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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 5973274" data-attributes="member: 386">I think they should add more names.It comes from The Dying Earth by Jack Vance.  Spells were named after the wizard who discovered them.  The tomes which held Turjan's sorcery lay on a long table of black steel or were thrust helter-skelter into shelves. These were volumes compiled by many wizards of the past, untidy folios collected by the Sage, leather-bound librams setting forth the syllables of a hundred powerful spells, so cogent that Turjan's brain could know but four at a time. Turjan found a musty portfolio, turned the heavy pages to the spell the Sage had shown him, the Call to the Violet Cloud. He stared down at the characters and they burned with an urgent power, pressing off the page as if frantic to leave the dark solitude of the book. Turjan closed the book, forcing the spell back into oblivion. [...] Then he sat down and from a journal chose the spells he would take with him. What dangers he might meet he could not know, so he selected three spells of general application: the Excellent Prismatic Spray, Phandaal's Mantle of Stealth, and the Spell of the Slow Hour.(I got that from <a href="http://jrients.blogspot.ca/2008/06/just-so-you-know-this-is-vancian-magic.html" target="_blank">here</a>.)</blockquote>