What is a DWEOMER?

[Darke]

I know - but which name is the best known name?

Morrowind me thinks.

If someone publish it, I think they will use this in some way.

das Darke

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

For me, the word "dweomer" has been permanently tainted through its association with Dangerous Journeys...

 

[Nifft]

The way I use it IMC is "aura for inanimate things" and/or "residue of magic in an area".

Usage: "You detect a faint dweomer on the dagger. When you check more carefully, you think that it is a dweomer of transformation."

-- Nifft

 

[Chaldfont]

My question is where did Gygax first pick the word up? It wouldn't surprise me to find it in Jack Vance's writing. I just started reading The Dying Earth and I can see obvious parallels between AD&D and this book.

I will look for "dweomer" as I read it.

 

[mythusmage]

Col Pladoh likely got it while checking out the reference section at the University of Illinois at Chicago library. University libraries often carry the full Oxford Dictionary of the English Language, which is in the habit of carrying obscure words. You can also find books on Old English and Angle-Saxon in many university libraries.

 

[tarchon]

Layamon's Brut
http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/c/cme/cme-idx?type=HTML&rgn=TEI.2&byte=21560704

 

[Mercule]

How odd! I had no idea that dweomer was such an obscure word. When I looked it up in high school, it was in the first dictionary I looked in, pronounciation and all. Never had cause to check any other.

I like Nifft's idea, though. I think I'll start using it similarly, in place of "enchanted".

 

[Dark Helmet]

Taken from the web site http://www.takeourword.com/Issue102.html




It's pronounced DWEEM-er

I cast the can-TRAP Magic Missile!

I attack the darkness.


Obviously, this is funnier if you read the second paragraph from that site CAREFULLY.