(OT) Wizards, Sorcerors, and Mages Oh MY!

[Disciple of Darwin]

How could you forget fingerwaggler?!?!

Oh wait did you want useful synonyms?

 

[Horacio]

How could you forget the Dragonlace:
White robes, Red robes and Black robes...

 

[Stormprince]

Skinwalkers...

Basically, here's a brief summary of what a 'skinwalker' is...

Is the Navajo Skinwalker the same as the white man's werewolf? Yes, if the Navajo witch wears the skin of a wolf. But the Navajo witches can mimic any animal they choose, not just the wolf. They can be a cat, a coyote, a dog, a bear, whatever the Navajo witch wants to be. The Navajo witches pick their skins for the type of job they plan to do. The coyote skin is for high speed, accurate sense of smell, and the acute agility. The bear skin is for brute strength, however the bear is not as fast as the coyote. Along with their new abilities, the Navajo Skinwalkers still retain their full mental capacities. If the Navajo witch is a fairly or highly intelligent person, when he or she changes into a Skinwalker they carry that intelligence with them and you have a very dangerous opponent. Unlike the wolf man, the Skinwalker will use their whole bag of tricks - mind control, disease, and immobilization powder.

- from Navajo Skinwalkers

I always really liked this particular 'legend'...puts a whole new twist on 'Wyld Shape'

- Christopher

 

[rounser]

How could you forget fingerwaggler?!?!

Ooooh, not the witchy-fingers! Noooooooooo.....

 

[rounser]

I recall Gary Gygax's Gord the Rogue books referred to 'dweomercraefters' several times.

Yeah, but the pronounciation?

AFAIK, dweomer is pronounced "dway-mer". The problem is with the "craefter" bit - not sure whether it should be pronounced the same as the word crafter or not. It could possibly be "dway-mer-crayf-ter", which would justify the 'e' in there.

 

[rounser]

AFAIK, dweomer is pronounced "dway-mer".

I've gone mad, replying to myself, but just thought of a new PC name:

Dwayne the Dweomercraefter.

Eh? Eh?

 

[Harlequin]

...

"Bilbo Baggins! Do not take me for some conjurer of cheap tricks! I am not trying to rob you. I’m trying to help you. "


Gandalf the Grey

 

[Fidget]

I am surprised no one listed thaumaturge.

I have always liked this one. I remember a Wormy comic strip Irving the imp meets a centauress in a very cold place said,

"You must be a thaumaturge."
"Great, I'll thaw yours, you thaw mine."

 

[Carnifex]

Cryomancer
Miasmancer
Biothaumaturge