Vox Mentis

Just for discussion - These special words seem to be outside of the standard way that words work. Like, words are generally subject to some degree of natural selection, where popular ones remain in the lexicon and unused words like 'clepe' and 'fayne' fall out of use. Generally speaking, you'd say that those words are less powerful in the sense that they're less useful, because their lack of use means that people don't know what they mean. You can rate the power of words by the appropriateness of their meaning for a given situation. These special words that you're learning actually have an effect without our knowing their meaning; they have power in a sense that real words don't.