One's innate potential. Starts high and decreases with age, but can be increased and decreased through circumstance. It replenishes naturally to its current maximum value over time.

One’s existence as a living being. Finite and cannot be replenished naturally.

One’s inherent Purpose. Typically found only in Denizens and Flora, it is replenished by the Suns in a manner similar to photosynthesis. It acts like a liquid though it lacks true physicality.

The combination of One's Physis and Ousia together compose their soul. One’s Potential and One's Life.

The use of internal or external metaphysical forces to alter One's self, environment, or others. This includes a group of Arts known as Witchcraft, Bondsmithing, and Hedgemagery, as well as the techniques used by Denizens.

Also known as Soul Rot. An affliction that consumes one's Ousia to the point of death. It is accelerated by the use of Magic, and believed to be caused by personal moral failure.

The collective teaching of a magical path.

A spell woven using Ousia, considered both a masterwork and a new piece of magic. The equivalent of a doctoral thesis, and the requirement to graduate from a Floret to a full Witch.

When a Doll acts as though it is a person with full rights and autonomy.

A slur against fleshcrafted entities, particularly in use against trans people. Derived from the idea that they are wasted material, only half used, when they could have been fully woven into a Doll to provide better utility to others.

Hollow bone-like structures present on some combat Dolls that are used primarily for expressing emotions, communication, and secondarily as defensive measures.

On a Warlord's crown, they specifically serve the purpose of amplifying spellweaving.

A being with a Tripartite Soul, consisting of Physis, Ousia, and Nomos.

A derogatory term for a sapient bipedal insectoid species that engages in funerary Endocannibalism.

An individual of any gender and assigned sex that practices the Witch Arts. Their society is collected into matriarchal Groves, each run by a group of Matrons, experts in their respective fields of the Witch Arts.

An entity that has been woven into a frame through Dollcraft with their Physis and Ousia being transmuted into the outer layers that reflect their own desired appearance or the desires of the Dollcrafter. The original body is traditionally discarded. Dolls are devoid of detectable Ousia or Physis as it makes up their body, and are known to be immune to Moonwaste. Some Dolls have polymorphic outer layers that can switch between different forms determined at creation and/or interconnect with other Dolls.

Lunar debris. Known to be extremely toxic akin to radiation and unaffected by most magic.

A landscape within One’s soul, crafted through experiences and memories at the expense of Ousia and Physis. Extremely rare.

The world A Blade and Her Witch is set on. Dämmerung is part of a binary star system and has a single lunar satellite that was split into five pieces: three larger ones and two smaller ones, as well as a debris cloud that is the source of Moonwaste.