Thanael
Explorer
I forget which book it was, but there was a Shadowrun (3) book that had some of the shadowtalk banter going on about shamanic totems and their relation to either actual pre-existant metaplanar entities or just deriving from the pure will of the shaman themselves, and there was a mention of an orcish shaman of "Toaster".
That would probably be Magic in the Shadows (Awakenings is the 2e precursor). Both mainly by Steven Kenson.
I dimly remember the Shaman of the First Church of Elvis for Shadowrun, who dressed up like Elvis and cast magic in the name of the King. Though it was probably in a netbook.
The SR way of looking at magic traditions is a very interesting one. You essentially cast your magic in the way that you envision it, so there can be Goetic Hermetics, Catholic Idol shamen, or Chaos Mages (hermetics with an anything that works, pick and choose method). Even PSI and miracle workers.
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