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Methani

**Minister Methani** was one of the most powerful men in the government of Cedonia. By the time of his death, around age 60, he was one of the five Lord Regents for the young emperor Mikal.

Methani was ruthless and power-hungry; he was perfectly willing to assassinate or destroy others to consolidate power. He fabricated charges of treason against Adelis Arisaydia, leading to Adelis' blinding. When Adelis regained his sight and escaped to Orbas, Methani sent several assassins after him and also imprisoned Adelis' stepmother, Idrene. Methani later had one of his fellow Lord Regents, Prince Ragar, killed in order to increase Methani's faction's control over the regency council.

He was generally very effective at gathering power; however, his ruthlessness was also his fatal flaw. Adelis was not planning to return to Cedonia and lead the army in revolt until Methani's last assassination attempt made Adelis decide that if didn't return, Methani would eventually succeed in killing him. Adelis' decision to return and take up arms against Methani directly led to Methani's death. Lady Tanar Xarre, Adelis' betrothed, decided that the best way to ensure her husband-to-be's safety was to poison Methani, ensuring his faction collapsed without the need for civil war. She met with Methani on the pretense of discussing the suit of Lord Bordane, the nephew of Minister Methani, and then stabbed him with poisoned needles.

Upon his death, Methani was sundered. Due to his ruthlessness, his murders, and his misuse of the Bastard's demons, none of the five gods would accept his soul. Methani was the only case in the books so far of a soul being sundered not by choice and not because shamanic magic was preventing them from joining with their god, but because the gods actively rejected him. Methani was extremely angry about this.

Methani was an eunuch; he had chosen to be castrated to improve his position in the government. (Men who were castrated couldn't favor their own children, and so were believed to be more loyal to the emperor.)

## References

* Penric's Mission
* The Prisoner of Limnos
* *The Assassins of Theselon*
Scuolla

"*But will there be good beer?*"
―Scuolla's question regarding the afterlife[src]**Scuolla** was a hedge shaman who lived in Linkbeck Vale in the Cantons. He raised Great Dogs who served the community well, in searching for lost or hurt people, and more. He was pious, and very much devoted to the Son of Autumn.

His home was up along the east branch of Linkbeck River; he generally kept to himself, though he was friends with the local Temple-man, Acolyte Gallin.

His sister was the mother of Savo; because she was much younger than Scuolla, they were not particularly close. Nevertheless, Scuolla gave Blood, one of his Dogs, to Savo.

His death under a rockfall led to the Son finding a disgraced shaman of the Weald and causing him to travel to Linkbeck to cleanse his soul so he could be united with his God.

## Scuolla's Great Dogs

* Arrow - a full Great Beast, ready to be invested in a new shaman
* Blood - a partial Great Beast, still in need of more dog-lives before reaching that point.
Bergon dy Ibra

**Bergon dy Ibra** was the second son of the Fox of Ibra and a child of his Darthacan second wife, who became the heir to Ibra after the death of his rebellious older brother. His childhood nickname, used by his mother, was Danni.
Bergon was kidnapped in a plot engineered by his older brother and sold to the Roknari galleys, and was saved by Cazaril from being raped by the oar-master. At the conclusion of *The Curse of Chalion*, Bergon married Iselle dy Chalion and became Royse-Consort of Chalion-Ibra.

Bergon was tall and had brown hair tinged with reddish highlights.

 Appearances

* *The Curse of Chalion*

* *Paladin of Souls*
Thasalon

"*Accusation and counter-accusation, rumor and slander, are staples of the Thasalon court, as men wrestle for advantage and access to the emperor’s favor.*"
―Adelis's opinion of the Capital[src]**Thasalon** was the capital city of Cedonia, to the west of Skirose.

## Facts about Thasalon

* Thasalon was huge city, ten times the size of Easthome.
* It had a bustling sea port. Alixtra and her husband Kavi moved there because Kavi was a sailor and there were many jobs for sailors in Thasalon.
* Even in a quick trip through the city, Penric heard seven different languages being spoken.
* It was surrounded by massive walls, three miles long, with 15 gates.
* Wealthy people stored ice from the mountains underground for consumption later.
* Many wealthy people maintained mansions which were the size of palaces in other cities.

## People from Thasalon

* Lady Xarre lived just outside the city
* Tanar Xarre likewise
* Surakos Bosha lived with them
* Minister Methani
* Lord Bordane

## References

* Penric's Mission
* Mira's Last Dance
* The Prisoner of Limnos
* *The Assassins of Thasalon*

## Behind the scenes

In location and role, Thasalon roughly corresponds to Real World's Thessaloniki, a major city of Greece.
Wilrom

**Wilrom** was a guardsman from Liest in the Cantons.

When Learned Ruchia needed to travel from Liest to Martensbridge, he served as a guard under Trinker. After her death, and the decision to take Penric kin Jurald in her place, he served as guard over Penric - both to keep him from harm and to prevent him from harming others.
Roknari People

People from the Roknar region are known as **Roknari**. The Quadrene belief system is strongly associated with them.

Known Roknari people include:

* Golden General
* Princess Joen
* Prince Olus
* Lord Pechma - a Jokonan courtier, clerk to Umerue, who was part of the embassy sent to Porifors. Pechma dresses badly and was mocked by others in the embassy party. Cattilara falsely blames him for killing Umerue.
* Prince Sordso
* Umegat
* Princess Umerue
Rauma

**Rauma** was a town in northeast Ibra. map It was governed by the **march of Rauma**.

The **saint of Rauma**: At the time of *Paladin of Souls*, a saint of the Bastard, a divine, lived in Rauma. She was able to separate demons from their human mount leaving the human alive and soul intact, and dispatch the demon back to the Bastard. The saint was the half-sister of the march of Rauma.

The Jokonan raiding party encountered by Ista's pilgrimage had attacked Rauma, looted the town, and tortured and burned the saint of Rauma in her god's tower in the temple.
Son's Day

"*Ingrey was reminded of the little wooden boats bearing candles that he and his father had released into the Birchbeck for the Son's Day ceremonies, in happier times...*"
―Wealdean celebration of Son's Day[src]**Son's Day** was a festival held on the first day of autumn, the autumnal equinox. Son's Day events included collecting the quarterly gifts that kept the temple running for the next three months.

A secondary festival for the Son was held at mid-autumn.
Umerue

"*when she forgot to look at me, she was plain.*"
―Illvin considering Umerue's amazing attractiveness[src]
**Princess Umerue** was the twice-widowed sister of Prince Sordso of Jokona, daughter of Joen of Jokona, granddaughter of the Golden General. Her second husband was the lord of Hamavick, and Illvin had met her during that marriage.
Joen placed a demon under her control into Umerue, after feeding the demon variously with a finch, a servant girl, a Chalionese tutor who followed the ways of the Bastard, and a Jokonan courtesan, all to gain the skills Joen wished her to have. Umerue was then sent with the spring embassy from Jokona to Porifors seeking a marriage alliance with Illvin dy Arbanos, as a plot to take the castle from the inside.

Umerue switched her attentions to Lord Arhys dy Lutez after arriving at Porifors, and with the aid of her demon convinced him to visit her chambers. Cattilara and Illvin followed separately, Illvin to try to prevent a scene. Arhys's wife Cattilara tried to stab Umerue, and in the scuffle Arhys was stabbed and killed with both Cattilara and Illvin's hands on the knife. Cattilara stabbed and killed Umerue, and Umerue's demon then jumped to Cattilara.

Umerue was almost thirty years of age and blonde. Before being possessed by her demon, she was plain, drab, and silent, and did not speak Ibran. Demon-possessed, she appeared beautiful, was witty, and spoke Ibran well enough to make bilingual puns.

To Ista, Lady Cattilara blamed Lord Pechma, a Jokonan courtier also among the embassy, for Umerue's death in jealousy over Illvin. In reality Cattilara convinced Pechma to flee by telling him he would be blamed for Umerue's death.
Tronio

"*The white god wants a word with you.*"
―Penric confronting Learned Tronio[src]
**Learned Tronio** was a Temple sorcerer and close confident of Minister Methani. He was the one who embezzled demons and used Alixtra to assassinate Methani's enemies.

He was fairly old at the time of Methani's death, with gray hair and a gray beard. He was tall "for a Cedonian". Inside, he was as corrupt as Methani, perfectly willing to use torture, murder, and embezzlement to advance his interests.

His demon was not new, but nowhere near as old as Desdemona. Thoroughly ruined by Tronio's corruption, the demon was stripped from Tronio by the Bastard, working through His saint, Blessed Iroki.
Gans

"*Pick up the pace, Little Pen*"
―Gans does not see Penric as an adult[src]**Gans** was a servant of the kin Jurald family in the Cantons. He had to travel with the youngest son, Penric, to Martensbridge when Penric contracted a demon; he was not happy to experience a wider world - he preferred his simpler, more ordered existence in the household.
Gesca

**Rider Gesca** was a lieutenant of Sealmaster Hetwar, and commanded the small troop that rode with Ingrey kin Wolfcliff to investigate Prince Boleso's death. He had dull blond hair and was nearly ten years older than Ingrey. He was not well-educated but could write brief reports as needed. He was bribed by Earl Horseriver to report on the events surrounding Boleso's death.

Gesca was with Hetwar before Ingrey joined his service, and sometimes told tales of Ingrey's fighting ability. He claimed to have made the recommendation to Hetwar to make Ingrey's position permanent.

 Appearances

* *The Hallowed Hunt*
Martensbridge

"*They rode up and down several streets, all of them paved with cobbles, while Pen gaped at the high houses, the well-dressed men and women, the bright markets, stately merchants and hurrying servants, fine fountains in squares crowded with laundresses, elegant or clever wrought-iron signs for artisans' shops and guildhalls, windows of stained glass with pictures.*"
―Penric's first impression of Martensbridge[src]
The town of **Martensbridge** was a large royal free town of the Cantons, located along the river Linnet and a large lake. It was ruled by a princess-archdivine, by long tradition a daughter of the Hallowed King of the Weald. Martensbridge was beholden only to the Hallowed King, but maintained treaties with nearby cities with more varied allegiances. Wealdean was spoken in the area.

## History

The most plausible origin of the city's name was that an earlier lord of kin Marten built the first bridge across the Linnet. The improved roads caused the city to grow, but kin Marten lost control of the area to a distant prince of the Weald.

Upon acquiring its royal charter, Martensbridge became a centre of trade. The city was noted for its glasswork, and, shortly before Penric's time, became a centre of silk-making. At the time of *Penric's Demon*, the surrounding area had been troubled by local lords who had taken to robbing merchants. The guilds of the city had combined with the princess-archdivine's troops to destroy the nests they couldn't buy out. Castle Martenden was one of the few remaining hold-outs.

## Facts about Martensbridge

* Martensbridge contained the head house of the Bastard's Order in the Cantons.
	+ It was on Stane Street.
* There were at least two bathhouses in the town - the one near the temple was large and intimidating, while a smaller one was apparently more often used for assignations.
* The temple had previously been smaller and made of wood, but after one of the periodic fires in the area, was replaced with a larger stone building.
* It was approximately 400 miles north of Easthome in the Weald
* Lower Linden Street had a highly-regarded maker of spectacles
* Elm Street had second-hand clothing shops.

## People from Martensbridge

* Learned Tigney
* Learned Ruchia
* Llewyn kin Stagthorne

## Behind the scenes

In location, Martensbridge roughly matches Zurich, Switzerland

## References

* Penric's Demon
* Penric and the Shaman
* Penric's Fox
Darthaca

**Darthaca** was a nation to the south and beyond a mountain range from the Ibran peninsula. The independent high marchdom of Yiss occupied one part of the border between them. Darthaca also bordered the Weald, the Cantons, and Saone.

## Facts about Darthaca

* The inhabitants spoke Darthacan, which was considered a difficult language to learn.
	+ A Darthacan dialect was Saonese; it was considered particularly difficult to learn.
		- Penric's kin-name Jurald was from that region.

* Perfume from Darthaca was valued.
* There were approximately a dozen cities in Darthaca that are larger than the capital of the Weald, Easthome, but none named; the capital was six times its size.

* "If that's [something it is not], then I'm queen of Darthaca" - presumably Darthaca was ruled by King and/or Queen at the time of the events of *The Hallowed Hunt*.

## Behind the scenes

When mapped to Earth, Darthaca's location roughly corresponds to that of France.

## References

* *The Curse of Chalion*
* *Paladin of Souls*
* *The Hallowed Hunt*
* Penric's Demon
* The Prisoner of Limnos

Mentions:

* The Orphans of Raspay
Lady Xarre

**Lady Xarre** was a rich, noble widow of Cedonia and the mother of Lady Tanar Xarre.

Lady Xarre's late husband ran a profitable shipping business from their estate outside Thasalon. They had one child, their daughter Tanar. Her husband died when Tanar was around four or five.

Lady Xarre was a shrewd business-woman; after her husband's death, she took over the business and doubled its size, and was quite wealthy by the time Penric first met her. Her network of agents often gave her news before even the imperial government knew of it.

A few years after her husband's death, a badly wounded Surakos Bosha ended up on her estate, fleeing the near-lethal consequences of his family choosing the wrong side in a civil war. Lady Xarre protected and saved Bosha, and in return, won his undying loyalty.

When Penric knew her, she was an smaller, elderly lady with gray hair, always dressed in finery and jewels. She suffered from arthritis and was increasingly crippled by it.

## References

* The Prisoner of Limnos
* *The Assassins of Thasalon*
Fox of Ibra

"*I'd been raised by my father, who is a prudent, cautious man, always looking for men's hidden, selfish motivations. No one can cheat him. But I've seen him cheat himself. If you understand what I mean.*"
―Royse Bergon's thoughts about the Fox[src]
The **Fox of Ibra** was the Roya of Ibra during the events of *The Curse of Chalion*. The Fox was over 70 years of age, stringy, balding, and his formerly red hair was now a white fringe. He was vigorous for his age. He was a widower with sons from two marriages. Bergon dy Ibra was the son of his second wife, who was Darthacan.

The Fox had a long history of conflict with Orico over territory. In addition, his elder son and heir rebelled against him in South Ibra until the heir's death of the coughing fever.
Yiss

**Yiss** was a land-locked territory located between Ibra and Darthaca.

## Facts about Yiss

* Yiss paid fealty to Darthaca but was independent of it at the time of *The Curse of Chalion*.
* The ruler was called the “High March” of Yiss because of its historical state as a politically independent entity

## Behind the scenes

Yiss probably corresponds approximately to Andorra and the old Comté de Foix in this world. Whether the first name of one of the dy Gura brothers has anything to do with it is not clear....

## References

* *The Curse of Chalion* chapter 14

1. ↑ The Keys to Chalion: A Dictionary of People, Places, and Things, appendix to Paladin of Souls

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Rusylli

The **Rusylli** were a nomadic, tribal people with no fixed-boundary country associated.

They made incursions into their neighboring countries: Cedonia, Orbas, and Grabyat were all known to have experienced troubles from them.

They lived in house-wagons that could be moved by oxen and horses. They spoke their own language, also called Rusylli. They believed that the Bastard was a god, not a demon, similar to the Quintarians. However, they were not members of that church and had significant theological differences with the Quintarian church dominant in neighboring countries.

## Behind the scenes

The location for the Rusylli roughly corresponds to Hungary and Romania in real-life geography.

## References

* Penric's Mission
* Mira's Last Dance
* The Prisoner of Limnos
* The Physicians of Vilnoc
Mikal

**Prince Mikal** was the only son of the (unnamed-in-the-books) emperor ruling Cedonia during most of the time period that the Penric books take place in.

After his father died, he was appointed emperor; however, since he was only nine at the time, a regency council was appointed. The council originally consisted of

* his uncle, Prince Ragat Lafoni
* his mother, Mikal's father's third wife
* his brother-in-law, Lord Nao, husband of Mikal's half-sister Princess Laris
* Minister Methani
* Lord Bordane, the nephew of Minister Methani
Jokona

**Jokona** was the westernmost of the five Roknari princedoms on the Ibran Peninsula.

At the time of *The Curse of Chalion*, Jokona was ruled by Prince Sordso in concert with his mother and former regent Joen.

Jokonan uniforms had white pelicans on green.

### People from Jokona

* Joen of Jokona
* Prince Sordso the Sot
* Princess Umerue
* Jedula Corva
* Lencia Corva
* Seuka Corva

## Mentions

* *Paladin of Souls*
* The Orphans of Raspay
Orbas

**Orbas** was a country between Cedonia, Grabyat, and Trigonie. It had periodic troubles from Rusylli tribes attacking it.

## Facts about Orbas

* One of its few coastal islands was named Pulpi.
* Learned Tigney fled to Orbas when his demon ascended.

## Places in Orbas

* The summer capital city, Vilnoc, was along the coast, while the winter capital, Dogrita, was inland. The two capitals were not close to each other.
* A military fort near Vilnoc had a neighbor village named Tyno. An encampment of Rusylli prisoners was nearby.
* A military fort near the tri-corner between Orbas, Cedonia, and Grabyat served as a place to insert spies into Cedonia.
* Izbetsia, a small farming town about two day's ride away from Vilnoc.

## People of Orbas

* Nikys Khatai
* Penric kin Jurald
* Florina kin Jurald
* Adelis Arisaydia
* Duke Jurgo
* Madame Dassia
* Stobrek
* Learned Ravana
* Master Rede Licata
* Learned Dubro
* Blessed Iroki

## Behind the scenes

The location of Orbas roughly matches that of Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina in real life.

## References

* Penric's Demon
* Penric's Mission
* Mira's Last Dance
* The Prisoner of Limnos
* The Orphans of Raspay
* The Physicians of Vilnoc
* The Assassins of Thasalon
Beris

"*Her face was mountain-broad, lips and cheeks rouged only by cold, her body work-lean; her youth lent her a passing prettiness.*"
―Inglis meets Beris[src]**Beris** was a woman from Linkbeck in the Cantons who spent time in the local hunting and grazing camps. When her brother brought an injured shaman, Inglis kin Wolfcliff, to their shelter, she gave Inglis drink and told him some local news.

Her brother was named Bern.
Valenda

"*The town of Valenda tumbled down over its low hill like a rich quilt worked in red and gold, red for the tile roofs, gold for the native stone, both glowing in the sun.*"
―Cazaril arrives at Valenda[src]
**Valenda** was a town in Chalion in the province of Baocia, located northwest of Taryoon. It was the seat of government for the province of Baocia under the previous Provincar at the time of *The Curse of Chalion.* Valenda was situated on a low hill, with the Provincara’s castle on the hilltop, and had houses of ochre sandstone.
Mother's Order

The **Mother's Order** dealt with healing, particularly maintaining hospitals and schools for physicians.

Hallana wore a dark green, straw-yellow, and metallic gold Temple school braid on her shoulder to indicate her status as a physician-divine.

## Facilities

* Temple Hospital of the Mother's Mercy in Cardegoss in Chalion, converted from a rambling mansion bequeathed to the order by a pious widow, located on the street beyond the Mother’s house from the Temple Square.
* Temple Hospital of the Mother's Mercy in Zagosur, in Ibra
* A seminary at Suttleaf, in the Weald.

## Known members of the Mother's Order

* Rojeras, dedicat and physician
* Acolyte Clara
* unnamed comptroller who was part of the party of pilgrims Ista encountered, acolyte
* Learned Tovia, divine and physician
* Learned Hallana, physician-divine (also a sorceress-divine of the Bastard's Order)
* Hergi, midwife-dedicat
* Learned Ravana, senior sorceress-physician
Maska

The demon of Learned Dubro. Dubro was Maska's first human rider. Before that, it was in Dubro's family dog, also named Maska, which got it from a weasel and before that a quail.

Maska-the-demon was heavily imprinted with Maska-the-dog, and was therefore friendly, loyal, and eager to please its rider. It communicated with Dubro but did not have any human speech at the time of the books.

It was considered precocious, and was already receiving training for a future physician-sorcerer; as of the end of Physicians of Vilnoc, its next rider was planned to be Master Rede Licata.

## Mentions

* The Physicians of Vilnoc
* The Assassins of Thasalon
Shamanism

The Old Weald before Audar's conquest worshiped the five gods but also used **forest magics**, called the forest heresies at the time of *The Hallowed Hunt*. The Old Wealdings used animal spirits to commune with the gods and to gain other powers. Weald kin tribes also had sorcerers using elementals of disorder sacred to the Bastard.

**Spirit warriors** were created by sacrificing animals and joining the animal spirit to a human. Spirit warriors gained better access to the gods, and such abilities as better senses and more fierceness in battle. Kin warriors generally took the spirit of the animal associated with their kin group.

**Shamans** were much more powerful than the spirit warriors. To become a shaman, agreat hallowed animal was created by sacrificing the soul of one animal at the end of its life into another of the same sort and sex, transferring the wisdom and training of the old to the new, over many generations. Eventually these animals became something more than an animal, perhaps a shadow of a god or an animal-god. By sacrificing one of the great beasts and taking them into their soul, a man or woman became a shaman. Shamans of the forest tribes had true visions and some healing powers of the body and mind or the reverse, being able to cause mental harm or block healing. Shamans were sometimes in conflict with sorcerers of same tribe.

Old Wealding practice used human sacrifices to carry prayers to the gods in extreme need, hanging the sacrifice with nettle flax (for the highest born) from a sacred forest tree. At first the sacrifices were voluntary, but as the battle against Audar went badly, unwilling victims and prisoners were used as well. The gods appear to have rejected such prayers.

The **weirding voice** was another power of shamans. Its use forced someone to obey the command given, and worked on animals as well as people. Each use of the weirding voice required a small blood sacrifice. Ingrey kin Wolfcliff used the weirding voice to call animal spirits from the souls of dead spirit warriors.

**Banner carriers** of the Old Weald carried the kin banner, and in battle would cut the throats of spirit-warriors too wounded to be carried away, bind their soul to themselves, and carry it away until a shaman could cleanse the animal from the soul and allow it to go to its god. The hallow king's **royal banner-carrier** carried the hallow kingship itself until time to transfer it to the ordained heir.

* Ijada was made banner-carrier by the revenants in the Wounded Woods.
* Princess Fara was made royal banner-carrier by Earl Horseriver, and held the kingship of the Weald until the revenants elected Ingrey as hallow king.

## References

* *The Hallowed Hunt*
* Penric and the Shaman
Seuka Corva

**Seuka** was the younger sister of Lencia Corva. She was born in Raspay, a small town in Jokona, to Jedula Corva, a prostitute, and Master Ubi Getaf, a traveling merchant and long-time client. Half-orphaned by the death of her mother at the age of 8, she and her sister were sent off to try and find their father at whatever port he was in, but instead they were captured by pirates who intended to sell them as slaves. Through the hand of the Bastard, however, Penric fell in with them and rescued them. As their father was unable to take them in (already having a wife who would not have approved), Lencia and Seuka were made dedicats to the Bastard's Order in Vilnoc and moved to the chapterhouse of the Order there.

Being the younger of the two, Seuka tended to be a bit more impulsive and open. She was proud of her drawing skills but could not write, at least not at age 8 (when she first appeared in The Orphans of Raspay).

## Mentions

* The Orphans of Raspay
* The Assassins of Thasalon
Laaxa Graybraid

Mother L**aaxa Graybraid** was an elderly woman of the Cantons from Linkbeck Valley.

When Inglis kin Wolfcliff arrived in the villlage's winter hunting camp, Mother Laaxa provided him with sheepskin booties and a sheepskin cap, then arranged for a sled ride to take him to the village itself so he could meet with Acolyte Gallin.

She was aware of Scuolla's illicit hedge shaman activities, but was also unwilling to discuss them in any detail with a stranger.
Llewyn kin Stagthorne

"*Time-softened skin, slight body, yet somehow secure within herself— he didn’t need Tigney to knock him on the back of the head in order to bow low when he was presented.*"
―Penric meets the Princess-Archdivine[src]Princess-archdivine **Llewyn kin Stagthorne** was the representative of the Hallowed King living in Martensbridge in the Cantons. She was in her late 50s when Penric kin Jurald arrived in Martensbridge; he made enough of a splash to come to her attention. As a result, she took him on as her court sorcerer.

She died a few years after the events of Penric's Fox, somewhat before the events of Masquerade in Lodi; Penric was still grieving her at that time.

## References

* Penric's Demon
* Penric and the Shaman
* Penric's Fox
Gossa

**Goodwife Gossa** was the wife of Acolyte Gallin in the village of Linkbeck. She helped explain to Penric kin Jurald about the recent death of Scuolla, the local hedge shaman.

She had the good sense to direct Inglis to the temple to await her husband when he arrived in the village. She was experienced in dealing with local disasters, providing food and rooms at need.

Her household included two sons and a daughter, as well as a family servant girl.
Ibra

**Ibra** was a country on the Ibran Peninsula that lies to the west of Chalion. The southern part of the country, South Ibra, was sometimes in rebellion against the main body of the country. The major port city of Zagosur lay on Ibra's coast, and was where the Fox of Ibra's court was located when Cazaril went to arrange Iselle and Bergon's marriage.

Ibra was joined to Chalion, with both countries taking the name Chalion-Ibra, as the closing events of *The Curse of Chalion*.

## People of Ibra

* Bergon dy Ibra
* The Fox of Ibra
* Master Ubi Getaf

## Behind the scenes

Ibra is intentionally similar in location to real world Aragon, which merged with Castile to form Spain upon the marriage of Isabella and Ferdinand. The sometimes rebel province of South Ibra corresponds to Catalonia.

## References

* *The Curse of Chalion*
* *Paladin of Souls*
Beetim

"*You are older, Betriz ... we thought you'd be a calming influence.... As when Beetim the huntsman couples the young hounds to the older ones.*"
―The Provincara had hoped Betriz would calm Iselle[src]
**Beetim** was a huntsman who lived at the castle in Valenda, training hounds to the hunt for the people of the castle.

He was superstitious, fearing that the ghost of a fox killed during the Daughter's season would stir up his dogs all night long. The cure for this problem was apparently to burn the fox's whiskers.
Lurenz

**Learned Lurenz** was the chief divine of Greenwell Town's Temple in the Cantons. He was a devotee of the Father of Winter, but supervised all five houses in the town. Prior to becoming the chief divine, his job included the teaching of arithmetic and geography to the local children.

He had the job of evaluating Penric kin Jurald to determine if he had indeed acquired a demon; upon learning this was so, he agreed to arrange for Penric to travel to Martensbridge to be evaluated by the Order of the Bastard. He further agreed to gift him with sufficient funding to make the trip possible.

He was tall and skinny and did not shirk difficult duties. He was also believed to wish to have the archdivineship role, should Greenwell be granted one.

## References

* Penric's Demon
* Penric's Mission (mention only)
Gotorget

**Gotorget** (Go-tor-get) was a much-contested fortress on the Chalion-Borasnen border, and commanded the mountain passes that lead to the port and capital city of Visping in Borasnen, one of the Roknari princedoms.

Two years before *The Curse of Chalion*, Cazaril was named commander of Gotorget by Martou dy Jironal and held it against besieging Roknari forces for nine months before being ordered to surrender to them. Prior to the events of *Paladin of Souls*, Gotorget was captured by Chalion-Ibra in a campaign led by Marshal dy Palliar.

 References

* *The Curse of Chalion*

* *Paladin of Souls*
Oswin

"*Oswin was the most perfect servant of the Father, always so concerned for figuring out the exact rules and getting himself on the right side of them. Or them on the left side of him.*"
―Hallana describes her husband[src]
**Learned Oswin** was a divine of the Father’s Order and a senior scholar of jurisprudence in the Weald. He lived in Suttleaf and taught there. He was married to Learned Hallana; they had two children at the opening of The Hallowed Hunt and Hallana gave birth to a daughter shortly afterwards.

He and Hallana met at the fen fort where Ijada's father was the captain, discovered a shared passion over theology (and arguing about it), and Oswin followed her back to the Weald when his position at the fort ended and they married. Hallana said, *"I told him he just wanted to have the last word. He’s still trying."*

Oswin was gangly, with a beaklike nose, receding chin, and untidy graying black hair. He wore a red shoulder braid with a gold cord running through it to mark a senior scholar of jurisprudence.

During the uncanny night in the Wounded Woods where Ingrey released the souls of those who died at Bloodfield, Oswin served as the gate of the Father.
Ubi Getaf

"*I lost count of the number of secret Quintarians and ill-treated whores and crow-lads I smuggled out of Raspay with me as servants, to release in some port of Ibra in the hopes they might find a safer life.*"
―Ubi as a freedom smuggler[src]
**Ubi Getaf** was a traveling merchant, with a wife in Zagosur and a favorite prostitute in Raspay, a town in Jokona. He was middle-aged, middle-sized, and sturdy rather than overweight.

He was the father of Lencia and Seuka Corva by Jedula Corva in Raspay, who he regularly visited whenever his travels brought him to the area. Once he learned of Jedula's death by illness and Lencia and Seuka's difficult time afterwards, he hastened to find them at Penric kin Jurald's home in Vilnoc. He did not believe his wife would welcome them in her home, so he arranged with Penric to set them up as dowered dedicats in the Bastard's Order.
Son of Autumn

"*Out of an avenue of autumn-scented trees a red-haired young man appeared. He was tall, clothed as for a hunt in leggings and leathers, his bow and quiver strapped across his back. His eyes were bright, sparkling like a woodland stream; freckles dusted across his nose, and his generous mouth laughed. His head was crowned with autumn leaves, brown oak, red maple, yellow birch, and his stride was wide.*"
―Ingrey meets the Son of Autumn[src]
The **Son of Autumn** was one of the five gods of the Chalion world.

His particular domain was warfare and hunting; warriors generally were devotees of the Son.

The primary color associated with the Son was red-orange; the secondary color was brown. His festival, Son's Day, was held at the autumn equinox.

At death, unless there was a stronger association with a different god, men who'd never fathered children generally were taken up by the Son.

## References

Most tales mention the Son of Autumn, but particularly important are:

* *The Hallowed Hunt*
* Penric and the Shaman
Bastard of the unseason

"*He was fatter, brighter, whiter [than dy Cabon]. Faintly androgynous. Did that flesh swell as if to contain the uncontainable? His garments were spotless – by that alone, Ista might have known the difference – and luminous as the moon. Above the creases of his smile, cheerfully echoed by the curves of his chins, the god's eyes glinted at her. Wider than skies, deeper than sea chasms, their complexity bent inward endlessly, each layer a lamination of other layers, repeated into infinity, or the infinitesimal. Eyes that might simultaneously contemplate each person and living thing in the world, inside and out, with equal and unhurried attention.*"
―Ista sees the Bastard in a dream[src]

"*Signs of the Bastard's holy presence tend to be unmistakable...The screaming, the altercations, the people running in circles—all that was lacking was something bursting into flame.*"
―Lewko describes the funeral rite with the ice bear[src]
The **Bastard of the unseason** was one of the five gods of the Chalion world.

His color was white, and he was the god of disasters, bastards, orphans, non-heteronormative loves, pirates, prostitutes, hangmen, and all things out of season. People were more likely to pray to be spared his attention than to receive it. However, as the god of balance, the Bastard was prayed to in death magic in hopes of being granted a miracle of justice.

Unlike the other gods, the Bastard had some direct agency in the world through his demons and sorcerers.

The Bastard's Order ran many orphanages and foundling hospitals. It was also concerned with removing stray demons from the world and particularly from hedge (non-Temple-approved) sorcerers. It also managed the small number of Temple sorcerers.

At death, any person not taken up by one of the other gods would probably be taken by the Bastard (unless the person chose to remain sundered from all of them). A certain number of people were to their destruction in the Bastard's Hell (Be-not); another group were specifically devoted to the Bastard and were thus taken up by his and their choice.

Those who celebrated Bastard's Day generally placed it six weeks after the Summer Solstice.

## Phrases associated with the Bastard

* Bastard's demon(s)
	+ Bastard's demon take (Somebody)
* Bastard's Hell
* Bastard's tears
* Bastard weeps
* Bastard laughs
* Bastard's teeth (The Prisoner of Limnos and Penric and the Shaman)
	+ variant: May Bastard's teeth grind us all
* Bastard piss on you for cowards! (The Orphans of Raspay)

## Behind the scenes

The author has stated regarding the Bastard's Day:

"Summer solstice, right about now, is the Mother's Day in the 5GU. Bastard's Day is six weeks from now, so, early August, around the 3rd. So Happy Mother's Day! though meaning something rather different -- well, maybe not too different -- than the usual for that greeting."

See message to list group, June 2021
Daughter's Day

The **Daughter's Day** was the vernal equinox, the first day of spring in the World of the Five Gods.

Celebrations of the day varied, but in the town of Valenda in Chalion, it took the following form:

* At dawn, people put out all the fires in their homes as part of a religious service for the passing of the season and the peace of the dead.
* A maiden on the brink of womanhood was chosen to serve as the avatar of the Lady of Spring, and was dressed in elaborate, multi-layered, embroidered robes. She rode a while mule decorated in blue and white ribbons and wear a crown of leaves and flowers.
* An elderly man wearing rags served as the avatar of the Father of Winter; he led the young woman's mule as they made a procession from the east gate around the walls, and then to the town temple.
* The Father of Winter's avatar cleaned the ash from the temple's central fire, and then the townsfolk drove him away with sticks with bells and either snowballs or missiles of soft wool representing snowballs.
* The Lady of Spring's avatar then lit the replacement fire and went to sit on the throne of the goddess. At this point, the heads of households of the town all brought their quarterly offerings to her and received her blessing in return. Each one left with a taper lit from the newly made fire.
Rusillin kin Martenden

> *[Lord Rusillin] was thickset and muscular, his hands broad, suitable for maintaining a grip on a weapon in defiance of blows, his riding leathers heavy and less elaborate than what his horse was wearing. Pen suspected the straight black hair had actually borne a helmet at some point. Tough, solid, unsmiling*. - "Penric's Demon"
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**Lord Rusillin kin Martenden**, also known as Rusi, was a minor lord of the Cantons. He was lord of Castle Martenden, but the economy of his lands was stunted by the nearby city of Martensbridge. For a living, Lord Rusillin recruited and led a company of mercenaries for the Earl Palatine of Westria. He also periodically blocked traffic along the lake and charged "tolls", much to the frustration of the guilds of Martensbridge.

Lord Rusillin was the half brother of Clee, a cleric of the Bastard's Order. Together, the two planned to kill Penric in order to acquire his demon.

Lord Rusillin had black hair and a beard. He was thickset and muscular, and wears his sword even in the city.
Esquadrão Suicida

***Esquadrão Suicida*** é um vindouro filme americano baseado na equipe de anti-heróis de mesmo nome da DC Comics. Será o terceiro filme do universo compartilhado de filmes da DC Comics.

David Ayer escreveu o roteiro e também dirige o filme. O elenco é composto por Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Jared Leto, Jai Courtney, Cara Delevingne e Viola Davis.

O filme será lançado em 06 de Agosto de 2016.

## Elenco e personagens

* Will Smith como Floyd Lawton / Pistoleiro
* Margot Robbie como Arlequina
* Joel Kinnaman como Rick Flag
* Viola Davis como Amanda Waller
* Jared Leto como Coringa
* Jai Courtney como George Harkness / Capitão Bumerangue
* Cara Delevingne como June Moone / Magia
* Karen Fukuhara como Tatsu Yamashiro / Katana
* Adam Beach como Christopher Weiss / Amarra
* Jay Hernandez como Chato Santana / El Diablo
* Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje como Waylon Jones / Crocodilo
* Ben Affleck como Bruce Wayne / Batman
Gallin

**Acolyte Gallin** was the temple-man of Linkbeck Village. He was a friend of Scuolla, the local hedge shaman, and prayed for a shaman to come and cleanse Scuolla after his untimely death. He quickly realized that the arrival of Penric kin Jurald and Inglis kin Wolfcliff were very probably the work of the Gods, and sought Penric's aid in the task.

His wife was Gossa; she and their children and a servant girl assisted with funerals.
Trinker

**Trinker** was a guardsman from Liest in the Cantons who served the Daughter's Order.

When Learned Ruchia needed to travel from Liest to Martensbridge, he served as the senior guardsman for the journey. As such, he was in charge of decisions of when and where to travel and where to stay during the nights. After her death, and the decision to take Penric kin Jurald in her place, he continued as senior guardsman; he was not looking forward to explaining the loss of his charge.

Upon arriving in Martensbridge, he required assistance in locating the Bastard's Order; he'd never been in the town before.
Ruchia

"*Oh, just spit it out, Pen. She was a spy, and a good one, too.*"
―Desdemona describing Ruchia[src]
**Learned Ruchia** was a sorceress-divine of the Bastard's Order who was based in the Cantons, but often traveled due to her employment as a spy.

She had been a foundling of the order, and upon receiving Desdemona and becoming a sorceress, took up spy-work rather than become a physician. She never married or had children of her own. Upon her death, she gave her demon to Penric kin Jurald (who had no idea what he was in for). She had been Desdemona's favorite rider before Penric.

Desdemona often called upon Ruchia's memories in assisting Penric, possibly due to her being the most recent addition.

## References

Ruchia is present in all the Penric tales, but her role is particularly prominent in the following ones

* Penric's Demon
* Penric and the Shaman
* The Prisoner of Limnos
Laris

**Princess Laris** was the only daughter of the (unnamed-in-the-books) emperor ruling Cedonia during most of the time period that the Penric books take place in, and thus the half-sister of Prince (later Emperor) Mikal.

Laris was about the same age as Lady Tanar, so about 10 years younger than Penric.

She was the daughter of her father's first wife. Mikal's mother, Laris' father's third wife, was concerned that Laris or her potential husband might become her son's rival for the throne. Mikal's mother tried to prevent this by arranging for Laris to marry Lord Nao, who was 15 years older than her and had no support in the military. Despite the political nature of the marriage, Nao and Laris seemed happy with each other and worked well together. They had one child, a daughter.

Politically, Laris and Nao were opposed to Minister Methani, who considered them rivals for power. After the death of her uncle, Prince Ragat Lafoni, Laris and Nao feared that Methani planned to assume complete control of the country, probably killing them in the process. Lacking the military support they would need for a coup, they dispatched General Gria to recruit General Arisaydia onto their side.

## Appearance

Laris was described as having regular but not particularly beautiful features. She had the dark hair common to most Cedonians and the same strong nose as her father.
Dondo dy Jironal

**Dondo dy Jironal** was the younger brother of Martou dy Jironal. He was named to be Holy General of the Daughter’s Order early in *The Curse of Chalion*, and then was named March dy Jironal after Martou became provincar dy Ildar.

## Biography

Dondo served as a soldier during the border war against Olus prior to the events in *The Curse of Chalion*, during which he was sent with Cazaril as envoys to deliver an ultimatum when Olus was cornered. At Olus's order, he attempted to kill Cazaril, but was stopped mid-attempt.

At one point, he and his brother were permitted to attempt to sire a child by Royina Sara and spent a year trying. While Martou was polite about his own efforts, Dondo took pleasure in humiliating Sara. The effort only ended when she threatened to kill herself.

By the time of the beginning of *Curse of Chalion*, he was made General of the Daughter's Order. He promptly made use of the appointment to profit greatly - by sending its soldiers to serve as mercenaries for the Heir of Ibra, and accepting bribes to fail to notice malfeasance by those under him.

After a time, Dondo was chosen to become Iselle dy Chalion's betrothed, to be wed in three days. In response to her open disgust and defiance, he threatened to rape her until she became pregnant, claiming that Roya Orico would certainly allow the action (as evidence, he told her of the time with Royina Sara). Cazaril, in desperation, performed death magic successfully upon Dondo, bringing about his death. When, later, his soul was brought to the gods, none of them took him and he ended up being destroyed in the Bastard's "Be-not" hell.

## Personality and appearance

Dondo dy Jironal was stocky and had a tendency to sweat profusely. He was forty years old. He did not respond well to being the butt of jokes, being known to attempt to kill or arrest those who do this. He had two scorned daughters by his late first wife.

A libertine and an embezzler, he rapidly made enemies of the dedicats of the Daughter's Order.

## Behind the scenes

Dondo dy Jironal is at least partly based on Pedro Girón Acuña Pacheco, a powerful Castilian who was a suitor to Isabella of Spain.

## Appearances

* *The Curse of Chalion*

* *Paladin of Souls* (mention only)
Demon

A **demon** was an elemental spirit of chaos. They were under the dominion of the Bastard, and through them the Bastard could directly influence events in the world.

A demon who escaped into the world required a host to lend it strength and intelligence. It would first enter whatever animal it found such as a rat or ferret, and would be unable to do much damage. However, when the host died, the demon would jump to the strongest soul in its vicinity, thus gradually increasing in power. When a demon entered a human being, the human became a sorcerer.

The simplest way to return a small demon to the gods was to kill the host animal and to force the demon to jump to a divine who was dying. The divine looked forward to meeting their god, and brought the demon along automatically. Stronger demons, though, required special treatment to banish: a saint who could channel a miracle of the Bastard to separate demon from host. It was also possible to destroy demons by preventing them from jumping to a new host. A common method was to leave the sorcerer out in the middle of the ocean; by the time they drowned, there was no creature nearby complex enough to host the demon and the demon evaporated. The Quadrenes knew of ways to erect barriers around a dying sorcerer which prevented the demon from jumping as well.

Being creatures of chaos, demons 'leaked' chaos constantly. If not carefully shed, the chaos would generally kill the host after a while, as the chaos caused deadly tumors throughout the body. Both animal hosts and untrained human sorcerers often died from these tumors, and the trained human sorcerers had to be constantly vigilant about causing chaos outside their bodies to remove it from their bodies.

### Behind the scenes

The author has discussed the nature of demons: "They are personifications or blobs of concentrated entropy, without which life, the universe, and everything could not exist."

## References

1. ↑ Lois McMaster Bujold, post to the Bujold mailing list, 12 May 2015, http://lists.herald.co.uk/pipermail/lois-bujold/2015-May/170335.html
Lure River

"*I was a young man, heir to my high house, hunting in the meadows along the Lure before ever Audar was born to soil his swaddling clothes.*"
―Horseriver lands on east side of Lure[src]The **Lure River** ran north-south through the eastern Weald; it was located about 200 miles to the east of Easthome.

In old-Weald days, the Lure functioned partly as a border between them and Darthaca; at the time of *The Hallowed Hunt*, the kin Horseriver's territory was to the east of the river, with Castle Horseriver along the middle Lure.

## Behind the scenes

In location, the Lure River roughly matches the Rhine River of Germany.

## References

* *The Hallowed Hunt*, particularly chapter 13