Ascendants and Ascendancy
Ascendants are beings or individuals who have reached enough power to move between the material world and the Labyrinth. Ascendancy is understood as transformation, apotheosis, or elevation beyond ordinary life, although different cultures disagree about whether it is a blessing, a danger, or both.
The Labyrinth
The Labyrinth are the vast and dangerous liminal spaces, strange branches, and paths where ordinary distance does not behave normally. The Veil separates Labyrinth from the material world.
Spirits
Spirits are souls, remnants, or concentrations of energy that remain connected to the physical world. They may inhabit places, objects, memories, or living beings, and their behavior ranges from protective and ancestral to hostile and impossible to understand.
Gods and Worship
Gods are powerful beings approached through prayer, worship, sacrifice, tradition, and the institutions built in their names. The origin of gods is disputed. Some say they originated as mortals, who ascended via apotheosis; other sources claim otherwordly origin citing ancient elven scrolls.
Aberrant Beings
Aberrant beings are creatures whose forms, instincts, or origins do not fit the ordinary life of the material World. Many are associated with the Labyrinth, dimensional breaches, or ancient infestations, and their presence often brings disease, mutation, imitation, or madness. Majority of existing aberrants are product of the Bloom, a disease brought by the Emperor of All Maladies. The material world is protected from aberrants thanks to Veyric de Veneris and circumstances that resulted in the Third Omen.
The Bloom
The Bloom is a spreading magical disease associated with corruption, infection, and abnormal growth. The disease was synthethized from aberrants which were in turn created by the Emperor of All Maladies. Infected underwent transformation into an abberant creature, later turning into a beautiful violet flower which contained all their memories and pieces of their souls. The Bloom was planned to be used by ascendant Uriel Cabeth to get the world rid of wars, hatred and violence.
Grimwald Mirrors
Grimwald Mirrors are ancient artifacts that were unearthed in coastal Grimwald. A shard from a Grimwald Mirror caused Zaine Eshtiaq to develop a bond to a creature called Azathoth.