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==Humans==
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The term used to referr to the special abilities gained by a portion of huamity after the week of sorrows
 
  
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===Potential===
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===The Circles===
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{{SeeAlso|:Category:Potentials|Potentials}}
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{{SeeAlso|Circles}}
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Source: A Place in the World also (https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/the-practice-war.31698/page-584#post-12536938)
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The organization Started by Amanda Hawk as a child/teen which has grown to an organization the supports and unifies much of humanity
  
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"A Potential is a member of humanity who has Awakened to the ability to use Practice
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===The Elder First===
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{{SeeAlso|Elder First}}
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"Members of the First Awoken who did not have biological modifications extending their lifespans
  
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""Potentials are those who can wield the power that the Dragons left to humanity, a gift known most commonly as Practice."""
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""The Elder First were, to a one, a product of pre-Secret society. No bioengineering, which meant normal human lifespans."" "
  
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===Artifact===
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===Emissary===
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An Artifact is a tool created by a Potential using Practice that can enhance or focus their ability
 
  
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===Secrets===
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===Heartcircle===
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{{SeeAlso|Secrets}}
 
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"Secrets appear to be ways to bend reality to generate a desired result that would otherwise be considered scientifically impossible.  Secrets are numbered and only a limited number seem to exist
 
  
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""a fusion of science and belief made into something real""
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===Inheritor===
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A potential who was granted access to a reliquary by the Elder First in the Elder's Vault. Chosen Heirs to the legacy of the Elder First(?)
  
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""Actually understanding what the Secrets are beyond what they do [...is] certainly beyond humanity right now."""
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===Lady in Fire Enfolded===
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A religous organization that began after the SBoS. The titular Lady is Amanda Hawke, inspired by her performance in SBoS
  
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===Awakening / Awoken===
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===Potential===
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This is a term used to describe the time of a Potential or group of Potentials first coming into their powers. These events typically happen in waves with an indeterminate amount of time between groups.
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{{SeeAlso|:Category:Potentials|Potentials}}
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Source: A Place in the World and [https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/the-practice-war.31698/page-584#post-12536938 Link]
  
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===Focus / Aspect===
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"A Potential is a member of humanity who has Awakened to the ability to use Practice
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Source: https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/the-practice-war.31698/page-584#post-12536938
 
  
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A Focus is something that defines the essence of a Potential and is the core of what their Practice can do.  It is typically a word that defines the user at a spiritual level.
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""Potentials are those who can wield the power that the Dragons left to humanity, a gift known most commonly as Practice."""
  
 
===Project Insight===
 
===Project Insight===
 
{{SeeAlso|Project Insight}}
 
{{SeeAlso|Project Insight}}
 
Insight is an organization of Potentials who use technology to boost their Practice under the Focus Insight to gather information outside of traditional avenues
 
Insight is an organization of Potentials who use technology to boost their Practice under the Focus Insight to gather information outside of traditional avenues
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===Unisonbound===
 
===Unisonbound===
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This term is used to refer to the first group of Unisonbound.  It is in reference to the Original Number of members of the group
 
This term is used to refer to the first group of Unisonbound.  It is in reference to the Original Number of members of the group
  
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===Directives===
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==Aliens==
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{{SeeAlso|Directives}}
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The Directives are the rules that The Shiplords left behind after The Week of Sorrows designating actions that would cause them to destroy humanity (?)
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===Shiplords===
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{{SeeAlso|Shiplords}}
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The primary Antagonists of The Practice War, little is known about them as a society
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===Contact Fleet===
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{{SeeAlso|Contact Fleet}}
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A group of Alien Representatives that traveled to Earth after hearing reports of the outcome of SBoS to determine future relations with Humanity
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===Cich’swa Confederacy===
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===Marionette===
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===Marionette Observer===
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===Nilean Community===
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===Sarthee===
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===Schorvan===
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===Telas Luminary===
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==Other Races==
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===Dragons===
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{{SeeAlso|Dragons}}
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The most powerful creatures humanity ever created, the Dragons were products of the Second Secret. Built to protect humanity, and the worlds they sought to colonise
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===Artificial Intelligence / AI===
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Artificial Intelligences are technology/computer based beings that have developed sentience and are known to posses souls, just as a biological human does
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===Virtual Intelligence / VI===
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Unlike their AI "cousin's" Virtual Intelligences (VIs) are not sentient and lack souls, operating purely as they were programmed to do
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===Unison Intelligence===
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==Places==
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===Arcadia Institute===
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===Elder's Vault===
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A cache of information and artifacts left behind by The Elder First for a few chosen potentials to open in the future.
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===Mytikas===
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A city on Mars that was destroyed during the FBoS.  The buildings and information located there were revived by a practiced miracle in (*insert year here*)
  
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===Hero Unit===
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===Olympus Colleges===
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{{SeeAlso|:Category:Hero Units|Hero Units}}
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Places of Research and Education located on Mars in Mytikas
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A character in the quest that the players can specifically designate their action ability to help the main Protagonist
 
  
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===Orbitals===
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Space Stations on which some of humanity lives
  
 
===Reliquary===
 
===Reliquary===
 
A room within the Elder's Vault keyed to a particular Potential, typically a student of the first awakened, that contains resources or information that the Elder First thought needed to be preserved, but potentially too dangerous for the time at which it was put away
 
A room within the Elder's Vault keyed to a particular Potential, typically a student of the first awakened, that contains resources or information that the Elder First thought needed to be preserved, but potentially too dangerous for the time at which it was put away
  
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===The Web===
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===Skylark===
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A phenomenon that connects all of humanity through Practice although little else is known about it at present
 
  
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===Speaker===
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===Sol===
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{{SeeAlso|Speaking}}
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The star that Earth and Mars orbit, or by extension the whole solar system. Home of Humanity.
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A Potential who has mastered the ability to invoke the power of Practice through use of the spoken word
 
  
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===The Adamant===
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===The Institutes===
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A ship left behind by the Elder First in the Elder's Vault (unless i've mixed it up with something else)
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Where most children were raised and educated after the Week of Sorrows.
  
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===Inviolate Material===
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==Terms of Practice==
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===The Elder First===
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===Practice===
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{{SeeAlso|Elder First}}
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The term used to referr to the special abilities gained by a portion of huamity after the week of sorrows
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"Members of the First Awoken who did not have biological modifications extending their lifespans
 
  
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""The Elder First were, to a one, a product of pre-Secret society. No bioengineering, which meant normal human lifespans."" "
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===Awakening / Awoken===
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This is a term used to describe the time of a Potential or group of Potentials first coming into their powers. These events typically happen in waves with an indeterminate amount of time between groups.
  
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===The Institutes===
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===Focus / Aspect===
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[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/the-practice-war.31698/page-584#post-12536938 Source]
  
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I think this was the name for the places that most children were raised after the Week of Sorrows??
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A Focus is something that defines the essence of a Potential and is the core of what their Practice can do.  It is typically a word that defines the user at a spiritual level.
  
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===Prologue===
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===Practice Trance / Trance===
 
Source: Place in the World
 
Source: Place in the World
  
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Nano-Technology used to replicate the effect of Second Secret Bio-Engineering after the Secret was forbidden
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A Practice Trance is the truest expression of a Potential’s power, a state in which they are able to transcend any limit in the pursuit of their Focus.
  
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===Miracle===
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===Practiced Miracle / Miracle===
 
When a Practice Trance comes together to produce an effect that is even greater than the intended result of the trance
 
When a Practice Trance comes together to produce an effect that is even greater than the intended result of the trance
  
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===Practice Trance===
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===Speaking===
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Source: Place in the World
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{{SeeAlso|Speaking}}
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The act of infusing a word with the power of practice to affect the world.
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====Speaker====
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A Potential who has mastered the ability to invoke the power of Practice through use of the spoken word.
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====A / The Word====
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This phrase referrs to a word (or the word) that has been infused with practice.
  
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A Practice Trance is the truest expression of a Potential’s power, a state in which they are able to transcend any limit in the pursuit of their Focus.
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===The Web===
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A phenomenon that connects all of humanity through Practice although little else is known about it at present
  
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===Sol===
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==Secrets==
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The star that Earth and Mars orbit, or by extension the whole solar system. Home of Humanity.
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{{SeeAlso|Secrets}}
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"Secrets appear to be ways to bend reality to generate a desired result that would otherwise be considered scientifically impossible.  Secrets are numbered and only a limited number seem to exist
  
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===SBoS===
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""a fusion of science and belief made into something real""
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See "Second Battle of Sol"
 
  
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===Unison Platform===
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""Actually understanding what the Secrets are beyond what they do [...is] certainly beyond humanity right now."""
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{{SeeAlso|Unison Platform}}
 
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Initially a device to connect to a Potential and expand their use of practice they have become sentient entities in their own right an exist alongside their Potential as an individual while still performing their original function and more
 
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===Dragons===
 
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{{SeeAlso|Dragons}}
 
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The most powerful creatures humanity ever created, the Dragons were products of the Second Secret. Built to protect humanity, and the worlds they sought to colonise
 
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===FTL===
 
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An abbreviation meaning "Faster Than Light". Achieving FTL travel is necessary for interstellar travel.
 
  
 
===First Secret===
 
===First Secret===
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{{SeeAlso|Third Secret}}
 
{{SeeAlso|Third Secret}}
 
A Secret known to the Telas, but not yet to Humanity. Appears to have something to do with manipulating electromagnetism.
 
A Secret known to the Telas, but not yet to Humanity. Appears to have something to do with manipulating electromagnetism.
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===Fourth Secret===
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Unavailable
  
 
===Fifth Secret===
 
===Fifth Secret===
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the total obliteration of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law Moore’s law]. This led to an explosion of integrated virtual assistant and prediction systems"
 
the total obliteration of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law Moore’s law]. This led to an explosion of integrated virtual assistant and prediction systems"
  
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===Elder's Vault===
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==Objects==
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A cache of information and artifacts left behind by The Elder First for a few chosen potentials to open in the future.
 
  
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===Inheritor===
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===Artifact===
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A potential who was granted access to a reliquary by the Elder First in the Elder's Vault. Chosen Heirs to the legacy of the Elder First(?)
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An Artifact is a tool created by a Potential using Practice that can enhance or focus their ability
  
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===Lady in Fire Enfolded===
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===The Adamant===
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A religous organization that began after the SBoS. The titular Lady is Amanda Hawke, inspired by her performance in SBoS
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A ship left behind by the Elder First in the Elder's Vault (unless i've mixed it up with something else)
  
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===Week of Sorrows===
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===Inviolate Material===
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{{SeeAlso|Week of Sorrows}}
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need to look up
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Aftermath of the First Battle of Sol (FBoS?) in which a price was extracted from humanity of most of the remaining adult human population and the Directives were laid down the by Shiplords by whom they were defeated
 
  
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===Shiplords===
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===Prologue / Project Prologue===
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{{SeeAlso|Shiplords}}
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Source: Place in the World
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The primary Antagonists of The Practice War, little is known about them as a society
 
  
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===The Circles===
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Nano-Technology used to replicate the effect of Second Secret Bio-Engineering after the Secret was forbidden
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{{SeeAlso|Circles}}
 
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The organization Started by Amanda Hawk as a child/teen which has grown to an organization the supports and unifies much of humanity
 
  
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===Humanity 2.0===
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===Tombstone Platform===
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A term often used by Questers to describe the current sociopolitical arrangement of humanity in the Universe Practice war and how it differs from humanity as we know it in the present
 
  
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===Artificial Intelligence / AI===
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===Unison Platform===
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Artificial Intelligences are technology/computer based beings that have developed sentience and are known to posses souls, just as a biological human does
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{{SeeAlso|Unison Platform}}
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Initially a device to connect to a Potential and expand their use of practice they have become sentient entities in their own right an exist alongside their Potential as an individual while still performing their original function and more
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===Virtual Intelligence / VI===
 
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Unlike their AI "cousin's" Virtual Intelligences (VIs) are not sentient and lack souls, operating purely as they were programmed to do
 
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===Soul===
 
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The Soul is known to exist in The Practice War universe and it is from the soul the Practice comes.  All sentient Species are known to have souls, although not every species/individual has the power of Practice
 
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===Olympus Colleges===
 
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Places of Research and Education located on Mars in Mytikas
 
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===Mytikas===
 
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A city on Mars that was destroyed during the FBoS.  The buildings and information located there were revived by a practiced miracle in (*insert year here*)
 
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===Contact Fleet===
 
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{{SeeAlso|Contact Fleet}}
 
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A group of Alien Representatives that traveled to Earth after hearing reports of the outcome of SBoS to determine future relations with Humanity
 
  
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===Orbitals===
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==Ships==
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Space Stations on which some of humanity lives
 
  
 
===Dauntless Class===
 
===Dauntless Class===
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{{SeeAlso|Ulfberht Class}}
 
{{SeeAlso|Ulfberht Class}}
 
The most powerful warships humanity has ever built; they are planned to replace Dauntless class. They are more durable than Dauntless Class ships and have much stronger armaments.
 
The most powerful warships humanity has ever built; they are planned to replace Dauntless class. They are more durable than Dauntless Class ships and have much stronger armaments.
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===The Circles===
 
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{{SeeAlso|Circles}}}
 
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===Heartcircle===
 
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===Tombstone Platform===
 
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===Kingslayer===
 
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===The Pattern===
 
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===Skylark===
 
  
 
===Tribute Fleet===
 
===Tribute Fleet===
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{{SeeAlso|War Fleet}}
 
{{SeeAlso|War Fleet}}
  
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===Second Contact===
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==Other==
  
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===Arcadia Institute===
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===Directives===
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{{SeeAlso|Directives}}
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The Directives are the rules that The Shiplords left behind after The Week of Sorrows designating actions that would cause them to destroy humanity
  
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===Emissary===
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===FTL===
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An abbreviation meaning "Faster Than Light". Achieving FTL travel is necessary for interstellar travel.
  
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===Nilean Community===
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===Hero Unit===
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{{SeeAlso|:Category:Hero Units|Hero Units}}
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A character in the quest that the players can specifically designate their action ability to help the main Protagonist
  
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===Marionette Observer===
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===Humanity 2.0===
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A term often used by Questers to describe the current sociopolitical arrangement of humanity in the Universe Practice war and how it differs from humanity as we know it in the present
  
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===Marionette===
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===Kingslayer===
  
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===Cich’swa Confederacy===
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===SBoS===
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See "Second Battle of Sol"
  
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===Schorvan===
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===Second Contact===
  
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===Telas Luminary===
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===Soul===
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The Soul is known to exist in The Practice War universe and it is from the soul the Practice comes.  All sentient Species are known to have souls, although not every species/individual has the power of Practice
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===Sarthee===
 
  
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===Stack===
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===Stack===
  
 
===System Hooks===
 
===System Hooks===
  
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===Unison Intelligence===
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===The Pattern===
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===Week of Sorrows===
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{{SeeAlso|Week of Sorrows}}
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Aftermath of the First Battle of Sol (FBoS?) in which a price was extracted from humanity of most of the remaining adult human population and the Directives were laid down the by Shiplords by whom they were defeated

Revision as of 17:11, 28 May 2019

Humans

The Circles

Main article: Circles

The organization Started by Amanda Hawk as a child/teen which has grown to an organization the supports and unifies much of humanity

The Elder First

Main article: Elder First

"Members of the First Awoken who did not have biological modifications extending their lifespans

""The Elder First were, to a one, a product of pre-Secret society. No bioengineering, which meant normal human lifespans."" "

Emissary

Heartcircle

Inheritor

A potential who was granted access to a reliquary by the Elder First in the Elder's Vault. Chosen Heirs to the legacy of the Elder First(?)

Lady in Fire Enfolded

A religous organization that began after the SBoS. The titular Lady is Amanda Hawke, inspired by her performance in SBoS

Potential

Main article: Potentials

Source: A Place in the World and Link

"A Potential is a member of humanity who has Awakened to the ability to use Practice

""Potentials are those who can wield the power that the Dragons left to humanity, a gift known most commonly as Practice."""

Project Insight

Main article: Project Insight

Insight is an organization of Potentials who use technology to boost their Practice under the Focus Insight to gather information outside of traditional avenues

Unisonbound

Main article: Unisonbound

This term is used to refer to Potentials who have been found compatible with and bound themselves to a Unison Platform

The Two Twenty Three / 223

This term is used to refer to the first group of Unisonbound. It is in reference to the Original Number of members of the group

Aliens

Shiplords

Main article: Shiplords

The primary Antagonists of The Practice War, little is known about them as a society

Contact Fleet

Main article: Contact Fleet

A group of Alien Representatives that traveled to Earth after hearing reports of the outcome of SBoS to determine future relations with Humanity

Cich’swa Confederacy

Marionette

Marionette Observer

Nilean Community

Sarthee

Schorvan

Telas Luminary

Other Races

Dragons

Main article: Dragons

The most powerful creatures humanity ever created, the Dragons were products of the Second Secret. Built to protect humanity, and the worlds they sought to colonise

Artificial Intelligence / AI

Artificial Intelligences are technology/computer based beings that have developed sentience and are known to posses souls, just as a biological human does

Virtual Intelligence / VI

Unlike their AI "cousin's" Virtual Intelligences (VIs) are not sentient and lack souls, operating purely as they were programmed to do

Unison Intelligence

Places

Arcadia Institute

Elder's Vault

A cache of information and artifacts left behind by The Elder First for a few chosen potentials to open in the future.

Mytikas

A city on Mars that was destroyed during the FBoS. The buildings and information located there were revived by a practiced miracle in (*insert year here*)

Olympus Colleges

Places of Research and Education located on Mars in Mytikas

Orbitals

Space Stations on which some of humanity lives

Reliquary

A room within the Elder's Vault keyed to a particular Potential, typically a student of the first awakened, that contains resources or information that the Elder First thought needed to be preserved, but potentially too dangerous for the time at which it was put away

Skylark

Sol

The star that Earth and Mars orbit, or by extension the whole solar system. Home of Humanity.

The Institutes

Where most children were raised and educated after the Week of Sorrows.

Terms of Practice

Practice

The term used to referr to the special abilities gained by a portion of huamity after the week of sorrows

Awakening / Awoken

This is a term used to describe the time of a Potential or group of Potentials first coming into their powers. These events typically happen in waves with an indeterminate amount of time between groups.

Focus / Aspect

Source

A Focus is something that defines the essence of a Potential and is the core of what their Practice can do. It is typically a word that defines the user at a spiritual level.

Practice Trance / Trance

Source: Place in the World

A Practice Trance is the truest expression of a Potential’s power, a state in which they are able to transcend any limit in the pursuit of their Focus.

Practiced Miracle / Miracle

When a Practice Trance comes together to produce an effect that is even greater than the intended result of the trance

Speaking

Main article: Speaking

The act of infusing a word with the power of practice to affect the world.

Speaker

A Potential who has mastered the ability to invoke the power of Practice through use of the spoken word.

A / The Word

This phrase referrs to a word (or the word) that has been infused with practice.

The Web

A phenomenon that connects all of humanity through Practice although little else is known about it at present

Secrets

Main article: Secrets

"Secrets appear to be ways to bend reality to generate a desired result that would otherwise be considered scientifically impossible. Secrets are numbered and only a limited number seem to exist

""a fusion of science and belief made into something real""

""Actually understanding what the Secrets are beyond what they do [...is] certainly beyond humanity right now."""

First Secret

Main article: First Secret

a means to move through space-time generating faster than light (FTL) travel without excessive energy costs

Second Secret

Main article: Second Secret

genetic engineering on a truly incredible scale

Third Secret

Main article: Third Secret

A Secret known to the Telas, but not yet to Humanity. Appears to have something to do with manipulating electromagnetism.

Fourth Secret

Unavailable

Fifth Secret

Main article: Fifth Secret

a method to grant unparalleled manipulation and mastery over the fundamental force of gravity

Sixth Secret

Main article: Sixth Secret

" the creation of nanotechnology at a similar level to previous Practiced designs without the need for practice & the total obliteration of Moore’s law. This led to an explosion of integrated virtual assistant and prediction systems"

Objects

Artifact

An Artifact is a tool created by a Potential using Practice that can enhance or focus their ability

The Adamant

A ship left behind by the Elder First in the Elder's Vault (unless i've mixed it up with something else)

Inviolate Material

need to look up

Prologue / Project Prologue

Source: Place in the World

Nano-Technology used to replicate the effect of Second Secret Bio-Engineering after the Secret was forbidden

Tombstone Platform

Unison Platform

Main article: Unison Platform

Initially a device to connect to a Potential and expand their use of practice they have become sentient entities in their own right an exist alongside their Potential as an individual while still performing their original function and more

Ships

Dauntless Class

Main article: Dauntless Class

The first Practice hybrid warship ever constructed. They were designed as purely offensive platforms and are painfully short on defensive systems. They require potentials to operatate non-standard armaments

Tower Class

Main article: Tower Class

The second type of Practice hybrid warship. These ships were primarity dedicated to Defence with self-repair systems. Their most advanced defensive systems require a potential to operate them.

Ulfberht Class

Main article: Ulfberht Class

The most powerful warships humanity has ever built; they are planned to replace Dauntless class. They are more durable than Dauntless Class ships and have much stronger armaments.

Tribute Fleet

Main article: Tribute Fleet

Regular Fleet

Main article: Regular Fleet

War Fleet

Main article: War Fleet

Other

Directives

Main article: Directives

The Directives are the rules that The Shiplords left behind after The Week of Sorrows designating actions that would cause them to destroy humanity

FTL

An abbreviation meaning "Faster Than Light". Achieving FTL travel is necessary for interstellar travel.

Hero Unit

Main article: Hero Units

A character in the quest that the players can specifically designate their action ability to help the main Protagonist

Humanity 2.0

A term often used by Questers to describe the current sociopolitical arrangement of humanity in the Universe Practice war and how it differs from humanity as we know it in the present

Kingslayer

SBoS

See "Second Battle of Sol"

Second Contact

Soul

The Soul is known to exist in The Practice War universe and it is from the soul the Practice comes. All sentient Species are known to have souls, although not every species/individual has the power of Practice

Stack

System Hooks

The Pattern

Week of Sorrows

Main article: Week of Sorrows

Aftermath of the First Battle of Sol (FBoS?) in which a price was extracted from humanity of most of the remaining adult human population and the Directives were laid down the by Shiplords by whom they were defeated

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