| FR | EN | Meaning |
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| Remanence | Remnant | The material return of a being, place or event from an older stratum. Real: a remnant tree gives wood — eleven professions and the whole market circulate the remains of older worlds. Not everything is one (ordinary wolves exist). |
| Strate | Stratum | A world/age buried under the present. Never a visitable dimension — it surfaces in fragments. |
| Anchoring | Anchor | What a Runegate actually is: it holds the present world above its strata and links it. An extinguished Anchor is scenery, and stays scenery. |
| Seuil Premier | First Threshold | Lumenfall's gate — older than the city, older than the kingdom. Nobody built it: it is itself a Remnant of the Premier Corps, and the old kingdom only imitated it without understanding. |
| Grand Agreement | Great Accord | The royal ritual meant to tune every gate at the same instant, for centuries. |
| Grand Judgment | Great Stillness | The catastrophe born of the Accord's interruption: the funeral froze mid-procession, the canal ran dry, the Ver's clock counts and never strikes, gates went dark, the kingdom fell, the Remnants began to rise. |
| Muette time | Mute Hour | The exact hour that never struck. (No calendar mechanics ride this — the hour is a story object only.) In the completion arc: the hour ESCAPED, and circles the world as the storm that never leaves. |
| Recalled | Recalled | A person the Anchors bring back after a fall. The player, and a rare few NPCs. A Recall CAN fail for good — off-screen, in the story only, never as a number. Badly-closed Recalls are one origin of the undead. |
| Echo | Echo | A minor, unstable manifestation — the practical term for a boss's returns after its first narrative defeat (bosses recur; the world state does not change). |
| Suture | Suture | Where an old stratum breaches the present: a fault, marsh, ruin, vein, mirror, canal. |
| The Margin | The Margin | The interval between strata. PARKED for v1 — no zone shows it yet. |
| Clarity | Clarity | The religious name for the present's force of coherence; priests and paladins read it differently. |