glossary

Jan. 4th, 2015 10:30 pm
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• enustari - archmage (the highest classification)
• saganustari - high magician (second-highest)
• ustari - mage, magician (average)
• idimustari - trickster (the lowest classification)
• griefer - someone who uses incredibly basic single-word spells in combat, generally because that's all they know (not even part of the classification system because they aren't supposed to exist)
•  bleeder - one who provides blood for a mage to cast a spell, may or may not also be a mage (if they are it implies some degree of subservience to the caster)
• siskur - an old term for bleeder
• gasam - master
• urtuku - apprentice
• gas - slang term for blood when it is providing fuel for a spell
• word/words - contextually used to refer to the language of magic
• mu - cantrip/minor spell
• glamour - illusion
• charm - at its base level a spell which produces a feeling of goodwill in the target / causes them to react favorably to the presence and suggestions of the caster
• artifact - nonmechanical magical object, often but not always inhabited by an intelligence that guides it
• fabrication - a mechanical magical object used for trapping a demonic intelligence OR reproducing a complex spell, with little to no sacrifice required besides that used to create it
• fabricator - one who specializes in making fabrications
• geas - curse, obligation
• biludha - rite, ritual, major spell
• biludha tah namus - the rite of death (aka that spell Mika Renar tried to cast)
• asag - demon companion
• dimma - golem, an animated sculpture or object, guided by an intelligence
• kurre-nikas - translated literally as 'change result,' the kurre-nikas is an extremely powerful fabrication which can be used to alter one moment of reality, causing a cascade of changes as the universe mends itself around the choice

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