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  "textContent": "::: glossary\n\nAlchemy {#tag-alchemy}\n\nmutamyr (adj. mutamyric)\n\n: the basis of supernatural phenomena, giving rise to  alchemy.\n\n: a metaphysical field pervading all space, capable of carrying mass\nand applying force, varying in properties to produce diverse behavior.\n\nliminal body(ies)\n\n: a system capable of performing alchemy or other advanced\nmutamyric processes.\n\nsoul(s)\n\n: the mutamyric mass that naturally builds up within an organism.\n(Except for entiotes.)\n\n: (in alchemists) the liminal body cultivated and refined by\nalchemical practice.\n\nalchemy (adj. alchemical)\n\n: the study of cathexis and transmutation.\n\n: any process of controlling and transforming matter into an idealler\nform through use mutamyr, especially by activation of transmutation\ncircles.\n\n: a philosophy of universal balance and grand teleology.\n\nalchemization (adj. alchemized; v. alchemize/alchemizes/alchemizing)\n\n: the circulation of essence through limina, especially to create\na teleological effects.\n\n: mutamyric flux, especially so as to generate aura.\n\naura\n\n: (of an alchemist) possessing alchemization powerful enough to\nact at a distance, characteristic of one reaches second compleation.\n\n: any transmission of information and force through the mutamyric\nfield, especially those created by alchemization.\n\n: excitations of the mutamyric field which can penetrate other bodies,\nresonating, reflecting, and reacting across distances.\n\ncathexis (adj. cathetic)\n\n: a phenomena whereby animal brains generate energetic essence.\n\n: the prerequisite for alchemical practice.\n\n: (poetically) dreaming, thought to be the wellspring of magic.\n\ntransmutation(s) (v. transmute, transmuted, transmuting)\n\n: a mutamyric reaction acting on matter, especially the\ntransformation of matter into limina and limina into matter, but\noften broaden to also include teleological forces.\n\n: the primary aim of alchemical practice.\n\ntransmutation circle(s)\n\n: a geometric figure designed by an alchemist for performing\ntransmutation.\n\n: a liminal body which defines a sphere of effect, capable of\nalchemization.  (See also: silver circle.)\n\nlimina (adj. liminal)\n\n: a ghostly intermediate form of transmuted matter, often capable of\nphysically overlapping with mundane objects.  (See also:\ntranslimina.)\n\ntranslimina (adj. transliminal)\n\n: an object which possesses both physical and metaphysical (liminal)\nproperties, especially when new properties emerge as a result.\n\n: the result of limina reacting with or \"imbuing\" matter; an amalgam\nof both.\n\nessence\n\n: an energetic charge which cannot exist outside of liminal matter.\n\n: the result of cathexis, and the necessary component for\ntransmutation, almost always in the form of emyra.\n\nteleology (adj. teleological)\n\n: the force that exists between alchemized limina and compatible\nmatter, both as simple attraction and ontological path-finding.\n\n: the idiom, \"as above, so below.\"\n\nreification\n\n: the teleological manipulation of matter into a predefined, desired\nstate, in contrast with geomancy.\n\ngeomancy\n\n: the teleological interaction of limina with matter for purposes of\ndivination, generally without overtly perturbing the target, in\ncontrast with reification.\n\ndispelling (v. dispel/dispels/dispelled)\n\n: the undoing of transmutation, either by the passage of time or by\nintrusion of alchemized limina. (See also: third law)\n\nlaws of alchemy, three laws\n\n: the most fundamental principles of alchemy:\n\n    - the first law defines the origin of essence and limina;\n    - the second law defines the tension between alchemization and\n      transmutation; and\n    - the third law defines the nature of dispelling.\n\nfirst law, law of cycles\n\n: Dreaming descends to essence, essence descends to limina,\nlimina descends to transmutation.  (See: laws of alchemy.)\n\n: (informally) the transmutation of dreams is a fool's errand.\n\nsecond law, law of disjunction, \n\n: The alchemical cannot be transmuted, and the transmuted cannot\nbe alchemized. (See: laws of alchemy).\n\n: See also: mutamyric exclusion principle.\n\n: (informally) nature abhors self-transmutation.\n\nthird law, law of cancelation\n\n: Each working of transmutation requires an equivalent unworking,\nwhich dispels it. (See: laws of alchemy.)\n\n: (informally) alchemy is ephemeral, things fall apart.\n\nmutamyric exclusion principle\n\n: a generalization or corollary of the second law, stating that\nseparate liminal bodies give rise to distinct auras, and limial bodies\nexpel the aura of incompatible fields. (See also: cross\nconjunction.)\n\n: (informally) alchemy is solitary; two workings cannot mix\n\nalchemist(s)\n\n: one who practices alchemy, especially seeking the compleation of\nthe great work.\n\ncompleation\n\n: (in philosophy) sublime wholeness, metaphysical primacy, perfection.\n\n: (in alchemy) a milestone in the cultivation of the soul.\n\n: see also: first compleation, second compleation, third\ncompleation.\n\nfirst compleation\n\n: (of an alchemist) having attained a soul capable of circulating\nessence and thereby performing transmutation.\n\nsecond compleation, \n\n: (of an alchemist) having attained a soul capable of expanding and\nmanipulating a stable aura for purposes of teleology, especially\nso as to perform the silver circle.\n\nsilver circle, sorcerer's circle\n\n: a technique for \"drawing on air\" and performing alchemy without\nphysically inscribing a transmutation circle.\n\n: a glowing, liminal ring which alchemizes its enclosed sphere,\ndistinguished by this requiring no material component.\n\nthird compleation\n\n: (of an alchemist) having attained a soul capable of concentrating\naura to a singularity point, especially so as to perform the golden\nsphere.\n\ngolden sphere, god sphere\n\n: a technique for creation of a \"domain\", a volume where all objects\nare subject to alchemization or transmutation at the caster's will.\n\n: a dense lattice of transliminal matter, which projects a liminal\nboundary when exposed to an aura singularity.\n\ncross conjunction\n\n: a rare phenomena occuring at the collision of two liminal bodies,\nexploiting the microsecond delay between intrusion and expulsion, to\nperform a simulataneous alchemization.\n\n: a singularity created by a liminal body enveloping and alchemizing\nanother, allowing one to transmute the other, instantly nullifying\nit and exponentially accelerating the essence circulation in the\nrebound.\n\n: (informally) an especially powerful strike, a \"critical hit.\"\n\n: (See also: mutamyric exclusion principle)\n\nemyra (adj. emyral)\n\n: the form of essence unique to a particular soul, created by a\nmortal imbibing ambrosia.\n\n: the catalyst for advanced alchemy, especially the activation of an\nindividuals inmut.\n\ninmut\n\n: innate transmutation, the technique which comes naturally to a given\nsoul, often offering access to a unique material or teleology.\n\nambrosia\n\n: a drug derived from wine and tea made from divine fruits and\nleaves which provokes a dream-like state of intense cathexis\n\nCulture\n\nstrangler vine(s)\n\n: a species of carnivorous epiphyte whose vines can rapidly contract\nto grasp tools and prey, growing flowers and fruiting when mature, and\nusually living in association with a mortal species. (See also:\ndivine.)\n\ndivine(s)\n\n: an exalted strangler vine realizing profound capacity for\nteleology and cathexis, especially one of the quincunx.\n\nquincunx\n\n: of or related to the five great divines and their doctrines.\n\nmortal(s), mortal species\n\n: a sapient organism granted imperial recogniction, capable of\ncommunication and cooperation, displaying advance forms of tool-use\nand problem-solving.\n\n: one of: human, djramul, strangler vine, freemouse, clanrat,\nkeenfolk, iatrogos, mistral, glassmoth\n\namortal\n\n: not self-aware or capable of recognizing one's own death (in\ncontrast to mortal), either due to immortality (divines),\nselflessness (entiotes) or ignorance (other animals)\n\ndjramul (pl. djramulin)\n\n: a four-legged mammal with horns and a trunk, standing anywhere from\nhuman height to twice that, distantly related to elephants, bearing a\nsymbiotic with a little of djittin.\n\ndjitt (pl. djittin)\n\n: a small, scurrying primate that spends most of its life on a\ndjramul, performing tasks for which the host is too large and\nlumbering, especially if held by the 'scruff', a means of fine control\n\nfreemouse\n\n: a hunched, furred mammal, capable of both walking on two legs and\nall fours, usually standing from half human height to four-fifths of\nthat, and often living in close association with clanrats.\n\nantiblight\n\n: a fungus derived from a plague sent by the quincunx to devastate\nmortal farmland, capable of rotting any organism (except entiotes)\nbut especially potent against liminal bodies, quickly infesting and\nsubverting souls into resevoirs for its spores.\n\nEntiote\n\nentiote(s) (adj. entiotic)\n\n: a parasitic organism that undergoes a complex, adaptive lifecycle,\nnaturally progressing from vermincholie to chrylurk, with larval\nand pupal stages between, in a process called parascixion.\n\n: the larval form of a chrylurk, dwelling like maggots in flesh, or\ntapeworms in entrails, or engaged in fusomorphic mimicry.\n\n: a class of animals that includes blightflies, distinguished by\ntheir lack of soul and consequent ability to digest antiblight.\n\nblightfly(ies)\n\n: a small mosquito-like arthropod that feeds on and purges\nantiblight and must consume mortal blood, especially to reproduce,\noften laying eggs in flesh, wherein they develop and emerge.\n\n: a type of derived chimera that may undergo a series of mutations to\nrecapitulate their ancestral form, the chrylurk.\n\nvermincholie\n\n: a thick, warm fluid, the primordial form of entiotes, secreted by\nreproductive queens\n\n: a vector for ovirexia in isolation, or the nutrious yolk when\nenclosed in a entiote's eggcase\n\n: liquid chrylurk egg.\n\novirexia\n\n: a affliction spread by chrylurk body fluids, causing the host to\ncontract a range of symptoms (such as dreams of segmented, vanishing\ngeometries), and leads to a pronounced souring of bodily fluids, as\nthe brain secretes nectar",
  "title": "A Glossary for Vermin"
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