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Game Magic
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Game Magic

by Jeff Howard
April 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
376 pages
10h 41m
English
A K Peters/CRC Press
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Schools of Game Magic 139
Coberly’s point is that Dragon Age’s ction of blood magic as a forbid-
den and dangerous practice does not resonate with its mechanics, in which
blood magic carries no more risk of danger than any other form of magic.
4.10.2 Death Magic (Necromancy)
Necromancy is a longstanding practice among magicians, who seek to
summon the spirits of the dead in order to gain wisdom or to carry out
commands. e word “necromancy” means “speaking with the dead,”
resulting in a variety of similarly-patterned words for schools of magic his-
torical and ctional, such as pyromancy (re magic), chiromancy (palm-
reading), and cartomancy (fortune-telling with cards) (see Chapter 4,
Section 4.2).
Necromancy can entail many recipes fo ...
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ISBN: 9781466567870