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| Title | Summary |
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| Kaz kaz | Kaz is the universe-being associated with the Kazean Realm and the entity remembered by the Five Kings as the Great Master. He exists at a higher scale than Ūrkléan and granted the Kings their longevity and desiring powers. Almost no mortal society knows that he exists, and even Ūrkléan understands him only imperfectly. |
| Lodestone lodestone | Lodestone, also called Soul Stone, is the substance from which living planets derive consciousness. It is not merely a valuable mineral deposit: Uclea's Lodestone interior is the physical substrate of Ūrkléan's mind and the medium through which mortal souls remain connected to the world. |
| Plane of Forms plane-of-forms | The Plane of Forms is the level of reality at which meanings exist completely. It is not a physical location, heaven or society of gods. Forms such as consciousness, identity, change, number and matter are expressed incompletely in lower realities through countless examples, relationships and exceptions. |
| The Five Burdens five-burdens | The Five Burdens are malformed components of Ūrkléan's Memory, Change, Emotion, Nature and Pressure. They leak from five permanent cracks in his Lodestone body. Mortals do not receive these functions as beneficial gifts; their souls counter the damaged resonance and store its physical cost in flesh. |
| Uclea uclea | Uclea is the inhabited world on which the known history of the Five Peoples takes place. The name is a late corruption of Ūrkléan, the conscious mineral being whose geological body forms the planet. Although modern inhabitants generally treat Uclea as an ordinary planetary name, older religious traditions and the hidden scholarship of the Dawn Domi |
| Ūrkléan urklean | Ūrkléan, commonly written Urklean, is the conscious mineral world-being whose body forms Uclea. He shaped the world's mountains, oceans, atmosphere and fertile soils through geological movement, but cannot create matter from nothing or destroy it absolutely. Mortal religion often treats him as a supreme god; author-level cosmology places him beneat |