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- 23:49, 18 March 2024 Blathe (hist | edit) [24,507 bytes] Tada (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Blathe''' is a nation in the world of Vlastach, best known for its embrace of the arcanum of landreaving. Between its fell reputation and its farflung location at the edge of the veigur between the Voidwood and the High Sea, Blathe is a place few outsiders have reason to pass through or visit, and so lurid accounts of its contents and activities spread throughout other lands without most people having any firsthand know...")
- 16:36, 3 March 2024 Pale (hist | edit) [565 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A pale is a section of a world or plane with distinctly different magical and perhaps physical conditions from the rest of the plane. Generally the word is not used to describe the only such area in an otherwise uniform world; it is only applied where the world or plane is divided into multiple pales. Often each pale has a single living entity associated with it that exerts some control over events and objects within the pale, though this is n...")
- 16:34, 3 March 2024 Zien (hist | edit) [359 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Zien''' is a universe of the esture of Usm, filled mostly with solid stone. The mounds of Zien are hollows within the stone substrate, although due the laws of physics in the dition their concave nature is not obvious to their inhabitants. Category:UniversesCategory:Planes of UsmCategory:Zien{{Template:Stub}}")
- 02:29, 3 March 2024 Crepature (hist | edit) [586 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''crepature''' is a connection between planes that unlike a portal does not allow free travel between them, but makes spontaneous transfer from one of the planes to another possible or likely under certain circumstances. A crepature is often thought of as an overlap of planes, or a place where the planes are very close to each other, although it doesn't actually necessarily involve literal physical proximity. Crepatures are usually invisible, though sometimes it...")
- 02:27, 3 March 2024 Ontological resonance (hist | edit) [470 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Ontological resonance''' is a poorly understood phenomenon that seems to lead to the independent arising in multiple worlds, planes, and estures of the same objects and events. Among other things, ontological resonance is believed to be connected to the existence of parallel worlds (with similar events and inhabitants) and pantachones and pollachones. Category:Ontological resonanceCategory:Comparative æalogy{{Template:Stub}}")
- 02:24, 3 March 2024 Caculation (hist | edit) [170 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Caculation''' is the transformation of a creature into a familiar or another form of servitor being. Category:Transformation{{Template:Stub}}")
- 02:23, 3 March 2024 Encratia (hist | edit) [243 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Encratia''' is the act of entering into another life form (perhaps immaterially) and controlling it. It is often informally referred to as "possession". The corresponding verb is "encrate". Category:Celemology{{Template:Stub}}")
- 02:21, 3 March 2024 Percipiation (hist | edit) [163 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Percipiation''' is the process of taking control over someone's actions. It is often informally called "mind control". Category:Celemology{{Template:Stub}}")
- 02:19, 3 March 2024 Spurgel (hist | edit) [159 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A spurgel is a device that can store numen for later use; it is essentially a kind of magical battery. Category:Celemology{{Template:Stub}}")
- 02:18, 3 March 2024 Numen (hist | edit) [328 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Numen''' is a kind of "magical energy", a power source that must be drawn on to produce magical effects. Not all arcana include numen, and in those in which it does exist it may be called by different names; "numen" is the most general term used by celemologists. {{Template:Stub}}Category:Celemology")
- 02:13, 3 March 2024 Meliauth (hist | edit) [20,089 bytes] Tada (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Meliauth''' is an alternate Earth in which a loose alliance of magical beings from other worlds and planes have infiltrated human society and perform rituals to tap into some innate numen in the world of which its natives are unaware. These invaders come in many varieties, but most have in common the ability to take a semblance of human form—although their human disguises are imperfect, and can sometimes be penetrated by those who know w...")
- 17:34, 1 March 2024 Circle (disambiguation) (hist | edit) [660 bytes] Antefyn (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A circle is a geometric shape comprising all of the points equidistant from another point within a two-dimensional plane. '''Circle''' or '''circles''' may also refer to: * Circle (carminical taxonomy), the second highest taxon of dream magic * Circle (Metcitan calendar), a division of the Metcitan calendar * Circle (Osrodica), part of the government of the nation of Osrodica * The Circles (Thamarand), a location within the floating castle of Thamara...")
- 15:55, 29 February 2024 Order (hist | edit) [528 bytes] Tada (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Order''' may refer to: * Order (etory), a rank in standard etorical taxonomy * Order (ideal), one of the cardinal ideals of Dverelei * A divine order of Diddu * Ordering, a mathematical relation in which some elements of a set are considered greater than other elements * Order (Broken Shield), one of the divisions of the Broken Shield, a covin of Curcalen * Order of magnitude, a logarithmic comparative measurement of quantity ==See also== * ...")
- 01:51, 27 February 2024 Changing day (hist | edit) [266 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''changing day''', also called by other names including a day of emergence, is a commemoration by a member of a metamorphic folk of the anniversary of their metamorphosis. Category:AnniversariesCategory:Metamorphosis{{Template:Stub}}")
- 01:50, 27 February 2024 Mestral world (hist | edit) [165 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A ''mestral world''' is a world characterized by marked mesters—that is, a world subject to magical conditions that change over time. {{Template:Stub}}")
- 01:49, 27 February 2024 Mester (hist | edit) [319 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''mester''' is a period of time during which a given world is subject to certain magical conditions. Not all worlds have mesters, but in those that do the mesters may play a very significant role in the daily lives of its inhabitants, with the world changing drastically from mester to mester. {{Template:Stub}}")
- 01:47, 27 February 2024 Stœcheiotic year (hist | edit) [159 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''stœcheiotic year''' is a year the length of which is defined by the period of some enchantment that changes over time. {{Template:Stub}}")
- 01:46, 27 February 2024 Epasma (hist | edit) [297 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An epasma (plural ''epasmata'') is an enchantment that is applied to a specific discrete object, or a small collection of objects, as opposed to a rhegus, which affects a defined volume of space, or a hapantic, which affects an entire plane or hosper. {{Template:Stub}}")
- 01:16, 27 February 2024 Year (hist | edit) [24,864 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''year''' is a unit of time, generally consisting of dozens to hundreds of days. The exact definition varies within different worlds or universe (æalogy)s, but years are usually defined either by climatic cycles or by the motion of astronomical bodies—or by both where, is as often the case, the two are tied together. On magical worlds, they may also be defined by cyclical changes in enchantments or [...")
- 17:00, 24 January 2024 Covin (hist | edit) [713 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}The '''covins''' of Curcalen are organizations of wizards that secretly exercise a great deal of behind-the-scenes power in most nations of the world. While there are a number of minor covins who hold only little or local power, there are eight major covins that have significant influence on most of the world, and continually vie with each other for their goals: * The Aabelon * The Bit and Basket * Braleigh's Brotherhood *...")
- 15:56, 24 January 2024 Laither (hist | edit) [472 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}A laither is a kind of ellogous giant worm found on Curcalen. While lacking hands or other manipulating appendages, laithers have an innate ability to summon creatures from other planes to perform tasks for them. It is widely believed that laithers may have been the inspiration for the high development and heavy use of summoning among Curcalen's human population.Category:Folks of CurcalenCategory:Nematodes")
- 15:55, 24 January 2024 Urippu (hist | edit) [391 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}A '''urippu''' is an unusual ellogous creature with three legs; above the legs the entire top of the urippu is a giant mouth, which it can seal off with special appendages. Originally from a distant plane, urippus summoned to Curcalen settled there and multiplied to the extent they've now established themselves as a major folk.Category:Folks of Curcalen")
- 15:53, 24 January 2024 Fank (hist | edit) [377 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}The '''fank''' is a folk of Curcalen that naturally has a semiliquid, amorphous body but can shape itself into different forms. Fanks that live among or otherwise frequently deal with humans generally maintain a human form, though their translucency, monochromaticity, and softness of shape always give away their true nature.Category:Folks of Curcalen")
- 15:51, 24 January 2024 Navanar (hist | edit) [308 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}A '''navanar''' is a folk of Curcalen that is the result of an ancient attempt to create servants by turning various beasts (mostly) into humans. There are many varieties of navanar, corresponding to different animals they were originally made from.Category:Folks of Curcalen")
- 15:50, 24 January 2024 Sening (hist | edit) [202 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}A sening is a type of creature found in many worlds of Zien noted for its powers of petrifaction or other forms of ylifaction.Category:Creatures of Zien")
- 15:45, 24 January 2024 Djarvin (hist | edit) [22,708 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Djarvin''' is a large and wealthy nation on the western coast of the continent of Orelan on the world of Curcalen. Long and narrow, it spans the entire continent from north to south, more than 6600 kilometers in length but only about 1600 kilometers wide. Surrounded by water on all sides except the southeast, it is a major maritime power; Djarvish ships ply the seas as far away as Emerald Bay...")
- 05:33, 21 January 2024 Pollachon (hist | edit) [584 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}A '''pollachon''' is a type of life form, language, or other phenomenon that is found in many, but not all, estures, or in most or all estures but on relatively few worlds in each. By definition, a pollachon is less widespread than a pantachon, but there is no well-defined boundary between the two categories, and whether a given phenomenon is classified as a pollachon or a pantachon is often subjective. The adjective describing the quali...")
- 05:30, 21 January 2024 Choroma (hist | edit) [374 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}A choroma is a collection of planes that are in some way closely connected, usually because it is easier to travel between these planes than it is to travel between any of them and a plane outside the choroma, but sometimes because they share similar origins, contents, or conditions.Category:ÆalogyCategory:PlanesCategory:Choromas")
- 05:29, 21 January 2024 Panasteron (hist | edit) [417 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}A '''panasteron''' is a type of life form, language, or other phenomenon that is widespread on many worlds of a universe or choroma. Unlike a pantachon, however, a panasteron is ''not'' generally found in other planes or estures. The adjective describing the quality of being a panasteron is "panaster".Category:panasteronesCategory:Ontological resonance")
- 05:27, 21 January 2024 Pollasteron (hist | edit) [437 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}A '''pollasteron''' is a type of life form, language, or other phenomenon that is found on many worlds in the same universe or choroma (but not, or not commonly, elsewhere). As with that between pollachones and pantachones, the distinction between pollasterones and panasterones is not a firm one, and is frequently debatable.Category:pollasteronesCategory:ontological resonance")
- 05:25, 21 January 2024 Pantach complex (hist | edit) [669 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}A '''pantach complex''' is a collection of pantach life forms that are frequently found together. A pantach complex is generally named after the most common ellogous folk it includes. (Theoretically, there is no obvious reason there could not be a pantach complex that does not include any ellogous beings, but so far no such complexes are known.) The most familiar pantach complex to humans is, of course, the anthropic comp...")
- 05:17, 21 January 2024 Hapantic (hist | edit) [135 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}A '''hapantic''' is an enchantment that is in effect throughout all or most of a given hosper.Category:Enchantments")
- 05:16, 21 January 2024 Universal dark (hist | edit) [142 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}A '''universal dark''' is a dark that is in force throughout the hosper of Gomara.Category:DarksCategory:Hapantics")
- 05:15, 21 January 2024 Leicute (hist | edit) [354 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}A '''leicute''' is an organism of the chordate phylum ''Leicutus'', typically characterized by multiple paired limbs and smooth, rubbery skin. While no leicutes pertain to the anthropic complex, some leicutes do occasionally occur on worlds populated by that complex.Category:Chordate phylaCategory:Leicutes")
- 05:09, 21 January 2024 Panaster complex (hist | edit) [320 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}A '''panaster complex''' is a collection of panaster life forms that are frequently found together. A panaster complex is generally named after the most common ellogous folk it includes. (Theoretically, there is no obvious reason there could not be a panaster complex that does not include any ellogous beings, but so far no such complexes are known.) The most familiar panaster complex to humans is, of course, the anthropi...")
- 05:06, 21 January 2024 Anthropic complex (hist | edit) [271 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}The '''anthropic complex''' is the panaster complex that includes humans. Other organisms included in the anthropic complex are too many to list, but it encompasses most of the life forms on Earth.Category:Panaster complexesCategory:Humans")
- 05:04, 21 January 2024 Geotic life (hist | edit) [272 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}Geotic life encompasses life forms that thrive under similar conditions to organisms of the anthropic complex. That is, they require water, air with oxygen, temperatures around three hundred Kelvins, and so on.Category:Life")
- 05:02, 21 January 2024 Geotic world (hist | edit) [156 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}A '''geotic world''' is a world with conditions congenial to geotic life. The Earth is an example of a geotic world.Category:Worlds")
- 05:01, 21 January 2024 Semiwolk (hist | edit) [294 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}A '''semiwolk''' is a large landmass with a gravitational force acting toward its surface that is ''mostly'' surrounded by vacuum or gas but is connected on one side to a still larger mass and is therefore almost, but not quite, a wolk.Category:Geography")
- 04:59, 21 January 2024 Conspect (hist | edit) [350 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}A conspect is a collective term for all of the surfaces of rews of Charos of the same orientation. Most of the worlds of Charos are in the six major conspects that correspond to the three canonical axes, but there are diagonal rews outside the major conspects.Category:CharosCategory:Collections of worlds")
- 04:57, 21 January 2024 Skyfall (hist | edit) [221 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}A '''skyfall''' is one of the enormous waterfalls that plummets through dreamspace between the rew (Charos)s of Charos.Category:Moving waterCategory:SkyfallsCategory:Charos")
- 04:52, 21 January 2024 Rew (Charos) (hist | edit) [20,565 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Some of the text in the "Life" section is taken directly from the Charos article, but that's because it belongs more here than there; I'll later do another (smaller) rewrite on the Charos article and remove it from there (but add more about life elsewhere in Charos, so the article won't be shorter))
- 15:45, 18 January 2024 Local dition (hist | edit) [264 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}A '''local dition''' is a dition that covers only part of a plane, an area where the laws of physics are in some significant way different than in the surroundings. Ditions are often the product of a magical rhegus.Category:Physics")
- 15:44, 18 January 2024 Underfold (hist | edit) [220 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}An underfold is a vast, connected series of subterranean hollows within a world. Not all worlds have underfolds, but they are common in many universes.Category:SubterraneaCategory:Cosmography")
- 15:43, 18 January 2024 Dition (hist | edit) [341 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}A dition is the total extent of space or collection of extents of space subject to a particular set of physical laws. Ditions are often coincident with estures—that is, the same physical laws hold throughout an esture—but this is not necessarily the case.Category:PhysicsCategory:Æology")
- 15:40, 18 January 2024 Brotoid (hist | edit) [277 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}'''Brotoids''' are rare worlddisks in the universe of Charos that are shaped like human silhouettes, or, rarely, those of other creatures. The reason for the existence of brotoids remains a mystery.Category:Rews of Charos")
- 15:39, 18 January 2024 Aphedon (hist | edit) [323 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}An '''aphedon''' is a world thin and flat in shape, and not connected to any other similar worlds. Aphedones may be further categorized by their shape: a circular aphedon is a rew, for example, and a square aphedon is a scutra.Category:AphedonesCategory:Worlds by shape")
- 15:08, 18 January 2024 Mound (hist | edit) [456 bytes] Clé (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}}A '''mound''', in æalogy, is a mostly self-contained world that exists as a solid surface within a much larger plane and is mostly surrounded by vacuum or thin gas. Examples of mounds include the planets of Herit, the rews of Charos, and the vegari of Lothenmydhe. The word has no relation other than homonymy to the word "mound" meaning a pile of dirt.Category:Worlds")