Struggling To Name an Element of My Setting: Magic Fog?

[Sandor]

So, I've been working on a world to set some stories in, including short fiction and a novel. Basically, every hundred or so years in the setting there's a this sort of magical weather patter that happens where various strange and weird realms overlay temporarily with the world the characters are in, creating a sort of cross pollination between realms. In the history of the setting, this is how previous civilization learned magic and how many species ended up in the world proper. Since this is dark fantasy, it's going to probably tend more cosmic and demonic in nature.

The problem is I don't know what to call it or what it looks like. I was thinking a fog, but just calling it "the fog" or "the mist" felt too generic. Having it just be a fog also feels kind of cliche in and of itself. Does anyone here have any suggestion? I'm thinking through it tonight as I've done a fair bit of writing tonight and want to spend some time wordbuilding.

 

[Madman Starryteller]

I have some proposals:

Mind Ether
Energy Miasma
Light Fog
Dread Fog
Spirit Haze

Perhaps it could be an energy that encircles certain users and gives them power? Maybe the energy is conscious and selects who gains power?

 

[Dee-123]

You could draw from old tradition, eg. for the veil between the living and the dead, the known and unknown, and use that or a take on it. The Norse for example used the word Gloom, so maybe The Glooming, The Gloomening, GloomFall. One example of many. Check sources for traditions on liminal places

 

[Sandor]

This might feel like sort of an odd departure from tradition, but I like the idea of calling it "The Erratum," as a word that evokes change or overly as it's the singular form of errata. The Gloom and The Glooming might also be good, tbh I should dig in and world build more as I go through my current novel. I want to write more short fiction in the setting as well - I think that would help a lot.

 

[Dee-123]

Erratum in this context is certainly original my friend, so go with what feels right for now. Don't overthink it. Write, and don't be surprised when what it should be lands directly in your brain when you least expect it. Odds are 80/20 it will be during the act of writing, or at least confirmed there.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

The miasma suggests an an aura of menace.