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Marlenus of Ar: Marauders of Gor pg 5- Warrior
- Ubar of Ar
- Ubar of Ubars
- Saved from slavery by Tarl Cabot from the Panther Girls in the Northern Forests
- Protecting his honor, on his sword and upon the medallion of the Ubar, Marlenus swore Talena from him, disowning her. Marauders of Gor pg 16
- Reside in the Polar Basin
- nomadic
- dependent on the migrations of various animals
- particularly the northern tabuk
- 4 varieties of sea sleen (pg 36)
- generally kind, peaceable except with animals
- domesticated sleen
- white skinned women (pg 75 - 76)
- many cannot speak gorean (pg 191)
- women of the red hunters only wear their hair loose, out of doors, during their menstrual period (pg 193)
- First Slaver of Port Kar - Agent of Priest-Kings
- was crowned Ubara of Ar with a crown of Tur leaves
- placed upon her head by Myron, the Polemarkos of Telnur, placing the medallion of AR about her neck
- traditional mediallion, worn by Marlenus, has never been found (pg. 105)
- given Home Stone of AR
- held in left hand
- given Septer (rod of office)
- held in right hand
- coronation was followed by declaration of 5 holidays
- Chief Advisors:
- Myron of Cos
- Seremides, once of Tyros
- Ubar of the Skies was the name of Tarl Cabot's Tarn; Tarnsmen of Gor pgs various
- sable black in color
- was blue eyed Outlaw of Gor pg 9
- Cabot family was watched by the Priest-Kings for more than 400 years Priest-Kings of Gor pg 123
- Mathew Cabot came to Gor more than 600 years ago. Priest-Kings of Gor pg 126
- Mathew Cabot was returned to Gor when Tarl was a small child so he could not disuade Tarl from the purposes of the Priest-Kings
- Mathew Cabot, on Gor, was a hostage for the silence of Tarl's Mother. Priest-Kings of Gor pg 127
- Tarl Cabot lost His honor (pg 23) when he said "No" to a Warriors Death. Raiders of Gor pg 23 - 25
- in that moment he had lost himself, codes had been betrayed Ko-ro-ba dishonored, the blade he carried soiled.
- begged to be slave (pg 24)
- chose ignominious bondage to the freedom of honorable death (pg 25)
- *Became known as Bosk*
- Flag of Bosk of Port Kar; Head of a Black Bosk against a background of vertical green bars on a white field. Raiders of Gor pg 130
- green bars symbolize the rence of the marshes
- Freed Dina of Turia on the Plains of Turia Nomads of Gor pg 107
- 4 tribes: Paravici, Kassars, Kataii, Tuchuks Nomads of Gor - pg 9
- Kataii - Tribe is Black (pg 14)
- shield is yellow
- bow is yellow
- standard is that of a yellow bow, bound across a black lance (pg 106)
- brand is that of a bow, facing to the left
- Ubar: Hakim-ba (pg 256)
- Kassars - The Bood People
- shield is red
- standard is that of a scarlet, three-weighted bola, which hands from a lance (pg 106)
- the symbolic representation of a bola, three circles joined at the center by lines is used to mark their bosk and slaves
- Ubar: Conrad (pg 256)
- Paravaci - The Rich People, richest of the Wagon Dwellers
- wear a broad belt of jewels around the neck
- purpose is to encourage attack, that the owner may try the skill of his weapons
- shield is black
- standard is a large banner of jewels beaded on golden wires, forming the head and horns of a bosk its value incalculable (pg 106)
- brand is a symbolic representation of a bosk head, a semicircle resting on an inverted isosceles triangle
- Ubar: Tolnus (pg 256)
- Tuchuks - Dreaded (pg 9)
- shield is small, round, and black (pg 10)
- carries lance, horn bow, coiled rope of braided bosk hide, and a three weighted bola (pg 11)
- skillful and vain (pg 25)
- Gray Robe: (pg 32)
- the throne of the Ubars of the Tuchuks
- Tuchuk women, both slave and Free, wear tiny nose rings (pg 62)
- Tuchuk standard, the sign of the four bosk horns. Set in such manner as to somewhat resemble the letter "H," is about an an inch high
- are fond of gambling (pg 66)
- commonly called the "Wily Ones" (pg 75)
- do not like to be fooled (pg 96)
- those without the Courage Scar are unable to pay court to a Free Woman, own a wagon, or own more than 5 bosk and 3 kaiila (pg 113)
- to a Tuchuk, success is courage, that is the important thing, courage itself, even if all else fails, that is success (pg 273)
- claimed the southern prairies of Gor (pg 2)
- from the Thassa and the mountains of Ta-Thassa to the southern foothills of the Voltai Range
- on the North they claimed lands even to the banks of Cartius
- grow no food (pg 4)
- herders
- eat nothing that has touched the ground
- proudest of the peoples of Gor
- have various clans:
- clan of Torturers, trained as carefully as scribes and physicians, in the art of detaining life (pg 9)
- all wear hoods (pg 10)
- hood removed only when sentence is death
- only the condemned man has been able to see what is beneath that hood
- clan of Iron Workers (pg 169)
- clan of Leather Workers (pg 170)
- clan of Scarers (pg 274)
- affixes the courage scar
- male children are not named till after they learn to use the bow, the quiva, and the lance (pg 11)
- Wagon People feel names are precious, and are not wasted on someone likely to die
- lances are never couched (pg 15)
- carried in right fist
- flexible and light
- scared codes: (pg 16)
- brightly colored scars
- worked into the faces with needles, knives, pigments and dung of Bosk
- set in pairs diagonally from the side of the head, towards the nose and chin
- pray only when mounted (pg 28)
- in the saddle and with weapons at hand
- prays to the sky
- not as a slave to a master, not as a servant to a god, but as a warrior to a Ubar
- women of the Wagon Peoples are not permitted to pray
- "Living Wand" (pg 79)
- the most dangerous of the sports of the Wagon Peoples
- one’s own slave stands for one
- the fruit is held in the mouth of the slave
- slain should she move or in any way withdraw from the lance
- "Facing the Lance" (pg 80)
- the most difficult of the lance sports
- slave stands facing the rider
- the fruit is held in the mouth of the slave
- thrust must be made with exquisite lightness
- lance loose in hand, not in the retaining thong
- then moving it left and past the "Living Wand"
- if clumsily done the girl will be scarred or perhaps slain
- "The Love Wars" (pg 105)
- fought on the Plains of a Thousand Stakes
- some pasangs distant from Turia
- stakes are flat-topped, about six and a half feet high and about 7 - 8 inches in diameter (pg 112)
- stand in two lines facing one another in pairs
- separated by about fifty feet and each stake in a line is separated from the stake on it’s left and right by about 10 yards
- small retaining rings were attached to some of the stakes
- about five to five and half feet from the ground
- colorfully painted
- in the space between each pair of facing stakes was a circle roughly eight yards in diameter
- grass removed, sanded and raked (pg 113)
- only warriors of repute are permitted to participate
- celebrated every spring (pg 115)
- do not constitute a gathering of the Wagon Peoples
- usually 200 from a People, are sent to the Plains of a Thousand Stakes in the spring
- Turian Theoretical Justification (pg 116)
- the games provide an excellent arena in which to demonstrate the fierceness and prowness of Turian Warriors
- Tuchuk Theoretical Justification
- Turian women
- each able-bodied man of the Wagon Peoples is a member of an Or, or a Ten (pg 175)
- each Ten is a member of an Orlu or Hundred
- each Orlu is a member of an Oralu or Thousand
- each man knows his position in his Ten
- the position of his Ten in the Hundred
- the position of his Hundred in the Thousand
- the lance strikes a shield once for the Commander of a Ten (pg 250)
- twice for the Commander of a Hundred
- thrice for the Commander of a Thousand
- the level beneath an Ubar among the Wagon Peoples is the Commander of a Thousand (pg 251)
- Wagon People do not reveal their true Ubars with great willingness (pg 257)
- use a false Ubar to protect the true Ubar
People of Gor: Other
Aelgifu: Marauders of Gor pg 45- daughter of Gurt of Kassau, Administrator.
- Ransomed for 100 pieces of Gold
- of the caste of merchants
- richest woman of all Turia
- when she reaches majority
- Saphrar appointed guardian by Turian Merchants
- father killed in Paravaci caravan raid
- father: Tethar of Turia (pg 92)
- fell to slave at the hands of Kamchak during the love wars (pg 129 - 130)
- was freed by Kamchak (pg 338)
- became Ubara of the Tuchuks … Ubara Sana of his heart and the Wagon Peoples (pg 340 )
- was a Master of Marble
- made decorated reliefs
- knowns as "Aurobion Marbles"
- wrote the Prition: a gorean classic
- member of the Isbu Kaiila tribe
- name means "Woman’s Dress"
- Brother of Canka
- name means "Fire - Steel"
- twice refused to go on the warpath against the Fleer
- hereditary enemies of the Kaiila
- traded to Dust Legs
- staked out to die
- released by Grunt and TarlCabot/Bosk of Port Kar
- Turian slave to the Kassars
- ran in bola competition more than two hundred times
- almost always managed to interfere with her return to the circle
- Forty times managed to reach the lance
- had never been snared in less than 32 beats (pg 74)
- snared and returned to the circle by Tarl Cabot in 17 beats (pg 78)
- Freed by Tarl Cabot and returned to Turia (pg 107)
- fine, spirited, quick-witted, warm-hearted, intelligent and brave (pg 239)
- most feared and redoubtable of the mercenary commanders
- contracts are amongst the most expensive
- sell trees
- cut the trees in the winter, when they can be dragged by sled to the sea
- of Port Kar
- chief of the mercenary Tarnsmen used to attack the Tuchuks by Saphrar
- once of Ar
- of the Tuchuks (pg 67)
- unscarred
- blonde haired
- blue eyed
- once a slave of Turia (pg 188)
- legendary hero of AR (page 106)
- month of Hesius was named for him
- second month of the year in AR
- follows the 1st passage hand
- new year begins with the vernal equinox
- bred for a collector (exotic);
- broke his neck and escaped;
- captured sent to the galleys;
- escaped killing 6 men (slave)
Ina, Lady of AR: Vagabonds of Gor pg 99
- attached to the staff of Saphronicus
- a political observer
- said to be confidant of and reported to the Lady Talena of AR
- Physician
- Exiled from Turia for giving treatment outside the walls of Turia
- Tuchuk Warrior named Kamchak
- a rover, great captain, pirate, trader, and warrior
- freed Chenbar of Tyros, the Sea Sleen, from a dungeon in Port Kar
- fearless and mighty, swift with sword and axe
- fond of jokes, deep drinker, master of pretty wenches, and a madman
- Tuchuk (pg 16)
- wore 7 of the scarred codes upon his face
- mother was Turian (pg 339)
- taken as slave by Kutaituchik
- father of Kamchak (pg 254)
- later freed and made Ubara of the Tuchuks
- ribald, hard-drinking, stomping, dancing (pg 126)
- gruff, chuckling, wily (pg 146)
- true Ubar of the Tuchuks (pg 180)
- named Ubar San of the entire Wagon Peoples (pg 334)
- made slave and called pepita by Tarl Cabot.
- face stripped (pg 210)
- bound at the prow of the flagship of the Treasure Fleet
- Lady Ina, as slave Ina, was given to Edgar of Tarnwald, Mercenary Vagabonds of Gor pg 479
- Owned several slave brothels
- Chains of Gold (most expensive), Silken Cords;
- Scarlet Whip, Slave Racks, Tunnels (cheap tarsk-bit brothels)
- located on "The Alley of the Slave Brothels of Ludmilla"
Milo: Magicians of Gor pg 11
- owned by Appancius (agriculturalist, impresario, slaver)
- seduction slave (pg 8)
- actor slave
- handsomest man in all AR
- large, graceful, blond, curly-haired
- left wrist wears silver slave bracelet
- tunic of silken purple
- golden sandals
- of the Swamp Spider People
- large bulk
- dainty steps
- four pairs of pearly eyes
- sensory hairs upon appendages
- mandibles like curved knives
- hunted by the men of Ar
- to spin cur-lon fiber for the mills
- rational creatures
- Poet of AR
- poems in the delicate Trilesiac form
- 2 sensitive dramas
- Great Theatre: "The Theatre of Pentilicus Tallux" named after Him
- over 100 yards in width/ some 20 yards in depth
- lent itself to large-scale productions
- circus' and spectacles
- stage can easily accommodate 1000 actors
- general of Cosian forces in the north
- once a pirate
- rescued from the galleys by Myron, Polemarkos of Temos, a cousin to Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos
- elected as administrator of the Caste of Players
- Admiral of the Treasure Fleet of Cos & Tyros
- short, fat, pinkish man
- of the merchants
- head shaved like many merchants
- eye brows removed
- over each eye four golden drops has been fixed in his skin
- two teeth of gold
- upper canine’s probably contained poison
- right ear knotched
- once a perfumer of Tyros (pg 196)
- piercing eyes, striking features (pg 322)
- wore the garb of the Player
- made of the finest red and yellow silk squares
- game bag of the finest verrskin
- sandals tied with strings of gold
- lame
- right leg dragged
- played first board of the city of Ar (pg 325)
- held the highest bridge in the city as the province of his game
- four times winner of the cap of gold at the Sardar Fairs
- never entered a tournament he had not won
- records of his games were sought after in all the cities of Gor
- legend in the harsh cities
- Mother: Sura (slave) (pg 327)
- hooded and mated during Kajaralia in the House of Cernus
- Father: Hup the Fool
- transported the Home Stone of AR's Station to AR
- captain of Policrates
- with Reginald waylaid the "Flower of Siba"
- Pirate, Slaver, Murderer, Thief, Cruel, Worthless, Abominable
- one of the finest swords in Port Kar (pg 103)
Tamrun: Vagabonds of Gor pg 343
- High leader in the rence
- a strategist and statesman
- Huge, yellow haired
- Caste of Peasants
- Master of the Great Bow
