Asheron's Call/Glossary

This is a guide to some of the terminology used in-game which is specific to Asheron's Call. For more general terms, see Multiplayer/Glossary.
 * AB: Town of Ayan Bakur, located in the Direlands of western Dereth
 * AC: Asheron's Call
 * Aggro/aggro: Aggression, to "notice" or attack a player/npc
 * alchy: alchemist
 * Camping: Waiting for treasure/monster to re-spawn.
 * carebear: non-PK player, variations: o.O
 * Component, Comps: Items used to cast spells.
 * Decal: a third party application used in conjunction with various "plugins" to enhance play, Turbine has a neutral stance on this program, not bannable unless the plugins used break the CoC or ToS
 * Dereth: The main Island in Asheron's Call.
 * Direlands''' (AKA Dires) - A much harder area of dereth found in the west
 * FC/Fast Cast: refers to a break animation technique employed by some players who use the mage class, can make war spells cast at a faster rate
 * Gear: a long-dead third party program which was a hack that allowed users to run exceedingly faster than normal, often resulted in the user being banned
 * Mage: A character who uses magic
 * Melee: A character who uses melee weapons
 * ML: refers to Marae Lassel, an island north-west of Dereth, requires Asheron's Call: Dark Majesty expansion to access it
 * Mule/Pack Mule: A secondary character created for the purpose of storing items.
 * Oldschool: older players or older items, anything that was before the first expansion pack Dark Majesty or the early years after AC's initial release
 * pots: potions
 * PP/Pre-Patch: refers to items before they were "patched", these items are no longer attainable in-game in the pre-patch form and are usually considered more valuable
 * Pyreals: Money, the currency in Dereth.
 * reds: PKs
 * Rubber-band: When "lag" causes a character to spring back backwards/forwards, typically happens when the ac servers have become unstable.
 * teth: Fort Tethana, a large city located in the Direlands in western Dereth
 * Toon: short for character
 * vet: veteran or long-time player