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+1/+2/+3/…¶

When referring to an awakener or wheel, it means extra copies after E3, using the number that is shown in the UI. For example if you have 6 copies of Ramona, you have E3+2, or a +2 Ramona.

A¶

A1/A2/A3/A4/A5¶

Stands for Alert 1, 2, 3, etc., the old D-Effect Zone difficulty system. Alert 1-3 corresponded to Normal difficulty, while Alert 4-5 corresponded to Hard difficulty.

AA¶

Absolute Axiom. When an awakener is at +12 (15 dupes in addition to the base copy), a bonus effect is added to their rouse.

AOE¶

“Area of effect.” Something that affects all enemies at once.

April¶

The covenant April Tribute.

Arc 1¶

Faded Legacy.

Arc 2¶

Astral Reign.

Arith¶

Arithmetica.

B¶

Baby¶

Embryo (the Caro special card).

An in-game lottery where you can roll for awakeners and wheels (see “Gacha”).

Battery¶

To generate aliemus for awakeners; or an awakener whose job is to do so.

Battle Pass/BP¶

Curriculum (the seasonal reward track you can unlock with real money).

Benthos: Aequor (BAequor)¶

When some characters like GMurphy are in your team, they change Aequor into “Benthos: Aequor,” which works differently. Tentacle DMG is now based on your max HP; your DMG amplification is increased by 50%; exalts no longer give Tentacle Gathering; and the stances are stronger but have a 3-turn cooldown.

Black Pool¶

Using a rare item called Origin of Time to reset a standard character, refunding all their enlightens and level up materials and removing them from your account, thus ”returning them to the Black Pool.”

Blade¶

Blade of the Titan (Goliath’s SSR wheel).

Blue¶

Aequor.

Bluwil/Bluewil¶

An Aequor team using Tawil as the main damage dealer.

Buff¶

A bonus or positive status effect.

Burial¶

The covenant Burial Ground’s Sighs.

Burst/Burst damage¶

Damage which is dealt all in a single turn.

Burst turn¶

The turn you commit all your resources to deal as much damage as possible.

C¶

Carry/Solo carry¶

An awakener who “carries” their team over the finish line. Without them, the team doesn’t work.

Chains¶

Chains Unbound (Helot’s SSR wheel). Can also refer to the Chains of Resentment effect of certain enemies, which seals awakeners that hit them.

Character jail¶

Pulling on the standard Realm Study banner to get +12 awakeners and fish for limited awakeners.

Cheese¶

An unorthodox game strategy that relies on exploits or niche interactions rather than fighting “fair.” For example, a severely underleveled player might have no chance of beating a boss in a straight-up fight, but if they used Faint to cheat death for several turns, they could buy enough time for the Max HP % damage of Lotan’s OE to kill it.

Clem¶

Clementine.

Cocoon¶

An effect on some enemies that grants them increasing fortress (damage reduction) the more damage dealt to them in a turn. Can also refer to the Cocoon of the Maiden covenant set.

Combo¶

A “combination” of cards or abilities which is stronger than the sum of its parts.

Corpo¶

Corposant.

Costco¶

In Faded Legacy stages, a strategy based on buying lots of relics using the wheels Frenzy and Emerge.

Cov¶

Covenant (the 6-piece equipment set).

D¶

Daff¶

Daffodil.

Debuff¶

A negative status effect.

Divine realm¶

When some characters are in your team, they transform your realm mechanics into a different variant of that realm. These are nicknamed “divine realms,” after the original name of the first to be released, “Divine Realm: Aequor” (since officially renamed to Benthos: Aequor).

Dolphin¶

Someone who spends money on the game, but not a lot.

Doorstain¶

Doresain, who is much maligned because he’s bad in endgame content.

Dore¶

Doresain.

DPS¶

“Damage per second.” Term from gaming slang. Can refer to the amount of damage an awakener does, or to an awakener whose role is main damage dealer.

Dual wield¶

Using two SSR wheels at once. You can do this if one of them is at +12.

DR¶

Death Resistance.

Dream/Dreams¶

The covenant Dream of Medicine. Used to have various different English names.

Driver¶

An awakener which isn’t the source of a team’s power and resources, but provides a way to use those resources to win; much like how a car’s engine is what makes it move, but the car’s driver is what makes it cross the finish line.

D-tide/Dtide¶

D-Effect Zone. Abbreviation of the old English translation.

E¶

E0/E1/E2/E3¶

Enlighten 0/1/2/3 (i.e. having 0/1/2/3 dupes of an awakener or wheel).

Ecog¶

Emergency Gnosis. Abbreviation of the old English translation.

Embers¶

Ancient Embers, an effect some high-HP enemies have. They take a certain amount of extra damage each turn, so their effective HP is lower, but they're harder to kill in one turn with burst damage.

Endgame¶

The content available to veteran players who have completed most of the game and fully leveled their characters. In Morimens, the endgame modes are D-Effect Zone, Astral Reign hard mode achievements, and the various seasonal leaderboards.

Engine/Value engine¶

An awakener which continuously generates resources, like the engine of a car, which the rest of the team is built around.

F¶

Feast¶

The covenant Feast from Afar.

Fin¶

Fin of Sorrow (Caecus’s SSR wheel).

Furnace¶

Crimson Furnace (the Caro mechanic).

G¶

Gacha¶

To gamble on a chance to get in-game characters or items. A “gacha game” is a game where this is a central mechanic. Comes from Japanese gachapon machines.

GDoll¶

Doll: Inferno. Stands for “Genesis Doll.”

GHelot/Gelot¶

Helot: Catena. Stands for “Genesis Helot.”

Glass cannon¶

Something that has high offense and low defense.

GLotan/Gluten/Gotan¶

Lotan: Cetarchon. Stands for “Genesis Lotan.”

GMurphy/Gurphy/Gurpy/GMuppet¶

Murphy: Fauxborn. Stands for “Genesis Murphy.”

GOgier¶

Ogier: Oathbound. Stands for “Genesis Ogier.”

Goli¶

Goliath.

GRamona¶

Ramona: Timeworn. Stands for “Genesis Ramona.”

H¶

Ham¶

Hameln.

HSR¶

Hectic Skybound Rail. (Not to be confused with a certain other gacha game.)

Hypercarry team ¶

A team with three supports that support a single carry.

I¶

Image¶

Dimensional Image Relic. Refers to a series of rare relics in Astral Reign stages that each power up a specific awakener.

Incalc¶

Incalculable Factor (Winkle’s SSR wheel).

Investment¶

The amount of resources that are spent on an awakener or team. In this guide, enlightens, levels, limited or ascended wheels, upgraded covenants, and strong teammates are all considered “investment.”

J¶

JP Aequor¶

See “Benthos: Aequor.” Refers to the fact that this version of Aequor is ported from the Japanese release of Morimens.

JP Caro¶

See “Propagation: Caro.”

JP Chaos¶

See “Primordia: Chaos.”

JP Ultra¶

See “Singularity: Ultra.”

K¶

Kath¶

Kathigu-Ra.

Keyflare bot ¶

A support awakener whose main job is to hold the covenant Life Drain and provide keyflare for the team.

L¶

Last hit¶

To land the killing blow on an enemy.

Lighthouse¶

Amidst the Downpour (Faros’s SSR wheel).

Limited¶

A limited banner is a banner that runs for a limited time before going away. A limited character or wheel is one that you get from these banners.

M¶

Main stat¶

The primary stat given by a wheel or covenant piece, which increases in magnitude as you increase its level, up to +12.

Mana¶

Arithmetica. Term from Magic: the Gathering/Hearthstone.

Meds¶

The covenant Dream of Medicine.

Meta/Metagame¶

The collection of strategies that are most effective and commonly used by players; or something pertaining to those strategies. For example, a “meta character” is a character that is often seen in the metagame.

Mob¶

A normal enemy (as opposed to elites and bosses).

Mono¶

Refers to a team comprised of characters from only one realm. For example, a “Mono Aequor” team is a team with four Aequor awakeners.

Mono Chaos¶

A team comprised of only Chaos awakeners (not Primordia: Chaos), and hence, able to abuse Chaos Realm Mastery to generate tons of keyflare and aliemus.

Monowil¶

A Mono Chaos team using Tawil as the main damage dealer.

Monthly dupes¶

Refers to Prototype Horizon and Timeloop Copy, two items in the Store that grant duplicates of any owned character or wheel, including limited ones.

N¶

Naut¶

Nautila.

Nerf¶

To make something weaker after a game update.

O¶

OE¶

Over-Exaltation. When an awakener is at +4 (7 dupes in addition to the base copy) or more, they can use a powered-up exalt which costs twice as much aliemus as normal.

OP¶

Overpowered; much more powerful than other options.

P¶

P-Dive/Pdive¶

Phantasmal Dive.

Pen¶

Remembrance Quill (material used for locking substats in covenant transcription).

Pizza¶

Covenant.

Plug¶

Refined Gnosis Primer (material used for leveling up a character beyond 70).

Portrait¶

See “Image.”

Premium support¶

A powerful, game-changing supportive character such as Thais. Usually used in the context of D-Effect Zone where you can’t repeat characters, so you have to decide where you're putting your premium supports.

Preorder¶

A time-limited paid bundle that sometimes appears when new characters are released. Rewards unlock over time, but you get bonus cosmetics for buying the bundle early.

Primordia: Chaos (PChaos)¶

When some characters like GLotan are in your team, they change Chaos into “Primordia: Chaos,” which works differently. The normal Chaos mechanics no longer apply; your DMG amplification is increased by 50%; you only get keyflare at the start of battle and when playing the first card of each awakener each turn; rouses have Prepare 1 and trigger your equipped posse; and your posse button lets you choose random unlocked posses, as well as other effects, to unleash.

Proc¶

Trigger an effect.

Propagation: Caro (PCaro)¶

When some characters like Saya are in your team, they change Caro into “Propagation: Caro,” which works differently. Your DMG amplification is increased by 50%; Crimson Furnace is stronger and inflicts corrosion but has a 3-turn cooldown; the damage, shield, and healing of your exalts are buffed; and embryos further buff your exalt instead of granting crit buffs or shields and STR from devouring.

Proto¶

Either Protoparadise (item that lets you select any standard awakener to receive) or Prototype Horizon (item that gives you a dupe of an owned awakener).

Prototype¶

Prototype Horizon (item that gives you a dupe of an owned awakener).

Pull¶

To gamble on a chance to get in-game characters or items (see “Gacha”). Alternatively, a resource that lets you do so (Pure Cores, Luminous Cores, Ethereal Cores).

Pure realm¶

A team that only contains Chaos and one other realm, so it receives the full benefit and Realm Mastery scaling for that realm. (Primordia: Chaos doesn’t count.) For example, a Pure Aequor team only has Chaos and Aequor awakeners. It will get bonus tentacle scaling from Realm Mastery and start each fight with 2 tentacles rather than 1.

Purple¶

Ultra (the realm).

Pyramid¶

Can refer to either Gnosis Primer (material used for leveling up a character beyond 60) or Origin of Time (a rare item given out during events and used to reset characters).

Q¶

R¶

R rarity¶

The lowest rarity of wheels, referring to the brown ones you get from random pulls.

Racism¶

Tongue-in-cheek term for when a character is stronger against specific enemies. For example, Corposant is infamously “racist” against Aequor enemies in Astral Reign because her soulforge talent makes her deal more damage to them.

Rat wheel¶

Path Forsaken (Jenkin’s SSR wheel).

Red¶

Caro (the realm).

Retal¶

Counter. Abbreviation of the old English translation.

RM¶

Realm Mastery.

RNG¶

“Random Number Generator.” A phrase used to describe any part of the game that is random. Some would say the Random Number Generator is just dumb software. It’s actually an evil deity that takes pleasure in ruining our hopes and dreams.

Rotan¶

Lotan: Cetarchon, after an old English mistranslation. Also stands for “Red Lotan.”

S¶

Salv¶

Salvador.

Scale/Scaling¶

The ability to grow in power over the course of a battle or stage. Alternatively, the ability to grow in power based on a specific resource, such as STR.

SF¶

Soulforge Aptitude (talent which boosts stats in Astral Reign stages).

Singularity: Ultra (SUltra)¶

When some characters like Arachne are in your team, they change Ultra into “Singularity: Ultra,” which works differently. Your DMG amplification is increased by 50%; your command cards are buffed and get further buffs when put into Ultra Space; Annihilation has a 3-turn cooldown and puts the leftmost card from Ultra Space into your hand instead of giving you an Insight; and the Ultra Round extends your current turn instead of starting a new turn.

Skey¶

Keyflare. Abbreviation of the old English translation.

Skey bot¶

See “Keyflare bot.”

Spam/Spamming¶

Using the same ability or card over and over again.

SR rarity¶

The SR characters are the 4 starting awakeners from the Prologue (Ramona, Lotan, Ogier, and Doll). The SR wheels are the silver ones you get roughly every 5 pulls.

SSR rarity¶

All awakeners in the game, other than the 4 starting awakeners from the Prologue (Ramona, Lotan, Ogier, and Doll), are considered SSR rarity. The SSR wheels are the full-color ones that are advertised on the banner.

Stall/Stalling ¶

A strategy that focuses on surviving rather than dealing damage.

Stamp¶

Thousand Faces Seal (material used for upgrading and transcribing covenants).

Standard¶

The Realm Study and Wheels of Rotation banners are the “standard” banners, which are always available. A standard character or wheel is one that you get by pulling on these banners. (Not including the limited characters and wheels that have a very rare chance of dropping instead.)

Stat stick/_ stick¶

Refers to awakeners or wheels that are used because of their high basic attributes rather than their actual abilities. For example: “Even if you don’t care about the effect of Path Forsaken, you can still use it as a Crit Rate stick.”

Sub DPS¶

A secondary damage dealer in addition to the main DPS.

Substat¶

One of the randomized stats that covenants have in addition to the main stat, unlocked at Keeper Level 35, which you can spend Thousand Faces Seals to reroll.

Support¶

An awakener which is not the main focus of the team, but enables the rest of the team to work better.

Sustain¶

The ability of a team to stay alive over many turns through healing and shielding.

Sustained damage¶

Damage which is dealt consistently over multiple turns.

T¶

Tank/Tanking¶

A “tanky” awakener can take incoming damage or negative status effects without consequence.

Tawheel¶

Wheel Unseen (Tawil’s SSR wheel).

Timeloop¶

Timeloop Copy (item that gives you a dupe of an owned wheel).

Titan/Titan’s Blade¶