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McAnally's (The Community Pub) => Author Craft => Topic started by: Vantillus Octavious on October 05, 2010, 06:51:46 AM
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I am looking for branches of magic that are common in fiction like Necromancy. If anyone has a link to a website that has info about different branches of magic I would appreciate it if you would post it here.
I have Necromancy and Neuromancy but for some reason that is all I can remember.
Added: BTW, I saw the other magic post and it is helpful but not quite what I am looking for.
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You could always look in a D&D book. :) That has a few more.
Just a few off the top:
Illusion (of which there are many kinds)
Divination (of which there are many kinds)
Pyromancy
Pyrokinesis (you could probably have a number of other 'kinesis' lines of magic as well)
Technomancy
More "mancys" at the bottom:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technomancy
Plenty more from there...
Note, though, that much of this also depends upon the magic system in question. What is possible in one may not be possible in another.
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Really it depends on how magic works in your written world, but here are some (from games, texts, and other places)
Alteration
Evocation
Mysticism
Illusion
Thaumatergy
Chronomancy
Geomancy
Sorcery
Conjuration
Restoration
Divination
There is also the more Oriental/elemental approach. Magic is a way to manipulate and control (or even create) different aspects of the elements (traditionall fire, earth, air, and water, sometimes with others added).
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Swing by the appropriate parts of TV Tropes
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Thanks for the replies, they were very helpful.
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Any thing that ends in "-mancy" is really a form of divination, at least in the real world.