Glossary Neverness to Everness

Every term sits in one of eight categories, and the category tells you what kind of confusion it is meant to prevent.

• Meta (1 term) — the game's own name, since every market calls it something different.
• Elements (6 terms) — the Esper Wheel: Cosmos, Anima, Incantation, Chaos, Psyche, Lakshana, in wheel order.
• Reactions (9 terms) — the 6 Duo reactions plus the 2 Trio reactions the wheel produces, plus the Blossom's Vita Bud/Pistil objects.
• Core systems (7 terms) — Esper Ability, Esper Cycle, Arc, Awakening, Resonance, Bond, Anomaly.
• Equipment (4 terms) — Console, Module, Cartridge, Suit.
• Stats (10 terms) — Break Intensity, Break, Cycle Intensity, Charge Efficiency, Ultimate Energy, Tenacity, Penetration, Stamina, Universal DMG, CRIT Rate/DMG.
• Currency (6 terms) — Riftcrystal, Annulith, Fons, Beetle Coin, Tri-Key, Oracle Stone.
• Gacha (5 terms) — Fabricated/Solid Dice, the named board cells, Points Gift, Divination.

Five spots in the glossary exist specifically because a display name and something else disagree, and getting them backwards leads to real mistakes.

• Anima vs Nature — the element displays as Anima, but its internal data codename is Nature; some older community notes and datamined sheets still say Nature.
• Arc is the weapon, not the equipment board — Arc (the 47-item weapon system) shares a similar-sounding name with the Console/Module equipment board in some community shorthand; they are two separate systems and a build guide that mixes them up is wrong.
• Riftcrystal vs Annulith — Riftcrystal is the paid currency for the character Dice gacha; Annulith is the stamina/exchange currency. The two get swapped often because both are gem-like premium currencies.
• Cycle Intensity vs "Essentia" — the same stat appears labeled both ways depending on which in-game screen you are reading; they are not two different stats.
• Beetle Coin, never "Gold" — the upgrade currency displays as Beetle Coin everywhere in the UI, even though its underlying data key is literally Gold.

The glossary explains what a term means; it does not rank characters or list current gacha rates — those live elsewhere.

• Look up an element or reaction term, then open the team pages to see which characters actually trigger it and the tier list to see how it ranks this patch.
• Look up an equipment term (Console, Module, Cartridge, Suit), then open the module and set pages for the exact stat curves and geometry conditions.
• Look up a currency or gacha term, then open the pity page for live rates and the codes page for ways to earn that currency for free.

The reaction section groups 9 terms, but they split into two tiers that work differently, and mixing them up misreads a combat log.

The 6 Duo reactions each fire between exactly two elements: Blossom (Cosmos + Anima) spawns up to 3 Vita Buds at once, each releasing 5 Vita Pistils that pulse AoE damage every 2 seconds. Nova (Chaos + Psyche) inflicts a 5-second status that detonates for heavy Mental Damage on expiry — pair it with Scorch (Chaos + Incantation), a 15-second burn, and both share Chaos as the common element. Hexed (Anima + Incantation) adds follow-up damage worth 20% of the triggering hit for 12 seconds, while Stain (Psyche + Lakshana) raises the target's Psyche/Lakshana damage taken by 20% for the same 12-second window. Remora (Cosmos + Lakshana) rounds out the six with a decaying slow that builds resistance the more it's reapplied.

Sitting above those are 2 Trio reactions, and they don't need a third element — they need a specific pair of Duo reactions already active. Charge is the offensive Trio: chain two Duo reactions from the same reaction group and it fires. Discord is the defensive-breaking Trio: land Nova and Scorch on the same target at the same time and it deducts a percentage straight off that target's Break value, stacking a stagger tool on top of the burn/detonate pair already in play.

Practical reading: a team built around Chaos naturally sets up Nova+Scorch, which is also the exact pair Discord needs — so a Chaos-heavy comp is worth building toward Discord specifically, not just stacking damage-over-time for its own sake.

Ten stats appear across every character and Module sheet, and half of them are easy to mix up with a similarly named neighbor.

Break Intensity and Break are not the same axis: Break is the stagger gauge itself — chip an enemy's Break bar down and it staggers — while Break Intensity only boosts how much Break Damage your own hits contribute to a shared, team-wide Break Damage pool. A high-Break-Intensity character still only affects the slice of damage they personally deal.

Cycle Intensity boosts Esper Cycle reaction damage, but who benefits depends on the reaction: for Blossom, Nova, and Scorch, it's whichever character contributed more to triggering the reaction; for Hexed and Stain, it's specifically the character dealing the follow-up damage. One naming trap sits inside this stat alone — the Divination buff panel labels the exact same stat 'Essentia' instead of Cycle Intensity, so a buff described as boosting Essentia is boosting Cycle Intensity, not a separate resource.

Charge Efficiency speeds up how fast Ultimate Energy fills, and Ultimate Energy itself is simply the resource spent to cast an Ultimate — two different stats that get name-confused because they share the word 'Energy'/'Charge' loosely in community shorthand.

Tenacity works as a pair rather than a single number: Tenacity Destroy Efficiency is the offensive half (how fast an attacker chips a target's poise), Tenacity Resistance is the defensive half (how well a target holds its poise against that). Penetration ignores a flat portion of enemy DEF, Stamina is the exploration resource for sprinting/climbing/dodging — unrelated to HP or combat — and Universal DMG Bonus is the one flat bonus that stacks on top of every damage type rather than one element. CRIT Rate and CRIT DMG close the list as the standard critical-hit pair.

The 5 gacha terms describe a Monopoly-style board, not a pull button, and 3 of them name real named tiles with real posted odds.

Two dice types move you around the 73-cell board: Fabricated Dice is the free/basic die, while Solid Dice is the premium die bought with Riftcrystal — both land on the same board, they just differ in how they're obtained. Landing on the named tiles pays out per the odds baked into the board itself: Apprentice Chest lands 45.93% of rolls (0.2% of those landings are S-Class), Journey Together lands 10.86%, Slumberland lands 3.15% and chases the separate Guardian tile, and Roll Again lands 1.57% and does exactly what it says — grants another roll rather than a reward.

Points Gift is the one guaranteed-reward term in the list: every 10 rolls on the board, regardless of what tiles you actually landed on, Points Gift fires — 20% of the time it's a character, 80% of the time it's an Arc weapon. A handful of off-rate S-Class characters are only reachable through this guarantee rather than through direct tile odds, which is worth knowing before assuming a character is unobtainable.

Divination is the odd one out — it isn't part of the dice/board loop at all. It's a separate oracle system that spends Oracle Stone currency to grant Divination Buffs, and it's where the Cycle Intensity/'Essentia' naming trap from the stats section above actually shows up in the UI.

Six terms sit in the core-systems category, and they split into what a character HAS (Esper Ability, Esper Cycle) versus what a character's progression CAN reach (Awakening, Resonance, Bond) versus a separate world mechanic (Anomaly) — treating them as one bucket of 'character stuff' misses which system to open when you actually need to fix something.

Esper Ability (also called Esper Type) is simply which of the 6 wheel elements a character carries; Esper Cycle is the reaction layer built on top of that pairing — the 9 terms in the reactions section above are all part of this system. Arc is the separate weapon system (47 items across S/A/B rarity) equipped alongside a character rather than a stat a character has innately.

Awakening covers a character's 6-tier progression ladder plus 2 extra Resonance milestones (Resonance 3, Resonance 6) — 8 real unlockable steps total, not 6. Bond is the affection/relationship system, tracked separately from combat progression and covering 49 role-bond characters. Anomaly is a world-layer term, unrelated to character builds — it names a category of city content (Vision/Anomaly points) rather than anything on a character sheet.

Console, Module, Cartridge, and Suit make up the equipment side: Console is the 7x7 grid layout itself, Module is the tetromino-shaped piece placed into it, Cartridge is shorthand some sources use for a Module's core variant, and Suit is the set bonus unlocked by satisfying a geometric placement condition rather than a simple piece count.

Every term on this page is a system-wide word that means the same thing no matter which character's kit you're reading — Awakening, Bond, Arc, and the rest work identically across the entire roster. Not every capitalized word you'll run into works that way.

• Several characters have their own uniquely named status effect that only exists inside their own kit — a signature mechanic tied to that one character's skills rather than a rule shared across the roster.
• Because these named effects only ever apply to the one character who owns them, they don't belong on a system-wide glossary the way Awakening or Bond do — listing them here would suggest they apply broadly when they don't.
• If a skill description uses a capitalized term you don't recognize and it isn't listed on this page, check that specific character's own detail page first — it's very likely a signature effect unique to their kit, not a missing system term.

This distinction matters when you're comparing two characters: a shared system term (like Awakening) works the same for both, but a signature named effect only tells you something about the one character whose kit it belongs to.