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=== Tabletop Games ===

* ''[[Exalted]]'' has Necromancy (the dark magic of the Underworld, power of and over the dead), and Oneiromancy (power of dreams and over Wyld), although the latter is almost exclusively practiced by the [[Fair Folk]].

* ''[[Dungeons ~~and~~ Dragons]]'' only uses the -mancer suffix for Necromancers, using more unique names for the other schools of magic.

* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' only uses the -mancer suffix for Necromancers, using more unique names for the other schools of magic.

** One exception is the NPC class Oracle, introduced in one issue of [[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]] magazine. The class is a diviner with 26 different divining abilities, all pertaining to a different thing, and each ending with -mancy. However, this one is actually an appropriate use of the term -mancy, as these are divinations.

** Some of the subclasses (Kits in 2nd edition, Prestige Classes in 3rd) used class names ending in -mancer.

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** The Game Boy Advance remake of ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' names Relm's class as "Pictomancer", because her magic comes from painting pictures.

** Averted in ''[[Final Fantasy XIV]]'', where one of the two mage classes is called "Thaumaturge".

* ''[[~~Runescape~~]]'' has the Culinaromancer, an [[Evil Chef]] mage, And Oneiromancy which is "dream magic". As it is a fantasy MMORPG, necromancy is naturally present as well. There is also a [[Dishing Out Dirt]] hobgoblin geomancer, and a literal [[Badass Bookworm]] "Liberomancer", Lexicus Runewright. At one point, a wizard known to possess magical beads even reveals that he is working on developing a type of magic called ''beadromancy''.

* ''[[RuneScape]]'' has the Culinaromancer, an [[Evil Chef]] mage, And Oneiromancy which is "dream magic". As it is a fantasy MMORPG, necromancy is naturally present as well. There is also a [[Dishing Out Dirt]] hobgoblin geomancer, and a literal [[Badass Bookworm]] "Liberomancer", Lexicus Runewright. At one point, a wizard known to possess magical beads even reveals that he is working on developing a type of magic called ''beadromancy''.

* Played with by - what else? - ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', with the Pastamancer, who controls noodles, and can also summon the undead... through summoning noodly bodies.

* Actually used properly in ''[[Silent Hill]]'' when Dahlia mentions an event being "foretold by gyromancy". However, it leads to some heavy [[Narm]] when you learn what gyromancy ''is''... According to [[The Other Wiki]], gyromancy entails either spinning inside, or walking the circumference of, a circle drawn on the ground, with letters marking the rim, and the divination comes from when the spinner/walker stumbles over a letter. Repeat ad nauseum until a coherent sentence is formed.

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* [[Magitek|Technomancy]] in [[Harkovast]].

* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' shows us that it at least [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1593 knows something about this trope.]

* Aubrey, in [http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp01092002.shtml the January 9, 2002 strip] of ''[[Something Positive]]'', refers to using sex appeal to get into a club without paying a cover charge as "Vaginamancy".

* Aubrey, in [http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp01092002.shtml the January 9, 2002 strip] of ''[[Something*Positive]]'', refers to using sex appeal to get into a club without paying a cover charge as "Vaginamancy".

* Rubbermancy in the S&M themed [[Collar 6]]

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