Tabyr Society: a nationally known warrior society; see under warrior societies.

Taiban trees: a very tall (200-300 feet) tree found mostly in the Darkuran Basin of Dakorin Province. The mature trees are about thirty feet in diameter at the base and put out heavy horizontal "scaffold" branches at about fifty, one hundred, and one hundred fifty feet above the ground, forming a "tiered forest." When properly seasoned, their wood is light-weight but strong.

Tambu Trail: crosses the Han Torra Khang from Hino Tol to Shardan Lambu. It is a pack trail but a fairly good one. Heavy snows will render it impassable, as will violent weather at other seasons.

Tanaskian Cattle: a breed of sand-colored cattle developed by the Harninzans for the drier part of their range. They are a bony, loose-skinned breed that is able to endure without harm a much longer period without water than can most, and they have a lesser herd-instinct than most cattle.

Tanrengar: one of the Ten Baronies that united to form the Kingdom of Danath before the birth of the Empire. It was located in what is now the Inner Steppe District of Danath.

Tapaka: a kind of hat or headgear worn by some Ratani groups. It has a low flat felt crown with a turban-like twist of cloth instead of a brim. The Kaltapas wear it with the tail of the cloth hanging down their backs; the felt part is almost always black, but the cloth is as colorful as can be found, and silk if possible. While other Ratani may wear tapakas, the dangling tail in the back--sometimes as long as two feet, and usually fringed--is peculiar to the people of Kaltapi.

Tarhanat Hills: a line of fairly gentle hills south of the Nin Ho Tiran River, connecting the line of the Han Harish with the Ratani Scarp. The land to the west of these hills, the Karndiz Steppe, is noticeably lower than the Palinian Steppe to the east. The Tarhanats have sandy soil and are grassy (poor grass it is, too); they are poor grazing land, though better than none. There are no surface waterholes in these hills, but those who are familiar with the land know that by digging in the reedy hollows, enough moisture to sustain life may be discovered.

Tarin-Tan: an agricultural province on the middle reach of the Silu Tan River.

Tathakano Society: a nationally known warrior society; see under warrior societies.

Teacher: a name given to the leader and/or fairly important members of a cult or sect, a guru, in Adantri terms, a bon'zhang. Teachers are often respected, but usually feared as well.

Teelorian Way: a class C/D highway which goes west from Daiyla Kiv. It is suitable for wagon traffic and goes to the northern Jade Panther Hills and Linshar. A branch of this road called the Karsamian Way eventually angles off to the northwest and joins the Great West Road.

Tegena: a horse goddess worshipped on the Negethi Slope in Danath.

Teldaro: a minor god, patron of trees and woodlands, who may be of Drahnoran origin.

Telentsim Pass: pass at the west side of the Blue Hills where the Great West Road issues from the Hills onto the Plain of Niming. The pass is guarded by Fort Liho. The fortress is an ancient one blocking the pass completely (the road goes under its great stone archway) and was originally intended to prevent forces from the east entering the valley of the An-Kiu.

Ten Baronies: an early political grouping in the area of Danath Province. The Ten Barons united to form the Kingdom of Danath, one of the founders of the Empire of Lirith Kai. The ancient baronies were Negedar, Yanahar, Tanrengar, Kura, Lesaka, Danakar, Zebenil, Gavena, Dzarnarkol, and Romarn.

Teva: a dojo, gym, or place of martial training, in formal speech called a "kiv." Nearly every home has a room or part of a room set aside for this purpose, but the term is generally used to indicate a public (or semi-public) dojo or school of the martial arts.

Teva Society: a school or style of martial arts.

Thieves' Guild: an organization based in Ini Palel. Members of this group included the most skillful thieves and assassins in the Empire, and they work in all its cities and towns, as hired or as they wish to. Although they sometimes work with or make use of the Beggars' Guild of some cities, they almost always regard its members with amused contempt. The Thieves' Guild is hostile to the warrior society Clawmoon, feeling that the society's men intrude on their territory by doing their own assassinations instead of hiring them done by Thieves' Guild professionals. It is the major purely criminal organization in the Empire, which has tentacles all over the country, or at least in the major cities. Members are marked with a tattoo on the shoulder.

Tibella: an incense made from the flowers of the bell fruit tree which is found in the Blue Hills. Breathing it causes an unprotected person to fall into a trance-like, highly suggestible state. If the tinima drug is taken before breathing the incense fumes, the person will be immune, although the immunity only lasts for about an hour.

Tien-Khrisu Valley: a name applied to the northern part of the An-Kiu Valley, most especially to the part that is north of the Fatebringer River and east of the An-Kiu. In the earliest days of the Empire, Tien-Khrisu was the name of one of the small kingdoms outside the Imperial boundary; it is considered to have covered the modern provinces of Angsin, Fan Zirlyn, Imperial Heart, Liho, Pelang, and Tirian. Tiron the Usurper, who ruled the young Empire between the second and third dynasties, was king of Tien-Khrisu.

Tiered Forest: a type of forest found in some southern jungly areas, in which a single type of very tall tree dominates the growth and has branches so-placed as to form an intermediate habitat between the ground level and the treetops. The most famous example of this is the forest in the Darkuran Basin of Dakorin Province. Some scholars apply this term, also, to the wherein the intermediate "level" or "tier" is formed by the tops of shade-loving shorter trees.

Tikilana: a quail-like game bird found in the Mirion Hills. They are usually hunted with hawks.

Tildak: a race in Dakorin Province, related to the Kurdak.

Tika: a slang term for the tokotika, the least valuable of all Adantri coins.

Tinima: a drug prepared from the root of the bon'tinis herb which is found in the Jade Panther Hills. Ingestion of tinima is said to render the person immune to various hallucinogens for the period of approximately one hour; it is rumored further that some healers have made of the root a similar preparation to be used as an antidote after the encounter with a hallucinogen, and in some cases of dementia.

Tiral: the lowest hereditary title of Adantri nobility. Like the liran, the tiral is called "sir." Officially, the liran and tiral are equal in rank, in precedence, but in practice the tiral has an edge in the hereditary nature of his title. A tiral has a title estate, usually a fairly modest one: about forty acres in the interior of the Empire, or a square mile or so if he chooses (upon ennoblement) to set up housekeeping on the border. Further, a tiral has the privilege of raising troops for the Regular Provincial Army; he may raise ten men and may himself serve in the Regulars as a lieutenant.

Tira Na Hills: in the Simtakka Valley. Like the Ko Hira, the Tira Na are the remnants of a lava flow, but the Tira Na are much younger--they are higher, steeper, rougher, and altogether a more unwelcoming region.

Tiranon Road: a class D provincial highway in Tirian and Mirning provinces. It runs from Lyn Tirian to Lyn Mirning, mostly along the northern bank of the Whitewater/Tang-An Lyn River. The forest has been cut back on either side of this road, if not for the official one hundred yards, at least as far as practical--which means about a hundred feet in most places, and considerably less in a few spots. The brush is cleared from these shoulders periodically--seldom oftener than once a year. The low damp spots have been corduroyed, but not recently; the logs are half-sunk in mud by now and may be rather slippery... The Tiranon fords many streams along its 500-mile course, and in the spring, when the streams are all swollen with snowmelt, these fords may be impassable.

Tirhadi: the Adantri equivalent of Thursday, the fourth day of the week. It was named for Tirhadan the Tall, fourth emperor of the Harin Dynasty.

Tirian Province: a northern province at the head of the An-Kiu River. Its capital is at Lyn Tirian. Shown on map C-1.

Tiron-So: the formal name for the third month of the year; in casual speech it is Tirnso. It is named after Tiron ten Kalanar, called the Usurper, Warlord of Tien-Khrisu and briefly Emperor of Lirith Kai. This month is roughly equivalent to the terrestrial March.

Tirnso: common name for the third month of the year. See Tiron-So.

Ti Tai River: a small river draining the Han Harish Hills and flowing west to the An-Kiu; it forms the border between Miroi and Virang provinces. It has two main forks, but neither reaches a length of one hundred miles. It is usually clear.

Title Estate: the lands given to a newly ennobled citizen as a part of his/her honor. These lands cannot be sold, traded, or given away, and should the patent of nobility be revoked, the lands are returned to the crown. A later holder of a given title is, of course, stuck with the location chosen by the original ennobled member of the family for the title estate--UNLESS he is willing to exchange land in the interior for border property, and he must have the agreement of the other adult members, potential inheritors of the title, to do so. The higher a noble's rank, the greater in extent is title estate is likely to be.

Toad Orchis: a carnivorous variety of Coastal Orchis with brilliantly colored and strongly scented flowers; it feeds on flies trapped by contact with its sticky petals.

Tokichi: a miser, one who is reluctant to spend money.

Tokmin: a slang term for the tokomina or copper ring.

Toko or Tokocha: copper coinage. When a person speaks of his "wealth" as tokocha, he is saying that he is poor, or at least temporarily broke. The copper coins are by no means pure and are closer to being made of bronze than actual copper.

Tokol: a sometime emirate on the Karndiz Steppe on the northeast border of Danath; also spelled Tokal.

Tokolara: most valuable copper coin in common use in the Empire. In casual speech it may be referred to as a tolar, and it is one of the commonest coins in circulation at this time. The tokolara is embossed with a flowering vine on one side and has the symbols meaning "good fortune (meijang)" and "long life (daochan)" on the other. Over the centuries there have been minor changes in the form of the traditional symbols for meijang and daochan, and also changes in the vine, so that it is possible to roughly date the tokolara coins to within one dynasty or another. The tokolara is worth half a mina (mejimina or silver ring), is three-quarters of an inch in diameter (the size of a US nickel), and has a square hole in the center.

Tokomina: the copper ring coin. The tokomina is worth a tenth of a mejimina (silver ring, or mina). It is the size of a US nickel: about three-quarters of an inch in diameter, and has a round hole in the center. The coin has a braid pattern embossed around one side and a ring of stars on the other. In slang speech it is called a tokmin.

Tokotika: the copper bit coin, the least valuable of all. The tika is about five-eighths of an inch in diameter, the size of a US dime, and has a round hole in the middle. The narrow ring of this coin is embossed with a sort of basketweave pattern on one side (it actually looks more like barbed wire, but they don't have barbed wire, so...) and lines radiating from the cut-out center on the other. It is commonly referred to as a tika. It is worth one one-hundredth of a mina (mejimina or silver ring).

Tolar: a slang name for the tokolara coin.

Tomende Hills: a rough upland region on the western side of the Empire, west of the Han Torra Khang; they are in southern Hadarana and on the border between Hadarana and Lubana provinces. They are heavily forested.

Tomen Pine: a type of tall pine found in the Tomende Hills in Hadarana and Lubana provinces; it has dark wood and is valued for rafters and bridge timbers.

Tooth of Time Society: a well-known teva society.

Torhol: a Drahnoran god of indefinite domain. It is claimed by some scholars that he started out as either a trickster god or a god of destruction and has since become civilized without changing his essential character. He is presently considered to be a politician's god. His High Priest is called the Agent of Torhol.

Torishan: an incense resin harvested in the hills near Mazgourrah.

Torra Shin Trail: crosses the Han Torra Khang from Kio Shin in Daroja. It is a pack trail at its very best and is closed for nearly half the year by snows and dangerous spring runoff.

Touran: an emirate at Touran Oasis at the crossing of the Silk Road and the Milzar-Holzarik Trails.

Tranhdo: a pure black wood, much used in decorative inlay, which comes from the Red Forest region.

Treebone: a wood, from what tree no one is certain, that is shipped out of the Red Forest in small quantities; it is pure white and is valued for use in decorative inlay.

Treecats: small felines caught as kits in the Red Forest to be tamed as pets. They never get larger than a medium-sized house cat but they are very fierce and, if their friendship is once won, they are loyal to the death. Their medium-length fur is a rich dark red with small dark dapples or rosettes on the back and they have black legs, faces, and tails like an earthly Siamese cat.

Trier Coast Regiment: Border Legion regiment stationed in Dal Shang Province. They include both infantry and marines.

Trier Coast Road: a route connecting Sarkin and Chorsan in Dal Shang Province; it runs along the coast of the Trier Sea. It is rated D, suitable for wagon traffic, but in some areas it is questionable whether it deserves that rating. It is unpaved and, though it crosses many streams, it has few bridges.

Trier Palm: a large woody fern which resembles a palm; it is found around the southern end of the Trier Sea where there are warm and damp areas--commonest on the coast of the Twisted Lands. It grows about twelve feet tall and has hard palm-like leaves that rattle noisily in the least breeze; it tends to grow in dense clumps. Some people claim that it `harbors fevers'--it is certainly a favored hangout for mosquitoes and their kin who spread diseases. It serves as host to some varieties of the Coastal Orchis.

Trier Sea: a very large freshwater sea to the northeast of Lirith Kai. It is glacier-fed and very cold, although it has not been known to freeze. It is drained by the Fatebringer River, which empties into the An-Kiu at Daiyla Kiv. Dal Shang Province borders on the Trier Sea.

Trier Star: a ship of the Crystal Sea Packet Group which sails from the Crystal Harbor Inn in Dal Shang.

Tsina Ling Hills: low hills between the two main branches of the Sinang River in Fan Zirlyn Province.

Turtle Orchis: a rare variety of Coastal Orchis with yellow green flowers half hidden within a shell-like shield. The sap is extremely poisonous.

Twisted Lands: a region of broken and dangerous country contaminated by deadly magics at the south end of the Trier Sea. The Faterbringer River flows through this region. There has been a lot of earth movement and volcanic activity in this region, possibly in association with the chaos war or whatever that created it, and possibly not.

Tylhiran: a kind of tree usually found well north of Dal Shang; there are a few in the woods along the Blue Hills Ridge Road. They bloom at the end of winter and have white four-petaled flowers that emit light and a very fresh scent that reminds the encounterer that spring is coming.