Glossary

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Glossary

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Inderlander: Any sentient creature whose species originated in the Ever After, or whose species originated as a result of the action of a species from the Ever After (ex Weres were created by a Demon Curse).


Brimstone: An illegal drug. Can be baked into cookies without losing potency. While outlawed by humans for its ability to make people high, it is an effective metabolism-boosting medicine. Coveted by vampires to help themselves and their shadows recover from blood loss.

Special K: Brimstone that is refined enough to remove the impurities that abusers covet for the "high", as well as dangerous toxins. Costs a thousand dollars per ounce, supplied in Cincinnati exclusively by Kalamack Industries.

Ley line: A linear font of magical energy, possibly part of life itself. Many were produced when demons flew from the ever-after and landed in reality, and they can be found all over the planet, though they can "dry up" and extinguish. Act as links between reality and the ever-after.

Circle: A spherical or oblong barrier of ever-after, produced by ley-line magic. A circle always has a circular cross-section through the ground, takes the color of the caster's aura, and is somewhat bright and translucent. Smut on a person's aura is shown on a circle. Circles vary in strength, depending on the power in them and the way they were made. Circles drawn on the ground with magnetic chalk, metal, salt, blood, or cremation ash prior to invocation are stronger than undrawn circles, and can be layered concentrically. Undrawn circles always center on the caster and only one at a time can be maintained. Circles can be used to hold people in or keep things out.

Ever-After: A reality that parallels Earth, connected by ley lines, where demons reside. The sun is toxic and only lesser, animalistic demons live on the surface world during the day; demons live underground.

FIB: The Federal Inderlander Bureau.

I.S.: Inderlander Security.

The Hollows: The region of the Cincinnati Metro south of the Ohio river, which looks just like a human suburb, but where the larger concentration of Inderlanders live.

Living vampire: The offspring of an vampire. Since they already have the vampire virus included in their DNA (in provirus form), they automatically turn into undead vampires when they die. They otherwise seem human, except for certain physical advantages, fangs, and a great desire for blood and trust. See Inderland Races.

Shadow: A vampire's playmate, of any race, who has given up their will to the vampire and in turn regularly gives and receives blood from them. An exclusive relationship. Often acquiring one while living, vampires depend on their shadow to be their steady source of blood when they are in the undead state.

Gnomon: The term for the elder vampire in a vampire/scion relationship. Also can refer to shadows in a vampire/shadow relationship.

Scion: A person entrusted and empowered to be a vampire's living representation of will. They handle daytime tasks a vampire could not perform himself in exchange for a portion of the vampire's power. 

Runner: Similar to a bounty hunter, Runners will do anything from find a lost cat to planning an extensive heist to steal back a stolen item or tracking, or confronting and taking into custody a dangerous fugitive. They are typically trained in armed and unarmed combat, and are considered the freelance version of a police officer. 

Run: An attempt to catch a criminal; a raid; a field operation in law enforcement; other high conflict tasks.

Tag: Successful apprehension of a target, e.g. arresting a criminal.

Splat ball: Small paint-ball like pellets that hold spell potions, designed to break open on impact and spell the target. Have an expiration date based on the shelf life of the invoked potion--usually less than a week.

Splat gun: Paint-ball pistols that can hold and shoot splat balls, propelled by air. They don't need a license, but they probably should, since any sort of nasty spell, black or white, can be put in them.

Pix: The act of a pixy shedding offensive pixy dust from his or her wings onto a target with the intent to harm. Causes severe itching and red rashes where it hits.

Sticky silk: A thick spray-polymer that traps pixies. Pixies can work their way out of it, but are vulnerable while trapped.

The Turn: A period in the 1950s and '60s where a sizable chunk of the human population was wiped out by a human-made virus carried in tomatoes. Only humans and descendants of humans with human genes were affected by the virus. Elves were included in this number, and suffered a huge population blow. Inderlanders revealed themselves to humans at this time, creating the precarious societal balance that exists in the present day.

Bane/Wolf's bane: A depressant used by werewolves. It's not illegal because it only affects werewolves and is useful for werewolves to control their wereing.


Biodrugs: Refers to illegal biological drugs, typically genetic engineering in nature. They have been illegal since the Turn.


Blood sugared: To be affected by a pheromone released by satiated vampires, usually requiring a large group of vampires who all receive a sympathetic reaction. It causes an opiate-like high.


MPL: Mixed Population License; if an establishment wishes to entertain and serve Inderlanders & Humans under the same roof they must obtain an MPL. Any violence can cause the establishment to lose it's MPL, and they are notoriously hard to hang on to.


Sa'han: An elven word that can mean master, teacher, protector, or one who is responsible for another person.
Prefixes sometimes give the word extra meaning.


Shunned, Shunning: When a witch is found to have used black magic extensively, the community refuses to interact with them. They are refused service in every place witches own or frequent and often end up penniless as nobody will employ them.

Swear Words

Lunker: A pixy term for human sized races like witches and elves.

Bug: An offensive term for fairies and pixies.

Cookie/Cookie maker: Mocking term used by witches primarily, used to mock those that are incompetent.

Snack: Threatening term used by Inderlanders to intimidate humans. Usually vampires or banshees.

Chubi: Offensive human term for witches.

Blood Clot/Clot: Offensive human term for vampires.

Rotter: Offensive human term for undead vampires; can presumably be used by other species, but most know better.