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  MERROW a great mage, one of the six rulers of Atlantis, and Serafina’s ancestor. First ruler of the merpeople; songspell originated with her, and she decreed the Dokimí.

  MERROVINGIA descendants of Merrow

  MERROW’S PROGRESS Ten years after the destruction of Atlantis, Merrow made a journey to all of the waters of the world, scouting out safe places for the merfolk to colonize.

  MEU DEUS Portuguese for my God

  MIA AMICA Italian for my friend

  MINA Brazilian slang for a female friend

  MIROMARA the realm where Serafina comes from; an empire that spans the Mediterranean Sea, the Adriatic, Aegean, Baltic, Black, Ionian, Ligurian, and Tyrrhenean Seas, the Seas of Azov and Marmara, the Straits of Gibraltar, the Dardanelles, and the Bosphorus

  MOARTE PILOTI death riders

  MORSA an ancient scavenger goddess, whose job it was to take away the bodies of the dead. She planned to overthrow Neria with an army of the dead. Neria punished her by giving her the face of death and the body of a serpent and banishing her.

  NAVI one of the six mages who ruled Atlantis; Neela’s ancestor

  NEELA a Matalin princess; Serafina’s best friend; Yazeed’s sister; Mahdi’s cousin. She is a bioluminescent.

  NERIA the sea goddess

  NEX a darksong spell used to kill

  NOCÉRUS a darksong spell used to cause harm

  NYX one of the six mages who ruled Atlantis; Ava’s ancestor

  OBRŞIE the leader of the Iele

  OCHI a powerful spying spell in which the songcaster plants a GNDAC, or bug, near the person or thing being observed

  OLT the river in Romania where the Iele are located

  OMNIVOXA (OMNI) mer who have the natural ability to speak every dialect of Mermish and communicate with sea creatures

  ONDALINA the mer realm in the Arctic waters

  OPAFAGO cannibalistic sea creatures that lived in Miromara and hunted mer until Merrow forced them into the Barrens of Thira, which surround the ruins of Atlantis

  ORFEO one of the six mages who ruled Atlantis; Astrid’s ancestor

  OSTROKON the mer version of a library

  PALAZZO Italian for palace

  PERMUTAVI a pact between Miromara and Ondalina, enacted after the War of Reykjanes Ridge, that decreed the exchange of the rulers’ children

  PESCA the language spoken by some species of fish

  PORPOISHA the language spoken by porpoises

  PORTIA VOLNERO mother of Lucia, one of Serafina’s ladies-in waiting; wanted to marry Vallerio, Serafina’s uncle

  PRAEDATORI soldiers who defend the sea and its creatures against terragoggs; known as Wave Warriors on land

  PRAESIDIO Duca Contorini’s home in Venice

  PRAX practical magic that helps the mer survive, such as camouflage spells, echolocation spells, spells to improve speed or darken an ink cloud. Even those with little magical ability can cast them.

  PRINCIPESSA Italian for princess

  PYRRA one of the six rulers of Atlantis; Becca’s ancestor

  QIN the mer realm in the Pacific Ocean; Ling’s home

  QUE DIABO Portuguese for what the hell

  QUERIDA Portuguese for darling

  QUI VADIT IBI? Latin for Who goes there?

  QUIA MERROW DECREVIT Latin for Because Merrow decreed it

  RAFE IAORO MFEME worst of the terragoggs; he runs a fleet of dredgers and super trawlers that threaten to pull every last fish out of the sea

  RAYSAY the language spoken by manta rays

  REGGIA Merrow’s ancient palace

  REGINA Italian for queen

  RIPTIDE Mermish slang equivalent of very cool

  RORRIM DROL lord of Vadus, the mirror realm

  ROTTER an animated human corpse, devoid of a soul

  RURSUS the language of Vadus, the mirror realm

  RUSALKA ghosts of human girls who jumped into a river and drowned themselves because of a broken heart

  SAGI-SHI one of three trawlers that Rafe Mfeme owns

  SCULPIN venomous arctic fish

  SEJANUS ADARO Portia Volerno’s husband, who died a year after Lucia’s birth

  SERAFINA principessa di Miromara

  SHOALING swimming with schools of fish near the surface of the water, a risky sport for merpeople

  SHOKORETH Arabic word for deceiver

  STILO a songspell that makes spikes sprout out of a water ball

  SUMA Neela’s ayah, or nurse

  SVIKARI one of three trawlers that Rafe Mfeme owns

  SWASH Mermish slang; a shortened version of swashbuckler, suggesting a flamboyant adventurer

  SYCORAX one of the six rulers of Atlantis; Ling’s ancestor

  SYLVESTRE Serafina’s pet octopus

  TAJDAR Foreign Secretary of Matali

  TALISMAN object with magical properties

  TAVIA Serafina’s nurse

  TERRAGOGGS (GOGGS) humans. Before now they haven’t been able to get past the merpeople’s spells.

  THALASSA the canta magus, or keeper of magic, of Miromara; addressed as Magistra

  TĬNGJŬ Qin word for jerk

  TORTOISHA the language spoken by sea turtles

  TRANSPARENSEA PEARL a pearl that contains a songspell of invisibility

  TREZI the songspell used to turn a corpse into a cadavru

  TRYKEL AND SPUME twin brother gods of the tides

  TSARNO a fortress town in the western Mediterranean

  TUBARÃO Portuguese for shark

  TUDO BEM, GATINHAS? Portuguese for Everything well with you, girls?

  VADUS the mirror realm

  VALLERIO, PRINCIPE DEL SANGUE Regina Isabella’s brother; Miromara’s high commander; Serafina’s uncle

  VELO a songspell to increase one’s speed

  VITRINA souls of beautiful, vain humans who spent so much time admiring themselves in mirrors that they are now trapped inside

  WATERFIRE magical fire used to enclose or contain

  WAVE WARRIORS humans who fight for the sea and its creatures

  YAZEED Neela’s brother; Mahdi’s cousin

  ZEE-ZEE a Matalin candy

  ZENO PISCOR traitor to Serafina and Neela, in league with Traho

  JENNIFER DONNELLY is an award-winning author of both adult and young adult books. For adults she has written a trilogy of best-selling books that includes The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose, and The Wild Rose. Her first young adult novel, A Northern Light, received many accolades, among them the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Carnegie Medal in the UK, and a Michael L. Printz Honor. Her second young adult novel, Revolution, was named a Best Book of 2010 by Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal, and the audiobook received a 2011 American Library Association Odyssey Honor. She lives in New York’s Hudson Valley. For more information, visit www.jenniferdonnelly.com.

  COMING IN 2015:

  Waterfire Saga Book Two

  ROGUE WAVE

 


 

  Jennifer Donnelly, Waterfire Saga, Book One: Deep Blue (A Waterfire Saga Novel)

 


 

 
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