Billong

Mythological beast.

Chiaso

Mythological creature.

Basilisk-stare

Risk of looking for dragons.

Amphisbaena

Mythological beast.

You-Know-What

Ab'O State.

Solellen

Town.

Lateral 83

Transport route near You-Know-What.

Massi-Kallinga

Place.

Timms

Pirate captain.

Rasselou

Timmsman.

Sos Wain Chrisos

Emmened commander.

Rankin

Sandship captain of the Ozymandis.

Grey Ridley

Sandship captain of the Bellona.

Captain Ha-Ha

Pirate captain.

Captain Albert

Sandship Captain that gave Tom a hand early on with Rynosseros.

Bunna

Emmened Clever Man.

Bria

Emmened tribesman.

Ben Scarbo

Tom's kitemaster. Can see Dragons.

Arma

Emmened tribesman.

Timmsmen

Timms' pirate band.

Makens

Ab'O scientists.

Wagiri Suit

Mirrored suit for suicide by self-petrification.

Vanities

Stone creatures of worth obtained by fishing.

Stone Man

Ab'O after suicide in Crater Lake, or after Clever Man funeral.

Special Room

Storage site of Anthony Wessex's prized items.

Tattamanjaro

Crater Lake.

Maiquin

Clothing style.

Quni Precinct

District at Crater Lake.

Pier Hotel

Hotel at Crater Lake.

Reginaldo

Restaurant at Crater Lake.

New Moon Pier

Pier at Crater Lake.

Crater Lake Gallery

Sells vanities.

Full Moon Pier

Pier at Crater Lake.

Crater Lake

Body of Water.

Mita

Ab'O girl.

Broome

City.

Hal

Dead Ab'O.

Buyundar

Dead Clever Man being buried at Twilight Beach.

Cara Bressenden

Offshore Ten heiress from Broome.

Bess

Mita's friend, Indonesian.

Linkboys

Bodyguards.

Quni

Ab'O tribe.

Anthony Wessex

Black Marketeer, acquaintance of Tom's, also called Tony. Teratophile. Killed for foolhardiness and flouting religion.

Starfall

Spaceflight simulation.

VTO

Space lifter.

Soyuz

Russian spaceship.

Mason Fire

Charvolant.

Max

Jack Clancy's cat.

Torch jacket

Spacer gear.

Skeuomorph

Religious decoration.

Pyrani

Space shuttle.

Hammon

Andromorph son John Stone Grey wanted created after his death. Joins Tom's crew. Toby Dough Beast feeder.

Rob Shannon

One of Tom's crew. Lost a ship called Sirrush, can see Dragons.

Cody man-lifter

Sandship equipment, kite used to allow lookouts in the air.

Pearl

Spaceship Soby left on and was murdered in by the Kurdaitcha covering their evil plans.

High Frontier

Spaceflight simulation.

Gragen

High stone structure.

Dhal

Space shuttle.

Crosa

Space shuttle Soby leaves on.

Charlie

Jack Clancy's cat.

The Aftermath

Song about the Apollo ships.

Body-form

Spacer gear.

Apollo

Early spaceships.

Aeromanker

Space lifter.

Towraji

Space station commander.

Ptah

Egyptian god.

Spirit Malingee

Mythological monster.

Door

Euphemism for going to space.

Convocation

Ab'O legal gathering.

Baiame

Egyptian god.

Wins

Spacer training location.

Tindilla

Shuttle launch site.

Throwing Stick

Shuttle launch site.

The Stranded Man

Inn at Hindel.

Long Reach

Shuttle launch sites.

Krombi

Spacer training location.

Hindel

Town near Long Reach.

Farrady

Location of a talk by Tom Tyson about the Coloured Captains.

Breaklight Pier

Site of virtual reality space simulation program.

Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins

Famous for convicting women of being witches for religious reasons.

Torquemada

Japanese leader.

Soby Parovin

National musician and spaceman.

Sein Ammas Casiro

Longreach Port Official.

Mora

Chonsye Kurdaitcha met when Tom is in space via the Dhal. Architect of killing of all Nationals in space. Made by by Tom to create an artificial version of Soby to be a travelling singer.

Huxley

Author.

Jack Clancy

Innkeeper of The Stranded Man at Hindel, ex charvi captain.

Dwar Ingers

Chonsye Spaceship captain, pilot of the Dhal that takes Tom into space.

Tosi-Go

Space operation.

Chybere

Chonsye Kurdaitcha.

Mikel

Space operation.

Chonsye

Ab'O tribe.

The National

National newspaper.

Assyrians

Ancient people.

The Beach Gazette

National newspaper.

Astani

Ab'O tribe.

Amerind

Indigenous North Americans.

Angels

Space travellers.

Wind-thieves

Sandship kite type.

Snaphaunce

Weapon.

War boomerang

Combat weapon.

Red Man

Sandship parafoil.

Parafoil

Sandship kite type.

Javanese fighter

Sandship kite type.

Drogue

Kite device used for manoeuvring.

Dream machines

Watchers in the Madhouse.

Deck sticker

Term for a knife weapon.

Dim-recall rod

Music making part of a belltree.

Chinese Hawk

Sandship kite type.

Angel

Sandship kite type.

Burnouse

Desert gear.

A Ship

An image Tom remembers from the Madhouse.

A Woman's Face

An image Tom remembers from the Madhouse. Ab'O with a golden lace Arete triangle on her forehead.

Vanu

Haldane.

Sign of the red wheel

Mythological reference.

Trance-war

Haldane users in conflict.

Mythogenesis

Ab'O religious foundation.

Mind-dragon

Effect of haldane use.

Mithras

Haldane.

Marduk

Haldane.

Ishtar

Haldane.

Hecate

Haldane.

Imbaro the War Owl

Haldane.

Haldane forms

Figures seen during haldane using conflict.

Hero Colours

Term for the honour given the Colored Captains by the rogue belltree.

Haldane field

Effect of haldane use.

Enlil

Haldane.

Gris

Haldane.

Dos

Haldane.

Corroboree

Ab'O ceremony.

Iceberging

Ab'O drawing on the haldanes.

Colte

Haldane.

Code

Ab'O rules of war.

Berking

Ab'O drawing on the haldanes.

Challang

Haldane.

Antaeus

Greek god.

Ashbiani

Haldane.

Annabas

Haldane.

Ais scars

Ab'O body markings.

Anna

New haldane found by Anna Kemp.

Souling colonies

Unexplained.

See-Me-There

Ab'O State.

Promenade

Twilight Beach area.

Pier

Twilight Beach feature.

Mirajan

Town.

Lateral 101

Transport route.

Lateral 304

Transport route.

Here-We-Stand

Outer Ab'O State.

Great Arunta Road

Transport route.

Heart-And-Hand

Ab'O State. Small 70 mile square principality.

Castanelle

Town.

Tad Cromarthy

Welshman.

Tartalene

Madhouse worker.

Stoutheart Tiberias Kra

Soti Prince.

Mercy Simotee

Dreamlock, Tom Tyson is a client.

Jeremy

Arredeni's research assistant.

Dashiel Hammett

Author.

Cole

Arredeni's research assistant.

Cilla

Cook of Arredeni.

Arredeni Paxton Kemp

Ab'O scientist. Holds different views on Ab'O mythology. Ab'O Prince. Anna Kemp's father.

Anna Kemp

Haldane using Ab'O princess. Becomes most powerful of the Clever Men. Arredeni Kemp's daughter.

Alexander the Great

Famous leader.

Soti

Ab'O Tribe.

Tongan

People of Tonga.

Qaentimae

Ab'O Tribe.

Niuiginian

People of New Guinea.

Japano

People of Japan.

Koori

Race of people.

Islanders

Pacific Island people.

Indonesians

People of Indonesia.

Internationals

People from foreign countries.

Haldane Order

Run the Madhouse.

Chitalice

Ab'O tribe.

Arab

Arabian people.

African

People of Africa.

Semmeret

Ajaro Airship.

Mirror-leathers

Clever Men garb.

Kurimurka

Chaness Airship.

Kuddimudra

Ajaro Airship.

Jusu

Ajaro Airship.

Hot-pot

Sandship weapon.

Emu

Ajaro Airship.

Eyreship

Airship.

Didgeridoo

Long tubular wooden musical instrument.

Death-lamp

Sandship kite weapon.

Deck-lance

Sandship weapon.

Baiame

Ajaro Airship.

Airship

Vehicle, used in battles by Ab'O tribes.

Bullroarer

Musical flat wooden device whirled on string.

Time of the Star

Return of Halley's Comet.

Mind-war

Conflict featuring Clever Men.

Faced Prince

Ab'O tribe's public ruler.

Anonymous Son

Ab'O prince who lives unseen by most.

Jackboot Bay

Inland geographical feature.

Pittosporum Head

Inland geographical feature.

Artemia Head

Inland geographical feature.

Sulphur Peninsula

Inland geographical feature.

Madigana

Beach near Lake Eyre.

Warburton

River.

Lake Air

Lake Eyre.

First Gate

Entrance to the Sand Quay at Twilight Beach.

Lake Eyre

Great Salt Lake.

Fire-On-Stone

Ajaro tribal base.

Diamantina

River.

Cooper

River.

Beth Leossa-Tojian

Reporter on the Bird Club trail, as well as a Forgetty. Tom's lover. Friend of Soby Parovin, and there doing a story when he goes into space.

Ab'O

Native people. Rulers of Australia and space.

Tom Tyson

The hero of the Rynosseros cycle, also know as The Madman because of his long subjective time sentence in the Madhouse, and Tom Rynosseros. Honorary Bird Club member. Haldane sensitive because of his Madhouse time.

Cresa

Beach near Lake Eyre.

Aranda-Andalay Road

Route from Twilight Beach towards Adelaide.

Armfield's

Twilight Beach shop.

Si Akara

Neo-Dieri headman.

Professor Gregory

Geographical scholar.

Pina

Ajaro shipmaster.

John Stone Grey

Ajaro Ab'O Prince.

Iain Summondamas

Ajaro Clever Man, assistant to John Stone Grey. Becomes Ajaro-Dieri prince.

Eagle Cleland Buchanan

Airship pirate.

Buso

18 year old Ab'O outcast member of Tom's crew. Alias of John Stone Grey.

Chian

Chaness Princess.

Biliri

Neo-Dieri jackman.

Bel

Ajaro shipmaster.

Wagiri

Ab'O tribe.

Unseen Spears

Ab'O bodyguards.

State of Nation

National people.

Neo-Dieri

New Ab'O tribe created by genetic discovery of old material in a mummy.

Shadow-warriors

Andromorph decoys for Ab'O nobles.

Mind-fighters

Ab'O psychic warriors.

Emmened

Ab'O tribe.

Madupan

Ab'O tribe.

Elders

Ab'O advisors.

Corina

Ab'O tribe.

Chaness

Ab'O tribe.

Bindakara

Ab'O tribe.

Anu

Ab'O tribe.

Ajaro

Ab'O tribe.

On Resisting Summer Days

Paul Boorindi painting.

My Own Byzantium

Paul Boorindi painting.

Manifestoes

Work by Breton.

First Dive

Vannikin painting.

Exile

Paul Eluard poem.

The Engines of Night

Fearless Gram painting.

The Country Palaces

Paul Boorindi painting.

Caliban series

Paintings by Long Strode.

The Complete Work of Paul Eluard

Poetry collection.

Amid the Jewels

Paul Boorindi painting.

Grand Tour

Circuit for revived Cold People.

Target Man

Doomed Ab'O.

Imagier

Painter.

Horus

Egyptian God.

Hotep

Egyptian God.

Dan

Dream City.

Bari

Dream City.

Aten

Egyptian God.

Anubis

Egyptian God.

Ashbaridan

Combined Dream City.

Yates-Eluard

Town, Paul Boorindi's location.

Ash

Dream City.

Serafini Basin

Location for mirage diver work.

Salamander

Hotel at Yates-Eluard.

Rushing Fools

Pub at Yates-Eluard.

Paternoster Lane

Street in Yates-Eluard.

Mad Dog Pavilion

Pub at Yates-Eluard.

Kalgoorline

City.

Gallery

Kalgoorlie art repository.

Farlook

Large dune at Yates-Eluard.

Egypt

Country.

Vannikin

Mirage diver.

Divers Stairs

Access to mirage diver spot.

Tenna

Twelve year old National mirage diver.

Paul Boorindi

Mirage diver.

Paul Eluard

Poet.

Long Strode

Mirage diver.

Fearless Gram

Mirage diver.

Life Tree

Belltree at Seth-Ammon Photensis.

Faoud Lebad

Yates-Eluard See Committee representative, Egyptian.

Aulus

Salamander's belltree.

Breton

Poet.

Angel Ferris

See Committee president.

See Committee

Gallery organisation.

Modocs

Ab'O Target Man followers.

Mirage divers

Artists with a dangerous occupation.

Croesus

Belltree type.

Mirage divers

Artists with a dangerous occupation.

Room 777

Gaza Hotel room Tom argued with Matine Gentry over.

Love Songs of the Twentieth Century

Paul Cantry composition.

Knight Aspirant

Paul Cantry's symbol.

Beloved Lion

Paul Cantry composition, partly about Matine Gentry.

Burning Queen

Matine Gentry's symbol.

World Circuit

Fire-chess tour.

Untouched Game

Fire-chess rule.

Fire-chess

Chess variant with candle flame and random wind element added.

The Slow Hour

Twilight Beach pub.

Annuals

Fire-chess tournament.

Sarda-Salita

Secondary mooring for sandships at Twilight Beach.

Quay Massillian

Twilight Beach villa of Spydyr Massillian.

Sand Quay

Mooring for sandships at Twilight Beach.

Pia

Location of a match between Matine Gentry and Paul Cantry, where they became lovers.

Gaza terrace

Twilight beach location.

Nullarbor

Large stretch of desert between East and West Australia.

Charles Christos Imbri

Twilight Beach old beachside hotel, five minutes north of the Gaza Terrace.

Amberlin

Twilight Beach pub.

Strengi

One of Tom's crew.

Teos Dessa

Fire-chess contest president.

Spydyr Massillian

Wealthy Twilight Beach resident.

Simon Grail

Twilight Beach punter and entrepreneur.

Prine

Fire-chess Master.

Paul Cantry

Fire-chess Grand Master and composer.

Matine Gentry

Fire-chess Grand Master.

David

Gaza Hotel manager.

Carlos

Fire-chess Grand Master and tutor.

Burning Queen

Name for Matine Gentry.

Burning King

Name for Paul Cantry.

Alanto Comus

Twilight Beach punter, entrepreneur and infusion sculpture salesman.

Contest Board

Fire-Chess oversight.

Devil Catchers

Workers who prevent dust devils spoiling fire-chess games.

Taylor reading

Part of Cas Arana's acts.

Merinda

A play.

San Topuri Fire Sculpture

Artificial creation, Sat's carnival.

Luna Park

Major Australian city amusement parks.

Laughing Clown

Luna Park entrance style structure.

Wandang

Dialect that means ghosts.

Grand Doranza

Wrecked concession at Sat's Carnival.

Todthaus

Play season.

Sun of National

National symbol.

Muki winorbin

Dialect that means ghosts.

Djuringa

Ab'O word for all that is sacred.

Wani

Desert location.

Seth

A bearded National.

Bullen Medi

Town near Wani.

Sat's Carnival

Fairground at Bullen Medi.

Beechworth

Town.

Merinda

A doomed Ab'O, subject of a play.

Tiresias

Belltree at Bullen Medi.

Khoumy

Belltree at Bullen Medi.

Dominic Quint

Twilight Beach clockmaker.

Daystar

Belltree at Bullen Medi.

David

Merinda's champion, a National.

Cas Arana

Twilight Beach theatre operator.

Ankh

Belltree at Bullen Medi.

Spinners

Non Ab'O belltrees.

Willy-willy

Small Australian tornado.

Haldane

Clever Men power source.

Tyger

Nicholas Pocock's charvolant.

Ghosting the Helm

Captain on the poop of a sandship.

Esperance

City.

Great Continental Road

Major transport route.

Coober Pedy

City.

Styles

One of Nicholas Pocock's crew.

Stephen Lane

Dreamlock. No longer able to work.

Ronyn Puyugar

Apprentice Clever Man. Has no haldane access.

Nicholas Pocock

Sandship captain.

Neryt

Challangari Ab'O princess

Weather

Forecasting organisation.

Bon

One of Nicholas Pocock's crew.

Golden Hand Company

Corporation.

Dreamlocks

Dream therapists.

Challangari

Ab'O tribe.

Casque

Part of a mankin.

Oriete

Part of a mankin.

Maitre

Helios mankin subclass.

Lud

One of Phar's mankins. Luddite joke. Approaching sentience.

Low-Mankin

Lower technology robot.

Hi-Mankin

Higher technology robot.

Infusion Sculpture

Artificial life.

Helios

Solar powered mankin model.

Bok laser

Kurdaitcha heavy weapon.

Andromorph

Artificial life.

Antaeus

Earth-powered mankin model.

Move-for-Life

Movement that produced anti AI raids.

Kirlian Matrix-10

Mankin lifeforce scanning mode.

Life Festival

Ceremony at Twilight Beach.

Soul Stone

Location in Catherine Park.

Socket Lane

Street in the poorer part of the Byzantine Quarter.

Sea Folly Inn

Pub in Byzantine Quarter.

Phar's Emporium

Phar's shop at Twilight Beach.

Julianna Boulevard

Twilight Beach Street.

India

A country.

Catherine Park

Town location.

Byzantine Quarter

Part of Twilight Beach.

Catherine Parade

Twilight Beach Street.

Bati Gardens

Indian place, some mankin coding done there.

Phar

The Man in the Shadow Shop, Ab'O artisan.

Phaya

Phar's five year old granddaughter.

Pamela Jones

University employee at Twilight Beach.

Kyra Prohannis

Festival Officer at Twilight Beach.

Revenants

Humanoid life forms.

Christine

A Jade Sabre, works at Twilight Beach Festival Office.

Tangentals

Humanoid life forms.

Jade Sabre

Type of tangental.

Antique Futures

Mankin makers.

Kitana

Sword.

Elissa

Tylan charvolant.

Biolog

Personally implanted technology.

Atl-atl

Projectile weapon.

Ahuacan

Tylan charvolant.

Tanit

Ab'O mythological power source.

Chac

Ab'O mythological power source.

Great Snake Mother

Ab'O mythological power source.

Astarte

Ab'O mythological power source.

Tyla

Mayan Restoration town.

Stone Door

Geographical feature near Tyla.

The Traitor's Face

Bar at Twilight Beach.

Restoration Towns

Mayan, Phoenician and Minoan communities north of Twilight Beach.

Mayan Quarter

Section of Twilight Beach.

Phalan Gade

Hotel for tourists in Tyla.

Maas

Mayan Restoration town.

Gaza Hotel

Site of the gathering of the Bird Club and hunters, located at Twilight Beach.

Itlos

Restoration town.

Chultunes

Geographical feature near Tyla.

Astronomer's Bar

Bar at the Gaza Hotel.

Sunset Joe

Apparently crazy old ship captain.

Treece

Hunter, cloned.

Sam

Beth Leossa-Tojian's editor.

Philosopher Beast

Alias for the Forgetty.

Paulo

Hunter.

Misla

African hunter.

John Wren

Bird Club member.

Jeremy Eagleton

Bird Club member.

Joanne Henderson

Bird Club member.

Graeme Fowler

Bird Club president.

Aubrey Quayle

Bird Club member.

Anton Ankil

Bird Club member, geneticist.

Forgetties

Humanoid lifeforms, ability to shapeshift and alter memory in humans.

Caravanseri

A newspaper.

Bird Club

Conservation organisation.

White Tower

One of the Living Towers.

Spoiler mummy

Artifact, boobytrapped.

Songwing

Phaon Afervarro's charvolant.

Sun-snare

Kite used for solar recharging of sandship power.

Sun Tower East

One of the Living Towers.

Summer House

Structure created by the Living Towers.

Sode Star

Type of sandship kite.

South Tower

One of the Living Towers.

Ship-comp

Sandship technology.

Shield House

Structure at the Living Tower site at Fosti.

Serventy

Sam Lucas's charvolant.

Shaft

Part of a belltree.

Sephaly

Living Tower technology.

Sensor motes

Small monitoring devices.

Seeding

Belltree attacking technology.

Sapper

Belltree attacking technology.

Sand-ship

Common name for multiple person capable desert travel vehicle, that travels wind assisted.

Rynosseros

Tom Tyson's charvolant.

Power baton

Kurdaitcha weapon.

Racing-Footmen

Type of sandship kite.

North Tower

The First Living Tower.

Mad Tower

One of the Living Towers.

Lonely Hatter

One of the Living Towers.

Living Towers

AI Structures at Fosti.

Life-field

Energy given off by Living Towers.

Little Brother

One of the Living Towers.

Kite

Wind gathering sail used for sandship propulsion.

Ingrin

Bolo May's flagship.

Japano sword

Kurdaitcha weapon, status symbol.

Implants

Ab'O personal tech.

I-D Core

Belltree technology.

Identity matrix

Belltree personality technology.

Great Passage Book

Lists access rights to the Roads by traveller.

Evelyn

White Massen's charvolant.

Fighting leathers

Combat uniform and protection.

Comlink

Small personal communications device.

Charvi

Sand ship vehicle, shortened name.

Charlovant

Sand ship vehicle.

Belltree

Sentient road marker, crystal and plasma based intelligences. Biotectic lifeform.

Twilister

Belltree class.

White

Colour of Truth.

Yellow

Colour of Compassion.

Singing

Technique of psychological assassination, used on their own people by Ab'O Clever Men

Red

Colour of Trust.

Green

Colour of Bounty.

Gold

Colour of Hope.

Blue

Colour of Unity.

Black

Colour of Peace.

Aulus

Belltree class.

Artificial Intelligence

Intelligence created by humans.

Dim-recall

Part of a belltree.

Djellaba

Ab'O dress.

Demi

Type of sandship kite.

Bounty

Part of a belltree

True-Lifers

Opponents of artificial intelligence.

Coloured Captains

The only Nationals allowed full access to all transport routes throughout the country. The greatest of the National sandship masters. The heroes named by the Rogue Belltree They are Golden Afervarro, Red Lucas, White Massen, Green Glaive, Yellow Traven, Black Doloroso and Blue Tyson.

Nationals

Non Ab'O inhabitants.

Semiologists

Sign specialists.

Kurdaitcha

Ab'O religious warriors and assassins.

Pan-Tribal Kurdaitcha

Ab'O religious assassins with a more wide-ranging mandate.

Iseult-Darrian

Corporation.

Immortality

Iseult-Darrian working subgroup.

Color symbologists

Designers.

Coldmasters

Overseers of cryogenic sleepers.

Cold People

Cryogenic sleepers.

Burgenin

Ab'O tribe.

Clever Men

Ab'O rulers of religion.

Biotects

Belltree architects.

Avengi

Ab'O communications monitors.

Adda

Ab'O state.

Wild Horn

Stop on Tom's first voyage.

Tell

Ab'O belltree production location.

Twilight Beach

A city, major urban setting for the Rynosseros Cycle. Site of the Forgetty Hunt gathering.

Seth-Ammon Photenis

An Iseult-Darrian belltree program location.

Sculptury

Working group location at Tell.

Sea Yards

Ship anchorage at the Inland Sea.