Tarthenal: an assimilated people in Lether MT, Glossary

'the scattered remnants of the Tarthenal, huge and shambling and drunk in the pit towns outside the cities to the south, still bore the three bar tattoos beneath their left shoulders...'

MT, UK Trade, p.46

'The Tarthenal...view the seas as a single beast with countless limbs – including those that reach inland as rivers and streams.'

- Brys Beddict

MT, UK Trade, p.160

'Most half-blood Tarthenal get the worst traits...'

- Gerun Eberict

MT, UK Trade, p.101

'Tarthenal have four lungs.’

MT, UK Trade, p.102

'...the Tarthenal (had/have) their five Seregahl, the Wrath Wielders.'

MT, UK Trade, p.364

'The name ‘Dresh’ was Tarthenal, in fact, as were the nearby village names of Denner, Lan and Brous.'

MT, UK Trade, p.516

'The Letherii had nearly wiped the Tarthenal out back then. As close to absolute genocide as they had ever come in their many conquests. She (Seren Pedac)recalled a line from an early history written by a witness of that war. They fought in defence of their holy sites with expressions of terror, as if in failing something vast and terrible would be unleashed . . .’

MT, UK Trade, p.517

'Among the Tarthenal, all that existed in the physical world possessed symbolic meaning, and these meanings were mutually connected, bound into correspondences that were themselves part of a secret language...Faeces was gold. Piss was ale. The mixed-breeds had forgotten most of the old knowledge...'

MT, UK Trade, p.520

‘A village, set in the midst of stone ruins. It was once a holy site for the Tarthenal, although they didn’t build it...The scale is all wrong for Tarthenal...too big.’

- Seren Pedac talking about Brous

MT, UK Trade, p.559