Henderbell — Magic & creatures

Time between the worlds

Magic & creatures

Also known as time, the river of time

• SN · 10“Think of time as a river. Each branch flows at a different speed, but they all flow to the sea.” Three days in Henderbell were a few hours in Dorthcester.
• SN · 10Navigating time is like sailing: to reach a moment, you must know the sea. The Griffins kept it secret.
• SN · 23No going back in time: opening the tree lands you wherever time stands in the other realm.
• SN · 23On Christmas three stars align and both worlds flow together for twenty-four hours.

Griffin magic

Magic & creatures

Also known as royal magic

• SN · 21Can’t be wielded without the amplifier, unlike elven magic.
• SN · 22Mary snaps for knights and shapes antlers with her hands.
• SN · 24Heals.
• SN · 26Magic “lives in this world” too: “It’s in your blood.”

Blood Impartation

Magic & creatures

• SN · 23Once united with a Griffin in blood, magic is transferred. Mary received it; Oden never knew.

The Griffin curse

Magic & creatures

Also known as the curse

• SN · 4Molock: “You are cursed.”
• SN · 23Born when Elleanor poisoned Oden. Both regent rulers must be on their thrones when the worlds align, or destruction strikes both.
• SN · 23“In order to keep our hearts in check, our family was also cursed.”

Elven magic

Magic & creatures

• SN · 7Doopar travels as snow and carries others.
• SN · 12Spheres of light; Loomstak’s give heat.
• SN · 8Forbidden inside Ghenthar.

Nightmare magic

Magic & creatures

Also known as nightmares

• WD · 4Vaneeries entered the dreams of Ghenthar, cursed the dreamers to die if they spoke, and tortured them until he appeared as their savior.

Soul Drainers

Magic & creatures

Also known as Soul Drainer

• SN · 12Servants of the Shadow Spirits: human-like skeletons clinging with embers, orange streaks glowing like lava, horns, round white eyes, curved brown toenails. Each carries a chain that becomes a snake.
• SN · 12Extinct for hundreds of years until the Shadow Spirits returned. Despise elves and use them as hosts.
• SN · 17Use half-living hosts’ memories to get where they need to go.
• SN · 23Need a master; powerless when he dies.
• SN · 12Give off a pungent smell; long arms let them leap onto and cling to walls.
• SN · 12Their chain-snake has scarlet eyes and a forked tongue.
• SN · 12Stabbed with Sacred Tears, one bursts into countless scarlet threads that fade away.
• SN · 21Their hosts can be dead elves: walking, wounded corpses in broken armor that give off a putrid stench.

Neomers

Magic & creatures

• SN · 7What Enzo calls fairies: tiny humans with patterned brown moth wings and smooth, featureless faces.

Mosfish

Magic & creatures

• SN · 8Flying fish with fly wings and lizard snouts that snap at mosquitoes over the moat. Older than any conscious being.

Blue horses

Magic & creatures

• SN · 8Pull Ghenthar’s carriages, shedding golden sparks.
• SN · 24Horthur’s horse sheds glowing firefly-like particles.

Creatures of the forest

Magic & creatures

Also known as two-headed owl, horned bears, winged squirrels

• SN · 7A black two-headed owl; purple birds with scarlet frills and white eyes trailing light; horned bears; winged squirrels.

Endybird

Magic & creatures

• SN · 12A bird served at the castle. Tastes like chicken.

Cardania

Magic & creatures

Also known as cardania tree

• SN · 16A tree with branches like tied roots and round blue fruit with yellow juice. Ishmael’s mother baked cardania cake at Christmas.

Sealing

Magic & creatures

• SN · 21To use their magic, a Griffin must agree to be bound to it, with a ruler’s burden. Whoever they marry carries the same weight.