In-universe terms and meanings.
• Tellus and Luna are the Earth and the Moon respectively.
• "Year" is sometimes referred as Annum and "Day" as Sol. Month and Week remain the same.
• The term "animal" is replaced by "primeval." As humans are animals, "non-human animal" is replaced by "non-human primeval."
• The terms "people" and "person" are replaced by "furless/ape" (human), "dog" (for dyre/vledax), and "sapiens" (all three.)
• "District" is the term used by the sapiens to refer to their particular group with the same principle as tribes, clans, and dog packs. The term first began to be used when certain groups began using a city's District Regions as their home base. For the sake of simplicity, "district" will be strictly used for packs and groups while "region" will be used to refer a city's different sectors.
• "Shell" is synonym to Body.
• "Year" is sometimes referred as Annum and "Day" as Sol. Month and Week remain the same.
• The term "animal" is replaced by "primeval." As humans are animals, "non-human animal" is replaced by "non-human primeval."
• The terms "people" and "person" are replaced by "furless/ape" (human), "dog" (for dyre/vledax), and "sapiens" (all three.)
• "District" is the term used by the sapiens to refer to their particular group with the same principle as tribes, clans, and dog packs. The term first began to be used when certain groups began using a city's District Regions as their home base. For the sake of simplicity, "district" will be strictly used for packs and groups while "region" will be used to refer a city's different sectors.
• "Shell" is synonym to Body.
- Instinct is 'an innate, typically fixed pattern of behavior in response to certain stimuli.' Every lifeforms have instinct, a deep rooted survival ability. Humans are more instinctive than we let on, yet instinct doesn't negate sentience and sapience.
Sentience is the ability to feel, awareness of one's own existence, thoughts, emotions, surroundings, and other beings. You don't need a brain to be sentient (see jellyfish.) Being sentient can go further as self-awareness, consciousness, and the ability to reason.
Semi-Sapience refers to non-human animals regarded as highly intelligent such as corvids, parrots, dolphins, elephants, and primates to name a few. Intelligence is measured by the capacity for learning. It's an aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.
Sapience is the ability for abstract thoughts, critical thinking, deep reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity. It's usually seen as a human-only thing because we're so far the current sapient animals on Earth.