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Allvision: The melted reality that shows the Moment, the Deepness, and any other extradimensional planes as a single sludge. An objective reality unlike the subjective reality of the Evervision.

Cosmic creatures: Creatures from another dimension who cause earthrages. An earthrage occurs when a cosmic creature splits itself, and only stops when the split is complete. The split portions of cosmic creatures become trajecting architects and yakshas.

Conduit: An extradimensional reality available only to those who can traject. Often visualized as a tunnel that connects the Moment and the Deepness.

Deepness, The: An extradimensional reality available only to those who can traject Ecstatically. The Deepness is an infinite black space where the Moment can be summoned. One can move from the Moment into the Deepness using the Conduit.

Etherium: A third vision of reality that manifests itself between an individual’s brows. Unlike the Moment or the Deepness, this is available to non-architects as well as architects. Unlike the Moment or the Deepness, which are shared realities, each person has a unique Etherium personal to them.

Everdust: Green dust of pure possibility that presents itself in select places as physical glittering green dust, and in the Moment as stars.

Everpower: The power to manipulate the elements, consciousness, and any basis of reality through one’s desire.

Evervision: An extradimensional reality available only to those architects who have subsumed their counterpart yakshas. Within the evervision, one can view the Moment, the Deepness, and the Etherium side by side and simultaneously.

Excision: The act of cutting an architect from their trajection, both in the Moment or the Deepness. Traditionally a punishment for Ecstatic architects. It has recently been hypothesized that excision cuts architects away from their counterpart yakshas as well.

Garden, The: A location in the habitat, shaped like a garden.

Heartpoison: A plant that grows in the jungle, poisonous enough to harm a yaksha. Fatal to humans.

Irshar: The last ashram of humanity.

Mirrored chambers, The: A place within the Etherium where one speaks to the cosmic creatures.

Moment, The: An extradimensional reality only available to architects. The Moment is infinite, and contains the literal possibilities of all living things within it which are represented as frozen stars. Traditionally, architects are trained only to see the stars of plants in the Moment, which is how they manipulate them. Architects themselves enter the Moment as dust motes. As living things, they also have their own infinite possibilities represented as stars within the Moment, though most architects are not trained to see that.

Resonance, The: The falcon-yaksha’s form in the Deepness, the Moment and the Conduit.

Solarchamber: A sungineering invention that looks like a room but is made of bio-nodes.

Supertrajection: Ecstatic trajection.

Trajection: The power used by architects when they build constellation lines within the Moment to connect different stars to each other, which in turn changes the form of those living creatures within normal reality. Trajection energy is different from Ecstatic energy. Trajection is also sometimes used as an overarching term to refer to trajection proper as well as Ecstatic trajection.

Virohi: The cosmic creatures.

Vriksh: A singular core tree for Irshar created out of the merged trees of the sister ashrams.