Glossary
Glossary of game related terms.
See also: Common Derethian Abbreviations for a list of shortened words used mainly in chat.
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A skill that enables your character to combine components for use in magical spells.
A game administrator who can intervene in in-game problems. Characters have “Admin” in front of their names.
character who can answer questions and give minor assistance in the game. Advocates wield glowing shields.
- Alternative Character
An Alternative Character, or alt, is any character created by a player that is not considered their main character. Alts sub-types include Mules and Crafters.
Appraise Armor, Appraise Item, Appraise Magic Item, and Appraise Weapon enable your character to find out detailed information about armor, items, magic items, and weapons.
A skill that enables your character to learn new magic spells from scrolls or through experimentation.
A powerful magician of the Empyrean race who created the portals now found on Dereth.
Assess Creature and Assess Person enable your character to find out detailed information about creatures and people.
Your character’s basic characteristics, such as Strength, Endurance, and Coordination. Beginning attribute levels determine beginning skill levels.
Unique abilities that can be augmented on to your character. This includes augmentations acquired through the use of Augmentation Gems and Luminance Auras.
Special gems that use large amounts of experience points to give your character unique abilities.
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Casting spells on yourself, equipment, or another player to increase stats or abilities.
Buff Bots are automated player characters run by Decal scripting programs that allow them to buff players at that player's command. Buff bots are usually found in Towns.
The load your character is carrying. A character has a limit to the amount he or she can comfortably carry. When that burden is exceeded, the character is encumbered.
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- Camping
Waiting for treasure or creatures to re-spawn.
Cantrips are magical effects that increase the abilities of a player and their equipment and stack with regular buffs.
Level of experience gained by a character. Each level requires a character to gain a predetermined number of experience points in order to achieve it.
Combat Macros are automated player characters run by Decal scripting programs that allow to engage in combat. Because of their ability to gain experience without a live player controlling them, combat macros are a controversial topic.
- Chat Pose (Chat Emote)
An action you can make your character perform onscreen by typing a command in the Chat box.
- Click
A unit of measurement for distance. 55.0N to 56.0N is one click.
A unique dungeon designed for Fellowships that contains creature spawning arenas of increasing difficulty.
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Debuffs are magical effects that decrease the abilities of a creature or player and their equipment. The opposite effect is known as a Buff.
The island on which players now find themselves, having answered the call of Asheron.
Dangerous territories to the west of Osteth.
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A vanished race of magical beings who once occupied Dereth.
Experience Chains, or XP Chains for short, was a method used by members of an Allegiance to gain XP Passup far faster than originally intended.
- Experience Points
Points your character earns by defeating Creatures, completing Quests and as XP Passup from loyal vassals. These points can be used to improve attributes and skills and purchase special abilities using Augmentation Gems. Each character level also has a fixed experience point cost.
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A skill that enables your character to make arrows.
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A large blue crystal found at outposts, near towns, and sometimes in the wilderness. When you double-click a Lifestone, your character will be resurrected there after death.
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The energy that powers magic spells.
A skill than enables your character to use spells related to converting Health and Stamina to Mana.
A skill that enables your character to evade opponents’ melee attacks.
A skill that enables your character to evade opponents’ missile attacks.
Mule can be a noun, a character who's express purpose is to hold items not being used by other characters, or as a verb, which means to transfer an item to storage.
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- Nerf
Weakening of an item, spell or skill during an update to help balance the game.
- Non Player Character (NPC)
Characters that are controlled by the game and that do not represent players.
- Non Player Killer (NPK)
Player characters who do not have the ability to harm or kill other player characters.
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The eastern land mass of Dereth.
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- Player Killer (PK)
Player characters who have the ability to harm or kill other player characters.
A swirling energy vortex that magically transports characters from one place to another.
- Portal Bot
Portal Bots are automated player characters run by Decal scripting programs that allow them to summon portals on command. The differences between a portal bot and a buff bot are 1) portal bots do not buff players, and 2) portal bot programs take advantage of multiple characters on the same account, allowing for much more than the two portal ties a buff bot can provide.
A disturbance of portal magic caused by too many people in the same area. In a portal storm, some people will be teleported to random locations outside the area.
- Powerlevel
Getting your character to the highest level possible in the shortest amount of time.
- Pre-patch (PP)
A pre-patch item is an earlier version of an item that has at some point received an update. See also the term Retired.
The basic unit of currency in Dereth.
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A low-level game administrator (see Admin). Sentinels have “Sentinel” in front of their name.
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Quests, NPCs, creatures and items that are no longer actively available (retired items can still be acquired through trade) in the game. Many retired items are left behind when the item receives a newer version in an update. These items are also known as pre-patch items. Some retired items are highly valued by players. See also Unique.
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Your character’s ability to perform certain actions successfully, such as running, jumping, and wielding weapons.
Credits earned by going up in character level that can be used to raise unusable or untrained to trained, and from trained to specialized.
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Trade bots are automated player characters run by Decal scripting programs that allow them to sell their wares to other players via the Secure Trade panel. Trade Bots are most commonly found in theMarketplace. On Darktide, where tradebots would be killed if they operated in the marketplace, they instead operate safely from behind their housing barrier.
Credits used to raise the training level of skills during character creation from untrained to trained, and from trained to specialized.
Items sometimes found on the corpses of defeated opponents, which can be sold to collectors for money and other items.
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Your character’s life energies. When your character dies, there is a Vitae penalty that temporarily reduces his or her skills and secondary attributes.
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