The Lexicon

This is the Rosetta Stone for the Hexancomicon—the single source of truth for the arcane terms used throughout the summoning rites. It defines the reality of the Construct.

Term	Arcane Definition	Technical Equivalent
Altar	The consecrated interface for communing with the Lich, where invocations are presented.	The HTMX web frontend, typically at http://localhost:8000.
Animator	The spark of cognition; the will that animates the Vessel, drawn from a Soulstone or Portal.	The Large Language Model (LLM) backend.
Aspects	A specific manifestation of the Lich's will, forged to perform a fixed purpose.	A configured agent, skill, or tool available to the LLM.
Banishment	The rite of destroying the containers and cleansing the Phylactery.	Uninstalling or running a cleanup script.
Binding	The rite of inscribing the Runes onto the disk and linking them to the system's soul.	The lychd init command.
Codex	The book of forbidden knowledge containing the Runes that define the Lich's form.	The configuration directory, ~/.config/lychd.
Crypt	The cold earth where the Phylactery's essence is stored, ensuring its persistence.	The data directory, ~/.local/share/lychd.
Divination	The act of communing with the Lich, typically by presenting an invocation at the Altar.	Making a request to the API or interacting with the UI.
Ghouls	Mindless servants commanded by the Vessel to execute rites in the background.	Background task workers (SAQ).
Harvester	The Watcher who collects the raw metrics of the ritual—the costs, speeds, and errors.	Prometheus.
The Hexanomicon	The complete grimoire detailing the summoning procedures for LychD.	The official project documentation.
Ley Lines	The invisible channels of power that flow between components within the Sepulcher.	The localhost / Loopback interface within the Pod.
The Lich	An immortal entity defined by its Code + State. Unlike a Zombie (a script that rots and forgets), a Lich writes its thoughts to the Phylactery and cannot truly die.	An instance of a Pydantic-driven AI Agent.
The Oracle	The Watcher who traces the invisible threads of logic, revealing the "why" of thoughts.	Arize Phoenix (LLM Tracer).
Phylactery	The anchor of the Lich's soul. It holds frozen memory and state, making the Lich immortal.	The PostgreSQL database (with pgvector).
Portal	A rift to the Void, drawing animating intelligence from distant, powerful sources.	A connection to a cloud-based LLM API (e.g., OpenAI).
Prophecies	The foretold evolution of the Lich's power and capabilities.	The project roadmap.
Reincarnation	The act of a service restarting. Daemons do not hot-reload; they reincarnate, reading their last thought from the Phylactery to continue their work.	A systemctl --user restart of a service.
Runes	The inscriptions within the Codex that define how to summon the entities of the Sepulcher.	The Quadlet files (.container, .service, etc.).
Scribe	The Watcher who takes the Harvester's findings and inscribes them into a visual grimoire.	Grafana.
Sepulcher	The sealed chamber where the Lich and its servants are bound in a shared namespace.	The Podman Quadlet pod that groups all services.
Sigils	Strict, typed data structures. The language of the system. A Lich cannot hallucinate a response that violates the laws of its Sigil.	Pydantic Models.
Soulstone	A trapped spirit that prophesies the next token. A blind, powerful god that provides the animating force from within the Sepulcher.	A locally running LLM inference server (e.g., SGLang).
Summoning	The final incantation to breathe life into the Vessel and raise the Sepulcher.	The systemctl --user start lychd command.
Vessel	The reanimated husk that orchestrates the system. It wields the Sigils and gives the Lich form.	The Litestar/Granian Python application runtime.
Void	The chaotic world outside the Sepulcher's walls.	The host Operating System's user space.
Watchers	The trio of silent servants (Harvester, Scribe, Oracle) who observe the ritual.	The observability stack.
Whispers	The raw, unfiltered incantations of the machine; the system logs.	The output of journalctl for the lychd service.