ECC Game Terminology[]
The following are terms that players (but not necessarily characters) should know.
Affinity Sphere: The sphere that a character feels the deepest connection to and interest in. Choices are based on the character's sect.
Avatar Storm: An event featured in Mage Revised and the Week of Nightmares cWoD metaplot that made it perilous for mages to cross the Guantlet.
Coincidental Magick: Dynamic magick that, if seens by a mundane witness, could be accepted as a natural and normal event.
The Consensus: The collective power of human belief.
The Digital Web: The magickal side of the Internet which can be considered one of the zones in the Otherworlds.
Doissetep: The legendary Order of Hermes stronghold destroyed as part of the MtA Metaplot.
Dynamic Magick: The open-ended magick that mages can channel into Effects.
The Horizon: The boundary between the Otherworlds and the Void beyond.
Hubris: excessive (and sometimes fatal) pride or overconfidence.
Enlightened Science: The view that the Spheres are not mystic concepts but defineable through advanced science divided into fields of specialized knowledge.
Ephemera: The elemental spirit matter that composes everything in the Middle Umbra.
Extraordinary Citizens: People who's personal beliefs are open-minded and allow for supernatural phenomenon or "fringe" science.
Focus: The combination of a mage's beliefs about magick and the style of his/her practice as an extension of those beliefs.
Future Fates: references to places, characters, and events covered in the MtA metaplot which provide suggestions to Storytellers on how to handle them in their own chronicle.
Jhor: a kind of resonance that is associated with the Lower Umbra and death.
Lexicons: dictionaries included in MtA books that provide terminology common to the characters themselves.
Magick: The suggested way to spell magic in M20, based on an explanation provided on p. 41 of the core M20 book.
Metaphysical: an idea, doctrine, or posited reality outside of normal human sensory perception.
Mythic Age: The historical era in which the existence of magical phenomena was still ingrained into human belief.
Mythic Threads: Symbols used in magic(k) that have deep ties to the Collective Unconscious.
The Otherworlds: Planes of reality beyond the terrestrial, human world.
Paradox Effect:
Resonance: a minor manifesttion of the Paradox Effect that "ripples" reality around a mage without causing additional Paradox.
Sorcerer: An UnAwakened hedge mage who relies on static magic.
Sphere Progression: The advancing steps of Sphere expertise: Perception (rank 1), Manipulation (rank 2), Control (rank 3), Command (rank 4), Mastery (rank 5).
Static Magic: The non-paradox producing magic possessed by sorcerers and Night-Folk.
Technomagic (or Technomagick): Dynamic magic that usually involves technological instruments and procedures.
Technomancer: Any mage who relies on Technomagic; they are not necessarily a member of the Technocracy.
The Three Worlds: The High, Middle and Low Umbra that lay beyond the Penumbra.
Transhumanism: The ideology in which human consciousness transcends the limitations of the human body.
Vidare:
Vulgar Magick:
Wild Talent: A mage who's magick has not been trained or refined, causing them to have little or no control over what they do.
Will: The determination of your character to make things happen exactly as they desire.