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- Falcon-Fist
Mountain to the east of Norsdale. (YEAR OF THE UNICORN).
- Falconers
Men who served as mercenaries on Sulcar ships, or fought as allies
with Estcarp. Their race originally came from Salzarat, a land apparently
far to the south of Karsten. Koris tells Simon that they fled over
sea to Estcarp after their land was invaded by barbarians, but in
LORE OF THE WITCH WORLD we learn that Jonkara had tried to enslave
their race. About 2,000 Falconers (2/3 of them men) escaped in Sulcar
ships. Settling in Estcarp, their custom of keeping the women in
separate villages offended the Witches, so the Falconers moved into
the mountainous lands south of Estcarp, north of Karsten. There
they established the Eyrie and new villages for their women and children.
Each year young men were selected to visit the villages and breed
with the women. Deformed babies were killed. When the boys reached
a certain age they were taken to the Eyrie and trained to be warriors.
The Dukes of Karsten tried three times in the hundred years before
Simon Tregarth entered the Witch World to defeat the Falconers, but
the Falconers won all three wars. The ruler of the Eyrie was called
the Lord of Wings. Although the Witches of Estcarp eschewed a formal
alliance with the Eyrie, they did not watch closely the relationship
between their Guards and the Falconers. The unacknowledged alliance
therefore served both peoples well. And when the Witches turned
the mountains to stop Duke Pagar's army, the Falconers were welcomed
into Estcarp. However, their culture was too alien. Too many of
their women fled their villages to ensure the survival of the Falconers.
Several companies settled in High Hallack, where they forged a new
alliance with the Dalesfolk, agreeing to give up some of their customs.
The Falconers developed close bonds with their birds, from which
their tribal name was taken. They were able to communicate with
the creatures better than other men. In the mountains they used
sturdy ponies capable of bearing two men. Falconers had reddish
hair and brown-yellow eyes. (WITCH WORLD, LORE OF THE WITCH WORLD,
WITCH WORLD: THE TURNING).
- Falthingdale
Dale of High Hallack, situated to the west of Norsdale. Falthingdale
was heavily forested. (YEAR OF THE UNICORN).
- Faltjar
Falconer. Assigned to the southern gate of the Eyrie. He met Koris,
Simon, Jaelithe, and Loyse and took Simon and Koris to meet with
the Lord of Wings after they showed him a false falcon apparently
built and used by the Kolder. Faltjar was later sent by the Lord
of Wings to investigate reports of ships setting into coves near
the Eyrie's domain, and he was captured with his men by the Kolder.
(WITCH WORLD).
- Farseeing
A method of divinition, shorned by adherents of the Flame but typically
used by Wisewomen, Witches, Adepts, and other users of Power. (THE
CRYSTAL GRYPHON, various books).
- Farthom
Man of Karsten. A hill lord, father of Fulk. Farthom's holding
was in the northern hill of Karsten, apparently near the border with
Estcarp. (WITCH WORLD).
- Fast Ridge
A mountain or chain of high hills visible from the bell tower of
Norstead Abbey. (YEAR OF THE UNICORN).
- Firtha
Woman of Karsten. Maid to Lady Aldis. She visited Jaelithe's house
in Kars City and persuaded Aldia the Wise Woman of Kars would help
her retain Yvian's attentions. (WITCH WORLD).
- Flame Oath
A sacred oath of High Hallack, considered to be unbreakable. (THE
CRYSTAL GRYPHON).
- Flathingdale
Dale of High Hallack, north of Ulmsdale. (THE CRYSTAL GRYPHON).
- Floating Weed
Seaweed which grows on the surface of warm seas near the Lost Trace. The
Kolder used mutated Floating Weed as a first line of defence for their base.
Merely a touch of the red-russet plant caused fast spreading scalds and in
consequence a painful death. The mutated weeds would attach themselves to
ships and grow around them. They also formed large floating barrier
islands, and only the submarines of the Kolder could get past them until
Jaelithe and Koityi Stymir discovered that the weeds could be burned.
(WEB OF THE WITCH WORLD).
- Fold Gather
Possibly another name for a fair. Gillan speculated that Marimme's
uncle (Lord Imgry) would take her to the next Fold Gather immediately
after the war to find a husband for her. (YEAR OF THE UNICORN).
- Fortal
Dalesman of High Hallack, lord of Paltendale prior to the war with
Alizon. He was the father of Tephana, who married Ulric of Ulmsdale
after her first husband died. (THE CRYSTAL GRYPHON).
- Freeza
Daleswoman of High Hallack, wife of Furlo. She became Gillan's foster
mother and fled with her to Norstead Abbey during the war with Alizon,
eight years prior to the Year of the Unicorn. Freeze died at the
abbey. (YEAR OF THE UNICORN).
- Fulk
Man of Karsten. Second son of Farthom, he became Lord of Verlaine
through marriage but had only one child, a daughter, Loyse. Fulk
was a shore baron in Karsten's hierarchy, not of much account in
Loyse's reckoning. Fulk preyed on the ships which were wrecked on
the coast of Verlaine, scheming to build his wealth and power. Fulk
apparently also raided the lands of his neighbors, as Loyse privately
hoped he might perish on one of these raids. He arranged for Loyse
to be ax-wedded to Duke Yvian, ruler of Karsten, but was then killed
by Simon, Jaelithe, and Koris. (WITCH WORLD).
- Fulk's Hold
A name not used in the books. Fulk's fortress is referred to as
a hold. The fortress sat atop a rise on a cliff. Between the hold
and the cliff's edge there was a natural pasture where Fulk kept
horses penned in. One or more paths led down the side of the cliffs
to the rocky shores where Fulk's gleeners gathered up the debris
of ship-wrecks caused by the storms off Verlaine's coast. (WITCH
WORLD).
- Furlo
Dalesman of High Hallack, lord of Thantop. He fostered Gillan.
Furlo died in the war with Alizon. (YEAR OF THE UNICORN).
- Fyndale
Dale in High Hallack, located to the south of Uppsdale. Fyndale
held small fairs every year before the war with Alizon and restored
the practice five years after the war.
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