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Nefarious 2.0 posted:if I wanted to learn how to be a wizard I'd ask the freakin wizard master, not da op I think OP might be a Wizard Doctor.
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Deki posted:Wizard: Hopeless nerd who needs to rely on books and knowledge to cast magic. Probably all white haired and crusty. This is the D&D answer. The real answer is that "Sorcerer" is the word people will call you if you're about to get in serious trouble. Nobody is going to accuse you of Wizardry. Sorcery is mostly fortune-telling, but once someone decides you're in trouble it's also demon summoning. Wizard just means 'Wise Person'. None of the 'classic' wizards would even count as wizards. Merlin was a Druid. Odin was a seiğmağr, and ain't nobody got the time to figure out how to pronounce that these days. Gandalf is called a wizard, but also he's basically an angel and his powers come from a completely different source than modern wizard stereotypes tend to (read: studying, books, being wise). The Magi are Zoroastrians. Zoroastrianism was never a very big faith, so they're not the ones who wrote the things that had such a big influence on modern western society. So that means they're a very strange group of people with very strange traditions and secret knowledge they totally aren't sharing with the public. Magic. But also they never caused much trouble, so they're not necessarily bad. They gave Jesus some gold and incense.
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Rutibex posted:lots of magical practitioners will call themselves magicians as a generic term. mostly because calling yourself a wizard makes you sound like a dork It's true that, yes, these things do change with time. The word magi (and magic) has a specific origin but now has a more general meaning. Though it's important to keep the origins in mind. So if you are calling yourself a mage or a magician, don't wear a pointy hat. As we already established, pointy hats are for wizards and/or medieval Jews, and that's a different discipline.
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