The Whispers of the Fallen — Lore
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Elysium
Realm
- IThe world of men, made by the Creator after Lucifer's fall once the waters were parted from the land.
- IThe Creator fashioned the first men and women here and taught them for years.
- IA week before the story begins the sun vanishes behind cloud and snow falls in summer.
- IIThe clouds finally part at the end of Rebellion and the sun rises.
- IIILucifer, made whole, proclaims himself its lord.
- IVLucifer claims Elysium has already fallen into his hands.
- ISee also: The Creator, Tristar, Lucifer, The fall of Lucifer.
Tristar
Realm
- IThe immortal kingdom of the Creator and the Stars, older than men, lying in the Fourth Dimension.
- IReformed after Lucifer's failed attack, because evil had seeped into it.
- IJusticia is its one region open to living humans; the Heart of Tristar lies at its centre.
- IThe Fallen claim a traitor hides inside it.
- IIThose who die knowing the truth go there, 'Home'.
- IIILucifer says the battle for Tristar is yet to unfold.
- IVLucifer plans to strike it through the Hathar borderline.
- ISee also: The Creator, Stars, Justicia, The Fourth Dimension.
The Fourth Dimension
Realm
- IThe immortal dimension holding Tristar, the Prison of Despair and, once, Justicia.
- ILiving mortals reach it only by crossing borderlines.
- ITime runs differently there; a long ordeal can pass in no time at all in Elysium.
- IIts Gates were guarded by the Council and now lie open.
- IVLucifer calls it the dimension of immortals and means to strike at its heart.
- ISee also: Borderlines, Gates of the Fourth Dimension, Tristar, Justicia, Prison of Despair.
Wastelands of Tristar
Realm
Also known as the Wasteland Desert
- IA desert between Tristar and the Abyss, with red sand and a scarlet sky, where Lucifer's body slept.
- ILucifer and his followers plotted here; the Creator hid Lucifer's sleeping body here.
- ISouls cast out by the Soul Exchange linger here; Isaac and Demetre wander it and return.
- IIMinutes there are like days; it holds sleeping spirits of the dead.
- IIIThere is no hunger or sleep in it.
- IVXavier says the souls of Adara, Ballard and Petra wander here, lost.
- ISee also: Lucifer, Soul Exchange, Dark Exchange, Tristar, The Abyss.
The Abyss
Realm
- IThe darkest place, where Lucifer and his followers were cast, home to beasts that bent to his will.
- IHome to the serpents that became Lessers, to Capios, and to the Fallen Stars' bodiless spirits.
- IThe Prison of Despair stands near its entrance.
- IIShape-shifters and other horrors come from it.
- IIIDesert dragons, Meehzars and Dolus are its creatures; a Fallen army marches in its caverns.
- IVContains the Forgotten Chasm; Leethan once entered it to steal the Diary.
- ISee also: Lucifer, Fallen Stars, Capios, Prison of Despair.
Heart of Elysium
Realm
- IA secret realm beneath the centre of the world, reached by a tunnel from Madbouseux, where the blood-drinkers were exiled.
- IIt reads the strongest heart present and shapes its landscape to that heart's desire.
- ISnake pits hold the Lessers; blood-drinkers sleep beneath a dead oak on ash slopes.
- IIIIt lies neither in surface Elysium nor in the Fourth Dimension; the Shadows' spirits are imprisoned there.
- IIIMortals carrying books die there and dragon-tamers turn to ash; only Demetre could enter.
- IVMore blood-drinkers still sleep there.
- ISee also: Ruins of Madbouseux, Blood-drinkers, Shadows, Demetre Aliward, Lessers.
Stars
Being
- IThe Creator's servants and the caretakers of Tristar, answering to the Higher Stars.
- IThey have wings; in the war vision they wear silver armour.
- IThe Stars built the invisible wall after Lucifer's fall.
- IIThey wrote the Song of Hope before Lucifer fell; Stars punished Madbouseux.
- IVIn dire need they can unleash the Dying Star.
- ISee also: Higher Stars, Fallen Stars, Tristar, Raziel.
- IKnown in the books: Leethan, Raziel, Eldon.
- IIIAlso in the books: Dulliam, Eethan.
Higher Stars
Being
- IThe highest rank of Stars below Lucifer; six once served the Creator.
- IThree Higher Stars joined Lucifer's rebellion; Leethan is named as one who stayed.
- IILeethan bears four wings.
- IIIThe three who fell became the Fallen Rulers; Leethan, Dulliam and Eethan remain.
- ISee also: Leethan, Fallen Rulers, Stars.
Fallen Stars
Being
Also known as the Fallen
- IThe Stars cast into the Abyss with Lucifer, who return to Elysium in borrowed or regained bodies.
- IWounds heal and even beheading cannot end them; they take human hosts.
- IThey lay with human women and fathered the Nephilins, then killed the mothers on Lucifer's order.
- IThey control Shadows and send Whispering Lights.
- IIIThey answer to the Fallen Rulers; given bodies through the Soul Exchange on Agalmath's villagers.
- IVIron through heart or skull sends them to the Prison of Immortals; some regained bodies through the white light.
- ISee also: Lucifer, Fallen Rulers, Nephilin, Soul Exchange, Iron and the immortal death, The Abyss.
- IKnown in the books: Lucifer, Xavier, Mordred, Corbin, Cyro, Erebos, Azael.
- IIIAlso in the books: Bellyon, Daedeen, Leezak, Oriah, Melchem.
Nephilin
Being
- IThe children of Fallen Stars and human women; 'Nephilins' is the plural used in the books.
- IAgeless and untouched by disease; many are blue-eyed and pale, and some have vulture-like wings.
- INephele, once a human girl, became the first by lying with Mordred; Duane was the first born.
- IAll other mothers were killed and became Shadows.
- IIOnly iron through heart, head or throat, or white-dragon fire, can kill one.
- IIIDevin believes his kind is doomed, beyond forgiveness.
- IVNephilin women cannot bear children with humans.
- ISee also: Nephele, Devin, Fallen Stars, The Nephilin army, Iron and the immortal death, White dragons.
- IKnown in the books: Devin, Nephele, Adawnas, Azaziel, Duane.
Blood-drinkers
Being
- IImmortals of Madbouseux made by Bartholomew's darkened blood, exiled to the Heart of Elysium.
- IA man who gave his life to Lucifer fed others his tainted blood; the curse works only with the Book of Letters.
- IAsleep they decay; blood restores them. Their red mist fells Fallen and Nephilins.
- ITen wake in the region; more sleep in the Heart. Drinking a blood-drinker's blood breaks their law.
- IIThey heal in seconds, sprout dragon wings, turn to smoke; dragon fire only delays them.
- IIWith the Book of Letters they could raise an army no weapon destroys.
- IVSteel in the flesh pains them; only destroying the mind has killed one. They pact with Lucifer.
- ISee also: Bartholomew Winmore, Curse of the Dark Wine, Heart of Elysium, Book of Letters, Ruins of Madbouseux.
- IKnown in the books: Bartholomew Winmore, Nylora, Dahmian.
- IIAlso in the books: Dionisius, Bhor, Anwill.
The gods beyond the realms
Being
- IVPowers that dwell beyond Elysium, Tristar and the Abyss.
- IVDarcero rules beyond the Curtain of Gold; Luhke was lord of Bentteer.
- IVGods and judges watch over the Prison of Immortals.
- IVThe Soundless foresee the Creator in the sky with the gods behind him.
- IVSee also: Darcero, Luhke, Prison of Immortals, The vision of the Soundless.
Soul Exchange
Rite
- IThe rite by which a Fallen Star, chosen by the Fallen Rulers, takes a human body.
- IThe person's blood is shed over a book of Lucifer and the body drained; the face does not change.
- IIt works by a prior vow, as with Demetre, or by force in Lucifer's manifest presence, as with Isaac.
- IThe displaced soul goes to the Wastelands of Tristar.
- IUndone for Isaac and Demetre when Death was conquered.
- IIIThe Fallen use it on Agalmath's villagers to give Fallen Stars bodies.
- ISee also: Demetre Aliward, Isaac Khan, Corbin, Mordred, Athalas Terriel, Wastelands of Tristar.
Dark Exchange
Rite
- IThe curse of placing part of one's own mind inside another creature so that the giver's will rules it.
- IOn serpents it makes Lessers, whom their owner controls at any distance.
- IIOn humans it strips memory and will, as Erebos did to Diane and Dustin.
- IIXavier's form offers a paradise; whoever accepts sleeps under his control.
- IIIVictims have gray eyes with white smoke in the irises; those who break free are immune.
- ISee also: Xavier, Erebos, Lessers, Diane Khan, Ballard Radley.
Mind-entry
Power
- IIIsaac's dark gift of entering an enemy's mind in a vision, where a killing becomes real.
- IISathees explains that Isaac's soul-reading has changed into this.
- IIIsaac kills Nylora this way, and wounds Xavier inside a vision.
- IIITriggered by rage, it carries an urge toward self-destruction; Dahmian dies by it.
- IINephele can enter minds through dreams, a related power.
- IISee also: Isaac Khan, Nylora, Dahmian, Sathees.
Borderlines
Realm
- IInvisible crossings between Elysium and the Fourth Dimension.
- IThe only way living mortals reach Justicia; one lies near Agalmath, another in a forest by the Great River.
- IIThe Hathar borderline lies by Agalmath.
- IVOthers lie in Benhir Karbor's chasm and inside the Prison of Despair, leading to Aloisio, Billyth and Dalgon.
- IThey are separate from the Gates of the Fourth Dimension.
- ISee also: The Fourth Dimension, Borderline of Justicia, Gates of the Fourth Dimension.
Iron and the immortal death
Rule
- IThe rules for what can end each kind of immortal.
- IIron, steel included, is the metal that kills Nephilins; 'silver' blades mean a bright finish.
- IUnderwarriors die in body only, and their souls return to Tristar.
- IIWhite-dragon fire turns Nephilins to powder.
- IVIron through a Star's heart or skull melts the body and sends the spirit to the Prison of Immortals.
- IVNo rule is known for Lucifer; non-Elysian metal is the hinted means.
- ISee also: Nephilin, Fallen Stars.
Blood and will
Rule
- IHow Lucifer's books are opened: by the bearer's own blood, willingly shed.
- I'Only through blood and will can it be opened'; the Diary needs Council blood.
- IEach bearer can open only the book in his or her keeping.
- IIXavier's way adds reading 'He is risen' on his dagger; opened books burn without being consumed.
- IIIBearers cannot be killed until their books are opened; a dead bearer goes to Tristar.
- IIILucifer waited until the bearers came of age.
- ISee also: The five books of Lucifer, The book-bearers, The Diary of Lucifer.
The Diary page rule
Rule
- IVAll pages of the Diary must stay bound for Lucifer's spirit to thrive in a body.
- IVLucifer learns that the last page was torn out.
- IVA missing page sickens his heart, which cracks and bleeds with each beat.
- IVOnly retrieving the page can cure him; where it is remains unknown.
- IVSee also: The Diary of Lucifer, The missing Diary page, Lucifer.
Curse of the Dark Wine
Rite
- IThe curse written in the Book of Letters that makes blood-drinkers.
- IKnown as the Letters of the Dark Wine; Bartholomew's blood gave immortality once it touched the lips.
- IIIt can be worked only in the presence of the Book of Letters.
- IVLucifer grants Bartholomew leave to spread it.
- ISee also: Book of Letters, Blood-drinkers, Bartholomew Winmore.
Dragon magic
Power
- IIThe power of Bellator's dragon-tamers, shown in glowing white-dragon markings on their skin.
- IIThe markings shine near white dragons; only tamers can ride them.
- IIThere is a price for carrying the magic of dragons.
- IISathees's dragon Shield protects a body but makes it dormant.
- IIArundel gains markings when the Village of Tears falls.
- IISee also: Dragon-tamers, White dragons, Sathees, Arundel, The Seven Wise of Bellator.
Whispering Lights
Power
- ISmall red lights, sent by Fallen Stars, that enter the mind with drums and whispers to torment it.
- IThey appeared after Mordred's union with Nephele.
- ICorbin sends them over the Sea of Dragons; they block powers and turn horses' eyes white.
- IMordred breathes them out as messengers.
- ISee also: Corbin, Mordred, Fallen Stars, Statue of the Star.
The Dying Star
Power
The white light
Power
The Creator's limits
Rule
- IThe bounds the Creator keeps: he will not end anything before its time or override a choice.
- ITonma: he never steps in to finish something before its end has come.
- IIHe cannot interfere with choices, but he can send help.
- IVIf he enters Elysium in flesh, his immortality leaves him.
- ISee also: The Creator.
Going Home
Rule
- IIThose who die knowing the truth cross over to Tristar; those who die without it can become Shadows.
- IILeethan says Adara's parents went to Tristar; the Creator says Isaac's parents went Home.
- IThose who die without knowledge of light and darkness cannot cross over.
- IIIA bearer who dies goes to Tristar and cannot become a Shadow.
- IISee also: Tristar, Shadows, The Creator's limits.
Swordsmouth oath law
Rule
- IIISwordsmouth's law for those who break a sworn oath.
- IIIThe oathbreaker's tongue is cut out and he is exiled to the wilderness until death.
- IIIIts soldiers salute by striking a fist to the left chest while kneeling.
- IIIAnother Swordsmouth farewell: two fingers touched to the forehead and waved.
- IIISee also: Swordsmouth, Hadrian.
The triangle symbol
History
- IIIA sign of two triangles beneath a circle, found at the pale temple.
- IIICarved on the Death statue's head and the temple roof, mirrored on the floor.
- IIIIt glows and opens the way into the Prison of Despair.
- IVIts meaning remains unknown.
- IIISee also: The pale temple, Prison of Despair.
The fall of Lucifer
History
- ILucifer's rebellion against the Creator and his casting out with his followers.
- IThe brightest Star chose the darkest path, poisoning other Stars with his words.
- IThe Creator purged the rebels in fire and cast them into the Abyss.
- ILucifer attacked Tristar again, was defeated, and his body was put to sleep.
- IThe Council was founded soon after his condemnation.
- IVLucifer says he was punished for discovering his true power.
- ISee also: Lucifer, The Abyss.
War of Seven Keys
History
- IVAn ancient war in which the god Darcero invaded Tristar.
- IVDarcero's Hirab army attacked; the Bellatorians painted the war at Benhir Karbor.
- IVIn it Lucifer drove a dagger through a fellow Star's heart, claiming it saved Tristar.
- IVThe victim, Daedeen's lover, asked 'Why, my brother?' and went to the Prison of Immortals.
- IVHis identity, and whether he can return, are open threads.
- IVSee also: Darcero, Lucifer, Daedeen, Lucifer's dagger, Benhir Karbor.
The attack on Justicia
History
- IThe Fallen assault on the Diary's hiding place nineteen years before the story.
- IThe Khans and Aliwards fled to Agalmath with what they believed was the Diary.
- IIt was a cursed replica; the real Diary stayed in Justicia.
- IIKing Demyon was present and saw the replica box.
- ISee also: The forged Diary box, Council of Justicia, Diane Khan, Paul Aliward.
Battle of Justicia
History
- IThe night battle at the end of Book 1 when Justicia burned and fell into Elysium.
- IIsaac and Demetre return to their bodies as Death renounces Athalas.
- IUnderwarriors, an army of men and white-dragon riders fight Nephilins and Fallen.
- IThe books vanish from Nephele's tower; Eldon holds off Lucifer.
- IIBellatorian riders joined the fight.
- ISee also: Justicia, Underwarriors, Eldon, White dragons.
Battle of Agalmath
History
- IIIThe climactic battle of Book 3 in Isaac's ruined home village.
- IIIHadrian's Swordsmouth army strikes from the hill and the south gate.
- IIIThe Diary and the Justifier are opened; Demetre frees the Shadows.
- IIIThe Creator descends and Lucifer's snake takes him.
- IIISee also: Agalmath, The army of Swordsmouth, Hadrian, The Creator.
Battle of Hathar
History
- IVThe ambush in the Forest of Hathar where Book 4 ends mid-battle.
- IVLeethan, Isaac and Xylia strike; Raziel turns on Lucifer; Underwarriors ride Aquilas.
- IVLucifer kills Raziel; Capios pin Leethan and Xylia; Cyro wounds Isaac.
- IVLucifer collapses with his ailing heart, and the outcome is left for Book 5.
- IVSee also: Forest of Hathar, Lucifer, Raziel, Leethan, Isaac Khan, Xylia.
The prophecy of the Prison door
Prophecy
Also known as the ancient epistle
- IIIA four-line prophecy carved on the Prison door at Justicia, warning when Elysium will burn.
- IIIBegins 'When the stars blood drink'; it speaks of a red moon and melting snow.
- IIIThe snow is already melting when Isaac reads it.
- IVAn ancient epistle adds the sky falling and ends: 'That's when he will return.'
- IVNephele's blood-drinking state seems to echo its first line; its meaning is open.
- IIISee also: Justicia, Prison of Despair, Nephele.
Petra's vision
Prophecy
- IIA vision Petra receives on touching the Book of Letters: 'The Creator will be killed.'
- IIHe sees a black snake wrapped round a bloodied white lion with clipped wings.
- IIHe tells only Isaac.
- IVIt comes true when Lucifer kills the Creator in the Desert of Nahor.
- IISee also: Petra, The Creator, Book of Letters.
Xylia's vision of Agalmath
Prophecy
- IIIA vision Lucifer shows Xylia of Agalmath burning and Isaac opening the Diary.
- IIIShe sees Isaac tortured and herself as a skeleton in an ocean of bones.
- IIIAgalmath does burn and Isaac does open the Diary.
- IIIShe later foresees her uncle's flesh melting.
- IIISee also: Xylia, Agalmath, Isaac Khan.
The vision of the Soundless
Prophecy
- IVWarnings the Soundless give Lucifer at Benhir Karbor.
- IVGraves open and the dead crawl out; trees grow limbs and ride to battle.
- IVThe Creator stands in the sky with the gods and the book-bearers behind him.
- IVThey see fire, water and wind for Nephele and say she must be killed.
- IVSee also: The Soundless, The Creator, Nephele.
Death's song
Song
- IA four-line song Death sings in the Prison of Despair.
- IDeath sings it when Isaac first meets it.
- IIIIt sings it again when Isaac returns to the Prison.
- IIt is about eyes that do not see and hearts swallowed by darkness.
- ISee also: Death.
Devin's song
Song
Night star
Song
- IA short song Isaac sings to a star shining in the dark.
- IIsaac sings it during the hard road after Valley Hills.
- IIt praises a small light that shines in darkness.
- IOne of the series' few songs by Isaac.
- ISee also: Isaac Khan.
Song of Brave Heroes
Song
- IIA song of heroes of the west who overcame fear.
- IIPaul Aliward used to sing it.
- IIISung again on the road and by Demetre's spirit at the end of Book 3.
- IIIIt tells of light appearing through darkness.
- IISee also: Paul Aliward, Demetre Aliward.
Song of Hope
Song
- IIA song written by the Stars before Lucifer's fall.
- IIAlistar sings it in the Village of Tears.
- IIAthalas once sang it to Devin.
- IIThe Stars wrote it before the fall.
- IISee also: Alistar Ashenburn, Stars.
Dustin's cursed song
Song
- IIA dark song Dustin chants while under the Dark Exchange.
- IISung in the Village of Tears with white-glazed eyes.
- IIIt speaks of darker days and moonless nights.
- IIIt signals how fully Erebos has taken him.
- IISee also: Dustin Khan, Dark Exchange.
Empty, empty words
Song
The Soundless refrain
Song
- IVA refrain the Soundless chant to Lucifer, calling him a shining star.
- IVHeard in Lucifer's vision of the Soundless.
- IVIt praises him as bright and strong, like no other.
- IVIt recalls the voices Lucifer first heard.
- IVSee also: The Soundless, Lucifer.
Humans
Peoples
Also known as humans, mankind, men
- IKnown in the books: Isaac Khan, Demetre Aliward, Xylia, Ballard Radley, Petra, Adara, Ely, Athalas Terriel, King Marco, Diane Khan, Dustin Khan, Ahmos, Vladmir, Dantes, Aleen, Alestin, Paul Aliward, Lune Aliward, Anatolio Radley.
- IIAlso in the books: Arundel, King Demyon, Sathees, Alistar Ashenburn, Ihvan, Queen Lylith, Isakaar, Draevor, Sela, Queen Valleree.
- IIIAlso in the books: Hadrian, Dundreen.
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