Locations

The mage-ruled empire that governed humanity on Callidore from the fall of Perwyn until its conquest by the Narasi barbarian king Kamaklavan. The precursor to the Five Duchies.

The lost island-nation of humanity, birthplace of the Magocracy, swallowed by the sea when the Archmage Kephan the Damned attempted to expand its landmass.

The capital city of Perwyn and civic heart of the Colonial Magocracy — home of the legendary New Leiden Medical Center, lost with the island.

The Perwyn city from which the Sea Lords came — lost when the island sank.

One of the great cities of Perwyn during the Colonial Era — lost when the island sank.

One of the great cities of Perwyn during the Colonial Era — lost when the island sank.

One of the great cities of Perwyn during the Colonial Era — lost when the island sank.

One of the great cities of Perwyn during the Colonial Era — lost when the island sank.

The unified realm created by King Kamaklavan after his conquest of the Magocracy. Divided at his death into five duchies for his five sons: Vore, Merwyn, Alshar, Castal, and Remere.

The westernmost and most prosperous of the Five Duchies, founded by Terine — the beloved bastard son of King Kamaklavan — and later ruled by the line descending to Duke Anguin, the Orphan Duke.

Minalan's county palatine, carved from the ruined northern Wilderlands to serve as a magical frontier state and the last line of defense against the Penumbra.

Minalan's Magelaw country estate -- a small but heavily-magical knobby ridge with a paracletic tower keep, established as the Spellmonger's personal seat and summer residence after the rise of Vanador. Site of an unscheduled Met Sakinsa lake formation in Book 16 and the Spellmonger's working laboratory through Books 13-17.

A frontier town of the Magelaw with one of the great Mirror Towers — a rough transit point on the edge of the Penumbra.

The "City of Wizards" — a young capital raised atop a high plateau in the Wilderlands as the seat of Count Minalan's Magelaw.

The Alka Alon keep of Lady Fallawen — a tree-spire stronghold used as a custodial cell for the captured Nemovort Mycin Amana.

A hidden valley in the far north where a buried jevolar suppresses all magic — preserving relics, refugees, and secrets from the founding of the colony on Callidore.

The Kasari name for the sealed outer entrance to Unger Station — the threshold complex of Anghysbel's ancient colonial depot. See Unger Station for the combined article.

An ancient colonial geophysical research station carved into the rock of Anghysbel — preserved intact since before the fall of Perwyn. Known to the local Kasari as the Cave of the Ancients.

A remote outpost on the inner edge of the Alkali Wastes — the halfway waystation between the settled Wilderlands and Anghysbel.

The populous, wealthy south of Alshar, ruled from Falas — whose Five Counts rose in open rebellion against the ducal line during the chaos of the goblin invasion.

The glittering "Coral Seat" of southern Alshar — a southern coastal capital of refined tastes, ancient libraries, and intricate court politics.

The ancestral estate of House Furtius in Enultramar — the only place the family of spies and shadowmagi set aside their disguises.

The vast, forested north of Alshar — poor in coin but rich in timber and independence, ground zero for the gurvani invasion and the cradle of the Magelaw.

The fief where the great battle against the gurvani horde was won — and where two ducal houses knighted Tyndal and Rondal on the field.

The Alshari summer capital — a timbered northern city of pleasure palaces and muddy streets that became the last redoubt of Duke Anguin II.

The battered walled city of the northern Wilderlands — saved from gurvani siege and reborn as a forge-town of the Magelaw.

The hidden Alka Alon tree-city where the Aronin served as oracle-lord — destroyed by Sheruel early in the gurvani invasion.

founded by Bimin, son of King Kamaklavan by his second wife

The senior Castali county of the Bontal country — liege lord to Sevendor, Sendaria, Fleria, and Taravanal, ruled by the ancient House of Lensely.

The impoverished hill-fief of Sire Sigalan — robbed of five manors and the village of Gosset by the Warbird's conspiracy, and Sevendor's natural ally.

The old Flerian barony, nominally ruled by Baron Vulric — split by his late father into West Fleria (held by Gimbal as a near-independent domain) and East Fleria (Vulric's direct seat).

The hostile hill-<em>domain</em> of Sire Gimbal the Warbird — a vassal-held sub-lordship of the Barony of Fleria, run as near-totally independent until its master besieged Sevendor and lost everything.

The prosperous riverside barony of Baron Arathanial — Sevendor's most important ally and the chief Lensely power in the Bontal.

The busy river-port of the Bontal Riverlands — ancestral seat of the Lensely barons and Sevendor's principal window on the wider world.

Minalan the Spellmonger's snowstone-crowned mountain barony — a neglected Lensely cadet estate transformed into the magical capital of the Five Duchies.

<p><strong>Brestal Vale</strong> is the eastern lobe of the original Sevendor twin-vale fief. It was conquered by the Warbird Sire Gimbal, who gave it to his bastard son <strong>Sir Ganulan</strong>. Minalan moved to recover it shortly before Yule in his first season at Sevendor — the same season as the Siege of Sevendor and the first Magic Fair — placing the recovery firmly in the events of <em>Spellmonger</em> (Book 1). The pretext arose when Ganulan's men caused an incident that gave Minalan a legitimate claim; an advisor noted it was "less than two weeks" to Yule, and that the arriving Bovali force of nearly two thousand would give Minalan the strength to press the claim. Once recovered, Brestal Vale was folded back into the Sevendor demesne.</p><p>The vale's geology includes a strip of <strong>shabalathar</strong> — a degraded, impure form of Ghost Rock — embedded in limestone matrix. Gareth and the Karshak mason Azhguri examined the outcropping and theorized the impurities might mitigate the usual jevolar effects of Ghost Rock, potentially explaining the vale's reputed local properties.</p>

The bustling chartered town below Sevendor Castle — a boomtown of enchanters, artisans, and ambitious burghers born of the Snowstone.

The Alka Alon embassy spire built on the summit of Matten's Helm in Sevendor. A nine-story snowstone tower built by the Karshak as the formal Alka Alon embassy in the Five Duchies, hosting the Tera Alon-conversion programme and acting as the meeting-ground between the humani magi and the Alka Alon Council.

The new Lensely barony created from the reduction of Sashtalia and the fall of West Fleria — seated at the old Sashtalia castle and held by Arathanial's eldest son Arlastan.

The proud pretender barony west of Sevendor — whose three hundred lances were shattered and absorbed into the magelands during Book 7.

The cursed barony of Master Dunselen and his wife Isily — birthplace of the Magewar and the graveyard of the old mageocratic ambition.

The fortified seat of Baron Dunselen — where the Magewar ignited and where Minalan's reckoning with Isily played out.

The old Castali ducal hall on the edge of the Wilderlands frontier — long a seat of the Dukes of Castal, now the court of Prince Tavard.

A small, out-of-the-way magelord's domain near the Alshari frontier — remembered as the site of the first great Convocation of Warmagi.

The nine-story Imperial fortress of the Later Magocracy — original seat of the first Dukes of Castal, now the Castali War College.

The cotton-rich flatlands whose fields fed half the Five Duchies — and whose ruin in the Goblin Wars became the defining atrocity of the age.

The grand cotton-country capital of Gilmora — famed for its Cotton Lords, its dragonfall, and the pleasures (and hazards) of its notorious courtesans.

The monstrous warded citadel of the Nemovort Mycin Amana — a near-impregnable seat of the Enshadowed inside human lands.

The fertile Castali river country where Minalan's snowstone revolution began — a patchwork of feuding petty baronies and productive vales along the Bontal River.

The Imperial Magi academy on the river south of Sendaria Port — one of only two surviving magical academies in the Kingdom, and Minalan's own alma mater.

One of the Five Duchies, founded by Kamlan, son of King Kamaklavan by his second wife. Retains more of the old Imperial Magocracy culture than its neighbors.

The ducal capital of Remere — one of the oldest cities in the kingdom, a ring of stately domes and obelisks that served as a provincial capital even under the old Magocracy.

The Remeran magical academy — the other surviving daughter of the Old Imperial tradition and Pentandra's alma mater.

The sprawling royal capital of the Five Duchies, crowned by the great keep of the Dukes of Castal and now the throne-seat of King Rard I of Castalshar.

The Royal Palace and court city of King Rard — the working capital of the Kingdom of Castalshar where the royal council actually sits.

One of the two eldest sons' duchies — the "fabulous Merwyn" — granted by King Kamaklavan to one of his favorite eldest sons. A sea-trading power with ancient roots.

One of the two eldest sons' duchies — "rich Vore" — granted by King Kamaklavan to one of his favorite eldest sons. The northernmost of the Five Duchies, bordered by the Narasi steppes.

The ancient merchant city-state of the Shallow Sea — founded by the Magocracy, independent under its Doges for centuries, conquered by the Narasi Horselords, and ruled in the present day by Doge Mirkandar I: Minalan the Spellmonger.

The Citadel of the Censorate in Wenshar — former headquarters of the Royal Censorate of Magic, later proposed as a Wenshari bouleuterion.

The hidden refuge of the Dradrien Alon master smiths freed from Korbal's slavery at the Battle of Olum Seheri. Founded after the raid; produces the highest-grade enchantment-bearing weapons and armour in the modern era, including Minalan's Twilight mageblade.

A blasted wasteland between the Wilderlands and Enultramar, its scarred highland plateau shaped by ancient geological violence — earthquakes and tremors from primordial stone impacts gave the region its name long before humani inhabited it. The Alka Alon knew it as <strong>Asmadaralon</strong>, the Land of Scars, and it was here that the reclusive Alkan known as <strong>Korbal</strong> arose millennia before the gurvani invasion. Strategically vital because it lies between <strong>Olum Seheri</strong> and the southern Alshari sea, the region is largely uninhabited and impassable to large armies, yet riddled with the Brotherhood's safe houses, clandestine keeps, and bandit hideouts.

The great northern mountain range of the Wilderlands, ancestral home of the Wilderfolk and the Bovali, and the heartland of Sheruel's Penumbra.

Sire Koucey's idyllic high-mountain realm — the first domain consumed by the gurvani invasion and the tragedy that opens the series.

The ancient Alka Alon citadel of Lord Aeratas — the rainbow-shrouded Tower of Vision on the Lake of Rainbows, thrown down by Sheruel and remade by Korbal the Necromancer as the dark necropolis of Olum Seheri.

The blighted buffer region around the Umbra, where Sheruel's shadow thins into twilight and gurvani legions rule captured human lands through Soulless overseers.

The eastern Penumbra command-fortress, held by Azar and (later) Bendonal the Outlaw as the Horkan Order's primary forward base. Built around the eastern frontier where the Penumbra and the Castali Wilderlands meet, Megelin became the working prototype of the Iron Ring fortress system.

The coastal sea off Alshar and the Coastlands, tended by the Vundel Leviathans whose starved coral reefs drive the whole snowstone trade.

The chain of islands scattered across the Shattered Sea between Alshar and Unstara — source of Farise's famous carpets, sensual music, and much of its slave population.

A locale of the southern seas mentioned alongside Farise and the Shattered Isles — one of the ports of call in Minalan's explorations as Doge.

The black sphere of blight at the heart of the former gurvani realm — seat first of the Dead God Sheruel and then of Korbal the Necromancer and his Nemovorti.

The drowned necropolis at the heart of Korbal's dominion — the ruined Alka Alon city of Anthatiel remade as a Nemovort redoubt. See Anthatiel for the combined article.

A distant land across the Shattered Sea — an old trading partner of the Magocracy, home of the Unstaran expatriates in Farise and famed for its deep drums.

The most ancient being of the Met Sakinsa, living on the far side of Callidore — the oracle to whom the Court of the Leshi Fathers relays questions through non-magical organic cycles.