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)
- Dictum 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 WOD: World of Darkness: Tokyo (which was ostensibly a Wraith sourcebook) are crossover terms taken from other World of Darkness games.
- Abiku (from Shadow Players Guide)
- Abyss (from Wraith Players Guide and Shadow Players Guide)
- Ace (from WTGW: Wraith: The Great War Rulebook )
- Adjustor (from The Hierarchy)
- Akuma (from WOD: World of Darkness: Tokyo )
- Alua (from Shadow Players Guide)
- Aleph (from WTO: 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, WTO: Dark Kingdom of Jade (book) 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 -- The unique abilities possessed by the Spectre's Psyche, akin to Thorns. (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)