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Weird
A Glossary of the Weird Side of Life in Doskvol
- Alchemy? - distilling and using weird chemical mixtures
- Attune? - ability required to perceive partially into the ghost field to sense echoes of real-world events or make connections to ghosts and spectral energy
- Crafting? - building weird gadgets or items, p.224
- Death? - upon death the spirit bells ring in Bellweather Crematorium, only heard by those near the site of the body and the Spirit Wardens. A deathseeker crow leaves the belfry and circles the body until it is found by the Spirit Wardens, who retrieve it and dissolve it in electroplasm to destroy the spirit before it becomes a ghost, p210
- Demons? - first beings? Tied to elemental forces. Corporal beings, not spirits. Not echoed in the ghost field. Most appear as monstrous humanoids reflecting theri elemental background - exception, the massive leviathans. p.212
- Devil? - generic name for supernatural or disturbing beings, p.210
- Electoplasm? - the energetic residue distilled from ghosts and leviathan blood
- Ghosts? - spirit without a body, craving life essence and vengeance. Comprised of electroplasmic vapors becoming more mad, dark and monstrous. Suffers little harm from physical attacks, vulnerable to electricity and arcane powers. As a result of the cataclysm, the soul does not depart the body as it once did, but becomes a ghost after 1-3 days, pg.214
- Ghost field? - invisible otherworld that presses upon the edges of our perception as a result of the cataclysm
- Hollow? - Living body without a spirit. Dim-witted, easily controlled
- Horrors, Summoned? - alien creatures serving ancient gods, summoned using rituals. Rarely resemmble living things. Highly resistent to harm. Short-lived in our realm, lasting few hours/days before decaying p.213
- Hull? - Spark-craft body animated by bound spirit, p.216
- Possessed? - living body containing one or more spirits
- Rituals? - using ancient occult compacts to entreat demonic or otherworldly assistance, p222
- Soul? - Living body with its own spirit, normal state of affairs
- Spark-craft? - fusing alchemy, rituals and spectrology with technological engineering
- Spectrology? - controlling spiritual energies and ghosts with pseudo-scientific techniques
- Spirit Well? - rift in reality where ghosts and other supernatural beings congregate. Ancient myth - spawning ground for demons
- Vampire? - dead body animated and sustained by a spirit, p.218
- Whisper? - person able to summon and communicate with ghosts