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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 3598686" data-attributes="member: 1125">Yes the source material does call these various characters wizards but my point is that although they are called such they do not in fact match the DnD concept of Wizard. The term wizard has a grand history beyond DnD and in many cases it is a divine spellcaster or non-magical alchemist. Of course the OP also points out how ridiculous discussion of Essentiality vs Sacred Cowness is, since any character could be concieved with reference to any one or more 'class combinations'.Even the Harold Shea character (and admittedly I have not read many of these books) uses a pseudo-scientific method of accessing alternate realities where the cultural (ie religious) myths of our world are real and thus magic is in fact the natural physics/logic of the 'realm'Harold Shea is Wizard as natural philosopher in a world with supernatural physics and this is what the DnD wizard models but my point is that it is not the broad archetype of wizard that the term historically models</blockquote>