Wraith: The Oblivion lexicon

This is an index of terms appearing in the Wraith: The Oblivion lexicon.

Core rulebook
Note that the distinctions of Common Parlance (CP), Old Form (OF) and Vulgar Argot (VA) are only used in the original Wraith: The Oblivion Rulebook; these distinctions do not appear in Wraith: The Oblivion Second Edition.


 * Advocates (OF)
 * The Agency (OF)
 * Angst (CP)
 * Arcanos (plural Arcanoi) (only a Game Term in 1E)
 * The Arcanum (CP)
 * The Arisen (OF)
 * Artifact (CP)
 * Body Snatcher (VA)
 * Boo Job (VA)
 * Boojum (VA)
 * Brain Sucker (VA; only in 1E)
 * Byway (CP)
 * Catharsis (only in 2E as a Game Term)
 * Caul (CP)
 * Charon (CP)
 * Circle (CP)
 * Citadel (CP)
 * Cohort (CP)
 * Consort (OF)
 * Corpus (CP)
 * Creepshow (VA; only in 1E)
 * Cult (CP)
 * Deathlord (CP)
 * Dictuum Mortuum (only in 2E)
 * Domain (CP)
 * Doomsday (CP)
 * Doomshade (VA)
 * Doomslayer (only in 2E)
 * Dothead (VA; only in 1E)
 * Drone (CP)
 * Eidolon (OF)
 * Enfant (CP)
 * Far Shores (CP)
 * Fetters (CP)
 * Flesh Freak (VA; only in 1E)
 * Freewraith (only in 2E)
 * Gang (CP)
 * Guild (CP)
 * Harrowing (CP)
 * Harvest/Harvesting (CP)
 * Haunt (CP)
 * Hell (CP)
 * The Hellbound (VA; only in 1E)
 * Heretics (CP)
 * Hierarchy (CP)
 * Hosts (CP)
 * Isle of Sorrows (only in 2E)
 * Juice (VA)
 * Legacy (OF)
 * Legions (CP)
 * Lemure (CP)
 * Maelstrom (CP)
 * Malfean (CP; only in 1E)
 * Mask (CP; only in 1E)
 * Meat (VA)
 * Meat-Chains (VA; only in 1E)
 * Mitty (VA)
 * Moleman (plural molemen) (VA)
 * Necropolis (CP)
 * Nephandi (CP; only in 1E)
 * Nihils (CP)
 * Oblivion (CP)
 * Obolus (CP)
 * Onyx Tower (CP)
 * Passions (only in 2E as a Game Term)
 * Pathos (CP)
 * Plasm (CP)
 * Projectors (CP)
 * Psyche (only in 2E as a Game Term)
 * The Quick (CP)
 * Reaper (CP)
 * Regret (only in 2E as a Game Term)
 * Relic (CP)
 * Renegades (CP)
 * The Restless (CP)
 * Risen (only in 2E)
 * Scrooger (VA; only in 1E)
 * The Shadow (CP)
 * Shadowguide (only in 2E as a Game Term)
 * The Shadowlands (CP)
 * The Shroud (only listed in 1E as a Game Term)
 * Skinlands (VA)
 * Slumber (CP)
 * Soulfire (only in 2E)
 * Spectre (CP)
 * Stormrunning (VA)
 * Stygia (CP)
 * Tag (VA; only in 1E)
 * The Tempest (CP)
 * Terminals (CP; only in 1E)
 * Thorns (only in 2E as a Game Term)
 * Thrall (CP)
 * Tithe (CP)
 * Transcend/Transcendence (CP)
 * The Underworld (CP)
 * The Veinous Stair (only in 2E)
 * The Void (CP)
 * Wraith (CP)

Other sources
Note that many of the terms in World of Darkness: Tokyo (which was ostensibly a Wraith sourcebook) are crossover terms taken from other Classic World of Darkness games.


 * Abiku (from Shadow Players Guide)
 * Abyss (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Ace (from Wraith: The Great War Rulebook)
 * Adjustor (from The Hierarchy)
 * Akuma (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Alua (from Shadow Players Guide)
 * Aleph (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Amaterasu (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Angelics (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Annals of the Dead (from The Hierarchy)
 * Annals of Pestilence/Journals of Bone (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Annihilation (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Apsaras (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Ass-In-The-Hole (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Asuras (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Augur (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Baka (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Banality (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Barrow-flame (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * The Beaufort-Granogree Scale (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Behest (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Being (from Dark Reflections: Spectres)
 * Benandanti (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Bhur (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Bhuta (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Bhuvar (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * The Black Mask (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Blade-Boy/Blade-Girl (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Blades of Jade/Jade Blade (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Bleak Legion (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Blind-Eyes (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Boche (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Boer (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * The Breathless Dead (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Buddhism (from Wraith Players Guide, Dark Kingdom of Jade and Dark Kingdom of Jade Adventures)
 * The Bush of Ghosts (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Bushido (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Byways (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Cataphractoi (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Chancellor (from The Hierarchy)
 * Channels (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Children of Tane (from Wraith Players Guide)
 * Chi'n Ta (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Chioneso (from Shadow Players Guide)
 * Chu-ih-yu (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Clairvoyant/Clairvoyants (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Clearsight (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Clerk (from The Hierarchy)
 * Composure (from Dark Reflections: Spectres)
 * Concertina (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Confucianism (from Wraith Players Guide, Dark Kingdom of Jade and Dark Kingdom of Jade Adventures)
 * Connaissance (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Conquered Territories (from Wraith Players Guide, Dark Kingdom of Jade and Dark Kingdom of Jade Adventures)
 * Cosmic Mirror (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Creole (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Daityas (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Dark Kingdom of Ivory (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Dark Umbra (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Darklight (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Dealer (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Deliriums (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Delphic (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Demonics (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Destruction Harrowings (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Devoured (from Dark Reflections: Spectres)
 * The Devouring (from Dark Reflections: Spectres)
 * Displace (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Do the Delphi (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Doomsayer (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Doughboy (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Dreaming (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Effigy (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * En-lil (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Enochian (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Eunuch (from Dark Kingdom of Jade Adventures)
 * Euthanatos (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Feng Shui (from Dark Kingdom of Jade and World of Darkness: Hong Kong)
 * Feng-Tu (from Wraith Players Guide, Dark Kingdom of Jade and Dark Kingdom of Jade Adventures)
 * Ferrymen (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Fist of Nippon (from Dark Kingdom of Jade Adventures)
 * Flesh Corps (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Founts (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Fourth Great Maelstrom (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Fronds (from Dark Reflections: Spectres)
 * Gaijin (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles and World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Gambler (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Gandharvas (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Geisha (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Generals of Oblivion (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Glamour (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Goredenna (from Shadow Players Guide)
 * Govi (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * The Great War (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Grimas (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Gros-bon-ange (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Gumi (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Gunas (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Gurdwara (from Shadow Players Guide)
 * Hagundo (from Shadow Players Guide)
 * Hakken (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Haruspices (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Hengeyokai (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Hidden Ones (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Hirayanu (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Hounfor (from Wraith Players Guide)
 * Houngan (from Wraith Players Guide)
 * House Bishamon (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * House Genji (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Hsien (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Hun (from Wraith Players Guide, Dark Kingdom of Jade, Dark Kingdom of Jade Adventures, and Wraith: The Great War)
 * Ibambo (from Wraith Players Guide, Shadow Players Guide and Wraith: The Great War)
 * Ile Aiye (from Shadow Players Guide)
 * Ile Olokun (from Shadow Players Guide)
 * Ile Orun (from Shadow Players Guide)
 * Immortal Guard (from Wraith Players Guide, Dark Kingdom of Jade, Dark Kingdom of Jade Adventures and World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Imperialist (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Imprimatur (from The Hierarchy)
 * Inina (plural Anina) (from Wraith Players Guide)
 * Inspector (from The Hierarchy)
 * The Insurrection (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Invisible (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Island Below the Sea (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * The Isle of Sorrows (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Itinera Mortis (from The Hierarchy)
 * Ivory Queen (from Wraith Players Guide)
 * The Jade Kingdom (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Jade Palace (from Wraith Players Guide, Dark Kingdom of Jade and Dark Kingdom of Jade Adventures)
 * Johnny Songbirds (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Kamuii (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Kassandra (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Khalsa (from Shadow Players Guide)
 * Kithain (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Kitsune (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Kuei (from Wraith Players Guide, Dark Kingdom of Jade, Dark Kingdom of Jade Adventures and Wraith: The Great War)
 * Kuei-go (from Dark Kingdom of Jade and Dark Kingdom of Jade Adventures)
 * Kumo (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Kura Sau (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * The Labyrinth (from The Sea of Shadows and Dark Reflections: Spectres)
 * Lady/Our Lady/The Lady (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Lake of Cold Fire (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Land of Bedlam (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Legate (from The Hierarchy)
 * Legendaries (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Les Chevaux (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Les Invisibles (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Les Morts (from Shadow Players Guide)
 * Les Mystères (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Loa (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Loka (from Wraith Players Guide, Shadow Players Guide and Wraith: The Great War)
 * Lost Generation (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Lost Kingdoms (from Wraith Players Guide)
 * Lost Souls (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Loyalist (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Ma Mien (from Dark Kingdom of Jade Adventures)
 * Maelstrom (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Magister (from The Hierarchy)
 * Magisterium Veritatis (from The Hierarchy and Wraith: The Great War)
 * Mait'Tete (from Shadow Players Guide)
 * Maku (from Wraith Players Guide)
 * Mangaia (from Wraith Players Guide)
 * Marronage (from Wraith Players Guide)
 * Miasma (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Minister (from The Hierarchy)
 * Ministry of Intelligence (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Mirrorlands (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Mla Watu (from Wraith Players Guide)
 * Monastics (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Moriman (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Morts (from Wraith Players Guide)
 * Mount (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Mouri (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Mutilé (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Nagas (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Nanchon (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Nawab (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Necropolis Ports (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Nephwracks (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Nezumi (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Night Mail (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * The Night of Short Chains (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Nightmare Ride (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Nippon (from Dark Kingdom of Jade Adventures)
 * No Man's Land (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Oba (from Wraith Players Guide)
 * Ocean (from Wraith Players Guide and Wraith: The Great War)
 * Ocean of Acid (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Office of Maelstrom Preparedness (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Old Gods (from Wraith Players Guide)
 * Ori'bi (from Shadow Players Guide)
 * Orisha (from Wraith Players Guide)
 * Pals' battalions (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Pandemic (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Peng Lai/P'eng Lai (from Wraith Players Guide, Dark Kingdom of Jade, Dark Kingdom of Jade Adventures and Wraith: The Great War)
 * Petro (from Wraith Players Guide)
 * Phantasies (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Pirates (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Pisacha (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Plasmic Entities (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * P'o (from Wraith Players Guide, Dark Kingdom of Jade, Dark Kingdom of Jade Adventures, World of Darkness: Hong Kong and Wraith: The Great War)
 * Pool of Bittersweet Remembrance (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Primordial (from Dark Reflections: Spectres)
 * Prophet (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Pythian (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Qin Shihuang (from Wraith Players Guide, Dark Kingdom of Jade and Dark Kingdom of Jade Adventures)
 * Quagmire (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Quarry (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Rada (from Wraith Players Guide)
 * Rajas (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Rapaciousness (from Dark Reflections: Spectres)
 * Redemption (from Dark Reflections: Spectres)
 * Retrier d'en bas de e'eau (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Rhakshaza (from Shadow Players Guide)
 * River of Death (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Ronin (from World of Darkness: Tokyo and Wraith: The Great War)
 * Ru's Archipelago (from Wraith Players Guide)
 * Same-Bito (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Sappers (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Sargasso Sea (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Sargasso Spectres (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Sati (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Satva (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Scavenger Folk (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Sea of Broken Glass (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Sea of Shadows (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Sea of Shiva (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Sea of Souls (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Sea Which Knows No Sun (from Wraith Players Guide)
 * Senryo (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Seppuku (from World of Darkness: Tokyo and Wraith: The Great War)
 * Serviteur (from Shadow Players Guide)
 * Shard Spectres (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Shell shock (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Shen (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Shifting Zones (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Shinma (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Shogitai (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Sight (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Signbearers (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Sikhumbuzo (from Shadow Players Guide)
 * Sinkholes (from Dark Reflections: Spectres)
 * Sinkinda (from Wraith Players Guide, Shadow Players Guide and Wraith: The Great War)
 * Sofit (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Soma (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Somme (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Soul-Pirates (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Soul-Storms (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Soulbook of the Legions (from The Hierarchy)
 * Soulwelding (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Sthula Sarira (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Stosstaktics (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Strand (of the Web) (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Streghs (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Stygian Steel (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Sukshma Sarira (from Wraith Players Guide)
 * Sunless Sea (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Surface (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Swar (from Wraith Players Guide, Shadow Players Guide and Wraith: The Great War)
 * Tala (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Tamas (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Taoism (from Wraith Players Guide, Dark Kingdom of Jade and Dark Kingdom of Jade Adventures)
 * Target Harrowings (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Tempest Fugit (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Tenno (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Ti-bon-ange (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Ti Yu (from Dark Kingdom of Jade and Dark Kingdom of Jade Adventures)
 * Tommy (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Trusks (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Tvashtriyas (from Wraith Players Guide, Shadow Players Guide and Wraith: The Great War)
 * Twilight Era (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Typhoon (from Wraith Players Guide)
 * Uitlander (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Uji (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Ukiyo (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Unblinking Eyes (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Vaekai (from Wraith Players Guide)
 * Ventricle (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Vharuna (from Shadow Players Guide)
 * Visible (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
 * Wani (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * War to End All Wars (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Web/Lifeweb (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * Weeping Bay (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Whisp (from Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles)
 * White Jade (from Wraith Players Guide, Dark Kingdom of Jade and Dark Kingdom of Jade Adventures)
 * Wyrds (from The Sea of Shadows)
 * Yakuza (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Yama (from Wraith Players Guide, Shadow Players Guide and Wraith: The Great War)
 * Yama Kings (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Yamato Damashii (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Yank (from Wraith: The Great War)
 * Yellow Springs (from Wraith Players Guide, Dark Kingdom of Jade, Dark Kingdom of Jade Adventures and Wraith: The Great War)
 * Yomi Worlds (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Yu (from Wraith Players Guide, Dark Kingdom of Jade and Dark Kingdom of Jade Adventures)
 * Yu Huang (from Wraith Players Guide, Dark Kingdom of Jade and Dark Kingdom of Jade Adventures)
 * Yugen (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * The Zaibatsu (from World of Darkness: Tokyo)
 * Zhongguo (from Wraith Players Guide and Dark Kingdom of Jade)