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king-plutos-typewriter · 1 month

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"Think it's unfair, your situation"

It was torturing OCs hours again last night. Winsor is the killer, Rohan is always loyal - these two have a even worse times ahead. In the main storyline, one of these men are dead and the other hunts for... revenge? Answers?

Song is "Be Nice to Me" by The Front Bottoms.

#writing #the thaumaturge world #rohan blane #winsor kane #rohan & winsor #they are best friends your honor #and i have tortured them #i wanna share more backstory on these two #writers #writer #black and white #comic writer #writers on tumblr #writeblr #monochromatic #black white and red #gothic theme #gothic comic #animatic in progress

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tesserat · 9 months

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Working on Page 2 of my Thaumaturge World comic!!

#comic #the thaumaturge world #jude #jude blane #ttw #ttw jude #comic progress #comic making

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lexicals · 2 months

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Been working on my backup who will be filling in while we see if keo will be returning and this is possibly the most mechanically complex character I have ever built. This guy has got so much shit going on and also I took the tank assignment incredibly seriously so he's a fucking brick wall of a man. This is going to be very interesting to play lmao

#wastepaper basket #He's champion/thaumaturge which is a hell of a combination lmao #Essentially focuses on exploiting enemy weaknesses whilst also defending allies and I think it'll be fairly effective #Guy's got 29AC and a bag full of random shit he's collected while aimlessly wandering off that lets him give enemies the ick in a major way #He's got about 400 reactions and the ability to craft 4 magic items per day (2 talismans and 2 scrolls) AND he's got the ability to use #scrolls from any discipline along with trick magic item for wands etc. World's most multidisciplinary man

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galejro · 11 months

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Some earlier images of Hania, before I Introduced her Salubri twin sister. I always had the idea magic is not just a cheap path to power, but instead a path of even greater exertion, mental and physical. This is how Hania got to her power. Through endless nights of study to prepare her knowledge, endless nights of meditation to prepare her mind and endless nights of physical exercise to prepare her body.

#vampire the masquerade #world of darkness #vampire #vamily #vtm #vtm art #web comic #traditional art #sisterlyjyhad #auspex #thaumaturge

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dottedmage · 2 years

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Cringe and free so heres the squid sisters and off the hook designs for if they were part of my worldbuild thing

Callie and Marie are both Sorcerers weirdly tied by destiny and also by being cousins, they are ehh midly powerfull. They complement each other very well by being natural specialist on oposite magic fields. They are singers on the side, and idols in more of the sense that Sorcerers are Always Known. They makes songs reminiscent of pre-apocalypse popular songs, their songs and the songs they are trying to replicate are almost nothing alike lmao so sorry, they improved the genre tho their music is much better

Pearl is a angel-inhabited Conjurer and also Augur but she is like terrible at that lmao. Marina is a mermaid that has gigantism and is terribly at shape shifting, she also has a deep interest in Augury and thats how she and Pearl bond at the start, by talking insane things abt hypothetical beings inside computers. They make music using Oracle archives of pre-apocalypse songs (terrible idea, the oracles are sending them their own songs basically lol)

#splatoon #squid sisters #off the hook #callie #marie #pearl #marina #i should have a tag for my worldbuild uhhh #i was thinking of silly thaumaturges but i could not phantom using that tag in a serious drawing of like… iris or whatever #also yeah none of the words i said in the post make sense #TO YOU #to me they are deeply poetical and make sense #you could also ask me to explain them :) after all my ask box is open for a reason #i loooveeeee talking abt my sillies #(specially pearl her concept is like the best one in here)#Lmaoooo its like 6 minths later and i finally Hve a world build name its #Teeralgo

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thaumium-block · 1 year

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I play gregtech just for the mining experience, it does ore generation really nicely imo

In it, ore spawns in veins, veins appear in a grid-like distribution every three chunks, and the veins can contain a huge amount of ore blocks

#the thaumaturge rambles #gregification...#i will admit i am enjoying the rest of gregtech so far as well - i started over in my gt world so am entering steam age again

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raspberrywizard · 2 years

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Fic Rec: Thaumaturgical Studies by liketolaugh

Things I love about this: Ed being passionate about learning, teaching, and helping. World building I didn't expect. Magic system building that I am so behind. Low stress read with the same high stakes HP has always had.

Major characters: Edward Elric, Alastor | Madeye Moody, Fleur Delacour, Severus Snape, Hermione Granger, Dobby

Author's summary: "Two years after Tom Riddle's diary comes into his possession, Dumbledore is almost certain that it is a horcrux. All he needs is independent confirmation - which is, unfortunately, very difficult to find when dealing with such advanced magic. Luckily, Edward Elric is a genius, an alchemist, and especially, a specialist in human transmutation. His job becomes a lot harder when his automail gives out three steps into Hogwarts' wards."

#The Gate #world building: FMA #world building: house elves #fic rec #Thaumaturgical Studies #liketolaugh #gen fic #world building: disabilities #prosthetics user #wheelchair user #world building: magical medicine #HP book 4 #FMA post-canon #edward elric #mad eye moody #fluer delacour #severus snape #hermione granger #dobby the house elf

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halstonbalestorm · 2 years

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doing catacombs on my 138 storm has made me rlly :/ abt the w101 community bc ppl are SO mean & demanding when farming, it honestly makes the game stressful?

so thank u to fire/life wizard antonio in dragonspyre for singe-handedly restoring my faith in w101 humanity lol, had a lot of fun playing on my myth wiz with him :’’)

#iri.txt #we had so much fun questing together #also ty nicole the thaumaturge & alex the max lvl sorcerer #ppl in arc1 worlds r so cute & nice like cheering eachother on

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king-plutos-typewriter · 2 months

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This was not meant to be a redraw, but I ended up sorta turning it into one! This is Rohan and Debbie Blane, the grandparents to my beloved OC Jude, at two different ages and art styles. Yup, Rohan has acquired an epic earring and Debbie now has a really cool hat.

Fun Fact: Rohan is a bit of a spotlight character in my little flash fiction story I wrote almost a year ago! It's from Jude's perspective (my sweet chaos child I will write another story for you soon.)

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the-thaumaturge-crew · 5 months

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Looks around

Shoves away from dust

Goddamn where have the years gone...

I'm gonna try to be annoying on this blog again, people! Wish me luck!

#ttw #my story #my book #the thaumaturge world #os-sword

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prokopetz · 2 months

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On the one hand, it's true that the way Dungeons & Dragons defines terms like "sorcerer" and "warlock" and "wizard" is really only relevant to Dungeons & Dragons and its associated media – indeed, how these terms are used isn't even consistent between editions of D&D! – and trying to apply them in other contexts is rarely productive.

On the other hand, it's not true that these sorts of fine-grained taxonomies of types of magic are strictly a D&D-ism and never occur elsewhere. That folks make this argument is typically a symptom of being unfamiliar with Dungeons & Dragons' source material. D&D's main inspirations are American literary sword and sorcery fantasy spanning roughly the 1930s through the early 1980s, and fine-grained taxonomies of magic users absolutely do appear in these sources; they just aren't anything like as consistent as the folks who try to cram everything into the sorcerer/warlock/wizard model would prefer.

For example, in Lyndon Hardy's "Five Magics" series, the five types of magical practitioners are:

Alchemists: Drawing forth the hidden virtues of common materials to craft magic potions; limited by the fact that the outcomes of their formulas are partially random.

Magicians: Crafting enchanted items through complex manufacturing procedures; limited by the fact that each step in the procedure must be performed perfectly with no margin for error.

Sorcerers: Speaking verbal formulas to basically hack other people's minds, permitting illusion-craft and mind control; limited by the fact that the exercise of their art eventually kills them.

Thaumaturges: Shaping matter by manipulating miniature models; limited by the need to draw on outside sources like fires or flywheels to make up the resulting kinetic energy deficit.

Wizards: Summoning and binding demons from other dimensions; limited by the fact that the binding ritual exposes them to mental domination by the summoned demon if their will is weak.

"Warlock", meanwhile, isn't a type of practitioner, but does appear as pejorative term for a wizard who's lost a contest of wills with one of their own summoned demons.

Conversely, Lawrence Watt-Evans' "Legends of Ethshar" series includes such types of magic-users as:

Sorcerers: Channelling power through metal talismans to produce fixed effects; in the time of the novels, talisman-craft is largely a lost art, and most sorcerers use found or inherited talismans.

Theurges: Summoning gods; the setting's gods have no interest in human worship, but are bound not to interfere in the mortal world unless summoned, and are thus amenable to cutting deals.

Warlocks: Wielding X-Men style psychokinesis by virtue of their attunement to the telepathic whispers emanating from the wreckage of a crashed alien starship. (They're the edgy ones!)

Witches: Producing improvisational effects mostly related to healing, telepathy, precognition, and minor telekinesis by drawing on their own internal energy.

Wizards: Drawing down the infinite power of Chaos and shaping it with complex rituals. Basically D&D wizards, albeit with a much greater propensity for exploding.

You'll note that both taxonomies include something called a "sorcerer", something called a "warlock", and something called a "wizard", but what those terms mean in their respective contexts agrees neither with the Dungeons & Dragons definitions, nor with each other.

(Admittedly, these examples are from the 1980s, and are thus not free of D&D's influence; I picked them because they both happened to use all three of the terms in question in ways that are at odds with how D&D uses them. You can find similar taxonomies of magic use in earlier works, but I would have had to use many more examples to offer multiple competing definitions of each of "sorcerer", "warlock" and "wizard", and this post is already long enough!)

So basically what I'm saying is giving people a hard time about using these terms "wrong" – particularly if your objection is that they're not using them in a way that's congruent with however D&D's flavour of the week uses them – makes you a dick, but simply having this sort of taxonomy has a rich history within the genre. Wizard phylogeny is a time-honoured tradition!

#gaming #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop rpgs #dungeons & dragons #d&d #worldbuilding #taxonomy #phylogeny #media #literature #history #literary history #death mention

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sunsetinreal · 2 years

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hi sunset I Hope ur having a good day What drove u to get (presumably Back) on tumblr… also Hows ur day been..

hey. my day's actually kind of going well, thanks for asking. right now i'm listening to my partner snore from the couch while i work on school stuff.

what drove me to get back on twitter was a dumb billionaire's dumb decision + the idea that much less of the people from twitter will be here. i also kind of like the platform more in a general sense. i haven't been on tumblr since my days in the daylight force and a lot has changed since then but yknow LMAO

#i'm working on not being as much of an asshole. got a new job. started meditating. the works #its astounding how much can be accomplished when the weight of the world isn't on your shoulders #actively ignoring whatever the fuck thaumaturge's ''show'' is has helped too a lot i think #for the first time in a while i actually feel pretty secure. now i've said that things are probably gonna fuck up for me but oh well #at least i have this time yknow #i know it's probably selfish anyway to be doing what i'm doing and i have an obligation but my the people i care about as of now are ok #and that's all that matters to me rn.

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catpriciousmarjara · 8 months

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Okay so there's this dp x dc tumblr post about the JL finding the Ghost King's family tree or something and lots of misunderstandings happening but I can't find it anymore and would be grateful if someone would send it to me... Anyhow I was inspired by it and this is the result!

Also on ao3 if you wanna check it out there!

The Family Tree

"So you're telling me this is just a family tree?", Green Lantern asked with a frown on his face.

Bruce could see Constantine's eyes twitching at that question. As always, leave it to Hal Jordan to annoy people.

"This isn't just anything", the sorcerer said with narrowed eyes. "It's a Class-X magical artifact. If this thing is used as a focus for a ritual, the magnitude of magical energy would rise by at least 80 factors. For those of you non-magical or unfamiliar with magic, that's fucking huge."

Beside him Zatanna nodded, her gaze still fixed on the ancient manuscript. She hadn't taken her eyes off the scroll for more than a minute since she got to the Watch Tower and first saw it spread out on the containment room table. Constantine was the same. Captain Marvel was not present, working along with Superman, Hawkgirl, and Aquaman on a case, but his reactions have always been dissimilar from his magical colleagues, so his case might be anywhere between staying the hell away from it to trying to inhale it.

It was clear to Bruce that Zatanna coveted it, but was sensible and cautious enough to stay away from it. Constantine had no sense so he was a tossup. From where he was standing between Wonder Woman and Martian Manhunter, the Gotham vigilante resolved to keep an eye on the two magicians. They most likely won't try to steal the artifact, considering the heavy dose of 'not messing with that thing' overshadowing the desire to possess it, but the scroll itself might be enchanted to encourage covetous feelings on those nearby. It wouldn't be the first time. Better safe than sorry.

It was Diana that stepped up towards the two JL Dark members to seek more clarification. As both a Demigod and as someone familiar with magic, she was usually the one taking point on such issues.

She gestured to the scroll innocently sitting inside the runic circle the two mages had constructed around it. "You have told us that the artifact is not destructive, that it is merely a record, and that the information it contains is not a spell, or a runic arrangement, or a magic circle. You have also told us that the strange energy readings coming from it are mostly due to the material it's made out of than any catastrophic sorcery enchanted into it. You have at last decoded it as a record of a family tree. Yet it is dangerous, a Class-X relic as you've said. Given all this information, I suppose the correct question to ask here is this: why is a family tree capable of raising magical energy output by 80 factors?"

The two magicians looked at each other. Zatanna finally pried her eyes away from the scroll and faced the room.

"Magic is a force that simultaneously has laws but at the same time adheres to none. It's confusing to explain but for the time being just keep that in mind."

She walked to the center of the room, followed by Constantine, visibly trying to collect her words. Bruce prepared himself for a complicated explanation and activated another one of the batsuit's recorders. He felt the urge to sigh, for a supposed unchained force, Magic was needlessly complex at times, and practically incomprehensible to non-magicals.

At the front, Zatanna took a deep breath and began.

"As you know there are multiple dimensions. But magical dimensions come under a different category. Depending on the overall magical potential of a particular magical dimension, we call it the World State Stable Thaumaturgical Output Capacity, we can classify these dimensions in grades and levels, as either higher or lower, with relation to each other. These levels are dependent on a multitude of variables like space, time, gravity, Events, Proximity, etc and as such are non-linear, and unfixed. That's the first thing."

Bruce could practically see the capitals on the last two. Looks like they would need to hold another meeting to clarify a lot of these concepts. Seeing the dawning of lost expressions on some of the members however, Bruce mentally amended that to many future meetings.

Zatanna continued. "Magical objects from higher dimensions become stronger in lower ones. The inverse is also true. This is all in relation to the Overture and the same polarity orientation of course but we don't need to get into that now-"

On the contrary Bruce thought they really needed more explanation on all of that.

"-In simple terms, a child's toy from a higher dimension could become the focus for an apocalyptic ritual in a much lower dimension, while an apocalyptic artifact from a lower dimension might as well be paperweight in a sufficiently higher one. There are ways around it, but if those methods are not implemented, then this is how it generally goes. The larger the level difference, the higher the power."

Now that wasn't concerning at all. Bruce really needed to update his contingency plans regarding magic.

Constantine continued from where Zatanna left off, looking like he'd rather be anywhere but here.

"The second thing is that when it comes to magic, things that are indefinable or unquantifiable become definable and quantifiable. Stuff like love, hate, happiness, despair, fate, necessity, authority? All measurable. Not always needed of course, But definitely possible and frequently used in a variety of magical fields."

The sorcerer leaned against a nearby chair. "One such thing is Significance. The magic contained in true names for instance is mostly based on significance. A true name is significant to you, its a doorway to your soul, and therefore it holds power. Significance is also what we call a positive, additive factor in magic. In the absence of interfering variables, significance as a quantity is directly proportional to magical output. In other words-"

"-the more significant an object or an event, the higher the magical energy output, and consequently higher the magical power", J'onn finished. He looked towards the scroll. "The information recorded on it, the family tree as you've said, valuable in significance, most likely in terms of whose family it's a record of. In addition, the artifact is from a higher dimension with relation to ours, and that has a cumulative effect."

"Yeah exactly", said Constantine with a raised eyebrow. "Which means that if that hypothetical toy Zatanna mentioned? If that happened to be important enough, like a first toy, or a cherished gift or something like that, its significance increases, its potential increases, and in the right hands, or in the wrong hands really, that potential could be harnessed at a lower level."

There was a bout of thoughtful silence as they absorbed all of the information.

But Bruce felt as if he had been quiet enough and took the chance to ask a question of his own. "You mentioned something called the Overture, and polarity orientation. What do they mean?"

Constantine just sighed. "For fuck's sake Batsy those things aren't really important to the discussion..."

Bruce just stared.

..."Fine", the mage said in defeat. "There are many names for it, the Overture, Exordium, Legerdomain, Nascence...but the most accepted two are the Beforebirth, and the Womb. It's not a something as much as it's a someplace, but then again it's not really a place either. Simply put it's the birthplace of Magic, where it all began and all that. It can't be accessed without the Key and that's been lost for a long time. It's actually a mission for many magicals to find it you know? A holy quest for a lot of them. Some of them are straight up crazy though."

Bruce field that information safely away. Figure out a plan to combat fanatic magicians trying to find the birthplace of magic for sinister reasons. "And polarity?"

"Well", Zatanna began, "its how magic is classified according to the nature of...magic? Or rather the essence? It's hard to put in mundane terms...Anyhow broadly speaking there are two main polarities, the Obverse, and the Reverse."

For a moment, she struggled with the explanation before brightening, seemingly having found an idea.

"Picture a number line, but like on the y-axis! Zero is the Overture, Obverse dimensions are the positive number side, and Reverse dimensions are the negative numbers! The higher up the obverse dimension, the larger its magical output! Similarly, the lower down the reverse dimension, the higher its magical output."

Bruce had hardly parsed through that when their resident speedster spoke up.

"Guys", the red clad hero said, "I feel like we missed the obvious follow up question after Ollie over here...like I feel like this is important, but where exactly is the scroll from?"

As one everyone turned towards the artifact.

Constantine grimaced and Zatanna winced. They looked at each other as if asking who wanted to bite the bullet. Finally it looked as if Constantine lost. The sorcerer cursed under his breath.

"Well which dimension is the scroll from?", asked Wonder Woman.

Constantine took what looked like a fortifying breath.

"It's from the Infinite Realms."

Silence.

"What?", the Green Lantern asked intelligently.

"It's from the Infinite Realms. As in Infinite. As in end of the figurative fucking line, number line whatever!"

Everyone stared at the magicians as understanding slowly dawned.

There was what was essentially a magical nuke in the Watch Tower.

"Now", began Martian Manhunter, "this is unfortunate".