Whatevermancy: Difference between revisions

See [[Necromancy]] for a common specific subtrope.

 

==== Whatevermancy ====

 

* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' have a few; Pyromancy, Necromancy, Neuromancy, and the like. Joked about when Harry refers to wizard Peabody as a "Bureaucromancer." When he calls Mac "a master Beeromancer". He's not kidding, either. Queen Mab refers to mortal technology as "Ferromancy".

* T.A. Pratt's [[Marla Mason]] series has all kinds of sorcerers with different (and often bizarre) specialties depending on what they draw power from: pyromancers, aquamancers, geomancers, pharmacomancers, necromancers, biomancers, technomancers, sex magicians(who are jokingly referred to in the books as [[The Pornomancer|pornomancers]]), aviomancers, vermomancers(who have power over vermin like rats and roaches) nihilomancers(who can drive their enemies to suicide), herbomancers, mycomancers(who derive power from mushrooms of all things), and nearly every other kind of -mancer one could possibly imagine. Marla herself, an Anti-Heroine/''very'' Dark Action Girl, refers to herself half-seriously as a "brute-force-o-mancer."

* One of [[David Langford]]'s spoof ''[[Occult Detective]]'' stories features a discussion of various methods of divination, each with a -mancy name. They get increasingly ridiculous, before ending with the art of predicting the future by ''doing absolutely nothing''. Which is, of course, {{spoiler|dormancy}}.

* Averted in the [[Nasuverse]], where the general term for that thing magi do is "Thaumaturgy", or miracle working (derived from an eponymous [[Real Life]] term). As the name implies, the aim of Thaumaturgy is to replicate or reproduce "miracles" or "true magic".

* 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.

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

* 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?

* [[War Craft]] III throws out centaur pyromancers, geomancers, and more.

* The ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' series has a resident necromancer and cryomancer in the form of the evil sorcerer [[The Necromancer|Quan Chi]] and [[McNinja|Lin Kuei]] assassin [[An Ice Person|Sub-Zero]] respectively.