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** Ritual Song and Ritual Dance: [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].
* [[Shapeshifting Squick]]: Unusually, the shapeshifter is the one being squicked. In ''Taking Flight'', a man is enchanted to love and desire Irith the Flier, who is a shapeshifter with seven different shapes. It turns out that no matter the Irith's shape, the man still lusts after her, even when she assumes a shape of a horse. (By the way, one of the seven shapes is a housecat, so yeah, [[Memetic Mutation|a cat is fine too]].) Irith is seriously squicked by that.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The spell ''Felshen's First Hypnotic'' is presumably named in tribute to ''Felojun's Second Hypnotic Spell'' from [[Jack Vance]]'s ''[[Dying Earth (novel)|Dying Earth]]'' series. Also, wizard Fendel is a homage to Archnecromancer Phandaal from the same series ([[Word of God]] on the subject [https://web.archive.org/web/20150427032941/http://www.ethshar.com/serials/?p=25#comment-535) here]).
* [[Sorcerous Overlord]]: Usually averted, thanks to Wizards' Guild. The Guild's rules expressly forbid any magician, wizard or not, to occupy any ruling position at all (the only exception are those positions that explicitly require magic, like that of a court magician). Punishment for breaking this rule is death. {{spoiler|Shame about Vond the Warlock, though. Vond became ''very'' powerful much too quickly, conquered a kingdom and even managed to build a small empire.}}
* [[Summon Magic]]: Demonology. Also, some wizard spells can summon otherwordly creatures, too.
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