Anagogic
The Anagogis is a branch of sorcery that turns on the resonance between meanings and concrete things. It uses creative metaphors to implement sorcery. This was invented independently by humanity, a descendant of ancient shamanistic practices that potentially predate the coming of men to Earwa. The Anagogis is generally considered inferior to the Gnosis because it works through Analogies as opposed to Abstractions: the Anagogic sorcerers can summon only an imitation of a dragon which spews out fire, while Gnostic sorcerers can summon heat itself. This invariably makes practitioners of the Gnosis far more powerful in a practical sense than those that practice the Anagogis. The Daimos has historically been limited entirely to Anagogic sorcery, with no gnostic equivalent until (at minimum) Aspect-Emperor Anasurimbor Kellhus studied the Daimos with the grandmaster of the Scarlet Spires.

Anagogic Schools

- Imperial Saik
- Mikka Council
- Mysunsai
- Nilitar Compact
- Oaranat
- Scarlet Spires
- Vokalati

Spells

- The Dragonhead
- The Houlari Twin-Tempests
- The Iswazi Cant
- The Memkotic Furies
- The Meppa Cataract
- The Portcullis
- The Ramparts of Ur
- The Uruborian Circle

Trivia

- The branches of sorcery all take their names from Greek words. “Anagogis” comes from the Greek word “Αναγωγής,” meaning “Comparison.”

Anagogis
The Anagogis is a branch of sorcery that turns on the resonance between meanings and concrete things. It uses creative metaphors to implement sorcery. This was invented independently by humanity, a descendant of ancient shamanistic practices that potentially predate the coming of men to Earwa. The Anagogis is generally considered inferior to the Gnosis because it works through Analogies as opposed to Abstractions: the Anagogic sorcerers can summon only an imitation of a dragon which spews out fire, while Gnostic sorcerers can summon heat itself. This invariably makes practitioners of the Gnosis far more powerful in a practical sense than those that practice the Anagogis. The Daimos has historically been limited entirely to Anagogic sorcery, with no gnostic equivalent until (at minimum) Aspect-Emperor Anasurimbor Kellhus studied the Daimos with the grandmaster of the Scarlet Spires.

Anagogic Schools

- Imperial Saik
- Mikka Council
- Mysunsai
- Nilitar Compact
- Oaranat
- Scarlet Spires
- Vokalati

Spells

- The Dragonhead
- The Houlari Twin-Tempests
- The Iswazi Cant
- The Memkotic Furies
- The Meppa Cataract
- The Portcullis
- The Ramparts of Ur
- The Uruborian Circle

Trivia

- The branches of sorcery all take their names from Greek words. “Anagogis” comes from the Greek word “Αναγωγής,” meaning “Comparison.”

Analytic
"Third Analytic of Men" The Third Analytic of Men is a work by Ajencis , regarded by many to be his magnum opus. The Third Analytic interrogates the aspects of human nature that make knowledge possible, as well as the human weaknesses that make knowledge so difficult to attain. As Ajencis notes, "if all Men disagree on all matters, then most Men confuse deception for truth". He investigates the reasons, not only for deception in general, but for the erroneous sense of conviction that sustains it, giving what has come to be called the "selfish knower" thesis, the idea that convenience, conditioning, and appeal (as opposed to evidence and rational argumentation) are the primary motivation for the beliefs of the vast majority .

Excerpts

"If it is only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as follows: that which precedes everything." "The world is a circle that possesses as many centers as it does men." "The proposition "I am the center" need never be uttered. It is the assumption upon which all certainty and all doubt turns." "One can look into the future, or one can look at the future. The latter is by far the more instructive." "Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human." "What is the meaning of a deluded life?" "Death, in the strict sense, cannot be defined, for whatever predicate we, the living, attribute to it necessarily belongs to Life. This means that Death, as a category, behaves in a manner indistinguishable from the Infinite, and from God ." "When a man possesses the innocence of a child, we call him a fool. When a child possesses the cunning of a man, we call him an abomination. As with love, knowledge has its season." "The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation." "It is not so much the wisdom of the wise that saves us from the foolishness of the fools as it is the latter's inability to agree." "Everything is concealed always. Nothing is more trite than a mask." "Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy." "Gods are epochal beings, not quite alive. Since the Now eludes them, they are forever divided. Sometimes nothing blinds souls more profoundly than the apprehension of the Whole. Men need recall this when they pray." "Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools."

Analytics
"New Analytics" The New Analytics is a work of philosophy by Parcis .

Extracts

"Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills."

Anarcane
"Anarcane ground" Anarcane ground is an area where sorcery is impotent. The city of Atrithau is built on anarcane ground found at the foot of Mount Ankulakai . The opposite of topos .

Author's comments

According to R. Scott Bakker himself "The Inchoroi homeworld, […] is entirely anarcane."

Anarcane ground
Anarcane ground is an area where sorcery is impotent. The city of Atrithau is built on anarcane ground found at the foot of Mount Ankulakai . The opposite of topos .

Author's comments

According to R. Scott Bakker himself "The Inchoroi homeworld, […] is entirely anarcane."

Anarlû
A presumably mythical character mentioned in one of the Boatman's songs.

Anasurimbor
"Anasurimbor Kellhus" Anasûrimbor Kellhus [A-nasu-rim-bor Kel-jus] was a former Dûnyain Monk.

Character and appearance

Kellhus was tall and strong, with blonde hair and blue eyes. He had a long, heavy-featured and aquiline face. He wore his hair long, with a close-cropped beard. His features and voice were very similar to those of his father. Like all Dûnyain, Kellhus exhibited extraordinary powers of deduction and persuasion allowing him to manipulate worldborn Men as if they were children. His command of the Gnosis was second to none, making him the most powerful sorcerer in the Three Seas, and—possibly—in the entirety of Eärwa .

Background

Kellhus was born in Ishuäl , a fortress built in the Ancient North by Anasûrimbor Celmomas II but occupied by the Dûnyain for almost two thousand years. In Ishuäl, the Dûnyain isolated themselves from the world, breeding for reflex and intellect, and continually training in the ways of limb, thought, and face—all for the sake of reason, what they call the Logos . In an effort to transform themselves into the perfect expression of the Logos, the Dûnyain bent their entire existence to mastering the irrationalities that determine human thought: history, custom, and passion. In this way, they believe, they will eventually grasp what they call the Absolute , and so become true self-moving souls. Kellhus was a prodigy even by Dûnyain standards. Before he left Ishuäl, his understanding of the true nature of Eärwa was very limited as the Dûnyain had suppressed knowledge of Sorcery and other metaphysical phenomena.

The Darkness That Comes Before

Kellhus is sent by his order, the Dûnyain, to search for his father, Anasûrimbor Moënghus , who left them some thirty years previous. Knowing only that his father dwells in the city of Shimeh , Kellhus undertakes the arduous journey travelling through the abandoned North. Eventually he succumbs and is saved by a trapper named Leweth . While wintering with Leweth, Kellhus discovers he can read the man’s thoughts through the nuances of his expression. World-born men, he realizes, are little more than children in comparison with the Dûnyain. Experimenting, he finds that he can exact anything from Leweth — any love, any sacrifice — with mere words. When a band of Sranc discovers Leweth’s steading, the two men are forced to flee. Leweth is wounded, and Kellhus leaves him for the Sranc, feeling no remorse. The Sranc overtake him, and after driving them away, he battles their leader, a deranged Nonman , who nearly kills Kellhus with sorcery. Kellhus flees, wracked by questions without answers: sorcery, he’d been taught, was nothing more than superstition. Eventually he finds refuge in the ancient city of Atrithau , where, using his Dûnyain abilities, he assembles an expedition of forty-seven men to traverse the Sranc-infested plains of Suskara . The men call themselves adunyani , meaning ‘little Dûnyain’. After a harrowing trek that only he survives, he crosses the frontier only to be captured by a mad Scylvendi Chieftain named Cnaiür urs Skiötha — a man who both knows and hates his father, Moënghus. Though his knowledge of the Dûnyain renders Cnaiür immune to direct manipulation, Kellhus realizes he can turn the man’s thirst for vengeance to his advantage. Claiming to be an assassin sent to murder Moënghus, he asks the Scylvendi to join him on his quest. Overpowered by his hatred, Cnaiür reluctantly agrees, and the two men set out across the Jiünati Steppe . Kellhus tries to secure the trust he needs to possess the man, but the barbarian continually rebuffs him. His hatred and penetration are too great. Then, near the Imperial frontier, they find a concubine named Serwë , who informs them of a Holy War gathering about Momemn — a Holy War for Shimeh. They cross the mountains into the Empire , and Kellhus watches Cnaiür struggle with the growing conviction that he’s outlived his usefulness. Thinking that murdering Kellhus is as close as he’ll ever come to murdering Moënghus, Cnaiür attacks him, only to be defeated. To prove that he still needs him, Kellhus spares his life. He must, Kellhus knows, dominate the Holy War, but he as yet knows nothing of warfare. The variables are too many. Though his knowledge of Moënghus and the Dûnyain renders him a liability, Cnaiür’s skill in war makes him invaluable. To secure this knowledge, Kellhus starts seducing Serwë, using her and her beauty as detours to the barbarian’s tormented heart. Once in the Empire, they stumble across a patrol of Imperial cavalrymen; their journey to Momemn quickly becomes a desperate race. When they finally reach the encamped Holy War they find themselves before Nersei Proyas , the Crown Prince of Conriya . To secure a position of honour among the Men of the Tusk , Kellhus lies, and claims to be a Prince of Atrithau. To lay the groundwork for his future domination, he claims to have suffered dreams of the Holy War. Since Proyas is more concerned with Cnaiür and how he can use the barbarian’s knowledge of battle to thwart the Emperor, these declarations are accepted without any real scrutiny. Only the Mandate Schoolman accompanying Proyas, Drusas Achamian , seems troubled by him — especially by his name. The following evening, Kellhus dines with the sorcerer, disarming him with humour, flattering him with questions. He learns of the Apocalypse and the Consult and many other sundry things, and though he knows Achamian harbours some terror regarding the name ‘Anasûrimbor’, he asks the melancholy man to become his teacher. The Dûnyain, Kellhus has come to realize, have been mistaken about many things, the existence of sorcery among them. There is so much he must know before he confronts his father. A final gathering is called to settle the issue between the lords of the Holy War, who want to march, and the Emperor , who refuses to provision them. With Cnaiür at his side, Kellhus charts the souls of all those present, calculating the ways he might bring them under his thrall. Among the Emperor’s advisers, however, he observes an expression he cannot read. The man, he realizes, possesses a false face. While Ikurei Conphas and the Inrithi caste-nobles bicker, Kellhus studies the man, and determines that his name is Skeaös by reading the lips of his interlocutors. Before he can draw any conclusions, however, his scrutiny is noticed by the Emperor himself, who has the adviser seized. Though the entire Holy War celebrates the Emperor’s defeat, Kellhus is more perplexed than ever. Never has he undertaken a study so deep. That night he consummates his relationship with Serwë, continuing the patient work of undoing Cnaiür — as all Men of the Tusk must be undone. Somewhere, a shadowy faction lurks behind faces of false skin. Far to the south in Shimeh, Anasûrimbor Moënghus awaits the coming storm.

The Warrior Prophet

Kellhus requires three things to prepare for his father in Shimeh: knowledge of battle and of sorcery, and possession of the Holy War. From the outset, he uses his claim to caste-nobility to insinuate himself into the councils of Proyas and the other Great Names. He proceeds cautiously, patiently laying the groundwork of his domination. From his readings of Inrithi scripture, he learns what the Men of the Tusk expect from a prophetic figure, so he sets out to emulate — as far as he can—all of those characteristics. He becomes a pilot of souls, crafting others' impressions of him with subtle inflections of word, tone, and expression. Soon, almost all those who know him find themselves in awe. Throughout the Holy War men whisper that a prophet walks among them. At the same time, he plies Achamian with particular care. While mining him for his knowledge of the Three Seas, Kellhus subtly conditions him, instilling the passions and beliefs that will eventually force him to do the impossible: teach Kellhus the Gnosis , the deadly sorcery of the Ancient North. In the course of his study, however, he discovers dozens of skin-spies mimicking men in various positions of power. He realizes, moreover, that they now know he can see them. One of them, a high-ranking Shrial Knight called Sarcellus , approaches him, probing for details. Kellhus uses the opportunity to make himself even more enigmatic, into a puzzle the Consult will be loath to destroy before solving. As long as he remains a benign mystery to the Consult, Kellhus realizes, they will not move against him. He needs time to consolidate his position. Until the Holy War is his, he cannot risk an open confrontation. He says nothing to Achamian for much the same rea­son. He knows the Mandate Schoolman believes him to be the Harbinger of the Second Apocalypse , and that the only thing preventing Achamian from telling this to his Mandate handlers is the recent death of his former student, Inrau , as a result of their machinations. Knowing that Kellhus could actually see Consult agents in their midst would prove too much. And as Achamian himself admits, the Mandate would likely seize Kellhus rather than treat with him as an equal. Once the Holy War secures Shigek , Kellhus begins asserting himself more and more, giving what are called the Sermons of the Ziggurat . Though many now refer to him openly as the Warrior-Prophet , he continues to insist he is simply a man like any other. Knowing that Achamian has succumbed—that he believes him to be the world's only hope — Kellhus finally asks the Schoolman to teach him the Gnosis. But when Achamian leaves for the Sareötic Library to meditate on this request, he is abducted by the Scarlet Spires . Assuming Achamian lost, Kellhus turns to Esmenet , not out of any errant sense of lust, but because her extraordinary native intelligence makes her useful both as a subordinate and as a potential mate. The differences between the Dûnyain and the worldborn makes his bloodline invaluable. He knows that whatever sons he produces, especially by a woman of Esmenet’s intellect, will prove powerful tools. So he begins seducing her by teaching her to read, by showing the hidden truths of her own heart, and by draw­ing her ever deeper into his circle of power and influence. Far from proving an obstacle, her bereavement actually facili­tates his plan by rendering her more emotionally vulnerable and prone to suggestion. By the time the Holy War enters the desert, she has willingly joined him and Serwë in their bed. Despite its calamities, the journey across the desert pro­vides ample opportunity for him to exercise his otherworldly abilities. He rallies the Men of the Tusk with demonstra­tions of indomitable will and courage. He even saves them, using his preternatural senses to find well-springs beneath the sand. By the time the remnants of the Holy War fall upon Caraskand , thousands upon thousands openly hail him as the Warrior-Prophet. At long last he yields to the title. He names his followers the Zaudunyani , the ‘Tribe of Truth’. But now he faces an added danger. As the numbers of Zaudunyani swell, so too do the misapprehensions of the Great Names. For many, following the dictates of a living — as opposed to a long-dead — prophet proves too much. Ikurei Conphas becomes the de facto leader of the Orthodox, those Men of the Tusk who repudiate Kellhus and his revisionary Inrithism. Even Proyas finds himself increasingly troubled. The Consult, as well, have been watching Kellhus with growing trepidation. In the confusion of Caraskand’s fall, Sarcellus leads several of his brother skin-spies in an assas­sination attempt that very nearly costs Kellhus his life. Knowing that it might prove useful, Kellhus saves one of their severed heads. Shortly after this attempt, Kellhus is finally contacted by one of his father’s agents: a Cishaurim fleeing the Scarlet Spires. He tells Kellhus that he follows the Shortest Path , and that soon he will comprehend something called the Thousandfold Thought . Kellhus has innumerable questions, but it is too late: the Scarlet Spires approach. To avoid compromising his position, Kellhus beheads the man. When the Padirajah arrives and seals the Holy War up within Caraskand, the situation becomes even more dire. According to Conphas and the Orthodox, the God punishes the Men of the Tusk for following a False Prophet. To defuse their threat, Kellhus plots the assassination of both Conphas and Sarcellus. Neither attempt succeeds, and General Martemus , Conphas’s closest adviser, is killed. The dilemma now facing Kellhus is almost insuperable. The Holy War starves. The Zaudunyani and the Orthodox stand upon the brink of open war. And the Padirajah con­tinues to assail Caraskand’s walls. For the first time, Kellhus is confronted by circumstances he cannot master. He sees only one possible way to unify the Holy War under his leadership: he must let the Men of the Tusk condemn him and Serwë, and trust that Cnaiür, driven to avenge Serwë, will save him. Only a dramatic reversal and vindication can possibly win over the Orthodox in time. He must make a leap of faith. Serwë is executed, and Kellhus is bound to her naked corpse. Then he is lashed to a circumfix and hung from a great tree to die of exposure. Visions of the No-God plague him, as does Serwë pressed dead against him. Never has he suffered so... For the first time, Anasûrimbor Kellhus weeps. Achamian comes to him wild with rage because of Esmenet. Kellhus tells him about the skin-spies, about his visions of the impending Apocalypse. Then, miraculously, he is cut down, and he knows that at last the Holy War is his, and that they will have the ardour and conviction they need to overcome the Padirajah. Standing before the exultant masses, he grasps the Thousandfold Thought.

The Thousandfold Thought

Kellhus asks Achamian to teach him the Gnosis again. Though Achamian had been ordered by his Mandate handlers to pretend to give Kellhus the Gnosis and to make sure that no harm comes to him, he agrees but reminds Kellhus that sorcerers are vulnerable to Chorae , Kellhus then insists that Achamian must become his Vizier to be better able to protect him. Kellhus tells Achamian that with him the Tusk is rewritten so that sorcerers are no longer damned. When the Holy War is about to leave Caraskand and continue its march toward Shimeh, Kellhus orders Cnaiür to stay in Joktha with Conphas, in order to kill him. As the Holy War continues its march, Achamian teaches Kellhus Gilcûnya , the arcane tongue of the Nonmen Qûya and the language of all the Gnostic Cants. Kellhus astonishes Achamian by learning the language in less than two weeks. The two discuss the metaphysics of the Gnosis and other sorcery, and Kellhus asks Achamian whether Cants of three strings, one utteral and two inutterals, have been devised. Achamian lies and says that it’s impossible. When Achamian attempts to teach Kellhus the Cants of Calling he realizes that Seswatha prevents him. Only after Kellhus “speaks” with Seswatha is Achamian able to depart knowledge of the Gnosis. Again, Kellhus claims that sorcerers are no longer damned. In Amoteu , Esmenet is possessed by the Inchoroi , Aurang , and confronts Kellhus with questions about the Dûnyain and his father. Kellhus at first answers it but then realizes that the Inchoroi had used some sorcery on him and casts a Dara Ward to free himself of its influence. Kellhus baits Aurang by telling him that the No-God says that he failed him on the Plains of Mengedda . Before the Holy War assaults Shimeh Kellhus leaves to meet his father in Kyudea . Cnaiür reveals to Achamian the truth about Kellhus, that he is Dûnyain and that he was summoned by his father, not sent. Kellhus enters a ruined Nonman Mansion where his father is waiting for him. Inside he follows a trail that had been scuffed in the dust. The mansion’s galleries remind Kellhus of Ishuäl’s Thousand Thousand Halls . He continues following the trail and it leads him to a balcony overlooking an immense cavern with curtains of water falling down from above. Below he sees points of light and a platform beyond the reach of the waterfall. He descends a mighty staircase which leads to a vast chamber with a pool in its center. Kellhus advances around the pool and finds his father, white-skinned and pale, sitting cross-legged behind sheets of water that pour from one of a series of immense bronze statues erected in a semi-circle and facing the pool. Moënghus begins to recount Kellhus’s journey, how he came to dominate the Men of the Tusk and the Holy War, but says that the probability trance failed him at the point where the caste nobility moved against him, the Circumfixion. Kellhus tells Moënghus about the visions, the voice of God and the halos around his hands. Moënghus realizes that Kellhus has been broken by his trial, that he has returned to him a ‘madman’. Kellhus begins retelling the story of how Moënghus arrived at Shimeh after leaving Ishuäl. He says that his father made a mistake by taking the Psûkhe, as it is a metaphysics of the heart — of passion — something a Dûnyain would be weak at, and that this is why Moënghus had to ask for his son to help him. Moënghus takes Kellhus to a room where he holds two captive skin-spies. The skin-spies had been first discovered by the Cishaurim about twelve years prior, Kellhus deduces. The Cishaurim, assuming this was the work of the Scarlet Spires, assassinate their Grandmaster, Sasheoka . Only Moënghus realized that the skin-spies weren’t sorcerous artifacts, but engines of flesh. So he kept the creatures and interrogated them for years, learning from them about Golgotterath and the Consult — about the Second Apocalypse. Kellhus realizes that his father poses a threat, if Moënghus were to learn of the damnation that awaits him he would be no different from the Inchoroi. He stabs his father and leaves the mansion using the Cant of Transposition just as Cnaiür and ‘Serwë’ are about to enter the room. Kellhus appears on the battlefield over Shimeh and destroys what remains of the Cishaurim. Once Shimeh has been taken, Maithanet declares Kellhus the High King of Kûniüri and Ascpect-Emperor of the Three Seas. Achamian arrives at his court and repudiates him. Kellhus tells him that the next time they meet, Achamian will kneel to him.

The Judging Eye

Since the conclusion of the First Holy War Kellhus has unified the Three Seas under his rule. After twenty years of conversion and bloodshed, he plots the conclusion of his father’s Thousandfold Thought. His New Empire spans the entirety of the Three Seas, from the legendary fortress of Auvangshei on the frontiers of Zeüm to the shrouded headwaters of the River Sayut , from the sweltering coasts of Kutnarmu to the wild rim of the Osthwai Mountains —all the lands that had once been Fanim or Inrithi. It was easily the equal of the old Ceneian Empire in terms of geographical extent and likely far greater when it came to population. He's had four sons and two daughters with Esmenet. During that time, Kellhus established the first School for Sorceresses in Eärwa’s history, the Swayal Compact , which is lead by his daughter, Anasûrimbor Serwa . He has entrusted the Empire to his wife Esmenet as he leads a Holy War against the Consult, the Great Ordeal, which is about to commence its assault on Sakarpus following Harweel ’s refusal to surrender the city. Before the battle begins, Harweel warns his son, Sorweel , that the Aspect-Emperor is a Demon Ciphrang , a hunger from the Outside . Once the battle begins, Harweel is killed and Sorweel flees, pursued by Kellhus himself who effortlessly kills his protectors. He approaches the adolescent Prince, but rather than seizing or striking him, he embraces him. Tells him that he is forgiven, not by him, but by his father. Kellhus says that he is no conqueror — he really did come to save Mankind. Kellhus seems to have turned the Gods against him as Yatwer , the Goddess of Birth, sends her ‘son’, the White-Luck Warrior , into the world with the intent of killing the Aspect-Emperor. When Sharacinth, the Matriarch of the Cult of Yatwer is summoned to the Andiamine Heights by Esmenet, Kellhus appears and breaks her will with his sheer force of presence, making her promise to wrest the Cult from Psatma Nannaferi . Kellhus speaks to Esmenet alone, and seems indifferent to the death of their son, Samarmas . He tells her that the Great Ordeal is all that matters before leaving her again. At a Council of Potentates Kellhus moves from lord to lord, declaring the truths they think hidden in their souls. One of the lords assembled, Varalt Sorweel, fears what will happen when Kellhus sees the hatred and treachery smouldering in his own. But when Kellhus comes to him, he congratulates him for grasping the truth and, before everyone assembled, declares him one of the Believer-Kings.

The White-Luck Warrior

Kellhus speaks with Nersei Proyas, one of the Exalt-Generals of the Great Ordeal, in his bed chamber. He tells him that the God has allowed him glimpses of the future, and that everything has unfolded in accordance with those glimpses thus far. He says that he has to make decisions he would rather not make alone, dark decisions. Kellhus commands Proyas to bow his head into the flames of his hearth, revealing that Kellhus is able to watch the Men of the Great Ordeal through his fire. Kellhus fears that if the Men of the Ordeal were to learn that the New Empire, the world they’ve left behind in hopes of saving, is slipping into ruin, his host would dissolve — collapse. So he forbids, on pain of death, all Cants of Far-calling. Kellhus says that even he will not maintain contact with his Empire, he can no longer afford to look back. At the Eleventh Council of Potentates, Kellhus declares the Breaking of the Great Ordeal. The host is divided into four groups: the Men of the Middle North, under the command of his son, Anasûrimbor Kayûtas ; the Ketyai of the East, under Nersei Proyas’s command; the Ketyai of the West, under Coithus Saubon ’s command; and the Ketyai of the south under the command of King Sasal Umrapathur . Kellhus, again, summons Proyas to his bed chamber to sit and discuss, as he does at least once a week. They talk about the day Drusas Achamian repudiated Kellhus in Shimeh twenty years prior, that day troubles Proyas as Achamian is someone that he once loved. Proyas had read a summary of the charges made by Achamian against Anasûrimbor Kellhus in the Compendium of the First Holy War , charges that he says he did not believe. Kellhus, however, tells him that the charges are true. Kellhus informs Proyas that the Nonman King of Injor-Niyas , has finally answered their call; he has sent them an embassy. Kellhus is to meet the emissary in the Eleven Pole Chamber , before the meeting Kellhus reminds Proyas to forgive the Nonmen their peculiarities and to beware their beauty. The emissary, Nin’sariccas , arrives claiming to have been sent by Nil’giccas . Kellhus asks the Nonman whether Ishterebinth sides with the Great Ordeal, the Nonman, however, reminds him of his forefathers’ treachery, saying that for them, “Anasûrimbor” is the very name of Mannish arrogance and disorder. Kellhus repeats the question and the Nonman says that Ishterebinth will side with the Ordeal on the condition that Dagliash be retaken and the ‘ Niom ’ be honoured. Kellhus agrees. Toward the end of their meeting the Nonman asks Kellhus why the ‘False Men’, as the Nonmen are known in the Tusk, should lend their strength to the ‘True’, to which Kellhus replies by reminding him of the Womb-Plague . The Niom is a ritual wherein the ancient Nonmen Kings demanded hostages of the Men they dealt with as guarantees: a son, a daughter, and a captive enemy. The two former as a surety against treachery. The latter as a surety against deception. So Kellhus sends them his daughter Serwa, together with Sorweel and his adopted son Moënghus II . After the Second Battle of the Horde , Kellhus declares the Breaking of the Ordeal undone and commands the Armies of the West and the East to converge upon the Army of the Middle-North. Once the armies have gathered, Kellhus calls on his Believer-Kings to assemble, on the summit of a hill called Swaranûl , he gives a speech declaring that the Men of the Great Ordeal shall eat Sranc from that point forward to sustain themselves.

The Great Ordeal

Kellhus leads the Great Ordeal through Aörsi to Dagliash . He meets frequently alone with his Exalt-Generals. Kellhus flies a raft to move a company along with The Nuns into battle over the mountains of Dagliash, delivering Saubon and his riders directly to the massed Horde of Sranc. His sorceries is so powerful as to eat the mountain to reveal the legendary Well of Viri and crushing the Sranc and Bashrag waiting within the old Mansion. He warns his Lords and all the Schoolmen about the Consult and the Inchoroi: After the battle, Kellhus charges Proyas to lead the Ordeal north as Saubon is dead. Proyas realizes Kellhus is leaving.

The Unholy Consult

During the battle for Golgotterath in the closing moments of the Unholy Consult , Anasûrimbor Kellhus is destroyed and the Sranc legions obliterated his leaderless armies.

Children

Kellhus fathered six children with his second wife Esmenet, four sons and two daughters: - Kayûtas , eldest of the Prince-Imperials and General of the Kidruhil .
- Theliopa , eldest daughter of Kellhus and Esmenet. She stays with her mother in Momemn as an advisor.
- Serwa , second daughter of Kellhus and Esmenet, and Grandmistress of the Swayal Sisterhood.
- Inrilatas , second son of Kellhus and Esmenet, insane and imprisoned on the Andiamine Heights.
- Kelmomas , their youngest, the twin of Samarmas.
- Samarmas , twin of Kelmomas. Samarmas seems not to have inherited any of his father's Dûnyain traits.
Additionally, Kellhus adopted the son of his first wife Serwë, Moënghus II , who was raised as the fraternal twin of Kayûtas. Kellhus had bred a Dûnyain son, Anasûrimbor Koringhus, before leaving Ishuäl.

Miracles during the First Holy War

According to the Encyclopedic Glossary , Kellhus performed three miracles during the Holy War's march on Shimeh, the Miracle of Water, referring to his discovery of water in the wastes of Khemema , and the Miracle of the Circumfixion, referring to his survival of the Circumfix in Caraskand. It's not clear what the third miracle is.

Anasûrimbor Kellhus

Title(s): Aspect-Emperor High King of Kûniüri
Aliases: Prince of Nothing Warrior-Prophet Most Holy Prince of God False Prophet The Demon Kurcifra
Lived: 4076 or 4077 - ?
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Dûnyain ( Norsirai )
Nationality: New Empire
Gender: Male
Occupation: Dûnyain Monk Aspect-Emperor of the Three Seas
Relatives: Moënghus (father) Maithanet (half-brother) Esmenet (wife) Zikas (concubines) Mimara (stepdaughter) Koringhus (son) Moënghus (adoptive son) Kayûtas (son) Theliopa (daughter) Serwa (daughter) Unnamed child Inrilatas (son) Kelmomas (son) Samarmas (son) Several unnamed children The Boy (grandson)
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Warrior-Prophet The Thousandfold Thought The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal The Unholy Consult

Anasûrimbor Kellhus

Title(s): Aspect-Emperor High King of Kûniüri
Aliases: Prince of Nothing Warrior-Prophet Most Holy Prince of God False Prophet The Demon Kurcifra
Lived: 4076 or 4077 - ?
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Dûnyain ( Norsirai )
Nationality: New Empire
Gender: Male
Occupation: Dûnyain Monk Aspect-Emperor of the Three Seas
Relatives: Moënghus (father) Maithanet (half-brother) Esmenet (wife) Zikas (concubines) Mimara (stepdaughter) Koringhus (son) Moënghus (adoptive son) Kayûtas (son) Theliopa (daughter) Serwa (daughter) Unnamed child Inrilatas (son) Kelmomas (son) Samarmas (son) Several unnamed children The Boy (grandson)
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Warrior-Prophet The Thousandfold Thought The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal The Unholy Consult

Anasurimbor Kellhus
Anasûrimbor Kellhus [A-nasu-rim-bor Kel-jus] was a former Dûnyain Monk.

Character and appearance

Kellhus was tall and strong, with blonde hair and blue eyes. He had a long, heavy-featured and aquiline face. He wore his hair long, with a close-cropped beard. His features and voice were very similar to those of his father. Like all Dûnyain, Kellhus exhibited extraordinary powers of deduction and persuasion allowing him to manipulate worldborn Men as if they were children. His command of the Gnosis was second to none, making him the most powerful sorcerer in the Three Seas, and—possibly—in the entirety of Eärwa .

Background

Kellhus was born in Ishuäl , a fortress built in the Ancient North by Anasûrimbor Celmomas II but occupied by the Dûnyain for almost two thousand years. In Ishuäl, the Dûnyain isolated themselves from the world, breeding for reflex and intellect, and continually training in the ways of limb, thought, and face—all for the sake of reason, what they call the Logos . In an effort to transform themselves into the perfect expression of the Logos, the Dûnyain bent their entire existence to mastering the irrationalities that determine human thought: history, custom, and passion. In this way, they believe, they will eventually grasp what they call the Absolute , and so become true self-moving souls. Kellhus was a prodigy even by Dûnyain standards. Before he left Ishuäl, his understanding of the true nature of Eärwa was very limited as the Dûnyain had suppressed knowledge of Sorcery and other metaphysical phenomena.

The Darkness That Comes Before

Kellhus is sent by his order, the Dûnyain, to search for his father, Anasûrimbor Moënghus , who left them some thirty years previous. Knowing only that his father dwells in the city of Shimeh , Kellhus undertakes the arduous journey travelling through the abandoned North. Eventually he succumbs and is saved by a trapper named Leweth . While wintering with Leweth, Kellhus discovers he can read the man’s thoughts through the nuances of his expression. World-born men, he realizes, are little more than children in comparison with the Dûnyain. Experimenting, he finds that he can exact anything from Leweth — any love, any sacrifice — with mere words. When a band of Sranc discovers Leweth’s steading, the two men are forced to flee. Leweth is wounded, and Kellhus leaves him for the Sranc, feeling no remorse. The Sranc overtake him, and after driving them away, he battles their leader, a deranged Nonman , who nearly kills Kellhus with sorcery. Kellhus flees, wracked by questions without answers: sorcery, he’d been taught, was nothing more than superstition. Eventually he finds refuge in the ancient city of Atrithau , where, using his Dûnyain abilities, he assembles an expedition of forty-seven men to traverse the Sranc-infested plains of Suskara . The men call themselves adunyani , meaning ‘little Dûnyain’. After a harrowing trek that only he survives, he crosses the frontier only to be captured by a mad Scylvendi Chieftain named Cnaiür urs Skiötha — a man who both knows and hates his father, Moënghus. Though his knowledge of the Dûnyain renders Cnaiür immune to direct manipulation, Kellhus realizes he can turn the man’s thirst for vengeance to his advantage. Claiming to be an assassin sent to murder Moënghus, he asks the Scylvendi to join him on his quest. Overpowered by his hatred, Cnaiür reluctantly agrees, and the two men set out across the Jiünati Steppe . Kellhus tries to secure the trust he needs to possess the man, but the barbarian continually rebuffs him. His hatred and penetration are too great. Then, near the Imperial frontier, they find a concubine named Serwë , who informs them of a Holy War gathering about Momemn — a Holy War for Shimeh. They cross the mountains into the Empire , and Kellhus watches Cnaiür struggle with the growing conviction that he’s outlived his usefulness. Thinking that murdering Kellhus is as close as he’ll ever come to murdering Moënghus, Cnaiür attacks him, only to be defeated. To prove that he still needs him, Kellhus spares his life. He must, Kellhus knows, dominate the Holy War, but he as yet knows nothing of warfare. The variables are too many. Though his knowledge of Moënghus and the Dûnyain renders him a liability, Cnaiür’s skill in war makes him invaluable. To secure this knowledge, Kellhus starts seducing Serwë, using her and her beauty as detours to the barbarian’s tormented heart. Once in the Empire, they stumble across a patrol of Imperial cavalrymen; their journey to Momemn quickly becomes a desperate race. When they finally reach the encamped Holy War they find themselves before Nersei Proyas , the Crown Prince of Conriya . To secure a position of honour among the Men of the Tusk , Kellhus lies, and claims to be a Prince of Atrithau. To lay the groundwork for his future domination, he claims to have suffered dreams of the Holy War. Since Proyas is more concerned with Cnaiür and how he can use the barbarian’s knowledge of battle to thwart the Emperor, these declarations are accepted without any real scrutiny. Only the Mandate Schoolman accompanying Proyas, Drusas Achamian , seems troubled by him — especially by his name. The following evening, Kellhus dines with the sorcerer, disarming him with humour, flattering him with questions. He learns of the Apocalypse and the Consult and many other sundry things, and though he knows Achamian harbours some terror regarding the name ‘Anasûrimbor’, he asks the melancholy man to become his teacher. The Dûnyain, Kellhus has come to realize, have been mistaken about many things, the existence of sorcery among them. There is so much he must know before he confronts his father. A final gathering is called to settle the issue between the lords of the Holy War, who want to march, and the Emperor , who refuses to provision them. With Cnaiür at his side, Kellhus charts the souls of all those present, calculating the ways he might bring them under his thrall. Among the Emperor’s advisers, however, he observes an expression he cannot read. The man, he realizes, possesses a false face. While Ikurei Conphas and the Inrithi caste-nobles bicker, Kellhus studies the man, and determines that his name is Skeaös by reading the lips of his interlocutors. Before he can draw any conclusions, however, his scrutiny is noticed by the Emperor himself, who has the adviser seized. Though the entire Holy War celebrates the Emperor’s defeat, Kellhus is more perplexed than ever. Never has he undertaken a study so deep. That night he consummates his relationship with Serwë, continuing the patient work of undoing Cnaiür — as all Men of the Tusk must be undone. Somewhere, a shadowy faction lurks behind faces of false skin. Far to the south in Shimeh, Anasûrimbor Moënghus awaits the coming storm.

The Warrior Prophet

Kellhus requires three things to prepare for his father in Shimeh: knowledge of battle and of sorcery, and possession of the Holy War. From the outset, he uses his claim to caste-nobility to insinuate himself into the councils of Proyas and the other Great Names. He proceeds cautiously, patiently laying the groundwork of his domination. From his readings of Inrithi scripture, he learns what the Men of the Tusk expect from a prophetic figure, so he sets out to emulate — as far as he can—all of those characteristics. He becomes a pilot of souls, crafting others' impressions of him with subtle inflections of word, tone, and expression. Soon, almost all those who know him find themselves in awe. Throughout the Holy War men whisper that a prophet walks among them. At the same time, he plies Achamian with particular care. While mining him for his knowledge of the Three Seas, Kellhus subtly conditions him, instilling the passions and beliefs that will eventually force him to do the impossible: teach Kellhus the Gnosis , the deadly sorcery of the Ancient North. In the course of his study, however, he discovers dozens of skin-spies mimicking men in various positions of power. He realizes, moreover, that they now know he can see them. One of them, a high-ranking Shrial Knight called Sarcellus , approaches him, probing for details. Kellhus uses the opportunity to make himself even more enigmatic, into a puzzle the Consult will be loath to destroy before solving. As long as he remains a benign mystery to the Consult, Kellhus realizes, they will not move against him. He needs time to consolidate his position. Until the Holy War is his, he cannot risk an open confrontation. He says nothing to Achamian for much the same rea­son. He knows the Mandate Schoolman believes him to be the Harbinger of the Second Apocalypse , and that the only thing preventing Achamian from telling this to his Mandate handlers is the recent death of his former student, Inrau , as a result of their machinations. Knowing that Kellhus could actually see Consult agents in their midst would prove too much. And as Achamian himself admits, the Mandate would likely seize Kellhus rather than treat with him as an equal. Once the Holy War secures Shigek , Kellhus begins asserting himself more and more, giving what are called the Sermons of the Ziggurat . Though many now refer to him openly as the Warrior-Prophet , he continues to insist he is simply a man like any other. Knowing that Achamian has succumbed—that he believes him to be the world's only hope — Kellhus finally asks the Schoolman to teach him the Gnosis. But when Achamian leaves for the Sareötic Library to meditate on this request, he is abducted by the Scarlet Spires . Assuming Achamian lost, Kellhus turns to Esmenet , not out of any errant sense of lust, but because her extraordinary native intelligence makes her useful both as a subordinate and as a potential mate. The differences between the Dûnyain and the worldborn makes his bloodline invaluable. He knows that whatever sons he produces, especially by a woman of Esmenet’s intellect, will prove powerful tools. So he begins seducing her by teaching her to read, by showing the hidden truths of her own heart, and by draw­ing her ever deeper into his circle of power and influence. Far from proving an obstacle, her bereavement actually facili­tates his plan by rendering her more emotionally vulnerable and prone to suggestion. By the time the Holy War enters the desert, she has willingly joined him and Serwë in their bed. Despite its calamities, the journey across the desert pro­vides ample opportunity for him to exercise his otherworldly abilities. He rallies the Men of the Tusk with demonstra­tions of indomitable will and courage. He even saves them, using his preternatural senses to find well-springs beneath the sand. By the time the remnants of the Holy War fall upon Caraskand , thousands upon thousands openly hail him as the Warrior-Prophet. At long last he yields to the title. He names his followers the Zaudunyani , the ‘Tribe of Truth’. But now he faces an added danger. As the numbers of Zaudunyani swell, so too do the misapprehensions of the Great Names. For many, following the dictates of a living — as opposed to a long-dead — prophet proves too much. Ikurei Conphas becomes the de facto leader of the Orthodox, those Men of the Tusk who repudiate Kellhus and his revisionary Inrithism. Even Proyas finds himself increasingly troubled. The Consult, as well, have been watching Kellhus with growing trepidation. In the confusion of Caraskand’s fall, Sarcellus leads several of his brother skin-spies in an assas­sination attempt that very nearly costs Kellhus his life. Knowing that it might prove useful, Kellhus saves one of their severed heads. Shortly after this attempt, Kellhus is finally contacted by one of his father’s agents: a Cishaurim fleeing the Scarlet Spires. He tells Kellhus that he follows the Shortest Path , and that soon he will comprehend something called the Thousandfold Thought . Kellhus has innumerable questions, but it is too late: the Scarlet Spires approach. To avoid compromising his position, Kellhus beheads the man. When the Padirajah arrives and seals the Holy War up within Caraskand, the situation becomes even more dire. According to Conphas and the Orthodox, the God punishes the Men of the Tusk for following a False Prophet. To defuse their threat, Kellhus plots the assassination of both Conphas and Sarcellus. Neither attempt succeeds, and General Martemus , Conphas’s closest adviser, is killed. The dilemma now facing Kellhus is almost insuperable. The Holy War starves. The Zaudunyani and the Orthodox stand upon the brink of open war. And the Padirajah con­tinues to assail Caraskand’s walls. For the first time, Kellhus is confronted by circumstances he cannot master. He sees only one possible way to unify the Holy War under his leadership: he must let the Men of the Tusk condemn him and Serwë, and trust that Cnaiür, driven to avenge Serwë, will save him. Only a dramatic reversal and vindication can possibly win over the Orthodox in time. He must make a leap of faith. Serwë is executed, and Kellhus is bound to her naked corpse. Then he is lashed to a circumfix and hung from a great tree to die of exposure. Visions of the No-God plague him, as does Serwë pressed dead against him. Never has he suffered so... For the first time, Anasûrimbor Kellhus weeps. Achamian comes to him wild with rage because of Esmenet. Kellhus tells him about the skin-spies, about his visions of the impending Apocalypse. Then, miraculously, he is cut down, and he knows that at last the Holy War is his, and that they will have the ardour and conviction they need to overcome the Padirajah. Standing before the exultant masses, he grasps the Thousandfold Thought.

The Thousandfold Thought

Kellhus asks Achamian to teach him the Gnosis again. Though Achamian had been ordered by his Mandate handlers to pretend to give Kellhus the Gnosis and to make sure that no harm comes to him, he agrees but reminds Kellhus that sorcerers are vulnerable to Chorae , Kellhus then insists that Achamian must become his Vizier to be better able to protect him. Kellhus tells Achamian that with him the Tusk is rewritten so that sorcerers are no longer damned. When the Holy War is about to leave Caraskand and continue its march toward Shimeh, Kellhus orders Cnaiür to stay in Joktha with Conphas, in order to kill him. As the Holy War continues its march, Achamian teaches Kellhus Gilcûnya , the arcane tongue of the Nonmen Qûya and the language of all the Gnostic Cants. Kellhus astonishes Achamian by learning the language in less than two weeks. The two discuss the metaphysics of the Gnosis and other sorcery, and Kellhus asks Achamian whether Cants of three strings, one utteral and two inutterals, have been devised. Achamian lies and says that it’s impossible. When Achamian attempts to teach Kellhus the Cants of Calling he realizes that Seswatha prevents him. Only after Kellhus “speaks” with Seswatha is Achamian able to depart knowledge of the Gnosis. Again, Kellhus claims that sorcerers are no longer damned. In Amoteu , Esmenet is possessed by the Inchoroi , Aurang , and confronts Kellhus with questions about the Dûnyain and his father. Kellhus at first answers it but then realizes that the Inchoroi had used some sorcery on him and casts a Dara Ward to free himself of its influence. Kellhus baits Aurang by telling him that the No-God says that he failed him on the Plains of Mengedda . Before the Holy War assaults Shimeh Kellhus leaves to meet his father in Kyudea . Cnaiür reveals to Achamian the truth about Kellhus, that he is Dûnyain and that he was summoned by his father, not sent. Kellhus enters a ruined Nonman Mansion where his father is waiting for him. Inside he follows a trail that had been scuffed in the dust. The mansion’s galleries remind Kellhus of Ishuäl’s Thousand Thousand Halls . He continues following the trail and it leads him to a balcony overlooking an immense cavern with curtains of water falling down from above. Below he sees points of light and a platform beyond the reach of the waterfall. He descends a mighty staircase which leads to a vast chamber with a pool in its center. Kellhus advances around the pool and finds his father, white-skinned and pale, sitting cross-legged behind sheets of water that pour from one of a series of immense bronze statues erected in a semi-circle and facing the pool. Moënghus begins to recount Kellhus’s journey, how he came to dominate the Men of the Tusk and the Holy War, but says that the probability trance failed him at the point where the caste nobility moved against him, the Circumfixion. Kellhus tells Moënghus about the visions, the voice of God and the halos around his hands. Moënghus realizes that Kellhus has been broken by his trial, that he has returned to him a ‘madman’. Kellhus begins retelling the story of how Moënghus arrived at Shimeh after leaving Ishuäl. He says that his father made a mistake by taking the Psûkhe, as it is a metaphysics of the heart — of passion — something a Dûnyain would be weak at, and that this is why Moënghus had to ask for his son to help him. Moënghus takes Kellhus to a room where he holds two captive skin-spies. The skin-spies had been first discovered by the Cishaurim about twelve years prior, Kellhus deduces. The Cishaurim, assuming this was the work of the Scarlet Spires, assassinate their Grandmaster, Sasheoka . Only Moënghus realized that the skin-spies weren’t sorcerous artifacts, but engines of flesh. So he kept the creatures and interrogated them for years, learning from them about Golgotterath and the Consult — about the Second Apocalypse. Kellhus realizes that his father poses a threat, if Moënghus were to learn of the damnation that awaits him he would be no different from the Inchoroi. He stabs his father and leaves the mansion using the Cant of Transposition just as Cnaiür and ‘Serwë’ are about to enter the room. Kellhus appears on the battlefield over Shimeh and destroys what remains of the Cishaurim. Once Shimeh has been taken, Maithanet declares Kellhus the High King of Kûniüri and Ascpect-Emperor of the Three Seas. Achamian arrives at his court and repudiates him. Kellhus tells him that the next time they meet, Achamian will kneel to him.

The Judging Eye

Since the conclusion of the First Holy War Kellhus has unified the Three Seas under his rule. After twenty years of conversion and bloodshed, he plots the conclusion of his father’s Thousandfold Thought. His New Empire spans the entirety of the Three Seas, from the legendary fortress of Auvangshei on the frontiers of Zeüm to the shrouded headwaters of the River Sayut , from the sweltering coasts of Kutnarmu to the wild rim of the Osthwai Mountains —all the lands that had once been Fanim or Inrithi. It was easily the equal of the old Ceneian Empire in terms of geographical extent and likely far greater when it came to population. He's had four sons and two daughters with Esmenet. During that time, Kellhus established the first School for Sorceresses in Eärwa’s history, the Swayal Compact , which is lead by his daughter, Anasûrimbor Serwa . He has entrusted the Empire to his wife Esmenet as he leads a Holy War against the Consult, the Great Ordeal, which is about to commence its assault on Sakarpus following Harweel ’s refusal to surrender the city. Before the battle begins, Harweel warns his son, Sorweel , that the Aspect-Emperor is a Demon Ciphrang , a hunger from the Outside . Once the battle begins, Harweel is killed and Sorweel flees, pursued by Kellhus himself who effortlessly kills his protectors. He approaches the adolescent Prince, but rather than seizing or striking him, he embraces him. Tells him that he is forgiven, not by him, but by his father. Kellhus says that he is no conqueror — he really did come to save Mankind. Kellhus seems to have turned the Gods against him as Yatwer , the Goddess of Birth, sends her ‘son’, the White-Luck Warrior , into the world with the intent of killing the Aspect-Emperor. When Sharacinth, the Matriarch of the Cult of Yatwer is summoned to the Andiamine Heights by Esmenet, Kellhus appears and breaks her will with his sheer force of presence, making her promise to wrest the Cult from Psatma Nannaferi . Kellhus speaks to Esmenet alone, and seems indifferent to the death of their son, Samarmas . He tells her that the Great Ordeal is all that matters before leaving her again. At a Council of Potentates Kellhus moves from lord to lord, declaring the truths they think hidden in their souls. One of the lords assembled, Varalt Sorweel, fears what will happen when Kellhus sees the hatred and treachery smouldering in his own. But when Kellhus comes to him, he congratulates him for grasping the truth and, before everyone assembled, declares him one of the Believer-Kings.

The White-Luck Warrior

Kellhus speaks with Nersei Proyas, one of the Exalt-Generals of the Great Ordeal, in his bed chamber. He tells him that the God has allowed him glimpses of the future, and that everything has unfolded in accordance with those glimpses thus far. He says that he has to make decisions he would rather not make alone, dark decisions. Kellhus commands Proyas to bow his head into the flames of his hearth, revealing that Kellhus is able to watch the Men of the Great Ordeal through his fire. Kellhus fears that if the Men of the Ordeal were to learn that the New Empire, the world they’ve left behind in hopes of saving, is slipping into ruin, his host would dissolve — collapse. So he forbids, on pain of death, all Cants of Far-calling. Kellhus says that even he will not maintain contact with his Empire, he can no longer afford to look back. At the Eleventh Council of Potentates, Kellhus declares the Breaking of the Great Ordeal. The host is divided into four groups: the Men of the Middle North, under the command of his son, Anasûrimbor Kayûtas ; the Ketyai of the East, under Nersei Proyas’s command; the Ketyai of the West, under Coithus Saubon ’s command; and the Ketyai of the south under the command of King Sasal Umrapathur . Kellhus, again, summons Proyas to his bed chamber to sit and discuss, as he does at least once a week. They talk about the day Drusas Achamian repudiated Kellhus in Shimeh twenty years prior, that day troubles Proyas as Achamian is someone that he once loved. Proyas had read a summary of the charges made by Achamian against Anasûrimbor Kellhus in the Compendium of the First Holy War , charges that he says he did not believe. Kellhus, however, tells him that the charges are true. Kellhus informs Proyas that the Nonman King of Injor-Niyas , has finally answered their call; he has sent them an embassy. Kellhus is to meet the emissary in the Eleven Pole Chamber , before the meeting Kellhus reminds Proyas to forgive the Nonmen their peculiarities and to beware their beauty. The emissary, Nin’sariccas , arrives claiming to have been sent by Nil’giccas . Kellhus asks the Nonman whether Ishterebinth sides with the Great Ordeal, the Nonman, however, reminds him of his forefathers’ treachery, saying that for them, “Anasûrimbor” is the very name of Mannish arrogance and disorder. Kellhus repeats the question and the Nonman says that Ishterebinth will side with the Ordeal on the condition that Dagliash be retaken and the ‘ Niom ’ be honoured. Kellhus agrees. Toward the end of their meeting the Nonman asks Kellhus why the ‘False Men’, as the Nonmen are known in the Tusk, should lend their strength to the ‘True’, to which Kellhus replies by reminding him of the Womb-Plague . The Niom is a ritual wherein the ancient Nonmen Kings demanded hostages of the Men they dealt with as guarantees: a son, a daughter, and a captive enemy. The two former as a surety against treachery. The latter as a surety against deception. So Kellhus sends them his daughter Serwa, together with Sorweel and his adopted son Moënghus II . After the Second Battle of the Horde , Kellhus declares the Breaking of the Ordeal undone and commands the Armies of the West and the East to converge upon the Army of the Middle-North. Once the armies have gathered, Kellhus calls on his Believer-Kings to assemble, on the summit of a hill called Swaranûl , he gives a speech declaring that the Men of the Great Ordeal shall eat Sranc from that point forward to sustain themselves.

The Great Ordeal

Kellhus leads the Great Ordeal through Aörsi to Dagliash . He meets frequently alone with his Exalt-Generals. Kellhus flies a raft to move a company along with The Nuns into battle over the mountains of Dagliash, delivering Saubon and his riders directly to the massed Horde of Sranc. His sorceries is so powerful as to eat the mountain to reveal the legendary Well of Viri and crushing the Sranc and Bashrag waiting within the old Mansion. He warns his Lords and all the Schoolmen about the Consult and the Inchoroi: After the battle, Kellhus charges Proyas to lead the Ordeal north as Saubon is dead. Proyas realizes Kellhus is leaving.

The Unholy Consult

During the battle for Golgotterath in the closing moments of the Unholy Consult , Anasûrimbor Kellhus is destroyed and the Sranc legions obliterated his leaderless armies.

Children

Kellhus fathered six children with his second wife Esmenet, four sons and two daughters: - Kayûtas , eldest of the Prince-Imperials and General of the Kidruhil .
- Theliopa , eldest daughter of Kellhus and Esmenet. She stays with her mother in Momemn as an advisor.
- Serwa , second daughter of Kellhus and Esmenet, and Grandmistress of the Swayal Sisterhood.
- Inrilatas , second son of Kellhus and Esmenet, insane and imprisoned on the Andiamine Heights.
- Kelmomas , their youngest, the twin of Samarmas.
- Samarmas , twin of Kelmomas. Samarmas seems not to have inherited any of his father's Dûnyain traits.
Additionally, Kellhus adopted the son of his first wife Serwë, Moënghus II , who was raised as the fraternal twin of Kayûtas. Kellhus had bred a Dûnyain son, Anasûrimbor Koringhus, before leaving Ishuäl.

Miracles during the First Holy War

According to the Encyclopedic Glossary , Kellhus performed three miracles during the Holy War's march on Shimeh, the Miracle of Water, referring to his discovery of water in the wastes of Khemema , and the Miracle of the Circumfixion, referring to his survival of the Circumfix in Caraskand. It's not clear what the third miracle is.

Anasûrimbor Kellhus

Title(s): Aspect-Emperor High King of Kûniüri
Aliases: Prince of Nothing Warrior-Prophet Most Holy Prince of God False Prophet The Demon Kurcifra
Lived: 4076 or 4077 - ?
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Dûnyain ( Norsirai )
Nationality: New Empire
Gender: Male
Occupation: Dûnyain Monk Aspect-Emperor of the Three Seas
Relatives: Moënghus (father) Maithanet (half-brother) Esmenet (wife) Zikas (concubines) Mimara (stepdaughter) Koringhus (son) Moënghus (adoptive son) Kayûtas (son) Theliopa (daughter) Serwa (daughter) Unnamed child Inrilatas (son) Kelmomas (son) Samarmas (son) Several unnamed children The Boy (grandson)
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Warrior-Prophet The Thousandfold Thought The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal The Unholy Consult

Anasûrimbor Kellhus

Title(s): Aspect-Emperor High King of Kûniüri
Aliases: Prince of Nothing Warrior-Prophet Most Holy Prince of God False Prophet The Demon Kurcifra
Lived: 4076 or 4077 - ?
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Dûnyain ( Norsirai )
Nationality: New Empire
Gender: Male
Occupation: Dûnyain Monk Aspect-Emperor of the Three Seas
Relatives: Moënghus (father) Maithanet (half-brother) Esmenet (wife) Zikas (concubines) Mimara (stepdaughter) Koringhus (son) Moënghus (adoptive son) Kayûtas (son) Theliopa (daughter) Serwa (daughter) Unnamed child Inrilatas (son) Kelmomas (son) Samarmas (son) Several unnamed children The Boy (grandson)
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Warrior-Prophet The Thousandfold Thought The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal The Unholy Consult

Anasûrimbor
"Anasûrimbor Kellhus" Anasûrimbor Kellhus [A-nasu-rim-bor Kel-jus] was a former Dûnyain Monk.

Character and appearance

Kellhus was tall and strong, with blonde hair and blue eyes. He had a long, heavy-featured and aquiline face. He wore his hair long, with a close-cropped beard. His features and voice were very similar to those of his father. Like all Dûnyain, Kellhus exhibited extraordinary powers of deduction and persuasion allowing him to manipulate worldborn Men as if they were children. His command of the Gnosis was second to none, making him the most powerful sorcerer in the Three Seas, and—possibly—in the entirety of Eärwa .

Background

Kellhus was born in Ishuäl , a fortress built in the Ancient North by Anasûrimbor Celmomas II but occupied by the Dûnyain for almost two thousand years. In Ishuäl, the Dûnyain isolated themselves from the world, breeding for reflex and intellect, and continually training in the ways of limb, thought, and face—all for the sake of reason, what they call the Logos . In an effort to transform themselves into the perfect expression of the Logos, the Dûnyain bent their entire existence to mastering the irrationalities that determine human thought: history, custom, and passion. In this way, they believe, they will eventually grasp what they call the Absolute , and so become true self-moving souls. Kellhus was a prodigy even by Dûnyain standards. Before he left Ishuäl, his understanding of the true nature of Eärwa was very limited as the Dûnyain had suppressed knowledge of Sorcery and other metaphysical phenomena.

The Darkness That Comes Before

Kellhus is sent by his order, the Dûnyain, to search for his father, Anasûrimbor Moënghus , who left them some thirty years previous. Knowing only that his father dwells in the city of Shimeh , Kellhus undertakes the arduous journey travelling through the abandoned North. Eventually he succumbs and is saved by a trapper named Leweth . While wintering with Leweth, Kellhus discovers he can read the man’s thoughts through the nuances of his expression. World-born men, he realizes, are little more than children in comparison with the Dûnyain. Experimenting, he finds that he can exact anything from Leweth — any love, any sacrifice — with mere words. When a band of Sranc discovers Leweth’s steading, the two men are forced to flee. Leweth is wounded, and Kellhus leaves him for the Sranc, feeling no remorse. The Sranc overtake him, and after driving them away, he battles their leader, a deranged Nonman , who nearly kills Kellhus with sorcery. Kellhus flees, wracked by questions without answers: sorcery, he’d been taught, was nothing more than superstition. Eventually he finds refuge in the ancient city of Atrithau , where, using his Dûnyain abilities, he assembles an expedition of forty-seven men to traverse the Sranc-infested plains of Suskara . The men call themselves adunyani , meaning ‘little Dûnyain’. After a harrowing trek that only he survives, he crosses the frontier only to be captured by a mad Scylvendi Chieftain named Cnaiür urs Skiötha — a man who both knows and hates his father, Moënghus. Though his knowledge of the Dûnyain renders Cnaiür immune to direct manipulation, Kellhus realizes he can turn the man’s thirst for vengeance to his advantage. Claiming to be an assassin sent to murder Moënghus, he asks the Scylvendi to join him on his quest. Overpowered by his hatred, Cnaiür reluctantly agrees, and the two men set out across the Jiünati Steppe . Kellhus tries to secure the trust he needs to possess the man, but the barbarian continually rebuffs him. His hatred and penetration are too great. Then, near the Imperial frontier, they find a concubine named Serwë , who informs them of a Holy War gathering about Momemn — a Holy War for Shimeh. They cross the mountains into the Empire , and Kellhus watches Cnaiür struggle with the growing conviction that he’s outlived his usefulness. Thinking that murdering Kellhus is as close as he’ll ever come to murdering Moënghus, Cnaiür attacks him, only to be defeated. To prove that he still needs him, Kellhus spares his life. He must, Kellhus knows, dominate the Holy War, but he as yet knows nothing of warfare. The variables are too many. Though his knowledge of Moënghus and the Dûnyain renders him a liability, Cnaiür’s skill in war makes him invaluable. To secure this knowledge, Kellhus starts seducing Serwë, using her and her beauty as detours to the barbarian’s tormented heart. Once in the Empire, they stumble across a patrol of Imperial cavalrymen; their journey to Momemn quickly becomes a desperate race. When they finally reach the encamped Holy War they find themselves before Nersei Proyas , the Crown Prince of Conriya . To secure a position of honour among the Men of the Tusk , Kellhus lies, and claims to be a Prince of Atrithau. To lay the groundwork for his future domination, he claims to have suffered dreams of the Holy War. Since Proyas is more concerned with Cnaiür and how he can use the barbarian’s knowledge of battle to thwart the Emperor, these declarations are accepted without any real scrutiny. Only the Mandate Schoolman accompanying Proyas, Drusas Achamian , seems troubled by him — especially by his name. The following evening, Kellhus dines with the sorcerer, disarming him with humour, flattering him with questions. He learns of the Apocalypse and the Consult and many other sundry things, and though he knows Achamian harbours some terror regarding the name ‘Anasûrimbor’, he asks the melancholy man to become his teacher. The Dûnyain, Kellhus has come to realize, have been mistaken about many things, the existence of sorcery among them. There is so much he must know before he confronts his father. A final gathering is called to settle the issue between the lords of the Holy War, who want to march, and the Emperor , who refuses to provision them. With Cnaiür at his side, Kellhus charts the souls of all those present, calculating the ways he might bring them under his thrall. Among the Emperor’s advisers, however, he observes an expression he cannot read. The man, he realizes, possesses a false face. While Ikurei Conphas and the Inrithi caste-nobles bicker, Kellhus studies the man, and determines that his name is Skeaös by reading the lips of his interlocutors. Before he can draw any conclusions, however, his scrutiny is noticed by the Emperor himself, who has the adviser seized. Though the entire Holy War celebrates the Emperor’s defeat, Kellhus is more perplexed than ever. Never has he undertaken a study so deep. That night he consummates his relationship with Serwë, continuing the patient work of undoing Cnaiür — as all Men of the Tusk must be undone. Somewhere, a shadowy faction lurks behind faces of false skin. Far to the south in Shimeh, Anasûrimbor Moënghus awaits the coming storm.

The Warrior Prophet

Kellhus requires three things to prepare for his father in Shimeh: knowledge of battle and of sorcery, and possession of the Holy War. From the outset, he uses his claim to caste-nobility to insinuate himself into the councils of Proyas and the other Great Names. He proceeds cautiously, patiently laying the groundwork of his domination. From his readings of Inrithi scripture, he learns what the Men of the Tusk expect from a prophetic figure, so he sets out to emulate — as far as he can—all of those characteristics. He becomes a pilot of souls, crafting others' impressions of him with subtle inflections of word, tone, and expression. Soon, almost all those who know him find themselves in awe. Throughout the Holy War men whisper that a prophet walks among them. At the same time, he plies Achamian with particular care. While mining him for his knowledge of the Three Seas, Kellhus subtly conditions him, instilling the passions and beliefs that will eventually force him to do the impossible: teach Kellhus the Gnosis , the deadly sorcery of the Ancient North. In the course of his study, however, he discovers dozens of skin-spies mimicking men in various positions of power. He realizes, moreover, that they now know he can see them. One of them, a high-ranking Shrial Knight called Sarcellus , approaches him, probing for details. Kellhus uses the opportunity to make himself even more enigmatic, into a puzzle the Consult will be loath to destroy before solving. As long as he remains a benign mystery to the Consult, Kellhus realizes, they will not move against him. He needs time to consolidate his position. Until the Holy War is his, he cannot risk an open confrontation. He says nothing to Achamian for much the same rea­son. He knows the Mandate Schoolman believes him to be the Harbinger of the Second Apocalypse , and that the only thing preventing Achamian from telling this to his Mandate handlers is the recent death of his former student, Inrau , as a result of their machinations. Knowing that Kellhus could actually see Consult agents in their midst would prove too much. And as Achamian himself admits, the Mandate would likely seize Kellhus rather than treat with him as an equal. Once the Holy War secures Shigek , Kellhus begins asserting himself more and more, giving what are called the Sermons of the Ziggurat . Though many now refer to him openly as the Warrior-Prophet , he continues to insist he is simply a man like any other. Knowing that Achamian has succumbed—that he believes him to be the world's only hope — Kellhus finally asks the Schoolman to teach him the Gnosis. But when Achamian leaves for the Sareötic Library to meditate on this request, he is abducted by the Scarlet Spires . Assuming Achamian lost, Kellhus turns to Esmenet , not out of any errant sense of lust, but because her extraordinary native intelligence makes her useful both as a subordinate and as a potential mate. The differences between the Dûnyain and the worldborn makes his bloodline invaluable. He knows that whatever sons he produces, especially by a woman of Esmenet’s intellect, will prove powerful tools. So he begins seducing her by teaching her to read, by showing the hidden truths of her own heart, and by draw­ing her ever deeper into his circle of power and influence. Far from proving an obstacle, her bereavement actually facili­tates his plan by rendering her more emotionally vulnerable and prone to suggestion. By the time the Holy War enters the desert, she has willingly joined him and Serwë in their bed. Despite its calamities, the journey across the desert pro­vides ample opportunity for him to exercise his otherworldly abilities. He rallies the Men of the Tusk with demonstra­tions of indomitable will and courage. He even saves them, using his preternatural senses to find well-springs beneath the sand. By the time the remnants of the Holy War fall upon Caraskand , thousands upon thousands openly hail him as the Warrior-Prophet. At long last he yields to the title. He names his followers the Zaudunyani , the ‘Tribe of Truth’. But now he faces an added danger. As the numbers of Zaudunyani swell, so too do the misapprehensions of the Great Names. For many, following the dictates of a living — as opposed to a long-dead — prophet proves too much. Ikurei Conphas becomes the de facto leader of the Orthodox, those Men of the Tusk who repudiate Kellhus and his revisionary Inrithism. Even Proyas finds himself increasingly troubled. The Consult, as well, have been watching Kellhus with growing trepidation. In the confusion of Caraskand’s fall, Sarcellus leads several of his brother skin-spies in an assas­sination attempt that very nearly costs Kellhus his life. Knowing that it might prove useful, Kellhus saves one of their severed heads. Shortly after this attempt, Kellhus is finally contacted by one of his father’s agents: a Cishaurim fleeing the Scarlet Spires. He tells Kellhus that he follows the Shortest Path , and that soon he will comprehend something called the Thousandfold Thought . Kellhus has innumerable questions, but it is too late: the Scarlet Spires approach. To avoid compromising his position, Kellhus beheads the man. When the Padirajah arrives and seals the Holy War up within Caraskand, the situation becomes even more dire. According to Conphas and the Orthodox, the God punishes the Men of the Tusk for following a False Prophet. To defuse their threat, Kellhus plots the assassination of both Conphas and Sarcellus. Neither attempt succeeds, and General Martemus , Conphas’s closest adviser, is killed. The dilemma now facing Kellhus is almost insuperable. The Holy War starves. The Zaudunyani and the Orthodox stand upon the brink of open war. And the Padirajah con­tinues to assail Caraskand’s walls. For the first time, Kellhus is confronted by circumstances he cannot master. He sees only one possible way to unify the Holy War under his leadership: he must let the Men of the Tusk condemn him and Serwë, and trust that Cnaiür, driven to avenge Serwë, will save him. Only a dramatic reversal and vindication can possibly win over the Orthodox in time. He must make a leap of faith. Serwë is executed, and Kellhus is bound to her naked corpse. Then he is lashed to a circumfix and hung from a great tree to die of exposure. Visions of the No-God plague him, as does Serwë pressed dead against him. Never has he suffered so... For the first time, Anasûrimbor Kellhus weeps. Achamian comes to him wild with rage because of Esmenet. Kellhus tells him about the skin-spies, about his visions of the impending Apocalypse. Then, miraculously, he is cut down, and he knows that at last the Holy War is his, and that they will have the ardour and conviction they need to overcome the Padirajah. Standing before the exultant masses, he grasps the Thousandfold Thought.

The Thousandfold Thought

Kellhus asks Achamian to teach him the Gnosis again. Though Achamian had been ordered by his Mandate handlers to pretend to give Kellhus the Gnosis and to make sure that no harm comes to him, he agrees but reminds Kellhus that sorcerers are vulnerable to Chorae , Kellhus then insists that Achamian must become his Vizier to be better able to protect him. Kellhus tells Achamian that with him the Tusk is rewritten so that sorcerers are no longer damned. When the Holy War is about to leave Caraskand and continue its march toward Shimeh, Kellhus orders Cnaiür to stay in Joktha with Conphas, in order to kill him. As the Holy War continues its march, Achamian teaches Kellhus Gilcûnya , the arcane tongue of the Nonmen Qûya and the language of all the Gnostic Cants. Kellhus astonishes Achamian by learning the language in less than two weeks. The two discuss the metaphysics of the Gnosis and other sorcery, and Kellhus asks Achamian whether Cants of three strings, one utteral and two inutterals, have been devised. Achamian lies and says that it’s impossible. When Achamian attempts to teach Kellhus the Cants of Calling he realizes that Seswatha prevents him. Only after Kellhus “speaks” with Seswatha is Achamian able to depart knowledge of the Gnosis. Again, Kellhus claims that sorcerers are no longer damned. In Amoteu , Esmenet is possessed by the Inchoroi , Aurang , and confronts Kellhus with questions about the Dûnyain and his father. Kellhus at first answers it but then realizes that the Inchoroi had used some sorcery on him and casts a Dara Ward to free himself of its influence. Kellhus baits Aurang by telling him that the No-God says that he failed him on the Plains of Mengedda . Before the Holy War assaults Shimeh Kellhus leaves to meet his father in Kyudea . Cnaiür reveals to Achamian the truth about Kellhus, that he is Dûnyain and that he was summoned by his father, not sent. Kellhus enters a ruined Nonman Mansion where his father is waiting for him. Inside he follows a trail that had been scuffed in the dust. The mansion’s galleries remind Kellhus of Ishuäl’s Thousand Thousand Halls . He continues following the trail and it leads him to a balcony overlooking an immense cavern with curtains of water falling down from above. Below he sees points of light and a platform beyond the reach of the waterfall. He descends a mighty staircase which leads to a vast chamber with a pool in its center. Kellhus advances around the pool and finds his father, white-skinned and pale, sitting cross-legged behind sheets of water that pour from one of a series of immense bronze statues erected in a semi-circle and facing the pool. Moënghus begins to recount Kellhus’s journey, how he came to dominate the Men of the Tusk and the Holy War, but says that the probability trance failed him at the point where the caste nobility moved against him, the Circumfixion. Kellhus tells Moënghus about the visions, the voice of God and the halos around his hands. Moënghus realizes that Kellhus has been broken by his trial, that he has returned to him a ‘madman’. Kellhus begins retelling the story of how Moënghus arrived at Shimeh after leaving Ishuäl. He says that his father made a mistake by taking the Psûkhe, as it is a metaphysics of the heart — of passion — something a Dûnyain would be weak at, and that this is why Moënghus had to ask for his son to help him. Moënghus takes Kellhus to a room where he holds two captive skin-spies. The skin-spies had been first discovered by the Cishaurim about twelve years prior, Kellhus deduces. The Cishaurim, assuming this was the work of the Scarlet Spires, assassinate their Grandmaster, Sasheoka . Only Moënghus realized that the skin-spies weren’t sorcerous artifacts, but engines of flesh. So he kept the creatures and interrogated them for years, learning from them about Golgotterath and the Consult — about the Second Apocalypse. Kellhus realizes that his father poses a threat, if Moënghus were to learn of the damnation that awaits him he would be no different from the Inchoroi. He stabs his father and leaves the mansion using the Cant of Transposition just as Cnaiür and ‘Serwë’ are about to enter the room. Kellhus appears on the battlefield over Shimeh and destroys what remains of the Cishaurim. Once Shimeh has been taken, Maithanet declares Kellhus the High King of Kûniüri and Ascpect-Emperor of the Three Seas. Achamian arrives at his court and repudiates him. Kellhus tells him that the next time they meet, Achamian will kneel to him.

The Judging Eye

Since the conclusion of the First Holy War Kellhus has unified the Three Seas under his rule. After twenty years of conversion and bloodshed, he plots the conclusion of his father’s Thousandfold Thought. His New Empire spans the entirety of the Three Seas, from the legendary fortress of Auvangshei on the frontiers of Zeüm to the shrouded headwaters of the River Sayut , from the sweltering coasts of Kutnarmu to the wild rim of the Osthwai Mountains —all the lands that had once been Fanim or Inrithi. It was easily the equal of the old Ceneian Empire in terms of geographical extent and likely far greater when it came to population. He's had four sons and two daughters with Esmenet. During that time, Kellhus established the first School for Sorceresses in Eärwa’s history, the Swayal Compact , which is lead by his daughter, Anasûrimbor Serwa . He has entrusted the Empire to his wife Esmenet as he leads a Holy War against the Consult, the Great Ordeal, which is about to commence its assault on Sakarpus following Harweel ’s refusal to surrender the city. Before the battle begins, Harweel warns his son, Sorweel , that the Aspect-Emperor is a Demon Ciphrang , a hunger from the Outside . Once the battle begins, Harweel is killed and Sorweel flees, pursued by Kellhus himself who effortlessly kills his protectors. He approaches the adolescent Prince, but rather than seizing or striking him, he embraces him. Tells him that he is forgiven, not by him, but by his father. Kellhus says that he is no conqueror — he really did come to save Mankind. Kellhus seems to have turned the Gods against him as Yatwer , the Goddess of Birth, sends her ‘son’, the White-Luck Warrior , into the world with the intent of killing the Aspect-Emperor. When Sharacinth, the Matriarch of the Cult of Yatwer is summoned to the Andiamine Heights by Esmenet, Kellhus appears and breaks her will with his sheer force of presence, making her promise to wrest the Cult from Psatma Nannaferi . Kellhus speaks to Esmenet alone, and seems indifferent to the death of their son, Samarmas . He tells her that the Great Ordeal is all that matters before leaving her again. At a Council of Potentates Kellhus moves from lord to lord, declaring the truths they think hidden in their souls. One of the lords assembled, Varalt Sorweel, fears what will happen when Kellhus sees the hatred and treachery smouldering in his own. But when Kellhus comes to him, he congratulates him for grasping the truth and, before everyone assembled, declares him one of the Believer-Kings.

The White-Luck Warrior

Kellhus speaks with Nersei Proyas, one of the Exalt-Generals of the Great Ordeal, in his bed chamber. He tells him that the God has allowed him glimpses of the future, and that everything has unfolded in accordance with those glimpses thus far. He says that he has to make decisions he would rather not make alone, dark decisions. Kellhus commands Proyas to bow his head into the flames of his hearth, revealing that Kellhus is able to watch the Men of the Great Ordeal through his fire. Kellhus fears that if the Men of the Ordeal were to learn that the New Empire, the world they’ve left behind in hopes of saving, is slipping into ruin, his host would dissolve — collapse. So he forbids, on pain of death, all Cants of Far-calling. Kellhus says that even he will not maintain contact with his Empire, he can no longer afford to look back. At the Eleventh Council of Potentates, Kellhus declares the Breaking of the Great Ordeal. The host is divided into four groups: the Men of the Middle North, under the command of his son, Anasûrimbor Kayûtas ; the Ketyai of the East, under Nersei Proyas’s command; the Ketyai of the West, under Coithus Saubon ’s command; and the Ketyai of the south under the command of King Sasal Umrapathur . Kellhus, again, summons Proyas to his bed chamber to sit and discuss, as he does at least once a week. They talk about the day Drusas Achamian repudiated Kellhus in Shimeh twenty years prior, that day troubles Proyas as Achamian is someone that he once loved. Proyas had read a summary of the charges made by Achamian against Anasûrimbor Kellhus in the Compendium of the First Holy War , charges that he says he did not believe. Kellhus, however, tells him that the charges are true. Kellhus informs Proyas that the Nonman King of Injor-Niyas , has finally answered their call; he has sent them an embassy. Kellhus is to meet the emissary in the Eleven Pole Chamber , before the meeting Kellhus reminds Proyas to forgive the Nonmen their peculiarities and to beware their beauty. The emissary, Nin’sariccas , arrives claiming to have been sent by Nil’giccas . Kellhus asks the Nonman whether Ishterebinth sides with the Great Ordeal, the Nonman, however, reminds him of his forefathers’ treachery, saying that for them, “Anasûrimbor” is the very name of Mannish arrogance and disorder. Kellhus repeats the question and the Nonman says that Ishterebinth will side with the Ordeal on the condition that Dagliash be retaken and the ‘ Niom ’ be honoured. Kellhus agrees. Toward the end of their meeting the Nonman asks Kellhus why the ‘False Men’, as the Nonmen are known in the Tusk, should lend their strength to the ‘True’, to which Kellhus replies by reminding him of the Womb-Plague . The Niom is a ritual wherein the ancient Nonmen Kings demanded hostages of the Men they dealt with as guarantees: a son, a daughter, and a captive enemy. The two former as a surety against treachery. The latter as a surety against deception. So Kellhus sends them his daughter Serwa, together with Sorweel and his adopted son Moënghus II . After the Second Battle of the Horde , Kellhus declares the Breaking of the Ordeal undone and commands the Armies of the West and the East to converge upon the Army of the Middle-North. Once the armies have gathered, Kellhus calls on his Believer-Kings to assemble, on the summit of a hill called Swaranûl , he gives a speech declaring that the Men of the Great Ordeal shall eat Sranc from that point forward to sustain themselves.

The Great Ordeal

Kellhus leads the Great Ordeal through Aörsi to Dagliash . He meets frequently alone with his Exalt-Generals. Kellhus flies a raft to move a company along with The Nuns into battle over the mountains of Dagliash, delivering Saubon and his riders directly to the massed Horde of Sranc. His sorceries is so powerful as to eat the mountain to reveal the legendary Well of Viri and crushing the Sranc and Bashrag waiting within the old Mansion. He warns his Lords and all the Schoolmen about the Consult and the Inchoroi: After the battle, Kellhus charges Proyas to lead the Ordeal north as Saubon is dead. Proyas realizes Kellhus is leaving.

The Unholy Consult

During the battle for Golgotterath in the closing moments of the Unholy Consult , Anasûrimbor Kellhus is destroyed and the Sranc legions obliterated his leaderless armies.

Children

Kellhus fathered six children with his second wife Esmenet, four sons and two daughters: - Kayûtas , eldest of the Prince-Imperials and General of the Kidruhil .
- Theliopa , eldest daughter of Kellhus and Esmenet. She stays with her mother in Momemn as an advisor.
- Serwa , second daughter of Kellhus and Esmenet, and Grandmistress of the Swayal Sisterhood.
- Inrilatas , second son of Kellhus and Esmenet, insane and imprisoned on the Andiamine Heights.
- Kelmomas , their youngest, the twin of Samarmas.
- Samarmas , twin of Kelmomas. Samarmas seems not to have inherited any of his father's Dûnyain traits.
Additionally, Kellhus adopted the son of his first wife Serwë, Moënghus II , who was raised as the fraternal twin of Kayûtas. Kellhus had bred a Dûnyain son, Anasûrimbor Koringhus, before leaving Ishuäl.

Miracles during the First Holy War

According to the Encyclopedic Glossary , Kellhus performed three miracles during the Holy War's march on Shimeh, the Miracle of Water, referring to his discovery of water in the wastes of Khemema , and the Miracle of the Circumfixion, referring to his survival of the Circumfix in Caraskand. It's not clear what the third miracle is.

Anasûrimbor Kellhus

Title(s): Aspect-Emperor High King of Kûniüri
Aliases: Prince of Nothing Warrior-Prophet Most Holy Prince of God False Prophet The Demon Kurcifra
Lived: 4076 or 4077 - ?
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Dûnyain ( Norsirai )
Nationality: New Empire
Gender: Male
Occupation: Dûnyain Monk Aspect-Emperor of the Three Seas
Relatives: Moënghus (father) Maithanet (half-brother) Esmenet (wife) Zikas (concubines) Mimara (stepdaughter) Koringhus (son) Moënghus (adoptive son) Kayûtas (son) Theliopa (daughter) Serwa (daughter) Unnamed child Inrilatas (son) Kelmomas (son) Samarmas (son) Several unnamed children The Boy (grandson)
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Warrior-Prophet The Thousandfold Thought The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal The Unholy Consult

Anasûrimbor Kellhus

Title(s): Aspect-Emperor High King of Kûniüri
Aliases: Prince of Nothing Warrior-Prophet Most Holy Prince of God False Prophet The Demon Kurcifra
Lived: 4076 or 4077 - ?
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Dûnyain ( Norsirai )
Nationality: New Empire
Gender: Male
Occupation: Dûnyain Monk Aspect-Emperor of the Three Seas
Relatives: Moënghus (father) Maithanet (half-brother) Esmenet (wife) Zikas (concubines) Mimara (stepdaughter) Koringhus (son) Moënghus (adoptive son) Kayûtas (son) Theliopa (daughter) Serwa (daughter) Unnamed child Inrilatas (son) Kelmomas (son) Samarmas (son) Several unnamed children The Boy (grandson)
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Warrior-Prophet The Thousandfold Thought The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal The Unholy Consult

Anasûrimbor Celmomas II
Anasûrimbor Celmomas II was the leader of the coalition against Golgotterath in the early days of the Apocalypse , and the last and greatest of the Kûniüric High Kings. He was a close friend of the sorcerer Seswatha , who often acted as his advisor. Celmomas was married to Suriala , and among his sons were Anasûrimbor Ganrelka II and the famous war hero Anasûrimbor Nau-Cayûti . But perhaps Nau-Cayûti was in truth the bastard son of Suriala and Seswatha. In the Apocalypse’s early years, Celmomas was fatally wounded in battle by a Sranc chieftain during the Battle of Eleneöt Fields . With his dying words, he prophesied to Seswatha that a descendant of his would return at the end of the world. While few in the Three Seas believe the Celmomian Prophecy , as it is known, most Mandate scholars think it authentic. In particular, Drusas Achamian believes that the prophecy refers to Anasûrimbor Kellhus . Celmomas wielded a large ensorcelled sword named Glimir, which was said to pass through foes with great ease.

Anasûrimbor Celmomas II

Title(s): High King of Kûniüri White Lord of Trysë
Lived: 2089 - 2146
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Kûniüri
Gender: Male
Occupation: High King of Kûniüri
Relatives: Anasûrimbor Nanor-Ukkerja I (ancestor) Anasûrimbor Huörmomas (brother) Suriala (wife) Anasûrimbor Ganrelka II (son) Anasûrimbor Nau-Cayûti (son)(?) Anasûrimbor Moënghus (descendant) Anasûrimbor Kellhus (descendant)
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before (flashbacks only)

Anasûrimbor Celmomas II

Title(s): High King of Kûniüri White Lord of Trysë
Lived: 2089 - 2146
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Kûniüri
Gender: Male
Occupation: High King of Kûniüri
Relatives: Anasûrimbor Nanor-Ukkerja I (ancestor) Anasûrimbor Huörmomas (brother) Suriala (wife) Anasûrimbor Ganrelka II (son) Anasûrimbor Nau-Cayûti (son)(?) Anasûrimbor Moënghus (descendant) Anasûrimbor Kellhus (descendant)
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before (flashbacks only)

Anasûrimbor Dynasty
Anasûrimbor Dynasty is the ruling dynasty of Kûniüri from 1408 to 2147.

Known High-Kings of Kûniüri

- Anasûrimbor Nanor-Ukkerja I
- Anasûrimbor Celmomas II
- Anasûrimbor Ganrelka II

Partitioning of Greater Kûniüri

At his death, c. 1556, Nanor-Ukkerja I divided his empire between his sons, creating Aörsi and Sheneor in addition to Kûniüri proper.

Known High-Kings of Aörsi

- Anasûrimbor Mygella
- Anasûrimbor Nimeric

Anasûrimbor Esmenet
Esmenet was a whore from Sumna , and a friend and lover of Drusas Achamian . She marries Anasûrimbor Kellhus and becomes Empress of Three Seas .

Appearance

Esmenet has dark hair and brown eyes. She has two snake heads tattooed to the back of her left hand, marking her as a prostitute in Sumna. She is considered very attractive.

What Came Before

Esmenet has always regretted being unable to see the world outside Sumna. She asks her clients to tell her their stories so she can travel the world vicariously. Achamian's reaction to her questions endeared him to her, and he became a regular client whenever he was in Sumna. Esmenet had a daughter, Mimara , while she was still a young prostitute. During a severe famine, she sold her daughter to slavers to buy food. She would later deeply regret the decision and claim that her daughter died.

The Darkness That Comes Before

When Achamian arrives on his mission to learn more about Maithanet , she readily takes him in and participates in his plotting sessions. When his informant, Inrau , is murdered, the Schoolman is forced to travel to Momemn . Esmenet begs him to take her with him, but he refuses. Not long after, a threatening stranger comes to her room, demanding to know everything about Achamian. The man ravishes her using an inexplicable ability to provide intense pleasure with his touch. Esmenet finds herself answering all his questions before he vanishes leaving only pools of black seed to mark his passing. Esmenet flees Sumna , determined to find Achamian and tell him what happened. On her way to Momemn she pauses in a village, hoping to find someone to repair her broken sandal. When the villagers recognize the whore’s tattoo on her hand they begin stoning her. Only the sudden appearance of Sarcellus saves her. Sarcellus takes her to Momemn. Once they reach the Holy War , Esmenet stays with Sarcellus. Until one night before the Holy War is to march, she sets off in search of the Achamian, determined to tell him everything that has happened. She locates Xinemus ’s camp. Ashamed, she hides in the darkness, waiting for Achamian to appear. When she sees him trudging toward her. She holds out her arms to him, weeping with joy and sorrow … And he simply walks past her as though she were a stranger. Heartbroken, she flees, determined to make her own way in the Holy War.

The Warrior-Prophet

Thinking Achamian has repudiated her, Esmenet joins a troop of camp prostitutes. At Asgilioch , she finds Achamian kneeling in the crowds, drunk and beaten. They reconcile, even though she cannot confess the truth of her affair with Sarcellus . She joins him in his humble tent, and becomes his wife in spirit if not in ritual. Achamian introduces her to Kellhus and Serwë . When Achamian goes missing. She mourns him the way she once mourned her dead daughter. While the Men of the Tusk assail the South Bank, she remains alone in Achamian’s tent, refusing to rejoin the Holy War. After the Battle of Anwurat , Kellhus comes to her with Serwë, and convinces her to join them on the continued march. He begins teaching her how to read and she finds herself attracted to Kellhus. She confesses the truth about her daughter: Mimara didn’t die all those years ago. Esmenet sold the girl to slavers to forestall starvation. She and Kellhus make love the following morning and she becomes his second wife. She becomes pregnant. When the Great Names execute Serwë and condemn Kellhus to the Circumfix. All seems lost … Until Achamian returns.

The Judging Eye

In Momemn , the capital of the New Empire, Esmenet struggles to rule in her husband's absence. The Imperial Court regards her with condescension. She has the travails of her own family to contend with: all her eldest children have gone. Mimara has fled to Achamian . Kayûtas , Serwa , and her stepson, Moënghus , ride with their father in the Great Ordeal. Theliopa remains with her as an adviser, but she is scarcely human. The next youngest, the mad and murderous Inrilatas , Esmenet keeps imprisoned atop the Andiamine Heights . Only her very youngest, Kelmomas , who murders his twin brother Samarmas, provides her with any comfort. At Maithanet 's bidding, Esmenet summons Sharacinth, the officially sanctioned Matriarch of the Yatwerians , with the intention of setting the Cult against itself. When they fail to cow the woman, Kellhus himself arrives and breaks her will to resist with sheer force of presence. The blubbering Matriarch yields, promising to wrest her Cult from Psatma Nannaferi . Kelmomas murders Sharacinth and her retinue. Rumours of her assassination travel quickly, igniting the embers of sedition among the slaves and caste-menials. Riots erupt across the New Empire. Esmenet turns to Kelmomas for comfort. Intoxicated with success, he begins plotting against his uncle, Maithanet, knowing that the man alone possesses the ability to see through his deception.

Esmenet

Title(s): Prophet-Consort Empress
Aliases: Esmi Whore of Sumna
Lived: 4078 or 4079 - present
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Ketyai
Gender: Female
Occupation: Prostitute Empress
Relatives: Kellhus (husband) Maithanet (brother-in-law) Mimara (daughter) Koringhus (stepson) Moënghus (adoptive son) Kayûtas (son) Theliopa (daughter) Serwa (daughter) Unnamed child Inrilatas (son) Kelmomas (son) Samarmas (son) The Boy (stepgrandson) Unnamed grandson Unnamed grandchild
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Warrior-Prophet The Thousandfold Thought The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal The Unholy Consult

Esmenet

Title(s): Prophet-Consort Empress
Aliases: Esmi Whore of Sumna
Lived: 4078 or 4079 - present
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Ketyai
Gender: Female
Occupation: Prostitute Empress
Relatives: Kellhus (husband) Maithanet (brother-in-law) Mimara (daughter) Koringhus (stepson) Moënghus (adoptive son) Kayûtas (son) Theliopa (daughter) Serwa (daughter) Unnamed child Inrilatas (son) Kelmomas (son) Samarmas (son) The Boy (stepgrandson) Unnamed grandson Unnamed grandchild
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Warrior-Prophet The Thousandfold Thought The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal The Unholy Consult

Anasûrimbor Ganrelka II
Anasûrimbor Ganrelka II was the successor of Anasûrimbor Celmomas II and the last reigning High King of Kûniüri . Ganrelka was Celmomas II’s heir, and took part in the Second Ordeal . He was present at the disastrous Battle of Eleneöt Fields , where Celmomas was struck down, but was rescued from danger by five knights of Trysë . In 2147, following the complete annihilation of Kûniüri by the unopposed Horde of the No-God , Ganrelka and his court escaped to the hidden fortress of Ishuäl in the remote Demua Mountains . While the utter secrecy of the fortress’s location prevented the No-God from assailing it, Ganrelka and all his family—save his bastard son—perished of the plague within months.

Anasûrimbor Ganrelka II

Title(s): High King of Kûniüri
Lived: 2104 - 2147
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Kûniüri
Gender: Male
Occupation: High King of Kûniüri
Relatives: Anasûrimbor Nanor-Ukkerja I (ancestor) Anasûrimbor Celmomas II (father) Anasûrimbor Nau-Cayûti (brother)(?) Anasûrimbor Moënghus (descendant) Anasûrimbor Kellhus (descendant)
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before

Anasûrimbor Ganrelka II

Title(s): High King of Kûniüri
Lived: 2104 - 2147
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Kûniüri
Gender: Male
Occupation: High King of Kûniüri
Relatives: Anasûrimbor Nanor-Ukkerja I (ancestor) Anasûrimbor Celmomas II (father) Anasûrimbor Nau-Cayûti (brother)(?) Anasûrimbor Moënghus (descendant) Anasûrimbor Kellhus (descendant)
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before

Anasûrimbor Huörmomas
Anasûrimbor Huörmomas was the stillborn twin brother of Anasûrimbor Celmomas II . According to The Sagas , Celmomas was haunted by thoughts of Huörmomas throughout his life.

Anasûrimbor Huörmomas

Lived: ?
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Kûniüri
Gender: Men
Relatives: Anasûrimbor Celmomas II (brother)
Books: mentioned only

Anasûrimbor Huörmomas

Lived: ?
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Kûniüri
Gender: Men
Relatives: Anasûrimbor Celmomas II (brother)
Books: mentioned only

Anasûrimbor Inrilatas
Anasûrimbor Inrilatas was the second son and fifth child of Kellhus and Esmenet , insane and imprisoned on the Andiamine Heights . He inherited more of his father's traits than any his siblings.

Appearance

Inrilatas has a long face, blue eyes, and a mane of golden hair . He has stubble covering his chin and the line of his jaw, but not reaching his cheeks . He possesses a muscular body .

What Came Before

Inrilatas matured rapidly even by the standards of Kellhus' children, something that deeply unnerved his half-sister Mimara, who Esmenet tried to actively involve in his upbringing. He supposedly possessed the full measure of his father's intellect and his mother's emotions, which inevitably drove him insane. As a young child, he told her that the reason she mistreated their mother was not to avenge her slavery but because she was broken inside, and could not tolerate kindness like a whipped dog that sees only the raised hand. At some point he underwent training under his father in hopes that learning to read the thoughts of others through their faces would help him master his own passions. Instead, he used his natural gifts and this training to better control those around him, seeing completely through them and seeing them as little more than toys - by becoming so familiar with the 'soul' or consciousnesses of others, they lost all meaning to him. One of these toys was his sister Theliopa, who he 'seduced' - when asked if it was seduction or rape, she merely answered 'we are Dunyain,' effectively saying the distinction was moot for one such as him - and deliberately psychologically broke as a child, having sex with her until he was locked away. He (and later his mere memory) was the only one ever able to make Theliopa cry, which he did via his nickname for her 'Srancy' - a reference to this violation and the famous lusts of the sranc. From this point until his death, he spent most of his time screaming and raving in his locked room.

The White-Luck Warrior

He was killed by Maithanet after he tried to strangle him.

Anasûrimbor Inrilatas

Title(s): Prince-Imperial
Aliases: Inri
Lived: ca. 4117 - 4132
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Half- Dûnyain ( Norsirai ), half Ketyai
Nationality: New Empire
Gender: Male
Occupation: Prince-Imperial
Relatives: Moënghus (grandfather) Kellhus (father) Esmenet (mother) Maithanet (uncle) Mimara (half-sister) Koringhus (half-brother) Moënghus (adoptive brother) Kayûtas (brother) Theliopa (sister) Serwa (sister) Kelmomas (brother) Samarmas (brother) The Boy (nephew) Unnamed nephew Unnamed nephew or niece
Books: The Judging Eye (mentioned) The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal (mentioned) The Unholy Consult (mentioned)

Anasûrimbor Inrilatas

Title(s): Prince-Imperial
Aliases: Inri
Lived: ca. 4117 - 4132
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Half- Dûnyain ( Norsirai ), half Ketyai
Nationality: New Empire
Gender: Male
Occupation: Prince-Imperial
Relatives: Moënghus (grandfather) Kellhus (father) Esmenet (mother) Maithanet (uncle) Mimara (half-sister) Koringhus (half-brother) Moënghus (adoptive brother) Kayûtas (brother) Theliopa (sister) Serwa (sister) Kelmomas (brother) Samarmas (brother) The Boy (nephew) Unnamed nephew Unnamed nephew or niece
Books: The Judging Eye (mentioned) The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal (mentioned) The Unholy Consult (mentioned)

Anasûrimbor Kayûtas
Anasûrimbor Kayûtas is the first son and eldest child of Kellhus and Esmenet , and General of the Kidruhil . He was named after Anasûrimbor Nau-Cayûti .

Appearance

Kayûtas closely resembles his father, Kellhus . He is tall and slender , and has blond hair , blue eyes and a long face . His hair is cropped very short, revealing the contours of his skull (however, by the time the Great Ordeal reaches Agongorea , it has grown enough to be described as "flowing") . He has a plaited beard .

What Came Before

Kayûtas was born in Shimeh , close enough to Moënghus's birth that the two were raised as fraternal twins .

The Judging Eye

Kayûtas rides with his father's Great Ordeal , leading the Kidruhil .

The White-Luck Warrior

At the Eleventh Council of Potentates, Anasûrimbor Kellhus declares the breaking of the Great Ordeal, and Kayûtas is given command of the Men of the Middle North .

The Unholy Consult

At the first Council after Dagliash , Prince Nurbanu Ze openly confronts Proyas, claiming that Kellhus died in the fire. Kayûtas slays him in the blink of an eye, restoring the Anasûrimbor authority over the Great Ordeal. Despite his Dunyain origins, Kayûtas, along with the whole Ordeal, succumbs to the Meat. He and the Exalt-General Nersei Proyas become lovers for some time. It is Kayûtas who bids Proyas accept cannibalism, claiming that something must be eaten . As the Great Ordeal falls on the Scalded, Kayûtas does participate. When Serwa and Sorweel see him, the kilt on his groin is stained with blood, implying that he took part in the unholy congress with dead or dying Ordealmen. Later on, Kayûtas is involved in the assault at Golgotterath . He and his sister Serwa fight the great dragon Scuthula guarding the Intrinsic Gate . Kayûtas' fate after the Resumption is unclear.

Anasûrimbor Kayûtas

Title(s): General Prince-Imperial Exalt-General
Aliases: Kayû Podi
Lived: 4112 - present
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Half- Dûnyain ( Norsirai ), half- Ketyai
Nationality: New Empire
Gender: Male
Occupation: General of the Kidruhil Exalt-General of the Great Ordeal
Relatives: Moënghus (grandfather) Kellhus (father) Esmenet (mother) Maithanet (uncle) Mimara (half-sister) Koringhus (half-brother) Moënghus (adoptive brother) Theliopa (sister) Serwa (sister) Inrilatas (brother) Kelmomas (brother) Samarmas (brother) The Boy (nephew) Unnamed nephew Unnamed nephew or niece
Books: The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal The Unholy Consult

Anasûrimbor Kayûtas

Title(s): General Prince-Imperial Exalt-General
Aliases: Kayû Podi
Lived: 4112 - present
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Half- Dûnyain ( Norsirai ), half- Ketyai
Nationality: New Empire
Gender: Male
Occupation: General of the Kidruhil Exalt-General of the Great Ordeal
Relatives: Moënghus (grandfather) Kellhus (father) Esmenet (mother) Maithanet (uncle) Mimara (half-sister) Koringhus (half-brother) Moënghus (adoptive brother) Theliopa (sister) Serwa (sister) Inrilatas (brother) Kelmomas (brother) Samarmas (brother) The Boy (nephew) Unnamed nephew Unnamed nephew or niece
Books: The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal The Unholy Consult

Anasûrimbor Kellhus
Anasûrimbor Kellhus [A-nasu-rim-bor Kel-jus] was a former Dûnyain Monk.

Character and appearance

Kellhus was tall and strong, with blonde hair and blue eyes. He had a long, heavy-featured and aquiline face. He wore his hair long, with a close-cropped beard. His features and voice were very similar to those of his father. Like all Dûnyain, Kellhus exhibited extraordinary powers of deduction and persuasion allowing him to manipulate worldborn Men as if they were children. His command of the Gnosis was second to none, making him the most powerful sorcerer in the Three Seas, and—possibly—in the entirety of Eärwa .

Background

Kellhus was born in Ishuäl , a fortress built in the Ancient North by Anasûrimbor Celmomas II but occupied by the Dûnyain for almost two thousand years. In Ishuäl, the Dûnyain isolated themselves from the world, breeding for reflex and intellect, and continually training in the ways of limb, thought, and face—all for the sake of reason, what they call the Logos . In an effort to transform themselves into the perfect expression of the Logos, the Dûnyain bent their entire existence to mastering the irrationalities that determine human thought: history, custom, and passion. In this way, they believe, they will eventually grasp what they call the Absolute , and so become true self-moving souls. Kellhus was a prodigy even by Dûnyain standards. Before he left Ishuäl, his understanding of the true nature of Eärwa was very limited as the Dûnyain had suppressed knowledge of Sorcery and other metaphysical phenomena.

The Darkness That Comes Before

Kellhus is sent by his order, the Dûnyain, to search for his father, Anasûrimbor Moënghus , who left them some thirty years previous. Knowing only that his father dwells in the city of Shimeh , Kellhus undertakes the arduous journey travelling through the abandoned North. Eventually he succumbs and is saved by a trapper named Leweth . While wintering with Leweth, Kellhus discovers he can read the man’s thoughts through the nuances of his expression. World-born men, he realizes, are little more than children in comparison with the Dûnyain. Experimenting, he finds that he can exact anything from Leweth — any love, any sacrifice — with mere words. When a band of Sranc discovers Leweth’s steading, the two men are forced to flee. Leweth is wounded, and Kellhus leaves him for the Sranc, feeling no remorse. The Sranc overtake him, and after driving them away, he battles their leader, a deranged Nonman , who nearly kills Kellhus with sorcery. Kellhus flees, wracked by questions without answers: sorcery, he’d been taught, was nothing more than superstition. Eventually he finds refuge in the ancient city of Atrithau , where, using his Dûnyain abilities, he assembles an expedition of forty-seven men to traverse the Sranc-infested plains of Suskara . The men call themselves adunyani , meaning ‘little Dûnyain’. After a harrowing trek that only he survives, he crosses the frontier only to be captured by a mad Scylvendi Chieftain named Cnaiür urs Skiötha — a man who both knows and hates his father, Moënghus. Though his knowledge of the Dûnyain renders Cnaiür immune to direct manipulation, Kellhus realizes he can turn the man’s thirst for vengeance to his advantage. Claiming to be an assassin sent to murder Moënghus, he asks the Scylvendi to join him on his quest. Overpowered by his hatred, Cnaiür reluctantly agrees, and the two men set out across the Jiünati Steppe . Kellhus tries to secure the trust he needs to possess the man, but the barbarian continually rebuffs him. His hatred and penetration are too great. Then, near the Imperial frontier, they find a concubine named Serwë , who informs them of a Holy War gathering about Momemn — a Holy War for Shimeh. They cross the mountains into the Empire , and Kellhus watches Cnaiür struggle with the growing conviction that he’s outlived his usefulness. Thinking that murdering Kellhus is as close as he’ll ever come to murdering Moënghus, Cnaiür attacks him, only to be defeated. To prove that he still needs him, Kellhus spares his life. He must, Kellhus knows, dominate the Holy War, but he as yet knows nothing of warfare. The variables are too many. Though his knowledge of Moënghus and the Dûnyain renders him a liability, Cnaiür’s skill in war makes him invaluable. To secure this knowledge, Kellhus starts seducing Serwë, using her and her beauty as detours to the barbarian’s tormented heart. Once in the Empire, they stumble across a patrol of Imperial cavalrymen; their journey to Momemn quickly becomes a desperate race. When they finally reach the encamped Holy War they find themselves before Nersei Proyas , the Crown Prince of Conriya . To secure a position of honour among the Men of the Tusk , Kellhus lies, and claims to be a Prince of Atrithau. To lay the groundwork for his future domination, he claims to have suffered dreams of the Holy War. Since Proyas is more concerned with Cnaiür and how he can use the barbarian’s knowledge of battle to thwart the Emperor, these declarations are accepted without any real scrutiny. Only the Mandate Schoolman accompanying Proyas, Drusas Achamian , seems troubled by him — especially by his name. The following evening, Kellhus dines with the sorcerer, disarming him with humour, flattering him with questions. He learns of the Apocalypse and the Consult and many other sundry things, and though he knows Achamian harbours some terror regarding the name ‘Anasûrimbor’, he asks the melancholy man to become his teacher. The Dûnyain, Kellhus has come to realize, have been mistaken about many things, the existence of sorcery among them. There is so much he must know before he confronts his father. A final gathering is called to settle the issue between the lords of the Holy War, who want to march, and the Emperor , who refuses to provision them. With Cnaiür at his side, Kellhus charts the souls of all those present, calculating the ways he might bring them under his thrall. Among the Emperor’s advisers, however, he observes an expression he cannot read. The man, he realizes, possesses a false face. While Ikurei Conphas and the Inrithi caste-nobles bicker, Kellhus studies the man, and determines that his name is Skeaös by reading the lips of his interlocutors. Before he can draw any conclusions, however, his scrutiny is noticed by the Emperor himself, who has the adviser seized. Though the entire Holy War celebrates the Emperor’s defeat, Kellhus is more perplexed than ever. Never has he undertaken a study so deep. That night he consummates his relationship with Serwë, continuing the patient work of undoing Cnaiür — as all Men of the Tusk must be undone. Somewhere, a shadowy faction lurks behind faces of false skin. Far to the south in Shimeh, Anasûrimbor Moënghus awaits the coming storm.

The Warrior Prophet

Kellhus requires three things to prepare for his father in Shimeh: knowledge of battle and of sorcery, and possession of the Holy War. From the outset, he uses his claim to caste-nobility to insinuate himself into the councils of Proyas and the other Great Names. He proceeds cautiously, patiently laying the groundwork of his domination. From his readings of Inrithi scripture, he learns what the Men of the Tusk expect from a prophetic figure, so he sets out to emulate — as far as he can—all of those characteristics. He becomes a pilot of souls, crafting others' impressions of him with subtle inflections of word, tone, and expression. Soon, almost all those who know him find themselves in awe. Throughout the Holy War men whisper that a prophet walks among them. At the same time, he plies Achamian with particular care. While mining him for his knowledge of the Three Seas, Kellhus subtly conditions him, instilling the passions and beliefs that will eventually force him to do the impossible: teach Kellhus the Gnosis , the deadly sorcery of the Ancient North. In the course of his study, however, he discovers dozens of skin-spies mimicking men in various positions of power. He realizes, moreover, that they now know he can see them. One of them, a high-ranking Shrial Knight called Sarcellus , approaches him, probing for details. Kellhus uses the opportunity to make himself even more enigmatic, into a puzzle the Consult will be loath to destroy before solving. As long as he remains a benign mystery to the Consult, Kellhus realizes, they will not move against him. He needs time to consolidate his position. Until the Holy War is his, he cannot risk an open confrontation. He says nothing to Achamian for much the same rea­son. He knows the Mandate Schoolman believes him to be the Harbinger of the Second Apocalypse , and that the only thing preventing Achamian from telling this to his Mandate handlers is the recent death of his former student, Inrau , as a result of their machinations. Knowing that Kellhus could actually see Consult agents in their midst would prove too much. And as Achamian himself admits, the Mandate would likely seize Kellhus rather than treat with him as an equal. Once the Holy War secures Shigek , Kellhus begins asserting himself more and more, giving what are called the Sermons of the Ziggurat . Though many now refer to him openly as the Warrior-Prophet , he continues to insist he is simply a man like any other. Knowing that Achamian has succumbed—that he believes him to be the world's only hope — Kellhus finally asks the Schoolman to teach him the Gnosis. But when Achamian leaves for the Sareötic Library to meditate on this request, he is abducted by the Scarlet Spires . Assuming Achamian lost, Kellhus turns to Esmenet , not out of any errant sense of lust, but because her extraordinary native intelligence makes her useful both as a subordinate and as a potential mate. The differences between the Dûnyain and the worldborn makes his bloodline invaluable. He knows that whatever sons he produces, especially by a woman of Esmenet’s intellect, will prove powerful tools. So he begins seducing her by teaching her to read, by showing the hidden truths of her own heart, and by draw­ing her ever deeper into his circle of power and influence. Far from proving an obstacle, her bereavement actually facili­tates his plan by rendering her more emotionally vulnerable and prone to suggestion. By the time the Holy War enters the desert, she has willingly joined him and Serwë in their bed. Despite its calamities, the journey across the desert pro­vides ample opportunity for him to exercise his otherworldly abilities. He rallies the Men of the Tusk with demonstra­tions of indomitable will and courage. He even saves them, using his preternatural senses to find well-springs beneath the sand. By the time the remnants of the Holy War fall upon Caraskand , thousands upon thousands openly hail him as the Warrior-Prophet. At long last he yields to the title. He names his followers the Zaudunyani , the ‘Tribe of Truth’. But now he faces an added danger. As the numbers of Zaudunyani swell, so too do the misapprehensions of the Great Names. For many, following the dictates of a living — as opposed to a long-dead — prophet proves too much. Ikurei Conphas becomes the de facto leader of the Orthodox, those Men of the Tusk who repudiate Kellhus and his revisionary Inrithism. Even Proyas finds himself increasingly troubled. The Consult, as well, have been watching Kellhus with growing trepidation. In the confusion of Caraskand’s fall, Sarcellus leads several of his brother skin-spies in an assas­sination attempt that very nearly costs Kellhus his life. Knowing that it might prove useful, Kellhus saves one of their severed heads. Shortly after this attempt, Kellhus is finally contacted by one of his father’s agents: a Cishaurim fleeing the Scarlet Spires. He tells Kellhus that he follows the Shortest Path , and that soon he will comprehend something called the Thousandfold Thought . Kellhus has innumerable questions, but it is too late: the Scarlet Spires approach. To avoid compromising his position, Kellhus beheads the man. When the Padirajah arrives and seals the Holy War up within Caraskand, the situation becomes even more dire. According to Conphas and the Orthodox, the God punishes the Men of the Tusk for following a False Prophet. To defuse their threat, Kellhus plots the assassination of both Conphas and Sarcellus. Neither attempt succeeds, and General Martemus , Conphas’s closest adviser, is killed. The dilemma now facing Kellhus is almost insuperable. The Holy War starves. The Zaudunyani and the Orthodox stand upon the brink of open war. And the Padirajah con­tinues to assail Caraskand’s walls. For the first time, Kellhus is confronted by circumstances he cannot master. He sees only one possible way to unify the Holy War under his leadership: he must let the Men of the Tusk condemn him and Serwë, and trust that Cnaiür, driven to avenge Serwë, will save him. Only a dramatic reversal and vindication can possibly win over the Orthodox in time. He must make a leap of faith. Serwë is executed, and Kellhus is bound to her naked corpse. Then he is lashed to a circumfix and hung from a great tree to die of exposure. Visions of the No-God plague him, as does Serwë pressed dead against him. Never has he suffered so... For the first time, Anasûrimbor Kellhus weeps. Achamian comes to him wild with rage because of Esmenet. Kellhus tells him about the skin-spies, about his visions of the impending Apocalypse. Then, miraculously, he is cut down, and he knows that at last the Holy War is his, and that they will have the ardour and conviction they need to overcome the Padirajah. Standing before the exultant masses, he grasps the Thousandfold Thought.

The Thousandfold Thought

Kellhus asks Achamian to teach him the Gnosis again. Though Achamian had been ordered by his Mandate handlers to pretend to give Kellhus the Gnosis and to make sure that no harm comes to him, he agrees but reminds Kellhus that sorcerers are vulnerable to Chorae , Kellhus then insists that Achamian must become his Vizier to be better able to protect him. Kellhus tells Achamian that with him the Tusk is rewritten so that sorcerers are no longer damned. When the Holy War is about to leave Caraskand and continue its march toward Shimeh, Kellhus orders Cnaiür to stay in Joktha with Conphas, in order to kill him. As the Holy War continues its march, Achamian teaches Kellhus Gilcûnya , the arcane tongue of the Nonmen Qûya and the language of all the Gnostic Cants. Kellhus astonishes Achamian by learning the language in less than two weeks. The two discuss the metaphysics of the Gnosis and other sorcery, and Kellhus asks Achamian whether Cants of three strings, one utteral and two inutterals, have been devised. Achamian lies and says that it’s impossible. When Achamian attempts to teach Kellhus the Cants of Calling he realizes that Seswatha prevents him. Only after Kellhus “speaks” with Seswatha is Achamian able to depart knowledge of the Gnosis. Again, Kellhus claims that sorcerers are no longer damned. In Amoteu , Esmenet is possessed by the Inchoroi , Aurang , and confronts Kellhus with questions about the Dûnyain and his father. Kellhus at first answers it but then realizes that the Inchoroi had used some sorcery on him and casts a Dara Ward to free himself of its influence. Kellhus baits Aurang by telling him that the No-God says that he failed him on the Plains of Mengedda . Before the Holy War assaults Shimeh Kellhus leaves to meet his father in Kyudea . Cnaiür reveals to Achamian the truth about Kellhus, that he is Dûnyain and that he was summoned by his father, not sent. Kellhus enters a ruined Nonman Mansion where his father is waiting for him. Inside he follows a trail that had been scuffed in the dust. The mansion’s galleries remind Kellhus of Ishuäl’s Thousand Thousand Halls . He continues following the trail and it leads him to a balcony overlooking an immense cavern with curtains of water falling down from above. Below he sees points of light and a platform beyond the reach of the waterfall. He descends a mighty staircase which leads to a vast chamber with a pool in its center. Kellhus advances around the pool and finds his father, white-skinned and pale, sitting cross-legged behind sheets of water that pour from one of a series of immense bronze statues erected in a semi-circle and facing the pool. Moënghus begins to recount Kellhus’s journey, how he came to dominate the Men of the Tusk and the Holy War, but says that the probability trance failed him at the point where the caste nobility moved against him, the Circumfixion. Kellhus tells Moënghus about the visions, the voice of God and the halos around his hands. Moënghus realizes that Kellhus has been broken by his trial, that he has returned to him a ‘madman’. Kellhus begins retelling the story of how Moënghus arrived at Shimeh after leaving Ishuäl. He says that his father made a mistake by taking the Psûkhe, as it is a metaphysics of the heart — of passion — something a Dûnyain would be weak at, and that this is why Moënghus had to ask for his son to help him. Moënghus takes Kellhus to a room where he holds two captive skin-spies. The skin-spies had been first discovered by the Cishaurim about twelve years prior, Kellhus deduces. The Cishaurim, assuming this was the work of the Scarlet Spires, assassinate their Grandmaster, Sasheoka . Only Moënghus realized that the skin-spies weren’t sorcerous artifacts, but engines of flesh. So he kept the creatures and interrogated them for years, learning from them about Golgotterath and the Consult — about the Second Apocalypse. Kellhus realizes that his father poses a threat, if Moënghus were to learn of the damnation that awaits him he would be no different from the Inchoroi. He stabs his father and leaves the mansion using the Cant of Transposition just as Cnaiür and ‘Serwë’ are about to enter the room. Kellhus appears on the battlefield over Shimeh and destroys what remains of the Cishaurim. Once Shimeh has been taken, Maithanet declares Kellhus the High King of Kûniüri and Ascpect-Emperor of the Three Seas. Achamian arrives at his court and repudiates him. Kellhus tells him that the next time they meet, Achamian will kneel to him.

The Judging Eye

Since the conclusion of the First Holy War Kellhus has unified the Three Seas under his rule. After twenty years of conversion and bloodshed, he plots the conclusion of his father’s Thousandfold Thought. His New Empire spans the entirety of the Three Seas, from the legendary fortress of Auvangshei on the frontiers of Zeüm to the shrouded headwaters of the River Sayut , from the sweltering coasts of Kutnarmu to the wild rim of the Osthwai Mountains —all the lands that had once been Fanim or Inrithi. It was easily the equal of the old Ceneian Empire in terms of geographical extent and likely far greater when it came to population. He's had four sons and two daughters with Esmenet. During that time, Kellhus established the first School for Sorceresses in Eärwa’s history, the Swayal Compact , which is lead by his daughter, Anasûrimbor Serwa . He has entrusted the Empire to his wife Esmenet as he leads a Holy War against the Consult, the Great Ordeal, which is about to commence its assault on Sakarpus following Harweel ’s refusal to surrender the city. Before the battle begins, Harweel warns his son, Sorweel , that the Aspect-Emperor is a Demon Ciphrang , a hunger from the Outside . Once the battle begins, Harweel is killed and Sorweel flees, pursued by Kellhus himself who effortlessly kills his protectors. He approaches the adolescent Prince, but rather than seizing or striking him, he embraces him. Tells him that he is forgiven, not by him, but by his father. Kellhus says that he is no conqueror — he really did come to save Mankind. Kellhus seems to have turned the Gods against him as Yatwer , the Goddess of Birth, sends her ‘son’, the White-Luck Warrior , into the world with the intent of killing the Aspect-Emperor. When Sharacinth, the Matriarch of the Cult of Yatwer is summoned to the Andiamine Heights by Esmenet, Kellhus appears and breaks her will with his sheer force of presence, making her promise to wrest the Cult from Psatma Nannaferi . Kellhus speaks to Esmenet alone, and seems indifferent to the death of their son, Samarmas . He tells her that the Great Ordeal is all that matters before leaving her again. At a Council of Potentates Kellhus moves from lord to lord, declaring the truths they think hidden in their souls. One of the lords assembled, Varalt Sorweel, fears what will happen when Kellhus sees the hatred and treachery smouldering in his own. But when Kellhus comes to him, he congratulates him for grasping the truth and, before everyone assembled, declares him one of the Believer-Kings.

The White-Luck Warrior

Kellhus speaks with Nersei Proyas, one of the Exalt-Generals of the Great Ordeal, in his bed chamber. He tells him that the God has allowed him glimpses of the future, and that everything has unfolded in accordance with those glimpses thus far. He says that he has to make decisions he would rather not make alone, dark decisions. Kellhus commands Proyas to bow his head into the flames of his hearth, revealing that Kellhus is able to watch the Men of the Great Ordeal through his fire. Kellhus fears that if the Men of the Ordeal were to learn that the New Empire, the world they’ve left behind in hopes of saving, is slipping into ruin, his host would dissolve — collapse. So he forbids, on pain of death, all Cants of Far-calling. Kellhus says that even he will not maintain contact with his Empire, he can no longer afford to look back. At the Eleventh Council of Potentates, Kellhus declares the Breaking of the Great Ordeal. The host is divided into four groups: the Men of the Middle North, under the command of his son, Anasûrimbor Kayûtas ; the Ketyai of the East, under Nersei Proyas’s command; the Ketyai of the West, under Coithus Saubon ’s command; and the Ketyai of the south under the command of King Sasal Umrapathur . Kellhus, again, summons Proyas to his bed chamber to sit and discuss, as he does at least once a week. They talk about the day Drusas Achamian repudiated Kellhus in Shimeh twenty years prior, that day troubles Proyas as Achamian is someone that he once loved. Proyas had read a summary of the charges made by Achamian against Anasûrimbor Kellhus in the Compendium of the First Holy War , charges that he says he did not believe. Kellhus, however, tells him that the charges are true. Kellhus informs Proyas that the Nonman King of Injor-Niyas , has finally answered their call; he has sent them an embassy. Kellhus is to meet the emissary in the Eleven Pole Chamber , before the meeting Kellhus reminds Proyas to forgive the Nonmen their peculiarities and to beware their beauty. The emissary, Nin’sariccas , arrives claiming to have been sent by Nil’giccas . Kellhus asks the Nonman whether Ishterebinth sides with the Great Ordeal, the Nonman, however, reminds him of his forefathers’ treachery, saying that for them, “Anasûrimbor” is the very name of Mannish arrogance and disorder. Kellhus repeats the question and the Nonman says that Ishterebinth will side with the Ordeal on the condition that Dagliash be retaken and the ‘ Niom ’ be honoured. Kellhus agrees. Toward the end of their meeting the Nonman asks Kellhus why the ‘False Men’, as the Nonmen are known in the Tusk, should lend their strength to the ‘True’, to which Kellhus replies by reminding him of the Womb-Plague . The Niom is a ritual wherein the ancient Nonmen Kings demanded hostages of the Men they dealt with as guarantees: a son, a daughter, and a captive enemy. The two former as a surety against treachery. The latter as a surety against deception. So Kellhus sends them his daughter Serwa, together with Sorweel and his adopted son Moënghus II . After the Second Battle of the Horde , Kellhus declares the Breaking of the Ordeal undone and commands the Armies of the West and the East to converge upon the Army of the Middle-North. Once the armies have gathered, Kellhus calls on his Believer-Kings to assemble, on the summit of a hill called Swaranûl , he gives a speech declaring that the Men of the Great Ordeal shall eat Sranc from that point forward to sustain themselves.

The Great Ordeal

Kellhus leads the Great Ordeal through Aörsi to Dagliash . He meets frequently alone with his Exalt-Generals. Kellhus flies a raft to move a company along with The Nuns into battle over the mountains of Dagliash, delivering Saubon and his riders directly to the massed Horde of Sranc. His sorceries is so powerful as to eat the mountain to reveal the legendary Well of Viri and crushing the Sranc and Bashrag waiting within the old Mansion. He warns his Lords and all the Schoolmen about the Consult and the Inchoroi: After the battle, Kellhus charges Proyas to lead the Ordeal north as Saubon is dead. Proyas realizes Kellhus is leaving.

The Unholy Consult

During the battle for Golgotterath in the closing moments of the Unholy Consult , Anasûrimbor Kellhus is destroyed and the Sranc legions obliterated his leaderless armies.

Children

Kellhus fathered six children with his second wife Esmenet, four sons and two daughters: - Kayûtas , eldest of the Prince-Imperials and General of the Kidruhil .
- Theliopa , eldest daughter of Kellhus and Esmenet. She stays with her mother in Momemn as an advisor.
- Serwa , second daughter of Kellhus and Esmenet, and Grandmistress of the Swayal Sisterhood.
- Inrilatas , second son of Kellhus and Esmenet, insane and imprisoned on the Andiamine Heights.
- Kelmomas , their youngest, the twin of Samarmas.
- Samarmas , twin of Kelmomas. Samarmas seems not to have inherited any of his father's Dûnyain traits.
Additionally, Kellhus adopted the son of his first wife Serwë, Moënghus II , who was raised as the fraternal twin of Kayûtas. Kellhus had bred a Dûnyain son, Anasûrimbor Koringhus, before leaving Ishuäl.

Miracles during the First Holy War

According to the Encyclopedic Glossary , Kellhus performed three miracles during the Holy War's march on Shimeh, the Miracle of Water, referring to his discovery of water in the wastes of Khemema , and the Miracle of the Circumfixion, referring to his survival of the Circumfix in Caraskand. It's not clear what the third miracle is.

Anasûrimbor Kellhus

Title(s): Aspect-Emperor High King of Kûniüri
Aliases: Prince of Nothing Warrior-Prophet Most Holy Prince of God False Prophet The Demon Kurcifra
Lived: 4076 or 4077 - ?
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Dûnyain ( Norsirai )
Nationality: New Empire
Gender: Male
Occupation: Dûnyain Monk Aspect-Emperor of the Three Seas
Relatives: Moënghus (father) Maithanet (half-brother) Esmenet (wife) Zikas (concubines) Mimara (stepdaughter) Koringhus (son) Moënghus (adoptive son) Kayûtas (son) Theliopa (daughter) Serwa (daughter) Unnamed child Inrilatas (son) Kelmomas (son) Samarmas (son) Several unnamed children The Boy (grandson)
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Warrior-Prophet The Thousandfold Thought The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal The Unholy Consult

Anasûrimbor Kellhus

Title(s): Aspect-Emperor High King of Kûniüri
Aliases: Prince of Nothing Warrior-Prophet Most Holy Prince of God False Prophet The Demon Kurcifra
Lived: 4076 or 4077 - ?
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Dûnyain ( Norsirai )
Nationality: New Empire
Gender: Male
Occupation: Dûnyain Monk Aspect-Emperor of the Three Seas
Relatives: Moënghus (father) Maithanet (half-brother) Esmenet (wife) Zikas (concubines) Mimara (stepdaughter) Koringhus (son) Moënghus (adoptive son) Kayûtas (son) Theliopa (daughter) Serwa (daughter) Unnamed child Inrilatas (son) Kelmomas (son) Samarmas (son) Several unnamed children The Boy (grandson)
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Warrior-Prophet The Thousandfold Thought The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal The Unholy Consult

Anasûrimbor Kelmomas
Anasûrimbor Kelmomas is the third son and sixth child of Kellhus and Esmenet , and the twin brother of Samarmas . He was named after Anasûrimbor Celmomas II .

Appearance

Kelmomas has curly blond hair , blue eyes , pale skin and a cherubic face .

Personality

He is cunning and murderously jealous of his mother's affection.

What Came Before

From birth, he and his twin locked gazes with the other for the first (very) few years of their lives. If they were ever forced to be apart, each sank into total despondency. Soon after they separated psychologically, it was discovered that Kelmomas inherited Dûnyain traits while Samarmas did not.

The Judging Eye

Kelmomas murdered his twin in a very convincing accident.

The Great Ordeal

Kelmomas is fascinated the Narindar and follows him throughout the tunnels of the palace. He feels the Four-Horned Brother will keep him safe. Kelmomas is afraid that his sister Theliopa will reveal his secrets to their mother.

The Unholy Consult

Kelmomas, along with Esmenet, is taken from Momemn to the camp outside Golgotterath by Kellhus. He stops Sorweel , who is acting as an instrument of Yatwer , from killing Kellhus. In the Golden Room , he dispels Ajokli's possession of Kellhus, leading to Kellhus's death. He is forced into the Carapace by the D û nyain that have taken over the consult , and becomes the No-God .

Anasûrimbor Kelmomas

Title(s): Prince-Imperial The No-God
Aliases: Kel
Lived: 4123 or 4124 - present
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Half- Dûnyain ( Norsirai ), half- Ketyai
Nationality: New Empire
Gender: Male
Occupation: Prince-Imperial
Relatives: Moënghus (grandfather) Kellhus (father) Esmenet (mother) Maithanet (uncle) Mimara (half-sister) Koringhus (half-brother) Moënghus (adoptive brother) Kayûtas (brother) Theliopa (sister) Serwa (sister) Inrilatas (brother) Samarmas (twin brother) The Boy (nephew) Unnamed nephew Unnamed nephew or niece
Books: The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal The Unholy Consult

Anasûrimbor Kelmomas

Title(s): Prince-Imperial The No-God
Aliases: Kel
Lived: 4123 or 4124 - present
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Half- Dûnyain ( Norsirai ), half- Ketyai
Nationality: New Empire
Gender: Male
Occupation: Prince-Imperial
Relatives: Moënghus (grandfather) Kellhus (father) Esmenet (mother) Maithanet (uncle) Mimara (half-sister) Koringhus (half-brother) Moënghus (adoptive brother) Kayûtas (brother) Theliopa (sister) Serwa (sister) Inrilatas (brother) Samarmas (twin brother) The Boy (nephew) Unnamed nephew Unnamed nephew or niece
Books: The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal The Unholy Consult

Anasûrimbor Koringhus
Anasûrimbor Koringhus was a Dûnyain Monk and son of Anasûrimbor Kellhus .  He and his son were the only survivors of the Consult destruction of Ishuäl .

Appearance

Anasûrimbor Koringhus has the appearance of a Dûnyain Norsirai with light-coloured skin and blond hair, however he is horribly disfigured from years battling the Consult during the final days of Ishuäl. His skin was heavily scarred, burned and damaged. He was missing one cheek, which left a hollow in his face that exposed gums and broken teeth. Despite his horrible disfigurements, Achamian was still able to see the physical traits of the Anasûrimbor line.

Story

At some point before leaving Ishuäl, Anasûrimbor Kellhus was selected to be a Father.  Whether his son was born before he sent away is unknown. Sometime between the events of The Warrior-Prophet and The Great Ordeal , the Consult finally discovered Ishuäl, the home of the Dûnyain.  After legions of Sranc assaulted the fortress from the Demua Mountains in the east, to no avail, Nonmen Qûya approached from Injor-Niyas to the west and decimated the exterior of the stronghold.  The Dûnyain, having been taught that sorcery is a lie, were completely unprepared.  Many simply awaited their death while others barricaded themselves in the Thousand Thousand Halls below. The Dûnyain fought the Consult within the Labyrinth for years, with immense losses on both sides.  When the last of the Sranc finally succumbed, Koringhus and the Boy were the only two Dûnyain remaining. Unbeknownst to Achamiam and Mimara , Korinhgus spies them while they are still descending the glaciers towards Ishuäl.  When the pair discover the Fathering in the Upper Galleries of the Thousand Thousand Halls, Koringhus, still unknown to Achamian and Mimara, instructs The Boy to approach them alone before eventually making himself known.  He confronts them asking if his father has grasped the Absolute . Koringhus decides that he must find his father, and that travelling with Achamian and Mimara is the best way to accomplish this task.  He and the Boy travel with them as they head north along the Demua Mountains. During their journey, Koringhus eventually asks Mimara to gaze upon him with her sight .  He then begins to realize that everything the Dûnyain believed was flawed, if not an outright lie.  He knows that he is mad and that the madness is getting worse.  Mimara eventually offers him Qirri , which pushes his madness to the brink; he decides that the Shortest Path to the Absolute is by ending his life. He throws himself off a peak in the northern Demua Mountains, where he plummets to his death some thirty cubits below.

Anasûrimbor Koringhus

Aliases: The Survivor Heaper of the Dead
Lived: ? - 4132
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Dûnyain ( Norsirai )
Gender: Male
Occupation: Dûnyain Monk
Relatives: Moënghus (grandfather) Kellhus (father) Maithanet (uncle) Mimara (step-sister) Moënghus II (adopted brother) Kayûtas (half-brother) Theliopa (half-sister) Serwa (half-sister) Inrilatas (half-brother) Kelmomas (half-brother) Samarmas (half-brother) The Boy (son)
Books: The Great Ordeal

Anasûrimbor Koringhus

Aliases: The Survivor Heaper of the Dead
Lived: ? - 4132
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Dûnyain ( Norsirai )
Gender: Male
Occupation: Dûnyain Monk
Relatives: Moënghus (grandfather) Kellhus (father) Maithanet (uncle) Mimara (step-sister) Moënghus II (adopted brother) Kayûtas (half-brother) Theliopa (half-sister) Serwa (half-sister) Inrilatas (half-brother) Kelmomas (half-brother) Samarmas (half-brother) The Boy (son)
Books: The Great Ordeal

Anasûrimbor Moënghus
Anasûrimbor Moënghus is a Cishaurim Priest and former Dûnyain monk. He is the father of Anasûrimbor Kellhus and the main instigator of the First Holy War .

Appearance

Moënghus has white skin and blonde hair. He once had blue eyes, but by the time of his appearance in The Thousandfold Thought they have been put out and he has empty sockets. He bears scars on his arms, which he himself carved so as to disguise himself as a Scylvendi while crossing the Jiünati Steppe .

Personality

As a Dûnyain, Moënghus is entirely devoted to the pure logic and reason of the Logos , and so lacks any traits that might be considered as a personality.

Skills

Like all Dûnyain, Moënghus has speed, strength, stamina, and intelligence superior to a normal human. He is capable of effortlessly reading and manipulating the emotions of world-born Men , and can use the probability trance to see all possible outcomes of his actions and so find the Shortest Way. Moënghus blinded himself to became a Cishaurim and gain the powers of the Psûkhe . However, because the Psûkhe is based on the passions which the Dûnyain have long bred themselves to eliminate, Moënghus’s abilities are far inferior to those of other Cishaurim. Most notable among his limited powers is the ability to send messages through dreams using the Cants of Calling . Though Moënghus’s Dûnyain abilities were lessened by his blinding, he is still able to identify skin-spies based on discrepancies in their voices.

What Came Before

Like all Dûnyain, Moënghus was born and raised in the fortress of Ishuäl . In the year 4079, Ishuäl was discovered by a band of Sranc . Moënghus was sent out into the world to determine the degree to which their secrecy had been compromised. Afterwards, it was decided that he had been too contaminated by the external world to return, and was exiled to die. However, Moënghus survived. He was captured by the Utemot and given to the mother of Scylvendi Cnaiür urs Skiötha as a slave, but used his skill at manipulation to survive. He seduced Cnaiür’s mother, convinced Cnaiür to kill his father , and disguised himself as a Scylvendi to cross the Jiünati Steppe . Afterwards, he headed south, into Fanim lands. Once more sold into slavery by the Fanim, Moënghus used the same tactics to rise to a position of power. He travelled to Shimeh to learn the Psûkhe from the Cishaurim, believing he would master it quickly and gain god-like power. However, because of his lack of passion, he ended up blind with very little power in compensation. In 4100, Moënghus discovered a Consult skin-spy. After years of experimentation, he was able to find a method to effectively torture the creatures using neuropuncture , and learned of the Consult’s plans to bring about the Second Apocalypse . Though determined to prevent the Second Apocalypse, Moënghus lacked the power to oppose the Consult on his own. So he used one of the few aspects of the Psûkhe he could master, the Cants of Calling, to send sorcerous dreams to Ishuäl and ask that his son Anasûrimbor Kellhus be sent to him. He then instigated the Holy War so that Kellhus would have a means of passage to Shimeh. Moënghus had a number of children by world-born women during this time; however, he killed most of them when they demonstrated the defects that commonly result from human-Dûnyain interbreeding. Only Maithanet was allowed to live.

The Darkness That Comes Before

Moënghus meets with Ikurei Xerius III under the assumed name of Mallahet, and uses sorcery to allow the Emperor to speak with Skauras ab Nalajan .

The Thousandfold Thought

Kellhus meets Moënghus in an ancient Nonman Mansion beneath Kyudea . Moënghus explains how he called for Kellhus and orchestrated the Holy War to place a Dûnyain in the position of being able to oppose the resurrection of the No-God ; however, now that Kellhus is before him, he believes his son has become deranged from his contact with the outside world. Kellhus stabs Moënghus and teleports away. Cnaiür then arrives, having followed Kellhus. The two speak; then Cnaiür kills Moënghus with a Chorae .

Anasûrimbor Moënghus

Aliases: Mallahet
Lived: ? - 4112
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai Dûnyain
Nationality: Kianene
Gender: Male
Occupation: Dûnyain Monk Cishaurim
Relatives: Celmomas II (ancestor) Kellhus (son) Maithanet (son) Koringhus (grandson) Kayûtas (grandson) Theliopa (granddaughter) Serwa (granddaughter) Inrilatas (grandson) Kelmomas (grandson) Samarmas (grandson) The Boy (great-grandson)
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Thousandfold Thought

Anasûrimbor Moënghus

Aliases: Mallahet
Lived: ? - 4112
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai Dûnyain
Nationality: Kianene
Gender: Male
Occupation: Dûnyain Monk Cishaurim
Relatives: Celmomas II (ancestor) Kellhus (son) Maithanet (son) Koringhus (grandson) Kayûtas (grandson) Theliopa (granddaughter) Serwa (granddaughter) Inrilatas (grandson) Kelmomas (grandson) Samarmas (grandson) The Boy (great-grandson)
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Thousandfold Thought

Anasûrimbor Moënghus II
Anasûrimbor Moënghus II is officially the son of Kellhus and his first wife, Serwë , thus being the eldest of the Prince-Imperials. In truth, he is Serwë's son by Cnaiür urs Skiötha .

Appearance

Moënghus strongly resembles his biological father, Cnaiür . He has a mane of black hair , pale blue ("white-blue") eyes and pale skin . He is described as having a "neck-breaking physique" . His features are somewhat more aquiline than Cnaiür's .

The Warrior-Prophet

Moënghus was born in Caraskand in the early winter of 4111 . After Serwë's death, he was taken by Esmenet and raised as one of her children .

The Judging Eye

Moënghus marches with his father, Kellhus , in the Great Ordeal. Kayutas warns Sorweel that Moënghus is mad.

The White-Luck Warrior

Moënghus, Serwa , and Sorweel are sent to the Nonman Mansion of Ishterebinth as Niom .

The Great Ordeal

Moënghus is tortured in Ishterebinth.

Anasûrimbor Moënghus II

Title(s): Prince-Imperial
Aliases: Podi
Lived: 4111 - present
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Half- Scylvendi , half- Norsirai
Gender: Male
Relatives: Skiötha (biological grandfather) Unnamed biological grandmother Ingaera (biological grandfather) Cnaiür (biological father) Serwë (biological mother) Kellhus (adoptive father) Esmenet (adoptive mother) Thirty-seven unnamed biological half-brothers Sanathi (biological half-sister) Mimara (adoptive half-sister) Kayûtas (adoptive brother) Theliopa (adoptive sister) Serwa (adoptive sister) Inrilatas (adoptive brother) Kelmomas (adoptive brother) Samarmas (adoptive brother)
Books: The Warrior-Prophet The Thousandfold Thought The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal The Unholy Consult

Anasûrimbor Moënghus II

Title(s): Prince-Imperial
Aliases: Podi
Lived: 4111 - present
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Half- Scylvendi , half- Norsirai
Gender: Male
Relatives: Skiötha (biological grandfather) Unnamed biological grandmother Ingaera (biological grandfather) Cnaiür (biological father) Serwë (biological mother) Kellhus (adoptive father) Esmenet (adoptive mother) Thirty-seven unnamed biological half-brothers Sanathi (biological half-sister) Mimara (adoptive half-sister) Kayûtas (adoptive brother) Theliopa (adoptive sister) Serwa (adoptive sister) Inrilatas (adoptive brother) Kelmomas (adoptive brother) Samarmas (adoptive brother)
Books: The Warrior-Prophet The Thousandfold Thought The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal The Unholy Consult

Anasûrimbor Mygella
Anasûrimbor Mygella was the famed Hero-King of Aörsi , whose deeds are recounted in The Sagas .

Anasûrimbor Mygella

Title(s): High King of Aörsi
Aliases: Hero-King
Lived: 2065 - 2111
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Aörsi
Gender: Male
Occupation: High King of Aörsi
Relatives: Anasûrimbor Nanor-Ukkerja I (ancestor) Anasûrimbor Nimeric (descendant)
Books: mentioned only

Anasûrimbor Mygella

Title(s): High King of Aörsi
Aliases: Hero-King
Lived: 2065 - 2111
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Aörsi
Gender: Male
Occupation: High King of Aörsi
Relatives: Anasûrimbor Nanor-Ukkerja I (ancestor) Anasûrimbor Nimeric (descendant)
Books: mentioned only

Anasûrimbor Nanor-Mikhus
High-​King of Aörsi who had the fortress of Dagliash raised.

Anasûrimbor Nanor-Ukkerja I
Nanor-Ukkerja I (“Hammer of Heaven” in Kûniüric from Ûmeritic nanar hukisha ) was the first Anasûrimbor High King. His defeat of the Scintya in 1408 led to the founding of Kûniüri and began what most scholars regard as the longest-reigning dynasty in recorded history. Over the course of his long life (he lived to the age of 178, the reputed result of the Nonman blood in his veins), Nanor-Ukkerja I extended Kûniüri to the Yimaleti Mountains in the north, to the westernmost coasts of the Cerish Sea in the east, to Sakarpus in the south, and to the Demua Mountains in the west. At his death, he divided this empire between his sons, creating Aörsi and Sheneor in addition to Kûniüri proper.

Anasûrimbor Nanor-Ukkerja I

Title(s): High King of Kûniüri
Aliases: Hammer of Heaven
Lived: 1378 - 1556
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Kûniüri
Gender: Male
Occupation: High King of Kûniüri
Relatives: Anasûrimbor Mygella (descendant) Anasûrimbor Nimeric (descendant) Anasûrimbor Celmomas II (descendant) Anasûrimbor Ganrelka II (descendant) Anasûrimbor Moënghus (descendant) Anasûrimbor Kellhus (descendant)
Books: mentioned only

Anasûrimbor Nanor-Ukkerja I

Title(s): High King of Kûniüri
Aliases: Hammer of Heaven
Lived: 1378 - 1556
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Kûniüri
Gender: Male
Occupation: High King of Kûniüri
Relatives: Anasûrimbor Mygella (descendant) Anasûrimbor Nimeric (descendant) Anasûrimbor Celmomas II (descendant) Anasûrimbor Ganrelka II (descendant) Anasûrimbor Moënghus (descendant) Anasûrimbor Kellhus (descendant)
Books: mentioned only

Anasûrimbor Nanor-Ukkerja VI
High-King of Aörsi who de­cid­ed to abandon all nine­ty-​nine of the Hood­ed Re­doubts.

Anasûrimbor Nau-Cayûti
Anasûrimbor Nau-Cayûti (“Blessed Son” in Ûmeritic) officially was the youngest son of Anasûrimbor Celmomas II and his wife Suriala . But perhaps he was a bastard child of Seswatha and the Queen. Nau-Cayûti was famed for his heroism and martial brilliance during the dark days after the fall of Aörsi (2136), when the nation of Kûniüri stood alone against the menace of the Consult . He rose to fame in the Battle of Ossirish , where he routed the Consult forces and personally killed the dragon Tanhafut the Red . After this, he became popularly known as Murswagga, the Dragonslayer. Many of his exploits are recounted in The Sagas . His last great deed was infiltrating Golgotterath itself, together with his mentor and possible father Seswatha, where they stole the mysterious Heron Spear . This daring exploit was motivated by Nau-Cayûti’s desperate desire to rescue his favorite concubine, Aulisi . Mandate commentators dispute the account found in The Sagas, where they successfully return with both Aulisi and the Heron Spear, claiming that Aulisi was never found. Nau-Cayûti died shortly after the theft of the Heron Spear. According to The Sagas, he was murdered with poison by his wife, Iëva .

In The White-Luck Warrior

Visions into the past, received by Drusas Achamian through Seswatha’s Dreams , suggested that the poison merely paralyzed him. Iëva was in reality working for the Consult, and made sure to bury her husband alive rather than burning him. Nau-Cayûti was then exhumed from his grave by Aurang and taken as a prisoner to Golgotterath.

In The Unholy Consult

Nau-Cayuti later embraced the Consult's vision after viewing the Inverse Fire; nonetheless the Consult used his soul to create the No-God by placing him in the Carapace.

Anasûrimbor Nau-Cayûti

Title(s): Prince
Aliases: Blessed Son Scourge of Golgotterath Murswagga Dragonslayer Cayû
Lived: 2119 - 2140(?)
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Kûniüri
Gender: Male
Occupation: Prince of Kûniüri
Relatives: Celmomas II (supposed father) Suriala (mother) Seswatha (possible father) Ganrelka II (relative, possibly brother) Iëva (wife) Aulisi (concubine)
Books: The Thousandfold Thought (flashbacks only) The Judging Eye (flashbacks only) The White-Luck Warrior (flashbacks only) The Great Ordeal (flashbacks only) The Unholy Consult (mentioned)

Anasûrimbor Nau-Cayûti

Title(s): Prince
Aliases: Blessed Son Scourge of Golgotterath Murswagga Dragonslayer Cayû
Lived: 2119 - 2140(?)
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Kûniüri
Gender: Male
Occupation: Prince of Kûniüri
Relatives: Celmomas II (supposed father) Suriala (mother) Seswatha (possible father) Ganrelka II (relative, possibly brother) Iëva (wife) Aulisi (concubine)
Books: The Thousandfold Thought (flashbacks only) The Judging Eye (flashbacks only) The White-Luck Warrior (flashbacks only) The Great Ordeal (flashbacks only) The Unholy Consult (mentioned)

Anasûrimbor Nimeric
Anasûrimbor Nimeric was the High King of ancient Aörsi before its destruction in the Apocalypse .

Anasûrimbor Nimeric

Title(s): High King of Aörsi
Lived: 2092 - 2135
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Aörsi
Gender: Male
Occupation: High King of Aörsi
Relatives: Anasûrimbor Nanor-Ukkerja I (ancestor) Anasûrimbor Mygella (ancestor)
Books: mentioned only

Anasûrimbor Nimeric

Title(s): High King of Aörsi
Lived: 2092 - 2135
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Aörsi
Gender: Male
Occupation: High King of Aörsi
Relatives: Anasûrimbor Nanor-Ukkerja I (ancestor) Anasûrimbor Mygella (ancestor)
Books: mentioned only

Anasûrimbor Omindalea
Anasûrimbor Omindalea was the first daughter of Sanna-Neorjë of the house Anasûrimbor . She was raped in 824 by Jiricet , a Nonman Siqû . This rape resulted in pregnancy, and Omindalea eventually died giving birth to her son, Sanna-Jephera , in 825 .

Anasûrimbor Omindalea

Lived: 808 - 825
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Ûmeri
Gender: Female
Relatives: Sanna-Neorjë (father) At least one unnamed sister Sanna-Jephera (son)
Books: The Thousandfold Thought (mentioned) The Unholy Consult (mentioned)

Anasûrimbor Omindalea

Lived: 808 - 825
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Ûmeri
Gender: Female
Relatives: Sanna-Neorjë (father) At least one unnamed sister Sanna-Jephera (son)
Books: The Thousandfold Thought (mentioned) The Unholy Consult (mentioned)

Anasûrimbor Samarmas
Anasûrimbor Samarmas is the fourth son and seventh and youngest child of Kellhus and Esmenet . He is the twin brother of Kelmomas .

Appearance

Samarmas looks identical to his twin Kelmomas , thus having curly blond hair , blue eyes and pale skin .

Personality

He is unique among Kellhus' children in that he did not inherit any of his father's Dûnyain traits.

What Came Before

From birth, he and his twin locked gazes with the other for the first (very) few years of their lives. If they were ever forced to be apart, each sank into total despondency. Soon after they separated psychologically, it was discovered that Kelmomas inherited Dûnyain traits while Samarmas did not.

The Judging Eye

Samarmas was murdered by his twin Kelmomas in what looked like an accident.

Anasûrimbor Samarmas

Title(s): Prince-Imperial
Aliases: Sammi
Lived: 4123 or 4124 - 4132
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Half- Dûnyain ( Norsirai ), half- Ketyai
Nationality: New Empire
Gender: Male
Occupation: Prince-Imperial
Relatives: Moënghus (grandfather) Kellhus (father) Esmenet (mother) Maithanet (uncle) Mimara (half-sister) Koringhus (half-brother) Moënghus (adoptive brother) Kayûtas (brother) Theliopa (sister) Serwa (sister) Inrilatas (brother) Kelmomas (twin brother) The Boy (nephew) Unnamed nephew Unnamed nephew or niece
Books: The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal The Unholy Consult

Anasûrimbor Samarmas

Title(s): Prince-Imperial
Aliases: Sammi
Lived: 4123 or 4124 - 4132
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Half- Dûnyain ( Norsirai ), half- Ketyai
Nationality: New Empire
Gender: Male
Occupation: Prince-Imperial
Relatives: Moënghus (grandfather) Kellhus (father) Esmenet (mother) Maithanet (uncle) Mimara (half-sister) Koringhus (half-brother) Moënghus (adoptive brother) Kayûtas (brother) Theliopa (sister) Serwa (sister) Inrilatas (brother) Kelmomas (twin brother) The Boy (nephew) Unnamed nephew Unnamed nephew or niece
Books: The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal The Unholy Consult

Anasûrimbor Sanna-Jephera
Anasûrimbor Sanna-Jephera , known as "Twoheart", was the son of Anasûrimbor Omindalea , conceived when she was raped by the Nonman Siqû Jiricet . His mother died giving birth to him . After Sanna-Jephera impregnated a house-slave at some point during his youth, he was officially adopted as his grandfather Sanna-Neorjë 's heir . House Anasûrimbor thus continued through his line.

Anasûrimbor Sanna-Jephera

Aliases: Twoheart
Lived: 825 - 1032
Race: Man - Nonman hybrid
Ethnicity: (Half-) Norsirai
Nationality: Ûmeri
Gender: Male
Relatives: Sanna-Neorjë (grandfather) Omindalea (mother) Jiricet (father) At least one unnamed aunt
Books: Mentioned online only

Anasûrimbor Sanna-Jephera

Aliases: Twoheart
Lived: 825 - 1032
Race: Man - Nonman hybrid
Ethnicity: (Half-) Norsirai
Nationality: Ûmeri
Gender: Male
Relatives: Sanna-Neorjë (grandfather) Omindalea (mother) Jiricet (father) At least one unnamed aunt
Books: Mentioned online only

Anasûrimbor Sanna-Neorjë
Anasûrimbor Sanna-Neorjë was the head of House Anasûrimbor in the Ûmeri Empire by 824, and the father of Omindalea . His daughter's rape by the Nonman Jiricet eventually resulted in the expulsion of all Nonmen from the empire, ending the Nonman Tutelage . Later in life, Sanna-Neorjë adopted his hybrid grandson, Sanna-Jephera , as his heir after the latter impregnated a house-slave . The line of Sanna-Neorjë and House Anasûrimbor thus continued through Sanna-Jephera.

Anasûrimbor Sanna-Neorjë

Lived: 772 - 858
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Ûmeri
Gender: Male
Relatives: Omindalea (daughter) At least one unnamed daughter Sanna-Jephera (grandson)
Books: Mentioned online only

Anasûrimbor Sanna-Neorjë

Lived: 772 - 858
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Ûmeri
Gender: Male
Relatives: Omindalea (daughter) At least one unnamed daughter Sanna-Jephera (grandson)
Books: Mentioned online only

Anasûrimbor Serwa
Anasûrimbor Serwa is the second daughter and third child of Kellhus and Esmenet , and Grandmistress of the only school for sorceresses in Eärwa , the Swayal Sisterhood . She was named after Serwë .

Appearance

Serwa is considered very beautiful . She is tall and slender , with long flaxen hair and blue eyes . Her skin is pale , and she has freckles about the bridge of her nose . Her profile resembles that of her mother on the silver Kellic . After she is hit by a pulse of the Sun Lance during the battle for Golgotterath , Serwa is severely burned. Her hair is almost completely burned off, and ulcerating burns cover the majority of her body, with only part of her face, the lower part of her legs and pubic area remaining unburnt . Close to the end of her duel with Skuthula , Serwa is struck by a Chorae , which salts off part of her right arm .

Skills

Serwa is widely thought to be the most powerful witch in the world . She is one of only three sorcerers capable of performing Metagnostic cants such as the Cant of Translocation .

What Came Before

Serwa was born in Carythusal during the Unification Wars . At the age of three, it was discovered that she possessed the Gift of the Few and she was sent to Iothiah to be raised among the Swayal witches . Esmenet, who was strongly opposed to this decision, never quite forgave Kellhus for it .

The Judging Eye

Serwa is mentioned as marching with her father and her brothers Moënghus and Kayûtas in the Great Ordeal . She is present in the meeting Sorweel has with Kayûtas (in which he is informed a tutor has been chosen for him) . Serwa also attends the Council of Potentates, in which Sorweel is declared a Believer-King .

The White-Luck Warrior

Serwa, Moënghus, and Sorweel are sent to the Nonman mansion of Ishterebinth to act as hostages. It is revealed she suffers the same nightmares experienced by Mandate Schoolmen of the Apocalypse as witnessed through Seswatha 's eyes .

The Unholy Consult

Serwa duels the great Wracu known as Skuthula the Black within the Intrinsic Gate during the final cataclysmic battle for Golgotterath .

Anasûrimbor Serwa

Title(s): Princess-Imperial Grandmistress Exalt-Magus
Aliases: Ladywitch Serri Serwa Memirrû
Lived: ca. 4115 - present
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Half- Dûnyain ( Norsirai ), half- Ketyai
Nationality: New Empire
Gender: Female
Occupation: Grandmistress of the Swayal Sisterhood Exalt-Magus of the Great Ordeal
Relatives: Moënghus (grandfather) Kellhus (father) Esmenet (mother) Maithanet (uncle) Mimara (half-sister) Koringhus (half-brother) Moënghus (adoptive brother) Kayûtas (brother) Theliopa (sister) Inrilatas (brother) Kelmomas (brother) Samarmas (brother) The Boy (nephew) Unnamed nephew Unnamed nephew or niece
Books: The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal The Unholy Consult

Anasûrimbor Serwa

Title(s): Princess-Imperial Grandmistress Exalt-Magus
Aliases: Ladywitch Serri Serwa Memirrû
Lived: ca. 4115 - present
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Half- Dûnyain ( Norsirai ), half- Ketyai
Nationality: New Empire
Gender: Female
Occupation: Grandmistress of the Swayal Sisterhood Exalt-Magus of the Great Ordeal
Relatives: Moënghus (grandfather) Kellhus (father) Esmenet (mother) Maithanet (uncle) Mimara (half-sister) Koringhus (half-brother) Moënghus (adoptive brother) Kayûtas (brother) Theliopa (sister) Inrilatas (brother) Kelmomas (brother) Samarmas (brother) The Boy (nephew) Unnamed nephew Unnamed nephew or niece
Books: The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal The Unholy Consult

Anasûrimbor Theliopa
Anasûrimbor Theliopa was the eldest daughter and second child of Kellhus and Esmenet . Over the course of the Aspect-Emperor series, she remained with her mother in Momemn in her capacity as Imperial Adviser .

Appearance

Theliopa was tall and pale-skinned like her father , with sallow blonde hair and pale blue eyes . She was thin to the point of emaciation, her features angular and her skin being referred to as "tented over the woodwork of her bones" . She was known for wearing outlandish garments of her own design and arranging her hair in equally eccentric hairstyles .

Personality

Theliopa was remarkably intelligent, but almost completely devoid of emotion and oblivious to most social norms . She almost always avoided meeting other people's gazes , her stare being very intense on the rare occasions she did so . She spoke with a very high and cold voice and possessed a verbal tic that manifested as the repetition of certain words . She was an avid reader, remembering all she read with perfect detail . However, she was so consumed by her interests she often forgot to eat or sleep, having to be forced to do so (the latter situation resulting in her emaciated state) .

What Came Before

Theliopa was born in Nenciphon during the Unification Wars , probably in or around the winter of 4113 . Due to her prodigious intellect and memory, she was made an Imperial Adviser at the age of twelve . At some point during her youth, she underwent a traumatic experience (presumably involving rape) at the hands of her brother Inrilatas . This was likely the catalyst for Kellhus' decision to imprison his son (it is implied Esmenet never learned about this) . This event remained the only thing to cause Theliopa to show any kind of emotion, as Kelmomas discovered years later .

The Judging Eye

Theliopa was one of her mother's closest advisers in the Andiamine Heights , using her Dûnyain mental abilities to provide detailed reports and oversee Esmenet's meetings with various dignitaries. She was also the one to detect a skin-spy among the stable slaves in Momemn. She was present when Samarmas was killed in an accident engineered by Kelmomas, the latter describing her as observing the scene "with fey curiosity".

The White-Luck Warrior

After Esmenet started to mistrust Maithanet , she asked her daughter for advice on how to gauge his true intentions. Theliopa eventually suggested that Inrilatas could read their uncle's face, as he had been the only one trained to do so by their father. When the Andiamine Heights were stormed by Maithanet's men in the coup following Inrilatas' murder, Theliopa told her brother Kelmomas to run. Later, during Maithanet's reconciliation with Esmenet, he told her that Theliopa was safe.

The Great Ordeal

Theliopa advised her mother against forgiving Naree for betraying her location (and indirectly causing Imhailas ' death). She offered to kill Naree herself, but Esmenet declined. It is revealed that Theliopa had grown increasingly suspicious of Kelmomas's behaviour since the events following Maithanet's murder of Inrilatas. She confronted her younger brother, telling him that she had figured out that he was more than he seemed, and asked him if he had been the one to kill Biaxi Sankas . When Kelmomas denied it, she left him alone, but not before threatening him, as Momemn needed its Empress, and Kelmomas was making her weak (and the revelation of his crimes would make the situation even worse). Later, while Esmenet was giving Kelmomas a bath, Theliopa arrived to inform her mother that General Iskaul had arrived. Esmenet promptly left, asking her daughter to finish bathing Kelmomas. Theliopa then told her brother that she knew that he had made the decision to kill her. Kelmomas, in turn, brought up the past incident between her and Inrilatas, reminding her of how he would call her "Sranky". Overcome by uncharacteristic emotion, she quickly fled the room. Some time after that, Kelmomas tracked the White-Luck Warrior to his own bedroom. He watched as Theliopa walked in and confronted the White-Luck Warrior, who made it clear that she was "already dead", him just being "someone who was there when it happened". At the end of their conversation, an earthquake wracked the city, causing Theliopa to be crushed by falling debris. After the White-Luck Warrior left the now-destroyed room, Kelmomas walked to Theliopa and smashed her head with a brick to make sure she was dead. He then pretended to cry over her body. By the time a grieving Esmenet found her daughter's body, she caught a glimpse of Kelmomas' joyful expression.

Trivia

- Theliopa is the only one of Kellhus and Esmenet's children not to have a clear or probable namesake. Kayûtas , Serwa and Kelmomas are explicitly named after Anasûrimbor Nau-Cayûti , Serwë and Anasûrimbor Celmomas II , respectively . Inrilatas ' name is likely derived from that of Inri Sejenus , while Samarmas ' is quite similar to those of Samarmau Uän or Sag-Marmau .

Anasûrimbor Theliopa

Title(s): Princess-Imperial
Aliases: Thelli
Lived: ca. 4113 - 4132
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Half- Dûnyain ( Norsirai ), half- Ketyai
Nationality: New Empire
Gender: Female
Occupation: Imperial Adviser
Relatives: Moënghus (grandfather) Kellhus (father) Esmenet (mother) Maithanet (uncle) Mimara (half-sister) Koringhus (half-brother) Moënghus (adoptive brother) Kayûtas (brother) Serwa (sister) Inrilatas (brother) Kelmomas (brother) Samarmas (brother) The Boy (nephew) Unnamed nephew Unnamed nephew or niece
Books: The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal The Unholy Consult (mentioned)

Anasûrimbor Theliopa

Title(s): Princess-Imperial
Aliases: Thelli
Lived: ca. 4113 - 4132
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Half- Dûnyain ( Norsirai ), half- Ketyai
Nationality: New Empire
Gender: Female
Occupation: Imperial Adviser
Relatives: Moënghus (grandfather) Kellhus (father) Esmenet (mother) Maithanet (uncle) Mimara (half-sister) Koringhus (half-brother) Moënghus (adoptive brother) Kayûtas (brother) Serwa (sister) Inrilatas (brother) Kelmomas (brother) Samarmas (brother) The Boy (nephew) Unnamed nephew Unnamed nephew or niece
Books: The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal The Unholy Consult (mentioned)

Anaxophus V
Anaxophus V was the Kyranean ruler during the dark years of the Apocalypse . He famously killed the No-God with the Heron Spear in 2155, so winning the Second Battle of Mengedda and finally ending the nightmare of the Apocalypse. Anaxophus had recovered the Heron Spear after the disastrous Battle of Eleneöt Fields and hidden it away. Some historians, Casidas among them, have called this the most monstrous deception in history. How could Anaxophus conceal the only weapon that could defeat the No-God while the greater part of the world died? But others, including many belonging to the Mandate , argued precisely the opposite. They admitted that Anaxophus’s motive—to save Kyraneas and Kyraneas alone—was more than a little suspect. But they pointed to the fact that had he not hidden the Heron Spear, it would surely have been lost in the catastrophes following the defeat at Eleneöt. Anaxophus was a close friend of the sorcerer Seswatha , who called him “Anakka.”

Anaxophus V

Title(s): High King of Kyraneas
Aliases: Anakka
Lived: 2109 - 2156
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Ketyai
Nationality: Kyranean
Gender: Male
Occupation: High King of Kyraneas
Books: mentioned only

Anaxophus V

Title(s): High King of Kyraneas
Aliases: Anakka
Lived: 2109 - 2156
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Ketyai
Nationality: Kyranean
Gender: Male
Occupation: High King of Kyraneas
Books: mentioned only

Anchilas
Artist who created the famed fresco known as the Blue Hubris.

Ancient
"Ancient North" The Ancient North is the name given to the Norsirai civilization destroyed in the Apocalypse .

Nations

- Akksersia
- Aörsi
- Eämnor
- Kûniüri
- Meöri Empire
- Sheneor
- Ûmeri Empire

Provincies

- Akirsuäl
- Sobel

Cities

- Atrithau
- Etrith
- Kelmeöl
- Lokor
- Myclai
- Sakarpus
- Sauglish
- Shiarau
- Trysë
- Ûmerau

Structures

- Dagliash

Ancient North
The Ancient North is the name given to the Norsirai civilization destroyed in the Apocalypse .

Nations

- Akksersia
- Aörsi
- Eämnor
- Kûniüri
- Meöri Empire
- Sheneor
- Ûmeri Empire

Provincies

- Akirsuäl
- Sobel

Cities

- Atrithau
- Etrith
- Kelmeöl
- Lokor
- Myclai
- Sakarpus
- Sauglish
- Shiarau
- Trysë
- Ûmerau

Structures

- Dagliash

Ancilline
"Ancilline Gate" Ancilline Gate is one of the so-called Lesser Gates of Momemn , located to the immediate south of the Girgallic Gate .

Ancilline Gate
Ancilline Gate is one of the so-called Lesser Gates of Momemn , located to the immediate south of the Girgallic Gate .

and
"Journals and Dialogues" Journals and Dialogues is the collected writings of Triamis the Great , greatest of the Ceneian Aspect-Emperors .

Excerpts

"Why must I conquer, you ask? War makes clear. Life or Death. Freedom or Bondage. War strikes the sediment from the water of life." "What is practicality but one moment betrayed for the next?" "...and my soldiers, they say, make idols of their swords. But does not the sword make certain? Does not the sword make plain? Does not the sword compel kindness from those who kneel in its shadow? I need no other god." "I returned from that campaign a far different man, or so my mother continuously complained. "Now only the dead," she would tell me, "can hope to match your gaze."" "If war does not kill the woman in us, it kills the man." "...conquered peoples live and die with the knowledge that survival does not suffer honor. They have chosen shame over the pyre, the slow flame for the quick." "A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity." "The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it."

Andiamine
"Andiamine Heights" Andiamine Heights is the primary residence and principal administrative seat of Nansur Emperors, located on the seaward walls of Momemn . The grounds of the Andiamine Heights are called Imperial Precincts . Scuäri Campus is the main parade ground of the Imperial Precincts. The city is known for its Allosium Forum , the great judicial galleries located at the foot of the Andiamine Heights, and the Hapetine Gardens , one of the city’s many architectural idylls.

Andiamine Heights
Andiamine Heights is the primary residence and principal administrative seat of Nansur Emperors, located on the seaward walls of Momemn . The grounds of the Andiamine Heights are called Imperial Precincts . Scuäri Campus is the main parade ground of the Imperial Precincts. The city is known for its Allosium Forum , the great judicial galleries located at the foot of the Andiamine Heights, and the Hapetine Gardens , one of the city’s many architectural idylls.

Anfirig
"Thagawain Anfirig" Thagawain Anfirig is the Galeoth Earl of Gesindal .

Thagawain Anfirig

Title(s): Earl of Gesindal
Lived: 4057 -
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Galeoth
Gender: Male
Occupation: Earl of Gesindal
Books: The Warrior-Prophet The Thousandfold Thought

Thagawain Anfirig

Title(s): Earl of Gesindal
Lived: 4057 -
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Galeoth
Gender: Male
Occupation: Earl of Gesindal
Books: The Warrior-Prophet The Thousandfold Thought

Angeshraël
Angeshraël is the most famed Old Prophet of the Tusk , responsible for leading the Five Tribes of Men into Eärwa . Also known as the Burnt Prophet for bowing his face into his fire after confronting Husyelt at the foot of Mount Eshki . His wife was named Esmenet . Angeshraël had a son by Esmenet, Oresh , but sacrificed him at Mount Kinsureah to demonstrate his conviction to the Tribes of Men.

Angeshraël

Title(s): Prophet
Aliases: Burnt Prophet
Lived: ? - ?
Race: Men
Gender: Male
Occupation: Prophet
Relatives: Oresh (son) Esmenet (wife)
Books: mentioned only

Angeshraël

Title(s): Prophet
Aliases: Burnt Prophet
Lived: ? - ?
Race: Men
Gender: Male
Occupation: Prophet
Relatives: Oresh (son) Esmenet (wife)
Books: mentioned only

Animas
The “moving force” of all existence, typically analogized as the “breath of God.” Much ink has been spilt over the question of the relation between animas, which is primarily a theological concept, and the sorcerous concept of “ onta .” Most scholars are of the opinion that the latter is simply a secular version of the former.

Anissi
Anissi was the favourite wife of Cnaiür urs Skiötha . She was half- Norsirai .

What Came Before

Anissi married Cnaiür at an unknown date. They had at least one child together, a daughter named Sanathi.

The Darkness That Comes Before

Anissi is present when Cnaiür returns to the Utemot camp and kills Yursalka and his kin . She expresses relief at the fact he survived Kiyuth . After Cnaiür finds Kellhus , Anissi talks to her husband about him . She tells him Kellhus claimed the dead men found with him were from Atrithau and his followers . Anissi also confesses that she is as frightened of Kellhus as she is of Cnaiür himself . Later, Cnaiür strikes Anissi after he sees her weeping during his torture of Kellhus . She is also present (along with Cnaiür's other wives) when the two men depart . According to Kellhus, Cnaiür prizes Anissi above his other wives because she is the only one to weather his torment and still love him . He also believes Cnaiür's interest in Serwë is due to the fact that she reminds him of Anissi .

The Warrior-Prophet

As he thinks about Serwë, Cnaiür also imagines Anissi sleeping far away, holding their daughter Sanathi close .

The Thousandfold Thought

Anissi appears in one of Cnaiür's nightmares .

Later Events

Anissi died of unknown causes in 4113 .

Anissi

Lived: ca. 4089 - 4113
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Half- Scylvendi , half- Norsirai
Nationality: Utemot
Gender: Female
Occupation: Wife of Cnaiür urs Skiötha
Relatives: Cnaiür (husband) Sanathi (daughter)
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Warrior-Prophet (mentioned) The Thousandfold Thought (mentioned) The Unholy Consult (mentioned)

Anissi

Lived: ca. 4089 - 4113
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Half- Scylvendi , half- Norsirai
Nationality: Utemot
Gender: Female
Occupation: Wife of Cnaiür urs Skiötha
Relatives: Cnaiür (husband) Sanathi (daughter)
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Warrior-Prophet (mentioned) The Thousandfold Thought (mentioned) The Unholy Consult (mentioned)

Ankaryotis
Ankaryotis is a Ciphrang , a divine agency (demon) of the Outside and one of the more manageable Potents controlled by the Scarlet Spires .

Appearance

Ankaryotis takes material form as a writhing abomination with “scales like knives and limbs like iron pillars.” The demon’s large head is described as “elephantine” and it has “a great maw ringed by eyes.”

The Warrior-Prophet

When Drusas Achamian escapes his imprisonment by the Scarlet Spires, Heramari Iyokus summons Ankaryotis to kill him. The two fight, and Achamian eventually defeats Ankaryotis, sending the demon back to the Outside.

Ankaryotis

Race: Ciphrang
Occupation: Potent
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Ankaryotis

Race: Ciphrang
Occupation: Potent
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Ankharlus
Ankharlus was a famed Kûniüric commentator and high priest of Gilgaöl.

Ankharlus

Title(s): High Priest
Lived: ? - ?
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Kûniüri
Gender: Male
Occupation: High Priest of Gilgaöl
Books: mentioned only

Ankharlus

Title(s): High Priest
Lived: ? - ?
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Kûniüri
Gender: Male
Occupation: High Priest of Gilgaöl
Books: mentioned only

Ankirioth
Ankirioth is a palatinate of south central Conriya . The Palatine of Ankirioth is Amurrei Ganyatti .

Ankulakai
"Mount Ankulakai" Mount Ankulakai is the mountain on the southern limit of the Demua Mountains that cradles the city of Atrithau . The foot of Mount Ankulakai is notable for being anarcane ground ; which is to say, ground that renders sorcery impotent.

Anmergal
"Skinede Anmergal" Skinede Anmergal is a Tydonni thane, slain at the Battle of Tertae Fields .

Skinede Anmergal

Lived: 4078 - 4112
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Tydonni
Gender: Male
Occupation: Thane
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Skinede Anmergal

Lived: 4078 - 4112
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Tydonni
Gender: Male
Occupation: Thane
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Annals
"Annals of Cenei" The Annals of Cenei is a classic treatise of Casidas , covering the history of Cenei and the Ceneian Empire from the Imperial City’s legendary foundation in 809 to the time of Casidas’s death in 3142.

Excerpts

“The difference between the strong emperor and the weak is simply this: the former makes the world his arena, while the latter makes it his harem.” “That hope is little more than the premonition of regret. This is the first lesson of history.” “Ever do Men use secrets to sort and measure those they love, which is why they are less honest with their brothers and more guarded with their friends.”

Annals of Cenei
The Annals of Cenei is a classic treatise of Casidas , covering the history of Cenei and the Ceneian Empire from the Imperial City’s legendary foundation in 809 to the time of Casidas’s death in 3142.

Excerpts

“The difference between the strong emperor and the weak is simply this: the former makes the world his arena, while the latter makes it his harem.” “That hope is little more than the premonition of regret. This is the first lesson of history.” “Ever do Men use secrets to sort and measure those they love, which is why they are less honest with their brothers and more guarded with their friends.”

Annand
Annand is a province of north central Conriya , known primarily for its silver and iron mines . "All the silver in Annand" is a common Three Seas expression, meaning "pricelessness" . The Palatine of Annand at the time of the First Holy War was Ersa Kushigas .

Anphairas
"Ikurei Anphairas I" Ikurei Anphairas I was the Emperor of Nansur from 4066 to 4081, when he was assassinated by persons unknown .

Ikurei Anphairas I

Title(s): Emperor
Lived: 4022 - 4081
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Ketyai
Nationality: Nansur
Gender: Male
Occupation: Emperor of Nansur
Relatives: Sorius (ancestor) Unnamed son Xerius (grandson) Unnamed grandson Conphas (great-grandson)
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before (mentioned) The Thousandfold Thought (mentioned) The Unholy Consult (mentioned)

Ikurei Anphairas I

Title(s): Emperor
Lived: 4022 - 4081
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Ketyai
Nationality: Nansur
Gender: Male
Occupation: Emperor of Nansur
Relatives: Sorius (ancestor) Unnamed son Xerius (grandson) Unnamed grandson Conphas (great-grandson)
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before (mentioned) The Thousandfold Thought (mentioned) The Unholy Consult (mentioned)

Anplei
Anplei is a palatinate located in south-west Conriya . The Count-Palatine of Anplei at the time of the First Holy War was Shressa Gaidekki . He was succeeded by Shressa Xinoyas .

Cities

- Anplei

Anplei (City)
Anplei is the second-largest city in Conriya after Aöknyssus located in homonymous palatinate Anplei .

Ansacer
"Ansacer ab Salajka" Ansacer ab Salajka is the Sapatishah-Governor of Gedea . The Black Gazelle is his totem.

Ansacer ab Salajka

Title(s): Sapatishah-Governor
Lived: 4072 -
Race: Men
Nationality: Gedean
Gender: Male
Occupation: Sapatishah-Governor of Gedea
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Ansacer ab Salajka

Title(s): Sapatishah-Governor
Lived: 4072 -
Race: Men
Nationality: Gedean
Gender: Male
Occupation: Sapatishah-Governor of Gedea
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Ansacer ab Salajka
Ansacer ab Salajka is the Sapatishah-Governor of Gedea . The Black Gazelle is his totem.

Ansacer ab Salajka

Title(s): Sapatishah-Governor
Lived: 4072 -
Race: Men
Nationality: Gedean
Gender: Male
Occupation: Sapatishah-Governor of Gedea
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Ansacer ab Salajka

Title(s): Sapatishah-Governor
Lived: 4072 -
Race: Men
Nationality: Gedean
Gender: Male
Occupation: Sapatishah-Governor of Gedea
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Ansansius
"Teres Ansansius" Teres Ansansius was the most famed theologian of the early Thousand Temples , whose The City of Men , The Limping Pilgrim , and Five Letters to All are revered by Shrial scholars.

Teres Ansansius

Lived: 2300 - 2351
Race: Men
Gender: Male
Occupation: Theologian
Books: mentioned only

Teres Ansansius

Lived: 2300 - 2351
Race: Men
Gender: Male
Occupation: Theologian
Books: mentioned only

Anserca
Anserca is the southernmost province of the Nansur Empire . The province’s primary commodity is wool.

Towns

- Nabathra

Antanamera
Antanamera is a palatinate of High Ainon , located on the highland frontier of Jekk . Antanamera often proves itself the spine of High Ainon . The Count-Palatine of Antanamera at the time of both the First Holy War and the Great Ordeal was Musammu Chinjosa .

Anthirul
"Caxes Anthirul" Exalt-General in Momemn at the time of the Great Ordeal.

Antiquity
"Far Antiquity" Far Antiquity is the historical period beginning with the Breaking of the Gates and ending with the Apocalypse in 2155. Age of Bronze is another name for Far Antiquity, during which bronze was the dominant technology of Men .

Anwurat
"Battle of Anwurat" The Battle of Anwurat was a pivotal battle of the First Holy War , fought in the summer of 4111 about the fortress of Anwurat south of the Sempis Delta . Despite early setbacks, the Inrithi under Cnaiür urs Skiötha managed to rout the Kianene host of Skauras ab Nalajan , allowing the subsequent conquest of southern Shigek and opening the road to Caraskand .

Anzumarapata II
Nilnameshi King of Invishi during the 14th century (Year-of-the-Tusk).

an
-this word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. it is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. in such expressions as "twice an hour," "once an age," a shilling an ounce (see 2d a, 2), it has a distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every.
-if;
-- a word used by old english authors.

an 't
-an it, that is, and it or if it. see an, conj.

an't
-a contraction for are and am not; also used for is not;
-- now usually written ain't.

ana
-of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), / ij., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces.

ana
-
-a prefix in words from the greek, denoting up, upward, throughout, backward, back, again, anew.

anabaptism
-the doctrine of the anabaptists.

anabaptist
-a name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy.

anabaptistic
-alt. of anabaptistical

anabaptistical
-relating or attributed to the anabaptists, or their doctrines.

anabaptistry
-the doctrine, system, or practice, of anabaptists.

anabaptize
-to rebaptize; to rechristen; also, to rename.

anabas
-a genus of fishes, remarkable for their power of living long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances, and for climbing trees; the climbing fishes.

anabasis
-a journey or expedition up from the coast, like that of the younger cyrus into central asia, described by xenophon in his work called "the anabasis."
-the first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation.

anabatic
-pertaining to anabasis; as, an anabatic fever.

anabolic
-pertaining to anabolism; an anabolic changes, or processes, more or less constructive in their nature.

anabolism
-the constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from katabolism.

anacamptic
-reflecting of reflected; as, an anacamptic sound (and echo).

anacamptically
-by reflection; as, echoes are sound produced anacamptically.

anacamptics
-the science of reflected light, now called catoptrics.
-the science of reflected sounds.

anacanthini
-alt. of anacanths

anacanthous
-spineless, as certain fishes.

anacanths
-a group of teleostean fishes destitute of spiny fin
-rays, as the cod.

anacardiaceous
-belonging to, or resembling, a family, or order, of plants of which the cashew tree is the type, and the species of sumac are well known examples.

anacardic
-pertaining to, or derived from, the cashew nut; as, anacardic acid.

anacardium
-a genus of plants including the cashew tree. see cashew.

anacathartic
-producing vomiting or expectoration.
-an anacathartic medicine; an expectorant or an emetic.

anacharis
-a fresh
-water weed of the frog's
-bit family (hydrocharidaceae), native to america. transferred to england it became an obstruction to navigation. called also waterweed and water thyme.

anachoret
-alt. of anachoretical

anachoretical
-see anchoret, anchoretic.

anachorism
-an error in regard to the place of an event or a thing; a referring something to a wrong place.

anachronic
-alt. of anachronical

anachronical
-characterized by, or involving, anachronism; anachronistic.

anachronism
-a misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.

anachronistic
-erroneous in date; containing an anachronism.

anachronize
-to refer to, or put into, a wrong time.

anachronous
-containing an anachronism; anachronistic.

anaclastic
-produced by the refraction of light, as seen through water; as, anaclastic curves.
-springing back, as the bottom of an anaclastic glass.

anaclastics
-that part of optics which treats of the refraction of light;
-- commonly called dioptrics.

anacoenosis
-a figure by which a speaker appeals to his hearers or opponents for their opinion on the point in debate.

anacoluthic
-lacking grammatical sequence.

anacoluthon
-a want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part.

anaconda
-a large south american snake of the boa family (eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. the name is also applied to a similar large serpent (python tigris) of ceylon.

anacreontic
-pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the greek poet anacreon; amatory and convivial.
-a poem after the manner of anacreon; a sprightly little poem in praise of love and wine.

anacrotic
-pertaining to anachronism.

anacrotism
-a secondary notch in the pulse curve, obtained in a sphygmographic tracing.

anacrusis
-a prefix of one or two unaccented syllables to a verse properly beginning with an accented syllable.

anadem
-a garland or fillet; a chaplet or wreath.

anadiplosis
-a repetition of the last word or any prominent word in a sentence or clause, at the beginning of the next, with an adjunct idea; as, "he retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes
-- misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent."

anadrom
-a fish that leaves the sea and ascends rivers.

anadromous
-ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.
-tending upwards;
-- said of terns in which the lowest secondary segments are on the upper side of the branch of the central stem.

anaemia
-a morbid condition in which the blood is deficient in quality or in quantity.

anaemic
-of or pertaining to anaemia.

anaerobic
-relating to, or like, anaerobies; anaerobiotic.

anaerobies
-microorganisms which do not require oxygen, but are killed by it.

anaerobiotic
-related to, or of the nature of, anaerobies.

anaesthesia
-entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anaesthetic.

anaesthesis
-see anaesthesia.

anaesthetic
-capable of rendering insensible; as, anaesthetic agents.
-characterized by, or connected with, insensibility; as, an anaesthetic effect or operation.
-that which produces insensibility to pain, as chloroform, ether, etc.

anaesthetization
-the process of anaesthetizing; also, the condition of the nervous system induced by anaesthetics.

anaesthetize
-to render insensible by an anaesthetic.

anaglyph
-any sculptured, chased, or embossed ornament worked in low relief, as a cameo.

anaglyphic
-alt. of anaglyphical
-work chased or embossed relief.

anaglyphical
-pertaining to the art of chasing or embossing in relief; anaglyptic;
-- opposed to diaglyptic or sunk work.

anaglyptic
-relating to the art of carving, enchasing, or embossing in low relief.

anaglyptics
-the art of carving in low relief, embossing, etc.

anaglyptograph
-an instrument by which a correct engraving of any embossed object, such as a medal or cameo, can be executed.

anaglyptographic
-of or pertaining to anaglyptography; as, anaglyptographic engraving.

anaglyptography
-the art of copying works in relief, or of engraving as to give the subject an embossed or raised appearance;
-- used in representing coins, bas
-reliefs, etc.

anagnorisis
-the unfolding or denouement.

anagoge
-an elevation of mind to things celestial.
-the spiritual meaning or application; esp. the application of the types and allegories of the old testament to subjects of the new.

anagogic
-alt. of anagogical

anagogical
-mystical; having a secondary spiritual meaning; as, the rest of the sabbath, in an anagogical sense, signifies the repose of the saints in heaven; an anagogical explication.

anagogics
-mystical interpretations or studies, esp. of the scriptures.

anagogy
-same as anagoge.

anagram
-literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. thus galenus becomes angelus; william noy (attorney
-general to charles i., and a laborious man) may be turned into i moyl in law.
-to anagrammatize.

anagrammatic
-alt. of anagrammatical

anagrammatical
-pertaining to, containing, or making, an anagram.

anagrammatism
-the act or practice of making anagrams.

anagrammatist
-a maker anagrams.

anagrammatize
-to transpose, as the letters of a word, so as to form an anagram.

anagraph
-an inventory; a record.

anakim
-alt. of anaks

anaks
-a race of giants living in palestine.

anal
-pertaining to, or situated near, the anus; as, the anal fin or glands.

analcime
-a white or flesh
-red mineral, of the zeolite family, occurring in isometric crystals. by friction, it acquires a weak electricity; hence its name.

analcite
-analcime.

analecta
-a collection of literary fragments.

analectic
-relating to analects; made up of selections; as, an analectic magazine.

analects
-alt. of analecta

analemma
-an orthographic projection of the sphere on the plane of the meridian, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, and in the east or west point of the horizon.
-an instrument of wood or brass, on which this projection of the sphere is made, having a movable horizon or cursor;
-- formerly much used in solving some common astronomical problems.
-a scale of the sun's declination for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe.

analepsis
-alt. of analepsy

analepsy
-recovery of strength after sickness.
-a species of epileptic attack, originating from gastric disorder.

analeptic
-restorative; giving strength after disease.
-a restorative.

analgesia
-absence of sensibility to pain.

anallagmatic
-not changed in form by inversion.

anallantoic
-without, or not developing, an allantois.

anallantoidea
-the division of vertebrata in which no allantois is developed. it includes amphibians, fishes, and lower forms.

analogal
-analogous.

analogic
-of or belonging to analogy.

analogical
-founded on, or of the nature of, analogy; expressing or implying analogy.
-having analogy; analogous.

analogically
-in an analogical sense; in accordance with analogy; by way of similitude.

analogicalness
-quality of being analogical.

analogies
-of analogy

analogism
-an argument from the cause to the effect; an a priori argument.
-investigation of things by the analogy they bear to each other.

analogist
-one who reasons from analogy, or represent, by analogy.

analogize
-to employ, or reason by, analogy.

analogon
-analogue.

analogous
-having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion;
-- often followed by to.

analogue
-that which is analogous to, or corresponds with, some other thing.
-a word in one language corresponding with one in another; an analogous term; as, the latin "pater" is the analogue of the english "father."
-an organ which is equivalent in its functions to a different organ in another species or group, or even in the same group; as, the gill of a fish is the analogue of a lung in a quadruped, although the two are not of like structural relations.
-a species in one genus or group having its characters parallel, one by one, with those of another group.
-a species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such species are often called representative species, and such genera, representative genera.

analogy
-a resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden.
-a relation or correspondence in function, between organs or parts which are decidedly different.
-proportion; equality of ratios.
-conformity of words to the genius, structure, or general rules of a language; similarity of origin, inflection, or principle of pronunciation, and the like, as opposed to anomaly.

analyse
-alt. of analyser

analyser
-same as analyze, analyzer, etc.

analyses
-of analysis

analysis
-a resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the component parts of a subject, each separately, as the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. it is opposed to synthesis.
-the separation of a compound substance, by chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to ascertain either (a) what elements it contains, or (b) how much of each element is present. the former is called qualitative, and the latter quantitative analysis.
-the tracing of things to their source, and the resolving of knowledge into its original principles.
-the resolving of problems by reducing the conditions that are in them to equations.
-a syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a discourse, disposed in their natural order.
-a brief, methodical illustration of the principles of a science. in this sense it is nearly synonymous with synopsis.
-the process of ascertaining the name of a species, or its place in a system of classification, by means of an analytical table or key.

analyst
-one who analyzes; formerly, one skilled in algebraical geometry; now commonly, one skilled in chemical analysis.

analytic
-alt. of analytical

analytical
-of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts; as, an analytical experiment; analytic reasoning;
-- opposed to synthetic.

analytically
-in an analytical manner.

analytics
-the science of analysis.

analyzable
-that may be analyzed.

analyzation
-the act of analyzing, or separating into constituent parts; analysis.

analyze
-to subject to analysis; to resolve (anything complex) into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately; to examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance; to analyze a sentence or a word; to analyze an action to ascertain its morality.

analyzed
-of analyze

analyzer
-one who, or that which, analyzes.
-the part of a polariscope which receives the light after polarization, and exhibits its properties.

analyzing
-of analyze

anamese
-of or pertaining to anam, to southeastern asia.
-a native of anam.

anamnesis
-a recalling to mind; recollection.

anamnestic
-aiding the memory; as, anamnestic remedies.

anamniotic
-without, or not developing, an amnion.

anamorphism
-a distorted image.
-a gradual progression from one type to another, generally ascending.

anamorphosis
-a distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion; a deformation of an image.
-same as anamorphism, 2.
-a morbid or monstrous development, or change of form, or degeneration.

anamorphosy
-same as anamorphosis.

anan
-an expression equivalent to what did you say? sir? eh?

ananas
-the pineapple (ananassa sativa).

anandrous
-destitute of stamens, as certain female flowers.

anangular
-containing no angle.

anantherous
-destitute of anthers.

ananthous
-destitute of flowers; flowerless.

anapaest
-alt. of anapaestic

anapaestic
-same as anapest, anapestic.

anapest
-a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented (/ /
-); the reverse of the dactyl. in latin d/
-/
-tas, and in english in
-ter
-vene#, are examples of anapests.
-a verse composed of such feet.

anapestic
-pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests; as, an anapestic meter, foot, verse.
-anapestic measure or verse.

anapestical
-anapestic.

anaphora
-a repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses.

anaphrodisia
-absence of sexual appetite.

anaphrodisiac
-same as antaphrodisiac.

anaphroditic
-produced without concourse of sexes.

anaplastic
-of or pertaining to anaplasty.

anaplasty
-the art of operation of restoring lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue.

anaplerotic
-filling up; promoting granulation of wounds or ulcers.
-a remedy which promotes such granulation.

anapnograph
-a form of spirometer.

anapnoic
-relating to respiration.

anapodeictic
-not apodeictic; undemonstrable.

anapophysis
-an accessory process in many lumbar vertebrae.

anaptichi
-of anaptychus

anaptotic
-having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay; as, anaptotic languages.

anaptychus
-one of a pair of shelly plates found in some cephalopods, as the ammonites.

anarch
-the author of anarchy; one who excites revolt.

anarchal
-lawless; anarchical.

anarchic
-alt. of anarchical

anarchical
-pertaining to anarchy; without rule or government; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy; as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.

anarchism
-the doctrine or practice of anarchists.

anarchist
-an anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government.

anarchize
-to reduce to anarchy.

anarchy
-absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion.
-hence, confusion or disorder, in general.

anarthropoda
-one of the divisions of articulata in which there are no jointed legs, as the annelids;
-- opposed to arthropoda.

anarthropodous
-having no jointed legs; pertaining to anarthropoda.

anarthrous
-used without the article; as, an anarthrous substantive.
-without joints, or having the joints indistinct, as some insects.

anas
-a genus of water fowls, of the order anseres, including certain species of fresh
-water ducks.

anasarca
-dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin.

anasarcous
-belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical.

anastaltic
-styptic.

anastate
-one of a series of substances formed, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm;
-- opposed to katastate.

anastatic
-pertaining to a process or a style of printing from characters in relief on zinc plates.

anastomose
-to inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins.

anastomoses
-of anastomosis

anastomosing
-of anastomose

anastomosis
-the inosculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries or veins.

anastomotic
-of or pertaining to anastomosis.

anastomozed
-of anastomose

anastrophe
-an inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed.

anathema
-a ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. hence: denunciation of anything as accursed.
-an imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
-any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.

anathemas
-of anathema

anathematic
-alt. of anathematical

anathematical
-pertaining to, or having the nature of, an anathema.

anathematism
-anathematization.

anathematization
-the act of anathematizing, or denouncing as accursed; imprecation.

anathematize
-to pronounce an anathema against; to curse. hence: to condemn publicly as something accursed.

anathematized
-of anathematize

anathematizer
-one who pronounces an anathema.

anathematizing
-of anathematize

anatifa
-an animal of the barnacle tribe, of the genus lepas, having a fleshy stem or peduncle; a goose barnacle. see cirripedia.

anatifae
-of anatifa

anatifer
-same as anatifa.

anatiferous
-producing ducks;
-- applied to anatifae, under the absurd notion of their turning into ducks or geese. see barnacle.

anatine
-of or pertaining to the ducks; ducklike.

anatocism
-compound interest.

anatomic
-alt. of anatomical

anatomical
-of or relating to anatomy or dissection; as, the anatomic art; anatomical observations.

anatomically
-in an anatomical manner; by means of dissection.

anatomies
-of anatomy

anatomism
-the application of the principles of anatomy, as in art.
-the doctrine that the anatomical structure explains all the phenomena of the organism or of animal life.

anatomist
-one who is skilled in the art of anatomy, or dissection.

anatomization
-the act of anatomizing.

anatomize
-to dissect; to cut in pieces, as an animal vegetable body, for the purpose of displaying or examining the structure and use of the several parts.
-to discriminate minutely or carefully; to analyze.

anatomized
-of anatomize

anatomizer
-a dissector.

anatomizing
-of anatomize

anatomy
-the art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.
-the science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.
-a treatise or book on anatomy.
-the act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.
-a skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so.

anatreptic
-overthrowing; defeating;
-- applied to plato's refutative dialogues.

anatron
-native carbonate of soda; natron.
-glass gall or sandiver.
-saltpeter.

anatropal
-alt. of anatropous

anatropous
-having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex;
-- opposed to orthotropous.

anatto
-same as annotto.

anbury
-alt. of ambury

ancestor
-one from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.
-an earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.
-one from whom an estate has descended;
-- the correlative of heir.

ancestorial
-ancestral.

ancestorially
-with regard to ancestors.

ancestral
-of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate.

ancestress
-a female ancestor.

ancestry
-condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
-a series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

anchor
-a iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station.
-any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place.
-fig.: that which gives stability or security; that on which we place dependence for safety.
-an emblem of hope.
-a metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
-carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead;
-- a part of the ornaments of certain moldings. it is seen in the echinus, or egg
-and
-anchor (called also egg
-and
-dart, egg
-and
-tongue) ornament.
-one of the anchor
-shaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain holothurians, as in species of synapta.
-to place at anchor; to secure by an anchor; as, to anchor a ship.
-to fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge.
-to cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.
-to stop; to fix or rest.
-an anchoret.

anchor
-hold
-the hold or grip of an anchor, or that to which it holds.
-hence: firm hold: security.

anchorable
-fit for anchorage.

anchorage
-the act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.
-a place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor.
-the set of anchors belonging to a ship.
-something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as, the anchorages of the brooklyn bridge.
-something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust.
-a toll for anchoring; anchorage duties.
-abode of an anchoret.

anchorate
-anchor
-shaped.

anchored
-of anchor
-held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue.
-having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross.

anchoress
-a female anchoret.

anchoret
-alt. of anchorite

anchoretic
-alt. of anchoretical

anchoretical
-pertaining to an anchoret or hermit; after the manner of an anchoret.

anchoretish
-hermitlike.

anchoretism
-the practice or mode of life of an anchoret.

anchoring
-of anchor

anchorite
-one who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for religious reasons; a hermit; a recluse.
-same as anchoret.

anchoritess
-an anchoress.

anchorless
-without an anchor or stay. hence: drifting; unsettled.

anchovy
-a small fish, about three inches in length, of the herring family (engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. the name is also applied to several allied species.

anchovy pear
-a west indian fruit like the mango in taste, sometimes pickled; also, the tree (grias cauliflora) bearing this fruit.

anchusin
-a resinoid coloring matter obtained from alkanet root.

anchylose
-to affect or be affected with anchylosis; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one.

anchylosed
-of anchylose

anchylosing
-of anchylose

anchylosis
-alt. of ankylosis

anchylotic
-of or pertaining to anchylosis.

ancient
-old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied to the times before the fall of the roman empire;
-- opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature, history; ancient days.
-old; that has been of long duration; of long standing; of great age; as, an ancient forest; an ancient castle.
-known for a long time, or from early times;
-- opposed to recent or new; as, the ancient continent.
-dignified, like an aged man; magisterial; venerable.
-experienced; versed.
-former; sometime.
-those who lived in former ages, as opposed to the moderns.
-an aged man; a patriarch. hence: a governor; a ruler; a person of influence.
-a senior; an elder; a predecessor.
-one of the senior members of the inns of court or of chancery.
-an ensign or flag.
-the bearer of a flag; an ensign.

anciently
-in ancient times.
-in an ancient manner.

ancientness
-the quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.

ancientry
-antiquity; what is ancient.
-old age; also, old people.
-ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth.

ancienty
-age; antiquity.
-seniority.

ancile
-the sacred shield of the romans, said to have
-fallen from heaven in the reign of numa. it was the palladium of rome.

ancillary
-subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary.

ancille
-a maidservant; a handmaid.

ancipital
-alt. of ancipitous

ancipitous
-two
-edged instead of round;
-- said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves.

ancistroid
-hook
-shaped.

ancle
-see ankle.

ancome
-a small ulcerous swelling, coming suddenly; also, a whitlow.

ancon
-the olecranon, or the elbow.
-alt. of ancone

anconal
-alt. of anconeal

ancone
-the corner or quoin of a wall, cross
-beam, or rafter.
-a bracket supporting a cornice; a console.

anconeal
-of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow.

ancones
-of ancon

anconeus
-a muscle of the elbow and forearm.

anconoid
-elbowlike; anconal.

ancony
-a piece of malleable iron, wrought into the shape of a bar in the middle, but unwrought at the ends.

and
-a particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. it is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence.
-in order to;
-- used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go.
-it is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive.
-if; though. see an, conj.

andabatism
-doubt; uncertainty.

andalusite
-a silicate of aluminium, occurring usually in thick rhombic prisms, nearly square, of a grayish or pale reddish tint. it was first discovered in andalusia, spain.

andante
-moving moderately slow, but distinct and flowing; quicker than larghetto, and slower than allegretto.
-a movement or piece in andante time.

andantino
-rather quicker than andante; between that allegretto.

andarac
-red orpiment.

andean
-pertaining to the andes.

andesine
-a kind of triclinic feldspar found in the andes.

andesite
-an eruptive rock allied to trachyte, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar, with pyroxene, hornblende, or hypersthene.

andine
-andean; as, andine flora.

andiron
-a utensil for supporting wood when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side; a firedog; as, a pair of andirons.

andranatomy
-the dissection of a human body, especially of a male; androtomy.

androecium
-the stamens of a flower taken collectively.

androgynal
-uniting both sexes in one, or having the characteristics of both; being in nature both male and female; hermaphroditic.
-bearing both staminiferous and pistilliferous flowers in the same cluster.

androgyne
-an hermaphrodite.
-an androgynous plant.

androgynism
-union of both sexes in one individual; hermaphroditism.

androgynous
-alt. of androgynal

androgyny
-alt. of androgynism

android
-alt. of androides
-resembling a man.

androides
-a machine or automaton in the form of a human being.

andromeda
-a northern constellation, supposed to represent the mythical andromeda.
-a genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water.

andron
-the apartment appropriated for the males. this was in the lower part of the house.

andropetalous
-produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus.

androphagi
-cannibals; man
-eaters; anthropophagi.

androphagous
-anthropophagous.

androphore
-a support or column on which stamens are raised.
-the part which in some siphonophora bears the male gonophores.

androsphinx
-a man sphinx; a sphinx having the head of a man and the body of a lion.

androspore
-a spore of some algae, which has male functions.

androtomous
-having the filaments of the stamens divided into two parts.

androtomy
-dissection of the human body, as distinguished from zootomy; anthropotomy.

anear
-near.
-to near; to approach.

aneath
-beneath.

anecdotage
-anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes.

anecdotal
-pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes; as, anecdotal conversation.

anecdote
-unpublished narratives.
-a particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.

anecdotic
-alt. of anecdotical

anecdotical
-pertaining to, consisting of, or addicted to, anecdotes.

anecdotist
-one who relates or collects anecdotes.

anelace
-same as anlace.

anele
-to anoint.
-to give extreme unction to.

anelectric
-not becoming electrified by friction;
-- opposed to idioelectric.
-a substance incapable of being electrified by friction.

anelectrode
-the positive pole of a voltaic battery.

anelectrotonus
-the condition of decreased irritability of a nerve in the region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it.

anemogram
-a record made by an anemograph.

anemograph
-an instrument for measuring and recording the direction and force of the wind.

anemographic
-produced by an anemograph; of or pertaining to anemography.

anemography
-a description of the winds.
-the art of recording the direction and force of the wind, as by means of an anemograph.

anemology
-the science of the wind.

anemometer
-an instrument for measuring the force or velocity of the wind; a wind gauge.

anemometric
-alt. of anemometrical

anemometrical
-of or pertaining to anemometry.

anemometrograph
-an anemograph.

anemometry
-the act or process of ascertaining the force or velocity of the wind.

anemone
-a genus of plants of the ranunculus or crowfoot family; windflower. some of the species are cultivated in gardens.
-the sea anemone. see actinia, and sea anemone.

anemonic
-an acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from, the anemone, or from anemonin.

anemonin
-an acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from some species of anemone.

anemony
-see anemone.

anemorphilous
-fertilized by the agency of the wind;
-- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by the wind; wind
-fertilized.

anemoscope
-an instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock;
-- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind.

anencephalic
-alt. of anencephalous

anencephalous
-without a brain; brainless.

anenst
-alt. of anent

anent
-over against; as, he lives anent the church.
-about; concerning; in respect; as, he said nothing anent this particular.

anenterous
-destitute of a stomach or an intestine.

aneroid
-containing no liquid;
-- said of a kind of barometer.
-an aneroid barometer.

anes
-once.

anesthesia
-alt. of anesthetic

anesthetic
-same as anaesthesia, anaesthetic.

anet
-the herb dill, or dillseed.

anethol
-a substance obtained from the volatile oils of anise, fennel, etc., in the form of soft shining scales;
-- called also anise camphor.

anetic
-soothing.

aneurism
-a soft, pulsating, hollow tumor, containing blood, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery.

aneurismal
-of or pertaining to an aneurism; as, an aneurismal tumor; aneurismal diathesis.

anew
-over again; another time; in a new form; afresh; as, to arm anew; to create anew.

anfractuose
-anfractuous; as, anfractuose anthers.

anfractuosities
-of anfractuosity

anfractuosity
-a state of being anfractuous, or full of windings and turnings; sinuosity.
-a sinuous depression or sulcus like those separating the convolutions of the brain.

anfractuous
-winding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous; as, the anfractuous spires of a born.

anfracture
-a mazy winding.

angariation
-exaction of forced service; compulsion.

angeiology
-alt. of angeiotomy

angeiotomy
-same as angiology, angiotomy, etc.

angel
-a messenger.
-a spiritual, celestial being, superior to man in power and intelligence. in the scriptures the angels appear as god's messengers.
-one of a class of "fallen angels;" an evil spirit; as, the devil and his angels.
-a minister or pastor of a church, as in the seven asiatic churches.
-attendant spirit; genius; demon.
-an appellation given to a person supposed to be of angelic goodness or loveliness; a darling.
-an ancient gold coin of england, bearing the figure of the archangel michael. it varied in value from 6s. 8d. to 10s.

angel fish
-see under angel.

angelage
-existence or state of angels.

angelet
-a small gold coin formerly current in england; a half angel.

angelhood
-the state of being an angel; angelic nature.

angelic
-alt. of angelical
-of or derived from angelica; as, angelic acid; angelic ether.

angelica
-an aromatic umbelliferous plant (archangelica officinalis or angelica archangelica) the leaf stalks of which are sometimes candied and used in confectionery, and the roots and seeds as an aromatic tonic.
-the candied leaf stalks of angelica.

angelical
-belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel; heavenly; divine.

angelically
-like an angel.

angelicalness
-the quality of being angelic; excellence more than human.

angelify
-to make like an angel; to angelize.

angelize
-to raise to the state of an angel; to render angelic.

angellike
-resembling an angel.

angelolatry
-worship paid to angels.

angelology
-a discourse on angels, or a body of doctrines in regard to angels.

angelophany
-the actual appearance of an angel to man.

angelot
-a french gold coin of the reign of louis xi., bearing the image of st. michael; also, a piece coined at paris by the english under henry vi.
-an instrument of music, of the lute kind, now disused.
-a sort of small, rich cheese, made in normandy.

angelus
-a form of devotion in which three ave marias are repeated. it is said at morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of a bell.
-the angelus bell.

anger
-trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc.
-a strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury.
-to make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame.
-to excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke.

angered
-of anger

angering
-of anger

angerly
-angrily.

angevine
-of or pertaining to anjou in france.
-a native of anjou.

angienchyma
-vascular tissue of plants, consisting of spiral vessels, dotted, barred, and pitted ducts, and laticiferous vessels.

angina
-any inflammatory affection of the throat or faces, as the quinsy, malignant sore throat, croup, etc., especially such as tends to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath.

anginose
-pertaining to angina or angina pectoris.

anginous
-alt. of anginose

angio
-
-a prefix, or combining form, in numerous compounds, usually relating to seed or blood vessels, or to something contained in, or covered by, a vessel.

angiocarpous
-having fruit inclosed within a covering that does not form a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule.
-having the seeds or spores covered, as in certain lichens.

angiography
-a description of blood vessels and lymphatics.

angiology
-that part of anatomy which treats of blood vessels and lymphatics.

angioma
-a tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood vessels.

angiomonospermous
-producing one seed only in a seed pod.

angioscope
-an instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants.

angiosperm
-a plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.

angiospermatous
-same as angiospermous.

angiospermous
-having seeds inclosed in a pod or other pericarp.

angiosporous
-having spores contained in cells or thecae, as in the case of some fungi.

angiostomous
-with a narrow mouth, as the shell of certain gastropods.

angiotomy
-dissection of the blood vessels and lymphatics of the body.

angle
-the inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook.
-the figure made by. two lines which meet.
-the difference of direction of two lines. in the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.
-a projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
-a name given to four of the twelve astrological "houses."
-a fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.
-to fish with an angle (fishhook), or with hook and line.
-to use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as, to angle for praise.
-to try to gain by some insinuating artifice; to allure.

angled
-of angle
-having an angle or angles;
-- used in compounds; as, right
-angled, many
-angled, etc.

anglemeter
-an instrument to measure angles, esp. one used by geologists to measure the dip of strata.

angler
-one who angles.
-a fish (lophius piscatorius), of europe and america, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc.

angles
-an ancient low german tribe, that settled in britain, which came to be called engla
-land (angleland or england). the angles probably came from the district of angeln (now within the limits of schleswig), and the country now lower hanover, etc.

anglesite
-a native sulphate of lead. it occurs in white or yellowish transparent, prismatic crystals.

anglewise
-in an angular manner; angularly.

angleworm
-a earthworm of the genus lumbricus, frequently used by anglers for bait. see earthworm.

anglian
-of or pertaining to the angles.
-one of the angles.

anglic
-anglian.

anglican
-english; of or pertaining to england or the english nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of england; as, the anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc.
-pertaining to, characteristic of, or held by, the high church party of the church of england.
-a member of the church of england.
-in a restricted sense, a member of the high church party, or of the more advanced ritualistic section, in the church of england.

anglicanism
-strong partiality to the principles and rites of the church of england.
-the principles of the established church of england; also, in a restricted sense, the doctrines held by the high
-church party.
-attachment to england or english institutions.

anglice
-in english; in the english manner; as, livorno, anglice leghorn.

anglicify
-to anglicize.

anglicism
-an english idiom; a phrase or form language peculiar to the english.
-the quality of being english; an english characteristic, custom, or method.

anglicity
-the state or quality of being english.

anglicization
-the act of anglicizing, or making english in character.

anglicize
-to make english; to english; to anglify; render conformable to the english idiom, or to english analogies.

anglicized
-of anglicize

anglicizing
-of anglicize

anglified
-of anglify

anglify
-to convert into english; to anglicize.

anglifying
-of anglify

angling
-of angle
-the act of one who angles; the art of fishing with rod and line.

anglo
-
-a combining form meaning the same as english; or english and, or english conjoined with; as, anglo
-turkish treaty, anglo
-german, anglo
-irish.

anglo
-catholic
-of or pertaining to a church modeled on the english reformation; anglican;
-- sometimes restricted to the ritualistic or high church section of the church of england.
-a member of the church of england who contends for its catholic character; more specifically, a high churchman.

anglo
-saxon
-a saxon of britain, that is, an english saxon, or one the saxons who settled in england, as distinguished from a continental (or "old") saxon.
-the teutonic people (angles, saxons, jutes) of england, or the english people, collectively, before the norman conquest.
-the language of the english people before the conquest (sometimes called old english). see saxon.
-one of the race or people who claim descent from the saxons, angles, or other teutonic tribes who settled in england; a person of english descent in its broadest sense.
-of or pertaining to the anglo
-saxons or their language.

anglo
-saxondom
-the anglo
-saxon domain (i. e., great britain and the united states, etc.); the anglo
-saxon race.

anglo
-saxonism
-a characteristic of the anglo
-saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the anglo
-saxon tongue.
-the quality or sentiment of being anglo
-saxon, or english in its ethnological sense.

anglomania
-a mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, english customs, institutions, etc.

anglomaniac
-one affected with anglomania.

anglophobia
-intense dread of, or aversion to, england or the english.

angola
-a fabric made from the wool of the angora goat.

angola pea
-a tropical plant (cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a kind of pulse;
-- so called from angola in western africa. called also pigeon pea and congo pea.

angor
-great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression.

angora
-a city of asia minor (or anatolia) which has given its name to a goat, a cat, etc.

angostura bark
-an aromatic bark used as a tonic, obtained from a south american of the rue family (galipea cusparia, / officinalis).

angoumois moth
-a small moth (gelechia cerealella) which is very destructive to wheat and other grain. the larva eats out the interior of the grain, leaving only the shell.

angrily
-in an angry manner; under the influence of anger.

angriness
-the quality of being angry, or of being inclined to anger.

angry
-troublesome; vexatious; rigorous.
-inflamed and painful, as a sore.
-touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged;
-- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing.
-showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves.
-red.
-sharp; keen; stimulated.

anguiform
-snake
-shaped.

anguilliform
-eel
-shaped.

anguine
-of, pertaining to, or resembling, a snake or serpent.

anguineal
-anguineous.

anguineous
-snakelike.

anguish
-extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
-to distress with extreme pain or grief.

angular
-relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp
-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure.
-measured by an angle; as, angular distance.
-fig.: lean; lank; raw
-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female.
-a bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.

angularity
-the quality or state of being angular; angularness.

angularly
-in an angular manner; with of at angles or corners.

angularness
-the quality of being angular.

angulate
-alt. of angulated
-to make angular.

angulated
-having angles or corners; angled; as, angulate leaves.

angulation
-a making angular; angular formation.

angulo
-dentate
-angularly toothed, as certain leaves.

angulometer
-an instrument for measuring external angles.

angulose
-angulous.

angulosity
-a state of being angulous or angular.

angulous
-angular; having corners; hooked.

angurize
-to augur.

angust
-narrow; strait.

angustate
-narrowed.

angustation
-the act of making narrow; a straitening or contacting.

angustifoliate
-alt. of angustifolious

angustifolious
-having narrow leaves.

angustura bark
-see angostura bark.

angwantibo
-a small lemuroid mammal (arctocebus calabarensis) of africa. it has only a rudimentary tail.

anhang
-to hang.

anharmonic
-not harmonic.

anhelation
-short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma.

anhele
-to pant; to be breathlessly anxious or eager (for).

anhelose
-anhelous; panting.

anhelous
-short of breath; panting.

anhima
-a south american aquatic bird; the horned screamer or kamichi (palamedea cornuta). see kamichi.

anhinga
-an aquatic bird of the southern united states (platus anhinga); the darter, or snakebird.

anhistous
-without definite structure; as, an anhistous membrane.

anhungered
-ahungered; longing.

anhydride
-an oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water;
-- so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water.

anhydrite
-a mineral of a white or a slightly bluish color, usually massive. it is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).

anhydrous
-destitute of water; as, anhydrous salts or acids.

ani
-alt. of ano

anicut
-alt. of annicut

anidiomatical
-not idiomatic.

anient
-alt. of anientise

anientise
-to frustrate; to bring to naught; to annihilate.

anigh
-nigh.

anight
-alt. of anights

anights
-in the night time; at night.

anil
-a west indian plant (indigofera anil), one of the original sources of indigo; also, the indigo dye.

anile
-old
-womanish; imbecile.

anileness
-anility.

anilic
-pertaining to, or obtained from, anil; indigotic;
-- applied to an acid formed by the action of nitric acid on indigo.

anilide
-one of a class of compounds which may be regarded as amides in which more or less of the hydrogen has been replaced by phenyl.

aniline
-an organic base belonging to the phenylamines. it may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radical phenyl. it is a colorless, oily liquid, originally obtained from indigo by distillation, but now largely manufactured from coal tar or nitrobenzene as a base from which many brilliant dyes are made.
-made from, or of the nature of, aniline.

anility
-the state of being and old woman; old
-womanishness; dotage.

animadversal
-the faculty of perceiving; a percipient.

animadversion
-the act or power of perceiving or taking notice; direct or simple perception.
-monition; warning.
-remarks by way of criticism and usually of censure; adverse criticism; reproof; blame.
-judicial cognizance of an offense; chastisement; punishment.

animadversive
-having the power of perceiving; percipient.

animadvert
-to take notice; to observe;
-- commonly followed by that.
-to consider or remark by way of criticism or censure; to express censure;
-- with on or upon.
-to take cognizance judicially; to inflict punishment.

animadverted
-of animadvert

animadverter
-one who animadverts; a censurer; also [obs.], a chastiser.

animadverting
-of animadvert

animal
-an organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.
-one of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.
-of or relating to animals; as, animal functions.
-pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites.
-consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food.

animalcula
-of animalculum

animalcular
-alt. of animalculine

animalcule
-a small animal, as a fly, spider, etc.
-an animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. see infusoria.

animalculine
-of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules.

animalculism
-the theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological phenomena by means of animalcules.

animalculist
-one versed in the knowledge of animalcules.
-a believer in the theory of animalculism.

animalculum
-an animalcule.

animalish
-like an animal.

animalism
-the state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality.

animality
-animal existence or nature.

animalization
-the act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties.
-conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation.

animalize
-to endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form.
-to convert into animal matter by the processes of assimilation.
-to render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize.

animalized
-of animalize

animalizing
-of animalize

animally
-physically.

animalness
-animality.

animastic
-pertaining to mind or spirit; spiritual.
-psychology.

animate
-to give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.
-to give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre.
-to give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven.
-endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.

animated
-of animate
-endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous.

animatedly
-with animation.

animater
-one who animates.

animating
-of animate
-causing animation; life
-giving; inspiriting; rousing.

animation
-the act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive.
-the state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness; as, he recited the story with great animation.

animative
-having the power of giving life or spirit.

animator
-one who, or that which, animates; an animater.

anime
-of a different tincture from the animal itself;
-- said of the eyes of a rapacious animal.
-a resin exuding from a tropical american tree (hymenaea courbaril), and much used by varnish makers.

animi
-of animus

animism
-the doctrine, taught by stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.
-the belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended sense, the belief in the existence of soul or spirit apart from matter.

animist
-one who maintains the doctrine of animism.

animistic
-of or pertaining to animism.

animose
-alt. of animous

animoseness
-vehemence of temper.

animosities
-of animosity

animosity
-mere spiritedness or courage.
-violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike.

animous
-full of spirit; hot; vehement; resolute.

animus
-animating spirit; intention; temper.

anion
-an electro
-negative element, or the element which, in electro
-chemical decompositions, is evolved at the anode;
-- opposed to cation.

anise
-an umbelliferous plant (pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in egypt, and cultivated in spain, malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds.
-the fruit or seeds of this plant.

aniseed
-the seed of the anise; also, a cordial prepared from it.

anisette
-a french cordial or liqueur flavored with anise seeds.

anisic
-of or derived from anise; as, anisic acid; anisic alcohol.

anisodactyla
-alt. of anisodactyls

anisodactylous
-characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds.

anisodactyls
-a group of herbivorous mammals characterized by having the hoofs in a single series around the foot, as the elephant, rhinoceros, etc.
-a group of perching birds which are anisodactylous.

anisomeric
-not isomeric; not made of the same components in the same proportions.

anisomerous
-having the number of floral organs unequal, as four petals and six stamens.

anisometric
-not isometric; having unsymmetrical parts;
-- said of crystals with three unequal axes.

anisopetalous
-having unequal petals.

anisophyllous
-having unequal leaves.

anisopleura
-a primary division of gastropods, including those having spiral shells. the two sides of the body are unequally developed.

anisopoda
-a division of crustacea, which, in some its characteristics, is intermediate between amphipoda and isopoda.

anisostemonous
-having unequal stamens; having stamens different in number from the petals.

anisosthenic
-of unequal strength.

anisotrope
-alt. of anisotropic

anisotropic
-not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic.

anisotropous
-anisotropic.

anker
-a liquid measure in various countries of europe. the dutch anker, formerly also used in england, contained about 10 of the old wine gallons, or 8/ imperial gallons.

ankerite
-a mineral closely related to dolomite, but containing iron.

ankle
-the joint which connects the foot with the leg; the tarsus.

ankled
-having ankles;
-- used in composition; as, well
-ankled.

anklet
-an ornament or a fetter for the ankle; an ankle ring.

ankylose
-same as anchylose.

ankylosis
-stiffness or fixation of a joint; formation of a stiff joint.
-the union of two or more separate bones to from a single bone; the close union of bones or other structures in various animals.
-same as anchylosis.

anlace
-a broad dagger formerly worn at the girdle.

ann
-alt. of annat

anna
-an east indian money of account, the sixteenth of a rupee, or about 2/ cents.

annal
-see annals.

annalist
-a writer of annals.

annalistic
-pertaining to, or after the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style.

annalize
-to record in annals.

annals
-a relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened.
-historical records; chronicles; history.
-the record of a single event or item.
-a periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.; as "annals of science."

annat
-a half years's stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister's heirs after his decease.

annates
-the first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. in england, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings.

annats
-alt. of annates

anneal
-to subject to great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
-to heat, as glass, tiles, or earthenware, in order to fix the colors laid on them.

annealed
-of anneal

annealer
-one who, or that which, anneals.

annealing
-of anneal
-the process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat.
-the burning of metallic colors into glass, earthenware, etc.

annectent
-connecting; annexing.

annelid
-alt. of annelidan

annelida
-a division of the articulata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. the principal subdivisions are the chaetopoda, including the oligochaeta or earthworms and polychaeta or marine worms; and the hirudinea or leeches. see chaetopoda.

annelidan
-of or pertaining to the annelida.
-one of the annelida.

annelidous
-of the nature of an annelid.

annellata
-see annelida.

anneloid
-an animal resembling an annelid.

annex
-to join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append;
-- followed by to.
-to join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater.
-to attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.; as, to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt.
-to join; to be united.
-something annexed or appended; as, an additional stipulation to a writing, a subsidiary building to a main building; a wing.

annexation
-the act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of texas to the united states, or of chattels to the freehold.
-the union of property with a freehold so as to become a fixture. bouvier. (b) (scots law) the appropriation of lands or rents to the crown.

annexationist
-one who favors annexation.

annexed
-of annex

annexer
-one who annexes.

annexing
-of annex

annexion
-annexation.

annexionist
-an annexationist.

annexment
-the act of annexing, or the thing annexed; appendage.

annicut
-a dam or mole made in the course of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation.

annihilable
-capable of being annihilated.

annihilate
-to reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be.
-to destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of, so that the specific thing no longer exists; as, to annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees.
-to destroy or eradicate, as a property or attribute of a thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc., of; as, to annihilate an argument, law, rights, goodness.
-annihilated.

annihilated
-of annihilate

annihilating
-of annihilate

annihilation
-the act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation.
-the state of being annihilated.

annihilationist
-one who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist.

annihilative
-serving to annihilate; destructive.

annihilator
-one who, or that which, annihilates; as, a fire annihilator.

annihilatory
-annihilative.

anniversaries
-of anniversary

anniversarily
-annually.

anniversary
-returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast.
-the annual return of the day on which any notable event took place, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the anniversary of the declaration of independence.
-the day on which mass is said yearly for the soul of a deceased person; the commemoration of some sacred event, as the dedication of a church or the consecration of a pope.
-the celebration which takes place on an anniversary day.

anniverse
-anniversary.

anno domini
-in the year of the christian era; as, a. d. 1887.

annodated
-curved somewhat in the form of the letter s.

annominate
-to name.

annomination
-paronomasia; punning.
-alliteration.

annotate
-to explain or criticize by notes; as, to annotate the works of bacon.
-to make notes or comments;
-- with on or upon.

annotated
-of annotate

annotating
-of annotate

annotation
-a note, added by way of comment, or explanation;
-- usually in the plural; as, annotations on ancient authors, or on a word or a passage.

annotationist
-an annotator.

annotative
-characterized by annotations; of the nature of annotation.

annotator
-a writer of annotations; a commentator.

annotatory
-pertaining to an annotator; containing annotations.

annotine
-a bird one year old, or that has once molted.

annotinous
-a year old; in yearly growths.

annotto
-alt. of arnotto

announce
-to give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.
-to pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.

announced
-of announce

announcement
-the act of announcing, or giving notice; that which announces; proclamation; publication.

announcer
-one who announces.

announcing
-of announce

annoy
-to disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, i was annoyed by his remarks.
-to molest, incommode, or harm; as, to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade.
-a feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes; also, whatever causes such a feeling; as, to work annoy.

annoyance
-the act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy.
-that which annoys.

annoyed
-of annoy

annoyer
-one who, or that which, annoys.

annoyful
-annoying.

annoying
-of annoy
-that annoys; molesting; vexatious.

annoyous
-troublesome; annoying.

annual
-of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.
-performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the earth.
-lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets.
-a thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.
-anything, especially a plant, that lasts but one year or season; an annual plant.
-a mass for a deceased person or for some special object, said daily for a year or on the anniversary day.

annualist
-one who writes for, or who edits, an annual.

annually
-yearly; year by year.

annuary
-annual.
-a yearbook.

annueler
-a priest employed in saying annuals, or anniversary masses.

annuent
-nodding; as, annuent muscles (used in nodding).

annuitant
-one who receives, or its entitled to receive, an annuity.

annuities
-of annuity

annuity
-a sum of money, payable yearly, to continue for a given number of years, for life, or forever; an annual allowance.

annul
-to reduce to nothing; to obliterate.
-to make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with;
-- used appropriately of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by component authority.

annular
-pertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; forming a ring; ringed; ring
-shaped; as, annular fibers.
-banded or marked with circles.

annularity
-annular condition or form; as, the annularity of a nebula.

annularry
-in an annular manner.

annulary
-having the form of a ring; annular.

annulata
-a class of articulate animals, nearly equivalent to annelida, including the marine annelids, earthworms, gephyrea, gymnotoma, leeches, etc. see annelida.

annulate
-one of the annulata.
-alt. of annulated

annulated
-furnished with, or composed of, rings; ringed; surrounded by rings of color.
-of or pertaining to the annulata.

annulation
-a circular or ringlike formation; a ring or belt.

annulet
-a little ring.
-a small, flat fillet, encircling a column, etc., used by itself, or with other moldings. it is used, several times repeated, under the doric capital.
-a little circle borne as a charge.
-a narrow circle of some distinct color on a surface or round an organ.

annuli
-of annulus

annullable
-that may be annulled.

annulled
-of annul

annuller
-one who annuls.

annulling
-of annul

annulment
-the act of annulling; abolition; invalidation.

annuloid
-of or pertaining to the annuloida.

annuloida
-a division of the articulata, including the annelids and allied groups; sometimes made to include also the helminths and echinoderms.

annulosa
-a division of the invertebrata, nearly equivalent to the articulata. it includes the arthoropoda and anarthropoda. by some zoologists it is applied to the former only.

annulosan
-one of the annulosa.

annulose
-furnished with, or composed of, rings or ringlike segments; ringed.
-of or pertaining to the annulosa.

annulus
-a ring; a ringlike part or space.
-a space contained between the circumferences of two circles, one within the other.
-the solid formed by a circle revolving around a line which is the plane of the circle but does not cut it.
-ring
-shaped structures or markings, found in, or upon, various animals.

annumerate
-to add on; to count in.

annumeration
-addition to a former number.

annunciable
-that may be announced or declared; declarable.

annunciate
-to announce.
-foretold; preannounced.

annunciated
-of annunciate

annunciating
-of annunciate

annunciation
-the act of announcing; announcement; proclamation; as, the annunciation of peace.
-the announcement of the incarnation, made by the angel gabriel to the virgin mary.
-the festival celebrated (march 25th) by the church of england, of rome, etc., in memory of the angel's announcement, on that day; lady day.

annunciative
-pertaining to annunciation; announcing.

annunciator
-one who announces. specifically: an officer in the church of constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.
-an indicator (as in a hotel) which designates the room where attendance is wanted.

annunciatory
-pertaining to, or containing, announcement; making known.

ano
-a black bird of tropical america, the west indies and florida (crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, and remarkable for communistic nesting.

anoa
-a small wild ox of celebes (anoa depressicornis), allied to the buffalo, but having long nearly straight horns.

anode
-the positive pole of an electric battery, or more strictly the electrode by which the current enters the electrolyte on its way to the other pole;
-- opposed to cathode.

anodon
-a genus of fresh
-water bivalves, having no teeth at the hinge.

anodyne
-serving to assuage pain; soothing.
-any medicine which allays pain, as an opiate or narcotic; anything that soothes disturbed feelings.

anodynous
-anodyne.

anoil
-to anoint with oil.

anoint
-to smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.
-to apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration.
-anointed.

anointed
-of anoint

anointer
-one who anoints.

anointing
-of anoint

anointment
-the act of anointing, or state of being anointed; also, an ointment.

anolis
-a genus of lizards which belong to the family iguanidae. they take the place in the new world of the chameleons in the old, and in america are often called chameleons.

anomal
-anything anomalous.

anomalies
-of anomaly

anomaliped
-alt. of anomalipede
-one of a group of perching birds, having the middle toe more or less united to the outer and inner ones.

anomalipede
-having anomalous feet.

anomalism
-an anomaly; a deviation from rule.

anomalistic
-alt. of anomalistical

anomalistical
-irregular; departing from common or established rules.
-pertaining to the anomaly, or angular distance of a planet from its perihelion.

anomalistically
-with irregularity.

anomaloflorous
-having anomalous flowers.

anomalous
-deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy; abnormal; irregular; as, an anomalous proceeding.

anomalously
-in an anomalous manner.

anomalousness
-quality of being anomalous.

anomaly
-deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous.
-the angular distance of a planet from its perihelion, as seen from the sun. this is the true anomaly. the eccentric anomaly is a corresponding angle at the center of the elliptic orbit of the planet. the mean anomaly is what the anomaly would be if the planet's angular motion were uniform.
-the angle measuring apparent irregularities in the motion of a planet.
-any deviation from the essential characteristics of a specific type.

anomia
-a genus of bivalve shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment.

anomophyllous
-having leaves irregularly placed.

anomoura
-a group of decapod crustacea, of which the hermit crab in an example.

anomura
-alt. of anomoura

anomural
-alt. of anomuran

anomuran
-irregular in the character of the tail or abdomen; as, the anomural crustaceans.
-one of the anomura.

anomy
-disregard or violation of law.

anon
-straightway; at once.
-soon; in a little while.
-at another time; then; again.

anona
-a genus of tropical or subtropical plants of the natural order anonaceae, including the soursop.

anonaceous
-pertaining to the order of plants including the soursop, custard apple, etc.

anonym
-one who is anonymous; also sometimes used for "pseudonym."
-a notion which has no name, or which can not be expressed by a single english word.

anonymity
-the quality or state of being anonymous; anonymousness; also, that which anonymous.

anonymous
-nameless; of unknown name; also, of unknown or unavowed authorship; as, an anonymous benefactor; an anonymous pamphlet or letter.

anonymously
-in an anonymous manner; without a name.

anonymousness
-the state or quality of being anonymous.

anophyte
-a moss or mosslike plant which cellular stems, having usually an upward growth and distinct leaves.

anopla
-one of the two orders of nemerteans. see nemertina.

anoplothere
-alt. of anoplotherium

anoplotherium
-a genus of extinct quadrupeds of the order ungulata, whose were first found in the gypsum quarries near paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name).

anoplura
-a group of insects which includes the lice.

anopsia
-alt. of anopsy

anopsy
-want or defect of sight; blindness.

anorexia
-alt. of anorexy

anorexy
-want of appetite, without a loathing of food.

anormal
-not according to rule; abnormal.

anorn
-to adorn.

anorthic
-having unequal oblique axes; as, anorthic crystals.

anorthite
-a mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. it is a lime feldspar. see feldspar.

anorthoscope
-an optical toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painted.

anosmia
-loss of the sense of smell.

another
-one more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.
-not the same; different.
-any or some; any different person, indefinitely; any one else; some one else.

another
-gaines
-of another kind.

another
-gates
-of another sort.

another
-guess
-of another sort.

anotta
-see annotto.

anoura
-see anura.

anourous
-see anurous.

ansa
-a name given to either of the projecting ends of saturn's ring.

ansae
-of ansa

ansated
-having a handle.

anserated
-having the extremities terminate in the heads of eagles, lions, etc.; as, an anserated cross.

anseres
-a linnaean order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. in this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc.

anseriformes
-a division of birds including the geese, ducks, and closely allied forms.

anserine
-pertaining to, or resembling, a goose, or the skin of a goose.
-pertaining to the anseres.

anserous
-resembling a goose; silly; simple.

answer
-to speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.
-to speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to.
-to respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute.
-to be or act in return or response to.
-to be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, demand; as, he answered my claim upon him; the servant answered the bell.
-to render account to or for.
-to atone; to be punished for.
-to be opposite to; to face.
-to be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.
-to be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation, or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit.
-to speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response.
-to make a satisfactory response or return.
-to render account, or to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money intrusted to his care.
-to be or act in return.
-to be or act by way of compliance, fulfillment, reciprocation, or satisfaction; to serve the purpose; as, gypsum answers as a manure on some soils.
-to be opposite, or to act in opposition.
-to be or act as an equivalent, or as adequate or sufficient; as, a very few will answer.
-to be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit;
-- usually with to.
-a reply to a change; a defense.
-something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply.
-something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action.
-a solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem.
-a counter
-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. in equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill.

answerable
-obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages.
-capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.
-correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable.
-proportionate; commensurate; suitable; as, an achievement answerable to the preparation for it.
-equal; equivalent; adequate.

answerableness
-the quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent.

answerably
-in an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably.

answered
-of answer

answerer
-one who answers.

answering
-of answer

answerless
-having no answer, or impossible to be answered.

ant
-a hymenopterous insect of the linnaean genus formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire.

ant bird
-see ant bird, under ant, n.

ant egg
-one of the small white egg
-shaped pupae or cocoons of the ant, often seen in or about ant
-hills, and popularly supposed to be eggs.

ant thrush
-one of several species of tropical birds, of the old world, of the genus pitta, somewhat resembling the thrushes, and feeding chiefly on ants.
-see ant bird, under ant.

ant
-
-see anti
-, prefix.

ant
-bear
-an edentate animal of tropical america (the tamanoir), living on ants. it belongs to the genus myrmecophaga.

ant
-cattle
-various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. see aphips.

ant
-eater
-one of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. see ant
-bear, pangolin, aard
-vark, and echidna.

ant
-hill
-a mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests.

ant
-lion
-a neuropterous insect, the larva of which makes in the sand a pitfall to capture ants, etc. the common american species is myrmeleon obsoletus, the european is m. formicarius.

anta
-a species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

antacid
-a remedy for acidity of the stomach, as an alkali or absorbent.
-counteractive of acidity.

antacrid
-corrective of acrimony of the humors.

antae
-of anta

antaean
-pertaining to antaeus, a giant athlete slain by hercules.

antagonism
-opposition of action; counteraction or contrariety of things or principles.

antagonist
-one who contends with another, especially in combat; an adversary; an opponent.
-a muscle which acts in opposition to another; as a flexor, which bends a part, is the antagonist of an extensor, which extends it.
-a medicine which opposes the action of another medicine or of a poison when absorbed into the blood or tissues.
-antagonistic; opposing; counteracting; as, antagonist schools of philosophy.

antagonistic
-alt. of antagonistical

antagonistical
-opposing in combat, combating; contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces.

antagonize
-to contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.
-to act in opposition.

antagonized
-of antagonize

antagonozing
-of antagonize

antagony
-contest; opposition; antagonism.

antalgic
-alleviating pain.
-a medicine to alleviate pain; an anodyne.

antalkali
-alt. of antalkaline

antalkaline
-anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system.
-of power to counteract alkalies.

antambulacral
-away from the ambulacral region.

antanaclasis
-a figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.
-a repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc.

antanagoge
-a figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge.

antaphrodisiac
-capable of blunting the venereal appetite.
-anything that quells the venereal appetite.

antaphroditic
-antaphrodisiac.
-antisyphilitic.
-an antaphroditic medicine.

antapoplectic
-good against apoplexy.
-a medicine used against apoplexy.

antarchism
-opposition to government in general.

antarchist
-one who opposes all government.

antarchistic
-alt. of antarchistical

antarchistical
-opposed to all human government.

antarctic
-opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23¡ 28/. thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.

antares
-the principal star in scorpio:
-- called also the scorpion's heart.

antarthritic
-counteracting or alleviating gout.
-a remedy against gout.

antasthmatic
-opposing, or fitted to relieve, asthma.
-a remedy for asthma.

ante
-each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins.
-to put up (an ante).

ante
-
-a latin preposition and prefix; akin to gr. 'anti`, skr. anti, goth. and
-, anda
- (only in comp.), as. and
-, ond
-, (only in comp.: cf. answer, along), g. ant
-, ent
- (in comp.). the latin ante is generally used in the sense of before, in regard to position, order, or time, and the gr. 'anti` in that of opposite, or in the place of.

anteact
-a preceding act.

anteal
-being before, or in front.

antecedaneous
-antecedent; preceding in time.

antecede
-to go before in time or place; to precede; to surpass.

antecedence
-the act or state of going before in time; precedence.
-an apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.

antecedency
-the state or condition of being antecedent; priority.

antecedent
-going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the deluge; an antecedent cause.
-presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability.
-that which goes before in time; that which precedes.
-one who precedes or goes in front.
-the earlier events of one's life; previous principles, conduct, course, history.
-the noun to which a relative refers; as, in the sentence "solomon was the prince who built the temple," prince is the antecedent of who.
-the first or conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, if the earth is fixed, the sun must move.
-the first of the two propositions which constitute an enthymeme or contracted syllogism; as, every man is mortal; therefore the king must die.
-the first of the two terms of a ratio; the first or third of the four terms of a proportion. in the ratio a:b, a is the antecedent, and b the consequent.

antecedently
-previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion.

antecessor
-one who goes before; a predecessor.
-an ancestor; a progenitor.

antechamber
-a chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. see lobby.
-a space viewed as the outer chamber or the entrance to an interior part.

antechapel
-the outer part of the west end of a collegiate or other chapel.

antecians
-see ant/cians.

antecommunion
-a name given to that part of the anglican liturgy for the communion, which precedes the consecration of the elements.

antecursor
-a forerunner; a precursor.

antedate
-prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.
-anticipation.
-to date before the true time; to assign to an earlier date; thus, to antedate a deed or a bond is to give it a date anterior to the true time of its execution.
-to precede in time.
-to anticipate; to make before the true time.

antedated
-of antedate

antedating
-of antedate

antediluvial
-before the flood, or deluge, in noah's time.

antediluvian
-of or relating to the period before the deluge in noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle.
-one who lived before the deluge.

antefact
-something done before another act.

antefix
-an ornament fixed upon a frieze.
-an ornament at the eaves, concealing the ends of the joint tiles of the roof.
-an ornament of the cymatium of a classic cornice, sometimes pierced for the escape of water.

antefixa
-of antefix

antefixes
-of antefix

anteflexion
-a displacement forward of an organ, esp. the uterus, in such manner that its axis is bent upon itself.

antelope
-one of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. the horns are usually annulated, or ringed. there are many species in africa and asia.

antelucan
-held or being before light;
-- a word applied to assemblies of christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning.

antemeridian
-being before noon; in or pertaining to the forenoon. (abbrev. a. m.)

antemetic
-tending to check vomiting.
-a remedy to check or allay vomiting.

antemosaic
-being before the time of moses.

antemundane
-being or occurring before the creation of the world.

antemural
-an outwork of a strong, high wall, with turrets, in front of the gateway (as of an old castle), for defending the entrance.

antenatal
-before birth.

antenicene
-of or in the christian church or era, anterior to the first council of nice, held a. d. 325; as, antenicene faith.

antenna
-a movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and crustacea. there are two in the former, and usually four in the latter. they are used as organs of touch, and in some species of crustacea the cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. in insects, they are popularly called horns, and also feelers. the term in also applied to similar organs on the heads of other arthropods and of annelids.

antennae
-of antenna

antennal
-belonging to the antennae.

antenniferous
-bearing or having antennae.

antenniform
-shaped like antennae.

antennule
-a small antenna;
-- applied to the smaller pair of antennae or feelers of crustacea.

antenumber
-a number that precedes another.

antenuptial
-preceding marriage; as, an antenuptial agreement.

anteorbital
-same as antorbital.

antepaschal
-pertaining to the time before the passover, or before easter.

antepast
-a foretaste.

antependium
-the hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal.

antepenult
-alt. of antepenultima

antepenultima
-the last syllable of a word except two, as
-syl
- in monosyllable.

antepenultimate
-of or pertaining to the last syllable but two.
-the antepenult.

antephialtic
-good against nightmare.
-a remedy nightmare.

antepileptic
-good against epilepsy.
-a medicine for epilepsy.

antepone
-to put before; to prefer.

anteport
-an outer port, gate, or door.

anteportico
-an outer porch or vestibule.

anteposition
-the placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it.

anteprandial
-preceding dinner.

antepredicament
-a prerequisite to a clear understanding of the predicaments and categories, such as definitions of common terms.

anterior
-before in time; antecedent.
-before, or toward the front, in place; as, the anterior part of the mouth;
-- opposed to posterior.

anteriority
-the state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority.

anteriorly
-in an anterior manner; before.

antero
-
-a combining form meaning anterior, front; as, antero
-posterior, front and back; antero
-lateral, front side, anterior and at the side.

anteroom
-a room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.

antes
-antae. see anta.

antestature
-a small intrenchment or work of palisades, or of sacks of earth.

antestomach
-a cavity which leads into the stomach, as in birds.

antetemple
-the portico, or narthex in an ancient temple or church.

anteversion
-a displacement of an organ, esp. of the uterus, in such manner that its whole axis is directed further forward than usual.

antevert
-to prevent.
-to displace by anteversion.

anthelia
-of anthelion

anthelion
-a halo opposite the sun, consisting of a colored ring or rings around the shadow of the spectator's own head, as projected on a cloud or on an opposite fog bank.

anthelix
-same as antihelix.

anthelmintic
-good against intestinal worms.
-an anthelmintic remedy.

anthem
-formerly, a hymn sung in alternate parts, in present usage, a selection from the psalms, or other parts of the scriptures or the liturgy, set to sacred music.
-a song or hymn of praise.
-to celebrate with anthems.

anthemion
-a floral ornament. see palmette

anthemis
-chamomile; a genus of composite, herbaceous plants.

anthemwise
-alternately.

anther
-that part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary.

antheridia
-of antheridium

antheridium
-the male reproductive apparatus in the lower, consisting of a cell or other cavity in which spermatozoids are produced;
-- called also spermary.

antheriferous
-producing anthers, as plants.
-supporting anthers, as a part of a flower.

antheriform
-shaped like an anther; anther
-shaped.

antherogenous
-transformed from anthers, as the petals of a double flower.

antheroid
-resembling an anther.

antherozoid
-alt. of antherozooid

antherozooid
-one of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.

anthesis
-the period or state of full expansion in a flower.

anthobian
-a beetle which feeds on flowers.

anthobranchia
-a division of nudibranchiate mollusca, in which the gills form a wreath or cluster upon the posterior part of the back. see nudibranchiata, and doris.

anthocarpous
-having some portion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple.

anthocyanin
-same as anthokyan.

anthodium
-the inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head.

anthography
-a description of flowers.

anthoid
-resembling a flower; flowerlike.

anthokyan
-the blue coloring matter of certain flowers. same as cyanin.

antholite
-a fossil plant, like a petrified flower.

anthological
-pertaining to anthology; consisting of beautiful extracts from different authors, especially the poets.

anthologist
-one who compiles an anthology.

anthology
-a discourse on flowers.
-a collection of flowers; a garland.
-a collection of flowers of literature, that is, beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams;
-- particularly applied to a collection of ancient greek epigrams.
-a service book containing a selection of pieces for the festival services.

anthomania
-a extravagant fondness for flowers.

anthony's fire
-see saint anthony's fire, under saint.

anthophagous
-eating flowers;
-- said of certain insects.

anthophore
-the stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the pink family.

anthophorous
-flower bearing; supporting the flower.

anthophyllite
-a mineral of the hornblende group, of a yellowish gray or clove brown color.

anthorism
-a description or definition contrary to that which is given by the adverse party.

anthotaxy
-the arrangement of flowers in a cluster; the science of the relative position of flowers; inflorescence.

anthozoa
-the class of the coelenterata which includes the corals and sea anemones. the three principal groups or orders are acyonaria, actinaria, and madreporaria.

anthozoan
-pertaining to the anthozoa.
-one of the anthozoa.

anthozoic
-of or pertaining to the anthozoa.

anthracene
-a solid hydrocarbon, c6h4.c2h2.c6h4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin.

anthracic
-of or relating to anthrax; as, anthracic blood.

anthraciferous
-yielding anthracite; as, anthraciferous strata.

anthracite
-a hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequence of which it burns with a nearly non luminous flame. the purer specimens consist almost wholly of carbon. also called glance coal and blind coal.

anthracitic
-of, pertaining to, or like, anthracite; as, anthracitic formations.

anthracoid
-resembling anthrax in action; of the nature of anthrax; as, an anthracoid microbe.

anthracomancy
-divination by inspecting a burning coal.

anthracometer
-an instrument for measuring the amount of carbonic acid in a mixture.

anthracometric
-of or pertaining to an anthracometer.

anthraconite
-a coal
-black marble, usually emitting a fetid smell when rubbed;
-- called also stinkstone and swinestone.

anthraquinone
-a hydrocarbon, c6h4.c2o2.c6h4, subliming in shining yellow needles. it is obtained by oxidation of anthracene.

anthrax
-a carbuncle.
-a malignant pustule.
-a microscopic, bacterial organism (bacillus anthracis), resembling transparent rods. [see illust. under bacillus.]
-an infectious disease of cattle and sheep. it is ascribed to the presence of a rod
-shaped bacterium (bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. it may be transmitted to man by inoculation. the spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. called also splenic fever.

anthrenus
-a genus of small beetles, several of which, in the larval state, are very destructive to woolen goods, fur, etc. the common "museum pest" is a. varius; the carpet beetle is a. scrophulariae. the larvae are commonly confounded with moths.

anthropic
-alt. of anthropical

anthropical
-like or related to man; human.

anthropidae
-the group that includes man only.

anthropocentric
-assuming man as the center or ultimate end;
-- applied to theories of the universe or of any part of it, as the solar system.

anthropogenic
-of or pertaining to anthropogeny.

anthropogeny
-the science or study of human generation, or the origin and development of man.

anthropoglot
-an animal which has a tongue resembling that of man, as the parrot.

anthropography
-that branch of anthropology which treats of the actual distribution of the human race in its different divisions, as distinguished by physical character, language, institutions, and customs, in contradistinction to ethnography, which treats historically of the origin and filiation of races and nations.

anthropoid
-resembling man;
-- applied especially to certain apes, as the ourang or gorilla.
-an anthropoid ape.

anthropoidal
-anthropoid.

anthropoidea
-the suborder of primates which includes the monkeys, apes, and man.

anthropolatry
-man worship.

anthropolite
-a petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it.

anthropologic
-alt. of anthropological

anthropological
-pertaining to anthropology; belonging to the nature of man.

anthropologist
-one who is versed in anthropology.

anthropology
-the science of the structure and functions of the human body.
-the science of man;
-- sometimes used in a limited sense to mean the study of man as an object of natural history, or as an animal.
-that manner of expression by which the inspired writers attribute human parts and passions to god.

anthropomancy
-divination by the entrails of human being.

anthropometric
-alt. of anthropometrical