#λbsΦlutιon [ᴬTᴺ]: Encyclopedia

The game's reference for every entity, item, artifact, Dogma and system, plus the taxonomy that organizes them.

#Fact and fantasy

λbsΦlutιon draws on real faiths, scriptures, places and rites. The rules for every entry:

• Real things are stated factually: beliefs, rules, joining steps, rites, scriptures, places, history.
• Nothing is concealed. We openly reveal what each faith teaches and practices.
• Fantasy is always marked, so players know what's real and what's game.

Each entry or line carries one of these labels:

Most current entries still need labels, and everything faith-related is [Review] until an expert has checked it. We're asking for volunteers: see the Help Wanted section on the support page.

#ID scheme

Every entry gets a stable ID: <CATEGORY>-<CLASS>-<NNN>.

Class codes are listed in taxonomy.md. Example: DMN-JIN-003 = the third Jinn entry.

#Entry template

### <Name>  `<ID>`
- **Class / Order / Rank:**
- **Region style:** Middle East | Europe | South America | Colonial
- **Tier:** 1–10
- **Origin:** tradition or source the entry draws from
- **Description:**
- **Capture / Cast-out requirements:** knowledge item(s), location, time of day, other conditions
- **Abilities:** (for Daemon Battle and first-person combat)
- **Drops / Rewards:**
- **Lore notes:**

#Status

Started 2026-10-21. Lists are seeded with names and structure. Stats, abilities and capture requirements get filled in entry by entry.

Source of truth: .encyclopedia/README.md

#λbsΦlutιon [ᴬTᴺ]

Chapter One: Thɘ Fλmιlιλr's Pλth

A highly spiritual VRChat world. You capture demons and spirits, cast out possessions, and rise through your Dogma, Society and Faith. Chapter One is a single world with no external server. Multiplayer trading comes later.

#Core terms

#Chapter One features

#1. Dogma Selection → dogma.md

• The initial selection limits you to the Societies and Faiths of your Dogma. Quests can convert or change it later.
• Joining a Society: the next level under the Dogma, since Dogma is your birthplace and limitation.
  • Quests unlock the Society types of your current Dogma (birth Dogma only, no conversion yet).
  • Quests lead you to getting into a Faith.
• Joining a Faith: you do the real steps of joining it, e.g. becoming a catechumen and answering every question, with answers learned from priests and other NPCs.

#2. Faith Joining → dogma.md § Joining quests

• All quests for joining Faiths.

#3. Daemon System → daemons.md

• Capture basic Daemons. Taxonomy: Wild, the roaming types you find in the world that start your leveling.
• Daemon Battles: player vs player, Pokémon-style turn-based combat with timers.
  • A battle can cause a possession in your enemy. They have to go on a quest to get unpossessed.

#4. Personal Inventory → items.md § Inventory

• Just personal items and things. No player trading.

#5. Gear & Weapons → items.md

• Gear items, inventory, weapon types by region style.

#6. Level System → progression.md

• Crafting, foraging, fishing, food. Think New World mixed with Valhalla.

#7. Knowledge, Relics, Idols, Rituals → items.md

• Scrolls, artifacts, idols, rituals, all of it.

#The World → world.md

One big walkable world with a zone for each Dogma. Travel on foot, by ship or by spells.

#User Interface → ui.md

Same style and structure as New World: HUD, inventory, map, journal, skills, crafting.

#Combat

• First person against monsters.
• Daemon Battle: familiars fight each other.
• All combat is turn-based with timers.

#Region styles

Middle East · Europe · South America · Colonial set the look and feel of all weapons and styles.

Source of truth: .encyclopedia/game.md

#The World

One big world. A single continuous map you can walk across, with a zone for each Dogma, so every faith and land has its flavor in it. Distant zones can also be reached by ship travel or spells.

One world means one save: your character, inventory and Familiars stay with you everywhere.

#Travel TRV

To define: which ports connect to which, what spells exist, and what they cost or require (knowledge, Faith, level).

#Dogma zones ZON

Each Dogma gets a zone with its own look, NPCs, Faith halls, Daemons and quests. Region styles come from taxonomy.md § Region styles.

The Eastern Dogmas (Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Shinto, Sikh) don't fit the four region styles yet: either a fifth style or a placement within the existing four.

#Secret Societies

No zone of their own. Their lodges and hidden halls sit inside the Dogma zones, matching their role as a secondary layer on top of a Faith.

#Building it

• Assets: the Hannan town kit (cottages, towers, walls, tavern, blacksmith, barracks) and the Hunanian Empire city set can furnish zones. See docs/hannan-asset-inventory.md.
• Size on Quest and PC: occlusion culling, fog and draw distance, LODs, baked lighting and shared texture atlases, with a lighter separate Quest build.

Source of truth: .encyclopedia/world.md

#Dogma → Society → Faith

Faiths have internal wars (rival Faiths and Societies in the same Dogma) and external wars (other Dogmas). Joining can put you on a team with your "frenemies", and sometimes not.

#Islam DGM-ISL

#Christianity DGM-CHR

#Judaism DGM-JUD

#Hinduism DGM-HIN

#Buddhism DGM-BUD

#Taoism DGM-TAO

Zhengyi (talisman and exorcism priests), Quanzhen (monastic).

#Shinto DGM-SHN

Shrine Shinto, Onmyōdō (Onmyōji).

#Sikhism DGM-SKH

Khalsa (Amritdhari), Sahajdhari.

#Zoroastrianism DGM-ZOR

Parsi, Irani.

#Folk & Ancestral DGM-FLK

#Secret Societies SEC (secondary layer)

Not a Dogma. A secondary layer you join in addition to your Faith. Its benefits stack on you together with your Faith's.

Freemasons (Scottish Rite, York Rite, Knights Templar degrees, Shriners), Rosicrucians, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Ordo Templi Orientis, Martinists, Bavarian Illuminati, Odd Fellows, Skull and Bones, Knights of Columbus, Order of the Eastern Star.

#Gnostic & Mystic DGM-GNO

Gnostics, Mandaeans, Cathars, Theosophists, Hermeticists.

#Joining quests

Every path is a chain of three quests:

1. Birth: your Dogma is set at character creation.
2. Society unlock: quests inside your birth Dogma open its Societies. No conversion yet.
3. Faith entry: you do the real steps of joining. Steps are learned from NPCs (priests, imams, rabbis, gurus, lodge masters), and their knowledge supplies the answer selections.

Difficulty is 1 (easy) to 5 (hardest).

The rest are filled in as each Faith's quest chain is written.

#Per-Faith fields (to fill in)

• Rules of the Faith: what keeps you in good standing
• NPC teachers: who holds the knowledge for the entry questions
• Region style: Middle East · Europe · South America · Colonial
• Signature tools, vessels, weapons: see items.md
• Daemon affinity: classes this Faith captures or casts out best (see daemons.md)
• Internal wars · External wars · Frenemy pairings

Source of truth: .encyclopedia/dogma.md

#Daemons

Every entity you capture, cast out, or command. Class codes and attributes are in taxonomy.md.

#Encounter states

How a Daemon exists in the world, separate from its class.

#Wild Daemons (Chapter One starters)

Low-tier roaming Daemons that spawn by region style, time of day and location.

#Angels ANG

Heavenly hosts, ranked by the nine choirs (Pseudo-Dionysius).

Named: Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Raguel, Sariel, Remiel (the seven archangels of Enoch); Metatron, Sandalphon (Judaic); Jibrīl, Mīkāʾīl, Isrāfīl, ʿAzrāʾīl (Islamic); Munkar & Nakīr (questioners of the grave); Harut & Marut; Spenta Mainyu and the Amesha Spentas (Zoroastrian).

#Fallen FAL

Angels who fell, and their offspring.

#Demons DEM

The infernal hierarchy. Ranks follow the Ars Goetia.

Mesopotamian: Pazuzu, Lamashtu, Lilitu, the Seven Evil Spirits (Sebitti), Utukku, Gallu. Persian: Daevas (Aeshma of wrath, Druj of the lie), Angra Mainyu.

#Jinn JIN

Beings of smokeless fire. Ranks from Arabic and Persian folklore.

Persian: Peri (benevolent), Div (malevolent).

#Spirits SPR

Nature, elemental and place spirits.

#Ghosts GHO

The restless dead.

#Ancestors ANC

Honored dead who guard a lineage. Usually allies, bargained with rather than captured.

Lares & Penates (Roman), Egungun (Yoruba), household ancestor tablets (Chinese), Mallqui (Inca ancestor mummies).

#Possessors POS

Entities that inhabit a living host. Fought through exorcism encounters.

#Fae FAE

The Fair Folk.

Seelie Court, Unseelie Court, Sidhe, Pooka, Changeling, Redcap, Kelpie, Kobold, Brownie, Leprechaun.

#Yōkai & Oni YOK

Kitsune, Tengu, Kappa, Oni, Yūrei, Onryō, Tsukumogami (objects that gain a spirit at 100 years: crossover with Relics), Nue, Jorōgumo.

#Guǐ GUI

Chinese ghosts and spirits. Taoist exorcists are their natural hunters.

Jiangshi (hopping corpse), Huli jing (fox spirit), Nü gui (vengeful female ghost), Shui gui (water ghost), Yaoguai (demonic creature).

#Asura & Rakshasa ASU

Asuras (titans at war with the devas), Rakshasa (shapeshifting man-eaters), Vetala (corpse-inhabiting spirit), Pishacha (flesh-eating demon), Mara (the tempter, Buddhist).

#Preta PRT

Hungry ghosts with endless appetite (Hindu and Buddhist). Ranks by hunger: Fire-mouth, Needle-mouth, Stinking-mouth.

#Relics REL

Daemons bound into sacred or cursed objects. The object is the body, so capturing one gives you both the Daemon and the item.

#Idols IDL

Daemons dwelling in statues and graven images.

#Constructs CON

Golem (Jewish: clay animated by a divine name), Bronze guardians (Talos), Clockwork automata (Colonial), Straw effigies.

#Familiars FAM

Not a separate species: any Daemon becomes a Familiar once bound. Familiars are what you use in Daemon Battle. Classic forms: black cat, raven, toad, hare, hound, owl, serpent.

#Cryptids CRY

Folk creatures of the colonial frontier.

Rougarou / Loup-garou (French colonial werewolf), Jersey Devil, Chupacabra, Lechuza (owl witch), Nahual (Mesoamerican shapeshifter), El Silbón (Venezuelan whistler ghost).

#Elder ELD

Endgame primordial powers. No faction claims them.

Tiamat (primordial sea), Apep (the serpent of chaos), Behemoth, Ziz, Leviathan (the beast, distinct from the Prince), Supay (Inca lord of the underworld).

#Capturing

1. Encounter a Daemon: Wild ones roam, others need conditions to appear.
2. Weaken it in first-person combat (turn-based with timers).
3. Meet the requirements: knowledge item(s), location, time of day and any rite. Without the knowledge you can't do anything.
4. Capture with the method its class needs (cast out, seal, bind, bargain, pray, name) into the right vessel (see items.md § Vessels).
5. The Daemon becomes a Familiar.

#Daemon Battles

Player vs player, Pokémon style: familiars fight each other.

• Turn-based with timers: each turn has a countdown. What happens when the timer runs out is still to be defined.
• Team: familiars from your bound collection.
• Moves come from the Daemon's class, essence and rank. Rites and relics add moves.
• Outcome effects: a win can cause a possession in your enemy.

#Possession (player affliction)

• Caused by losing a Daemon Battle (or by certain Daemons).
• The possessed player gets an affliction (effects to be defined per Daemon class).
• Cure: they must go on a quest to get unpossessed. The rite matches their Dogma or Faith: exorcism (Christian), ruqyah (Islamic), dybbuk exorcism (Jewish), Taoist talisman rite, a curandero's limpia, and so on.

Source of truth: .encyclopedia/daemons.md

#Items & Artifacts

Categories and codes are in taxonomy.md.

#Knowledge KNW

Scrolls, manuscripts, codices, grimoires and tablets. Knowledge gates captures: without the right text, the Daemon can't be engaged.

#Relics RLC

Sacred artifacts as objects (not Daemons). Legendary tier.

#Ritual Tools TOL

#Vessels VSL

Hold a captured Daemon. The vessel type has to match the class.

#Weapons WPN (by region style)

#Vestments & Armor VST

Cassock, stole, chasuble, epitrachelion, monk's habit, jubba and turban, keffiyeh, tallit, ihram, kasaya (Buddhist robe), poncho and chullo (Andean), feather cloak (Aztec), conquistador cuirass and morion helm, colonial greatcoat and tricorn.

#Consumables CNS

Frankincense, myrrh oil, chrism, beeswax candles, consecrated bread, blessed oil, black salt, chalk, sage, copal resin (Mesoamerican), palo santo (Andean), coca leaves (Andean offering), rose water (Persian).

#Rituals RIT

Rites performed with knowledge, tools and conditions. Used for captures, cast-outs, possession cures and Faith progress.

#Gear GEAR

Equipped slots:

Gear tiers rise with player level. The highest-level gear sits at the top of each region style.

#Inventory

Personal only. No player trading.

#Dropping & picking up

Players can drop an item into the world, and any player can pick it up. Handled by world and character Udon scripts:

• The item appears as a pooled world object (VRC Pickup + Object Sync) at the dropping player's hand. It leaves their inventory.
• Another player grabs it, ownership transfers to them, the item is added to their inventory, and the object returns to the pool.
• Single action, no multi-step trade screen. Not authoritative: cheat detection comes later.

Source of truth: .encyclopedia/items.md

#Progression

The level system: crafting, foraging, fishing, food. Think New World (separate trade skills, each leveled by doing it) mixed with Valhalla (a skill tree of unlockable abilities).

#Player level LVL

• Earned from capturing Daemons, battles, quests, and Faith progress.
• Gates gear tiers, Daemon tiers you can capture, and quest chains.
• Skill points from leveling go into the ability tree (Valhalla-style).

#Life skills SKL (New World-style, each leveled by doing it)

#Gathering

#Refining

#Crafting

#Ability tree ABL (Valhalla-style)

Spend skill points from player levels. Branches are to be defined. Candidates from the systems so far: Combat (first-person), Binding (capture and familiars), and Rites (exorcism, possession cures, Faith abilities).

#Faith standing STD

Progress inside your Faith: rank in its hierarchy, unlocked rites and teachers. Gained by following the rules of the Faith and completing its quests.

Source of truth: .encyclopedia/progression.md

#User Interface

The UI matches New World in style and structure, look and feel. Same layout and visual language, rebuilt with λbsΦlutιon's own art. New World's assets aren't reused.

#Visual language UI-STY

#HUD UI-HUD

#Screens

#VRChat notes

• In VR, the HUD is a world-space canvas that follows the player's view. On desktop it can sit like a normal screen HUD.
• Screens open as floating panels in front of the player in VR and full-screen on desktop.

Source of truth: .encyclopedia/ui.md

#Taxonomy

The tree everything in the game hangs from.

World
├── Daemons (entities you capture, cast out, or command as familiars)
│   ├── Class → Order → Rank → Species → Individual
│   └── Encounter state: Wild · Possessing · Bound · Familiar
├── Items
│   ├── Knowledge   (scrolls, manuscripts, codices, grimoires, tablets)
│   ├── Relics      (sacred artifacts: objects, not entities)
│   ├── Ritual Tools
│   ├── Vessels     (hold a captured Daemon)
│   ├── Weapons
│   ├── Vestments & Armor
│   ├── Consumables
│   ├── Rituals
│   └── Gear slots
├── Dogma (birth tradition and limitation)
│   ├── Dogma → Society → Faith → Order / Lodge / Congregation
│   └── Secret Society (secondary layer on top of Faith; benefits stack)
├── Progression
│   └── Player level · Life skills · Ability tree · Faith standing
├── People (NPCs: priests, imams, rabbis, monks, shamans, masters, scholars, merchants)
├── Locations (one world)
│   └── Dogma zone → Site → Point of interest
├── Travel: walking · ship · spells
└── Conditions (what gates captures and quests)
    ├── Knowledge held
    ├── Location
    ├── Time (hour, day, moon phase, feast day, season)
    ├── Rite performed
    └── Faith standing

#Daemon classes

#Daemon attributes

#Item categories

#Region styles

Source of truth: .encyclopedia/taxonomy.md

ID index

Every heading that carries an ID code, across all pages.