Glossary

Plain-English definitions of the terms used across these docs.

Albion Online terms

Term	Meaning
CTA	Call To Arms — a scheduled guild event (raid, war, fight).
Regear	The guild paying a member back for gear they lost in a death.
Overcharge (OC)	A regear request for items consumed (not lost in death) — typically food, potion, siphon-related.
ZvZ	Zerg-vs-Zerg — large-scale group combat in Albion.
War Role	A loadout archetype — Tank, Healer, DPS, Support, etc. Each war role has an expected equipment loadout.
Siphon	A guild-chest mechanic in Albion where members deposit silver into a shared pool that pays them back over time.
Cut-off	The act of grouping approved regears into a packing task. In item-mode regear, the packer fulfils the cut-off task by packing items into lockers.
Locker	A personal slot in the guild's chest hall — each member has one or more lockers where staff packs their regear items.
Pick list	The aggregated item list for a cut-off task — what the packer needs to pull from the source chest.
Pick Checker	AO Master's chest-log paste tool that compares what was deposited into the destination chest against the pick list.

AO Master concepts

Term	Meaning
Guild	A managed Albion guild (or sub-group within one) inside AO Master. One AO Master guild = one record + one set of channels.
Channel	A page in the sidebar (#Welcome, #Members, etc.). Modeled after Discord's vocabulary for familiarity.
Role	A bundle of permissions assigned to one or more members. Distinct from war role.
Permission	A single yes/no capability gate (e.g. Approve Regear Requests). See Permissions reference.
Owner	The user who created the guild. Treated as Administrator regardless of which roles they hold.
System	An opt-in subsystem (Silver Bank, Siphon Bank, Armory, Item Price, ZvZ System). Toggle on Settings → Guild Systems.
Tier	Subscription plan (Free / Basic / Pro / Max). Different tiers raise the quotas on members, log retention, locker count, etc. See Subscription tier + billing.
Setup Checklist	A pattern where a feature surfaces its dependencies as a tickable list (✓ satisfied / ⚠ missing) with deep-links to fix what's missing. See Settings → Regear Policy.
Public Profile	The guild's public-facing Welcome page (banner, description, widgets). Visible to anyone with the URL. See Settings → Public Profile.
Vanity slug	Custom short URL (/g/your-name) for your public profile. See Owners — Public profile + vanity slug.
Audit log	Append-only record of every state-changing action. See Settings → Audit Log.

Regear pipeline

Term	Meaning
Pending	A regear / OC request submitted by a member, waiting for staff review.
Approved	Staff said yes; the request is queued for delivery (cut-off task in item mode, payout in silver mode).
Delivered	Item-mode: a packer marked the cut-off task complete + items are in the member's locker.
Paid	Silver-mode: silver has been credited to the member's Silver Bank balance.
Received	The member has acknowledged the request in their My Requests view. Moves it to Archived.
Rejected	Staff declined the request with a reason.
Archived	Acknowledged or auto-archived (after the retention window passes).

Discord-side terms

Term	Meaning
Bot	The AO Master Discord bot (AO Master#xxxx) — paired to a Discord server to bridge AO Master features into Discord.
/guild pair	Slash command that bonds a Discord server to an AO Master guild.
Per-member channel	Optional feature — when on, each linked member gets a private 🪪 <character> channel in your Discord server for personal regear updates + status messages.
Enlist ticket	A short-lived Discord channel created when an applicant clicks the bot's [Enlist] button. Recruiters review here, then /enlist done archives + deletes the channel.

Cross-links

• Permissions reference — full permission table.
• Item naming + tiers — Albion item-name conventions used in pick lists.
• Regear pipeline overview — how the regear states fit together.