Setting:The Editors/Glossary

C

Canon

A work of media/fiction that is its own universe or sets of.

Church of Tommy Westphall, The

A cult in the Meta who seek to unite all canons as envisioned in the St. Elsewhere conclusion, where many canons are concluded to be merely the imaginaed creations of Tommy Westphall. This ever-expanding vision of the Meta is named the "Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis".

Crossover

A situation or a world where two canons or more have collided, with stories and characters merging or intermingling to varying degrees.

E

Editor

A special agent of the Transpace Guard organization that eliminates SUEs and reality distortions

F

Fireman

Term derived from the novel Farenheit 451. A group of people who seek to destroy canons and destabilize the order in the Meta.

Finished Works

Incredibly stable and highly-potent self-repairing canons. Some of these canons are in "Public Domain" status in layman's terms, or are canons that have fuelled the creation of other canons deriving from, in one way or another.

Fixer

Term for a person who wishes to alter the course of a canon to another possibility outside of what has been reliably predicted.

H

Hedonians

Term for groups or individuals who travel the meta in search of fulfilling fetishes or sexual desires, either forcibly subjecting people to their point of view or being merchants of pleasure by also being involved in looting and smuggling.

L

Looting

A euphemism for stealing or salvaging objects or people from canons, usually by exploiting Psuedoheisenberg's Literary Uncertainty Principle

M

Mary Sue

Fanfiction or writing term for a flawless, perfect character created by an author, usually a self-insert.

Meta

A so-called sea of space, or a "forest" containing all canons that ever existed. It is the manifested expression of the creativity that flows forth from the Real Earth where works of fiction are born.

Meta-Earth

A so-called "nexus" of the Meta or "white hole" where canons in the Meta appear as fictional works in the culture and history of this particular world. It is a "Generic Earth" where the ideas from the Real Earth are unconsciously manipulated and built upon by its inhabitants.

Multiverse

A term referring to a collection of universes. In this setting, the multiverse contains subsets of multiverses, usually as a result of connected universes that fall under one general expression of fiction, a certain series of canon and perhaps its many iterations and permutations.

P

Psuedoheisenberg's Literary Uncertainty Principle

see main article: Psuedoheisenberg's Literary Uncertainty Principle

R

Reality Distortion

An irregularity of space-time caused by the presence of foreign entities or effects acting inside canons. Also is defined as exerting hostile reality-warping effects in the Meta or canons.

Reality Emitter

A device that diminishes or at most, negates the powers of SUEs and weakens the effects of reality distortions.

S

SUE

Acronym for Supernaturally Unstable Entity. Layman's term is a "Mary Sue".

T

Tannhauser Convention

A treaty known in the Transpace Guard banning the contact and looting of, and in certain dangerous and forbidden canons such as BLAME! or The Culture.