Teleporter- smooth, silver metal, circular disc

Reapers- special police of the city of Sanction, black tattoos enlacing their bodies make it nearly impossible for them to feel pain; have DD-16s and metal staffs

DD-15 freeze gun- coat victims in solid sheet of ice

DD-16- unfreeze victims of DD-15s

Detectors- special unit in Terra Bellis, whose job is to find the latest technology The Enlightened creates for warfare, and steal it to use against them

Settler- building where prisoners kept by Terra Bellis, shut down when Dead Eyes started executing people

Protectors- Sanction city police

Enlightened- name of followers of Adam's way of Eden

Elite- Adam's inner circle

Sanction- city where Enlightened and Adam live

Terra Bellis- underground organization fighting Adam, Reapers, and Protectors

Dasamorti- planet, native inhabitants nearly exterminated

Elysian Herbum- drug supposedly from Eden, killed several hundred people

Neopolitan Residential Complex- where Gregorio Vagaband and other members of Elite live

noth'glar- alien species, Fang is this

'black bagging'- Fang's men round up and either kill or torture protesters for information

X-105 "Pegasus"- space ship that Terra Bellis is creating in secret, Eve is one of the pilots, its captain not introduced yet. Major Maddox is current pilot. Major Davidson operates weaponry.

Protected- what the Guardians call the person they are assigned to watch over and keep safe

Guardians- from the Garden of Eden, they have an Order and a Code to keep active Guardians on track; each of them has a specific power that reflects their personality; they have lived in isolation for the past hundred years and have now gone insane; they have a Halfway Point between Eden and the rest of the planets where other Guardians report to the Messenger, and can contact each other through the Book of Eden where writing on its blank pages and having the writing disappear in the light of the moon

Mucrok - Eve's sword that shoots out of the hilt.