Immortal Glossary

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Term	Defintion
Aart	Mental disciplines used to prevent the emergence of avatars or combat the effects of the babbler.
Abbadon	Destructive or negative energy; the black ally.
Abzulim	First race of immortals, formed from the earliest terrestrial creatures; now extinct.
Adoil	Name given to the crucible.
Ally	One of the three basic forms of energy; creation, destruction or change.
Ambiance	Quality of an area where immaculum is freely released and the power of religarum is reduced.
Ancien Regime	Immortals who have never entered Lethe.
Apocrypha	Society of humans dedicated to the extinction of immortals from the Habitat, may be trained as a nexus or prodigy.
Aria	The "voice of creation", the ether serenade of the crucible.
Attention	Simple manipulation of existence, mimicking a process of the crucible.
Audience	Humans who know of the existence of immortals.
Avatar	Persona created by Lethe; stored in the vox.
Babbler	Confusion of the mind caused by the combined effects of ennui, avatars, conundrum, memory and experiences.
Bad Spill	Spill of immaculum which contains taint or religarum.
The Ban	Magdalen curse which forbids lullaby and forces the immortal to sin.
Believers	Humans who willingly assist immortals, usually members of a Quiet culture.
Benendanti	Apocrypha turncoats, now a Banjax Quiet culture.
Bete Noire	Animals controlled by the Sanguinary.
Blazon	A Pride’s heraldic device.
Blue Air	Dimension with no physical existence, a realm of spirit bordering the Habitat.
Breed	Immortals grouped by general type; drove, outlander, primal, solitaire, profane, natural, etc.
Cadre	Group of immortals who work together.
Cage	Attention combined with an ally.
Calling	Purpose within the Stratagem; second layer of allegiance.
Cardinal	Primary presence in the mind, the most recent persona.
Chimera	Immortal with multiple himsati forms; the offspring of two Madonna. Profane and easily controlled by the Sanguinary.
Chorus	Two or more immortals joined in serenade.
Clash	Melee combat where close proximity of halos negates panacea.
Conundrum	Crystalline reeds, strands or shards; the shattered physical form of the Sanguinary.
Convictions	Thirteen tenants; each pride has a policy for each; to break conviction is to face personal loss of visage and possible censure.
Core Shards	Conundrum used in the Sanguinary’s manifestation attempts – the Red Shard, the Malice Shard, the Incubus, and the Sheba Shard.
Creche	Capitol of a Pride’s primary mantle, their main stronghold.
Crossing	Passage into the Blue Air; generally occurs upon physical death.
Crucible	Center of the universe, the source of all.
D’arcade	Group of unaligned, profane immortals who specialize in trade of goods, lore, passage, etc.
Darkle	Abbadon manifesting itself in taint.
Demeter	Reverent term for Earth, part of the Habitat.
Dominions	Realms beyond the Maelstrom, ravaged by the Shouting War, where immaculum is scarce.
Dream	Travel through the Morpheum.
Drove	Immortal working for the Sanguinary; often insane.
Dynasties	Groups within a pride which support the Paragon.
Echo	Serenade which directly targets a halo.
Eidos	Perfection of existence and understanding.
Emim	Immortals mentally and physically warped by the Lash; often vampiric in nature, stealing immaculum.
Ennead	Division of the Jury responsible for tallying Pride visage.
Ennui	Disconnection from the body, an unaware state; often caused by the weight of experience or an emerging avatar.
Esoteric	Immortal with the himsati of a mythological creature, usually the child of a Madonna and an immortal, or an immortal with a modified himsati.
Ether	Creation energy; the white ally.
Exodus	Period starting in 1666 when hundreds of immortals entered Lethe.
Femme Darkle	Core of conundrum and target of next Sanguinary incarnation.
Firmament	Chaotic land mass surrounding the Maelstrom; source of Primals.
Flood	Flow of immaculum from the crucible.
Gifted	Humans who have been given extra immaculum by an immortal.
Glamour	The localized ripple-like feel of an immortal changing to or from himsati form.
Glyph	Inscription which negates panacea when placed on a ranged weapon; from Abzulim lore.
Gossamer	Immortal in the Blue Air with no physical form.
Habitat	Dimension of the twilights.
Halo	Energy which is part of all things; often interpreted as a range of colors.
Himsati	Immortal’s original and true form.
The Hunt	Slayers seeking to destroy an immortal who broke pandect.
Hush-Hush	Sanguinary’s lair within the Morpheum.
Immaculum	Raw life force, prime force of energy in the universe.
Immortal Celebrant	The primary member of the Jury.
Ingenue	Immortal still emerging from Lethe.
The Jury	Most powerful of immortals, above the Stratagem; responsible for enforcing its rules, deciding coups and visage.
The Lash	Disease of immaculum accidentally created during the Shouting War by heavy use of serenades. Victims are violently insane and feral, torn by impulses beyond their comprehension.
Legacies	Attentions taught to immaculum-gifted twilights by immortals.
Lethe	Process of submerging consciousness, storing the mind in a vox, creating a new persona, and attaining physical rebirth.
Ley Membrane	Energy barrier between the crucible and all else.
Litany	Mental training focus used to learn a new attention, often associated with key words and phrases that trigger corresponding memories.
Looker	Humans who can identify immortals on sight.
Lull	An area which has been warded against certain forms of serenades.
Madonna	Immortal who can bear immortal children, sacred to all Prides. Their offspring are more susceptible to Sanguinary control.
Maelstrom	Dimension, realm of chaos near the crucible.
Maestro	Immortal directing a chorus.
[Madonna’s] Heir	Derogatory title of the offspring of a Madonna and an immortal.
Manes	Twilights which have been completely possessed by the Sanguinary.
Manitou	Offspring of a human and a primal.
Mantle	Realm created by a tryst for immortal use, linked to a dimension.
Meld	Combination of two or more attentions.
Morpheum	Dream realm created by the collective unconscious of twilights.
Mote	Quantity of immaculum.
Motif	A theory of existence within the perpetual society; compare to religion.
Nadir	Energy web between the realms; mostly disconnected from the Habitat.
Namtar	Another name for the Lash.
Naturals	Immortals created in the beginning with an animal Himsati; not born of a Madonna.
Neverness	Nothingness or heaven, theorized by immortals.
Nexus	Human trained to channel religarum against immortals by focusing self or group belief.
Nightmare	Immortal sleeper who kills twilights in the Morpheum.
Orenda	Energy responsible for change; the gray ally.
Outlanders	Immortals who never enter the Habitat because their vast halo causes loud ripples.
Panacea	Ability to regenerate wounds not caused during halo clash.
Pandect	Laws upheld by all immortals, enforced by most profane but primarily by stratagem Prides.
Pantheon	Group of scions and their savant.
Paragon	The leader of a Pride.
Peer Rank	Station within a calling, indicated by livery color ranging from white to black; leads to the phrase "advance the cardinal".
Perpetual Society	All immortals, trysts, and Quiet cultures.
Poison	Substance which damages an immortal without halo clash and is not healed by panacea.
Pride	Group of immortals, originally divided by species but now by political faction; first layer of allegiance.
Primal	An immortal formed from an element, energy, or plant rather than an animal. Considered profane until the Peri joined the Perpetual society.
Prodigy	Human trained to use free immaculum for simple attentions; very rare.
Profane	Immortals who exist outside the Stratagem.
Quiet Culture	An organized group of twilights (or other non-immortal entities) under the patronage of a Pride. They are often created as sources of rialla and retainers, or to preserve a culture.
Rapture	Sensation felt through all conundrum when the Sanguinary attempts to manifest physically.
Relics	Items created by serenade and used in the Shouting War.
Religarum	Bias on immaculum caused by superstition, religion or belief which causes taboo.
Reverie	Disconnected mental state akin to dreaming, where the immortal relives memories of current or past persona.
Rialla	Event which causes twilights to release small quantities of immaculum freely.
Ripple	Energy wave caused by free immaculum, use of serenades, taint, etc.
Rook	Member of a Pride with no calling, but not outside the Stratagem.
Runegun	Apocrypha firearm which can use Glyph bullets. These bullets negate Panacea.
The Sanguinary	Entity from the crucible that seeks to restore its own form by cannibalizing the conundrum of all immortals.
Savant	Immortal who controls scions and can transfer consciousness into them; how Outlanders visit the Habitat.
Scepter Pride	Pride with the most visage, thus with the right to lead the others.
Schism	Mental fight for control of the body between avatars or the cardinal persona and an avatar.
Scion	Ephemeral being created by an immortal to splinter off a taboo; can be taken over by their savant.
Secret	Serenade known only to one Pride.
Serenade	Use of the vox and free immaculum to create an attention, warp, echo, carnal, cage, meld or chorus.
Shallows	Areas where the border between the Blue Air and the Habitat is thin.
Sheol	In the Dominions, the original home of the Sanguinary; near the firmament.
Shouting War	Period of open combat between immortals which virtually destroyed the Dominions and gave birth to the Lash. At the end of the war, the Nimrod imprisoned all immortals in Sheol.
The Silence	Law banning serenades which cause ripples and thus may alert the Sanguinary; primarily enforced by Nimrod.
Solitaire	Member of a group of immortals who seek the unity of all Prides outside the Stratagem; profane.
Spill	Release of immaculum which occurs at death.
Splintering	Arrival of the Sanguinary from the crucible; its physical form broke into thousands of conundrum.
Stratagem	System of counting coup through non-lethal means, in order to increase visage in and among the Prides.
Submerge	To release control of the body to an avatar, generally by entering ennui.
Sunedrion	Immaculate immortal tree, heart of a weald; its wood has properties of blocking taint, mending pattern damage, and expelling Sanguinary control.
Taboo	Permanent change to an immortal, caused by religarum.
Taint	Immaculum warped by misused serenade.
Tempest	Surge of immaculum and allies from the crucible; unpredictable.
Terrene Form	An Immortals human form.
Tier	System of rank within a Pride, on a scale from 1 to 30 where thirty is the Paragon; corresponds to evolution toward Eidos.
Transcendent	Being summoned from the crucible; most have become pride founders or paragons.
Triad	Group of three Nimrod forming a hunting pack, usually with one gossamer.
True Name	The distinct halo feel or ripple of an immortal, clearest when they are in Himsati form.
Tryst	Offspring of a human and a natural madonna.
Twilights	Mortal humans.
Unmen	A manifestation of the Sanguinary; the Rime, the Dust, and currently the Silhouette.
Uplifting	Ceremony of being brought into a Pride.
Visage	Overall reputation and rank between Prides in the Stratagem.
Vogue	Well-known attention.
Vox	Conundrum in the throat which stores avatars, allows serenades, and ties together the conundrum in the body.
Warp	Directing pure ally energy at an inanimate object; unpredictable.
Weald	The forest surrounding a Sunedrion. Wealds are often perpetually one season.

OOC Note: These terms are modified from the first edition rules of Immortal the Invisible War.