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adolescent (noun; plural adolescents): A Sylesti that has assumed its adult appearance but is not yet old enough to breed. An adolescent can remain in its Hatchery, but it has to be fed just as if it was in a Stable. An adolescent is able to go on Missions and fight as part of a Party, but it cannot produce offspring. (adjective): Experiencing this phase of a Sylesti's existence. Example: "May I buy that adolescent Morkko in your Hatchery?"

Advent Calendar (proper noun): An annual Sylestia feature which begins on December 1st and ends on December 25th. Each player receives one prize on each day that they visit the Advent Calendar and click on that day's date. Prizes change from year to year.

Aeri (noun; plural Aeris or Aeries): Short for "Aeridini," a species of Sylesti.

Aryth's Spire Potion:


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{B} (abbreviation; note that the brackets are usually square [] but may be as shown): Abbreviation for "buying" in a forum thread's subject line. (Square brackets will cause the letter "B" to bold all text that comes after it, except in a thread's subject line, where the square brackets will simply be visible.)

Bakery pet (Noun; plural Bakery pets): An Exclusive Sylesti created via the Winter Festival Sylesti Bakery during the 2014 and 2015 Winter Festivals. Players gathered ingredients and utensils and then "baked" an Exclusive Themed Sylesti egg, which hatched into a Bakery Pet, q.v.

Baking Utensils (noun; plural form does not change): Required by Pastry Chef Francois to bake a Special Spice Sylesti. Image below.



Behemoth (proper noun): A Named Boss. Behemoth is not a Sylesti. Players cannot capture Behemoth.



Blaze (proper noun): A Named sub-Boss. Blaze can be one of several species and may be female or male. Players cannot capture Blaze.

Blaze
Spoiler: Blaze appears in the Nightfall Bandit Dungeon.

Blueberry Bulbori Gumdrop (noun; plural Blueberry Bulbori Gumdrops): An item that players may hand out to other players, at no cost to themselves, during Fall Festival Trick or Treat. Image below.


Bori (noun; plural Bories): Short for "Bulbori," a species of Sylesti.

breeding project (noun): A Sylestia player's plan for breeding certain pets to one another to achieve a desired result in the ultimate offspring.

breeding swap (Noun; plural breeding swaps): An agreement between two players, one of whom owns a female and the other a male of the same species, in which the players breed the pair of pets to each other twice, and each player gets one egg.

brelp (verb): To add the appropriate Brew Agent to another player's active Cauldron in their Brew Hut. This word is a portmanteau of "brew help."
(noun): The assistance so given.

Bulb (noun; plural Bulbs): Short for "Bulbori," a species of Sylesti.

bunnydog (slang; noun; plural bunnydogs): Luffox.

buying (noun): In a thread's subject line, this indicates the thread's creator wishes to purchase one or more of the thing(s) listed in the subject line for gold or Diamonds. Examples: "Buying Pet Dyes"; "Buying female Sylvorpas." Contrast with "auctioning," "seeking," "selling," "swapping," and "trading."

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Candied Aeridini Flower (noun; plural Candied Aeridini Flowers): An item that players may hand out to other players, at no cost to themselves, during Fall Festival Trick or Treat.

Candied Aeridini Flower

Candy Heart




Caudron (noun; plural Cauldrons):

Cave Troll (noun; plural Cave Trolls): A type of enemy character.

Cave Troll Crusher

Spoilers: Has three stars. Does Physical Damage.


Cave Troll Ravager

Spoilers: Has two stars. Does Physical Damage.

Cherry Qitari Lolly: An item that players may hand out to other players, at no cost to themselves, during Fall Festival Trick or Treat. Image below.


chicken tail (noun): A Griffi Mutation.

Cinnamon Chocolate Swirled Lupora: An item that players may hand out to other players, at no cost to themselves, during Fall Festival Trick or Treat. Image below.


Chocolate Banana Vulnyx Fangs: An item that players may hand out to other players, at no cost to themselves, during Fall Festival Trick or Treat. Image below.


Chocolate Cherry Draeyl Crisp: An item that players may hand out to other players, at no cost to themselves, during Fall Festival Trick or Treat. Image below.


Chocolate Peanut Butter Morkko Claw: An item that players may hand out to other players, at no cost to themselves, during Fall Festival Trick or Treat. Image below.


Chuck Porous: an enemy that first appeared in the first-ever Maws Of Madness during the 2019 Fall Festival. This enemy appeared as the leader in the Level 60-70, Round 3 Maws, along with Spruce Lee and Steven Seagull. All 3 do Physical damage.

Unwavering Confidence buff. Off-balanced (High) debuff.


cloverbutt (noun; plural cloverbutts): ¹The Lucky Runes trait when it occurs as a Visible trait on a Bulbori, Draeyl, Faelora, Griffi, Lighira, Luffox, Lupora, Morkko, Ny'Vene, Puffadore, Ryori, Sylvorpa, Vulnyx, or Zolnixi. ² A Sylesti of one of these species who has Visible Lucky Runes.

Collector's Edition (Adjective): Of the original color scheme of a pet Theme whose colors were altered during or since the 2015 Spring Festival. The opposite of Collector's Edition is Modern. See this thread for a description of the specific differences: Guide to Color Changes in Themed Pets.

colt (Noun; plural colts): A male Kelpari or Qitari Hatchling or adolescent.

Conjured Wisp--summoned by Kowlla.

Maws of Madness version


Cookie and Cream Griffi: An item that players may hand out to other players, at no cost to themselves, during Fall Festival Trick or Treat. Image below.


cooldown (noun): The minimum amount of time that has to pass before an event that occurs in Sylestia can occur again. Players sometimes refer to a female pet's recovery period after producing an egg (that is, the time that has to pass before that pet can produce another egg), as the pet's "cooldown." However, the term more properly applies to the amount of time it takes for a defeated boss to reappear, or for a random Festival event to re-occur, and so forth.

Cotton Candy Lighira: An item that players may hand out to other players, at no cost to themselves, during Fall Festival Trick or Treat. Image below.


cover (verb): To breed to a female pet; said of a male pet. Example: "I don't allow my Themed males to cover non-Themed females." Most often seen in gerund form, covering, which just means "breeding," but only in reference to males. Example: "Marsee sets their Tagged Aeridinies' covering fees ridiculously high."
In Sylestia, males' covering fees are generally much lower than the breeding fees of females are, because males can breed multiple times a day. Females can only breed once every three or every seven days, depending upon the species.

crossbreed (verb): To breed a Themed pet to a Themed pet of a different Theme. An example would be breeding a male Halloween Zolnixi to a female Great Pumpkin Zolnixi. (noun, plural crossbreeds): A pet whose parents belong to two different Themes; cf halfbreed.

CT (slang): Abbreviation for "chicken tail," q.v.

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Damage Over Time (noun; plural Damages Over Time; abbreviation DoT): Damage that continues to occur to the target after an initial attack is successful, without the need for for second or subsequent attacks. After a pet or enemy begins doing Damage Over Time to a target, the damage cannot be halted except by the defeat of the attacker, and sometimes not even then.
An example is Slash, an attack done by pets who are on the Air Tree. If successful, the Slash attack does Physical damage on the round that it succeeds. However, on each of the next two rounds following this successful attack, there is a chance that the target will take further Physical damage even if the target receives no other attacks from any source. This further damage is Damage Over Time.
Damage Over Time is the bane of capture attempts. Players who wish to focus on capturing Sylesties (for instance, during a Festival) either don't use pets that do Damage Over Time in their Parties or do not allow those pets to attack the Sylesti whom the player wishes to capture. The attacks that do Damage Over Time are Slash (Air Tree) and Force (Shadow Tree).

Damian the Hunter (proper noun): A Named Boss who appears beside a fire in the Sweet Blossom Orchard region.

Damian the Hunter
Spoilers: His attacks do Physical Damage and can hit all the pets in a Party on the same round or do DoT. Defeating him does not count in the "Defeating Woodsman Savages or Tamers" Task, even though he looks exactly like a Woodsman Savage.

Dark Cherry Chocolate Luffox Tusks:


Decorative Aurleon Cookie (noun; plural Decorative Aurleon Cookies): An item that players may hand out to other players, at no cost to themselves, during Fall Festival Trick or Treat.

Decorative Aurleon Cookie


Demonic Steed (proper noun): A Named boss who has appeared in the 2014, 2015, and 2016 Fall Festivals.

Demonic Steed
He is a Qitari stallion. Players cannot capture the Demonic Steed but it is quite easy to create a duplicate of him. Use a Regular Qitari Essence and copy/paste the Image Location of the image just above into the Generator. For greater verisimilitude, use an Enhanced essence and add the Fire Mane trait. The resulting pet will look something like this--

This is extremely close to the Demonic Steed's appearance when he is flaming.
Spoilers: The Demonic Steed does Physical Damage and Stun; that is, he can paralyze a pet in the player's Party. Therefore, when the Demonic Steed appears, the player should focus on defeating him, even if that means ignoring the Headless Horseman for a time. This is probably the single most important technique for ultimately defeating the Headless Horseman--get rid of the Demonic Steed as fast as possible!


Deviant Channeler (noun; plural Deviant Channelers): This boss character is not a Named, but rather a type of boss. He appears in Sweet Blossom Orchard, near a mushroom house, alternatively with the Named who also sometimes appears in that location. Note that he does not drop avatar items. Players cannot acquire his Dragonstaff; it simply is not available as an avatar Held.

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Diamond (proper noun): One of Sylestia's many types of currency. Certain items require Diamonds for purchase. There are two ways to acquire Diamonds: (1) buy them for RW cash from the Diamond Shop and (2) get them from other players.


Diamond Tester (noun): An Exceptional Genetic Test Kit, so called because one can only acquire it by spending Diamonds.


dishwater (adjective): The product of a careless breeding; used to describe an Offspring pet. Dishwater pets have dull colors. Newer players, who do not yet understand how color inheritance works in Sylestia, sometimes find to their dismay that they've bred a pair of beautiful pets to each other but gotten a dishwater Offspring. Using the Breeding Grounds' "Test Breed" button helps to prevent dishwater pets. For example, here are two beautiful Nephinies, Daw and Caspiel:

However, Test Breeding them shows that their colors will not mix well, likely resulting in a dishwater pet. The owner can simply avoid breeding Caspiel and Daw to each other.



Disruptor (Slang): Philter Of Trait Disruption (Themed), q.v.


DoT (noun; abbreviation): Damage Over Time, q.v.


Drunk Noodle (noun; slang; plural Drunk Noodles): A type of Themed Nephini, the Cinnamon Eggnog Nephini. Examples--



dust (verb): To give a pet the Lucky Dust trait via a Lucky Disruptor or Lucky Mutator.




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Easter Egg (proper noun): A type of token that players found during the 2014-2016 Spring Festivals. These tokens are tradeable and can only be spent in the Spring Festival Shop.

Easter Egg (x of 9) (proper noun): Nine items, each with a different appearance and number, that players found during the 2017 Easter mini-Festival. When a player had at least one of each of the nine types in their Inventory and then Used one of them, one Easter Egg of each of the nine types would vanish from the Inventory, and a Themed Luffox Hatchling (of the Agouti Rabbit, Cream Rabbit, or Dutch Rabbit Themes) would appear in the player's Hatchery. These Easter Eggs came from Nurturing in Hatcheries, opening chests and boxes in any Zone, including Dungeons, and defeating enemies in any Zone.



Eggling (Noun: plural Egglings): The Sylestia term for a Sylesti egg (not to be confused with the real-world term "eggling," which means "reptile that is about to hatch, or has just hatched, from an egg"). A Sytlestia Eggling may be any species.

Elryssa the Huntress (Proper Noun): A Named Boss who sometimes appears beside a house in the Sweet Blossom Orchard region.

Elryssa the Huntress
Spoilers: Her attacks do Physical Damage and may cause DoT. Avatar item drops from her include White Raven, Black Raven, and Golden Raven.

Enfeebled (proper noun): A de-buff some enemies can inflict on pets. It decreases the pet's Critical Hit chance by 20% for 4 turns. The icon looks like this:

Enraged (proper noun): A buff available to some enemies. It increases the Physical Damage that an enemy does by 20% for 3 turns. The icon looks like this:

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Fabled (adjective): Being, of, or like a pet species that cannot simply be found and captured while adventuring in Sylestia's ordinary Zones. Players can only acquire Tamed or Exclusive Fabled pets under certain restricted circumstances, though of course Fabled pets can be generated with Essences or bred to produce Offspring at any time. All other things being equal, Fabled pets come into existence with higher stats than non-Fabled pets do. The Fabled species are the Aeridini, Griffi, Lighira, Nephini, Ny'vene, and Ryori. Examples: "My first two Stables are just for Fabled pets"; "Fabled female pets take seven days to recover from producing an egg."
N.B.: The Puffadore is not a Fabled species but is often included with the Fabled species during Festival events, games, etc.
Fabled (Noun; plural Fabled): A species or pet of this type. Examples: "The Lighira was the first Fabled"; "Why would anyone use their only Fabled as a Mission Pet?"


Fae (noun; plural Faes): Short for "Faelora," a species of Sylesti.


Farm Maiden Rosemary (proper noun): A Named character who is currently the only Stablehand available to players to help them manage their Stables.

Farm Maiden Rosemary
In addition to automatically feeding and healing a player's pets, Farm Maiden Rosemary can purchase food for her employer's pets at a discount. The more pets the employer owns, the higher the discount, up to a maximum discount of 80%.


fat noodle (slang; noun; plural fat noodles): An Aeridini. See also noodle, drunk noodle, ramen noodle, udon noodle.


fawn (Noun; plural fawns): A Faelora Hatchling.


Fern Evenglow (Proper Noun): The Traveling Merchant in Sweet Blossom Orchard.

Fern Evenglow


Festival (noun; plural Festivals): A period of time, chosen and created by the administrators, during which new pet Themes come out, the administrators provide opportunities for Sylestians to win prizes, etc. See A Guide to Festivals for more information.


filly (noun; plural fillies): A Hatchling female Kelpari or Qitari.


Fire Eyes (proper noun): A Named boss in the Arena; the first opponent a player's Arena team will face in the Arena. Fire Eyes is always a male Morkko. Players cannot capture Fire Eyes or any other Arena opponents.

Fire Eyes
Spoilers: Fire Eyes's special attack doubles his Critical Hit chance for two rounds in a row. The only way most pets can survive these attacks is to Block during both rounds.


fish daemon (interjection): A Sylestia curse. Example: "Oh, fish daemon it!"


Fish pet (Noun; plural Fish pets): An Exclusive Sylesti created via the Summer Festival Sylesti Seeking area during any Summer Festival that offered this feature (beginning in 2015 and continuing through 2018). In the Seeking area (a beach) Players "fish" and "dig" for Fishes or Catalysts; Clams; Pure Clay; and Pure Water and then combine them to create an Exclusive Themed Sylesti egg.
Fish pets are also known as Beach Pets and Seeking Pets.


fix (verb): To cause a Sylesti to become infertile via either an Exceptional Infertility Kit or a Philter Of Infertility.


fressence (noun; plural fressences): Portmanteau of frost essence.


frost essence (noun): A one-use item needed for creating an Exclusive Ice Sculpture Sylesti during a Winter Festival. Ice Sculpture Sylesties first appeared during the 2016 Winter Festival. The type of frost essence determines the species and Theme of the resulting egg.


Frosty Glitter (proper noun; plural Frosty Glitters): A one-use item that players can acquire during Winter Festivals, beginning with the 2016-17 Festival. When used on a Snow Sculpture, this item allows the player to guarantee that the eventual pet will have a Hidden trait (provided the pet's egg has been sculpted such that it is going to have a Visible trait; Frosty Glitter can't be applied if the pet is only going to have Carried traits or if the pet is a Majestic Themed). Image below.



Frosty Jewel (proper noun; plural Frosty Jewels): A one-use item that players can acquire during Winter Festivals, beginning with the 2016-17 Festival. When used on a Snow Sculpture, this item allows the player to make one of the eventual pet's traits appear in a chosen trait slot. Image below.





fuzz loaf (noun, slang; plural fuzz loaves): a Lunemara Hatchling. Also "fuzzloaf."

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Ghostly Key (proper noun; plural Ghostly Keys): An item that players could find during the 2015 and 2016 Fall Festivals, in the Festival Zone. Its image is identical to that of the Mysterious Key, q.v.


Ghostly Ryori Cupcake:



Gloom (proper noun): A Named sub-Boss. Players cannot capture Gloom.

Gloom
Spoiler: Gloom appears in the Nightfall Bandit Dungeon.


Glow Butt or Glowbutt (noun; plural Glow Butts or Glowbutts): ¹A Lunemara with a Visible Firefly Mutation. ²The Firefly Mutation itself.

gold star (adjective): Having 6 trait points; said only of Tamed pets. Synonymous with Legendary, q.v. (noun; plural gold stars): A pet of this type.

Green Apple Ny'vene Gummy Ears:


green meanie (noun; plural green meanies): A non-Themed Sylesti that is mostly or entirely green, which a player encounters during a Festival. Etymology: Many players express support for the idea that an unusually high proportion of non-Themed Sylesties found during a Festival will be green (particularly Vulnyxes).

Gummy Faelora Leaves:


Gummy Wiggly Lunemara Caterpillar:

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halfbreed (noun; plural halfbreeds): A pet who has one Themed parent and one non-Themed parent; cf crossbreed.

Hemorrhaging (noun; plural Hemmorrhagings): A type of Physical damage-over-time that some enemies can inflict on a player's Sylesti Adventure Party. The icon looks like this--



Hatchling (Noun; plural Hatchlings): A Sylesti that has hatched from its egg but has not yet assumed its adult appearance. Hatchlings are generally between three and nine days old, inclusive.

have (verb): In addition to its usual meanings, this verb in Sylestia means "to acquire for free or for 1 gold." Examples: "You don't need to buy that pet; I'll just let you have it"; "Could anyone let me have three Sanctuary Of Saerielle badges?"; "Anyone who doesn't already own one may have this Black Raven"; etc.
This use of have can cause problems for newer players, who may offer to let someone "have" an item or pet when they are intending to offer to sell the item or pet. Be advised, then, that if you offer to let someone "have" something, that person will expect to receive it for free or for 1 gold.

Headless Horseman, The (proper noun): A Named boss that has appeared in the 2014, 2015, and 2016 Fall Festivals. When a player first encounters the Headless Horseman, he looks like this--

The Headless Horseman on his Demonic Steed
Spoilers: The fight against the Headless Horseman has three stages.
During the first, the Horseman and his Steed look as they do above and only the Horseman attacks, doing Magical Damage. The second stage begins after the Horseman is reduced below half his Health.
During the second stage, the Horseman dismounts from his Demonic Steed (q.v.), they battle separately, and the Horseman begins doing Physical attacks that then proceed to do Magical DoT (q.v.).. This is the most difficult stage of the fight, due to the Steed, not the Horseman. The third stage begins after the player's Party defeats both the Steed and the Horseman.
During the third stage, the Horseman fights alone, on foot, continuing to do Physical attacks that then proceed to do Magical DoT.

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Kayani the Herbalist (proper noun): A character who offers players a quest on the Sanctuary of Saerielle Quest Board.

Kayani the Herbalist

kitteh (noun; plural kittehs): A Lighira or a Vulnyx, especially if a Hatchling.

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Lace (verb): To give a pet the Valentine Lace trait via a Lovely Mutator.

Lady Saerielle (proper noun): An elf character who at times converses with players during the Sylestia storyline and also offers players a Quest on the Sanctuary of Saerielle Quest Board.

Lady Saerielle

Legendary (adjective): Describes the second-highest possible magnitude for Tamed Sylesties and also for Equipment. A Legendary Sylesti will have gold stars (which may appear orange or yellow, depending on a player's monitor and settings) before it is captured and will have six trait points. Legendary Equipment will have a gold outline around its icon, as shown below:


level gap (noun; plural level gaps): A significant difference in level between the highest-level pet and the lowest-level pet in a party. A level gap can be bad or good depending upon what the player is trying to accomplish with their party.

LGM (acronym; plural LGMs): Lesser Genetic Mutator.

Lime Sylvorpa Lolly:


Lost Grove (proper noun): The official name of the former Megazone.

Lovely Mutator (proper noun; plural Lovely Mutators): A Mutator that, when given to a Tamed pet, gives the pet the Valentine Lace trait. This is in addition to whatever other traits the pet already had. If the pet's trait slot for Valentine Lace already contains a Visible or Carried trait, then the pet can't drink the Lovely Mutator. The location of the Valentine Lace slot varies among species.

Lovely Mutator

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max stat (abbreviation): maximum statistics, q.v.

maximum statistics (adjective): ¹Having statistics that literally cannot be any higher; said of pets. ²Of or like such a pet. ³Intended to produce such a pet; said of projects.

Mermaid Shell (proper noun): Any one of nine tradeable items, each with a different appearance and name, that players could find during the 2021 Summer Festival. When a player had at least one of each of the nine types in their Inventory and then Used one of them, one Mermaid Shell of each of the nine types would vanish from the Inventory, and a Themed Eggling of a random species would appear in the player's Hatchery. The Sylesti that hatched from the egg would have a Visible Lost Grove trait plus a pregenerated name. These Mermaid Shells were random (scarce) prizes from Beach Treasure Seeking. Shells could be traded between players or sold on the Trade Broker (in the Miscellaneous category). Images below.



Mermaid Shell pet (proper noun): A pet produced by combining Mermaid Shells, q.v. Examples below.


Milk Chocolate Zolnixi


Mint Flavored Nephini Chew:


murderbirb (slang; noun; plural murderbirbs): An Aurleon of the Blood Raven Theme--

Flicker, a Tagged "murderbirb"

murderboard (slang; noun; plural murderboards): An "Enemies Defeated" contest board in a Festival's "Festival Sylesti Contests" section.

mushroom (slang; verb): To allow someone to transfer gold to oneself by sending the person a Fairy Mushroom (or any other item of low value) with a C.O.D. fee equal to the amount that the other person wishes to send. This is the only way to send gold to another player.
Example: Player A wants to send Player Z fifty gold. Player A tells Player Z, "Mushroom me for fifty gold." Player Z sends Player A a Fairy Mushroom with a C.O.D. fee of fifty gold. When Player A accepts the trade, Player Z receives the fifty gold.

Myconid (noun; plural Myconids): A type of enemy character that resembles a walking mushroom with an angry expression. Below are the different varieties of Myconid characters. Warning--there are spoilers below each image. Highlight the lines beneath each image if you want to see the spoilers.

Myconid Shroom

Spoilers: Has one star. Does Magical Damage. Can be found in these locations: Fungus Grove.

Myconid Sprout

Spoilers: Has one star. Does Physical Damage. Can be found in these locations: Fungus Grove.

Myconid Warrior

Spoilers: Has two stars. Does Physical Damage. Can be found in these locations: Fungus Grove.

{As of 19Oct19, this list is not yet complete.}


Mysterious Key (noun; plural Mysterious Keys): One-use items occasionally found in the 2017-20121 Spring Festival Egg Mazes. A Mysterious Key could unlock one of four Temples also found in the Egg Mazes.


Mythic (adjective): Describes the highest possible magnitude for Tamed Sylesties and also for Equipment. A Mythic Sylesti will have red stars before it is captured and will have eight trait points. Mythic Equipment will have a red outline around its icon, as shown below:

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Named (noun; plural Named): A character created by the site, who has a specific name. Examples of Named are Jinxie, Sapphire, Tinkerbell, Talon, etc. All bosses are Named, but not all Named are bosses. Characters that are not among the Named will be designated by the type of character that they are: "Nightfall Bandit," "Woodsman Tamer," etc.

nerf (verb): To reduce in frequency or probability of occurrence. Usually used in the passive voice. Example: "The Festival bosses are dropping lots of recolorable avatar outfits this year. I hope this doesn't get nerfed." In the example, "this" refers to the proportion of avatar outfit drops that are recolorable. The Sylestia Admins may sometimes nerf the probability that a given event (such as a boss drop or wild Sylesti encounter) will result in a highly desirable item/pet, to prevent the item/pet from becoming devalued.

nest


Nixi (noun; plural Nixies): Short for "Zolnixi," a species of Sylesti. Easily confused with Nyte and/or Nyx, q.v.

noodle (noun, slang; plural noodles): (1) Nephini. (2) An Aeridini or Nephini. See also fat noodle, ramen noodle, udon noodle.

noodlenose (noun, slang; plural noodlenoses): A Qitari with the Dragon Whiskers trait Visible.

Nurture (verb): To click on the image of an egg or Hatchling and then click one of the four or five buttons that appear in the resulting pop-up window. If the button's label gives an appropriate response to the egg's or Hatchling's condition, the egg or Hatchling will benefit in some way, and the player who clicked the button will receive a Scale. Example: If the pop-up reads, "This Hatchling is hungry," the proper button to click to Nurture the Hatchling is "Offer it food."

Nyte (noun; plural Nytes): Short for "Nytekrie," a species of Sylesti. Easily confused with Nixi and/or Nyx, q.v..

Nyx (noun; plural Nyxes): Short for "Vulnyx," a species of Sylesti. Easily confused with Nixi and/or Nyte, q.v.

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OC (abbreviation): Original Character.

Old; Old School (Slang): Collector's Edition, q.v..

Oopsie Egg (proper noun): A second type of Easter Egg. Site owner Krinadon accidentally set the drop rate of the original Easter Eggs higher than he had intended to. After he realized this, Krinadon set the site to begin dropping this second group of Easter Eggs to keep from flooding Sylestia with the original Easter Egg Luffoxes.


Orange Chocolate Kelpari Fins:


OS, os (abbreviation): ¹Offspring. ²Another term for "purebred," q.v.

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Pastry Chef Francois (proper noun): Named character who "ran" the Winter Festival Sylesti Bakery during the 2014 and 2015 Winter Festivals.

Pastry Chef Francois

PB (abbreviation): "Purebred."

PC (abbreviation): "Price check." Used in chat.

Perfume Of Themed Attraction (proper noun; plural Perfumes Of Themed Attraction): A liquid, which players can sometimes purchase from the Diamond Shop, that increases a player's odds of encountering a Themed Sylesti during a Festival for as long as the Perfume lasts. The Perfume applies its effect to the player, not to a Pet, when the player uses the Perfume. This consumes the Perfume. A Perfume lasts for a certain number of battles, does not work outside a Festival Zone or in a Maze, and remains on the player if the player leaves the Festival Zone, reactivating when the player returns to the Festival Zone. A Perfume of Themed Attraction looks like this--

Perfumes also sometimes appear as various Festival prizes. Note that if a player is selling a Perfume, it will appear in the Trade Broker under Type Miscellaneous, not under Type Philter.

pet (noun; plural pets): (1) A Sylesti that someone owns. (2) Any Sylesti.

philter (noun; plural philters): A liquid which can be purchased from the Scale Shop or the Diamond Shop and administered to one pet, which consumes the philter. Some philters will only work on eggs that are ready to hatch; these philters permanently improve one or more of the pet's Statistics. Other philters work only on adolescent and adult pets; these philters have a wide variety of effects. Players cannot use philters on Hatchlings.

Philter of Amnesia (proper noun; plural Philters of Amnesia): Philter that removes a pet's name, changing the pet back to "Un-named" so that the owner can give the pet a different name. The Philter looks like this--

--and players may purchase it from the Scale Shop. Originally, only the Diamond Shop sold this Philter.

Philter of Trait Disruption (Themed) (Noun): Philter that completely re-shuffles the Traits of the pet one gives the Philter to. The pet must be a Tagged Themed who has no Offspring. The Philter looks like this--

This Philter came into existence on 24Apr15. Read more here: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=24453. Note that players can use this type of Philter on both Exclusive and Tamed Themed pets, even if (in the case of Tamed) the pet has been Mutated (source: PM from Faiona to SpaceElf1, 20Mar16).

Plant pet (Noun; plural Plant pets): An Exclusive Sylesti created via the Spring Festival Sylesti Gardens during the 2015-2018 Spring Festivals. Players gathered Plant Pots, Fertilizers, Enrichments, and Seeds and then "grew" an Exclusive Themed Sylesti egg.

poke (verb, slang): Nurture.

potato (Noun; plural potatoes): A non-specified reason, excuse, explanation, object, etc. Example: Oh, I don't know; just potato, I guess. (Verb): To perform some non-specified action. Example: Don't be rude in chat, or else someone might potato you.

Potion (Noun; plural Potions): A one-use item representing a liquid that restores an Adolescent or Adult pet's reduced Health, Mana, or both when used on a pet but cannot be used during a battle. Players may acquire Potions in any of the following ways: (1) Find them in a Satchel; (2) Find them after defeating enemies during an Adventure; (3) Purchase them at the Esior's Haven Market and Town Hall; Purchase them at the Sanctuary of Saerielle's Armory, Market, and Town Hall; and (4) Purchase them at the Ethernia Armory, Market, and Town Hall.

pre-vamp (Adjective): Describes a Sylesti species whose art has not be re-vamped by the site administrators. A portmanteau of "pre-revamp."

Puff (Abbreviation; plural Puffs): Short for "Puffadore," a species of Sylesti.

Puffadore Chocolate Crunch:


Purebred (Adjective): Having all of its ancestry traceable back to Themed pets of the exact same Theme; said of pets.
(Noun; plural Purebreds): A pet of this type. Example: "My best friend only collects Purebreds."

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ramen noodle (noun; plural ramen noodles): A Nephini. See also fat noodle, noodle, udon noodle.

rarity (noun; plural rarieties): A measure of how many Trait Points a wild Sylesti has. In Astryl's Vale, the rarities are as follows.
Common: Sylesti shows up as an opponent who has white stars and has no Trait Points.
Uncommon: Sylesti appears with green stars and has 1 Trait Point.
Rare: Sylesti appears with blue stars and has 2 Trait Points.
Epic: Sylesti appears with purple stars and has 4 Trait Points.
Legendary: Sylesti appears with gold stars and has 6 Trait Points.
Mythic: Sylesti appears with red stars and has 8 Trait Points.
With two exceptions, a player can only catch a wild Sylesti with a trap whose border color is at least as "good" as the Sylesti's star color. Thus, a player can catch a Common or Uncommon Sylesti with a green-bordered trap but can't catch a Rare Sylesti with such a trap.
Exception 1: In the Lost Grove, any trap has a chance of catching any pet.
Exception 2: There are no gold-bordered traps. A player must have a Master Trap in order to catch a Legendary or Mythical Sylesti.

Recipe pet (noun; plural Recipe pets): Another term for a Bakery pet, q.v.

Region Chat (proper noun): A chat feature, located in the bottom-left of the screen, that allows all players in any Astryl's Vale Zone and in the Festival Zone (when there is one) to chat with each other. This chat feature is not available in any other Sylestia locations.

re-vamp (verb): To change a Sylesti species's artwork significantly.
re-vamp (noun): The act of so changing a species's artwork. Only the owners of Sylestia can re-vamp a species. When a species has been re-vamped, all members of that species change.

Ripple (proper noun): A Named sub-Boss. Players cannot capture Ripple.

Versions of Ripple.
Spoiler: Ripple appears in the Nightfall Bandit Dungeon and is Level 30. Ripple fights alone, doing Physical damage. In the moment before the combat with Ripple begins, the Sylesties in your Party will have their Mana drop to zero.

RNG (acronym): Random Number Generator.

RTD (acronym): Restricted Trait Disruptor.

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Sand Sculpture (noun; plural Sand Sculptures):







Sapphire (proper noun): A Named Boss who may appear as any one of several species but always has the same color scheme. Players cannot capture Sapphire.

Sapphire
Spoiler: Sapphire appears in the Nightfall Bandit Dungeon.

SBO (abbreviation): Sweet Blossom Orchard.

Scale (Noun; plural Scales): One of Sylestia's many types of currency. Certain items require Scales for purchase. Nurturing any egg or Hatchling produces one Scale. Scales spend only in the Scale Shop and cannot be exchanged between players.

seamonkey (Slang): Sylvorpa, q.v.

Seeking pet (noun; plural Seeking pets): Another term for Fish pet, q.v.

Shamrock (proper noun; plural Shamrocks): One of Sylestia's many types of currency. (Yes, it is an image of a four-leaf clover and not an image of a shamrock. Don't worry about it.) Shamrocks are the Festival currency during the annual Fortune Festival.

Shamrock

Shell pet: See Mermaid Shell Pet.

snek tail (slang; plural snek tails): The Vulnyx Chimera Tail trait.

Snow Wars (proper noun, non-countable): This online board game was the first game of its type in Sylestia. It became available in January 2017, quite late in the Winter Festival. Players could play Snow Wars against one another or against the program itself and receive rewards for winning and consolation prizes for losing. Snow Wars closed after 29Jan2017. For more about this game, see the first post in 2016 Winter Festival Overview and the entire thread 2016 Winter Festival - Snow Wars. Note that the administrators more than once updated the first post of the Snow Wars thread, meaning one can no longer view or refer back to the original initial post that created this thread.

Snow Wars Token (proper noun; plural Snow Wars Tokens): One of Sylestia's many types of currency. Snow Wars Tokens first came into existence in January 2017, late in the Winter Festival, although un-openable containers of Snow Wars Tokens came into existence in December 2016, quite early in the Winter Festival. A Snow Wars Token allowed a player to play a game of Snow Wars, q.v.

Snow Wars Token

soup baby (slang): An Exclusive pet from the Fall Festival that is not even an egg yet but is still in the Cauldron. See brew pet.

soup noodle (slang): Portmanteau of "super noodle," where "noodle" is in turn slang for "nephini."


Split Damage Relic (noun; plural Split Damage Relics): A Relic that gives bonuses to both Physical and Magical Damage, but less of a bonus to either than would a Relic that boosted only one type of Damage.