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Hylomorphic Sorcery is the corruption of cosmologic Form.
Antinomic Sorcery is the corruption of cosmologic Law.
Teleologic Sorcery is the corruption of cosmologic Meaning.
Necromancy or Ontologic Sorcery is presented as the corruption of life, but I was wondering if there was a way to push this into a definition that matched the pattern of the other sorceries. Cosmologic Life doesn't make sense does it? To the extent that it's the perversion of life and the raising of the dead, does it make sense as cosmologic Order? The corruption of the ordered circle of life?
Ontologic Sorcery. Corruption of being/existence.
None of the High Sorcery names were made out of thin air. Teleology, Hylomorphism, Antinomy, Ontology.
-Armifer
"Perinthia's astronomers are faced with a difficult choice. Either they must admit that all their calculations were wrong ... or else they must reveal that the order of the gods is reflected exactly in the city of monsters." - Italo Calvino
None of the High Sorcery names were made out of thin air. Teleology, Hylomorphism, Antinomy, Ontology.
-Armifer
"Perinthia's astronomers are faced with a difficult choice. Either they must admit that all their calculations were wrong ... or else they must reveal that the order of the gods is reflected exactly in the city of monsters." - Italo Calvino
>>> Necromancy or Ontologic Sorcery is presented as the corruption of life, but I was wondering if there was a way to push this into a definition that matched the pattern of the other sorceries
I assume you are referring to the page on wikipedia. I wrote that page and took the first three items from a post by Armifer (linked on the page):
Moon Mages draw down a power that defines the universe through names and meaning. Teleologic Sorcery is the perversion of these concepts.
Warrior Mages draw down a power that defines the universe through shape and function. Hylomorphic Sorcery is the perversion of these concepts.
Clerics draw down a power that defines the universe through laws and structure. Antinomic sorcery is the perversion of these concepts.
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And then there is Necromancy, the sorcerous perversion seemingly without its cosmology defined ahead of time. Perversion for the sake of perversion?
-Armifer
I chose to use the word "life" to continue the pattern since I couldn't find a better word.
What do you think of:
Necromancy, also known as "High Necromancy" or, by some scholars, as "Ontologic Sorcery"[19], is the corruption of being and existence.
I assume you are referring to the page on wikipedia. I wrote that page and took the first three items from a post by Armifer (linked on the page):
Moon Mages draw down a power that defines the universe through names and meaning. Teleologic Sorcery is the perversion of these concepts.
Warrior Mages draw down a power that defines the universe through shape and function. Hylomorphic Sorcery is the perversion of these concepts.
Clerics draw down a power that defines the universe through laws and structure. Antinomic sorcery is the perversion of these concepts.
...
And then there is Necromancy, the sorcerous perversion seemingly without its cosmology defined ahead of time. Perversion for the sake of perversion?
-Armifer
I chose to use the word "life" to continue the pattern since I couldn't find a better word.
What do you think of:
Necromancy, also known as "High Necromancy" or, by some scholars, as "Ontologic Sorcery"[19], is the corruption of being and existence.
Before the Necromancer guild, the mana combination of Necromancy spells was referred to as corrupting life magic with elemental or lunar energy so I always assumed it was a hold over of that.
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> None of the High Sorcery names were made out of thin air. Teleology, Hylomorphism, Antinomy, Ontology.
The naming of Antinomic Sorcery always bugged me a little, since it doesn't quite fit the pattern. Teleology, Hylomorphism and Ontology all refer to the thing being corrupted. Antinomy, on the other hand, seems to refer to the form of the corruption itself. Not that I have a suggestion for a replacement.
The naming of Antinomic Sorcery always bugged me a little, since it doesn't quite fit the pattern. Teleology, Hylomorphism and Ontology all refer to the thing being corrupted. Antinomy, on the other hand, seems to refer to the form of the corruption itself. Not that I have a suggestion for a replacement.
