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together, while others (such as Venus, the goddess of love) help to ease the
combination of otherwise opposed gods.
3.8 THE INCANTATIONS OF WIZARDRY
Early CRPGs tended to have in common with the Enchanter trilogy the
use of text parsers, with an accompanying incantatory method of spell-
casting. e Wizardry series featured its own invented language of spells,
with its own etymology involving root words and prexes. Certain root
words signied common spell eects, like “halito” for re and “dios” for
heal. Other prexes indicated the target or intensity of the spell, such as
“ma” for “big” or “ba” for negation. us, the “