Okay... So I've got about 7 major magical arts. I need names for them all, game terms that will determine what the Edges/Skills are called. Naturally, individual mages might call them something else, but this will be the most common name for it.
Abjuration & Summoning:
Nature Magic: Natural Order?
Elementalism:
Divine Magic: Primal magic? Realm? Correspondence? Reality?
Mind-affecting Magic: Sorcery?
Evocation of magical fields: Evocation? That's the D&D term. Psychokinetic.
Sensory Magic/Illusions: Art of the Eye? Apparition. Apparative Magic. Divination & Illusion. Images. Truth & Deception. Divination & Concealment. Obscurance. Visions.
Hm. Well, here are some generic terms that I could assign:
Thaumaturgy, Sorcery, Hermetic Magic. Ritual Magic (doubtful, probably applies to multiple). Wizardry. Witchcraft/Warlockery. Demonology (doubtful). Sympathetic Magic (again, doubtful). Mysticism.
Wizardry: evocation of magical energies
Primal: altering of reality
Sorcery: mind control (ensorcelling people)
Thaumaturgy (miracle working) could cover the Natural Order
These may be too traditional for my tastes. Let's stick to names that I happen to like... that seem to fit the style I'm looking for.
Wizardry seems appropriate for Evocation-style magic. Sorcery is fine for mind-control. Primal seems appropriate for realm-altering magic. Natural Order is a good name for a very broad category of magic. I can live with Elementalism.
That leaves the Abjuration & Summoning and the Sensory Magic. I might just name them as contradictory pairs, a bit like "Green & Purple" magic.
Posted by Kiz at November 14, 2004 12:39 PMCommentsPost a comment