Terms

Terms of the Writers’ Guide and the setting, each under the book part that names it most.

The Shape of the Cosmos · The Powers · The Laws of Magic · The Peoples of Caeldon · The Deep Past · Caeldon in the Medieval Era · Medieval Peoples and Powers · A Medieval Atlas: The Cradle-Web · A Medieval Atlas: The Far Side · The Making of the Medieval Present · Animals · Plants and Fungi · Natives of the Planes · Hosts of the Dark Entities · Constructs · The Risen Dead · Other Beings

The Shape of the Cosmos

• The Boundary
• Cascade Failure
• Counter-resonance
• The Deficit-Surplus Axis
• The Edge Realms
• The Equilibrium
• Fate
• The Fear of the Void
• The Great Filter
• The Great Unfolding
• The Nothing
• Pattern
• Planar bleed
• The pull of the extremes
• The Resonance Principle
• Storm-steel

The Powers

• Alignment custom
• The Dark Entities
• Durrask
• The Resonants
• The Seed
• The Steward of Foundations
• Steward traditions
• The Stewards
• The Telling
• The Uneven Settling
• The Wardens of the Boundary
• Ziv

The Laws of Magic

• Age
• Arrival
• Coalwake
• Compound schools
• Divine magic
• Harmonic schools
• Healing-Shift
• Ley lines
• Liturgy
• Magical mutation
• Miracle
• Mythic traits
• The Nine Hammer Forges
• Oath-Inscription
• Span
• Sparktouch
• Spellcraft
• Stonelocking
• Stored charge
• Storm-Forge
• The Tidelore Hospice of Maris
• Traditional magic
• Vital reserves

The Peoples of Caeldon

• The balanced adaptive field
• Bank councils
• Blightward Thaluren
• Body-law
• Branch
• Bridge-oath families
• Burden houses
• Camp elders
• Channel stewards
• Cistern circles
• Civilization
• Far-Route Orcs
• The First Material Lineages
• Foldward Halflings
• Hearth-keepers
• Hunger-bands
• Island Gnomes
• Lifeway
• The Long Summer
• Memory-debt
• Mixed-March Humans
• Outer-Route Thaluren
• Pool-kin
• Protection
• The Proving of the Unbroken Line
• Redirection Assemblies
• Restoration
• Return-water
• Siege-Scar Ogres
• The Stele of Names
• Stewardship
• The Twofold Waters
• The Unmakers
• Vent-Kin Kobolds
• Warrant
• The waste-ground doctrine
• Working right
• Woundfield Trolls

The Deep Past

• BR
• BR (Before Reckoning)
• The circuit
• CR (Common Reckoning)
• The First Regional Differentiations
• Hollow Descendants
• Keepright
• The Last Census
• The Last Registrar
• The Medieval Era
• The Oral Tradition
• Outer Blood
• The Sepulchre-Kin

Caeldon in the Medieval Era

• Cistern halls
• The far side
• The Festival of the First Stone
• The Festival of the Turn
• Gathering-markets
• Hearth-weight
• The Homeward Set
• Oath-days
• Passward shelters
• The Reciting of the Names
• Record-day
• The Rimewrights
• The Runs That Arrived
• The Shorn
• The Starving Winter

Medieval Peoples and Powers

• The blind way
• Clutch-Watch Circles
• Dark fear
• The Dry Year
• Entered cults
• Gate practice
• Harbour wards
• The Legend of the Unbroken Gate
• Organized religion
• Ravine houses
• Route keepers
• Run-Watchers
• Sea-Settlement Speakers
• Seal practice
• Woundland camps

A Medieval Atlas: The Cradle-Web

• The Ashen Lantern
• Boughways
• The Bridge Hall
• The confluence chamber
• The court season
• The Deep Stair
• The Fordside Compact
• The Graft Terrace
• The Grey Line
• The Greyford Bridge
• The Greyspan
• Guarantee
• The guarantee roll
• The Hauling Stair
• Hobgoblin
• The keeping
• The Known Ways
• The Last Water
• The Law of the River
• The Laying Stone
• The Leave Stair
• The Listening
• The Long Tread
• The Lying Shoals
• The Maintenance Reckoning
• March-towns
• The March Wall
• The Mixed Bridge Oath
• Oath-right
• Orrin Talloway
• The outer fire
• The Root Course
• The root-year
• The Sallow
• The Serath
• Serathic Humans
• The Sheaf Road
• The Slowwater
• Stillgate
• The Tallgrade
• Tenders
• The threshold chamber
• The threshold watch
• Toll's End
• The Tollwardens
• The Undrawn Seal
• The Weatherline

A Medieval Atlas: The Far Side

• The autumn count
• The Bare Shoulder
• Beacon wardens
• Burden and Bonded Labour
• The Decade of Storms
• The Dry Folds
• The dry-season gathering
• Edgefold Halflings
• The Far Set
• The Festival of the Tides
• The First Gale
• The Gullstair
• High-Scar Orcs
• The Kelpshade
• The Lacework
• The Lantern Reaches
• The Last Mark
• The Lee Road
• The Lee Wall
• The Long Grey
• The Long Tally
• The Market Round
• The mixed circle
• The Naming Reach
• Nursery custodians
• The Open Bench
• Open-Steppe Orcs
• The Reading Steps
• Reserve-right
• Roads and Crossings
• The Saltline Shelf
• Sanctuary Custodians
• The Shearline
• The Sworn Ledge
• Tide halls
• Treaty-right
• The Turnwater Roll
• Water and Who Keeps It
• The Whetgap
• Who Counts and Who Records

The Making of the Medieval Present

• The collective refusal
• CR
• The Deep World
• Elder and Young
• The full oath
• The Greyspan Toll Quarrel
• The Oath of Layers

Animals

• The Glassbelt
• Headwater Humans
• The Long Pan
• Ravine Trolls
• The Still Well
• The Tidelace
• The Windscar

Plants and Fungi

• The commons
• The cradle-web
• The Festival of the First Flow
• The Festival of the First Sheaf
• The gloam
• Orchard leagues
• The Reedmere
• Rimward Orcs

Natives of the Planes

• Gates
• Record

Hosts of the Dark Entities

• Incursion

Constructs

• The mark

The Risen Dead

• Echo
• The Rattlecut

Other Beings

• The Held

Other terms

• Answer bearers
• Answer-memory
• Bands of access
• Beacon lines
• Bridge-Keeper Trolls
• Bridge peoples
• Burden line
• Burdened return
• Chainwake Gnomes
• Chamber-right
• Cinder glass
• Circa
• Compatibility bands
• Compound working
• Confluence Humans
• Cradle-chambers
• Crossing shrine
• Declaration house
• Declared class-closure
• Deep-Service Kobolds
• Demigod
• Design lineage
• Dissonant magic
• Drain-Warren Kobolds
• Dwelling-right
• Dwelling-water
• Edge mediators
• Emergency seal
• Era
• Flood-telling
• Floodgate Ogres
• Fosterling
• Fungal darks
• Gap-right
• Gaugeward Gnomes
• Gravesalt
• Guarantor
• Hearth-Burden Ogres
• Hearth-houses
• Hybrid Resonant
• The Industrial Era
• The Lantern-Sworn
• Leeward Halflings
• Ley node
• Local cult
• Mine-Edge Kobolds
• Moot-hall
• Nursery waters
• Oath-house
• Oath-yard
• Off-key place
• Open-Run Thaluren
• Ordinary seal
• Outfold Halflings
• Overcasting
• Passage tally
• Presentation
• Record-house
• The refuge custom
• Regional peoples
• Reserve moots
• Retaliation custom
• Roadcamp Ogres
• Route moots
• Ruin-Under Kobolds
• Scaled patrons
• Scarwood Trolls
• Seam-warrens
• Songline
• Sound codes
• Sounding houses
• Sponsor
• Spring rise
• Stable mixed line
• Stonebreak Trolls
• Stonehaul Ogres
• Successor
• Survival and warding orders
• Terrace wards
• Thin spot
• Tidelace Gnomes
• Timberbelt Ogres
• Tithe stones
• Toll of story
• Treaty-grounds
• True note
• Unwitnessed seal
• Voluntary partition
• Voluntary succession
• Ward-stone
• Windscar Orcs
• Witnessed timing loss
• Woundline