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| Term | What it is | Defined in |
|---|---|---|
| Age of Endurance | The present era after the Fracturing, when scattered cities survive against spreading Maggi. | Haneul-ttang (The World), The Fracturing (Cheonha Bunhae), The Age of Endurance, Timeline, The Celestial Martial Court |
| Anhon-jeon | The Hall of Resting Souls; the Songhondan’s temple in Seonhwa, with the cleansing room where the Sending is danced in safety. | The Hall of Resting Souls, Soulsenders (Songhondan), Seonhwa |
| Ashen Archivists | Jae-Giloggwan; repentant Cheonmugwan survivors who preserve knowledge as penance and seek to end their immortality. | The Age of Endurance, Swordscribes (Hwarang), The Eclipse Court (Sig Beob-won), The Ashen Archivists (Jae-Giloggwan), Nam-Gi (The Weeping Hermit) |
| Bae-Gumeong | Respawning mini-boss in the Crypts’ rat area, grown strong by eating its own kind; target of recruits’ first quest and source of the relic fragment. | The Crypts, Timeline, Guardian, The Gloth Arc, Bestiary Overview, Gloth (Han-Gyeol), Bae-Gumeong, Instructor Jin-Woo (The Jadeheart) |
| Beom-Seok | First Shield and Head Guardian; a hardened veteran who views the Maggi-corrupted as pure evil and would exile or execute the heavily exposed. | Maggi, Guardian, Cleric, Bestiary Overview, The Suhodan, The Council of Seonhwa, Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore), Soulsenders (Songhondan), Swordscribes (Hwarang), First Shield Beom-Seok, High Cleric Eun-Ae, Grand Scholar Seul-Ki, Mediator Yun-Seo, Vanguard Dae-Hyun |
| Bujeok | Protective talismans inscribed with Giun patterns that store elemental effects and ward the city, caves, crypt, and the Gwimak. | Talismans, Seonhwa, Hunter, Wizard, Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore), Inscriber |
| Celestial Pillars | The five Cheonseokju, stone pillars planted beneath the earth to anchor and purify Giun and hold the Gyunhyeong; three shattered and two cracked in the Fracturing. | Han (Unresolved Grief), Transcendence (Beyond Level 99), The Fracturing (Cheonha Bunhae), The Celestial Martial Court, The Eclipse Court (Sig Beob-won), Grand Magister Do-Jin, Elder So-Hwa (The Blind Archivist) |
| Celestial Spirits | The five spirits that arose from Giun and shaped the world; each patrons one of the five Suhodan paths. | The Celestial Pillars and the Gyunhyeong, The Five Celestial Spirits, Guardian, Cleric, Transcendence (Beyond Level 99), The Creation, The Fracturing (Cheonha Bunhae), Timeline, Why Players Fight (Progression Arc), The Celestial Martial Court |
| Cheolbyeok | Iron Wall; Celestial Spirit of protection and endurance, patron of the Guardian path. | Haneul-ttang (The World), The Celestial Pillars and the Gyunhyeong, The Five Celestial Spirits, The Creation, The Age of Endurance, Timeline, Guardian, The Suhodan, First Shield Beom-Seok, Vanguard Dae-Hyun |
| Cheongan | Sky Eye; Celestial Spirit of precision and the wild, patron of the Hunter path. | Haneul-ttang (The World), The Celestial Pillars and the Gyunhyeong, The Five Celestial Spirits, The Creation, The Age of Endurance, Timeline, Hunter, The Suhodan, Master Tracker Yoo-ri, Seon-Woo, Pathfinder Kang-Ho |
| Cheonha Bunhae | The Fracturing of the Heavens; the catastrophe that shattered the pillars, collapsed the Gyunhyeong, and tore the boundary between realms. | Haneul-ttang (The World), Maggi, The Fracturing (Cheonha Bunhae), Timeline, The Celestial Martial Court |
| Cheonmugwan | Celestial Martial Court; the order of scholar-sorcerers whose failed Rite of Heaven’s Mandate caused the Fracturing. | Haneul-ttang (The World), Giun, Maggi, The Celestial Pillars and the Gyunhyeong, The Five Celestial Spirits, The Fracturing (Cheonha Bunhae), The Age of Endurance, Timeline, Guardian, Why Players Fight (Progression Arc), Bestiary Overview, Gloth (Han-Gyeol), The Suhodan, Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore), The Celestial Martial Court, The Eclipse Court (Sig Beob-won), The Ashen Archivists (Jae-Giloggwan), Transcendence (Beyond Level 99), Mu-Yeong, Grand Magister Do-Jin, Elder So-Hwa (The Blind Archivist), Nam-Gi (The Weeping Hermit) |
| Cheonmyeong Uisik | Rite of Heaven’s Mandate; the Cheonmugwan ritual to ascend to the level of the Five Spirits, which failed catastrophically. | Haneul-ttang (The World), Maggi, The Celestial Pillars and the Gyunhyeong, The Fracturing (Cheonha Bunhae), Timeline, The Celestial Martial Court, Elder So-Hwa (The Blind Archivist) |
| Cheonseokju | Celestial Stone Pillars; five pillars planted beneath the earth to anchor and purify Giun and hold the Gyunhyeong. | Haneul-ttang (The World), Giun, Maggi, The Celestial Pillars and the Gyunhyeong, The Five Celestial Spirits, The Crypts, The Creation, The Fracturing (Cheonha Bunhae), Timeline, Bestiary Overview, Bae-Gumeong, The Celestial Martial Court |
| Circle of Balance | The set of five shared subpath traditions formed where two of the Suhodan’s paths border each other, closing into a ring. | Timeline, Guardian, Cleric, Monk, Hunter, Wizard, The Suhodan, The Circle of Balance (Shared Subpaths), Soulsenders (Songhondan), Inscriber, Ridgewalkers (Seon), Swordscribes (Hwarang), First Shield Beom-Seok |
| Cleric | Suhodan path patroned by Jeonghwa; heals the living and repels the dead. | Haneul-ttang (The World), The Five Celestial Spirits, Han (Unresolved Grief), The Age of Endurance, Guardian, Cleric, Wizard, Bestiary Overview, The Suhodan, The Council of Seonhwa, The Circle of Balance (Shared Subpaths), Soulsenders (Songhondan), High Cleric Eun-Ae, Mediator Yun-Seo, Mu-Yeong, Sindo Min-Soo |
| Council of Seonhwa | The governing council of Seonhwa made of the five Suhodan path leaders, each holding a different stance on the Maggi; a designed source of internal conflict. | Seonhwa, Guardian, Hunter, Wizard, The Suhodan, The Council of Seonhwa, First Shield Beom-Seok, High Cleric Eun-Ae, Grandmaster Tae-Sung, Master Tracker Yoo-ri |
| The Crypts | Deep, dangerous underground levels near a broken pillar where Maggi pools thickest, holding corrupted life and old spirits; a shattered pillar fragment rests at the core, and where Han-Gyeol became Gloth. | The Celestial Pillars and the Gyunhyeong, Seonhwa, The Crypts, The Age of Endurance, Timeline, Guardian, The Gloth Arc, Bestiary Overview, Gloth (Han-Gyeol), Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore), The Celestial Martial Court, Inscriber, Mediator Yun-Seo, Instructor Jin-Woo (The Jadeheart) |
| Danja | Short name for the Jeopsindanja, ‘Those Who Receive Spirits’; the Cleric-Wizard subpath that communes with the dead and resolves their Han (colloquially Necromancers). | Giun, Spirits of the Earth, Han (Unresolved Grief), Seonhwa, The Crypts, Timeline, Cleric, Wizard, The Suhodan, The Circle of Balance (Shared Subpaths), Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore), Soulsenders (Songhondan), Inscriber, Ridgewalkers (Seon), The Celestial Martial Court, First Shield Beom-Seok, High Cleric Eun-Ae, Grand Scholar Seul-Ki, Mediator Yun-Seo, Mu-Yeong |
| Disciplinarian Gun-Woo | The Monk tutor of Seonhwa; loud and warm, drives recruits to improve through encouragement, the opposite and the same as Tae-Sung. | Monk, The Suhodan, Disciplinarian Gun-Woo |
| Eclipse Court | Sig Beob-won; the Cheonmugwan survivors who reject Maggi as corruption, hold the ritual was only a first step, and call Maggi the evolution of Giun; led by Do-Jin. | Maggi, The Age of Endurance, The Celestial Martial Court, The Eclipse Court (Sig Beob-won), The Ashen Archivists (Jae-Giloggwan), Grand Magister Do-Jin, Nam-Gi (The Weeping Hermit) |
| ee-san | The second mark of Transcendence, taking in a further pillar fragment beyond il-san; deeper marks follow as more are absorbed, and going too far before the body is ready is deadly. | Giun, Maggi, The Five Celestial Spirits, Guardian, Wizard, Transcendence (Beyond Level 99), Why Players Fight (Progression Arc) |
| Elder So-Hwa | The Blind Archivist; a repentant Cheonmugwan survivor who shielded the archives during the Fracturing, was blinded with scrolls fused to her flesh, and leads the Ashen Archivists through intermediaries. | The Celestial Martial Court, The Ashen Archivists (Jae-Giloggwan), Elder So-Hwa (The Blind Archivist) |
| Eun-Ae | High Cleric of Seonhwa; an elderly woman who lived through the Fracturing, champions compassion and mercy, seeks to cure the corrupted, and designs the Ssitgim-gut cleansing ritual. | Maggi, The Crypts, Guardian, Cleric, The Gloth Arc, Bestiary Overview, Gloth (Han-Gyeol), The Suhodan, The Council of Seonhwa, Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore), Soulsenders (Songhondan), High Cleric Eun-Ae, Grand Scholar Seul-Ki, Mediator Yun-Seo, Sindo Min-Soo |
| First Seal | The title of the head of the Inscribers, descended from the founder who cut the Great Seal; the seat is currently empty. | Inscriber |
| Five Celestial Spirits | The five spirits that arose from the sea of Giun, shaped the world, and anchored it with the Celestial Pillars; the Cheonmugwan sought to ascend to their level. | Giun, The Celestial Pillars and the Gyunhyeong, The Five Celestial Spirits, Maggi, Seonhwa, The Creation, The Fracturing (Cheonha Bunhae), Timeline, Cleric, Gloth (Han-Gyeol), The Celestial Martial Court |
| The Fracturing | Cheonha Bunhae, the Fracturing of the Heavens; the catastrophe when the Cheonmugwan ritual broke the pillars, collapsed the Gyunhyeong, tore the boundary between realms, and loosed Maggi. | Giun, Spirits of the Earth, Han (Unresolved Grief), The Crypts, The Creation, The Fracturing (Cheonha Bunhae), The Age of Endurance, Cleric, Monk, Hunter, Why Players Fight (Progression Arc), Bestiary Overview, The Suhodan, The Council of Seonhwa, Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore), Ridgewalkers (Seon), The Eclipse Court (Sig Beob-won), The Ashen Archivists (Jae-Giloggwan), High Cleric Eun-Ae, Mu-Yeong, Seon-Woo, Grand Magister Do-Jin, Elder So-Hwa (The Blind Archivist), Pathfinder Kang-Ho, Nam-Gi (The Weeping Hermit) |
| Gangsin | ’Spirit descent’; the Cleric and shamanic name for the Gisaeng channeling practice, used since before the Fracturing. | Gisaeng Channeling (Spirit Riding), Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore) |
| geommu | The sword-dance the Hwa drill as discipline, kept from the founder’s tradition; Ye-Jin’s geommu is said to have lifted the strength of those near him. | Scrolls of the Brushhand (Deep Lore), Swordscribes (Hwarang), The Hall of Rites, First Master Ye-Jin (The Brushhand) |
| Gisaeng | ’Spirit Riding’; inviting a spirit into oneself to borrow its abilities, dangerous and taught only to experienced Danja after two years of Gut work. | Gisaeng Channeling (Spirit Riding), Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore), Mediator Yun-Seo |
| Giun | The Breath of All Things; the primordial sea of spiritual energy from which the world and the spirits arose, drawn on by every path. | Haneul-ttang (The World), Giun, Maggi, The Celestial Pillars and the Gyunhyeong, The Five Celestial Spirits, Spirits of the Earth, Han (Unresolved Grief), The Crypts, The Creation, The Fracturing (Cheonha Bunhae), The Age of Endurance, Timeline, Guardian, Cleric, Monk, Hunter, Wizard, Transcendence (Beyond Level 99), Why Players Fight (Progression Arc), Bestiary Overview, The Suhodan, The Circle of Balance (Shared Subpaths), Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore), Soulsenders (Songhondan), Inscriber, Swordscribes (Hwarang), The Celestial Martial Court, The Eclipse Court (Sig Beob-won), Grand Scholar Seul-Ki, Grandmaster Tae-Sung, Mu-Yeong, Grand Magister Do-Jin, Elder So-Hwa (The Blind Archivist), Lecturer Ji-Hoon, Disciplinarian Gun-Woo, Nam-Gi (The Weeping Hermit) |
| Gloth | Boss creature in the depths of the Crypts; once the devout Seonhwa scholar Han-Gyeol, corrupted by a pillar fragment, and reforms from Maggi unless cleansed and restored. | The Celestial Pillars and the Gyunhyeong, Seonhwa, The Crypts, Timeline, Guardian, Cleric, The Gloth Arc, Bestiary Overview, Gloth (Han-Gyeol), Bae-Gumeong, The Celestial Martial Court, High Cleric Eun-Ae, Instructor Jin-Woo (The Jadeheart) |
| The Gloth Arc | The main storyline in which players defeat Gloth and perform Eun-Ae’s ritual to restore Han-Gyeol. | The Gloth Arc, High Cleric Eun-Ae |
| Good Death | Yoo-ri’s term for the sacred mercy of putting a Maggi-corrupted creature out of its misery. | Master Tracker Yoo-ri, Pathfinder Kang-Ho |
| Grand Magister Do-Jin | Leader of the Eclipse Court and intended central antagonist; youngest of the original Cheonmugwan high scholars, a prodigy now heavily Maggi-mutated whose ambition outweighed his empathy. | The Celestial Martial Court, The Eclipse Court (Sig Beob-won), The Ashen Archivists (Jae-Giloggwan), Grand Magister Do-Jin |
| Grand Scholar Seul-Ki | Head Wizard of Seonhwa and a council member; a coldly focused researcher who studies Maggi’s effects on recruits and wants the full Danja archive. | Wizard, The Suhodan, The Council of Seonhwa, Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore), High Cleric Eun-Ae, Grand Scholar Seul-Ki, Mediator Yun-Seo, Lecturer Ji-Hoon |
| Grandmaster Tae-Sung | Head Monk of Seonhwa; a severe minimalist who embodies self-perfection and self-reliance and trains in a martial courtyard rather than taking a room. | Seonhwa, Monk, The Suhodan, The Council of Seonhwa, Swordscribes (Hwarang), Grandmaster Tae-Sung, Master Tracker Yoo-ri, Disciplinarian Gun-Woo |
| Great Seal | [SPOILER] The first Inscriber’s lost masterwork at the core of the Manor, the inscription that has held Seonhwa together since the Fracturing; the knowledge to make another is gone. | Inscriber |
| Grove | The tended piece of living ground inside Seonhwa where the Ridgewalkers commune; a walker back from the wild goes there first. | Ridgewalkers (Seon) |
| Guardian | Suhodan path patroned by Cheolbyeok; endures and holds the line in protection of others. | Haneul-ttang (The World), The Five Celestial Spirits, The Age of Endurance, Guardian, Monk, Wizard, The Suhodan, The Council of Seonhwa, The Circle of Balance (Shared Subpaths), Soulsenders (Songhondan), Swordscribes (Hwarang), First Shield Beom-Seok, Vanguard Dae-Hyun |
| Gut | The structured shamanic ritual that is the foundation of all Danja practice, used to contact and resolve the Han of spirits. | The Gut, Timeline, Cleric, Wizard, Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore), Grand Scholar Seul-Ki, Mediator Yun-Seo, Mu-Yeong |
| Gwimak | Spirit Hall; the Danja’s home at the eastern edge of Seonhwa near the wall, standing between the city and the land beyond. | The Spirit Hall, Seonhwa, Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore), Inscriber |
| Gyunhyeong | The Great Balance between the spirit and mortal realms, held by the Celestial Pillars and collapsed in the Fracturing. | Haneul-ttang (The World), Giun, Maggi, The Celestial Pillars and the Gyunhyeong, The Five Celestial Spirits, The Creation, The Fracturing (Cheonha Bunhae), The Age of Endurance, Timeline, Transcendence (Beyond Level 99), Why Players Fight (Progression Arc), The Celestial Martial Court |
| Hae-Won | First Sender of the Songhondan, the Cleric who leads it from the front; her name means the releasing of grief. | First Sender Hae-Won, Soulsenders (Songhondan) |
| Han | Unresolved grief or unfinished business that anchors a soul to the mortal world; resolving it frees the spirit and releases a wave of Giun. | Spirits of the Earth, Han (Unresolved Grief), The Fracturing (Cheonha Bunhae), Timeline, Cleric, Wizard, Bestiary Overview, The Suhodan, Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore), Soulsenders (Songhondan), Grand Scholar Seul-Ki, Mediator Yun-Seo, Mu-Yeong |
| Han-Gyeol | Devout Seonhwa scholar of great influence, first to note that Maggi gathers around grief; corrupted into Gloth on reaching for a pillar fragment in the Crypts, and restored as an NPC if the rite succeeds. | The Celestial Pillars and the Gyunhyeong, Seonhwa, The Crypts, Timeline, Guardian, The Gloth Arc, Bestiary Overview, Gloth (Han-Gyeol), Bae-Gumeong, High Cleric Eun-Ae, Instructor Jin-Woo (The Jadeheart) |
| Han-Gyeol (Restored) | The cured form of Gloth; the Seonhwa scholar returned to himself by the Ssitgim-gut, who writes down what he learned in the Crypts to help future recruits. | Han-Gyeol (Restored), The Gloth Arc |
| Haneul | The Sky-Earth world (Haneul-ttang) where ETK is set, used as the timeline’s subject. | Timeline, Bestiary Overview |
| Haneul-ttang | The Sky-Earth; the world itself, shaped by the spirits from Giun, once flourishing and now the Shattered Kingdom. | Haneul-ttang (The World), Giun, The Celestial Pillars and the Gyunhyeong, The Five Celestial Spirits, The Creation, The Fracturing (Cheonha Bunhae), Timeline, Hunter |
| Haninshik | ’Han Reading’; sensing the emotional signature of spirits, corrupted creatures, and places of death, and judging how deep a corruption runs. | Haninshik (Han Reading), Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore) |
| Hunter | Suhodan path patroned by Cheongan; sees everything and hunts corrupted beasts at range or with dual blades. The bible’s canonical name, over the foundation doc’s ‘Ranger’. | Haneul-ttang (The World), The Celestial Pillars and the Gyunhyeong, The Five Celestial Spirits, The Age of Endurance, Monk, Hunter, Wizard, Bestiary Overview, The Suhodan, The Council of Seonhwa, The Circle of Balance (Shared Subpaths), Ridgewalkers (Seon), Master Tracker Yoo-ri, Seon-Woo, Pathfinder Kang-Ho |
| Hwa | Short title for the Hwarang, the Swordscribes, the Monk-Guardian subpath of warrior-poets. | The Circle of Balance (Shared Subpaths), Swordscribes (Hwarang) |
| Hwarang | Warrior-poets (Hwa); the Monk-Guardian subpath joining martial discipline, inner Giun cultivation, and the arts, who handle bandits, internal discipline, and human disputes. | Guardian, Monk, The Suhodan, The Circle of Balance (Shared Subpaths), Swordscribes (Hwarang), The Ashen Archivists (Jae-Giloggwan), First Shield Beom-Seok, Grandmaster Tae-Sung |
| il-san | The first mark of Transcendence, taking in one pillar fragment; further fragments are ee-san and onward. | Haneul-ttang (The World), Giun, Maggi, The Celestial Pillars and the Gyunhyeong, The Five Celestial Spirits, Timeline, Guardian, Wizard, Transcendence (Beyond Level 99), Why Players Fight (Progression Arc) |
| Inscriber | The Wizard-Hunter subpath whose Bujeok talismans make elemental Giun portable and maintain the city’s Maggi wards, sealing the caves and crypt and protecting the Gwimak. | Talismans, Seonhwa, Hunter, Wizard, The Suhodan, The Circle of Balance (Shared Subpaths), Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore), Inscriber |
| Instructor Jin-Woo (The Jadeheart) | General Suhodan tutor at Seonhwa who never chose a path; known for wisdom, care, and remembering every recruit’s name and face, and recognizes Han-Gyeol’s relic fragment. | The Suhodan, Instructor Jin-Woo (The Jadeheart), Pathfinder Kang-Ho |
| Jae-Giloggwan | The Korean name for the Ashen Archivists, the repentant Cheonmugwan survivors. | Timeline, The Celestial Martial Court, The Ashen Archivists (Jae-Giloggwan), Elder So-Hwa (The Blind Archivist) |
| Jangseung | Carved spirit posts, one male and one female, marking the Gwimak entrance as a boundary between worlds. | The Spirit Hall, Seonhwa, Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore) |
| Jeonghwa | Purification; Celestial Spirit of healing and sacred light, patron of the Cleric path. | Haneul-ttang (The World), The Celestial Pillars and the Gyunhyeong, The Five Celestial Spirits, The Creation, The Age of Endurance, Timeline, Cleric, The Suhodan, High Cleric Eun-Ae, Sindo Min-Soo |
| Jeopsin | ’Receiving the spirit’; the opening phase of the Gut where the Danja opens their Giun flow to make contact, the method Mu-Yeong discovered. | The Gut, Timeline, The Suhodan, Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore), Mu-Yeong |
| Jeopsindanja | ’Those Who Receive Spirits’; the formal name of the Danja subpath, shortened to Danja. | Timeline, The Circle of Balance (Shared Subpaths), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore) |
| Ji-An | The Unturned; the Guardian who founded the Songhondan after the first rising and died keeping its promise. | First Sender Ji-An (The Unturned), Soulsenders (Songhondan) |
| Jun-Seo | The last First Seal of the Inscribers, who died trying to push the city’s wards outward; the seat has stayed empty since. | Inscriber |
| Lecturer Ji-Hoon | The Wizard tutor of Seonhwa; highly organized and pedantic, the best at explaining elemental Giun weaves, permanently assigned as lecturer. | Wizard, The Suhodan, Grand Scholar Seul-Ki, Lecturer Ji-Hoon |
| Local Threat | First progression stage: corrupted wildlife, rat-infested cellars, bandits, and restless skeletons near Seonhwa. | Why Players Fight (Progression Arc) |
| Maggi | Obstructed Energy; corrupting unfiltered Giun loosed when the pillars broke, also a meta-emotional force that concentrates around grief and suffering, warping the living and trapping the dead. | Haneul-ttang (The World), Giun, Maggi, The Celestial Pillars and the Gyunhyeong, Spirits of the Earth, Han (Unresolved Grief), Seonhwa, The Crypts, The Fracturing (Cheonha Bunhae), The Age of Endurance, Timeline, Guardian, Cleric, Monk, Hunter, Wizard, Transcendence (Beyond Level 99), Why Players Fight (Progression Arc), The Gloth Arc, Bestiary Overview, Gloth (Han-Gyeol), Bae-Gumeong, The Suhodan, The Council of Seonhwa, Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore), Soulsenders (Songhondan), Inscriber, Ridgewalkers (Seon), Swordscribes (Hwarang), The Celestial Martial Court, The Eclipse Court (Sig Beob-won), The Ashen Archivists (Jae-Giloggwan), First Shield Beom-Seok, High Cleric Eun-Ae, Grand Scholar Seul-Ki, Grandmaster Tae-Sung, Master Tracker Yoo-ri, Mediator Yun-Seo, Mu-Yeong, Grand Magister Do-Jin, Elder So-Hwa (The Blind Archivist), Instructor Jin-Woo (The Jadeheart), Sindo Min-Soo, Pathfinder Kang-Ho, Nam-Gi (The Weeping Hermit), Seon-Woo |
| Maggi-wrought beast | A creature warped by Maggi; Kang-Ho killed one on his first Hunter assignment and wears its hide. | Pathfinder Kang-Ho |
| The Manor | The seat of the council and the path leaders within Seonhwa. | Seonhwa |
| Master Tracker Yoo-ri | Head Hunter and a council outsider; cold, treats the corrupted as a rotted limb to excise, and frames killing them as a sacred ‘Good Death.‘ | Maggi, Seonhwa, Hunter, The Suhodan, The Council of Seonhwa, Ridgewalkers (Seon), High Cleric Eun-Ae, Grand Scholar Seul-Ki, Master Tracker Yoo-ri, Pathfinder Kang-Ho |
| Monk | Suhodan path patroned by Noeho; cultivates inner Giun and martial discipline. | Haneul-ttang (The World), The Five Celestial Spirits, The Age of Endurance, Guardian, Monk, The Suhodan, The Council of Seonhwa, The Circle of Balance (Shared Subpaths), Ridgewalkers (Seon), Swordscribes (Hwarang), Grandmaster Tae-Sung, Seon-Woo, Disciplinarian Gun-Woo |
| Mu-Yeong | ’No Shadow’; the Cleric of fifteen years who, about forty years after the Fracturing, discovered the Jeopsin method and founded the Danja practice. | Giun, Seonhwa, Han (Unresolved Grief), Timeline, Cleric, The Suhodan, Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore), Mediator Yun-Seo, Mu-Yeong |
| Nam-Gi | The Weeping Hermit; a remorseful Cheonmugwan survivor in neither faction, isolated in the deep wild because his presence corrupts soil and animals. | The Celestial Martial Court, The Ashen Archivists (Jae-Giloggwan), Nam-Gi (The Weeping Hermit) |
| Necromancers | The everyday name for the Danja, the Cleric-Wizard subpath; a misnomer they wear because it stuck, since they receive the dead rather than command them. | Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore) |
| Noeho | Thunder Tiger; Celestial Spirit of discipline and inner power, patron of the Monk path. | Haneul-ttang (The World), The Celestial Pillars and the Gyunhyeong, The Five Celestial Spirits, The Creation, The Age of Endurance, Timeline, Monk, The Suhodan, Grandmaster Tae-Sung, Seon-Woo, Disciplinarian Gun-Woo |
| Ogye | The Five Tenets of the Hwa, set by First Master Ye-Jin: loyalty to the code, honor the lineage, never retreat, restraint in the kill, and faith among the few. | Swordscribes (Hwarang), Scrolls of the Brushhand (Deep Lore), First Master Ye-Jin (The Brushhand) |
| Pathfinder Kang-Ho | The Hunter tutor of Seonhwa; a wilds-hardened veteran who wears the hide and eyepatch from a beast he killed on his first assignment and teaches directly and efficiently. | Hunter, The Suhodan, Pathfinder Kang-Ho |
| pillar fragment | A shard of a broken Celestial Pillar; the object that corrupted Han-Gyeol and the same kind taken in during Transcendence. | The Gloth Arc, Gloth (Han-Gyeol) |
| Pillar War | Third progression stage: the failing remaining pillars, boss-level abominations at broken-pillar sites, and divided Cheonmugwan survivors. | Why Players Fight (Progression Arc) |
| revenant | A reanimated corpse warped by concentrated Maggi; far more dangerous when the body was a trained, Giun-laden Suhodan member. | Bestiary Overview, Soulsenders (Songhondan) |
| Ridgewalkers | The everyday name for the Seon, the Hunter-Monk subpath who keep communion with the Sansin and scout the shifting wilds. | Ridgewalkers (Seon), Seon-Woo |
| Rite of Heaven’s Mandate | Cheonmyeong Uisik; the failed Cheonmugwan ritual that attempted to tap the pillars for ascension and triggered the Fracturing. | Elder So-Hwa (The Blind Archivist) |
| Sansin | Old mountain and nature spirits that survived the Fracturing uncorrupted in deep places and high ridges; spirits of the living land. | Spirits of the Earth, The Age of Endurance, Timeline, Monk, Hunter, The Circle of Balance (Shared Subpaths), Necromancers (Danja), Ridgewalkers (Seon), Master Tracker Yoo-ri, Seon-Woo |
| Scrolls of the Brushhand | The oldest writing the Hwa keep; a myth-record of Ye-Jin’s gift set down by his circle in the old world. | Scrolls of the Brushhand (Deep Lore), Swordscribes (Hwarang), First Master Ye-Jin (The Brushhand) |
| Seon | The Hunter-Monk shared subpath, the Ridgewalkers, that maintains communion with the Sansin and brings back knowledge of the shifting wilds. | Spirits of the Earth, Timeline, Monk, Hunter, The Suhodan, The Circle of Balance (Shared Subpaths), Necromancers (Danja), Ridgewalkers (Seon), Grandmaster Tae-Sung, Master Tracker Yoo-ri, Seon-Woo |
| Seon-Woo | Founding figure of the Ridgewalkers (Seon), glossed ‘First and Respected’; brought Sansin communion into the Suhodan, wrote the order’s only early record of it, and was the first to fall, walking into the land one day and never returning. | Spirits of the Earth, Seonhwa, Timeline, Ridgewalkers (Seon), Seon-Woo |
| Seonhwa | Virtuous Harmony; a resilient former provincial capital in a defensible river valley, held by the Suhodan, where players begin as recruits. | Haneul-ttang (The World), Maggi, Spirits of the Earth, Seonhwa, The Crypts, The Age of Endurance, Timeline, Guardian, Cleric, Monk, Wizard, Why Players Fight (Progression Arc), The Gloth Arc, Bestiary Overview, Gloth (Han-Gyeol), The Suhodan, The Council of Seonhwa, Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore), Soulsenders (Songhondan), Inscriber, Ridgewalkers (Seon), Swordscribes (Hwarang), The Ashen Archivists (Jae-Giloggwan), First Shield Beom-Seok, High Cleric Eun-Ae, Grand Scholar Seul-Ki, Grandmaster Tae-Sung, Master Tracker Yoo-ri, Mediator Yun-Seo, Mu-Yeong, Seon-Woo, Instructor Jin-Woo (The Jadeheart), Vanguard Dae-Hyun, Sindo Min-Soo, Disciplinarian Gun-Woo, Lecturer Ji-Hoon, Pathfinder Kang-Ho |
| seoye | Calligraphy as the Hwa practice it; the founder’s seoye is said to have written the elements into being. | Scrolls of the Brushhand (Deep Lore), Swordscribes (Hwarang), The Hall of Rites, First Master Ye-Jin (The Brushhand) |
| Shinbyeong | ’Spirit sickness’; involuntary spiritual sensitivity the Danja treat as a genuine calling to the path, giving a natural strength in Haninshik and Gisaeng. | Shinbyeong (Spirit Sickness), Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore) |
| Sig Beob-won | The Korean name of the Eclipse Court, the Cheonmugwan survivors who wish to complete the ritual. | Timeline, The Celestial Martial Court, The Ashen Archivists (Jae-Giloggwan), Grand Magister Do-Jin |
| Sindo Min-Soo | The Cleric tutor of Seonhwa; older, exhausted, and herb-stained, calm on the surface but a nervous wreck underneath, who keeps a peaceful infirmary and offers alms. | Cleric, The Suhodan, High Cleric Eun-Ae, Sindo Min-Soo |
| Song | Short title for the Songhondan, the Soulsenders, the Order of Soul Sending. | Soulsenders (Songhondan) |
| Songhon-mu | The Sending; the Songhondan’s ritual dance that channels Giun to lay a soul to rest, scaling with the number of dancers. | Soulsenders (Songhondan), The Hall of Resting Souls, The Torn Scrolls (Deep Lore) |
| Songhondan | The Order of Soul Sending (Song); the Guardian-Cleric subpath that recovers the fallen and performs cleansing funeral rites to keep the dead from rising. | Guardian, Cleric, Bestiary Overview, The Suhodan, The Circle of Balance (Shared Subpaths), Soulsenders (Songhondan), First Shield Beom-Seok, High Cleric Eun-Ae |
| Soulsenders | The everyday name for the Songhondan, the Guardian-Cleric subpath who recover the fallen and dance them to rest so the dead cannot rise. | Soulsenders (Songhondan), The Hall of Resting Souls, First Sender Hae-Won |
| Speaker of the Land | One of the two who lead the Ridgewalkers, living mostly in communion and always the order’s most disciplined; rules in balance with the Speaker of the Tongue. | Ridgewalkers (Seon) |
| Speaker of the Tongue | One of the two who lead the Ridgewalkers, studying the land by human means and carrying its state to the city; rules in balance with the Speaker of the Land. | Ridgewalkers (Seon) |
| Spreading Darkness | Second progression stage: intensifying Maggi, deeper caves, ghosts carrying old-world memories, and rumors of surviving Cheonmugwan. | Why Players Fight (Progression Arc) |
| Ssitgim | ’Washing’; the cleansing rite a Danja uses to strip Maggi, dissolve undead, and ease a spirit’s pain when its Han cannot be resolved. | Ssitgim (Washing), Han (Unresolved Grief), Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore) |
| Ssitgim-gut | The cleansing ritual designed by Eun-Ae to purify the pillar fragment and restore Gloth to Han-Gyeol. | Ssitgim (Washing), Han-Gyeol (Restored), The Crypts, Timeline, Cleric, The Gloth Arc, Gloth (Han-Gyeol), High Cleric Eun-Ae |
| Suhodan | The Order of Guardians; Seonhwa’s civic, military, and spiritual order of five paths that defends the city, pushes back corruption, guards trade routes, and recovers lost knowledge. | Haneul-ttang (The World), Spirits of the Earth, Seonhwa, The Crypts, The Five Celestial Spirits, The Creation, The Age of Endurance, Timeline, Guardian, Cleric, Monk, Hunter, Wizard, Why Players Fight (Progression Arc), The Gloth Arc, Bestiary Overview, Gloth (Han-Gyeol), Bae-Gumeong, The Suhodan, The Council of Seonhwa, The Circle of Balance (Shared Subpaths), Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore), Soulsenders (Songhondan), Inscriber, Ridgewalkers (Seon), Swordscribes (Hwarang), The Ashen Archivists (Jae-Giloggwan), First Shield Beom-Seok, High Cleric Eun-Ae, Grand Scholar Seul-Ki, Grandmaster Tae-Sung, Mediator Yun-Seo, Mu-Yeong, Seon-Woo, Instructor Jin-Woo (The Jadeheart), Vanguard Dae-Hyun, Sindo Min-Soo, Disciplinarian Gun-Woo, Lecturer Ji-Hoon, Pathfinder Kang-Ho |
| Swordscribes | The everyday name for the Hwarang, the Monk-Guardian subpath of warrior-poets who hold brush and blade as one discipline. | Swordscribes (Hwarang), The Hall of Rites, Headmaster Yul-Ho |
| Tae-Hyun | The Wizard who founded the Inscribers and cut the Great Seal, the first First Seal; he made folk talismans hold real power with his knowledge of Giun. | Inscriber |
| The Torn Scrolls | The Songhondan’s damaged record of a Sending that failed in the field and turned on the dancers; kept as a warning. | The Torn Scrolls (Deep Lore), Soulsenders (Songhondan) |
| Transcendence | Progression beyond level 99 where a player takes in a pillar shard to become an avatar of a spirit, gaining a direct connection and the burden of restoring the Gyunhyeong at the cost of their humanity. | Haneul-ttang (The World), Giun, Maggi, The Celestial Pillars and the Gyunhyeong, The Five Celestial Spirits, The Fracturing (Cheonha Bunhae), The Age of Endurance, Timeline, Guardian, Wizard, Transcendence (Beyond Level 99), Why Players Fight (Progression Arc), The Gloth Arc, Gloth (Han-Gyeol), The Suhodan, The Celestial Martial Court, The Eclipse Court (Sig Beob-won) |
| Tutor NPC | A class-specific instructor who guides new Suhodan recruits in and around Seonhwa. | Sindo Min-Soo |
| Vanguard Dae-Hyun | The Guardian tutor of Seonhwa; an intense young lieutenant in heavy armor who idolizes Beom-Seok and emulates his cold nature, yet coaches recruits encouragingly on shield stance. | Guardian, The Suhodan, First Shield Beom-Seok, Vanguard Dae-Hyun |
| ward-stone | A field-use Bujeok form that raises a defensive perimeter around a camp. | Talismans |
| Wizard | Suhodan path patroned by Yeonghwa; wields elemental Giun (fire, ice, lightning, arcane). | Haneul-ttang (The World), The Five Celestial Spirits, The Age of Endurance, Cleric, Wizard, The Suhodan, The Council of Seonhwa, The Circle of Balance (Shared Subpaths), Inscriber, Lecturer Ji-Hoon |
| Yedang | The Hall of Rites; the Hwa’s building in Seonhwa, at once dojo, art hall, courthouse, and jail, holding the founder’s scrolls and the cells. | The Hall of Rites, Swordscribes (Hwarang), Headmaster Yul-Ho |
| Ye-Jin | First Master Ye-Jin, the Brushhand; founder of the Hwa whose art is said to have touched Giun, who set the Ogye and lived and died long before the Fracturing. | First Master Ye-Jin (The Brushhand), Swordscribes (Hwarang), Scrolls of the Brushhand (Deep Lore), Headmaster Yul-Ho |
| Yeon-Ho | The most accomplished living sender of the Songhondan, who secretly kept one soul unsent and is unraveling under it. | Sender Yeon-Ho, Soulsenders (Songhondan) |
| Yeongdan | ’Spirit altar’; the permanent altar in the Gwimak’s main hall bearing the spirit tablets of the helped dead. | The Spirit Hall, Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore) |
| Yeonggi | ’Spirit Energy’; the colder, heavier Giun of the dead, channeled by the Danja as draining offense or anti-spirit wards. | Yeonggi (Spirit Energy), Giun, Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore) |
| Yeonghwa | Spirit Flame; Celestial Spirit of knowledge and elemental force, patron of the Wizard path. | Haneul-ttang (The World), The Celestial Pillars and the Gyunhyeong, The Five Celestial Spirits, The Creation, The Age of Endurance, Timeline, Wizard, The Suhodan, Grand Scholar Seul-Ki |
| Yeongso | ’Spirit Calling’; summoning a helped spirit to fight or aid alongside the Danja through a mutual bond. | Yeongso (Spirit Calling), Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore), Mediator Yun-Seo |
| Yul-Ho | Headmaster of the Hwa and master of the Yedang; believes the founder’s lost gift was literal and enforces a stricter code trying to be worthy of it. | Headmaster Yul-Ho, Swordscribes (Hwarang), The Hall of Rites |
| Yun-Seo | Mediator and current leader of the Danja, name glossed ‘Gentle Omen’; a former Cleric who studied under Eun-Ae and Seul-Ki and wrote the Suhodan’s sanctioned Necromancy guidelines. | The Crypts, Timeline, The Suhodan, Necromancers (Danja), Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore), First Shield Beom-Seok, High Cleric Eun-Ae, Grand Scholar Seul-Ki, Mediator Yun-Seo, Mu-Yeong |