The Amyr
- a danger to Chandrian
- Lanre story
- founded by Selitos and some Ruach after the burning of Myr Tariniel
- named after the city
The Singers
- a danger to the Chandrian
- granted power by Aleph in return for serving justice
- swift wings of various fire and shadow, iron and glass, stone and blood
- can see into hearts of men
- have songs of power
- invisible to all but the most powerful
The Sithe
- a danger to Chandrian
Faeries
- blue flame may be a sign
Draugar
Bogies
Shamble-men
- hungry and cold
Tinkers
Graham:
- pays for kindness twice
Jake:
- A tinker's advice pays kindness twice
Kote:
- A tinker's debt is always paid: Once for any simple trade, Twice for freely-given aid, Thrice for any insult made
Tinker:
- Pot Mender, knife-grinder, willow-wand, water finder, cut cork, motherleaf,silk scarves off the city streets, writing paper, sweet meatsbelt leather, black pepperfine lace, bright feather
Demons
- Encanis is the featured demon of the Midwinter Pageantry
Trapis:
400 to 1000 years ago Demons walked the land
Some lamed horses and spoiled milk others hid in men's bodies and made them sick or mad others were great beast who ate men, some stole skins of men and wore them like clothes
The outer darkness is their home
Tehlu hitting them caused a sound of quinching iron and smell of burning leather
Townfolk:
They exist
Taborlin called up fire and lightning to defeat them
Tehlu broke them with his hands and sent them to the void
Demons fear three things:
- Cold Iron
- Clean Fire
- The holy name of god
Kote:
- Can be detected with Iron or Fire
Cobb:
- Iron kills demons
Ben:
wants your soul
blue flame may be a sign
Ghost
- want revenge
Aleph
The world was spun out of the nameless void by Aleph who gave everything a name
or found the name all things already posessed
Illien
The troupers' hero
The only famous Edema Ruh in all of history
Wrote all the oldest and best songs of the Ruh
master luthier, reinvented the lute, transformed the court lute in the superior seven-stringed trouper's lute
his own lute had eight strings
Dry Men
- live under dunes in the dry lands over the Stormwal
- drink blood instead of water