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BP

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Oct 25, 2009, 5:35:02 PM10/25/09
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I'm working on a magic system where most magic is done through asking
or compelling service from various kinds of spirits - elementals,
demons, or the myriad kinds of spirits in an animist view of the
world. I pretty much have names for all of those kinds of magic.

There is a different kind of magic which is powered by the user's own
spirit - mostly psionic-type stuff, like enhancing the user's own
physical feats, or telekinesis, or telepathy - but I haven't got a
good name for that. I've been calling it "self magic" as a working
title, but I don't really like that - any other suggestions?

Thanks,

BP

Ingo Siekmann

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Oct 25, 2009, 6:32:54 PM10/25/09
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BP schrieb:
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> There is a different kind of magic which is powered by the user's own
> spirit - mostly psionic-type stuff, like enhancing the user's own
> physical feats, or telekinesis, or telepathy - but I haven't got a
> good name for that. I've been calling it "self magic" as a working
> title, but I don't really like that - any other suggestions?

Genius?

Bye
Ingo

BP

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Oct 25, 2009, 8:24:08 PM10/25/09
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Yes, something like that, except that in English the word "genius" has
taken on the meaning of someone of very high intelligence, which
somewhat obscures the Latin meaning of a personal or family spirit, so
I thought it might be confusing.

BP

David Johnston

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Oct 26, 2009, 2:12:32 AM10/26/09
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Essentialism or essential magic.

Bent C Dalager

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Oct 26, 2009, 5:30:21 AM10/26/09
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On 2009-10-25, BP <re...@newsgroup.please> wrote:
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> There is a different kind of magic which is powered by the user's own
> spirit - mostly psionic-type stuff, like enhancing the user's own
> physical feats, or telekinesis, or telepathy - but I haven't got a
> good name for that. I've been calling it "self magic" as a working
> title, but I don't really like that - any other suggestions?

Egomancy

Cheers,
Bent D
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Ingo Siekmann

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Oct 26, 2009, 11:35:42 AM10/26/09
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BP schrieb:

> Yes, something like that, except that in English the word "genius" has
> taken on the meaning of someone of very high intelligence, which
> somewhat obscures the Latin meaning of a personal or family spirit, so
> I thought it might be confusing.

What about "Monsters from the It?" :-)

Bye
Ingo

BP

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Oct 26, 2009, 7:50:07 PM10/26/09
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On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:30:21 +0000 (UTC), Bent C Dalager
<b...@pvv.ntnu.no> wrote:

>On 2009-10-25, BP <re...@newsgroup.please> wrote:
>>
>> There is a different kind of magic which is powered by the user's own
>> spirit - mostly psionic-type stuff, like enhancing the user's own
>> physical feats, or telekinesis, or telepathy - but I haven't got a
>> good name for that. I've been calling it "self magic" as a working
>> title, but I don't really like that - any other suggestions?
>
>Egomancy

Ah, another good one. Thanks, Bent.

BP

BP

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Oct 26, 2009, 7:51:43 PM10/26/09
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On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:12:32 GMT, David Johnston <da...@block.net>
wrote:

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>Essentialism or essential magic.


Yeah, Tetsubo suggested that over on the dnd group.

Thanks, David.

BP

Steffan O'Sullivan

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Oct 26, 2009, 8:11:14 PM10/26/09
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BP <re...@newsgroup.please> wrote:
>>On 2009-10-25, BP <re...@newsgroup.please> wrote:
>>Egomancy
>
>Ah, another good one. Thanks, Bent.

Automancy would be more correct - it's not kosher to mix a Latin
prefix with a Greek suffix.

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it is at variance with things I have written already, as is often the
case with legend, whence comes a pleasing variety." -Lord Dunsany

librarian

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Oct 27, 2009, 2:01:43 AM10/27/09
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Omphalomancy.

(broken from one of my favorite words - omphaloskepsis)

best -

chris

Bent C Dalager

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Oct 27, 2009, 9:25:48 AM10/27/09
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The moment I thought of it, I just /knew/ I wanted to play an
egomancer <g>

Are you going to publish your spirit magic system anywhere?

Bent C Dalager

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Oct 27, 2009, 9:32:59 AM10/27/09
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On 2009-10-27, Steffan O'Sullivan <s...@panix.com> wrote:
> BP <re...@newsgroup.please> wrote:
>>>On 2009-10-25, BP <re...@newsgroup.please> wrote:
>>>Egomancy
>>
>>Ah, another good one. Thanks, Bent.
>
> Automancy would be more correct - it's not kosher to mix a Latin
> prefix with a Greek suffix.

It's not as if the egomancer cares what other people think about him
or his chosen title! :-)

BP

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Oct 27, 2009, 12:39:18 PM10/27/09
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On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:25:48 +0000 (UTC), Bent C Dalager
<b...@pvv.ntnu.no> wrote:
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>Are you going to publish your spirit magic system anywhere?


Hadn't really thought about it. I guess after I get the bugs worked
out and test it a bit, I could post it here. Or maybe print to PDF and
post a link here, to preserve formatting.

BP

BP

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Oct 27, 2009, 12:43:15 PM10/27/09
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On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:01:43 -0700, librarian
<auct...@superfuncards.com> wrote:

>Omphalomancy.
>
>(broken from one of my favorite words - omphaloskepsis)


OK, I had to look that one up, and I see that omphalos is the navel -
so not quite what I had in mind - but thanks for teaching me a new
word! *g*

BP

Siddhartha Raphael Kriss Talwar

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Nov 24, 2009, 3:42:53 AM11/24/09
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On 25 Ott, 22:35, BP <re...@newsgroup.please> wrote:

> There is a different kind of magic which is powered by the user's own
> spirit - mostly psionic-type stuff, like enhancing the user's own
> physical feats, or telekinesis, or telepathy - but I haven't got a
> good name for that. I've been calling it "self magic" as a working
> title, but I don't really like that - any other suggestions?

Endomancy? It means "Inner Magic". Should work fine...


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Kriss

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