glossary
here's a helpful list of terms you'll see around here!
i broke the coding on this somehow, so please be patient with me while i figure it out.
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- anthousai: a race of plant-born humanoids created as disposable soldiers for a war that never happened.
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- imago: a physically manifested ghost caused by high outputs of magical energy and desire upon someone or something's death.
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- mage: while all people on Teres can use magic, mages are people who dedicate a significant amount of time to studying and practicing the use of magic. mages are also considered refined magic users both due to their extensive studying and the use of elemental magic, which is harder to use than magical talents.
- magical energy: a yet-unraveled source of magical power for all to use. no one knows why it permeates the atmosphere of Teres, but no one thinks twice since it's second nature to all.
- magical talents: highly specific, but not very powerful, magical abilities that everyone posesses. each person has a magical talent specific to themselves, though they do not get to choose; they're things like "can understand all languages" or "can digest anything."
- mail-knights: a worldwide organization of peacekeeping postal workers.
- medics' alliance: a worldwide organization of medical workers and mages.
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- vampirism: a medical condition that requires high intakes of iron and low-light living situations. often comes about as a result of being revived from the dead, something which is still highly taboo and frightening to most people.
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