Seal of the Worm

Glossary

Characters

Aagen – renegade Wasp, now of Princep Salma

Alysaine – servant of Auder Bellowern

Argastos – ancient Moth mystic

Arvi – Fly-kinden secretary to Jodry Drillen

Atraea – Moth-kinden leader of Cold Well

Auder Bellowern – Imperial Beetle Consortium magnate

Averic –Wasp student at Collegium

Balkus – renegade Sarnesh Ant, now of Princep Salma

Bergild –Wasp Air Corps captain with the Second Army

Brakker – Wasp colonel with the First Army

Brugan – Wasp general of the Rekef

Castre Gorenn – Dragonfly archer with the Coldstone Company

Ceremon – Netheryen Mantis, consort of Amalthae

Cheerwell Maker (Che) – Inapt Beetle magician, niece of Stenwold Maker

Chenni – Rosander’s chief engineer

Dariandrephos (Drephos) – master artificer and leader of the Iron Glove

Darmeyr Forge-Iron – Mole Cricket slave of the Worm

Despard – Fly artificer, Tidenfree crew

Edvic – Wasp governor of Solarno

Ernain – Bee engineer captain, Second Army

Esmail – Assassin Bug spy

Eujen Leadswell – Beetle student and leader of the Student Company

Gannic – Wasp lieutenant with the Engineers

Honory Bellowern – Beetle diplomat

Gerethwy – Woodlouse student at the College

Giselle – Spider Arista of the Arkaetien

Greenwise Artector – Beetle magnate of Helleron

Gude – Fly helmswoman of the Tidenfree

The Hermit – renegade Scarred Priest of the Worm

Jen Reader – Beetle College librarian and wife of Willem Reader

Kymene – Mynan commander in exile

Laszlo – Fly agent and occasional pirate

Lien – Wasp general of the Engineers

Lissart – Firefly agent, prisoner of Milus

Lycena – Sarnesh Ant commander

Madagnus – Ant-kinden chief officer, Coldstone Company

Marent – Wasp general of the Third Army

Maure – halfbreed magician from the Commonweal

Messel – Cave Cricket, renegade slave of the Worm

Metyssa – Spider-kinden writer, in hiding in Collegium

Merva – Wasp-kinden, wife of Edvic, governor of Solarno

Milus – Sarnesh Ant tactician

Nessen – Wasp colonel, governor of Helleron

Orothellin – ancient Slug-kinden master, trapped by the Seal

Mycella of the Aldanrael – Spider noblewoman, Tynan’s lover

Oski – Fly engineer major, Second Army

Paladrya – Kerebroi adviser of the Sea-kinden

Poll Awlbreaker – Beetle artificer of Collegium

Raullo Mummers – Beetle-kinden artist of Collegium

Rosander – Sea-Kinden, Nauarch of the Thousand Spines Train

Sartaea te Mosca – Fly lecturer and magician

Seda – Empress of the Wasps

Sperra – Fly of Princep Salma

Stenwold Maker – Beetle-kinden, War Master of Collegium

Straessa – the Antspider, officer of Coldstone Company

Taki – Fly aviator of Solarno and Collegium

Thalric – renegade Wasp, former servant of Seda, now lover of Cheerwell Maker

Tisamon – dead Mantis Weaponsmaster raised by Seda

Tomasso – Fly-kinden pirate and merchant, captain of the Tidenfree

Totho – halfbreed artificer of the Iron Glove, second-in-command to Drephos

Tynan – Wasp general, Second Army

Tynisa – halfbreed Weaponsmaster, Tisamon’s daughter

Varsec – Wasp colonel with the Engineers

Vorken – Wasp major with the Slave Corps

Vrakir – Wasp Red Watch major

Willem Reader – Beetle Collegiate artificer

Wys – Smallclaw artificer and trader

Places

Capitas – capital of the Empire

Chasme – pirate city on the Exalsee

Cold Well – Mining Community under the Worm

Collegium – Beetle city-state

Commonweal – Dragonfly domain north of the Lowlands

Darakyon – Mantis forest, formerly haunted

Dirovashni – Bee-kinden city on the Exalsee

Dorax – Moth retreat

Exalsee – large lake north-east of Spiderlands

Helleron – Beetle city-state

Hermatyre – Sea-kinden city

Kes – Ant island city-state

Khanaphes – ancient Beetle city-state

Malkan’s Folly/Malkan’s Stand – battlefield, former site of Sarnesh fortress

Myna – Beetle city-state, formerly part of the Empire

Netheryon – Mantis hold

Princep Salma – city founded by refugees of the last war

Sarn – Ant city-state, ally of Collegium

Seldis – Spider city

Solarno – Beetle city on the Exalsee

Sonn – Beetle city in the Empire

Spiderlands – large domain south of the Lowlands

Tark – Ant city-state

Tharn – Moth retreat

Vek – Ant city-state, recently at peace with Collegium

Vesserett – Bee-kinden city in the Empire

Organizations and Things

Amphiophos – Collegiate centre of government

Aldanrael – Spider Aristoi house

Aristoi – the Spider-kinden ruling class

Arkaetien – Spider Aristoi house

Assembly – Collegiate ruling body

Coldstone Company – Collegiate Merchant Company

Consortium – Imperial mercantile arm

Engineering Corps (‘the Engineers’) – Imperial army corps

Farsphex – Imperial model of orthopter

greatshotter – Iron Glove-developed artillery

Imperial Second Army – ‘the Gears’, commanded by General Tynan

Imperial Third Army – commanded by General Marent

Iron Glove – artificing cartel led by Drephos out of Chasme

lorn detachment – soldiers sent on a suicide mission

Maker’s Own – Collegiate Merchant Company

Prowess Forum – Collegiate duelling school

Quartermaster Corps – Imperial army corps

Red Watch – Imperial corps, the mouth of the Empress

Rekef – Imperial secret service, divided into Inlander and Outlander

Slave Corps – Imperial army corps

Spearflight – Imperial model of orthopter

Stormreader – Collegiate model of orthopter

Tidenfree – Fly-kinden pirate ship

Twelve-year War – Imperial war against the Commonweal