Alexis
|
A young lady and
budding artist that serves as a babysitter one night for
Hillary and
Windslow. [My niece, Alexis.] |
Abba-dread |
Aghasta’s castle |
Aghasta the
sylph |
Rules
the time mist. A sorceress |
Amber-wraith |
Like natural
amber but magical and attracts spirits |
Angstrom
Temperbone |
Fistlock’s
assistant who renamed himself |
Armygello |
Creature
about twice the size of a rat, an armygello looks like a cross between
an armadillo and an anteater. Gray plates cover its body from the top of
its head to its long pointed tail. The plates open exposing
dragonfly-like wings |
Beatrix |
A flame-fluffer
shadow creature in Crystal Mountain. |
Bernie |
A trundlewarith
shadow creature in Crystal Mountain. |
Berryscabs |
The creatures
that live in Dreadmore Temple. |
Biffendear |
A wizard who
stole the Book of Second Chances from Fistlock.
Biffendear kept the book hidden in his cottage until he turned himself
into an insect and was eaten by a frog. |
Bildernick |
A resident of
Eldervale. |
Bilge-bellies |
Whale-like
creatures that can suck up enormous amounts of water, nearly draining a
body of water |
Bill Summerfield |
Windslow’s Father,
Hillary’s step-father. [My
brother-in-law, Bill] |
Bitterbrun |
Fistlock’s chamberlain. |
Book of Worlds (The) |
A magic book.
When used with a spell, it will reveal the name and details of any world
in any universe. |
Cedarbrook |
A neighboring
city to the town where Hillary
and Windslow live and go to
school. |
Charm-wood |
Forest A magical
forest in Gabendoor. |
Children of the Wind |
The short name
for the Son of the Summer Storm and Daughter of the Mountain Breeze; the
children named by the Oracle. Also known as
Hillary and
Windslow. |
Chocola |
What
Molly calls chocolate. |
Chubbytown |
A village that
Fistlock created to keep all the chubby people
together. |
Crawlers |
Name for a type
of shadow creature. |
Crystal Mountain |
Fistlock’s castle and home. |
Curly-teeth |
A wild pig
with tusk-like teeth that curl up out of their mouths. They can chew
down a tree like a beaver |
Dimbleshoot |
A resident of
Eldervale who befriends
Molly and
Hillary. Dimbleshoot is
married to Gilderbun. |
Dreadmoor |
A temple, carved
out of a cliff. It has one entrance at the bottom, another at the top.
No one has been able to get through it in the last two hundred years.
It’s haunted. |
Dream-slip band |
A band that
changes how magic flows and causes you to dream-slip. |
Dream-slip |
Traveling to
another world, universe or dimension in your sleep. Requires a
dream-slip band. |
Dream-snatch |
To have someone
intercept your dream-slip and capture you. |
Eldervale |
A village whose
only inhabitants are grandparents. The village wasn’t large and looks a
bit like an out of the way tourist spot. All the buildings look stooped
over like most of the citizens. Whitewashed single story homes and
peaked thatched roofs lined up along each side of the central town
square. Behind each row of buildings is another row and another;
everything arranged as if the builder used a gigantic ruler. |
Fernbark |
One of the three
wizards. |
Fistlock |
The evil wizard
who rules Gabendoor. |
Flame-fluffers |
A type of shadow
creature that blows out candles and puffs air. |
Forge-Twiddlers |
A race of half
elf, half dwarf people who constantly invent and manufacture a variety
of products, most of which don’t work as expected. |
Gabendoor |
A magical land
in another universe where the story takes place. |
Gaby's Magnet |
A horseshoe
shaped magnet with red and white ends that
Trish gives to
Windslow. She tells a story from her
youth about how the magnet is from a dream horse named Gaby that you can
ride through a door where there are only sweet dreams. Surprisingly
close to the name Gabendoor (Gaby’s door). |
Gaby's Door |
A horseshoe
shaped magnet with red and white ends that
Trish gives to
Windslow. She tells a story from her
youth about how the magnet is from a dream horse named Gaby that you can
ride through a door where there are only sweet dreams. Surprisingly
close to the name Gabendoor (Gaby’s door). |
Ganternut
tree |
A softwood
tree |
Gilderbun |
A resident of
Eldervale. |
Gippleberry |
A dark purple
berry that is used to make a very sweet jam or jelly. |
Glogwart |
Extinct creature
whose skin is used to make covers for magic books. Glogwart leather last
forever. |
Gloom-spinner |
A gentile shadow
beast who likes to hide in closet corners and other dark places. |
Goo |
A black, thick,
tar-like substance that absorbs and holds magic. |
Gorge-gobbler |
A frightful
creature that looks like a ball of black shiny fur. It has bright green
glowing eyes, a double row of needle teeth and ivory claws that peek out
from the black fur. |
Gorlon |
A huge creature
that makes a gobbler look like cute chipmunk. The Gorlon is nearly
invincible because it is created from and sustained by magic. |
Granny Fiddlewish |
A resident of
Eldervale. |
Granny Gilderbun |
A resident of
Eldervale that helps
Molly and
Hillary. Gilberbun is
married to Dimbleshoot. |
Gippleberry |
A fruit |
Grisly-grim |
The swamp where
the leapers are found and where Biffendear’s cottage is located. |
Gristle-ghast |
An extinct
creature whose skin was used for leather book covers. Gristle-ghast
leather lasts forever. The Book of Second Chances is bound in gristle-ghast
leather |
Gristle-tooth |
Evil wizard
who is a spirit |
Haggerwolf |
One of the three
retired wizards. |
Hillary Windgate-Summerfield |
Heroine of the
story. Her name comes from “Airy Hill” or “Hill Airy.” |
Hillre |
Molly Folly
Sallyforth has a little trouble pronouncing words. This is what she
calls Hillary. |
Hinge-hagler |
A shadow
creature that makes hinges squeak. |
Hippograff |
A creature
unique to Gabendoor. It looks like a hippo with dragonfly wings. To make
them fly, you feed them broccoli. It sits in one of their several
stomachs and makes gas that puffs up its other stomachs like a helium
balloon. Once full, they can fly. To land, they just burp out a bit of
gas. They hardly ever crash. |
Horace |
A hinge-haggler
shadow creature in Crystal Mountain. |
Jimmy |
A friend of
Hillary |
Journey-wind |
A swirling,
tornado-like wind that swoops people up and transports them across
lands, to other planets, or almost anyplace magic can take you. A crude
but effective mode of inter-dimensional travel. |
Larkstone |
One of the three
retired wizards. |
Leaper(1) |
Name
for people who love to live with and study creatures that leap. Some of
my fun, hoping some readers will at first think I misspelled another
word. |
Leaper(2) |
Creatures that
leap, like frogs, toads, grasshoppers, and more. |
Lizzybud |
A resident of
Eldervale. |
Molly Folly Sallyforth |
A strange girl
from Gabendoor. Her grandfather created the
Book of Second Chances and was one of the greatest wizards of all time.
She is one of the
Sallyforth triplets. Molly sometimes tells the truth and sometimes
doesn’t. |
Mr.
Nick |
Hillary’s science teacher at
school. [My nephew, Nick.] |
Mrs. Taralynn |
The principal at
the school Windslow and
Hillary attend. [My
daughter, Tara Lynn.] |
Ms. Christensen |
Windslow’s teacher. [My Wife who is
a real teacher.] |
Nelly Never Sallyforth |
One of the three
Sallyforth triplets.
Nelly always lies. |
Panderflip |
Fistlock’s chamberlain who Fistlock turns into a
trundle-wraith |
Ponder-glitch |
One of
Fistlock’s shadow beasties. They steal away your
train of thought. |
Sallyforth Molly, Tillie,
and Nelly |
The three
Sallyforth triplet sisters. Tillie
always tells the truth. Nelly
always lies. Molly sometimes tells
the truth and sometimes doesn’t. |
Scritch |
A shadow
creature that moves so fast, you can’t see it. When you set something
down, a scritch loves to snatch it away and hide it from you. |
Scritched |
A term you use
when something was snatched away by a Scritch. |
Shadow-glump |
A shadow
creature that prefers to hide along the edges of a dark ceiling. |
Shatterbud
thistle |
A plant |
Shortyvale |
A village that
Fistlock created to keep all the short people
together. |
Shutterfling |
A shadow
creature that loves to throw open a door with a bang or fling open
window shutters. |
Somber wood |
Special wood
that grows in Gabendoor that wizards make magic
wands from. |
Switch-lilies |
Plants thought
to have been extinct for a hundred years or more. They grow wild around
the secret Sallyforth
home. If you hold a switch-lily seed under your tongue, you can make
yourself look just like some other person; an easy disguise. |
Tadvole |
baby Bilge-bellie.
They are blood suckers |
Tellagain |
A shadow
creature that makes little old men tell the same story over and over
again. |
The "Time Before" |
Refers to
ancient history on Gabendoor when there were
many great wizards. They crated many secret magic books and stashed them
away in hidey-holes hidden by magic that no one understood. Of them all,
the book of Second Chances was the most powerful and the key to finding
the others. |
The Sallyforth Triplets |
Three sisters,
Molly Folly Sallyforth, Tillie Truly Sallyforth and Nelly Never
Sallyforth. Molly has bristly black hair. Tillie has green hair and
Nelly has orange hair. |
The
Spire |
A giant magic
wand that Fistlock uses to destroy entire
villages. He wields it from his tower in Crystal Mountain. |
Tillie Truly Sallyforth |
One of the three
Sallyforth triplets. Tillie always tells the truth. |
Trish Windgate-Summerfield |
Hillary’s mother,
Windslow’s stepmother. [My
Sister-in-law] |
Trundle-wraith |
Shadow creature
that lives under beds. |
Wartville |
A village that
Fistlock created to keep all the people with
warts together. |
Windslow Summerfield |
The hero in the
story. Windslow is in a wheelchair, the result of an accident he had,
falling off a roof. His name comes from “low wind.” Wind is low. |
Zipper closet |
A magic closet
that you see as only a zipper. It provides magical access to almost
anything. The tag on the back of the zipper closet reads, “Forge-Twiddler
Storage, Inc.” |
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