Definition of Terms
from
EcoMage (MDCLXXXII): Learn The Basics
by Sir Hughes Tyre H. Grimwald
(Page III, Section B, Chapter 000)
Alphabetical Orientation
Aelan
Once a purposeless hunk of solid before it was chosen by the Great Bird as the ultimate habitation for humans, beasts, and animals as per the decree of the Eidolon. Over the centuries, humans developed the aptness to thrive above every other creation, advancing in intellect and technology to adapt then flourish in the land we have come to call home.
Astral Plane / Astra
One of the twin domains on which the fabrication of the universe was established and hinged by the Eidolon. Where the physical world is not, but where the roots of mahika blossom. Antithetical to its counterpart, the astra was tied to threads of which are unseen to the faithless, inexistent to the tangible property of matter, and incomprehensible to the minds tethered to the material world. Abstract rather than tactile.
Traces of ancient theologian scholars claim it to be the sole realm to interact with the Eidolon Themselves, for it immeasurably transcended the undefined boundaries of space and time.
Environmental Range-Inductive Nullifier
Abbreviated to ERIN. Among the first models of the founding technology to negate mahika over an area of instigated control as well as the first products of the pioneering electromagnetic-powered technologies to be developed in the progress of the techno-industrial/Intermediary Technology age.
Mahika
The vitality in mist-like essence by which forces conformed into effervescent substances upon touch--in its most basic form--surpassing that of the mechanical laws of the physical realm streams from the kore to the vessel, and from the vessel to the environment from where its extension is directed at.
Mahi Kore
Also known as the kore. The heart of astra. The well of the essè. The bud where all mahika of innate nature flows from. With magnitude proportional to purity and corresponsive to mental dignity, an individual must integrate a habit of mindful awareness of one's kore.
"...of what it should feed and what it should not.
Of what is to think lest it should rot.
Mind and spirit are no more than an indivisible singularity.
Just as the heart and the brain no less sustain one body."
- an excerpt from M.R. Johan's "Magna Holistica" Page 39, Paragraph 5, Chapter 5, MDLXX-MDLXXX
Overdrive
The phase to which an incredible amplification in senses, speed, and strength is harnessed, pushing far beyond the physiological human capabilities. Bounded only for the mages of Blademastery to invoke on will.
Theological groundworks propose that the Blademasters were descended from one of the eleven Primordial Legionnaires, who made them not so they could leave their mark during the Creation unlike the other primordials but were formed for the sole purpose to serve as comrades in arms to the aurates when the celestial rebellion broke out in Avalon.
The Physical World
The discernible space ranging from the deepest depth of the blue to the crust of the Aelan to the infinite vastness of the ether, and to the whole universe. Generally, the territory and all its elements that can be detected by the natural senses.
Vessel
Any medium that confines the ultimate converging rift where substance from the astral plane and concrete matter from the physical domain intertwine.
"Like in any divide that separates the fellowship of kins, mahika laws are not so distant from the laws of nature itself; always, the two realities will find ways to rekindle a string of communion in the most functional and efficient passages. No matter the thinness of the linking barrier. No matter the narrowness of the channel of communication.
"We, the true descendants of the Eidolon, are the vessel. To wield the mahika is a gift we ought to shamelessly accept with honor and pride."
- derived from the newest Beta English translation of the concluding speech of the 9th ruler of Lynthia, King Korianne Luren Solarkris.
Medium is, however, not limited to the human body when the discovery of relics wielding mahika were dug out and found to be aging over 5 millennia.