By Jay Squires
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CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. PONDRIA: According to myth, Glnot Rhuether's twin, once conjoined at the ribs. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. PAPPERING: In the provinces, the ability of one language being automatically translated into another so there is no reason for one to learn a foreign language. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. LSG,LEFT STATION GUARD: Barracks Leader. LARZ KAILEEN: Doctrex's LSG for the Kabeezan troops SPECIAL COLONEL EELE JESSIP: leader of Camp Plassum. STAND CAPTAIN ARVAL BREENZ: Leader of Camp Gortz, noted for their elite fighting men. SPECIAL COLONEL GEROL ROZE: Leader of Camp Jeri Fibe troops AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. TRANDLE: A time-telling devise POOL OF ARLANGUA: According to the Tablets of Kyre, the place where those who die from their own hands end up. |
By Jay Squires
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CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. PONDRIA: According to myth, Glnot Rhuether's twin, once conjoined at the ribs. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. PAPPERING: In the provinces, the ability of one language being automatically translated into another so there is no reason for one to learn a foreign language. JED: Doctrex's personal courier. LSG,LEFT STATION GUARD: Barracks Leader. LARZ KAILEEN: Doctrex's LSG for the Kabeezan troops SPECIAL COLONEL EELE JESSIP: leader of Camp Plassum. STAND CAPTAIN ARVAL BREENZ: Leader of Camp Gortz, noted for their elite fighting men. SPECIAL COLONEL GEROL ROZE: Leader of Camp Jeri Fibe troops AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. TRANDLE: A time-telling devise POOL OF ARLANGUA: According to the Tablets of Kyre, the place where those who die from their own hands end up. |
By Jay Squires
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Thank you Google Images for your Art Work.
CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. SPECIAL COLONEL EELE JESSIP: leader of Camp Plassum. STAND CAPTAIN ARVAL BREENZ: Leader of Camp Gortz, noted for their elite fighting men. SPECIAL COLONEL GEROL ROZE: Leader of Camp Jeri Fibe troops AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. TRANDLE: A time-telling devise |
By Jay Squires
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Thank you Google Images for your Art Work
CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. SPECIAL COLONEL EELE JESSIP: leader of Camp Plassum. STAND CAPTAIN ARVAL BREENZ: Leader of Camp Gortz, noted for their elite fighting men. SPECIAL COLONEL GEROL ROZE: Leader of Camp Jeri Fibe troops AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. TRANDLE: A time-telling devise |
By Jay Squires
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Thank you Google Images for your Art Work.
CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. SPECIAL COLONEL EELE JESSIP: leader of Camp Plassum. STAND CAPTAIN ARVAL BREENZ: Leader of Camp Gortz, noted for their elite fighting men. SPECIAL COLONEL GEROL ROZE: Leader of Camp Jeri Fibe troops AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. |
By Jay Squires
WELCOME TO BOOK THREE OF THE TRINING: If it's your first experience here, perhaps you'd like to read the final paragraphs of the last chapter:
In each of the seven units to my left and right, a similar growing-together of all the troops associated with each unit would be stationed in seven encampments similar to mine. All eight units of us would be like those eight fingers getting ready to close into a tight, crushing fist.
If everything went as planned ... the seven units on either side of me would converge on the plane of Dzur, within hours of each other. Since my troop movement was the more directly north, the other troops had more miles to travel. If there were no delays mine would arrive as much as two days ahead of theirs—all plotted out neatly on paper.
Engle volunteered to establish the schedule for the guards and the first contingent stood shoulder-to-shoulder at each of the four perimeters of the camp. They were allowed movement within their tight ranks in order to stay warm. A bonfire blazed nearby each line of guards, regularly fed by scrub-brush and a graveyard of fallen, emaciated trees whose roots could never flourish in the cold, black shale. We would not be wanting for heat over the next week or so of our sojourn here.
But, why did I have strong feelings that keeping warm would be a minor concern?
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CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. SPECIAL COLONEL EELE JESSIP: leader of Camp Plassum. STAND CAPTAIN ARVAL BREENZ: Leader of Camp Gortz, noted for their elite fighting men. SPECIAL COLONEL GEROL ROZE: Leader of Camp Jeri Fibe troops AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. POMNOT: (Pom = Dark not = Force) Formerly on the plane below, these ancestors of the people of the Encloy were drawn up to the Kojutake during the Bining's 30 days of darkness. Fierce, living for their appetites, they are not above killing each other to satisfy their insatiable hunger. Used as Rhuether's advance force and looked upon as expendable. |
By Jay Squires
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Thank you Google Images for your Art Work.
CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. SPECIAL COLONEL EELE JESSIP: leader of Camp Plassum. STAND CAPTAIN ARVAL BREENZ: Leader of Camp Gortz, noted for their elite fighting men. SPECIAL COLONEL GEROL ROZE: Leader of Camp Jeri Fibe troops AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. POMNOT: (Pom = Dark not = Force) Formerly on the plane below, these ancestors of the people of the Encloy were drawn up to the Kojutake during the Bining's 30 days of darkness. Fierce, living for their appetites, they are not above killing each other to satisfy their insatiable hunger. Used as Rhuether's advance force and looked upon as expendable. KOJUTAKE: 1. To Axtilla and the Kyreans, the frightening world on the other side of the membrane, occupied by Pomnots and the dark entity: Glnot Rhuether. 2. In the provinces it is the afterlife. |
By Jay Squires
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CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. SPECIAL COLONEL EELE JESSIP: leader of Camp Plassum. STAND CAPTAIN ARVAL BREENZ: Leader of Camp Gortz, noted for their elite fighting men. SPECIAL COLONEL GEROL ROZE: Leader of Camp Jeri Fibe troops AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. POMNOT: (Pom = Dark not = Force) Formerly on the plane below, these ancestors of the people of the Encloy were drawn up to the Kojutake during the Bining's 30 days of darkness. Fierce, living for their appetites, they are not above killing each other to satisfy their insatiable hunger. Used as Rhuether's advance force and looked upon as expendable. KOJUTAKE: 1. To Axtilla and the Kyreans, the frightening world on the other side of the membrane, occupied by Pomnots and the dark entity: Glnot Rhuether. 2. In the provinces it is the afterlife. |
By Jay Squires
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CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. SPECIAL COLONEL EELE JESSIP: leader of Camp Plassum. STAND CAPTAIN ARVAL BREENZ: Leader of Camp Gortz, noted for their elite fighting men. SPECIAL COLONEL GEROL ROZE: Leader of Camp Jeri Fibe troops AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. POMNOT: (Pom = Dark not = Force) Formerly on the plane below, these ancestors of the people of the Encloy were drawn up to the Kojutake during the Bining's 30 days of darkness. Fierce, living for their appetites, they are not above killing each other to satisfy their insatiable hunger. Used as Rhuether's advance force and looked upon as expendable. KOJUTAKE: 1. To Axtilla and the Kyreans, the frightening world on the other side of the membrane, occupied by Pomnots and the dark entity: Glnot Rhuether. 2. In the provinces it is the afterlife. |
By Jay Squires
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CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. SPECIAL COLONEL EELE JESSIP: leader of Camp Plassum. STAND CAPTAIN ARVAL BREENZ: Leader of Camp Gortz, noted for their elite fighting men. SPECIAL COLONEL GEROL ROZE: Leader of Camp Jeri Fibe troops AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. POMNOT: (Pom = Dark not = Force) Formerly on the plane below, these ancestors of the people of the Encloy were drawn up to the Kojutake during the Bining's 30 days of darkness. Fierce, living for their appetites, they are not above killing each other to satisfy their insatiable hunger. Used as Rhuether's advance force and looked upon as expendable. KOJUTAKE: 1. To Axtilla and the Kyreans, the frightening world on the other side of the membrane, occupied by Pomnots and the dark entity: Glnot Rhuether. 2. In the provinces it is the afterlife. |
By Jay Squires
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CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. |
By Jay Squires
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CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. |
By Jay Squires
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CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. |
By Jay Squires
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CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. |
By Jay Squires
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CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. |
By Jay Squires
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CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. |
By Jay Squires
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CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. The first to hear voices in his head. AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. GOTZEL REKTAIRN: The 2nd person after Braims Glassem who started hearing voices. |
By Jay Squires
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CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. The first to hear voices in his head. AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. GOTZEL REKTAIRN: The 2nd person after Braims Glassem who started hearing voices. |
By Jay Squires
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CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. The first to hear voices in his head. AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. |
By Jay Squires
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CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. VIKTOR BRUEEN: Doxtrex's identity before he passed over to this dimension. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. The first to hear voices in his head. AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. |
By Jay Squires
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WELCOME TO BOOK THREE OF THE TRINING: If it's your first experience here, perhaps you'd like to read the final paragraphs of the previous chapter:
At least one arrow found its target as a shriek, unlike any sound I'd ever heard, echoed down into the valley. The Pomnots, for all their brutish strength were stoic in their dying. No human or quasi-human had a voice box this powerful. This had to be a beast of an altogether different nature.
I tried to anticipate how many there could be. I heard them scrabbling up from the gullies and onto the road before I saw the first of them, my view blocked by the two ranks of soldiers who walled me in. I'd heard that penetrating roar before, from the other world, from my earthly life, and was afraid to imagine what the equivalent beast would be here in the Northern Province.
I was soon to find out.
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CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. VIKTOR BRUEEN: Doxtrex's identity before he passed over to this dimension. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. The first to hear voices in his head. AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. ZILTINAUR: Gentle Giant who came to the little children at the 5 year change of season, and if they were good, left gifts for them while they slept. |
By Jay Squires
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Thank you Google Images for your Art Work.
CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. VIKTOR BRUEEN: Doxtrex's identity before he passed over to this dimension. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. The first to hear voices in his head. AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. ZILTINAUR: The soldiers see him as the gentle giant who came to the little children at the 5 year change of season, and if they were good, left gifts for them while they slept. |
By Jay Squires
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Thank you Google Images for your Art Work.
CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. VIKTOR BRUEEN: Doxtrex's identity before he passed over to this dimension. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. The first to hear voices in his head. AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. ZILTINAUR: The soldiers see him as the gentle giant who came to the little children at the 5 year change of season, and if they were good, left gifts for them while they slept. |
By Jay Squires
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Thank you Google Images for your Art Work.
CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. VIKTOR BRUEEN: Doxtrex's identity before he passed over to this dimension. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. The first to hear voices in his head. AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. ZILTINAUR: The soldiers see him as the gentle giant who came to the little children at the 5 year change of season, and if they were good, left gifts for them while they slept. |
By Jay Squires
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Thank you Google Images for your Art Work.
CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. VIKTOR BRUEEN: Doxtrex's identity before he passed over to this dimension. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. The first to hear voices in his head. AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. ZILTINAUR: The soldiers see him as the gentle giant who came to the little children at the 5 year change of season, and if they were good, left gifts for them while they slept. CFPs: Compact Food Packages (Rations) Food requiring little or no preparation. |
By Jay Squires
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Thank you Google Images for your Art Work.
CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. VIKTOR BRUEEN: Doxtrex's identity before he passed over to this dimension. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. The first to hear voices in his head. AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. ZILTINAUR: The soldiers see him as the gentle giant who came to the little children at the 5 year change of season, and if they were good, left gifts for them while they slept. CFPs: Compact Food Packages (Rations) Food requiring little or no preparation. |
By Jay Squires
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Thank you Google Images for your Art Work.
CAST OF CHARACTERS: DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. VIKTOR BRUEEN: Doxtrex's identity before he passed over to this dimension. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. The first to hear voices in his head. AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. ZILTINAUR: The soldiers see him as the gentle giant who came to the little children at the 5 year change of season, and if they were good, left gifts for them while they slept. CFPs: Compact Food Packages (Rations) Food requiring little or no preparation. |
By Jay Squires
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CAST OF CHARACTERS:
DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. VIKTOR BRUEEN: Doxtrex's identity before he passed over to this dimension. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. The first to hear voices in his head. AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. |
By Jay Squires
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CAST OF CHARACTERS:
DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. VIKTOR BRUEEN: Doxtrex's identity before he passed over to this dimension. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. The first to hear voices in his head. AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. ZILTINAUR: The soldiers see him as the gentle giant who came to the little children at the 5 year change of season, and if they were good, left gifts for them while they slept. |
By Jay Squires
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CAST OF CHARACTERS:
DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. VIKTOR BRUEEN: Doxtrex's identity before he passed over to this dimension. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. The first to hear voices in his head. AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. ZILTINAUR: The soldiers see him as the gentle giant who came to the little children at the 5 year change of season, and if they were good, left gifts for them while they slept. |
By Jay Squires
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CAST OF CHARACTERS:
DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. VIKTOR BRUEEN: Doxtrex's identity before he passed over to this dimension. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. The first to hear voices in his head. AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. ZILTINAUR: The soldiers see him as the gentle giant who came to the little children at the 5 year change of season, and if they were good, left gifts for them while they slept. |
By Jay Squires
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CAST OF CHARACTERS:
DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. VIKTOR BRUEEN: Doxtrex's identity before he passed over to this dimension. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. The first to hear voices in his head. AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. KARULE BARSACH: After their ambush and capture, one of the soldiers Zarbs' men tortured. ARKLYN ZARBS: Supreme Colonel of Rhuether's army, whose men ambushed and captured Doctrex and his men. GARVIN: Medic for Arklyn Zarbs' army. |
By Jay Squires
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CAST OF CHARACTERS:
DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. VIKTOR BRUEEN: Doxtrex's identity before he passed over to this dimension. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. The first to hear voices in his head. AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. KARULE BARSACH: After their ambush and capture, one of the soldiers Zarbs' men tortured. ARKLYN ZARBS: Supreme Colonel of Rhuether's army, whose men ambushed and captured Doctrex and his men. GARVIN: Medic for Arklyn Zarbs' army. |
By Jay Squires
Author Notes |
CAST OF CHARACTERS:
DOCTREX: The name Axtilla gave to the man who woke up on the shore of an alien land without memory or identity. VIKTOR BRUEEN: Doxtrex's identity before he passed over to this dimension. AXTILLA: The young lady who discovered the ailing man on the shore, brought him to health and then held him captive, certain he was Pondria. GLNOT RHUETHER: According to Axtilla, the name of the dark entity who is destined to empower the lodging [the Trining] on their plane. GILN PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl. SHELECK PROFUE: One of the three who helped Doctrex & Klasco in the Tavern Brawl & was stabbed. ZURN: Intellectually challenged, Giln and Sheleck are watching out for him. CROSSANS: They are similar to horses, but broader in the chest and sloping down to smaller haunches than horses. JED: Formerly Doctrex's personal courier; now an Advance intelligence Man. ENGLE: Doctrex's Courier after Jed left to become an AIM under Arval. BRAIMS GLASSEM: The Medic for Doctrex's troops. The first to hear voices in his head. AIM: Advance Intelligence Men. Do undercover surveillance in advance of troop movement. KARULE BARSACH: After their ambush and capture, one of the soldiers Zarbs' men tortured. ARKLYN ZARBS: Supreme Colonel of Rhuether's army, whose men ambushed and captured Doctrex and his men. GARVIN: Medic for Arklyn Zarbs' army. |
By Jay Squires
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CHARACTERS AND TERMINOLOGY FROM THE GREEN HIGHLIGHTED TEXT
GENERAL DOCTREX: Protagonist, Leader of Kabeezan Army. MEDIC BRAIMS GLASSEM: Doctrex's Chief Medic. Headstrong. SPECIAL COLONEL EELE JESSIP: He and his men are reason for Doctrex's mission to rescue them. CAMP JERRI FIBE: The Last Kabeezan outpost. Center for training & weapons. CROSSAN: Equivalent of a horse RAIN SPIRIT II: Doctrex's crossan PLAIN OF DJUR: Where All Kabeezan Armies were to reconnoiter before final attack on Glnot Rhuether. GLNOT RHUETHER: Master Magician who intends to conquer Kabeez PALACE OF QARNOLT: Where Glnot Rhuether lives with his aleged bride-to-be Axtilla, Doctrex's love. PROFUE BROTHERS: Knew Doctrex before he was General. His closest "brothers" in army. GILN PROFUE: The oldest Profue Brother (Lieutenant) SHELECK PROFUE: The youngest Profue Brother (adjutant Lieutenant) ZURN PROFUE: Adopted brother to Profues. Mentally challenged. POMNOT: A huge beast (Rhuether's expendable Killing machine) POMNOT (2ND MEANING): To Kabeezans the equivalent of the bogeyman, threats of whom parents used to use to discipline children AXTILLA: Doctrex's love, who is Rhuether's prisoner, and alegedly his bride-to-be. GOTZEL: One of the soldiers who, along with medic Braims, heard voices (Rhuether possessed.) ENGLE: Doctrex's courier after his first courier became an AIM: Advanced Intelligence Men, who were trained to do surveillance and espionage work for the Kabeezan army. LESN: One of the officers of the Kabeezan Army who, when possessed by Rhuether, performed impossible feats of strength. Committed suicide when lover, Morz, died. MORZ: former officer, Lesn's lover, died when he exploded. PHANTOM BIRDS: Gigantic "Magical" Birds that dropped fire eggs on the troops. ARZ MAKEL:An AIM (Advance Intelligence Man) who died while spying and whose head was "magically" in the talons of one of the phantom birds. STAND CAPTAIN ARVAL BREENZ: The first of the Kabeezan Army to lead his troops to the Plain of Dzur. JED: Doctrex's original courier, who later got permission from him to become an AIM. KARULE BARSACH: Expert and co-inventor of the automatic crossbow, is allowed in front ranks with Doctrex. SUPREME COLONEL ARKLYN ZARBS: Commander of one of Glnot Rhuether's outposts, and Doctrex's captor. GARVIN: Medic under Supreme Colonel Arklyn Zarbs. Tries with Doctrex to minister to Jed. |
By Jay Squires
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CHARACTERS AND TERMINOLOGY FROM THE GREEN HIGHLIGHTED TEXT
GENERAL DOCTREX: Protagonist, Leader of Kabeezan Army. MEDIC BRAIMS GLASSEM: Doctrex's Chief Medic. Headstrong. SPECIAL COLONEL EELE JESSIP: He and his men are reason for Doctrex's mission to rescue them. CAMP JERRI FIBE: The Last Kabeezan outpost. Center for training & weapons. CROSSAN: Equivalent of a horse RAIN SPIRIT II: Doctrex's crossan PLAIN OF DJUR: Where All Kabeezan Armies were to reconnoiter before final attack on Glnot Rhuether. GLNOT RHUETHER: Master Magician who intends to conquer Kabeez PALACE OF QARNOLT: Where Glnot Rhuether lives with his aleged bride-to-be Axtilla, Doctrex's love. PROFUE BROTHERS: Knew Doctrex before he was General. His closest "brothers" in army. GILN PROFUE: The oldest Profue Brother (Lieutenant) SHELECK PROFUE: The youngest Profue Brother (adjutant Lieutenant) ZURN PROFUE: Adopted brother to Profues. Mentally challenged. POMNOT: A huge beast (Rhuether's expendable Killing machine) POMNOT (2ND MEANING): To Kabeezans the equivalent of the bogeyman, threats of whom parents used to use to discipline children AXTILLA: Doctrex's love, who is Rhuether's prisoner, and alegedly his bride-to-be. GOTZEL: One of the soldiers who, along with medic Braims, heard voices (Rhuether possessed.) ENGLE: Doctrex's courier after his first courier became an AIM: Advanced Intelligence Men, who were trained to do surveillance and espionage work for the Kabeezan army. LESN: One of the officers of the Kabeezan Army who, when possessed by Rhuether, performed impossible feats of strength. Committed suicide when lover, Morz, died. MORZ: former officer, Lesn's lover, died when he exploded. PHANTOM BIRDS: Gigantic "Magical" Birds that dropped fire eggs on the troops. ARZ MAKEL:An AIM (Advance Intelligence Man) who died while spying and whose head was "magically" in the talons of one of the phantom birds. STAND CAPTAIN ARVAL BREENZ: The first of the Kabeezan Army to lead his troops to the Plain of Dzur. JED: Doctrex's original courier, who later got permission from him to become and AIM. KARULE BARSACH: Expert and co-inventor of the automatic crossbow, is allowed in front ranks with Doctrex. |
By Jay Squires
Author Notes |
CHARACTERS AND TERMINOLOGY FROM THE GREEN HIGHLIGHTED TEXT
GENERAL DOCTREX: Protagonist, Leader of Kabeezan Army. MEDIC BRAIMS GLASSEM: Doctrex's Chief Medic. Headstrong. SPECIAL COLONEL EELE JESSIP: He and his men are reason for Doctrex's mission to rescue them. CAMP JERRI FIBE: The Last Kabeezan outpost. Center for training & weapons. CROSSAN: Equivalent of a horse RAIN SPIRIT II: Doctrex's crossan PLAIN OF DJUR: Where All Kabeezan Armies were to reconnoiter before final attack on Glnot Rhuether. GLNOT RHUETHER: Master Magician who intends to conquer Kabeez PALACE OF QARNOLT: Where Glnot Rhuether lives with his aleged bride-to-be Axtilla, Doctrex's love. PROFUE BROTHERS: Knew Doctrex before he was General. His closest "brothers" in army. GILN PROFUE: The oldest Profue Brother (Lieutenant) SHELECK PROFUE: The youngest Profue Brother (adjutant Lieutenant) ZURN PROFUE: Adopted brother to Profues. Mentally challenged. POMNOT: A huge beast (Rhuether's expendable Killing machine) POMNOT (2ND MEANING): To Kabeezans the equivalent of the bogeyman, threats of whom parents used to use to discipline children AXTILLA: Doctrex's love, who is Rhuether's prisoner, and alegedly his bride-to-be. GOTZEL: One of the soldiers who, along with medic Braims, heard voices (Rhuether possessed.) ENGLE: Doctrex's courier after his first courier became an AIM LESN: One of the officers of the Kabeezan Army who, when possessed by Rhuether, performed impossible feats of strength. Committed suicide when lover, Morz, died. MORZ: former officer, Lesn's lover, died when he exploded. PHANTOM BIRDS: Gigantic "Magical" Birds that dropped fire eggs on the troops. ARZ MAKEL:An AIM (Advance Intelligence Man) who died while spying and was "magically" in talons of one of the phantom birds. STAND CAPTAIN ARVAL BREENZ: The first of the Kabeezan Army to lead his troops to the Plain of Dzur. KARULE BARSACH: Expert and co-inventor of the automatic crossbow, is allowed in front ranks with Doctrex. |
By Jay Squires
Author Notes |
CHARACTERS AND TERMINOLOGY FROM THE GREEN HIGHLIGHTED TEXT
GENERAL DOCTREX: Protagonist, Leader of Kabeezan Army. MEDIC BRAIMS GLASSEM: Doctrex's Chief Medic. Headstrong. SPECIAL COLONEL EELE JESSIP: He and his men are reason for Doctrex's mission to rescue them. CAMP JERRI FIBE: The Last Kabeezan outpost. Center for training & weapons. CROSSAN: Equivalent of a horse RAIN SPIRIT II: Doctrex's crossan PLAIN OF DJUR: Where All Kabeezan Armies were to reconnoiter before final attack on Glnot Rhuether. GLNOT RHUETHER: Master Magician who intends to conquer Kabeez PALACE OF QARNOLT: Where Glnot Rhuether lives with his aleged bride-to-be Axtilla, Doctrex's love. PROFUE BROTHERS: Knew Doctrex before he was General. His closest "brothers" in army. GILN PROFUE: The oldest Profue Brother (Lieutenant) SHELECK PROFUE: The youngest Profue Brother (adjutant Lieutenant) ZURN PROFUE: Adopted brother to Profues. Mentally challenged. POMNOT: A huge beast (Rhuether's expendable Killing machine) POMNOT (2ND MEANING): To Kabeezans the equivalent of the bogeyman, threats of whom parents used to use to discipline children AXTILLA: Doctrex's love, who is Rhuether's prisoner, and alegedly his bride-to-be. GOTZEL: One of the soldiers who, along with medic Braims, heard voices (Rhuether possessed.) ENGLE: Doctrex's courier after his first courier became an AIM AIM: Advanced Intelligence Men -- specialized troops who performed surveillance and espionage for Kabeezan Military. LESN: One of the officers of the Kabeezan Army who, when possessed by Rhuether, performed impossible feats of strength. Committed suicide when lover, Morz, died. MORZ: former officer, Lesn's lover, died when he exploded. PHANTOM BIRDS: Gigantic "Magical" Birds that dropped fire eggs on the troops. ARZ MAKEL:An AIM (Advance Intelligence Man) who died while spying and was "magically" in talons of one of the phantom birds. |
By Jay Squires
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CHARACTERS AND TERMINOLOGY
GENERAL DOCTREX: Protagonist, General and Leader of Kabeezan Army. MEDIC BRAIMS GLASSEM: Doctrex's Chief Medic. Headstrong. SPECIAL COLONEL EELE JESSIP: He and his men are reason for Doctrex's mission to rescue them. CAMP JERRI FIBE: The Last Kabeezan outpost. Center for training & weapons. CROSSAN: Equivalent of a horse RAIN SPIRIT II: Doctrex's crossan PLAIN OF DJUR: Where All Kabeezan Armies were to reconnoiter before final attack on Glnot Rhuether. GLNOT RHUETHER: Master Magician who intends to conquer Kabeez PALACE OF QARNOLT: Where Glnot Rhuether lives with his aleged bride-to-be Axtilla, Doctrex's love. PROFUE BROTHERS: Knew Doctrex before he was General. His closest "brothers" in army. GILN PROFUE: The oldest Profue Brother (Lieutenant) SHELECK PROFUE: The youngest Profue Brother (adjutant Lieutenant) ZURN PROFUE: Adopted brother to Profues. Mentally challenged. POMNOT: A huge beast (Rhuether's expendable Killing machine) POMNOT (2ND MEANING): To Kabeezans the equivalent of the bogeyman, threats of whom parents used to use to discipline children AXTILLA: Doctrex's love, who is Rhuether's prisoner, and alegedly his bride-to-be. GOTZEL: One of the soldiers who, along with medic Braims, heard voices (Rhuether possessed.) ENGLE: Doctrex's courier after his first courier became an AIM: Advanced Intelligence Men, who were trained to do surveillance and espionage work for the Kabeezan army. LESN: One of the officers of the Kabeezan Army who, when possessed by Rhuether, performed impossible feats of strength. Committed suicide when lover, Morz, died. MORZ: former officer, Lesn's lover, died when he exploded. PHANTOM BIRDS: Gigantic "Magical" Birds that dropped fire eggs on the troops. ARZ MAKEL:An AIM (Advance Intelligence Man) who died while spying and whose head was "magically" in the talons of one of the phantom birds. STAND CAPTAIN ARVAL BREENZ: The first of the Kabeezan Army to lead his troops to the Plain of Dzur. JED: Doctrex's original courier, who later got permission from him to become an AIM. KARULE BARSACH: Expert and co-inventor of the automatic crossbow, is allowed in front ranks with Doctrex. SUPREME COLONEL ARKLYN ZARBS: Commander of one of Glnot Rhuether's outposts, and Doctrex's captor. GARVIN: Medic under Supreme Colonel Arklyn Zarbs. Tries with Doctrex to minister to Jed. |
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CHARACTERS AND TERMINOLOGY
GENERAL DOCTREX: Protagonist, General and Leader of Kabeezan Army. MEDIC BRAIMS GLASSEM: Doctrex's Chief Medic. Headstrong. SPECIAL COLONEL EELE JESSIP: He and his men are reason for Doctrex's mission to rescue them. CAMP JERRI FIBE: The Last Kabeezan outpost. Center for training & weapons. CROSSAN: Equivalent of a horse RAIN SPIRIT II: Doctrex's crossan PLAIN OF DJUR: Where All Kabeezan Armies were to reconnoiter before final attack on Glnot Rhuether. GLNOT RHUETHER: Master Magician who intends to conquer Kabeez PALACE OF QARNOLT: Where Glnot Rhuether lives with his aleged bride-to-be Axtilla, Doctrex's love. PROFUE BROTHERS: Knew Doctrex before he was General. His closest "brothers" in army. GILN PROFUE: The oldest Profue Brother (Lieutenant) SHELECK PROFUE: The youngest Profue Brother (adjutant Lieutenant) ZURN PROFUE: Adopted brother to Profues. Mentally challenged. POMNOT: A huge beast (Rhuether's expendable Killing machine) POMNOT (2ND MEANING): To Kabeezans the equivalent of the bogeyman, threats of whom parents used to use to discipline children AXTILLA: Doctrex's love, who is Rhuether's prisoner, and alegedly his bride-to-be. GOTZEL: One of the soldiers who, along with medic Braims, heard voices (Rhuether possessed.) ENGLE: Doctrex's courier after his first courier became an AIM: Advanced Intelligence Men, who were trained to do surveillance and espionage work for the Kabeezan army. LESN: One of the officers of the Kabeezan Army who, when possessed by Rhuether, performed impossible feats of strength. Committed suicide when lover, Morz, died. MORZ: former officer, Lesn's lover, died when he exploded. PHANTOM BIRDS: Gigantic "Magical" Birds that dropped fire eggs on the troops. ARZ MAKEL:An AIM (Advance Intelligence Man) who died while spying and whose head was "magically" in the talons of one of the phantom birds. STAND CAPTAIN ARVAL BREENZ: The first of the Kabeezan Army to lead his troops to the Plain of Dzur. JED: Doctrex's original courier, who later got permission from him to become an AIM. KARULE BARSACH: Expert and co-inventor of the automatic crossbow, is allowed in front ranks with Doctrex. SUPREME COLONEL ARKLYN ZARBS: Commander of one of Glnot Rhuether's outposts, and Doctrex's captor. GARVIN: Medic under Supreme Colonel Arklyn Zarbs. Tries with Doctrex to minister to Jed. |
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CHARACTERS AND TERMINOLOGY
GENERAL DOCTREX: Protagonist, General and Leader of Kabeezan Army. MEDIC BRAIMS GLASSEM: Doctrex's Chief Medic. Headstrong. SPECIAL COLONEL EELE JESSIP: He and his men are reason for Doctrex's mission to rescue them. CAMP JERRI FIBE: The Last Kabeezan outpost. Center for training & weapons. CROSSAN: Equivalent of a horse RAIN SPIRIT II: Doctrex's crossan PLAIN OF DJUR: Where All Kabeezan Armies were to reconnoiter before final attack on Glnot Rhuether. GLNOT RHUETHER: Master Magician who intends to conquer Kabeez PALACE OF QARNOLT: Where Glnot Rhuether lives with his aleged bride-to-be Axtilla, Doctrex's love. PROFUE BROTHERS: Knew Doctrex before he was General. His closest "brothers" in army. GILN PROFUE: The oldest Profue Brother (Lieutenant) SHELECK PROFUE: The youngest Profue Brother (adjutant Lieutenant) ZURN PROFUE: Adopted brother to Profues. Mentally challenged. POMNOT: A huge beast (Rhuether's expendable Killing machine) POMNOT (2ND MEANING): To Kabeezans the equivalent of the bogeyman, threats of whom parents used to use to discipline children AXTILLA: Doctrex's love, who is Rhuether's prisoner, and alegedly his bride-to-be. GOTZEL: One of the soldiers who, along with medic Braims, heard voices (Rhuether possessed.) ENGLE: Doctrex's courier after his first courier became an AIM: Advanced Intelligence Men, who were trained to do surveillance and espionage work for the Kabeezan army. LESN: One of the officers of the Kabeezan Army who, when possessed by Rhuether, performed impossible feats of strength. Committed suicide when lover, Morz, died. MORZ: former officer, Lesn's lover, died when he exploded. PHANTOM BIRDS: Gigantic "Magical" Birds that dropped fire eggs on the troops. ARZ MAKEL:An AIM (Advance Intelligence Man) who died while spying and whose head was "magically" in the talons of one of the phantom birds. STAND CAPTAIN ARVAL BREENZ: The first of the Kabeezan Army to lead his troops to the Plain of Dzur. JED: Doctrex's original courier, who later got permission from him to become an AIM. KARULE BARSACH: Expert and co-inventor of the automatic crossbow, is allowed in front ranks with Doctrex. SUPREME COLONEL ARKLYN ZARBS: Commander of one of Glnot Rhuether's outposts, and Doctrex's captor. GARVIN: Medic under Supreme Colonel Arklyn Zarbs. Tries with Doctrex to minister to Jed. PAPPERING: An automatic translation system occurring in this dimension. Only some words resist being translated. |
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CHARACTERS AND TERMINOLOGY
GENERAL DOCTREX: Protagonist, General and Leader of Kabeezan Army. MEDIC BRAIMS GLASSEM: Doctrex's Chief Medic. Headstrong. SPECIAL COLONEL EELE JESSIP: He and his men are reason for Doctrex's mission to rescue them. CAMP JERRI FIBE: The Last Kabeezan outpost. Center for training & weapons. CROSSAN: Equivalent of a horse RAIN SPIRIT II: Doctrex's crossan PLAIN OF DJUR: Where All Kabeezan Armies were to reconnoiter before final attack on Glnot Rhuether. GLNOT RHUETHER: Master Magician who intends to conquer Kabeez PALACE OF QARNOLT: Where Glnot Rhuether lives with his aleged bride-to-be Axtilla, Doctrex's love. PROFUE BROTHERS: Knew Doctrex before he was General. His closest "brothers" in army. GILN PROFUE: The oldest Profue Brother (Lieutenant) SHELECK PROFUE: The youngest Profue Brother (adjutant Lieutenant) ZURN PROFUE: Adopted brother to Profues. Mentally challenged. POMNOT: A huge beast (Rhuether's expendable Killing machine) POMNOT (2ND MEANING): To Kabeezans the equivalent of the bogeyman, threats of whom parents used to use to discipline children AXTILLA: Doctrex's love, who is Rhuether's prisoner, and alegedly his bride-to-be. GOTZEL: One of the soldiers who, along with medic Braims, heard voices (Rhuether possessed.) ENGLE: Doctrex's courier after his first courier became an AIM: Advanced Intelligence Men, who were trained to do surveillance and espionage work for the Kabeezan army. LESN: One of the officers of the Kabeezan Army who, when possessed by Rhuether, performed impossible feats of strength. Committed suicide when lover, Morz, died. MORZ: former officer, Lesn's lover, died when he exploded. PHANTOM BIRDS: Gigantic "Magical" Birds that dropped fire eggs on the troops. ARZ MAKEL:An AIM (Advance Intelligence Man) who died while spying and whose head was "magically" in the talons of one of the phantom birds. STAND CAPTAIN ARVAL BREENZ: The first of the Kabeezan Army to lead his troops to the Plain of Dzur. JED: Doctrex's original courier, who later got permission from him to become an AIM. KARULE BARSACH: Expert and co-inventor of the automatic crossbow, is allowed in front ranks with Doctrex. EREL FOZZEN: The torchbearer of the ambushed troops, later tortured died a hero. SUPREME COLONEL ARKLYN ZARBS: Commander of one of Glnot Rhuether's outposts, and Doctrex's captor. GARVIN: Medic under Supreme Colonel Arklyn Zarbs. Tries with Doctrex to minister to Jed. PAPPERING: An automatic translation system occurring in this dimension. Only some words resist being translated. |
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CHARACTERS AND TERMINOLOGY
GENERAL DOCTREX: Protagonist, General and Leader of Kabeezan Army. MEDIC BRAIMS GLASSEM: Doctrex's Chief Medic. Headstrong. SPECIAL COLONEL EELE JESSIP: He and his men are reason for Doctrex's mission to rescue them. CAMP JERRI FIBE: The Last Kabeezan outpost. Center for training & weapons. CROSSAN: Equivalent of a horse RAIN SPIRIT II: Doctrex's crossan PLAIN OF DJUR: Where All Kabeezan Armies were to reconnoiter before final attack on Glnot Rhuether. GLNOT RHUETHER: Master Magician who intends to conquer Kabeez PALACE OF QARNOLT: Where Glnot Rhuether lives with his aleged bride-to-be Axtilla, who is Doctrex's love. PROFUE BROTHERS: Knew Doctrex before he was General. His closest "brothers" in army. GILN PROFUE: The oldest Profue Brother (Lieutenant) SHELECK PROFUE: The youngest Profue Brother (adjutant Lieutenant) ZURN PROFUE: Adopted brother to Profues. Mentally challenged. POMNOT: A huge beast (Rhuether's expendable Killing machine) POMNOT (2ND MEANING): To Kabeezans the equivalent of the bogeyman, threats of whom parents used to use to discipline children AXTILLA: Doctrex's love, who is Rhuether's prisoner, and alegedly his bride-to-be. GOTZEL: One of the soldiers who, along with medic Braims, heard voices (Rhuether possessed.) ENGLE: Doctrex's courier after his first courier became an AIM: Advanced Intelligence Men, who were trained to do surveillance and espionage work for the Kabeezan army. LESN: One of the officers of the Kabeezan Army who, when possessed by Rhuether, performed impossible feats of strength. Committed suicide when lover, Morz, died. MORZ: former officer, Lesn's lover, died when he exploded. PHANTOM BIRDS: Gigantic "Magical" Birds that dropped fire eggs on the troops. ARZ MAKEL:An AIM (Advance Intelligence Man) who died while spying and whose head was "magically" in the talons of one of the phantom birds. STAND CAPTAIN ARVAL BREENZ: The first of the Kabeezan Army to lead his troops to the Plain of Dzur. JED: Doctrex's original courier, who later got permission from him to become an AIM. KARULE BARSACH: Expert and co-inventor of the automatic crossbow, is allowed in front ranks with Doctrex. EREL FOZZEN: The torchbearer of the ambushed troops, later tortured died a hero. SUPREME COLONEL ARKLYN ZARBS: Commander of one of Glnot Rhuether's outposts, and Doctrex's captor. GARVIN: Medic under Supreme Colonel Arklyn Zarbs. Tries with Doctrex to minister to Jed. PAPPERING: An automatic translation system occurring in this dimension. Only some words resist being translated. |
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[LISTED ONLY AS PRESENTED] AXTILLA: THUMBNAIL: PROTAGONIST, BANISHED BY HER PEOPLE TO THE CAVES BY THE KYREAN SEA, WHERE SHE FINDS DOCTREX. In the opening of the book, she finds him unconscious on the shore of the Kyrean Sea. She is convinced he is Pondria. Already she has been banished by her people, the Kyreans, for publicly warning them to beware of the insidious deceit of Pondria (the brother of Rhuether), who would come among them with honeyed words, but destructive intentions. The god of Axtilla is the great Kyre. Axtilla had been the only keeper of the sacred Tablets of Kyre, instructed by her father (at that time the leader of the backsliding Kyrean people) to commit the tablets to memory. Once accomplished, she develops the ability to communicate with Kyre through her dreams. So now she makes a pact with Doctrex to fulfill the Kyrean Prophesy by defeating Glnot Rhuether together. She gets separated from Doctrex and, alone, she finds her way to the palace of Rhuether. She is captured, but later Rhuether announces she is to be his bride and empress. DOCTREX: THUMBNAIL: PROTAGONIST, GENERAL OF THE KABEEZAN ARMY, IN LOVE WITH AXTILLA. At the beginning of the book, Axtilla discovers him on the Kyrean shore, unconscious, near death from a wound on his side. She heals him, over time, in her cave. He has no memory. She is convinced he is Pondria, brother of Glnot Rhuether, returned from the sea to fulfill the prophesy of Kyre, and bring about the dreaded Trining. Later, when Axtilla gets bitten by a viper and is near death, Doctrex carves an X in the bite and sucks out the venom. At the moment he is sure she is dying, she wakes from her coma. He is astounded to see her wound is healed. For what he tried to do, she humorously names him Doctor X. He combines the syllables and is known thereafter as Doctrex. She comes to fear him less, and it seems she has feelings for him. They bond together to face and destroy Rhuether, thus fulfilling prophecy. But they get separated. Axtilla goes on alone to the Palace, is captured, then is purported to have become engaged to Rhuether. Meanwhile, Doctrex joins the Kabeezan Military who are travelling to the Far Northern Province to battle the forces of Rhuether. Ultimately is captured and turned over to Rhuether at the Palace of Qarnolt. GLNOT RHUETHER: THUMBNAIL: ANTAGONIST, EMPEROR OF THE FAR NORTHERN PROVINCE WHOSE AMBITION IS RULE OF ALL THE PROVINCES. According to the Tablets of Kyre Glnot Rhuether will bring about the prophecy of the Trining, the destruction of the Kyrean Civilization. The only event that will prevent the Trining will be the destruction of Rhuether at the hands of Axtilla and the brother of Rhuether, Pondria. Rhuether, though, claims Axtilla has agreed to be his wife and empress and the wedding is forthcoming. Doctrex, (who Axtilla believes is Pondria), is on a quest to join with Axtilla to bring about the destruction of Rhuether. ALMIGHTY MASTER: The name by which the subjects of Glnot Rhuether refer to him. To call him by any other name would be considered disrespectful and subject to severe punishment. PALACE OF QARNOLT: The residence of Glnot Rhuether, the focus of the Kabeezan Army attack against Rhuether. It is also where Doctrex is prisoner. |
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[LISTED ONLY AS PRESENTED] AXTILLA: THUMBNAIL: PROTAGONIST, BANISHED BY HER PEOPLE TO THE CAVES BY THE KYREAN SEA, WHERE SHE FINDS DOCTREX. In the opening of the book, she finds him unconscious on the shore of the Kyrean Sea. She is convinced he is Pondria. Already she has been banished by her people, the Kyreans, for publicly warning them to beware of the insidious deceit of Pondria (the brother of Rhuether), who would come among them with honeyed words, but destructive intentions. The god of Axtilla is the great Kyre. Axtilla had been the only keeper of the sacred Tablets of Kyre, instructed by her father (at that time the leader of the backsliding Kyrean people) to commit the tablets to memory. Once accomplished, she develops the ability to communicate with Kyre through her dreams. So now she makes a pact with Doctrex to fulfill the Kyrean Prophesy by defeating Glnot Rhuether together. She gets separated from Doctrex and, alone, she finds her way to the palace of Rhuether. She is captured, but later Rhuether announces she is to be his bride and empress. DOCTREX: THUMBNAIL: PROTAGONIST, GENERAL OF THE KABEEZAN ARMY, IN LOVE WITH AXTILLA. At the beginning of the book, Axtilla discovers him on the Kyrean shore, unconscious, near death from a wound on his side. She heals him, over time, in her cave. He has no memory. She is convinced he is Pondria, brother of Glnot Rhuether, returned from the sea to fulfill the prophesy of Kyre, and bring about the dreaded Trining. Later, when Axtilla gets bitten by a viper and is near death, Doctrex carves an X in the bite and sucks out the venom. At the moment he is sure she is dying, she wakes from her coma. He is astounded to see her wound is healed. For what he tried to do, she humorously names him Doctor X. He combines the syllables and is known thereafter as Doctrex. She comes to fear him less, and it seems she has feelings for him. They bond together to face and destroy Rhuether, thus fulfilling prophecy. But they get separated. Axtilla goes on alone to the Palace, is captured, then is purported to have become engaged to Rhuether. Meanwhile, Doctrex joins the Kabeezan Military who are travelling to the Far Northern Province to battle the forces of Rhuether. Ultimately is captured and turned over to Rhuether at the Palace of Qarnolt. GLNOT RHUETHER: THUMBNAIL: ANTAGONIST, EMPEROR OF THE FAR NORTHERN PROVINCE WHOSE AMBITION IS RULE OF ALL THE PROVINCES. According to the Tablets of Kyre Glnot Rhuether will bring about the prophecy of the Trining, the destruction of the Kyrean Civilization. The only event that will prevent the Trining will be the destruction of Rhuether at the hands of Axtilla and the brother of Rhuether, Pondria. Rhuether, though, claims Axtilla has agreed to be his wife and empress and the wedding is forthcoming. Doctrex, (who Axtilla believes is Pondria), is on a quest to join with Axtilla to bring about the destruction of Rhuether. ALMIGHTY MASTER: The name by which the subjects of Glnot Rhuether refer to him. To call him by any other name would be considered disrespectful and subject to severe punishment. PALACE OF QARNOLT: The residence of Glnot Rhuether, the focus of the Kabeezan Army attack against Rhuether. It is also where Doctrex is prisoner. SUPREME COLONEL ARKLAN ZARBS: The one-time cruel officer for Glnot Rhuether, later the frightened, bungling pawn of Doctrex, he was the one whose soldiers had captured Doctrex and later turned him over to Rheuther. |
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[LISTED ONLY AS PRESENTED] AXTILLA: THUMBNAIL: PROTAGONIST, BANISHED BY HER PEOPLE TO THE CAVES BY THE KYREAN SEA, WHERE SHE FINDS DOCTREX. In the opening of the book, she finds him unconscious on the shore of the Kyrean Sea. She is convinced he is Pondria. Already she has been banished by her people, the Kyreans, for publicly warning them to beware of the insidious deceit of Pondria (the brother of Rhuether), who would come among them with honeyed words, but destructive intentions. The god of Axtilla is the great Kyre. Axtilla had been the only keeper of the sacred Tablets of Kyre, instructed by her father (at that time the leader of the backsliding Kyrean people) to commit the tablets to memory. Once accomplished, she develops the ability to communicate with Kyre through her dreams. So now she makes a pact with Doctrex to fulfill the Kyrean Prophesy by defeating Glnot Rhuether together. She gets separated from Doctrex and, alone, she finds her way to the palace of Rhuether. She is captured, but later Rhuether announces she is to be his bride and empress. DOCTREX: THUMBNAIL: PROTAGONIST, GENERAL OF THE KABEEZAN ARMY, IN LOVE WITH AXTILLA. At the beginning of the book, Axtilla discovers him on the Kyrean shore, unconscious, near death from a wound on his side. She heals him, over time, in her cave. He has no memory. She is convinced he is Pondria, brother of Glnot Rhuether, returned from the sea to fulfill the prophesy of Kyre, and bring about the dreaded Trining. Later, when Axtilla gets bitten by a viper and is near death, Doctrex carves an X in the bite and sucks out the venom. At the moment he is sure she is dying, she wakes from her coma. He is astounded to see her wound is healed. For what he tried to do, she humorously names him Doctor X. He combines the syllables and is known thereafter as Doctrex. She comes to fear him less, and it seems she has feelings for him. They bond together to face and destroy Rhuether, thus fulfilling prophecy. But they get separated. Axtilla goes on alone to the Palace, is captured, then is purported to have become engaged to Rhuether. Meanwhile, Doctrex joins the Kabeezan Military who are travelling to the Far Northern Province to battle the forces of Rhuether. Ultimately is captured and turned over to Rhuether at the Palace of Qarnolt. GLNOT RHUETHER: THUMBNAIL: ANTAGONIST, EMPEROR OF THE FAR NORTHERN PROVINCE WHOSE AMBITION IS RULE OF ALL THE PROVINCES. According to the Tablets of Kyre Glnot Rhuether will bring about the prophecy of the Trining, the destruction of the Kyrean Civilization. The only event that will prevent the Trining will be the destruction of Rhuether at the hands of Axtilla and the brother of Rhuether, Pondria. Rhuether, though, claims Axtilla has agreed to be his wife and empress and the wedding is forthcoming. Doctrex, (who Axtilla believes is Pondria), is on a quest to join with Axtilla to bring about the destruction of Rhuether. ALMIGHTY MASTER: The name by which the subjects of Glnot Rhuether refer to him. To call him by any other name would be considered disrespectful and subject to severe punishment. PALACE OF QARNOLT: The residence of Glnot Rhuether, the focus of the Kabeezan Army attack against Rhuether. It is also where Doctrex is prisoner. SUPREME COLONEL ARKLAN ZARBS: The one-time cruel officer for Glnot Rhuether, later the frightened, bungling pawn of Doctrex, he was the one whose soldiers had captured Doctrex and later turned him over to Rheuther. |
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I'm fully aware of this chapter's length. There was no place I could find to cut it off sooner. I see it's only seventy-nine paragraphs long, though, and some paragraphs are only one sentence long. Now ... does that makes it seem shorter?
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BOOK III
Chapter Thirty-Nine
(The first part)
SUMMARY OF THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER: With his men's failure to kill Pondria, Rhuether resorts to physical magic, and though its use opens the wound in his side, he has the terrible white serpent descend from the ceiling and return with Pondria wrapped in its coils. After a few bouts of near drowning, Pondria is raised to the surface where he discovers the god Kyre in the form of a bird, bobbing on the waves. Kyre enjoys viewing it all as a play, with him acting as director. Now the third act is beginning, and it appears Pondria won't be around to watch his brother being invaded by an invisible force ….
It was obvious, not a cell of Rhuether’s body had escaped the unwanted invasion. The lower orbs of his silver irises twitched under his upper lids and the whites were stretched to their limit in a sightless gaping. His palms, one crimson from having covered his wound, now clamped over his ears, and that left the blood to pulse unabated from his side.
“Mama-a-a—I didn’t want—Oh, please don’t! It wasn’t fair-r-r-r ….” His final word dissolved into an open-mouthed gasping for air, and his entire body was wracked in a fit of vibration.
Now you must go, Pondria. I’d hoped you’d be able to see the play’s conclusion. I think you just might have enjoyed the third act. Ah, well … Au revoir!
As though I had been given the final and irrevocable cue from the play’s director, my foothold withdrew. Drawing in my last gulp of air, I slipped under and down through the fetid flesh-folds with no less a feeling of finality than did Viktor Brueen the moment his—the moment my—fingers loosed from the rope of the bridge and I began my fraction-of-a-second descent.
Then, I had chosen the manner with which I would meet death. It was a final dignity I'd allowed myself. I achieved it by attempting to execute a back one-and-a-half, with nothing to judge its success but the boulders below.
Suicide honors that final autonomy.
Now, I was given no choice. At once sucked down through the timeless, digestive chatter produced by layer upon layer of coils, I kept my focus on the only asset left me—my held breath.
As General Doctrex, during a number of those uneventful nights in my tent, I practiced holding my breath, timing it in my head, reasoning the development of increased lung capacity might come in handy, yet never imagining how.
Now, I had my answer.
Three-minutes and twenty seconds was the limit I had grown to back then, and I had learned to recognize several benchmarks along the way to achieving it. Ninety seconds into it, I felt a vague malaise, perhaps the body’s pre-warning system. At about two minutes, ten seconds, I started becoming lightheaded, and there were sparkles of light at my right and left peripheries. Now, at this moment, and in this darkness, the sparkles were a full-blown firework show, filling my entire field of vision.
I sensed I had a little over a minute before …
My descent was jerked to a stop by an abrupt constriction at some unseen center that settled its pressure just beneath my rib cage. At the same moment, the bottom fell away, and my hips and legs dangled in space. My arms hung free. I dug my fingers into the flesh that constrained me. It was surprisingly pliant.
My lips were numbing. The final benchmark of my experiment there in the tent, before my breath had exploded from my lungs.
My fingers found the softer under-flesh of the coil. The skin crawled away from my fingers, and its grip around my waist loosened. A residue of thought—more an observation—the serpent is ticklish!
Just as my lungs whooshed out.
At some far corner of my awareness, I found myself rolling to my side in some vast vacuum, dragging fistfuls of what could only be the serpent's flesh with me into my roll. Within darkness I opened my eyes.
What? Where?
I discovered, clutched in my hands, wads of blue blanket from the tangle that wrapped me in an untidy bundle. Where was I? I was not in my room. This was not the palace. My eyes roved only that space they could take in without moving my head. Too much had happened not to be wary. Walls fashioned of split wood, pitched to keep in the warmth. It seemed so familiar. Two walls intersected at the corner, the left wall held the heavy door, the metal latch hanging to the floor. Unlocked. Good, if I need to I can make a dash for it later. The wall to the right had a small window cut from it, and white curtains were sashed at either side by a blue cord.
Behind me, metal clanged against metal, then stopped. Then scraped and stopped. Don't look. I released my grip on the sheet and sent my hand to my side as stealthily as I could, feeling for a dagger, then realizing at the same time its folly. The slosh, as of water in a container, followed, then its flow as it was poured out.
"Are you awake?"
I drew in a sharp breath. No! No! My heart thrummed in my throat.
"I'd have woke you earlier, but oh! you were having night terrors as you never had before!"
This couldn't be. Is it another of Kyre's cruel enactments—part of the play after all? Or did he mean I'd miss the play because I would be acting in it? I closed my eyes, refusing to turn, to acknowledge the voice—that voice—that sweet voice, the voice whose owner I'd have given my life to embrace! Wave after wave of the most profound sadness enveloped me, and then, without turning, I discovered myself overcome by spasms of sobs.
Fingers pressed into my shoulders and a warm heaviness fell across my upper body. Hot puffs of breath against my ear. "Darling … Doctrex … you're frightening me. Please."
"G-go away," I managed to free from my sobs. "Fly away."
"Go away! Look at me, Darling, please. What do you mean?"
Hands tugged at my shoulders, rolling me to my back, then the other side. I saw a face, shattered by light and wet lenses. I ran my hand across my eyes. She came into focus. "No! I can't do this. You took her away from me once, Kyre, then you teased me just today with her—her—her—with a breath of her—of someone passing me—and now this! Go, just go!"
This ghost, this … whatever it was that Kyre produced for his pleasure and my agony was manufacturing tears now. But it was Kyre, only Kyre, and he ran a hand through his hair, his eyes glazed, and tears followed the contour of his nose to his lips.
"Don't do this to me, Darling. Was it your night terrors? That's what it was, wasn't it?" He removed a strand of hair that had trailed across his tear-dampened mouth. "Why are you say-saying this about Kyre, Doctrex? Kyre never took me from you. Why? How could he? We're here. We've been here."
I remembered the simulacrum of the jelly-bean-popping Viktor Brueen that Kyre had manufactured during my grief in finding Axtilla's cold, dead body—how real he'd made him.
I sat, and slid to the edge of the bed. "I know how you work now, Kyre. Nothing is too sacred for your damned play, is it? Turn back into your bird-self and fly away from—from wherever you brought me."
Kyre lunged toward me and threw his arms around me, his wet cheek against mine. "Please, Doctrex, I'm me, I'm your Axtilla. " He squeezed me more tightly to his body, jerking frantically with his sobs.
"You bastard! You killed the only Axtilla I'll ever, I'll ever—"
"Doctrex, look at me." Kyre pulled back from my face. "Look at me, Darling. I don't know what happened in your night terror. I should have woke you earlier—I know you're still possessed by it. But how can I be anything but what I am?" He released a sudden gurgly laugh that came from the same place as his tears." I'm not the same Axtilla. Of course I'm not. I'm not tough like I was back there." Kyre put a slim finger across my lips. "No, listen, Darling. I'm not the same because you, and our life here, made me different. But you're not the same Doctrex, either, now that you have calluses on your hands and plow-dirt under your nails. Look at us. We're both different."
Kyre ran his fingertips over the cushioned part of my palm. It was tough and ridged, not yielding to his touch. "Are these the hands of General Doctrex? Or of Pondria?"
"I left Axtilla dead," I said, flatly.
"Dead? Dead! How could you have left me dead. Where? Left me where dead?"
"On her bed, damn you! On her bed!"
"On my bed? Oh, my darling Doctrex, the last bed I was on was your bed. I hardly think I was dead there." Kyre smiled the same taunting smile Axtilla had used, there on my palace bed.
"No, no, no, Kyre, don't play that game with me!" I tried to keep the desperate pleading from my voice; my eyes were filling again. "Don't you dare do that! After she left, I followed her back to her room, just the way you had it planned. She was there where you had either convinced her of her …" my throat let out a groan, "…of her high duty. Or more likely you forced the poison down her throat."
Kyre pulled back and seemed to be studying my face. "Now I know it was the night terrors. Don't you see, Darling? There is no way you could have followed me back to my room."
"And yet I did, Kyre," I said, emphasizing his name.
"No. No," he said with forced patience. "We escaped the palace just like I begged you to do. Has your night terrors wiped that clean from your mind? I know you struggled against going. I used every argument I could think of, but you were honorable, and you had your troops. It was only because I thought so completely that your honor had won out, that I left you in your room. But escaping was the right thing for us to do. It was. Deep inside, you knew it was the right thing, didn't you, Darling? Our right for happiness—that was even greater than your honor. When you caught up with me in the hall, oh, I was so joyous I thought my heart would burst through my gown. Love had won out!"
I stared at the one Kyre had fashioned. He hadn't quite mastered the beauty of the original. He made her only slightly flawed. He made her with crows-feet, tiny though they were, on the outsides of her eyes. Her smile lines were carved too deep, the skin of her cheeks a bit more porous, and her hair, cut now in a more rustic fashion than in the palace, he'd woven a few strands of gray in the midst of the brown.
"Can you honestly say you've regretted one moment of our life here?" Kyre challenged me. "Can you, my Doctrex?" He chuckled. "Remember how frustrated you were in the beginning, telling me you would never be as good a farmer as Klasco? But after seven years of working the soil, planting and harvesting …"
Seven! Seven years! I found myself staring past him, rubbing my calluses. I looked at my hands, the backs, the palms. My nails were chipped and dirty. I had a scab on my right index finger and one on my wrist. My work as General Doctrex had been more cerebral in nature. It hadn't been three days earlier when I'd bathed and had my nails clipped in preparation for the marriage ceremony. And the barber had given me—I reached my hand to my shaggy hair hanging over my ears—Damn! A haircut ….
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