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Lycan:
A type of magic-user whose talents typically include shifting between human and wolf forms and self-healing. Lycan can share some characteristics with their wolf cousins, but are not to be mistaken as wolves.

Magic-user:
Any one of a variety of types of people who can use magic, including Lycan, spell casters, witches, and healers. As a group, the community is referred to as magic-users. Most people with magical ability identify first with their magic type, Lycan or witch, and secondly with the larger and more encompassing magic-using community. It is theorized that all talent groups have a core of magical energy, and it is the natural inclination of a person’s magic that defines the talent group.

Pack:
An organized group of Lycan. The type of organizational structure by pack.

Pack Book or Record Book:
A spelled text containing a variety of pack information, including but not limited to genealogy, inter-pack conflicts, alliances, and Alpha challenges.

Record Keeper:
The Lycan term for a spell caster with a language talent, usual women. Record Keepers were able to create spelled texts by anchoring their words, thoughts, images, and emotions to a physical object, usually a book. Record Keepers could also pull information from spelled texts, typically utilizing a question and answer system.

Spell Caster:
Also called Casters. Spell casters use their magic by manipulating objects or binding spells to objects.

Vampyr:
A type of cannibal who primary ingests magic. Traditionally accomplished by tying the subject’s magic more closely to his blood and consuming the blood.

Ward:
A common expression of the binding type of caster magic. Examples of some wards include, sensing wards, alarm wards, trap wards, and containment wards.

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