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Re: possible translations (was "Re: New pictures of my Black Falcons")
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In lugnet.castle, Dan Boger writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Shiri Dori writes:
> > In lugnet.castle, Franklin W. Cain writes:
> > > I can't think of an alternative for the earth-mage,
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> > How's about geomancer?
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> maybe druid?
Well, a druid was *originally* (before D&D got ahold of it) a Celtic
priest/wise man. The whole "treehugging nature guy" stuff was invented by
Gygax. (Read some of the Irish tales to get a better idea of what druids
really did - I highly recommend the ones about Finn mac Cool and his
Fianna.) So I think "geomancer" would be slightly more correct.
On the other hand, "-mancy" comes from the Greek "mantis" or prophet*, and
technically all of the forms of whatevermancy are forms of divination -
pyromancy would be predicting the future by gazing into flames, for
example. So "geomancer", "pyromancer", and all those other terms aren't
really technically correct either.
(I'm not really sure why the former inaccuracy bothers me more than the
latter.)
J
* - which, interestingly enough, is also related to "mania" or madness.
Tells you something about what the Greeks thought of prophets...
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