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Revision as of 06:06, 29 August 2021
Doc Williamson's Lexicon:
Adaptive knowledge | Previously unknown information is revealed by a bound entity on a "need to know" basis. |
Aetheric pulse wave | Most magical items and beings emit this type of measurable energy. |
Baddeley Scale | something to do with the long-term memory of preternaturally long-lived entities. |
Bio-Aetheral Scanner | A large medical equipment used to take detailed scans of souls. Useful to determine if possession is real, or a psychological condition, or just plain fakery. Based on [Kirlian] techniques. |
Carvalo's Bracelet of Many Things | An artifact using a minor translocation spell to store items (usually clothing). Elaine acquired one as part of her training. |
Daemonicus Yarva | A book used in an article on Dr. Czernin |
Esotericus Yabbanis | Another book |
Exo-Metamorphs | Pseudo-scientific jargon for 'Kheldians' |
Fantosi's Lecture | a 13th-century text about the way previously unknown knowledge can resurface during some religious experience. |
Freeling's theorem | (More or less) "Getting rid of the object of a ghost's fixation might be a way to break it out of its current state." |
Herschel's drawings | Warding images |
Ignis Arcanum | the arcane artifact on loan from M.A.G.I. to the Pandora Project on which Dr. Williamson was working at the time of the attack which resulted in her merging with Enora the Succubus. Probably where Enora had been imprisoned. The item was lost after the attack, and it has not resurfaced yet. |
Kanigher's research on sundered spirits | A study related to the article on Dr. Czernin |
Kreskin charts | ((no idea...)) |
Landaumer's Probability Index | ((no idea...)) |
Lansing's database of demon classification | All we know is that Class 4 (proto-demon) and Class 9 exists. |
Local Tale of Mahir El-Sabah, 1572 | The first recorded exchange between demons and humans |
Locario's Third (or Fourth, at least) paradigm | "Some meta-abilities or manifestations occur after the initial event." |
Maclean's hypothesis | "Ghosts are energy-based "mirror images" of people that previously existed, replaying the same pattern of actions over and over. Only when a human presence intersect those pattern than the ghost see a disruption and focus on it." |
Morgenstein's papers on ectoplasmic entities | A study related to the article on Dr. Czernin |
Morlay's paradox | One of a seemingly-infinite number of paradoxes dealing with time travel... |
Polymorphic re-agents and aetheric level meters | Two suggested security measures for Fennec Enterprises HQ. |
Prague Gestaltz Incident of 1896 | A large creature made of rats was rumored to be seen in Prague in 1896. |
Renfeld's Attunement | hitherto unknown inherited magical abilities often stay dormant until a specific trigger event. |
Rotger's Celestial Entreaties | scholarly text about, amongst other subjects, celestial politics. |
Transformative possession | Type of possession where the body of the possessed undergo some kind of transformation. A known case occurred in Hamburg in 1957. |
Yarva Demonicus Enora | A chant used by Elaine to resist Enora... |