347:-journeying young warriors from a variety of different planets and cultures, who are tasked with stopping or reversing the destruction being enacted by the villainous Saint Dane. Saint Dane is a shapeshifting demon whose favorite form is a tall human with icy blue eyes and long grey hair, but who can variously transform into a raven, a cloud of smoke, and a variety of other forms. He plans to destroy "what separates order from chaos"—the very fabric and structure of the universe, known as "Halla"—so that he can rebuild it according to his own twisted design. Uncle Press, the lead Traveler, introduces Bobby to the "flumes": enchanted tubes used by Travelers to journey among the ten "territories", which are especially eventful locations and time-periods in the universe. Press explains that Bobby is a resident and designated Traveler of the territory known as "Second Earth", which means planet Earth (especially centering on New York City) during the early 2000s (the present moment at the time of the series' publication).
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547:: Any yellow-eyed, supernatural animal created by Saint Dane to guard the flume(s) of any territory where he is present and attack the Travelers and their allies. Local people of the territories do not recognize quigs as being anything more than indigenous animals. The territories each have their own type of quig: Cloral has 20-foot-long (6.1 m) sharks; Denduron has spike-backed, bear-like beasts; the Earth territories have giant dogs; Eelong has cannibalistic gars (humans); Ibara has swarming bees; Quillan has robotic spiders; and Zadaa has snakes; Veelox's quigs are never revealed.
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559:: "The spiritual reflection of the state of Halla." Solara is the essence of all positive sentient thought and creativity and it looks different to every individual—a spiritual realm or state that is neither a territory itself nor part of any territory. When every person dies, their spiritual weight is added to the accumulation called Solara. As Saint Dane manipulates the people of the territories into making self-destructive decisions, Solara begins to split into a weakening "light" Solara and a strengthening "dark" Solara.
565:: Any of Saint Dane's divisions of Halla characterized by some particular world in some particular time-period. There are ten territories (called Cloral, Denduron, Eelong, Ibara, Quillan, Veelox, and Zadaa, and three different time-periods of Earth, known as First Earth, Second Earth, and Third Earth) which exist in the space-time continuum on a total of seven distinct worlds (Cloral, Denduron, Earth, Eelong, Quillan, Veelox, and Zadaa).
553:: A militaristic political movement and religious cult, originating on Second Earth and led by Alexander Naymeer under the manipulation of Saint Dane, embracing the view that the elite and talented members of all territories should create a ruling class that subjugates and ultimately destroys everyone else. Saint Dane uses the cult as the main driving force in his plan to bring Halla into chaos.
466:: A shapeshifting, voice-activated technology patented by D.A.D.O. (though seemingly actually invented in Third Earth and stolen from that territory by Saint Dane) consisting of an object with flexible, elastic skin that can change into various simple geometric forms including a pyramid, a cube, and a sphere. Apparently, it is the main technology inside the robotic bodies of dados.
458:: Any of the tunnels that link each one of the territories with the other nine. At the entrance to a flume, a Traveler must speak the name of a territory, causing the flume to writhe to life, turning its rock walls into transparent crystal, emanating a jumble of pleasant musical notes, and lifting and pulling the Traveler gently into the flume towards the spoken destination.
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