Yeah, but mancy clearly becomes a broader sense of "magic" if you just look at usage in modern English ... or maybe divination and even prophecy might have had broader contexts than the more oracular constraints we currently put them on when we look at the Greek. Knowledge is power so to speak, mancy means both.
I thought this was a thread about proofreading, I don't know how the schools of magic tie into bad omens for D&D (see what I did there?).
Consult the tea leaves, they might have an answer for you.
Probably not, I'm a skeptic.
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Precisely this, just so. Necro meaning “dead,” and mancy meaning “divination by means of,” so the word necromancy literally translates as “divination by means of the dead.”
So pyromancy is "divination by means of fire?" I've been lied to all this time... although I guess you are divining how many hit points your opponent has.
That is exactly what pyromancy means. I’m guessing you are confusing it with pyromania which is an entirely different thing.
I should clarify: I'm not talking about the etymological roots of the term "necromancy'. I'm taking about the common depiction of "holy men", and how that typically depicts them being opposed to the reanimation of dead.
I should clarify: I'm not talking about the etymological roots of the term "necromancy'. I'm taking about the common depiction of "holy men", and how that typically depicts them being opposed to the reanimation of dead.
That’s fair. What I’m talking about is the fact that historically, in D&D lore there are other aspects of necromancy, namely resuscitating the deceased and healing in general. There’s both “white” and “black” magic in necromancy.
I should clarify: I'm not talking about the etymological roots of the term "necromancy'. I'm taking about the common depiction of "holy men", and how that typically depicts them being opposed to the reanimation of dead.
That’s fair. What I’m talking about is the fact that historically, in D&D lore there are other aspects of necromancy, namely resuscitating the deceased and healing in general. There’s both “white” and “black” magic in necromancy.
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Consult the tea leaves, they might have an answer for you.
Probably not, I'm a skeptic.
If you're not willing or able to to discuss in good faith, then don't be surprised if I don't respond, there are better things in life for me to do than humour you. This signature is that response.
That is exactly what pyromancy means. I’m guessing you are confusing it with pyromania which is an entirely different thing.
I should clarify: I'm not talking about the etymological roots of the term "necromancy'. I'm taking about the common depiction of "holy men", and how that typically depicts them being opposed to the reanimation of dead.
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That’s fair. What I’m talking about is the fact that historically, in D&D lore there are other aspects of necromancy, namely resuscitating the deceased and healing in general. There’s both “white” and “black” magic in necromancy.
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