Interstitial Magic

[Shieldhaven]

While I recognize that my taste in names isn't for everyone, I'd draw an analogy between these interstices and the boundaries between countries. As every schoolboy knows (because we're all Beowulf scholars, right?), the Old English word for "one who wanders in the waste borderlands" is mearcstapa (the word is used to describe Grendel). (Some online sources claim that the word refers to the border markers between land holdings. I'm not enough of an OE scholar to know which is correct.)

Anyway, my suggestion is that either the magic or the one who practices it should be called mearcstapa.

Haven

 

[Scribble]

Gibsonism?

 

[szilard]

I'd stick with "inter" instead of "trans" - Intermancy: between-magic?

-Stuart

 

[Nifft]

Actually, I think "Interstitial Magic" sounds best.

Colloquially, it could be called "Gap Magic" (unless that makes you think of conjuring denim). I like the way that sounds too, but then again, I never met a vowel rhyme I didn't like...

There's nothing wrong with "gap mage" and "gap magic", but they're quite informal. I'd prefer to have something more technical and respectable sounding for their official name.

My problem with the word "interstitial" itself is that, unlike its root "interstices", it appears in a lot of jargons, including medical, web programming, and (as we learned just now) cellular biology.

Maybe the jargon can be overcome, but I'd like to see if there are any unencumbered terms first.

Thanks, -- N

 

[Dragonhelm]

Nexus magic.

Of course, I'm a bit biased (see my sig).

 

[Mallus]

Maybe the jargon can be overcome, but I'd like to see if there are any unencumbered terms first.

Or you could weigh it down further with fantasy jargon; as in the Order of/Seekers after the Ineffable Interstice. I bet that sounds cool in Latin.

But if you really want pared down, how about Space Mage (of course, that sounds like bad early Bowie)? Spatial Mages? Spatial Theosophy? The Point-Set Gnosis?

 

[Nifft]

But if you really want pared down, how about Space Mage (of course, that sounds like bad early Bowie)? Spatial Mages? Spatial Theosophy? The Point-Set Gnosis?

I want time in there too, though. Interstices is the only non-physics word that I can find to cover "time-space continuum".

"Continuumancer" does roll of the tongue, but it just feels too anachronistic. If I could tolerate that, I'd probably stick with "Psychoportation".

Impossible to please, -- N

 

[Slife]

Lacunamancery?

 

[Aus_Snow]

School of Discontinuity?

 

[Nifft]

Lacunamancery?

Not bad, though the focus there is on the absence of content rather than on the location. Does "lacunae" have that archaic twang that one seeks in a fantasy magic name? I dunno. It feels flat to me.

From a fantasy standpoint, I really like the word limn and its family: Liminal Magic and the Liminaliturge sound kinda cool. Hmm.

Thanks, -- N