[h2]Glossary of Terms[/h2]
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[hider=Frontside] The "real" world, which we are all familiar with. In the Frontside, magic has died off over time, and now is only a trickle in the most powerful bloodlines, easily explained away by skeptics.
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[hider=Otherworld] A place one might think of as the "origin of magic". If stories are to be believed, the Otherworld was once closely bound with the Frontside, but over the past millennia references to it have ceased to be. It has gone by many names including Fairyland, the Dream World, Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory. Now, only a few pockets of Otherworld intersect with the Frontside enough to have any effect on it. In these places, magical power pools and some people are able to cross between the two.

The Otherworld is inhabited primarily by Emotes, reflections of the emotions of Humans in the Frontside. Their state shapes the state of the Otherworld drastically, and in recent times has twisted it into a nightmare realm of negative emotions. Since the state of the Otherworld effects the state of human emotions, and human emotions effect the state of the Otherworld, humanity has fallen into a self destructive cycle of negative emotions, especially in places where the boundary is thin, and without Guardians to manage it, the Otherworld has grown unruly.
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[hider=Guardians] Otherworld has a form of sentience, which is most heavily demonstrated by it's selection of Guardians, people with magical potential whom it pulls across the barrier to manage the Emotes. Without Guardians, the Otherworld has become inhospitable to humans.
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