Witch's Diary: A Paranormal Urban Fantasy Tale (Lost Library Book 4) (31 page)

Inter-Pack Policing Cooperative or IPPC:
A cross-territorial policing organization created initially by cooperating Lycan packs and joined by members of several other talent groups, including spell casters and healers.

Lost Library:
Located within an historic house in Prague, formerly the Kovar family home. The library contains the greatest known collection of spelled books. Historically, it was controlled by one or more powerful spell-caster families, most recently the Kovar family. Possession of the library and the secret of its location was lost over a hundred years ago.

Lycan:
A type of magic-user whose talents typically include shifting between human and wolf forms and self-healing. Lycan can share some characteristics with their wolf cousins, but are not to be mistaken as wolves.

Magic-user:
Any one of several types of people who can use magic, including Lycan, spell casters, witches, and healers. As a group, the community is referred to as magic-users. Most people with magical ability identify first with their magic type, Lycan or witch, and secondly with the larger and more encompassing magic-using community. It is theorized that all talent groups have a core of magical energy, and it is the natural inclination of a person’s magic that defines the talent group.

Pack:
An organized group of Lycan. The type of organizational structure varies by pack.

Pack Book or Record Book:
A spelled text containing a variety of pack information, including but not limited to genealogy, inter-pack conflicts, alliances, and Alpha challenges.

Record Keeper:
The Lycan term for a spell caster with a language talent, usually a woman. Record Keepers are able to create spelled texts by anchoring their words, thoughts, images, and emotions to a physical object, usually a book. Record Keepers can also pull information from spelled texts, typically utilizing a question-and-answer system.

Spell Caster:
Also called casters. Spell casters use their magic to manipulate objects or bind spells to objects.

Vampyr:
A type of cannibal who primarily ingests magic. Traditionally accomplished by tying the subject’s magic more closely to his blood and consuming the blood.

Ward:
A common expression of the binding type of caster magic. The spell caster attaches a spell to an inanimate object to perform some specific function. Examples include sensing wards, alarm wards, trap wards, and containment wards.