#misc: fic glossary

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Shifters | Fic Glossary

Premise | This is a (very long) list of helpful information for those who are reading the Shifters series. I hope some of the things listed below will be able to help readers understand the story a little bit better.

✩ 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 ✩⍣¯·.¸¸.·✩·.¸

𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓗𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓭 𝓡𝓮𝓪𝓵𝓶

➳ The universe in which Blood Moon Rising and the Shifters series is set on

➳ The realm is home to Supernatural beings, surrounded by the Middle Earth (where common human resides in and where no magic exists), Dragon King's Lair (the final resting place of the Dragon King and his colony of dragon-shifters which is believed to have been extinct ever since the Blood War ended), and the Siren's Den (home to Siren colony)

➳ The majority of the land has been divided into two main zones through the Peace Treaty: the Vampire Clan's Homeland and the Shifters' community Zone

➳ The north region leads to The Gelid, an icy region that is still untamed, and The North, an icy region which houses various arctic animal shifters colonies and communities that survive in the arctic temperature

(The map legends and a closer outlook of the map, including explanations and backstories, are available on Patreon: tomoediawriting)

𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲: 𝐕𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬

Vampire Council: Descendants of the original Royal Family who have aged thousands of years. They mostly live in sanctums and will only be summoned occasionally to judge, lead trials and ceremonies (Crowning, Elections, Mating). The peacekeeper of Vampire clans, counsellors for the Lords of Vampires.

Elders: from the older generation of Vampires who had lived ever since before or during the Blood War. They are regarded as the high clan of the Vampires, mostly act as informal counsellors, yet operate separately from the rest of the clan.

Lords: the leaders of the Vampire clan, the foundation of peace. While they are chosen and appointed by the clan and approved by the Council, whoever is chosen must be a Pure Blood Vampire. 

Pure Blood: Vampires who were born through a Pure Blood Vampire lineage - can produce offsprings from successful matings (with another Pure Blood or Turned humans)

Turned: turned Vampires who were once humans before they were turned by a Pure Blood/Lord through biting and exchange of blood. Turned Vampires cannot produce offsprings (unless the human was turned through a mating consummation with a Pure Blood)

The Orphans/Blood Brothers: the children of Vampires who were left behind by their parents who fought in the Blood War. They were all taken by Lord Seungwon to care for and train until they all reached adulthood. For the Orphans who remained bonded after growing up and training together, they made a pact with the Blood Oath, forming a brotherly bond with each other which also allowed them to share their powers and create a link that would help them track each other’s whereabouts whenever they were apart. The Orphans were led by Jimin and Hanbin, as they were both Pure Bloods who were the children of the former Generals leading the Blood War. 

Travellers: Vampires who spend most of their lives on the road. They travel to various lands to acquire pieces of knowledge from multiple continents, lands, and civilisations that could help the Vampire Clans to persevere (scholars, researcher), to do business dealings (merchants, traders), and act as peacekeepers between other Supernaturals after the Blood War ended (negotiators).

Healers: Vampires who specifically co-exist with humans to heal, mostly in order to study plagues and create potions, remedies. Healers would help not only Vampires but humans as well. Would usually live among humans in small villages around the Vampire clan’s homeland

Warriors: Vampires who were born/turned with the special ability to fight and defend. These Vampires, despite having been created with more physical strength than common Vampires, will still be required to undergo a certain training period to be able to join the Warrior clan.

Eternal Sleep: a comatose state to preserve a Vampire’s energy/power and life source. mostly done by Vampires who are dying, had gained old age (over thousands of years), and those severely injured and in need of extensive healing. Vampires who are in Eternal Sleep can be resurrected once they have recovered or awakened if their power is enough to bring them back. Vampires who are in Eternal Sleep may still die (of the sickness that had sent them in the comatose state or of old age) of painless death. These Vampires can also be resurrected from Eternal Sleep to become members of the Council (replacing the remaining Council members) in due time.

Day-walkers: Vampires who have the ability to walk under the sun. These Vampires do not consume blood as their main necessity to survive. Instead, they feed on life sources, which would be able to provide them with strength and help them survive hunger longer than those who consume only blood. Only a handful of Vampires are Day-walkers, namely Lord Dahlia, Lord Laila, her daughter (Lani), Jimin (and his deceased parents), and Hanbin (and his deceased parents). Day-walkers may consume/drink blood to survive (when needed), but it will not become a necessity. However, when a day-walker consumes too much blood at a short amount of time, it may cause blood cravings, as the body changes too rapidly in adjusting to the presence of blood in the system.

𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲: 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬

Werewolves/wolf shifters: humans who have the ability to transform/shift into full-grown wolves.

According to fan-wiki: The word "Lycan" is derived from the word "lycanthrope," meaning someone who suffers from lycanthropy; "the professed ability or power of a human being to transform into a wolf, or to gain wolf-like characteristics."

In this case, for the characters in my story (from Blood Moon Rising and the rest of the Shifter Series), I have chosen to describe werewolves as wolf-shifters as I give them the ability to transform into a full wolf form instead of half human-half wolf, while Lycans appear as completely different creatures.

Pure Born: Wolves/shifters who were born from the lineage of pure-blooded shifters

Bitten/Turned: humans who were turned into werewolves through biting and exchange of blood. They can produce offspring with abilities and characteristics of Bitten wolves (no mind link, tend to have a stronger urge to shift into wolves under the full moon).

Rogue: shifters who live without packs, usually feral, disorganised, unable to function under orders, power-hungry.

Lycans: legendary beasts created by the Moon Goddess as weapons of war to defend peace. Was said to be ancient ancestors of the original werewolves. The original Lycans had been considered extinct for centuries but was then resurrected by the White Witches during the Blood War to become Warriors fighting against the Royal Vampires. Most of the remaining Lycans have either built their own community hidden from the rest of the world or joined packs of werewolves. Some had mated with werewolves or humans to blend in. Can live until a thousand years, maybe more. Known Lycans in the story includes (former) Beta Kim, Taehyung’s father.

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Hybrids: resulted from matings between two completely different kinds of creatures (eg. Vampire and Werewolf, Shifter and Human, Werewolf and Lycan)

Halflings: hybrid children born from the mating between Werewolves with other animal shifters that have failed to achieve their final form, stuck between their human and the beast inside them to acquire a monstrous appearance — are mostly unable to control, feral, and are usually shunned by packs of shifters and Werewolves as they continue living as vicious beasts or Rogues

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𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲: 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧

Hunters: a colony of humans with special powers/ability to hunt, track down, and to fight any supernatural beings. This ability to hunt down any kind of beast is passed on through generations, which means only specific types of humans can become Hunters. Just like Jackson, most Hunters are trained since the age of 7 years old.

Human mates: humans who have been paired with a shifter/any supernatural being. Will mostly become stronger and smarter than normal human beings. Will develop/share their mate’s ability once they have gone through mating in order to reproduce offsprings, some will even be turned into their mate’s kind (eg. human mate to Vampires can become a Turned Vampire, human mates to Lycans can become a Turned Lycans). This happens to make sure that the paired mate will continue to live together as long as possible.

Mating Sickness: as fated mates are meant to be forever, shifters/werewolves who have lost their mates will endure this sickness — pain, sorrow, insanity — and those who succumb to this sickness will either become feral or face death.

Second chance mate: for ranked werewolves/shifters who have lost their mates, second chance mates can be an option to survive the Mating Sickness. Some can take a second chance mate by choosing them (Chosen mate) or they can be appointed to them by Fate.

𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲: 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭

Wiccan: practitioners of Wicca and modern White Magic. They mostly keep to themselves, but a few covens may involve themselves in the Supernatural realm’s business to help maintain peace.

Mage: high ranked magic practitioners. May either practice white or back magic, although the term would more often be used in white magic covens. They will mostly spend their time travelling, becoming the middle person between dissensions/confrontations or counsellors in packs or clans.

Black Magic: A form of magic used with dark, malevolent, and harmful intentions, commonly associated with dark forces/demonism. Spells that have been used specifically for negative and/or harmful purposes are known as hexes and curses. Black Magic practitioners (Black Warlocks/Mages) tend to use their magic to create Chaos.

Initiation: The rites that put a budding witch on the path to making things official, by joining a coven after studying its practice, traditionally for a year and a day. The initiations that follow eventually allow the initiate the opportunity to become a high priest or high priestess; those with enough knowledge, experience, and dedication can become the leader of a Wiccan coven.

Coven: A gathering or community of initiated witches, usually led by a high priest and/or high priestess. If a coven is Wiccan, their meetings often involve sabbats, which are celebrations of the annual cycle of seasonal festivals known as the Wheel of the Year. (Non-sabbat meetings, such as the observation of a full moon, are known as esbats.)

Familiar: An animal-shaped spirit that serves as a witch’s spy, assistant, companion, and protector.

Altar: A surface that a Wiccan uses solely for activities such as casting spells, chanting, and worshipping the god and goddess. Typically, the altar is covered in a symbol-adorned cloth, which protects it from ash, liquids, and candle wax, as well as religious and ritual items like incense, wands, chalices of water, and cauldrons.

Pentacle: A magical tool such as an amulet or talisman that often appears on an altar, and is also often confused with a pentagram—a symbol popular in Wicca.

Séance/Rituals: A ceremony used to contact spirits, including the dead, usually with the help of a medium.

Grimoire: The umbrella term for a magic text, ranging from diaries to textbooks.

Book of Shadows: A Wiccan’s personal grimoire, used to store information they need, such as thoughts, recipes, and instructions for spells, rituals, and hexes.

𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲: 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐬 & 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬

Peremo: the spell to disperse. May be used to encounter an attack. The spell will change the form of the attack or curse into a completely different form or material (eg. Fire to ice, wood to sand), allowing it to disperse into smaller objects that will lose its ability to harm.

Adorior: shielding spell. The spell to be used in defence against an attack. When used, the energy will create a shield, either from nothing or from molecules collected from the surrounding spell. Each shield created with this spell may differ in forms, depending on the user’s main source of powers (eg. Mage Kim/Seokjin’s mate’s source of power is water and ice, so her shield may come out in the form of ice/frozen objects).

Parma: shielding spell. Can be used in both defence and offence. When used, it will create a shield or an invisible armour around the body of whoever the sorcerer chooses. It will protect the wearer from any kind of attack, whether it is physical or attacks in the form of a magical offence.

Lustro: attacking spell. Used by those whose magic is based on fire. When used, it will create an offence in the form of a fire element. The form, colours, and elements of the attack itself may differ according to its enchanter.

Pugno: attacking spell. Used by those whose magic is based on water. When used, it will create an offence in the form of a water element. The form, colours, and elements of the attack itself may differ according to its enchanter.

Obcillo: a breaking spell. May be used to break an inanimate object into pieces. Does not work in any living being.

Iacio: a breaking/diffusing spell. May be used to diffuse an attack that comes in the form of lethal gas or poison.

Aperio: a summoning spell. Used to open up a shield, to reveal something hidden, to unveil, usually used to break or end another spell which has been cast before.

Obscura: a hiding spell. Used to obscure (to darken, eclipse, cover, veil, hide) something from sight. The spell may come out either to form a shield or a cloak an object or a person until they are no longer visible.

Porta: a summoning spell to create a portal, usually to send objects or persons from one place to another. Oftentimes, when the magic is strong enough, the portal may lead to a different realm/universe.

Find more visual concepts of my Shifters series, including character images, settings, and much more, through my visual moodboard which is available on my Patreon: tomoediawriting.

©𝐘𝐨𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚. 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐝— 𝐔𝐧𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝/𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬, 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦, 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝.

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slow dancing ● glossary

➬ Title | Slow Dancing: a mini-series

➬ Note | This is a list of helpful information for those who are reading the series. I hope some of the things listed below will be able to help readers understand the story a little bit better. 

⇝ 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 ¸.`❤•¸.`

𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤

“By the time a person turns 18 years old, a moving tattoo in the form of a running timer display would appear on their wrist, counting down to the moment when that person would meet their soulmate for the first time. Once their first encounter happens and the timer counts down to zero, the tattoo will change its form, showing their soulmate’s initials written in place of the missing numbers and the image of a certain type of flower which carries the same meaning as what their bond would represent. 

While they would wear each other’s initials on their wrists, the drawing of the flower on the pair’s wrists would be identical, showing a mirror image of one another down to every detail to differentiate their mark from other soulmate pairings, making it their own.”

𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠

➛ OC and Namjoon: red carnation — meaning “heartache” and rebirth/incarnation/to love that was lost (Alas, my poor heart aches)

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➛ Jungkook and unnamed soulmate: purple hyacinth — meaning “Sorrow” (Please forgive me)

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➛ Yeori and unnamed soulmate: chamomile — meaning “humility, pure energy” (May all your dreams and wishes be fulfilled)

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➛ OC’s parents: red tulips — meaning “nurturing, the perfect love” (I believe)

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➛Gahee (OC’s sister) and Youngjae: yellow roses — meaning “friendship, harmony, love in equality” (My thoughts are filled with you)

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➛Tasha (Restaurant owner’s daughter) and Wooyoung (her soulmate): Purple Hydrangea — meaning pride, the desire for deep understanding (I understand and hear you)

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➛Matthew Kim: Blue Hydrangea — meaning gratitude, honesty, forgiveness and regret (I feel for you)

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