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The storm-grey nano-cloth woven on the looms of Ötüken; it learns the shape of the body, softens the thermal trace, veils the wearer's pulse. It is no…
The cyber-stone mentioned in the prologue is a biometric authorization key. Contrary to some beliefs, it does not carry the Yavuztürk genetics itself;…
A mortal shaman carrying the secret of the universe in the turquoise runes etched across his left arm. One of the rare individuals who can speak the l…
Mountain-sized, colossal engines constructed by the Ancient Turanian Empire long before the Great Dimming. Buried beneath the scarlet sands of Mars, t…
The Head Healer of Hidden Ötüken. A rare 'Earth Resonator' capable of channeling nature's healing frequencies through her body. She upholds the ancien…
One of the two Ötüken weapons Master Bayındır gave to Targan. Of bio-organic weave; its grip wakes in the palm with a geothermal pulse, as if the vein…
Commander Barlas's personal infiltration vehicle. This teardrop-shaped capsule, cast from pure tungsten, is released from an orbital space galleon and…
In the epic of Ergenekon, the legendary grey wolf that led out the people who melted the iron mountain. In this book: a small wooden wolf figure, carv…
A former chief engineer who lived in the golden age of the Kök-Turan Union (KTB) and witnessed the catastrophic days of the Great Blackout. A tragic r…
The pale, emotionless and calculating chief representative of the Silver Syndicate on the Moon. She manages an oligarchic trading cartel that turns wa…
A colossal data temple embedded in the Altai peaks like a single-piece black pyramid, built from seamless black chrome without a single seam. It has s…
The legendary commander of the Red Falcons, the military wing of humanity stranded on Mars after the Great Blackout. He was raised in the Steel Belt p…
Forged from pitch-black matte carbon-nanofibre panels joined by biomechanical articulations, this cloak reflects the full magnificence of the night sk…
Unexpected products of the Derinkuyu genetic laboratories that were submerged during the Great Darkening. Semi-humans who have developed gill-like org…
Half human, half machine. A terrifying army created from prisoners of war transformed into Ilteris's death machines. The plasma scythe on their right…
A leader who holds humanity under strict order to protect the world from its own hubris. Before ascending the throne as Cyber-Khan, he was one of the…
The theocratic cyberpunk empire that governs surface-dwelling humanity through ignorance and an iron fist after the Great Blackout. Its seat of power…
An 8-year-old child scout living in the rusty wastes of Arz-ı Harabe and within the walking city-machine called the Iron Centipede. Carrying no cyber-…
The radiationless, hidden valley, guarded from the ruin of the Rusted Earth, where nature and advanced technology are joined in an organic synthesis (…
Four-legged patrol drones improvised from the scavenged scrap and ruins of Arz-ı Harabe. Their spines are fashioned from corroded steel, yet they are…
An evacuation vehicle from the KTB's Golden Age, traveling through underwater tunnels and magnetic rails. Glides independently of rails using quantum…
One of Hidden Ötüken's elite 'Börk-Kam' warriors. A towering guardian over two metres tall who covers his radiation-blinded eyes with a black silk ban…
Hidden Ötüken's agile, silent and deadly Börk-Kam scout, swift as the wind. With her slender, sinew-like body she carries two 'Vibro-Blades' whose vib…
In antiquity a martial ideal of conquest, this concept underwent a philosophical evolution in the golden age of the Kök-Turan Union. It is the code-na…
The legendary war weapon wielded by the Blind Kam Baturay, forged from pure tungsten. When the mace strikes the earth, it converts the ground's inerti…
The active order of existence the Creator has inscribed upon the universe. Its definition will not fit into this glossary; for its contemplation, see…
A battle-weary veteran of around 60, who served as a lieutenant in the Cyber-Sipahis of the Cyber-Khanate. His right eye features a prominent red cybe…
An infantry exoskeleton designed for survival in the airless and radiotrophic environment of Mars, painted in deep scarlet and matte black. It bears t…
A child born among the rusty heaps of Arz-ı Harabe, on the Rusty Silk Road, whose genetics have not been contaminated by radiation or cyber-implants.…
A ruthless autonomous weapons platform engineered with six legs, carbon-fibre armour, and a scorpion form factor. Its front-mounted rotating LiDAR cam…
The wise leader of Hidden Ötüken and head of the Ak-Kams. The visionary who pulled Aral from the brink of death and refined him through a decade of 'Q…
Massive ten-metre robotic wolf guardians, carbon-metal cast and driven by hydraulic musculature, stationed in the Guardian Hall within the inner corri…
A 3-meter tall war machine clad in heavy brass and dark steel armor, created in Cyber-Khan Ilteris's underground labs. He wears a futuristic dark-stee…
The silent execution device of the Moon's Shadow Assassins. Rather than firing conventional projectiles or lasers, these directional emitters infiltra…
Colossal armored walking cities constantly moving along geothermal fault lines on tracks and nuclear rails to escape acid rains and radiation storms a…
The little brother of the same nothingness, fitted into a sheath; made not to kill, but to make a thing refuse to exist.
Commander Barlas's weapon, forged beneath the surface of Mars. It holds within its body a localised absence — an event-horizon — that dissolves the mo…
Technology utilised by the Shadow Assassins serving the Silver Syndicate on the Moon. Integrated into their silver, spider-like futuristic suits, thes…
The colossal magnetic anomaly curtain that protects the Hidden Ötüken from the devastating bombardments of the Martian and Lunar armies. By reflecting…
The fortress of Cyber-Khan İlteriş, welded from ship hulls and bridge girders on the Dead Bosphorus. The administrative and military capital of the Cy…
A colossal walking city constructed by riveting the hulls of aircraft carriers scavenged from dried ocean beds onto the chassis of intercontinental nu…
The state in which a mortal and bounded mind, trying to comprehend the boundless, billion-year memory and mercy-web of the universe (the Unity) all at…
The century-old genetic laboratory complex sunk beneath the waters in the deeps of Inner Anatolia, where the epigenetic experiments before the Great B…
A massive kinetic penetrator cast from pure tungsten, dropped from orbit. It pierces the earth's surface to reach underground cities; capable of carry…
The second Ötüken weapon given to Targan together with the Bayterek Dagger. With a wood-and-organic grip; the product of Ötüken's understanding of arm…
In the ancient Turkic states, the title of the bey who commanded the army (sü: army, soldier). In the Cyber-Khanate, the name given to the field comma…
A pragmatic soldier raised on Mars's militarist doctrines who found faith after encountering Aral's mercy. The unyielding protector of little Umay. Ta…
A stern, deeply wrinkled commander of about 58 with graying hair and beard. He wears heavy dark carbon-steel plate armor featuring a small steel wolf…
The sidearm the Cyber-Sipahis carry at their belts. The instant its cutting edge touches a surface, a thin plasma alaz (flame) runs the length of that…
The quantum-optic key bearing Göktürk runes, used to trigger the Ergenekon Protocol and open the doors of the Kurgan. Matched with Yavuztürk genetics,…
The sources of the chapter epigraphs in this book: The Ergenekon Codex (the Blackout Tablets and the deciphered quantum echoes), The Book of Stillness…
Terraforming Engines
The mountain-sized nuclear generators built in the KTB's golden age to make Mars habitable, to weave the planet an artificial magnetosphere. Silenced…
The quantum-edged dagger Targan girds at Ötüken, bearing on its hilt the turquoise seal of the Tree of Life (the Bayterek). In the code of Ötüken a da…
The vast turquoise column of quantum frequency, launched into space when Aral wakes the Ergenekon Protocol at the Chrome Kurgan, that pierces the Cosm…
The synthetic biomechanical horse the riders of the Rusted Earth mount. On an earth where organic life is all but spent, the horses of the old world c…
The single-person capsule cast of pure tungsten, holding within it gels that absorb high-density shock; it cleaves the atmosphere from orbit verticall…
Chrome Kurgan
The unshakeable data-shrine and tomb at the summit of the Altai Mountains, built of smooth black chrome, that has kept the Ergenekon Protocol for ages…
The mechanism of the Great Blackout. Against the forced binding of the human mind to the web of the cosmos, the immune system of the universe engaged,…
The meta-material ghost-camouflage woven of organic silver and nano-threads in Hidden Ötüken; it grants optical invisibility by bending the ambient ph…
The vast death-machines Cyber-Khan İlteriş created in his laboratories by tearing out the nature of man and replacing it with flesh, carbon-steel, and…
The absolute tyrant of the Rusted Earth. The title of İlteriş—the tragic gaoler who turned the world into a rusted dungeon to guard mankind from its o…
The heavy carbon-steel-armoured, mechanised main surface army under the direct command of Cyber-Khan İlteriş, guarding the Dead Gorge and the strategi…
Quantum Discipline
The long discipline in which a shaman-candidate zeroes his ego so that his mind may be bound to the web of the cosmos without burning. It is undergone…
The legendary Istanbul Strait of the old ages. Its water evaporated ages ago, a vast sulphur canyon filled with the wrecks of space galleons and the s…
The dark KTB experiment in the Siber-Derinkuyu laboratories, in which DNA and RNA were fused with synthetic machine-codes to bend the nature of man, e…
The cellular repair-salve the Otacıs use, blended with organic nano-catalysts. It matches at the quantum level with the nerve-web of the Otacı who app…
Cosmic Quarantine Lock
The lock the Ak-Kam ancestors who survived the Great Blackout set to prevent the Cosmic Quarantine from being forced open again and the catastrophe re…
Far from a mere wooden branch, this ancient technological spear-staff with a falcon head is wielded by Aral. It bears a shaft forged of ancient Turani…
System Collapse
The catastrophe in which, as the KTB's khagans tried to integrate the human mind by force into the Absolute Will of the universe (the Unity network),…
The liquid-magnetic main artery the ancestors laid beneath the crust so that, in emergencies, the chief engineers could reach Kızıl Elma within hours.…
Machine Religion
The idol-order born after the Blackout when ignorance came to worship century-old machines whose purpose it had forgotten. It has its priests, its rit…
The water-drop-shaped transport, working on the principle of hyper-cavitation (frictionless travel within liquid), used for evacuations in the undergr…
Rusted Silk Road Caravan
The largest of the vast, corroded nomad cities, formed by riveting warship keels stripped from dried seas onto the chassis of old nuclear cargo-trains…
\n\n**In the Ancient Past:** In the Turkic belief-system, the sage who led the rituals, beat the drum, understood the tongue of nature, healed, and ke…
In the ancient Turkic tradition of state, the council of counsel. From the golden age of the KTB to the Cyber-Khan's virtual divan, every order founde…
The weapon of the blind Kam Baturay, forged of pure tungsten. Struck against the ground, it turns the inertia of the earth into a seismic energy and c…
Stasis Gel
The impact-damping gel that, in high-speed travel or emergency collisions, fills the cabin within seconds and hardens to absorb the shock, to keep sud…
Root-Turan Union
The greatest and most magnificent cosmic empire mankind ever reached, technologically and culturally, ruling Earth, Moon, and Mars before the Great Bl…
Red Apple
The primary data terminal in the vast underground complex kilometres beneath the Dead Gorge, in old Istanbul. The legendary centre that controls the q…
The vast robotic wolf-guardians of the Chrome Kurgan, cast of carbon-metal with hydraulic muscle. The two sentinels that keep the threshold are ninete…
The two weapons of Commander Barlas, forged beneath the surface of Mars. The Sword: a heavy weapon holding within its body a localised absence (an eve…
The pitch-black combat blade wielded by the Martian Red Navy Commander Barlas. Its cutting edge is not forged from traditional plasma or metal; it gen…
Obsidian Stone
The obsidian stone Commander Barlas carries at his breast as an ancestral trust, bearing turquoise runes; the lost command key of the Atmospheric Gene…
Herb Healer
\n\n**In the Ancient Past:** The physician, the healer who gave healing with herbs (plants) and the essence of nature.\n\n**In the Root-Order Universe…
The palm-sized quantum-optic data crystal, a relic of the KTB's golden age. It keeps within it the memory of the uncorrupted world (its blue sky, its…
Artificial tongues stripped of empathy and philosophy. The Red-Jargon is the merciless military dialect of Mars. The Rust-Tongue is the primitive argo…
Quantum Turkish
Ages before the Great Blackout, when mankind solved the quantum mathematics of the cosmos, it was discovered that the one tongue to enter into full re…
The neo-feudal warlords who rule the regions of the Rusted Earth's poisoned steppes, swearing fealty to the Cyber-Khan İlteriş. Holding the undergroun…
The neo-feudal warlords who rule the regions of the Rusted Earth's poisoned steppes, swearing fealty to the Cyber-Khan İlteriş. Holding the undergroun…
The Desolate Earth
The new name the Earth took after the catastrophe of the Great Blackout and the ecological collapse. The dystopian surface, ruled by rusted tyrannies,…
The mortal envoy who bears the genetic cipher (the Yavuztürk blood) that will unlock the Ergenekon Protocol, and a soul cleansed of ambition, able to…
Silver Shadows
The elite executioners serving the Silver Syndicate on the Moon, made invisible by meta-material cyber-cloaks that bend the ambient photons. Rather th…
Quantum Conductor / Bio-Resonance Reader
\n\n**In the Ancient Past:** The mystic guide who bridged the spirits of nature and the mortal world, who passed into trance to give healing, who read…
The vast vertical descent-round cast of pure tungsten, used to open a way for heavy-armoured infiltration capsules from the space galleons in orbit st…
The corrupt oligarchic trade cartel established in the Moon's orbit and craters, controlling oxygen and synthetic water sources with a merciless marke…
Red Lullaby
The official culling-protocol by which the redoubts of Mars, when the closed life-support budget (oxygen, calories, water) narrows, quietly put to sle…
Yaruk and Yaşın
The two sky-iron weapons the ancestors forged as twins from the iron heart of a burnt-out star, so that, joined, they might be a single Khagan's sword…
The silent scout-rifle Targan carries, charging from its own core. It does not roar, it does not recoil; the white-blue bolt that leaves its barrel la…
The military legion born and raised in the airless redoubts of Mars, hardened to radiation and to harsh conditions, trained to absolute obedience and…
Mag-Lev
The vast intercontinental transport (Mag-Lev) and data web of smooth carbon-nanotube tunnels, built by the KTB before the Great Blackout, running kilo…
Vibro-Blade
The plasma-based sword the warriors of Ötüken use, able to cut even carbon armour without resistance by vibrating the air and the molecules at high fr…
The vast range of pitch-black basalt crags that isolates the valley of Hidden Ötüken from the ruin of the Rusted Earth. Its fractal structure, joined…
The legendary founding line that raised the KTB, crossed the borders of the Solar System, and sealed the lock of the Ergenekon Protocol with their own…
The unspoiled human nature embodied by the child Umay: a biological constitution containing no synthetic chemicals, no accumulated radiation damage, a…
Cosmic Unity
Oneness. The universal equation of mercy in which all things are "One" through unseen bonds. The rest is not definition but experience; see Appendix I…
In the ancient Turkic order of state, the high military title that comes after the khagan. On the Rusted Earth, given to the commander who fights as t…
In the golden age when Kök-Turan opened out into space, the ancestors had reached the iron heart of a burnt-out star; in the weightlessness of the voi…
Of that same star's iron; but forged the reverse of his brother's. Aral's draws and binds; Yaşın pushes and breaks. The kinetic core in its hilt pours…
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