Radix (novel) - Glossary

Glossary

Godmind
A powerful mutant whose mental abilities allow it to shape the universe to its will.
Deep Mind
A mutant whose mental abilities allow for some unusual powers.
The Massebôth Protectorate
A military regime that controls a large area of land. The Massebôth does not tolerate people with genetic mutations and works hard to eradicate individuals such as mutants and voors.
Ort
An artificially created being designed for menial or military use.
Voor
A being who arrives on Earth by traveling along a stream of radiation and who exists in a humanlike form for the duration of its stay.
Brood
A nomadic community of Voors.
Brood jewel
A gemstone created by a voor using glandular excretions. It permits enhanced psychic states or visions of the future. It can be of varied size, shape and colour.
Coobla
A drugless device that stimulates the pleasure centres of the brain.
Deadwalker
An Ort.
Deep
The Massebôth name for a seer.
Deva
An artificial being that lives in the ionosphere and uses the solar wind to sustain itself.
Distort
A human being who has been mutated by cosmic radiation.
Dorga
A criminal who has been turned into a drone worker.
Howlie
The voor term for anyone that cannot communicate telepathically.
Iz
The voor term for the Line of cosmic radiation.
Kha
Biospectral energy.
Kiutl
A plant that has been mutated by the cosmic radiation and, when consumed or smoked, allows normal humans telepathic abilities.
Lusk
A voor ability to merge with and suppress another being.
Olfact
An inhaled mood changer.
A genderless mutant, often with psychic powers.
Né-futhorc
An alphabet used by the né.

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