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* ''[[Geist: The Sin Eaters]]'' is part of ''[[The World of Darkness]]'' series, which generally follows the title theme "Species Name: Symbolic Metaphor/Social Group/Adjective/Verbing" -- needless to say, it's a common mistake for those casually acquainted with the setting to refer to the supernatural player characters as "geists" and their society as "sin-eaters". In fact, "sin-eater" is the actual racial name, while "geist" specifically refers to the [[Eldritch Abomination]] that merged with any individual sin-eater to bring them back from the dead.

* Most classic ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' settings aren't actually referred to in-universe by the names of their product lines. The world of the [[Forgotten Realms]] is called Toril, the home planet of [[Dragonlance]] is called Krynn, and the one where you'd find the city of [[Greyhawk]] is called Oerth. [[Dark Sun]]'s residents call their world Athas, and natives of [[Ravenloft]] know that name only as a castle in Barovia, not their world, the Land of Mists ("Demiplane of Dread" for the few outsiders aware of its existence). [[Eberron]] and [[Mystara]] are about the only official TSR or WotC worlds that really ''are'' called by their product-line names by their own inhabitants.