Territories in the Pendragon Series
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These are the territories found in D. J. MacHale's Pendragon series of fantasy novels.
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[edit] The Ten Territories
[edit] Cloral
Cloral is a fictional territory in the Pendragon series, by D. J. MacHale. It is covered almost completely in water and was the second territory visited by both Bobby Pendragon and Saint Dane. It is also the second territory of six won by Pendragon so far. The traveler from Cloral is Spader, who later was trapped with Gunny on Eelong when Eelong's flume collapsed, killing Kasha, Eelong's traveler.
[edit] Traveler
Vo Spader - Successor to his father, who was poisoned by Saint Dane. Once a Gar teacher on Eelong, but now with Bobby and the newer generation of Travelers with Press Tilton.
[edit] Acolyte
Wu Yenza
[edit] Quigs
The quigs of Cloral are giant man-eating sharks.
[edit] Cloral Facts
- Territory Era: 70470
- Population: Approximately 7,540,000
- Natives: Clorans (humans)
- Cities: One city on land (Faar, arts center); 524 floating cities known as habitats. Among Them:
- Grallion (farming community)
- District of Rann (government seat)
- Katimba Laaq (recreation center)
- Panger City (financial center)
- Corrian (shipbuilding community)
- Magorran (manufacturing city)
- Landmass: one island, known as Faar, of approximately five square miles. The rest of the territory is covered with water.
- Other notable topography: the Corrian Trench, an eight-hundred-mile underwater trench that is too deep to explore.
- Climate: Tropical
- Currency: Eggles
- Principal Game Fish: Spinney, Cooger, Kooloo, Preel
- Time Measured In: Pecks (one peck = approximately 20 minutes)
- Notable Events: Rediscovery and reclamation of the City of Faar; destruction of the manufacturing city Magorran; a giant world's fair type event where an entire floating city was created to host cultural displays and amusements from every city.
[edit] Technology
Almost all technology on Cloral is water-based. The vehicles of Cloral, boats, don't have propellers, but instead suck water through one end and blast it out the other. Boats on Cloral come in many different shapes and sizes. They have city sized boats, frigates, and smaller vehicles similar to speedboats. To be exact, these personal transportation vehicles resemble speedboats with pontoons, known as skimmers. These skimmers can also submerge and go underwater. Weapons, like cannons and guns, fire concentrated blasts of water. 'Water sleds' are also an important tool in Cloral. Water sleds resemble lifesavers with an opening at the front and slits running down its length. Water is sucked in the front and blown out the slits to power the sled. The people of Cloral use these vehicles as a mean of underwater transportation. The last bit of major Cloral technology are the underwater breathing gear: Buoyancy belts control a person's buoyancy, and special helmets that mold to the person's head allow them to breath and talk underwater.
[edit] Everyday tools on Cloral
- Skimmer - Skimmers are one-man water vehicles that are used on the open water, as well as on the canals that snake through the floating habitats (large man built islands) in Cloral.
- Water Sled - Water sleds are used to propel swimmers under water in Cloral. It is a valuable tool while working the underwater farms. Spader and Bobby used these to get away from the quigs and also they used them to blow up the guns of Zy Roder's ship.
- Air Globe - Air globes are clear devices that morph into a form-fitting, perfectly sealed helmet that allows swimmers to breath and communicate underwater. These were used all throughout the book by Spader, Press, Bobby, and various others. Bobby's first time trying this on made him hyperventilate until Press told him to breath slowly.
- Spear Gun - The spear gun's primary use in cloral was to hunt spinney fish and to kill of the sharks and other unwanted things. In the book Uncle Press uses this to try and kill the quig shark but fails, moments later Vo Spader makes a clean hit with the spear gun, which saves Bobby.
[edit] Characters from Cloral
See Characters in "The Lost City of Faar"
[edit] Denduron
Denduron is a fictional territory in the Pendragon series. From what is described in the series, it is strongly influenced by Second Earth's medieval era. It is featured in the first and eighth books, The Merchant of Death and The Pilgrims of Rayne respectively. The three tribes of Denduron which are featured prominently in the first book are the Bedoowan, Milago, and Novans. The Traveler from Denduron is a Bedoowan knight named Alder, and his Acolyte is the widow of a Milago killed in The Merchant of Death.
In The Pilgrims of Rayne, Bobby and Siry travel to Denduron to retrieve tak, the volatile, clay-like substance critical to the original turning point of the territory, to help save Ibara. Although they do repel the attack and save the island. The discovery of tak again results in the Bedoowan going to war with their neighboring tribe, once again sending Denduron into chaos. This time Rellin is part of Ravinia and under Saint Dane's control. All of this may change in Book 10
[edit] Traveler
Alder is a Bedoowan knight on Denduron.
[edit] Acolyte
The widow of a Milago miner who was executed by the Bedoowan.
[edit] Quigs
The quigs of Denduron are large bear-like animals with spikes in their backs. The Bedoowan kept them in a pen to save them for their own personal amusement when the Milago prisoners and other prisoners are fed to them. As seen in "the reality bug", Bobby has always remembered this type more than any other type.
[edit] Denduron Facts
- Territory Era: 124-the year of rising light
- Principal Tribes: Bedoowan, Gallauao, Milago, Novan, Reuenian, Toom, Lowsee
- Population: Approximately 12,300,000
- Natives: Denduronians (humans)
- Three Suns: Noab, Lao, Rigg
- Landmass: Fifteen continents; three inhabited (Bedoo, Nodd, Galla), 12 uncharted
- Oceans: 9. The largest, Tinitebian, surrounds the continent of Bedoo where the Bedoowan and Milago tribes live
- Highest Peak: The mountain of Orloo (on the continent of Nodd). At 29,112 feet, it is taller than Mount Everest of Second Earth and three times as tall as the mountains of loom near the Milago village
- Climate: Inhabited continents along the meridian are temperate. Uncharted continents to the north and south are frozen
- Currency: Quills
- Time Measured In: Marrs (one marr = approximately 1 hour).
- Major Holidays: Feast of Noab (Milago holiday to celebrate on the harvest), Kukura (Novan holiday that rejoices in the creation of the stars), Runnow Taa (Bedoowan holiday of music)
[edit] Characters from Denduron
See Characters in "The Merchant of Death"
[edit] Eelong
Eelong is a fictional jungle territory in the Pendragon series. It is a jungle, inhabited by gars (humans), tangs (dinosaurs), zenzens (double-jointed horses), klees (bipedal cats) and quigs (feral humans).
[edit] Ecology
As of the end of Black Water, the Klees mainly live in their capital city, Leeandra, with small villages scattered around. Leeandra is a treetop city, with the houses connected by bridges. The Gars mainly live in Black Water, a well-guarded, lush valley behind a waterfall.
Eelong is, as described by Bobby, "a beautiful territory", with an incredibly diverse plant and animal life. It has no sun; instead a broad band of light called the Skaa gives the energy and warmth necessary. Therapod-like beasts called "Tang" roam around, eating whatever animals they find that are not of their species.
The Territory is mostly covered in Jungle with one known mountain range.
[edit] Cultures
The Klees are ruled from Leeandra by the Council of Klee, who are presided by the viceroy. The Gars were used as slaves on forages for food and on thousands of hard, manual jobs around Leeandra. Their inferior physical abilities and willingness to do work scorned by Klees had caused the Klees to scorn the Gars as well; a scorn that led to routine abuse.
The Gars of Leeandra recenty escaped from slavery in a spectacular event called the Advent. During the Advent, the civilized Gars dwelling in the community of Black Water dispatched a radio message to all their kindred, who had been covertly given radio links. The enslaved Gars marched overland to Black Water, where they were received and accommodated. Saint Dane, who had disguised himself as a Klee and taken the position of Viceroy, gave orders to destroy the Gars; the attempt to do so was thwarted by other Travelers. Later, the Gars established diplomatic bonds with the Klees, which allowed them to live on terms of equality.
[edit] Travelers and Acolytes
The Traveler from Eelong was Kasha; her acolyte was Boon. Kasha inherited the Traveler ring from her father Seegen, along with a map to Black Water and a personal letter. Seegen died on Second Earth as a result of Saint Dane's poisoning crops with a poison from Cloral. His acolyte was Yorn. Yorn was later killed by Saint Dane through some unknown attack, whereupon Saint Dane assumed his identity. Kasha was killed after the Advent, when the flume collapsed as a result of having need to transport acolytes. She was cremated on Zadaa.
Currently, Eelong has no Traveler, and it is closed off from the rest of Halla. However, in The Pilgrims of Rayne, Gunny sends a letter via his Traveler's ring to his acolyte, Dodger, to pass to Pendragon. The letter states that Gunny and Spader have became teachers on Eelong. Also, since many of the territories so far have two flumes, it is possible that another flume could be revealed, allowing Spader and Gunny to escape. This has not been confirmed yet.
[edit] Recreation
There is one known Recreational game in the territory called Wippen, where Klees on Zenzens (Large zebra-like equines with an extra joint in the leg) try to get a ball through a hoop while Gars (humans) act as helpers for the team. There is no rule against hurting or even killing a Gar. Saint Dane later introduced this game to Quillan.
[edit] Eelong facts
- Territory Era: Unknown (Time is not measured on Eelong)
- Natives: Klees (sentient cats) and Gars (humans)
- Landmass: Five continents: Ruum, Oron, Tantan, Sheeg, and Habutta
- Notable Geography: Lake Ujenjo (freshwater lake on Habutta fed by 53 waterfalls), The Meeken Range (Vast mountain range on Ruum where Black Water was established)
- Population: Approximately 68,000,000 (22,000,000 Klee and 46,000,000 Gar)
- Climate: Tropical
- Currency: Kekks (One Kekk is about US $1.50)
- Energy: Solar power gathered from the belt of small suns known as the Skaa that provide the territory's light and warmth
- Major Cities: Leeandra, Black Water (Ruum), Benzara (Sheeg), Saravara (Oron)
- Recreation: Wippen (team sport played on zenzen horses), Kagel (individual sport of target shooting using small, metal disks)
- Notable events: Revelation of the Gar colony of Black Water, First radio broadcast, Wippen Championship won by the North End Strikers of Leeandra
- Sun Type: Strip (in Black Water, the sun strip is known as a sunbelt), unknown moon
[edit] Quigs
The Quigs of Eelong are cannibalistic humans, known as '"gars" on Eelong. It is suspected that Saint Dane chose the gars as a distraction for Bobby and his mission on Eelong; it is believed that Saint Dane supposed that if Pendragon saw these people as animals he would be unable to see the true turning point in the survival of the gars.
[edit] Characters from Eelong
See Characters in "Black Water"
[edit] First Earth
First Earth is a fictional world in D. J. MacHale's Pendragon series of fantasy novels. First Earth is Earth in 1937, specifically around the time of the Hindenburg disaster. Bobby and Spader visit First Earth in The Never War. In The Pilgrims of Rayne, Bobby and Courtney vist First Earth.
The Traveler from First Earth is Vincent "Gunny" Van Dyke, an African American working in the Manhattan Tower Hotel. He got the nickname "Gunny" because he can't bring himself to fire a gun.
[edit] Traveler
Vincent "Gunny" Van Dyke - Traveler. The bell captain of the Manhattan Tower Hotel. He's called "Gunny" because he cannot bring himself to fire a gun.
[edit] Acolyte
Dodger -
[edit] The Never War
In the third book of The Pendragon Series it is known that Saint Dane did not change any historical person's ideas. He instead tricked Bobby into almost causing the Hindenburg to not crash, which would have caused the fall of all 3 Earth territories.It seems that the only historical change the Travelers made was the change of how Maxillian Rose, a gangster, died. Instead of dying in a car crash, Maximillian Rose died when diving into the flaming wreckage of the Hindenburg. When the travelers go to Third Earth for the second time, it shows that it is unknown how Maximillian Rose died.
[edit] The Pilgrims of Rayne
In the eighth book in the series, Saint Dane takes Mark to First Earth to introduce a product known as "Forge". This changes the course of history on Second and Third Earths. Bobby and Courtney travel to First Earth, and Courtney remains there to attempt to correct the situation.
[edit] First Earth Facts
- Territory Era: AD 1937
- Landmass: Seven continents making up approximately 92.5 million square miles. Seventy-five percent of the territory is covered with water, making up approximately 224.5 million square miles.
- Movies: A Day at the Races, starring the Marx Brothers; Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs
- Popular sport: Baseball (New York Yankees defeat New York Giants for the professional championship)
- Radio broadcasts: Notable performers include Edgar Bergen and Charlie MoCarthy, Jack Benny, Bob Hope
- Notable books published: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien; And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, the first book by Dr. Seuss
- Notable events: Destruction of the airship Hindenburg (event captured and broadcast as the first coast-to-coast radio broadcast). Amelia Earhart, female aviator, disappears while attempting to fly around the world. Opening of the Golden Gate Bridge. First cartoon starring Daffy Duck
- Time measured in: minutes
- President of the United States: Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Notable Inventions: ballpoint pen, photocopier, nylon, cellophane tape, first jet engine, electric digital calculator, Forge
[edit] Characters from First Earth
See Characters in "The Never War"
[edit] Ibara
Ibara is one of the ten territories of Halla in the Pendragon series written by D. J. MacHale.
Ibara is the focus of the eighth book in the series, The Pilgrims of Rayne, and is a single, tropical island as well as its own territory on the world of Veelox, set 300 years in the future from the Veelox depicted in The Reality Bug. However, Ibara is an island separated from Rubic City by an ocean. Some people escape from Lifelight to Ibara, led by Aja Killian, the traveler of Veelox. In Book 8, Aja Killian is said to be a hero, but is killed by a gun assassin. The new traveler revealed is named Siry, and is the son of Jen Remudi. Siry is a delinquent and he has a band of kids he calls the Jakills, derived from Aja Killian.
A Traveler of Ibara, Remudi, was killed by Saint Dane on Quillan. Nevva Winter, the Traveler of Quillan, tricked Remudi to enter the Quillan Games because Nevva wanted to use Remudi as a bait to let Bobby Pendragon compete in the Grand X, the Quillan Olympics. Nevva was on Saint Dane's side all along and her plot caused the death of Jen Remudi.
Ibara is a territory mixing old and new; people live in primitive huts, use blowguns (which double as clubs) for weapons, and simplistic clothing. However, there is some technology present, such as the lighting system, the auto-defense guns, and some of the medicine. The Quigs here are killer bees that glow yellow. Unique things to this territory include the Flighters, savages who are the evolved forms of the people who refused to shun Lifelight (Thus their name, (li)Flighters). They also have a festival called the Festival of Zelin, thought to be a changed form of Zetlin. The turning point on Ibara is when the people there attempt to once again colonize the rest of Veelox, though fail when the Flighters, given weapons by Saint Dane, destroy the ships.
In that sense, Ibara is considered a failure for Bobby and a victory for Saint Dane. However, after the destruction of the pilgrimage by the Flighters, Saint Dane led an army of dados to destroy the rest of the people. This battle was won by the Ibarans, so perhaps the pilgrimage can be attempted once more; the territory is thus often referred to as a "draw".
Towards the end of The Pilgrims of Rayne, Bobby destroys the flume on Ibara, cutting Ibara off from the rest of Halla.
As of Raven Rise, the flume in Rubic City has been unearthed only to be re-sealed by a fallen subway train.
[edit] Quigs
The quigs on Ibara are bees and they sting Bobby several times when he first lands on Ibara.
[edit] Characters from Ibara
See Characters in "The Pilgrims of Rayne"
[edit] Quillan
Quillan is one of the ten territories of Halla in the Pendragon series by D. J. MacHale. Bobby Pendragon visits Quillan in the seventh book, The Quillan Games.
[edit] Economics
According to Saint Dane, Quillan was once very similar to our world, the Earth territories, before a company called Blok was founded. Blok, because it sold and manufactured things as cheaply and quickly as possible, was able to sell for much less than its competitors. It therefore rapidly grew in popularity, slowly closing the other stores and manufacturers. By the time Bobby comes to Quillan, every aspect of the territory is controlled by the ten trustees of Blok, who have established total control over the people through a form of blackmail.
All the citizens of Quillan have been forced into large cities. Law is kept on Quillan by robots called dados, which are owned by Blok. Blok has concealed Quillan's history, leaving people with no memory of a happier lifestyle than that under which they live; withheld all but the most bare of essentials; and imposes fierce punishment on all those who do not enrichen it financially. In order to make more money, Blok hosts an attraction known as the Games, which are projected all over Quillan and hosted by two phaders from Veelox, Veego and LaBerge (pronounced la-bear-j). Individuals called challengers are captured, color-coded, and forced to play against each other in a variety of dangerous games. Citizens of Quillan bet on these games in the hope of winning large rewards. Things that are used to bet are food, money, and in some cases, lives.
Most of the citizens of Quillan are passive, and have lost their will to fight back. However, there is a group of people called the revivers who are working to dethrone Blok and make Quillan the prosperous territory it once was. They have preserved a library/museum, known as "Mr. Pop", containing every aspect of Quillan's history before Blok seemingly destroyed it. Mr. Pop is eventually destroyed by dados.
[edit] Travelers
The Traveler of Quillan was a woman named Nevva Winter. Nevva was a servant to the trustees of Blok, but was also a high-ranking reviver. Nevva, disillusioned, eventually betrayed Mr. Pop to Blok in an alliance with Saint Dane. Nevva mentions how she will go to Ibara and become the Traveler there, as the original traveler of Ibara, Remudi, was killed earlier in the book in a Quillan game. However, she instead changes form into Telleo, who influences Bobby on Ibara in Pilgrims of Rayne and Raven Rise.
Later, Bobby meets Nevva's mother, Elli Winter. Elli was confronted by Press Tilton and told of her destiny. Elli had trouble accepting the responsibility, and asked Press to go to her daughter and give the job to her. After Nevva left for Ibara, Elli decided to take on the responsibility of being a Traveler. Elli is now the Traveler from Quillan, and is grouped with the other Travelers, presumably preparing to face Saint Dane one last time.
[edit] Characters from Quillan
See also Characters in "The Quillan Games"
[edit] Quigs
The quigs of Quillan are mechanical, dado-like spiders, whose computer skeletons resemble that of the Forge technology and the larger, humanoid security and service dados of Quillian.
[edit] Plans With Ravinia
Blok represents Ravinia's "elite," those who will be privileged and raised up. This basically corresponds to the existing order of things on Quillan, as Blok already controls almost every aspect of life there. A demonstration of this is when Veego and LaBerge are rewarded with Ibara as their own personal island.
[edit] Second Earth
Second Earth is a territory of Halla in the Pendragon Adventure series by D. J. MacHale. In the series, Second Earth is our Earth in the present time.
[edit] Traveler
Bobby Pendragon - Lead Traveler of his generation, and successor to Press Tilton.
Alexander Naymeer - Traveler in Raven Rise after Bobby quit. Later killed at the end of the book by Bobby.
[edit] Acolytes
Courtney Chetwynde and Mark Dimond- Both possibly dead after end of Raven Rise
[edit] Changes through the series
Mark Dimond's escape to First Earth, and his activities there, caused changes in history and technology. His creation of the voice-activated, shape-changing, versatile substance known as Forge led to the creation of highly sophisticated tools, computers, vehicles, and robots. The presence of these altered history on all three Earth territories, conflating it was that of Quillan. Hence, The Quillan Games and The Pilgrims of Rayne both feature the robots called "dados", which are made with such technology as was developed by Mark, on the Earth territories, to which they are alien. The word "dado", in its Earthling usage, is an acronym of "Dimond Alpha Digital Organization". After Mark hands Nevva his Traveler ring. Ravinia comes into existence under Alexander Naymeer, the new Traveler of Second Earth. Second Earth's turning point is the Bronx Massacre and Saint Dane wins. The Convergence happens and Saint Dane wins, for now. This may change in Book 10 since all the Travelers and Press Tilton are somehow alive, and ready to fight back.
[edit] Appearances
Merchant of Death - This story starts out on Second Earth.
The Lost City of Faar - Mark and Courtney read Bobby's journals on Second Earth.
The Never War - Mark and Courtney read Bobby's journals on Second Earth. Later, Bobby spends time on Second Earth, so as to recover from trauma experienced during the Hindenburg disaster.
The Reality Bug - Mark and Courtney read Bobby's journals on Second Earth. Mark and Courtney make plans and later arrangements to become acolytes on Second Earth.
Black Water - Mark and Courtney read Bobby's journals on Second Earth. After realizing how to save Eelong, they leave for Cloral then join Bobby on Eelong.
Rivers of Zadaa - Mark and Courtney read Bobby's journals on Second Earth. Mark is befriended by former school bully Andy Mitchell, an alter ego of Saint Dane, with whom he attends science classes that are part of a special club. Courtney, emotionally shattered by her involvement in the death of the traveler Kasha, spends the summer at a special school. She is later is put into mortal peril by Saint Dane and rescued by Mark and Andy Mitchell.
The Quillan Games - This story shows Courtney reading Bobby's journals on second earth, the death of Mark's parents, and Bobby showing up to find history changed and Mark gone.
Raven Rise - Saint Dane has targeted Second Earth and attempts and succeeds in creating a cult called Ravinia and establishing it as the dominant force in both Second Earth and all of Halla.
[edit] Third Earth
Third Earth is a fictional world in D. J. MacHale's Pendragon series of fantasy novels. Third Earth is Earth in the future, first seen in The Never War.
[edit] Setting
Third Earth is the greatly advanced Earth of the year 5010. It is peaceful (due to the righting of wrongs in the years following Second Earth) and cooperative (due to the increasing scarcity of natural resources) at the beginning of the series. At this time, people live underground, underwater, and in space (on the moon, Venus, Mars, and two of Jupiter's moons). Bobby Pendragon describes its farms and pastures as consisting mostly of pine trees. At present in the series, however, due to the rise of Ravinia, the utopian Third Earth has been erased. Instead, it has changed into a slummier version of Second Earth, with Ravinians still prowling the world preventing people from learning too much about the past. Among other things, gas-powered cars are still used, skyscrapers don't have the shiny silver covering described in earlier books, and the extensive computer system at the New York Public Library is gone, replaced by old-fashioned print books. Apparently, similar to other changes caused by Saint Dane, this shift simply happened: one day Patrick Mac, the Traveler from Third Earth, woke to find his futuristic, subterranean home to be aboveground, with the toppled Statue of Liberty outside of it.
[edit] Traveler
Patrick Mac - A teacher and librarian on Third Earth.
[edit] Technological Advances
Some devices that Bobby listed in his journal are as follows:
The Never War
- Monochromatic, doughnut-shaped shoes that change shape to match the feet of the wearer (similar to the rebreather globes on Cloral).
- Silver, square cards, used for communication. Gunny used this to call for Patrick (Third Earth's Traveler).
- Monorails that generate a quiet hum, suggesting that they are either floating or powered by an electrical charge.
- Fifty-story underground malls.
- Two-wheeled lard scooters (similar to bicycles, based on a picture in The Guide to the Territories of Halla).
- All books have been replaced by computers, besides Green Eggs and Ham, which is on display in the New York Public Library because "we voted, and it was everyone's favorite" Patrick describes the database as being a billion times more powerful than modern-day computers, containing large amounts of data on surfaces no larger than a grain of sand.
The Pilgrims of Rayne
- All books replaced by computers, including Green Eggs and Ham, which has been taken off display, not voted for, or never written, due to the change in history.
[edit] Plot
At the end of The Quillan Games, Bobby and Courtney go to the flume and travel to Third Earth - apparently to see what has become of it, since Second Earth has been changed so much; and to follow Mark, as he has flumed to First Earth with Saint Dane at the end of Book 7.
[edit] Veelox
Veelox is both a fictional territory and its own planet in the The Pendragon Adventure by D. J. MacHale. Almost all the inhabitants are living in a computer program called Lifelight where they live out their own dreams in a virtual reality. Lifelight buildings are pyramid-shaped. The main food source is called gloid, and it is a nutritional substance of 3 different colors and flavors. The only vehicle mentioned is a car with 3 wheels. The main city mentioned is Rubic City, which slowly deteriorates because the citizens in Lifelight refuse to come back to reality and resurrect the dying city. After it becomes hopeless surviving in the near-abandoned city, forty Lifelight phaders (controllers) and others decide to start a new civilization on the isolated island of Ibara, away from the chaos of Veelox. Those who remain become known as "Flighters" and become a desperate nomadic group of people.
The island of Ibara allows for a growing, peaceful community on Veelox and its name is even given to a second territory that exists on the Veelox world, three hundred years after the original Veelox territory crumbles.
[edit] Veelox Facts
- Territory Era: 45-226-9B
- Population: Approx. 100,000,000 (Number of people in LifeLight reaching 100,000,000)
- Number of LifeLight pyramids: 75,000
- Land Mass: Forty-seven continents. 24% of the territory is covered by water.
- Sociology: There are 212 sovereign countries, including: The Ibilik Federation (the largest and most powerful country), Kanda (including its capital and the book's setting, Rubic City), The Kingdom of See (smallest country, population of 651), The Principal of Deelix (technology center where phaders and vedders are trained)
- Currency: Rists (One Rist equals about 330 U.S. Dollars)
- Time measured in: Unets (One unet equals about one minute)
- Climate: Temperate throughout
- Foods: Twelve variants of gloid, a nutritional supplement
- Notable Events: None since LifeLight was invented
[edit] Quigs
Surprisingly, Veelox is quig-free. Saint Dane says that this is because he was already done with Veelox by the time Bobby arrived. It can be assumed that the quigs on Ibara, killer bees, would be the same on Veelox, as the quigs on First, Second, and Third Earth are all the same. In addition, Bobby faces the quigs from Denduron while inside Lifelight on Veelox.
[edit] Characters from Veelox
See Characters in "The Reality Bug"
[edit] Zadaa
Zadaa is a desert world in the fantasy series Pendragon by D. J. MacHale. One of the main cities is called Xhaxhu and it is the home of the traveler Loor and her acolyte Saangi. It is also the home of two tribes, the Rokador and Batu, and many different characters.
[edit] Traveler
Osa, Loor
[edit] Acolyte
Saangi
[edit] The Two Tribes
The Rokador is a light-skinned tribe that wear white clothing and live in underground cities that they tunneled out of the rock. To excavate further, they use Dygos; spherical vehicles having tank-like treads and large drill bits protruding from the front. They control the water supply in return for protection from the cannibal tribes of the desert, and have more advanced technology than the Batu. They rarely came up to the surface and when they do they are careful not to be burned.
The Batu are a dark-skinned tribe, living on the surface of Zadaa. They live a simpler life than the Rokador, having no technological sophistication beyond the demands of necessity. The city of Xhaxhu is their capital. The Ghee are Batu warriors who maintain order around Xhaxhu during hard times. Loor stated that if Ghee reject their responsibility, they are sent off the labor camps in the desert or executed. Periodically, the Ghee maintain their considerable martial skills by competing in fierce tournaments. Their Rokador counterparts, with whom they often train, are the Tiggen guards, who wield electrified rods and steel arrows as opposed to the wooden clubs and staves of the Ghee.
Although the book's cover illustrators have often portrayed Batu as having strictly African features, there is suggestion in the text of interbreeding between the tribes, which would presumably modify the features of individuals.
In The Rivers of Zadaa, the Rokador nearly made war on the Batu, fearing that as many Rokador had died of an epidemic disease the Batu might try to seize control of the water supply. Common disaster, triggered by the actions of the Travelers and Saint Dane, caused the tribes to resume interdependence.
[edit] Xhaxhu
Formerly Xhaxhu was a peaceful city, disturbed infrequently. It was an oasis in the desert; one of a very few. In The Rivers of Zadaa, the Rokador, fearing that the Batu will attack them in their disease-weakened state, withhold the water supply. This triggers a true campaign against them, which is averted when the water supply is released indiscriminately. Members of both tribes help each other survive, regardless of nationality, leading to a revival of mutual respect. The water supply becomes a river, on whose opposing banks the tribes rebuild.
[edit] Plans with Ravinia
It is stated at the end of Raven Rise that Ravinia has sent millitary tacticians to aid the Rokador in wiping out the Batu.
[edit] Main Characters from Zadaa
See Characters in "The Rivers of Zadaa"
[edit] Status of the Territories
This is the current status of all ten territories (listed in order of their chronological turning points) in the battle for Halla (the Travelers vs. Saint Dane), as is understood by the end of the most recent book, Raven Rise:
Current:
- Denduron's first turning point (the destruction of the tak mines): Traveler victory
- Cloral's turning point (the discovery of the Faarian antidote): Traveler victory
- First Earth's turning point (the Hindenburg disaster): Traveler victory
- Veelox's turning point (the destruction of the reality bug and restoration of Lifelight): Saint Dane victory
- Eelong's turning point (the Advent): Traveler victory (the flume was destroyed)
- Zadaa's turning point (the restoration of the rivers of Zadaa): Traveler victory
- Quillan's turning point (the destruction of Mr. Pop and the Revival): Saint Dane victory
- Ibara's first turning point (the Defense/Battle of Rayne): Traveler victory
- Denduron's second turning point (the recovery of the tak mines): unknown, presumably a victory for Saint Dane
- Second Earth's turning point (the Bronx Massacre/United Nations vote): Saint Dane victory
- Halla's turning point (the Convergence): Saint Dane victory
Predicted:
- Ibara's second turning point (the Second Battle of Rayne): expected to be in favor of Saint Daine
- Third Earth's turning point: unknown, though apparently a victory for Saint Dane (however, this may change)
- Halla's second turning point/Reconstruction?
In the belief that the "Convergence" defines Halla when half the territories have been won by the Travelers and the other half lost, then the five lost would be considered Denduron, Veelox, Quillan, Second Earth and Third Earth. The five Traveler victories would, therefore, be Cloral, First Earth, Eelong, Zadaa, and Ibara.
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