Shadow Road: Book 1 of the Shadows Rising Trilogy

Endnotes and Glossary

1. An Unfortunate Beginning

Nimkoruguithu: (nim.ko.roo.gwih.thoo) Also referred to as Nim K; the largest city in the Coalition Colonial Region, a rough, nearly lawless place too far from Coalition influence to be kept properly under heel. Nimkoruguithu is populated by people looking for a fresh start. Many are wanted fugitives, many are currently convicts sentenced to transportation, many are ex-convicts that have done their time, many are seeking to escape poverty on the promise of opportunity, many are looking for a hustle. Only the hardest and most desperate survive.

38. The Rimrocks

Floubeste: (Tettian): n. a mythical creature that feeds on the nightmares of children and the anger of men. The floubeste spends its larval stage building itself a frame for its soft, formless body to move about in. To do this, it invades the bodies of whatever animals it can catch, consuming the parts it needs. Its last acquisition is the skin of a human, which it uses to blend in with human society and draw close to its real prey. In some cases it will abduct particularly naughty children to take back to its communal lair. If that happens, the rest of the village children are spared for ten years. For several centuries, this myth was used by village women to frighten disobedient young children.