Whatevermancy: Difference between revisions

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[[File:All_thu_mancies.jpg|link=Erfworld|frame|Because names like Flowermancy, Hatomancy, and [[Retconjuration|Retconmancy]] would just be ''silly''.]]

{{quote|"I call it[[Beat|...]] Lactokinesis!"|"Brian" from [[Misfits]] on his [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway|ability to control dairy based products]].}}

{{quote|"I call it[[Beat|...]] Lactokinesis!"|"Brian" from [[Misfits]] on his [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|ability to control dairy based products]].}}

A standard naming convention for specialized magic- (or [[Magic By Any Other Name|magic-equivalent]]-) users; they are referred to as something'''mancer'''s, and their specialized form of magic is called something'''mancy'''. The something is usually the Greek word for the thing or some other acceptably important-sounding term for it. As an example, death mages are known throughout all of fiction as necromancers. This structure makes it quite easy to create names for branches of magic using just about anything you can think of. You use [[Playing With Fire|fire]]? You're a pyromancer. [[Making a Splash|Water]]? Hydromancer. [[An Ice Person|Ice and cold]]? Cryomancer. It's that simple.

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== Live-Action TV ==

* In the "Divination" episode of ''[[QI]]'', the four contestants were invited to predict their scores by various methods of divination. [[Butt Monkey|Alan Davies]] was invited to use [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/~~Rumpology Pygomancy]. Alan got the last laugh, however, by 'vanishing' from the set (he wanted to watch his football team, Arsenal, play in the finals). It was the only episode of ''QI'' in which he was not a panelist.

* In the "Divination" episode of ''[[QI]]'', the four contestants were invited to predict their scores by various methods of divination. [[Butt Monkey|Alan Davies]] was invited to use [[wikipedia:Rumpology|Pygomancy]]. Alan got the last laugh, however, by 'vanishing' from the set (he wanted to watch his football team, Arsenal, play in the finals). It was the only episode of ''QI'' in which he was not a panelist.

{{quote| '''Alan''': Well, you did say, "Divination, my [[Incredibly Lame Pun|arse," and all]].}}

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* The Necromancer, Serpent Clan's most powerful unit, from ''[[Battle Realms]]''.

* Combined with [[Fire, Ice, Lightning]] in ''[[Devil May Cry]] 2'', resulting in Pyromancers, Auromancers, and Brontomancers.

* ''[[Adventure Quest (Video Game)|Adventure Quest]]'' and it's [[Spin-Off|spinoffs]] ''[[Dragon Fable (Video Game)|Dragon Fable]]'' and ''[[Adventure Quest Worlds (Video Game)|Adventure Quest Worlds]]'' love this trope. [[Necromancer|Necromancers]], [[Playing With Fire|pyromancers]], [[Magitek|technomancers]], ''[[Instant Awesome Just Add Dragons|dracomancers]]'', etc. It's probably only a matter of time before [[Running Gag|baconmancers]] start showing up in ''[[Dragon Fable (Video Game)|Dragon Fable]]''.

* ''[[Adventure Quest (Video Game)|Adventure Quest]]'' and it's [[Spin-Off|spinoffs]] ''[[Dragon Fable (Video Game)|Dragon Fable]]'' and ''[[Adventure Quest Worlds (Video Game)|Adventure Quest Worlds]]'' love this trope. [[Necromancer|Necromancers]], [[Playing With Fire|pyromancers]], [[Magitek|technomancers]], ''[[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons|dracomancers]]'', etc. It's probably only a matter of time before [[Running Gag|baconmancers]] start showing up in ''[[Dragon Fable (Video Game)|Dragon Fable]]''.

* The Flash RPG ''[[MARDEK]]'' has necromancy, pyromancy, aeromancy, elemancy (which uses all four natural elements), and one character even claims to be an ''equillibriumancer''.

** In said game's universe (a rather extensive one, with multiple inhabited planets of various levels of technological development), an equilibriumancer is one who uses the two moral elements, or Light and Dark. Sounds fitting with the balance, doesn't it?

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