ARJENOL—duchy in eastern Torenth, held by Duke Lionel, a kinsman of Wencit.

ARRANAL Canyon—northern passage through the mountains separating Torenth from Marley, which Duke Ewan’s army is assigned to hold.

BELDOUR—capital city of the Kingdom of Torenth.

BETHENAR—honor of one of the ancient families of the Eleven Kingdoms.

CARBURY—seat of the Bishop of Carbury, Creoda.

CARDOSA—disputed border city in the mountains between Torenth and Eastmarch.

CARTHMOOR—duchy of Gwynedd bordering Corwyn and the Royal Honor of Haldane, held by Prince Nigel.

CASSAN—duchy in the northwest of Gwynedd bordering the earldom of Kierney and the Meara Protectorate, held by Duke Jared McLain.

CLAIBOURNE—duchy far to the north of Gwynedd, held by Duke Ewan MacEwan.

COAMER Range—mountains on the southern border of Llyndruth Meadows, separating the Cardosa Defile from the Dhassa area.

COROTH—ducal capital of Corwyn.

COR Ramet—field where Kelson and the rebel bishops agreed to rendezvous.

CORWYN—duchy of Gwynedd held by Duke Alaric Morgan, inherited from his Deryni mother, Lady Alyce de Morgan.

CULDI—city associated with Saint Camber; burial place of Lady Alyce de Corwyn de Morgan; also the burial place of her daughter Bronwyn and Kevin McLain, who was Bronwyn’s betrothed.

DHASSA—free holy city, seat of the Bishop of Dhassa, Thomas Cardiel, and meeting place of the Gwynedd Curia; known for its woodcraft and the shrines of its patron saints, Torin and Ethelburga, which guard it south and north.

DOL Shaia—Kelson’s campsite in Carthmoor, just outside Corwyn.

DRELLINGHAM—town where General Gloddruth agreed to meet Kelson and his army en route to Cardosa.

ELEVEN Kingdoms—ancient name for the entire area including and surrounding Gwynedd; eleven kingdoms can no longer be traced.

ESGAIR Ddu—the Black Cliff, prison fortress of Cardosa Castle.

GARWODE—village near Saint Torin’s shrine.

GRECOTHA—university city, site of the Varnarite School; seat of the Bishop of Grecotha, Bradene.

GWYNEDD—central kingdom in the Eleven Kingdoms, ruled by the Haldanes of Gwynedd.

HALDANE—royal duchy comprising the central portion of the kingdom of Gwynedd, traditionally held by the Haldanes of Gwynedd.

HORTHNESS—holding of one of the ancient families of the Eleven Kingdoms.

JASHAN, Lake—lake guarding the southern approach to Dhassa, at Saint Torin’s, passable by ferry.

JENNAN Vale—village in Corwyn, near the northwest border; site of a skirmish between Prince Nigel’s troops and rebel peasants.

KHARTHAT—site of the marketplace where Thorne Hagen first found Moira.

KHELDISH Riding—northern area, under direct Crown rule; famous for its weavers.

KIERNEY—former earldom of Lord Kevin McLain, bordering Cassan, the Meara Protectorate, and Gwynedd Crown lands.

LINDESTARK—honor of one of the ancient families of the Eleven Kingdoms.

LLYNDRUTH Meadows—grasslands at the foot of the Cardosa Defile; site of the final confrontation between Kelson and Wencit.

MARBURY—seat of the Bishop of Marbury, Ifor.

MARLEY—earldom held by Bran Coris.

MEARA—crown protectorate to the northwest of Gwynedd; the kings of Gwynedd are also princes of Meara.

NYFORD—city of origin of the itinerant Bishop Richard of Nyford.

PELAGOG—holding of one of the ancient families of the Eleven Kingdoms.

PURPLE March, the—vast meadowlands north of Rhemuth under Crown rule; one of the titles of the kings of Gwynedd is Lord of the Purple March.

RAMOS—site of the infamous Council of 917; promulgated stringent anti-Deryni measures that set limits on the ability of Deryni to own property and forbade them to hold office, enter the priesthood, etc.

RENGARTH—site of the betrayal of Duke Jared’s army by Bran Coris Earl of Eastmarch.

RHELJAN Range—mountains separating Torenth from Eastmarch; site of the walled city of Cardosa.

RHEMUTH—capital city of Gwynedd.

RHENDALL—area famed for its blue lakes.

RHORAU—holding of one of the ancient families of the Eleven Kingdoms.

R’KASSI—desert kingdom south and east of the Hort of Orsal; famed for its blooded horses.

SAINT Ethelburga’s Shrine—shrine of the patroness of Dhassa, guarding the northern approach to Dhassa.

SAINT Neot’s—former Deryni monastic school, now in ruins; located in the Lendour Mountains between Corwyn and Dhassa.

SAINT Senan’s Cathedral—seat of the Bishop of Dhassa, Denis Arilan.

SAINT Torin’s—shrine of the patron saint of Dhassa, south of the city of Dhassa and Lake Jashan.

STAVENHAM—seat of the Bishop of Stavenham, de Lacey.

TOPHEL Peak—mountain visible from Thorne Hagen’s castle.

TORENTH—vast kingdom to the east of Gwynedd, ruled by the Deryni King Wencit of Torenth.

VALORET—interim capital of Gwynedd during the Festillic Interregnum; seat of the Archbishop of Valoret, Edmund Loris, and site of the Abbey of Saint Mark; located between Eastmarch and the Haldane Honor.

VARIAN—holding of one of the ancient families of the Eleven Kingdoms.