Dominions 6 Glossary

A fort percentage used in income and adjacent resource draw calculations.

A persistent injury or impairment usually gained through damage, age, disease, or special effects.

A convenient name for commanders and assigned troops operating together; not always one indivisible rules object.

The battle-wide morale collapse that can force remaining units to retreat even when individual squads have not already routed.

A unique magic item that only one copy can normally exist at a time.

A victory point supplied by a claimed Throne of Ascension.

A commander or effect that initiates a restricted battle against a target commander.

An object identity assigned by the loader when a mod creates an object without a fixed numeric ID.

The process and timing by which a dormant or imprisoned Pretender becomes active.

A force that enters and resolves one tactical battle together; several forces in a province may not always form one group.

Spells cast during tactical battle under scripting, range, targeting, gem, fatigue, and AI constraints.

The collection of effects granted to a blessed sacred unit or commander.

A Blood-magic resource with unit-like and logistical properties distinct from ordinary gems.

A unit assigned to protect a commander in an assassination battle, subject to bodyguard limits and arrival rules.

An item, spell, shape, site, or effect that increases effective magic-path access.

A research level or access threshold at which a usable strategic or battlefield package becomes available.

The priestly process used to return a dead Pretender, governed by rules distinct from ordinary resurrection.

A restriction tying recruitment or another feature to a nation's original capital.

An endgame mechanism that increases late-game pressure and horror activity under relevant game settings.

The Pretender's physical form, including cost, paths, slots, statistics, movement, and special abilities.

A conflict in which mods claim or alter the same identifier, code, variable, name reference, or dependent object incompatibly.

A single-hash instruction whose practical meaning depends on its object language, arguments, selector state, and manual context.

An official grammar such as `(terrain)` or a numeric range that generates literal command spellings under stated restrictions.

A unit that can receive strategic orders and may lead troops, cast spells, preach, patrol, build, or perform other commander actions.

A local recruitment capacity used by commanders, separate from gold, resources, and ordinary Recruitment Points.

A temporary or persistent unit state that changes action, statistics, targeting, recovery, loyalty, or future risk.

The evidence class distinguishing a full official definition, reference-only entry, prose mention, derived template alias, or patch reconciliation.

A battlefield magical network in which masters gain paths while slaves receive distributed fatigue and certain master-cast personal effects.

A capability that attacks a necessary layer of an enemy plan rather than merely naming a theoretically favourable unit or spell.

A fatigue-influenced combat result that can reduce the protection applied against damage.

A Pretender's religious territorial influence, carrying scales and interacting with gods, provinces, units, events, and elimination.

A province-centred magical defence that may intercept or interfere with remote spells and attacks.

The open-ended Dominions Random Number roll used in many opposed checks and damage calculations.

A hosting-time occurrence selected from conditions, rarity, state, targets, codes, variables, and effects.

An identifier used to coordinate, restrict, or connect event logic; collisions can corrupt chains across mods.

Stored event state used by modded event systems to remember counters, flags, or progression.

Unit-specific development gained over time and through battle, producing star bonuses at defined thresholds.

A commander and troop package intended to capture independent provinces at an acceptable cost and tempo.

An accumulating combat burden that reduces performance, increases vulnerability to critical hits, and can cause unconsciousness.

An effect that pressures enemy morale and can accelerate rout without directly killing every target.

A fortified location that changes recruitment, administration, resource draw, supply, ownership, siege, and retreat behaviour.

A squad arrangement that changes density, frontage, contact time, exposure, and movement through the battlefield.

A magical resource associated with a non-Blood path and used for rituals, forging, empowerment, and some battle spells.

A persistent ritual effect with broad world impact and political consequences.

A special strategic or large-scale communion system with rules distinct from an ordinary battlefield communion.

A melee pressure mechanic in which repeated attackers can degrade a defender's effective defence.

A local recruitment capacity used by some sacred or holy commanders and units.

A growing special trait received by an eligible non-Pretender commander while in the Hall of Fame.

A persistent, stackable hidden mark that creates a monthly risk of a horror attack and makes the bearer a preferred target.

To resolve submitted turns; also the computer or service performing that resolution.

A blessing condition generally requiring the Pretender to be active for the marked effect to function.

A structured data viewer used to inspect game or mod objects; its version and load order determine what it can prove.

Infrastructure required for research and most rituals and forging; construction finishes too late for earlier same-turn uses.

Commander capacity and type governing troop assignment, morale effects, and special troop compatibility.

The order in which enabled mods are applied, determining which later definitions overwrite or extend earlier ones.

One mage's opportunity to research, forge, cast, move, search, patrol, or perform another mutually exclusive order.

A named, time-limited force bid for during hosting, represented by a commander, troops, price, availability, and continuity fields.

Community shorthand for the early hosting steps containing rituals, magical movement, remote attacks, and associated battles.

A unit class requiring magic leadership unless an overlapping undead or demon tag makes undead leadership take precedence.

A defence statistic used in opposed checks against many spells and supernatural effects.

A case-sensitive double-hash token inserted inside supported event or enchantment text rather than issued as a mod command.

A leadership and morale category with special command, routing, and survival behaviour.

A loaded modification, usually defined through `.dm` commands, that can add or alter data within engine-defined limits.

Community shorthand for the hosting steps resolving friendly movement, other movement, movement battles, and storming.

A non-aggression pact whose exact meaning depends on explicit player convention unless the game setting makes it binding.

A numeric or automatic identity used by the engine, data layer, or mod loader to distinguish and reference an object.

One source-linked entry representing an official update bullet together with derived classification, domains, commands, canonical destinations, and stable hashes.

A level of magical skill in Fire, Air, Water, Earth, Astral, Death, Nature, Glamour, Blood, or Holy.

A bonus applied to the attacking side of relevant Magic Resistance contests.

A strategic order that converts population and order into immediate damage, unrest, and sometimes resources or gold.

A distinct strategic map layer such as the surface, caves, or another connected world.

A province value influencing income, supplies, recruitment capacity, events, and the effects of pillaging or Blood Hunting.

The designed god of a nation or team, providing dominion, scales, blessings, paths, and a physical chassis.

Locally purchased automatic defence that appears when a province is attacked and cannot move as a normal army.

A local capacity that limits ordinary troop recruitment independently of gold and resources.

Exact-percentage recovery of hit points during battle, with body-class, affliction, and damage-tempo interactions.

A ritual or effect that attacks a distant province or commander without conventional movement.

A weapon-length interaction allowing a defender to threaten or deter an incoming shorter-reach melee attack.

A contribution toward progress in a school; research resolves very early during hosting.

A strategic spell cast outside tactical battle.

A unit or squad state in which it attempts to leave battle because morale has failed.

A unit eligible to receive a blessing and often affected by special recruitment or upkeep rules.

One value in the dominion pairs governing Order, Production, temperature, Growth, Fortune, and Magic.

A research category that unlocks spells at successive levels.

The attacking contribution used against a fort's walls during siege resolution.

A province feature that can provide gems, gold, recruitment, discounts, rituals, unrest, disease, or other effects.

A unit of battlefield-square occupancy used by unit size and formation density.

A national or Pretender rule that changes what dominion does beyond ordinary candle and scale effects.

Fatigue generated by spellcasting after spell cost, caster skill, gems, and other modifiers.

A tactical troop group assigned to a commander and given one formation and order set.

The post-battle condition caused by insufficient supplies, producing disease, morale, and attritional consequences.

The ability to move or remain hidden in hostile territory, opposed by patrol and detection effects.

A versioned link from a summoning spell to the unit, unit group, or selection rule that produces its result.

Provincial and army logistical capacity used to feed units and modified by terrain, forts, dominion, seasons, and abilities.

A leadership ability that manages slave units and changes their morale handling.

The rate at which a position turns present resources and opportunities into initiative before opponents can answer.

A claimable special site providing Ascension Points and other effects toward the configured victory condition.

A relatively cheap, equipped commander designed for a bounded independent combat or raiding role.

A size-based attack produced by moving through smaller units, with displacement, damage, and fatigue consequences.

One of several overlapping type tags that can determine leadership, targeting, supplies, healing, morale, immunity, or movement.

A province condition that reduces income and administration and interacts with recruitment, events, patrol, pillage, and Blood Hunting.

The recurring gold cost of maintaining units and commanders, paid after income during hosting.

An official or verified change between two named ruleset versions, kept separate from the current rule it modifies.

The remaining defensive strength of a fort during siege, reduced by besiegers and restored by defenders.

A high-level Astral spell offering a defined but partly version-sensitive set of requested outcomes.

A battlefield movement constraint created by nearby hostile units.