6 Words for Witchcraft and Black Magic and Powerful Spells
Gramarye
noun : necromancy, magic, enchantment
Gramarye (also spelled gramary) comes from a Middle French word meaning “book of sorcery,” but also “grammar” or “grammar book.” Though modern English speakers don’t tend to mix their grammar with their sorcery, in medieval times the Latin word grammatica (and its lexical descendants in other languages) referred to (among other things) learning in…
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suffering from a severe case of drawing-vintage-rabbit-but-fem disease
(//vintage rabbit obviously. ref under the cut)
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do you think gale shadowheart and wyll would share smut recommendations with each other? based off that one party banter of wyll and shadowheart sharing lines from a smut novel they read
Yes! I have thoughts about this!
I think Astarion mostly reads non-fiction, books that inform him about the world around him, books about certain types of magic and bits of history. He reads a lot of it, but doesn't remember most of it. I think he reads mostly to forget his miserable existence back in Cazador's Palace.
Wyll and Shadowheart I think love their romance novels, spicy or otherwise. From fictitious Bawdry to fluff friends to lovers ^_^
My boy Gale stays flexy and likes both types! So he can have a book club w the romance girlies talking about the intricacies of the romantic novel of the week as well as a private one with Astarion to discuss stuff like history, where Astarion just listens to Gale info dump and occasionally asks questions or adds on tidbits to keep the conversation going
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I was reading the Orphic Argonautica last night and the author has mentioned the various methods of divination Apollo knows and guess what? One of them is prophesying by studying the entrails of organisms. As soon as I read that I was reminded of your headcanon of Apollo being into hepatoscopy for divination and I giggled.
Awww 😳😳It's so nice of you to think of me!
Hehe, so fun fact, the overall practice of divination by studying the entrails of animals (including blood, lungs, intestines and so forth) is extispicy while hepatoscopy is specifically using the liver in prophecy and divination readings.
If, like magic in old text exactly like the sort Medea is described as using, the types of divination spoken about in the texts are reflections of the popular divination cultures of the time, I much rather prefer ascribing those to Apollo than I do some vague, somewhat mysterious power which he uses to see the will of the fates, especially since it's mentioned a few times that he'll teach his sons the language of the birds and how to read their signs and so on and so forth.
In short: HEPATOSCOPY APOLLO IS COOL!! HE'S SO NEAT!! Apollo at the altar who predicts the coming droughts and famines from the entrails of his flock!! It's just such a neat little image (to me)!
Also the Orphic Argonautica bangs, genuinely I hope you enjoy it! Orpheus is an insane man and I do not think him along with the collective subspecies of mythical man known as 'sons of Apollo' get enough credit for how truly unhinged they are at any given point in time.
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Words are spells
Words are spells, they hold such power
They can build us up, or make us cower
In their hand lies the choice to heal or hurt
With every word, we can mend or exert
They are like wands, in the hands of a magician
Creating a world, with each careful incantation
They have the power to shape our reality
So choose them wisely, with utmost sensitivity
For words can heal wounds, soothe a broken heart
They can inspire and give a fresh start
They can bring hope to those lost in despair
And show them a path, to rise from their lair
But words also have the power to harm
To spread hatred and incite alarm
With just a few syllables, they can ignite a fire
That burns through love, and all that we desire
So let us use our words to spread love and light
To uplift others and bring back their sight
For the power of words is a gift we've been given
A responsibility to use them for good, and not forbidden
In this world filled with chaos and strife
Let our words be agents of hope and life
For they hold the key to a better tomorrow
Let us wield them wisely, and banish all sorrow
So let us remember, before we speak
The power of words, in every language unique
They shape our thoughts, and our actions too
And in the end, they define me and you.
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Psychic Scream
You unleash the power of your mind to blast the intellect of up to ten creatures of your choice that you can see within range. Each target must make an Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, a target takes 14d6 psychic damage and is stunned. If a target is killed by this damage, its head explodes (assuming it has one).
if her skill tree doesnt give her epic and fucked up new bard spells imma riot
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entering day 3 of no weaver. this is the end times
fellow weavers rise up: we must come together
rise, my elementalist comrades; let us reclaim our glass cannon throne. we shall leash the dogs of tyranny with one hand and raise our silly little flamey swords with the other, and we WILL become tanks again like our fallen brethren, sistren, and siblingseren before us. join me my fellow sword swingers, my blade bearers, rapier rattlers, my foil foilers,
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