GLOSSARY

Please note This page contain SPOILERS.

TERMS:

  • Winter witch: a person born with the ability to summon and control ice, and can kill just by touching a person’s skin.
  • Summer witch: a person born with the ability to summon and control fire, and can heal others by touching their skin.
  • Lich/bone witch: a winter witch who can also use summer witch magic, and can raise the dead into either walking shells, or fully thinking, breathing revenants (also called a soul witch). Lich is the old word for bone witch, and the gang don’t discover and start using the term bone witch until Book 2.
  • Shell: Walking corpse, unable to think for themselves.
  • Revenant: Someone revived by a bone witch, full thinking and breathing, as if they had never been dead.
  • Spring witch: a person born with the ability to summon and control earth, and can mix magic into potions for external benefits such as a fast-healing salve.
  • “By the fires!”:  this is an exclamation, the equivalent of “oh my god!”
  • Ishma: old Highlander word for witch.

LOCATIONS:

  • Atlantica and its capital city Thetis. The royal residence is the Summer Palace.
  • The Highlands and its  capital city Grimhold. The royal residence is Blackstone Citadel (formerly Kingscrag).
  • The Midlenes and its capital city Tolbridge. The royal residence is The Roundhouse.
  • Other locations:
    • Fort Norwich, the town where Tally was born.
    • Bridget, the town where Tally was found and taken to the Summer Palace.

PEOPLE:

  • Nataliya “Tally” Wolfsbane: bone witch, a mix of winter and summer witches, with bonus necromancy.
  • Ash: Tally’s shapeshifting companion. Their first meeting is detailed in Winter Wildling, though Ash’s actual origins remain a mystery for much of the series.
  • Ford Tarasen: Crown Prince of Atlantica.
  • Lennox “Knox” Novak: Ford’s cousin on his father’s side, and a Lord. Ford’s closest friend, advisor, and body double.
  • Dover Saengo: Ford’s cousin on his mother’s side. Older brother of Beck. Close friends with Ford.
  • Beckett “Beck” Saengo: Ford’s cousin on his mother’s side, younger brother of Dover. Close friends with Ford.
  • Marina Baran: Tally’s handmaiden turned close friend.
  • Calder Tarasen: King of Atlantica, Ford and Bourne’s father.
  • Nerissa Tarasen: Queen of Atlantica, Ford and Bourne’s mother.
  • Bourne Tarasen: Ford’s younger brother.
  • Demyan: Bourne’s advisor.
  • Vera: Calder’s senior adviser.
  • Danica Monkshood: Tally’s half-sister.
  • Iskra Rybak: Tally and Danica’s mother.
  • Soren Vorona: A powerful winter witch and the Commander of the King’s army.