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<blockquote data-quote="reiella" data-source="post: 1482743" data-attributes="member: 160">Now, let's approach this from a different manner.Most of those terms are ones that were developed as far back historically as Ancient Greece and Rome (even the awkward Ablating).&nbsp; The three most recent (I believe) are constructs taken from current 'real world psionics' (Apopsi, Catapsi, Reddopsi).However, I'm confused utterly by some of the selections.&nbsp; Metaconcert seems particularly odd, unless you feel that metamagic is too modern of a term as well?One way to consider them is from the Hermetic/Alchemical romanticized ideals.&nbsp; Quite often, latin word usage would be quite pervasive.I do understand how the text may seem too modern, but mostly as our current society uses latin words often to refer to more scientific topics.&nbsp; And typical (at least for D&amp;D / rpgs) fantasy has magic users using some 'foreign language' entirely instead of latin, resulting in a greater percieved departure.Out of curiosity, would it be more acceptable if the powers had the same names, just in the Draconic alphabet?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="reiella, post: 1482743, member: 160"] Now, let's approach this from a different manner. Most of those terms are ones that were developed as far back historically as Ancient Greece and Rome (even the awkward Ablating). The three most recent (I believe) are constructs taken from current 'real world psionics' (Apopsi, Catapsi, Reddopsi). However, I'm confused utterly by some of the selections. Metaconcert seems particularly odd, unless you feel that metamagic is too modern of a term as well? One way to consider them is from the Hermetic/Alchemical romanticized ideals. Quite often, latin word usage would be quite pervasive. I do understand how the text may seem too modern, but mostly as our current society uses latin words often to refer to more scientific topics. And typical (at least for D&D / rpgs) fantasy has magic users using some 'foreign language' entirely instead of latin, resulting in a greater percieved departure. Out of curiosity, would it be more acceptable if the powers had the same names, just in the Draconic alphabet? [/QUOTE]

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