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[divinemania]

Terms Glossary

Aelphiem - The original race made by the gods to inhabit Hiun before mankind. Much like men, their body plan was based on daemons. However, they quickly fell and turned against the gods. Notable for their single eye, tusks, and translucent skin. They would eventually evolve to become more aquatic.

Aerunao - The proper academic term for mana. An ancient word meaning "aetherial clay," and "spiritual blood." Aerunao is sometimes also referred to as the quintessence or fifth element. It's an in-between state of matter that can be used to manipulate, reshape, energize or replicate other states of matter, elements, chemicals, or particles.

Aether - An alchemical element used primarily by gods and their aetherials that consists of a mixture of wind, radiant fire, lightning, and monad. Causes chain reactions within physical matter that continuously rips it apart and disintegrates it until nothing is left, exorcizing any Soul that may be held within.

Aetherial - Beings created by gods for various purposes, usually to maintain some semblance of order within Samsara.

Alchemical Element - An element that does not occur naturally and must be made through magick.

Angel - An aetherial made specifically to hunt and kill daemons. They exist as a small condensed orb of prima materia surrounded by halos. They can reshape the prima materia to give themselves a body or create weapons that can retake Souls from daemons.

Anima Mundi - The Soul of the Taioi of a planet that comes into existence through absorption of the remnants of the Ba that stays with corpses after death. Through coagulation of these remnants the planet generates its own consciousness that acts as an extension of the will of those who have lived and died on the planet.

ARCHETYPE - The immanent, transcendent, non-dualistic, infinite source of Souls without end or beginning that has always and never will be; infinite in all attributes, beyond all forms and ideals. There is no equal. The aleph ein sof. The unmoved mover. The master of all, yet owner of none. Existing as everything and nothing within and outside of reality and imagination alike. Undivided and multiple. Personal and unknowable. Fully understood and completely incomprehensible.

Ascension - The temporary awakening of the Soul during times of great stress or revelation.

Awakening - The Soul gains awareness of itself, harmonizing certain aspects of the Soul with the universe.

Collective Unconscious - The connective essence that relates all Souls. When prayers are answered it is the collective unconscious that responds; acting only in truth, devoid of any action of false idols.

Daemon - A being of pure prima materia created unconsciously by the Demiurge that seeks out any and all living things to erase them from existence by absorbing their Souls and growing in power. Their own Soul is their body, and their body is their Soul.

Demiurge - The body of the universe that encapsulates cosmos inside it. It itself becomes conscious overtime through universal spiritual fission. As Souls migrate into it from somewhere outside of the universe; it begins to create antibodies to fight them off, known as daemons to return to its natural entropic state of nothingness.

Eden - An enormous disc shaped planet that seems to disobey the laws of physics, roughly the size of an entire solar system. One of the earliest planets forcefully created by the gods as a testing ground for species they wanted to put out into the universe.

Falling - The act of a Soul becoming consumed by the dark, and turning into a hylic. This occurs when one becomes too obsessed with the material self and begins to reject the universe outside of themselves, often leading to them refusing ideas outside of their own; justifying any action they take as virtuous no matter how vile.

Gods/Idols - Light beings that helped bring about the current state of the universe. They reside within their own realm where the prima materia that permeates the rest of the universe can't eat away at them.

Hardlight - An alchemical element that binds and balances both light and dark together to give light tangible mass and energize the dark. This is used to bypass most mundane or magickal barriers that aren't itself made of hardlight. Referred to as "katioli" in prehistory.

Hiun - The primary earthlike planet where humans, elves, dwarves, orks, fenn, mermen, and saurian originate, sometimes simply all referred to as mankind or Hians. But the planet itself goes by many names from their many different cultures such as Miterra, M'terha, and Caosg.

Hylic - A being that has become reminiscent of a daemon. As their Soul becomes subservient to their body, they merge together reshaping the body to represent the deepest desires of the Soul.

Orenda - Aerunao that originates outside of the body within inanimate objects in nature such as water, wind, and plant life.

Mage - Someone who practices magick without using technology to aid them.

Magick - The manipulation of aerunao through various means, usually either by a mage, or via technology.

Mana - Aerunao that originates within the body. Colloquially used by many to refer to all forms of aerunao.

Mana Core - An alchemical creation consisting of prima matieria sealed within a teardrop of verisite of varying sizes. Made as a power source or a way to give soulless constructions the ability to utilize mana, although usually only in its most elementary state. The prima materia draws in and captures residual mana that exists within the atmosphere, and the verisite purifies it as it is used.

Monad - The smallest particles throughout existence that permeate all aspects of reality. When honed it can do multiple miraculous things such as bypassing space, forming impenetrable barriers, creating wormholes, and slowing, stopping, or speeding up time. Damage caused by them, whether it be physical, mental, or spiritual cannot be restored with magick, and must occur naturally. The only thing that can compete with monad is more monad. Their use is referred to as draconics, or monadmancy.

Origin Sea - The galaxy where Hiun originates, along with countless other planets and sapient species.

Pneumatic - A being that has awoken a portion of their Soul.

Prana - Aerunao that originates from space. Most of the time, it must be cleansed from the excess of prima materia that clings to it, otherwise it will corrupt things it comes into contact with, causing them to fall.

Prima Materia - Raw physical essence, sometimes referred to as dark. It exists as the void of space, and was used in the creation of planets by the gods to act as their core. It also acts as the body for the Demiurge and daemons. Its density is such that it emits its own gravitational pull, drawing in and trapping even immaterial things such as aerunao and Souls.

Psychic - A being, usually a mage, that has discovered the truth of the Soul's existence and is capable of manipulating it.

Soul - A spark of infinity that resides within all living things. Made up of light, dark, aerunao, and monad in equal parts, it exists as a microcosm of reality and has unbound potential for growth, change, understanding, and beauty. The Soul is often divided into the trinity of trinities, the first being the body, the mind, and the spirit. The body is what animates, the mind giving higher thought, and the spirit giving deep emotion. The second being the Ba, Ka, and Sah. Ba being the portion of the Soul that remains clinging to their vessel after death, Ka being the portion that leaves the vessel after death, and Sah being the core of the Soul, or Higher Self, that exists beyond time and space. The third being ego, collective unconscious, and the ARCHETYPE. The ego residually exists with the individual, the collective unconscious residually existing between individuals, and the ARCHETYPE residually existing throughout everything.

Spacial Extremophile - Enormous creatures that live in space, although their offspring often incubate on or around planets and mature until they can survive the stars. Because of their size, it's extremely dangerous to have their children incubate on planets as they could turn into living natural disasters. Their origins are unknown.

Taioi - Enormous structures of nature that typically reach into the cores of planets which are created by the gods. They act as aerunao receivers, pulling in aerunao from space, purifying it, and spreading it across the planet to fertilize it, jump-starting evolution.

True Name - The "name" of one's Soul. When Souls enter the universe they echo out unique undetectable frequencies, thus giving them a "name." If this frequency is repeated, the Soul is brought back to its birth and remembers itself as an infinite aspect of reality, uplifting it and causing it to ascend. If the frequency is heard in reverse it will cause the Soul to temporarily shut down.

Verisite - Crystals formed from concentrated aerunao, usually by a Taioi. Versitie is able to refract light better than any other known material in the universe. It is typically used in the creation of items to ward off or slay daemons.

Qi - Aerunao that originates from the Soul.

Waking Realm - The realm of change and cycles where light and dark mingle together to subjugate or annihilate Souls. This is where all planets, stars, and evolved life coincide, created by the gods to act as distraction for daemons to keep themselves safe. 

[rexcrystallis]

@ofgunblades

         ❝ Last time, it wasn’t Materia. It was Cosmos. ❞ For a moment, silence passed between them, the rosette attempting to collect her thoughts and explain the situation with some degree of coherency. Given that she’d only minimal time with Light, making him condense the events that had occurred during the cycles for which she was not present, she couldn’t fill in the gaps as well as she would have liked.

         ❝ Those of us with the light —- I assume the goddess knows that we have a strong sense of duty, and that we’ll do what’s asked of us. Or, at the very least, we’ll fight to get back home. Though last time, we had very little memory of home, or who we were. ❞ Whether it was a blessing or a curse that their memories remained intact had yet to be seen. For Lightning, it merely reminded her how little she trusted gods.

         ❝ It’s … usually the same people, but new editions aren’t surprising. Six of us weren’t called back after we closed a Rift feeding Manikins into the world, but the cycles continued. I’m … not entirely sure what happened after that, except for what I was told. Chaos was defeated; without him to maintain the balance —- discord against harmony —- the world would have ceased to exist. ❞

         Tilting her head towards Noctis, she offered him a hint of a smile. ❝ It’s a lot to take in, I know. ❞

On the contrary, it wasn’t a lot to take in, simply because Noctis has filtered out the relevant information he needs, and to the former King of Lucis, the following were all that he needed to know: he was summoned, unwillingly, to fight someone else’s battle; he had no choice but to fight said someone’s battle if he wanted to go home, and there were others like him, also from different worlds, selected to be here because they bore some ‘light’, or some such bullshit. 

(Which, for him, made sense, because in his world he literally was the King of Light, the embodiment of all of that and then more, a monster created by the Astrals to clean up a mess they’d made, and now had backfired against their faces.)

“Why can’t these entities, beings or whatever, fight their own damn battles?” He mutters, more to himself, not to Lightning. She didn’t deserve his snarling; no welcoming committee did. He shoulders his sword and looks around at the odd landscape. Chews the inside of his cheek. 

“So what now? Hack our way into getting home?” He turns to the lady, quirks an eyebrow at her. “Because if that’s all, then kindly point me to the right direction so I can get down to the hacking part.”

[ofgunblades-archived-blog]

@lionhartedseed sent a meme!

bittersweet reunion starters | ACCEPTING

ϟ          The rosette tipped her head in reply, sheathing her sword before approaching Squall. Annoyed though she was to find herself back in a seemingly endless cycle of fighting ( and just after she’d saved her own world ... again ), there was a degree of softness in her expression; at least this time their memories had remained intact and she could recognize a familiar face. ❝ You getting sentimental on me? ❞ 

          Much had changed since the last time they’d drawn swords together, both fighting on the side of Cosmos, and it showed in the way the former savior carried herself -- more poised, slightly less encumbered. Lightning barely had enough time to settle in the New World -- no longer ruled by gods and their passing fancies -- before another deity had decided to request her assistance. She was getting real tired of gods and their constant need for human playthings, but, for now, she would grant Materia the benefit of the doubt. ❝ Because you never struck me as the type, Squall. ❞

[themossstomper]

I was wondering how would you have done Tess story differently if she ended up landing with and encountering Avalanche first and not Reno and shinra?

Ha, interesting! Let’s seewhere this train of thought takes us.

MASSIVE SPOILERS for The Unwelcome Guest!

To make sure Tess wouldn’t endup in the clutches of Shinra, she would have to travel to their world afterJenova/Sephiroth breaks free from the containment tank at HQ, considering howthe Gateway works. To have her end up with AVALANCHE, she would have to show upduring one of their fights with one of the pieces of Jenova. Or, possibly, shecould show up in President Shinra’s office right after he’s stabbed – butthat’s a bit too risky. Let’s say she appears during the first Jenova fight inthe cargo ship. Since they’re all stuck on a boat for a while, it gives her andAVALANCHE a reason to chat and hopefully team up.

* Tess is still just as shockedand confused by the situation, and she has to adjust to it a lot faster. She isn’ttraumatized by her interrogation and captivity, though, so mentally she’s in amuch better place to do so.

* She hears AVALANCHE’s side ofthe story, of course, and feels drawn to the cause. Helping a dying planet isher life’s work, after all.

* She’s soon on friendly termswith Aerith. Tess gets along with Tifa, too, though she’s more reserved. Nanakifreaks Tess out at first, as does Cait Sith when he joins the party. She’s abit spooked by Barret (who grafts a gunonto their arm?) and Cloud (why do his eyes glowlike that?), too.

* Or…. would the Planet try to warnAerith against Tess, since she isn’t part of the Lifestream? That could getinteresting – and might cut Tess’s AVALANCHE career pretty short.

* When she meets Reno in Gongaga,he’s just a Shinra goon in a fancy suit to her. To him, she’s just another AVALANCHEweirdo in cool armor. They’ll never have a reason to spend time with each otherand get to know each other. No friendship, no romance.

* No friendship with Reeveeither, meaning no potion delivery modification for the suit, no “blastoff”. No mods to make rechargingpossible. Uh oh.

* By Cosmo Canyon, the suit isout of juice and thus of no more use to her than a pile of junk. Tess doesn’tknow how to fight, she doesn’t know the world or the people or most of thetechnology… Honestly, I think she’d choose to stay in Cosmo Canyon and try tolearn all that she possibly could about Gaia and its solar system fromBugenhagen. Bye bye, AVALANCHE.

* Informed by Cait Sith, Reevehas gotten curious about her suit. He asks Reno if the Turks can go get her,but with Sephiroth and AVALANCHE on the loose, the Turks have bigger problems ontheir plate. Reeve decides to leave it for now, until the major threats aredealt with.

* When James comes for Tess, shegoes with him without a fight to save the people of Cosmo Canyon. Alas, shedoesn’t have the needed facts to connect his condition with the problems Gaiais facing. She’s unable to slow his deterioration, and is thus in a weakerposition back on Earth.

* She hasn’t learned the tips andtricks she picked up from Reno in TheUnwelcome Guest, and her suit was never modified with a new ID command orthe injection system that saves her life. Therefore, her attempt to destroy theGateway fails. She’s captured and the suit is taken from her. She dies twoweeks later, crushed by debris in one of the many earthquakes that plague theregion.

Whoa, that got grim. Poor Tess!Poor Reno, too, who will spend the next few years (decades?) in forever-alonemode. X) Aaaand if unstopped by Tess, Orca will eventually spill through theGateway to Gaia and cause no end of trouble.

Hmm. Let’s say Tess couldcharge her suit in some fashion (say, through some handwavy lightning materiause). She might survive most that AVALANCHE stumbles across in her suit, butshe wouldn’t be able to do much. Dammit,Jim, she’s a doctor (of biology), not a fighter! Even if someone plopped a guninto her hands, she wouldn’t have much time to practice with it. I still thinkTess would choose to stay with one of AVALANCHE’s allies, like the people inCosmo Canyon, where she could try to help their cause and the planet through research.

Aaaand she’ll still most likelyend up dead once James comes for her. Dangit.

Sorry, AVALANCHE. No Tess foryou. X)

Does anyone see a differentfuture for Tess in this situation? I’d be curious to hear it!