Year of the Lotus Lexicon
Terms of the Hengeyokai
- Age of the Dawning: The First Age of the Great Cycle, according to the hengeyokai.
- Age of Legends: The Third Age of the Great Cycle.
- Age of Shadows: The Fifth Age or modern era, believed to have been heralded by the arrival of the Westerners.
- Age of Sorrow: The Sixth Age, the age yet to come - the Apocalypse for the hengeyokai.
- Age of the Ten Thousand Things: The Second Age of the Great Cycle, according to the hengeyokai.
- Age of Testing: The Fourth Age of the Great Cycle, according to the hengeyokai.
- Banfa (bahn-FAH): The Camazotz of the East, slain in the War of Shame.
- Beast-Courts: The Court organizations of the hengeyokai, corresponding to Western septs.
- Centipede, The: Slang for the Wyrm or Yomi incarnate. “Centipedes” sometimes refers to Wyrm-beasts, probably because of certain demons’ tendency to appear like giant insects.
- Court of Ancestors: The collective society of the hengeyokai Ancestor-spirits.
- Emerald Mother, The: Gaia.
- Fist: The auspice of the warrior, corresponding to the Ahroun.
- Gai’nan (gah-EE-NAHN): A term that roughly translates into “magistrate” - a ranking hengeyokai Court official.
- High War: The formal, courtly ways of making war, such as honorable combat.
- Lantern: The auspice of leadership and judgment, roughly equivalent to Philodox.
- Leaf: The auspice of stealth and information-gathering, corresponding to the Ragabash.
- Low War: Less honorable forms of making war; pacts with Kuei-jin are considered the province of Low War.
- Minister of Heaven: A polite form of address for an Eastern Incarna spirit (save for Wyrm Incarna, who are called Ministers of Hell).
- Mirror: The auspice of mediation and mysticism; rough equivalent to Theurge.
- Mountain Sentai: A war party bound by a common totem and common code of conduct; roughly equivalent to a Garou pack.
- Okuma (oh-KOO-mah): The Gurahl of the East, slain in the War of Shame.
- Pillar: The auspice of support and unity -- very rough equivalent to Galliard.
- Sentai: A hengeyokai war party, typically five in number, or bound to a common totem as in a Garou pack.
- Sunset People, The: The Western shapeshifters, the term a reference to their fatalism concerning the coming Age.
- Talon: An elemental role within a sentai, such as “Fire Talon” or “Moon Talon”.
- Tsuki-yomi (soo-KEE-yoh-MEE): Another name for Luna.
- War of Shame: A great war like the War of Rage, fought among hengeyokai Beast-Courts during the Fourth Age, instigated by Wan Kuei machination.
- Wave Sentai: A temporary sentai, arranged from convenience and necessity more than anything else.
- Wind: A sentai member’s directional alignment with one of the cardinal directions, such as “Center Wind” or “South Wind”.
