Category: Sweetland Novels

Main category for Sweetland.

Chemchemi ya Maisha

Chemchemi ya Maisha Mountain range that divides the contintent of Sweetland. It means “Springs of Life” in Swahili. The highest peak is Mount Ayeliyi.

A religious organization, based in the Pe’wan’skiili and Omi worlds, which believes that the destroyed civilization in the Mother Root of Ertfiil are the progenitors of all hominid cultures. Like The Temple of the Eighth Root, they believe that Earth is the lost culture, the Eighth Root, but that it is the cause of the Great Catastrophe, which led to The Time of Forgetting. Political Tendency Politically, The Children of Ertfiil are reactionary and most aligned with The Guardians of the Path and other isolationists. This reactionary isolationist faction believes the 15 inner worlds are superior and should not concern themselves with the affairs of the outer worlds, and not allow those inferior Peoples a voice in the Convergence. Not adverse to violence. They sometimes align with the Autonomists over specific goals. Most animosity toward the Mutualists. Many religious fanatics in this faction believe that Ertfill is the sole origin…

Columbiana

Encyclopedia of the Convergence The largest city on Torzucán, it is on the confluence of the Pecos River and the Columbiana.

Congress of Unity

After the Time of Forgetting, the founding Congress of Unity forged The Convergence of a Thousand Worlds. The founding marks the Year Zero Standard Years on the current universal calendar.

Convergence Overview

The Convergence of a Thousand Worlds was the name given to the planets of the Memories by early explorers over ten millennia ago (as measured by the the rotation of the dead planet Ertfiil around its sun – the Convergence standard year) after the Time of Forgetting, when the ancient technology of the Memories was lost to common knowledge. The name has been shortened to the Convergence by current day citizens from the original hyperbolic title. Among some religious groups it is also known as the Convergence of the Eight Roots. The Convergence is an alliance of six primary intelligent (related) species, spread out for hundreds of millennium over the galaxies of their home universe via the Memories, a “highway” system built by a much older species, now gone and forgotten. Now, there are sixty-three settled worlds in the Convergence, and nearly 200 more unexplored worlds connected by the Memories. Government Council of the Unities: The Convergence is a confederacy of the sixty-three…

Copulas Suit

Council of the Unities

Dawn Crier

Degrees of Freedom-Book 2

Degrees of Freedom, book 2 of The Sweetland Quartet Degrees of Freedom begins seventeen years after the events of Skyrmion (book one). It follows Molly Whitedeer (daughter of Joe Larivee and Bridge Whitedeer for those who have read Skyrmion) and her half-sister, Jessie Larivee. Something is strange about the new world the immigrants call Sweetland. Particularly for the adults, who suffer from a plague of depression and forgetting they’ve named the Saudadés, a disease which is leading to a high rate of suicide. Why are the flora and fauna so familiar, so like the plant and animal life left behind on Earth? And why are they all so afraid of the forest? For the native born children, who call themselves the Borns, the forest is their friend and companion. But they too notice the changes which happen sometimes right before their eyes. Sixteen-year-old Molly Whitedeer and her friends believe it has to…

Diplomatic Academy

Often called simply, The Academy. Principle academy for diplomats and police sciences for the Convergence, located in Recon, Moornal, the capital city of the Convergence.

Eastern Coastal Forest

Eastern Coastal Forest A coastal forest in the far southeast of the Continent of Sweetland.

Enfants des Lunes

Children of the Moons, has two related meanings. Musical Group It is the name of a band from the Communities, formed by Violette “Vi” Aubrac and other young Borns. They traveled to the various festival to perform. Rebel Group The name of a rebel group fighting for the freedom of the Communities, also led by the same young Borns.

Entanglement-Book 3

Entanglement, book 3 of The Sweetland Quartet Blurb.

Entropy

Ertfiil

Ertfiil is a desert planet which contains the so-called “Mother Root” of The Memories. According to mythology, it is the First Root. It’s universe is officially designated Unity-1. Except for Society of Mutuality research facilities, it is uninhabited.