Henderbell — Peoples

Henderbellians

Peoples & powers

Also known as humans, Ghentharians

• SN · 8Beings “with a developed conscience,” able to rule over land, water, fire and earth.
• SN · 8Ghentharians wear long dresses, coats and eccentric hats; one hat is shaped like a winged cat.
• SN · 13Placed in Henderbell to protect Albernaith.
• SN · 24Many thought the rulers’ disappearance was a rumor.
• SN · 8The woman in the winged-cat hat wears a teacup-round orange dress and gloves textured like cat hair.
• SNKnown in the books: Julius Rose, Horthur, Kormak, Tennar, Barthemeus, Edwin Bartowmell, Anwen Meelar, Claudius the Fallen.
• WDAlso in the books: King Wenaldween.

Elves

Peoples & powers

Also known as elven, elf

• SN · 7Pointed ears and purple eyes; hair blond, silver or white. Age far slower than humans; the fastest beings in Henderbell.
• SN · 7Native to Lestee; brought across the sea as slaves because they could work for centuries. Later freed by law.
• SN · 8Forbidden to use magic inside Ghenthar. Once allowed to live only on the outskirts.
• SN · 8Tradition keeps elven women at home: “Little elven girls aren’t encouraged to dream, only to live.”
• SN · 9Forbidden by law to love whom they choose, and to enter the Prison of Krishmar.
• SN · 17Molock: “Your people will go extinct.”
• SN · 8Walk regally, heads high; most wear dark cloaks reaching their ankles.
• SNKnown in the books: Doopar, Loomstak, Delier.

The Meoner

Peoples & powers

Also known as Meoner

• SN · 13A rich, powerful people of Lestee led by Vaneeries. In one telling they came to conquer; in the elves’ scroll they fled a magic too dark to keep.
• SN · 21Left “sons, daughters, husbands, and wives behind” meaning to bring them over.
• WD · 4Freed the elves of Hellyhim. Burned at the stake on Christmas: the strong became Specters, the weak Shadow Spirits, and most lost themselves in the Dark Beyond.

Shadow Spirits

Peoples & powers

Also known as Shadow Spirit, the creatures

• SN · 5Tall, eyeless, lips stretched in a long line up the face, crowns of thorn-covered vines, rusty breastplates, tattered black pants. Breath that smells of decay.
• SN · 5Swallow people in a living cloud from a glowing globe.
• SN · 13“Spirits that are neither living nor dead.” Imprisoned first in a crypt beneath the castle.
• SN · 17Form out of sand that pours from the Krishmarian sigil.
• SN · 18Climb trees like apes and swim.
• SN · 20Killed by blades of Sacred Tears.
• SN · 5Have jagged yellow teeth; the one by the tree has a scar running across its nose toward its forehead.
• SN · 17Taller than a man, they wheeze and stand stooped forward; branches grow from their heads to form the thorn crown.

Specters

Peoples & powers

Also known as Specter

• SN · 21Each is given a task and a hive of Shadow Spirits to run, since “their consciences aren’t as developed as ours.”
• SN · 23When a Specter dies, its servants fall powerless.
• WD · 4The strong among the burned Meoner.
• SNKnown in the books: Vaneeries Trudant, Molock.

Fire Knights

Peoples & powers

Also known as Fire Soldiers

• SN · 11Beings of flame who take the shape of golden-armored knights with pale faces and sunset eyes.
• SN · 22Summoned from the castle dungeons to march on Krishmar.
• SN · 24Turn on the Henderbellian army in columns of fire.
• WD · 2In Henderbell before the Lesteenians; served Claudius, then the Griffins.
• SN · 22The sigil of Henderbell appears on their breastplates; their golden armor is polished enough to reflect faces.
• SNKnown in the books: Mandeerun, Ashtolia.

The Krishmarians

Peoples & powers

Also known as Krishmarians

• SN · 17Rebels loyal to Claudius who raided villages under Oden and called themselves vessels for blood magic.
• SN · 17Found dead inside and around their hideaway with their hearts cut out; their magic had kept the place invisible.
• SN · 17Their sigil is the skull crowned with thorns.

Rainsakens

Peoples & powers

• SN · 8Barthemeus’ name for the folk of Lestee who “cross the Crystal Sea and think they own the place.”

The Quentin

Peoples & powers

Also known as Quentin

• WD · 4The elves’ captors in Hellyhim; the Meoner burned them.

Castle guards

Peoples & powers

Also known as human guards, soldiers

• SN · 8Guards at the castle's iron gate wear helmets shaped like elk heads and carry spears.
• SN · 8One guard has a scar from the tip of his nose to the corner of his right eye.
• SN · 9The human guards inside the castle wear silver helmets that hide their faces.

Griffins

Peoples & powers

Also known as Griffin line, the Griffin family

• SNTheir power: Griffin magic. Their burden: The Griffin curse.
• SNKnown in the books: Enzo Griffin, Ava Griffin, King Nicholas Griffin, Queen Mary Griffin, Bane Griffin, Evelyn Griffin, King Oden Griffin, Elleanor, Valk, Qerth, Nora, Kymern and Torm, Ishmael Bartowmell.

Gods and guardians

Peoples & powers

Also known as gods, guardians

• SNKnown in the books: Kurah, Hambeon.
• WDAlso in the books: Othar.