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...ure without inflictings the carrier's disease upon it, but since infecting people with disease is the carrier's main goal, they rarely do so. ...dangerous for a carrier, but also gives it easy access to large numbers of people to infect.

...r with different versions that are still similar enough to be recognizably altered copies of the same thing), they are said to be [[polyypar]]ic, and the word ...orlds are the same (or mostly the same, with perhaps an added, deleted, or altered [[continent]] or two), but everything else can vary. Still, there are some

...ape. Apparitions are usually born of anger or frustration, divesting from people who die while under such strong emotions. On occasion, however, an apparit The various ways in which apparitions are altered from their mortal forms are known as [[distortion]]s. Many distortions inv

...to be a pervasive part of life in onirarchies. They are full of magically altered and wholly artificial creatures, [[talisman]]s of diverse sorts, and powerf ...to return to the paradise of dreaming—so that awake and asleep, the people are working for the onirarchies.

...at altitudes where the increased temperature has no direct effect on most people's doings.) ...ore'' clear than usual, and seems to take on a slight minty flavor to some people, though not everyone seems able to taste this.

...he people of Norg play an important part in their lives, transforming many people into specialized agents with appropriate [[power (celemology)|power]]s. Ma ...tizens are [[human (Doun)|human]], or at least are born human before being altered into Ghalites or other varieties of [[Chalarite]]. However, Norg does have

...-contained [[crystal world|world]]s within, and thence have retreated many people to escape the horrors of Thamarand and the bonelords. The natures of the w ...aries between the crystal worlds and the surface of Varra, albeit often in altered form.

==People== {{Main|People of Numlle}}

...ctions. These colors are in fact the temporarily transformed forms of the people using the path; an empty streampath appears colorless and nearly invisible, ...with practice to make out their surroundings quite well. Other than this altered form of vision, those in a streampath have no normal sensory input; travele

...so ingrained in the culture of most [[planet]]s of the Dupliverse that the people accept it as an ordinary part of life, and don't particularly question it. ...arameters for successful duplication. This is especially true when new or altered objects are created, rather than the exact replication of objects whose cha

...s and induce them to merge with them. A few fasks actively try to recruit people to take on the merging and become farthels, extolling the benefits of the p ...lly altered farthels may have little trouble gaining acceptance, but where people are less open to the strange and different they may find it a great struggl

...human intelligence, and for the most part its human psyche, albeit perhaps altered a bit by animal drives and instincts. Beastmen need not be human-sized; ge ...s welcome beastmen, however, and not all beastmen want to live among other people. Some beastmen, therefore, either choose or are forced to live outside tow

...ast spells is an inherent gift that not everyone has—or even if some people have an [[inherent spell|inherent ability]] to cast some spells—, it ...he case; it's possible that too much exposure to such influences may cause people to go mad; a mage who uses magic too profligately may drive himself (and hi

...t along entirely different principles, superficially unchanged but totally altered on a deeper level. ...us. Likewise so far unexplained is the existence of [[goltheth|golthoi]], people near whom portals to other worlds and cosmoi spontaneously appear.

...ange their contours, but the other continents for the most part are little altered beyond a slight contraction of the coasts due to the higher sea level. ...[hillman|hillmen]] are those most closely allied to civilization; they are people who live outside the settled communities, but who may occasionally enter to

...needless to say, that non-Eidecians are unlikely to agree with.) The only people who are at all likely to regularly utilize the term "eidopolis" are [[&aeli ...em to be in response to events or trends in the city's population; if many people move into a particular neighborhood, that neighborhood may grow slightly to

...y rare, for the same reason that [[æalogist]]s are rare: because few people have the chance to explore multiple worlds and study the life therein. In ...(and certainly to still pertain to the same species). Even a [[human]] is altered quite a bit as it grows from an embryo to an adult, but without usually bei

...e tunnels beneath Koval may be descendents of Kenever inhabitants who were altered by [[ambient magic]] there or by active [[rhegus|rhegi]] or [[hysplex|hyspl ...Koval, called the [[Gate (Koval)|Gate]] for the fact that it is where most people enter the town, is the lowest part in elevation and caters largely to visit

...only form but identity, with an entirely different mind in control of the altered form. Such turnskins are sometimes known as "allocradiac turnskins", or so ...homotheres", though the latter term is not often used in part because many people confuse it with 'Homo sapiens' and erroneously assume it refers specificall

...llpox]] has come forward to take credit for Radon's disappearance, but few people believe him.) This situation has made the supers of Ganyak, if anything, e ...heroes, the people have some reluctance to elect to their highest offices people who might go missing at any moment. Nevertheless, while rare as heads of s