The following glossary entries may contain light spoilers for the worldbuilding and characters of Buried Heroes, Hadvarian Heist, Amber Queen, Forest Deep, Shadows Beneath, or the novellas.

Worlds & Planes

Planes of Life, three interconnected planes, Eldura, Shadowlands, and Brightlands

Negative Planes, origin planes of the negata, realms of the prime goddess Pandora, location of New Orison

Elemental Planes, one for each element, ruled over by and encompassing the power of each elemental titan

Astralei, spirit plane

Steymhorod, a land lost to shadow with the fall of Eldura, now trapped within the Shadowlands

Eldura, the name for the world in Azuria’s ancient past before the Great Flood

Verrain, ancient kingdom within the Shadowlands, now fallen

Elemental Titans

Ignis, titan of fire

Atamos, titan of air

Ilona, titan of light

Gaia, titan of earth

Thalyssa, titan of water

Nyx, titan of darkness

Verdigris, titan of nature, destroyed and transformed into the three planes of life

Izadra, titan of space, destroyed and transformed into the spirit plane, Astralei

Deities

Alessandra, “the dark goddess,” goddess of negation

Cassandra, goddess of fate, patron deity of the saudad

Rasvana, goddess of dragons

Ravenna, goddess of memory and queen of the lummenfae

Selene, goddess of the greater moon

Folkloric Heroes

Hugh & Lilia, a Lycan and a fae, respectively; heroes before the Fall of the First Age who sacrificed their love to save their peoples

Daughters of Verdigris, Evelyn (creator of the lummenfae [Shadowlands fae], mother of Ravenna, and grandmother of Yvayne), Enid (creator of the brightfae [Brightlands fae] and mother of Lilia), and Lyric (creator of druids whose magic transferred to the prime plane)