A glossary of people, places & objects in Earthsea

Now showing glossary items relating to stars & constellations

Arrow, the

See Heart of the Swan

Cart, the

Constellation of the Archipelago

Sources: Mending the Green Pitcher, OW

Dancers, the

Constellation of the Archipelago

Sources: Mending the Green Pitcher, OW

Door

Constellation of the dry land, the stars that do not set

Sources: The Dragon of Pendor, WoE

Ending

Nine-star constellation of a running man or the rune Agnen, the rune of Ending, only seen in the South Reach; includes the yellow star Gobardon and eight others whose names are not known in the lore of Roke

Sources: Sea Dreams, FS; The Madman, FS; Orm Embar, FS; Winter, T

'…well up in the sky above the blank sea, burned the star Gobardon. Beneath it were the two forming a triangle with it, and beneath these, three had risen in a straight line, forming a greater triangle. Then, slipping free of the liquid plains of black and silver, two more followed as the night wore on; they were yellow like Gobardon, though fainter, slanting from right to left from the right base of the triangle. So there were eight of the nine stars which were supposed to make the figure of a man, or the Hardic rune Agnen. To Arren's eyes there was no man in the pattern, unless, as star-figures are, he was strangely distorted; but the rune was plain, with hooked arm and cross-stroke, all but the foot, the last stroke to complete it, the star that had not yet risen.'

[The Madman, FS]

Falcon, the

Constellation of the Archipelago

Sources: Mending the Green Pitcher, OW

Forge, the

Constellation with four bright stars visible in the central Archipelago

Sources: The Finder, TfE

Gobardon

Bright, topaz-yellow star only seen in the South Reach; the name means crown. Part of a nine-star constellation of a running man or the rune Agnen, called Ending

Sources: Sea Dreams, FS; The Madman, FS; Orm Embar, FS; Winter, T

Heart of the Swan

Also known as: Tehanu (star), Arrow, the

White summer star seen in the Archipelago & Kargad Lands; called 'the Arrow' in Ten Alders on Gont and 'Tehanu' in Kargish

Sources: Worsening, T; Mending the Green Pitcher, OW

One Who Turns

Constellation of the dry land, the stars that do not set

Sources: The Dragon of Pendor, WoE

Sheaf

Constellation of the dry land, the stars that do not set

Sources: The Dragon of Pendor, WoE

Tehanu (star)

See Heart of the Swan

Tolbegren

Star visible in the far east of the Archipelago

Sources: The Open Sea, WoE

Tree

Constellation of the dry land, the stars that do not set

Sources: The Dragon of Pendor, WoE

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