What is "oddlings"

Usage examples of "oddlings".

Instead, the Ruwendian kings complaisantly allowed lawless enclaves of these so-called Oddlings to persist, offtimes to the detriment of their legitimate subjects and the general peace and good order of the realm.

The last and largest tribe of Oddlings, the abominable Skritek, also called the Drowners, lived in most parts of the swamp, but were particularly numerous in the vast and noisome marshlands south of Ruwenda Citadel, as well as the Thorny Hell situated in the north-central region.

Other trade goods of the perverse little kingdom included valuable medicinal swamp herbs and kitchen spices, worrarn pelts and fedok skins, and certain curious ancient artifacts which the Oddlings procured from ruined cities deep in the most inaccessible reaches of the Mires.

Virk, the largest of these, engaged in the simple refining of minerals brought in by the Uisgu or Nyssomu Oddlings and was a secondary center of the Ruwenda gem and precious metal trade.

Only the Oddlings ventured about the Mazy Mire then, by ways they knew and methods they had perfected many hundreds ago.

Even the Oddlings are unable to account for the ancient cities, saying only that they were built by the Vanished Ones, and existed when their ancestors came into the swamp country.

All unusual antique artifacts procured by the Master-Traders of Labornok from the swamp Oddlings now came directly into his hands, for a vision had hinted to him that enormous power might be tapped through certain of the curious devices.

Anigel, and the two Oddlings fled through dark and narrow spaces between the stone walls of the Citadel keep, sometimes passing other secret doors, their machinery furred with the dust of ages.

As a small child, Haramis had thought for a time that the Nyssomu Oddlings belonged to her Father the King, as the animals did.

We traders are led to the fair location, and there the individual Oddlings proffer such goods as they think will interest us.

Do you mean to say that the Trevista Oddlings have been able to keep track of our voyaging, in spite of the double-time pace we maintained coming up-river?

However, one way or another I intend to have Oddlings loyal to us comb the more remote parts of the Mazy Mire, where I know that there are hidden certain extraordinary magical machines of the Vanished Ones.

Though she lacked most of the keen senses the Oddlings possessed, being unable to pick out of the air scents which were overborne by the usual swamp odors, and she could not without difficulty name the sounds, still she was somewhat swamp-wise.

There was nothing, however, either in legends or in the bits of information she had picked up from the Oddlings, to suggest that the Vanished Ones had been workers of evil.

Certainly the Archimage had never tried to dominate either the Oddlings or the Ruwendians.