Glossary

1. Content

The terms the sources define, in the sources' own words. The full description of each lives on the page named after it.

1.1 Levels of the Principal Installation

The facility consists of a principal installation containing seven levels, D1 at ground level and D2 through D7 below it. Which levels can be explored: See: Places › Military Base

• D1 — Surface Level; the Main Surface Base: the original military installation and administrative center. Research there covered aeronautics, chemical and biological weapons and metallurgy. See: Places › D1
• D2 — Underground Engineering Level; military engineering and aerospace. See: Places › D2
• D3 — Biological and Medical Research Level; chemical, biological and medical research. See: Places › D3
• D4 — Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Level. See: Places › D4
• D5 — Advanced Biological Research and Containment Level; high-containment biology and neuroscience. See: Places › D5
• D6 — Extraterrestrial Technology, Consciousness and Memetic Engineering; the recovered spacecraft, consciousness and memetic engineering. See: Places › D6
• D7 — The Unfinished Containment City. See: Places › D7

1.2 Surface Complexes

• A1 — Logistics & Supply Complex. See: Places › A1 — Logistics And Supply Complex
• A2 — Power & Utilities Complex. See: Places › A2 — Power And Utilities Complex
• A3 — Environmental & Life Support Complex. See: Places › A3 — Environmental And Life Support Complex
• A4 — Hazardous Materials & Disposal Complex. See: Places › A4 — Hazardous Materials And Disposal Complex
• H1 — Concealed Heliport Access Terminal. See: Places › H1 — Concealed Heliport Access Terminal
• Old Aerodrome. See: Places › Old Aerodrome
• Peripheral Military Infrastructure. See: Places › Peripheral Military Structures

The definition of each complex: See: Places › Surface

1.3 Names of the Facility and Its Objects

• Project Schwarzwald — A clandestine research installation in the Amazon, run jointly by Brazil and the United States; the game is titled Project Schwarzwald, like the facility. See: Places › Military Base. See: Factions › Project Schwarzwald
• BSCD — Bilateral Strategic Continuity Directorate — The binational Transnational Super Directorate of the United States and Brazil whose exclusive mandate is Schwarzwald. See: Factions › Bilateral Strategic Continuity Directorate
• Super Directorate (SD) / Transnational Super Directorate (TSD) — A fictional permanent strategic authority that administers compartmentalized national security programs; a TSD operates under two or more sovereign states. See: Factions › Bilateral Strategic Continuity Directorate
• Skull Device / Skull Helmet — An ancient ritual object associated in the fiction with Maya civilization. See: Artifacts and Technology › Skull Helmet
• The Artifact — The recovered spacecraft. Certain scientific breakthroughs were made possible through reverse engineering of a mysterious Artifact. See: Artifacts and Technology › The Spacecraft
• Indigenous preparation — An ancient preparation, maintained in Indigenous ritual knowledge and compared loosely to exceptionally powerful psychoactive preparations, enables a participant to tolerate the extreme psychological and physical ordeal long enough to reach the required threshold. See: Artifacts and Technology › Indigenous Preparation
• Despair Pills — Developed by Schwarzwald researchers as a partial pharmaceutical approximation of the indigenous preparation. See: Artifacts and Technology › Despair Pills. Their effect in play: See: Systems › Information Hazard
• Friedrich's access notebook — A handwritten notebook prepared by his father, Friedrich Sinclair von Veylor-Schloss. It contains access codes, technical references, and personal annotations concerning the Schwarzwald installation. See: Artifacts and Technology › Friedrich's Access Notebook
• Emergency Refuge Chambers — The checkpoint facilities of the game world. See: Systems › Persistent Consequences

1.4 Information Hazard Terms

• Information Hazard — Specific knowledge can inflict devastating psychological consequences on people who fully comprehend it, and survivors of exposure may convey the same harmful understanding to others. See: Phenomena › Information Hazard. See: Systems › Information Hazard
• Information Exposure, Hallucination Severity and Information Tolerance — The three core variables of the information hazard system. See: Systems › Information Hazard
• Memetic quarantine — The deeper reality of the site's catastrophe: information had begun to spread from affected personnel to anyone who grasped their disclosures. See: Phenomena › Memetics

1.5 Military Terms

• Brazilian Threat Level — Represents the military's evolving operational response. Its primary behavioral conditions are Suspicion, Investigation, Combat, and Reinforcement and Escalation. See: Systems › Military Threat Levels
• American Threat Level — Independent from the Brazilian Threat Level, but communications between the forces are asymmetric. See: Systems › Military Threat Levels
• The Ninety-Three — The American contingent, and the escalation event that follows the elimination of all its operators. See: Factions › American Special Operations Unit. See: Enemies › American Operator. See: Systems › Military Threat Levels
• Full Military Siege — The extraordinary military response to the elimination of all 93 American operators. See: Systems › Military Threat Levels. See: Systems › Persistent Consequences
• Dead Soldiers — The registry, accessible through Edmund's tablet, of Brazilian and American military personnel whose deaths are attributed to Edmund by a dedicated responsibility-assessment system. See: Systems › Dead Soldiers Registry

1.6 Creatures and Machines

• Cancer Dogs — Descendants of experimental dogs affected by hereditary, uncontrolled tissue growth. See: Enemies › Cancer Dog
• Roach Rats — Artificially engineered laboratory organisms developed for accelerated reproduction. See: Enemies › Roach Rat
• Flesh Nests — Unclassified organisms that emerged unexpectedly from biological waste and reproduce through airborne pollen-like particles. See: Enemies › Flesh Nest
• Patrol Robots — Aging military security machines operating under automated security protocols. See: Enemies › Patrol Robot
• Supersoldier robots — The heavily armored robotic soldiers developed in D4; they guard the approach toward D6. See: Enemies › SQUAD Unit
• SQUAD Units — Swarm Quorum Unit Autonomous Detachment: the six active supersoldier robots of D5, which fight as one distributed combat system. See: Enemies › SQUAD Unit
• Broken Survivors — Former scientists who survived the facility's catastrophe but suffered severe psychological deterioration. See: Enemies › Broken Survivor
• FUNAI — Brazil's Indigenous affairs institution, whose restricted records identify individual tribal members. See: Systems › Dead Soldiers Registry

1.7 Campaign and Play Terms

• FPV — First-Person View. See: Vision › 2. Game Identity And Perspective
• Main Quests — The mandatory quests of a chapter. Main quests are written MQ-NN — Title. See: Vision › 9. Campaign Structure And Quest Rules
• Side Quests — Optional and non-exhaustive. Side quests are written SQ-NN — Title. See: Vision › 9. Campaign Structure And Quest Rules
• Illustrated Narrative Sequences — One of the narrative presentation systems. See: Vision › 8. Narrative Presentation Systems
• Strategic Preparation System — A self-contained strategic gameplay experience embedded within the main campaign. See: Systems › Strategic Preparation
• Mission account — The dedicated operational account that holds the money for the mission. See: Systems › Strategic Preparation
• The Enlightened One — The pacifist achievement. See: Systems › Pacifist Play

1.8 Documentation Markers

• CREATOR-RESERVED — A former label for what the creator withheld from drafting. Since 2026-10-30 nothing is reserved: the secret is interpreted by the player. See: Canon › Creator-Reserved Topics
• TBD and not canon yet — Markers of what is still undecided; respect them. See: Canon › Open Questions
• H — Historical event (real-world history), in the timeline.
• F — Fictional event (in-universe history), in the timeline. See: Timeline › Master Timeline