Core terms
Words used across menus, pages, item names, and progression.
| Term | Meaning | Related |
|---|---|---|
| Qualia — qualia world, my qualia, new qualia | The game's word for a world. The save menu says "my qualia", world creation says "new qualia", and the Steam workshop packages uploads as qualia. A qualia usually means one specific world-state owned by one player. Outside the game, qualia is a philosophy term for subjective conscious experience. | Progression, clonaqualia block, Qualia Link |
| Vermin — creatures, mobs | The umbrella creature category. The creative inventory has a Vermin tab and the word applies to everything from a wandering Bubblebear to Yhvh. Wiki pages use vermin instead of mobs or entities for consistency with the shipped UI. | Vermin index, Bubblebear, Archangel |
| Possessions — inventory | The inventory header shown in the shipped UI. The carried-item section is labelled possessions in-game. Like apotheosis, tome, rosary, and qualia, it is one of the game's ritual-styled UI labels. | Items, rename pencil, faith wand |
| APOTHEOSIS — fusion, apotheosis fusion | The in-game name for fusion. From Greek, meaning deification. Fusion menus, title art, and ritual-toned prompts all use APOTHEOSIS wording. Fusion converts ingredient essences into new items and produces the bulk of the tiamana that fuels levels. | Fusion utility, Progression |
| Tiamana — level resource, xp | The level-up resource. Awarded from APOTHEOSIS fusions, cutscene completions, vermin kills, and plant harvests. The HUD shows it on a dedicated tiamana bulb. Filling the bulb grants a level and a perk pick. The word does not trace to an obvious real-world source and reads as game-coined. | Stats & Perks, Diatom, Progression |
| Cristella — cristella target, cristella enemy | A combat flag on certain entities. Tagged targets take bonus damage from matching tools. Entities carry a cristella boolean and combat logic reads it during damage. Weapons like cristella's bane add damage against tagged targets. Baal and Leviathan carry the flag. | cristella's bane, Baal, Leviathan |
Realms and routes
Dimension names, portal vocabulary, and world-state labels used across progression and travel pages.
| Term | Meaning | Related |
|---|---|---|
| Naraka — ordinary world, main world | The default ordinary-world dimension. Naraka is the generated world for normal play and the dimension a new save spawns into. Portal blocks route into it by name. In Indian religious vocabulary, naraka names infernal realms; the game uses the name for flavor, not its theology. | Naraka biome, janqualia block |
| Svarga — svargaqualia, divine, creative realm | An Indic heavenly term. Visible mostly through portal items. The clearest use is svargaqualia block. Svarga names celestial realms in Indic traditions. It's a dimension of essence blocks infinitely in every direction with no spawns. | svargaqualia block, Divine flag |
| Pocket qualia — pocket dimension, clonaqualia | A side-world concept tied to portal items. The clonaqualia block makes a duplicated / forked qualia rather than a storage pocket. | clonaqualia block, Qualia Link |
| Firmament — shared worlds, workshop layer | There are two things called Firmament. One is the dimension you are sent to when touching a Dominion that's a grid of grass over a void. The other is the shared-world layer for browsing, uploading, and downloading qualia. The menus have dedicated Firmament upload, download, status, and history screens. Workshop traffic is framed as firmament browsing instead of a generic online tab. | Firmament, Progression |
| YHVH — tetragrammaton, final route | A divine proper name reused as a dimension, a biome, and an endgame boss. Lucid Blocks puts it alongside Baal, Leviathan, and Archangel in the same Abrahamic naming lane, and hands it to a single endgame presence rather than a general heaven category. | Yhvh, Yhvh biome |
Naming patterns
Recurring source languages and thematic lanes behind many item, realm, and vermin names.
| Term | Meaning | Related |
|---|---|---|
| -qualia — qualia suffix, portal item naming | A suffix marking items as reality-facing tools. Janqualia, svargaqualia, and clonaqualia blocks all use it. The suffix signals world travel, world duplication, or world identity, not ordinary building material. | janqualia block, svargaqualia block, clonaqualia block |
| Greek and philosophical vocabulary — qualia, apotheosis | Several system words come from philosophy and religious-transformation language. Qualia and apotheosis are the clearest examples. | Qualia, APOTHEOSIS |
| Indic borrowings — sanskrit, naraka, svarga | Realm and portal names borrow from Sanskrit and related Indic religious vocabulary. Naraka and svarga are the clear pair. The runtime destinations do not always match the source word's meaning. | Naraka, Svarga |
| Abrahamic and Semitic names — yhvh, baal, leviathan, ofanim | Major vermin and endgame names draw from Biblical, Hebrew, and Northwest Semitic sources. YHVH, Baal, Leviathan, Ofanim, and Archangel share one naming family. | Yhvh, Baal, Leviathan, Ofanim |
| Science, geometry, and abstract forms — diatom, fractal, mandelbrot, tesseract | The other half of the naming style comes from biology, mathematics, and shape language. Diatom, fractal blocks, and tesseract items sit next to rosaries and archangels. | Diatom, Fractal blocks |