Amnewid
A borrowed Welsh term used for a Kin spell meaning “trade” or “substitution,”
Magic
Arcanum
The observable energy given off when magic-users use their power. More on this under the Magic entry.
Exchange
The Exchange is the common term Fey use for their desperate trade-off: they supply entertainment, strength, or some other service, and are given emotional or directly magical payment from their audience or employer.
Mooring
The invisible threads which bind a soul to a body. When all the moorings break, one dies; if moorings are reattached to some other object or person, possession occurs.
Otherlight
A side-effect of particularly powerful magic conflict, otherlight is not fully understood even by those who regularly cause it.
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Reversal
A “reversal” is the term applied to an unusual but always fatal failure to claim a Sundered One. Note: “reversal” only applies to the initial claiming attempt.
Rift
A powerful and rare magic, rifts are the openings – seemingly torn right into the air – that allow the magic user to step from one location to another at some distance.
Shape-Shifter
Fun fact: “shape-shifting” as a term did not exist until very recently, mostly thanks to popular culture. Before then, each group of shape-changing folks simply went by their titles (e.g.
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Tapestry
The Tapestry is how prophets and seers refer to time. It looks like a giant glowing tangled knot with light-like threads constantly changing, tangling, and altering paths.
Truedark
Part of the electromagnetic spectrum only extant in Umbra and some of Umbra’s pocket dimensions. It absorbs all “light” (using the term loosely), leaving anyone who relies on light to see in complete darkness, regardless of tools, bulbs, or flame.
World-Walker
A skill nearly lost, world-walking belongs to those who can simply walk from parallel world to parallel world. Sometimes the Broken are born with this ability; some of the Dream have it, too, and a few members of the Kin.
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