This is a guide on some of the basic things that people want to know. If you have any other guides then please son't hesitate to make a topic on them. These guides can also be drawing guides, and any other kind of guides you can think of.



Age In Soul Society


In Soul Society people age much slower then in the human world. To caculate one's age you either take their actual age and devide it by six, showing you what their age would be in the human world. And if you look, say, 20 years old then you would be 120 in Soul Society.

Basicly a Soul Societly year is six(6) Human world years.



Arrancar

An arrancar is a hollow that has removed its mask and gained shinigami powers. Few hollows have the potential to remove their masks normally, and even if they manage it the change is not significant. Arrancar and ordinary hollows differ in two ways: the location of their holes and the near-total disappearance of their masks. When hollows become arrancar, the chances of them retaining a humanoid form increase with their intelligence; only vasto lorde-class arrancar will definitely assume a humanoid form. If powerful enough, an arrancar can seal his or her excess power into the form of a zanpakutō. Unlike with shinigami, this zanpakutō is simply the hollow's true form sealed into a sword. Therefore, an arrancar's release of their zanpakutō is merely a temporary restoration of their former selves. An arrancar release is called resurrección (Spanish for "resurrection"). Arrancar do not have a known second release.



Vaizards

The vizard are a group of rogue shinigami in the anime and manga series Bleach who have illegally acquired hollow powers. The vizard are the antithesis to the arrancar; they are shinigami who have obtained hollow powers and whose shinigami powers remain dominant (although they do have to undergo a process and maintain their dominance over their hollow), while the arrancar are hollows that have obtained shinigami powers and whose hollow powers remain dominant. Having begun as shinigami, the vizard appear entirely human. Unlike the arrancar, they do not have holes or partial masks (common traits of transformed hollows) anywhere on their body, though they can produce masks on demand, and they carry zanpakutō like normal shinigami. When using their hollow powers, a vizard's appearance does not change except for the mask on their face and the color of their eyes, with the whites of their eyes turning black and the irises gold. This process of donning one's hollow mask is referred to as "Hollowification". In battle, the vizard use their hollow powers to augment their shinigami abilities, granting them massive increases in speed, stamina, and strength. They also gain access to some of the common hollow abilities, such as cero blasts. Bodily harm can seemingly be ignored while wearing their masks.



Some guides on Japanese words.
Since we go by the japanese version, most English words will not be used... here are some examples


A characters last name is written, introduced, and spoked BEFORE his/her first name.
Soul Reaper - Shinigami
Spiritual Force/Pressure - Reiatsu
The Soul Society - Soul Society
Soul Slayer - Zanpakutou
Initial Release - Shi Kai
Final Release - Ban Kai
Artificial Souls - Gikongan [Or Soul Candy, by the Shinigami Women Organization]
Modified Souls [Mod Souls] - Kaizo Konpaku



Terms in real life, and their representatives in Bleach.

Hell does not exist, it's counterpart is Hueco Mundo
Heaven does no exist, it's counterpart is Soul Society
Death, Demons, Devils do not exist, Their counterparts are Hollows.
Angels do not exist, their counterparts are Shinigami