed space travel tens of thousands of years before the first known civilizations on Terra, traveled to many planets, attempted colonization, searched in vain for similar species with whom they would be cross-fertile, possibly impregnated man's ancestors, DL 100, found none to match or mate, and returned to Darkover, WW 95 (105). Even on their home planet, though they can be killed, they do not die of old age or "natural causes," and many live long beyond reproductive age without finding another of their kind in proper phase and emotional attunement. For which reason, chi en/human crosses were unlikely unless emotional attunement was present, WW 135 (151), most often during a Ghost Wind (q.v.) when human barriers to telepathy are down. Such crossings were the origin of the Comyn and these families' heritage of laran; "the Comyn powers are chieri powers," SD 157.
The shift from emmasca to male or female phase (see Change) was hormone-induced, took some hours to complete, and involved emotional instability (see Madness), WW 149 (168), 161.

They anciently functioned as Tower Keepers emmas-ca, FT 252.
Children of mixed humzn-chieri parentage were legendary. Damon Ridenow had heard of ancient tales of such, SS 42; Desideria told of more recent instances which Keral attributed to Madness of the Change (q.v.), though (s)he knew of the Comyn's chieri ancestry, having been in the area at the time, WW 153 (173-74)—as was Narad-zinie, SD 157, who remembered the original DL settlement.
They dance in ecstasy, WW 175 (100); and the mere proximity of one can cause susceptible humans to become ecstatic, e.g. Larry Montray, SD 152-53, and quite possibly Judith Lovat and others in DL. An unnamed chieri loved Judith Lovat during a Ghost Wind, made her pregnant, and gave her a matrix crystal, presumably foreseeing her posterity, DL 59, 92, 121.
Some colonists briefly used a chieri house, DL 142-43, which contained a loom. A more detailed descrition of a chieri dwelling is in SD 153-57. See also ANDREA, Kier-estelli, KERAL, "MISSY," NARAD-ZINIE, NARZAIN-YE KUI.
It has been theorized that half-remembered legends of the chieri sojourning on Terra may account for ancient tales of elves, fairies, the Tuatha de Danaan, and the Sidhe. Nor can we exclude the possibility that our own species was created by controlled hybridization between them and our lesser hominid ancestors.
The name is casta, of unknown origin and possibly a worn-down form of their own name for their kind; in casta, it is masculine and feminine, singular and plural, usually pronounced with ch as in Terran (Eng.) church, though in some dialects with ch as in choir.
There are various epithets commonly used about them, mostly of the same general type as "beautiful people" or "fair folk of the forest," whereas the Comyn, in actually addressing one, most likely will use some such honorific as "Child of Grace" (Shaya-i-Kihu) or "Child of Light." The term here translated as "child" is kihn (q.v.), carrying less the implication of immaturity than that of remoteness in time—of belonging to another generation than one's own. Child Christ A legendary Terran figure, compared by Father Valentine to Judith Lovat's ha\f-chieri child, DL 129. As Christ was long regarded as a god on Terra, possibly this comparison adumbrates later mythology about Aldones, Cassilda, Kierestelli, Hastur, etc. Child of Fire Epithet of Sharra (q.v.). Child of Grace Ancient honorific epithet for any chieri,
used by Kennard Alton to Narad-zinie, SD 154-55. Child of Light As preceding entry. Child of the Yellow Forest Translation of chieri name NARZAIN-YE KUI alias "Andrea Closson" (q.v.), WW ad fin.
chiya (casta, cahuenga) "girl, female child" orig.? fr. kihalla, dim. of kiha. Within the family, an endearment; outside, likely to be contemptuous, especially when applied to an adult, SC 144. For masculine counterpart see next entry.
Related to kiha (q.v.); more indirectly to kihar; in-
fluenced by Terran (Sp.) chica, "small" or "little girl.". The -ya possibly fr. Sp. -ilia, diminutive suffix.
chiyu (casta, cahuenga) "boy, male child, kid" orig. fr. ki-hillu, dim. of kihu. Within the family, an indearment, though a very informal term and sometimes ambiguous; outside the family, invariably contemptuous, especially when applied to an adult, SD 30, 88; HH 77. Feminine counterpart is preceding entry.
Related to kihu (q.v.); more indirectly to kihar; influenced by Terran (Sp.) chico, "small" or "little boy."
chi'zei?  (casta, cahuenga) "Who, me?" asked by Kattrie, overshadowed, feigning to be Linnell Aillard. chi = indefinite interrogative particle ' = elision zei = me, SA 117 (130) CG.
chi z'voyin qui? (casta, cahuenga?) informal, approximately "what's happening here?" "what is going on here?" Cf. preceding entry.
z'voyin = elided pronoun Zei "me" + form of verb "to go, to proceed" (?) (cf. Terran forms for "to go" be-binning with v) qui = here (cf. Terran (Sp.) aqui), SA 161 (181) CG.
Chosen One A female Trailman selected from the band of those-who-may-not-enter-cities (q.v.) to be mate to a male Trailman; this choice is indicated by her being crowned with red leaves, after which she is welcomed back into a Nest, PS 61 (65).
Christopher of Centaurus, Saint Known only by the order named after him belonging to the XXI Century Terran Reformed Catholic Church, presumably on Alpha Colony, Alpha Centauri. Father Valentine Neville (q.v.) belonged to it, DL 126. Later, during Father Valentine's penitential period, he decided not to attempt to preserve Terran Christianity in any form among the DL people. However, his followers erected Nevarsin Monastery ("St. Valentine-of-the-Snows") and were long afterwards known as cristoforos. See Valentine, Nevarsin, cristoforos.
cider Apple juice, fermented or unfermented. Regis Hastur preferred it to wine or beer, HH 146, 290. The best quality is made from Syrtis apples, though lower quality products and blends doubtless can still be had. It is often drunk hot with spices added, FT 211.
cigarettes Small tubes of thin paper or leaf containing chopped-up native herbs, which smell sweet and may possibly contain some kind of mildly psychotropic substance, analogous to archaic Terran smoking herbs (Nico-tiana sp.), PS 27.
Normally smoked only by women, sandal-wearers and Terrans, SA 52-53 (55). Jason Allison indulged in one, being secure enough not to care if someone thought him effeminate, PS 27.
circlets Ring-shaped hard candies, SC 61. Gwennis gave one to Jaelle during the escape from Shainsa. Probably available in open-air markets in any town. Like certain archaic Terran confections, probably come in a variety of flavors, though their principal ingredient is sugar derived from some native saccharifer analogous to Terran beets.
City Elders Thendara local authorities under the Comyn, SD 18. Also called City Masters.
City Guard Detachment of the Guards (q.v.) on duty as the Thendara police force, BS 55. That part of the City Guard on duty at Comyn Castle (except the Cadets) is known as Castle Guard (q.v.). All wear green uniforms, cross-belted, their leatherwork (including boots) black. Terran offenders and other offworlders are turned over to TE authorities, natives are dealt with by local law, HH 58.
City Masters Same as City Elders or Hierarchs. They keep, or did keep, a persona non grata list; "Jeff Kerwin Jr." was on it, BS 59. Presumably after he obtained a new identity as full Comyn this listing was deleted.
Civilian HQ Group of buildings in Trade City, Terran Zone, Thendara, including the nonmilitary TE authorities, comprising among others TE Legate's offices and the building formerly housing the Coordinator, as well as the TE Medical Services complex, PS 5 (1).
clasp see butterfly clasp.
classes of worlds Many are included in TE. Worlds can be Open or Closed, and within this major dichotomy are many subcategories.
An Open World is visitable by tourists and others without special permission from authorities within the planet. A Closed World does not afford this privilege.
A "Class A" open world is open for full exploitation, without restriction on number or type of spaceports, mining or export operations, travel within the planet or contact between natives and offworlders. Mechanized industries of all types, surface transit, and TE technology are available as needed. Such a world is part of the Empire in the sense that its citizens are probably automatic TE citizens, and that it is fully represented in Empire Senate. This status is awardable only by TE Senate.
A "Class B" open world is open for exploitation, including mining and export operations, though these can be done by limited groups of investors under some kind of supervision. Certain types of mechanized industries, surface transit, and TE technology are available as needed. Empire membership is as in Class A, apparently. This status is conferrable only by TE Senate.
A "Class C" world is not described—we do not know whether by this old classification system it was open or closed—but presumably there were more restrictions on exploitation, industry, mining, export operations, mechanical industry, surface transit, etc., than in either of the above classes, though fewer than the following.
A "Class D" closed world, WW 11 (8), such as Darkover, is covered by a Class D trade agreement, WW 7 (3), between TE and planetary authorities. This entitles the planet to construction of one or more spaceports for specified density of traffic flow (Thendara spaceport, the largest on Darkover, handled Type B traffic, by some special concessions—far over the norm for closed worlds). In addition, services for spaceport personnel, Mapping and Exploration Division services, Medical Exchange services, and clearly defined Trade Zones are granted. However, TE personnel may not settle in native areas, and their travel and infiltration therein are restricted; imports are monitored (with many types of goods being automatical-
ly contraband and others permitted only after approval by planetary authorities). No mechanized industry, no surface transit, no mining, no continuous input or outflow of exportable or importable goods or services. TE representation is limited; TE citizenship is not automatic. Additional classes doubtless exist according to type of native population and existence of trade agreements, if any, with TE representatives.
The phrase "Class B closed planet," SC 109, is a typographical error for Class D.
claustrophobia On Darkover, as on other frontier planets, this condition is not regarded as abnormal, SA 15-16 (12-13).
Cletn Doree "Golden Bell"-see next entry, BS 30, 52, 171.
CLEINDORIAILLARD (accents first and last syllables; and last syllable) Daughter of Jaelle n'ha Melora by Damon Ridenow (qq.v.); bore the name Aillard since any child not born of catenas marriage is nedestra (qq.v.) and bears the mother's family name; Jaelle herself was nedstra and would have retained the Aillard name (from her mother) had she not become a Free Amazon. Foster-daughter of Valdir, and foster-sister of Kennard Alton, HH 280, WD 52 (65), later Keeper at Arilinn; sought to introduce the new "matrix mechanics" techniques to supersede the ancient training methods for Keepers at Arilinn, particularly protesting the laws of strict virginity, HH 30. She finally left Arilinn Tower with co-conspirators Arnad Ridenow and Cassilde Aillard, attempting to work with "forbidden tower" techniques. She married Arnad and without losing her powers she bore him a son known as "Jeff Kerwin Jr." Her story is told in BS and forms the secondary plot. She was "horribly murdered by fanatics who felt a Keeper's virginity was more important than her competence," HH 109, 280, BS 69, 171-76, WW 18 (17).
Lew Alton referred to her as the last of the Keepers trained in the old cloistered virginal tradition, HH 108. She is now venerated among matrix technicians, and especially Keepers, as having freed them from the heavy burden laid on earlier Keepers.
Like many comynari, she could play the rryl, WD 52 (65).
Her name means "Golden Bell" (q.v.), don from doree = "golden" or "gilded," clein onomatopoeic for a bell-stroke: cf. Terran (Eng.) clink, clang. (Gael.) cluigin.
cloak of illusion Some kind of matrix-actuated covering or field which bent light around its wearer enabling him to pass unseen as though transparent, WD 39 (48). The effect could be duplicated by some earlier Keepers without need of any special fabric; Elorie Ardais did this for "Jeff Kerwin Jr ," BS 159-61: see glamour.
cloaks Common exterior garment, of different types according to locality. Leather is favored in parts of the Hellers near Aldaran, HH 270, probably because effective against wind-driven sleet. Fur cloaks are common in the Domains among those who could afford them; woven ones among the less affluent. Experienced observers can recognize the locality of origin by style. Dom Felix Syrtis (q.v.), recognized a "colorless" (neutral gray?)   woolen   cloak,   lined   with   marl-fur,   as  Hellers
work, often worn by mountain bandits, HH 226.
cloistered brethren Epithet for both Regis Hastur and Danilo Syrtis in the Cadets, HH 95. The basis was their reluctance to take part in cadet roughhousing and visits to local prostitutes, their origins in Nevarsin Monastery, their use of casta instead of cahuenga, and Danilo's cris-toforo (q.v.) beliefs.
cloud seeding Old standard Terran technique for rain-making, of immemorial antiquity; remembered by Larry Montray and taught by him to Lorill Hastur and a leronis for extinguishing a forest fire set by Cyrillon's (q.v.) bandit gang. This version did not use silver iodide or other types of microcrystals favored among Terrans, but carbon dioxide derived from the fire itself, teleported rapidly in gas form to great height and allowed to expand suddenly so that its abrupt loss of temperature would freeze it; the dry ice microcrystals so formed were then caused to fall into the clouds, causing immediate rainfall, SD 76-79. Presumably the technique was remembered and used on later occasions, though its limitation is obvious enough—it requires the physical presence of tower-trained matrix workers to exercise control over the formation and fall of the dry ice particles.
code duello Archaic Terran term for the rules of honor governing personal fight-to-the-death, WW 16 (14). Duels were and regrettably still are usual for settling grievances on Darkover when the grievances cannot be appropriately brought to local authorities, liege lords, Comyn Council (when that was still an effective force) or TE authorities, SA 7 (3).
Filing a Declaration (q.v.) of Intent-to-Murder in Fair Fight legitimated a blood feud and rendered the violence subject to the code duello and the Compact rather than to TE law. The ritual formula is quoted under blood feuds. See vendetta.
Dr. David Hamilton deduced speculative explanation, HH 177(202).
coffee Terran imported hot drink, commonly used in TE Headquarters, HH 43; Danvan Hastur liked it, "one of the few luxuries the austere old man allowed himself," HH 153. Regis found it bitter but rather pleasant.
coins Some kind (origins, designs, shapes, and mint sites not known) were in use in the Dry Towns, SC 24, as small change, probably silver, certainly not copper. Copper rings have been in common use for higher denominations; larger transactions have always been made in copper bars of standard weight.
colonies In XXI Century Terran times, waiting lists as long as 13 Terran years existed for candidates for joining some colonies on other planets, DL 112. See Alpha; Coronis.
Colony Expeditionary Force XXI Century Terran name for group in charge of colonizing a planet, DL 5. Its authority superseded that of a starship captain once planetfall was made.
COLRYN One of the three natives who came to transport Dan Barron to his new assignment at Armida, WD 26 (30). Tall, lanky, slight; narrow face, slight curly brown beard; bass voice; sang the "Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda," WD 69 (89). From the circumstances, almost cer-
tainly in the employ of the Altons, and possibly a Guardsman. Illiterate, WD 74 (95). He was jealous when Lerrys and Dan Barron exchanged knives, WD 33 (39). com 'ii (casta) "peer, fellow-clansman of equal status, friendly companion, friend," not as intimate as either the term translated as "kinsman" or bredu, SD 112, BS 57, WD 29 (33).
The collective plural is Comyn (q.v.). The elision is for another i; the -ii ending is one of the archaic casta forms for masculine singular, BS 25, SS 88, or pi., BS 143, in direct address. In SA 26 (25) Lew uses the word as object in a sentence, but he is speaking Terran standard.
Its nearest Terran counterpart is the old Spanish com-padre, though that originally meant "kinsman." comm Abbreviation  for Communications  Section   on a
starship, DL 10. Commandant   Unnamed TE official, probably the one in charge of TE military affairs rather than one attached to the Legation or Coordinator's Office, SD 53. "common stock" (genetic)  TE  records  recognize  that Darkovans and Terrans are of common stock, SS 112, SC 177. communes    Intentional   communities   characterized   by alternative forms of social organization, sharing of property and duties, and often extended families. Even in XXI Century Terran culture they were of immemorial antiquity; Terran misfits organized into them, and many such groups found they did well in colonies on other planets,   DL  81.  The New Hebrides Commune (q.v.), bound  for  Coronis  Colony,   became   an indispensable part of the Darkover colony (before the planet was so named), founding the village of New Skye, later to become Neskaya (qq.v.). communicator  Some kind of intercom system in TE HQ,
which may or may not provide visual contact, SC 99. Compact Supposedly 1,000 years before the Sharra Rebellion, SD 19, though more likely only a few hundred, the then-reigning Hastur King brought the Ages of Chaos to an end, HH 90, by inducing the Domain lords (except Aldaran) to sign a planet-wide agreement outlawing all distance weapons, whether offworld (guns, blasters, etc.) or native (crossbows, longbows, high-level matrix weapons, etc.), HH 367, FT 342, permitting only those used in hand-to-hand combat, to equalize risk to user and intended victim, and to protect bystanders: swords, knives, daggers, clubs, etc. Its fatal flaw was vendetta (q.v.), SD 67 and see "Gemini Problem." Andrew Carr knew it as a law forbidding any lethal weapon which didn't give user and victim equal risk of being killed, SS 123.
Enforcement was through peer pressure (it was a consensual law, like that of fire truce, q.v.), and responsibility of liege lords to redress vassals' grievances.
Aldaran, being exiled from the Comyn, generally did not observe Compact, though its rare contact with the Domains meant relatively few opportunities for violations to become a problem—at least until the year or so preceding the Sharra Rebellion (q.v.), when violations posed a threat, HH 14, 86-90; WD 114(151).
Aside from the occasional skirmishes with catmen (q.v.), SS, Trailmen (see 'Nan Campaign and Trailmen's
War), and the Dry Towns (see Carthon), there has been no major war on the planet since the Compact was signed, HH 90, and see swords. As a result, it was and still is regarded as the ethical basis of Darkovan law over the centuries, HH 89. However, Darkovan custom implied a government of men, not of laws per se, workable only so long as 'consensual and universally accepted as legitimate. During the year preceding the Sharra Rebellion it was regarded in Aldaran as unenforceable, HH 215.
TE authorities were not eager to honor it planetwide, HH 86-93, until they were forced to recognize the danger nonenforcement posed to the whole planet and specifically to Terran Zones and Trade Cities, HH 366-67.
The major debate on merits of Compact, and specifically on the theory behind Darkovan law vs. Empire law (the latter being impersonal bureaucratic government of laws rather than of men), between Kermiac of Aldaran and Lew Alton, is recorded in HH 212-15. The weaknesses of both sides of this controversy—which has origins stretching back into ancient Terran history—are summarized in "Gemini Problem." compass One made from a fragment of a magnetized knife-blade was used by Larry Montray to guide him and Kennard Alton westward towards Hastur lands, SA 122 (136) ff, but the technique was not generally known on Darkover because Group VIII metals are rare. Sunstones, or something analogous to them, may have been anciently in use. computer That on the XXI Century Terran starship which made the initial emergency landing on Cottman IV (later Darkover) was largely erased by unknown parties during the second Ghost Wind, DL 99. This piece of vandalism was compared to the burning of the great Library of Alexandria, DL 102. Total commitment of the colonists to staying on the planet was not to come, however, until Capt. Leicester, under Ghost Wind influence, dynamited the computer, dying in the event. Camilla, in distant rapport, reminded him that she and he had begun the erasure during the second Ghost Wind, and that she knew why, DL 157.
Another computer is in use at Spacemen's Orphanage, storing personnel records and inmate records, etc. The entries for "Jeff Kerwin Jr." had been erased for security reasons, BS 35-36.
Others are in use in TE Headquarters, Thendara; that in Records (Section) stored data on "Jeff Kerwin Jr.'s" parentage in closed files, BS 40. Presumably computer terminals can be found in most TE offices as well as on the Big Ships. Comyn In older dialectal forms of casta usually Com'yn (for comi+yn).
1. Plural of com'ii, masculine form, = "peers," BS 57, WD 24 (34), 104-05 (138). (casta, cahuenga). Has taken on the nature of a collective plural (= peerage) and can function adjectivally, as in such phrases as "a Comyn lord" or "Comyn bastard"—originally such usages were more accurately translatable as "a lord of the Comyn," "a bastard of the Comyn." For this reason the feminine form comynara, pi. comynari, is to be interpreted as "a woman of the Comyn."
2. Affix to Domain lords' surnames, not now gener-
ally  used,   e.g.   "Kennard   Alton-Comyn,"   and   similar forms, SA 88 (96), 94 (103).
3. A title, indicating entitlement to a seat in Comyn Council (q.v.), e.g. Comyn Alton, SA 8 (4), BS 143; hence a singular noun = member of the caste, SA 77 (84), or = quality of entitlement thereto, SA 59 (62).
4. The Seven Domains, seven aristocratic castes possessing laran (q.v.), all supposedly descendants of Hastur and Cassilda; though the term "Domains" can also refer to the land and to the people over which the Domain lords are liege lords. See. Aillard, Aldaran, Alton, Ardais, Elhalyn, Hastur and Ridenow.
Individuals accepted as Comyn were "sealed to the Comyn" in a ceremony, generally in early childhood, in which an oath was taken on their behalf (see Oath) and a mark was permanently imprinted, by matrix, just above the right wrist. See mark of Comyn.
Lew Alton quoted the ancient legend that the Comyn had ruled Darkover since "long before our sun had faded to red," SA 6 (2).
Comyn were immune to certain Darkovan laws; see immunity.
From Terran (Gael.) comhionnan "equal, same" and cf. Gael, comunn "society, company," Eng. commune, specifically the red-haired New Hebrides Commune, later interpreted as containing collective plural -yn, CG.
comynara Originally com'ynara, "woman of the peerage"; pi. comynari.
1.  Female full member of Comyn by heritage and laran, not by marriage right alone, SA 33. Normally Comyn married other Comyn or lesser nobility possessing laran, though there were enough exceptions to be worthy of remark. Women of the Aillard and Elhalyn lines had the right to seats in Comyn Council and possessed this title in their own right, the Aillard Domain heirship passing in the female line. In addition, the Keeper at Arilinn was accorded this title even if she would not otherwise have had it; Callina Lindir-Aillard, of minor nobility and not in the direct Aillard line, was entitled to this designation because she was Keeper at Arilinn. It is not clear if Keepers at other Towers uniformly had this rank.
2.  Ceremonial title, parallel to Comyn 2 and 3 above, SA 53 (55).
Comynari sometimes did attend Comyn Council even if not Domain heirs. Dio Ridenow claimed this right, SA 11 (7). Rohana Aillard-Ardais, though comynara in her own right as an Aillard, attended Comyn Council for the Ardais Domain in her husband's disability.
Kathie Marshall (q.v.), overshadowed by Regis Hastur and Callina (?), passed briefly as a comynara to avoid the Terran Legate (Dan Lawton) identifying her as a kidnap victim, SA 116-18(129-31).
On the -ara suffix, cf. Terran (Sp.) feminine suffix of agency -ora, e.g. cantora "female singer." Comyn Castle Ceremonial meeting place for Comyn Council in season, with vast suites for representatives of each of the Domains with their dependents and retainers. In Old Thendara. Built centuries before the Sharra Rebellion, by Altons, SA 126 (140), reputedly by matrix operations, FT 287. Not a fortress, but intended primar-
ily for ceremonial use, HH 39. Of stone, containing many secret passages, tunnels, etc., known to the Alton heirs, SA 126-27 (140-41). Regis Hastur saw it under kirian as a vast stone maze, HH 37-38. No Terran ever saw the interior unless by invitation, BS 180. Many gates, some unguarded.
One of the lowest levels was Guard Hall, major training area for Cadet Guards (qq.v.). Far below that was a chapel in a crypt, "carved from the living rock," FT 289; see chapels.
The suites for the Domains were kept on skeleton staff in winter rather than closed off; these were on various upper levels.
On one of the highest levels was the Crystal Chamber (q.v.), the most formal of all meeting halls used by Comyn Council.
In a distant wing was Ashara's Tower (q.v.), sometimes called the old tower.
In another wing was Comyn Castle Tower, sometimes called the new tower, in which there was continuous major monitoring of matrixes planet-wide; this tower contained one of the legendary giant matrix screens usable for teleportation by Keepers having the proper training. This was used by Callina Aillard and Lew Alton, SA 84-85 (92-93), to locate and teleport Linnell's "true twin" (exact duplicate by Cherillys' Law, q.v.), Kathie Marshall, to this tower from Samarra, "half way across the galaxy." Comyn Council Former governing body for the territories known as the Seven Domains, meeting at Comyn Castle, during Council season (summer, drawing to a close in early fall before the major snowstorms). By law, at least one adult male representative of each Domain had to be present at Council, except that Aldaran was excluded owing to the exile arrangement dating back to the end of the Ages of Chaos. The matrilineal Aillards could be represented by a comynara. Of course other members of Comyn families of either gender could sit in Council in addition to Domain lords and heirs.
The most formal meeting place, where major decisions were made by vote following discussion, was the Crystal Chamber (q.v.), though meetings also took place in Hidden City, SA 13 (10), 28 (27), in Arilinn Tower, WW 38-39 (39-40), and elsewhere. As the Elhalyn kingship was for generations largely ceremonial, the actual presiding was done in the name of the Crown by whichever Hastur Lord was Regent:
One sort of matter normally dealt with by Comyn Council was proposals for Terran imports, which had to be carefully evaluated before Council could decide whether to ban them entirely, restrict them to Terrans, restrict them to Trade City, or allow them to reach Darkovan citizenry in general, HH 40. Also, local violations of Compact, proposed trade agreements, filling vacancies in office, settling heirships, HH 373ff, approving charters of organizations, deciding whether or not to fund projects, handling petitions for redress of grievances, etc., both in Thendara and throughout the Domains, whether vis-a-vis Terrans or among natives; and in general the kind of administrative business which would normally fall within the jurisdiction of a frontier
planet's governing bodies.
It refused to help Lady Rohana rescue her kinswoman Melora lest war break out again with the Dry Towns, SC 55.
Beginning in the year of the Sharra Rebellion, after which Kennard Alton walked out to take Lew to Terra for healing, leaving no Alton heir in Council, the effectiveness of this body approached its end. In SA it was broken; in WW, a few years later, it no longer had enough decision-making power to function effectively. Its demise can be accurately dated to four years before the Worldwreckers showed up, i.e. about five years after the Sharra Rebellion, WW 141 (159), as neither Alton nor sane Elhalyn sat in Council thereafter. Regis Hatur later replaced it by a planetwide Telepath Council (q.v.).
Comyn Guard  City Guard or Castle Guard (qq.v.).
Comyn immunity Exemption of Comyn members from certain laws, see immunity, SA 36 (37), HH 371. In particular, they were exempt from provisions of the code duello (q.v.) among themselves, and were not expected to engage in blood feud.
Conan One of Dom Esteban's Guardsmen, wounded in one of the earlier encounters with the catmen, SS 84.
concubines Dry towners (q.v.) forced their wives to harbor them, FT 208. See barragana.
CONNER, DAVID TE Spaceforce officer, WW 26ff, 58ff (61ff). "Tall, thin, slightly balding, skin between brown and black, sunk in apathy . . ." WW 59 (63). Survived Big Ship explosion in space, floating in an emergency bubble escape unit for over 120 Terran days, a sensory-deprivation experience which rendered him psychotic (as in the classical Terran tale by Jack London, "The Star Rover"), but left him with ESP ability equivalent to laran, including precognition, WW 176 (200-01). He was rescued and taken to a TEMS hospital on Capella IX, WW 83 (91). Recuperating from a second suicide attempt, he made long distance psi contact with something —a chieri}— and heard the first mention of Darkover; shortly afterwards, a medic urged him to go there for Project Telepath (q.v.). on Darkover, he got into an intense liaision with the chieri "Missy" (q.v.) aiding in her recovery and survival.
CONNISTON Terran obstetrical nurse, female, at TEMS Hospital, Terran Zone, Thendara, about nine years after the Sharra Rebellion. Attending the birth of Melora's son by Regis Hastur, she was drugged by one of the Worldwreckers' hired assassins, WW 107 (119).
contraband Usually, banned weapons, SD 18; see Compact. In SA 14 (11), the list is quoted as "power or propulsion weapons, guns, disintegrators, blasters, atomic isotopes (i.e. radioactive ones), narcotics, intoxicants, incendiaries." By agreement between the TE Legate and Comyn Council after the Sharra Rebellion, HH 367, any contraband weapons located on Darkover were to be implanted with a speck of radioactive tracer substance, which could be located by some unspecified means. (A matrix in each might have been a better idea for instant tracking, except that matrixes were not permitted in Terran hands.)
Some contraband weapons were legally worn by TE
personnel while actually on duty within Trade City, but never in Old Thendara or elsewhere outside Terran Zones. They were on public sale illegally in Caer Donn during the year or so before the Sharra Rebellion, HH 86; see Compact.
The inclusion of intoxicants in the contraband list was loosely interpreted; small quantities of liquor were acceptable for personal use, larger quantities were subject to high tariffs, SA 14-15 (11-12). Presumably Alpha "happy juice" and similar substances could not be imported. Shallavan (q.v.) was surely banned, but those who used it probably could distill it from native plants.
convulsions  A stage of crisis (q.v.), FT 1 75, 183, 245.
cookshop Restaurant serving hot meals; contrasted to foodstall, which sells native food ingredients and/or snacks. Lady Rohana promised to treat Kindra's Amazon band at the best cookshop in Carthon, SC 66.
Co-ordinator (sc. of Spaceport Activities) TE civilian official of less than Legate rank, in a spaceport area not important enough to require a Legate. At the time of the Siege of Storn, some 70-odd years before the Sharra Rebellion, Thendara had a Co-ordinator, one Mallinson, WD 10 (7); his office was in Central Coordinating Building, Terran Zone, WE 7 (3).
Until long after the Sharra Rebellion Port Chicago had a Coordinator, unnamed, SA 37.
copper On Darkover, a scarce and valuable metal, which acquired over the centuries an extra function as medium of exchange. Copper rings of standard size and weight have long been in use as money both in the Dry Towns (where the smaller ones are used for buying water from the town well of Shainsa marketplace) and in all areas east of Carthon, SC 15. Copper bars of standard weight have been a kind of universal currency for larger transactions, SC 123.
The casta term is tallo, which also can mean "redhead."
Corandolis Site of one of the Towers, HH 304; no data on location. Seven to 14 workers and a Keeper at the time of the Sharra Rebellion.
coridom (accent on first and third syllables) (casta) A chief steward, major domo, or charge d'affaires, in charge of an estate, directly responsible to the owner; in the Domains, this title generally refers to the person in charge of the castle or Great House, surrounding lands, personnel, etc. See ANDRES •, CYRIL.
The title is from the root cor- meaning "hall, court, chamber," as found in cortes, and dom "lord" (q.v.). Hence "hall-steward."
CORMAC MACARAN Son of Alanna; foster-brother of Damon Ridenow; had two brothers named Estill and Hjalmar (qq.v.); of Corresanti village during the time of the Catmen's War, SS 137; mountain ancestry. Name fr. Olr. carb + mac "chariot-son, charioteer."
Coronis Colony One of the first of the Terran XXI Century colonies outside the Terrans' original solar system. Original destination of the ship that made the emergency initial landfall on Cottman IV (Darkover), DL 8. Officially Phi Coronis Delta, site of a flourishing mining settlement with a functioning spaceport, settled at least
10 Terran years before DL.
The same planet later was called Phi Coronis IV, better known as Wolf(?), BS 7, 21, 38, SA 87 (95). Coronis IX Site of TE Administrative Archives, HH 260. Corresanti (accent on first and third syllables) Village in the Kilghard Hills, within the Alton Domain, less than one day's ride from Armida, SS 136. Ancient, said to have been there since before Shainsa had been settled, SS 138.
The battered condition of veterans of the Corresanti campaigns (see Catmen's War) became proverbial, SC 207.
See also caves, the most notable feature of this area.
The name appears to have meant either "Holy Messengers" or "Holy Guardians," i.e. angels of cristoforo mythology, equivalent to demigods. corruption One of the major themes in HH: 1. in Comyn power politics, HH 63-64; 2. in personal behavior, see DYAN; 3. in use of official myth in preference to known truth for political expediency: Kennard Alton and the Hasturs knew well that Darkovans were of Terran origin, but they hypocritically—or cynically-continued the racist myth which represented the Comyn as descendants of gods while the Terrans were an inferior race, HH 177; 4. in inaction—neither Kennard nor Comyn Council was willing to lift a finger against Dyan Ardais or to help the grievously wronged non-Comyn Danilo Syrtis, HH 189; 5. induced by Sharra—see Sharra Matrix.
The "ultimate corruption of power" is defined as "to make another person a toy to do your will," HH 184. cortes Comyn tribunal in Thendara, HH 54, 153; it met even during the winter. Passes were required for attending sessions.
Sp. corte "court" or Cortes "legislature, parliament." See also Court of Arbitration. Corns   Recurrent given name in Ridenow clan. CORUS RIDENOW Two of this name:  1. Teen-aged member of Arilinn Tower at the time "Jeff Kerwin Jr." was admitted, BS 77. Son of Meysr (q.v.).
2. Brother of Lerrys, Dio and Auster Ridenow (qq.v.), killed on Festival Night when Dyan and Kadarin disrupted the betrothal of Beltran and Callina, SA 113 (125).
The name can mean either "heart" or "bravery"—two concepts closely related in casta as in many Terran tongues: cf. Eng. courage, and its numerous cognates. Coryn Lanart-Alton Son of Dom Esteban by his first wife, oldest brother of Domenic Lanart-Alton, of Valdir Lanart (later known as Valdir Alton), and of the twins Callista and Ellemir (qq.v.). Sworn bredu of Damon Ridenow, FT 17, 48-51. Died before his 15th birthday, FT 51, in a fall from an eyrie, taking hawks, SS 24, 110, in a bravado attempt to prove his macho quality and his loyalty to his father, SS 111.
Closely resembled Desiderio, physically, FT 91.
The name Coryn seems to be from a collective plural (cf.   Comyn)  form   meaning   approximately   "plentiful courage." Cottman IV Planetary system named after one Cottman,
XXI Century Terran identified only as its discoverer. The system consists of a dark red sun (invisible from Terra, SD 6, earlier known only through star catalogues) with three planets:
1.  Small barren rocky planetoid.
2. Class M (i.e. Earth-type, thought to be uninhabited by I.B.'s), with four moons. Orbit 389 days of 28 Terran hours each.
3. Frozen-methane giant.
The second planet was site of an emergency landing by a starship whose name is kept in TE records but has not been published, under command of Capt. Harry Leicester, First Officer Camilla del Rey (qq.v.), bound for Coronis Colony, with mixed cargo including many live species of plants and animals, and a group of passengers including the New Hebrides Commune, mostly of Celtic (Scots, Irish, and Spanish) stock. The colony managed to survive though communication with Terra was lost for several thousand years and not reestablished until landfall was made by representatives of TE, who found flourishing settlements, and who made trade agreements with the Aldarans at Caer Donn to erect a spaceport and a Trade City. The natives called their planet Darkover.
In the meantime, the natives had totally forgotten their Terran origins (many refusing to believe even when told), had devised a mythology and religion of their own, and had reputedly interbred with aborigines, a story doubted by Terrans for generations. Claims that these aborigines were sapient remained long unverifiable.
Darkover remained classified as a Class D closed world under TE law though not a functioning part of TE (see classes of worlds) pending a decision on the part of the ruling caste (i.e. the Comyn) to accept TE intervention. This decision was not to come for many generations, though the Hasturs did sign a Class D trade agreement and lease land outside the capital city (Thendara) for construction of a spaceport, a Terran Zone for administrative buildings, and a Trade City for accommodating TE personnel and families; but tourism was discouraged. Reports of extraordinary psi powers possessed by some natives were not generally credited, though in ensuing generations TE authorities learned the truth—especially after the Sharra Rebellion (q.v.).
Physically, Darkover is remarkable for its great axial tilt, SD 138, and greater polar flattening, equatorial bulge, and consequent climatic extremes. Its gravity is 0.92 that of Terra, its average annual temperature appreciably lower (except during Terran periods of major glacial advance, called "ice ages"). Its core has far less nickel-iron than usual for this class of planet, and in fact all the Group VIII metals are much scarcer than on Terra, as is copper.
The lower gravity, red sun, lack of a large single moon, and longer day, all contributed to disruption of menstrual cycles among XXI Century Terran female colonists. Nevertheless, some babies were born, and the population grew, though subjected to far more severe natural selection than on Terra—a fact which accounts for Darkovan hardiness. Cottman's Star TE name for Darkover's Bloody Sun, SS. Court of Arbitration, Thendara     Not described, but
probably part of the cortes system of tribunals, SC 280. In the time of SC III, some 12-13 years after the Shainsa rescue expedition, or between 70 and 80 years before the Sharra Rebellion, its ranking judge was Domna Fiona n'ha Gorsali, Free Amazon, the first woman ever to be appointed as a judge on the planet. See Fiona.
It is not known if this court had original or appellate jurisdiction, or if the distinction yet existed in the Domains. cralmac Native mammal, furry, vaguely feline, WD 67 (86), and vaguely humanoid in general shape, tailed and golden-eyed; subject to seasonal rut, SC 28. Not the same as either catmen or trailmen (q.v.), though possibly related to catmen, WD 67 (86). They are capable of learning a few words of a human language, and they possess culture of sorts—very much of sorts. Some have rudimentary laran\ They are listed by TE authorities as "potential I.B.'s" (Intelligent Beings, sapient species), WD 67 (86).
Individuals of this species were at one time used as house servants at Armida, WD 67 (86).
Jalak of Shainsa had some in his entourage, as fighters and servants. These wore only their own fur plus elaborate jewelled sashes, SC 28. As fighters in the Dry Towns, they favored long curved knives, and they fought in a style altogether unlike any humans, though Lori (of Kindra's group of Free Amazons) knew their technique, SC 30, 35.
Their seasonal rut gave rise to proverbs and obscene jokes. "To charge like a cralmac in rut" became proverbial for hasty aggression, HH 123. "The sex of a cralmac is of interest only to another cralmac" was another proverbial expression, WW 54 (57). Kadarin told one of the many obscene stories about them to Lew Alton, HH 257. Creed of Chastity The code of sexual ethics taught at Nevarsin Monastery (q.v.); adhered to by Comyn connected with the Towers, but decried by some of the more macho elements in and out of the Domains. It demanded that its adherents were
"never to lay hand on any unwilling woman,
"never to look with lewd thought on child or pledged virgin,
"never to spend yourself on such women as are common to all," SS 129. Note that—despite the taboos of the cristoforos —it does not rule out homosexual contact (including donas amizu, q.v.) for either sex.
Damon MacAnndra jocosely asked his fellow cadet Danilo Syrtis if he recited the Creed of Chastity when riding into battle, HH 71—not knowing that his own namesake and possible distant kin Damon Ridenow had done exactly that, SS 129. crisis From channel overload in laran work, FT 175, 245; can lead, untreated, to convulsions, coma and death, FT 175-76, 183. cristoforos (sing, cristoforo) (accent on 2nd syllable) 1. Monks (q.v.) of the order anciently known as St. Cristoforo (= Christopher) of Centaurus. Its main establishment on Darkover is Nevarsin Monastery (q.v.), known to antedate the Ages of Chaos. Nevarsin is also known as St.
Valentine-of-the-Snows, apparently after Father Valentine Neville of DL, HH 176. The story had long been forgotten in the Domains, but was partly known to Kadarin (q.v.) from his year in TE Intelligence Service. These monks take vows of celibacy and probably also of nonviolence, poverty, and obedience. They promulgate the Creed of Chastity (above). The monastery is known planetwide for its school, where intelligent sons of the nobility (not limited to Comyn) have long been educated. A roster of its illustrious graduates would be very long. Among others, it includes Regis Hastur, Danilo Syrtis, Dyan Ardais, Damon Ridenow, Valentine Aillard (Melora's son by Jalak of Shainsa), etc., HH 16.
2. Adherents of the religious sect enshrined at Nevar-sin, taught by the similarly named monks (above), and— unknown except to TE Intelligence—the sole survival from archaic Terran Christianity. (St. Christopher of Centaurus was originally a heroic object of veneration in the Reformed Catholic Church, DL 126.) However, after the Ages of Chaos, the focus has been less on Jesus than on Cristoforo, the Holy Bearer of Burdens (see Bearer), a heroic archetype comparable to the legendary Terran Atlas. His symbolism centers round a group of complex concepts relating to human actions, consequences, and responsibilities being types of burdens, whereby devotees of the sect become ever more like their patron: "Strength grows under the weight." Cristoforo families were common in the Hellers, probably owing to proximity to Nevarsin. Some Aldarans belonged to the sect, as did Marjorie Scott, HH 297.
They taught meditation and yoga-like techniques that enabled self-protection against the cold.
Like the monks, they had a taboo on nudity, FT 130, and on homosexual behavior, HH 47: see DANILO, homosexuality, ombredin, REGIS. This set cristoforos apart from all other Darkovans, who in the Domains worshipped either the Lord of Light (Aldones) or Sharra, or out of the Domains worshipped Nebran and others.
By law, the sole surviving heir to an estate was not permitted to become a monk, owing to the monks' vow of celibacy; this was one of the few secular interferences with religious practice on the planet, HH 72.
crown Regis Hastur had no wish to assume the Crown of the Domains, HH 298. This had formerly been a Hastur inheritence but long since was relinquished to the Elhalyn as a tiresome ceremonial post, while the Hastur of Hastur, as Domain lord, retained the real power as Regent of the Comyn.
crush syndrome On some high-gravity planets, babies die at birth from initial sudden exposure to gravity greater than Terra's, DL 107. Darkover did not have this problem, with gravity 0.92 of Terra's.
Crystal Chamber The most formal meeting place of Comyn Council. It is in one of the highest levels of Comyn Castle, Old Thendara. So called from the multicolored panes set with prisms, which give the effect at any hour of day (when there is any sunlight at all) of being inside a rainbow, FT 288, 298, HH 366, SA 56 (59).
Every Comyn was presented there to insure that "he has no hidden defect or deformity,  when later he is
pledged for marriage," FT 288 (i.e., not emmasca). Few Terrans had ever seen the place. Scene of the trial of the Forbidden Tower group, FT 329,331-36.
Crystal, Lady (probably DOMNA KIRESTELLI) Wife to Dom Ruyven of Castamir (q.v.), forced him to foster all his bastards, FT 190-91.
crystoped Some kind of undescribed alien life-form, not cross-fertile with man; language of name unknown, planetary origin unknown, BS 40.
cuere (casta, ancient dialect used by chieri; pi. cueru) "Turn," specifically "turn of seasons, cycle," length 48 Darkovan years, from the beginning of one cluster of eclipses to the beginning of the next. In PS 9-10 (6-7) it is identified as the cycle of the formerly periodic epidemics of Trailmen's Fever, though presumably the chieri attached other significance to it, WW 154-55 (175). See moons.
curfew Imposed in Thendara at various times, normally as a response to the kind of civil unrest which might result in street fighting. In Terran Zone when Kennard Alton was a teenager, the curfew for spaceport personnel was midnight Thendara Zone time, SD 21.
During the trouble in Terran Zone during the year before the Sharra Rebellion, a curfew was imposed, in force from one hour after dusk to one hour before dawn, HH 41. Enforced by City Guards.
currency No systematic data as to the kinds in use either among natives or TE personnel, though the latter used some form of paper notes, BS 40. However, see coins, copper, millicred, reis, sekal.
curriculum At the school for spaceport children, the subjects studied were mostly similar to those in TE schools throughout the Empire and on Terra itself. At the secondary level (i.e. once reading, writing and the basic mathematical operations were mastered), these included—in Larry Montray's adolescence—Terran history, higher mathematics, navigation, early space exploration, standard literature (probably of various planetary systems in Terran Standard translation), together with physical and social sciences, SD 17. Kennard Alton was amazed that Larry Montray had learned to read and write another language, SD 39. Nothing is said of music or fine arts or physical education, but these were doubtless available. Native youngsters are known to have learned dancing in school, SA 98 (108), along with reading, writing and ciphering, but then many Darkovan children did not go to school, as literacy was definitely uncommon. At Nevarsin Monastery's school, swordplay was part of the curriculum for those boys not intending to become monks. Literacy for Comyn women was rare, SC 123.
Free Amazons learned reading, writing and ciphering in their Guild Houses if they were not already literate, SC 137.
customs office In TE Headquarters, Thendara. As it was a civilian concern, it may have been formerly housed in the Co-ordinator's building, but after the spaceport continued to expand operations, doubtless it required larger quarters. Wade Montray worked in this office, SD 18, before being promoted to the diplomatic service of the
Legation. Among his duties were to enforce laws against smuggling contraband (q.v.), in accordance with Compact (q.v.).
cuyones (cahuenga) Balls (testicles, not toys), generally in derogatory mode and inflection. Gwennis (q.v.) threatened to cut them off one especially offensive Shainsa loafer, SC 15. Jaelle n'ha Melora threatened to roast those of one of Rumal di Scarp's men should he again set foot in the travel shelter while the Amazons were still there, SC 148.
The word is obviously cognate with several Terran terms of the same meaning: archaic English cullions, French couillons, Spanish cojones, etc., but its actual Terran source is unknown. CG suggests French couille "testicle" + Sp. augmentative suffix -on.
Cyril Alternative spelling of Kyril, common given name among the Ardais and other mountain folk. The spelling difference reflects a minor difference in the initial k-sound between mountain dialect and other forms of casta.
CYRIL The coridom or chief steward at Armida while Dom Esteban was Domain lord, SS 85. Old and grizzled. He was generally called Dom Cyril probably by courtesy, not by rank (the title would normally have been that translated as messire, q.v.).
Cyril Ardais Not the father of Dyan Ardais, but an earlier man of the same family, notable for having been married off to one Liriel when past fathering age, SS 78. For Dyan's father, see Kyril.
cyrillics One of the non-causative sciences (q.v.), BS 71, thought to be an earlier name for techniques of communication with plant life to stimulate or modify growth.
CYRILLON DES TRAILLES (Cyrillon accented on first and third syllables) Bandit leader,  "a tall strong man
cloaked in a crimson mantle . . . the hood of the mantle was pushed back, but the man's face was invisible; a soft leather mask, cut to lie close to nose and cheeks, concealed all his features to the thin cruel lips. He had six fingers on each hand . . ." SD 86. His men kidnapped Larry Montray in the mistaken belief that they had one of Valdir Alton's sons. He had somehow managed to get hold of an illegal matrix which he attempted to force Larry to use, a matrix which was later destroyed by Larry and Kennard in rapport.
Common legend said that he was of Ardais blood, and had been mutilated and exiled by his half-brother (possibly the legendary, and mad, Dom Kyril, q.v.), to prevent struggle for leadership of the Domain. The story is probably false, though his six-fingered hands suggest Ardais, Aillard, or chieri blood, which would also account for his laran, SD 95.
His cruelty was legendary; Lew Alton later compared Beltran of Aldaran with him, HH 258.
He lived in an immense stone forst somewhere across the Kadarin from the boundaries of the Alton Domain, SD 95ff. This forst was later destroyed by Valdir Alton, and Cyrillon most likely was hanged from its walls, WD 96(127).
Cyrillon's people worshipped Sharra and had only contempt for the "Hali-imyn" (q.v.), i.e. the Comyn worshippers of the Lord of Light.
His motive for the kidnapping is uncertain but likely to have been either ransom or revenge or to use the supposed Alton heir as a hostage to pressure Valdir Alton into abolishing the Ranger network, SD 97, WD 96 (127).
The name Des Trailles means "of the forest roads" and was probably adopted in defiance, much as Kadarin (q.v.) adopted his own nom de guerre.

d' Elided casta preposition "of the," ior des, di.
daggers All Comyn women carried them, SC 37. Gift or exchange of daggers (as of other knives) normally connoted the oath and obligation oibredin, WD 33 (38-39). When Regis and Danilo swore their oath of bredin, making Danilo paxman to Regis, they exchanged daggers, HH 163. The implication of this custom is that thereafter each will be bound to use his weapon in defense of the other.
See also knives, skean dhu.
Daillon  One of the three Dry Towns, WD 87 (113), SA
56 (59); in the latter reference it is said to be "in the uplands near Armida," evidently remote from Shainsa and Ardcarran. Probably the Dry Towners who invaded Car-thon and who cooperated with the Catmen in the Kilg-hard Hills (see Catmen's War) were from the Daillon area. Dalereuth (accent on first and third syllables) City in Da-lereuth Plains, not far from the seacoast. Site of one of the functioning Towers, SC 19, where Rohana and Melora (qq.v.) were trained together as girls and put into rapport.
Dalereuth Plains area was noted for copper filigree
jewelry. Peter Haldane (q.v.) had a neck-ornament of this type, with blue-green semi-precious stones, given him by Magda Lome (q.v.) on a journey they shared before their marrige. Rumal di Scarp (q.v.) sent it to Ardais as a token of his kidnapped victim whom he was holding for ransom at Sain Scarp, whereupon Rohana recognized that it was none of her family's, and Magda recognized it as Peter's, SC 115-16.
Dalereuth, Sea of That area of the ocean nearest the Dalereuth region, SA 128 (142).
damisela (accent on first and third syllables) (casta) Title of respect for a young unmarried woman of marriageable age, WD 16(15), 65(83), 109 (144); HH 111, 119, 197; WW 40. More formal than the term translated as cousin or kinswoman; essentially respectful and impersonal, not in use in intimate inflection or mode. Far less formal than kiha (q.v.), which latter would be extremely inappropriate unless spoken by a toddler or a great-grandfather.
From Terran (Sp.) damisela, of similar meaning; parallel to Terran (French) demoiselle, (English) damsel.
Dammerung Pass (accent on first and third syllables) One of the mountain passes into the Hellers, the one nearest to Trailmen country. It was less than 22,000 ancient Terran feet (6,706 standard meters) high, PS 50 (53). "Rough going even for pros." It was the site of a famous battle in the Trailmen's War.
The Trailmen sent Jason Allison back to the Domains via this pass, PS 17 (14).
Its name is Terran (German), meaning either "battlement" or (if from Dammerung) "twilight," and may have been given it by TE Mapping and Exploration Service, though in view of SS 116 the name may date back to the first few generations after DL.
Damnee, la (casta) Epithet of Naotalba, bride of Zandru (qq.v.). Means "The Doomed One," SA 99 (109).
The -ee ending denotes a past participle, female gender, cf. doree. Infinitive form of the verb would most probably be damnir, cognate with various Terran forms, utlimately with (English) condemn, or French participle damne'e.
DAMON MACANNDRA Boy, from Kilghard Hills, HH 127, classmate and acquaintance of Regis Hastur in Cadet Guards the year of the Sharra Rebellion, HH 67; cousin of Octavien Vallonde (q.v.). Sworn friend of Julia Julian MacAran in the Cadets. Later defied Dyan Ardais by remaining at his friend's side after Julian was struck down by Dyan in watchfulness training, HH 126ff.
Possibly a descendant of Andrew Carr by Callista Lanart, but not definite. Andrew Carr's children might have taken the MacAnndra patronym, though a nedestro is entitled only to his mother's family name. The name MacAnndra was common in the Kilghard Hills in both earlier and later times.
DAMON RIDENOW Youngest son of Dom Esteban Lan-art's sister: see the Alton Lineage and FT Lineage, below, pp. 159, 161. Fostered in the Kilghard Hills, he had three older sisters and five older brothers (the oldest being Lorenz, Lord Serrais, q.v.), but he was the only one with much laran— he had the full Ridenow Gift, FT 83. As a boy, he served in the Cadet Guards, the sworn
bredu of Coryn Lanart (q.v.), FT 17, 48, 51; one middle finger was crooked from a blow from Coryn's wooden practice sword, FT 290. Beginning at age 17, he served for a few years in Arilinn Tower, FT 7, only to be dismissed by Keeper Leonie Hastur (q.v.) as too sensitive, with the comment that had he been born female, he would have been a Keeper, FT 8. This pretext of Leonie's turned out to have concealed a very different reason, FT 359. After he left Arilinn, he reluctantly returned to the Guards, becoming successively cadetmaster, hospital officer, and supply officer, FT 7, 51. Literate, nearsighted, FT 8, 51, righthanded in a lefthanded world, FT 51, "little more than medium height, a thin pale man with the fire-red hair of a Comyn lord . . . the look of an indoor man, a scholar," SS 17, he abandoned the military life, only to be forced back into it during the Catmen's War. Damon's double cousin, FT 102, Ellemir Lanart summoned him to Armida after her twin sister Callista (qq.v.) had been kidnapped. During the war, Damon had to use his matrix for healing Guardsmen, SS 84ff. After a catman wound left Dom Esteban paraplegic, Damon carried Esteban's matrix sword into Corresanti caves (Esteban controlling the sword by the Alton Gift), destroying the Great Cat and freeing Callista, with the help of the Terran Andrew Carr (q.v.). The next winter, Damon again had to use his matrix as Kxeper in an impromptu circle (later called the "Forbidden Tower") to heal 14 frostbitten fieldworkers, FT 92-95. He took Desiderio Leynier's (q.v.) matrix after the latter had used his Alton Gift to induce Andrew Carr to flee into a blizzard, FT 146-50. To learn how to heal Callista, he undertook the ancient Keeper's task of Timesearch (q.v.), there meeting his ancestor Varzil the Good, who hailed him as tenerezu (Keeper), FT 315, 335. After Desiderio killed Domenic Lanart-Alton (q.v.) by stealing his matrix, Damon took it away, only to have his Keeper-ship challenged by Leonie as illegal. As Keeper, he successfully defeated Arilinn Tower in an astral battle, FT 354-60.
He married Ellemir as freemate, FT 61, later di catenas, FT 308. He became regent of Alton, guardian of Valdir, being renamed Damon Ridenow-Alton, FT 301. He had sworn the oath of bredin with Andrew Carr, FT 335.
dams The Terrans built one at a waterfall near Caer Donn in the Hellers to provide drinking water and hydroelectric power for city and spaceport, HH 198.
Dan  Common Terran given name; see following entries.
Dan Lawton see Lawton, HH 366; SA 25 (24), 114 (126).
Dan Barron, (Daniel Firth Barron) TE Spaceforce serviceman on 20-year contract. At the time of the Siege of Storn he had been in service for about 17VS years; for the previous five TE years he had been Scheduler and Dispatcher at Thendara Spaceport. One night he acquired five "reps" (reprimands, demerits) for being "asleep on duty," WD 6 (2), whereas actually he had been overshadowed (possessed) by Storn of Storn (q.v.). He was thereafter ordered to a new assignment, liaison work at Armida, WD 12 (10), 24 (27), as guest of Valdir Alton; on Valdir's request, he taught lens-grinding as part of Valdir's project to complete and equip the system of
anti-bandit, anti-fire Ranger beacon stations.
Dan was out of the story of the Siege of Storn most of the time, as the blind Storn of Storn was controlling his body until driven out by a telepathic damper. After the Siege of Storn, Dan—once again himself—married Melitta Storn (q.v.).
dancing Common pastime planet-wide since it was common among members of the New Hebrides Commune (q.v.), DL 148-50. It was taught in all schools, SA 98 (108), and became a major part of all Festivals (see Midsummer Festival and Midwinter Festival). A common saying was that when three Darkovans got together, they held a dance, so frequent was the practice, WW 175 (199).
Exhibitions, both professional and amateur, were a regular part of the dances at Festivals; many of the exhibition dances were of immeasurable antiquity, HH 106. Some of the Hellers people even retained archaic dances performed in kilts, including the famed Sword Dance, which forms came from XXI Century Terra (Scotland) via the New Hebrides Commune, though this was long since forgotten on Darkover as on Terra; Dyan Ardais danced the Sword Dance, HH 107.
Some of the mountain dances were considered licentious, notably the secain, (q.v.).
Chieri dance in ecstasy, WW 175 (200).
DANETTE One of the concubines of Jalak of Shainsa (q.v.). Long pale hair, SC 29. Knowing herself barren, she scorned Melora and hated Jaelle (qq.v.). She was smothered by Free Amazons in the raid which freed Melora and Jaelle, SC 42.
DANFORTH, (first name unknown) XXI Century Terran. Security officer. While freaked out during the second Ghost Wind, he first tried to shoot Capt. Leicester, then after this attempt failed, he made a sexual proposition to the Captain, equally in vain, DL 88.
Dam Diminutive form of the male given name Danilo, see next two entries.

DANILO LANART-HASTUR (accent on first and third syllables) Youngest son of Javanne Hastur and Gabriel Lanart (qq.v.), thus youngest of the three "Lanart angels." Born about 5 years before the Sharra Rebellion. Small, fair-haired. Adopted before his 5th birthday, a few months before the Sharra Rebellion, by Regis Hastur (q.v.) under a pledge to Javanne that only his oldest legitimate son (i.e. born in catenas marriage) should take precedence over him. Regis changed the boy's name from Mikhail-Regis Lanart-Hastur to Danilo, in token of the adoption, HH 233-35. Some months later when Regis took a seat in Comyn Council and repeated his oath of allegiance to Hastur and Comyn, he formally exhibited the boy as his nedestro son and heir-designate, HH 375-76, after which Danilo was to be given the Sign of Comyn (the matrix-implanted tattoo mark) and returned to his parents for fostering with his own brothers.
DANILO SYRTIS, full name DANILO-FELIX KENNARD CAST AMIR-SYRTIS Son of Felix-Rafael Syrtis of Syr-tis and Melora Castamir, who was a nedestro daughter of Kryil-Valentine Ardais, HH 373. (The name is erroneously given in HH 138 as Lindir-Syrtis.) Born about l<Wz years before the Sharra Rebellion; "a slender bright-eyed boy of 14 or so," HH 25. He spent a year in Nevarsin at the same time as Regis Hastur, who was his first friend and companion in the Cadet Guards, where they were jointly called the "cloistered brethren" (q.v.), HH 95. Younger half-brother of Rafael-Felix Syrtis (q.v.). Wrote the clearest hand in the Cadets, for which reason he was appointed assistant supply officer, HH 94. Same size and weight as Regis, HH 95, so that they could wear each other's clothes. Spoke casta by choice, HH 95. He had the Ardais Gift, i.e. he was a catalyst telepath (q.v.); aroused Regis's latent laran by touch, HH 73, 102-03, after Lew Alton had failed to do so even with kirian, HH 35ff. He attracted the attentions of Dyan Ardais, but being a cristoforo, HH 68, 160, he refused them, bringing Dyan's enmity on himself; Dyan contrived to have him expelled in disgrace, HH 136ff. Later, Danilo and Regis swore the oath of bredin, HH 163, exchanging knives, Danilo becoming Regis's paxman as Rafael Syrtis had been Rafael Hastur's. After which, Beltran of Aldaran Kidnapped Danilo and brought him to Castle Aldaran, HH 222-27, demanding that he use his Gift to awaken Beltran and presumably others, which he refused to do, HH 252, 257. Regis learned his whereabouts and went to rescue him; they managed to escape. Danilo was later instrumental in helping Regis recover from threshold sickness and master his own laran. Later, probably at the urging of Kennard Alton, Dyan Ardais made amends by designating Danilo as heir to the Domain of Ardais, HH 373.
Danilo does not appear in SA for unknown reasons. While he does not appear in PS this is probably because after Dyan's death he had to go to Ardais to set his Domain in order.
In later years he was known as Regis's sworn paxman, bodyguard, constant companion and lover, though this last is not spelled out, HH 262-63; WW 12 (10), 156 (177). Their close compansionship induced Linnea (q.v.) to ask Regis facetiously if Danilo would "sleep across
the floor of their bed," WW 158 (179). Desiderio took it for granted that Danilo was immune even to Missy's blatant sexual signals, WW 70 (75).
Danilo acted as liaison officer with Project Telepath (q.v.), and presumably played an important role in Regis's Telepath Council, successor to Comyn Council.
He was good with hawks, having learned from his father, who was long hawkmaster to Danvan Hastur.
See also Ardais, catalyst telepath, DYAN, homosexuality, ombredin, REGIS, Syrtis. DANISKAR (accent on first and third syllables) Of Dar-riel(l) Forst, in the foothills of the Hellers. Man, old, gray; wore traditional mountain garb—thick fur shirt, cloak, boots; long haired. He came to tell Regis Hastur about multiple forest fires, WW 43 (45); this was the first clue to Worldwreckers' work.
Apparently a vassal of Storn, WW 47 (49). DANTAN Typographical   error  for DANVAN HASTUR, q.v., SA 29 (28), BS 181.
Danvan Hastur Full name dan van-valentine
HASTUR of Hastur, Warden of Elhalyn, Regent of the Crown of the Seven Domains, Lord of Thendara and Carcosa. Son of Lorill Hastur, father of Rafael, grandfather of Regis (qq.v.), BS 108, HH 84, WW 39, etc. Commonly known as "Old Hastur," SA, BS, WW, probably because of the great length of his regency; at one point he referred to the honor of the Comyn as being 'safe in my hands for 90 years," HH 196. Little is known of his early life, except that he had briefly been cadet-master of the Guards without much success, FT 296, and Commander of the Honor Guard, FT 300, and that he had little laran. "A strongly built old man, with hair that had once been silver-gilt (FT 56), and now was almost all grey," HH 44. He had been chief councillor to King Stefan IV Elhalyn, and Regent since Stefan's death during the minority of Derik (qq.v.). Derik died before attaining majority, and Danvan continued as Regent after the collapse of Comyn Council in SA.
He was considered the greatest statesman of his time; even his enemies knew him as a man of absolute integrity. DARILYN (accent on first and third syllables) Free Amazon, from Linnea's home village in Storn lands (or very near it), WW 96-97 (107-08); emmasca. "Pale red braided hair, coiled low on her neck . . . the flat body and hardened jawline of a woman artificially neutered," WW 74 (80). Licensed mountain guide, hired with her freemate Menella (q.v.) by "Andrea Closson," WW 73 (80)ff. She had enough laran to perceive "Andrea" as other than she claimed to be. When she saw "Andrea" burying the sterility virus, she went to Arilinn Tower to inform Linnea, WW 97 (109-10).
She had undergone neutering by choice to avoid being married off to a nontelepath—a mating which, to her, would have been no better than coupling with an animal, WW 98 (109).
Later, when Regis summoned all telepaths on Darkover, she became one of the Telepath Council. Darkening Lands Area in the Kilghard Hills near Armida, including Corresanti, blighted by the catmen during the Catmen's War, SS 15. The "Great Cat" (q.v.) somewhere
obtained a high-level matrix and learned to use it for his own purposes, including making his soldiers invisible, kidnapping a Keeper (Callista Lanart, q.v.) in a vain attempt to force her to work with the matrix, preventing her from access to her accustomed regions of the overworld, so that she could neither robe herself nor contact her relatives, etc. In addition, since catmen are nocturnal and dislike sunlight, the "Great Cat" placed a permanent shadow on the area by using cloud cover, fog and mist, producing withering of crops, starvation, terror and nightmares, so that the natives became too apathetic to flee, SS 134. Such matrix devilry was—in Damon Rid-enow's experience, at least—unprecedented on the part of any nonhuman species. (Damon would have known, as he was familiar with the records at Arilinn Tower, where he had trained under Leonie Hastur.)
Dark Month Midwinter, when the Bloody Sun was at its lowest in the sky and in some latitudes did not rise at all; Kennard Alton was born in this month, SD 39.
Darkovan alphabet Drastically modified from the XXI Century Terran (Roman) brought in with the DL colonists, so that it no longer resembles forms in common use in TE, SD 18. However, such resemblances as remained were conclusive evidence to Terrans of common origin, although few natives bothered to investigate the matter, not believing TE versions of history. Script was squarish in letter forms, except in the Cardion district where the local dialect was written in curling letter forms, BS 108. It has been theorized that the extreme antiquity of the Carthon settlement may have accidentally preserved letter forms nearer to the XXI Century Terran originals.
Darkovan languages At least eight have been in use since early TE times, some local dialects approaching languages in the degree of their divergence from other forms. See cabuenga, casta, chieri, Dry Towns, Hellers, languages, Trailmen. It is thought that other non-human species such as the cralmacs, catmen, and Ya-men had their own languages, but nothing is known of them. However, as the Dry Towners had some kind of trade agreement with the catmen, some catmen must have learned to speak Dry Towns dialect. CG takes "Darkovan" to be a native word, the -an adj. suffix, cf. Terranan.
Darkovan League Apparently, planets in nearby star systems which had adopted something comparable to the Compact (q.v.), SA 7 (3), WD 117 (156), where none of the planets were named; but as Lew Alton had visited Wolf and Vainwal, presumably these belonged to it. As it is not mentioned in earlier times, it may not have existed prior to the Terran Trade Compact, and one may conjecture that adoption of anything like the Compact could only have been a move of desperation to end planetwide civil wars, as on Darkover, or in imitation of worlds which adopted this measure.
Darkovan life forms Classifying life forms on any TE planet has been a crude approximation of Terran classifications. Planets with carbon-based life forms tend to evolve generally similar kingdoms (viroids or noncellular forms, protozooids or one-celled creatures, plant-like forms, animal forms), but within these the divisions do not necessarily closely parallel those native to Terra. Darkover is one of a few dozen planets whose climate is
near enough to Terra that the parallelism is close enough to use a rough simplified version of the Terran classes. We have no description of Darkovan viroids or protozo-oids or many other lower forms, but among the higher forms (plant and animal) many species have been named; all have separate entries herein. Those same climatic resemblances to Terra enabled importation long since of some of the less aggressive Terran species—those thought to be no danger to the local ecology. A tentative classification follows; more details are found in the separate entries under each name. Plants:
Mycoids (fungus-like): Various "mushrooms," some native, others thought to be imports; many are edible. The native molds used for making cheeses also fall here. Muscoids (moss-like): Not described, doubtless present in forests. Filicoids (fern-like): "bracken."
Evergreens   including  conifers:   many  species,  some yielding edible "nuts" (seeds). Tallath wood may derive from one of these. Marsh herbs: reedwood may belong in this group. Graminoids (grasses, grains):  many species together with some Terran imports—winter wheat, rye, oats, triticale. Palmoids: blackfruit; feathertrees (latter dubious and
possibly nearer to the filicoid group?). Lilioids (lily-like flowers often growing from bulbs): kireseth, aka golden bell or starflower; others, including Terran imports such as onions, leeks, etc.? Polypetalloids:
Deciduous trees: many species, some native, some Terran imports such as apples and pears. Piperoids,    other   spicy    herbs:    spicebush;   shallan;
jaco. Vitacoids (various vines): icemelons; Terran grapes; lianas; red menace (?). Succulents: thornbush, thorntree, various Drylands
species. Miscellaneous herbaceous families: ropeweed, eris. Sympetallaoids:   many   families,   some  cultivated  as flowers. Animals:
Molluscs,   Annelids,   various   lower   classes,   not   described. Bivalves: the pearl-bearing shellfish off Temora. Arthropods:
Insectoids: various butterfly-like creatures, some of which may pollinate as on Terra; "cricketlike" species; giant luminescent species (which feed on luminescent fungi). Scorpion-ants may belong here. Arachnoids: "spiders" are mentioned, but we do not know if they are native. Chordatoids:
Amphibians: "tree frogs" possibly belong here. Piscoids: various species of fish including rainfish. Reptiliods: "dragons" (extinct) (?). Birds:   banshees; kyorebni; rainbirds; many other species. The species Lew Alton called "turkey-
cock" is possibly an import, as is the hawk. Mammaloids:
Rodents: various native species; bushjumpers, sand-rats, "rabbits" and "mud-rabbits" may belong to this group. Terran rats may have been unintentionally imported.
Marsupials, monotremes, chiroptera (bats), der-moptera ("flying lemurs"), edentates (ant-eaters etc.), pinnipeds (seals etc.), probosci-dea (elephants), hyracoidea (coneys), sirenia (dugongs), insectivores, lagomorpha (rabbits), and cetaceans are not recorded but may exist.
Perissodactyloids (non-cloven hooves): native pack-animals may belong to this group, as do Terran horses and donkeys. Stag-ponies and rabbit-horns may belong here, though this is very uncertain.
Artiodactyloids (cloven hooves): oudrakhi, "mountain goats," various Terran imports such as cattle, sheep, goats, pigs.
Carnivores: various native fur-bearers, possibly including marls; catmen; the two-toed "kitten-thing" may possibly belong here, as do Terran dogs.
Primatoids: trailmen and chieri; humans.
Others, unclassified, uncertain: cralmacs, kyrri, Ya-men.

Darkover The name of the planet is untranslated Terran (ancient English), originated by either the third or fourth generation of descendants of the New Hebrides Commune, about 100 Darkovan years after the initial settlement, DL 160. In casta it has no other meaning than the planet, though Kadarin translated it for Lew Alton as equivalent to "color of night overhead," HH 175. The name obviously alludes to the sudden color change in skies at sunset. Most natives do not know and would not believe its Terran origin.
The planet's physical data are summarized under Cot-tman IV.
Its location "between upper and lower arms of the Galaxy," WD 26 (29), places it at a strategic crossroads area between many of the colonized planetary systems on Big Ships' trade routes; which fact has resulted in Big Ships' using it as a stopover planet for refueling, repairs, reprovisioning, and personnel recreation and rehabilitation, HH 40. It is said to be "on the edge of the Galaxy," SD 6, meaning that it is not in any of the great clusters; part of the night sky is all but free of stars, the rest swarms with them.
Its inhabited areas are confined to a single continent, the climate elsewhere being unfavorable to the growth of vegetation.
Its life forms are summarized in the preceding entry; so many Terran species were imported by both the original colonists and later TE Big Ships that little is known of aboriginal species, and many formerly believed native are now thought to be of Terran origin but greatly modified by several thousand years' natural selection by climate,   alien  predators  and parasites, alien soil,  etc.
Its minerals are discussed under minerals and metals.
Kadarin allegedly believed, citing his years in TE Intelligence, that Darkover was the first of all Terran colonies, the oldest, HH 174. It is now known that Coronis and Alpha (q.v.), were a few years older.
Darkovan exports include certain medicinal drugs and biologicals, jewels (including, since a few decades before the Sharra Rebellion, matrix crystals too small to be used for anything but jewelry, BS 33-34), certain metals for precision tools, gold, platinum (rarely), silks (including spider-silk), furs, wines, SD 6. Darnak Man, native of Caer Donn, SC 219, father of Dar-rill (q.v.), Tara, and Renata, the two younger girls being Magda Lome's playmates in childhood at Caer Donn; they called her Margali, SC 224. Darnell (accent on first and last syllable) Ancient family in the Hellers, HH 216. Included at least one cbieri-human offspring and probably several; see the Alton and Aldaran Lineages.
See also Aldaran, Alton, FELICIA, RAKHAL, SCOTT, THYRA.
Darriel(l) Forst Fortified place, almost like a castle, in the foothills of the Hellers, WW 43 (45), probably built by the Darriell family generations before; in Storn lands. Daniskar (q.v.) came from there.
"Darriell woman" Thyra (q.v.); Desideria's name for her, HH 211.
DARR1LL Man, native of Caer Donn, son of Darnak, brother of Tara and Renata; older contemporary of Magda Lome, his sisters being her childhood playmates, though she later lost contact with him, not seeing him after age 9, until as an adult he recognized her at Midwinter Festival in Castle Ardais, SC 219-20.
He was one of Dom Gabriel Ardais's household, SC 220.
DARRILL Workman at Armida, part of frostbitten group, FT 78, 84; had been a playmate of Callista and Ellemir, FT 84.
darts Common game on Darkover, played by both children and adults—even Lorill Hastur, SD 48ff.
D 'Asturien   See Di Asturian and Larissa.
daughter of a mountain goat "Jeff Kerwin Jr." bestowed this cahuenga epithet on the prostitute Lomie, BS 19. Probable implications: perpetual randiness, public indiscriminate copulation, foul smell. The animal rendered as "mountain goat" is not definitely identified but may be a native species.
Daughter of Doom Naotalba, q.v., SA 99 (109).

DAVID Dr. David Hamilton was commonly called by this name, WW 29ff. He was Terran, WW 169 (192), red haired, attached to TE Medical Service on some other planet, but began developing a high degree oilaran, WW 78 (86), comparable to the Ridenow Gift—extreme empath capacity—and eventually contributing to mental collapse, part of whose symptoms included inability to tolerate the presence of crowds. He was reassigned to Darkover, and quartered at TEMS Hospital, Trade City, Thendara, WW 54ff (58ff).
He learned cahuenga by educator tapes on board ship for Darkover, WW 88 (97). At the hospital, his uniform consisted of the regulation white smock with red and blue caduceus plus two stars (for service on two planets). He became the lover of the chieri Keral before, during and after the latter's shift from male to female phase, and eventually the father of Keral's baby, WW 158-68 (180-91).
David Lome "Toroku," see Lome.
Days of Varzil the Good Proverbial expression for a time in immeasurably remote antiquity; original meaning forgotten. But see VARZIL.
death sign Local area of distorted space, flickering like fire in air; long known to legend as proclaiming doom, SA 60 (63). Actually produced by a trap matrix (q.v.), programmed to generate terror, SA 62 (66). Illegal.
One was set up by Regis Hastur, of all people, in a
desperate attempt to break up a Comyn Council meeting, SA 66 (71). death wail Keening, done by family members of one newly dead; common custom in the mountains, ultimately thought to be of Terran (Celtic) origin, as is the very term "to keen" (ancient Irish Gaelic caoine). The custom persisted at Aldaran even as late as the Sharra Rebellion, being performed over Kermiac's body, HH 296-97. Declaration of Intent-to-Murder in Fair Fight Official notice that blood feud (i.e. vendetta) (qq.v.), and challenge have been delcared by a named party against another named party. Originally such declaration was made orally (see blood feud) in presence of a representative of Comyn, BS 143. In recent centuries, since Terran law began to operate in Terran Zones, any such declaration has to be filed in writing with TE authorities in "Department Three," TE HQ, Thendara, thus releasing whichever party to the challenge kills his opponent from liability to prosecution, conformable to the Compact (q.v.) and native laws permitting the code duello (q.v.).
Such a challenge can be refused, either because of gross disability, gross differences in rank, or because the death of the challenged party would leave a Domain without an heir, or for certain other legal reasons. (Why Lew Alton did not refuse Kadarin's challenge, SA 19 (16), is unknown.) A challenge can also be withdrawn or suspended by mutual agreement, as later between Lew Alton and Kadarin, SA 141 (157). If not refused, it becomes immediately operative on being acknowledged, and remains until either settled or withdrawn.
While in effect, such a challenge overrides any other obligations except fire-truce (q.v.), and in particular it legally estops any other agreements; in particular, while an unsettled challenge remains, no marriage can be contracted or solemnized, no wardship of a Domain conferred by oath, and no other formal agreement contracted, SA 65 (70).
Should the person against whom the Declaration is filed be killed by a third party, the challenger is bound to kill the third party, by native law, SA 142 (159). However, a Declaration does not permit use of a third party to kill one's intended victim; no "contract" in this sense is legal. However, hired killers have been known to file Declarations in their own, or assumed, names, to protect their employers.
This is one of the major weaknesses in the Compact. deformity  Among other things, a euphemism for eunuchism   or  emmasca   status.   Comyn   heirs   were   formerly presented in Council to verify that they were free of it, FT 288.
dei See s 'dei par servu.
Del Rey See CAMILLA DEL REY, DL 7, etc. The name
may have been preserved in altered form in the casta
name Dalereuth. Department of Alien Anthropology See Alien. Department Three   In   TE   HQ,   Thendara;  where   any
Declaration (q.v.) of Intent-to-Murder in Fair Fight had
to be filed to avoid prosecution by TE authorities, SA
18-19(16). deportation The usual recourse against offworlders who
got onto the City Masters' persona non grata list, BS 59-60, HH 48. DERIK ELHALYN Son of Stefan Elhalyn, HH 49, and grandson of Duvic Elhalyn, SA 56 (59), therefore heir-apparent to the crown of Thendara, HH 298. Under regency of Danvan Hastur. Born some 16 years before the Sharra Rebellion, HH 83; one year short of "majority" (here, age to assume the crown—evidently 24) at the time of SA, some six years after the Sharra Rebellion, SA 29 (28). Handfasted to Linnel Aillard (q.v.). A mountaineer by choice; scatterbrained, with little practical sense, like all the Elhalyn; had not even enough interest in statesmanship to attend a Council with the Terrans, HH 83. Thought drunk at the Midsummer Festival following Lew Alton's return, SA 100 (110-11), he was actually under the influence of a trap-matrix of the old and outlawed variety which created delusional processes, SA 106-07 (117). One of the many casualties of that unfortunate Festival, he survived hopelessly insane, WW 16 (14); the time of his death is unknown and probably not relevant. des (cahuenga) prep, "of the" (+ plural). DESIDERIA LEYNIER (accent first and third syllables) Later Lady Storn. Mother of Rafaella Storn and at least two other daughters and an unrecorded number of sons by Loran-Rakhal Storn of Storn (q.v.); Rafaella, WW 41 (43), was the mother of Linnea Storn-Lanart, who later married Regis Hastur (qq.v.).
Foster-daughter and ward of Kermiac of Aldaran, HH 200, trained by him in matrix techniques, and by age 15 already independent and competent at them, WD 109 (145), though she preferred to call herself a matrix technician rather than a leronis. She offered to raise Sharra to rid the Storns of Brynat's gang, WD 116-17 (154-55), and did so using a hundred or so of the forge-folk, WD 132-35 (176-79), after which her hair, formerly flame-red, WD 109 (145), turned rapidly white, WW 153 (174). She returned the Sharra matrix to the forge-folk altar, HH 210.
Though no virgin, she later functioned as a Keeper, WW 41 (43), 58(62), 65ff(71ff); and was banished, WW 156 (177), only later attempting again to use her powers.
She attempted to dissuade Kadarin (q.v.) from using the Sharra matrix, HH 210-11.
Some nine years after the Sharra Rebellion, she showed up in Project Telepath, still powerful enough to quiet the insane chieri "Missy," appearing now as "wrinkled, her face shrunken, but as erect and slender as ever, her hands . . . still graceful in motion and her voice clear and light," WW 61 (65), and sometimes telepathi-cally to David (q.v.) as still young and lovely; she plays a brief part in the orgy scene at the climax of WW, WW 181 (207).
Her family had always honored Sharra as forge-goddess.
She was one of the very few people on the planet who correctly evaluated Kadarin, even to knowing how old he actually was (over 150); she said that she knew more of the Sharra matrix at age 15 than he did at his age, HH 210, and see KADARIN, for which reason she was reluctant to allow him to get his six-fingered hands
on the matrix, until she learned that he had an Arilinn-trained matrix worker (Lew Alton) enlisted for the work, HH 200, 210,217.
She is the victim of the most serious typo in the Darkover novels, in HH 217, where Kermiac's remark should read "Aye, Desideria ever had a mind of her own."
DESIDERIO LEYNIER (accented as in DESIDERIA) Familiarly DESI or DEZI. Nedestro son of Dom Esteban Lanart, Lord Alton, FT 12, by Gwennis Leynier, FT 302. Conceived during an orgy, he was never acknowledged, FT 18; Esteban thoughtlessly or callously refused to acknowledge him until too late despite the boy's having the Alton Gift, FT 302, 313. Thin, with bluish eyes and curly red hair, FT 17, in his late teens he closely resembled Coryn and Ellemir (qq.v.), FT 17, 91. Esteban thought he might have been the son of his cousin Gwynn, FT 28, but Desi knew better and schemed to force his recognition, becoming bitter and vengeful, FT 65, especially as he had passed the Veil at Arilinn Tower (proof of Comyn blood) and received training there before Leonie Hastur expelled him, FT 8, because of various character flaws, FT 308, 321. He monitored Damon as a test, FT 88-89, and took part in Damon's circle for healing the frostbitten workmen, FT 92-95. Becoming jealous of the Terran Andrew Carr, he used his Alton Gift to induce Andrew (while drunk) to flee into a blizzard, FT 140-41; Damon removed Desi's matrix (the standard penalty), FT 146-50, after which Desi went to Thendara for a season with the Guards, where he killed Domenic Lanart-Alton (q.v.) by removing his matrix, FT 291-92, 305-06. In Comyn Council, he challenged Damon's regency of the Alton Domain, FT 301-02. When Damon learned that Desi was still using Domenic's matrix (modified), he demanded that Desi give it up, FT 312, but the boy attempted to kill him instead. Whereupon Callista energized the matrix so that it blazed aflame, and Desi teleported himself to the lockbox where his own matrix was stored—meeting his death, FT 313-14.
devil's drug Old superstitious name for kirian (q.v.), SD 64.
Devil's Shelf Treacherous mountain pass next to abyss, between the Alton land and Cyrillon's forst, SD 89.
DEVRA Free Amazon, on Shainsa rescue expedition, SC 13; one of the younger members of Kindra's band. She was exceptionally talented at tracking, making trail, and managing campsites, SC 24-25; she was also a singer, SC 25.
The name is probably a remote descendant of the archaic Terran (Hebrew) name Devorah.
di   (casta) Of, from, associated with.
did 1. casta verb "give, lend" in s'dia shay a (q.v.) 2. day.
Di Asturien Probably the most ancient family name on the planet; its first bearer was Chief Medical Officer (XXI Century Terran), DL 12, 64-65, a dignified white-haired man of Catalan or Provencal ancestry; this officer's name was still in TE records, which is how Kadarin knew of it, HH 176.
The name meant "from the province of Asturias,"
part of Terran Spain, and is sometimes elided as D'Asturien ; see Larissa.
This family was regarded as ancient nobility (though not Comyn) even as late as the Sharra Rebellion, and was known to regard even the Hasturs as newcomers, HH 61. See DOMENIC.
The name Hastur (q.v.) is rumored to be related to Asturien. di catenas (casta) "of the bracelets." Marriage di catenas is the most ancient form, practiced mostly among Comyn; it is so called because twin bracelets are publicly locked onto bride and groom. Divorce was thereafter almost impossible. Such marriages were arranged between families, with Comyn Council approval, not normally chosen by the participants. See marriage, SC 5,157.
Beltran of Aldaran (q.v.) demanded this type of marriage to the Keeper Callina Aillard and a seat in Comyn Council as a price for reconciliation between the Aldar-ans and Comyn—presumably agreeing to enforce the Compact, SA 33-34 (33).
The form of the phrase indicates that the paired bracelets are regarded as a unity: catenas is a singular form, like donas.
DlO (i.e. DlOTIMA) RIDENOW Comynara, sister of Ler-rys (q.v.), Corus, and one other brother, SA 21 (19), 36 (37), 45 (46-47). "Small and pert, with flaxen-gold hair fluttering around her shoulders. Her green-grey eyes were aslant with mischief," SA 11 (7); the hair coloring indicates Dry Towner ancestry, as with other Ridenows. She had been intended for a Keeper, but had refused out of unwillingness to become a pawn of Ashara (q.v.), and in order to close that option, she had an affair with Lew Alton on Vainwal during two "seasons" (length unspecified) of the period of his voluntary exile after the Sharra Rebellion. He credited her with saving his sanity; nevertheless they had parted by the time he returned to Darkover. Her brothers were averse to a marriage, though Lerrys later casually offered her hand to Lew, SA 71 (77).
For unknown reasons, she gave Lew an unloaded (but still contraband) Terran propulsion pistol, SA 23 (21).
She attempted to save Lew from entanglement with Callina, knowing Callina was dominated by Ashara—a move Lew interpreted as jealousy. The way in which Dio and Callina alter and exchange personalities toward the end of SA is confusing even to the author, and is open to individual interpretation. However, after Callina's death, Dio helped Lew reclaim his daughter Marja from a trance induced by matrix shock, SA 161 (180-81), and later went into exile with him and Marja.
disciplinary assembly Formal expulsion from the Cadet Guards required attendance of all officers and Cadets, which attendance was referred to as a disciplinary assembly. The explusion ceremony involved stripping of uniform, breaking of sword, etc. It was inflicted on Danilo Syrtis because he drew a knife on Dyan Ardais (qq.v.), HH 136, 139-40.
Dispersionist Adherent of the ancient theory that over 1,000,000 TE standard years ago, early interstellar trav-
ellers had colonized and populated the Galaxy, SA 6 (2).
The theory appears to date back to XX Century Terra, where popularized by one Erich von Daniken and others.
Opposite to Evolutionist (q.v.). dogs Terran imports, used by Altons and others in hunting small game, SD  60,  and presumably also for herding cattle. There is a proverb, "Don't trust your bone to another man's dog," SC 181. dolphins  Rare, endangered and possibly extinct Terran sapient species (lesser cetaceans), called "People of the Sea," DL 77. Dom   Title   of respect in casta,  analogous to "Sire"  or "Lord," either as a prefix to a name or by itself; higher rank than the term translated as "messire," and suitable for a Comyn Lord.
Feminine couterpart is domna.
Plural form dom'yn, BS 74, indicating that the earlier singular form for direct address was dom 'ii.
Often  in  the  phrase vat dom  (q.v.),  "worthy lord, honored lord," cf. Terran (Pg.) Dom, (Sp.) don (Rumanian) domnul, etc., all from Latin dominus "lord." DOM ESTEBAN See ESTEBAN,  and similarly for other
names prefixed by Dom. Domains Originally Seven Domains. The territories ruled by the lords of the Comyn families, as distinct from Trailmen country, Dry Lands, unexplored lands, etc., and later also as distinct from Aldaran lands after the Aldaran were exiled from Comyn Council. See Comyn and the individual domains: Aillard, Aldaran, Alton, Ardais, Elhalyn, Hastur, Ridenow. Domansa Typographical error for "Domains," in "Son of the Seven Domansa," Narad-zinie's epithet for Kennard Alton, SD 155.
Domenic (accent on first syllable) Common given name, variously spelled in XXI Century Terran, later common in the Kilghard Hills, recurring in the Lanart-Alton family. See following entries. Ultimately from ancient Terran (Latin) forms meaning "of the Lord." Diminutive, Nic, FT 268.
DOMENIC XXI Century Terran boy in New Hebrides Commune, one of the group that found the chieri house, DL 142-43; student of geology, DL 141, and a player of the bagpipes, DL 147.
Domenic Lanart An earlier bearer of this name, long before Dom Esteban's time, once offered to marry off his eldest son to Melitta Storn, WD 102 (135).
DOMENIC LANART-ALTON Oldest son of Dom Esteban, FT 6; elder brother of Valdir: see the Alton Lineage, below, p. 159. Born about 16 years before the Corresanti campaign of the Catmen's War, SS 115. Slight, with curly red hair and freckles, FT 56, 58, not very tall. Exuberantly merry, well-liked, courageous, responsible, FT 56-57, 59, 268, 279, he was one of the finest people in Cadet Guards, having found his metier there after leaving Arilinn Tower with relief after three years, FT 59. He unwisely trusted Desiderio Leynier enough to arrange for him to get a commission in the Cadet Guards. Desiderio later found him unconscious from a concussion incurred in practice swordplay (using wooden practice swords),  and killed him by taking his matrix, FT
282-83, 291-92, 306.
His foster-brother was Raimon (q.v.).
Callista Lanart-Alton considered him her closest kin.
DOMENIC Dl ASTURIEN Universally respected longterm officer in the Guards, HH 56. He had been Captain when Kennard Alton was a cadet at 14; cadetmaster when Lew Alton was a first-year cadet at 14; arms-master in his 80s during the year preceding the Sharra Rebellion.
Lew Alton vainly tried to name him cadetmaster instead of Dyan Ardais, HH 61.
domna Female title of respect in casta, higher rank than mestra, suitable for a comynara or a Keeper. Used either as a prefix to a name or by itself. The translation 'Lady' obscures the difference in rank between domna and mestra.
The dialect form domnis is in use in the Dry Towns, SC 43.
Masculine counterpart is dom.
DOMNA ALIDA See ALIDA. And similarly for other names prefixed by Domna.
domnina (casta) "Little lady," diminutive of domna, properly used only to a child, SC 61.
domnis Dialect form of domna, used in the Dry Towns, SC 43.
dom'ytn Typographical error for dom'yn, collective "nobles, lords, and ladies," plural of dom (q.v.), WW 44 (46).
donas (casta) "Gift"; often specifically the psychic gift or specialized form of laran of one of the Comyn Domains; see Gift. The -as form indicates a symmetric pair (giver and recipient) considered typical as a unit, CG.
donas amizu (casta) "Gift (of) friend(ship)." Specifically, a sexual sharing between males, often but not always adolescent boys; the term for a similar sharing between two females is donas amizia. Not a pejorative, WW 156-57 (178). This custom is common in the Kilghard Hills and is known throughout the Domains. Its nearest Terran equivalent is the archaic rite of blood-brotherhood; however, on Darkover, shedding a friend's blood would be unthinkable, FT 326; see knives. It is often part of the oath of bredin, or consequent to the latter. See The Family Verb in Appendix.
Such a sharing is obliquely referred to in HH as having occurred between the 12-year-old Regis Hastur and Lew Alton on the fire-lines near Armida, an episode which Regis (during his years at Nevarsin) blocked from his memory, thus suppressing his developing laran at the same time, to such a degree that even Lew could not safely break down the barrier, HH 34-35ff. Regis's recovery of the memory, and acceptance of his own nature, with his deeply emotional tie to Danilo, are central to his recovery from near-fatal threshold sickness and his ability to master use of laran, HH 288, 293, 329-32, see also HH 29, 265 and 334. (Considering Danilo's status as Regis's lover in WW, we may justly assume a similar shared consummation in the meantime.)
One can presume similar ties between Kennard Alton and Dyan Ardais, HH 193, between Rafael Hastur and Rafael Syrtis, HH 73, between Damon MacAnndra and Julian MacAran (qq.v.), HH 126ff, and between Rohana
and Melora Aillard, SC 68-69, a pledge that Rohana honored at risk of her life and (by Comyn standards, more scandalously) her marriage, SC 270-71. Something emotionally near the same thing flourished between Rohana and Kindra n'ha Mhari (qq.v.).
It would not be unsuitable to presume it in any strong emotionalized friendships between Darkovan adolescents of the same sex, especially in the telepath castes.
It was considered "slightly more suitable" for adolescents to find lovers among their friends than to seek prostitutes.
donkeys Thought to have been a Terran import, like horses, SD 73. See also Durraman.
Donnell Ramsay See Ramsay. TE Legate at the time of the Sharra Rebellion, HH 85.
doors Many in the Comyn houses bore matrix locks (q.v.). Kennard Alton opened the door of the Alton townhouse in Old Thendara with "a curious gesture," SD 34.
doree (casta) "Gilt" or "made of gold." The -ee ending = past participle, female. See following entry.
dori (casta) "Golden." Most familiar in the given name Cleindori (q.v.), "Golden Bell"; but there derived from doree (preceding entry). Accent on final syllable.
Dorian Lanart Older sister to Ellemir and Callista, FT 42, at age 15, married Mikhail, a nedestro cousin to Gabriel Ardais (q.v.), FT 42, 346, bore him two daughters, FT 233. She was fair like many Ridenows, partly because she had some Ridenow blood, FT 233 (cf. FT 102).
The name means "golden"; dori + adjectival suffix -an, probably alluding to hair color.
double tongues See art.
draft animals Native counterparts of buffalo and larger deer; also called pack animals (q.v.), WD 25 (29).
dragons Extinct large species of reptile-like creatures, supposedly all killed off before the Ages of Chaos, WD 60 (77).
The old proverb "It is ill done to keep a dragon chained to roast your meat," SD 9, suggests that these animals were "firebreathers"—static electricity igniting their oral and anal exhalations.
dream-dust Unidentified XXI Century Terran (?) or colonial (?) psychedelic substance, presumably in powder form; as a verb, to ingest said substance, possibly by sniffing, DL 56. Camilla Del Rey compared the Ghost Wind to it.
dreams Regis Hastur sometimes had extremely significant, symbolic, even precognitive dreams, HH 73-74, 100-02, 104, etc. After Sharra had been activated, various people at Aldaran had dreams obviously stimulated by the Sharra force, HH 283-84, 292-93.
drone-pipe Archaic musical instrument, evidently the same as Terran bagpipes, though whether Scottish or Irish is uncertain (probably the former, via the Scottish colonists in New Hebrides Commune), FT 112; HH 107, 175. The art of playing this instrument was long lost on Terra, until Terrans relearned it on Darkover. Used for accompanying the traditional sword-dance in the Hellers, HH 107, as performed in kilts and plaids by (among others) Dyan Ardais.
Kadarin referred to it as the oldest of Darkovan musical instruments, HH 175; the oldest music surviving on Darkover proved to be identical with tunes traced to the British or "Brictish" Isles. This was among the arguments he used to convince Lew Alton of the Darkovans' Terran origin. Drylands Desert region, surrounded by semi-arid lands; within the desert area are the Dry Towns (q.v.), SC 40. Ancient legends say these lands were made by Zandru, SC 64. They are the warmest area on the planet, in a basin well below sea level (an ancient sea bed?). Dry Towners Inhabitants of the three Dry Towns (q.v.); tall, blond, deeply suntanned, WD 91 (119), sexually polarized to an inordinate degree. Among males, machismo was extreme; females from about age 12 or 13 on were kept veiled and chained, in virtual purdah, regarded as chattels, SC 16, 19, WD 91 (119). See chains. (Unchained females were regarded and treated as prostitutes.) Men lived by hunting, trading, and fighting, in an exaggerated version of the life styles common to desert and frontier cultures throughout the known Galaxy; they assigned much important to kihar (q.v.), i.e., "face," which they identified not only with honor, status and prestige, but also specifically with macho quality, fighting prowess, virility, and one-upmanship. Some features of their culture were derived or imitated from the cat-men (q.v.) with whom they traded, and/or from or by the inhabitants of Wolf (Phi Coronis IV, q.v.), BS 7, 21, 38.
Idlers were common, rudeness to strangers was the rule, chauvinism was extreme. They did not believe that Terrans actually came from offworld, SC 57. They had no laran. Despite their code of honor, they were regarded in the Domains as treacherous, possibly because they tended to regard outsiders as rather less than human. Honor for women derived only from the status of their owners. Understandably, Free Amazons hated Dry Towns men, SC 25.
Dry Towns men were polygamous, SC 12, and generally credited with permanent, undiscriminating randiness, thereby becoming the subject of numerous obscene jokes and proverbial expressions: e.g. "as many concubines as a Dry Towner," HH 57, or Regis's irreverent comparision of a huge bed at castle Aldaran to a Dry Towner's, big enough for the man, "three of his wives, and six of his concubines," HH 289. Dry Towners forced their wives to harbor their concubines, FT 208. Dry Towners did not suffer loss of kihar by having boys for bedmates, though they would have suffered such loss by showing passivity, gentleness, or any traits they considered as feminine—again as in most desert and frontier cultures.
Understandably, Dry Towners were apt to be compared to Terrans, FT 190.
Wars with the Domains occurred at various epochs, separated by uneasy truces, without conclusive victory for either side, SC 25. For some years Dry Towners occupied Carthon, WD 91-95 (118-124), only to be driven out again during the Regency of Danvan Hastur, presumably when the Kadarin River was restored to its original channels. They played a minor role in the Catmen's War,
the catmen stirring them up against the Altons.
They preferred fighting with sword and dagger, disdaining use of shield as cowardly. Some Dry Towners poisoned their blades, SC 35, though these were considered to manifest much less kihar than unpoisoned blades. The swords were of two forms: long and straight, SS 110, and shorter with marked curvature, SC 28.
Whether or not they were at war with the Domains at any given time, trading continued in locally mined sulfur to the Ardais and other Domains representatives (see paper, Ardais, books); weapons; textiles including linex; rubies; spices; biologicals, etc. They imported almost everything that could not be made from local materials: some fabrics, leather, wood, horses, packanimals, metals for weapons. They also bought boy and girl captives of various ages from bandits or trail-raiders, SS 42, either for their own sexual use or for sale to the Shainsa and Ardcarran brothels (see bordellos, brothels, minions, Ardcarran, Shainsa). Jalak had bought his boy bedmate Garris (q.v.) from one such place.
Long ago some of their women were married to some Ridenow men, presumably by purchase (see bride-price), but the empathic Ridenow doubtless removed the chains immediately on quitting the area. This intermarriage accounts for the blond hair found more often among Ridenows than elsewhere in the Domains.
Their origin has long been disputed. Some theorize that they were descendants of the DL crewmen (not the New Hebrides Commune members), never exposed to Ghost Wind or chieri crosses, their different ethnic stock being subjected thereafter to extreme inbreeding and consequent genetic drift. Others have suggested that during the Ages of Chaos, or perhaps earlier, there was a settlement in this area by inhabitants of Wolf, any similar invaders in the Domains being massacred.
See also kihar, Ardcarran, Carthon, catmen, Daillon, DANETTE, GARRIS, JALAK, Shainsa. Dry Towns Shainsa, Ardcarran and Daillon (qq.v.), in the Dry Lands, sites of oases in the desert, built around central marketplaces containing wells, SC 16, where water is sold for the small copper rings used as money in many areas.
Houses are of sunbleached stone, turning blind (win-dowless) facades to sunside, SC 27. All doors and gates to Great Houses are guarded, SC 38, reflecting the chronic endemic paranoia of such cultures, where every stranger is seen as a potential enemy. duels By Domains law, these were not murder, so long as performed with legal weapons (those permitted under the Compact q.v.). By Terran law, not prosecuted as murder provided that a Declaration of Intent-to-Murder in Fair Fight (q.v.) had been filed with Department Three (q.v.) and duly acknowledged. See also blood feud, code duello, Declaration of Intent-to-Murder in Fair Fight, and vendetta. Dr. David Hamilton's guesses as to why the practice was so common are quoted in WW 177(201-02). Durraman $ donkey (accent on first and third syllables) Known only from proverbial expressions such as "Dead as Durraman's donkey," WD 17, though the original story which gave rise to such expressions has long been
forgotten. There is no information on Durraman, or why he kept a donkey (a Terran import), or why it died; the name suggests that Durraman was not of Comyn origin, whoever he might have been, and that the donkey was preternaturally stupid. Dom Esteban used the phrase "useless as Durraman's donkey," SS 115.
Reputedly the donkey starved between two piles of hay because he was too stupid to make up his mind which to eat first. An alternative tale is recorded in STARSTONE 2.
Duvic Elhalyn Prince, FT 297-98; afterwards king in Thendara about twenty years before the Sharra Rebellion; father of Stefan IV and grandfather of Derik.
He was King when Lew Alton, age 5, was first presented to the Comyn by Kennard, SA 56 (59).
"Spoiled, dissolute-looking, foppishly dressed in furs," FT 298. DYAN ARDAIS Properly DYAN-GABRIEL ARDAIS of ARDAIS, Regent of Ardais, HH 84, later Lord Ardais, HH 368. See the Ardais Lineage, p. 159. Son of Kyril-Valentine Ardais of Ardais; ruled his Domain as Regent during Kyril's decades of madness, HH 75.
"Pale, tall, hawk-faced," HH 16; harsh, musical voice; six-fingered; dark haired; powerful telepath, though without the Ardais Gift of catalyst telepathy. Educated at Nevarsin. In his youth sent to a Tower, but was refused entry for unrecorded reasons, HH 62, possibly the instability of Ardais males. Later apprenticed to a healer ("curer-of-wounds") at Nevarsin, SD 127. Still later he was an officer in the Guards, recognized even by his enemies as "the most competent officer in the Guards" and certainly one of the finest swordsmen on the planet. Nevertheless, he was universally feared and detested by the cadets, with the possible exception of his favorite bedmates among them, as he was given to such sick games as inflicting serious injuries during watchfulness training—dislocating Lew Alton's arm at the elbow, HH 24, and giving Julian MacAran a serious concussion, HH 127. Lew Alton attempted to have him replaced as cadet-master, but was overruled by Kennard, HH 65.
He courted Regis Hastur with unexceptionable courtesy, teaching him swordplay (while inflicting multiple unnecessary bruises for his own amusement), though his sexual interest in Regis was obvious enough that other cadets believed Regis his lover, HH 146. However, his pursuit of Danilo Syrtis was less subtle; when Danilo, being a cristoforo, refused his advances with disgust and dismay, Dyan invaded his mind telepathically, trying to force him to submit, and eventually goading Danilo into drawing a dagger on him, HH 160.
Though he was personally corrupt, Dyan's public actions were motivated at this time by loyalty to Comyn and distrust for any Terran invasion or alliance. He had fathered a son, who was killed in a rockslide at Nevarsin, HH 147; later he named his father's nedestro grandson Danilo Syrtis as his heir, HH 373, possibly at Kennard Alton's instigation.
He was musical; before his voice changed, at Nevarsin, he had been a talented singer. Later, he played the drone-pipe and danced the ancient sword-dance.
After the Sharra Rebellion, perhaps because of his distaste for any alliance with the Terrans, he allied himself with Aldaran and later still with Kadarin to use the Sharra matrix against the Comyn, a self-defeating maneuver doubtless attributable to Sharra's influence on his  already   dangerously unstable condition. He after-
wards attempted to use 5-year-old Marja (q.v.) as a focus to control the Sharra matrix, a criminally dangerous act. He was killed in the final battle between Sharra and Aldones, and good riddance.
After his death Danilo became Lord Ardais, but the memory of Dyan remained.

Earth Expeditionary Coordinators of XXI Century Terran planetary exploration, apparently successors to NASA, DL 8. Chief Engineer Patrick wondered if it had turned into a nest of anti-technocrats and neo-ruralists, DL117.
Evidently ancestral to several different arms of TE.
eating Utensils Forks, knives (generally one's own personal dagger), spoons, and for spearing tidbits, an individual pick like a single chopstick but sharply pointed. Larry Montray had learned to manage this last, which is more than could be said of many Terrans.
Ecological Council Its HQ is on Terra; it is empowered to decide for TE on such questions as massive land changes, terraforming, moving or flattening mountains, diverting rivers, etc, SC 109.

ecology The concept of tough or delicate (vulnerable, unstable) planetary ecosystems is elaborated in DL 118ff; Terra's was tough, Darkover's is very vulnerable in that
the ground cover is barely sufficient to resist massive erosion; forest fires are far more frequent and more dangerous as a source of widespread destruction, permitting extensive erosion; freak weather can produce long-range disruption; and any attempt at large scale Terran-style technology (e.g. strip mining, clearing of forests for large cities or paper mills, etc.) would produce grave consequences planetwide. For which reason the DL authorities decided to refrain from introducing more than minimal technology, and this decision has remained in effect since the TE authorities came in.
Edelweiss Estate on Alton lands, HH 28, about three Terran miles or 5 standard kilometers from Syrtis, HH 227; slightly over a day's ride from Neskaya, HH 232. Ken-nard Alton leased it to Javanne Hastur and Gabriel Lanart some ten years before the Sharra Rebellion, HH 28. The "Lanart angels" were born here.
The name is translated from that of a Terran perennial herb common in the Swiss Alps, literally meaning "noble white (flower)." Presumably similar flowers grew in this area.
Edric Ridenow o/Serrais, Lord Serrais oldest
brother of Corus, Lerrys, HH 83, and Dio, SA 21 (19); half-brother of Auster Ridenow (qq.v.) (not him of BS); married a commoner, though a Domain lord. Thickset, red bearded, HH 83.
Known as the "Red Fox."
Stabbed to death at age 37 byWorldwrecker assassins, WW 13 (10).
EDRIC STORN Younger brother of Rakhal Storn of Storn, Allira, and Melitta, WD 19 (20). At age 15, lame and scarred by Brynat Scarface's men, WD 136 (180-81). He took charge of the castle's defense when Brynat stormed it; his courage won their grudging respect, so he was merely thrown into the dungeon rather than being killed. He was found alive there at the retaking of High Windward.
EDUIN (accent on first syllable) Officer of Armida Guardsmen under Dom Esteban, SS 84, FT 7-8. Small, gnarled
of stature, broad-shouldered, hawk-faced, SS 108. He spoke Hellers dialect, SS 86, in which the name Esteban became Istvan. Sworn brother of Caradoc (q.v.).
When Dom Esteban was absent, and after Esteban's paralyzing injury, Eduin—a teniente (q.v.)—became his brevet replacement or seconde (q.v.). He rode in with the Guards who had been battered by the catmen, and he himself bore a long facial gash which would have left a scar except that Damon was persuaded to heal it by matrix; he forced Damon to heal his bredu Caradoc.
Later he swore fealty to Damon and accompanied him to the caves of Corresanti. EEG (electroencephalograph) Name still applied to the TEMS device for recording all types of brain waves. Among telepaths, peculiar EEG patterns ("ramp functions") were found associated with those common to hereditary migraine and psychomotor epilepsy, though normally Comyn were not subject to either condition (but see GABRIEL ARDAIS), WW 64 (69). "Ramp functions" were first discovered in XX Century Terran research, and are described in Matthew Manning's THE LINK. Cf. GEMINI PROBLEM, final section.
Comyn possessors of laran had EEG patterns instead somewhat similar to those of the chieri, WW 64 (69).
Presumably only Terran chronic skepticism about ESP or psi abilities of any kind prevented TE authorities for centuries from recognizing these patterns and using them to identify people with these abilities.

Elaine Aldaran-Montray-Alton Daughter of Wade Mon-tray (Terran son of Russell Montray, qq.v., of TE HQ) and Mariel Aldaran, who was half-sister to Kermiac Aldaran of Aldaran (qq.v.), HH 170. Born on Darkover, stayed with her mother on Terra after Mariel separated from Wade, HH 170; reared and schooled there with her brother Larry Montray, who was Kennard's bredu (qq.v.), SD. Kennard did not originally realize her lineage, though he doubtless identified her as one of the rare Terrans with laran ; later he married her and they returned to Armida, where she bore him two sons, Lew and
Marius Alton (qq.v.). The Comyn would not recognize the marriage as anything but barragana (q.v.), and Kennard fought for years to have Lew declared the legitimate laran heir to the Domain.
She died at Marius's birth, about 12 years before the Sharra Rebellion, and Kennard took her body back to Aldaran, HH 169.
Her given name in Casta was Yllana. electric power Generated by windmills at various locales in the Kilghard Hills; generated by a hydroelectric plant built by TE authorities at the waterfall just outside Caer Donn, HH 198. The source of that used at Thendara TZ and TEHQ is not specified.
electro-encephalograph See EEG.
electromentry   One of the "noncausative" sciences (q.v.),
BS 71. elephants  Extinct Terran animal species, thought to have
been sapient (I.B.'s), DL 77. elevators One powered by matrix was located in Arilinn Tower, past the Veil entrance, BS 76. The Terrans built an electrically powered one at the Caer Donn waterfall, HH 199. A third, also electrically powered and glass-enclosed, was in TEHQ, Thendara, leading to the spaceport viewing terraces, HH 43. Elhalyn One of the Seven Domains. The name was originally Hastur of Elhalyn, to distinguish them from the elder branch called the Hasturs of Hastur. The (largely ceremonial) kingship long since passed to them from the Hasturs, who nevertheless remained the power behind the throne, and one Hastur Lord after another became Regent of the Crown owing to the frequent incapacity of the Elhalyn heir to rule.
The name probably means "Ruling at Hali" with nominative plural.
The family was notable for its hawks and little else, SA 35.
They allowed comynara status and Comyn Council membership to their women, HH 83.
Colors; Silver tree (acknowledging their Hastur ancestry) and crown, FT 29.
The Gift and motto are not recorded.
Castle Elhalyn is near to Thendara and Hali: see castles.
See also ARAN, DERIK, Duvic, Jerome, Marius, Stefan. ELLEMIR LANART, Domna, Comynara Daughter of Dom Esteban Lanart, Lord Alton; twin sister of Callista (q.v.), SS 77. Born and raised at Armida, about 20 years before the Catmen's War. Tall, slender, delicate features, fiery red hair, brilliant blue eyes. Double cousin to Damon Ridenow, SS 17-18, 23, FT 102 (and see Alton Lineage and FT Lineage, below, pp. 158, 160). Being free to do so, SS 78ff, she married Damon Ridenow, FT 61, later solemnizing it di catenas, FT 308, though Esteban had originally wanted to give her in marriage to Cathal Lindir, FT 338. Nonvirgin at marriage, SS 97, FT 42 (see Mikhail).
She had laran, including precognitive flashes, FT 21, 60, 281, though as she believed the old folklore that twins (though linked) had unequal amounts of laran, she
underestimated her own abilities, FT 124.
After miscarrying her first child by Damon, FT 100-02, she made love with Andrew Carr, FT 151, 191-92, 265, and became pregnant with his son, FT 265-66.
At the trial of the Forbidden Tower circle, Lorill Hastur sentenced her to "cease to meddle in matters outside the sphere of women," and to return home in custody of Rohana Aillard-Ardais, Princess Jerana, and Lady Cassilda Hastur, FT 332, but she refused.
She helped cure Callista (q.v.) and ready her, FT 345-38, for consummation in 4-way rapport, FT 348-50; together they took part in the astral battle with Arilinn Tower, FT 352-60.
ELLERS, JOHNNY Terran, member of Spaceforce. Small, stocky, balding on top, BS 9. The Baron Munchausen of Spaceforce; served on 24 planets and had incredible tales to tell about his exploits on all of them, mostly sexual conquests. See Arcturus IV and Sirian birdwomen.
Elli Diminutive form of Ellemir, FT 76, 97, etc.
ELOISE XXI Century Terran. Communications officer aboard the DL starship. Roommate of Dr. Judith Lovat. During a Ghost Wind she sat under a longleafed tree, listening to the wind in its leaves, and singing wordlessly, DL91.
Elorie Common given name for women in the Ardais family and probably elsewhere in the Hellers. Diminutive form, Lori. See following entries.
Elorie Ardais Daughter of Lady Rohana Ardais by Dom Gabriel; usually called Lori. Jaelle wore one of her dresses for Midwinter Festival.
ELORIE ARDAIS Daughter of Kyril-Valentine Ardais of Ardais; sister of Dyan Ardais; Keeper at Arilinn Tower, BS 78ff.
Rannirl bet her a hawk that "Jeff Kerwin Jr." would not reach the Tower; he lost, of course. Later she married "Jeff," BS 156, but bore no living children, HH 16.
She made "Jeff" invisible to get him inside Spacemen's Orphanage (q.v.), BS 159-61. (See glamor.) She broke his barrier, forcing him to recall (and relive) witnessing his mother's murder, BS 1 70-75. She started a riot to permit "Jeff" and herself to escape from Terran Zone, Thendara, where they were being held pending deportation, BS 179-80. Later, they went to Ardais to live, HH 16.
Though nonvirgin, she functioned as Keeper, only to suffer physical collapse and months of invalidism; but she proved conclusively that this could be done without death.
Elsie Unidentified worker, in charge of food preparation? DL 124.
embredin Typographical error, WD 31 (37), for ombredin (q.v.). (CG gives an alternate theory in "Darkovan Language Review," 34.)
embroidery Long since became a fine art on Darkover, being common on boots and most other garments; patterns were ancient and traditional, naturalistic, stylized and abstract, using colors. Probably new patterns were also created.
emmasca (casta) "Desexed," earlier "emasculated," but
primordially (in respectful mode) referring to a chieri in neuter phase, FT 109, WW 136 (152), or any individual of over half chieri blood still capable of changing gender. As a noun (feminine), it refers to a woman who has had the illegal matrix operation (also called neutering), equivalent to excision of uterus, ovaries and adnexae— generally a last-resort procedure to avoid a desperately unwanted marriage; after which her only welcome is among the Free Amazons, SC 141, though formerly this was done to Keepers, FT 109-10, 223, 251-52. Some are known to be able to pass as males, SC 117, including at least one in Thendara Guild House around the time of the Catmen's War. The hormonal changes following neutering result in breast tissue resportion; a woman so treated also loses other so-called feminine curves and is no longer regarded by men as a sexual object. See CAMILLA, Crystal Chamber, DARIL YN, deformity.
empath A possessor of the special form of laran enabling one to perceive others' unspoken emotions as one's own, BS 89ff. Unusual in Darkovan males outside the Ridenow family (q.v.) (it is part of the Ridenow Gift). "Jeff Kerwin Jr." had the gift in a very high degree, BS 96, which was understandable considering his actual parentage. Dr. David Hamilton also had it, WW 57 (61).
Empire When not otherwise specified, always refers to Terran Empire. Regis Hastur saw it as a process of entropy, WW 20.
Empire Center Site of TE Senate and the other legislative house, plus numerous lobbyists; "Worldwreckers Inc." had its "legitimate" cover agents there, WW 9 (6).
Location in the Galaxy not cited; formerly on Terra, see next entry.
Empire Control Former name for TE Central HQ, still on Terra at the time of the Catmen's War, SS 10.
Empire Senate Upper house of the TE legislative bodies, meeting in Empire Center, WW 9 (6).
Empire University Planet-wide center of scholarship: scholars from throughout the known Galaxy teach and learn there. Institution of choice for studies not limited to local details of a single planetary system. Medical schools, for example, are attached to TEMS hospitals on every colonized planet, one reason being the need of studying local pathogens and remedies. There is no need, therefore, of centralizing the study of medicine, whereas there are obvious and excellent reasons for centralizing such studies as comparative planetary ecologies, comparative religion, comparative alien anthropology, sapience, interstellar economics, etc. Its department of Alien Anthropology became famous.
Madgalen   Lome   and  Peter Haldane both  obtained degrees in Alien Anthropology as part of their qualifications for TE Intelligence work on Darkover, SC 96. See Terran Empire.
energon rings Some Tower application of energons (q.v.), FT 82—analogous to Terran linear accelerators?
energons Long-wave vibrations emitted by the central nervous system and amplifiable by matrix; their modulations carry ESP signals of many types. In a matrix circle, one of the critical problems is for each member to become aware of his own and everyone else's characteristic
frequency (or wavelength), and modulate his/her own to resonate rather than to interfere, a process analogous to tuning signal generators into unison, canceling out "beats," HH 238-39. Work with energons, especially high-energy ones tuned and amplified in matrix circles, is extremely fatiguing, a great drain on individual energy (see impotence). The channels (q.v.) through which energons pass are the same ones described—for thousands of years—in standard texts on yoga, as connecting the psychic organs or chakras, raising the question of whether prana (vital energy accumulated and made to flow properly via yogic breathing exercises) consists partly or wholly of energons.
entertainer Translation of a cahuenga term which had long since become a euphemism for grezalis (prostitute), SC 107.
The polite terms denoting actual entertainment professionals are more specific, translated as "ballad-singer," "mime," "dancer," "instrumentalist," "lyric performer," etc. Offworlders are routinely warned to avoid use of this word.
entropy Processes leading away from organization or pattern and towards increased randomness, disorganization, depatterning, degeneration, etc., very approximately; generalized from the original concepts in thermodynamics and information theory. Regis Hastur saw the TE as a process contributing to entropy, WW 20.
eris Plant with pungent gray leaves, the odor compared to raw onions. Found in the mountains. Used by Kennard Alton and Larry Montray to mask human skin odor, to evade banshees, SD 106-08.
The name may possibly be related to Terran (Sp.) erisimo "hedge mustard," or Eng. iris, of which iris foetidissima (= gladden) is a strong-smelling variety (CG).
Erlik Obscure minor god or demon, no description. Only in "Erlik defend us from either!" SA 72 (78).
esa so vhalle Terranan acqualle Insult in an uncouth dialect of cahuenga, heard by "Jeff Kerwin Jr." in a Thendara foodshop, BS 22.
"Underneath every Terran you'll find ... (a mud-rabbit ready to bolt)," CG, adaptation of an older proverb, "under every bush . . ." Jeff's answer was another proverb: "The rain can only drown the mud-rabbit if he hasn't the wits to keep his mouth shut," BS 22.
escort A Comyn lord or heir was expected to have one, as even Dan Lawton knew well, HH 42. This normally consisted of his paxman, Guardsmen, and personal bodyguards and servants, even if his family did not come on the same journey.
ESP, extra-sensory perception Capacity for receiving information through other than the ordinary sensory input channels. Rafe MacAran saw this during the Ghost Wind as not only a reality (since he and Camilla Del Rey were in rapport), but as a reserve survival power possessed by primitive man on Terra, DL 96, as well as other species. This power was long since atrophied by disuse and disbelief among civilized folk, though it remained in the genetic potential. On Darkover it is mobilized by contact with a catalyst telepath (q.v.) or with the kir-
eseth pollen, DL 97; and see Ghost Wind, Gifts, chieri, laran, kirian.
ESTEBAN, DOM In full ESTEBAN-GABRIEL-RAFAEL LANART of ARMIDA, Lord ALTON (Accent on first and third syllables), SS 84ff. Commonly called Dom Ist-van in the Hellers dialect, SS 86. Descendant of Rafael Lanart, sometime Regent of the Comyn; father of Coryn (q.v.); father by Marcella Ridenow, FT 299, of the twins Callista and Ellemir (qq.v.), of Domenic Lanart, and of Valdir, later known as Valdir Alton, who was in turn father of Kennard Alton and grandfather of Lew Alton. Fathered nedestro sons by Larissa d'Asturien, FT 65, and fathered Desiderio by Gwennis Leynier (qq.v.). Powerful telepath with the full Alton Gift, SS 117, including precognitive flashes, FT 279. Swarthy, aquiline profile, red hair which turned iron-grey; red beard, bushy grey eyebrows, SS 109. Arthritic. Merciless with weakness—his own or anyone else's, SS 111. Polyglot, could and did curse fluently in four tongues (casta, cahuenga, Hellers dialect, and Dry Towns dialect?).
Esteban had been one of those who met the TE representatives, many years before the Catmen's War, at the original negotiations between them and Stefan Hastur, which resulted in the agreement to lease land outside Thendara to the Terrans for a Trade City and spaceport, which moved their main operations away from Caer Donn and into an easily accessible part of the Domains where they could be watched.
During the Catmen's War Esteban was rendered paraplegic, SS 85, 90, 108-09, FT 8, but used his Alton Gift via a matrix in a sword hilt to impart his skill at swordsmanship to Damon Ridenow against the catmen, SS 117-20, 128-33. However, even this could not bypass a matrix barrier in the caves of Corresanti, SS 149. Use of the Alton Gift in this manner was after the precedent of King Regis V Hastur, SS 116, cf. HH 55.
In old age he learned to play the rryl from Callista, FT 264. He designated Damon as regent for the 11-year-old heir to Alton, Valdir, FT 300. Damon afterwards repaired Esteban's heart by matrix, FT 361, 363.
Estill MacAran Son of Alanna by her husband MacAran, who was paxman to Dom Esteban; brother of Cormac and Hjalmar; foster-brother of Damon Ridenow (qq.v.). Lived in Corresanti village, at least until the Catmen's War, SS 137.
The name is mountain dialect and is related to various Terran words with the general sense of "sharp pointed instrument." (Phallic? cf. Balhar.)
Evanda Merciful goddess of spring and growing things; called "Evanda the Fair," SS 129. Rohana invoked her at the birth of little Valentine, SC 72. The chieri had a legend that Evanda gave them long life "when the world was shaped," WW 154 (1 75). See Four.
Everest Tallest mountain and central attraction in the Himalaya National Park on Terra. Slidewalks and lifts had been installed for use by old people, invalids, and children. The starting point for these journeys is not stated, though presumably it was somewhere nearer the peak than Kathmandu, the nearest city of any size (some 298 standard kilometers or 185 Terran miles away), DL 8-9.
"Everything but freedom . . ." Key phrase in SC, pinpointing the alleged advantages of a comynara compared with a Free Amazon, SC 273.
Evil-Eye Fleagle Apocryphal Terran deity? Identified only as "a very ancient god." "Jeff Kerwin Jr." jocosely applied this title to himself in a Thendara restaurant, BS 23.
Evolutionist Any adherent of the old theory that human and humanoid sapient races all over the known Galaxy had independently evolved in parallel, SA 6 (2). Opposite to Dispersionist (q.v.).
Ewen Child of Camilla Del Rey (q.v.), DL 159-60. Named after Ewen Ross?
Ewen Ross XXI Century Terran, part of the DL group. Young medical officer, small, slightly built, small curly brown beard, light brown hair. Either a member of the Reformed Catholic Church, belonged to some similar group, or was sympathetic to it, as he attended masses celebrated by Father Valentine.
MacAran requested him to go along on a mountain climbing expedition.
An admirer of Camilla Del Rey.
exchange of knives See bredin, donas amizu, knives.
exile A dominant theme in songs, hopes, fears, dreams, etc., of the New Hebrides Commune people (XXI Century Terrans); part of their Scottish heritage, the Scots having shared this for millennia, DL 83-84, 149.
Note also the recurrence of this motif in much of Lew Alton's bitterness. Yet, Lew, with Dio Ridenow and Marja, sought it as an alternative to seeing the Terrans take over Darkover, SA 163 (183).
exports Darkover exported, to various TE planets, such items as certain medicinal drugs, certain biologicals, silks (including spider-silk, q.v.), furs, wines, certain metals for precision tools, gold, platinum (rarely), jewels and gemstones including (since a few decades before the Sharra Rebellion) a few of the tiniest matrix crystals, too small for use as anything but jewels, SD 6.
eyes Unlike Terrans, Darkovans normally have bluish or grey eyes; those of chieri are extremely pale grey, nearly colorless. Owing to genetic drift, the Terran dominant of dark brown eyes vanished long ago on Darkover.
Rafael Scott and his sister Marjorie (qq.v.) had gold-flecked amber eyes; but consider their ancestry—at least one-quarter chieri, the remainder part native Darkovan, part Terran, HH 1 72, SA 20.

fair people of the wood Chieri, WW 152 (152).
fairy tales Ancient legends. Rafe Scott twice referred to such a tale about a magic sword, inscribed on the scabbard "Draw me never unless I drink blood," which would not go back into its scabbard until it had done so, HH 249, 304. Lew Alton thought this, like other such legends, might have been based on garbled memories of the Ages of Chaos, and agreed when Rafe compared the Sharra matrix to such a sword.
faster-than-light drive See Big Ships. A primitive form of it, using M-AM propulsion, was used for XXI Century Terran interstellar traffic, including the original DL "Lost Ship," SC 235.
Infants and young children could not endure the stress of this type of travel.
Like all such drives, this bypassed the relativistic problem (the unlimited increase of mass as one approaches the velocity of light) only by going outside normal spacetime and reassembling on returning thereto.
Father Master Translation of the official title of the abbot of Nevarsin Monastery, HH 28.
"Fat RlMA" Free Amazon from the Kilghard Hills, trained at Arilinn Guild House, later a member of Kindra's band, SC 24, 71. Deepbreasted; hair neck-length. Though originally trained by her mother at Syrtis as a midwife's helper, SC 67, and later as a midwife, she was a mercenary soldier, carried a knife, and killed 12 of the enemy in the Trailmen's War, or one of the various so called skirmishes. On Shainsa rescue expedition.
She delivered Valentine, Melora's son by Jalak, in the Dry Lands enroute to Carthon, SC 74-76.
fead (casta) "place" (?) in rhu fead (q.v.) from Terran (Gael.) feadh "space, extent"? CG.
feathertrees Species of tree at oases in the Dry Lands, SC 42. So called because of shape and construction of their leaves, palmlike or fernlike.
Felicia Darriell (accent on second syllable in first name) Daughter of Old Rakhal Darriell by a chieri, conceived possibly forty-odd years before the Sharra Rebellion during one of the Ghost Wind episodes in the Hellers, HH 216. The story of her parentage, though true, was doubted by Kermiac. She was fostered at Storn Castle,
growing up to become companion/attendant to Lauretta Storn-Lanart (who was married to Kermiac of Aldaran); she later bore Kermiac a daughter, Thyra (q.v.), and still later married the Terran Zeb Scott, to whom she bore Marjorie (Marguerida) and Rafe (i.e. Rakhal) Scott. Her eyes were "strange," HH 237; possibly nearly colorless like the chieri, possibly gold-flecked amber like Rafe's and Marjorie's. She was doubtless six-fingered.
The name is feminine form of Felix, from a Terran word meaning "happy." Felix  Common male given name in Syrtis family and probably  elsewhere  in  Kilghard  Hills  and  Hellers.  Directly from Terran (Latin) felix meaning "happy."
Felix Syrtis of Syrtis called dom felix. Long
hawkmaster to Rafael Hastur, HH 73, but broke with the Hasturs after Rafael's death, reason unspecified but probably political; left Castle Hastur and/or Comyn Castle to return to Syrtis; farmed his lands for some 15 years afterwards, HH 226. Father of Rafael-Felix Syrtis of Syrtis, and of Danilo (qq.v.). Fierce, frail with age, notable for granitic integrity.
He probably had laran, though Danilo inherited his Ardais Gift from his mother, who was Melora Castamir, nedestro daughter of Kyril-Valentine Ardais, HH 373.
FERRIKA n'ha (Mother's name not given.) (accent on first syllable), trained as a midwife at Arilinn Guild House, FT 79, 157, lived there three years, FT 199; afterwards appointed midwife at Armida, FT 50, 76-77.
She developed laran, FT 316-17; Callista taught her to monitor, FT 363.
fertility ritual Called Year's End Festival, not described; obsolete before the burning of Neskaya Tower, FT 263, 270.
Festival Ball Celebration dance, held annually on Festival Night (midsummer), at Comyn Castle, HH 105ff; similar events are no doubt simultaneously held elsewhere in the Domains.
It opens with demonstration of folk dances, many of great virtuosity and antiquity, HH 107; SA 96ff. Guests are often found masked or in exotic costumes miming people of other cultures. Social distinctions tend to be temporarily overlooked.
Festival Fair Held at Midsummer Festival. Some years after the Sharra Rebellion it included a freak show, WW 32(33).
Festival Night If not specified as Midwinter, the term refers to Midsummer Festival, celebrated with dances in principal cities, HH 105, SA 96ff (106ff). Some say that it is the Blessed Cassilda's birthday, others that it commemorates the day she found Hastur, Son of Aldones, sleeping on the shores of the Lake of Hali, HH 105. In actuality, midsummer celebrations are found on planets throughout the known Galaxy.
In the Towers, homage has long been paid this night to the memory of Mirella (or Marelie) Hastur (q.v.), SS 96.
Festivals Major celebrations, featuring dances and other public events, held at Midsummer, Midwinter, and the two equinoxes, WW 174 (198), a custom found on most inhabited planets in the known Galaxy. When "Festival Night" or "the Festival" is used without other modifier,
the reference is regularly to that held at midsummer, for Darkovans the most important of all. That at midwinter is held especially sacred by Free Amazons, being the occasion of their annual reunions; sun-fire is used for rekindling altar fires, FT 232. That at the spring equinox celebrates the first spring thaw. Midsummer is connected to the "Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda," and is the occasion for gifts of flowers and fruits, FT 340. That at the fall equinox appears to be the last public occasion for rejoicing before the weather makes travel hazardous.
Peter Haldane compared Midwinter Festival to "their own," i.e. that celebrated at Yuletide (roughly, the winter solstice) by Terrans: i.e. greenery, gifts, even the smell of spicebread, SC 215.

fetal support drugs Commonly used in Terra and on other colonies to prevent miscarriages. Outlawed by the DL group, so that lethal recessives would miscarry, DL 122.
fetus Matrix work during pregnancy was considered as dangerous to the unborn child, for which reason pregnant women were excluded from Tower circles, HH 244-45. However, a certain amount of rapport between mother and fetus has been observed even in ancient Terran, and Judith Lovat's unborn child by a chieri made her presence known telepathically.
feudal system In ancient Terra and some colonial planets, a society characterized by mutual obligations between landowning lords and their dependents, most often solemnized by oath and sanctioned by either religion or peer pressure. Specifically, the lord had to protect his vassals from invasions by landhungry enemy warlords, and to settle disputes among them; while the vassals had to contribute manpower and materiel. In return for sworn service (fealty), vassals were granted lands, in which the lords retained certain rights. In such societies, marriages were normally arranged in order to regularize inheritance of land. The system of mutual obligations between Comyn lords and their dependents developed over the centuries enough resemblances to the archaic Terran system (about which they knew nothing) that later TE authorities regarded Darkover as essentially a feudal society, and it became a textbook instance of how such societies develop in response to similar needs.
finder's fee Paid by some Terran authority to parties discovering a new habitable planet, DL 41.
FIONA MACMORAIR See MacMORAIR.
FIONA n 'ha GORSALI, Domna Free Amazon. Judge of Thendara City Court of Arbitration, SC 280, and the first woman ever to be appointed a judge in any court in the history of the planet, though any number of com-ynari could have functioned as such had they chosen to do so.
fire-lines The area nearest the leading edge of a forest fire, where all able-bodied males and Free Amazons in the region gathered (by planetwide law) to build firebreaks to contain the fire. At the fire-lines, all feuds are automatically in abeyance: see fire-truce.
fireplaces Those in Darkovan homes, Great Houses, and castles, are commonly fed with specially treated resinous logs which change the color of flames. At Armida, a type favoring blue-green flames was often in use, SS 80.
fires Since the earliest colonization of the planet, forest fire has been recognized as an extraordinary recurrent danger, owing to the preponderance of heavily resinous evergreen trees, DL 71. (Compare the Terran Australian regions in which "blue gum" or eucalyptus trees pose a similar problem.) For this reason, fire regulations are among the strongest laws in the colony, DL 134, later planetwide. See fire lines, fire truce, forest fires.
fireside, shared See freemate.
firestones Some kind of jewel, FT 389 (luminous?).
fire-truce By law honored planet-wide, all blood-feuds were automatically suspended for the duration of any
forest fire; the duty of every able-bodied male (and Free Amazon) to go to the fire-lines and fight the fire transcended all other obligations, WW 35-36 (37). Violation of fire-truce to act on a blood-feud was itself punishable by death. About 100 years before the Sharra Rebellion, one Narsin (q.v.) killed his father's blood-foe on the fire lines in the Kilghard Hills, only to be hacked to death by his own brothers for violating fire-truce, WW 36(37).
firi Basically, any distilled alcoholic beverage (contrasted to brewed or fermented ones); any cordial or liqueur. One such liqueur is used as an ingredient for making a hot spiced drink stronger than local red wine, SS 87. It was used, FT 253, to help revive Damon after Timesearch.
When not otherwise specified, often refers to Vainwal firi, a prized delicacy, and not legally classed as an intoxicant—therefore exempt from the provisions of the import laws, which banned intoxicants as contraband, (q.v.), SA 14 (11). Not even dutiable in amounts less than 10 "ounces" (standard gram or cubic centimeter equivalents not stated); in higher quanitity, subject to high tariffs.
First Landing teams Specialist teams operative at initial planetfall, assigned to (among other things) initial reconnaissance, mapping and exploration, geodetic studies, analysis of atmosphere and water supplies, soil characteristics (including mineral content), classification of native flora and fauna, etc., DL 24ff.
Flamehair Epithet of Sharra (q.v.), as goddess of fire and forges, WD 65 (83).
flint Species of stone which takes a conchoidal fracture and a sharp edge; used by trailmen to make knives (see following entry), and by many Darkovans to make cooking-fires, HH 325-26. Regis Hastur had a portable lighter consisting of a flint, a steel striker, and a dispenser of resinous oil—something analogous to archaic Terran lighters.
flint knife Judith Lovat found one, about 15 cm. long (not over 6 ancient Terran inches), with bone handle, DL 60. This was the first evidence that the planet was already inhabited. It proved to be trailmen's work, rather than chieri.
Flummery! This was Kermiac's opinion of the common Comyn belief that the Compact had kept planetwide peace for centuries, HH 214. It was also Damon's opinion of Towers' superstitious condemnation of matrix work done elsewhere, FT 97.
flutes A common native type was made of "reed wood," WW 10 (7). This was probably a vertical or fipple type, as in Terran recorders, though the transverse type may have been known as well from Terran imports.
folkmusic, folksongs Many of the most ancient ones on Darkover have been traced by TE musicologists to Terran origins in the British or "Brictish" Isles, WW 175 (200-02). It is now known that they were imported with the New Hebrides Commune; many Hebridean songs, ancient even in the reckoning of XXI Century Terra, were quoted in DL. See "The Outlaw," dronepipe, sword dance.
Fontana, Ruth XXI Century Terran, one of the earliest
colonists. Camilla Del Rey correctly predicted that she would miscarry, DL 131.
food dispensers Machines used by TE spaceport personnel. The foods are selected by dialing numbers, prepared in central kitchens via microwave ovens or the like, transported back to the dispenser by pneumatic tube or something similar, and automatically charged to the eater's credit account, SC 17.
foodstalls Outdoor village and roadside counterpart of cookshops, SC 125. Also found on streets in Old Then-dara, SC 23.
Forbidden City Any of the cities containing radioactive craters from an atomic war during the Ages of Chaos, WW 20.
Forbidden Road 1. Any road passing through a Forbidden City. Specifically, 2. The road leading out of Then-dara past whichever Forbidden City contained the three abandoned (radioactive) spaceships, SA 127 (142). 3. The name applied to a canyon or cleft, about 1,600 standard kilometers or 1,000 Terran miles long, nearly straight, about 9 standard meters or 30 Terran feet deep, about wide enough for six horses abreast, going from "the highest point in the Hellers" (which would be the highest massif in the "Wall Around the World") past Hali to the Sea of Dalereuth, SA 128 (142), reachable via 2. above. Why this last had the name "Forbidden Road" is uncertain—either it had radioactive portions, or else it was seismically active, crossing a major crustal fault, or both.
Forbidden Tower Epithet of the astral (overworld) Tower built by Damon Ridenow in 4-way rapport with Callista Lanart, Ellemir Lanart, and Andrew Carr (qq.v.), FT 315, 322, 336, 354, originally for matrix healing of the frostbitten workmen, FT 91-92, strictly contrary to laws promulgated at Arilinn Tower; penalty, FT 323, 332 (but see ordeal).
In appearance in the overworld, it was originally a rude shelter like a herdsman's hut, eventually becoming like other ancient towers, tall with blue-translucent stone walls, FT 354.
forest Most of the habitable continental areas, except for the Dry Towns and the mountains above timberline, are covered with forests, which are ecologically essential, WW 44 (45-46), for which reason the Worldwreckers burnt them. A little thought shows why: without trees for ground cover, there would be no homes for animals, no furs, no meat, no nuts (for flour), no resin-fuel, no phosphorescents, no fruits, and the soil would quickly wash into the sea. This gives some idea why forest fores (see following entry) are so desperately feared throughout the planet.
forest fires The law concerning these: 1. Anyone who sets fire to a forest shall be punished by death. 2. On outbreak of a forest fire, alarms shall be rung to indicate its location, and all able-bodied males above the age of ten years, residing or visiting, within earshot of the alarms, shall immediately gather at the site of the fire and take all necessary measures to extinguish it. (This proviso was later amended to include Free Amazons as within the class of people expected to respond to the
alarms.) 3. During the fire emergency, defined as the period of time between the sounding of alarms and the total extinction of the fire, all blood feuds, including but not limited to Declarations of Intent-to-Murder in Fair Fight, are automatically suspended, and any person who kills or attempts to kill his blood foe shall be punished with death.
This law is consensually observed and enforced in all forested areas on the planet. It is, of course, not relevant in the Dry Towns. The minimum age was cited in HH 20; the maximum age was not cited but was understood to be that of senility or other physical or mental incapacity.
The customary method of fighting fires is to cut fire lines to contain the blaze, SD 68ff; and it had been so since long before Varzil's day. The Altons continued to learn new techniques from the Terrans, HH 80, even as they had earlier learned about cloud-seeding to induce rain, SD 76-79. Lew Alton had to teach these techniques to Rangers (q.v.), and to citizenry in the Kilghard Hills, HH 80. forge-folk Tribesmen of a district between Carthon and the lower Hellers. They are human, but genetic drift (and possibly crosses with nonhumans during Ghost Winds) have made them very different in appearance from people of the Domains; they are much shorter than average, but extremely strong. WD 125-26 (167). They speak an ancient version of Hellers dialect, differing from the simplified forms of cahuenga. They are tribally organized, the tribal leader (as among the trailmen) being called the Old One, WD 127 (168). Some live in caves, WD 125 (167), kept lit by torches magnified by crystals, called "jewel-lights," WD 126 (168-69). They wear furs and leathers, WD 125 (167), and surround themselves by the music of caged treefrogs, caged crickets (again as with trailmen), or their own work songs, generally in a 4-tone scale (as in ancient Terran Balinese music and some others), with "pounding rhythms," WD 127 (169).

They are master metalworkers and miners. The well-known "Carthon ware" filigree metal objects (from jewelry to house gates) either come from forge-folk ateliers or are copied from their products.
As befits any tribe of metalworkers, they attribute divine power to fire, and accordingly they long worshiped Sharra as Forge-Goddess. During the Ages of Chaos, they learned to use matrixes keyed to Sharra for teleporting metals from below the surface, possibly sometimes in molten form, and to start and maintain fires hot enough to melt these metals for proper purification and working, HH 219-248. Unfortunately, sometimes these procedures started forest fires, for which reason eventually a group of Comyn lords, including representatives of the Hastur' Kings and the Altons (the latter as liege lords to some of the forge folk), confiscated all the Sharra matrixes they could locate. See WD 77 (99), where Larry Montray told this story to Dan Barron.
Centuries later, it was learned at Aldaran that at least one of the ancient Sharra matrixes was still preserved by the forge-folk on one of their altars, and the then Aldaran lord seized it and hid it away in the castle; but he and his descendants eventually learned how to use it, which technique became part of the training imparted by Kermiac of Aldaran to Desideria. At age 15, Desideria (q.v.) borrowed the Sharra matrix and used it, with the aid of about 100 of the local forge-folk, to raise the Form of Fire to break the siege of Storn Castle, WD 132-35 (175-79), HH 210, 242. Afterwards she returned it to the forge-folk for safekeeping, and it remained in one of the Sharra altars in the caves, where it was venerated as the repository of the Goddess; but the story remained common knowledge at Aldaran.
Over 65 years later, Kadarin (q.v.) went to Desideria and demanded the Sharra matrix. She reluctantly consented to let him have it, but only on reassurance that a tower-trained member of the Comyn (Lew Alton, q.v.) would be in charge, HH 210. In use at Aldaran, the matrix was discovered to have been not merely a tribal tool for teleporting metals, but one of the outlawed matrix weapons from the Ages of Chaos, psychically corruptive to all concerned, and impossible to control. (See Sharra Rebellion.) One of its effects was mobilizing latent instability, especially in Kadarin and Beltran, so that they eventually saw the TE authorities as their major enemy, and issued irrational ultimatums against them. When these were disregarded, Kadarin and Beltran summoned the forge-folk to rebel against the Terrans, in the name of Sharra, using rabble-rousing techniques familiar since antiquity even on Terra. The forge-folk's emotions fed the Form of Fire, resulting in the destruction of Caer Donn, HH 355, 360ff. Terran authorities and Comyn lords fought a brief but bitter war against the natives (presumably including the forge-folk) to quell the rebellion; after which the surviving forge-folk returned to their mines, forges, and caves, and the long task of rebuilding Caer Donn began. Kennard Alton said at the next Comyn Council meeting that even the forge-folk could no longer hold the Sharra matrix inactive, for which reason it would have to go offworld, HH 377.
forst   A fortification, specifically one within a stockade, sometimes  amounting  to a castle, normally the term applied to those in the forested mountains, not the lowlands. Though some are held by legitimate authorities, many were occupied by bandits, who may have captured them from earlier builders. The following are mentioned: Caer Donn, i.e. Castle Aldaran, HH 271 Cyrillon's, destroyed by Valdir Alton, WD 96 (127) Darriell (q.v.), in the foothills of the Hellers, WW
43 (45) Ridenow,    probably   conquered   from   bandits,   SA
64 (69) Sain Scarp, SC 178-80, 187-90
The term is cahuenga, from one of the mountain dialects; its nearest Terran equivalent is Sp. fortaleza. Cf. Terran (Gael.) fortail "strong," pronounced "forstal." CG supports it as Gael, pronunciation of Engl. fort.
Forth, Dr. Randall See Randall.
Fortua Montani (casta) "Luck of the mountains"; the Alton motto.
fortune-tellers Common in Old Thendara and probably elsewhere; some may even have some laran, some may have been delicensed matrix mechanics, cf., BS 48-55. One consulted by Andrew Carr gave the usual pitch of showing customers the face of their darlings, of "one who waits for them," in their crystal balls; Andrew Carr saw Callista therein, SS 12-13.
48-year fever Pandemic, formerly recurring every cuere or interval of 48 Darkovan years, at the close quadruple conjunctions of the four moons (which occur in clusters). Same as Trailmen's fever (q.v.), its high mortality rate among humans being evidently an effect of comparatively recent introduction. Dr. Jay/Jason Allison had it during his own childhood among the trailmen, and survived immune to further attack, PS 9-10 (6-7). The first outbreak after the Terran trade agreement was signed is said to have wiped out approximately 288 out of 300 Terrans (mortality rate 96%) and a still higher proportion of natives; the next outbreak had 87% mortality, the following ones lower.
fosterage From time immemorial it has been planetwide custom (except possibly in the Dry Towns?) to have an infant or child left with another family for care and raising (fostering), presumably at the expense of either biological parents or some other responsible authority. The bond of fosterlings to their foster-parents, foster-brothers and foster-sisters is traditionally said to be stronger than ties of blood, as in ancient Terran (Scandinavian and Celtic) custom. This attitude, and the custom itself, are now known to date back to the original New Skye settlement, DL 159. It apparently began with the discovery that many women in the DL colony were sterile or miscarried, and were thus available for fostering during the disability or illness or fatigue of other mothers, DL 115.
fosterling 1. A foster-child. 2. A wet-nurse's beneficiary, SS 40.
foundlings Normally sent to nearby families for fosterage. Very rarely was one left at Spacemen's Orphanage, still more rarely returned to Terra, BS 33.
Four, the Aldones, Avarra, Evanda, Zandru, FT 234, and cf. HH 234. The major gods of Darkovan religion. Only in a very rude approximate fashion do they correspond to the ancient Terran Four Elements. The following diagram suggests their interrelationship:

Redrawn from "The Family Verb," Darkovan Language Review 1 (Spring 1978), p. 19.
Aldones is known as Son of Light or Lord of the Singing Light; Zandru as Lord of Darkness. Aldones is Creator, Yea-sayer, Lord of Summer, associated with impregnation; Zandru is Destroyer, No-sayer, Lord of Winter, associated with sterility. Aldones is a Force that promotes growth (anabolism), development, maturation, realization and potential (toward harvest); Zandru is a Force that promotes cessation of growth, limits, destruction, decay, death—making room for new life.
Evanda is Bright Mother of growing things, Avarra is Dark Mother of the grave—and the womb. Evanda is creative Form, expansive; Avarra is destructive Form, contractive. Through Evanda life forms ripen; through Avarra they are harvested or fall and decay: slain to be recreated, darkened only to rekindle. Each of the Four corresponds to a season, a phase of organic life cycles, as in the diagram above; each is a cosmic archetype. Even brief meditation reveals other layers of meaning, other complex mystical interrelationships. It is doubtful if common people understood much of this symbolism.
"14th planet of Bibbledygook" Re gis's jocose name for some inconceivably distant obscure planet which might possibly harbor telepaths, WW 20.
Frazer, Major XXI Century Terran, staff anthropologist to the DL colony, DL 63; name also given as Fraser, DL 76-77. He was in "seventh heaven" when the Trailmen were discovered, DL 76. He had earlier mentioned that intelligent (i.e. sapient?) life-forms had been discovered on three or four other planets, one simian, one feline, three "unclassifiable," DL 68. He deduced that the flint knife (q.v.) must have been designed for a humanoid hand, smaller than the Terran norm.
Free Amazons Caste, officially a guild, of women bound only by oath (q.v.), SC 5, as a sisterhood of mutual responsibility. Their primary allegiance is to each other rather than to family, clan, caste, or any man save only their employers during the term of contractual employment. Alone among Darkovan women, they are exempt from the usual legal restrictions and legal protections. Free Amazon status is an honorable alternative to any of
the forms of marriage. Their ultimate reason for existence: "so that every woman may, at least, know there is a choice for them . . . that if they accept the restrictions laid upon women, on Darkover, they may do so from choice and not because they cannot imagine anything else. . . ,"SC21,
The minimum age for taking the Oath of the Free Amazons is 15, i.e. legal adulthood, SC 90. Induction consists of the woman's repeating the Oath, phrase by phrase, after a member who is thereafter known as her oath-mother, preceded by verification that she is actually female, and by cropping of her hair; after which she is legally known not by her patronymic or family name, but only by her given name and matronymic, the latter identified by the phrase nikhya mic ("daughter of"), usually abbreviated n 'ha or, before a name beginning with A, n', e.g. Kindra n'ha Mhari, Lauria n'Andrea. In a special sense, the other Free Amazons who witness her Oath are thereafter known as her oath-sisters, though in a broader sense all Free Amazons planetwide are oath-sisters. For the scene of Margali n'ha Ysabet, nee Magda Lome, Terran, taking her Oath, see SC 155-60. Afterwards, each new-made Amazon must spend half a year in a Guild-house, "learning our ways and unlearning the vicious old ways" taught Darkovan girls, SC 161.
The Goddess they worship is not named in SC, though any Darkovan would have understood Avarra to be meant.
They do not give up men, nor childbearing (though these are at their own option, not controlled by men), but only the more restrictive forms of wedlock, SC 162, 203. They may enter into freemate marriage with men, or with other Amazons, the latter as a way of insuring proper legal responsiblity and fosterage for the children of either partner, WW 97 (108-09). Freemated Free Amazons grow their hair long; after the initial period, cropped hair is taken as symbolic of being unpartnered.
Their garments are completely functional, WW 73 (80), and lack the symbolic character of ordinary Darkovan female clothing; yet they are not strictly male garments, SC 14-15.
They hire out for any legal occupation whatever, from midwife to mercenary soldier; presumably for the same pay a man would receive for an equal term in the same job. They are entitled to serve on fire-lines with men.
The Guild charter is kept in Nevarsin Monastery, where many Free Amazons go to copy out documents necessary to their employment and employable skills, e.g. medical or veterinary texts, obstetrical manuals, etc.
Daughters of Free Amazons may be fostered at a Guild house until old enough to take the Oath should they so choose; sons are fostered outside after they reach age 5.
They have a reputation for lesbianism (q.v.), WW 170 (193), SC 28, 90.
See Charter; Guild Houses; Oath.
freedom  The scope of this term differs with its context,
according to whether one starts from the position of a
woman of the Dry Towns, a free man of the Domains, a
member of Comyn, a member of TE Spaceforce, or a
Free Amazon; the issue at any time is not "absolute" freedom, but rather which areas of action are within one's limits of potential individual choice. The ethics are debated more articulately in SC 268-73 and HH 48-50; but see Compact for related issues. freemate One of a pair of spouses in the least restrictive form of marriage (q.v.). In parts of the Kilghard Hills, freemate marriage according to mountain custom has long been legalized by both partners' acknowledging that they had shared bed, meal, and fireside, HH 319; but by Domain law it is legally effective only on consummation, FT 113, 332. This is the only form of marriage a Free Amazon can legally enter, SC 5 and see Oath. A freemated Free Amazon lets her hair grow.
Free Amazons (q.v.) are known to take each other as freemates, e.g. Darilyn and Menella, WW 97 (108), in the tradition of Lady Bruna Leynier (see Bruna). This fairly uncommon arrangement has the legal function of insuring that each will be responsible for the other's children —to avoid their being seized by parental families. It neither implies nor excludes a sexual relationship.
Magda Lome, later Margali n'ha Ysabet, explained that her own marriage to Peter Haldane was of the free-mate kind, SC 115,177.
In Lady Rohana's eyes, a freemate seemed little better
than a grezalis (prostitute), SC 268-69, because the commitment would probably not outlast the initial sexual infatuation; but her error was in failing to see that it is a commitment freely entered into by choice of both parties, whereas marriage di catenas (q.v.), as common in the Comyn, has traditionally been arranged by parents, often among sons and daughters who had not even met, or who had at best only the briefest acquaintance—an odd recapitulation of archaic Terran forms of wedlock, done for dynastic or property purposes. Clearly, abuses are possible in either form of marriage, but they are different abuses. fruits Various edible species were identified bv psvchic means during a Ghost Wind episode, DL 52, 59. We are not informed as to their exact description except that one type is globular and "clear-greenish."
Later, various Terran imports thrived, notably apples and pears, (q.v.). Some of these were probably descended from species brought on the Landfall ship.
fungi Various edible species, including a greyish type growing on tree trunks, were identified by psychism during a Ghost Wind episode, DL 52, 59. Trailmen cultivate numerous types, DL 137, and use the larger luminescent ones to feed the luminous insects which they keep caged as light sources.

Gabriel (casta, accent on first and third syllables) 1. Common male given name, directly from Terran (English, Spanish, ultimately archaic Hebrew). 2. One of the angels in cristoforo mythology; see Lanart angels.
Gabriel-Dyan Ardais of Ardais, Lord Ardais
Father of Kyril-Valentine Ardais (q.v.), who was father of Dyan Ardais (q.v.). Husband of Lady Rohana Aillard-Ardais, (q.v.), SC 100, FT 298. "A tall, soldierly man with greying russet hair," SC 216. Kindly, though unimaginative and narrow-minded; six-fingered. The usual chieri-aoss instability noted in later Ardais males took in him the form of psychomotor epilepsy, SC 256, so that much of Rohana's energy went to warding off explosions of rage and major seizures. On the positive side, he was fond of children, even to demanding a fourth pregnancy of Rohana as the price of final reconciliation after her journey with the Amazons. The baby was stillborn, SC 267.
Besides Kyril, he had one younger son and daughter, Elorie. He agreed to the family's fostering Melora's son Valentine, and had him educated at Nevarsin, SC 167.
Although his marriage to Rohana was arranged between their families, like most di catenas unions, and Rohana admitted that she had not loved him at first, SC 269, nevertheless it seems to have been more successful than most such marriages-especially since, as she pointed out, Gabriel was decent and kindly and eager to please her, and not a drunkard nor a gambler nor a lover of men, SC 243.
In his 60s, he attended Council with Rohana, FT 298; in Crystal Chamber, recommended naming a regent for Valdir Lanart, heir to Alton, FT 299. He had wanted to arrange a marriage between his son Kyril and Callista Lanart, FT 338. GABRIEL LANART Husband of Javanne Hastur and father of the "Lanart angels" (qq.v.); possibly a descendant of Callista Lanart by Andrew Carr (a grandson?). Minor noble in Alton Domain, close enough kin to the Altons, HH 55, to be entitled to a seat among them in Comyn Council, HH 56; he had laran, HH 28. He became a career Guardsman, HH 56, and had a reputation as  the best wrestler in the Guards,  HH 97.  Kennard
trusted him enough to make him second in command to Lew Alton when Lew had to take over the Guards, during the few months before the Sharra Rebellion, HH 55. Gabriel was popular enough among the Comyn that many believed he should have been designated heir to the Alton Domain instead of Lew, HH 56.
GABRIEL L AN ART Second son of the preceding, born about seven years before the Sharra Rebellion; "sturdy and swarthy," HH 233; one of the three "Lanart angels" (q.v.), HH 28.
GABRIEL VYANDAL Boy, in Cadet Guards as a classmate of Regis Hastur, HH 127.
Gaelic Terran languages (Irish and Scottish versions, especially), of great antiquity, spoken by some members of the New Hebrides Commune. Dr. Judith Lovat, for unknown reasons, recommended that their ancient folksongs continue to be sung in the original languages, suggesting that "it would be fearfully dull if only one language survived here," DL 124. As a result, Hellers dialect contained many words surviving directly from Gaelic long after that tongue had become extinct on Terra, HH 175.
Galactic Center Supreme soverign political power in the known Galaxy; the only authority to which TE itself was subject. The only authority which could rule for all time on sapience of a species, or on open or closed status of a planet. This authority could therefore overrule even a TE legate, PS 11 (8).
gambling Common pastime in wineshops. The more familiar local forms included cards (probably Terran imports), HH 75, 100; marked oblongs analogous to the ancient Terran game of dominoes, and small cut-crystal prisms, either cubical (dice) or tetrahedral or octahedral (astragaloi). They probably came in various colors, BS 13.
Cadets were forbidden to gamble substantial sums, HH 75, though Dyan Ardais (as Cadet Master) made it clear that this prohibition did not apply to "wagering pennies on card games or dice."
Compulsive gambling was a common form of the Ardais instability, comparable to alcoholism, SC 243.
Garden of Fragrance At Arilinn Tower, FT 165. Same as Keeper's Garden.
Gareth Common male given name in the Hellers and foothills; directly from Terran given names Gareth, Garrett, ultimately from archaic Terran (English) meaning "watch tower." The Dry Towns equivalent was Garrat; the name Garris (q.v.) is apparently another dialect form of the same.
GARETH LlNDIR Boy, fellow cadet of Regis Hastur, sat next to him in the Cadet mess hall. His name indicates origin in the Kilghard Hills, HH 126, 145. Born about 14 years beofre the Sharra Rebellion.
Garin Common male given name in Kilghard Hills; possibly cognate with Terran (Sp.) garron meaning a spur or talon. See following entries.
GARIN Ranger, in late teens, stationed in Alton lands; killed by Cyrillon's (q.v.) bandits in a raid, SD 63, found with a huge chest wound, SD 62; he was given kirian so that Valdir Alton could probe his mind quickly and
thoroughly enough to identify the murderer.
GARIN Mountaineer, on Allison expedition to Trailmen country; twin brother of Vardo, brother of Hjalmar (q.v.); over 1.82 standard meters (6 Terran feet) in height, PS 27 (26).
garments Standard apparel for TE employees in Darkover generally has been the same as for such personnel on other planets, except that those spending much time out-doors (e.g. spaceport guards) are issued heavier uniforms consistent with the climate.
Spaceforce uniforms (green and black) differ in type from civilian, but to wear these in native zones would be a breach of courtesy, WD 25 (28).
Indoor garments for TE civilian employees, male, consist of tunic, breeches and low-cut sandals, all of synthetic fabrics; for outdoor wear a short lined overcoat rather than a native cloak is the rule, WD 25 (28).
Indoor garments for TE female civilian employees consist of tunic and tights (crimson is the one color named for the latter), both of synthetic fabrics, the footgear not being described. For outdoor wear an overcoat is the rule.
Native Darkovan garb has been described in a separate monograph, "Costume and Clothing as a Cultural Index on Darkover," Friends of Darkover Leaflet #1, June 1975 (by Diana L. Paxson in close collaboration with MZB), and better in the 1977 reprint.
GARRIS One of Jalak's (q.v.) favorites; "a thin elegant boy, a pretty minion, too curled and jeweled to be anything else," SC 29. He shared Jalak's bed. Even Melora pitied him; he had been sold by his parents into an Ardcarran brothel at about age 12. Even the Dry Towns women were protected by stringent laws against certain abuses, but no laws protected such as Garris, SC 42. After Melora's rescue, when Jalak had been killed or mutilated by Free Amazons, Garris seized Jalak's sword, but rather than attempting to aid or avenge his erstwhile master, he made his own escape.
The name is a dialect form of Gareth (q.v.), though the proper Shainsa dialect form would have been Garrat.
gauntlets Padded gloves used as hand protectors in sword practice among the Cadets, HH 145.
"Gentry, Melissa," alias "Missy" See "Melissa."
GEREMY Factor/estate ma.na.ger/coridom at Castle Ardais under Dom Gabriel, SC 252. The name is Terran in origin.
Ghost Wind Old name for the airborne pollen of kireseth (q.v.) flowers; sweet-pungent odor, from its psychedelic, aphrodisiac, and ESP-stimulating resin. In the Kilghard Hills and lower Hellers, and elsewhere at similar altitudes, the Ghost Wind is said to blow, i.e. the pollen is dispersed, whenever two or more successive rainless days or nights occur during late spring or summer, or more rarely at other seasons, FT 269ff, 273.
Its resin affects many different species. Lower animals react mainly by going into estrus. Scavenger wolves (q.v.), turn predatory, FT 269. Ya-men go into berserk rage and episodes of their killing and eating humans have been reported, WD 78ff (102ff), FT 269. Matings between  humans  and  chieri (and other species) have

occurred in the lower Hellers, accounting for some extremely strange hybrids; see the Aldaran and Alton Lineages, pp. 157, 158.
A brief whiff was enough to induce Dan Barron (overshadowed by Storn) to light a warning beacon, WD 79 (103), obviously for fear of the Ya-men. However, in villages wherever the populace was accustomed to the Ghost Wind, a winter blooming meant a brief holiday, FT 269.
The psychic stimulation occurs either by direct opening of the Chakras (see channels) or by chemical dissolution of whatever barriers people have erected against ESP inputs, as both Terran yage and LSD have been reported to do, DL 50-59. Individual reactions differ greatly, as with all psychedelics: for which reason the Towers long since adopted the practice of distillation of the resin, discarding the aphrodisiac and other fractions,
in making kirian (q.v.).
See also Judith, kireseth, kirian, Rakhal, and Zeb. Gifts The Comyn Gifts are specializations of ESP, brought out in or before the Ages of Chaos by inbreeding, over and above normal laran. It will be appropriate to discuss the major Gifts first:
Aillard:        (Extinct)
Aldaran:      Precognition
Alton:         Forced rapport
Ardais:        Catalyst telepathy
Elhalyn:      —
Hastur:        "Living matrix"
Ridenow:    Empathy The original Aillard line died out many years before, though the name and Domain passed to collateral relatives,  mostly  of the Lindir family; some of these had
enough laran to function as Keepers. However, the original Aillard Gift is not identified.
It has been conjectured that Aldaran precognition had something to do with their ready co-operation with the Terrans; if earlier Aldaran lords correctly foresaw the role TE would play on the planet, they would certainly have been readier than other Comyn to cooperate with the inevitable. Unusual stamina seems also to have been a part of the Gift: Larry Montray, who had inherited a very high degree of laran from his Aldaran mother, most likely had the Gift, which would account for his being able to withstand Kennard Alton's wrath, as well as for some of the things he did on his journey with Kennard. Kermiac seems to have had much of the same quality.
Alton forced rapport enabled probing another's mind for concealed content, breaking down mental barriers to ESP input. At full strength this Gift could be used as a weapon fatal against anyone except another Alton with the Gift, for which reason the adult male Altons were much feared. Some Altons, probably because of the ties in lineage with the Aldarans, also experienced precognition, generally as "slipping sideways in time" and obtaining momentary pictures of future events unbidden —a phenomenon also reported in Terrans. It is likely that the two Gifts have been partially blended but were earlier separate.
The Ardais Gift is rare and was long believed extinct; see catalyst telepath. Many Ardais had ordinary laran but very few had any trace of the Gift.
The Elhalyn were a minor branch of the Hasturs, known as Hasturs of Elhalyn to distinguish them from Hasturs of Hastur. They succeeded to the Elhalyn Domain after its original lords died out or were exterminated centuries before. Though some Elhalyn certainly had laran, none are recorded to have shown any special Gift.
The Hastur Gift consists of the capacity to perform, without a matrix crystal, many feats that are normally only done with one. In addition, one with the full Hastur Gift can manipulate others' minds, as Regis did with Jay/Jason Allison, PS 57 (61). Similarly, King Regis V (via matrix crystal in sword hilt, at long range) imparted his swordsmanship to his monkish and untrained brother Rafael to enable him to defeat seven opponents, SS 116ff. (This is not the same as overshadowing, q.v.) Regis's Gift appears to have been wakened by contact with the Sword of Aldones (see spell swords), enabling him to wield it even as he could wield the Sword of Hastur. Usually the Gift is wakened in the Domain heir by the Domain Lord at a ceremony the details of which are not recorded, HH 235, 375.
The Ridenow Gift was bred originally for detection of alien entities; in practice it consists of experiencing another's emotional states as one's own, a capacity long known (in less intensity) among Terrans. See DAMON, TANIQUEL and "JEFF KERWIN JR."
These specialized forms are in addition to telepathy, minor empathy, and minor psychokinesis which are routine parts of true laran. They are in addition to other Gifts developed during the Ages of Chaos by inbreeding
in other families. Some of these may be named: major psychokinesis even to levitation and teleportation (cf. NARAD-ZINIE); major psychometry (obtaining accurate information about distant individuals from anything formerly owned by them, even to tracking them anywhere on the planet); obtaining and communicating to others the sight of any distant or past scene; mastery of glamor (prolonged intractable illusion); major healing or blighting; influencing DNA in order to modify the properties of plant or animal species; influencing weather, as by raising or lowering ambient temperature, affecting strength or direction of winds, causing or stopping precipitation, or creating or stopping discharges of lightning; overshadowing (projecting one's personality into another's body to experience through his/her senses at any distance); visualizing the entire range of possible future consequences of an action.
Minor versions of a few of these have been performed by Keepers or matrix technicians; others have obviously long been taboo, e.g. overshadowing (see ASHARA; STORN of STORN). Two of the above may even have been the missing Aillard Gift and that of the other Domain, the one which passed from its extinct holders to the Elhalyn.
The casta term is donas (singular).
glaciers In the Hellers, sources of mountain streams and ultimately of any number of rivers, PS 43 (45). Habitat of ice-melons, FT 105.
glamo(u)r A persistent, illusion, especially an illusory appearance. Elorie Ardais threw one over "Jeff Kerwin Jr." so that he could pass unseen in Thendara, BS 159-61.
glassmaking The technique was put to use early in the DL colony, for greenhouses, etc., DL 110, 119, 133, and has been preserved and developed since. The use of translucent stone (q.v.) for walls and some windows in later Darkovan houses, in preference to locally made glass, is generally for conservation of heat.
God For a variety of reasons no single supreme deity is worshiped as such on Darkover. Even Aldones, Son of Light, though regarded as greatest of the Four (q.v.) is not identified as the supreme creator of the galaxies.
The roots of a polytheism apparently go back to the early Ghost Wind episodes when some of the chieri who mated with humans were seen as so far transcendent to humankind (being both so long-lived as to be for practical purposes immortal, and in possession of obviously superhuman powers) as to qualify as gods. Father Valentine (q.v.) refused to promulgate the monotheistic Reformed Catholic Church: "If God wants this world saved He'll have to send someone to save it," DL 125. And, anent Judith Lovat's (q.v.) hali-chieri baby, not yet then born, "How do I know God isn't sending a Child . . . how do we know the Child (sc. Jesus) I worshiped all these years was not some such strange alliance?" DL 129. Some such notions were hinted at on Terra as far back as the XX Century in such collections of legends as von Daniken's "Chariots of the Gods." Nevertheless, a watered-down version of Christianity survives among the monks of Nevarsin Monastery (q.v.), as an archaic form of the Order of St. Christopher of Centaurus, though the focus has been far lesson Jesus than on Cristoforo, the
Holy Bearer of Burdens. See Bearer and cristoforo. See also next entry and Four. Gods The principal objects of worship were the Four (q.v.), i.e. Aldones, Avarra, Evanda and Zandru. For Aldones as progenitor of the first Hastur and thus of the Comyn, see the "Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda," below, p. 142. Note the parallel to Terran Japanese legend which claimed the imperial family as lineal descendants of the sun goddess Amaterasu; and the ancient Terran Roman legend naming the love-goddess Venus as ancestress of the Caesars.
A rival religion began, probably in the Hellers, in or before the Ages of Chaos, whose chief deity was Sharra, the chained fire goddess. See Sharra.
Naotalba (q.v.), bride of Zandru, though ascribed minor goddess status, is not worshiped.
The Goddess of the Free Amazons is not named but any Darkovan would have assumed the reference to be to Avarra.
Erlik (q.v.) is not identified.
The Dry Towners have their own gods, the only well known one being Nebran (q.v.). gold The native metal is commoner than copper on Darkover, though scarcer than silver. Links of a gold chain can pass currently as money in various regions including the Hellers, WD 46, though at a lower rate (weight for weight) than copper. Golden Bell Translation of cleindori (q.v.), from clein "bell" (echoic of the sound), dori "golden"; BS 30, 171. Before this became a female given name, it was the common or colloquial name for the kireseth (q.v.), flower powdered with its golden pollen. Golden Cage A nightclub/pleasure palace/brothel in Old Thendara, near the Terran Zone. It included men (probably effeminates), women, boys, girls, nonhumans (types unspecified), and offworlders, for sexual delectation of the jaded. Dyan Ardais preferred it to the rival House of Lanterns, HH 149.
This is where an obscene lesbian performance, titled "Love Secrets of the Free Amazons" (q.v.), drew reprisals from some real Free Amazons from Thendara Guild House, SC 140-41.
See also bath houses, bordellos, brothels, whorehouses. Golden-Chained One Epithet of Sharra, used by Cyril-Ion's gang, SD 96, and possibly also by the forge folk. golden-flower Herb used for making tea, as remedy for menstrual problems, FT 134-35; sedative, hypnotic, FT 135; anti-spasmodic, given to colicky babies and pregnant women, FT 135.
government Mallinson (q.v.) doubted that the planet had any (or at least any centralized form), WD 11 (9). Considering that Comyn law was not observed either in Aldaran lands or in the Dry Towns, and that even the will of the Hastur Regent did not have the force of law, he was doubtless correct. The nearest thing to universal law on Darkover has long been the fire laws and a few other consensual laws.
The issue of (civilized-type, urban) government of laws vs. (frontier-type) government of men is discussed by Valdir Alton and Larry Montray, SD 66, from the
viewpoint that Darkover has a government of men, Terra a government of laws. The debate is echoed in Kermiac's conversation with Lew Alton about the merits of the Compact, HH 212-15, and see Compact. Even now the issue is by no means cut-and-dried, nor is it a pseudo-issue, there are strong arguments pro and con on both sides, and neither has the acknowledgedly better case in theory. However, throughout the known Galaxy, frontier planets have tended to have governments of men, urbanized industrialized ones governments of laws, reflecting some poorly understood principle of social psychology.
GRABIEL Typographical error for GABRIEL LANART, HH 232.
grain-brew A hot drink prepared from some kind of roasted grain; its nearest Terran analogues are the various ersatz coffees made of roasted rye or buckwheat and formerly sold under such names as "Postum" and "Pero." Free Amazons on outside duty preferred this drink to bark-tea or jaco, SC 72, 171.
grains Native ones are known, the seeds of some evergreens being counted with them for convenience. Terran rye, oats, winter wheat and triticale were imported and cultivated by the DL colonists, probably also others, DL 133.
grapes Apparently imported by the DL colonists, more recently common in trailmen country, SD 121. Wine has always been made from them, even as on Terra, and by the same methods.
graphite Discovered by the DL colonists; usable for pencils, lubricants, etc., DL 135.
gravity Darkover's is about 0.92 that of Terra. The planetary core is believed to contain less nickel and iron than its Terran counterpart, the mean density and total mass of the planet being therefore less, hence also its gravity.
Great Cat Damon Ridenow's sobriquet for the super-intelligent catman leader who wielded a high-level matrix crystal during the Catmen's War, SS 54-55,132,135,142.
Great Gods The Four (q.v.), SS 18.
Great House A lord's or ruler's manor, mansion or palace, when not a castle, i.e. when not fortified. Three are specifically mentioned:
Armida (q.v.) was that of the Altons, at Armida village.
Carthon Great House, in the central plaza of Carthon, was built of opalescent stone. At the time of the siege of Storn, it was occupied by one Lord Rannath of the Dry Towns, WD 91 (120-21).
Shainsa Great House was occupied at the time of the Shainsa rescue expedition (during the Regency of Lorill Hastur) by Jalak. This was virtually a fortress, staffed with wives, concubines, daughters, slaves, minions, and armed cralmac attendants, SC 13.
Great Silence In Nevarsin monastery, the period between final nightly rituals and earliest morning rituals, during which speech was interdicted. Similar periods had long been observed in ancient Terran monasteries and convents when these institutions still existed, HH 66.
greenie TE slang term meaning "novice, neophyte, someone unseasoned." Compare the archaic Terran (English)
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slang term "greenhorn," of similar meaning, BS 10.
Greyleaf Town Village in Kilghard Hills near Naderling Forest, affected by one of the Worldwreckers' forest fires, WW 34 (35). Named after a native tree species common in the area.
Greystone The house or family to which Kerstal (q.v.) belonged, WD 92 (121).
grey world The overworld (q.v.). So called because many details in it are either grey or overlaid by grey fog. The more strongly something is visualized in it, the brighter it appears, but the grey remains as background.
grezalis Prostitute. Only in derogatory mode and inflection; a term of the grossest obscenity, literally a gross derogatory term for sexual intercourse + female personal ending, hence a woman thought of as having no other function whatever save as sex partner, SC 107, 268. Earlier form doubtless was gre'zalis. fr. grethir "pound" infl. by Terran (Gael.) gread "drub, beat," greigh "stud," gradh "love." In polite usage replaced by a term translated as "entertainer."
gre 'zu, pi. gre 'zuin (cahuenga) One who copulates with himself; only in derogatory mode and inflection, and considered a term of the grossest obscenity, far worse than bre'suin, SC 14, 16. The first syllable has roughly the connotation of ancient Terran (English) slang "pound" or "bang" in a sexual context.
grin without a cat Damon Ridenow picked up this idea from Andrew Carr telepathically, but did not understand it; the Lewis Carroll stories were apparently unknown on Darkover in his time, SS 132.
Guard   See City Guards and see following entries.
Guard Hall The training center for Cadet Guards, on one of the lowest levels of Comyn Castle, Old Thendara, HH 55. Before it is a barricaded gateway; behind it, barracks, armory, mess hall, stables, paradeground. The Hall itself is an enormous stone-arched room with cobblestone floors and "great fan-lighted windows," set in before the art of rolling glass was perfected, therefore with uneven polychrome light.
Guards Paramilitary units, found with each Domain at its castle or principal estate, as well as in Thendara and many other important towns, at Arilinn Tower, etc. For the Thendara contingents, see City Guard, Castle Guard. Those at Arilinn Tower wore red and yellow ceremonial uniforms, BS 113, quite unlike those at Thendara.
Guardsmen Members of the Guards (see preceding entry). The Cadets were in training to become Guardsmen.
Guild House Where Free Amazons have a home, no matter where they were originally sworn in and/or trained; where each neophyte Free Amazon must spend a half year learning the life style, techniques, customs, etc., including reading and writing if she is not already literate. Guild Houses are found in most major Darkovan towns: Arilinn, SC 70—specializes in training midwives, see
FERRIKA. Neskaya, SC 155 Thendara, SC 55, 84
Temora, SC 135, 139—This was the site of a street riot where a man falsely claimed his wife had been kidnapped by the Guild, and sent hired swordsmen
to reclaim her; but she helped her oath-sisters to fight them off, FT 268.
Guild of Craftswomen See Independent Council of Craftswomen, SC 280.
Guild of Free Amazons Some generations before the events of SC, long enough ago to be referred to as "Varzil's day," SC 157, the first Free Amazons banded together under circumstances not yet told in detail. They petitioned the then Hastur King to grant them recognition as a Guild, to which all then and future members would be bound by oath, superseding all other loyalties save only to "the kingdom, the crown, and the Gods," exempting them from marriage laws and from any obligations to family or clan or caste which would otherwise have restricted them, and permitting them to engage in any occupations which would be legal for men. They won their concessions at the price of formally renouncing by oath all of the legal protections given to other women. The charter (q.v.) was duly granted, and the engrossed original is preserved in Nevarsin Monastery, SC 157. The Oath (q.v.) is quoted below, p. 146. Free

Amazons are forbidden to wear swords, but in every other respect they are ascribed the same status, the same rights, and the same responsibilities, as men.
guns Propulsion weapons, ballistic weapons, as distinct from "ray guns" (laser weapons), blasters, etc.; contraband on many TE planets, including Darkover, SA 17. See Compact.
gutter rabbit An insulting epithet, used by Kennard Alton to the gang of toughs who beset Larry Montray, SD 31.
Probably cahuenga, derogatory mode and personal inflection, for the casta term usually translated merely as "rabbit"—in sarcastic allusion to the use of the latter word as a term of endearment or pity. The root image is therefore a combination of "cowardly" and "given to indiscriminate public copulation in the gutter": cf. Terran (English) "bitch," which has had a similar connotation for thousands of years. But see "mud-rabbit. "
Gwennis Female given name in the Hellers and foothills; could also be spelled Guennis; ultimately from Terran Welsh "fair-skinned."
The masculine counterpart would be Gwynn orGuinn.
GWENNIS Free Amazon from Thendara Guild House, one of the youngest (age 15-16) chosen by Kindra for the Shainsa rescue expedition, SC 15; proud of her skill with a dagger (loc. cit.); singer, light soprano, SC 26; later enroute with Jaelle (q.v.), for Nevarsin, when they met Magda(q.v.),SC137.
Gwynn Male given name in Hellers and foothills, including Alton lands, ultimately from Terran Welsh, "fair-skinned."
Feminine counterpart is Gwennis (q.v.).
GWYNN One of the Alton retainers, tall, dark; he transported Dan Barron to his new assignment at Armida, WD 26 (30), 71 (90). He was temporarily in charge of the mountain ranger station, WD 73 (94).

Haig Marshall Terran Legate on Samarra some six years after the Sharra Rebellion; father of Kathie Marshall (q.v.), SA 116 (129), 161 (181).
hair Length is connected with status, but not in any simple manner. Darkovan men wear theirs long by any Terran standards (which have to be sure varied enormously over the centuries), except that Nevarsin monks still are tonsured, and City Guards, HH 68, wear it no more than collarbone-length. Length in a male is not a mark of effeminacy, any more than it was in the times of the Terran King Francois I or the Stuarts. It unquestionably helps insulate its wearers against cold, FT 236.
Darkovan women, except for Free Amazons, wear it longer than Terrans, normally bound by butterfly clasps (q.v.), as the nape (q.v.) is regarded as an erogenous zone, as among Japanese on Terra and the planets colonized by that people.
Free Amazons vary: neophytes have it cropped to approximately ear length, as a symbol of their renunciation of regular female protected status, SC 12, 92, 20. After they have finished their Guild House half year, they keep their hair short unless they are freemated to men or other Free Amazons, SC 248.
Terrans in TZ and Trade Cities wear their hair in off-world styles and various lengths, women even exposing the nape of their necks in a manner thought scandalous among natives; exceptions are those Terran women who have taken the trouble to learn something about local
custom. Many TE women wear their hair a little longer than men, though this length is not described, SC 214. Terran men have been known, during periods when TE fashion decreed short hair for men, to assume that long hair on native men meant effeminancy, whereas the shorter Terran fashions are considered impossibly monkish by natives.
Red hair is found only among the Comyn (and some Terrans, who have been mistaken for Comyn). Ancient Comyn tradition has it that "the redder the hair, the stronger the laran," WW 66 (71).
HALDANE See PETER.
"half monk, half eunuch" Lorenz's contemptuous (probably proverbial) epithet for Damon Ridenow as a Tower matrix worker, FT 51, echoed by Desiderio, FT 312.
Halt Ancient village, near the longest of the Forbidden Roads (q.v.), overlooked by Castle Elhalyn. Site of one of the oldest of the Towers. Site of the mysterious Lake of Hali, so chronically cloud-covered as to have no other visible surface, SA 128 (143). Near the lake is the rhu fead (q.v.), the sacred place of the Comyn. Pink grass grows in the area; Comyn dead had been buried in unmarked graves near the shore for uncounted generations, FT 295. Reputedly, Terrans and non-Comyn have never set foot on the shore of the lake.
The rhu fead is a building dating back to the Ages of Chaos or earlier, "a white, dim, gleaming pile," its only
entrance guarded by a Veil (q.v.) between twin pillars, similar to that at Arilinn Tower. The chapel therein is the repository for the "Holy Things at Hali" (called to witness in oaths): see commentary to the "Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda," p. 142. Lew and Alton used Kathie Marshall (qq.v.), to enter the place to retrieve the Sword of Aldones.
At some time in the Ages of Chaos, "the Cataclysm" destroyed the Lake, but Varzil the Good (q.v.) restored it and was given the title "Lord of Hali," FT 251.
The name may derive from Terran (Eng.) "hallowed," "holy." The alternate derivation (ancient Arabic name for the constellation Taurus) is unlikely and surely irrelevant: Taurus would be invisible from Darkover.
Hali-imyn (cahuenga and Hellers dialects) Approximately, either "those originating around Hali" or "worshipers of the Four" (q.v.). Used by non-Comyn often in derogatory mode, e.g. by Cyrillon's men, SD 87-90, and Dry Towners, SS 138; but (spelled Hali'imyn) in respectful mode and inflection also by Kermiac, HH 168; cf. HH 1 73, 305. Cyrillon's people believed that the Comyn had come up from the bottom of Hali Lake, hence the "originating" meaning, SD 96.
hall-Steward At Armida, Damon Ridenow loaned Andrew Carr the "holiday suit" of this unnamed minor functionary, SS 62; and see RHODRI. (But the term coridom can be translated as "hall-steward.")
Hamilton See David, WW 29ff.
handfasted Formally engaged to be married, HH 75.
harp See rryl, HH 273. The archaic Terran upright unped-alled "Irish" harp presumably survived via the New Hebrides Commune's descendants, becoming modified in later centuries. More recently, the TE orchestras probably included the Erard-type pedalled double-action harp. Where the term harp is used to mean the rryl, it is a very loose translation, as they are quite different instruments. However, the harp played by Yashri the minstrel and later by his 9-year-old grandson, FT 232, 263, for dances at Armida, is likely to have been the larger free-standing type, like the larger Irish harps.
HARRY 1. Capt. Harry Leicester, see LEICESTER. 2. Child of Camilla Del Rey, named after the Captain, DL 159-60.
Hastur The first of this name was called "Son of Aldones who was Son of Light," legendary and possibly mythical ancestor of all the Comyn. The story goes that he married Cassilda, q.v. Robardin's ha\f-chieri daughter by Kierestelli, FT 108, 115, and see the "Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda," below, p. 142. The story was disbelieved by Kermiac and Kadarin, HH 173-75, as they knew (from TE Intelligence records) about the original Lost Ship which landed on the planet with personnel bearing some of the same names which later became common among the Comyn.
The name Hastur ultimately derives from Terran (Sp.) Asturias, the name of a province in Spain, via the Catalan name Di Asturien (q.v.), which was the family name of the medical officer in the original DL colony, DL 12, 64-65; this family name still survived as late as the Sharra Rebellion, and its holders were reputed to regard the Hasturs as newcomers, HH 61.
The appearance of the name Hastur in archaic Terran legends collected by Bierce, Chambers and Lovecraft may be taken as coincidence, as there is no resemblance to the "elder gods" so named in them.
See following entries. Hastur One of the Seven Domains, located in the foothills of the Hellers, SC 113. Its central estate and castle are at Carcosa (q.v.). This site dates back at least to the time of King Regis V (q.v.), SS 117, but it is not known whether it antedates the Ages of Chaos.
According to legend, the oldest of the Domains, the oldest of the seven great Comyn dynasties, and the progenitor of the other six. This was formerly the royal family; however, some centuries before the Sharra Rebellion the direct line (Hastur of Hastur) allowed the (by then largely ceremonial) kingship to pass to a collateral line, Hastur of Elhalyn, thereafter known as the Elhalyn Domain. Since then the reigning Hastur Lord has been automatically Regent of the Kingdom, Warden of the Crown, and the true power behind the throne, exercising a deciding vote in Comyn Council deliberations. The very name implies charisma in its holder even if (s)he is not a Domain Lord. However, the word of the Hastur Regent is not automatically the law of the land, SC 178,283.
Hasturs are typically tall, "pure" Comyn types with the usual fiery red hair which has a tendency to gray earlier than in other families. With occasional exceptions, they have not been six-fingered for many generations.
In Damon's eyes, all Hastur women were beautiful, FT 248.
The Hastur Gift is the "living matrix," see Gifts.
The Hastur colors are blue and silver.
The Hastur device is a silver fir tree on a blue ground; the motto is given as Permanedal "I shall remain," HH 18, or as Permanedo "Here we remain," WW 42 (44).
One of the Hastur kings, possibly Regis IV, brought the Ages of Chaos to a close by persuading the remaining Comyn lords to sign the Compact (q.v.), at a penstroke ending centuries of civil wars which had exterminated some Comyn families and killed off much of the population, threatening to destroy the ecology, etc.; and since that time there have been no large scale wars on Darkover.
About 143 years before the Sharra Rebellion, Stefan Hastur made an agreement with the TE authorities establishing the Thendara site for Terran Zone, Trade City, and spaceport development, supplanting the old Caer Donn settlement.
The Hasturs had a reputation for never telling lies: see word and cf. HH 159  193.
See also DANILO, DANVAN, ELORIE, JAVANNE, LORILL, LEONIE, Marelie, Marius, Rafael, REGIS, Stefan. Hastur rebellion Civil wars (Ages of Chaos) during the reign of King Rafael II; during them the towers of Nes-kaya and Tramontana were burned to the ground, FT 228. hawks Uncertain if primarily native birds or Terran imports; in either event, wild and used like Terran hawks in

hunting.  The  Elhalyn family  kept  a specially  notable strain of them, SA 35.
Hastur's hawks had long been trained by Dom Felix Syrtis (q.v.).
See also lady-bird and verrin. HAY AT Male loafer in Shainsa. Polygynous, SC 12. hazing, ritual Any first-year Cadet Guard who failed to give his name in proper form (i.e. "Cadet Syrtis, sir") or to answer any other question by an officer in proper form (e.g. "How old are you?"—"Fifteen, sir") was subjected to this as reprisal and reminder. Lew Alton had gone through it; so did Regis Hastur, HH 60ff. See "That's you, blockhead!"
Headquarters Floor 8 TE Headquarters, TZ, Thendara; Floor 8 in this building contained Medic and Psych, BS 36.
healer, healer-of-wounds 1. A paramedic using ordinary traditional methods. 2. One using matrix techniques for healing (see ALIDA; DAMON). Dyan Ardais had been briefly apprenticed to one of these, in or near the Hellers, SD 127.
Also called curer-of-wounds. See also next entry.
healer-woman 1. One trained by apprenticeship in traditional methods; 2. a leronis with this specialty. Some Free Amazons were so trained. One at Armida, SS 85, attended Dom Esteban; in FT she is named Ferrika.
healing by matrix Use of laran energies, focused by matrix, on the part of a tower-trained person (not necessarily a Keeper), to perform intercellular or intracellular repairs or other micromanipulations, some clearly beyond the capacity of conventional Terran surgery. Detailed descriptions: SS 89, SC 205ff; see ALIDA.
However,   even   this   technique  could not restore  a severed spinal column, SS 108.
Damon Ridenow had been trained in this specialty. Normally   a  matrix   healer  was   popularly   styled   a leronis, (q.v.),  because  Keepers were most often summoned for the purpose.
heat-gun Contraband TE weapon, PS 28 (27). Apparently a type of portable laser either for antipersonnel or incendiary use. HEATHER Dr. Heather Stuart, XXI Century Terran, in original DL crew, DL 10, 21. Small, slight, delicate, copper-haired, from Scottish Highlands, DL 47. Microbiologist. Either a member of the Reformed Catholic Church or sympathetic to it, as she attended Father Vel-entine's requiem mass. Drafted for nursing duty after the crash. In Rafe MacAran's first survey team.
She had some natural precognitive gift (Scottish "second sight"?), because of which she gave Camilla Del Rey her fur jacket for the last climb, DL 37. The Ghost Wind awakened her telepathic sensitivity, and presumably enabled her to perceive the true nature of Judith Lovat's unborn baby, as she was the only one in the group who actually believed that Judith's lover was an aborigine, DL 122-23
She took part in the orgy with Ewen Ross and Lewis MacLeod during the first Ghost Wind; later paired with Ewen, bore seven children, none of whom lived over one Terran month, but fostered Camilla's youngest daughter Mhari. heat-suit Standard TE equipment for use on cold planets, WW 75 (82). Ancestral forms were developed in XX Century Terra for use by mountaineers; they contained a portable energy source, heating elements of insulated wire, and insulated outer layers to minimize wind chill. heir-designate 1. Kinsman who has sworn to accept heir status and its responsibilities. 2. Infant or other minor child in whose name a legal guardian (lord or heir to ancestral lands) swore as to legitimacy and entitlement to inheritance. The term was most often used in context of Domain inheritance, in which case the Domain lord or Domain heir took the oath in Comyn Council at the time the child was shown to the assembled members. Such oath had to be confirmed on the heir-designate's majority, and was replaced by the regular oath of allegiance as Domain lord when the previous lord died.
The oath was sworn in Regis Hastur's name when he was one half year old, but had to be confirmed when he reached age 15, HH 375ff.
Dom Esteban similarly referred to it in naming Valdir his heir-designate, FT 299.
Regis Hastur swore it on behalf of Mikhail-Regis Lanart-Hastur at which time he exhibited the child to Comyn Council and officially renamed him Danilo Lan-art Hastur, HH 375.
Dyan Ardais administered the oath to Danilo Syrtis in designating him the heir to Ardais, HH 373, after relinquishing his own heir-designate status (on Dom Kyril's death) for that of Lord Ardais.
Kennard Alton had attempted to do the same for Lew, but Comyn Council had refused to accept the boy as legitimate until his late teens, HH 15, 17. helicopters Ancient type of TE aircraft, much used in the mountains because they could take off and land vertically in small spaces. They were quieter than their pre-Space Age (XX Century) Terran ancestors, PS 24 (23). They could maneuver in many areas where other TE aircraft (see aircraft) could not, but the fierce cross-
winds and updrafts in the Hellers made many other areas inaccessible save on foot or by pack-animal or mountain pony, PS 17(15).
Kermiac of Aldaran owned two, HH 241. Others were mostly owned by TE authorities in various locations— wherever Trade Cities or other TE outposts had been set up. Old Hastur had occasionally borrowed one from TE authorities, HH 230.
Four of the Aldaran Guards, under Beltran's (q.v.) orders, kidnapped Danilo Syrtis (q.v.), brining him back to Castle Aldaran via helicopter, HH 230. Javanne Hastur discovered this event by using her matrix crystal to psychometrize Danilo's scabbard, HH 230.
heliograph Ancient Terran name (from Greek, meaning "sun-writing") for a signaling device, comparable to a beacon but using reflected sunlight; the beam was highly directional and could be interrupted to produce coded patterns of long and short flashes which could be read as letters and numbers. Valdir Alton introduced them as a supplement to the system of alarm bells and beacons, WD 72-73 (93).
Hellers Terran name for what Trailmen and some other natives called "the Wall Around the World," the highest mountain range on Darkover. Rendered into cahuenga, the name became singularly appropriate, suggesting that —like the Dry Lands—these mountains had been fashioned by Zandru, perhaps for restricting the movements of the ungodly.
The region was notorious for bandit strongholds (see Sain Scarp), for perils such as banshees (q.v.), and for an unusual number of offspring of human/aborigine ("non-human" and "half-human") unions, generally under the stimulus of the Ghost Wind, q.v. Parts of the Hellers lay within Aldaran Domain, parts in Ardais Domain, (Lew called Dyan Ardais "Cahuenga from the Hellers," SA 7 (4)) parts outside either, some areas remaining unexplored even in recent times, owing to—among other things—the absence of roads, the rarity of usuable mountain passes (see Dammerung and Scaravel), and the impossibility of photographic mapping from TE aircraft, even helicopters. The fierce and unpredictable cross-winds and updrafts had resulted in crashes of many Mapping & Exploration planes, so that many areas were officially designated as to be avoided at any cost.
Hellers dialect Language commonly in use in the remoter areas of the Hellers, containing elements of casta with large admixtures of archaic Terran Gaelic, a language long extinct on Terra but rediscovered after the TE authorities settled at Caer Donn, HH 175.
Hellers workmanship Not described in detail. Dom Felix Syrtis identified a cloak of "thick colorless wool" lined with marl-fur and fitted with leather straps and buckles, as of such workmanship, long obsolete in the Domains, and now most often seen on mountain bandits, HH 226. In garments, clearly, local workmanship was obviously adapted not only against more intense cold than elsewhere in the inhabited continent, but against high winds.
hells Zandru (q.v.) owned (and probably created) nine, each successively colder; the first was comparable to an ordinary winter.  See "Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda,"
p. 142.
Contrary to popular belief, cold hells are found even in Terran legend, one being described in Dante's Inferno, However, Andrew Carr knew only of the traditional hot Hell, comparable to the Dry Towners' article, FT 255.
Hell's Alley A ledge in the Hellers, notorious for avalanches, PS 50 (51).
Helvetia II TE banking planet, continuing the old Terran Swiss practice of numbered secret accounts, WW 9 (5); interplanetary transactions in recent centuries have routinely been managed through interbank transfers of funds on this planet, based on gold, titanium, or various other metals used as monetary standards on the individual planets.
The name is obviously from ancient Terran (Latin) Helvetia, the name for Switzerland, the original Terran banking nation.
herdsman's shelter Common in the Hellers. Callista, in the overworld, found one for Andrew Carr, SS 30ff. Damon Ridenow and his sworn brother Coryn Lanart (qq.v.) had slept in that same one as boys on hunting trips, SS 70. Marjorie and Lew Alton spent the night in one with two herdwomen (Callean and Mhari), their children, and several dogs, HH 314ff.
herdwomen Women who herd various domestic animals; common in the Hellers, HH 314. See MHARI.
he-whores Male prostitutes, at the disposal of male customers in Ardcarran bordellos, SC 15, and elsewhere (see Golden Cage).
The term became an epithet of contempt; Lew Alton hurled it at Dyan Ardais, HH 62. The regular cahuenga form would be grezalin, pi. grezali, corresponding to grezalis (q.v.).
Hidden City A walled settlement, obscured by permanent cloud cover, whose matrix-locked gates could be opened only by a Keeper, BS 23? Several of these have been used as places of refuge by the Comyn over the centuries. That near Arilinn was between the Twin Peaks, BS 73. Comyn Council had been known to meet there in emergencies, SA 13 (10), 34. Trailmen approached this one during the 'Narr Campaign in the so-called Trailmen's War, SA 43 (44), but did not manage to breach gates or walls, if they even were able to see them.
Callina Aillard supposedly opened the Arilinn Hidden City to Lew Alton and the dying Marjorie Scott after the Sharra Rebellion, SA 34, but if so, Lew's stay must have been very brief indeed. Lew had teleported himself and Marjorie from Caer Donn to Arilinn Tower, HH 364, afterwards returning by TE aircraft (borrowed from TE authorities on Old Hastur's demand, on Kennard's insistence?) from Arilinn to Thendara; and after the Council meeting at Comyn Castle, Kennard took Lew offworld.
hidden man, hidden woman Regis Hastur quoted the old traditional rationalization of the donas amizu (q.v.) that the man seeks the "hidden woman" in his boyfriend, the woman seeks the "hidden man" in her female friend. Dr. Jason Allison equated these concepts to the archaic Terran notions of anima and animus, respectively, ascribed to Jung, WW 157 (1 78).
It goes without saying that Regis, or whoever he was
quoting (Lew Alton?), was oversimplifying. For one thing, it may be a man's own anuria—or his maleness— seeking the maleness in his boyfriend or sworn brother, in celebration of what they both share in common (e.g. Damon, FT 260, eventually Andrew understanding it, FT 325-27), and exactly parallel motivation can be adduced for women friends, e.g. Free Amazon free-mates. Or the animus and anima may not even underlie such affairs. Hierarchs of the City Alternative translation of the casta term elsewhere rendered as City Masters (q.v.);Then-dara city authorities, BS 33. High Kimbi Mountain peak in the Hellers, in Aldaran territory, near Caer Donn; Castle Aldaran is located at its foot, WD 36 (44). One of the highest mountain peaks on the planet, WD 88 (115).
A mountaineering expedition, a few years after the Sharra Rebellion, mapped High Kimbi, climbing to within about 31 standard meters (100 ancient Terran feet) of its top; see the last entry under HJALMAR, PS 49 (53).
The name apparently derives from Terran (old Spanish dialect) quimbambula, "rough craggy spot."
High Windward The Storns' own name for Storn Castle, WD 89 (93).
Captured by Brynat Scarface; retaken by Desideria, using the Sharra Matrix (qq.v.), with about 100 of the forge-folk.
Hilary Castamir (Accent first syllable) Underkeeper (rik-hi) at Arilinn Tower while Damon Ridenow was there, FT 146; the only one (other than Leonie Hastur and Damon himself) who ever touched Damon's matrix, FT 146, 167; failed training owing to intractable crisis every menstrual period, FT 167, 225.
Hjalmar Common male given name in the Hellers and nearby foothills, from Terran (archaic Scandinavian); the ja- like ya- in yard. At least three are identified; see following entries.
Hjalmar-------   Boy, contemporary of "Jeff Kerwin Jr." at
Spacemen's Orphanage, not later traced, BS 37. "Jeff" fought him for calling him "Tallo" (q.v.).
HJALMAR MACARAN    Son   of   --------   MacAran   and
Alanna; brother of Estill and Cormac; foster-brother of Damon Ridenow. Born and raised in Corresanti village; adult at the time of the Catmen's War, SS 137.
HJALMAR------     Slightly  older contemporary of Regis
Hastur, of immense stature; brother of Garin and Vardo (qq.v.); son of a grezalis or street prostitute, HH 159; father not identified but may have been one of the nobility, as the boy managed to obtain an appointment to the Cadet Guards, becoming expert enough in sword-play to be chosen as one of Dyan Ardais's assistants in Arms practice assigned to screening new cadets, especially those who claimed any experience with swordplay. During the year before the Sharra Rebellion he was a "junior officer" in the Cadets, HH 76-77, 99.
Later he became a mountaineer, one of the party that mapped  High Kimbi (q.v.), PS 27 (26), 49 (53); accompanied   his   brothers   on   the   Allison   Expedition. Regis promised to go climbing with him in the Hellers PS 63 (68).
holidays Midsummer and midwinter days (solstices) are so celebrated on almost every inhabited planet in the known Galaxy, HH 105. See Festivals; Midsummer; Midwinter. There were others, not as important, held at the equinoxes, the first spring thaw, and various other days.
Holy Bearer of Burdens Epithet and invocatory phrase for Cristoforo, central figure of veneration/archetype/ deity of the sect bearing that name; identified by TE as originally St. Christopher of Centaurus, heroic figure of the Reformed Catholic Church. See Bearer, cristoforos, Nevarsin.
holy things at Hali Phrase used in oaths, e.g. "The gods witness it, and the holy things at Hali," HH 163. They are not all identified, but these hallowed or sacred objects are known to have included the Sword of Aldones, the web of gold cloth, the shield and the Broken Sword, with other heirlooms dating from before the Ages of Chaos and associated with the worship of the Four (q.v.), preserved and venerated in the rhu fead (q.v.) at Hali. See the "Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda," p. 142, lines 164-168, and commentary.
homo arborens "Tree-dwelling man." Speculative scientific name for Trailmen, PS 35, DL 76. Does not postulate common ancestry with Terran humans.
homosexuality Except among the cristoforos (q.v.), no law, custom or taboo exists against it on Darkover, for either gender. Some of the Comyn have long felt that it becomes less seemly as one grows older, HH 56, 108, but there is no automatic disgrace in its continuance. Regis Hastur was not looked down on because of his long affair with Danilo Syrtis (qq.v.), WW 156 (177). Dyan Ardais was despised not because of his predilection for handsome boys, but for his cruelty and abuse of authority, HH 193, which precise distinction was acknowledged by Danvan Hastur, Regis, and Kennard Alton—the more important in that Kennard and Dyan had been themselves bredin (q.v.) in boyhood.
Among adolescents, this sort of pairing is taken for granted as common and totally acceptable, especially in donas amizu (q.v.) custom; it is especially frequent among young people in the Hellers and Kilghard Hills, HH 137. If two boys, or two men, are close enough to swear the oath of bredin (q.v.), exchanging knives, it is taken for granted that they might as well be lovers, and probably are, but nobody censures them. Abusive epithets such as those translated as "catamite" and "sandal-wearer" refer not to sexual preference but to effeminacy.
The common Terran attitude of loathing and outrage (recurrent between intervals of greater tolerance, throughout what is known of Terran history) has long seemed ludicrous among native Darkovans. Instances such as the one which precipitated a citywide crisis in Thendara a few months before the Sharra Rebellion provoked incredulous laughter in any 12-year-old boy hearing about them. (A City Guardsman suggested to a Terran in one of the spaceport bars that they should share a bed; the Terran reacted not with either assent or polite refusal but by starting a fight, and in the ensuing brawl he stabbed the Guardsman to death, whereupon the Guard's brother filed an intent-to-murder against the
Terran (see Declaration), and Lord Hastur had to intervene. The Terran was deported, HH 47, 71, 87ff.) Lord Hastur said "The Terrans take it even more seriously than the cristoforos," HH 47, and Regis found difficulty in believing that even a Terran could have seriously offered the Guardsman's suggestion as a justification for murder! Even Lew Alton, who considered himself completely heterosexual (despite a donas amizu three years before with the then 12-year-old Regis Hastur), could see this, even as he could see how any impressionable boy could be glamored by Dyan Ardais, HH 108.
Homosexuality is common among Ardais males, SC 243, but all that is said against it is that they make poor husbands and might not father heirs. And so Dyan told Regis that he had done his duty by his clan, which was after all the only thing Comyn cared about, HH 147; cf. HH 20, 48-49, 111-17, 232-33, 372-74. Regis had to face his own homosexuality, HH 327-36.
In casta, the term is ombredin, "lover of men," from om- (root meaning "man") + bredin "lover," with a play on ombre "shadow," alluding to the ancient polite expression jou sombredi "game of shadows" (homosexual practice). The term ombredin is not an insult and can be used in respectful mode. See bredu, catamite, cristoforos, DANILO, donas amizu, DYAN, GARRIS, hidden man, jou sombredi, ombredin, REGIS. For the female counterpart see lesbianism.
honor guard Cadre of Cadets and Guardsmen specially selected for some state occasion, as to accompany a Domain Lord on official visits. Members were expected to keep secrecy about all proceedings, HH 81 ff. Lew Alton thought that the perfect model for a member of such a contingent would be a child's carved wooden soldier, HH 86. Selection for such tasks was considered an honor, HH 83.
hooks Tearing on hooks was the ancient mode of execution for anyone laying hands on Comyn, HH 159, or Keeper, FT 23.
"Horny-pig" Melitta Storn's pet name for a stag-pony (q.v.) she first learned to ride instead of a horse, WD 98 (129). Dan Barron, overshadowed by Storn of Storn, demonstrated Storn's mental presence by correctly naming the animal.
horse-thieves See bandits. Lew Alton had to admit to Kermiac of Aldaran that the last time he had occasion to use his sword (and therefore his Cadet Guard swordplay training) in a real life situation was against "common horse thieves," HH 214, thus proving one of Kermiac's points about the anachronistic nature of Guards and the Compact.
horses Two different strains had been imported from Terra. The first—large and heavy, presumably suitable for draft work as well as for riding—apparently dates from the earliest Terran agreements with Aldaran, and came into common use in the Hellers and the Kilghard Hills across the Kadarin, SD 83, later being commonly used by bandits. Roan was a rare color, but one of Rumal di Scarp's men rode a horse of this color, SC 126. A couple of hundred years before the Sharra Rebellion, the Hasturs began importing other horses from Terra, WD 25 (29), a lighter swifter stock suitable only
for riding, evidently including some that could be raced, HH 173, said to be descended from a "Nova Terran" strain. The Terran Legate in "Jeff Kerwin's" day said that their descendants were allowed to run wild in the "lower steppes," in the foothills of the Hellers, in Hastur and Alton lands, BS 34. The Hasturs traded gold, platinum, and tiny matrix crystals for them—the latter evidently only as exotic jewels, BS 33-34, too small for use with laran. Horses were by now rare on Terra, SD 27. Comyn learned to control these animals with halter and reins, never bit or bridle, SD 22, 60. In ensuing years, large tracts of Alton lands were put to use as horse-ranches, benefitting by Andrew Carr's experience on Terra in this occupation, though Terran management of horse-ranches had long outclassed even the Valeron trainers, FT 28.
Horses were also bred in the Plains of Valeron; the Free Amazons favored these, using them for speed in the Shainsa rescue expedition, SC 46. Horses were then scarce in the Dry Towns, not many being imported from the Domains; oudrakhi (q.v.) to some extent replaced them and were in any event better adapted to the climate.
hose Breeches, male garment suitable for riding horseback; often made of leather, WD 16 (15), or various types of heavy woven fabric.
House of Lanterns Discreet "house of pleasure" (brothel /nightclub) in Old Thendara; unlike others, this was not off limits for Cadets or Guards, HH 149. Dyan Ardais characterized it as much less exotic in its entertainment than the Golden Cage (q.v.), and claimed to find it dull. No details of its attractions are recorded, though we may guess that it provided professional sexual partners of both genders, like other such places.
houses Many native dwellings had walls of translucent stone; others had stone walls with windows and even floors of translucent material, sometimes frosted, varied with colored glass, SD 21ff. See also castles, Great Houses. Terran living quarters were fitted with much more efficient central heating, and with "Earth-normal" yellowish light, the idea being that TE personnel might be summoned offworld after only a few days or weeks on Darkover, and thus should not expect to adapt to the planet's peculiar conditions. In the Dry Towns, all houses tended to resemble fortresses, laid out around central courtyards, presenting blind walls to the outside, and with all outer gates guarded, SC 33.
Chieri houses are described in DL 100, 142-14 and SD 155-56.
Trailmen's houses are described in PS 66 (71-72).
Hundred Trees An incredible grove in the region of Trail-men's country known as North Forest. Each tree in the stand is in excess of TVi standard meters (25 Terran feet) in curcumference; their lowest branches are over 91 standard meters (300 Terran feet) above the ground, PS 65 (70).
hunting-beast   Some kind of clawed predator, FT 97.
Hyades (accent on first and third syllable) Mountain range, southern branch of Hellers, far east of Thendara and well beyond the Kilghard Hills; heavily forested; said to extend southwards to near Dalereuth, WD 14 (13), WW 33   (34).   Large areas are trackless and probably
unexplored.
Inhabited by humans and undescribed nonhumans.
It is not known if the resemblance to the ancient Terran (Greek) name, similarly spelled, meaning either "rainmakers" or "piglets," and applied to a V-shaped star cluster, is accidental. Meaning of the casta name is unknown; but see following entry. Hyalis Town notable for a distinctive style of leatherwork (boots, belts, etc.), SC 62. Location not specified.
The -is is feminine form; the -al- makes its preceding root into noun or adjective; the hy- may represent Eng.
hyaline "clear, smooth."
hydrogen bombs Dr. Jay Allison recommended sardonically that a couple of these be dropped on the trail-cities to wipe out Trailmen 's fever, PS 10 (7), 13 (11).
hypnal Sleeping drug, used in TE Medical Service hospitals, administered by injection, SA 137 (154).
hypnosis Kennard Alton used it on "Jeff Kerwin Jr." to test him—successfully—for psychokinetic ability, BS 93-94.
Dr. Randall Forth used it on Dr. Jay Allison to elicit the secondary personality Jason, PS, chapter 1.

IB S Initialese for "Intelligent Beings," i.e. sapient species; common TE term, WD 67 (86). By a few years after the Sharra Rebellion, the singular form (IB) became TE Medic slang for any sapient nonhuman, WW 60 (64).
TE standards for sapience included evidence of a time-binding culture and a language learnable by other IB's, WD 68 (86); reports that such species existed on a planet had to be adjudicated by Galactic Central (q.v.), for classifying a planet as inhabited.
ice-melons Species of fruit grown near Nevarsin; a rare delicacy, seldom available in the lowlands, HH 114. They grow near glaciers, FT 105.
Idriel (accent first and third syllables) One of the four moons, mauve in color. Lew Alton misremembered Kyrrdis's green face as Idriel, HH 314.
Idril Typographical error for Idriel, see preceding entry, SD 10.
immunity Members of Comyn were exempt from certain laws applicable to all others in the Domains. In particular, these laws included curfews and some other regulations not involving property rights, and some provisions of the code duello; challenges could not be made nor blood feud declared, in Council, e.g. Regis could not call challenge against Dyan Ardais for the affront to his paxman Danilo, HH 371; SA 36 (37).
impotence A common, though temporary, side effect of prolonged matrix work, BS 121, HH 242.
mcense Commonly used in homes and shops planetwide, BS   12,   76.   Derived mostly from fragrant tree-resins.
Probably used to combat dank smells in long cold humid winters.
Independent Council of Craftswomen An association which successfully fought for the right to be recognized among Thendara businesses. Its head was Mestra Lauria n'Andrea, Free Amazon, SC 280.
industries Those native to Darkover include among others, dairy farming, certain types of animal husbandry, papermaking, manufacture of certain drugs, grain milling, weaving, dyeing, preparation of wines and certain distilled liquors, small-scale mining of platinum, gold, silver and some of the exotic metals, but nothing classifiable by TE standards as heavy industry. See also exports.
inflections In casta (q.v.), every word is normally spoken, according to context, in any one of three inflections: impersonal, personal, or intimate. The denotation of a word can change to a certain extent (see bredu), and its connotation inevitably does change, according to which inflection and which mode (q.v.) are used—twelve combinations are possible, theoretically, for each word, but in practice not all combinations exist.
These distinctions can be expressed in accentuation (which syllable is stressed), affixes, or tone (one or more syllables given a rising or falling vocal mannerism), or either followed by the other, SC 108. In cahuenga most of these distinctions are dropped. See mode.
insects Creatures vaguely so classified (it is unknown if they were six-legged) were reported since the original DL colonization.   The   Allison   expedition   to   Trailmen's
country found giant luminous species, some as large as a man's hand, kept in cages by Trailmen, where they fed on luminous fungi, PS 65 (70). See also scorpion-ants.
intent-to-murder  See Declaration.
intercom Some kind of communications device, used in TE HQ, Thendara, and probably in all TE offices, SD 53.
interstellar ships Same as Big Ships (q.v.). They managed to reach velocities, by Valdir Alton's time, of about one lightyear per Darkovan day, SD 6.
Istvan Masculine name, Hellers dialect, equivalent to Stefan or Esteban (qq.v.). This form is used to designate Dom Esteban Lanart, Lord Alton, SS 36; for either King Stefan IX or Stefan Hastur of Hastur, Regent, SC 56; for the latter as having induced the Terrans to move their major spaceport from Caer Donn to Thendara as part of a new trade agreement, HH 14. (Possibly by the year of the Sharra Rebellion, the common people had become confused as to which Stefan was responsible.)
Ivy Girl in Spacemen's Orphanage, on whom "Jeff Kerwin Jr." had a crush when he was 12 years old, BS 37.

jaco Aromatic hot drink, bittersweet in flavor, vaguely analogous to Terran cocoa or mocha, SC 72, HH 40. It contains caffeine, BS 23. Free Amazons drink it, but on outdoors duty they prefer a hot fermented grain-drink, SC 72.
From Terran (Gael.) deoch "drink, draught, liquor."
JAELLE AILLARD Later known as JAELLE N'HA ME-LORA, Free Amazon. Daughter of Melora Aillard by Jalak, tyrant of Shainsa (qq.v.). At age 12, rescued with Melora by Kindra's band of Free Amazons; after Melora's death became Kindra's (q.v.) foster-daughter in Thendara Guild House, over the objections of Lady Jerana (consort of King Aran Elhalyn), SC 90. Six-fingered, with green eyes and brilliant copper hair. She took the Free Amazon Oath at the minimum legal age despite Rohana's (q.v.) plea for delay, SC 267. High laran potential, probably prematurely aroused by contact with the dying Melora, SC 78; was tested by Alida (q.v.), but found the experience so traumatic that she later feared laran and matrixes, SC 206. "My gift is erratic; I cannot use it when I would, and when I would not it thrusts itself on me undesired," SC 1 76.
As an adult she became a travel organizer and logistics expert, SC 240, in partnership with Rafaella (q.v.). She encountered Magdalen Lome and administered the Free
Amazon Oath to her, SC 157ff. She later accompanied Magda to Sain Scarp to rescue Peter Haldane (q.v.), later developing a major infatuation for him, becoming his mistress and—for a time—his freemate, SC 286.
Like all Free Amazons, she was literate; she spoke casta, cahuenga, Dry Towns dialect, and probably also Hellers dialect, which she could easily have picked up during her sojourns at Ardais.
The name is trisyllabic but the final e is often elided in spoken vernaculars. Affectionate diminutive, Shaya. JALAK Tyrant of Shainsa, in the Dry Towns, a few years before the Catmen's War. Thin hawk-keen face, pale hair (common among Dry Towners), bristling mustache, SC 14, 29, 40. His Great House in Shainsa was a walled oasis, practically a fortress, guarded by cralmacs, and containing—besides its gardens—his various wives, concubines, minions (see GARRIS), and resident guards.
About 13 years before the events of part I of SC, Jalak, raiding some outlying part of the Domains during one of the various outbreaks of war, kidnapped Melora (q.v.), cousin of Lady Rohana Aillard-Ardais, SC 10, killed two of her would-be rescuers, sent back the ring finger of the third with the ring still on it (this was Rohana's half-brother Valentine, whom he tortured to
death  before Melora's  eyes), boasting he would do so much and more to any later emissaries, SC 18.
Melora bore Jalak a daughter, Jaelle (q.v.), during the first year following her capture. But when Jaelle was 12, Melora found herself again pregnant, this time with a son (as she determined by her laran); see VALENTINE. Knowing that Jaelle would shortly thereafter be of age to be put into chains (q.v.), in desperation Melora reached Rohana's mind. Rohana hired Kindra's band of Free Amazons from Thendara Guild House to rescue Melora and Jaelle before the baby's birth, which story forms SC part I passim. At the rescue, Kindra (q.v.) hamstrung Jalak, SC 43, and escaped with Melora, Jaelle, her whole band of Free Amazons and the horses on which they had come. For later histories see JAELLE, KINDRA, MELORA, ROHANA.
It is not recorded if Jalak bled to death, committed suicide because of his disgrace at being attacked by a gang of women, or managed to survive as a wheelchair case—if wheelchairs were even known in the Dry Towns, which is doubtful.
JANICE XXI Century Terran. Assistant to Rafe MacAran, mapping local terrain, DL 136, 138.
JANINE LEYNIER Keeper at Arilinn Tower, trained by Leonie Hastur about the time of the Catmen's War, FT 168, 227. Friend of Lorill Hastur, SD 73ff. She used a matrix to move clouds together above a forest fire site in the Alton lands (the one set by Cyrillon's bandits), but she did not know the cloud seeding (q.v.) technique until Larry Montray described it, after which she and Lorill used the forest fire's own carbon dioxide for the purpose, SD 76-79.
The name is trisyllabic but (as with other female names ending in -e) the final e is often dropped in spoken vernaculars. Apparently a diminutive alternative to Janna, and related to Terran (It.) Giannina, French Jeannine, and various cognates.
JANNA LlNDIR Keeper at Arilinn Tower for the last two of Lew Alton's three years there, HH 282, a few years before the Sharra Rebellion. At age 17, Lew hopelessly loved her, HH 209. She healed his first hand scar from where he had momentarily lost control of energon flow while holding a matrix and had therefore suffered back-flow, HH 200-01, 208,239.
The name is apparently related to Terran (Italian) Gianna, parallel to (English) Jane; it is a Kilghard Hills dialect diminutive of Javanne. Cf. Terran (Norse) female given name Janna, of similar origin.
JASON ALLISON, Dr. Originally (minus the title) a repressed fragment of Dr. Jay Allison (q.v.), (below), elicited by experimental hypnosis in TE Medical Service, Thendara. On "waking," he gave his age as 22, PS 6 (2), believed he had been born on Samarra, recalled his early years in Spacemen's Orphanage, and his 8+ years in a Trailmen's Nest, along with the Trailmen's language; believed his occupation to be guiding Terran tourists on hunting parties, PS 17 (15). He was in every way a complete opposite to Dr. Jay Allison—gregarious, adventurous, impulsive, strongly heterosexual, fond of the Trail-men. The bulk of PS has to do with the Allison expedi-
tion to Trailmen's country to obtain enough Trailman blood to make a vaccine against the epidemic Trailmen's fever (q.v.). At the end, the "Jason" and "Jay" personae were reintegrated.
For three years afterwards, Jason was the freemate of Kyla n'ha Raine'ach, Free Amazon (q.v.), PS 91 (100-01), WW 170 (193), and later compared the experience to loving a man.
TE Medical Service later reassigned him to the Department of Alien Anthropology, Section 8, Medical Research, in the same building in TE HQ, Thendara, WW 17 (15). He became a liaison man between TE medics and Darkovan medical staff, trainees, etc., having thereafter little time for practice. He blocked the memory of having ever been offworld, WW 56 (60).
Though he claimed to be a nontelepath, WW 62 (67), he nevertheless frequently reacted to David's (q.v.) unspoken thoughts, WW 60 (64). In actuality, as he later came to recognize, he had laran, which was being stimulated by prolonged contact with the various members of Project Telepath, WW 169 (193); he became its coordinator.
He appears to have retained some, though not all, the best traits of both the Jason and the Jay of PS. Javanne (accent on second syllable, -van-) Female given name in Domains; a trisyllable, though the final -e is often elided in spoken vernaculars. Derived from Terran (Italian) Giovanna or some parallel form. The diminutive in the Kilghard Hills is Janna (q.v.). See next entry.

JAVANNE HASTUR Granddaughter of Danvan Hastur; daughter of Rafael Hastur by Alanna Elhalyn; own sister of Regis Hastur (qq.v.); very tall, dark hair, "undeniably handsome," HH 109. She had spent "a season" in Nes-kaya Tower, but Old Hastur decided—because so few Hasturs of the direct line were left—that she must not stay to become a Keeper, but must instead marry. There was some discussion of marrying her off to Dyan Ardais (q.v.),  but  he refused,  HH  229.  She married Gabriel
Lanart (q.v.), bearing him five children in the next seven years: the three "Lanart angels" (q.v.), namely Rafael, a younger Gabriel, and Mikhail; and some months before the Sharra Rebellion, twin daughters, Ariel and Uriel. At this time she was excessively thin, HH 109.
Her laran was sufficient to reach Regis during an attack of threshold sickness, HH 185-87, and later to enable her to teach him to use a matrix, HH 231-32.
JAY ALLISON, Dr. Surgeon, parasitologist, with TE Medical Service in TE HQ, Thendara. Son of an unnamed Darkovan mother, WW 169 (193), who died when he was an infant; spent his first five years in Spacemen's Orphanage, afterwards reclaimed by his Terran father, Jason, PS 6 (3), who must have been connected with TE Mapping & Exploring, as he took the boy into the Hellers by plane on a mapping expedition, where they crashed. Trailmen rescued young Jay, raised him in North Nest, nursed him through Trailmen's fever (q.v.), kept him until his 14th year, when their Old One realized that Jay's later life pattern would be incompatible with the Trailmen's lifestyle, PS 12-13 (9-11). They took him over Dammerung Pass back to the Terrans, who educated him. He later took medical training, and gave up his old hobby of mountaineering, PS 13 (11). As an M.D., he was assigned to TE Medical Service Hospital, Thendara. A few years after the Sharra Rebellion, he lived in Suite 1214, Medical Residence Corridor, in the same building. Intellectual, austere, doubtless homosexual but very secretive about it. His closest friend and possible lover was a Spaceforce man named Buck Kendricks (q.v.).
During his 34th year, when Trailmen's fever broke out in one of its 48-year cycle epidemics, TE Medical Service (with his consent) hypnotized him to enable him to recover his knowledge of the Trailmen's language (which he had forgotten and repressed along with most of his upbringing), and to establish a personality built out of repressed fragments of his own. The resulting construct was named Jason (q.v.), and the story of Jason's expedition to Trailmen country, to obtain enough blood to make a vaccine, forms the bulk of PS. The "Jay" persona resurfaced in crisis periods, once being submerged by Regis Hastur; and Jay's last conscious act was an attack on Regis, PS 89 (98-99), after which reintegration became necessary.
See also JASON, Trailmen's fever, Project Telepath, KYLA.
"JEFF KERWIN JR." Full name Jeffrey Andrew Kerwin Jr. (though in BS 38 the given name is represented as Jefferson—a computer malfunction? clerical error by programmer?). Supposedly Terran, allegedly son of Jeff Kerwin Sr. (q.v.). He spent his early life in Spacemen's Orphanage (q.v.), Terran Zone, Thendara, BS 6. At age 12, he was—in an extremely irregular procedure—sent to Terra to live with his alleged father's parents, given his father's room and sent to his school, but retained a Darkovan accent even to adulthood, BS 7. Grew to be exceptionally tall; red hair, grey eyes, only 5 fingers, which helped everyone including himself believe he was in fact Terran. As soon as possible, he left his Terran "grandparents," worked on Terra, joined TE service, serving later on Megaera (q.v.), BS 78, afterwards in the
Spaceport Coordinator's office on Wolf (Phi Coronis IV), BS 7, 21, 38, where he was listed (age 19) as "white, male, of Terra, home Mt. Denver, Sector 2; Apprentice, Communications Department; occupation, Communications Specialist; rating, Expert." He petitioned for transfer to Darkover, which was granted.
Once on Darkover, he found that no available record existed of his father's identity or of his own earlier sojourn on the planet; these records proved to be kept in inaccessible closed files, BS 40, for which some kind of priority clearance had to be obtained. He was assigned to testing, calibrating, and maintenance of intercom equipment, BS 41, and lived in TE bachelor quarters in Thendara. Unlike many natives or would-be natives, he remained clean-shaven. His attempts to learn more of his Darkovan origins led to trouble and eventually to a deportation order by the TE Legate, BS 59-60—as a covert political move to force certain Comyn hands.
He eventually made his way to Arilinn Tower, where he was tested not only for laran but for capacity to function in the Tower circle; he proved to have the pure Ridenow Gift (q.v.), BS 89-90. Eventually he was accepted by Hastur as full Comyn, BS 109, and married the Keeper Elorie Ardais (q.v.).
He learned that he was in actuality the son of Arnad Ridenow and Cleindori Aillard (qq.v.), his parents having been murdered by fanatics. JEFF KERWIN SR.  See Kerwin.
Jenny MacAran XXI Century Terran. Only sister of Rafael MacAran, of the DL colonist group; he discovered her dead in the crash, DL 7. She loved Camilla Del Rey like a sister.
Not described except as having "silver-bright" hair. JERANA AILLARD, Domna Princess Consort of King Aran Elhalyn (q.v.); cousin to Rohana (q.v.), SC 85ff. "A languid, fair-haired, spoilt-looking woman." She displayed no interest in Melora's children, advising Rohana to "have them fostered somewhere and forget them," but expressed indignation when Rohana agreed to allow Kindra to foster Jaelle, accusing the Free Amazons of desiring to get attractive young girls into their hands in order to make them "haters of men and lovers of women." Vain, spoilt, tactless—a good match for Aran.
She was named co-custodian for Ellemir, FT 332.
The name is probably from Terran (Sp.) jarana, "revelry, carousal, romping," or may even be a female counterpart to Jerome or Geremy. JEROME ELHALYN Murdered in the study of his own house, no footprints found in the snow; Worldwreckers' work, WW 15 (13).
The name would be normally trisyllabic, a worn-down form of Jeronimo or something similar; from Terran, coincidentally most similar to the old English and French forms. JERRAL One of Rumal di Scarp's bandit gang, quartered in Sain Scarp (qq.v.) in the Hellers, SC 144. He was one of the group who broke shelter-truce, resulting in Magda's disguise being recognized as such, and in her being required to take the Free Amazon Oath at Jaelle's hands. JOHNNY  See ELLERS.
jou sombredi (accent last syllable) (casta) game (of) shadows. Archaic polite term for homosexual activity, with a pun on ombredi(n) (qq.v.). Compare ancient Terran (French) amours buissonieres "love-affairs in the bushes" with much the same connotation.
Jovians Popular name for any sapient methane-breathers, no matter what planet they came from, SD 7.
JUDITH LOVAT, Dr. XXI Century Terran. Dietetics expert and food synthesis specialist on spaceship crew at first landing, DL 13, 121; wore Life Support emblems on her smock: small, sturdy.
During the first Ghost Wind (q.v.), she saw a chieri lay out the dying Marco Zabal, and the aborigine gave her a matrix crystal wrapped in leaves, DL 60. Later, telepathically opened to each other by the psychedelic pollen, they made love, (implied), DL 59. She also found the flint knife (of Trailman workmanship) which proved that the planet was inhabited, DL 60.
During the second Ghost Wind, her chieri lover called
her away from the camp via the matrix crystal which she used to locate him, DL 91. Trailmen garlanded her and led her to the precise place, DL 92. She discovered she was pregnant with his child, DL 121; Father Valentine wondered if Jesus might have been some similar alien/ human offspring, DL 129.
She later learned to use the crystal to call the flame, DL 151, and for many other purposes, DL 160.
She copied her chieri lover's unspoken phrase in referring to Trailmen as "little-brothers-who-are-not-wise," not to be confused with the chieri, DL 76.
Her child, named Lori (q.v.), DL 159-60, was called a changeling by half the community, but very few knew her true paternity.
JULIAN MACARAN Boy from Kilghard Hills, classmate of Regis Hastur in Cadets, HH 66-67, sworn brother of Damon MacAnndra; knocked out by Dyan Ardais, HH 126ff.

Kadarin (accent first and third syllables) River dividing Alton lands from Trailmen's country, SD 64; its source is in the Hellers, where it is fed by mountain streams originating in glaciers. Carthon was located on its bank; Thendara not over five days' ride south of its nearest point, HH 165. At certain points it is big enough to be affected by lunar tides, PS 37 (38). Trailmen regarded it as the boundary between their territory and humans' land, and would not willingly cross it, PS 37 (36).
The name may have been echoic of the river's babbling sound.
Any (unacknowledged) bastard in the Hellers was likely to be euphemistically called "a son of the Kadarin," SA 37 (38).
See following entries.
Kadarin Or in full "Robert raymon kadarin."
Nom de guerre of Lew Alton's prime adversary at the very center of the Sharra Rebellion. Six-fingered, cat-eyed, "a tall thin man with silver-gilt hair standing all awry around his forehead," HH 173. He looked about 30 and was commonly thought to be partly non-human, like many people in the Hellers; he was actually centuries old and was at least half chieri. Desideria knew his actual age but would not reveal it; the mere mention of her knowledge was perceived by Kadarin as a threat, HH 210. Long before the Sharra Rebellion, Kadarin had served as a TE Intelligence agent on many planets, had
been deported from at least two, and at the time of the Rebellion there was a price on his head, which he explained with "Like all governments who buy brains, they want to specify what the brains are to be used for," HH 173. However, he appeared to be living among Aldaran's men without being molested by Terrans there, possibly because not recognized as the ex-Intelligence agent; he had used other names while in TE employ. He was the lover of Thyra Darriell (q.v.) though not married to her, HH 244.
Kadarin discovered the Sharra matrix (q.v.) in the keeping of the forge-folk near High Windward, and persuaded Desideria, against her will, to turn it over to him on Kermiac's orders, HH 210-11. Desideria at first refused, warning him about its dangers, but finally agreed, on Kadarin's promise (which he later violated) to turn it over to Arilinn-trained Lew Alton (q.v.), and be guided by him in its use. Kadarin's intentions were at first honorable—to display matrix technology to the Terrans in a gesture of even exchange for TE recognition of Darkover's status as a colony (and reclassification of Darkover as an open planet, with the benefits of TE technology). But the Sharra matrix warped him badly, HH 360, and he later tortured Lew to force compliance, giving him the drug aphrosone (q.v.), HH 342, to bypass Lew's resistance and awaken Lew's own buried resentment against the Comyn to energize Sharra. This
resulted in the burning of Caer Donn and destruction of the spaceport there (see Sharra Rebellion), wiping out some 80 years of good relations between the Terrans and Aldaran.
In SA, Kadarin's alias was described by Lew as "Just defiance. In the Hellers any bastard is known as a son of the Kadarin," SA 37 (38). (Kadarin had admitted to unknown parentage, HH 173.) This obviously refers to unacknowledged bastards, not to respectably brought-up nedestro sons, who can even be heirs to a Domain. Kadarin was responsible for the episode in which Lew was drugged and induced to father Marja (q.v.) on Thyra Darriell, HH 344. Later he placed the child in Spacemen's Orphanage, SA 90 (98), but gave her his name and treated her with obvious affection.
As soon as Kadarin learned Lew was back on Darkover with the Sharra matrix, he filed an intent-to-murder on Lew (see Declaration), SA 18-19 (16). He was determined to recover the Sharra matrix by any possible means; in a later attempt, Marius Alton (q.v.) was shot, either by Kadarin or one of his men. Eventually, enraged by the discovery that his erstwhile ally Dyan Ardais had attempted to bring Marja into Sharra, his allegiance briefly faltered, allowing Lew, Callina/Dio and Regis to gain ascendancy and destroy the Sharra matrix. In the battle, Kadarin died. No trace was ever found of his corpse, SA 153 (172).
Lew theorized, SA 53 (56), that Kadarin might have been Zeb Scott's son by a chieri; his memory was obviously confused here as in several other episodes, as he admitted, SA 90 (98-99). Though Kadarin's actual parentage was unknown even to himself, his appearance, resistance to aging, extreme longevity, and inability to impregnate Thyra all point inescapably to chieri ancestry. Kadarin evidently had considerable linguistic ability, as he spoke Terran Standard, casta, cahuenga, Hellers dialect, Trailman, probably Dry Towns dialect (as he seems to have spent time in that area), and various offworld tongues. In the Empire, he claimed Darkovan citizenship; on Darkover, he claimed TE citizenship. The TE Legate Lawton (q.v.) regarded Kadarin as a prime thorn in his flesh, SA 27 (25, 26), and must have been relieved by his death, SA 162 (183). KARADIN Typographical error for KADARIN, HH 219. karctlla Disinfectant powder (fungus spores?), sprinkled on wounds, SC 74. Used by Free Amazons in first-aid procedures. KATHIE MARSHALL Terran, daughter of Haig Marshall (TE Legate on Samarra), SA 116 (124), by an unnamed (Darkovan??) mother. Identical double or "true twin" of Linnell Aillard (the unique duplicate per Cherillys' Law, q.v.), SA 85-87 (93-94); brownish red hair, blue or blue-gray eyes, long lashes, six-fingered like the Aillards; birthmark similar to Sign of Comyn. Lew understandably mistook her for Linnell, SA 10 (6-7), as did Dio Ridenow. She spoke cahuenga, at least the spaceport dialect, and Terran Standard.
Callina and Lew used one of the legendary giant matrix screens in Comyn Castle Tower to teleport Kathie "halfway across the Galaxy" from Samarra to the Tower, SA 84-85 (92-93). This was to provide one who
could enter the rhu fead (q.v.) at Hali and recover the Sword of Aldones, SA 127-30 (141-45), as an adequate weapon against Sharra.
Overshadowed temporarily, Kathie successfully passed as one of the Aillard comynari when TE authorities were searching for her, SA 116-18 (129-31); it was known that Kathie had never learned to speak casta, but while overshadowed she spoke it like a native, and behaved like one instead of like a Terran, SA 118 (130).
She was returned safely to Samarra without enough memory of the experience to make any difference, SA 152(170), 161 (181). Keef (rhymes with Terran [Eng.] reef) Name of a "pleasure planet"—one whose principal income comes from the tourist trade, offering a variety of gambling establishments, brothels, and other entertainments. Notable for its huge rosy artificial moon.
Rondo (q.v.) earned an income as a professional gambler, using his psychokinetic ability to influence gambling machines there, until he was detected, beaten to within an inch of his life, and recruited for Project Telepath (q.v.), WW 21-22 (24-25).
The name comes from Terran (Arabic) kif, a strong preparation of cannabis sativa, comparable to hashish, usually mixed with tobacco and sometimes with other herbs. Keepers In matrix work in a Tower (q.v.) circle, the central figure directing the flow of energons (q.v.) is called a keeper; in casta, teneresteis (female), formerly also ten-erezu (male). The belief was that females could handle higher energy flows, and that they must be celibate and untouched by human hands during the period when actually functioning in this role, HH 220. Anciently, they were neutered, FT 109; long afterwards it was insisted that they be virginal, SA 69 (74), BS 86, 124, 138-39, 159ff. Various attempts were made to show that this requirement was unnecessary: see CLEINDORI, ELORIE, BS 187. Often the best ones had twin sisters, SS 47, the legend being that the Keeper twin had her own Gift plus part of her sister's. Most people even in Towers had forgotten about the former existence of male Keepers; see DAMON, VARZIL. They were sworn to be non-political, FT 342, but this was long disregarded.
Marriage by a Keeper who had relinquished her post was a rare possibility; see CLEINDORI, CALLISTA, ELORIE. Comyn Council, for political reasons, countenanced the catenas marriage of Callina Aillard to Bel-tran of Aldaran (qq.v.), SA 64 (69), 76 (82), 109 (121).
In their uncommon  appearances in public, Keepers wore crimson robes and were veiled, SS 80; in Comyn Council, they were likely to appear in some other color, e.g. gray, HH 84-85. Keeper's Garden See Garden of Fragrance, FT 165. KENDRICKS See BUCK.
KENNARD ALTON Full name Kennard-Gwynn N'Valdir Lanart-Alton, SD 34ff, HH 84; "N'Caldir," SD 87, is a typographical error. Domain Lord of Alton. Son of Valdir Alton, who was son of Dom Esteban Lanart, Lord Alton. Married di catenas to Caitlin, HH 46, without living issue; later married to Elaine Aldaran-Montray, whom he had met on Terra during his years as an ex-
change student. Comyn Council refused to recognize the marriage, as she was half Terran, half Aldaran, being the daughter of the Terran Wade Montray by Mariel Aldaran, own sister of Kermiac (qq.v.). Kennard's sons by Elaine were Lew and Marius (qq.v.).
Kennard was born during the Dark Month (q.v.), SD 39. At age 14 he had already been in the cadet Guards for some time; by 16 he was an officer in the Guards, SD 37, long afterwards the Commander, HH 56; as such, he had the nickname of "old buzzard" (Kyorebnin), HH 15.
He was farsighted, not too fluent at reading or writing; he believed the folklore that too much reading spoils one's eyes for hunting, SD 39. At age 16, his Alton Gift was only partly developed, SD 102, but later he became one of the strongest telepaths in the Galaxy, bearing out the traditional belief that "the redder the hair, the stronger the laran," as his hair was then fiery red, though later it greyed.
At age 16, he became companion and later sworn brother or bredu of Larry Montray (q.v.), SD 154 and passim, rescuing Larry after Cyrillon's bandit gang had kidnapped him mistakenly believing they had Kennard. The Regent Lorill Hastur began an exchange-student program by sending Kennard to Terra until age 21, HH 48, under guardianship of the Montrays, while Larry remained on Darkover. (Kennard's age on going to Terra was given as 14 in HH 45 by typographical error.) Afterwards, Kennard served at least 10 years at Arilinn Tower under "the last of the old style Keepers" (apparently Leonie Hastur), HH 254, BS 28, where he was called "third in the Tower."
For decades, though he was the most powerful political force in Comyn Council except Danvan Hastur, Kennard tried in vain to induce Comyn Council to recognize his marriage as lawful, his sons as legitimate, and Lew as Domain heir. To prove to Comyn Council that Lew had the Alton Gift, Kennard forced rapport on him, risking the boy's life and precipitating lifelong estrangement, HH 32, SA 56 (59); but the Council would not even recognize Lew as nedestro heir despite that, nor recognize Marius at all. Lew was finally legitimated and declared heir a few years before the Sharra Rebellion, HH 17, years after coming of age. Kennard forced rapport on Lew once again, to aid him in his titanic effort to force shut the Gate through which Sharra was emerging into the material universe, HH 362-63. Afterwards, at the next meeting of Comyn Council, when Hastur objected (on grounds of Comyn law) to his taking Lew to Terra in hope of healing his burned hand, Kennard told Hastur and Council to shove their laws into the deepest of Zandru's hells, and went to Terra, thence to Vainwal, where Kennard died in self-sought exile about five years later, SA 8 (4). As space law forbade shipment of corpses, Kennard was buried on Vainwal, SA 23 (22).
In late life Kennard was burly, stooped, arthritic, BS 124, with heavy ridged eyebrows, BS 27ff, 74, HH 136, 153, 192. His physical condition probably contributed to his falling down a flight of stone stairs in Guard Hall, HH 52, on the first day of Council season, a few months
before the Sharra Rebellion, which accident led to his replacement by Dyan Ardais as cadet master at Dyan's own request, which replacement led ultimately to the Sharra Rebellion itself. Dyan abused his authority, taking advantage of his sworn brotherhood with Kennard, HH 194, so that Lew became disaffected by Comyn and made common cause with Aldaran. See BELTRAN, DYAN, KADARIN, SHARRA Rebellion. KERAL (accent second syllable) Abbreviated version of name of a chieri, WW 49ff (5Iff), from the Yellow Forest, the youngest of his/her family, sent by them to Regis Hastur at Arilinn Tower, WW 53 (55), after the Altons were found to be missing from Armida, WW 52 (55). His/her real name was very long; as a baby (s)he had called himself/herself s'Keral (meaning not given), but (s)he allowed Regis's group to call him/her Keral. (S)he was a volunteer for Regis's great summoning of telepaths (see Project Telepath), although in the preceding half year or so only six humans had been found who were willing to join.
The physical description may be taken as typical of chieri (q.v.): Slender, epicene; nearly colorless grey eyes; 6-fingered, long loose light head hair, WW 60 (64), but no body hair except for a faint shadow in pubic area, WW 163 (185); inner ear and retina different from those typical of homo sapiens, but not described in detail, WW 71ff (77ff); blood pressure lower but pulse faster than human; dextrocardiac; aorta differently branched; extremely resistant to cold, able to withstand Darkovan winters without clothing; 46 chromosomes, homologous with homo sapiens.
Like all chieri, functionally hermaphroditic in alternating phases. In emmasca phase, male or female traits are in balance. In male phase, there is a small genital slit, into which testes are retractable; penis is in clitoris's place at top, WW 163ff. The change from emmasca to male, or from either to female phase, takes some hours and is accompanied by marked hormonal shifts, with consequent emotional instability. In female phase the penis retracts into the slit along with the testes, labia slowly enlarge and deepen in color; converse changes take place in shift to male phase, as with Missy (q.v.), WW 123 (137-38), 131 (147-48). Change of phase generally results from prolonged emotional/telepathic contact with another chieri already in phase other than emmasca, though under the Ghost Wind (q.v.)—in the "madness of the Change" and sometimes in desperate experiments-attempts had been made to mate with humans, and in some instances fertile crosses resulted: see Hastur, Alton and Aldaran Lineages. Desideria spoke of such crosses in the mountains, WW 67 (72). See also KADARIN. Keral's phase change presaged the eventual love affair between him/her and Dr. David Hamilton (see DAVID) by whom (s)he eventually became pregnant, WW ad fin.
Though nonviolent and even vegetarian, Keral nevertheless killed the hired assassin who had gone after Melora and her baby, WW 106.
(S)he spoke an archaic form of casta, WW 49ff (52ff), but picked up cahuenga quickly by telepathy from David, WW 87 (97).
(S)he was born before the present Darkovan pole star had reached its place—several thousand years before WW,
long before DL. Like most of his/her folk, (s)he had no experience with walls, no prior contact with humans, and was claustrophobic.
At the Spring Dance, to which the pregnant Keral wore a gown of spider-silk, many of his/her people came to celebrate by ecstatic dancing, WW 175 (200). Kerlayne, Teddy Female orphan, presumably raised in the Spacemen's Orphanage, sent from Darkover to Megaera about 12 years before "Jeff Kerwin Jr." returned to Darkover, BS 39. KERMIAC ALDARAN of Aldaran, Lord Aldaran (accent given name first and third syllable) Husband of Lauretta Storn-Lanart and father of Beltran; own brother of Mariel Aldaran, who married the Terran Wade Mon-tray and whose son was Larry Montray, sworn brother of Kennard Alton (qq.v.); their daughter was Elaine Aldaran-Montray, who later married Kennard, HH 168. Lew Alton called Kermiac his great-uncle, HH 124.
Kermiac was the most illustrious of the Aldarans, a powerful telepath, probably possessor of the Aldaran Gift (precognition); he had trained matrix technicians and mechanics in the Hellers for decades, HH 180, including his foster-daughter Desideria (q.v.), WD 109 (144-45). He could have trained Lew Alton's circle to use the Sharra matrix, but he was by that time extremely old and feeble. Formerly red headed, by the time of the Sharra matrix circle he was greyed (though his beard retained some red), HH 168. He preferred to dress Terran style, presumably the better to fit in with his perennial houseful of Terran guests.
Many years before the Sharra Rebellion, while Lauretta was far advanced in pregnancy, Kermiac shared a bed with her attendant, the \\a\f-chieri Felicia Darriell, at Lauretta's own wish, and fathered on her the nedestra Thyra Darriell, mother of Marja (qq.v.), HH 216, 296.
Kermiac dealt directly with TE authorities, HH 86, and, in violation of the Compact, permitted public possession of contraband weapons, in the belief that a government of laws made the unenforceable Compact (q.v.) a useless anachronism. News of this resulted in Lew Alton's being sent as an emissary to learn what was happening; but Lew was reluctantly persuaded to join a group under Kadarin, Beltran and Thyra (qq.v.) which sought to use matrix technology as a way of persuading TE authorities to share their own for the benefit of the whole population, e.g. to declare the planet an Open World. However, persuaded by Kadarin, Kermiac sent Kadarin to Desideria to reclaim the Sharra matrix (qq.v.), HH 210ff, resulting in unwise experiments by an insufficiently trained circle, Kermiac's own death, the Sharra Rebellion, the burning of Caer Donn, the destruction of some 80 years of Aldaran/TE loyalties, the crazing of Kadarin and Beltran, Lew's maiming, and many deaths including Marjorie's (qq.v.). KERSTAL of Greystone Dry Towner in occupied Carth-on, known as the Voice of Rannath (q.v.), WD 92 (121). KERWIN TE family name on Darkover, probably not all holders being related. Members known to the local computer, BS 39, included Rupert and Mally, their daughter Evelyn  Janis  (died at age "6 months," evidently TE
standard months), and Rupert's stepson Anthony, at school in Trade City. There was also a Henderson Kerwin, a black worker on Satellite Two, who died at age 45 of radiation burns. Entries for the two following individuals were omitted from the publicly accessible computer memories and kept in priority files, to consult which some kind of security clearance was necessary.
"KERWIN, JEFF, Jr."  SeeJEFF.
KERWIN, JEFF, Sr. Terran, husband of Cassilde Aillard, father of twin sons known as "Auster Ridenow" and "Ragan" (qq.v.), BS 176; went to arrange for departure of his family offworld, returned to find Cassilde and Cleindori Aillard and Arnad Ridenow (qq.v.) all murdered, his sons missing. He found Cleindori's son and took him to Spacemen's Orphanage, for safety, giving him his own name and Cleindori's matrix. He went off-world, his later fate unknown, BS 173-75.
KESTER RIDENOW Boy, son of Kieran, and nephew of Damon; red-haired, born 14 years before the Forbidden Tower scandal, FT 267.
keying-in Matching resonances (pulsation frequencies, corresponding to brain-wave patterns) between a human mind and a matrix crystal (q.v.). An individual with any trace of laran (q.v.) would perceive a light—dim or bright according to the strength of his brain's activity in this area—within the matrix crystal after he had handled it and looked into it, generally as shifting pulsing ribbons. Keying-in involves adjusting mind and crystal so that the inner light is in phase—synchronous. The matrix crystal thus acts as a mini-biofeedback machine; its resonance with mental vibratory patterns, when properly keyed in, produces positive feedback, experienced as amplification of the mental energies, enabling even long range use of ESP.
The keying-in process is described sketchily, HH 231-32, between Regis Hastur and Javanne; even more sketchily, SD 93-95, between Cyrillon and Larry Montray; and in much more detail, SS 101-05. Spontaneous keying-in on the part of untrained individuals was not rare, but was likely to cause transient nausea and other unwelcome side effects.
kidnapping Common source of bandit income—capturing and holding young sons of noble families for ransom, SA 85ff (93ff); and see CYRILLON, RUMAL.
KIERAN RIDENOW (Three syllables in given name, accent on first and third) Brother of Damon, three years older and his bredu, FT 50, 250; father of Kester (q.v.), FT 267; resembled Varzil the Good, FT 250.
Kierestelli (Five syllables, accent on second and fourth or [earlier?] first and fourth) A casta name meaning "crystal." See two following entries. Apparently from Terran (Sp.) cristal, influenced by Italian Stella "star" or cognate forms (but cf. Sp. estrella), hence "starstone," "matrix," CG.
Kierestelli A chieri who figured in the earliest mythology of the Domains. Robardin (q.v.), legendary Lord of Carthon, met her by the wells of Reuel, wooed her, and begot on her a daughter, Cassilda, who later summoned and loved the first Hastur, who was Son of Aldones, who was Son of Light, as in the "Ballad of Hastur and
Cassilda," below, p. 142. And their children were the ancestors of the Seven Domains, WW 152 (173), SD 155. See Aldones, Carthon, Cassilda, Hastur.
Kierestelli Probably was the casta name of "Lady Crystal," wife of Ruyven (q.v.) of Castamir.
kifirgh A type of duel, using mask, whip and clawed gloves, in emulation of the catmen. A barbarian custom known from the planet Wolf ("Door Through Space"), and reputedly also in the Darkovan Dry Towns. In the Midsummer Festival described in SA 97 (106), Rafe Scott wore the costume.
kiha Honorific female title in casta, "Respected One," used about or to any female relative of another generation, generally older; could be translated as "mother" but does not imply close blood kinship—unlike kiya. See next two entires, which are closely related etymologi-cally, BS 77. The masc. form is kihu.
kihar (accent final syllable; casta, cahuenga, and has an exact equivalent in Dry Towns dialect) A complex concept loosely translated as "sacred honor," but combining elements of honor/integrity/status/prestige/macho quality/courage, SC 48, WD 123 (163-64). This was presumably the term Old Hastur used when he said that the honor of the Hasturs had been in his hands for 90 years, HH 196. It is closely related to kiha and kihu (qq.v.).
Male Dry Towners set great store by the quality, though their emphasis was different—stressing machismo in imitation of the catmen. Much of their time was spent in defending their own kihar competitively at the expense of others', SC 16, 51; WD 94 (123), 100 (132). The proverb "Dead men have no kihar," WD 94 (123), was an inevitable Domains reaction to this lifestyle, which must have led to more vendetta than was found in the Domains themselves. A comic speech the Terran poet Shakespeare put into the mouth of Falstaff, about honor, reflects a similar ambivalence to the then Terran equivalent of kihar. Desert cultures throughout the known Galaxy have some counterpart of the Dry Towners' attitudes, reason unknown.
For a Dry Towner to use a poisoned blade would have represented a lessening of kihar, as requiring less courage than the use of clean blades. (They did anyway, SC 35.)
CG suggests that the term may be from Terran (Sp.) quejarse "to complain," later "to plead (in the cause of family honor)," hence implying fighting or feuding in defense of the latter. Or it may be associated with Comyn burial rites, in which one's kihu or kiha would be those one would mourn.
kihu "Respected One" (male), honorific casta title used about or to a male relative of another generation, generally older (cf. kiha), not implying close blood kinship, unlike the closely related term kiyu.
Infrequently used for a younger person, as in the honorific epithet skiri-i-kihu, "falcon's son." There it corresponds to the archaic Terran terms "scion" and "Childe."
The term "Child of Grace" used in addressing a chieri would be Shaya-i-kihu.
Kilghairlie (accent on first and second syllables; the final -e obscure or elided) The plains area where Rafael Hastur
and his paxman and bredu Rafael Syrtis shared a single grave, HH 73. From archaic Terran (Scottish Gaelic) = "Charles's Creek"? Kilghard Hills (both syllables almost equally stressed) Heavily forested region in the foothills of the Hellers, largely in the Alton Domain. The name (adjective in form) has a Gaelic look and may derive from some name dating back to the New Hebrides Commune.
Forest fires repeatedly ravaged the area; Cyrillon's, SD 76ff; one near Armida in the spring of Regis Hastur's 12th year, HH 23; one set by Worldwreckers Inc. agents, WW 35-37 (36-38).
Cyrillon des Trailles (q.v.) came from there, as did many noble families.
Sworn   brotherhood   and  donas  amizu   (q.v.)  were taken for granted as a common custom in the area, HH 126ff, local loyalties running deep and intense. Kimbi  Mountain near Caer Donn, more often called High
Kimbi (q.v.). KlNDRA n 'ha MHARI Free Amazon, of Thendara Guild House, SC 13ff and throughout. Lady Rohana (q.v.) contacted her at the Guild House to arrange for an expedition of mercenary soldiers to go to Shainsa and rescue Melora and Jaelle (qq.v.), from the house of Jalak; this exploit is described in SC part I passim. Kindra hamstrung Jalak at the rescue, SC 43.
She had borne four children: one stillborn, two daughters, finally one son, SC 74ff, but on experiencing her husband's attitude to this state of affairs, she repudiated them all and joined the Free Amazons. Her sister's daughter was Rafaella (q.v.), SC 1 7.
At her own and Jaelle's request, she became Jaelle's foster mother, SC 91 ff.
In the Free Amazons she was trained as a mercenary soldier, SC 17, but had also worked as escort/bodyguard, SC 240. Untrained laran, but enough to be in rapport with Rohana, SC 31, 94. Singer, SC 18. Gaunt, middle-aged, motherly, greying. Between her and Rohana there grew a loving intimacy rare between any comynara and anyone outside the caste.
She died about nine years after the Shainsa expedition, about three before the events described in SC part II. kinsman Translation of formal casta term of courteous address between adults, implying not only kinship but friendly interest though not necessarily intimacy, HH 16,83. kireseth (accent first and third syllables) Native flower species, blue bell-shaped blossoms, DL 49-50, petals forming roughly the configuration of a 5-pointed star-hence epithet "starflower"; inner stalks analogous to stamens become covered with shimmering golden pollen, which coats the inner surfaces of petals, in which state known as "golden bell" (cleindori), FT 292; cf. DL 84, FT 273. They open and release this pollen after a couple of rainless days, whereupon it becomes dispersed for many square kilometers until rain (or snow, in rare winter bloomings) ends the blooming. Habitat: Meadows in upper and lower foothills of the Hellers, in the Alton Domain, FT 270; remoter valleys in the Hellers, HH 216; formerly also near Caer Donn, HH 202. Winter
bloomings were formerly believed a good omen in Alton lands, FT 268-69.
The pollen contains the "Ghost wind" psychedelic resin, one of whose components is a potent aphrodisiac, another is a specific stimulus to ESP, including (though not limited to) laran. Odor is characteristic. Threefold fractional distillation of the pollen is the standard Tower procedure for manufacturing kirian (q.v.), FT 133, 197.
Handling the flowers (except in distillation) was long taboo in the Towers, FT 163, 277; sale or use forbidden by law in Thendara and Arilinn, and elsewhere regarded as criminal, FT 198. Damon Ridenow risked severe penalties by taking the supply at Armida, FT 213-14; he finally used it to heal Callista, FT 330, 334. See Ghost Wind, kirian, Year's End Festival.
Wall paintings in Comyn Castle chapel show Cassilda offering these flowers to Hastur, FT 292-93, which circumstance enlightened Damon about the nature of the "sacrament" Varzil the Good had mentioned in Time-search, FT 252, 341-51.

kirian (accent first syllable) Volatile colorless liquid, "vaguely lemony" taste (did lemons grow on Darkover?), obtained by threefold fractional distillation from the resinous pollen of kireseth flowers, FT 137, 142, 198. This distillation is meant to separate the kirian fraction from the aphrodisiac and psychedelic fractions. Used by Keepers in testing youngsters for laran, as it lowers barriers against ESP, HH 33ff. A Keeper had given a few drops to the 12-year-old Regis Hastur, HH33; Lew Alton gave him a larger dose to no avail. Cyrillon used it on Larry Montray, SD 94. It was used by the entire Arilinn Tower Circle during testing of "Jeff Kerwin Jr.", BS 89ff.
The first sign of activity is pupillary dilatation, followed by cold hands, HH 34. A user's body expends vast quantities of energy, so that compensation (extra food and rest) afterwards becomes essential, HH 39. The active principle is not inactivated nor excreted for many hours, HH 36. Therapeutic doses vary widely; higher dosages can be psychedelic or even sedative or hypnotic.
In many respects the described effects parallel numerous TE psychedelic chemicals, though they are not identical to any. It is perhaps nearest to LSD or to harmaline.
Superstitiously dreaded by outsiders, FT 198; hence its sobriquet "devil's drug," SD 64.
The name is from kire- of kireseth, plus adjectival suffix.
kiya Aunt, mother, foster-mother; earlier, one's biological mother, FT 166.
kiyu   Uncle, foster-father; masc. counterpart of preceding.
knives Preferred weapon in the Dry Towns, SS 114, longer than their Domains counterparts, SC 22, and often curved- especially those used by cralmacs (q.v.). Some Dry Towners poisoned theirs (but see kihar); so did some bandits, SC 204. In the Domains, worn by both sexes, and more often used for peaceful purposes, e.g. cutting one's meat, trimming wood or leather. See also daggers, flint knife, skean.
Exchange of knives between two males is part of the oath of bredin, HH 163, FT 326. The formula "My knife is yours" is the equivalent of such an oath, constituting a pledge on the part of each to defend the other, WD 33 (39): "My sword is at your service to protect and defend you" or "My blade is yours, therefore it can never be raised against you." But instead of sealing the oath in blood (shedding a bredu's blood is the ultimate taboo), the formula "My sheath is for your knife" is often followed by a sexual sealing: "We share the essence of life, not of death." One's knife in the other's sheath thus becomes a metaphor for sexual sealing, cementing the relationship. And the courtly casta phrase donas amizu (q.v.) "gift" of friend(ship)" alludes to the latter. Ellemir's rhetorical question in FT 266, "do you think I would share my bed with any man my husband did not know and love? Would I bear a child for my husband to father, by a stranger or an enemy?", could as easily have been translated as "Would I open my sheath to the knife of my husband's enemy?"
KYLA n'ha RAINEACH Free Amazon, licensed trail-guide, PS 34 (32). She went on Jason Allison's expedition to Trailmen country, becoming his freemate, PS 91 (100-01), for three years, taking TEMS employment to be near him, later returning to the mountains. Jason afterwards compared the experience to loving a man, WW 170 (195).
Blue-black curls, unusually heavy dark lashes, PS 31 (32). From the Hellers; her mother's name is Hellers dialect, from Terran (Gaelic). The name was erroneously given without the n'ha in the book versions of PS; in the original magazine publication (Amazing, Dec. 1958) it was correctly given.
kyorebni (accent first syllable) Carrion birds, WD 135 (180), analogous to Terran corbies or lammergeiers. They circle over oases—which habit has been used for locating waterholes, SC 66. The forge-folk (q.v.) disposed of their dead by hurling corpses into chasms to feed the kyorebni, WD 135 (180). Jaelle decided that these birds could best dispose of the two bandits, SC 180, indicating that at least one species was known in the Hellers.
The name is collective plural; sing., kyorebnin (masc),
kyorebnis (fem.) In HH 15, Kennard's nickname "Old Buzzard" was probably Kyorebnin.
Kyria Lindir Mother of Camilla n'ha Kyria (q.v.), SC 134. The name is ultimately from Terran (Greek) kyria "female ruler."
kyrii  Typographical error for kyrri (q.v.), WD 67 (86).
Kyril-Valentine Ardais of Ardais   Son of Ro-
hana Aillard-Ardais by Dom Gabriel Ardais (qq.v.), SC 76, FT 267. His birth was very difficult and prolonged. The Ardais instability developed early; he took sadistic delight in others' pain. Age-mate of Jaelle n'ha Melora (q.v.); he at least twice attempted to force his sexual attentions on her, once at age 15, SC 249, and again at age 24, SC 250. So close a twin in looks to Peter Haldane (q.v.), SC 101-02, that Rumal di Scarp (q.v.) kidnapped the latter in the mistaken belief that he had the Ardais heir, SC 175. The main difference was that Kyril was 6-fingered, Peter was not, SC 192.
Domenic Lanart sought his advice, FT 267; Gabriel Ardais wanted to arrange a marriage between him and Callista, FT 338.
Father of Dyan Ardais (q.v.). An inveterate womanizer, insane for over 20 years before the Sharra Rebellion, unable even to recognize his son's face. He was kept
in custody of his family in Castle Ardais, HH 194, dying shortly after the Rebellion, HH 368.
He was also father to various nedestro daughters who gave birth respectively to the Terran Legate DAN LAWTON and DANILO SYRTIS (qq.v.). See the Ardais Lineage, p. 159.
KYRO Bandit of Cyrillon's gang; assigned to guard Larry Montray enroute to Cyrillon's forst, and under orders to kill him if he made any trouble, SD 89, 92.
Kyrrdis One of the four moons; blue-green shimmer in color, possibly from enormous deposits of copper, SD 10, SC 11.
kyrri (casta; sing., collective plural) Sapient nonhumans, BS 29, 76, 79; grey fur, monkey-like "mask," SD 48(?) pupilless green eyes, long prehensile fingers, mute but highly telepathic, notorious for their protective electrical fields, for which reason avoided by humans, SD 29.
Used as servants by Altons in their Thendara town house, SD 25ff.
Used as servants in Arilinn Tower, BS 76-79; could pass the Veil (q.v.).
The attendants of Ashara (q.v.) may have been of this folk, SA 88 (96).

la   "The" as in la damnee "the Doomed one."
lady bird Smallest hawk in common use, mostly among women, FT 271.
Lady of the Domains Cassilda the Blessed, FT 340.
Lake Country Not far from the Kilghard Hills, and probably extending into them; at least partly in Alton lands, SC 84.
Lakshman, Dr. Superior and friend to Dr. David Hamilton (q.v.) at a TE Medical Service hospital; knew David had some ESP ability; urged him to go to Darkover (to avoid a breakdown) after learning of Regis Hastur's Galaxy-wide summoning of telepaths, WW 30 (30-31).
Lanach TE planet, mostly colonized by darker Terran races; die chieri "Missy" (q.v.) falsely claimed to have been born there, WW 92 (102).
A native would be called a Lanachy; given as Lanchy by typographical error, WW 92 (102).
Lanach, Dr. A medical researcher on Vega IX, investigating a disease called "space rot" while he himself was rotting away with it, WW 55 (59).
Lanart   Family name, found from Carthon to the Hellers.
The Altons were one branch, FT 6, WD 102 (135). See the Alton Lineage, p. 158. At least the hill Lanarts were nobility of high enough rank to marry even into the Hasturs. See CALLISTA, Camilla, DOMENIC, DORIAN, ELLEMIR, ESTEBAN, GABRIEL, LINNEA.
"Lanart angels" Three sons of Gabriel Lanart and Javanne Hastur (qq.v.), named Rafael, Gabriel, and Mikhail; for further description, see under the individual given names. Rafael was named after Rafael Hastur, father of Javanne and Regis; Gabriel was named after his father; Mikhail after an unidentified relative. Regis Hastur said, HH 28, that naming the third Mikhail made an absurd pattern—which Lew picked up—i.e. as though they had been named for three archangels of cristoforo mythology, absurd for devotees of the Lord of Light. Hence the three were collectively referred to as the "Lanart angels." Lew Alton, HH 28, thought that they should instead have been named after the archfiends.
Mikhail (q.v.) was later adopted by Regis Hastur as nedestro heir-designate, HH 232-35, and renamed Danilo.
Lanchy Typographical error for Lanachy, a native of the planet Lanach, WW 92 (102).

Landfall Site A little north of the equator, in the foothills of one of the higher mountain ranges; about 32 standard kilometres (20 Terran miles) due west of a prominent mountain peak, DL 14. Banshee cries could be heard from the mountains. Nearby forests contained conifers and some hardwood trees. Not very far from "New Camp" or "New Skye," the settlement later known as Neskaya.
A nearby plain was called the Plains of Zabal, after Marco Zabal (q.v.); a monument was erected to the dead, but apparently either it has not survived or it was long since swallowed up in the forest and remains unlocated.
languages The original DL colonists imported a variety of Terran XXI Century tongues, including, among others, English, Spanish, and (among the New Hebrides Commune people) Irish and Scottish Gaelic. Their descendants modified the languages over the centuries in their geographically isolated settlements. Even the alphabet (originally XXI Century Roman) was subjected to changes for phonetic reasons, so that by the time the Terran Empire had established its Trade City in Then-dara, the Darkovan alphabet no longer resembled Terran letters, SD 18, any more than Terran Standard (ultimately based on Terran Spanish) resembled any Darkovan tongue. The script was generally squarish in letter forms, except in the Carthon district where the local dialect (and probably casta) retained curling letter forms, BS 108.
The oldest of the Darkovan languages, aside from the chieri tongue which is not in use among humans, is casta (q.v.). Deriving from ancient English, Spanish and Gaelic, with the Spanish roots predominant, casta nevertheless developed over the centuries not only a peculiar agglutinative structure, but courtly distinctions of mode and inflection (qq.v.) having to do with proper address to recipients of higher or lower rank, etc. Chieri and some Trailmen speak archaic casta, retaining word forms elsewhere long obsolete.
The so-called Hellers dialect, actually by now a full
language, diverged early from casta, retaining more of the Gaelic elements and fewer of the Spanish, eventually so permeated with the Gaelic as to be nearly unintelligible to hill people or lowlanders.
The term "cahuenga" has been used indiscriminately to refer to the true mountain tongue (differing from casta in dropping most of its English roots, and developing an exceptionally rich vocabulary of terms of abuse), to Thendara city dialect (a debased lowland form of casta, minus some of the more ancient nuances), and to the spaceport patois (based on casta, minus distinctions of mode and inflection, with some few mountain elements). These are seldom used by Comyn except to outsiders; the spaceport patois is mostly used to off-worlders.
Few details are available of the language spoken by the trailmen, though Dr. Jason Allison and Kadarin spoke it; most other people experienced it as chirps and twitters. It is thought to be a patois of chieri language.
The Dry Towners appear to have had a language of their own, in addition to a peculiarly barbarous patois of cahuenga; the catmen learned one of these in order to conduct trade with the Dry Towns. Nothing is known of the catmen's own language, and less than nothing of those spoken by cralmacs or Ya-men—it is not even certain that they had any, though at least some cralmacs must have been able to understand a few words of one of the Dry Towns languages.
Of the chieri tongue nothing is known except a few names; it appears to be agglutinative, and some elements of casta seem to derive from it, not only the agglutinative structure but also various roots not derivable from any Terran tongue. If any humans learned to speak chieri, the fact has long since been forgotten, though the chieri long since learned an ancient form of casta.
Little is known of the language of the forge-folk, heard near Carthon and in parts of the Hellers near Caer Donn. Lanilla Name of one of Lady Rohana's waiting-women, SC 242; her family married her off to a man she did not know, a fate to which she was indifferent.
The name means something like "little woolly head," probably originally a pet name for an infant; diminutive form oilana, "wool."
laran (casta) Generically, a talent or hereditary gift, SC 176, 213. Specifically, from time immemorial, trainable psi powers, inherited not only among the Comyn but sometimes found among lesser families, SS 95, FT 59, SC 68, WD 104(138), BS 82, HH 83, WW 121 (137) etc. It is now known to have derived partly from chieri crossbreeding, SD 157, and partly from the Celtic ancestry of many of the DL colonists, whether Spanish or Scottish or Irish. It occasionally crops out in Terrans; Andrew Carr and Magda Lome, SC 208-11, are instances. (Those of "Jeff Kerwin Jr." and Larry Montray are not relevant: "Jeff" was full Comyn on both sides, Larry was half Aldaran.)
A "laran heir" was originally one having laran and therefore entitled to a voice in Council, HH 244.
During the Ages of Chaos, many specialized forms
(see Gifts) were developed by inbreeding. In later centuries, crossbreeding became necessary if the inbred Comyn strains were to survive at all, and the various Gifts became mixed up, overlapped, and in several cases seem to have vanished or survived only in attenuated forms not limited to any one family.
Laran rarely manifests itself before puberty, and its onset is often accompanied by threshold sickness (q.v.). Regis Hastur's acute case of it is described in many passages in HH.
Also means "inheritance right" as noun or adj., HH 244, SA 21 (19), 40 (41), BS 56.
Larissa d'Asturien Bore two nedestro sons to Dom Este-ban, FT 65; they had no laran, FT 302.
LARRY MONTRAY Son of the Terran Wade Montray (who was the son of Russ Montray), by Mariel Aldaran, own sister of Kermiac, Lord Aldaran, HH 170, SD 160. Brother of Elaine Aldaran Montray; brother-in-law of Kennard Alton (qq.v.). Born on Darkover, after Mariel's death too early in his childhood for him to have remembered her, SD 160, he was taken to Terra by Wade and raised without knowledge of his Darkovan ancestry. Grey eyed; fiery red hair; left-handed, SD 91; had enough resemblance to Comyn to attract attention as such, once he returned to Darkover at age 16. Darkovans called him Lerrys, and in later life he used this name on Darkover routinely in concealment of his Terran ancestry. He possessed a high degree of laran, enough to withstand mental pressure and even wrath from Kennard Alton, SD 133; he had some measure of the Aldaran Gift, which is precognition.
At his arrival on Darkover, at age 16 (though he looked only 15), SD 24, he was befriended almost at once by Kennard Alton, then of similar age. A brief but intense rapport with young Kennard, using a matrix, SD 81-82, was ultimately responsible for saving both their lives later. While on the fire lines near Armida, he was treated as any other young Darkovan adult male. He taught Valdir Alton and Lorill Hastur about cloud-seeding, SD 76-79. Later, he was kidnapped by the bandit Cyrillon des Trailles (q.v.), who took him for the heir to Alton. Cyrillon handed him a matrix, only to receive a blast of anger; later to prevent Larry from using his laran against him, Cyrillon's men kept the boy tied up and drugged with shallavan (q.v.). After Kennard managed to trace and rescue him, they destroyed Cyril-Ion's matrix (at the cost of Kennard's own), escaped banshees on two occasions, braved other dangers, encountered trailmen, and finally met the chieri Narad-zinie (q.v.), who teleported them back to Thendara. They became bredin, but were separated for a while when Kennard was sent to Terra as the first Darkovan exchange student, while Larry completed his education on Darkover.
Larry reappeared briefly, WD 26 (30), identified only as Valdir Alton's foster son Lerrys, transporting Dan Barron to Armida.
Last Night Darkovan version of the End of the World, FT 317.
latch The type found on the door of the herdsman's shelter Callista found for Andrew Carr was made of wood,
locked by stiff leather straps knotted at the ends, SS 30.
latrines The Free Amazons used crude trenches in their encampment outside Shainsa, usual with individuals or groups camping in other regions. Travel-shelters generally held earth-closets in some kind of enclosure, SC 137. That in the herdsman's shelter where Callista found Andrew was also of the earth-closet type, SS 31.
LAURA XXI Century Terran. Family name not given. DL colonist. Died of hemorrhage during the third Ghost Wind, in rapport with Heather Stuart, DL 154-55.
LAURENS MEREDITH Terran. Assistant TE Legate, HH 85. See MEREDITH.
Lauretta Storn-Lanart Wife to Kermiac of Aldaran (q.v.), HH 216.
LAURIA (accent on first syllable) Companion/attendant to Leonie Hastur, FT 21. Probably a worker at Arilinn Tower.
LAURIA n'ANDREA Free Amazon. Head of the Independent Council of Craftswomen (q.v.). Jaelle brought her to the great confrontation with Lorill Hastur, SC 280. The name would properly have been Lauria n'ha Andrea, but was elided in pronunciation.
Law of Valeron  See laws.
laws Very few were recognized and observed planetwide, these mostly being consensual (i.e. by consensus, enforced by sanctions from one's own individual clan, neighbors, and family). These most important ones included:
1.  Fire-truce (q.v.).
2.  Fire line duty (q.v.).
3.  The Compact (q.v.). Not observed in the Aldaran lands nor, apparently, in the Dry Towns.
4.  Obligations respecting code duello. See Declaration. (An unsettled blood feud takes precedence over obligations except fire-truce, SA 65 (70).)
5.  Shelter-truce (q.v.).
6.   No person may touch a Keeper. (Enforced by superstitious beliefs.)
7.  The Law of Valeron: no woman can be separated unwilling from the father of her child, FT 339.
In the Hellers, especially in the Aldaran lands, a law was observed, quoted by Kermiac, to the effect that no man given to breach of the peace might own any weapon; another provision regulated the length of blade in any pocketknife he might carry, HH 214.
All the above were aside from local regulations, e.g. on imports, contracts, personal obligations, feudal obligations, marriages, inheritances, curfews, etc. For the most part, the structure of Darkovan laws resembled that of other frontier societies (lacking a strong centralized government or an enforcement agency); it constituted a government of men rather than of laws. For the pros and cons of this see Compact.
Lawton Terran family name, important in Darkovan history.
LAWTON, DANIEL Commonly known as Dan. Only son of Rayna di Asturien by David Daniel Lawton; on his mother's side, grandson of Dom Kyril Ardais (who was father of Dyan Ardais). Red hair; strong Comyn look;
may have had some laran. Brought up on Darkover, spoke fluent casta, swore allegiance to the Empire and was trained for the diplomatic service, becoming Assistant Legate and official translator about the time of the Sharra Rebellion, HH 366, succeeding to the Legateship a few years later, SA 25 (24), 114 (126). At the time of PS he was approached by Regis Hastur with the desperate and long-desired proposition: Hastur would undertake to have selected Terrans taught the secret science of matrix mechanics if Lawton would authorize TE Medical Service to help end the pandemic of Trail-men's Fever. This was agreed upon, however, even some years later very few Terrans had learned matrix mechanics, probably because very few had enough laran to use the techniques effectively; see matrix.
At the time of the Comyn Council meeting following the Sharra Rebellion, Dyan Ardais offered him a seat in Comyn Council among the Ardais as heir-designate of that Domain, on grounds of his ancestry, but the condition was that Dan should renounce his TE allegiance and swear the usual oath of allegiance to the Comyn, which he refused to do, HH 373. Lawton, David Daniel Husband of Rayna di Asturien, who was eldest nedestro daughter of Dom Kyril-Valentine Ardais; their only son was Daniel Lawton, above (q.v.), HH 373.
LAYTON, Major XXI Century Terran. Part of crew of DL ship. Later, placed in charge of firefighting detail, DL74.
lazy man's load Ancient proverbial catchphrase. Dom Felix Syrtis used it as equivalent to "carrying too much because you're too lazy to go back for another (load)," HH 325.
leather Made from a variety of native animal skins, using techniques originally brought by the New Hebrides Commune. Distinctive styles of leather work are found from the Hellers to Dalereuth. However, leather is scarce in the Dry Towns, because the few animal species found in the Dry Lands yield little or none, and the Dry Towners therefore remain, reluctantly, dependent on trade with the Domains for even such necessary leather goods as knife sheaths, shoes, and harness for horses and oudrak-bi, SC 27.
Leather cloaks are in common use around Aldaran, HH 270, being preferred to fur apparently because effective against sleet and freezing rain.
LEE ANNE n 'ha-------  Free Amazon from Thendara Guild
House, part of Kindra's band; on Shainsa rescue expedition, SC 24. Neutered at age 14; thin boyish physique as usual with emmasca Amazons. She was extremely skilled at "reading the trackless lands in mountain or desert," see tracker.
For reasons of etymology the name should have been spelled Lian, with final accent, but Terrans would automatically mispronounce it. The spelling here given is phonetic. It is believed to be a Lowlands dialect form of the name given in the mountains as Leonie, or possibly from a Terran (Sp.) root lia- meaning "bond, alliance, treaty."
legal age  Alternative  term  for  adult or age of consent (qq.v.), i.e. 15 in either gender, HH 48, WW 93 (103).
Legate The highest ranking TE official on a planet above a certain level of TE population, interstellar trade, TE administrative staff, etc.; outranks a Coordinator. A planet must have been adjudicated by Galactic Central as inhabited and given status as either Closed or Open to have a Legate. Darkover acquired its first Legate at some time after the Siege of Storn; until then its TE Headquarters boasted only a Coordinator (q.v.). The names of the earliest Legates are not recorded; the first one to have played a marked role in Darkovan history is Don-nell Ramsay, HH 85, in office during some years before and during the Sharra Rebellion. His assistant and successor was Daniel Lawton (qq.v.).
One of the earlier Legates claimed, falsely, never to have seen a redheaded Darkovan, BS 33, and claimed that matrix crystals were traded (along with gold and platinum) for cameras, medical supplies, and especially horses, BS 34.
A few years after the Sharra Rebellion, the TE Legate on Samarra was one Haig Marshall (q.v.).
LEICESTER, Capt. HARRY XXI Century Terran, DL 99. Commanding officer of DL ship, though his authority ceased on planetfall, being replaced by that of Colony Expeditionary Force, DL 5. He was a graduate of Spaceforce Academy. His hobby was building musical instruments, DL 119.
Though he was originally committed to the position that the crew and colonists must work toward repair of the starship and resumption of their journey towards Coronis Colony, exposure to the Ghost Wind caused him to perceive the realities of the situation differently. He came to realize that if the ship's computer remained permanently available to give Terran answers to the colonists they would never seek their own answers adaptive to Darkovan conditions—and they would come to regard the computer as God: a most unhealthy attitude. During the final Ghost Wind episode described in DL, he dynamited the ship's computer, dying in the resulting explosion because he could not get out of the ship, DL 155-57.
lenses As late as some years after the Sharra Rebellion, Terran lenses were a prized luxury on Darkover. Lenses could be made on Darkover, but glass of the proper quality was always difficult to come by, partly because of the scarcity of suitable trace elements, partly because uniform melting of the local sand was difficult to achieve. Refractory furnace linings and the close temperature controls needed for lensmaking, as well as suitable grinding materials, were seldom available; for one thing, coal was rare and iron more so.
Dan Barron (q.v.) was assigned by TE authorities to liaison work at Armida, where Valdir Alton persuaded him to teach lens-making, WD 51, (65, 72 (93), for telescopes. These were needed for detecting forest fires and bandits before the naked eye could; this was part of Valdir's plan for setting up a network of Rangers and beacons (qq.v.).
The casta name for telescope literally means "far-seeing-eye-lenses."
LEONIE HASTUR (accent on first and third syllables; the final e is obscured and sometimes elided.) Comynara, Keeper at Arilinn Tower, FT 8, since about 20 years (or
more) before the Catmen's War, since before Callista's birth, FT 16; the only Keeper in office for over 20 years, FT 224. Born over 50 years before the Catmen's War, she was twin sister to Lorill Hastur (q.v.), FT 10, daughter of Stefan Hastur, Regent; aunt of Danvan Hastur. She and Lorill had been at Dalereuth Tower (taking Keeper's vows at 15, FT 360) when Melora and Rohana Aillard (qq.v.) were in training as teen-agers before Rohana was married off to Dom Gabriel Ardais, SC 58.
Flame-colored hair, spare body, grey eyes, deep beautiful voice. When young her beauty was legendary, but in late life she could not be called beautiful, FT 248. She regularly wore twin copper bracelets in the form of serpents, SS 49.
She dismissed Damon Ridenow from Arilinn Tower as too sensitive, too likely to be damaged in use of his Gift, SS 49, FT 8. She had gone far enough to tell him that had he been born female, he would have been a Keeper, FT 8. (Damon later found himself in the position of having to function as Keeper in the Forbidden Tower.)
She trained Callista Lanart-Alton in the ancient manner, modifying her channels as the girl was induced to take Keeper's vows before menarche; this was an act of desperation, as several previous Keepers-in-training had failed, and Leonie wished to retire but dared not leave Arilinn without a Keeper to succeed her. After the rescue of Callista in SS, Leonie reluctantly consented to her wedding to Andrew Carr, FT 54. She did not inform Damon of her tampering with Callista's channels, until it was almost too late. She guided Damon in Time-search (q.v.), but after the "Forbidden Tower" circle had disposed of Desiderio Leynier (qq.v.), she demanded that Damon disband the group, FT 318-23, and on his refusal, she formally charged them with crime at a trial under Lorill Hastur, FT 331-36, which led to "challenge and ordeal" (astral battle between their Tower and Arilinn), FT 355-60. She surrendered, and was reconciled to the Forbidden Tower's continuance and Damon's Keep-ership, FT 362-63.
She may have neutered herself, FT 359. She had heard of offworlders called Terrans, at Then-dara, but Andrew Carr was apparently the first she had met. leronis (accent first syllable: casta) Etymologically, "female holder of a Talent." In practice, "wise woman," "sorceress," FT 318, BS 56. A title of any Tower-trained matrix technician, though most often denotes a Keeper; especially used by outsiders to refer to a Keeper using her matrix for some very difficult operation such as healing or weather control, SC 203, 213; HH 85.
The name comes from laran. Regular formation would make its male counterpart leronin, but this form was not in use, laranzu (wizard) being preferred. Plural, leroni, BS 50, FT 190.
A young person of either gender showing any trace of laran was routinely sent to one for testing. Lew Alton told Danilo to request such testing, HH 83. Though Danilo did not at that time, he later must have seen the Keeper at Neskaya (Callina Aillard?) as she officially confirmed Danilo as having the Ardais Gift, HH 373.
Domna Alida Ardais (q.v.) urged Magda (Margali n'ha Ysabet) to submit to testing, which she later did, with Rohana as her examiner, SC 233-38.
Lerrys (syllables almost equally stressed) Common Darkovan male given name; see following entry. Larry Mon-tray was called Lerrys by Kennard and Valdir Alton, SD 39, and later he used it during his exchange studentship on Darkover and in young adulthood as Valdir's foster-son, WD 26 (30).
LERRYS RIDENOW Younger brother of Edric Ridenow of Serrais, Lord Serrais (q.v.); brother of Corus and Diotima (called Dio in SA) (qq.v.); HH 82. Usual Comyn coloring, red hair. Laran, and probably the full Ridenow Gift. As a teenager, eleven years before PS, he had taken part in the 'Narr campaign of the Trailmen's War, PS 37 (38). As an adult, he gave the impression of effeminacy but with a catlike grace concealing tigerish deadli-ness, SA 36 (37). Notable for adventurous expeditions, including some on other worlds. Enough mountaineering experience to be chosen for the Allison expedition to Trailmen country, PS 27.
He had spent some time in service of the Terran Empire, a most unusual situation for a Comyn lord, SA 115 (127); apparently the TE had demanded no oath of allegiance, being extremely grateful to have one of the Comyn in their employ.
A few years after the Sharra Rebellion, apparently in his early forties, and saturnine in appearance, he served at Arilinn Tower, WW 38ff (39ff). This implies that he must have been born thirty-odd years before the Sharra Rebellion.
lesbianism Probably commoner planetwide than anyone suspected, because outside the Free Amazons little attention is paid to bonds formed between women, or for that matter to anything they might do so long as they fulfill family obligations. However, partly because occasional Free Amazon couples become freemates, WW 65ff, partly because they live in large groups in houses neither sworn to chastity nor paired off with men, the story has been long and often bandied about that the Free Amazons are a hotbed of lesbian love. Dr. David Hamilton even believed it, WW 170 (193). Lady Jerana (q.v.), SC 90, contemptuously repeated the old canard that the Free Amazons were always hunting pretty young girls to convert into man-hating lesbians. A Shainsa loafer accused Kindra and Rohana of being lovers, SC 28, which turned out to be an unwitting anticipation of reality, SC 272-73, though it is only hinted that this love was ever even verbally acknowledged. Peter Haldane suspected Magda of it, SC 202. A pair of prostitute-entertainers at the Golden Cage (q.v.), SC 140-41, made a mocking show of it, purporting to reveal "Love Secrets of the Free Amazons," for which reason Rafaella and Camilla, two Free Amazons from the Thendara Guild House, punished them by shaving their heads and private parts and drenching them in pitch.
The actuality is that lovers of women have been found both inside and outside the Free Amazons, and that in Guild Houses many have experimented with such pairings, partly as a path to social cohesion, giving an added dimension to the concept of sisterhood, partly as
a way of defining and celebrating their own femininity in a context other than that of how men react to them.
Male interest in the subject has been generally regarded, among the Free Amazons at least, as dirty, SC 141.
The polite casta term for one's own female lover is bredhis, "cherished sister," in intimate mode and inflection, evidently a form of breda. For "lover of women" the respectful (not intimate) casta title is menhiedris, "one who has chosen a sister"—a near but not a precise counterpart to ombredin. LEW ALTON Full name is LEWIS-KENNARD [N'KEN-NARD] LANART-MONTRAY ALTON Y ALDARAN, HH 167, though he gave it slightly differently in SA. Son of Kennard Alton (q.v.) by Elaine Aldaran-Montray; own brother of Marius Alton; father of Marja by Thyra; husband of Marjorie Scott (qq.v.). See Alton Lineage, p. 159. As the marriage between Kennard and Elaine was never recognized by Comyn Council (Elaine being half Terran, half Aldaran, and thus to Council only a barrag-ana), Lew was adjudged a bastard, to be recognized as nedestro heir to the Alton Domain only years later and even then only over extreme opposition—after Kennard forced rapport on him to prove to Council that Lew possessed the full Alton Gift. This act caused agony to Lew, and would have killed him immediately had he not possessed the full Gift. Kennard's action precipitated alienation between him and Lew for over 20 years until Kennard's death, SA 120 (133).
Lew was darker than usual for Comyn, betraying his part Terran ancestry. Though kin to he Ardais, he was 5-fingered.
At age 14, Lew entered the Cadet Guards, becoming junior officer (with the sobriquet "the bastard," which stuck to him for many years), later Captain, HH 52.
Afterwards, probably from age 17 to 20, Lew spent three years at Arilinn Tower, with his cousin Janna Lindir (q.v.) as Keeper, "the happiest time of his life." He qualified as a licensed matrix mechanic, though his laran was powerful enough that he could have become a technician or taken a Keeper's role at need—as indeed he did at Aldaran, after Marjorie accepted it. During his first year at Arilinn, a loss of control of energon flow for less than one second resulted in backflow and a third-degree burn on Lew's hand resulting in serious scarring, HH 200-01, 239.
During one summer in this period, Lew and the 12-year-old Regis Hastur became bredin, climaxing in a donas amizu (q.v.) episode on the firelines near Armida, HH 29, 31, 265, 288, 293 and see REGIS. Although Lew always remembered this with deep affection, he felt he had outgrown such attitudes, HH 115, 280. Lew's sexual interest remained focused entirely on women, but his potency depended—rather more than in most Comyn —almost entirely on psi compatibility, HH 117-18.
During Lew's twenties, only a couple of years before the Sharra Rebellion, Kennard finally managed to persuade Council to legitimize Lew, HH 1 7.
A few months before the Sharra Rebellion, Kennard suffered a fall on the stairs of Guard Hall; being too lame thereafter to assume command of the Guards, he deputized Lew to do so, HH 55.
Later, as Kennard was unable to investigate the claims of Compact violation at Aldaran, he sent Lew as his deputy, HH 124-25. Lew was given a kinsman's welcome at Aldaran. Disaffected with Comyn for a variety of reasons (including, but not limited to, Kennard's refusal either to deny Dyan the cadet mastership or to take steps against him after Dyan had unjustly contrived Danilo Syrtis's expulsion), Lew was receptive to the Aldaran proposition of using matrix technology as a show of competence to the Terrans. This was intended to be a lever to induce exchange of Darkovan matrix science for Terran technology (weather control, etc.), and to force eventual TE acceptance of Darkover in equal status to other TE planets. Unfortunately for this idealistic proposal, Kadarin (q.v.) obtained the Sharra matrix for the purpose, which matrix was far too powerful for the tiny circle to control adequately, and which had been primarily a weapon of mass destruction.
Although deeply in love with Marjorie, Lew was strongly attracted to Thyra, an attraction obviously mutual, though resisted and denied by both, HH 242-43, 278. Failure of self-honesty created a weakness in Lew, HH 339, which Kadarin later used (along with Lew's never-acknowledged resentment of his father), HH 343, SA 120 (133), 89 (97), 93 (102), to force Lew to give up his emotional strength to the Sharra matrix, while drugged with aphrosone, HH 242-43, and to make Thyra pregnant, an episode Lew never consciously remembered, SA 141 (159) (and see THYRA, MARJA). Crazed by the proximity of Sharra, Kadarin forced Lew to use the Sharra matrix to implement horrendous threats against TE authorities at Caer Donn, with the aid of the forge-folk and other mountain worshippers of Sharra. This resulted in the burning of Caer Donn, the maiming of Lew, and the death of Marjorie, among many other disasters: see Sharra Rebellion.
In his extremity, Lew teleported himself and the dying Marjorie to Arilinn Tower, HH 364, where Callina Aillard, then Keeper, tried in vain to save her, opening the Hidden City nearby, SA 34 (34). Later, as local medical science could not save Lew's hand, Kennard took Lew offworld, HH 378ff, telling Comyn Council to take its law (forbidding Domain lord and heir to be simultaneously offworld) and go with it to Zandru's deepest hell. In the next six years, Lew spent three on Terra (where his burnt hand had to be amputated), with shorter periods on Samarra, Vainwal (where Kennard died), the Pleasure Moon off Vainwal, and other planets, SA 36 (37). During this time he kept the Sharra matrix with him, insulated, though while it was away from certain "activated" locales on Darkover, it had little power over him.
However, some six years after the Sharra Rebellion, Danvan Hastur summoned Lew back to Darkover from Vainwal, SA 14 (11-12), and Lew brought the Sharra matrix with him, in probably the worst mistake of his life. The presence of the Sharra matrix on Darkover at once alerted all who had ever had anything to do with it, and intrigues began among the Comyn to recover it in another power struggle to rid Darkover of the Terrans. This is the subject of the somewhat confused account in SA.  Eventually  Regis Hastur,  using the  Sword  of Al-
dones, and overshadowed by the god-form of Aldones, broke the power of Sharra, in a titanic battle, SA 152-54 (171-73), in which Dyan Ardais, Kadarin, Thyra and Callina died. Afterwards, Lew chose voluntary exile, SA 162-63 (182-83), WW 12 (11), rather than remain on Darkover to clean up the planetwide mess; his lover (wife? SA 163 (183)) Dio (Diotima) Ridenow and his daughter Marja went along.
An alternative view makes the Lew Alton of SA less a fool than a tragic hero: he removed the planetwide threat of Sharra; removed Ashara, who had ruined many Keepers, including Callista; completed the dissolution of the corrupt Comyn Council. Kadarin, Thyra and Dyan, having been warped by Sharra, were probably irredeemable. And on the personal plus side, the events of SA reunited him with Dio and Marja.
Lewis 1. Given name among the Altons, and probably other mountain folk, for centuries, HH 175. 2. Specifically, see preceding entry. 3. Name of remote and little-known island in Terra, part of the British or "Brictish" Isles, specifically in a group called the Hebrides in the far north. Kadarin (q.v.) had actually visited the place. Lew Alton thought the coincidence of sound only that, not evidence of any more immediate connexion, HH 175. It would appear that the name was brought to Darkover by the original New Hebrides Commune members, and may have been assimilated to the Spanish name Luis. Its meaning in casta is unknown.
Leynier (three syllables: accent first and third) Family name, formerly common around Carthon; minor nobility, related to Storns and Lanarts, WD 102 (135), (the name appears to have common origin with Lanart (qq.v.). See Bruna, DESIDERIA, DESIDERIO.
lift  Alternative term for elevator (q.v.), HH 199.
lighter Mechanical flint-and-steel assembly, producing a spark which can kindle a piece of some resinous absorbent stuff; for lighting hearth fires. Regis Hastur had one, HH 325-26
It is unlikely that this native device copied the archaic Terran counterpart, as the latter used volatile fluids instead of resinous oils, and many Terran models depended on pyrophoric rare-earth surfaces rather than on flint.
lights 1. Carbon arcs have long been in use in TE installations, especially the spaceports and Trade Cities, and at Castle Aldaran, HH 168. 2. Matrix-powered(P) lights are activated by vocalizing a particular tone, for example, in the Alton town house in Old Thendara, SD 35. 3. Trail-men use caged luminous insects, PS 65 (71). 4. Forge-folk (q.v.) use torches, magnified by crystals called "jewel lights," WD 126 (168). 5. Other Darkovans favor candles and torches. In many houses, hearth fires are seeded with chemicals which produce various colors. 6. Luminous rocks (q.v.) were used in the Alton suite in Comyn Castle, HH 27.
Lincoln Legendary Terran folk hero, DL 11. Chief Engineer Laurence Patrick was said to resemble traditional pictures of him.
Lindir (both syllables equal stress) Family name common in the Kilghard Hills; minor nobility, SC 24, related to
the Aillards; many members married into the Comyn. When the direct Aillard line became extinct, one of the Lindir families inherited the Domain as nearest relatives, and took the name; some members possessed enough laran to be trained as Keepers. See CALLINA, CATHAL, Kyria.
One of these families disinherited their daughter Camilla after she was neutered and joined the Free Amazons. See CAMILLA n'ha KYRIA.
The name is the old regular verb form in casta = "to make beautiful."
Coincidence   in   form   to   a  legendary  Terran name recorded by Tolkien is of no significance. linex   Generic name for a type of textile woven in the Dry
Towns, SC 54. Linne   (accent first syllable) Diminutive form of the name
Linnell, SA 109 (121). See following entries. LlNNEA (three syllables, accent second) Female given name found in the Hellers and foothills. The name Linnell (q.v.) appears to be a dialect variant of the same. For the most notable personage to bear this name see following entry. LlNNEA STORN-LANART Daughter of Rafaella Storn-Lanart, who was daughter of Desideria (q.v.), born at High Windward, WW 40 (42). Admitted to Terran blood, HH 111; her father was unknown but might have been one of the supposed sons of Dan Barron (q.v.). Her laran was powerful enough to qualify her to work as a Keeper. Nevertheless, Danvan Hastur—probably influenced by knowledge of her Terran ancestry—thought her a suitable match for Lew Alton, HH 110. Described as "very young, with russet hair falling in soft curls around a heart-shaped face," HH 110, and with the usual grey eyes of the Comyn. Lew Alton refused the match because it would have been Hastur's (and Kennard's, and probably some others' in Council) choice and none of his own—though Linnea was not displeasing to him personally, HH 112-13.
Later, Linnea was trained at Neskaya Tower and became Keeper at Arilinn, after working in telepath relays for 7 years, WW 40 (42). She was a powerful enough telepath to reach Regis at a distance which would normally have required intermediaries.
Regis encountered her many years after the attempt to marry her to Lew, and saw her as "young . . . (with) an air of calm and self-mastery quite at odds with her youth," WW 40 (42). Reaching an immediate emotional sympathy with Regis, she became aware of his anguish over the assassination of two of his children and spontaneously offered to give him others, an offer which Regis at first refused because Linnea was greatly needed at Arilinn. Later, however, she joined him in Thendara and allowed herself to become pregnant by him. During her pregnancy, she lay with Danilo Syrtis during the chieri-induced orgy scene, WW 181 (206).
It is unknown whether she formally married Regis.
Linnell (elision of final -a or -e indicated; accent last syllable) Female given name, also found in the forms Linnella and Lanilla; thought to be a dialect form (diminutive) of Linnea. It has also been conjectured that these names derive from the name Callina, much as does
Millea from Camilla. See following entry. LINNELL LlNDIR-AlLLARD Sister or half-sister (probably the latter) of Callina (q.v.); foster-sister of Lew Alton; born about 15 years before the Sharra Rebellion. Reddish-brown hair, blue eyes, taller and darker than Callina (and gentler), SA 48 (49-50).
At the Midsummer Festival immediately preceding the Sharra Rebellion, she was not yet old enough to dance except with kinsmen, HH 105. Marriage with Lew Alton was nevertheless discussed, but Lew would not consent, being unable to regard her as a sexual object, HH 115. She was described as "prettier than Callina," SA 48 (50), but Lew still saw her as sexless. Her marriage to Derik Elhalyn had been "in the wind since Linnell put away her dolls," SA 36 (36), but she refused even to discuss a date for the wedding until Lew was present to give consent as her foster-brother and nearest male relative. In the light of subsequent events this proved irrelevant.
Her "true twin" (per Cherillys' Law, q.v.) was Kathie Marshall (q.v.). This double was used to gain the Sword of Aldones from the rhu fead at Hali, SA 10 (6-7), 36 (36), 85-87 (93-95).
Linnell was killed at Midsummer Festival on the occasion when Dyan, Kadarin and other plotters disrupted the formal betrothal of Callin to Beltran of Aldaran. Lew blamed himself (for confusing reasons) for separating her from Kathie on that occasion and thereby weakening them all. Too little is known of Cherillys' Law to be certain whether Lew's guilt was justified, or merely a part of Lew's penchant for absorbing as much guilt as possible.
Lira Diminutive form of the female name Allira, WD 21 (24). Allira Storn was familiarly so called.
Liriel (accent first and third syllables) Largest of Dark-over's four moons; violet in color, regarded as the most beautiful, SC 11, SD 10. The name is from a legend of a chieri who bore that name, who married into the Aillard Domain. Its orbital period is 40 days. Either by gravitational influence or for some other unknown reasons, this length equals that of the menstrual cycle of Darkovan women. Therefore, accounts of these cycles are carefully kept, especially in Free Amazon Guild Houses, since most fertility control on Darkover involves either rhythm or laran monitoring, the latter only by tower-trained women.
Liriel Female given name in the Domains, directly from the name of the moon (preceding entry). Ellemir Lanart speaks of a woman of this name (family and surname unknown) having been married off to one Dom Cyril Ardais when the latter was too old to father children, SS 78. (This Cyril is not to be confused with the the Kyril who was Rohana's son.) See also following entry.
Liriel Lanart-Hastur Daughter of Javanne Hastur by Gabriel Lanart, twin to Ariel (q.v.); younger sister to the "Lanart angels" (q.v.); born a few months before the Sharra Rebellion, HH 79.
Lirielle, Domna Keeper at Arilinn Tower, once visited Arilinn guild hall to aid the Amazon midwives; did a matrix neutering to cure uterine cancer, FT 199. Name
has four syllables, accent on first and third (last often obscured or elided, like Jaelle).
literacy Rare on Darkover, unusual even among the nobility, SD 39, beyond the ability of a man to painfully scrawl his own name on legal documents or spell out a placard. Most Darkovan women could not read at all. However, Free Amazons were taught to read and write, SC 123, 137.
Among the natives, literacy was considered to be a disadvantage; what one learned from books was thought inaccurate compared to what one learned through direct observation/experience/practice and instruction-by-example, WD 74 (95-96). Some, including Kennard Alton, believed that too much reading would impair distance vision, which was prized for hunting, SD 39. Kennard was amazed that Larry Montray was bilingual— even learning cahuenga—as well as literate, SD 39.
Magda Lome, later Margali n'ha Ysabet, learned to read and write from her father David Lome, SC 123, which fact eased her TE work and her impersonation of a Free Amazon.
"little brothers" Or in full "little brothers who are not wise." Chieri term for Trailmen, DL 76, quoted by Dr. Judith Lovat from her chieri lover.
"little folk"   Chieri term for Trailmen, DL 101.
little people of the trees Dom Esteban's name for the Trailmen, SS 110.
livery Nearest Terran translation of term for the kind of uniform worn by servants and sworn men of a Domain, probably in Domain colors, HH 24.
LOMIE (three syllables, accent on first) Name of a common prostitute at a Thendara wineshop. "Jeff Kerwin Jr." called her "daughter of a mountain goat," BS 18-19.
Long Search The millennia of search by chieri throughout much of the Galaxy, vainly seeking a cure for their declining fertility. Cf. WW 88-89 (98), 95 (105).
looms In common use planetwide. One was observed in the chieri house, DL 144, suggesting independent invention. Those used for weaving spider-silk fabric (q.v.) must have been of strange design.
Loran Syrtis Attended Midwinter Festival with his wife Caitlia and their daughters, FT 236.
loran-Rakhal Storn of Storn see storn, wd
94(124). Lord of Carthon Title of Robardin, in the "Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda," below, pp 142. and WW 152-53 (173). The ancient story is told that he rescued, loved, wooed and kept the chieri Kierestelli (q.v.) in his castle; and when her people tried to ransom her, she refused to leave, and he returned all the ransom but one ring. But the treasure was seized by bandits enroute to the chieri folk; for which reason Kierestelli's father said "He will keep both gold and woman," and gathered his people to do battle to rescue her. But she came from the besieged castle, pregnant, and said "I will not bear a child in war and terror," whereupon all were reconciled, and a proverbially great feast followed. "They feasted him like the Lords of Carthon," became a proverbial expression meaning "They showed him the utmost honor." At length the friendship was broken, and the chieri with-
drew beyond the Kadarin; but from the progeny of Robardin and Kierestelli came Cassilda, who married the first Hastur and became ancestor to the Domains.
Lord of Hali  Title of Varzil, FT 251.
Lord of Light Title of Aldones.
Lord of the Singing Light Title of Aldones.
LORENZ RIDENOW, Lord Serrais (accent on second syllable) Oldest brother of Damon, FT 50, 267, no laran, FT 13; schemed to oust Domenic Lanart-Alton from command of the Guards, FT 296. The form indicates elision of an ending (earlier Lorenzu?). Possibly from Terran (Eng.) Laurence or some cognate.
Lort Common female given name, thought later to be a diminutive form of Elorie, though now known to have been of XXI Century Terran origin; see following entries.
LORI Dr. Judith Lovat's daughter by an unnamed chieri, DL 159-60.
LORI Family name not recorded. Member of Arilinn Tower Circle at time of Sharra Rebellion and some years before; her first year at Arilinn was Lew Alton's third and last, HH 364.
LORI n ha-------, Free Amazon, born in Hellers. Mercenary soldier, trained in fighting mountain style with two knives. Part of Kindra's group from Thendara Guild House, on Shainsa rescue expedition. Accurate in knife-throwing; killed a guard at Jalak's Great House by that technique, SC 40.
LORI (i.e. ELORIE) AlLLARD-ARDAIS Daughter of Lady Rohana by Gabriel Ardais, SC 214, born about five years before the the Shainsa rescue expedition; she later married Valdir Alton.
LORILL HASTUR of HASTUR, Lord Hastur Regent for Prince Aran Elhalyn, FT 297. Twin brother of Leonie Hastur (q.v.), SS, FT 10; father of Danvan Hastur, grandfather of Rafael and great-grandfather of Regis (qq.v.). "Tall, with copper hair sweeping back from a high stern forehead marked with two wings of white hair," SD 48. Younger, he was described as a "slightly-built serious-looking man about Rohana's own age . . . his flaming hair had already begun to turn white," SD 86. He defended Rohana's right to have Jaelle fostered by the Amazon Kindra n'ha Mhari; it was he who obtained Comyn Council consent for building the spaceport at Thendara, and ruled that Terran private contracts with Darkovans must be treated like all other contracts under Domain law, FT 335. But he also gave orders that no Terran was to be allowed to witness a matrix operation, SC 205. He had been trained at Dalereuth Tower, FT 333, with Rohana, Melora and Leonie, but renounced this work when he became Regent. Nevertheless he was a powerful telepath. He probed Larry Montray, SD 49, and worked with Valdir Alton and Janine in cloud-gathering to fight the forest fire set by Cyrillon's bandits, SD 68-70. Like many Hasturs, he was long lived, reigning for many years; his influence is incalculable, probably second only to that of his great statesman son Danvan (q.v.).
He administered the oath to Damon as Regent of Alton, FT 301, and three days later presided at his trial,
FT 331-36. He did not recognize Desiderio Leynier, FT 301. The name's form indicates elision of an ending, possible -u? If so, related to Lori, and orig. a diminutive form.
Lorillard Ranges (accent first and third syllables) Mountains, not precisely located. The name is almost certainly derived from Lorill, though they were not named for the Lorill Hastur who was Aran Elhalyn's Regent—more likely for one of his ancestors of the same name, WD 55 (69).
Lome Terran family living in Caer Donn. See following entries.
Lome, David Husband of Elizabeth and father of Magda, SC 158; graying, gentle, scholarly; compiled a casta/ Terran Standard dictionary.
Lome, Elizabeth Wife of David and mother of Magda; musician, SC 158.
LORNE, MAGDALEN Called MAGDA, see separate entry under MAGDA.
Lost Ships Later TE name for the early XXI-XXII Century Terran interstellar ships which did not manage to return to Terra, among these being the one which made first planetfall on Darkover, WW 153 (1 74).
LOVAT  See JUDITH.
"love-pats" Regis Hastur's derisive epithet for the bruises Dyan Ardais inflicted on him during sword-practice sessions, HH 99.
"Love Secrets of the Free Amazons" Title of grossly obscene show given by a pair of prostitutes at the Golden Cage (q.v.) brothel in Thendara, purporting to show how Free Amazons indulged in lesbian practices, SC 140. A pair of genuine Amazons from the local Guild House (Rafaella and Camilla) punished them by shaving them (heads and private parts) and drenching them in pitch.
Lowland customs Generally more restrictive than those in the mountains. In particular, women from the valley and lowland areas were much more timid with strangers, especially strange men, than were mountain women. Magda was aware of this cultural difference, SC 100.
luminous rocks Used for lighting the Alton suites in Comyn Castle; not bright enough to read by. Found in caves, they absorbed solar energy by day and slowly reradiated it by night, HH 27.
lute Terran translation of name of some kind of portable musical instrument, producing sound by plucked strings, but different from the lap-held harp or rryl. It is uncertain which type of instrument was so called, either the Terran lute (an archaic instrument repeatedly revived) or a native instrument built along similar lines.
Damon   Ridenow   compared   Riedel's   skill   on  this instrument to his own matrix-trainable talent, SS 19-20.
Lyra Well known major star system or constellation. On a cold planet (unnamed) of one of its solar systems, according to Johnny Ellers (q.v.), Spaceforce's Baron Munchausen, nights are the equivalent of 7 Terran days long, BS 14. Unverified, though entirely possible considering the extreme variability of rotation periods of some planets. Even Terra has circumpolar regions where
night is up to 183 Terran days long. lyric performer Terran translation of polite (respectful mode and inflection) term for a professional singer. The term literally meaning "entertainer" must not be used for such a performer, as it long since acquired (unlike "lyric performer") the meaning "prostitute." Cf. archaic
Terran (Roman) terms literally meaning "actress" and "dancer," and (Japanese) "Geisha," all of which suffered the same kind of connotational shift, though the implied charge may not have been literally true of every such individual, SC 84, 107.

MacAnndra Common family name in Kilghard Hills, near Armida, SS 66, HH 67, 127, etc. Some of Andrew Carr's descendants could have taken this surname (Andrew was rendered as Anndra in the hill country), but the name was common enough before Andrew arrived in Alton lands.
See also DAMONMacANNDRA.
Apparently, the Mac- prefix (= son of) dates back to the New Hebrides Commune. MacAran Ancient and common family name in the Kilghard Hills and probably also in the Hellers, now known to originate with the original DL group (see MacARAN, RAFE, next entry). Its origin was long forgotten by the time the Terrans came round again, and in casta it was readily interpretable as = "son of Aran," Aran being a known given name. It is now known to have meant "from the Aran Islands," but MacCarran is an earlier attested form.
A MacAran had been paxman to Dom Esteban and foster father to Damon Ridenow; this particular family lived in Corresanti, SS 136.
Kadarin knew of the original Rafe MacAran of DL, from the ship's list still preserved in TE records, HH 176.
See also Alanna, CORMAC, Estill, HJALMAR, Jenny, JULIAN.
MacARAN, RAFE Called Rafe XXI Century Terran, member of original DL colony, his sister Jenny died in the crash. Professional geologist, fond of mountain climbing, DL 9; Irish ancestry, DL 43. Understood a few words of Scottish Gaelic. Discovered the properties of the Ghost Wind when he became one of its first victims, with Camilla Del Rey (q.v.).
He discovered matrix crystals in a cave in the mountains, DL 159. Father of several children by Camilla and others; presumed forefather of the MacAran families in the Kilghard Hills (see preceding entry).
MacLEOD, LEWIS (Dr.) XXI Century Terran, one of original DL colonists. Zoologist, veterinary specialist, DL 21. From Scottish highlands. "Small, fat, fair-skinned." "Ginger haired," DL 82. Preferred to be called Mac. Gave
the scorpion-ants their name; discovered one of the trail-men's highways, and gave them the tentative name of homo arborens, a name unknowingly echoed by TE scientists thousands of years later; dissected the first captured banshee, discovering that the species is blind.
Gifted with precognition, which he referred to as "freaked-out second sight," never taking it too seriously, DL37.
Became an ally of the New Hebrides Commune, though not actually a member; paired (?) with Fiona MacMorair (see following entry).
A valuable member of the colony, though evidently his name was lost or forgotten as one of the progenitors. The name Lewis survives on Darkover, though it may not be from him. MacMORAIR, FIONA XXI Century Terran. Member of New Hebrides Commune, DL 82. Red hair. Paired (?) with Dr. Lewis MacLeod. Singer, DL 124.
After the second Ghost Wind she was found to be pregnant, believed Capt. Harry Leicester the probable father, DL 120 (cf. DL 89). Dr. Judith Lovat encouraged her and the rest of her group to continue use of Gaelic, DL 124. Camilla Del Rey verified telepathically that Fiona's child was indeed by Capt. Leicester, DL 132.
The name Fiona is still known on Darkover, though it is not absolutely certain that Fiona MacMorair was the eponym; there may have been other colonists with this given name. Madness of the Change Much-feared disorder among the chieri—hormone-induced emotional upheaval entailing irrational behavior during shift from emmasca phase to either male or female, or from male to female or vice versa, WW 132 (150). The chieri blamed it for attempts to mate with people of other species. "Missy" was seen in it, WW 123-129 (138-145). MAGDALEN LORNE Called MAGDA, later known as MARGALI n'ha YSABET, Free Amazon. Daughter of David and Elizabeth Lome, Terrans, SC 158; born at Caer Donn while the TE spaceport was still in operation there, eight years before Stefan Hastur arranged its move
to Thendara, SC 95. Given the name Margali by native children who were her playmates; spoke casta with Hellers accent, later learning Terran Standard, becoming literate in both. At age 16 she went to TE University, graduating in Alien Anthropology, SC 96, later joining TE intelligence Service. She had high test scores on psi potential when tested at New Rhine-Rakakowski Institute.
Back on Darkover, she was stationed at Thendara TZ, in the position of linguist, special assistant to Russell Montray, Coordinator, and capable of succeeding to his position, though more likely to be passed over in favor of a man. Brief Terran marriage with Peter Haldane (q.v.), a childhood friend in her own position (born in Caer Donn, brought up Darkovan, uprooted and expected to become Terran), and later realized that this marriage was doomed from the start as it was based only on propinquity—Peter being literally the only man of her own kind to whom she could react sexually at all, SC 219. After the dissolution of the marriage, she remained emotionally bound to him, even having precog-nitive dreams about his fate. When Rumal di Scarp (q.v.) kidnapped him, and neither TE authorities nor Dark-ovans would interfere, Magda disguised herself as a Free Amazon (at the instigation of Rohana Ardais, q.v.), and set out to rescue him; however, on being discovered by a band of actual Free Amazons, she was forced to take their oath, SC 155-60. Despite having taken the oath under duress, she chose to honor it, saved the life of her oath-mother Jaelle n'ha Melora (q.v.), and later entered the Thendara Guild House for the mandatory half year of seclusion, deprogramming, and Amazon training. As an Amazon, she was known only as Margali n'ha Ysabet. Her oath-mother took Margali's place in TE Intelligence Service during that time as a native consultant on language, customs, etc.
magical city in the fairy tale Not identified. Danilo Syrtis compared Thendara to it, HH 94; Lew Alton compared Caer Donn to it, HH 166.
magical electrical net Some kind of matrix-induced force field which surrounded Storn of Storn in trance for protection, violently repelling Brynat Scarface when he attempted to stab Storn, WD 19 (19), 39 (48).
mail rockets Terransused these for quick service between Thendara, Port Chicago and Caer Donn TZs, SA 67 (72).
male sexual rivalries Discussed, FT 259-60. See also donas amizu.
MALLISON Coordinator, Spaceport Activities, Thendara TZ, during the year of the Siege of Storn, WD 10 (7). Hefty, serious, unimaginative.
He assigned Dan Barron (q.v.), to teach lens-grinding to the firewatchers in the Alton lands.
Matty Native woman, married Terran Rupert Kerwin; her daughter Evelyn Janis Kerwin died at age 6 (TE) months, BS 39.
M-AM Matter/antimatter drive, used for propelling spaceships, DL 10. A more sophisticated version was in use in the later Big Ships which colonized the known Galaxy and made TE a possiblity.
Fuel for this type of starship could consist of any-
thing from waste products to interstellar hydrogen gas, assuming that enough could be had.
Infants and young children were said to be unable to endure faster-than-light travel with this drive.
man-driver A martinet; Guards term, SS 18. The image is that such a person treats fellow men like so many pack animals.
Mapping & Exploring A division of TE services. On Darkover, essential unusually late in TE relations with native authority, because the natives had not constructed accurate maps themselves, SS 14. It was a lagniappe to native authorities, for public relations purposes.
Personnel in this division enjoyed privileges on closed worlds denied to other TE employees, particularly access to native areas, which is why Andrew Carr chose this service, SS 14. It was high risk, high pay work on any planet, more so on Darkover than on most because use of planes in the Hellers was exceedingly hazardous.
maps of Darkover No maps of Darkover have been authorized by Marion Zimmer Bradley. While she does not wish to dispute the validity of maps produced by scholars and friends of Darkover, she feels that no true map of the planet can be made until the Darkover series is completed. Therefore any maps which appear must by their nature be conjectural and partial.
Marcella Ridenow Wife of Dom Esteban Lanart, FT 299.
MARCO SeeZabal.
Marcos Guardsman in Dom Esteban's service, killed by invisible catmen, SS 86.
Marcus Alton Typographical error for MARIUS ALTON (q.v.), HH 313.
Marelie Hastur (four syllables in first name; accent on second) Mountain name for Mirella Hastur (q.v.), HH 278-79, FT 249.
Margali (accent first and third syllables) Hellers dialect form of Marguerida, common female name in that area. Magda was so called as a child, SC 176. See next three entries.
MARGALI n'ha YSABET Name used by Magda Lome (q.v.) as Free Amazon, taken when she took the oath, SC 158.
Marguerhia Solecism or misheard dialect form of Marguerida (q.v.), so pronounced by the child Marja (q.v.), SA 89 (98).
Marguerida (accent first and third syllables; -u- like Terran w) Female given name in casta corresponding to Terran Marjorie or Margaret. Hellers dialect form is Margali. Given name of Marjorie Scott (q.v.).
MARGWENN ELHALYN Monitor at Arilinn Tower when Damon was Third; later at Hali Tower, still later rikhi (under-Keeper) at Old Tower under Ashara, FT 307. Slim, fair-haired. She located Domenic Lanart-Alton's matrix as fully operative, modified, in a Keeper's hands, FT 208-09. She attended the trial of the Forbidden Tower circle with Leonie Hastur; she believed a woman's place is in the home if not in a Tower, FT 333.
Mari Diminutive form of Marisela (q.v.), FT 108. Can also be a dialect form of the Hellers name Mhari.
MarielAldaran (accent first and third syllables) Own sister of Kermiac (q.v.); later, wife of Wade Montray, mother of Larrv and of Elaine (Yllana) Montray-Aldaran (qq.v.), HH 170.
She separated from Wade Montray; according to Kermiac, she stayed on Terra' with her daughter, probably preferring the climate. Considering that Kennard Alton later became severely arthritic, quite likely she had the inherited tendency to arthritis herself, in which case we need seek no further for reasons for her choice of planet.
The name may be cognate with Marelie, Marilla and Mirella (qq.v.).
Marilla Female name in the Kilghard Hills. A young woman of this name was referred to, WW 34 (35), from the burnt area of Naderling Forest.
Dialect form of the names elsewhere found in the forms Marelie and Mirella; possibly related to Mariel?
Mariposa (accent on first and third syllables) District (possibly also a town) in or near the Lake Country in the Kilghard Hills. The Syrtis estate was near here, HH 154.
Named after nearby Lake Mariposa. Is the lake so called because it is shaped like butterfly wings? The name seems to be from Terran (Sp.) Mariposa, "butter-fly."
MARISELA RIDENOW (accent on first and third syllable) Sister of Damon, one year older; they had the same foster mother. Fair hair, plump, resembled Damon, FT 108; tested for laran at Neskaya at age 13; believed Keepers were still neutered, FT 108-09.
MARIUS ALTON (accent first syllable) Full name not given but would have included MARIUS LANART-MONTRAY ALTON Y ALDARAN, in adult life after recognition by Council. Younger brother of Lew Alton; son of Kennard Alton and Elaine Montray-Aldaran, SA 12 (9). Born about 12 years before the Sharra Rebellion, HH 18. Dark, had his Terran mother's face, like Lew; stocky, HH 45, SA 23 (21). His laran had not yet awakened, HH 313, but later proved to include the full Alton Gift, SA 42 (43-44). In the meantime, Kennard had despaired of having Marius legitimized, because Comyn Council had regarded Elaine as a barragana. He had vainly tried to get Marius a Cadet Guard commission, HH 45.
After Lew returned to Darkover, Marius had something to do with serving as a focus for deactivating some of the spots still attuned to Sharra, SA 43 (44). It is not clear why this could not have been done while the Sharra matrix was still offworld. Nor is the purpose in Rafael Scott's (q.v.) impersonating Marius clear, SA 12-20(8-17).
When Lew learned that Marius had the full Alton Gift, he demonstrated it before Comyn witnesses, to force legitimation and recognition of Marius as heir to Alton lands, by having the boy submit to forced rapport, which he duly survived; unfortunately, Kadarin's gang of thugs ambushed the party and killed him, SA 47 (49). He was buried at Hidden City (probably the one nearest to Arilinn) with full Comyn honors. (Why not Hali, like so many other Comyn?)
Marius Elhalyn   King before Aran (q.v.), died about 11
years before the Catmen's War or a year after Jalak kidnapped Melora, SC 56.
MARJA Officially MARGUERIDA KADARIN, daughter of Thyra Darriell by Lew Alton, foster-daughter of Robert Kadarin, born a few months after the Sharra Rebellion, after Lew had gone offworld. She "lisped" name as "Marguerhia" in SA 89 (98). Kadarin had forced Lew to impregnate Thyra under aphrosone, HH 343-44, as Kadarin had wanted a telepath son, SA 142 (159); but Lew retained virtually no memory of the event, SA 89 (98). The child was at first brought up by Kadarin and Thyra, but when Kadarin discovered that Thyra was extremely ambivalent (deeply resenting the circumstances of the conception), and had probably been mistreating the child, he removed her from her mother's custody and placed her in Spacemen's Orphanage, Thendara, where he visited her at every opportunity possible although he was in hiding from the authorities. She had been telepathically wakened by about age 5, and had the full Alton Gift.
For unclear reasons Marja was kept for a time in Ashara's Tower. Dyan Ardais appears to have been the first among Comyn to discover her existence, using her as a threat to force Lew to conform to the will of Comyn Council—otherwise Marja would have been placed under a Regent as a pliant puppet-heir to the Alton Domain. Later, the maddened Dyan attempted to use Marja to evoke Sharra, which sent the child into deep shock; but possibly only in shock could she have survived the destruction of the Sharra matrix, SA 158-60 (177-80).
Later she accompanied Lew and Diotima Ridenow into exile. She certainly returned to Darkover when Regis Hastur's "Project Telepath" began a Galaxy-wide search for people with psychic gifts, but this story has not yet been told.
MARJORIE SCOTT Called MARGUERIDA. Daughter of the hzli-chieri Felicia Darriell by Zeb Scott, Terran guard of Kermiac of Aldaran. Half-sister of Thyra, own sister of Rafael Scott (qq.v.); see the Alton and Aldaran Lineages. "Her eyes were a strange color, a tint I had never seen before, gold-flecked amber, like some unknown animal. Her hair was almost red enough for the valley Comyn," HH 171. Six-fingered, though this is not spelled out in HH. Cristoforo, HH 176, 297. Powerful telepath, but virtually untrained. In the circle formed by Lew at the insistence of Kadarin and Beltran, she became Keeper, HH 220-21, and functioned as such, despite Thyra's jealousy. After the dissolution of the circle she ran away with Lew and later married him according to mountain custom; however, both were brought back to Aldaran and forced to continue working the Sharra matrix, Lew while drugged on aphrosone, Marjorie out of fear for Lew's life. At this time she was pregnant with Lew's son but the child died unborn, HH 359, as a result of Kadarin's failure to have her properly monitored and cared for. In the final, successful attempt to bar Sharra from the planet, Marjorie was gravely injured, the fires of Sharra striking inward; Lew teleported her with himself to Arilinn Tower, but she died shortly afterward, despite Callina's efforts to save her life. Con-
sidering the extent of her injuries, this was probably merciful—cf. Elorie Ardais.
mark of Comyn Same as Sign of Comyn. A mark like a small brand or tattoo, imprinted by matrix just above right wrist, at a ceremony known as sealing to Comyn, at the time when one either swore allegiance to Comyn or had the oath taken by proxy (as a child).
The mark tended to whiten with age, HH 116.
markets Thendara's Public Market was across the Great Square from the entrance to the spaceport. The tourist section included just what one would expect—furs, pottery, polished knives and sheaths, trinkets, jewelry, fruits and sweets.
The Old Market, not generally frequented by tourists, was off the Great Square on a side street in the native section, outside Trade City, near the blacksmith's forge. Here one could find glazed pottery, knives of native type, many types of foods, native clothing (not worn by Terrans), boots, saddles and tack, resin candles, incense, native medicines, native liquors, groceries, fabrics, yarn, tools, pigments, musical instruments, and a variety of other things whose very existence would not have been guessed at by spaceport people, SD 22-24.
marl Species of fur-bearing animal in Hellers and/or nearby hills; presumably prey of banshees, like everything else there. The form of the name indicates an elided final vowel. No description.
Its fur was used for lining cloaks of Hellers workmanship, HH 226.
marriage Only in recent centuries standardized on Darkover, BS 130. The following forms were recognized:
1. di catenas (q.v.). Always arranged between families, requiring (among the Comyn) Council approval. Formal betrothal in public, generally presided over by a Domain lord, who affixed twin bracelets to each partner, some weeks before the actual wedding, which was religious. Divorce was all but impossible with this form of wedlock. Compare ancient Terran (Roman) confarreatio and medieval Church-solemnized unions.
2.  freemate (q.v.). In most areas, made legal by public exchange of vows, FT 61 ff, where a ceremony is described. (But see below.) Dissolution by mutual consent.
3.  freemate, mountain custom, also known as "bed, meal and fireside." In Hellers and Kilghard Hills, made legal by each party to it acknowledging to witnesses that they had shared a bed, a meal, and a hearthfire. Dissolution by mutual consent, HH 319.
Either of the types of freemate marriage could be legally dissolved if proved unconsummated, FT 113, 332, 339.
The ease of dissolution of freemate marriages led Lady Rohana to characterize them as little better than outright whoredom, SC 268-69.
Lew Alton's marriage to Marjorie was freemate, mountain custom, though Lew had intended once they returned to the Domains to have it solemnized di catenas to insure her recognition as his lawful consort and their son as Domain heir.
Free Amazons could only marry as freemate, SC 5; they sometimes married each other that way, WW 97 (108). See freemate.
4.  barragana (q.v.). Either "concubinage" or "morganatic union," excluding offspring from inheritance. Kennard Alton's marriage to Elaine Aldaran-Montray was taken by him as equivalent to di catenas, but Comyn Council regarded Elaine only as a barragana and their sons automatically as bastards.
5.  by capture (Dry Towns). Women were automatically property of men either by arrangement or by capture. Jalak of Shainsa took Melora as one of his wives by capture. Not enough is recorded of Dry Towns' customs to differentiate by a woman's appearance whether her owner got her by arrangement or by capture, not that it seems to have made much difference. No details on Dry Towns' arranged marriages.
The late appearance of monogamous marriages is possibly from the cristoforo or TE influence; its earlier rarity is adumbrated in New Hebrides Commune practice, which excluded formal marriage but required that individuals be paired for admission. It was even in recent centuries considered genetically unsuitable for a woman to have more than two children by the same man, FT 207. Polygamous informal agreements ("Nests") were formerly known but no details are available; it is likely that the peculiar gestalt built up in a Tower circle amounted to this, FT 325-27, 341-51. Customs are compared, FT 207-08. In all forms of marriage, among worshipers of the Lord of Light, custom dictated that during advanced pregnancy a husband was expected to take another woman to bed to spare his wife. The cristoforos were probably the only exception.
The basis for this is in the "Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda," below, p. 142, where Camilla takes the place of her breda Cassilda in Hastur's arms when Cassilda is about to bear the son of Hastur. Consenting plural bed-mates were said to love as Camilla and Cassilda, FT 155-56, 208. Always a spouse's close friend (breda or bredu) is preferred, FT 208, 238-39, 266. See knives.
Marshall TE family prominent on Samarra. Haig Marshall (q.v.) was TE Legate, SA 116, (129), 161 (181), and his daughter Kathie (q.v.), Linnell Aillard's "true twin," was teleported to Darkover, serving in the otherwise impossible plan of recovering the Sword of Aldones from the rhu fead at Hali, SA 127-80 (141-44). She was later teleported back to Samarra during the final Aldones/Sharra battle, SA 152 (170), 161 (181).
MartOil Male given name in the Domains. The name is casta and appears to be derivable from Terran (Spanish), but which of several candidate roots is uncertain; the -on ending certainly indicates great size, but the mart- root may come from words meaning "iron," "fur-bearer" (cf. Terran [English] "marten"), a type of bird (the swift), or one of the English months. Two individuals of this name are recorded: see following entries.
MARTON Danvan Hastur's old valet, HH 189.
MARTON Boy, born about 9 years before the Sharra Rebellion; matrix worker at Arilinn Tower, then about 17 or 18 years old. He notified Regis Hastur of Keral's arrival, WW 50 (52-53).
Maruca Female given name in the Domains. The name is casta and untranslated; at one time conjectured to derive
from Terran (Spanish) marrueca, "woman from Morocco," it has been claimed as a diminutive of Maria, a name which may well have come to Darkover with the DL colonists. See two following entries.
Maruca Nurse at Spacemen's Orphanage, Thendara, BS 37, while "Jeff Kerwin Jr." was there; when he was 9 years old he had a crush on her. She sang in a contralto voice.
Maruca Woman in telepath relays at Arilinn, "noisiest telepath on Darkover," SA 84 (91).
matrix Any crystal which responds to human mental activity. Matrix crystals are found in remote caves in the mountains; location of these caves was later kept secret by Comyn so that outsiders could not get their hands on the crystals (in accordance with Comyn law). They were discovered by the chieri thousands of years before DL, SS 92-93, and used by children for developing their own powers, DL 101; adults no longer needed them. Judith Lovat's chieri lover gave her one, DL 60, 91, 101, 151 ; Rafe MacAran discovered one of the cave sources, DL 159.
They are normally blue. Proximity to an owner with even slight laran (q.v.) kindles an internal light, generally described as ribbonlike in form though shifting and pulsing; the stronger the laran, the brighter the light. A matrix crystal has to be keyed in, i.e. its owner's brain and the crystal's inner light (pulsations in a number of different cycles) have to be mutually adjusted to resonate. This process itself brightens the inner light and reinforces the particular types of brain-waves whose combined frequencies are associated with laran. See keying-in. A keyed-in matrix, then, functions as a mini-biofeedback device; it feels warm even through insulating silk, SS 97.
In general, once a matrix crystal is keyed-in to a particular owner (and vice versa), owner and crystal cannot thereafter be separated without agony, HH 307-08, FT 146, 149, 313. (An apparent exception, testimony to the strength of the Alton Gift, was Kennard's use of his own matrix crystal to destroy Cyrillon's at long range, in full knowledge that such use would destroy his own, SD 113-15.) In fact, physically touching someone else's keyed-in matrix crystal would produce much immediate suffering, unless the toucher used a Keeper's training to avoid inflicting this suffering, HH 329, SS 94-95.
Keyed matrixes are all supposedly monitored and permanently observable in relay screens in Towers, FT 106,308.
The theory has been advanced that at least some matrix crystals may be an alien symbiotic life-form (cf. HH 245, FT 150, 342) dying when their owners died, SS 94, 152, FT 308, turning gray and crumbling. They must be treated as though alive, SS 97.
A matrix crystal removed from its owner can be kept alive by being modified by a Keeper—but this will register on any monitor screen, FT 308-09.
Matrix crystals were formerly synthesized; this must have been the method for making the enormous matrix screens in use in some Towers, e.g. Arilinn monitor screens, and that in Comyn Castle Tower used for tele-porting Linnell Aillard's duplicate from Samarra, many
light years away. Theoretically, any matrix technician (q.v., as distinct from a matrix mechanic) can synthesize a small matrix crystal; in practice, natural ones are used instead.
The very smallest ones are usable as jewelry (these are the only ones ever seen by Terrans, BS 34), or for fastening buttons, SS 82. Slightly larger ones are usable as toys, or for matrix locks (q.v.). Personal matrix crystals, worn round the neck of any possessor of laran so certified by a Keeper, are still larger, perhaps acorn size. A Keeper might occasionally use a larger one for healing or for complex operations with a Circle as teleportation or mining. Damon Ridenow set one in Dom Esteban's sword hilt, SS 129, for very long range rapport using the Alton Gift; its size was not mentioned.
The very largest ones (generally level 7 to 10) were most often seen mounted in sword hilts. The Sharra Matrix (q.v.) was "the size of a child's fist"; that in the Sword of Aldones is still larger and may have been synthetic, created as a counterforce to Sharra. Most of the other giant crystals were long since destroyed.
Matrix crystals are rated numerically by level from 1 to 10 and possibly formerly higher, the giant screens apparently excepted. In general, a matrix crystal rated 4 or below could be effectively used by one person; one of level 5 to 8 would normally be used only by a complete Tower Circle, and the higher the level, the more persons needed. The Sharra Matrix, which Lew Alton rated as at least 9th level and possibly higher, required about 100 or more individuals to feed emotional intensity into it via the Keeper who either held it or remained in link with the holder, WD 131-35, 175-79, HH 210, 360; in SA it was said to require three for even minor usage. The Sword of Aldones was said in SA to require three, of which one must be a Hastur with the full Gift, one an Alton with the full Gift, and the third a buffer between them (a Keeper?); this is confusing and unintelligible as it stands. Possibly that particular combination was the minimum required for the legendary operation of rechaining Sharra.
During the years after the Sharra Rebellion, the larger matrix crystals were neither synthesized nor traded in, as even in the Towers few knew how to wield them safely, WW 65 (70).
When not in actual use, a matrix crystal should be kept insulated. This is to prevent accidental keying-in of an unkeyed matrix, or to prevent causing suffering to the owner of a keyed one. A personal matrix is usually kept wrapped in "silk" (presumably some native fabric analogous to the Terran import) within a small leather bag suspended round the neck by a thong. Larger ones in sword hilts are normally wrapped in silk and an ornamental casing fastened over the silk; on some of these the casing is ornate and richly bejeweled. Lew Alton characterized the casing for the Sharra matrix (of forge-folk work) as valuable enough to buy the Terran Zone, HH 218-19, SA 40-41 (42). Thyra Darriell kept her matrix uninsulated in a copper locket, a practice Lew Alton considered criminally dangerous.
A common alternative name is starstone. matrix healing   Performed  by  directing  the  operator's

consciousness into the affected tissues or individual cells and individually doing whatever is necessary—removal of toxins, anastomosis, mobilization of the necessary types of cells (e.g. phagocytes, platelets, hormone-secretory cells, etc.), or any sort of repair that could be done by microsurgical techniques. In general, this requires someone who can at least do certain tasks normally done by a Keeper, plus another to monitor operator and patient, and usually at least one other in rapport. Detailed description of the technique is given, SS 89, SC 205f, FT 91-94. Though the technique is far beyond normal TE medical and surgical capabilities, it is not omnipotent; for example, it does not enable repair of a severed spinal column, SS 108.
matrix lock Any lock held shut by a matrix crystal; open-able only by visualizing the "psychokinetic pattern," by attuning one's mind to the crystal, assuming one has enough laran to do so, SA 16 (14), BS 46ff, FT 150.
The front door of the Alton town house in Old Then-dara had one of these; Kennard opened it with a "curious gesture," SD 34. The secret passage out of Comyn Castle from the Alton suite, SA 125 (140-41), was locked with a 4th level matrix lock, which a Keeper—even one unfamiliar with the pattern—could work.
Opening a matrix lock is easy if one has laran and knows the pattern, or has the unique brain-waves to which the crystal was attuned, otherwise impossible; it would otherwise be simpler to break the door open. For safekeeping of more important kinds, it is simpler to use either a "magic electrical net" (q.v.) or a barrier trap-matrix of the Veil (q.v.) type. matrix mechanic Licensed worker with matrix crystals, HH 32, of higher rank than a monitor but lower rank than a technician or Keeper. A matrix mechanic need not have any important amount of laran, HH 205, but generally a certain amount is what attracts a person to this type of work. Training is normally done at one of the Towers, HH 29-30. Prior to the Forbidden Tower scandal, matrix work could legally be done only in a Tower, FT 97-98, 146, 318, 322; Damon's work effectively ended this constraint.
Comparatively few have chosen since then to work outside Towers. In "Jeff Kerwin Jr.'s" time, there were at least three licensed mechanics in Thendara Trade City, BS 46. By the time of the Sharra Rebellion there were even a few working in other TE planets, HH 40. Some six years later, Lew Alton had to pick up his own license/ certification (were these different documents?) at the TE Legation, SA 24 (22), possibly because the TE Legate had obtained the certificate to make an excuse to talk to Lew. A few years later, by the time of the World-wreckers' operation and Project Telepath, mechanics outside the Towers numbered only a few dozen.
The reason for licensing and bonding matrix mechanics was spelled out by Ragan to "Jeff Kerwin Jr.": without such precautions, they could easily take part in criminal activity difficult to detect or prosecute successfully. Both TE and native (Comyn?) authorities do the necessary investigation, supervision, and licensing, BS 46-47. matrix mechanics One of the "non-causative" sciences, BS 71. Basically, collective techniques for inducing hu-
man minds (amplified by matrix crystals) to produce major psi activity for various purposes, from healing to mining to operating aircraft. In HH 203-09, 238-41, Lew Alton gave a good account of its elements.
TE authorities had been trying for four generations to learn something of this science, BS 72, against Comyn opposition, HH 41.
matrix screens Large screens of linked matrix crystals, apparently synthetic, found in certain Towers, joined by "blank nodes," FT 216. One at Arilinn was constantly in use monitoring matrix crystals all over the planet. One at Comyn Castle Tower was used for teleportation of heavy objects or people. Another at Arilinn was used for mining operations. They could tap the energy of the planetary core, BS 82. They produced a humming sound, SS 147-48. A smaller one was found in possession of one of the licensed mechanics (technicians?) in Thendara, BS 49; this was evidently in use for, among other things, local monitoring of matrix crystals.
They were classified as relay screens (originally for teleporting personnel between towers) and monitor screens, (q.v.), FT 306-07.
There has formerly been many of these used as weapons above 9th level, but almost all were destroyed during or shortly after the Ages of Chaos, WW 116-17 (150), many by Varzil, FT 97-98.
matrix technician Licensed worker with matrix crystals, of higher rank than a psi monitor or a matrix mechanic, but of lower rank than a Keeper. A matrix technician should have laran and enough knowledge of the theory and practice of matrix mechanics that (s)he can do anything that a mechanic can do, synthesize a small matrix, or perform any function in a Tower circle, including certain operations normally done by Keepers. Presumably one can test a young person for laran and possession of any of the Gifts, though this is normally done and certified to by a Keeper.
Details of certification are much the same as with a matrix mechanic (q.v.).
matrix technology Use of matrixes by trained minds, mostly in Tower circles, to accomplish a variety of large-scale effects including, but not limited to, those achieved elsewhere by Terran technology. It was at its height in the Ages of Chaos. After Keepers were no longer trained in the ancient manner, many former achievements became impossible or were forgotten, largely because the gigantic amounts of energy required could not be handled through a Keeper who was not trained in the ancient manner. Even by the time of the Sharra Rebellion, technicians were no longer able to power aircraft as they had done when Kennard Alton was young.
Long ago TE agents plotted to discover its secrets, HH 41, but inveterate skepticism about psi prevented effective use of matrix crystals.
Mattingly Worker in TE Mapping & Exploration, who accompanied Andrew Carr into the Hellers, but died in the plane crash which Andrew survived; Andrew took his fur overcoat, SS 7.
mattresses These doubtless varied according to locality, but a common type was stuffed with resin-needles, i.e. leaves  from  some local  species of resinous evergreen
trees, WD 78 (100).
MAURIS Old servant of Dom Felix Syrtis at the Syrtis estate, half blind, HH 155; witnessed Danilo's kidnapping, HH 225
M & E  Mapping and Exploring (q.v.), WD 11 (9).
mea Mine, my own (casta, feminine, singular); follows the name it characterizes, e.g. "Marja mea," SA 123 (136).
mechanic's circle One without a Keeper. Dalereuth Tower temporarily worked one, FT 229; Leonie called the Forbidden Tower group by this term (denying Damon his Keepership), FT 322, only to acknowledge him as Keeper after her defeat, FT 359-60.
Medic  Terran Expeditionary Medical Service, DL 9.
medical school exchange program TE HQ, Thendara, had such a program for at least twenty years before the Sharra Rebellion and probably longer, though we have no details, SD 19. Presumably it enabled natives to learn TE medical practice.
Medical Residence Corridor Bachelor officers' quarters for M.D.s and paramedics in TE HQ, Trade City, probably in either the TEMS building or one nearby. Jay/ Jason Allison lived there in suite 1214, PS 20 (18).
Medical Service Properly TEMS = TE Medical Services. An important division of TE planetwide services. Personnel used the caduceus emblem (q.v.) long after its original meaning had been forgotten. Local headquarters during and before the Sharra Rebellion were on Floor 8, Civilian HQ, Trade City, Thendara, SA 5.
Project Jason was one of its brainchildren, PS passim. Project Telepath was intimately connected with it, partly because Dr. Jason Allison (qq.v.) was its coordinator.
It operated a medical school exchange program (q.v.), partly so that Darkovans and some offworlders could learn TE medical practice, though so far as Darkovans were concerned this was a one-sided bargain, as the Ter-rans were not learning anything of matrix healing. (They may, however, have learned a good deal about native herbs, as they certainly learned much about native parasites and pathogens.)
Megaera TE planet. Its parent sun is red, its sky purple; it is notable for stenches, electrical storms, and albino humanoid female natives cloistered behind high walls, PS 35 (34), BS 7. "Jeff Kerwin Jr." served there, BS 38. The name was ancient Terran (Greek), originally a name for one of the Three Furies; most probably it was named for its storms. It is not known if the other Furies (Alekto and Tisiphone) had planets named after them.
MZB's story "Centaurus Changeling," The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (February, 1954), took place on this planet.
Meli Diminutive of female given name Melitta, WD 21 (24).
Melisande (Four syllables, accent on first and third) A black mare, given by Kennard Alton to Regis Hastur before Regis went to Aldaran, HH 155. Regis traded her for a mountain pony enroute to Aldaran, HH 264. Meli-means "honey."
Melissa Female given name, ultimately from Terran (Greek)  =  "honeybee," there variant of Melitta (q.v.);
probably pronounced differently in cahuenga or casta from the Terran original. See next entry. "MELISSA GENTRY" Commonly called "Missy," name adopted by a chieri, daughter of "Andrea Closson" (q.v.), WW 58ff (62ff), 184 (210). Slight, sullen, sensual looking, appeared to be about 14 years of age, chronic liar; telepathically broadcast sexual invitations, WW 72 (78-79), thus often incorrectly taken for a nymphomaniac or a common prostitute. Falsely claimed to have been born on Vainwal VI, WW 72 (78), or on Lanach, WW 92 (102).
She weighed 99 Terran pounds = 45 standard kilograms; blood pressure 70/48, pulse 131, destrocardiac, no appendix, 22 teeth + 4 unerupted, EEG similar to that of Keral, hence identified as a chieri, WW 72-73 (78-79). Poltergeist factor, WW 94, (103-04), 121 (138-39), most marked during Madness of the Change (q.v.), after proximity to Keral shifted her to male phase after uncounted centuries in female.
Conner (q.v.) became her lover. Melitta Female given name in the Hellers; casta, originally Terran (Greek) = "honeybee," variant of Melissa. See following entry. MELITTA STORN Daughter of a previous Lord Storn of Storn; sister of Loran-Rakhal Storn of Storn, of Allira, and of Edric (qq.v), WD 16 (15). Her grandmother's people were Leyniers, related to the Altons, WD 36 (44). Born (presumably) at High Windward, certainly brought up there; learned to ride a stag-pony. Defiant, courageous. Red-headed, with laran like the other Storns. Heroine of WD. Melora Female given name (casta, cahuenga?), probably from a Terran (Spanish) root melo- meaning "honey," + casta feminine suffix -am. Three women of this name are recorded; see following entries. MELORA Family name not recorded, but probably minor nobility; with laran but no marked empathy nor Gift. She had a brief affair with Regis Hastur, possibly because of Regis's enormous prestige; she consented to bear his child. After assassins began trying to exterminate Comyn heirs and specifically to kill Regis and all his children, he sent her for safekeeping to a TZ hospital to bear the child, WW 32 (33), over her family's objections; neither she nor they would listen to his reasons. When Regis visited her in the hospital, she would not even speak to him, other than saying coldly that she and her family were obedient to the will of Hastur.
Worse still, she refused to send for Regis when her labor began, defying telepath custom that the husband remain in rapport with the wife, experiencing her labor together, WW 102 (113).
The infant was a boy, weight about 2.7 standard kilograms (6 ancient Terran pounds); Dr. Marion Shields supervised the delivery.
When Regis visited her afterwards, she snubbed him; the tension was broken by Keral, who asked to handle the infant. Instead of naming him herself, she consented to have Regis name him, but the name is not recorded.
That same night, an assassin got into that wing of the hospital, drugged Nurse Conniston, drugged Melora, and
attempted to kill the baby, but Keral picked up his distress telepathically and rescued him, killing the assassin, WW 106-07 (118-19).
Presumably Melora learned what Regis had been trying to prevent by having her delivered in the TZ hospital, but by then it was too late for a permanent reconciliation, as Melora and Regis had the memory of what is possibly the ultimate snub among telepaths; and by now Linnea (q.v.) had shown up.
MELORA AILLARD Cousin of Rohana Aillard-Ardais, SC 18, trained to be a leronis at Dalereuth Tower, SC 18-58, reared as foster-sister of Rohana's half-brother Valentine. Kidnapped by Jalak of Shainsa, SC 12, she attempted suicide by wrist-slashing, SC 49, only to be chained up day and night; by the time her wounds healed, her daughter Jaelle had quickened within her. Twelve years later, she was again pregnant, this time with a son, and she knew that Jaelle would shortly be chained according to Dry Towns custom; wherefore she reached Rohana's mind, pleading for another attempt at rescue (after previous ones had resulted only in rescuers' death, including Valentine's). Rohana hired a group of Free Amazons from Thendara Guild House under leadership of Kindra n'ha Mhari (q.v.), who managed to rescue Melora and Jaelle, but Melora died enroute to Carthon in giving birth to Valentine Aillard. The story forms part 1 of SC.
Melora Castamir The nedestra daughter of Kyril-Valen-tine Ardais, by a Castamir woman; half-sister of Dyan Ardais; wife of Dom Felix Syrtis of Syrtis and mother of Danilo Syrtis; died some years before the Sharra Rebellion. She must have had laran and carried the Ardais Gift of catalyst telepathy, as Danilo inherited it from her, HH 373.
MENELLA n 'ha------- Free Amazon, from Naderling Forest somewhere between the Kilghard Hills and the Hellers. Dark hair. Younger freemate of Darilyn (q.v.), WW 97 (108). Childhood friend of Linnea at High Windward. Hired by "Andrea Closson," WW 73ff (80ff). When "Andrea" planted the sterility virus, Menella and Darilyn informed Linnea, having first cut off a piece of Andrea's clothing for psychometry, WW 99 (110).
men-of-the-tree-roads Chieri term for trailmen.
MERACH Male Dry Towner, lived in Shainsa; idler, SC 13.
MEREDITH, LAURENS Assistant TE legate under Don-nell Ramsay, shortly before the Sharra Rebellion, HH 85.
messire Terran Standard translation of a title or form of address, (mestru?) male, of lower rank than dom- male counterpart of mestra, SC 190. One would not say this to a Comyn lord nor to his child (see kihu), nor to any other nobleman, unless deliberately and rashly wishing to give insult.
In derogatory mode and inflection it is an insult, as when Peter Haldane used it on Rumal di Scarp, SC 190. Obsolete by the time of Project Telepath, WW 57 (61).
mestra (casta, cahuenga) Title or form of address, female, of lower rank than domna; compare preceding entry, FT 268, SC 20, 71, 147, 189, 216, 280. Terran Standard has no precise equivalent; "lady" could equally well translate both mestra and domna without hinting at the difference
in rank. One would not say mestra to a comynara nor to a leronis; one would not say domna to the village midwife, the guildmother of the local Amazon Guild House, or even the mother of one's bredu, unless any of these people had enough nobility of family or achievement to merit it (see also kiha). Cf. Terr. (Sp.) maestra "mistress."
Obsolete by the time of Project Telepath, WW 57 (61).
Mesyr Female given name, possibly related to Terran (Spanish) mesura, meaning approximately civility, politeness, gravity of demeanor, seriousness of countenance, etc. Names of this type were long common on Terra, e.g., Prudence, Modesty, Charity, Chastity.
MESYR RIDENOW Mother of Corus Ridenow, BS 77, remote cousin of Cleindori Aillard and therefore of "Jeff Kerwin Jr." At the time of BS she was too old to take part in Tower activities, though she still lived at Arilinn Tower.
metals Early surveys of the planet indicated that it is abnormally low in iron, copper, and Group VIII metals generally. However, gold, silver, and the low density metals are less rare, DL 118. Aluminium certainly occurs in the crust but extractive methods would have required Terran technology.
Lew Alton believed that the whole planet had not enough of the right ones to construct even one of the Big Ships, HH 179. This is probably an exaggeration. However, as the chieri previously had a technology enabling space travel, it is equally likely that the supplies of crucial metals were long since exhausted!
Mhari Female given name, common in the Hellers. Directly from Terran (Gaelic) via the New Hebrides Commune. In Terran it would have been pronounced vari, almost rhyming with sari (the Indian garment); but in casta and Hellers dailect the mh- combination later reverted to an M sound. Three women of this name are recorded; see following entries.
Mhari   Daughter of Camilla del Rey, DL 159-60.
Mhari   Mother of the Free Amazon Kindra (q.v.).
MHARI Herdwoman on Aldaran lands in the Hellers; old friend to Marjorie Scott, HH 314ff.
tnic  See nikhya mic.
microcard Microphotographic copy of a book or document, readable with a viewer; common in TE HQ, PS 21-22 (20).
Midsummer Festival  See Festivals.
Midwinter Festival See Festivals.
Mikhail (stress almost equal on first and second syllables) 1. One of the three archangels in cristoforo myth, the others being Rafael and Gabriel. 2. Common male given name in the Domains, cognate with the Terran names Miguel, Michel, Michael, Michele, etc.; the original form on Darkover was the Gaelic Mhicheil, via the New Hebrides Commune.
MIKHAIL LANART-HASTUR Third son of Javanne Hastur and Gabriel Lanart, full name Mikhail-Regis Lanart-Hastur, born four years and some tendays before the Sharra Rebellion. Silvery hair. Regis Hastur designated him his nedestro heir shortly before the Sharra Rebel-
lion, and renamed him Danilo Lanart Hastur; he was thereafter raised as a Hastur and sealed to Comyn but fostered with his natural parents, HH 253-55, 375. Even in adult life he was, however, still generally known as one of the three Lanart angels (q.v.). Mikhail A nedestro cousin of Gabriel Ardais; married to Dorian Lanart (q.v.); friend and briefly bedpartner of Ellemir (when she was 15 years old), when Dorian was nearing the end of pregnancy, FT 42, 346.
milk Obtained either from Terran cattle imported long since, or from various native species, e.g. pack-animals. Commonly drunk hot and spiced, HH 40.
MlLLEA n 'ha CAMILLA (accent second syllable) Free Amazon, Guild-mother to Thendara Guild House during the regency of Lorill Hastur. Tall, bulky, imposing. Jaelle brought her to the historic confrontation with Lorill Hastur, SC 280.
The name may have been originally a dialect form of Camilla.
millicred, millicredit Common TE solecism for kilo-credit = 1,000 TE standard credits, WD 10 (9), WW 8-9 (5). Literally, a millicred(it) would be 0.001 credit.
minerals Early exploration of the planet located deposits of calcite, graphite and quartzite, DL 135; translucent stone later used for walls, DL 124; flint, DL 60, which the Trailmen had long used for making knives; talc, DL 135; fuller's earth, DL 136. In this list might also be included matrix crystals, DL 159, and q.v. Other minerals were discovered later, including platinum, gold and silver, but good sources of copper, iron or nickel were very rare or absent.
mining operations The Pan-Darkovan Syndicate (q.v.), got an estimate from the Terrans for mining certain metals and metalloids (tin, copper, silver, iron, aluminum, wolfram, zinc, lead, antimony, sulfur, etc.), which required 6 TE standard months =180 TE days = 155 Darkovan days. The Arilinn Tower Circle offered, in order to keep out the Terran (strip-mining?) operation, to meet the same quota in not over 6 TE weeks = 42 Terran days = 36 Darkovan days, and without violating the Compact, BS 116, 120. They succeeded, despite espionage and attempted sabotage.
minions Catamites. Jalak of Shainsa bought one, about 12 years old, named Garris (q.v.), from an Ardcarran brothel, where his parents had sold him. The boy was curled, perfumed and jewelled, SC 29; he was not even covered by the Dry Towns laws which protected chained women. When Kindra's band of Free Amazons hamstrung Jalak, Garris ran away with his master's sword, presumably to a new life outside the Dry Towns, SC 42.
Mirella Female given name (casta); in mountain dialect the equivalent is Marelie (q.v.), HH 278-79. It means "little wonder," apparently from the Terran (Sp.) verb mirar "to look at, to respect," often connoting "to wonder at," plus a diminutive feminine ending. See following entry.
MIRELLA HASTUR Daughter of one of the Hastur Kings, comynara of highest rank; called "a princess" by Leonie Hastur, SS 96; Keeper at Arilinn Tower either shortly be-
fore or not long after the end of the Ages of Chaos. During one of the wars she was kidnapped by invaders from the Kilghard Hills, raped (in the belief that this would abolish her powers—they must have either drugged her or knocked her unconscious for the purpose) and flung outside the city gates. She nevertheless managed to return to her Tower, there being then no other Keeper surviving at Arilinn, concealed what had been done to her, went to the screens and battled for hours. But after the battle was over and all the invaders dead or dying, she came down from the matrix screens and fell dead at the spot, spent like a burnt torch, her matrix blackened, her hands and body scorched.
A memorial to her was erected at Arilinn; she was honored in a yearly commemorative service, HH 278, on Festival Night. Damon Ridenow in Timesearch saw the monument being built, FT 249—almost 300 years before his own birth.
Leonie Hastur said that her grandmother had seen her, which indicates one of the following possibilities: 1. the Ages of Chaos ended more recently than people liked to think (though time elements are not as clear as Terrans would like, there being no consistent reckoning from a fixed year), 2. Leonie's grandmother was exceptionally long-lived even for a Hastur, 3. that in fact it was Leonie's several times great-grandmother, or 4. that the war was one of the various eruptions of the Domains' long-smoldering war with the Dry Towns.
"MISSY"   SeeMELISSA.
mist  See Darkening Lands, SS 134.
mittens Alternative to gloves. Rafe Scott wore them at age 12, HH 246. Jaelle wore a pair with a blue bird pattern knitted into them during the crossing of Scaravel enroute to Sain Scarp, SC 183.
MOD   Abbreviation of Missing On Duty, SC 106.
modes 1. Linguistic. Every noun, verb, adjective, phrase, or epithet, in casta was normally spoken (according to context) in one or another of the four modes: derogatory, impersonal, respectful, or intimate, SC 113, 160, 163, and simultaneously with one of the three inflections: impersonal, personal, or intimate. According to the twelve possible combinations so formed, connotations would change with a flexibility difficult to achieve in Terran Standard; denotations in some instances would also change, though less obviously. Whatever the inflection, use of the derogatory mode would change a neutral term into an insult: personal to a stranger, intimate to a family member. See inflection.
An obvious and ancient example of the derogatory mode in Terran tongues is the Italian suffix -accio which functions in no other way; and it is well known that the second person singular form of many verbs placed the statement or question of which they formed part into the intimate mode.
2. Musical. Many of the ancient ballads were sung to melodies written not in the common major or minor scales found throughout TE, but in either the archaic Terran diatonic modes or any of the five common (and even more archaic) pentatonic scales. There are six common diatonic modes (corresponding to white-key piano scales using C, D, E, F, G or A respectively as tonics),
and over twenty rarer ones. In this sense, a diatonic mode has seven tones plus the octave, and the interval between neighboring tones is either a halfstep or a whole step, never any greater gap. Examples of all the common modes and some of the rarer ones are found in Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, Songs of the Hebrides, 3 vols., London, Boosey & Hawkes, 1909 and later XX Century editions, which collection preserves many of the very songs learned in the British Isles by members of the XXI Century New Hebrides Commune and quoted in DL; see music, and Appendix, p. 150. The ballad "The Outlaw," below, p. 145, is not from that source, but ultimately of Terran (Scandinavian) origin; its progenitors have been traced back approximately 1,000 years prior to the Hebrides collection. It is in either Dorian or Aeolian mode, undeterminable because the 6th scale degree is missing (which degree is the only difference between these two modes). Gapped scales of this kind are nearly as ancient as the pentatonic scales, and may have derived from the latter; pentatonic scales are most often formed from the tones, C, D, E, G and A, taking any one of these as tonic, but sometimes it is uncertain in a given song which of the five scale degrees was intended as tonic. The four-tone scales used by the forge-folk may have derived from one of the pentatonic scales. monitor 1. Lowest rank of psi worker in a Tower, below mechanic, technician or Keeper.
2.   In a matrix circle, the function of whoever is assigned to supervise bodily functions of other psi workers while they are working at the screens or undertaking complex matrix or out-of-body psi operations, SC 205ff. Beltran served this function in HH 238, 240. Any child could be taught the procedure if (s)he possessed at least minimal laran. Damon had Ellemir perform this function, SS 48, 56; Desiderio, FT 88-89, 94; Andrew, FT 1 71; Callista, FT 245-253.
3. As a verb: to perform the function described in 2.
4.   Especially at Arilinn, to follow the location and use of a matrix anywhere on the planet; see following entry.
At Arilinn, monitors wore white robes, HH 364. monitor screen A bank or computer-style panel on which every active matrix working on Darkover is shown, SS 92, SA 49-50 (52-53). There are such screens in Arilinn and other towers, and replicas were in use among licensed matrix technicians in Thendara, BS 49, where one is shown as a "wavy glass plate." A leronis said that one belonging to Cleindori was "not on the main banks." The purpose was to ascertain ownership, mode of use, and location of any matrix which was being misused, e.g. one captured by bandits. An unmonitored matrix, e.g. Sharra or the Great Cat's, represented an immediate danger, quite aside from the violation of Comyn law which permitted only Tower-trained people to work with matrixes. Normally the only such unmonitored matrixes were weapons left over from the Ages of Chaos. Images could be projected onto a monitor screen by anyone in the vicinity with enough laran.
monks Permanent celibate residents of Nevarsin (q.v.) Monastery; main representatives of the cristoforo (q.v.) cult, and its principal means of transmission during the
several thousand years of Darkovan history. They spoke casta, HH 95; they were literate, and they preserved documents of many kinds from the most ancient times, in an archive accessible to scholars, SC. They took vows of celibacy, and apparently also of nonviolence, poverty and obedience. They operated a school for boys on the monastery grounds, where many Comyn sons and other nobility were educated; this was apparently an important source of income.
The status of monk appears to have been an honorable alternative for sandal-wearers (q.v.).
monogamy The Terran style of marriage, more recent on Darkover than the other forms, and not really accepted, BS 130. Its earlier rarity was adumbrated by the New Hebrides Commune. (Polygamy was good from the viewpoint of the gene pool, as testified to in FT 207 and even recognized as early as DL 111-13, 119, 133.)
Its nonacceptance, of course, was due to its exclusion of the ancient custom (deified in the "Ballad cf Hastur and Cassilda," p. 142) whereby a husband was expected to take another woman to bed during his wife's last few months of pregnancy, to spare her; moreover, it prevented the sexual sharing common in Towers. See marriage.
Montray Terran family name; several members of this family figure importantly in Darkovan history. See the Aldaran and Alton Lineages, pp. 158ff, and separate entries ELAINE, LARRY, RUSS, and WADE.
moons The four are named Idriel (mauve), Liriel (peacock blue, its period four tendays = the female menstrual cycle on Darkover), Kyrrdis (blue-green shimmer), and Mormallor (pearly white, the smallest), DL 48-49, 90, SD 10. They are small but close enough to the planet to cause tides in lakes, bays, inlets, and at least some rivers, PS 77.
Fourfold close conjunctions are rare, clusters of them occurring every 48 years (a period called a cuere by the chieri), approximately coinciding with the periodic outbreaks of Trailmen's fever (q.v.), alias 48-year fever.
Fourfold loose or approximate conjunctions have long been usual on (Midsummer) Festival Night, accounting for the proverb that "nobody remembers next day what was done under the four moons," SA 102 (112).
Moore, Dr. Epidemiologist in TEMS. Dr. Jay Allison quoted him on the alleged connexion of the 48-year lunar conjunction cycle and the epidemics of Trailmen's fever, PS 10 (6).
MORAY XXI Century Terran, official representative of Earth Expeditionary, DL 14; in charge of colonists. Ecologist, experienced at designing cultures according to planetary resources which differed from one world to the next. (His first such assignment had been to design a highly technical civilization based on maximum use of electric power, on an unnamed planet—possibly either Alpha or Coronis—to which he had hoped to retire, DL 118.) He took the duties of coordinator of survival skills, DL 107, and designed a culture which would disturb the fragile ecology as little as possible, largely by banning the more disruptive elements of Terran technology. He was opposed to the New Hebrides commune, DL86.
Short,  heavyset,  authoritarian. Played bagpipes. His
name indicates an origin in the Scottish Highlands.
During the second Ghost Wind he listened to plants growing, DL 93. Captain Leicester accused him falsely of erasing the computer tapes, but relented when Moray proved to have too little knowledge of the computer to have done so. Mormallor 1. Smallest of the four moons, pearly white in color; its orbital period was about 90 days. The name is from Terran (Sp.) marmol or marmoreo meaning "marble," SD 10, WD 36 (43).
2. An island in the Bay of Dreams (q.v.), WW 152 (172).
Mother of Seveners   Cassilda the Blessed, FT 284.
Mountains of Light  Translated chieri name for an unidentified mountain range, WW 12 (9). Cf. the quotation: "Mountains divide us, and a world of seas, And we in dreams behold the Hebrides."
Sir Walter Scott, "Canadian Boat Song," quoted by Dr. David Hamilton to Keral, WW 87 (96).
mountain women Notably less shy than lowland or valley women; bold enough even to look a stranger in the eye, SC 100.
mud-rabbit Unidentified native mammal, in the proverb "The rain can only drown the mud-rabbit if he hasn't the wits to keep his mouth shut," BS 22.
mule Any offspring of animals of two distinct species. That referred to in SD 108 is notable for its stupidity; its parents were unspecified but are conjectured to be two species of draft-animals or pack-animals.
At least one type of mule was commonly in use as a riding animal.
mushrooms Various types of edible fungoids; a foodstuff of importance in the Domains. Some were cultivated on trees, HH 316-17 (possibly a custom learned from observing the Trailmen's practice); others were cultivated in Corresanti caves, and a variety of other locales. They were fewer in the mountains than at lower altitudes, SD 140.
music Many of the most ancient folktunes and folkdance melodies on Darkover have been traced by TE musicologists to the Terran British or "Brictish" Isles, HH 175, where they had long since become extinct. It is now known that they were brought to Darkover by the New Hebrides Commune. Other melodies were composed in those same modes (q.v.), rhythms, and forms. A number of the ancient Hebridean prototypes are quoted in DL; for the authentic tunes to these, see the XX Century Terran classic compilation by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser,
Songs   of  the Hebrides,   3   vols.,   London,  Boosey  & Hawkes, 1909, later editions.
Among the commoner forms described since the arrival of TE scholars are: a. ballads, sung unaccompanied or with chords on the rryl (q.v.); b. choral works; c. traditional dance forms, many sectional, played on the dronepipe (q.v.) and by a variety of ensembles. As Thendara boasted more than one orchestra, SC 107, clearly instrumental and orchestral music of various types had become part of the repertory, and "lyric performers" (q.v.) sang with various ensembles, d. At the Midsummer Festival in Comyn Castle (following Lew's return to Darkover) occasionally electronic or synthesized music is played, though live performances are the rule. See forge folk, sword dance, Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda, Outlaw, musical instruments Those either brought to Darkover by the New Hebrides Commune people or built by the colonists included, among others, bagpipes, DL 147, guitars, harps, lutes, and various new types of instruments. Probably dulcimers and at least one type of recorder or flute were among them. Percussion instruments could have been made from native wood and animal skins. "Brass" instruments would have been far more difficult, though not impossible. Bells were certainly known later, though their shape is not specified.
See individual instruments plus rryl and dronepipe.

fl Contraction—"son of" on patronymic, e.g., Kennard-(Gwynne) N'Valdir Alton-Comyn, SD 87. From Terran (Gaelic) mac. Confused with Gaelic ni, nic, "daughter" when many part-chieri offspring were of unstable gender?
Naderling Forest In the Kilghard Hills. Burnt by a World-wreckers agent, WW 34 (35).
Naotalba Bride of Zandru (q.v.). Called "Daughter of Doom" and la damnee, i.e. "The Condemned One," "The Doomed One," and represented as dressed in midnight black ("the color of outer space") with scattered constellations. Generally regarded as demonic, her name used in imprecations, e.g. "Naotalba twist their feet on their ankles!," SD 105, SA 98-99 (109). It would appear that whatever her nature before she was betrothed to Zandru, she was certainly regarded as partaking of his nature afterwards.
For Callina to dress as Naotalba for her arranged wedding to Beltran of Aldaran was the ultimate insult to all concerned—comparing Beltran to Zandru, comparing Comyn Council to those who betrothed Naotalba to the demon, etc., SA 98-99 (109).
nape of neck Respectable women exposed it only to their lovers, SC 99,116, HH 317; only lovers touched it, SC 215. Free Amazons whose hair was cut short automatically exposed it, for which reason they were considered scandalous by respectable women in and out of the Comyn (they were seen as exposing this part to any man's caress, though in fact this was not allowed).
The parallel here is with ancient Terran (Japanese) custom, though independently developed. For a woman to let her nape be exposed or caressed, she would normally be in a bedroom in a state of at least partial undress, where the only man likely to have access to her would be her lover.
"With exposed nape" was analogous to naked, HH 317.
NARAD-ZlNIE (Five syllables, accent first and third) Abbreviated form of the name of the old chieri who rescued Larry Montray and Kennard Alton, SD 156. (S)he was around at the time of the First Landing, DL, and remembered it, SD 157. His/her mere presence could cause some people to become ecstatic. (S)he sang, could control wild birds, SD 153; wore sandals and a robe of some silky substance (spider-silk? q.v.), ib., and fed the two boys on pancakes and honey, talking of their respective races, before teleporting them back to the presence of Hastur and their fathers.
'Narr Elided form of cahuenga or mountain dialect (?) name of some mountain pass in the Hellers. Site of a campaign in the Trailmen's War, which must have been only a couple of years after the Sharra Rebellion? See following entry, PS 37 (38), 50 (54).
'Narr Campaign   Battles in this district during the Trail-
men's War (q.v.). At this time the trailmen invaded the hills near Arilinn, nearly reaching the Hidden City. Jason Allison, early in the campaign, as a boy of eleven, still living with the trailmen, spied on humans, PS 37 (38). Lerrys Ridenow fought in it against the trailmen, PS 27 (27), 37 (38), 50 (54). Trailmen fought "dirty" by Terran standards, PS 50 (54). No other details.
It is speculated that this civil war may have been remotely related to uprisings growing out of the Sharra Rebellion; in particular, to human invasion of trailmen country.
NARRON One of the group of frostbitten workmen near Armida; stupidly rubbed another's feet with snow as a folk remedy, FT 80.
Narsin Male given name. One of this name, family not specified, in the Kilghard Hills, about 100 years before WW, slew his father's blood-foe on the fire lines, and was hacked apart by his own brothers for breaking fire-truce (q.v.); there were over a dozen ballad versions of this story, WW 36 (37).
NARZAIN-YE KUI True born-name of the chieri known later as "Andrea Closson," WW 12 (9), 184 (210). Translated as "Child of the Yellow Forest," hence Narzain = Yellow Forest. Teleported with other chieri to the Spring Dance, recognized by them after thousands of years' absence; died holding Keral's newborn child. See ANDREA.
NASCAR  One of Kadarin's guardsmen at Aldaran, HH 341.
Nebran Deity or demon sworn by (and possibly worshipped?) in the Dry Towns, SS 138. Probably not aboriginal to Darkover; cf. "Door Through Space," laid in the similar Dry Towns on Wolf.
nedesto   Typographical error for nedestro, HH 373.
nedestro (casta) "Not from the right hand." 1. = Bastard, illegitimate (not a term of abuse, unless in derogatory mode). 2. Offspring of any union except marriage di catenas. 3. Specifically, legitimized by adoption, not in the direct blood line, as a nedestro heir: see following entry. Feminine form, nedestra. Cf. Terran (Sp.) nodies-tro, "not right."
nedestro heir One whose heritage is not the result of being an offspring of the lord of the estate in wedlock di catenas. A person designated as nedestro heir to a Domain might well have been the child of another catenas union, as in fact is detailed in HH, where Regis Hastur adopted Mikhail-Regis Lanart-Hastur (son born to Javanne Hastur by Gabriel Lanart di catenas) in order to designate him nedestro heir to Hastur, HH 234-35, where the adoption ceremony is described; HH 375, where the formal designation was made in Comyn Council.
Lew Alton was nedestro heir to Alton because Comyn Council would never recognize his father's marriage to
Elaine   Montray-Aldaran   as  di  catenas.   They   insisted Elaine was barragana (q.v.).
Melitta Storn referred to Dan Barron (overshadowed by Storn) as a nedestro heir, a cousin adopted into House Storn, WD 98 (129).
neo-ruralists Collective term for various factions or parties in the late XX-early XXI Century Terran "Back-to-the-Land" movement, DL 80-84, 117. In particular, "world-builders," contrasted to the anti-technocrats and neo-Luddites with whom they were sometimes ignorant-ly confused. The New Hebrides Commune was part of the neo-ruralist group.
nerve gun Contraband TE weapon. Apparently it emitted a narrow beam of ultrasonic vibrations, at the frequency which would wreck a victim's central nervous system, leaving him a vegetable but not killing him, WW 13 (11). Not the same as a blaster.
Danilo Syrtis, as Regis Hastur's paxman and bodyguard, killed one of the fourteen assassins sent by World-wreckers against Regis; it turned out that the assassin was armed with a nerve gun, WW 13 (11).
Neskaya Town in the equatorial regions, one of the oldest inhabited sites on the planet. Site of one of the oldest functioning Towers (see next entry); site of a Guild House of Free Amazons, SC 155. The name is casta and has no other known meaning.
Now known to occupy the approximate site of "New Camp," the first permanent settlement by the DL people, later named "New Skye" by the New Hebrides Commune settlers, DL 137. The casta name certainly derives from "New Skye."
Neskaya Tower Anciently, a tall, dimly luminous structure of pallid blue translucent stone. This burned during the Hastur Rebellion in the reign of Rafael II, a total loss, FT 173, 228. It was later rebuilt of cobblestone, FT 249.
It was evidently less conservative than Arilinn; Mar-gwenn Elhalyn (q.v.) believed that "at Neskaya they are likely to do anything"—including unwise acts or breaking with tradition, FT 308. Alida Ardais (q.v.) was trained as Keeper and healer, SC 205. Callina Aillard spent some years there as Keeper, HH 85. An unnamed Keeper (Callina?) certified that Danilo Syrtis possessed the authentic Ardais Gift, HH 373.
Nest Originally, a Trailmen's name for any of their extended families, later generalized to mean any of the trail-cities ; cf. North Nest.
Later, believed to have been a name adopted for an extended family built up around early group-marriages (forms developing out of those used by descendants of the New Hebrides Commune).
Later still, an ingroup name for a Tower Circle, BS 28. This was defiantly adopted after outsiders began using the term as an obscene insult, FT 312, comparing them to Trailmen (who were believed licentious). Its defiant adoption was to celebrate the closeness developed among members of a Tower Circle.
When Kennard Alton asked "Jeff Kerwin Jr." which Nest he belonged to, BS 28, this was a test to see if "Jeff" reacted to the word at all—either as insult or as
ingroup term.
neuter  1. n., same as emmasca (q.v.); 2. v., see next entry.
neutering Illegal matrix operation, outlawed for centuries, consisting of destroying ovaries (possibly also uterus and adnexae), SC 24, 61-62, 142, FT 199. A woman who had gone through this operation (generally to avoid a desperately unwanted marriage arranged by her parents or relatives without her consent and against her will) was known as an emmasca and was no longer a sexual object to men, as in the absence of female hormones the secondary sex characteristics recede. Some people igno-rantly believed that the Free Amazons neutered their women, but there was never any basis for this belief, except that for an emmasca no other place remains open in Darkovan society except the Amazons.
Leonie Hastur advocated it for Keepers-in-training, FT 224, 229, as it had formerly been done to Keepers, FT 109. Ferrika gave arguments for its medical use, FT 199.
See also CAMILLA, DARILYN, LEE ANNE.

Nevarsin 1. Peak in the Hellers, site of Nevarsin Monastery (q.v.), SA 35 (35); usually, Nevarsin Peak. The name is casta and cahuenga and is probably similar in Hellers dialect; from Terran (Sp.) nevar "to snow," hence connotes "of the snows," possibly "parent of the snows."
2.  Village near the mountain, famous for ice-melons (q.v.), grown there and occasionally exported as a rare exotic delicacy to towns in the Kilghard Hills and lowlands. There was a Tower in this village, FT 250.
3.  Short for the monastery; see following entries. Nevarsin House of Penitence  Nevarsin  Monastery, BS
77. Nevarsin Monastery Father Valentine Neville, one of the original DL colonists, built a shelter for penitential isolation as partial reparation for his slayings, on the side of what was later known as Nevarsin Peak, SS 129. After his death, his followers, who venerated his later years of heroic sanctity, canonized him as "Saint Valentine-of-the-Snows", rebuilt and greatly enlarged the site, lived there as monks (q.v.), preserved ancient mss. and the remnants of the Terran/Centaurian Reformed Catholic
Church—the sole trace of ancient Christianity on Darkover. This religion survived (while the worship of the Four developed outside in the Domains) not principally by proselytizing, but, like ancient Christianity itself, adapting to local conditions, metamorphosing over the centuries (possibly under Ghost Wind influence) into the sect later called the cristoforos (q.v.). One of the few vestiges of Terran Christian influence was its continuing aversion to male homosexuality (q.v.). There is reason to believe that the monks early developed techniques comparable to Terran Tibetan yoga (some of them conceivably brought in by the DL colonists from the New Hebrides Commune?), enabling them to survive chronic temperature conditions more severe than in any other inhabited area of Darkover.
The monastery's official title was the same as the saint's, HH 16, but it was familiarly known planetwide as Nevarsin.
From time immemorial, i.e. long before the Ages of Chaos, the monks lived much the same way: under vows of poverty, celibacy, obedience, and nonviolence, supporting themselves by farming the surrounding lands during the short growing season, and by operating a school for boys. In this school there was no pressure on any student to adopt the cristoforo religion, though some few boys of families belonging to the sect were offered the opportunity to become monks; these alone were not offered training in swordplay, HH 71. (Comyn law forbade any sole surviving heir to an estate to become a monk, HH 72.) Regis Hastur was one of many Domain sons educated at Nevarsin who retained his adherence to the religion of the Lord of Light (Aldones), HH 17.
The notorious "Creed of Chastity" (q.v.) originated there, probably as a reaction against abuses perpetrated by exploitive lords.
The mss. in the Nevarsin archives included not only official documents of extreme historical or legal importance (e.g. the Charter of the Guild of Free Amazons, q.v.), but also records dating back before the Ages of Chaos, sometimes the sole sources of information about obscure historical, legendary, medical, or technological matters, including some subjects of no known use to the monks, e.g. obstetrics. Domains scholars consulted them; TE personnel could have, though there is no reference to the practice; Free Amazons made regular journeys there to locate and copy out necessary information, though they could be quartered only in the guest house, SC 168, as no females were permitted within the monastery proper.
Neversin Typographical error for Nevarsin, SA 35 (35), not a pun.
New Camp First permanent settlement by New Hebrides Commune, not very far from the equator; site later known as New Skye and still later as Neskaya, DL 133.
New Hebrides Commune Group of colonists, XXI Century Terran, bound for Coronis Colony (on the original Lost Ship of DL), where they reasonably expected an honorable alternative to Terran life styles and plenty of unoccupied land to cultivate. About 30 members, DL 86. They belonged to one of the neo-ruralist factions,
DL 80-84, but though anti-technological they were not anti-technocrats nor neo-Luddites. Mostly of Scottish origin, DL 147, speaking Gaelic as well as English.
They did not marry nor give in marriage, though pairing off was commonly acknowledged (see Annunciation) and they did admit couples already married or paired, though no singles—adumbrating both the later freemate marriage customs and non-monogamous unions, DL 147. They were despised by the crew as "back-to-nature freaks," DL 80, but were admitted to be excellent colonists (though back on crowded Terra they were anachronistic misfits), and they proved to be hard workers with a strong community sense and a lifestyle well adapted to colony conditions.
They used no titles or honorifics of any kind. They often wore kilts like their Scottish ancestors, and made deliberate attempts to preserve ancient music and dance forms, some of which were identifiable several thousand years later by TE scholars, though by then long extinct on Terra like the Gaelic language itself (preserved in Hellers dialect).
It is presumed that inherited ESP ability (long known on Terra to be common in highly inbred Scots and Irish Celtic stocks) was intensified among the Commune's descendants by intense natural selection; in addition, sexual selection (telepaths preferring other telepaths) must have become intense following repeated exposure to the Ghost Winds.
The name derives from the Hebrides islands off Scotland.
New Rhine-Rakakowski Institute TE institute for study of ESP, on Terra, SC 104. Magda had tested high in psi potential there.
Evidently this institution had no reliable methods for training telepaths, any more than did its eponymous XX Century Terran ancestor at Duke University. The Rhine was Dr. J. B. Rhine, pioneer researcher in this field; Rakakowski has not been identified.
Referred to familiarly as "the Rhines," WD 58 (73).
New Skye New Hebrides Commune name for what others called New Camp (q.v.), DL 133. The site was later called Neskaya (q.v.).
n ha Usual elided form of nikhya mic - "daughter of," the part of a Free Amazon's name identifying the bearer's mother, SC 134-35, 158. On joining the Free Amazons a woman renounced her family name (i.e. her patronymic), i.e. no longer Magdalen Lome but Margali n'ha Ysabet (daughter of Elisabeth); no longer Jaelle Aillard but Jaelle n'ha Melora, etc. See nikhya mic.
Nic   Diminutive for the masculine name Domenic, FT 268.
NICOL, Master Guards' hospital officer, FT 290, 294-95; treated Dom Esteban, FT 311-12.
nikhya mic (casta) Daughter of: see n'ha, SC 158. In full it is the formal version, usually elided to n'ha.
Directly from Terran (Gaelic) nighean mhic, same meaning, which was usually contracted to nic or even ni (parallel to the masc. form mac, which also went from Gaelic to casta).
ninth level matrix One requiring, in general, 9 or more people plus a Keeper to work safely, HH 238. The Shar-
ra matrix (q.v.) was at least 9th level, though it had been worked by fewer.
NlRA n'ha------- Free Amazon, daughter of a small-farmer
in the Kilghard Hills, member of Kindra's band from Thendara Guild House, SC 14. On Shainsa rescue expedition, posed briefly as a boy of unbroken voice in the Shainsa crowds, including wearing a short sword, SC 22, which was not legal for Amazons. She appears to have learned to use it from a brother or other relative before joining the Amazons, and she later taught the elements of swordplay to other Amazons, SC 24.
She was wounded in the thigh by Jalak at the rescue ofMelora, SC 43.
Noble One Honorific term of address to a chieri, WW 49 (54), 103(115).
nodes, blank Used with matrix crystals in constructing monitor screens, a technician's task, FT 216.
non-causative sciences TE generic term for a cluster of sciences using laws other than the commonplace physical ones, BS 71. See cyrillics, electromentry, matrix mechanics, psychokinetics.
nonhuman races of IB's Dr. Jason Allison knew of four such races on Darkover—evidently catmen, cral-macs, kyrri and Trailmen, WW 64 (68). Nobody in TEMS then knew if chieri were human rather than merely humanoid. The legends of chieri-human crosses
kept the question open until Keral's pregnancy by Dr. David Hamilton settled it. Evidently the Ya-men (q.v.) were not definitely known to be sapient, and nobody had told Dr. Allison about various "part nonhuman" crosses in the Hellers.
North Forest Site of a Trailmen's Nest, one hour's walk north of Dammerung Pass in the Hellers, PS 63 (64).
North Nest Trailmen colony in North Forest (q.v.). Jason Allison spent his childhood there, PS 36 (36).
This was the destination of the Allison expedition, where a conference between Jason and the Old One eventually led to agreement by the Trailmen to allow blood samples to be taken to isolate antibodies usable against Trailmen's fever (q.v.).
nudity Weather permitting, the only taboos against it were among cristoforos, in presence of nonhumans, and "across the generations," FT 130. In telepath families or Tower circles, nudity and/or clothing are irrelevant.
nut porridge A hot dish made up of meal either from mixed grains heavily extended with nuts, or from nuts alone. Served with milk and sweeteners, or fried into cakes and patties, HH 40.
Common peasant food in the Kilghard Hills, WW 34 (36).
In those areas nuts were cheaper and more easily available than grains.

oaths  Texts of a number of important ones are quoted in part or in full, as follows:
1.  Oath of adoption of Heir: HH 234-35.
2.  Oath of allegiance to Comyn: HH 195-96, 373-74, 376.
3.  Oath of disclaimer: HH 158.
4.  Oath of the Free Amazons: SC 5, 157ff and below, p. 146; supposedly formulated in Varzil's day, SC 157; penalty for major violation, death at the hands of any Free Amazon.
5.  Oath of paxman and liege: HH 163.
6.  Oath of the Towers, as Lew recalled it: HH 356.
In these (except the Free Amazon oath) the penalty is generally on the order of "may the Gods deal with me as I with others party to this obligation."
Octavien Vallonde (both names accented second syllable) Boy, cousin of Julian MacAran, HH 67; member of Cadet Guards, dropped from the latter in his second year (the year before the Sharra Rebellion) then aged 15; quietly sent home without publicity; cause never explicitly stated, but apparently some kind of disagreement with Dyan Ardais over his not wishing to become Dyan's bed partner, HH 63ff. All agreed that Octavien should never have been in the Guards—he was disturbed and unstable. Charges against Dyan were not pressed because Octavien feared, and refused, telepathic interrogation by Kennard Alton, HH 55-56. Later history not known.
The given name is cognate with archaic Terran forms meaning "an 8th son," the family name apparently from roots meaning either "from the valley" or "valiant."
Old Buzzard Nickname in Guards for Kennard Alton, HH 15.
Official Directive #2 TE regulation forbidding TE personnel (except Mapping & Exploring personnel on assignment) to enter any region of any planet outside designated Trade Areas without official permits; penalty, instant deportation, WD 24 (27-28).
Old Hastur Common term for Danvan Hastur (q.v.). Regent, grandfather of Regis; the one in whose hands "Comyn honor had been safe for 90 years."
Old One 1. Title of the leader of any Trailmen's Nest, SD 12, 124-29; PS 36 (36), 65 (71). The one in North Nest knew Jason Allison from childhood and remembered him in adult life, PS 73 (80). The one encountered by Larry Montray and Kennard Alton spoke a dialect of casta, and learned from Larry how to use fire as a servant rather than merely fear it as a threat, SD 129-30.
2. Title of the leader of any forge-folk (q.v.) settlement, WD 127 (168).
Old People Ancestors of the Comyn before the Ages of Chaos, WW 152 (172), descended from the DL settlers. Robardin, Lord of Carthon (q.v.), was one of them.
Old Tower In Comyn Castle; same as Ashara's Tower (q.v.), FT 306-07.

Old Town Native part of Thendara, outside the Terran Zone, SC 97, same as Old Thendara. Not frequented by TE personnel because of Official Directive #2, WD 7 (4).
otnbredin (accent on first or second syllable depending on inflection) (casta) "Man-lover," generally given as "lover of men" = male homosexual, not female heterosexual. The term is commonly used in any mode, including the respectful; it is not an automatic insult. When intended as an insult, it refers to effeminacy rather than sexual preference, HH 134. (An approximation of the derogatory mode/personal inflection is ombredin, WW 123 (127).)  Regular plural would be ombredi.
One so identified was not shamed; the practice was considered  more  appropriate  for adolescent boys  too
young to marry than consorting with whores would be, HH 183. The objections to Dyan Ardais (q.v.), were not to his taste for handsome boys but to his cruelty and later to his misuse of laran, HH 183.
See bredu, catamite, cristoforos, DANILO, donas amhu, DYAN, GARRIS, hidden man, homosexuality, jou sombredi, minion.
orchestras Thendara had several, SC 107; no details of the music. Vocalists performing with them were properly called "lyric performers," not entertainers, ibid.
ordeal "Challenge and Ordeal," battle between Towers, FT 335-36; loser's penalty, FT 335; described, FT 355-60.
Order of St. Christopher of Centaurus Religious missionary society organized within the Reformed Catholic Church (XXI Century Terran), its purpose to carry church doctrines to other worlds, DL 126.
Father Valentine Neville (q.v.), belonged to it. His followers at Nevarsin Monastery (q.v.), retained a few of the original beliefs for over 2,000 years—long after the reason Neville started the monastery had been forgotten; the sect then was known as the cristoforos (q.v.).
orphanage At least partly because of the native custom of fosterage, only one is recorded on Darkover, commonly known as Spacemen's Orphanage, but officially termed the John Reade Orphanage for the Children of Spacemen. It was in TZ, Thendara, and had a TE star-and-rocket emblem above the door.
Boys usually stayed till age 18, then TE authorities tested them and found them suitable work; no details about provisions made for girls. Among the individuals recorded to have spent time there: "Auster Ridenow," Ragan, BS 86, "Jeff Kerwin Jr.," BS 6, and Marja "Ka-darin," daughter of Lew Alton, SA. "Jeff Kerwin Jr." slept on the third floor with six other boys, and carved JAKJr in standard TE letters on a tallath-wood window-sill, BS 162-63, but the orphanage's computer file had no record of him, BS 36.
oudhraki (Dry Towns plural form) Same as oudrakhi sing., FT 97, and pi. (casta). Native species of pack-animals, common in the Dry Lands, vaguely analogous to Terran camels.
Jalak's cralmac soldiers rode them, SC 28.
oudrakhi  (casta, cahuenga, sing., pi.) See preceding entry.
out Into the overworld (q.v.), SS 47; in other words, on an astral excursion. A trained matrix worker could readily leave his body and go mentally into the over-world; the technique is described, SS 48. See overworld. The concept was known, minus matrix aids, in XX Century Terran and earlier, and many Terran books on the subject survive, mostly with titles like "Practical Astral Journeys."
The various types of witches' ointment were intended to send practitioners out, in this sense.
"Outlaw, The" Title of an ancient ballad, so old in casta that its origin is forgotten; believed by natives to be of offworld origin as it mentions only one moon rather than Darkover's four, HH 273-75. Well known in the Hellers and at Nevarsin; many names and many tunes and various versions of text, but one story line. The full text is quoted below, p. 145. Thyra Darriell sang it, HH
277, as did Callista, FT 111 -12.
It is actually of Terran origin, presumably brought to Darkover by members of the New Hebrides Commune. It is based on a story dating back over 1,000 years before DL, originating in Scandinavia and itself existing in various more or less incomplete overlapping versions (sagas). In the original story, the berserker's own sister had to pronounce the sentence of outlawry on him because he had slain his brothers.
It was considered to be bad luck for a woman to sing it in her brother's presence, FT 111, 310.
overlight Bluish or grayish light permeating the overworld (q.v.), SS 37; also, the fire into which such light could be concentrated by an elementary matrix operation, HH 204.
It was attributed to the astral energy-net of the sun, SS 38.
overpopulation laws XXI Century Terran. During the generation just prior to DL, overpopulation on Terra was so serious a problem that many couples had to wait as long as 12 years before they could obtain permission to have a second baby, DL 112.
overshadowing  Same as possession (q.v.).
overworld TE Standard translation of a casta term equivalent to  the  old Terran  term  "astral world," a world
coexisting with the physical and interpenetrating it, though not itself physical. It is a realm that can be entered mentally but not physically; in it, one can travel instantaneously, and locate or even create by clear visualization, though there are regions which were made by superhuman visualizations, or by groups of highly trained minds, and which cannot therefore be affected by the average visitor's mental efforts.
Two different but overlapping explanations are in SS: Callista's, SS 33, and Damon Ridenow's, SS 48-56, the latter a description of an exploration. Other explorations by Damon are described, FT 171-74, 221-31, 245-53, and by Callista, FT 65-68. Leonie gave still another explanation, FT 228.
Ancient techniques existed for locating past states of regions (Timesearch, q.v.), somewhat more advanced than the Terran operation of "reading the records," FT 245-53.
The ancient Terran terms "rising on the planes" and "astral journeys" refer to the mental process of reaching and exploring different parts of the overworld.
Kennard Alton located Larry Montray via the over-world, SD 95-96, 103; Kennard and Dyan hunted there for Regis Hastur, HH 263.

pack-animals Those in use in the Kilghard Hills and Hellers include hoofed and antlered species, vaguely analogous to Terran reindeer and used similarly, SC 121. Horses are too lightly built and too scarce for this use.
They are described as "indigenous relatives (i.e. analogues) of the buffalo and the larger deer," WD 25 (29).
Those in use in  the  Dry  Lands are principally the oudrakhi.
Pan-Darkovan League   A later avatar of the Pan-Dark-
ovan Syndicate (q.v.), with the same purpose, WW 42
(44). Pan-Darkovan Syndicate   Merchants'  group  or league
formed to industrialize Darkover by joining TE. Valdrin
of Carthon was one of its leaders, BS 113ff. Pantomime   Name of the spaceship which took Wade and
Larry Montray back to Darkover, SD 14. par   (casta) prep., "at," indicating momentary equivalence
or concern, parallels Fr. y, German auf; from Sp. par,
"even." See %'par servu. para  (casta) prep., "in order to." See para servirte.
parapsych Old TE term (from archaic Terran parapsychology) for anyone gifted with verified ESP, not necessarily trueZ«rara,BS71,PS57(61).
para servirte (casta) = "at your service," "in order to serve you." Respectful mode, more formal (older form?) than s'dei par servu, z'par servu (qq.v.), HH 155. Para = "for the purpose of," servir = infinitive "to serve," te = "you" (personal, singular).
pass rights Entitlement of an orphan from Spacemen's Orphanage to go offworld; not often authorized, BS 39.
patch Generic term for any timed-release drug or medication absorbed through the skin and administered by an adhesive strip. Most often refers to antiovulant hormones impregnated into plastic strips affixed to the skin about every 15 days, suppressing ovulation, DL 66. But compare anticeptin.
PATRICK, LAURENCE XXI Century Terran. Chief Engineer in the spaceship which crashed on Cottman IV. Specialist in M-AM drive, formerly in small all-terrain craft, DL 11, 117. Had still earlier been a medical corps-
man. His hobby was building musical instruments, DL
119.
Lanky,  gaunt; resembled  the legendary Terran folk
hero Lincoln. paxman   Sworn protector/bodyguard/liaison man. Danilo
Syrtis so served Regis Hastur, HH 163, exactly as his
older brother Rafael had served Regis's father Rafael,
HH 73. Reidel so served Damon Ridenow's father, SS 18. The traditional position of a paxman was a step or
two behind his lord, presumably something like Parade
Rest, ready to spring to his defense, FT 320. pearls  Obtained from shellfish in the sea off Temora. Jalak
of Shainsa promised some to the first woman to bear
him a son, SC 23.
Probably among Darkovan exports.
pears Grown at Syrtis and probably other nearby locations, HH 157.
Probably descendants of Terran imports, or of fruits on the DL ship.
Pensacola XXI Century Terran site of Space Academy (as it was called before TE was established). Capt. Harry Leicester (q.v.), was trained there, DL 11.
People of the Sky Trailmen's own name for themselves, PS 17 (15), 125.
Permaneddl (casta) "I shall remain." Hastur motto, HH 18.
Permanedo (casta) "Here we remain." Cited as an alternative version of the Hastur motto, WW 42 (44).
Peter Terran male given name; Hellers dialect equivalent is Piedro, lowland form Pier, SC 130. See next entry.
PETER HALDANE Born in or around Caer Donn of Terran parents, childhood friend of Magdalen Lome since she was 5, SC 95, and later (for a few years) her husband, SC 95-96, 115. Graduate in Alien Anthroplogy at TE University, SC 96, fluent in casta. Became a TE Intelligence agent. Physically he could pass as a native; red-haired; except for having only 5 fingers instead of 6, he could have been the twin of Dom Kyril-Valentine Ardais, SC 101-02, 192. For this reason, Rumal di Scarp kidnapped him, thinking he was the heir to Ardais, and sent ransom demands to Lady Rohana (q.v.), SC 115.
Magda had given him a copper neck-ornament of local workmanship while in Dalereuth Plains area just before their wedding, SC 115-16, which Rumal seized and sent to Ardais as a token that he indeed had Dom Kyril as his prisoner; Magda recognized it, and agreed to go to Sain Scarp in the guise of a Free Amazon to rescue Peter. This story forms part II of SC.
Later, Peter became infatuated with Jaelle n'ha Melora, SC 228-29. Their affair did not last long.
Phi Coronis Delta Planet, site of Terran colony known as Coronis Colony, the original destination of the "Lost Ship" which crash-landed on Darkover, DL 8. One of two oldest Terran colonies.
Phi Coronis IV Planet, possibly same as foregoing? Also known as Wolf (q.v.), BS 7. "Jeff Kerwin" had served there briefly, BS 38.
In "Door Through Space" some customs of the Wolf Dry Towns are described. It has been theorized that the
Darkovan Dry Towns may have been colonized by invaders from Wolf during the Ages of Chaos or earlier.
phoenix Mythical Terran bird said to rise again alive from its own ashes; astral figure built up by the Forbidden Tower group to overcome Arilinn Tower's dragon, FT 357-58.
pick Table implement, like a single chopstick with a sharp point at one end. Used for spearing bite-size pieces of meat, vegetables, etc., from a common dish, instead a fork, SD 36. It took a certain amount of skill to use, though less than actual Terran chopsticks. (Probably preferable to using one's personal knife for spearing chunks, dulling the point.)
Piedro Male given name in Kilghard Hills and Hellers; lowland equivalent is Pier, SC 130—corresponding to Terran Peter. See two following entries.
Piedro One of the 14 frostbitten workmen at Armida, FT 78, 84; had been a playmate of Callista and Ellemir, FT 84.
PIEDRO What Peter Haldane was called when he was outside TEHQand passing as a native, SC 130, 215.
pillow pounding Regis Hastur's jocose (proverbial?) slang term for bedroom athletics—not sleep, WW 69 (75). Not derogatory despite the verb.
The verb used is gre'thir "pound, knead, grind," as in kneading bread or grinding grains or nuts into flour. This became a very derogatory verb for sexual intercourse—cf. ancient Terran slang terms "bang," "shove," "shoot," "cram," "poke," etc.
PK  Psychokinesis. Old Terran abbreviation.
PK transmitters The largest type of relay screens (q.v.). Immense matrix screens, requiring a full Tower Circle for ordinary working. One was in Comyn Castle Tower, SA 50 (52); Lew and Callina used it for locating and teleporting Linnell's true-twin Kathie Marshall from Samarra to Darkover, SA 83-85 (91-93).
Plains of Zabal Area in a valley somewhere between New Camp (later New Skye) and the foothills of the Hellers, DL 77, named after Marco Zabal; the area was full of wild game. This name was not preserved into later historic times.
Planetary Investments, Unlimited Legal cover corporation behind which were the "Worldwreckers Inc." activities, WW 9 (6); its legitimate activities included public relations and propaganda.
planets Standard TE nomenclature named planetary systems after their parent stars from ancient Terran star catalogues, which were recopied and extended as explorations progressed. The name "Alpha" after a star-name would mean the largest, "Beta" the second largest, "Gamma" the third largest, etc., member of a star cluster sharing a single name; roman numerals following a star name denoted planets, numbered outwards from the parent sun, though there were ancient exceptions. The planets mentioned as colonized within TE jurisdiction include those listed below, though the list is not complete as by 9 years after the Sharra Rebellion the TE authorities knew of over 100,000 inhabited planets, WW 172(196).
All the following planet names have separate entries (qq.v.).
ALPHA = Alpha Centauri's planet, DL 15, 20, 58.
ARCTURUS IV Notable for sun-priests. This or another planet in the Arcturus system supposedly harbored sapient saurians, "lizard-men," apocryphal but conceivably same as Aratak's people in HUNTERS OF THE RED MOON, BS 11, 24; SA 97 (106).
CAPELLAIXWW83(91).
CORONIS (Phi Coronis Delta): unnumbered, possibly IX or IV?, DL 8.
CORONIS IV Same as Wolf, BS 7, 38.
CORONIS IX Site of TE Administrative Archives, HH 260.
COTTMAN IV = Darkover.
HELVETIA II TE banking planet, WW 9 (5).
KEEF Pleasure world, WW 21-22 (22-23).
LYRA (unnumbered?), BS 14.
MEGAERA BS 38, 78.
RIGEL IX BS 8.
SAMARRA Important enough to have a TE Legate, SA 116 (129).
SIRIUSIXSC110.
VAINWAL Kennard Alton died there, SA 8 (4).
VAINWAL VI (same?) "Missy" falsely claimed she was born there, WW 72 (78).
VEGA (unnumbered?), HH 42.
VEGA IX WW 55 (59).
VIALLES SA 66 (70), 87 (95).
WINTER (Site of LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS), SC 106.
WOLF SA 87 (95); BS 7, 21, 38. PMOD   "Provisionally Missing On Duty." TE abbreviation for a potential  status  of agents. Next steps after that were to have the agent listed as MOD (missing on duty) and MPD (missing, presumed dead), SC 106. poison-pipe   Evidently a form of blowpipe for poisoned darts. The maddened Dyan Ardais tried to use one on Lew Alton in Comyn Council but was forcibly restrained by Regis Hastur, SA 62 (66). poltergeist factor   Troublemaking potential of wild tele-paths,  WW 83-83 (91). "Missy" had it, WW 94 (103); Conner had it, WW 82-83 (91). When in use, it disrupted all movable objects in the neighborhood and could even set fires. It is not understood at all, though it is evidently related to psychokinetic ability. porridge and meat     Proverbial    catch-phrase    meaning "daily sustenance." Compare Terran "bread and butter," "meat and drink," WW 32 (33). Port Chicago  One of the sites of TE operations, "halfway round the planet from Thendara," SA 5 (1). It contained a TZ and Trade City, HH 86, a Terran airstrip, HH 166, SA 5 (1), and a spaceport big enough for one of the Big Ships (q.v.), the Southern Cross to land there enroute from Vainwal, SA  5  (1), 13  (10); mail rockets went there, SA 67 (72).
As only Thendara and Caer Donn had spaceports in earlier times, presumably that at Port Chicago was built later.
It was reputed to have a TE Legate, HH 270; actually, only  a Coordinator (q.v.),  SA 37 (37), but Aldaran's
men were unlikely to have known this technicality.
possession In the sense of occupying someone else's body, temporarily or permanently displacing the other's mind, one of the worst crimes possible to one with laran; also known as overshadowing. See STORN and ASHARA.
practice swords Generally made of wood with leather grips, SS 114, HH 76, FT 283, 289-90. Used instead of any edged tools in swordplay practice sessions among the Cadet Guards. See CATHAL, DOMENIC LANART-ALTON, DYAN, "love-pats," REGIS.
preciosa (casta) "Cherished one" (feminine, singular), SS 78, FT 60, HH 318, WW 112 (124). Term of endearment. Directly from Terran (Spanish) preciosa = "valuable, excellent, merry."
precognition Not so much ability to foretell the future in detail as to sense glimpses of it. It is the Aldaran Gift. As the Altons are close kin to the Aldarans, many possessors of the Alton Gift have shown a form of it, FT 279, often experienced as intermittent periods of twisted, skewed or out-of-joint time in which objects and persons were perceived not as they were then but as they would be at some future time. Regis Hastur showed glimpses of this, HH 195, 267-68, though precognition was not the Hastur gift; in him precognitive dreams were possibly its commonest manifestation. Lew Alton showed it more strongly in the specific Alton manner, HH 121, 256, 284, 303, 305. So did Ellemir, Callista, and Dom Esteban (qq.v.). The Terran Magda Lome had such dreams, SC 96. Similar dreams and sensing have long since been reported among Terrans.
pregnancy Custom had women laying crimson flowers at Cassilda's shrine on discovery of their condition, FT 244.
pressure lamps Lamps fueled by the crude oils and oleo-resins from native conifers. Used in the mountains, WD 7 72(92).
Princess This title usually refers to a daughter of one of the Hastur or Elhalyn Kings. See Mirellct; compare following entries.

Princess Consort Lawful wife di catenas of the Elhalyn king, SC 84. At the time of SC and FT this office was filled—very much after a fashion—by the vain, empty-headed, arrogant, insensitive Lady Jerana Aillard, cousin to Lady Rohana, SC 88, and wife to King Aran Elhalyn (qq.v.).
Princess of Arcturus IV An apocryphal and possibly mythical figure, BS 11.
prisms 1. Ornaments set in windows in some houses in Old Thendara, SD 12-13; probably formed part of the skylighting in Crystal Chamber, Comyn Castle.
2. Used by Terrans in and around Caer Donn in connexion with solar energy collectors, to gather and concentrate even the dimmest sunlight reflected from snow for greenhouses and other indoor-gardens, HH 201.
prisons Darkover seems not to have had any aside from the brig or drunk-tank in Thendara Trade City, which was anyway of Terran manufacture, HH 48.
procalamin Sedative used on space travelers, SA 8 (5), 12(9).
Project Jason Dr. Randall Forth's scheme to create an emissary to Trailmen's North Nest who can persuade them to co-operate (by giving blood samples) in search for a cure for 48-year fever; the story is told in PS.
Project Telepath Successor to Special Project A (q.v.), WW 147 (166). Joint TEMS/Hastur project to study tele-paths scientifically, headed by Dr. Jason Allison. Its first subjects included TE personnel Dr. David Hamilton, David Conner, and the gambler Rondo; Darkovan humans Regis Hastur, Danilo Syrtis, Desideria (Lady Storn); the chieri "Missy" and Keral. When Regis sum-
moned every telepath on Darkover to Thendara, WW 118 (132), 141 (154), 146ff(165ff),171 (195), eventually some 230 adult males and females showed up, about 100 more being unable to. See Telepath Council.
proverbs From the very beginning of Darkovan colonization, settlers—probably stimulated by the Spaniards among them, who had been known for centuries for a penchant for proverbs—were apt to use proverbs on every imaginable occasion. See selected list in Appendix.
psi-quacks Fraudulent fortune-tellers, false mediums, etc.; derogatory Terran term, SS 12.
PsychDivision Of TEMS, SS 11; concerned with personnel evaluation.
psychokinetics One of the so-called non-causative sciences, BS 71, its subject being the study of mental effects on inanimate objects. It does not really overlap with matrix mechanics. Used in high-order laran work in a Tower Circle. "Jeff Kerwin Jr." was tested for psychokinesis, BS 93-95, which ability was necessary for practical application of the findings of psychokinetics.
psychosis Hazard of isolated telepaths in nontelepath cultures, WW 58 (63).
public sex Occasionally occurs during a Ghost Wind, FT 269.
public square Thendara Trade City had one including a monument atop high steps, and a park with trees whose leaves looked violet in twilight, BS 11.
pudding brain Jocose epithet flung by Regis Hastur at Danilo, WW 38 (40), possibly in affectionate recall of "That's you, blockhead!" (q.v.).

quadruplets Birth reported in Alton lands, looked on as a portent, FT 263-64; an odd parallel to the birth of the quadripartite FT group.
Quarters A In TEHQ., TZ, Thendara, name for the building including residential area for spaceport personnel, etc. The Montrays had a 5-room suite there, SD 16.
Quarters B  In TEHQ, TZ, Thendara, name for the build-
ing which contained (among other things) the school for spaceport children, extending from kindergarten level to pre-university, SD 16. qui (casta) adv. "here." From Terran (Sp.) aqui, SA 161 (181); Chi %'voyin qui? "How did I get here?" or "Who brought me here?"

rabbit 1. Vague term for any of various small mammals not otherwise described. 2. Transl. of a casta term either of endearment or pity (according to mode and inflection); e.g. Melora's use of it to the child Jaelle, SC 67, or one of Rumal's bandits to Magda, where he was obviously considering her only as a sex object, SC 144.
The term translated as gutter rabbit (q.v.), is the derogatory mode/personal inflection version, as a sarcastic negation of the endearment term, but compare mud-rabbit. See also next entry.
rabbit-horn Small horned mammal, whose fur could be used for cloth, DL 136; prey of wolves, SC 35.
racehorse "Only a Comyn lord or a racehorse is judged by his pedigree," proverb quoted, HH 173. No details.
race of Cassilda The Comyn. Cyrillon's men used that name for them in contrast to the worshippers of Sharra, SD 96. The reference is clearly to Hastur's consort Cassilda (in the "Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda," below, p. 142) as progenitrix of the Comyn.
racism The major evidence of its existence on Darkover has been the automatic unquestioning assumption that Terrans are an inferior sort of people despite their technology, SD 19, 34, 142. Laran was always the main basis for belief in Darkovan superiority, SC 234-35, where even Lorill Hastur shared the belief.
radiant Some kind of contrivance for making light, not described, PS 56 (59).
Rafael Common male given name on Darkover, no other meaning in casta; directly from Terran (Hebrew) = "healing of God," with cognates in many different Terran languages. Not limited to cristoforo families, though it is the name of one of the archangels in that sect.
RAFAEL AILLARD Tower Circle worker at Neskaya; had been at Arilinn with Damon, FT 318; accompanied Leonie Hastur in confrontation with Damon, FT 318-23.
Rafael Hastur Younger brother of King Regis V, during Ages of Chaos. Monkish, not a fighter, but when the King was disabled by would-be assassins, Rafael, in deep rapport with King Regis, wielded his sword using the King's skill, to dispatch his opponents and retain Castle Hastur for the family, SS 11 7.
Rafael Hastur Danvan Hastur's son; married Alanna El-halyn at age 15 (while Dyan Ardais was still at Nevarsin), HH 148, their children being Regis Hastur and Javanne (qq.v.). At age 35, one month before Regis' birth, he was blown to bits by a contraband Terran weapon in the Kilghard Hills, HH 13, while his paxman and bredu Rafael Syrtis (see below) shielded him with his own body; the few recoverable fragments of both were buried together in a common grave in the Field of Kilghairlie, HH 73.
Regis felt he could never live up to his father's image.
Rafael II Hastur, King Ages of Chaos; Towers of Neskaya and Tramontana were burnt and their techniques lost, during his reign, FT 1 73, as a result of the Hastur Rebellion, FT 228,
RAFAEL MACARAN  See MacARAN.
Rafael Lanarty Hastur  oldest son of Gabriel
Lanart and Javanne Hastur (qq.v.), born nine years before the Sharra Rebellion; dark hair, HH 228. One of the three "Lanart angels" (q.v.).
Rafael Lanart-Alton Regent when King Stefan IX Hastur was crowned in his cradle, HH 55.
"RAFAEL" SCOTT Born named Rakhal, HH 216, but familiarly known as Rafael or Rafe. Son of Felicia Darriell by the Terran Zeb Scott, PS 26 (26), born about 12 years before the Sharra Rebellion, HH 171, and thus one-quarter chieri (see the Aldaran and Alton Lineages, pp. 158). Eyes gold-flecked amber color (exceedingly rare on Darkover), SA 20 (18); six-fingered; closely resembled his close friend, SA 91 (101), Marius Alton, and in SA 12-21 (9-18), is said to have impersonated him, reason unknown despite his "explanation," SA 92 (102). In his late teens he went into TE service, SA 114 (126), being given the rank of Captain in the TE Intelligence Service; a mountaineer by avocation, taking part in the Allison Expedition, on which he carried a contraband shocker, PS 54 (57).
At age 12 his laran was already developed enough for the Sharra circle and in later years must have been extremely powerful, HH 203, 246; SA 54 (56).
Dio Ridenow gave Lew his unloaded gun, SA 23 (21), 27 (26).
Rafael Syrtis In full Rafael-Felix Syrtis of Syrtis. Older son of Dom Felix Syrtis of Syrtis; half-brother of Danilo (qq.v.), HH 73. Paxman, personal bodyguard and bredu of Rafael Hastur (Danvan's son), above (q.v.).
Rafaella Common female given name, counterpart of Rafael.
RAFAELLA n'ha DORIA Free Amazon. Daughter of Kindra's (q.v.) sister; part of Kindra's group from Then-dara Guild House, chosen to be on the Shainsa rescue expedition. Skilled at horsebreaking and pack-animal management, SC 24ff. She also played the rryl, SC 25, 32. Later, she qualified as a travel escort and logistics specialist, plying this trade with Jaelle (q.v.), SC 241.
Rafaella Storn-Lanart Third daughter of Desideria (q.v.), mother of Linnea, WW 41 (43).
Ragan Male given name, meaning in casta not known; directly from Terran (Gaelic) Riagain, "young ruler."
RAGAN One of the two men who discovered how fanatics had butchered Arnad, Cassilde and Cleindori Aillard and left  "Jeff Kerwin Jr."  (Cleindori's  son by Arnad) for
dead, BS 1 73-75. He took the children to TE authorities.
RAG AN One of Jeff Kerwin Sr.'s twin sons by Cassilde Aillard, BS 176, the other being known as "Auster Ridenow" (q.v.). Though he had enough laran to use a parmanent psychic link with his twin brother for spy purposes, and to either melt a crystal goblet stem and restore it, or to create the illusion of doing so (using "Jeff's" unkeyed matrix), BS 16, there is no evidence he was ever trained at a Tower.
His legitimate cover occupation was liaison work for Terran visitors, locating guides, mountaineers, etc., BS 14, but he was simultaneously a spy for the Aldarans and a TE agent, probably in Intelligence. He was caught by a trap-matrix set up in Arilinn Tower, BS 142; "Jeff" declared blood-feud on him, BS 143. His death is not recorded, but it must have been after the final episode in BS.
raid-battle A guerrilla expedition, usually either by or against bandits; cf. Terran (Italian) razzia. Instances in Darkovan history include 1. Cyrillon des Trailles against the Altons' rangers, 2. Valdir Alton and his Guards against Cyrillon, 3. Regis Hastur, Kennard Alton and various other Comyn leaders and their Guards against Kadarin's people, WW 114 (128), mopping up the remains of the Sharra Rebellion.
raiders   Same as either bandits or trail-raiders (qq.v.).
Raimon Male given name, probably cahuenga mountain dialect, from Terran, most likely (Spanish) Ramon rather than French or English cognates. Kadarin's middle name Raymon, HH 1 73, is a slight dialect variant.
RAIMON, Master Hospital officer of the Guards, Guard Hall, Comyn Castle, Thendara, around time of Sharra Rebellion, HH 63, 127.
RAIMON One of the 14 frostbitten workmen, FT 78, 80; childhood playmate of Callista and Ellemir, FT 84; foster brother of Domenic Lanart, FT 84; a musician, FT 11.
He took in his brother's wife and babies after his brother committed suicide during the Catmen's War, FT 80.
RAIMONDI, MARGARET, R.N. XXI Century Terran, part of crew of original DL ship. Reported the disquieting discovery that menstrual cycles were disrupted in 2/3 of female personnel (apparently 80 out of 119), DL 66.
rainbird Bird species native to equatorial rainforests south of the Dry Towns, but never found in the Dry Lands; its cry was a whistle. Nira (q.v.) imitated its note as a signal, SC 22.
Raineach Female given name in the Hellers; specifically, Kyla's (q.v.), mother. The name looks like Terran (Gaelic) but its root word is unknown.
rainfish Fish species found in rivers or pools in the rainforests; not described in detail, but as it is commonly imitated in embroidery designs, SC 239, it must be notable either for brilliant colors or unusually graceful lines.
rainmaking The firefighting technique formerly taught in Towers, HH 204, originally consisted of using a matrix to move and hold all available clouds over the fire area and hope for rain, the clouds presumably being seeded by particles rising from the fire.
After young Larry Montray described the Terran technique of cloud seeding to Valdir Alton and the Keeper Janine, SD 76-79, the version in use began as above and followed with teleporting the carbon dioxide gas from the fire area in a steady stream many kilometers above the clouds, probably under compression, allowing for simultaneous sharp cooling and rapid expansion, which caused it to freeze immediately into dry ice particles, which were allowed to shower into the clouds, producing immediate rainfall. raiva (casta, ancient dialect) "Ripe for mating," cf. Terran (German) reife, English ripe. Keral used this term for a chieri fully shifted from emmasca to either male or female phase and emotionally and hormonally prepared for fertile mating, WW 155 (175).
Also a colloquial casta term for a woman of child-bearing age.
raivannin Fast-acting anti-convulsant drug, FT 180, and 176 (unnamed); used in emergencies, not for maintenance.
Rakhal Male given name, common in the Hellers, equivalent to the ordinary casta name Rafael. Terrans found it hard to pronounce, HH 216.
Rakhal Darriell Last surviving member of the Darriell family in the Hellers, HH 216, called "Old Rakhal." He lived as a drunken hermit in the crumbling family mansion (Darriell Forst?). During one of the Ghost Winds, he fathered a girl (later named Felicia) on a chieri, whose people left the baby on his doorway for fostering; he left her at Storn Castle for the purpose. See Felicia.
Rakhal Scott See rafael scott. Rakhal Storn of Storn See storn. Ramirez, Andres SeeANDRES.
RAMSAY, DONNELL TE Legate in Thendara at the time of the Sharra Rebellion, HH 85. Met with Danvan Hastur at the latter's request, to consider enforcement of the Compact.
Succeeded by Dan Lawton (q.v.), some time after the Sharra Rebellion.
RANDALL FORTH, M.D. Director, Psych. Dept.,TEMS, Floor 8, TEHQ, Trade City, Thendara, a few years after the Sharra Rebellion. He treated Marja at Spacemen's Orphanage, SA 159 (179); treated Lew Alton, SA 137 (154). Hypnotized Dr. Jay Allison to elicit the long-buried side of his personality (Jason), who could be persuaded to use his knowledge of the Trailmen and their language to plead with them for aid in developing a vaccine against Trailmen's fever, PS 5-20 (1-18).
rangers Rural defense and firewatching force, HH 80, organized in the Kilghard Hills by Valdir Alton, SD 67.
Dan Barron was assigned by Valdir Alton to a Ranger station, WD.
RANNAN Guardsman under Dom Esteban; in Damon's rescue party, with Eduin, to retrieve Callista from Corresanti caves, SS 131.
RANNAR  Bandit, one of Rumal di Scarp's gang, SC 145.
RANNATH Dry-Towner tyrant of Carthon during the Dry Towners' occupation; lived at the Carthon Great House, WD 91 (120).
Rannirl Male given name, origin unknown.
RANNIRL One of Valdir Alton's men, tower-trained tele-path. He gave the dying Garin (q.v.) a stimulant (called "devil's drug"), probably kirian (q.v.), to force him to identify his killers, SD 63.
RANNIRL Matrix technician at Arilinn Tower circle when "Jeff Kerwin Jr." joined; same age as "Jeff" (20s), BS 78. He had a passion for gambling. Gave "Jeff" a knife in the feud with Ragan, BS 142.
RANNIRL Matrix worker at Arilinn Tower some nine years after the Sharra Rebellion; possibly same as preceding, WW 39 (40), in which case he would then have been in his 60s.
rape Among telepaths, a lustful thought-outside the context of mutual consent—is taken as equivalent to rape, HH 293.
It was a common content of the dreams of people in close proximity to the Sharra matrix.
To Tower-trained matrix workers, the ultimate crime was rape of a Keeper (see Mirella, and cf. Lew Alton's nightmare, HH 248); in practice, it would be all but impossible, as Keepers trained in the older ways had a built-in reflex which delivered the equivalent of a kilo-volt electric shock to the offender. Presumably Mirella's captors knocked her out first.
Among Free Amazons, the penalty was castration, done on the spot by the victim's Guild sisters, SC 148.
rapport Mutual telepathic awareness; see telepathy. For the experience of total 4-way rapport, cf. FT 348-50.
Ravnet Designates a wine, BS 78; uncertain if a place name, a district, or a generic type. Rannirl bet Kennard Alton four cases of this wine that "Jeff Kerwin Jr." would not contact the Tower; he lost.
Rayna Female given name. Ultimately from Terran (Spanish) reina, "queen."
Rayna di Asturien Woman of the Ardais clan. Nedestra daughter of Dom Kyril-Valentine Ardais by an unnamed di Asturien woman. Married to the Terran David Daniel Lawton; bore him a son known as Dan Lawton (q.v.), HH 373.
RAYNA n'ha -------    Free   Amazon,   of  Thendara   Guild
House. At the time Magda Lome masqueraded as a Free Amazon to reach Sain Scarp, Rayna was enroute to Nev-arsin with Jaelle, Camilla, and others from this Guild House. She was unusually tall, SC 137.
razors A valuable gift on this metal-starved planet. Old-fashioned straight razors, not disposable blades, of course, FT 235-36.
READE ANDRUSSON  See ANDRUSSON.
READE, Commander JOHN TE Legate, Thendara, one of the predecessors of Donnell Ramsay and Dan Lawton. Stocky, dark, grizzled, with a permanent frown, SD 54.
The Spacemen's Orphanage, see next entry, was named after him.
Reade Orphanage for the Children of Spacemen Official title of Spacemen's Orphanage (q.v.).
Reception Night Probably an evening scheduled for official visitors or the like, not described; Kennard Alton's mother had them, SD.
red hair Almost unknown on Darkover except among the Comyn—and a few Terrans who were mistaken for Comyn. See hair.
red-light district Within the "red sector" (q.v.) of the Trade City, an area notable for brothels, bordellos, etc. Every spaceport had such a district, SC 226.
red menace Dr. Marco Zabal's name for a red-leaved plant which produced a green contact dermatitis, DL 28. Possibly, like various Terran plants (Rhus sp.), its leaves elaborated a toxin related to urushiol.
red-rush Native herb used as cardiac stimulant, FT 200. Possibly comparable to digitalis (Terran fox-glove).
"red sector" Area in any Trade City containing wineshops, gambling halls, pleasure houses (not limited to brothels), low theatres and nightclubs, dealers in pornography and contraband, rooming houses, etc. They are found in every TE planet with a spaceport or a Trade City. "Missy" (q.v.) stayed in this sector in Thendara Trade City, WW 121 (135), as she had done on a dozen other planets.
red-thing-that-eats-woods Translation of Trailmen term for fire, SD 125.
Regent 1. Regent-heir of a Domain: see next entry. 2. The Hastur of Hastur, acting ex officio as regent of the Crown in the (constant) minority or disability of the Elhalyn King. See DANVAN.
Regent-heir Designated heir to a Domain. Danvan Hastur was Regent-heir of the Crown of the Domains ex officio, HH 84; Dyan Ardais was Regent-heir of Ardais until his father's death, HH 368; Regis Hastur was designated Regent-heir to Hastur, HH 374. This status was relinquished on assuming lordship of a Domain.
Regis Hastur in full, regis-rafael felix alar
HASTUR y ELHALYN, HH 42, to which the patronymic ni-Rafael could have been added. Posthumous son of Rafael Hastur, HH 13, grandson of Danvan Hastur, brother of Javanne (qq.v.), born about 15V4 years before the Sharra Rebellion.
At age 10 to 12, fostered at Armida, where he became bredu of Lew Alton; this was climaxed by a donas amhu (q.v.), in his 12th summer, but after he "gave too much trouble" (unexplained), Danvan sent him to Nevarsin Monastery school, HH 46, where he spent almost three years, taking far too seriously the monks' phobia about homosexuality, and repressing even the memory of his own experience—and therefore shutting down his laran. At Nevarsin he learned the elements of swordplay from the arms-master, HH 28, though he had begun to learn them earlier from Kennard Alton, HH 76; he learned mountaineering, PS 30 (30), as well as certain techniques akin to Terran Tibetan yoga for dealing with extreme cold. At age 15 he was already tall (5 Terran feet, 10 inches = 1.78 standard meters) though in WW 171 (195) the figure was given as 5 feet 9 inches (1.76 meters) (probably barefoot); archetypal Comyn in appearance, fiery red hair. He wanted to go offworld in TE service, PS 38 (38), HH 14, 48, feeling that without laran he had nothing for the Comyn; but Danvan Hastur maneuvered him into promising to delay that decision for three years, which time he must spend in Cadet Guards, HH
49-50. There he developed expertise in swordplay from Dyan Ardais, HH 76ff, at the cost of many bruises and a ghastly reputation. But Regis there also became friends with Danilo Syrtis (q.v.), who—having the Ardais Gift of catalyst telepathy—awakened his laran by mere touch. After Regis learned of the treachery and misuse of laran (see DYAN) leading to Danilo's expulsion in disgrace from the Cadets, he visited Danilo in Syrtis, where Regis swore to vindicate Danilo's honor, and they swore the oath of bredin, Danilo becoming Regis's paxman and bodyguard, just as Danilo's older brother Rafael had been for Regis' father Rafael.
Regis began developing what was to become a nearly fatal case of threshold sickness (q.v.), brought on by the sudden awakening of laran complicated by his continuing attempts to suppress awareness of his own homosexual feelings for Danilo, because he believed he would be no better than Dyan Ardais: so heavy was the double shadow of Dyan and Nevarsin.
Despite illness, Regis fled back to his grandfather to alert the Comyn to Dyan's crime, at which time Kennard Alton verified everything telepathically. At this point Regis was ready to swear fealty to Comyn, but owing to his illness, Danvan would not administer the oath. In the meantime, Regis had learned that mountain men in a TE helicopter had kidnapped Danilo, probable destination Aldaran; his oath to Danilo bound him to attempt rescue. Realizing that he might not return alive, Regis adopted his 4-year-old nephew Mikhail Lanart, one of the three "Lanart angels" (q.v.), as his designated heir, renaming him Danilo Lanart Hastur, and departed for Aldaran, where he was reunited with Danilo, only to share his confinement as Danilo refused to use his Gift to awaken Beltran's laran or to co-operate in any other way in the use of the Sharra matrix (qq.v.). Eventually they escaped to warn the Comyn of the Sharra work; meanwhile, Regis nearly succumbed to threshold sickness, which Danilo managed to cure when Regis finally learned to accept himself as an ombredin (q.v.), no longer repressing what had happened between himself and Lew, HH 29, 265, 288, 293, which repression had been blocking his laran, HH 335. Danilo accepted him, but it is not clear whether they then became lovers—though the relationship was an accepted fact in later years, WW 156(177).
Regis took part in a raid-battle with Kennard and others against Kadarin's men, WW 114, but Kadarin was not captured.
At the next Comyn Council meeting, when Dyan named Danilo heir to Ardais in reparation for the wrong he had done the boy, Regis swore allegiance to Comyn and showed them his own designated heir, HH 375-77, renouncing his long-cherished dream of going offworld.
His beard did not sprout until later. He took part in the Allison Expedition, PS 28ff (28ff), having learned (at Nevarsin?) some words of the Trailmen's language, PS 30 (30); by this time, not from any withdrawal from Danilo, but because he took seriously his Comyn obligation to furnish heirs of his body, he had fathered five sons, three legitimate, "within the last two years," PS 38 (38-39). As there was no mention of a wife, pre-
sumably all were nedestro and those with highest laran potential (reddest hair?) legitimated.
Some years later, Regis took part with Lew Alton in the final battle with Sharra, wielding the legendary Sword of Aldones, temporarily overshadowed by the Aldones god-form, SA 154 (173), after which his hair turned white.
When Regis was 24, his white hair in pageboy cut, WW 12 (10), made him easily recognizable, a ready target for Worldwreckers assassins. Between his own laran and Danilo's unsleeping efforts, Regis managed to elude no less than 14 of these assassins, though they did manage to kill two of his sons, a third (Melora's child) being spared only by Keral's killing the assassin first, WW 106 (119).
Realizing that with the incompetence of the Elhalyn, the disappearance of the Altons, etc., the old power of Comyn Council was gone, Regis—sharing supervision of Project Telepath (q.v.) with Dr. Jason Allison—conceived the idea of replacing Comyn Council with a broader Telepath Council, WW 171-72 (196), 186 (212).
Though Regis could not have been compelled to marry until age 24, HH 375, and though Comyn Council by then had no longer the power to enforce any such law (let alone against the Regent of the Comyn!), Regis nevertheless married Linnea Storn-Lanart (q.v.); their baby was due to be born shortly after Keral's, WW 186 (212), though the marriage was to come later.
In retrospect, Regis appears to rank with Valdir Alton as an innovator, and with Danvan Hastur as a statesman; he became the pivotal figure in the later development of Darkover as a locale for the breeding, investigating, and encouragement of psi abilities.
Regis IV Hastur, King Ages of Chaos. Decreed that no matrix circle might use the great screens outside established Towers, FT 90.
"The days of Regis IV" became proverbial for legendary antiquity, FT 50, 55.
Regis V Hastur, King Reigned during Ages of Chaos. He was attacked in his bed by assassins, losing a leg. He sent his monkish brother Rafael to battle in his stead. Deep in rapport with Regis, Rafael—himself no swordsman-found the King's mind guiding his sword via matrix contact, enabling him to kill seven opponents in simultaneous combat, SS 116ff.
REIDEL Paxman to Damon Ridenow's father, SS 17; long since a Guard in Damon's service. His brother was in Ellemir's household, SS 18; his uncle had been in the Guards for 40 years, SS 19. He played the lute (q.v.), SS 19. He was killed by an invisible catman, SS 21.
Reino Frostbitten workman near Armida, died of cold, buried in the snow, FT 78. Fr. Terran (Sp.) reino "royal."
reis A coin, probably of copper; equivalent in Terran credits not given, relation to the sekal not given, relation to the standard copper bar or ingot not given. The name means "royal" (casta) in feminine form, and derives less from the archaic Terran (Portuguese/Brazilian) coin name than from the Terran (Spanish) reino, also meaning royal.
A few years after the Sharra Rebellion, 10 reis was the duty on importing one pair of binoculars and one camera, types not specified, from offworld, SA 14 (11).
reish (casta? cahuenga?) "Stable sweepings." The term is thought to be echoic of the sound of a broom sweeping across a wooden floor.
Its accidental resemblance to the name of the coin doubtless gave rise to sarcastic plays on words. Compare the archaic Terran theory that there is some kind of symbolic connexion between money and excrement.
relay screens At Old Tower (Thendara), Arilinn, Comyn Castle Tower, SA 50 (52), and a few others; the largest were giant screens formerly used for teleporting technicians from one Tower to another, FT 306. Cf. PK transmitters, SA 83-85 (91-93).
relays Telepathic message service. A person wishing to send a message contacted the relay in the nearest city, who would in turn contact his/her counterpart in the city nearest the destination; even highly complex verbal messages could be so transmitted, PS 79 (86). Regis Hastur keyed into it via an unnamed woman at the very edge of the Terran Zone in Thendara, who was to go to Dr. Randall Forth with a telepathic message from "Dr. Jason Allison."
Renata Female given name (casta, possibly also mountain dialects?). Directly from Terran (Italian) = "reborn woman," though this meaning was generally unknown on Darkover as reincarnation was not publicly acknowledged in Darkovan religions.
Renata Woman in Caer Donn area. Daughter of Darnak, sister of Tara; had been a childhood playmate of Magda Lome, frequent visitor to the Lome household, shared dancing lessons with Magda, and spent at least one Midwinter Night with her, SC 219.
reps TE slang/abbreviation for reprimands/demerits. Seven meant automatic expulsion from one's job. Dan Barron had 5 because of inattention—during the time when he was possessed or overshadowed by Storn, WD 5-6 (1-3), 10, (8), 12(10).
rescue missions  Several are described:
1.  Shainsa rescue mission: A group of Free Amazons from Thendara Guild House under Kindra (q.v.) were hired by Rohana Aillard, Lady Ardais, to break into Jalak's Great House at Shainsa in the Dry Towns, and rescue Rohana's kinswoman Melora and her daughter Jaelle. The story forms part I of SC.
2.   Sain Scarp rescue mission: Magdalen Lome, TE agent, on advice from Rohana, about 12 years later, posed as a Free Amazon to go to Sain Scarp in the Hellers and ransom her ex-husband Peter Haldane, but she was unmasked enroute and required to take the Oath of the Free Amazons; after saving Jaelle's life, she and Jaelle went to Sain Scarp and completed the mission instead of going directly to Thendara Guild House where Magda, thereafter known as Margali n'ha Ysabet, was required to take her training as a real Free Amazon. The story forms part II of SC.
3.  After Beltran's men kidnapped Danilo Syrtis, Regis Hastur, oath-bound to Danilo, learned that the boy had been taken to Castle Aldaran, and went there to rescue him, only to become a captive of the Sharra-crazed Bel-tran and Kadarin; Danilo and Regis later managed to escape to warn the Comyn of the truth about the Sharra
matrix. The story forms part of the last half of HH.
4.  The episode in the Catmen's War wherein Damon Ridenow, Andrew Carr, and others at Armida learned that Callista Lanart, sometime Keeper at Arilinn, was kidnapped by catmen and held in the caves of Cor-resanti, was followed by an armed campaign to rescue her and destroy the Great Cat. The story forms the last half of SS.
5.  In a sense, Kennard Alton's tracking down Larry Montray in Cyrillon's forst after Cyrillon's bandits had kidnapped Larry (thinking they held the heir to Alton), constitutes a rescue mission, but the last half of SD is devoted less to that one episode than the struggles of the two boys to get back to civilization.
resting rhythm   Darkovan term for alpha waves, SS 21.
Reuel Either a personage or a village, at whose wells Robardin, legendary Lord of Carthon, met the chieri Kierestelli, SD 155.
Reuel Male given name among the forge-folk; one of this name is alluded to in the forge-folk settlement at Storn village, near High Windward, WD 65 (83).
RHHOMI Male Trailman of North Nest, healed by Larry Montray, SD 128-29. This act of healing (lancing and sterilization) brought about the Old One's decision to release Larry and Kennard—and the Trailmen's learning to use fire.
RHODRI Old wrinkled hall-steward at Armida, FT 79, 283.
rhufead The holy place at Hali (q.v.), SA 80 (87), 128 (193). The "holy things at Hali" kept therein (including, but not limited to, the Sword of Aldones) figured in Regis's oath of bredin sworn between him and Danilo, HH 163. See notes to "Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda," p. 142
The name is archaic and in form suggests Hellers dialect, from some unidentified Terran (Gaelic) source; rhu "sacred, taboo, preternatural," fead "place, locale" from Gaelic feadh "space" (CG).
ribbons Dry Towns girls, playing grownup, used these to represent chains (q.v.), the badge of respectable wives there, SC 69. Jaelle had a disturbing habit of twisting ribbons around her own wrists in reminiscence of this game, SC 24244.
RICK See STEWART.
riddle-song Any folksong whose words constitute a riddle; common in the Domains. Rohana and Gwennis (qq.v.) knew several, SC 26. They were probably made after the manner of the most ancient Terran Celtic ones, brought to Darkover by the New Hebrides Commune. Terran examples survive in the archaic "Mother Goose" collection, though the tunes have long been lost. It is conjectured that riddle songs were native to the British Isles.
Ridenow Family ruling the Domain of Serrais, replacing the earlier Serrais family. Accent on first and last syllables. Members are often blond rather than red haired, probably because of Dry Towns ancestry (the earliest Ridenows had long intermarried with Dry Towners). Many lack laran; many are as unstable as the Ardais. The Domain castle is at Serrais (locally Serre) in the

upland plateau of the Plains of Valeron. The Domain lord would be styled Lord Serrais.
Colors: gold and green, BS 170, FT 173, 221, 249. (The green and orange, FT 61, represents the nearest equivalent in leather dyes.)
Device and motto are not described.
The Ridenow Gift is empathy (see empath), especially hypersensitivity to nonhuman presences, for which purpose it was specially bred during the Ages of Chaos, SS 44,136.
See also ARNAD, AUSTER, CORUS, DAMON, DIO-TIMA, EDRIC, KESTER, KIERAN, LERRYS, LOR-ENZ, Marcella, MARISELA, MEYSR, VARZIL.
riding A common pastime for both sexes in Alton lands, with or without hawks, FT 271. But it was everyday work throughout the Domains.
riding-skirt A very long divided skirt worn by Domains women on horseback, to permit them to ride astride rather than in the Dry Towns fashion (sidesaddle), SC 60. See saddles.
Rigel IX TE planet. At the time of "Jeff Kerwin Jr.'s" early maturity it was in need of good personnel, BS 8.
rikhi (casta) Title of rank/function in a Tower, equivalent to "under-Keeper" and so translated: generally a Keeper in training.
Callista Lanart would have borne this title for a time under Leonie Hastur.
Leonie Hastur, Keeper, was granddaughter of an unnamed rikhi when Mirella Hastur was Keeper; presumably this rikhi was eventually released from her vows, like Callista, leaving the Tower to bear children, SS 96.
The title is possibly related to Terran (Gaelic) reic "deliver a message," (CG).
Rim, the Collective name for the explored planets at the Rim of the Galaxy, WD 11. Sets of picture cards were commonly sold to tourists. "Jeff Kerwin Jr.'s" alleged grandparents confiscated a set he had bought, BS 6.
Rima   Female given name. See FA T RIMA.
RlMAL One of the stewards at Armida; "rusty voice," FT 270. His brother had seen kireseth flowers blooming in Alton lands, FT 270.
Rimini, Dr. Medical man with TEMS, possibly on Capella IX; advised Conner to go to Darkover, WW 26-27 (26-27).
ring-dance One in which the participants formed a circle and most likely held hands. One such figure was danced by women at Midwinter Festival, SC 218; others doubtless existed.
rings Jewelry ornaments, worn by men (probably also by women, though this has not been mentioned). Jalak of Shainsa sent one back to Melora's people, with the finger on which it had been worn, as a warning to them not to send any more emissaries to the Dry Towns to rescue Melora, SC 36.
Kadarin wore several and used them as weapons, analogous to Terran brass knuckles, HH 308ff.
Robardin Lord of Carthon (q.v.) in legendary times, centuries before the Ages of Chaos; husband of the chieri Kierestelli; father by her of Cassilda, who became the Bride of Hastur (q.v.), and foremother of the Seven Domains. The latter story is in the "Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda," below, p. 142.
Robardin s daughter Cassilda the Blessed; see "Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda," p. 142. Legend has it that being over half chieri, she was emmasca, becoming a woman for love of Hastur, FT 108.
rocket cars Some of these came into use among TE officialdom in Thendara as early as a few years after the Sharra Rebellion, SA 158 (177).
rodents Undescribed gnawing animals, probably mammals, HH 267. It is uncertain if these are native to Darkover or Terran wild rats. If the latter, they were certainly unintentional imports, probably as stowaways on cargo ships; which would explain their ferocity, as on Terra they have long been recognized as one of man's worst enemies. Certain types have been known to invade travel-shelters and victimize occupants, HH 324. Others are surely native, such as the red-furred type, WD 61 (78).
ROHANA AlLLARD-ARDAIS, Comynara Wife of Gabriel-Dyan Ardais of Ardais, SC 58, 109. She had at least three brothers, SC 18. Originally trained to be Keeper at Dalereuth Tower with Melora, FT 333, SC 19, but before training was completed, for political reasons she was married off to the Ardais heir, becoming thereafter not only Comynara in her own right with a seat in Comyn Council as Aillard, but to a second seat as de facto ruler of Ardais, SC 220, 239, due to the increasing debility of Gabriel, who was epileptic. She bore him two sons, and a daughter, Elorie (q.v.). Kyril-Valentine, being the oldest son, was heir to Ardais; the other son's name is not recorded, SC 32, 81.
Small, slight build, flame-red hair, SC 17, slightly graying in later life, SC 100; 6-fingered, SC 192. No mere housewife, she rode horseback astride, SC 60, hunting with hawks, SC 47, 60. When her cousin Melora reached her telepathically from the Dry Towns with the news of Melora's pregnancy with a son and of her daughter Jaelle's ripeness for chaining, Rohana hired a band of Free Amazon mercenary soldiers from Thendara
Guild House under leadership of Kindra (q.v.) to break into Jalak's Great House in Shainsa (qq.v.) to rescue Melora and Jaelle. They did so, though Melora died in childbirth on the way back, SC, part I. Rohana accompanied them, going so far as to crop her hair to pass for a Free Amazon, an act which precipitated grave family trouble. Part of the price of reconciliation with her husband was an unwanted fourth pregnancy, resulting in a stillbirth, SC 267.
Over a dozen years later, Rumal di Scarp kidnapped the TE agent Peter Haldane, mistaking him for his close lookalike Kyril-Valentine Ardais (qq.v.), and served Rohana with a ransom demand. She told TE authorities in Thendara of Rumal's mistake, whereupon Haldane's ex-freemate Magdalen Lome offered to ransom him. Rohana suggested that Magda pose as a Free Amazon to accomplish the rescue on her behalf, without arousing Rumal's suspicions, SC 119, but enroute the ruse was detected, SC part II.
Rohana fostered Melora's son Valentine, but by mutual consent gave Jaelle to Kindra for fostering among the Amazons, an act which at once declared her independence and defiance of Comyn custom, and proclaimed her complete trust and closeness to Kindra, SC 91.
Some years later, she attended Council when Damon Ridenow was named Regent of Alton, FT 298, and was herself nominated as co-custodian of Ellemir, FT 332, but attempted to intercede for her, FT 333.
The name is presumably of Terran origin, but it is uncertain whether its immediate source was Sanskrit rohana "sandalwood" (aromatic wood for incense), Spanish roja "red," or French Rohan, the name of a noble family.
Rome Legendary Terran city, destroyed in war or earthquake sometime between the late XX Century and some centuries before Andrew Carr's day; remembered only by the proverb "When in Rome, do as the Romans do," FT 50.
RONDO Professional gambler; later compulsive gambler on many planets. Because he used psychokinetic force on cards, dice, wheels, &c, he was expelled from gambling halls on many worlds. When this happened on Keef (q.v.), he was beaten nearly to death, WW 21 ff (21ff), and was later persuaded to go to Darkover to join Project Telepath (q.v.), where he took little active role, WW 58ff (63ff).
Small wizened, tanned Terran type, steel-blue eyes, "a shifty look," WW 58 (63).
At the Spring Dance, he teleported himself and a Worldwreckers bomb into outer space, in a supreme and successful effort to prevent its destroying them all—at the cost of his own life, WW 183 (209).
ropeweed Native plant with long tenacious fibres suitable for making rope; roughly analogous to Terran hemp and certain lianas, though it is not recorded if it also yields a psychoactive resin, DL 135.
ROSS, Dr. EWEN XXI Century Terran, in Medic, part of original DL crew, DL 10. Member of Rafe MacAran's first survey team. During the first Ghost Wind he took part in an orgy with Heather Stuart and Lewis MacLeod, DL 59; later paired with Heather. Refused to give Camil-
la del Rey an abortion, DL 111-14. Attempted to keep genetic records, DL 121-23. Refused to believe in Judith Lovat's chieri lover as her baby's father.
rot, black Gangrene, FT 200.
Royal Nest The dwelling of an Old One among the Trail-men. Regis Hastur stayed in the Royal Nest in North Forest when the Allison Expedition reached the latter, PS 67 (73).
rryl Small harplike instrument (various sizes, usually two to three octaves); not much larger than a Terran guitar, FT 160. Supported on player's lap or knees, usually steadied by right hand, strings plucked by the left, though right-handed and two-handed models could be made. The free hand could be used for touching nodes to make harmonics, or for raising or lowering the small levers which sharped or flatted particular notes for re-tuning into other modes (q.v.) or for playing lower notes. It is played with the bare fingers or, for different tone colors, by plectra of metal, bone, leather, or some types of plant stems. Its commonest use has been traditionally in accompanying ballad-singing, one's own or a friend's. Only the largest models, because of the more capacious sounding boards, can be used for concert solo purposes in a large hall; smaller ones could not be heard many meters away, HH 273, 277, FT 77, 86-87, 160, WD 52 (65).
The name is echoic; the initial n is trilled as in Terran Spanish words such as arriba. This instrument is more often played by women than by men, though many Ardais and Aillard men have become professional performers. Thyra Darriell played it, HH (?); Rafaella played it, SC 25. Cleindori played it, WD 52 (65). Callista played it, FT 77, 86-87, 160, and taught Dom Esteban, FT 264.
rubies Gemstones, found near Ardcarran; among the items exported from the Dry Towns.
Jalak of Shainsa promised some to the first of his women to bear him a son, SC 23.
rugs Made either of animal skins (one in Aldaran Castle was of "wolf skin," HH 288) or of various kinds of plant fibres. Common in houses, both on floors and some walls, throughout the Domains, because bare floors are very cold.
RUMAL di SCARP Bandit chief in the Hellers, living about 70 years before the Sharra Rebellion in the Sain Scarp fortress, from which he took that part of his name, SC 114.
Small, wiry, hawk-faced, fierce-eyed, illiterate, SC 189; he had a planetwide reputation for cruelty, with a history of having killed many by torture.
He hated the Ardais family because Gabriel Ardais's father had hanged six of Rumal's men from Castle Ardais walls, SC 114. He kidnapped the TE agent Peter Haldane, mistaking him for his close lookalike Kyril-Valentine Ardais, but either he was unaware that the Ardais have 6 fingers instead of the usual 5, or he did not bother to count his captive's fingers, SC 114-16.
Peter Haldane, on being rescued, professed to Rumal that he would rather spend time in each of Zandru's hells in turn than ever again be a "guest" at Sain Scarp, SC 190.
RUSSELL MONTRAY TE Coordinator (Temporary) at Thendara, SC 98-99. Father of Wade Montray, SC 279, paternal grandfather of Elaine and Larry Montray; greatgrandfather of Lew Alton.
Plump, balding, in 40s at time of SC part II; sensitive to cold; made no attempt whatever to adapt to Darkovan ways. He spoke cahuenga poorly and casta not at
all. In many ways he was a throwback to XX Century Terran (USA) lifestyle, about as misplaced on Darkover as a dinosaur; one wonders why TE Psych Division permitted him to be appointed as Coordinator! Ruyven of Castamir, Dom He married "Lady Crystal" {domna Kierestelli) and forced her to foster all his bar-ragana's bastards, FT 190-91.

X    Elided from su "you" or se "us."
sacrament Kireseth, anciently used in Year's End Festival according to Varzil, FT 252, 254, 341.
saddles In the Domains, men and women ride astride, using saddlehorns in the Terran "Western" pattern, of extreme antiquity; women wear long divided riding skirts for the purpose, SC 45.
In the Dry Towns, women ride sidesaddle so that their undivided skirts do not have to be raised to expose their legs, SC 45, 60, whereas men ride astride.
Safaris Originally, hunting expeditions (XIX Century Terran and earlier); in Terran XXI Century, the name was applied to guided tours through the few remaining jungle areas in glass-sided trucks—a tourist activity comparable to rides in theme parks, DL 26.
The term had to be revived in its original sense for mountain expeditions on Darkover, PS, SD and SC part II.
Sain Scarp The most notorious bandit stronghold in the Hellers at the time of SC part II, roughly 70 years before the Sharra Rebellion, or nearly contemporary with the Catmen's War. Its name was then used as a bogeyman expression, SC 114. It was then commanded by Rumal (q.v.).
It was an enormous fortress off the road between Scaravel Pass and Ardais, two days' ride beyond Scaravel Pass, isolated beyond a long rock causeway, SC 189.
Its name Scarp (from Terran (Spanish) escarpa, of similar meaning) alludes to the slanting walls continuing up from the cliffsides (surrounded by chasms) on which it was built, this feature evidently prominent enough and unusual enough to name the region. (Rumal most like likely took his estate name from the forst rather than from the region.)
On the other hand, the name Sain is of uncertain origin. Cf. Terran (Spanish) sahina or zahina = sorghum, a type of forage plant with "beards," not too unlike certain native species in the mountains which provided meagre grazing for pack-animals. There is also Terran
(Spanish) sain, meaning animal fat or grease, a less likely source.
Samarra Planet colonized by TE, important enough to have a Legate.
Lew Alton spent some time there between the Sharra Rebellion and his return to Darkover, SA 5 (1). Dr. Jason Allison thought he had been born there, PS 6 (2-3). The name of one Legate is recorded: Haig Marshall. His daughter Kathie was the "true twin" of Linnell Aillard (qq.v.), and was teleported from Samarra to Darkover to remove the Sword of Aldones from Hali, SA 85-87 (93-95).
sandal-wearer Derogatory cahuenga epithet for an effeminate, i.e. a man who would not wear boots and who therefore remained unfit for riding and/or combat, SA 46 (48), WD 30 (35), 31 (36-37). Sandals were ordinarily worn only indoors, or by TE personnel, WD 25 (28). Colryn: "I'm no sandal-wearer, to sit and wear my eyes out over printed pages!" WD 74 (95).
The meaning is totally different either from the term translated as catamite, or from ombredin (qq.v.); those could be used in modes other than the derogatory. Its thrust is not sexual behavior but incompetence at necessary masculine pursuits.
sand-rat Desert mammal, possibly a rodent; found in the Dry Lands, SC 49.
sapient XX-XXI Century Terran term, equivalent to the later TE designation IB (q.v.), i.e. having intelligence of approximately human level but not necessarily of human-oid form, DL 76. Sapient species other than standard Terran-type humans apparently were found on planets colonized before DL: one simian, one felinoid (are these the Mekhar people in HUNTERS OF THE RED MOON?), two unclassified, DL 64. Others were discovered later: cf. the apocryphal (?) Arcturian lizard-people (are these Aratak's people in HUNTERS OF THE RED MOON?). It has been established by TE exploration that larger life-forms will develop sapience wherever natural selection favors brains large enough and convoluted enough to permit its emergence; that sapience is
far commoner than generally believed, and that it is frequently unrecognized because unfamiliar in form and behavior, especially when non-technological. On Terra many sapient genera existed but remained unrecognized as such: among primates, the chimpanzees, gorillas, orang-utans, sasquatch (several species), yeti, "woses" or "abominable snowmen," etc.; all larger cetaceans (dolphins, porpoises, whales); and all species of elephants. By the XXI Century most such Terran species were extinct, DL 76.
On Darkover, the sapient races include among the primatoids the chieri, Trailmen, and humans; among the unclassifiable cralmacs, kyrri, and possibly the catmen and the Ya-men.
sarm-nuts No data except that they grow near Ardais and are of little value, SC 252.
scan-and-destruct tape Terran tape-loaded sound recording, common in espionage since antiquity, set to self-destruct after a single playback, WW 11 (8).
Scaravel (accent first and third syllables) High mountain pass in the Hellers, on the main road from Thendara to Ardais, two days' ride short of Sain Scarp, SC 180.
The name apparently conveys the image of a scar on the side of either something sail-shaped (the mountain contour?) or veil-like (from the cloud cover); cf. Terran (Sp.) escara, "scar, eschar," and vela "sail" or velo "veil," from the pass' appearance of being carved into the mountainside.
Banshees nest nearby. One attacked the pack animal accompanying Margali n'ha Ysabet and Jaelle n'ha Melora enroute to Sain Scarp, SC 185-86.
Snowdrifts normally close the pass some days before Midwinter.
scavenger wolves Native animals; see wolf, SC 180. They turn predatory under winter blooming of kireseth, FT 269.
schools The best-known native one is that run by the monks at Nevarsin (q.v.). Smaller schools appear to have been run in various cities but we have no data on the subject. However, they were evidently not compulsory and in many areas children did not attend at all; see literacy.
The School for Children of Spaceport Personnel is run by TE authorities; it is located in Quarters B, TE buildings, Trade City, Thendara. It covers kindergarten to pre-university levels, including such subjects as Terran history, literature, early space explorations, and mathematics, but not Darkovan studies; the reason is that spaceport personnel, including their families, could be shipped halfway across the Galaxy at a few days' notice, and the school's main purpose has always been to teach what TE personnel will be able to use anywhere in the Empire.
Larry Montray briefly attended this last, SD 16-1 7.
SCOrpion-atltS Name given by Lewis MacLeod, DL 35, to a native insectoid species, 40 to 60 mm long (under 2 Terran inches), bright orange and green color. Abdominal segments end in a mobile curved tail furnished with poison gland and sting. Mouth parts include fangs, suggesting that this species feeds on blood once its victim is
immobilized. The venom is a neurotoxin comparable to that from Terran cobras, causing agonizing pain, massive swelling in the stung parts, prostration, cardio-vascular distress, respiratory distress, paralysis, collapse, coma and death within a few days; the function of prolongation of life in the victim is evidently to afford ample fresh food for hivemates from the same mound.
One of these killed Marco Zabal, the event which led to the award of this name, DL 35, 53.
They have been known on occasion to invade travel-shelters; Regis and Danilo made this discovery, HH 324, and were forced to sleep that night in the stables.
scorpions Translation of a casta (and cahuenga?) name for a native arthropod notorious for extreme toxicity of its sting; possibly same as preceding. On the other hand, it may well refer to Terran scorpions, in which case they would have been unintentional imports, stowaways in cargo ships.
Zandru was said to own them, SA 113 (125), using them to pursue wrongdoers.
scorpion whips Only in the phrase "Zandru send him scorpion whips!", e.g., HH 160, said of some spectacularly evil person; much more graphic than its ancient Terran counterpart "May he rot in hell!"
Scott TE family in the Hellers, some members attached to the Aldaran household. See the Aldaran and Alton Lineages, pp. 157ff. Some members had chieri ancestry, imparting the high laran and the extra finger. Several members played an important part in the Sharra Rebellion. See Zeb, MARJORIE, "RAFAEL."
Some of the Scotts, notably "Rafe" and Marjorie, were fostered at Aldaran by Kermiac's order, HH 1 72ff; their mother and Thyra's, Felicia Darriell, was Beltran's foster-sister and had been an attendant on Kermiac's wife Lauretta, during whose advanced pregnancy Ker-miac fathered Thyra on Felicia. At least some members of this family were cristoforos.
screens  See relay screens, monitor screens.
s'dei par servu Casta formula, perhaps "I gave myself to your service," (CG). Less elided form than z'par servu, the latter being more commonly found, HH 173. Polite formula used in giving one's own name and/or in answer to a summons from someone of higher rank, etc.
s'dia shaya (cahuenga, from casta) "You lend us grace." The proper reply is z 'par servu or s 'dei par servu, though more elaborate forms are in use.
Etymologically, the s is from se = us, dia = you lend/ give/share/afford, shaya = grace.
Sea of Dalereuth That area of the ocean nearest the Dal-ereuth region, SA 128 (142).
secain Wild mountain dance, of great antiquity, generally regarded as licentious. Lew Alton danced it on Vainwal with Dio Ridenow, a year before SA, shocking everybody; and again at Midsummer Festival, SA 102 (113).
seconde Chief officer of Guardsmen under a Domain Lord or other Comyn commander. Not precisely equivalent to any TE military rank. The translation "lieutenant" is taken in the archaic sense of "deputy," "brevet commander," SS 86. In casta, more likely to be from Terran (Spanish) su conde "your overseer," than from English
"second (in command)," or French seconder "to back up, assist," both of which have been taken as possible sources.
sedan chairs A very uncommon type of conveyance in Old Thendara: a curtained chair carried, presumably on a pair of runner poles, on four men's shoulders. "Jeff Kerwin, Jr." saw one containing a veiled woman, a Keeper?, BS 65. Probably limited to disabled people(?).
sekal Small coin of little worth, not copper, probably silver or some silver alloy, SA 115 (128), SC 45. Its low value was proverbial, as in phrases like "not worth a sekal." Two of them would buy a small (doughnut-like) twist cake, SD 23.
Its exchange relationship to the TE credit or the reis is not known.
The casta name is more likely from various Terran (mostly Spanish) words from the root sec- meaning "dry," hence "dry fragment, a crumb," rather than from Terran (English, from Hebrew) shekel, a slang term for money.
Serrais (accent last syllable) Ancestral estate of the Ridenow Domain, FT 5, WW 13 (10), site of its Castle; the Domain Lord housed a Guardsmen's HQ in the area, SS 18, similar to other Domain lords in their own estates. See following entry. The Ridenow Domain Lord is properly called Lord Serrais, SS 18, HH 84.
Serve (accent last syllable) Mountain dialect form of Serrais.
Serva (casta) Servant, common gender; or as verb, "I serve."
Serva, dom Elided version of polite phrase Su serva, dom(na) = "(I am) your servant, (my) lord (lady)," SS 137, FT 318, HH 228. Cf. Terran (Sp.) sirvo, "May I serve."
servirte See para.
servu   "Service": z 'par servu.
Seven Domains See Domains.
sexual codes Different ones are and have long been in effect virtually as consensual laws though nowhere written down. They vary according to one's station in life (tele-path or no, Comyn or otherwise, living in a Tower or otherwise, mountain or lowland or Dry Towner, etc.) These customs for the most part represent a rational adaptation to planetary social conditions. They are adumbrated as early as DL 132. For convenience we subdivide the known features of these codes according to whether among telepaths or not.
I. Among the telepath castes. Most rules are basically courtesy rules, and have a logical or even inevitable feel to them, except for the peculiar taboos surrounding Keepers.
1. Since within the group (family, Tower circle, etc.), everyone's feelings (including needs, type of desire, and object of desire) are completely known to all the rest, any attempts at coercion, concealment, coquetry games, inculcation of guilt, or pretense, are impossible, and the attempt to alter one's feelings or conceal them from oneself is futile. Regis Hastur had to learn this the hard way with Danilo, late in HH, as Andrew did with Damon, FT 260, 325-27.
2.  Since, within such a group, another's sexual need is felt as one's own, there is an openness of sharing, generally acknowledged in group rapport. This is described in minor detail in BS between the empath Tani-quel and "Jeff" and "Auster," and in much more graphic detail in WW during the "Project Telepath" scenes, climaxing in the Spring Festival orgy. Much of FT is also concerned with this issue.
3.   It follows that there is a very marked spectrum reaching from exclusive monogamy among some couples to a virtual group marriage; but the legal forms of marriage are continued largely to facilitate the transmission of property by inheritance.
4.  People in such a group have no right to define any other member's sexuality, nor to leave each other frustrated. The situation where A wants B but B does not want A is unusual because within the group B will feel A's need as his/her own equally with A feeling B's wishes and needs as his/her own.
5.  It follows from the above that as clothing is not a concealment of sexual excitement or lack of it, within such a group clothing or nudity becomes irrelevant indoors, and the function of clothing reverts to its practical one (protection from cold weather) and its ornamental one.
6.   As homosexual desires cannot be concealed or denied, they had to become accepted within such groups without censure: their possessor might be a brother or spouse, the rest feel his desires as their own. This gives added force to the proverb "Condemn no man till you have walked in his boots." The same holds for incestuous desires.
7.  Inflicting pain is discouraged because others feel it with the victim.
8.  Fidelity is a matter of mutual agreement. However, owing to extreme inbreeding among the Comyn over the centuries (a deliberate policy during the Ages of Chaos aimed at setting up families with particular psi talents or Gifts), there has been recognized in more recent generations excellent genetic reasons for women to choose a variety of fathers for their children. This was adumbrated in DL 132, promptly becoming customary, DL 159ff. There is therefore no stigma on bastard offspring so long as their paternity has been acknowledged.
9.  A corollary of the above is the old custom, deified in the "Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda," pp. 142ff, whereby a husband takes another woman (often chosen by his wife for the purpose) for a bedmate during the last season of the wife's pregnancy and the first season after the birth.
10.  The major exception to the above: Domain inheritance has traditionally been by primogeniture, the estate passing to the oldest son of the Domain lord's catenas union. However, among the Aillards, title and estate passed to the oldest daughter and the children bore the Aillard name through their mothers; this family and the Elhalyn have long awarded Comynara status to their women, unlike other families.
11.   Another exception to no. 8 is that unions between telepaths and nontelepaths are discouraged because of the primary communication failure, which is exactly parallel to that between a normal person and a
blind deaf-mute; the nontelepath cannot know and feel within him/herself the telepath partner's unspoken needs/feelings. This irreducible limitation contributed originally to inbreeding; an obvious answer, not often attempted, was identifying telepaths from nontelepath families.
12.    Random touching (as distinct from an overt caress where appropriate) is discouraged as an intrusion.
13.  Staring at a woman, i.e. looking at her specifically as a sex object, as common among nontelepaths throughout TE, is extremely offensive, being felt not as a compliment but as an intrusion. Lowland folk are much more punctilious about this than are mountain people.
14.  Similarly, a woman will not stare at a man; such behavior would be considered appropriate only in a prostutute.
15.   Lesbian ties between women are common but have traditionally been taken as secondary to the women's main social role, which (outside the Free Amazons) has been as bearers and rearers of children.
16.  In a Tower circle, not only was virginity mandated for Keepers until recent generations (to be replaced by total celibacy during the period of their actual service as Keepers), but no person may physically touch a Keeper, nor direct his/her sexual interest at a Keeper, during the Keeper's period of service. This apparently derives from the earliest Keepers' being chieri or 3A-cbieri in emmasca phase, gender-unstable, and subject to overloading of the channels. Male Keepers were not so treated, but their very existence had long been forgotten.
17.  As male Tower workers experience temporary impotence after prolonged matrix work, the normal compensation is deep prolonged rapport which includes vicarious sharing of others' sexual activity whenever this is possible.
18.  The emotional closeness generated, regardless of gender or age or kinship, produces in a Tower circle something very closely approximating a group marriage (see Nest).
II. Among nontelepaths. The sexual codes are variable. Many regions appear to have copied provisions 3, 6, 8, 9, 13, 14 (these last two far less in mountains than in lowlands), and 15 (mostly by default), while automatically observing no. 11 as telepath lifestyles are alien to them.
Freemate marriages are usual, group marriages are fairly common and were formerly more so, catenas marriage never took hold as it was almost entirely an arrangement for dealing with huge inherited estates.
A few exceptional groups and regions have their own idiosyncratic alterations to the above.
a.   Among Free Amazons, marriage can only be in freemate form, and even then only by the Amazon's explicit desire, not for the man's purposes of family or heritage; see the terms of the Amazon Oath, below, p. 146.
b. Lesbian ties are very common among the Amazons, and may be cemented by a freemate marriage, which ensures proper provision for any children either partner might have.
c.   Among cristoforo families, the ancient monkish taboo on male homosexual behavior survives though its origin has long been forgotten.
d.  In the Dry Towns, whose life style is an extreme form of that common to desert and frontier worlds generally, women were originally a protected caste, later becoming property and then an enslaved caste. A respectable female of nubile age—12 or 13 and up—is her father's property until he marries her off, after which she is her husband's property. This status is rendered visible by chains (q.v.).
e.  A Dry Towns woman not already someone's property, e.g. a stranger or a prisoner of war, is regarded as fair game for the taking. Marriage by capture, or concubinage by capture, has long been accepted. Polygyny is a routine consequence.
f. A woman's principal purposes and sole values in the Dry Towns are as a sex object, a bearer of children (especially sons), and a housekeeper/servant.
g.  There is no taboo on a Dry Towner's taking an active sex role with a boy or younger or weaker man, e.g. a prisoner of war; it is a point of honor (machismo, kihar) to be not only perpetually ready for combat, but perpetually ready to display sexual prowess. Discrimination is not favored.
h. On the other hand, among Dry Towners any behavior which suggests (no matter how subtly) passivity, yielding, gentleness, or any emotion or action considered as feminine or effeminate, is taboo. Even with one's women, gentleness is not expected.
Some of the above features of Dry Towns lifestyle appear to have been copied from the catmen, with whom the Dry Towners have long had trade agreements.
See also: barragana, bordellos, breda, -in, -u, brothels, butterfly clasp, catenas, Creed of Chastity, donas amizu, Free Amazons, freemates, hair, hidden man, homosexuality, lesbianism, marriage, minions, nape, oaths, ombredin, staring, taboos, "those-who-may-not-enter cities," trailmen, virginity, women. Shainsa One of the three Dry Towns (q.v.), the others being Ardcarran and Daillon, WD 87 (113). About 14 days' ride from Thendara and far smaller; the nearest Domains city is Carthon, SC 79, somewhat over two days' ride away. It is a walled city, SC 11, of stone houses whose windowless walls face outward, SC 27; the walls look black from a distance, SC 40. It is built around a central oasis with a town well in the middle of the marketplace area.
At the time of SC part I it was ruled by the tyrant Jalak (q.v.), from his fortified Great House.
Origin of the name is uncertain, but compare Terran (Spanish) zaino, "treacherous, wicked;" also, to be fair, Terran (Spanish) ascenso, ascension, which would connote an acropolis or fortified high place. shallan Sweet, mildly alcoholic, drink. Not classified as a wine because made by fermentation of some native fruit other than grapes, which were Terran imports. Not nearly as potent as firi (q.v.). It is commonly drunk by young people at Festivals, FT 113, and by the most decorous ladies. Linnea preferred it to wine on the Festival Night when she first met Lew Alton, HH 112. See also BS 88,127.
Johnny Ellers, the Baron Munchausen of Spaceforce, claimed that shallan was aphrodisiac, BS 11, proving either that he had never tasted it, or that "great is the
power of suggestion." He could hardly have confused it with raw kireseth extract, as the existence of this last was not generally known in TE. He could conceivably have confused it with shallavan, below.
shallavan Addictive hallucinogenic drug (not a true psychedelic), reputedly made from the same plant which yields shallan (q.v.), capable of scrambling telepathic communication or other use of laran. Somehow Cyrillon des Trailles learned about it and had one of his men give it to Larry Montray to prevent him from using his new-wakened laran against Cyrillon—and from making any attempt to escape, SD 100-03.
SHANI Nurse at Edelweiss. She was in charge of Javanne Hastur's children (the three "Lanart angels" and the twins Ariel and Liriel), HH 228.
shaol Only in the expression "sold like a shaol in the marketplace," SA 30 (29); actually a typographical error for shawl.
SHARRA The goddess of forges and fires, WD 65 (82), represented by the image of a woman wreathed in flames and chained, WD 32 (37-38); symbolically, Fire itself, essential to human life when harnessed, but impossibly dangerous when unrestrained, HH 185, 219, 248. She had been, from time immemorial, worshipped by the forge-folk (q.v.), and recognized as an object of veneration by many families in the Hellers (including the Storns, WD 65 (82), 117 (154), Leyniers, etc.), as an alternative to the cristoforo cult of the Holy Bearer of Burdens, or to the official mythology of the Four (Aldones, Avarra, Evanda and Zandru); see also CYRILLON. Sharra had a palpable reality not ordinarily ascribed to the standard pantheon nor yet to the Bearer of Burdens, especially in that her surviving talismans had been used for generations in mining operations without need of human muscle, most of all by the forge-folk, WD 76ff (48ff). Lerrys (Larry Montray) quoted a common belief that the Sharra cult involved "human sacrifice or something like it," WD 76 (98).
Lew Alton identified her with a legendary Hastur Keeper, SA 151 (170), who supposedly created her prime matrix (see following entry) as an attempted duplicate of the Sword of Aldones, SA 136 (151). The truth may, of course, have been the other way round, and is presently uncertain; for was not Sharra first enchained by Aldones?
The worship of Sharra had its practical side. Until the reign of King Regis IV, toward the end of the Ages of Chaos, WD 138 (183), the forge-folk altars b ore many of the Sharra matrixes or talismans, uncounted centuries old, legitimately used not only as sacred objects of ceremonial veneration but on occasion for invoking fire for smelting ores, or even for locating them deep underground. But as the use of the Sharra matrixes had the side effect of starting occasional forest fires, WD 77 (98-99), a consortium of Comyn lords and matrix workers confiscated all the Sharra matrixes they could locate, and vainly attempted to outlaw the cult. However, they missed the greatest of all the Sharra talismans, which remained concealed for many generations. See following entries.
Ancient legend had it that though Aldones had originally chained Sharra, SA 79 (86), 151 (170), nevertheless if she were ever to break her chains, the world would be destroyed, WD 134 (178). At the Sharra Rebellion (q.v.), she came very near to doing exactly that.
Desideria (q.v.), who knew more about Sharra than anyone else alive at the time of the Sharra Rebellion, regarded her as a living force from some other dimension, uncontrollable and so much at cross-purposes with mankind as to be essentially evil, HH 210, 302, WD 117 (154-55).
Sharra was known by a variety of epithets, mostly of the kind represented by "Flamehair," WD 65 (83), "Child of Fire," "Form of Fire," etc. Understandably, her name was also used as an expletive, PS 37 (38), and elsewhere, as was "Sharra's chains!" BS 69. Sharra Matrix Originally, a name for any of the various matrixes held as talismans by the forge-folk who worshipped Sharra. These were originally legitimately used in mining operations, WD 76-77 (98-99), being at other times kept on her altars. Unfortunately, some of these were in fact weapons constructed during the Ages of Chaos. Toward the end of the Ages of Chaos, even the legitimate use of these sometimes produced the dreadful side effect of forest fires; whereupon a consortium of Comyn lords and matrix workers confiscated all of these matrixes they could locate, attempting to outlaw the worship of Sharra; a move which, though a tactical necessity, was a psychological blunder, as it created a permanent climate of concealed resentment and rebellion. The forge-folk managed to conceal the greatest of all the Sharra matrixes which was not located for many generations; it had been a weapon of mass destruction.
This particular matrix, at least ninth-level and probably much greater, was commonly known as the Sharra Matrix. After the search-and-destroy operation mentioned above was completed, the forge-folk retrieved this matrix, and for many generations kept it on one of their altars. It was mounted in the hilt of a ceremonial sword, set with enough sapphires and platinum to buy a city, SA 40-41 (42), HH 218-19. Some centuries later the Aldarans located and seized it, learning how to wield it, after a fashion. Probably one of the experiments at Aldaran was going on when Dan Barron and "Lerrys" (i.e. Larry Montray) telepathically picked up Sharra's image, WD 32 (37-38), 58 (74), 77 (97-98), for which reason Lerrys recognized Dan's laran, exchanged knives with him (see knives, bredin), and notified Valdir Alton. For unknown reasons the Comyn made no intensive search for it, possibly deducing that as it was in Aldaran lands it would be unlikely that the Aldarans would either surrender it (short of a war) or misuse it.
Old Kermiac taught Desideria (qq.v.) to wield it, which she did at the climax of the Siege of Storn to destroy Brynat's bandit gang, WD 131-35 (174-79), afterwards restoring it to its place of honor on the forge-folk altar, ensuring their loyalty to Aldaran in what must have been one of the more successful pieces of diplomacy of the period, HH 200. The experience turned her hair prematurely white, though she was only 15 at the time; it also left her with a permanent distrust of this

matrix, which she regarded as evil and essentially uncontrollable, HH 210-11. The Comyn learned of this feat but allowed the forge-folk to keep the matrix—another blunder, HH 350.
Over seventy years later, Kermiac, persuaded by his son Beltran, sent Kadarin to Desideria asking that the matrix be turned over to him for use in their circle; which request Desideria originally refused, but finally, reluctantly, assented to after learning that an Arilinn-trained matrix worker (Lew Alton) was part of their circle, HH 210-11. The original plan was to use this matrix to power a spaceship to demonstrate to the TE authorities at Caer Donn that the Darkovan technology was worth their attention—object, trade of technological benefits, even unto weather control and eventual admission of Darkover into the Empire as a functioning participant. Unfortunately, the Sharra matrix was about the worst one which could have been chosen for the purpose.
The 12-year-old Rafe Scott accurately compared this matrix to the sword in an old fairy tale, inscribed "Draw me never unless I may drink blood," which actively craved to wreak destruction, HH 249. The mere proximity of the Sharra force affected the minds of all concerned, ultimately causing the insanity of Kadarin and the Sharra Rebellion (q.v.).
It was later determined that this matrix, through having been used in the destruction of Caer Donn, had activated several localities nearby and continued to draw power from them (energy from the planetary core?), so that it could neither be monitored nor safely destroyed, HH 377. For this reason Kennard and Lew Alton took it offworld for six years—contrary to Comyn law which forbade a Domain lord and his heir to be simultaneously off planet. Kennard died in voluntary exile, Lew retained the matrix.
When Old Hastur summoned Lew back to Darkover, SA 5 (1), Lew brought the Sharra matrix with him, SA 5 (1), 8 (5), presumably lest some other person steal it and learn to wield it. The matrix at once made its presence known to everyone who had ever had anything to do with it, presumably by the usual sign (dreams or visionary images of the Form of Fire). The maddened Kadarin, who had been in hiding for six years, went so far as to swear out a Declaration of Intent-to-Murder (q.v.) against Lew. Dyan Ardais was further warped by it, eventually teaming with Kadarin to gain possession of it, in the vain hope of expelling the Terrans.
Eventually, after a prolonged period of political intrigue and confused struggles, Lew managed to gain possession of the Sword of Aldones (q.v.), and Regis Hastur wielded the latter at a climactic battle, SA 153-54 (171-73), being then overshadowed by the god-form of Aldones, the only force which could effectively combat Sharra. The battle destroyed the matrix and resulted in the deaths of Kadarin, Thyra, Callina Aillard, Dyan Ardais, and possibly Ashara—alternatively, it abolished Ashara's power to overshadow Keepers. This experience turned Regis's hair permanently white.
The Sharra matrix had the property of exposing and emphasizing any weakness, any psychological twist or warp, in anyone in its neighborhood, as testified to in dreams,  HH 266, 284, 292-93, 298, 339, 342-44, and
emotional outbreaks, HH 250-53, 278-79, 281-83, 302-03, 305, not to mention Thyra's unwise pulling of the aged Kermiac into the circle, resulting in his death, HH 250-52, 296ff. Once unleashed, it also produced waking visions, WD 32 (37-38), 58 (74), 77 (97), HH 320; and once it was in full scale use (presumably drawing its fire from the planetary core?), it had the further effect of blanking out all other matrixes for many kilometers' distance, so that anyone attempting to use his/ her own would find no image transmitted or received but the Form of Fire, as Lew, HH 321, 352, and Regis discovered, HH 345.
It was inherently corruptive, HH 302-03ff; note its effects in stimulating the cruel sides of both Beltran and Kadarin.
Merely smashing it would not have been a safe tactic. On the one hand there was no guarantee that a fully awakened Sharra force could not emerge through some other gateway, and on the other hand, crushing the crystal would immediately kill all who had worked with it, HH 361. Sharra Rebellion Kadarin, long notorious as a rabble-rouser, with the aid of Beltran of Aldaran (qq.v.), stirred up the forge-folk and various people living in the mountains near Caer Donn, with propaganda to the effect that the Terrans were denying them and all Darkover the benefits of modern technology—weather control, space travel, modern agronomic methods, labor saving devices, scientific instruments, efficient fire-fighting equipment, good roads, etc.—for their own warped purposes. The proposition: they should all organize as their ancestors had done at the Siege of Storn seventy-odd years ago, only here the Form of Fire would be evoked in a demonstration to the Terrans that native technology was a fair trade for the TE variety, HH 342-65.
When the TE authorities at Caer Donn refused, Kadarin and Beltran made threats, which were ignored, and finally ultimatums, which were also ignored. Kadarin, warped by Sharra, forced the aphrosone-drugged Lew Alton to wield the matrix, using Marjorie Scott as Keeper, and the energy of several hundred local worshippers of Sharra to energize the Form of Fire. Unfortunately nobody realized how deeply warped both Kadarin and Beltran were by now, through proximity to the Sharra matrix. The emotional tone was an inflamed readiness to kill the Terrans one and all unless they surrendered to Kadarin's demands. As a result, Sharra's colossal image lashed out and not only destroyed spaceships, but also burned Caer Donn to the ground.
The Terrans at once mobilized their firefighters and armies, and a brief battle ensued. From then on, many of the mountain people regarded both Aldarans and Terrans as the enemy, ending some 80 years of loyalty, HH 367. Further rebellion was cut off by removal of the Sharra matrix offworld for six years, and in part also by prompt Terran reprisals.
The Sharra Rebellion's main result was an agreement between the TE Legate and Comyn Council to observe the Compact (q.v.) planetwide (which they had refused to do a season earlier), HH 366-67, and to help native authorities enforce it now that all concerned realized that the Compact's original target was not Terran guns
and blasters, but awesome Ages of Chaos matrix weapons such as the Sharra matrix itself, HH 367.
Sharra's chains! A common expletive, BS 69. Probably used less often after one has seen them.
sharug Insulting cahuenga epithet, not translated; implication, among other things, total incapacity for honor, BS 143. Taniquel referred to Ragan by this term.
Probably from Terran (Gaelic) searg, pronounced "sharug," meaning "shrivelled or decayed," CG.
shaya 1. Grace, as in S'dia shaya "You lend us grace" or Z'servu, shaya "I am your servant, Your Grace," BS 19. 2. Diminutive or nickname for the name Jaelle.
Possibly from Terran (Gael.) sith "preternatural," sitheach "fairy, person of the Sidhe," sidhideach "person taken by the fairies," alluding to legends connecting the Comyn with the chieri folk, CG.
sheep Imported from Terra long ago, possibly with the DL Ship; used for meat and wool, SS 65.
shelter-truce Within the confines of a travel shelter (q.v.), all blood feuds are suspended and no act of violence may be committed; penalty, three years' outlawry, virtually equivalent to a death sentence, SC 148.
SHERNA n'ha-------  Free Amazon, from Thendara Guild
House; part of Jaelle's group, enroute to Nevarsin with Jaelle, Camilla n'ha Kyria, and others, when they encountered Magdalen Lome (q.v.), alias Margali, posing as a Free Amazon, and forced her to become a real one by taking the Oath, SC 137ff.
She was young, plump, and fond of sweets, SC 136.
Shield, Dr. Marian TEMS Hospital obstetrician in Thendara. She delivered Regis Hastur's son by Melora (q.v.), WW 102 (113).
Shirina  Ellemir's horse, FT 287.
shockers Regulation TE sidearms, different from nerve-guns or blasters; they shoot bolts of blue flame, PS 54 (57), WW 38 (39). Contraband, of course, BS 19. Rafe Scott wore one during the Allison Expedition. Danilo Syrtis induced Regis Hastur's four guards to give theirs up in Arilinn, WW 38 (39).
shops The Terran-run ones ringing the spaceport in Trade City were like those in Terran Zones on every other planet: tourist gewgaws, liquor, foods (not very authentic), garments (ditto)—everything from "secondhand rag markets" to "luxury fashion centers"—whorehouses, nightclubs, BS 10. Those in Old Thendara were in great contrast. Weather permitting, they were open-fronted, their displays spilling out into the streets, BS 11. Because of local directives, TE personnel rarely saw them and tourists generally did not know their existence.
Sign of Comyn Indelible mark, like a tattoo, affixed by matrix to the skin just above the right wrist. This was imparted to each Comyn child on his/her acknowledgment as Comyn, when the Oath of Allegiance to Comyn was pronounced in his/her name in Council; also known as wrist mark, HH 235, 244, 274.
This was done for Lew Alton when he was 5, when Kennard took the Oath in his name, HH 274.
Regis Hastur directed that his newly adopted son Danilo, formerly Mikhail Lanart-Hastur, be taken to Thendara and "sealed to Comyn" (i.e. the Oath given
and the Sign imparted), HH 235.
Danilo Syrtis was not originally acknowledged as Comyn. However, after being sworn as heir-designate of Ardais, he must have had the Sign imparted, probably during the same Council session, probably on the same occasion as his little namesake.
signals Both Altons, WD 72-73 (93), and Cyrillon's bandits used the mirror-flash or heliograph type, SD 64. See also beacons, bells.
silver A metal much commoner than copper on Darkover, and far commoner on Darkover than on Terra. Uses include jewelry, coinage (small coins worth less than copper coins of the same weight), and in general as a substitute for copper. Its desirable properties for this last included malleability, electrical conductivity and relative freedom from corrosion. In some mountain areas it is easier to come by than glass, WD 126 (169), leading to its more common use for dishes.
singing-woman Translates a euphemism for prostitute, SC 107; compare entertainer. A professional vocalist would politely be called a lyric performer instead.
Sirian bird-women Said to inhabit one of the planets of Sirius, and to wear great blue wings and cloaks of down. Johnny Ellers, BS 11, claimed to have seduced one, which is no evidence for anything but his capacity for telling tall tales. One's mind boggles at the thought of Ellers and his alleged avianoid consort lovingly contemplating their unhatched egg, for all the worlds like John Carter and Dejah Thoris of Mars(!) in one of the archaic pre-Space Age Terran legends. See following entries.
Sirius At least one of its planets is inhabited by human-oids, PS 35 (34). See also following entry.
Sirius IX TE planet. At least one of its humanoid (?) races has a special language spoken only by females, SC 110. It is nowhere claimed that these were bird-women.
six-fathered Insulting epithet implying unacknowledged bastardy, one conceived at an orgy, FT 145. See bastard.
six-fingered hands Such hands, with all 6 fingers on each hand functional, derive from chieri ancestry. Some inbred Comyn stocks, notably Ardais and Aillards, have them.
Kadarin had them, HH 173; so did Cyrillon des Trail-les, SD 86.
skean (Hellers dialect) A short knife, as distinct from a sword. Directly from Terran (Gaelic) skean, sgian, "knife," rhyming with "seen." In casta as a loan word.
skean dhu (Hellers dialect) Small sharp knife generally worn either in one's belt or (in the mountains) in one's boot.
Lew Alton had one, HH 309.
Regis Hastur wore one mountain fashion in his boot, SA 114 (126).
Brynat Scarface wore his at his belt; attempting to use it to stab the blind Storn in trance, Brynat found that Storn's magic electrical net (q.v.) caused his skean to become white-hot, WD 19 (19), 39 (48).
Distinguished from the longer belt knives (such as those exchanged by Regis and Danilo), commonly called daggers.
The name is directly from Terran Gaelic skean dhu
or sgian dubh, "black knife," and the custom of wearing such an object is traced to the New Hebrides Commune people, among whom it was a traditional part of the costume along with kilt, plaid, sporran, cap and boots.
s'KERAL  Childhood name of the chieri Keral (q.v.).
skiri-i-kihu (casta) "Falcon's son." Honorific epithet for any exceptionally brave boy.
Sky Harbor Hotel In Terran Zone, Thendara. Neon-fronted, BS 11.
Possibly built after "Jeff Kerwin Jr.'s" childhood. Several Comyn members met "Jeff" there to get a good look at him; this was to bypass the formalities necessary to gain him admission to Comyn Castle, the Lanart townhouse, or a Tower.
For reasons unknown, Lew Alton stayed there on his arrival from Thendara after being offworld, SA 15 (12), instead of going directly either to the Alton suite in Comyn Castle or to his parents' town house in Old Thendara; this is one of the unintelligible passages in SA. Lew described the place as "Tawdry and expensive," the tiny rooms enough to stimulate claustrophobia.
SO "under(neath)": see acqualle. From Terran (Span.) so, (Fr.) sous, "under."
solar collectors Any apparatus for accumulating solar energy as heat and distributing it evenly within greenhouses, etc., during the winter. In the Caer Donn area, TE houses had them as did some Darkovan houses, HH 201.
Son of Aldones  The first Hastur.
Son of Hastur who is the Son of Aldones who is the
Son of Light  Invocatory phrase, HH 158, SA 79 (86).
son of the Kadarin Common term for any bastard, in the Kilghard Hills on the other side of the Kadarin River from Alton Lands, SA 37 (38). Compare following entry. Said to explain the name "Kadarin" defiantly adopted as a nom de guerre by the part-chieri ex-TE Intelligence agent in HH and SA.
son of the river Translates a cahuenga epithet meaning an unacknowledged bastard; very pejorative, SA 46 (48). Acknowledged bastard children are second only to legitimate ones, have honorable status following that of their father, may be legitimized and may even inherit estates; the Comyn included many such. However, an unacknowledged bastard was thought to have been stigmatized by the dishonor of his/her father refusing to acknowledge his offspring. Legitimization or inheritance is out of the question.
"Southern Cross" Starship that brought Lew Alton back to Darkover, SA 5 (1), 13 (10).
"Southern Crown" Starship that brought "Jeff Kerwin Jr." back to Darkover, BS 8. It would appear that in this period many of the Big Ships were named after constellations or star clusters from Terran star catalogues.
South Polar Ridge Site of a TE Mapping & Exploration expedition on which Kyla n'ha Raineach was the guide, PS 32 (32).
Space Academy XXI Century Terran institution for training spaceship personnel and officers; main site then at a city on Terra called Pensacola. At the time of DL it
was relatively new and had few traditions other than an annual parade, DL 148.
Later called Spaceforce Academy, and under TE it became one of a number of training centers on various planets, SD 17.
Capt. Harry Leicester was trained there, DL 148.
"space" blankets Thin blankets of such construction as to be extremely efficient insulators; standard TE issue to personnel stationed on cold planets, SS 9.
Experiments in this direction had been going on for over 2,000 years previously on Terra. Success was in sight by the Terran XX Century, but nowhere near the theoretical ideal, which is the equivalent of "Maxwell's demon"—allowing molecules to pass only in one direction and even then only if above a certain temperature.
spacedrive Any of the forms of M-AM drive (q.v.). Endurable only by adults under sedation, SA 6 (1), 12 (9), and not at all by young children, DL 10. See also procalamin.
Spaceforce Narrowly, that branch of Space Service (q.v.) ranging from military authorities to paramilitary police, the latter officially Spaceforce Patrolmen but popularly "spaceport police," SC 18-21; these wear black uniforms with TE insignia, HH 41. More broadly, Space Service in general.
One of the patrolmen was deported for selling a Darkovan a TE pistol and reporting it "lost," SC 18-19. See Compact.
Spacemen's Orphanage Common name of the Thendara institution officially called the Reade Orphanage for the Children of Spacemen. In Terran Zone. A white building with white stone steps leading to the entrance, BS 161; the TE star-and-rocket emblem is above the door, BS 34ff. The front room is a reception hall; off to one side is a room containing computer terminals for records of personnel and inmates. The children live in the back halls and sleep in upstairs dormitories, eight per room, BS 162.
Both boys and girls live there. Normally, boys are trained in a trade and given TE-type education, not being released until age 18 owing to archaic TE laws. No details are available on the training given girls or their age of release.
At age 12, "Jeff Kerwin Jr." was released and taken to Terra for safety, while his records were placed in a closed file inaccessible without special credentials.
After the Sharra Rebellion, this orphanage was the only place Kadarin regularly visited on the days when he could safely show up in Thendara, SA 27 (26). The child he visited was his foster-daughter, actually his freemate Thyra's daughter by Lew Alton. See MARJA.
The place was long supervised by a Miss Tabor (q.v.).
spaceport TE Space Service operated them on all colonized planets in the known Galaxy. They have long been standardized in design. They are classified according to capacity (volume of interstellar traffic handled in any given period of time) and according to whether the planet is Open or Closed. They are lit by arc lights and contain the usual features—dispatch/guidance systems, supply and maintenance services, decontamination centers,    Customs,    emergency   medical   and   technical
centers, firefighting units, personnel processing, training units, etc. Some, including the Thendara Spaceport on Darkover, also include extensive quarters for personnel (technicians, patrolmen, authorities, service people and their families), including schools.
The buildings are normally lighted and furnished in Old Terran style, the idea being that everyone is a potential transient, likely to be shipped off world at a moment's notice, so that adaptation to local planetary conditions is a needless frill.
Darkover has three spaceports:
1.  Caer Donn. This was the first built and was always the smallest. It was built possibly a couple of hundred years before the Sharra Rebellion (exact date unrecorded), after the Aldarans signed a Trade Agreement with TE authorities. It remained modern and well maintained until the Sharra Rebellion, when it suffered severe fire damage and had to be rebuilt.
2.  Thendara. This was begun about 152 years before the Sharra Rebellion, under terms of a 500-year lease, SC 82, given by Stefan Hastur, Regent, to TE Space Service, HH 14, 91, SC 81, 95. Hastur had invited the TE people to come there to a more convenient locale than Caer Donn, expecting to keep them under a certain amount of surveillance. Over the ensuing century it was repeatedly expanded, and eventually became the largest on the planet, going into full operation on this scale about 69 or 70 years before the Sharra Rebellion, WW 7 (3). By a few years after the Sharra Rebellion it was twice the size of those on open planets of Darkover's size, five times as large as the regular Class B spaceport, WW 19 (17-18), this due to the unusual volume of traffic it handles as a result of Darkover's location on trans-galactic trade routes. A description of it, shortly before the Sharra Rebellion, is found in HH 13, 41-43; earlier stages are seen through "Jeff Kerwin Jr.'s" eyes in BS 9, and through Larry Montray's eyes in SD 11ff. Its entrance is across Public Square from Public Market, TZ, Thendara.
3.   Port Chicago, "halfway across the planet from Thendara." This was the newest of the three. No data, except that the "Southern Cross" brought Lew Alton here from offworld, SA 13 (10).
spaceport living quarters First building erected by Ter-rans in that part of TZ which was later to become Trade City, Thendara, WD 5 (1).
space rot A disease found on the planet Lanach (q.v.), WW 55 (59).
Space Service TE department in charge of transportation throughout the known Galaxy; training technicians and officers for operating the Big Ships (q.v.), mail rockets, etc.; building, servicing, and maintaining the ships; settting up standard procedures for determining habita-bility of planets, and recording geographic/ecological data (this in Mapping & Exploring division, q.v.); constructing, maintaining, operating, and expanding spaceports. The arm concerned with keeping order in them is Spaceforce (q.v.).
Personnel of all types wear sleeve stars of different colors, patterns, etc., one for each planet on which they have served, BS 9.
Regis Hastur wanted to join, HH 48, much as boys on any planet have done ever since millennia before TE was organized, back when Terran spacemen (XX Century) were still incorrectly called "astronauts" (= sailors of stars) before any had even visited the barren planets of their own Terran solar system.
Special Project A TEMS project studying telepaths, coordinated by Dr. Jason Allison. Ancestral to Project Telepath(q.v.),WW63(67).
spell Swords Common name for certain heirloom swords which contained matrix crystals in the hilts, SS 129. The following are specifically named:
1.   The Sword of Aldones. Kept in the rhu fead at Hali, SS 129, until rescued by the overshadowed Kathie Marshall for Lew Alton and Callina, SA 129 (145); thereafter in possession of Regis Hastur. Its matrix is 10th level and reputedly had been constructed during the Ages of Chaos to bind Sharra (q.v.). A non-Hastur attempting to handle it is administered something equivalent to a high-voltage electric shock, SA 135 (151); but when a Hastur possessing the Gift wields it, he is overshadowed by the god-form of Aldones and during the period acts as the First Hastur, Son of Aldones, Son of Light, SA 152-54 (1 71-73).
2.  The Sword of Hastur, kept at Castle Hastur in Car-cosa. It is said that this would blast as with fire the hand of anyone who drew it for any other purpose than to save the honor of the Hasturs, SS 129. Ages of Chaos origin.
3.  The Sword of Regis V Hastur, SS 117. This king wielded it by remote control while the sword itself was in the hands of his brother Rafael (see Regis V). Possibly the same as preceding. Certainly of Ages of Chaos origin, and kept at Castle Hastur.
4.  Dom Esteban's sword. Originally wielded by Dom Esteban Lanart, Lord Alton, early in the Catmen's War. After Esteban was paralyzed, he gave it to Damon Ridenow and used the matrix and his Alton Gift to impart his own skill to Damon's hand for the victorious conclusion of the Catmen's War. The story is told in the last half of SS.
5.  The Sword of Sharra. This was made by the forge-folk late (?) in the Ages of Chaos, to house the last (?) and greatest of the Sharra matrixes, an unmonitored 9th or 10th (or greater) level matrix weapon from the Ages of Chaos. This matrix required a Keeper plus at least 100 individual devotees of Sharra to visualize and energize the Form of Fire: see Sharra Matrix. Between the Ages of Chaos and the Sharra Rebellion, the forge-folk occas-sionally used it for locating and mining various ores, though their similar use of other Sharra matrixes had triggered enough forest fires to induce the Comyn to confiscate them and outlaw the cult.
spicebread Bread flavored with the pungent aromatic extract from the spicebush (q.v.); commonly eaten at Midwinter Festivals, SC 52.
spicebush Grey feathery-leaved plant, common in the hilly Dry Lands areas surrounding the Dry Towns and between there and the outskirts of the Domains, SC 52. It yielded a pungent aromatic extract, used for flavoring spicebread and probably for other purposes, SC 41.
spices Various types are rubbed into native garments in the Domains, SC 44, 97. This may have been simply for the pleasant aroma (like the incense common in houses), but it probably had the additional function of repelling parasites.
spider silk Web strands spun by spiders (native species or mutated accidental TE imports?), gathered and respun into the fine but very strong threads of which garments can be woven. Too light for outdoor use except ceremonially or at Festivals, HH 359.
Keral wore a tunic of this fabric at the Festival Dance, WW 175 (200).
Narad-zinie wore a garment of it, SD 153.
spiders The native arthropods have probably been confused with accidental Terran irhports. Some species were known on occasion to invade travel-shelters and victimize occupants, HH 324, probably by feeding on blood. See also preceding entry.
stable sweepings Good for fertilizer, HH 175, FT 320. See reish.
Stag pony Native antlered riding animal, WD 98 (129). Melitta Storn learned to ride one, which she nicknamed "Horny-pig."
Stanforth Name of pilot of a TE Mapping & Exploring plane; died in the crash that stranded Andrew Carr in the Hellers, SS 7.
STANNARD Name worn by one of the two agents who contacted "Andrea Closson" and hired her to give Darkover the standard "Worldwreckers" treatment, WW 5 (1).
Starflower   Native 5-petaled species of flower commonly imitated in embroidery designs, SC 239, BS 80. Also an alternative term for the kireseth (q.v.).
Staring A man who stares at a nubile girl on Darkover commits a major offense, in many regions one which would bring an immediate challenge, SS 65, WW 1 77 (202). On the other hand, though well-bred lowland women will not stare at a man, mountain women are bolder in this respect, SC 100. See sexual codes, women.
Star sapphires   Callista wore them to her trial, FT 331.
Starstone  Popular term for any matrix crystal, SS 19.
Stefan Male given name, directly from Terran, in which many different versions exist: Ital. Stefano, Spanish Esteban, English Stephen, originally from ancient Greek Stephanos, "crown."
Stefan (IV) Elhalyn King in Thendara, son of Duvic, father of Derik, HH 49. Died, not competent to rule, while Derik was 5 years old, about 15 years before the Sharra Rebellion, HH 73. Danvan Hastur (q.v.), was at first his chief councillor, later his regent, retaining the regency through Derik's minority and after Derik's death, SA 29 (28), 56(150).
Stefan (IX) Hastur King before the Elhalyn dynasty assumed the throne; crowned in his cradle, HH 55; Rafael Lanart-Alton was his Regent.
Stefan Hastur Regent before Danvan's time; father of Lorill; known principally for having signed a Trade Agreement with TE authorities, leasing them for 500 years a tract of land just outside Thendara for their TZ and  spaceport,  and begun an epoch of good relations
with them, HH 14, 91. By the time of the Catmen's War he was already senile, SC 53, young Lorill taking his place.
He decreed that Terrans must not watch matrix operations, FT 321.
His name is given in mountain dialects as "Istvan," and earlier in some parts of the Kilghard Hills it would have been pronounced and probably spelled Esteban (q.v.).
Sterility virus See virus. Planted by Andrea Closson in the forest; inimical to most other life forms, WW 76 (84). An antidote existed.
Not known if this is a natural life-form from some distant planet or if it is a product of DNA experimentation.
Steri-pac XXI Century Terran term, i.e. sterilized + packet. Unit in the standard Terran Medic Issue Field Kit, containing certain items which had to be kept germfree: rubber gloves, injection materials, certain types of bandages and wound dressings, etc., DL 27.
STEWART, RICK Boy, son of some Space Service man stationed on Darkover; classmate of Larry Montray in school in TEHQ, Thendara. In three years on Darkover, he had not been interested enough to step outside the spaceport, which characterized him as unadventurous and xenophobic. Nevertheless, he wanted to join Space Academy as soon as he was 18 years of age, SD 16ff.
Stop order Directive from TE authorities barring someone from going offworld. One was issued against "Missy," WW 120 (135); another against "Jeff Kerwin Jr.," BS 167; another was issued against Kadarin after the Sharra Rebellion, HH 368.
Storn Noble family in the Hellers, "wilderness nobility," collateral descendants of "seven generations of Aldarans, Aillards, Darriells and Storns," WD 14 (13). Though they had laran and despite the Aillard (and later Lanart) ties, they were not counted as Comyn, probably because of their close ties to their liege lords the Aldarans, who were their nearest neighbors among the Domains, WD 36 (44).

Their castle was called High Windward; see following entry.
The vassals included many of the forge-folk.
For generations they bought and traded in the forge-folk's metallic products, as well as raising and trading in hawks.
They intermarried with Leyniers, Lanarts (thus kin to the Altons), and with Terrans, HH 110-11. See DESI-DERIA and following entries.
The name is almost certainly Terran (Scots), from the place name Stornaway on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, to the northwest of Scotland in the British or "Brictish" Isles. Storn Castle Officially "High Windward," WD 89 (117), in the Hellers. Built by Aldarans during the Ages of Chaos, WD 14 (13), to be impregnable.
It included a tower, called Sunrise Tower (q.v.), of translucent stone.
Its Royal Suite was built over 400 years before the Siege of Storn, for entertaining Hasturs should any ever visit there (it is not recorded that any did). Brynat Scar-face took Allira there as his consort, WD 20 (21). Storn of Storn Full name, Loran-Rakhal Storn of Storn. Brother of Edric, Melitta and Allira; lord of High Windward at the time of the Siege of Storn; slender, frail, pale-haired, blind, WD 89 (117), 94 (124).
His laran was of very high order; he was self-trained.
He could ride, climb, and administer his own estate, but was unable to defend it against Brynat Scarface (q.v.). In the overworld, he located Dan Barron, one of those occasional TE employees with laran, and overshadowed him—one of the worst crimes on the planet— to deliver a message to Melitta to accompany him to Aldaran where they might be able to obtain help. But as Aldaran had no standing army, the help consisted of Kermiac's ward Desideria Leynier, who raised Sharra to destroy the bandits.
He was driven out of Dan Barron's body by a telepathic damper at Aldaran, WD 118 (157-158).
He later married Desideria Leynier, WW 41 (43). Stuart  XXI Century and earlier Terran (Scots) surname.
See HEATHER. Stuff   Euphemistic translation of reish (stable sweepings),
HH 175. SU   (casta, cahuenga) "Your" or "you," as in Su serva,
dom(na) = "Your servant, Lord (Lady)," FT 228, 318. sulfur Mined in the Dry Lands, and exported to the Domains, especially Ardais, where it was commonly used in manufacture of paper for books and documents, SC 252. sun Cottman's (Darkover's) star, alias the Bloody Sun (not Sol). Medium sized dark red star, technically a Type M red dwarf, not visible from Terra, long known only in TE star catalogues. Its spectrum is such that the Darkovan sky varies during the day from garnet to lilac. The Darkovan day has been divided since legendary times into 28 hours, the reason for 28 unknown except to those Terrans who were aware of Darkover's status as one of the first of the "Lost Ship" colonies, though it could have been deduced from the identity of the hour (1/28 Darkovan day) with the standard TE hour, which
was the ancient Terran hour.
sun fire Kindled at Midwinter Festival rituals on many TE planets, FT 232, 235.
Sunrise Tower Not one of the regular matrix circle towers, this is in Storn Castle (High Windward); it is made of translucent stone, and it was Storn's chosen place for using his bird hood for astral travel and teleportation, WD 17-19 (16-19), 39 (48).
"super-cobalt planetbuster" Apocryphal, one hopes, TE doomsday machine, evidently some kind of thermonuclear device, PS 28 (27).
Supreme Tribunal The highest TE judicial authority, location unspecified but probably not on Darkover. Dan-van Hastur raised the question of bringing up Compact violations at Aldaran and among local Terrans to this authority, HH 92.
surcoats Padded garments, sleeveless, belted, covering a body from neck to knees; used as body protectors in sword practice. They are regulation issue among Cadet Guards, and customary elsewhere especially when youngsters are being trained in swordplay. They afford only partial protection, since the wooden practice swords can still inflict serious bruises or even break bones, HH 144. See "love-pats," swords, sword practice.
Surveillance A division in TEHQ, Thendara, notorious for keeping monitor tapes and films on personnel, PS 8 (5).
swing-bridges Living bridges built by Trailmen. They consist of rope or more often liana loops spaced several meters apart, successive loops being reached by brachia-tion; the loops are secured at top but free to swing below, PS44ff (46ff).
Kyla n'ha Raineach negotiated one, with difficulty, whereas ordinary Darkovans and Terrans find them impossible.
Sword of Aldones Said to have been created to bind Sharra, "forged for the hand of a god," and kept in the chapel at Hali since, apparently, some time in the Ages of Chaos—nobody then alive knew how to wield it, SS 129, but Regis Hastur discovered how, SA 152-54 (171-75). See spell swords.
Sword of Hastur  See spell swords.
Sword of Regis V  See spell swords.
sword practice Most boys on Darkover begin it at about age 6, SS 114, using grillwork masks, wooden swords (practice swords) with leather grips, SS 114. This type of practice and equipment remained standard in the Cadet Guards, HH 76.
swords Their first use on Darkover was ceremonial, DL 148. However, Camilla had a vision of their later use in battle or duel, DL 148. Later, after the knowledge of how to make propellant explosives had been forgotten, swords, knives, and daggers became and remained the main combat weapons until the Ages of Chaos when matrix weapons decimated the planet. When the Hastur King persuaded surviving Comyn lords to agree to the Compact (q.v.), ending the Ages of Chaos, swords, knives and daggers again became and remained the main weapons used in combat. Skill in their use, especially in
swordplay, was considered essential to survival; it was a major part of Cadet Guard training.
However, by the time of the Catmen's War, SS 113, Terrans were already known to use swords only for sport, a fact not lost on the Aldarans (who had remained in continuous touch with Terrans at Caer Donn). And so, shortly before the Sharra Rebellion, Kermiac of Aldaran could refer to them (in conversation with Lew Alton) as "toys of honor and tokens of manhood," HH 215, correctly pointing out that Lew had last used one against common horse-thieves, HH 214. See Compact.
Training was done with wooden swords, called "practice swords" (q.v.), both in schools (including Nevarsin) and the Cadet Guards, HH 76-77, 144-45.
However, steel swords were in use among the Cadets, mostly for ceremonial purposes, e.g. parades, honor guards. Part of the ceremonial expulsion of a cadet included breaking his sword, HH 137-40.
Among the greatest swordsmen in the history of of Darkover were King Regis V Hastur, Dom Esteban Lanart, and Dyan Ardais (qq.v.).
Free Amazons are forbidden to wear swords, SC 22, 214, though they have always used daggers and knives. Despite the prohibition, some did learn how to use swords; see N1RA.
Swords used in the Dry Towns are long and much more curved than those used in the Domains, SC 22. Some Dry Towners were known to smear the blades with poison so that even a very minor wound might be
crippling or even fatal.
Sybil-Mhari Scandalously promiscuous, FT 42, no other data. Is she the protagonist in "The Waterfall"?
Syrtis Family of mountain nobility, kin to Ardais and Altons; long vassals of the Hasturs, HH 72; of high enough rank that some of its members married into the Comyn. Formerly from around Carthon, WD 102 (135), later settled on an estate which they named after the family, located in the Kilghard Hills, about 4.8 kilometers (3 ancient Terran miles) from Edelweiss (q.v.), HH 154. The family long since became converted to the cristoforos, HH 68, 160; their boys were sent to Nevarsin for education.
The three most illustrious members were Dom Felix (long hawkmaster to the Hasturs), Rafael, and Danilo (qq.v.). See also Loran.
Origin of the name is not certain, probably the resemblance in form to Terran (Greek, Latin) syrtis "a quicksand" is coincidence; either of two Terran (Spanish) root words could account for it: sirte "hidden rocks, quicksand, hidden danger" or surtir "to furnish or fit out" (e.g. as a quartermaster or supply officer). If the "quicksand" meaning was correct, this would have been a location name, perhaps dating from when the family was located near Carthon, where the river Kadarin might well have created quicksand areas, if either of the other meanings is correct, then presumably the occupation or characteristic would have given rise to the name.

taboos Darkovans have few, no more and no less irrational than those recorded for other TE planets. These are described:
1.  Meddling with another's mind—including (though not limited to) overshadowing (q.v.), as Storn did to Dan Barron, WD passim, as Ashara did to a succession of Keepers, SA, as Dyan Ardais attempted to do to Danilo Syrtis (here, intimidation rather than overshadowing), HH.
2.  A Tower matrix worker may not handle kireseth flowers or the raw extract, evidently because of the uncontrolled side effects (including aphrodisiac properties), FT 163, 277.
3.  A Tower matrix worker may not entertain lustful thoughts about a Keeper. Among telepaths, lustful thoughts were in some circumstances equated to rape.
4.  5.6. See nudity, FT 130.
7. Frank discussion of sex "across the generations," FT 142-43.
8. Shedding bredu's blood, FT 326-27.
TABOR, Miss Terran, supervisor of Spacemen's Orphanage for over 50 years. She was not really young when "Jeff Kerwin, Jr." had been under her thumb, still older by the time Marja was placed there by Kadarin, SA 159 (178).
tallath Native tree species. Its wood was used for window-sills, frames and similar fixtures, including those in the Spacemen's Orphanage, BS 37. From the name, one can immediately deduce that the wood is reddish in color (see following entry).
"Jeff Kerwin Jr." remembered correctly that he had carved his initials "JAKjr" in Universal (TE) Alphabet in a windowframe of this wood, and later found them there, BS 162-63. See BARRON.
Tallo "Red" or "copper," nickname for a redhead. Ken-nard Alton hung this nickname on Larry Montray, SD 9,13.
Others at Spacemen's Orphange gave it to "Jeff Kerwin Jr.", BS 22, 37, 163. For unknown reasons, the nurses tried to suppress this nickname, and "Jeff" went so far at age 11 as to beat up one Hjalmar for calling him that.
We may conjecture its distant ancestor as Terran (Sp.) caldero, which meant "copper" in the sense of a (copper) cauldron; cf. Terran (Spanish) caldear = "to heat (metal) to redness."
TANIQUEL Member of Arilinn Tower Circle when "Jeff Kerwin Jr." was brought in. Empath; possessed Ridenow Gift, BS 125. Briefly she was his lover, BS 119-20, then when she felt "Auster" had greater need of female companionship, she went to him; when "Jeff" failed to understand this routine custom in Tower circles and became jealous, attributing it (incorrectly) to fickleness or preference for Auster, she took a dislike to "Jeff" as a barbarian.
The diminutive form is Tani, BS 27.
TANYA A nurse (native, not Terran) in TEMS Hospital, Thendara, attached to "Special Project A," WW 70 (76). The name is possibly either a dialect diminutive form of Taniquel or from Terran (Spanish) taher, "to play a musical insturment."
tapes When not otherwise specified, generally refers to Educator Tapes, among which some of the commonest are language tapes, used for imparting offworld tongues to TE personnel before departure to a new planet. Larry Montray obtained cahuenga tapes from Transfer Center in Terra, SD 9.
Tara Female given name in the Hellers, directly from Terran (Gaelic). A girl of this name, daughter of Darnak, living in the Caer Donn area, was a childhood playmate of Magdalen Lome, sharing dancing lessons with her, SC 219.
tartan Ancient Terran (Scots) name for a type of rough woolen cloth, woven in checkered or crossbarred patterns such that the same colors and widths of stripes, in the same order, run along the warp as along the woof. Used for cloaks, blankets (e.g. the cloak Andrew Carr found in the herdsman's shelter, SS 30) and certain mountain garments, such as the kilt or filibeg used for ceremonial purposes in the Hellers. Dyan Ardais wore tartan (kilt, plaid, sporran etc.), as part of the archaic costume for dancing the sword-dance in Festival Night shortly before the Sharra Rebellion, HH 107. The custom is now known to have been preserved by descendants of the New Hebrides Commune, which originally included both wearers and weavers of this type of cloth, DL 147-48, as well as those who knew the traditional dances and the dronepipe tunes thereto.
TE  Herein, the abbreviation for Terran Empire.
tea Hot drink brewed by infusion from any of a variety of local aromatic herbs, DL 134, FT 79. See also bark-tea and jaco.
TEHQ Herein, abbreviation for local Terran Empire Headquarters.
Telepath Council Successor to Comyn Council, founded by Regis Hastur about 9 years after the Sharra Rebellion. In  practice  it  was  like a one-chamber parliament.   It
numbered, at first, some 230 adults of both sexes, WW 171-72 (195), 186 (212). These decided to work with the Terrans, WW 186-87 (212-213).
Some 101 female members became pregnant at the orgy following the Spring Festival dance, WW 186 (212), some 19 with twins, 3 with triplets. This must have yielded a fine crop of red-haired babies the following winter, including possibly a few with chieri parentage. telepathic damper A mechanical device for producing vibrations which included such frequencies as would interfere with the brain waves associated with use of laran. One of these dislodged Storn from Dan Barron's body, WD 118 (157-58). They were formerly set up randomly (?) in the Crystal Chamber, but Lew Alton said that for some reason one always turned up just above the Alton enclosure, SA 32 (32). Their main use was to shut out unwanted telepathic noise; they had no effect on people totally devoid of laran. They were also used for interfering with a functioning matrix, e.g., HH 364, where a Keeper put the Sharra matrix in proximity to one so that it would not interfere in normal Tower procedures—and matrix workers would be once again able to see other things in their crystals besides the Form of Fire.
telepaths, common factors of "Project Telepath" (q.v.) discovered the following physiological features to be almost universal among natural telepaths: 1. peculiar EEG wave-forms (briefly observed in a few XX Century Terran parapsychs, and referred to as ramp functions), WW 65 (69). Cf. Matthew Manning, The Link, pp. 14-18. In Darkovans, this was linked to red hair. 2. Usually, grey or blue eyes, though other colors were occasionally observed (see, e.g.,MARJA, MARJORIE, RAFE SCOTT, THYRA), and chieri eyes were so pale a grey as to be almost colorless. 3. Ectomorphy was usual either as principal component of bodily form or major secondary component. 4. High metabolic rate, WW 80 (89), resulting in chronic hunger.
telepathy Transmission of information (not merely emotional tone) from one mind to another without ordinary physical means and outside ordinary sensory modalities; taken for granted as a part of laran, though not its sole manifestation. See Gifts, laran.
It is necessary to distinguish the telepath from the empath. An empath perceives others' emotions as his/her own; (s)he may or may not be a telepath in addition. A telepath receives information (processed either as images or verbal messages) similarly, but (s)he may or may not be an empath. Either of these abilities can coexist in varying degrees of strength with abilities such as clairvoyance, precognition, retrocognition, psychokinesis, or the more specialized Gifts.
teleportation A highly developed manifestation of psychokinesis (directly affecting matter by mental activity, routine in its more elementary forms), HH 203-07; specifically, physical transference of a body from one locale to another by pure mental activity.
Andrew Carr quickly developed the capacity, using his extraordinary laran plus a matrix, spurred by consummate need, SS 151. Callista Lanart was able to do likewise, once the Great Cat's barriers had been removed.
The chieri Narad-zinie teleported Kennard Alton and Larry Montray from its home back to Armida, SD 158.
Dezi teleported himself to where his own confiscated matrix was locked away—at the cost of his life, FT 313 -14.
Lew Alton teleported himself and the dying Marjorie from Caer Donn to Arilinn Tower, HH 364.
Lew Alton and Callina Aillard, using one of the ancient matrix screens in Comyn Castle Tower, teleported Linnell's "true twin" Kathie Marshall, from Samarra to Thendara (a distance of many light years) in a few seconds, SA 84-85 (92-93).
Temora Seaport town, its local shellfish notable for pearls, SC 23.
Magda Lome, posing as a Free Amazon, falsely claimed to have come from there, SC 135.
The name may derive from Terran (Spanish) temor, "dread," + the casta suffix -am, "woman," thus an epithet either of the ocean or of Sharra.
TEMS   Herein, Terran Empire Medical Service.
tenday The DL colonists decided against introducing the 7-day Terran week or the Terran month or other calendar divisions to the new planet, preferring to let more appropriate ones develop once the planet's seasonal patterns were better known. In the meantime, they chose an arbitrary period of ten 28-hour (Darkovan) days, called a tenday in XXI Century Terran Standard (diecial). Thirty-eight of these plus nine Festival Days made up the Darkovan year in later centuries. The casta term is directly from the Terran Standard, a fact well noticed by the Terrans but ignored by natives.
teneresteis (casta) Keeper (female) (q.v.), FT 216. Defined as "warden" or "guardian," FT 234.
tenerezu (casta, archaic form) Keeper (male) (q.v.), obsolete, FT 152, 315; Varzil called Damon by this title, FT 315,335.
teniente (casta) Rank in Guards immediately below the seconde (q.v.).
Eduin was of this rank in the Guards quartered at Armida, SS 90, though in Dom Esteban's disability he had just acquired the temporary or brevet position of seconde. Normally a seconde would be chosen from among officers of teniente rank.
The name is directly from Terran (Spanish of identical form = "lieutenant," anciently also "deputy."
tents The native type, made from native fibres only, combines tent and sleeping bag, SC 129.
Terra Officially Sol III. Legendary ancestral home of the Terran Empire, though hardly even a name throughout much of TE; very few Empire citizens have ever been there. It has become known in recent generations that Darkover was first settled by colonists from Terra.
Terran 1. Strictly, any inhabitant of, or native of, Sol III (Terra), SS 52. 2. More loosely, the equivalent of the cahuenga loan-word Terranan (q.v.), used to mean any ostensibly human individual connected with TE operations or tourism, and not him/herself native on both sides.
They are instantly recognizable because darker skinned than Darkovans,  often with brown or nearly
black eyes, and usually they had no wish to be taken for natives. They have long been regarded on Darkover as an inferior race because (among other things) they have usually been xenophobic provincial chauvinists. SD 17, PS 10-11 (6-8); they possess no laran and chronically disbelieve in the possibility of it, let alone of a technology built on it; their life styles lack certain family and/or fosterage loyalties which are the warp and woof of Darkovan social cohesion; their dress and sexual codes are thoroughly offensive to natives; and in Terran Zones they are immune from native law, subject only to TE law, HH 47. See also racism.
Nevertheless, by the will of Stefan Hastur. Regent, the Comyn were required to show Terrans hospitality when needful, SS 57, as they were settled in Thendara under terms of a Trade Agreement which either side could violate only at peril.
Within the few years after the Sharra Rebellion, over 18,000 Terran families (mostly TE personnel) were living in Trade City, PS 12(9). Terranan (accent second syllable; cahuenga, n., adj.) Originally merely meant Terran; usually in derogatory mode, connoting "barbarian," BS 22, SD 29, etc. Compared to Dry Towners: FT 190. The -an ending is adjective/ attributive suffix, as in kirian, Darkovan.
Feminine form, Terranis, SA 117 (130); plural, common gender or collective form, terrananis, SA 117 (1st edition only); these forms irregular and derogatory. Terran Bill of Rights XXI Century Terran agreement, presumably international, guaranteeing civil rights; no specific data, though Article Four (q.v.) was quoted by Ewen Ross, DL 22. Terran Empire A loose federation involving over 1.000 planetary systems through the known Galaxy. It is thought to have been warlike at first, bent on conquest and interstellar hegemony, but as it spread out over distances too great for warfare or effective dictatorship, local autonomy and peaceful coexistence became the rule. Ultimate decision-making powers are vested not in any emperor or other monarch, but in Empire Senate.
Its Administrative Archives are on Coronis IX, HH 260.
Its official language is Terran Standard (q.v.).
Its standard of weights and measures uses the standard meter, gram, and second as units. The meter and gram are defined in terms of reference lengths and weights in the Archives, but in practice the second, originally 1/86,400 Terran day, for centuries has been defined in terms of atomic vibration frequencies; the Terran day of 86,400 seconds is still in use on many planets for computing pay. Its relationship to the Empire standard year is not specified.
It operates administrative units, hospitals, schools, transportation and communication services on all colonized planets. Its travel unit is called Space Service, its paramilitary police Spaceforce. On many planets, including Darkover, one of its more important services is Mapping and Exploring, which provides habitability data on new planets, geophysical, geological, geographic and related data for local authorities (and native use as needed) for well-colonized ones. Finders' fees were paid to
discoverers  of habitable planets,  since long before TE began, DL41.
The normal historical pattern has followed some such order as this: 1. colonization, 2. development of local customs and social organization over ensuing centuries, 3. occasional, increasingly frequent, contact with TE authorities and personnel, 4. either TE imposition of order during one of the local civil upheavals, or local petition to have TE restore order by imposing a government, which would be locally autonomous but subject to Empire-wide jurisdiction and review in certain matters, especially interracial/interplanetary relationships. Darkover has been an interesting exception, as the natives long refused to have anything to do with TE, despite Trade Agreements between TE authorities and the Aldarans at Caer Donn and the Comyn at Thendara, WW 37 (38-39).
Because of lack of native cooperation, TE has long employed secret agents as part of their (nonmilitary) Intelligence Division: both Magdalen Lome and Peter Haldane were among these. Terran Empire Headquarters Control Tower Contained, among other things, spaceship dispatchers. It was part of every spaceport. That at Thendara was within a stone's throw of Comyn Castle, HH 13, "facing it like two giants armed for combat," HH 13, 90.
Another was started long since at Caer Donn, HH 14. Terran Empire Medical Service This arm of TE has for centuries built, staffed and maintained hospitals, dispensaries, clinics, pharmacies, medical schools, paramedical training centers, and research laboratories. These trained doctors, nurses, and paramedical technicians, and engaged in continuous research on each planet into local diseases, local materia medica, parasitology, epidemiology, toxicology, and a variety of other topics in public health.
The TEMS Hospital at Thendara was the locale for "Special Project A," later "Project Telepath," under Dr. Jason Allison (qq.v.).
Earlier, under Dr. Randall Forth, it was the locale of "Project Jason," which grew into the Allison Expedition, PS passim.
This hospital made a wise and consistent policy of hiring and training many natives, WW 56 (60-61), including some 6-fingered ones, some qualifying as paramedics, others as staff nurses and doctors. This follows from TE policy of training natives rather than relying on exports of offworlders. Terran Legate  See Legate.
Terran Standard International and interplanetary language used as a lingua franca throughout TE, SA 20 (6); the only common tongue then in use. It is taught to children of TE personnel throughout the known Galaxy as at least a second language.
It is related to Terran Spanish and English but minus most of the inflections—a more successful version of XX Century Terran "Interlingua," with a much larger vocabulary. However, many of the shades of meaning in casta (imparted through use of modes and inflections) cannot be rendered in Terran Standard without involved periphrasis.
Regis Hastur learned it at Nevarsin, HH 42; the TE Legate spoke it instead of casta, HH 366. Terran Zone On any TE planet, any city with a spaceport was likely to have a Terran Zone which included TE administrative buildings and personnel quarters as well as a Trade City. That in Thendara is contiguous to Old Town, and was leased to the Terrans by Stefan Hastur, Regent, acting for Comyn Council, for 500 years.
Inhabitants are ruled by TE law, not local law, HH 47; not off limits for Comyn or other natives, HH 75-76, even cadets. Contraband carried by Terrans was continuously monitored, HH 366-67, SA 27 (26-27). testing for laran Normally done by a Tower Keeper, on each adolescent of a family known to contain telepaths. It normally consists of questions, telepathic probing and attempted rapport, and exposure to unkeyed matrix crystal. Kirian is often used. The procedure differs if a youngster with known laran is being tested for one of the family Gifts (q.v.).
Alida Ardais tested Jaelle, who found the experience nightmarish, SC 206, 213, probably because her laran had been prematurely and traumatically awakened by her mother's death agonies at Valentine's birth, SC 78.
To avoid revealing Magda/Margali's Terran origins, which would certainly have been detected had any Keeper tested her, Rohana herself did the testing, SC 239.
A still different and far more severe procedure is done on a candidate for a Tower Circle. This is described in BS 88-101. textiles Various kinds have been in use on Darkover: 1. wool, whether from Terran sheep or native species, SC 100; 2. linex, from some local plant in the Dry Towns, SC 54; 3. spider-silk, used for Festival gowns, HH 359. Presumably cotton and flax could be grown as well, but Terran synthetics were not in use among natives. Aside from linex, textiles were scarce in the Dry Towns, SC 27, being largely imported from the Domains. "That Day"   Colonists' name for the first Ghost Wind,
DL61. Thendara Largest city in Darkover, nearest to a capital city; site of Comyn Castle, of the largest TE installation, the largest and second oldest spaceport (fully operational since 78 years before the Worldwreckers' work, WW 7 (3)), the largest Trade City on the planet. The only city with two Towers for matrix work (Comyn Castle and Ashara's). Located about 1,610 kilometers from Arilinn; about 12 days' ride from Carthon, about 14 from Shainsa. Its population, even 70-odd years before the Sharra Rebellion, was estimated at some 50,000, SC 109; it was considerably larger after the Sharra Rebellion, even aside from the 18,000 Terran families in Trade City, PS 12 (9). It contained several orchestras, SC 107.
The form of cahuenga spoken there, called "city dialect" and "Trade City language," BS 11, differs from mountain cahuenga even as from casta and from "spaceport cahuenga," which is virtually a patois.
Origin of the name is uncertain, as is its meaning, but if the root word is Terran (Spanish) tienda, then the name means  a marketplace; if the -ara is actually the
feminine suffix, we may conjecture "women's market."
THEOLINDA Keeper-in-training at Neskaya Tower during Damon's time, FT 227; not physically fit for full Keeper work, FT 229.
Third Group Uppermost of three divisions of children in Spacemen's Orphanage, roughly ages 12 to 18, though the classification is less by age than by educational level, BS 37. Mr. Barron taught mathematics to these youngsters.
Third Officer On a starship, ranks below the Captain and presumably the head of astrogation, but his/her function on the bridge has not been specified. The woman so identified on the ship which crashed onto Cottman IV died about 20 Terran minutes later, DL 6.
Thirteen Days "An exile, an outlaw, even a murderer, has an inalienable right—dating from time out of mind-to spend one day in Thendara, 13 times a year, for the purpose of exercising his legal rights. During that time, provided he commits no overt offense, he enjoys absolute legal immunity," SA 27 (26). No other data; the outlaw referred to is Kadarin (q.v.). "Time out of mind" probably means the Ages of Chaos. The custom is not mentioned outside SA because outlaws are not followed in any detail; Darkover is a surprisingly law-abiding planet, possibly because it has few laws, they are well understood and assented to, and major offenders are normally disposed of by other means.
thornbush Weed common in the Dry Lands, named for obvious physical features, SC 40, 59. Not to be confused with any of three following entries.
thornleaf, black Herb grown at Armida, used there and at Nevarsin for poultices, teas, and other preparations, to improve circulation, FT 80.
thornleaf, white Herb grown at Armida; an extract is used in healing, FT 79.
thorntree Tree species common in hilly outskirts of the Dry Lands, named for its obvious physical features; found in the same area as spicebush (q.v.), SC 52.
those-who-may-not-enter-cities Nomadic bands of mature unmated Trailmen females, PS 7 (3), 73 (80), marauding, predatory, and given to violence. Jason Allison had a triangular scar from a knife fight with one such band; the Allison Expedition encountered another similar band enroute to Dammerung Pass, PS 73 (80). As only occasional females are rescued at any given time by males wishing them as mates, the bands represent a permanent hazard to any intruders in Trailmen (q.v.) country. The Trailmen warriors commanded by Kadarin may have been such bands.
threshold sickness A disorder common among adolescents whose laran is awaking during hormonal upheavals common at puberty, HH 186. Symptoms include emotional upsets, loss of appetite (sometimes with nausea), disorders of equilibrium (as though vestibular or labyrinthine infection were present), and in more severe forms ("crisis") also dissociation, depersonalization, perceptual disorders, out-of-body travel without ability to control one's location, other disorders of consciousness, sometimes convulsions, collapse and death. It is attributed to overstimulation of psychic channels (between  and within  the  chakras),  the lower  ones being
known to carry both sexual impulses and psychic energies. See channels, laran.
The treatment of choice is kirian (q.v.), HH 33. Human contact and walking around, with other supportive treatment, are recommended for avoiding involuntary out-of-body experience. In crisis, to avert convulsions and death, the sufferer can be brought back by touching his keyed matrix; this is heroic treatment, HH 329-30.
Dan Barron had it in the forge-folk cavern, WD 128-29(170-72).
Lew Alton had a touch of it, HH 121-24, apparently in connexion with grave emotional stress.
Regis Hastur's case is graphically described, HH 185ff. Thurmond TE Legate at the time of PS (successor to Lawton? or acting Legate in Lawton's absence?); promised Dr. Jay/Jason Allison official commendation and promotion, PS 86 (94). THYRA DARRIELL Eldest daughter of Felicia Darriell (q.v.), by Kermiac of Aldaran, and treated by him as a daughter though never formally acknowledged, HH 216. See the Aldaran and Alton Lineages, pp. 158ff. She was at least lA chieri, and at the time of HH one of the strongest telepaths on the planet. Lew described her as "a thin sharp-featured restless woman a few years older than Marjorie, with the family eyes, but a look of old Kermiac too," HH 172, and later as "slim and vital as a dark flame," SA 130 (145-46). A self-taught "wild tele-path," she is described as wilful, unreliable, arrogant, presenting to Lew the telepathic image of "a wild beast prowling," though whether this reflects her arrogance and self-sufficiency or Lew's own sexual hangups is unknown, probably the latter.
Six-fingered and probably with the red hair of most telepaths; since she is described as "dark" and with the "family" eyes (amber), she is unlikely to have had the silvery chieri coloring.
She was Kadarin's lover; he was willing to acknowledge her as "freemate" though admitting they had been indifferent to ceremonies, HH 244. Presumably they were so recognized by mountain custom, having shared a bed, a meal and a fireside.
In SA she is called Thyra Scott. This is because the Terran Zeb Scott, one of Kermiac's men, later married Felicia, and acknowledged Thyra as his daughter and as sister to Marjorie and Rafe (q.v.). However, she continued to regard Kermiac as her father.
She was a musician, singing the ancient ballad "The Outlaw," p, 145, to her own rryl accompaniment, HH 273-77.
An extraordinary telepath, she proved capable of working as central in a circle, thereby a functional Keeper by later definitions. Lew, however, refused to accept her as such, distrusting her untrained "wild telepath" status with good reason: On a whim she reversed the flow of the waterfall supplying electric power to Caer Donn, causing the water to flow uphill and creating a power outage, an interference with natural forces which drew strong reproof from Arilinn-trained Lew.
The combination of hostility and sexual attraction between Lew and Thyra is a major plot thread in HH, marking  weakness  in  Lew's  psychic  defenses; Sharra
took on Thyra's form to Lew, becoming an object of ambivalent desire. Thyra's fear of the sexual tension between them, and Lew's refusal to force her to face it, were in part responsible for the disintegration of the circle. Desideria had said of the Sharra matrix, "If you have any weakness, it will expose it ruthlessly," and though this was addressed to Kadarin, Lew's most significant failure was his refusal to take it as equally applicable to himself and Thyra.
Warped by Sharra, her own weakness ruthlessly exposed, she dragged her aged father into the circle, resulting in Kermiac's death; she created a storm to immobilize Lew and Marjorie after their flight, a storm which Marjoire identified as unnatural but could not otherwise spot, HH 337; and she worked with Kadarin at the burning of Caer Donn.
At Kadarin's insistence, since he could not father a child by her, she allowed herself to become pregnant by the aphrosone-drugged Lew Alton, who was induced to believe himself instead with Marjorie, HH 343. She appears to have done this reluctantly, and her increasing instability and hostility toward the child forced Kadarin to remove little Marja (q.v.) from her, confiding the youngster to the care of Spacemen's Orphanage (q.v.), in Thendara—a puzzling choice, probably motivated by Kadarin's unwillingness to let the Comyn get to her.
Six years after the Sharra Rebellion, Thyra conspired with Kadarin and his group (now including Dyan Ardais) to recover and wield the Sharra Matrix, for reasons by then probably obscure even to themselves, all of them being then controlled by Sharra. In the final battle where the Sharra matrix met the Sword of Aldones, Lew revealed to Thyra that Dyan—as he believed—had killed Marja, and her resultant shock and horror made enough break in the strength of the Sharra forces that the Aldones force could destroy the deadlock. With the final destruction of Sharra, Thyra was either killed or swept into another dimension, SA 153 (172). Lew's ambivalence toward her, HH 237, made her appear a tragic figure rather than a villainess.
tides The four moons exert enough gravitational pull to cause tides not only in the ocean but at certain locales in the River Kadarin, PS 37 (38). The patterns of high and low tide are extremely complex, repeating only in a cycle lasting many years, though one major subcycle is approximately the the length of a Darkovan year, its peak coinciding (give or take a day or so) with the approximate conjunction of the four moons at Midsummer.
time-distortion factor In astral or overworld travel, subjective time varies and may be far faster or far slower than clock time. Matching between monitor and traveler is desirable, requiring kirian or some psychedelic, FT 243.
Timesearch A technique for recovering "lost" information from the past, combining the magical operations of Rising on the Planes and Reading the Records. Theory is described, FT 227-28, as well as Damon's successful use of the technique, FT 245-53.
time-telescoping effect See time-distortion factor, FT 174.
titanium Exotic metal, long used as a minute component
of special alloys, in organic synthesis, in dye and pigment chemistry, in computers, in jewelmaking, in a wide variety of Terran electronic components since ancient times, and later as an interstellar monetary standard throughout TE, much as gold had formerly been used on Terra, WW 9 (5). titles In the original group bound for Coronis colony, which crash-landed on Cottman IV (later known as Darkover), titles were only used under ship's discipline, and there the most frequent one was Doctor. Once on land, the DL people dropped most titles, including Captain.
This is in great contrast to the buildup of formidable strings of titles among the Comyn—especially Domain lords. (Only a Domain lord or his heirs used the Domain name, e.g., Alton or Serrais, as surname, FT 299.) The Hastur Lord as Regent for the Elhalyn kings was perhaps the apogee: he was "Hastur of Hastur (i.e. family name, of the family estate or Domain), Warden of Elhalyn, Regent of the Crown of the Seven Domains, Lord of Thendara and Carcosa" (i.e. as owner of the land tracts surrounding and including Thendara as well as the tracts including Castle Hastur at Carcosa). Considering that any given Hastur Lord possessed four to six given names plus a matronymic, the mere recitation of all this pomp, though doubtless intended to impress everyone else, seems evidence of decadence, like its Terran counterparts (recorded from some centuries pre-Space Age), later mostly dropped.
On the other hand, outside this restricted context, titles eventually became obsolete among natives, with a few exceptions noted below, WW 57 (61), which mostly formed part of routine amenities.
Dom (fern. Domna, qq.v.); roughly equivalent to "Lord" or "Lady;" given to someone whose nobility of either family or achievement warrants it; when prefixed by vai, intensified respect is meant—except in derogatory mode when the usage is obvious irony.
Messire (fern. Mestra, qq.v.): title used in direct address or as identification of someone worthy of respect but of lower rank than nobility, SC 20, 70, 190, 208, etc. These forms also exist in derogatory mode, as when Peter Haldane addressed the bandit leader Rumal di Scarp.
Toroku (q.v.), referring specifically to a scholar.
Vai leronis (q.v.), referring specifically to a Keeper from any of the towers, BS 110.
When Kennard Alton and, later, Regis Hastur addressed a chieri, not knowing his/her name, they used one of the ancient honorific titles (Child of Grace, Child of Light, etc.), instead of any purely human title.
In the Cadet Guards, the proper form of address for any of the boys was Cadet; for a superior officer, the name of his rank.
At Nevarsin, the abbot was called Father Master. Toroku (Hellers dialect?) (fern. Toroka?) A title, equivalent to "learned one" or "professor." Caer Donn children gave this polite epithet to David Lome, Magda's father, SC 219. Tower circle Usually consisted of a Keeper plus at least three individuals with the various Gifts, though larger
circles were in use especially when large amounts of energy had to be handled, e.g. mining operations. In the latter part of BS the formation and work of such a circle at Arilinn is described.
Tower-trained Adjective for any individual who had gone through a full course of training in the development and control of his/her own laran and its uses in manipulating the material environment or one's own mind. Ethical training was an essential part of this. Tower-trained men were believed to be "half-eunuch" in the Hellers, HH 169, alluding partly to their ethical code and partly to their tendency to take up occupations other than swordsmanship in or out of the Guards; but earlier the belief may have reflected—especially in the Ages of Chaos^the unusual frequency of sexually ambiguous (pait-chieri) Tower workers.
Towers Buildings housing Tower circles (q.v.) and devoted primarily to the training of matrix mechanics and technicians and of Keepers (qq.v.), to research and development of matrix technology, and to operations with such technology. Any given Tower would contain matrix monitors, other matrix screens, matrix crystals of varying sizes and types, operational records (in some instances stretching back for centuries), kirian and certain other chemicals, together with self-contained living quarters such that a circle could survive isolated for considerable periods.
The names of nine Towers are on record, though more were in operation even as late as 9 years after the Sharra Rebellion (Linnea Storn-Lanart, WW 116 (129), said only nine were then functional), and far more had been in operation in former times; cf. HH 304. The list is alphabetical and not related, to either age or importance of the individual Towers:
1.  Arilinn (q.v.). The most prestigious. In late years consisted of 8 workers plus a Keeper, though built to house 30.
2.  Ashara's, alias Old Tower (?), Thendara (q.v.). Not functioning as such for generations.
3.   Comyn Castle (q.v.). Functioning only intermittently?
4.  Corandolis. Housed 7 to 14 workers plus a Keeper, HH 304.
5. Dalereuth (q.v.). Similar to Corandolis.
6.  Hali. Also similar to Corandolis, HH 85, 304, FT 250.
7.  Neskaya (q.v.). Burned during reign of Rafael II; rebuilt, FT 173, 288.
8.  Nevarsin. No data, FT 250. Active in Varzil's day.
9. Tramontana. Burned during reign of Rafael II, FT 1 73; was it ever rebuilt?
No data as to location of no. 4 or 9; nos. 2 and 3 are in Thendara; the others are named for their cities. The name of Tramontana indicates that it was across the Hellers from some (central?) location; Hali Tower is likely to have been part of the complex including the rhu fead (q.v.).
Their decisions often had the force of law. They had taboos on kireseth, FT 163, 198; on external matrix work, FT 220; on non-virgin keepers, FT 220.
Tower personnel were moved from one Tower to another as needed, FT 307.
"toys of honor and tokens of manhood"    Kermiac's ideal fate for swords, HH 215.

trackers Scouts, rangers, specialists in exploring terrain and locating and pursuing game or fugitives. Though most have traditionally been men, some Free Amazons have long since taken up this occupation, Devra and Lee-anne (qq.v.) among others.
Jalak of Shainsa used them, but either they came too late to find his Free Amazon attackers, or they were not sent in pursuit owing to the struggles over division of Jalak's women and other property at discovery of his disability and/or death.
trade agreements   Four major ones are recorded:
1.  Between TE authorities and the Aldarans at Caer Donn.
2.  Between TE authorities and Stefan Hastur, Regent, at Thendara, about 150 years before the Sharra Rebellion.
3.  Between the catmen and the Dry Towners, time unknown, SS 138.
4.  Between the Trailmen and certain mountain families, time unknown, PS 36 (36).
See Aldaran, catmen, Dry Towns, Trailmen. 1. Granted the Aldarans certain uses of Terran technology for the benefit of the city of Caer Donn and its
inhabitants, both natives and TE personnel, and granted the TE authorities the use of surrounding land to build a Terran Zone including a Trade City, an airport and a small spaceport, among other concessions.
2. Specified Class D Closed World (q.v.) status for the Domains, guaranteeing to the Hasturs full enforcement of the Compact with control of contraband weapons, and granted to the Terrans the use on longterm lease of lands outside Thendara and Port Chicago for building Terran Zones with Trade Cities, airports and spaceports, the said spaceports for no more than the density of traffic flow specified for Type B operations; services and concessions for spaceport personnel, Mapping & Exploration services, Medical Exchange services, etc., while forbidding TE infiltration into native areas, surface transit, mechanized industry, mining, continuous inflow or outflow of exportable or importable goods or services, etc., WW 7 (3), 11 (8), HH 87). No data on 3. or 4.
Trade City Standardized TE installation within a Terran Zone, containing public markets, the spaceport, and all local TE official buildings. That in Thendara TZ contains larger TE buildings than elsewhere, including a few steel skyscrapers, HH 13. The TE medical school is here, as are the "red sector" shops (q.v.) and extensive living areas for TE personnel—a few years after the Sharra Rebellion, some 18,000 Terran families lived there, PS 12 (9). Within buildings occupied exclusively by TE personnel, Terran-normal (yellowish) lighting and gravity are standard; this is normal for all Trade City buildings on any TE planet, because TE personnel can be shipped offworld at a moment's notice, and there is no use in adapting to local planetary conditions when in a few days one might have to readapt to wholly different ones. Terran tourists and TE personnel are in general expected to stay within the boundaries of whichever Trade City they then occupy; here TE laws apply, not Domain laws, HH 47, except that by terms of the Trade Agreement they are expected to observe Compact (q.v.) by not publicly carrying or using contraband weapons. This restriction has been observed in Thendara and Port Chicago, HH 86, though it was formerly ignored in Caer Donn, HH 14.
Traffic Office In TZ, Thendara; from its title, evidently concerned with spaceport operations, starship scheduling and dispatching, and probably also with enforcement of customs regulations, imports, exports, launching and landing fees, passenger lists, etc. At one time the TE Legate had temporary offices in this division, BS 32, presumably during the first few years after TE had appointed a Legate rather than a Coordinator.
Trailles (cahuenga?) Forest roads or tracks. "Estate" name taken by the bandit Cyrillon, because he occupied a forst in the woods of the Kilghard Hills across the Kadarin from Alton lands, SD 87, 92,154, WD 96 (127); and see CYRILLON.
Probably from Terran (French), same spelling, meaning trailbridges; in which case the name would refer to Trailmen's swingbridges. Alternatively, compare Terran (Spanish) traillas, "road-levelers," originally instruments for cutting flat roads in irregular terrain.
Trailmen Aboriginal tarsieroid/lemuroid sapient species, called "homo arborens" by Lewis MacLeod, DL 76, and coincidentally by Jason Allison, PS 35 (35).
Adults average about 1.5 meters = 5 ancient Terran feet in height. Pinkish to reddish eyes, flat noses, chinless faces, lobeless ears, furry bodies; feet partly differentiated from hands though toes and fingers are prehensile and longer than on humans; they are adapted to travel by foot or by brachiation, SD 118. Opposable thumbs. Nocturnal, nyctalopic, preferring moonlight to sunlight, PS 35 (35); they eat a variety of fruits, nuts and vegetation. They wear no clothing, PS 65 (71).
Their language exploits mostly upper frequencies and is accordingly heard by untrained ears as twittering, PS 20 (19); few humans ever learned it, though Jason Allison was fluent in it and Regis Hastur learned some of it. Their own name for their kind is translated as People of the Sky, SD 125, PS 18 (15). Some have learned to speak an archaic form of casta, SD 124.
Their preferred habitat is the forests between the River Kadarin and the Hellers. There they live in thatched tree-huts, far more primitive than the telain or "flets" of Lorien in archaic Terran legend; these dwellings stretch through many adjacent trees, SD 120ff, with floors of rope-bound logs covered with rush matting. They use living vines to build bridges (the swing-bridges) of great length and strength, DL 76, 136, PS 44ff (46ff). They have fungi farms, cultivating various species on tree trunks, even to making tiny irrigation canals to guide rainfall where it is most needed, DL 137. With this type of dependence on trees, their fear of fire is entirely natural.
They are organized into Nests, headed by an Old One. More females are born than males. At maturity, unmated females are driven out of the Nests with kicks and blows, becoming "those-who-may-not-enter-cities," remaining in that status until unmated males find and claim them; a male who chooses one as a mate garlands her with red leaves and takes her back home as a "Chosen One," PS 61 (67). Barren females cannot be expelled after mating but must remain as servants to their males' fruitful mates, PS 61 (65).
Some Trailmen live by plundering invaders of their territory, especially those from families or clans with whom no Trade Agreement is in force, PS 36 (36); normally they imprison invaders for life, SD 125.
They are subject to arthritis, PS 66 (72). Trailmen's fever (q.v.) is a minor childhood disease with them.
Their technology is early Stone Age: they make and use flint knives, specimens of which were found by original DL colonists, DL 60, others being preserved at the museum of nonhuman artifacts at Arilinn, SD 123; see also swing-bridges.
They grow dye-plants and trade dyestuffs and medicinal herbs with some mountain people, PS 36 (36), SD 123, these being the few families or clans with whom they have Trade Agreements and who therefore are not regarded as invaders. They knew who Hastur was, PS 67(72-73).
They are lesser relatives of the chieri, who regard them as their "little-brothers-who-are-not-wise," partly because the Trailmen stayed in the trees long after the
chieri had come down to land and learned to use fire, SD 156, DL 76,138.
As chieri are crossfertile with humans, Trailmen are reputed to be, alleged crosses being reported in the forests near Aldaran and other mountain areas, SA 43 (45)—unconfirmed legend. If there is any truth to it, this must have happened during Ghost Winds (q.v.).
Lew Alton knew them as including fighters, SA 43 (45); Kadarin (q.v.) had been close enough to them to recruit soldiers among them, which soldiers fought "dirty by Terran standards" (i.e. extremely savagely by Darkovan standards) in the 'Narr Campaign of the Trail-men's War, PS 50 (54).
The name has also been applied, loosely, to certain human and part-human forestdwellers, even bandits—in derogatory mode, and in reference to the old notion that Trailmen's Nests were hotbeds of licentious sexual behavior. See Nest.
Trailmen's Fever A minor childhood disease of Trail-men, carried by adults; deadly to humans, reaching epidemic peaks every 48 Darkovan years, coinciding with the close conjunctions of the four moons, PS 10 (6). The Allison Expedition was organized by TE Medical Service under Dr. Randall Forth, so that Jason Allison, who had been brought up by Trailmen and was immune, could return to North Nest and persuade the Trailmen to allow the blood of immune adults to be sampled for manufacturing a vaccine which would in turn immunize Darkovan humans and TE personnel against the disease. The story is told in PS, passim; the Allison Expedition set out a few years after the Sharra Rebellion.
Trailmen's War Between mountain people and Trailmen in the passes of 'Narr, about 12(?) years before the Allison Expedition. As a boy of 11, Jason Allison, still living with the Trailmen had spied on the humans,, giving information to the Trailmen, PS 37 (38). See also 'Narr Campaign.
trail-raiders Bandits, specifically those who lived by abducting children for sale as slaves, minions, prostitutes, or concubines—most of all to the Dry Towners, SS 42.
Tramontana Tower Burned during reign of Rafael II, in the Hastur Rebellion (Ages of Chaos), FT 173.
Transfer Center On Terra, location unspecified. For preparing TE personnel for transfer to other planets, SD 7. This was the source of the cahuenga Educator Tape from which Larry Montray learned that language.
trap-matrix Any matrix crystal or structure created thereby which is set to operate as a trap, usually either to immobilize a person or to bar his/her entrance or exit. Several kinds are described.
1. Barrier (q.v.). A matrix-operated forcefield, SS 147. This could be penetrated only by the operator's temporarily removing it, or by an individual wielding a higher-level matrix.
2.   Veil, e.g. that guarding the entrance to Arilinn Tower, BS 76, 141. This acted similarly to a barrier, allowing entrance only to individuals with functioning laran; anyone else would see it as a blue haze and feel it as an impassable blank wall. A similar but far stronger one, similar in appearance (a "trembling rainbow"), stretched between the twin pillars at the entrance to the rhu fead or temple at Hali. Attempt to cross this, on the part of any non-Comyn, would strip the mind, SA 128 (143).
3.   Counter-veil. Within the rhu fead at Hali was a similar barrier protecting the Sword of Aldones—this one impassable by Comyn, SA 129 (143).
4.  Barrier trap. Used for immobilizing and visualizing an enemy. In Arilinn Tower, "Auster Ridenow" set one up, built by him and Rannirl, BS 135ff; "it looked like a piece of strangely shiny metal, studded with crystal and twisted with little ribbons of gleaming light," BS 142. While it had its victim immobilized, a monitor screen could locate him and show his picture, holding him immobile while he was being tracked down. The victim could be released to move only by crushing the matrix/ metallic assembly (which could be done between bare hands), BS 144. This particular one at Arilinn trapped Ragan, Auster's twin brother who was a spy simultaneously in service of Aldaran and TE.
5.  "Death Sign" (q.v.). Long since outlawed.
6.   Energy drain, not described. Ashara constructed one of these to render Derik Elhalyn incoherent; it had the side effect of draining energy from any telepaths in link at the time, SA 105ff (116ff).
travel shelters Stone buildings erected man)" centuries ago, HH 324, along major roads and trails in thinly populated or uninhabited areas. Their locations are marked by arrow-shaped signs with casta inscriptions indicating the location (distance away) and size of the next three shelters in either direction on the same road or trail.
Outside each are a stable and shed with stacked fodder and watering-trough. Inside are set-off areas for building fires for warmth and cooking; stacked wood for fire; latrine trenches, with sand or dirt to be dumped in after use; and sleeping-bag space, SC 121-23, 132.
Domain law mandated shelter-truce (q.v.), such that though law and custom apply in every other respect, still blood-feuds are regarded as nonexistent for the time of occupancy.
The customary formal greetings are quoted, SC 134, 136.
truce   See fire-truce, shelter-truce.
turkey-cock Terran equivalent for the name given by Lew Alton in allusion to a native bird and its intense red color, HH 301.
Type B exploitation Rendering a planet dependent for sheer survival on offworld imports, WW 9 (5).
TZ  Herein - Terran Zone.

Uncle Terran approximation for a term of respect used to, or about, an older relative; counterpart of "cousin" for an age-mate. More intimate than the term rendered as "kinsman," less than bredu.
Regis Hastur used this term for both Kennard Alton and Dom Felix Syrtis, HH 192-93, 225.
under-Keeper Same as rikhi (q.v.); woman in training to become a Keeper, especially the successor of a retiring Keeper.  Leonie  Hastur was training Callista Lanart as
such, as Leonie's grandmother had been under-Keeper to Mirella Hastur, SC 96. underworld   Typographical   error   for  overworld  (q.v.), HH 320.
Universal Alphabet Used throughout TE for representing languages; taught to children in Spacemen's Orphanage, BS 163; possibly descended from the ancient Terran International Phonetic Alphabet.

vahi domnis Dry towns dialect attempt at vai domna (q.v.), SC 13.
vai (casta, adj., m. & f., sing. & pi.) Worthy, honored, entitled to respect; see following entries. From Terran (Gaelic) fiach, "worthy, respectable."
vai dom (casta) "Worthy lord." Title of more than ordinary respect, used to a person of higher rank than dom, BS 74; pi. vai domyn.
vai domna (casta) "Worthy lady," female counterpart of preceding.
vai leronis (casta) "Worthy sorceress." Used in respect to address any Tower Keeper. See leronis. PL vai leroni, BS 50, 65.
Vainwal TE planet. Its climate was much milder than Darkover's; one reason for Kennard Alton's going there was to find relief for his arthritis. Its social codes were not as rigid as those on Darkover; Lew Alton spent some time there with his father, who died there in exile, SA 8 (4), 23 (22); and with Dio Ridenow, with whom he had an affair, SA 11 (8), 21 (19-20).
Some telepaths were known there, WW 20 (20), presumably being recruited for Project Telepath.
Vainwal VI Falsely named by "Missy" as her planet of origin, WW 72 (78). Possibly same as last entry.
Valdier Typographical error for VALDIR, WD 29 (first edition only).
VALDIR ALTON Properly, Valdir-Lewis Lanart-Alton y Ridenow,  Lord Alton.  Youngest son of Dom Esteban
Lanart-Alton and Marcella Ridenow, FT 6, 299; at 11, a novice at Nevarsin, FT 6. Named heir to Alton after Domenic's murder, FT 299. Later, married Lori Ardais, Rohana's daughter; father of Kennard and one other boy not named in these records; grandfather of Lew and Marius Alton.
Dark reddish hair, freckled, sallow, FT 287.
Owing partly to his early association with Damon Ridenow and Andrew Carr of the "Forbidden Tower" circle, Valdir was unusually free of the more common Comyn conservatism and rigidity, as was Kennard after him. Valdir was one of the most intelligent among Comyn leaders, as well as one of the most powerful and innovative. He became fluent and even literate in Terran Standard, SD 39, which was exceptional among the Comyn, as these generally thought the language not worth the trouble: see Racism.
He set up the system of beacons and rangers, SD 67, 97; HH 55.
He headed a campaign which destroyed the forst of Cyrillon des Trailles, WD 96 (127), and effectively ended local banditry for awhile.
He feared Larry Montray, SD 68, partly because the boy was a wild telepath, but possibly also because he may have known of Larry's Aldaran connexions, which could become a source of major political trouble (as in fact they did for Kennard).
Until Larry and Kennard described their encounter with the chieri Narad-zinie, Valdir was unaware that any of the Beautiful People still lived, SD 159.
The name is the casta verb form meaning either "to be strong or powerful" or "to be valuable." Cf. Terran (Spanish) valer "to protect, defend, prevail; to be of value; to be powerful"; valido "prevailing, strong, powerful."
VALDRIN of Carthon Leader, or at least spokesman, of the Pan-Darkovan Syndicate (q.v.), BS 133ff. His name is a cahuenga version of Valdir (q.v.) with either a masculine ending, or a version of the collective plural ending (like Comyn): "valuable or powerful male" or "valuable and powerful in abundance."
Valentine Male given name, variously pronounced (originally tetrasyllable), often found as the second half of a hyphenated given name, e.g. Kyril-Valentine, especially among the Ardais and other mountain families. Diminutive, Val. In casta the name is likely to have been interpreted as meaning "valiant, gallant, heroic," but its immediate ancestor is Saint Valentine of the Snows (Valentine-i-Nevarsin). See following entries.
VALENTINE NEVILLE, Father Ship's chaplain on the original Landfall Ship; ordained priest in the Order of St. Christopher of Centaurus (q.v.), Reformed Catholic Church, DL 16, 126, HH 175. Small, slightly built, DL 30. During one of the Ghost Winds, he took part in a homosexual orgy with six crewmen, but overcome by guilt he killed all six, DL 91-93. In pentinence, he decided not only to avoid introducing any form of traditional Christianity to a planet where Jesus was not known to have walked, DL 125, but to dig the crewmen's graves, DL 124, and build himself an isolated dwelling on a mountainside, DL 109, 154. (Nevertheless, he later took part in one of the New Hebrides Commune's love-feasts, DL 154.) In a discussion with Judith Lovat, he told how he had realized that the Christian ethical system in which he had been trained made no moral distinction between homosexuality and murder (both being mortal sins), and he could no longer accept such views, DL 126. This doubtless contributed to his refusal to preach Christianity further. He attracted followers in later years, who extended the stone building over the centuries into what later became Nevarsin Monastery (q.v.); in later generations his followers became known as cristoforos (q.v.), eventually canonizing him as Saint Valentine-of-the-Snows, HH 176.
VALENTINE AILLARD Son of Melora Aillard by Jalak of Shainsa, born in the Dry Lands during the Free Amazons' return from Shainsa to Carthon; Melora died of hemorrhage at his birth. Rohana named him and fostered him at Castle Ardais, FT 299. For years his sister Jaelle would not even look at him because his birth deprived her of her mother, SC 80. He was towheaded, like many people with Dry Towns ancestry, FT 295; he was educated at Nevarsin with Valdir Lanart, becoming his bredu, FT 295.
Valentine Half-brother of Rohana Aillard-Ardais, foster-brother of Melora (qq.v.). One of several who attempted to rescue Melora after Jalak of Shainsa had abducted her. Jalak captured him, tortured him to death before her eyes, and sent back his ring to Melora's family—still on the finger, and promising to do so much and more to any others who attempted to take Melora, SC 18, 41, 77.
VALERON 1. A region characterized by extensive plains, the Plains of Valeron; 2. Its chief city; 3. The nearby river.
Castle Aillard was located in the saltmarsh area by the bend of this river. Leonie Hastur had lived in the area, and in her old age she wished to retire from her duties as Keeper and to return to Valeron, SS 24.
The name may derive either from vai leronis "worthy Keeper" or Terran (Sp.) roots meaning "of great value." See also Law.
valley people Ancient chieri term for humans, contrasted with forest folk {chieri and Trailmen), WW 152 (172). Also used to mean lowland Darkovans as contrasted with mountain people.
var Native measure of length or distance, SD 73, on the order of kilometres. Cf. Terran (Sp.) vara "yard," which varied from 0.80 to 0.866 meter; the Portuguese measure of the same name varied from 1.095 to 1.1 meter. The Terran eponym may be the Finnish verst = 1.069 km, or the Russian versta = 1.067 km. But cf. the Arabic, Persian and Ethiopian farsakh or farsang, which ranged from 4.83 to 6.24 km.
VARDI One of the Alton retainers, SD 70.
VARDO Twin of Garin (q.v.); own brother of Hjalmar (q.v.). Mountaineer; took part in the Allison Expedition, PS 26 (26). Exceptionally tall, over 1.83 meters in height. This name, like the preceding, may derive from Terran (Sp.) vara, whose root meaning is rod or staff; height or length as a newborn is possibly meant, though we cannot exclude the possibility that it is another phallic name.
VARZIL Keeper (male) at Neskaya Tower during the Ages of Chaos, before the Tower burned. Long legendary; called Varzil the Good. The catchphrase "the days of Varzil the Good" has long been equivalent to "from time immemorial." When Damon Ridenow located him in Timesearch, FT 249-52, he learned that Varzil was one of his own ancestors, probably a Ridenow, one of the greatest of the Keepers, FT 1 73, 249. He looked like Kieran Ridenow, FT 250, and called Damon Tenerezu (Keeper), FT 315, 335.
Varzil destroyed matrix weapon screens, FT 98; worked to make it possible for women to become Keepers, FT 251. He restored Hali Lake after the Cataclysm, and was awarded the title "Lord of Hali" (q.v.), FT 251. Nobody since his day knew anything about Catmen, SS 41.
The Free Amazon Oath and Guild (qq.v.) supposedly dated from his day, SC 157; in reality there is reason to believe they are of much more recent origin.
Vega TE planet, named after its parent star, HH 42. Same as following?
Vega IX TE planet, WW 55 (59). Properly called Wega, but always pronounced Vega.
Veil A type of trap-matrix (q.v.); specifically, any trap-matrix guarding the entrance to a building, seen as a shimmer, felt as a wall. One guarded the entrance to Arilinn Tower against non-Comyn, BS 76, 141, FT 59, 65; another the entrance to the rhu fead at Hali, SA 128 (143). A differently tuned one protected the Sword of Aldones within the latter, SA 129 (145-44).

vendetta The major flaw in the Compact (q.v.). Without a government to redress grievances, the only expedient available in some situations was revenge (see Declaration and Blood Feud). Unfortunately, this tends to escalate: if B offends A, and A declares blood feud or intent-to-murder on B, then too often B's family in turn declares blood feud on A, and after A is killed his survivors declare it on B's family, and so on until several generations have passed and dozens of lives have been snuffed out to no purpose, as in any number of Terran legends. (Ideally, this could be avoided by a victim's family refraining from swearing blood feud in turn, but it did not often work out so.) See "The Gemini Problem" for more extended discussion of this weakness, which might have been (and probably was) adduced by the Aldarans as justifying their abandonment of Compact in favor of centralized government. In SD 67 a few of the pros and cons were discussed, and some few of the more intelligent Comyn lords are seen to have recognized the problem.
Venza hills Foothills of Venza mountains, the range nearest to Thendara. Notable for a distinctive style of embroidery and leather carving, SC 136.
The name probably derives from Terran (Spanish) venza = goldbeater's skin, suggesting that a guild of goldbeaters may at one time have inhabited the area.
Venza mountains See preceding entry. The treasure of the Lord of Carthon, which he had of the chieri lords as ransom for Kierestelli, became legendary in this area, WW 152 (173).
verrin Largest hawk in common use; Callista used one, FT 271.
v'halle   "You find." See acqualle.
via dom Typographical error for vai dom (q.v.), BS 109, HH 173, SA 137-2nd edition only.
Vialles  TE  planet,  similar in gravity and atmosphere to Terra and Darkover, SA 66 (70), 87 (95). Little is recorded about it. Lew Alton stayed there long enough to learn some wrestling holds, SA 66 (70).
Virginity Keepers were formerly expected to remain virginal for their entire career, though in practice the training of some proved unstable and they were released from their Oath and permitted to go home to marry. This became a superstitition, its ancient explanation forgotten.
The actual reason was that for many generations Keepers were mostly part-chieri in emmasca phase, the shift to either male or female phase interfering with their tower work; later Keepers were neutered to prevent this, until the practice was outlawed. It is a fact that the channels carrying impulses ("nerve currents.") between the chak-ras, specifically the channels which carry ESP signals, also carry sexual energies. Congestion when both sexuality and laran awake during early adolescence often results in threshold sickness (q.v.). Keepers carry far higher energon levels than others in a tower circle, and their lower channels must remain free for exclusive laran use for their own safety; see MIRELLA, SS 96. Callista Lanart and later Cleindori Aillard (qq.v.) attempted to fight the superstition which had accumulated about the subject; Cleindori was murdered for so doing. virus The only one described is the sterility virus used by "Andrea Closson" to destroy all soil-dwelling life-forms which render soil fertile, hence the name. Possibly an artificial construct via recombinant DNA-RNA techniques.  It was described as "crystal black" and as "a
grayish dust with black specks;" fortunately an antidote existed, WW 185ff (21ff).
Voice of Jalak Dry Towner; unnamed deputy of Jalak of Shainsa; kept Jalak's Great House during its lord's absence, SC 22. Compare following entry.
VOICE OF RANNATH Dry Towner; deputy of Rannath, kept Jalak's Great House during its lord's absence, during the Dry Towners' occupation of Carthon. His name was Kerstal of Greystone, WD 92 (121).
voyin "Go, arrive." Cf. Chi z'voyin qui? How did I get here? or Who brought me here? SA 161 (181), from Sp. voy "I go."
vows 1. Promises exchanged at a wedding, FT 62ff. 2. Those sworn to by monks at Nevarsin (q.v.), comprising celibacy, voluntary poverty, obedience and nonviolence. 3. Old Hastur referred to the Oath of Allegiance to Comyn as vows, HH 375, sworn in Regis' name when he was half a year old, as heir-designate of Hastur, and to be repeated by Regis himself when of age, but not later than his 24th year. A parallel instance is FT 299, the "vows" sworn in the name of Valdir Lanart-Alton.

WADEMONTRAY Terran, son of Russell Montray, SC 279; husband of Mariel Aldaran, HH 170; father of Larry Montray (later known as Lerrys) and of Elaine Montray, who later used Aldaran as part of her name, which Larry did not, SD 6. See the Aldaran and Alton Lineages, pp. 158ff.
"Tall and quiet with dark eyes," Wade worked in TE service as a customs officer. He had returned to Terran, where Larry and Elaine were brought up, SD 26. Wade and Mariel had long since separated, before Larry was old enough to remember his mother. When Wade was reassigned to Darkover, he left Elaine on Terra and took Larry back with him at Larry's own request, SD 6ff. Later, Kennard Alton, on Terra as an exchange student, met Elaine and married her, she being one of the very few people he met on Terra who could speak casta— and presumably one of the still fewer with any laran. Still later, Wade was reassigned to the TE Legation, and because he was fluent in casta, which few Terrans could speak even haltingly, he was favored as a translator, SC 279; HH 170.
One would guess that Wade's reputation on Darkover, especially among the Comyn, was much better than his father's, despite the Aldaran connexion (about which they may neither have known nor cared).
wakers   Medicine for postponing fatigue, possibly analo-
gous either to amphetamines, cocaine, or high concentrations of caffeine, DL 10.

Wall Around the World   Highest  range  in the Hellers.
Coincidentally, the Wall name, given to it by Camilla
Del Rey, DL 46, 139, was equivalent to that given it by the aboriginal Trailmen, PS 49 (52). The name is also applied to one of the greatest unclimbed massifs in the Hellers, one notch in which ridge was Dammerung Pass (q.v.).
watchfulness training Part of the Cadet Guards training program; any officer could come on any cadet by surprise and throw him, but once the cadet's permanent alertness was sufficiently sharpened by the knowledge that this could happen any time, any such attempts would no longer lead to bruises, let alone broken bones, HH 23-24, 97-98, 126-27.
waterfalls Common in the mountain rivers. One near Caer Donn was used as a source of drinking water, HH 198, and tapped as a source of electrical power, HH 198-99. Thyra made it flow momentarily uphill, HH 207.
water harp Musical instrument, not described (is it the rryl?), WD 69 (89).
water tap Metal ones were in use in houses; that in the herdsman's shelter was of hard wood, leading to a stone basin, SS 31-32.
"Weary are the Hills" Title of an ancient chieri ballad, recalled by "Andrea Closson," WW 10 (7).
weather Station That at New Skye was Camilla del Rey's special responsibility, DL 158.
wedding customs In FT 60-72 a mountain custom is shown, whereby the actual ceremony of freemate vows is followed by a rowdy drunken party at which many rude but goodnatured and often off-color jokes are aimed at the bride and groom before they are put to bed. Bride and groom are not allowed to dance with each other until after the consummation. See freemate; marriage; di catenas.
welcoming formula Four are quoted: 1. Among the Comyn, "Enter and welcome, come in peace," SD 34. 2. Among the chieri, "Enter in a good hour, and let no fear or danger trouble you within these walls," SD 155. 3. In travel-shelters, the latecomer begins "As a late-comer I crave leave from those who have come before to share shelter," to which the formal response is "Be welcome; enter this neutral place in peace, and go in peace," SC 134. The Amazon welcoming formula is "Be welcome, sister, come and share our fire," SC 134.
wells of Reitel See Reuel.
werewolf Legendary shape-changing monster. Damon Ridenow conjured this form in the overworld (q.v.) against the Great Cat (q.v.), SS 142.
whales Terran sapient species of gigantic sea mammals, believed extinct, DL 77.
wheel chair   Dom Esteban used one, FT 261.
whisky Contraband Terran import, SA 14 (11), nevertheless publicly sold in Thendara (locally made?), given to Lew Alton by Andres, SA 74 (79-80); distilled by New Hebrides Commune colonists, DL 150; Dr. Jay Allison had it, PS 22 (21); Jason Allison gave some to Regis Hastur, PS 89.
whittling  Typographical error for witling, WD 23 (25).
whorehouses Regis Hastur was warned against visiting those in Thendara TZ, HH 76. See bordellos, brothels,
baths, red sector, HH 47.
wicker Anything woven of pliable withes or twigs, from some unspecified native plant species. The Free Amazons made up their selling booths of this material for the Shainsa rescue expedition, partly because it was cheap and could be abandoned, partly because it was light enough to cause horses no problem, SC 27.
wild-bird Kadarin's affectionate but impatient epithet for Thyra, HH 218.
wild mountain XXI Century Terran term for any mountain not installed with lifts and slidewalks, DL 9. Rafael MacAran wanted to climb one.
wild planet XXI Century Terran term for one not yet visited by a First Landing team, DL 28.
wild telepath One self-taught, untrained. They were considered dangerous and difficult to work with, HH 202. Thyra Darriell was one; to the obvious question "Why didn't Kermiac train her as he had trained Desi-deria?" the only possible answer is Kermiac's extreme old age when Thyra began to manifest her laran.
wind See Ghost Wind, kireseth, and next entry, WD 57 (72), DL132.
windmills A major power source ever since the New Hebrides Commune, DL 133. Large ones in the Kil-ghard Hills had been constructed to harness prevailing winds for generating electrical power—probably another of Valdir Alton's inventions, WD 57 (72), HH 198, SS 135.
wine 1. One type from the mountains is described as "pale, sweet, strong," probably a fortified white wine, WW 159 (180-81). 2. Another, "sweet, golden," was served in Old Town, SS 12. 3. See Ravnet. Various types were drunk diluted with water at banquets, SS 87. Red wines are doubtless also in use. It is theorized that the grapes are Terran imports.
winged nonhuman sapients Not described, SD 8, but see Sirian bird-women.
Winter TE? planet, site of The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula LeGuin, SC 106.
wolf 1. Terran predatory mammal. See the ballad "The Outlaw," below, p. 145, HH 273-74. 2. Native species of mammaloid in mountain areas; cf. scavenger-wolf, which may be the same or a related species, SC 35, 180. On the floor of the royal suite in Castle Aldaran was a rug made of "wolfskin"—probably scavenger-wolf pelt, HH 288. This may have been the species whose cry, DL 42, was similar to the extinct Terran timber-wolf.
Wolf TE planet, also known as Phi Coronis IV. Notable for its people's frontier mentality (with constant vendettas) and chained women; cf. "Door Through Space." Wolf's ultra-macho customs were either imitated by or imitated from the Dry Towns (q.v.) on Darkover, SC part I.
"Jeff Kerwin Jr." had served there, BS 1, 21, 38.
Wolf 814 A possibly apocryphal planet, WW 71 (76), with a mining colony? Symbolically cited for its isolation and extreme remoteness.
women Unwedded women, especially among the nobility, are expected to remain hooded or veiled among strange
men, HH 85; Keepers traditionally remained veiled. Men were expected to avoid eye contact with women other then their wives or concubines. In the lowlands, violation of this practice was long considered sufficient cause for a man in the offended woman's family to challenge the starer to a duel. Mountain custom was much less stringent; mountain women would sometimes even initiate eye contact, SC 100. For the greater restrictions on women in the Dry Towns, and the opposite among the Free Amazons, see both entries.
Timidity, WW 54 (57), and passivity, WW 148 (167), were taken for granted as normal female attitudes. Women were expected to regard themselves as destined to marry some man chosen by their families, unless they were taking Tower training to qualify as Keepers. Again, the major exception is the Free Amazons, among whom marriage di catenas (let alone marriage by the Dry Towns custom) is ruled out; freemate marriage, though tolerated, is not expected; and female pair-bonding is taken for granted.
The customs appear to come from the early DL colonists' confrontation with the realities of survival on a hostile planet, which meant that a high reproductive rate had to be the necessary price. This automatically made women into a protected class. The step from protected class to enslaved class was short; the step from enslaved class to toleration of institutions like the Free Amazons was a far longer one, even as in Terran history. Word of a Hastur Among the Comyn, proverbially equiv-
alent to an oath, HH 159, 164. It has been taken for granted for centuries that no Hastur could break his word. Cf. Regis's indignant outburst 'T am a Hastur and \do not lie!," HH 193.
"Worldwreckers Inc." Common underground nickname of Planetary Investments, Unlimited, WW 5 (1), 9 (6). The actual business of this enterprise was rendering entire worlds ready for industrial exploitation by entrepreneurs, by ruining their ecology to force dependence on imports, WW 8-9 (5-6). It was run by the chieri 'Andrea Closson," born Narzain-ye kui, who guaranteed to a pair of her clients that within three Empire years Darkover would be open to Type B exploitation, WW 9 (5). In actuality, her return to her homeland and subsequent contact with others of her people caused her to repent and place her enormous fortune at the service of the cause of restoring the badly damaged world.
Needless to say, worldwrecking was illegal throughout the known Galaxy, WW 9 (6).
wrist mark Lew Alton's name for the Sign of Comyn (q.v.), SA 56 (59), 86 (94). Kathie Marshall had it as a birthmark, SC 86.
writ of exile Legal penalty, presumably an order of Comyn Council, requiring the person to remain outside the Domains for a particular term of years or for life. Dyan Ardais wished to have one made out against Lew Alton, SA 68 (75).

xenoanthropologists Also called xenologists, xenthro-pologists, WD 68 (87). Specialists in alien cultures. Andrew Carr knew that skilled culture analysts could learn much from the artifacts in the herdsman's shelter, SS 32. Major Fraser (q.v.) had to function as such when confronting the flint knife (q.v.), DL 63, 64, though the specialty could hardly have matured until more inhabited planets were studied.
xenobiology   Study of alien life-forms, DL 64.
xenobotany   Study of alien plant life. See ZABAL.
xenocartography Techniques for rapidly surveying and mapping new planets, WD 11 (9). Computer-enhanced/ analyzed photographic surveys were part of it since Terran XX Century.

y "And"' used in patronymics to indicate linkage of paternal and maternal family names. Directly from Terran Spanish, in which it has the same function.
Ya-men Sapient (?) species, vaguely humanoid; about 2.7 meters (9 ancient Terran feet!) in height, crested, and wearing plumed beaked headdresses, WD 71 (91). Habitat: Forests of the Kilghard Hills and lower Hellers, WD 78 (100). Little is known about them. The Ghost Wind causes them to go into berserk rages during which they have been known to eat humans, WD 82ff (101ff), WW 147 (166). The name may come from their horrendous cries; they are, understandably, much feared.
Yashri Minstrel in South Valley in Alton lands, FT 232; played the large harp at dances. Broke two fingers in a fall, after which his 9-year-old grandson took his place as harpist at dances at Armida, FT 263.
Year's End Festival Anciently held at Towers, involving kireseth, FT 252, 340-41; described, FT 341-51.
The name was also used for an ancient fertility ritual, FT 263.
Years of Chaos   Same as Ages of Chaos (q.v.).
Yellow Forest Home territory of both Keral and Narzain-ye kui alias "Andrea Closson." Its location is not certain other than that it was in the hills beyond the Kadarin, WW 153 (173). The name translates the archaic casta form given by chieri, and that in turn is translated from their own tongue. Narzain-ye kui is presumably related to the latter as this name is rendered as "Child of the Yellow Forest," WW 184 (210), 189 (215).
yoga Ancient Terran mind/body training method, still in use in TE; reported to develop latent ESP in humans as a byproduct of mental reintegration: compared by Dr. David Hamilton to elementary Tower methods for training Keepers, WW 105 (117).
Something similar appears to have been part of the training given boys at Nevarsin (q.v.). Ysabet Female given name, equivalent to Terran Elizabeth, Elspeth, Ysobel, Ysabela, Lisa, and cognate forms. Elizabeth Lome, wife of David Lome and mother of Magda (qq.v.), was so known in Caer Donn, SC 158. She was a songwriter, musician capable of playing on several different instruments, and had translated many mountain songs into Terran Standard as well as setting many casta poems to music. Darkover was her fifth planet; she had followed David to all five, SC 242. She did not long survive David's death, SC 243.

Numbers following title abbreviations denote page numbers; where second-edition page numbers differ, they are indicated in parentheses: i.e. WW 10 (12) notes page 10 in the first edition, page 12 in the second. CG = information contributed by Christopher Gilson. Entry names in italics are names or words of Darkovan origin.   Names which are ALL IN CAPITALS indicate characters who actually appear in any story.

ZABAL, Dr. MARCO Xenobotanist with original DL group, DL 21. Basque origin. Tall, hook-nosed. Had been on a Himalaya expedition. Died of a ruptured aorta while ecstatically chasing a chieri during a Ghost Wind, DL 53, 58-59, 88. The chieri later laid him out, though it is uncertain if (s)he meant the corpse for burial or for the kyorebni.
A region was later named the Plains of Zabal after him, DL 77; this was in a valley between New Skye (later Neskaya, q.v.) and the foothills of the Hellers; it was full of wild game. This name seems not to have survived. Zandru Demonic god, one of the Four (with Aldones, Avarra and Evanda, qq.v.). His bride was Naotalba (q.v.). He is best known for owning (having created?) no less than nine cold hells, SS 129, 148, etc., each colder than the one above; one of the mildest was equated to an ordinary Darkovan winter and the student dormitory at Nevarsin was said to be kept like the 4th hell as a warning, FT 255. He is credited—if that is the appropriate word—with having created the Dry Lands, SC 64.
He is said to own (possibly to have created) scorpions, SA 113-14 (125), used for pursuing wrongdoers—were these the scorpion-ants?
In the "Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda," below, p. 142, he is the dark force on whom Alar called.
His name is generally used in imprecations, e.g. "Zan-
dru's hells!," SS 111, HH 194. "Zandru send him scorpion whips!," HH 160, as an imprecation itself, SD 96, SA 18 (16), or in connexion with one of his hells, e.g. "colder than Zandru's ninth hell."
Zandru's pockets Apparently, completely lightless caverns. Alluded to in the proverbial phrase "dark as Zandru's pockets," SA.126 (141).
Zeb Scott Terran, father of Rafe and Marjorie Scott by Felicia Darriell, HH 216. He lived near Caer Donn and appears to have been in the service of Aldaran. See the Aldaran and Alton Lineages, p. 157, 158. His name is likely to have been short for either Zebulon or Zebedee. He is supposed to have been an alcoholic. Lew Alton quoted an old rumor which claimed that Zeb had found the Sharra Matrix (in one of the forge-folk's temples?) and under its influence died raving drunk in a Carthon wineshop, babbling about "the blue sword with the power of a hundred demons," SA 9 (6). However, why Lew quoted this instead of the true story (in HH) of how Kadarin persuaded Desideria to let him have the matrix is unknown: possibly it was his erratic memory?
zei   (casta, cahuenga) "Me," "I," SA 161 (181), CG.
z'par servu (casta, from cahuenga) "At your service," BS 12, etc. Said when introducing oneself to a person of higher rank, or in reply to S'dia shaya (q.v.). Compare para servirte.
DL = DARKOVER LANDFALL / SQ = STORMQUEEN! (not covered in this concordance) / SS = THE SPELL SWORD / FT = THE FORBIDDEN TOWER / SC = THE SHATTERED CHAIN / SD = STAR OF DANGER / BS = BLOODY SUN / WD = THE WINDS OF DARKOVER /HH = THE HERITAGE OF HASTUR /SA = THE SWORD OF ALDONES / PS = THE PLANET SAVERS / WW = THE WORLD WRECKERS

BALLAD OF HASTUR AND CASSILDA
Numerous versions of this ballad have survived, quoted and sung to many tunes by folksingers—some of these melodies being of great antiquity, others apparently originated by the singers. There is no proof which version is oldest or nearest to the lost original versions; the unreliability of folksingers' memories has been long proverbial on every planet in TE. The text here given is based on the most ancient sources available, some of them apparently dating from the Ages of Chaos to judge from their archaic casta forms. It is also the longest version known, raising the possibility of accretions over the centuries—accretions which might account for the irregular metrical patterns. Stanzaic divisions are guesswork. '
The stars were mirrored on the shore, dark was the vast enchanted moor, silent as cloud or wave or stone. Robardin's daughter walked alone. 5    A web of gold between her hands On shining spindle burning bright; deserted lay the mortal lands when Hastur left the Spheres of Light.
Then singing like a hidden bird, 10    Cassilda cast a secret word,
beside the waters clear and cold;
he heard her as he downward spun,
and through the fields of stars he came 15    treading the night where shadows run
till into water fell his flame.
The song was cast into the night,
the sun arose with doubled light;
he lay thrown up along the shore— 20    the sands were jewelled evermore—
and to the shores Cassilda came
and called him by a mortal name,
and at her heels Camilla fair
came flying in the glowing dawn, 25    a flowermaid with flaxen hair,
and found him when the mists had gone.
Cassilda paled and wept and fled,
Camilla knelt and raised his head;
he woke and saw blue eyes and grey 30    and saw the paler mortal day
and sheathed his sword's immortal fire
in mortal man's entranced desire;
a hand to each, he faltering came
within the rocky mountain hall 3 5    where Alar tends the darkened flame
that brightened at Cassilda's call.
White bread and wine and cherries red
brought by her doves through morning bright,
Camilla laid, and bowed her head, 40    he ate and drank by earthly light.
And as his brilliance paled away
into a dimmer mortal day,
Cassilda left her shining loom;
a starflower in his hand she laid, 45    then on him fell a mortal doom;
he rose and kissed Robardin's maid.
The golden web unfinished lay, Camilla darkened day by day, Cassilda brightened into noon
50    (for mortal love comes soon, comes soon); They wandered in the shining wood and in the mortal sun they stood, and watched the waters ebb and flow and saw the silver wheel retrace
55    the skypath in the waves below, a glory mirrored in each face.
Camilla's tears, unshed aloud, turned the grey waters into cloud; where Hastur's steps on sand had shone
60    the flowermaiden walked alone; yet by her sister's side she smiled, and in her arms the golden child the Son of Hastur, cradled bright, wrapped in the web of tattered gold,
65    Cassilda's son, the child of Light, Camilla's arms were first to fold.
The silver wheels of night had swung where bright Avarra's sickle hung, and on the shores Cassilda sang, 70    and bell-bright harps of Hastur rang; but in the mountain hall the flame rushed to the roof in frightened red, and from the hall Camilla fled, for Alar called on Zandru's name.
75    A fearful mist about him laid,
his eyes were darkened in the shade, and Hastur's glorious face did seem a wavering distorted dream; for when the God had left the stars
80    he roused again the evil strife;
and in the Darkest Heart there grew knowledge of Hastur's mortal life.
Into the heart of Alar fell
a splinter from the darkest hell;
85    and madness on him raging came; he cried again on Zandru's name, and in the darkened fire he made a darkly shining magic blade, an evil spell upon it cast
90 wound with the Terrors out of Night, and runes he graved, darkly enmassed, spells to put shadows into flight.
He saw no God, but daemon dread in Hastur's fair and shining head, 95    and in Camilla's tears a sign
of evil thought and foul design; he could not see the patterned plan that gave a God to mortal wife, that mortal love beyond a man 100    should bring down more than mortal life. Silent he crept along the shore
where Hastur sang his mortal song, and while Camilla trembled sore Cassilda's joy blazed bright and strong,
105    The song was silent in the dark,
Camilla wept where none could mark, but Hastur came, and bending low raised, up the maiden white as snow, and on her pure and flowery face
110    a kiss of holy love he laid,
a blazing brother's pure embrace for sister of his lovely bride.
And joyously she knew his kiss, and more than a lover's was her loss,
115    and on the sands Cassilda smiled,
where smiling played her shining child, then starlight hid her gleaming face, and through the shadows Alar came, and as they stood in long embrace
120    the witch-sword glittered cold with flame.
Evil was Alar's magic art! Camilla fell without a cry, and Hastur, shielded by her heart, knew he could die as mortals die, 125    and rising into blazing fire
immortal was in spent desire.
The sword lay broken on the shore,
but no man saw Camilla more;
by Zandru's spells the sword was made
130   to banish only, not to slay,
and pierced by that accursed blade to Shadow-realms she passed away; and there she wandered long and drear, and evermore they heard her cry
135    until the fading of the year became a sadness and a sigh, the silver leaves that fell like tears the twilight dim with shadow-fears dying upon a kiss to die.
140    Then Hastur son of Light had known (for so had doomed his shining Sire when first he fled the Realms of Fire) once more his star must burn alone. For on the earth he might not reign
145    if once he caused a mortal pain; or in that hour he must return to the far spheres that were his own; for mortals many griefs do burn; no more might be by Codlings sown.
150    And never to the misty lake
could shining Hastur come again; nor did Robardin's daughter take a husband from the mortal men, but when his star was spun alight
155    over the towers of the land,
she raised her mirrored eyes of light
and from the starry-mirrored sand
her songs from sphere of stars took flight.
At last she brought her shining child 160    wrapt in the tattered web of gold high to the Tower in the Wild
where Astra dwelt in days of old. And there they named him King and Lord, and bade him keep the tattered cloak 165    torn from the loom that day she fled, and all the shining fibres broke, and on his shield, the cherry red, and keep the doomed and fearful Sword.
They set Cassilda's throne on high, 170    and Hastur's crown within the sky; they built a city in the Wild fit for his rule, the kingly Child, and singing of Camilla's doom they wrought for her an opal tomb;
175    And evermore the cloud waves break
along the fringes of the lake,
and tears and songs still whisper there
upon the still and misty air;
Cassilda singing in the light, 180    Camilla weeping in the night;
Hastur a star enshrined above
who mortal was for mortal love;
and Alar chained in darkest night
never again to know the light; 185    bound to the King by magic art,
a she-wolf ever gnaws his heart.
The shining King of Hastur line 188    became your forefather and mine.
NOTES
Line
1. mirrored on the shore: Presumably near the Lake of Hali. If the stars were brilliant enough to make the sands glitter, this must refer to an immensely distant epoch.
4.   Robardin's  daughter:   Cassilda.  Her mother was the
chieri whose name was rendered in casta as Kiere-stelli. Robardin was Lord of Carthon.
5.   web = fabric.
7.   mortal   lands   =   regions   of  Darkover   inhabited   by
humans.
8.   Spheres of Light = the distant stars.
10.   cast a secret word = a spell, here a Summons.
12.  waters = Lake of Hali.
16. into water fell his flame. The meaning seems to be that Hastur took on human form and therefore mortality, his God-form eclipsed for the time being. This is parallel to any number of Terran gods, the best known perhaps being Jesus and the various avatars of Vishnu and Brahma.
18. The sun arose with doubled light: Apparently a poetic image for the brilliance of the human form of Hastur, Son of Aldones.
20. The sands were jeweled evermore: Some of the sands around the Lake of Hali have yielded gemstones until fairly recent times.
22.   a mortal name. Not identified.
23.   Camilla fair. Sister of Cassilda; in some traditions a
princess, in others the sister of Alar and a shepherdess; always, her handmaiden and tanist or fey twin.
29. blue eyes and grey (respectively?) Cassilda's and Camilla's.
31.   sheathed  .  .   . desire. Poetic image for dimming his
brilliance in becoming mortal.
32.   entranced desire. Probably poetic shorthand for sexu-
al desire kindled by spells.
33.   each. Cassilda and Camilla.
34.   rocky mountain hall. Not identified.
35.   Alar. Also known as "Alar the Treacherous," various-
ly believed to be a fire-god vaguely comparable to the Terran Loki, or a pastoral god, brother of Camilla, or a historical figure. In a sense, the opponent of Hastur, even as Zandru is of Aldones, darkened flame. Evidently a magical fire of some kind; cf. lines 71-72, 87, where not only does it respond to emotion, but it is also used in making a magical blade.
38. doves. These are one of the traditional attributes of Camilla; a native bird species, not the Terran birds so named. In the ancient witchcraft terminology they would have been called her "familiars."
40. ate and drank by earthly light. Emphasizing Hastur's taking to himself the doom of humanity: man's common need for food, drink, shelter, rest, etc., as the price of his fulfilling Aldones' purpose in becoming progenitor of the Comyn. Earthly light: far dimmer than that in which Hastur dwelt among the stars; hence lines 41-42.
43.   shining loom.  A magical loom  on  which she wove
sacred tapestries; doubtless the source of the cloth of gold in which Cassilda wrapped her son by Hastur.
44.   starflower.   The   kireseth   flower;  here,   apparently,
referring to its aphrodisiac properties, inviting the god to make love to Cassilda.
45.   mortal doom. Hastur's destiny to father a child in the
human manner, being now flesh; and therefore to become vulnerable.
46.   Robardin's maid. Cassilda, still virginal.
47.   golden web. The magical tapestry of line 5.
48.   darkened. Faded, declined; the usual interpretation is
that she loved Hastur but her love was unrequited in that he did not impregnate her.
49.   brightened   into   noon.   Presumably,   the   pregnancy
made her radiantly beautiful even as with many ordinary human women. Note the continuing contrast between Camilla and Cassilda—vaguely comparable to the Martha and Mary of Terran Christian legend: Camilla fed Hastur's mortal (i.e. fleshly) needs, Cassilda his immortal needs.
51.   shining wood. Not located; thought to be perhaps the
forest in the hills known to the chieri as the "Yellow Forest."
52.   mortal sun. The Bloody Sun; reminding us that even a
sun has its time of birth and its time of death. The most ancient legends tell of ages ago, when Dark-over's sun was brighter.
53.   waters. This may apply either to the River Kadarin
near Carthon, where the moons cause tidal effects, or to the ocean, or both.
54.   silver wheel. One of the circumpolar constellations,
resembling a sickle in the winter, when it represented Avarra; resembling a crown or tiara in the summer, when it symbolized Evanda.
5 5. skypath. This implies that Hastur and Cassilda revisited the place nightly for three seasons of her pregnancy, as the Sickle turned to the Crown.
58.   turned the grey waters into cloud. Hali lake is perpet-
ually covered by cloud so that its watery surface remains unseen; for this extraordinary phenomenon, without natural explanation, the legend attempts to account: see lines 175-80.
60.   flowermaiden. Camilla, as in line 25.
62. golden child. The Son of Hastur, as progenitor of the Domains, styled golden either from the color of his hair or the color of his aura.
64.   web of tattered gold. As in lines 5, 47, 164.
65-66. Commemorating the origin of fosterage. Comparing this with lines 107-113 and 119, 126, we see also the supposed origin of the custom by which, to spare a wife near childbirth and afterwards, a husband is expected to share a bed with a handmaiden chosen by the wife.
67.   silver wheels. Here, probably all the circumpolar con-
stellations, called wheels because they trace circular arcs round the pole.
68.   Avarra's sickle. The constellation of line 54.
70.   harps of Hastur. Not identified (are they among the
holy things at Hali?), but then harp music has been commonly used for sacred purposes in many worlds. The harp here is apparently not the common small lap-held rryl but the larger standing instrument.
71.   mountain hall . . . flame. As in lines 34, 35.
75. fearful mist. An attribute of Zandru, whose coming maddened Alar by making him see Hastur and the two women only as his enemies. A Terran parallel is the ancient Norse legend of how the evil fire-god Loki induced blinded Hodhr to slay Baldr the Good.
80.   evil strife. Between Aldones as creator/quickener and
Zandru as destroyer.
81.   Darkest Heart. Zandru's; as god of darkness and cold,
he used Alar as his tool to strike at Aldones through Hastur, attempting to slay Hastur in mortal incarnation. 84.   darkest hell. One of Zandru's nine. 88.  magic blade. Forged in magic fire, carved with rune-spells—lines 129-30. Nothing less could even injure a god such as Hastur. 90.   Terrors out of Night. Traditional attributes of Zandru. 92.   runes.   Like  those graven on spellswords on many planets; was this sword also furnished with a matrix in the hilt? Alar, as mighty smith, may have been identified with one of the gods of the forge-folk, for whom fire is both savior and slayer.
100. more than mortal life. Preternatural abilities, inherited in lesser degree by the Comyn, Hastur's descendants.
102.   mortal song. Not preserved.
107-13. Loveplay: see commentary under lines 65-66; cf. lines 119, 126.
114. her loss. Refers to Alar's slaying her while in Hastur's arms.
124-26. Whether or not Alar's blade touched Hastur, having pierced Camilla, does not matter: its touch banished Camilla to the Shadow-realms (line 132) and sent Hastur back to his place among the stars, never more to incarnate on Darkover. The reference to spent desire indicates that Hastur did make love to Camilla. See line 168 and commentary.
127.   sword lay broken. Having fulfilled its entire purpose.
132. Shadow-realms. Nothing is recorded about their location or nature.
135-39. These lines suggest that Cassilda and Camilla might have been at one time worshipped as perpetually alternating Spirits of the Year, attendants of the Sun: Cassilda for spring and summer, Camilla for fall and winter, the year dying at the winter solstice only to be reborn at the earliest thaw.
140.   son of Light.  A rhetorical figure; the full form is
Hastur, Son of Aldones, who is Son of Light. If the red hair of the Comyn is taken as sign of their ancestry in Hastur, then it is symbolic of the Sun; and copper, a rare and precious metal on Darkover, is the metal of the Sun in that system even as gold has long been to Terrans.
141.   shining Sire. Aldones.
142.   Realms of Fire. The stars.
143.   burn   alone.   Not  with  either  Cassilda  or  Camilla;
symbolic of the vast distances between any star and
its planets or its brother stars. 147.   far spheres. Same as Realms of Fire. 150.   misty lake. Hali. 161.  Tower in the Wild. Not identified; may refer to Hali,
Neskaya, Arilinn, or one more ancient whose name has not been preserved. However, lines 165-68 suggest Hali.
162. Astra. Not identified; an early Keeper? The name is from Terran tongues and means "star."
164-68. The web of gold cloth, the shield and the broken sword are supposedly among the holy things at the rhu fead at Hali, along with several other spell-swords.
169-70. Apparently meaning that they named two constellations for these sacred emblems.
171. city in the Wild. Hali, accounting for the later traditional claim of the Hasturs of Elhalyn to the kingship; or conceivably an older ruined city nearby.
174. opal tomb. Possibly the foundation of the sacred buildings at Hali?
175-80. Accounting for the strange phenomena at the Lake of Hali.
183-86. Alar is confined in one of Zandru's hells, as Loki was in ancient Terran (Norse) myth.
THE BALLAD COMMONLY CALLED "THE OUTLAW"

How came this blood on your right hand? Brother, tell me, tell me. "It is the blood of an old grey wolf Who lurked behind a tree."
No wolf would prowl at this hour of the day, Brother, tell me, tell me. "It is the blood of my own brothers twain Who sat at drink with me."
How came ye fight with your own blood kin? Brother, tell me, tell me, Your father's sons and your mother's sons Who dwelled in peace with thee?
"We sat at feast, we fought in jest, Sister, I vow to thee, A berserk's rage came into my hand And I slew them shamefully."
What will become of you now, dear heart? Brother, tell me, tell me.
"I shall fare forth to the setting sun Where it sinks beyond the sea."
What man will dare fare forth with you? Brother, tell me, tell me. "An outlaw's fate shall be my own And all men flee from me."
And when will you come back, dear heart? Brother, tell me, tell me.
"When the sun and the moon rise together in the west, And that will never be."
In some versions between first and second couplets of second stanza are interpolated other stanzas similar to the first but naming still different animals only to be refuted by the Sister. This ballad has been sung to other tunes. The grisly story it tells is now known to be of ancient Terran (Danish, ultimately Viking) origin; MZB reconstructed the text from extant fragments.
THE OATH OF THE COMHI-LETZII OR "ORDER OF RENUNCIATES,' Commonly Called the "Free Amazons," with Explanatory Commentary
From this day forth (I swear):                   Men dia pre'z'hiuro (ritual formula)
I renounce the right to marry                    As marriages were arranged by families, this represents a renunciation of all
family ties and obligations, including the mutual obligations between the Amazon and her parents, implying also renunciation of heritage.
save as a freemate.                                                The exception implies that the Amazon asserts the retention of the right to
take a bed partner or lover within the legal status of freemate, bound by mutual promises. Freemates shared property and the responsibility for raising their children.
No man may bind me di catenas:               This renounced the privileges, dowries, matrimonial transfer of land and other
properties, or of titles, inheritances for herself or her children, and other rights conferred by this most ancient form of marriage. By implication, it also renounces acceptance of authority (or the protection) of a Domain lord (even the Hastur lord), who would normally lock the catenas onto both parties in such a union in token of Comyn acknowledgement of the status so conferred.
and I will dwell in no man's household                From the most prestigious to the least prestigious (save prostitution) of all
as a barragana.                                                      unions: all are renounced. The two clauses are exactly balanced in casta.
I swear that I am prepared to defend myself by force            Two  more balanced clauses. The sense is renunciation of the protection
if I am attacked by force,                                    normally expected from father or husband, and assertion that she can and
must learn to survive without it.
and that I shall turn to no man for                      Renouncing any further  claim on  family even for the necessities  of life,
protection.                                                            Henceforth her home was no longer her father's house but her Guild House.
From this day forth I swear:
I shall never again be known by the                     Renouncing any identification with caste, clan or family of origin, as well as
name of any man, be he father, guardian,           with family acquired by wedlock, lover, or husband, but simply and solely as
(given name) nikhya mic                                      e.g. Margali, daughter of Ysabet. Mother-daughter tie, the ultimate biological
(mother's given name).                                         link, is affirmed in this limited degree.
From this day forth I swear:
I will give myself to no man                                 What is being renounced is the social ties of wedlock, not sex or even love,
save in my own time and season                          What is asserted is the ownership of her own body and the right to dispose of
and of my own free will,                                      it as she wishes, rather than the obligation to be at a man's demand, at my own desire;
I will never earn my bread                          Not only prostitution is being renounced, nor yet only barragana status, nor
as the object of any man's lust.                           yet that of the type of entertainers whose income depends on showing pretty
faces and figures to men, but also any occupation whatever in which the Amazon would have to appear principally or solely as a sex object, e.g. by adhering to Terran dress codes.
From this day forth I swear:
I will bear no child to any man                            Renouncing the prime purpose of all forms of marriage on Darkover.
save for my own pleasure                                     Parallel to clauses in the previous section.
and at my own time and choice;
I will bear no child to any man
for house or heritage,
clan or inheritance,
price or posterity;
I swear that                                                 Withdrawing her progeny from any claims family or clan—even Comyn—
I alone will determine                                          might otherwise make. In practice, there is no limit on who could be chosen
rearing and fosterage                                            to foster an Amazon's child; daughters are normally raised in the Guild House,
of any child I bear,                                               sons after age five (not the safest age for separation!) are sent from the Guild
without regard to any man's                                House to fosterage wherever the mother chooses, though this could also be
place, position, or pride.                                      done earlier.
From this day forth (I swear) I renounce allegiance                                            Renouncing any  form  of protection  extended by those same institutions,
to any family, clan, household,                            Recognizing even that the will of Hastur is not the law of the land,
warden or liege lord, and take oath that I owe allegiance
only to the laws of the land                                 Asserting that she is not an outlaw. Free citizen: normally male status,
as a free citizen must:
to the kingdom, the crown                                  The order here is ascending: the social system, its ruler, and the Four Gods as
and the Gods                                                        successively higher authorities over her own will.
(From this day forth I swear) I shall appeal to no man as of right,                     Normally a woman had a legal claim for protection on either her family of
for protection, support or succor;                       origin or her husband's family; this is renounced and the proper direction of
such claim is asserted in the next clause, but shall owe allegiance only
to my oath-mother,                                              She who administered the Oath to the new Amazon. Guild-sisters means
to my sisters in the Guild,                                    primarily those in her Guild-House, but by extension all other Amazons. The
and to my employer for the season                     mention  of  her  employer testifies to  the ancient  tradition that  employ-
of my employment.                                             ment freely entered into for gain entails a contract, either written or verbal
or implicit, of mutual obligation to protect each other's interests. And I further swear that the members of the Guild of Renunciates shall be to me, each and every one,
as my mother, my sister,                                      Family-by-choice, but with the same obligations which would normally bind
or my daughter,                                                   members of a family-by-blood each to the other,
born of one blood with me, and that no woman sealed by oath to the Guild shall appeal to me in vain.                                    Assumes the mutual obligations of protection which would normally exist
between father and daughter or between husband and wife.
From this moment, I swear                        Intensified form of ritual formula.
to obey all the laws                                              In parallel to the previous section; rights imply duties.
of the Guild of Renunciates
and any lawful command                                     The key word here is lawful.
of my oath-mother,
the Guild members,                                              Only in such circumstances as any of these would have occasions to give
or my elected leader                                             orders.
for the season of my employment.
And if I betray any secret of the Guild, or prove false to my oath, than I shall submit myself to the Guild-mothers for such discipline as they shall choose;
and if I fail,                                                 Fail to fulfill the preceding clause, i.e. to resume Amazon status,
then may every woman's hand turn against me;
let them slay me like an animal                           Rather than normal legal execution. Animals were not normally buried,
and consign my body unburied to corruption and (consign) my soul to the mercy of the Goddess.                               Any Darkovan would understand Avarra as here invoked.
DARKOVAN PROVERBS AND PROVERBIAL EXPRESSIONS
Darkovans are as remarkable as the old Terran Spaniards for having a proverb to cover just about any situation. (The comparison is apt because after all the DL colonists included many people of Hispanic ancestry; and the rest were mostly of Celtic stock, people almost equally prone to create and use proverbs—the Welsh triads being perhaps the best known of these.) Because some Friends of Darkover wished to see a collection of Darkovan proverbs in compact form, these are here quoted (along with some few that have not appeared in the books to date), classified as to type rather than either haphazardly or in any dubious alphabetic order.
I. GOOD ADVICE
If you're going to steal horses, steal thoroughbreds, WD 85 (110). (Cf. Terran "Better be hanged for a sheep than for a lamb.")
On a steep road, let your horse set the pace, SC 127. (Alternative version: On an uphill road, give your horse his head, WD 71 (91).)
The rain can drown the mud-rabbit only if he hasn't the wits to keep his mouth shut, BS 22. (Compare Terran [Spanish]  "Flies cannot get into a closed mouth.")
Foresight could make wise men of Durraman's donkeys, WD 43 (55).
Who picks a tool unsuited to a task should not complain if it does no more than cut the hand that holds it, FT 321.
Don't trust your bone to another man's dog, SC 181.
What is done under the four moons (= at Festival Night) need not be remembered after they have set, SC 221.
The mouse in the walls may look at a cat, but he is wise not to squeak about it, HH 16.
If you listen to dogs barking, you will go deaf before you learn anything to your advantage. Several versions, including HH 152.
Wear no sword at kinsman's board, HH 307.
Put no faith in a drunkard's prophecy, another man's dog, or the weather at any season, HH 337. Cf. the Welsh Triad of unreliables: "a whore's oath, a boy's love, a horse's health."
To know the road ahead, ask those returning on it.
Forget favors you have bestowed, remember those you've received.
Don't ask a dog to judge between a pillar and a tree.
If you are praised by a villain, mend your ways at once.
Don't kick the horse you have to ride.
Eggs should not fight stones. (Choose your opponent carefully!)
II. COMPARISONS
(As helpless as) a fish in a tree, SC 197.
(As useless as) hunting for a nut in a forest, WW 114 (127).
As many concubines as a Dry Towner, HH 57.
(As unwise as) a farmer who has just set a wolf to guard the
fowl-house, HH 65. (Haste and aggression) To charge like a cralmac in rut, HH
123.
(Stubbornness, contrariness) ... As the man, who, when the devil showed him the road to paradise, took the high road to hell, HH 123 (from Nevarsin).
As beautiful as the Blessed Cassilda, HH 123.
The friendship of a Comyn lord is as the sweetness of a beehive: it has a deadly sting, HH 156.
(Paradox) Set a mouse to guard a lion, HH 176.
A slanderous tongue is as deadly as a nest of scorpion-ants. To serve up grudges like stale porridge, FT 32.
(Anent, among other things, Dry Towners' deities) It is well known that the god of jackasses has long ears. (Other versions exist, after the style of this one.)
(On questioning a madman) Ask the river why it floods, or the snow why it hides the sun, WW 36 (37-38).
(As safe as) a worm in a bale of silk, WW 38 (40).
(Trapped like) a rabbit trapped by a weasel in his own hole, WW 38 (40). (Here as in most of these, the nearest Terran equivalents or counterparts are used, the habits of Darkovan fauna being less familiar to Terran readers.)
(Extreme opulent prodigality) They feasted him like the Lord of Carthon, WW 153 (173).
(A Tower worker) Half monk, half eunuch, FT 51, 312.
To lie like an old song, WW 154 (175).
(About occasional uses of alcohol) It is only safe to look at the sun through smoked glasses, WW 159 (181)—of chieri origin.
Dead as (or useless as) Durraman's donkey, WD 17 (17), SS 115.
Drunk as monks at Midwinter Festival (several versions, including FT 95).
HI. IMPOSSIBILITIES
You can't put chickens back into eggs, WD 37 (45), HH 295, FT 54.
All the smiths in Zandru's forges can't mend a broken egg, WD 16 (16), FT 121.
. . . Nor put a hatched chick back into his shell, SC 246.
. . . Nor (restore) a girl's maidenhead, WD 22 (24).
(Like) trying to buy fish in the Dry Towns, SC 136, FT 50. (The negative form "Don't try . . ." is compared to Terran, "When in Rome do as the Romans do.")
You can't bind a cloud even with copper chains (several variants, including FT 31, where "copper chains" is rendered as "fetters").
Can a burst dam be mended with toothpicks? SA 58 (62).
. . . To seek fruit in spring, or blossom from a winter bough, WW 154 (175)—of chieri origin.
There is no way to teach a machine wisdom after folly, FT 50.
IV. THE HUMAN CONDITION
Necessity could make a thief even of a Hastur, WD 85 (110). Lucky charms protect you only if you have your own luck,
WD 46 (57). There is neither wisdom nor courage in an empty belly, SC 20.
149
Good news crawls on its belly; bad news has wings, HH 70. Bare is brotherless back, (several versions), WD 37 (45), FT
60, 61, 288. (Parallels can be found in archaic Terran
Scandinavian). No choice is ever wholly unregretted; each brings more joy
and more sorrow than we can foresee. (Several variants,
including HH 366, FT 37). Not all porridge cooked is eaten, WD 22 (24). (Not all brave
words become deeds.) . . . The game that walks from the trap to the cookpot, WD
110 (145), BS 121, etc. (Terran "Out of the frying pan,
into the fire.") One lamp can't light two houses. (Compare following.) The best horse can't wear two saddles. (Cf. Terran "No man
can serve two masters.") You cannot take hawks without climbing some cliffs, SC
37, HH 178. (Compare following.) You cannot eat nuts without breaking some shells, HH 65.
(Terran "You cannot make omelettes without breaking
eggs.") We will fly that hawk when his pinions are grown. (Compare following.) We will ride that colt when he is grown to wear a saddle, FT
208. (Terran "cross that bridge when you come to it.") If the left hand battle the right, who wins? (Compare following.) Does the left hand chop off the right? HH 304. (Terran "A
house divided against itself cannot stand.") Nothing in this world is certain but death and next winter's
snows, SC 37, 273. (Compare following.) Nothing in this world is certain but birth and next winter's
snows, and both come when they will and not when it is
convenient, SC 68. (Said of a woman) Better breeched than bare, SC 59. (Compare Terran: "I complained of being without shoes, till
I met a man without feet.") If ill-luck were cheese, dairywomen would go wanting work,
SC 154. If stupidity were a crime, half the human race would be
hanged at every crossroads. The man false to his first allegiance will be false to his
second, HH 373.
Long roads test the horse, long dealings test the friend. When bredin  split, enemies enter the gap, FT 284, 303.
(Many variants.) One generation plants the trees, the next eat the fruit. Call a woman harlot  and you make  her  one.   (Compare
Terran "give a dog a bad name . . .") A hawk kills because it is his nature; a man because it is his
pleasure. Willing exile is exile nonetheless, WW 87 (96). (Compare
following.) An exile may be happy, but he is an exile no less, SA 164
(184). Get three Darkovans together and they hold a dance, WW
175(199). Only men laugh, only men weep, only men dance, WW 175
(200).
V. FIGURES
The art of double tongues, HH 18. (Diplomacy)
The Word of a Hastur, PS 63 (68), etc. (An unbreakable
promise.) Tongues that rattle at both ends, HH 83. Dowered with all the jewels of Carthon, HH 123. The fifth leg on a horse, FT. (Uselessness)
VI. MISCELLANY
Water can float a boat or sink it. (Compare following.) Fire is a good servant but a poor master, WD 134 (178). What the gods make, the planet can find use for. Dead songbirds make a sad meal. (Compare Terran "paid
too much for his whistle.") A devil with fine manners can still carry you only to hell,
SC 57. Only a racehorse or a Comyn lord is judged by his pedigree,
HH 173. If you have a bulldozer, you don't need a snowshovel, WW
19 (18). (TE origin.) Rain at Dalereuth can't quench a forest fire in the Hellers.
(Compare Terran expression "the right thing in the right
place at the right time.") The dead cannot come to kinsmen's aid, WD 94 (123).
(Compare following.)
Dead men have no kihar, WD 94 (123). (Compare Terran
"He who fights and runs away / Lives to fight another
day.") It is ill done to keep a dragon chained for roasting your
meat. The dead in heaven is too happy to grieve for indignities
done his corpse; the dead in hell has too much else to
grieve for, SS 41.
When Eternity comes, all will be understood and forgiven, WD 83 (108).
Talent and skill (or training) are as the right hand and the left, HH 172.
One beam, no matter how strong, can't support a house.
Better thorns in your boots than thorns in your feet. (Alternative version: Thorns in your boots draw no blood.) (Compare Terran "That went wide of the mark.")
The sex of a cralmac is of interest only to another cralmac, WW 54 (57).
SOME NOTES ON THE NEW HEBRIDES COMMUNE SONGS
Texts of five of these are quoted in part, as sung by Fiona MacMorair of the New Hebrides Commune. They are among nearly 200 ancient Scottish Highland and Hebridean songs preserved in the Hellers by descendants of the Commune, whose printed XX Century sourcebook was Songs of the Hebrides, by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, London, Boosey & Hawkes, vol. I (1909, 1922), II (1917), III (1921), often since reprinted. Details on the five quoted in DL follow.
(DL 83-84) "Faoileag Tire-fo-Thuinn," also known by its first line "Ho rionn eile o," or by its English title "Seagull of the Land-under-Waves," from vol. I, p. 84. The melody is Pentatonic I, ancient, and from Skye; the Gaelic words are by Kenneth MacLeod, replacing long-forgotten ones.
(DL 110-11) "'S a Chairistiona," or "Caristiona," from vol. II, p. 182. The melody is an ancient Clanranald air long known in the Hebrides; the traditional Gaelic words were put into English by Kenneth MacLeod. One can perhaps best classify the peculiar scale as Phrygian but
omitting the second degree—i.e. E-G-A-B-C-D with E as tonic.
(DL 124) "Tha mi sgith," also known as "The Fairy's Love Song," from vol. I, p. 90. The Pentatonic II melody and Gaelic words are traditional; the English words are by James Hogg (adapted).
(DL 148) "O Mhairead Og!", also known as "The Mull Fisher's Love Song," from vol. I, p. 76. The Pentatonic I melody is an ancient traditional one from the Island of Eriskay in the Hebrides, as are the Gaelic words; English words by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser.
(DL 149) "Am Fhuar Bheinn," originally published in 1908 by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser as "The Exile's Dream," reprinted in vol. I, p. 23, as "The Coolin of Rum." The Mixolydian melody is an ancient one, collected in Gair-loch by Stewart Home; there are several sets of words, the English ones quoted in DL being by Elfrida Rivers.
THE DARKOVER NOVELS: Publishing Histories and Story Summaries
Listings in order of Darkovan history
DARKOVER LANDFALL New York: DAW Books, Inc. (i.e. Donald A.Wollheim), copyright Dec. 1972, available early 1973. Cover and frontispiece by Jack Gaughan. Working title was SUMMER OF THE GHOST WIND.
Reprint, DAW, 1977, unaltered except subtitle "Book One in the Saga of Darkover," added. Cover by George Barr.
Reprint, Boston, Gregg Press, June 1978, cloth, viii + 160 pp. Introduction by Theodore Sturgeon. Unaltered text. Frontispiece is a portrait of MZB.
French edition, LA PLANETE AUX VENTS DE FOLIE ("Planet with Winds of Madness"), Paris, Editions Albin Michel, 1977, transl. Annette Vincent, "Super-Fiction" series, ed. George H. Gallet and Jacques Bergier. Darkover in French is "Te'nebrosa."
German edition, LANDUNG AUF DARKOVER, "Terra Astra Science Fiction Romane aus der Perry-Rhodan-Redaktion," Dec. 1973, transl. Leni Sobez, Moewig Vlg., Munchen/Munich. Magazine format.
Summary: A star ship bound for Coronis, its crew and passengers mostly of Hispanic and Celtic stocks, including the New Hebrides Commune, makes an emergency landing on an uncharted planet. The drive for survival forces a decision whether to attempt to construct enough Terran technology with native materials to repair the ship, at the probable cost of wrecking the planet's ecology, or to abandon the effort and colonize the planet. The balance in favor of the former is shifted to favor the latter by discoveries that the planet is inhabited, that an aborigine has impregnated one of the ship's officers, and that perceptions of all concerned have been altered by exposure to psychedelic pollens stimulating ESP. They decide to abandon industrialism and start from scratch to fit the planet's own conditions. Unique features of Darkovan language and customs are seen to have originated in these events.
THE SPELL SWORD New York: DAW, Sept. 1974. Cover and frontispiece by George Barr.
Reprint, DAW, Feb. 1977, unaltered. Cover by Hescox.
Summary: Andrew Carr, Terran, of Mapping & Exploration, crashes in the Hellers, and is shown how to rescue himself by a vision of a woman (the Keeper Callista Lanart, kidnapped by catmen and held prisoner in an unknown place, untraceable by her family even with matrix techniques, but still able to contact him). She directs him to her family at Armida, where her twin sister Ellemir and their cousin Damon Ridenow have vainly tried to locate her. Meanwhile, the catmen, with Dry Towner allies, have begun a war with local natives, using invisibility and a permanent cloud cover obscuring sunlight, to institute a reign of terror. During one of the battles with catmen, Dom Esteban Lanart, local ruler and father of the twins, is wounded, his spinal cord severed; Damon discovers by psychic exploration that behind all these horrors is a catman ("The Great Cat", true name unknown), using an unmonitored matrix weapon from the Ages of Chaos, and that Callista is
being kept in a cave near the neighboring village of Corresanti. Though paraplegic, Esteban uses psychic contact with Damon to direct him in swordsmanship; eventually they find the cavern, kill the Great Cat, see its matrix weapon crumble and rescue Callista, who marries Andrew Carr; Damon marries Ellemir.
THE SHATTERED CHAIN New York: DAW, April 1976. Cover and frontispiece by George Barr.
Summary. Part I. Twelve years after Jalak, Dry Towner tyrant of Shainsa, had kidnapped Melora and fathered her daughter Jaelle, Melora finds herself pregnant with a son, and in desperation reaches (telepathically) her cousin Rohana Aillard-Ardais, wife of Lord Ardais and de facto Domain ruler, begging for rescue. Rohana hires a group of Free Amazons under Kindra, and goes disguised as one of their number to Shainsa, where they abduct Melora and Jaelle, leaving Jalak hamstrung. Enroute back to the Domains, Melora dies giving birth to Valentine, who is later fostered at Ardais; Jaelle is fostered by Kindra and becomes a Free Amazon.
Part II. Twelve years later, Peter Haldane, Terran Intelligence agent, is mistaken for his lookalike Kyril-Valentine Ardais, Rohana's son, Domain heir, by the bandit Rumal di Scarp, who kidnaps him for ransom. Peter's ex-freemate, Magda Lome, also in Terran Intelligence (though born and raised in the Hellers), under Rohana's advice masquerades as a Free Amazon to ransom him. Enroute, she is unmasked by a band of Free Amazons led by Jaelle and required to take the Free Amazon Oath, becoming what she had pretended to be. After she saves Jaelle's life, she and Jaelle ransom Peter and return with him to Ardais.
Part III. Jaelle develops a brief infatuation with Peter, and decides to serve the Terrans in Magda's place (as native informant) during the half year Magda must spend in training at the Amazon Guild House. The Terrans are forced to accept this, while Hastur and Comyn Council have to acknowledge that they can no longer rule on how or for whom native women can work.
The Forbidden Tower New York: daw, Sept. 1977.
pp. 5-364. Cover and frontispiece by Richard Hescox.
Reprint, photo-offset, unaltered text, promised for Feb. 1979. Boston, Gregg Press. Introduction by MZB.
Summary: During the year following the Catmen's War, Damon weds Ellemir, and Andrew Carr weds Callista, as freemates. Callista's marriage remains uncon-summated because Leonie Hastur, Keeper at Arilinn Tower, had tampered with her immature channels to preserve her Keeper's training intact (she was Arilinn's last hope for a Keeper after several previous failures). Disastrous attempts to overcome this lead to serious illness. Damon's skill at matrix healing is needed to cure not only Callista, but also a group of frostbitten workmen; this becomes possibly only by his functioning as Keeper, the first male to do so in centuries, in an impromptu circle with Ellemir and Andrew. Monitoring is done by Desiderio ("Dezi") Leynier, Dom Esteban's
wrongly unacknowledged nedestro son, who had been dismissed from Arilinn Tower. Desiderio later becomes jealous enough of Andrew to use his Alton Gift in an almost successful murder attempt. Damon, as Keeper, removes Dezi's matrix, and the boy goes to join the Cadet Guards in Thendara, where later he kills Domenic Lanart (heir to Alton) by removing his matrix, under circumstances where everyone thought the death an accident.
The disabled Dom Esteban names Damon guardian of Valdir and Regent of Alton, which choice is challenged by Dezi on grounds of criminal misuse of laran. But when Damon discovers that Dezi still has Domenic's matrix, and therefore that Dezi had murdered him, he tries to induce Dezi to give it up. Dezi first attempts instead to kill Damon, then dies in an attempt to teleport to the strongbox containing his own matrix.
In the meantime, because even Leonie Hastur had found no cure for Callista, Damon undertakes a Time-search—a Keeper's task. There he speaks to his legendary ancestor Varzil "The Good", who greets him as Keeper (using the archaic male term), and enigmatically names as cure the sacrament in use at Year's End Festival.
Desi's death alerts Arilinn Tower to the illegal functioning of Damon's circle as a "Forbidden Tower." Leonie first vainly demands that Damon disband it, then formally charges him with criminal misuse of laran. Damon maintains that he was recognized as Keeper by Varzil. Leonie challenges his Tower to an astral duel.
Damon rediscovers the nature of Year's End Festival: the "sacrament" is kireseth, taboo in the Towers for reasons forgotten centuries ago. Before the astral duel, the two couples partake in an ecstatic 4-way consummation, curing Callista and freeing her to work. Her matrix skills are undiminished although she is no longer virginal, disposing of ancient superstitions and simultaneously disposing of Andrew's own uneasiness about his own sexuality: no longer are they two couples but a genuine 4-way group marriage or Nest. (This also disposes of another threat earlier posed to Callista, for when the news leaked that her marriage to a Terran remained unconsummated, various Comyn lords sought to annul it for political purposes.)
In the astral duel, Damon's Forbidden Tower defeats Arilinn. Leonie is forced to acknowledge Damon's Keepership and recognizes that the ancient training methods no longer need be continued.
STAR OF DANGER New York: Ace, 1965 (Donald A. Wollheim). Cover and interior illustration by Jack Gaughan.
Reprint, Ace, Feb. 1976, unaltered. Cover by Michael Whelan.
German edition, DIE KRAFTE DER COMYN ("The Powers of the Comyn"), "Utopia Zukunfts-Roman" series; n.d. (ea. 1969-70?), transl. Leni Sobez, Erich Pabel Vlg., Baden. Magazine format.
German edition, PLANET DER GEFAHREN ("Planet of Perils"), "Terra Nova Science Fiction" series, "aus der Perry-Rhodan-Redaktion," Moewig Vlg., Miinchen/ Munich, transl. Leni Sobez, but completely different from last! Magazine format, similar to last; claimed to be the first German version.
Summary:  Larry Montray, unknown to himself the
nephew of Kermiac, Lord Aldaran, returns with his Terran father to Darkover at age 16, and is befriended by Kennard Alton (son of Valdir, Lord Alton), then also 16. Eventually, against his father's wishes, he accepts an invitation to stay at the Alton estate. During a forest fire, Larry teaches Valdir Alton and Lorill Hastur (Regent of the Domains) the old Terran technique of cloud-seeding to make rain to quench the fire. Later, mistaken for Kennard, he is kidnapped by the bandit Cyrillon, who mistakenly hands him a large matrix crystal in an attempt to force him to do spying on Cyrillon's behalf. But the crystal enables Larry to use his feelings of rage as a weapon against Cyrillon, whose men tie the boy up and keep him drugged lest he reach the Comyn telepathically. Kennard rescues him; they destroy Cyrillon's matrix crystal at the cost of Kennard's own, then flee through uncharted wilderness lest Cyrillon pursue them, meeting various dangers, but are finally teleported back tc Thendara by a chieri. Though they have become bredin, they are separated awhile: Kennard becomes the first Darkovan exchange student on Terra, Larry completes his education on Darkover as Valdir Alton's foster-son.
THE BLOODY SUN New York: Ace, 1964. Cover and interior illustration by Gaughan.
Reprint, Ace, Feb. 1976, unaltered except for new cover by Michael Whelan.
German edition, DIE BLUTIGE SONNE, transl. Leni Sobez, paperback book format, Pabel Taschenbuch 238, Erich Pabel Verlag, Rastatt, Baden, 1966.
German edition, DIE BLUTIGE SONNE, "Terra Nova SF" series, "aus der Perry-Rhodan-Radaktion," Moewig Vlg., Miinchen/Munich, March 1971, transl. Leni Sobez, entirely different text! Magazine format.
Summary: Jeff Kerwin Jr., knowing he was born on Darkover (though taken from the Spacemen's Orphanage at age 12 and sent to Terra), returns in adult life as part of Terran Empire Space Service, in search of his roots, only to find that all record of him had been suppressed by parties unknown; his frantic attempts to learn why lead to a deportation order (as a covert political move to force certain Comyn hands). He escapes and finally makes his way to Arilinn Tower, where he is tested not only for laran but for capacity to perform in a Tower circle—which must be completed quickly to do a mining and smelting operation before either the Aldarans or the Terrans get a foothold. Suspected of being linked to espionage, he elopes with the Keeper Elorie Ardais, who enables him to recover a blocked memory: he is in fact the son of Arnad Ridenow and Cleindon Aillard, who were murdered in his sight by fanatics; his supposed Terran father had merely put him into the Orphanage for safety, giving him his Terran name as protective coloration. He is eventually vindicated and accepted as full Comyn.
WINDS OF DARKOVER New York: Ace Books, Ace Double bound with John Rackham's THE ANYTHING TREE, 1970. Cover by Kelly Freas. pp. 5-139.
Reprint, Ace, June 1977, single book, text reset unaltered except for size; cover by Michael Whelan; pp. 1-185.
German  version,   DIE   WINDE   VON DARKOVER,
"Terra Astra Science Fiction Romane aus der Perry-Rhodan-Redaktion," Moewig Vlg., Miinchen/Munich, 1971, transl. Leni Sobez. Magazine format.
Summary: The bandit Brynat Scarface has seized "High Windward," ancestral castle of the Storn family in the Hellers, imprisoning the youngest son Edric, making a blasphemous mock marriage with one daughter Allira, while ignoring the silent planning of the blind older son Loran and the silent rage of the other daughter, Melitta. Loran, in trance in Sunrise Tower, reaches Melitta tele-pathically with the urgent request to go to Carthon where he will send help (which she does, at great peril). Meanwhile, Loran overshadows the Terran Dan Barron (taking over his body, displacing Dan's mind), causing him to lose his job in Mapping & Exploration and to be transferred to Armida, where he teaches lens-grinding to the Altons. Storn/Barron takes a horse and rides to Carthon, where he and Melitta find not the expected help but Dry Town invaders; they go to Caer Donn to seek aid from Kermiac, Lord Aldaran, but as Kermiac has no standing army, his ward Desideria (whom he had trained in matrix technology) offers them the awesome power of the Sharra matrix. They meet with a crowd of Sharra-worshipping forge-folk outside High Windward, and with their help Desideria raises the Sharra force, burning the bandit gang to death. At the end, Storn remains in his castle, Barron—wiser and sensitized—goes back to the Altons, marrying Melitta; Storn marries Desideria.
Heritage Of Hastur New York: daw, August 1975.
Cover and frontispiece by Gaughan; inaccurate map copied by Gaughan from an original by "Thrym Berger." pp. 13-381.
Reprint, June 1977, DAW. Cover by George Barr, text unaltered except for correcting minor typographical errors, the worst of which was the "never" for "ever" near the bottom of p. 217.
Reprint, late June 1977, Boston, Gregg Press, hardcover. Introduction by Susan Wood, xxvi + 382 pp. Text unaltered. First printing.
Summary: Regis Hastur, grandson of the Regent, at age 15 returns from Nevarsin Monastery where he had been for three years; believing himself without laran, he wishes to join Terran Space Service. The Regent induces him to delay his departure three years, spending that time in the Cadet Guards. In the Cadets he learns expertise in swordplay from Dyan Ardais, who had obtained an appointment as Cadetmaster replacing the ailing Ken-nard Alton; and he develops a close friendship with a classmate, Danilo Syrtis, Dyan's nephew and an unsuspected possessor of the Ardais Gift (catalyst telepathy); a touch from Danilo wakens Regis' laran. Dyan develops a lecherous desire for Danilo, but the boy (because brought up a cristoforo) refuses him. Whereupon Dyan, showing the common Ardais instability, begins sadistic mental torments in a ghastly misuse of laran ultimately provoking Danilo to draw a knife on Dyan, for which the boy is ceremonially expelled from the Cadets. When Regis learns that treachery and abuse of laran was the cause of Danilo's disgrace he swears to Danilo that he will vindicate him in Comyn eyes; the two then swear the oath of hredin, Danilo becoming Regis' paxman even as   Danilo's   older  brother   had been  to  Regis' father.
Despite acute threshold sickness, Regis goes to the Regent to alert Comyn to Dyan's crime; Kennard verifies his story telepathically. Regis is now ready to swear fealty to Comyn and renounce his ambition to join the Terrans, but his grandfather will not administer the oath owing to Regis' state of illness. In the meantime, Lew Alton, sent as an emissary to his Aldaran kin to investigate reports of common violations of Compact, and alienated from Comyn because of the injustice done to Danilo, has heard Beltran (Aldaran heir) describe a plan to use matrix science in some kind of demonstration to convince the Terrans that Darkover has something to trade for Terran technology—such as using a matrix to power a spaceship, in return for desired Terran techniques such as efficient transportation and weather control. But high-energy matrix work of this kind demands not only a high-level matrix but a trained circle. Kadarin obtains Desideria's reluctant consent to use the Sharra matrix; Lew, finding that Beltran's laran is blocked, suggests that it might be unblocked by the alienated Danilo, if they could persuade him to join them. But Beltran orders his men to kidnap Danilo and bring him there. When Regis learns of this, and his sister Javanne locates Danilo by matrix, Regis names his 4-year-old nephew Mikhail Lanart as his designated heir, and leaves for Aldaran, where he finds Danilo and Lew, only to share Danilo's confinement when Danilo refuses to help Beltran in any way. The two boys escape, Regis almost succumbing to threshold sickness, which Danilo manages to cure only when Regis can accept himself as homosexual, no longer repressing what had happened between himself at age 12 and Lew Alton, which repression had been blocking his laran; Danilo accepts him completely, transcending his own cristoforo aversion. They head for Thendara to warn Comyn of what is happening at Aldaran. The group under Lew attempts to work the Sharra matrix, only to find it warping and corrupting them. Kadarin drugs Lew to force his cooperation, uses Lew's intended bride Marjorie Scott as Keeper, and forces Lew to impregnate Kadarin's pan-chieri free-mate Thyra. With Beltran's aid, Kadarin incites the forge-folk and other local natives to rebel against the Terrans, alleging that they are being unjustly denied their rights as free people of the Empire, and that they should organize (as their ancestors before Storn Castle) and raise Sharra as a demonstration that their force is as good as anything the Terrans can offer. The Terrans ignore threats and ultimatums from Kadarin and Beltran, at which point Lew's group raises Sharra, which destroys a couple of spaceships and then burns Caer Donn to the ground. The Terrans counterattack; Lew, in deep rapport with his father, forces Sharra back out of this world, at the cost of his hand, and teleports himself and the dying Marjorie to Arilinn—too late to save her life. At the next Comyn Council meeting, Dyan Ardais, evidently persuaded by Kennard, makes amends to Danilo by naming him heir-designate to Ardais; Regis swears fealty to Comyn, and Kennard, defying Comyn law, goes off-world with Lew and the Sharra matrix in a vain attempt to save his hand and defuse the threat of Sharra. Reversing their earlier decisions, the Terrans agree to help Comyn enforce the Compact, realizing that this law had been devised not against Terran blasters so much as against matrix weapons such as Sharra.
SWORD OF ALDONES New York: Ace Books, Ace Double, bound with PLANET SAVERS (below), 1962. Cover by Ed Emshwiller. pp. 5-164.
Reprint, Ace, Sept. 1976, reset in larger type, pp. 1-184; cover by Michael Whelan.
Spanish version, ODIO C6SMICO ("Cosmic Hatred"), Editiones CENIT, Barcelona, Feb. 1963, transl. M. Orta, cover by Andreu. pp. 5-228.
German version, DAS SCHWERT DES ALDONES, "Terra Nova SF . . . aus der Perry-Rhodan-Redaktion," Moewig Vlg., Miinchen/Munich, 1971, transl. Leni Sobez. Magazine format.
Reprint, Boston, Gregg Press, June 1977, xx + 164 pp., introduction by Dick Lupoff; text photo-offset from first printing.
Summary: Lew Alton, summoned from Vainwal (where his father died) by the Regent, returns to Darkover with the Sharra matrix, which—activated by proximity to its former working sites—instantly alerts everyone who had anything to do with the Sharra Rebellion six years earlier. Kadarin files a Declaration of Intent-to-Murder against Lew, in the hope of recovering the matrix. Dyan Ardais joins Kadarin for the same purpose. Comyn Council agrees, over Lew's strident objections, to ally with Beltran, readmitting the Aldarans to Comyn and giving Beltran the Keeper Callina (Lindir-) Aillard in marriage, to end her powers as Keeper. To force Comyn to accept Lew's younger brother Marius as heir to Alton, Lew publicly demonstrates that Marius has the Alton Gift—but they are ambushed by Kadarin's gang, who kill Marius and leave Lew for dead, but he recovers. At the next Council meeting, Dyan attempts to kill Lew with a poisoned dart from a blowpipe, and Regis is found to have activated a trap-matrix (the "Death Sign") to break up the proceedings. It develops that the long-dead Keeper Ashara, mentally still in this world, has been overshadowing various people, including a succession of Keepers and Lerrys Ridenow, to further her own intrigues (these are never clearly identified). Ashara tells Lew that little Marja is indeed his daughter by Thyra, and suggests that the legendary Sword of Aldones might be the means to rechain Sharra for good. But as this Sword has long been kept within an anti-Comyn veil within the chapel at Hali, which can only be entered by Comyn (its outer veil blocks entry to anyone else), the only solution is to find the "true twin" of some member of Comyn, and overshadow her long enough to get her inside the chapel; which they do, the true twin (Kathie Marshall, daughter of the Terran Legate at Samarra) being teleported to Thendara by a giant matrix screen, and dressed to impersonate her double Linnell (Lindir-) Aillard, when Terran authorities learn of the kidnapping, but fail to find Kathie. Marja, formerly hidden in Spacemen's Orphanage, has been brought to Ashara's Tower and is reunited with Lew. At the public wedding of Callina to Beltran, Dyan and Kadarin, crazed by Sharra, disrupt proceedings; Linnell dies, Derik Elhalyn (crown prince) is rendered insane, others in Comyn Council are killed, so that Comyn political power is ended and the Terrans can impose a government planet-wide. Lew goes with Callina and Kathie to retrieve the Sword of Aldones; they are ambushed by Kadarin, Dyan and Thyra, who demand the Sharra matrix, but Dyan runs off with it, so that Kadarin
makes a truce with Lew, in hope of regaining it. Dyan attempts to abduct Marja to help him work the matrix. A climactic battle follows: Regis, Callina and Lew wield the Sword of Aldones, Dyan, Kadarin and Thyra wield the Sharra matrix. Lew reaches Thyra's mind in deadlock, communicates to her his belief that Dyan had killed Marja in attempting to work the Sharra matrix on his own; Thyra turns on Dyan, Lew (linked momentarily to her) strikes at Dyan with his Gift. Dyan dies, but Sharra fights on through his corpse. Aldones manifests, overshadowing Regis, forcing Sharra back into another world, taking Kadarin and Thyra; Kathie is teleported back to Samarra. Regis's hair turns white. Marja is found alive. The Legate offers Lew the choice of cleaning up the mess or permanent exile; Lew chooses exile, taking Marja and Dio Ridenow along.
The Planet Savers Amazing stories, Dec. 1958, pp.
84-144, ill. Novick.
Reprint, Ace Books, N.Y., Ace Double, bound with SWORD OF ALDONES (above), 1962. pp. 5-91. Cover by Ed Emshwiller.
Reprint, Ace, Sept. 1976, reset, pp. 1-101. Cover by Michael Whelan. Bound with a short story "The Waterfall,"* apparently taking place some years before SHATTERED CHAIN.
German version, RETTER EINES PLANETEN ("Rescuer of a Planet"), "Terran Astra Science Fiction Ro-mane aus der Perry-Rhodan-Redaktion," Moewig Vlg., Miinchen/Munich, 1971, transl. Leni Sobez. Magazine format.
German version, DR. ALLISONS ZWEITES ICH("Dr. Allison's Alter-Ego"), Pabel Utopia Zukunftsroman, Erich Pabel Vlg., Rastatt (Baden), 1971 (after July); transl. fortunately anonymous. This version is extremely free, the "Free Amazon" concept omitted altogether from characterization of Kyla, new material being interpolated, dialogue changed (not improved in so doing), etc. Magazine format.
Summary. Every 48 years, Trailmen's fever (among Trailmen an ordinary childhood disease) becomes pandemic among Darkovan humans, causing many deaths. Among Terran Empire Medical Service physicians, a few years after the Sharra Rebellion, is Dr. Jay Allison, parasitologist-surgeon, who spent his childhood among the Trailmen and became immune. As he has repressed those memories (along with his command of the language), his superior officer, Dr. Randall Forth, with his consent, uses hypnosis to elicit an alter-ego, "Jason," who needs little encouragement to organize a mountaineering expedition to Trailmen country, its purpose to persuade the Old One to allow blood samples of Trailmen to be taken for creating a vaccine. This expedition succeeds, though the medical personality has a habit of displacing "Jason" at inconvenient moments, once having to be suppressed by Regis Hastur when "Jason" is needed, and eventually making a murderous attack on Regis, after which Dr. Forth reintegrates the two personalities. "Jason" becomes the freemate of Kyla n'ha Raine'ach, Free Amazon, who had been a guide on the expedition.
*This tells how Sybil-Mhari Aillard, Rohana's foster-sister, age 15, discovers her chief pleasure in life: inviting Guardsmen to crave her sexually, then ecstatically watching them die.
The World Wreckers New York: Ace, 1971, pp 5-
189. Cover by Kelly Freas.
Reprint, Ace, June 1977, reset in larger type, pp. 1-215. Cover by Michael Whelan.
German version, DIE WELTENZERSTORER, "Terra Astra Science Fiction Romane aus der Perry-Rhodan-Redaktion," Jan. 1973, Moewig Vlg., Miinchen, printed by Pabel Vlg., Rastatt (Baden). Transl. Leni Sobez.
Summary: Unknown entrepreneurs have hired Planetary Investments, Unlimited (alias "Worldwreckers, Inc.") to sabotage Darkover's ecology so that the planet must depend on imports—a captive market. "Andrea Closson," who heads the worldwrecking firm, is a chieri who believes herself the last of her race, and decides to handle the operation herself. This entails a variety of tactics, from forest fires to assassinations to planting a sterility virus. Two of Regis Hastur's children are among the victims; Regis himself manages to elude 14 assassination attempts. Because most of those assassinated are Comyn, Regis guesses at a conspiracy directed specially at telepaths, and induces Dr. Jason Allison (now in the Alien Anthropology department at Terran Medical) to
use Empire authority to summon to Darkover every person with ESP abilities of any kind for study: "Project Telepath." Keral, a chieri, youngest of his people, volunteers to be part of the project; a love affair develops between him and Dr. David Hamilton, another recruit, and only after they manage to accept each other "as is" can Keral shift safely to female phase and become pregnant. This is interwoven with the tangled relationships among other recruits, and with the political replacement of Comyn Council by Regis's proposed "Telepath Council." Eventually, by the next Spring Festival, Keral is pregnant, and the festival dance turns to an orgy, at least partly because the remaining chieri teleport themselves to it to see Keral—so rare is reproduction in their all-but-immortal race. One of the recruits perceives a World-wreckers' bomb heading their way, teleports himself up to it and detonates it (and himself) a safe distance off. "Andrea Closson" arrives there and is recognized by her people, after which she puts all her resources to the task of restoring the badly damaged world; she dies holding Keral's baby in her arms.