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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Abisashi" data-source="post: 2094208" data-attributes="member: 15334">In Magical History 201, who do students learn Thanatos is? The first Praes Thanatos, perhaps? Actually, it'd be rather amusing if, after pretending to die and then taking over the next leader of the gnomish necromancers, Thanatos named the position at the head of his order in honor of himself  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Kalis seems a not-unreasonable creator for a spell, given his scholarly and inquisitive nature, and this spell seems appropriate because it seems like a spell that would take a lot of knowledge of magic theory to create (thus requiring that it be more recent than most spells.) When spells were created is actually pretty important thematically, I think.Our spell names have a very important implication. Lots of spells being named after still-living people means that magic is a vibrant and advancing art; lots of spells named after long-dead mages means that it is relatively stagnant (as it seems to be in most D&D settings.)Oh, and the NPC guide you made is invaluable, as I had to look up several of those names. Thanks!</blockquote>