THE INDEX

Slang/Referential

Consang: A time period denoting closeness; or kindredness. Can be utilized mockingly. Derived from the phrase: Consanguinity.

Nova: A time period referring to the efficiency or coolness of one thing.

Keep zero: Keep calm; do not be rash.

Numb: A drug; additionally means to relax out

Pleasure: A nanotech drug that causes blood to clot collectively and units the thoughts afire with hours of rapturous ecstasy.

Joyhead: Somebody who habitually makes use of pleasure.

Chromer: Somebody who’s closely augmented with cyberware; normally seen as low class and crassa road snuffer.

Razorboy/Razorgirl: A chrome aesthetic that foregoes armor in alternate for blades, reflexes, and velocity.

Squire: An unofficial reference to an honorable and respected road merc working in New Vultun.

Necrojack/Necro: Somebody who makes use of ghosts to hack minds, steal reminiscences, or inflict extreme cognitive injury. They spend most of their time diving within the Nether and interesting one another utilizing ghosts and phantasmics.

Enforcer: An in-field asset to a Syndicate or a Guild; somebody who engages enemies in particular person.

Drone-jock/Jock: Somebody who hyperlinks and connects to numerous autos, missiles, and platforms to pilot them from afar.

Grafter: Somebody who suits you for implants, alters your gene code, or grafts augments normally.

Agnos: An agnostic of the previous faithsthe few people who find themselves permitted to know scripture underneath their pact with Jaus and the Guilds. Are unaffiliated to all factions and carry out metaphysical tunings and upkeep for Liminal Frames, Heavens, and Hells.

Coldtech: Pure expertise. No thaumaturgy.

Thaumaturgy: The quintessence of a god that warps and usurps actuality in sure and particular manners.

Jaus: A phrase of astonishment, pleasure, or shock. Taken from the title of Jaus Avandaer, former chief and Crownbearer of the Eight Guilds after his passing. Towards his will no much less. The person did not need to be revered as a god.

Snuff: To kill; to snuff out somebody’s existence.Ñøv€lRapture marked the preliminary internet hosting of this chapter on Ñôv€lß¡n.

Null: To mutilate somebody’s thoughts so badly that they succumb to insanity or are rendered catatonic.

Dive: To forged deep into your subconsciousness and trip one’s thoughts like a car by the Nether, touring from reminiscence to reminiscence; alternatively, it means a contracted gig commissioned to a Necrojack or a crew of road squires.

Rotlick: A derogatory time period for a ghoul; a creature that likes to eat rotting our bodies at occasions.

Synced: Slang that means to know; if one is on the identical web page as one other.

Scalpel: When a Guild lobotomizes somebody with a Heaven of Gentle from on excessive.

Paler: A time period for a ghoul; popularized amongst these of Ori-Thaum through the battle.

Voidship: A spacecraft constructed for crusing the expanse of deep house; unable to fly by the Sunderwilds.

Sunderwilds: Huge eldritch wounds scabbing over into actuality from years lengthy prior. Horrific entities and primordial beings lurk of their clefts. The Guilds irregularly ship expeditions into its depths to acquire extra Souls. Without delay a pure catastrophe and a serious useful resource level. This can be a main purpose why void journey is extraordinarily troublesome.

Fallwalker: A unaligned, mercenary Godclad. They gained the title “Fallwalker” by being the one models which can be generally able to preventing in areas affected by Ruptures originating from Fallen Heavens. As a result of being Godclads, they bear intra-sovereignty rights, recognizing every of them as a form of “overseas dignitary” and bestowing them with knightly privileges which can be afforded to few others. That is primarily to place an finish to the fixed dueling between rival Fallwalkers searching for declare one another’s Heavens and Hells.

Wombrash: A metaphysical contagion that leaked into the world after the Rupturing of the Heavens of Lust, Love, and Fertility. As a result of this, the Bodily Intimacy Ban is in full impact for New Vultun and the encompassing areas. All lustful actions have to be performed utilizing proxies within the Nether, and any bodily intimacy will set off an outbreak of the rash, which causes a physique’s biomass to start producing womb sores that incubate half-formed homunculi. The transmission vectors of wombrash are: bodily, auditory, and visible. All bodily intimacy performed in actuality constitutes a felony of the very best order and might be monitored by Guild Exorcists.

The Maw: A terrific Hellvent constructed into the underside of the town made to dissolve disposed matter and waste. Runs throughout the town in grand chasms and is in-built a sigilic image by the town’s divided Sovereignties.

The Underhive: An undercity that when was the seat of energy to the Hungers of Previous Noloth earlier than their destruction through the Godsfall. Was briefly the territory of the Low Masters earlier than they have been massacred through the Fourth Guild Warfare. Comprised of the Umbra and Penumbra.

Warrens: The unofficial “topside” of New Vultun. The place pure floor degree is. Separated into three layers and constructed like a stacked metropolis of accelerating prosperity because it goes upward. Layer One elements the Gutters from the Backbone of the Warrens. Layer Two elements the Backbone from the Throat. And Layer Three elements the Throat from Gentle’s Finish.

The Tiers: An enormous, ringed mountain comprised of memetic matter that holds up the core of New Vultun have been the Arks of the Guilds are based mostly. Solely anchored to actuality, the Tiers are literally far bigger than they seem, spearing into the clefts of house itself to be an expansive metropolis scape of blooming wealth and splendor, but additionally hyper-competitive rat races as a result of restricted variety of citizenship slots. On the very backside of the Tiers is the Undercroft, the place most wagers, Low-Guilders, and newly minted residents reside. Above which can be Purgs (brief for Purgatories), every of which is a unique aircraft unto themselves, rooted to a unique Ark and a unique Guild. These are populated by mid-level Guilders and established Fallwalkers. Then, on the very apex, above even the Arks are the Elysiums–“paradise” realms the place solely the elites reside. It’s their final aim to overwrite actuality with their Elysiums. Or so that they declare.

Thaumaturgy

Thaumic Mass: The quintessence of a Soul, and that which permits one to manifest and develop Heavens and Hellswhich are formally known as ontologics. Thaumic mass can greatest be understood to be ontological capacity–or how advanced of an alternate actuality a Soul can create and venture into actuality. Complexity and vulgarity (how deeply they have an effect on the pure legal guidelines) trigger the mass of Heavens to develop, so the Soul should in flip generate extra thaums to assist it.

Thaums: Successfully the metaphysical gas of uncooked willpower and perception. Claimable solely from useless beings able to self-awareness and worship. In earlier ages, thaums have been expended fully to fuse into miracles, necessitating rituals of mass sacrifice in return for the gods to manifest.

Essence: A regular willpower unit measured in echoes and brought from the useless. Turns into thaums upon being fed right into a Soul.

Thaumic Cycler/Essence Cycler: A metaphysical assemble created by the sacrifice of a dragonan leviathan that eats itself eternally in a looping stasis of immortality. It’s by this technique that Liminal Frames are able to being the perpetual miracle machines that they’re.

Soul: An eldritch fireplace that burns, ever-bright, ever-unfading. That is the quintessential and key ingredient to the general construction of a Liminal Body and of the fallen gods. Souls can’t be replicated and are successfully the rarest substance in-setting with their homeland now formally shrouded in delusion. Therefore, Godhunts and harvests within the Sunderwilds inevitably end in large skirmishes between the Guilds.

Heaven: Hollowed vessels of eldritch gods now lobotomized and slain. Every one is formed by a particular idea or side of actuality, which serves as its major Area or Domains.

Hell: A implanted module meant to be connected to a Heaven as a “thaumic recoil compensator.” Successfully, whereas a Heaven is creating its miracles, a Hell makes use of the elements from the Heaven to create counter-miracles of equal and reverse impossibility, thus balancing out the Rend.

Liminal Body: A metaphysical rig that’s burned over one’s ontology–fusing itself over your consciousness and never permitting your dying to dissolve your being because it anchors you simply past the brink of actuality, serving as one thing of a metaphysical respawn level.

Canons: Metaphysical codes that usurp the legal guidelines of actuality whereas a Heaven is lively.

Hubris: One thing {that a} Heaven is explicitly unable to do; a leftover from previous scriptures and primal Heavens. Most trendy Guild-made Heavens do their greatest to take away hubris or cut back them.

Rend: The vulgarity-damage a Heaven’s manifested miracles inflicts on actuality. May be transformed to entropy and vented from a Hell.

Rupture: When a Heaven overloads from increase an excessive amount of Rend, inflicting localized actuality to tear and turn out to be unstable.

Fallen Heaven: A Heaven with contradictory canons or a always triggered hubris that constantly spikes its Rend and always Ruptures. Have to be contained or they may develop indefinitely, albeit slowly with out lively thaums to feed them.

Thaumic Backlash: The sudden spiking of Rend inside the system of a Heavenusually triggered by incurring hubris or encountering a paradox.

Paradox: The clashing of two absolutes, creating an impossibility. Instance: A Heaven of Indestructibility clashes towards a Heaven of Destruction or one which dissolves matter. The ensuing collision between two counter-simulated realities projected from clashing Soulsregardless of thaumic mass or designresults in each spiking with Rend and the necessity to vent their Hells.

Spheres: A score system for the reality-twisting potential of a Liminal Body and its Heavens. Heavens of the First to Third Sphere are normally tactical-level threats, able to destroying total megablocks or brigades. From the Fourth to Sixth, they turn out to be strategic class threats able to reshaping total engagements from a number of asymmetrical angles. From the Seventh onward, the person of stated body might be marked as a precedence goal in any engagement as a consequence of their capabilities at outright enhancing or retconning main elements of actuality to swimsuit their wants.