Glossary

Art - A learned ability that allows your character to effect other characters and objects.

Awaken – The term used to denote that you will exit the game.

Boundary Mists – Unpassable mists dividing the shards of cloudsbreak, dividing dreamers from each other in their waking worlds.

Chaos – Unordered material. May refer to the world outside of the city of Underlight, the boundary mists surround shards, or the unpredictable nature of some dreamers or creatures such as mares.

Chaos library – Information available outside the game (OOC) such as guides, stories, and logs. Information attained from the Chaos Library is considered strictly OOC and not accepted as valid information in-game.

Cloudsbreak – Your character’s waking world. (Not the same as real life.)

Collapse - Loss of all hit points, also known as DreamSoul, which changes your avatar into a soulsphere.

Common tongue / Dreamer – The English language. Since England or any other country in the real world does not exist in Underlight, this term is preferred.

Crossover, IC/OOC -

Dream Standard Time (DST) – The official timezone for Underlight. Corresponds with Pacific Standard Time (PST).

Dreamstrike

Elder – Game master (GM).

Essence

Experience – Points gained through many avenues including hunting mares, collapsing another dreamer, roleplaying, and performing tasks for your house.

Focus – A path chosen by each player for their character. The paths determine which arts you can learn, not your creativity or how you may contribute to the dream. The four foci are Willpower, Insight, Lucidity, or Resilience. You cannot change your focus once your character has been created.

Generator

Halo

House

IC – In Character.

Item genning

Mare

Maren

Newly awakened – New character recently arrived in the game.

NPC – Non-Player Character. In other words, a computer character.

OOC – Out Of Character.

Orbit - Gained by increasing your experience. Every tenth orbit is known as a sphere which can only be earned by tasking from a teacher.

Plane

Portal

Roleplays [link to roleplaying] – Scenarios in which characters interact. Some are on a small scale (i.e. the relationship between two dreamers) and others are larger (i.e. a cataclysm that influences everyone in Underlight).

Seneschal – A GM controlled character who is responsible for monitoring the leadership of a house and aiding in roleplays.

Shard – The plane of existence in which a character resides. Each shard is small, ranging in size from a minute island to the state of Rhode Island and is mainly agricultural, with very little technology.

Soulsphere - When you lose all hit points, also known as DreamSoul, you are "collapsed" to a soulsphere which is not a form of permadeath. As a soulsphere you cannot evoke arts or emote and you must be restored either by another dreamer with the art Restore or by entering a sanctuary. If you exit the game as a soulsphere you will lose 1% of your total experience points.

Spawn

Sphere - A level that is earned by satisfactorily completing a task from a teacher. 10 orbits equal 1 sphere.

Storm – Game lag.

Stormed – The game client or your PC crashed, kicking you from the game against your intentions.

Teacher

Trance – You are AFK (Away From Keyboard).