words for magic

rycanada said:
I'm thinking Invocation for Instantiation.

The other three are tough nuts to crack.
Properly speaking, in occult lore the difference between Invocation and Evocation is that invoking a thing means you make its energy part of your spirit, thus taking on its mental and spiritual qualities with (usually) no or next to no physical manifestation; evoking it by contrast means that you literally cause it to manifest physically- make something external. So for your magic scheme, Evocation actually works much better. The way it's used in core D&D actually is a tiny part of what the word itself means- in fact, everything in the Conjuration school except the Teleportation effects would be considered a form of Evocation going purely by the definition.

Given that, Invocation could actually work rather well for the Telepathy part of your scheme- the idea would be you're "invoking" thoughts of other beings in the cosmos, even other living people.
 

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rycanada said:
For a game I'm designing, there's 6 kinds of magic:

Alchemancy (Changing substances into other substances)
Instatiation (Creating stuff out of nowhere)
Sentiation (Seeing / hearing things you couldn't normally see / hear)
Telekinesis
Telepathy
Teleportation

:) Sounds like a familiar division.

Psychometabolism -- Transmutation, Alteration
Metacreativity -- Conjuration, Pattern Magic
Clairsentience -- Divination, Akashism
Psychokinesis -- Evocation, Kineticism
Telepathy -- Enchantment, Mentalism
Psychoportation -- Translocation

Cheers, -- N
 




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