the entrance to every flume and later adopted by the Ravinia cult. Quig: Any yellow-eyed, supernatural animal created by Saint Dane to guard the flume(s) of any territory where he is present and attack the Travelers and their allies. Local people of the territories do not recognize quigs as being anything more than indigenous animals. The territories each have their own type of quig: Cloral has sharks; Denduron has spike-backed, bear-like beasts; the Earth territories have giant dogs; Eelong has cannibalistic gars (humans); Ibara has swarming bees; Quillan has robotic spiders; and Zadaa has snakes; Veelox's quigs are never revealed. Ravinia: A militaristic political movement and religious cult, originating on Second Earth and led by Alexander Naymeer under the manipulation of Saint Dane, embracing the view that the elite and talented members of all territories should create a ruling class that subjugates and ultimately destroys everyone else. Saint Dane uses the cult as the main driving force in his plan to bring Halla into chaos. Solara: "The spiritual reflection of the state of Halla." Solara is the essence of all positive sentient thought and creativity and it looks different to every individual—a spiritual realm or state that is neither a territory itself nor part of any territory. When every person dies, their spiritual weight is added to the accumulation called Solara. As Saint Dane manipulates the people of the territories into making self-destructive decisions, Solara begins to split into a weakening "light" Solara and a strengthening "dark" Solara. Territory: Any of Saint Dane's divisions of Halla characterized by some particular world in some particular time-period. There are ten territories (called Cloral, Denduron, Eelong, Ibara, Quillan, Veelox, and Zadaa, and three different time-periods of Earth, known as First Earth, Second Earth, and Third Earth) which exist in the space-time continuum on a total of seven distinct worlds (Cloral, Denduron, Earth, Eelong, Quillan, Veelox, and Zadaa). Traveler: Any person indigenous to one of the ten territories, given certain supernatural abilities and tasked with guarding that territory against Saint Dane, who calls Travelers "illusions". There are arguably two generations of Travelers, the first of which mentor the second. All Travelers, except the klee Traveler from Eelong, take the form of humans. Travelers have occasionally demonstrated the following superpowers: heightened persuasiveness; hearing all speech and reading all writing as their own native language (also known as omnilinguality); remarkable and rapid powers to heal both