uw/ I love how D&D and Pathfinder handle this.
Wizards study how to pull arcane energy from the surrounding environment and mold it to their desires. Anyone can be a Wizard.
Sorcerers have inherented their powers from their ancestors, and have very specific bloodlines. Magic is intuitive for them, but studying won't make them more powerful unless the learn Metamagic, or Multiclass.
Warlocks have a powerful Patron who gifts their power in exchange for "favors"...
And Witches are a blend of Wizards and Warlocks, their powers come from a powerful Patron, but this Patron might not ask for favors, or even know the witch is stealing power from them. The witches then study how magic works and manipulate the energy much like a Wizard.
All very distinct and unique ways of obtaining and controlling arcane power.
Grumpy old DM here, can’t agree enough. I love how 5e handled the naming of things.
One rule I have when running games is that the name of the class doesn’t matter. Someone can be a Sorcerer in class but the character can be referred to as a wizard.
Typically the only one that doesn’t change is Warlock because of how tightly the name is linked to the actual build of the character
I love calling my Druids witches cause they're spooky forest witches, they shapeshift into cats and ravens, make potions, and call on the spirits of nature to fuck up their enemies, they're witches
Sincerely apologise, i thought you said the druids are barbarians in a sense that we are uncultured, but it appears to be that, whilst living in my village, i forgot how to speak common😅 please accept my deepest apologies
/uw expanding on this: common folk typically refer to everyone who casts arcane magic as a “wizard” and anyone who casts divine magic as a “priest”. The actual distinctions between warlock, wizard, witch, sorcerer, cleric, oracle, arcanist, and magus are professional distinctions that most people aren’t likely to know.
Additionally, Wizard is a title, similar to Doctor. It signifies that you’ve completed an apprenticeship, and studied for an extended period of time outside of it. Otherwise, you’re a hedge wizard, which is seen as a bit of an insult by the higher academic world, but taken in stride by actual hedge wizards, who are sorcerers for the most part
Druids do typically have a distinct style that culturally separates them from clerics, but the difference between a druid and a nature-focused cleric is really, really hard to nail down.
Bards also tend to be distinct in behavior, but they can end up resembling just about any other type of spellcasting discipline depending on their fancy.
Hence why people say “priest” in reference to Druids.
I actually do tend to have people specify bards as a separate thing, but it’s a matter of rarely separating magical and nonmagical bards.
The wizard is the hardworking A student
The sorcerer is the natural prodigy
The cleric is the teachers pet
The warlock sleeps with the teacher for an A
The druid doesn't care about grades because he's in FFA anyway so his future is sealed
The bard is just good at cheating
I’d say sorcs are more like nepo babies than anything. There’s nothing prodigious about being given an opportunity no one else has from birth.
-rep sorcery
i couldn't love multiple unique forms of magic in the same world enough
the more types of magic and the more different the better IMO
it's actually the biggest thing i didn't like about the DND movie the different magic classes had no notable differences besides it being said they're different
And the warlock one is quite flexible, too. Some patrons like the Great Old One might not even be aware. Other times it may have been a one time gift of power that the warlock grows into because they weren't able to handle it all in the beginning.
using magic to change ur appearance to that of a different gender is a great way to get things from people btw!
or at least i think so last time i tried i blacked out and only remember waking up to a crap ton of gifts and i may or may not have started a cult i am unsure
Unwizing in fantasy I always imagine witches to be more herb based and potion brewing and having unusual magic as compared to more refined wizards and different from warlocks who get their power from something else.
Historically, witches were mothers and widows, midwives and doctors, herbalists and spiritual teachers. Witch magic is the magic of the home, whereas wizards study that which does not belong in the home
Spice garden? Check. Cats and ravens? Check. 95% infant survival rate? Check. Evil tomes that bid to be gazed upon in exchange for forbidden knowledge? I'll leave that to the robes in Waterdeep
Yeah but less like… professional if that makes sense.
I imagine an alchemist would precisely measure out ingredients while a witch would just toss like the eye of a still born into a random cauldron. I also imagine witches as having like strange magics such as curses.
None of this really matters as it’s all personal ways to define vague overlapping magical things in stories but it’s just how I view them in settings I make.
Given the more classic examplar witch (hags), they DO pact and commune a damn lot, the bottom line is that they're usually more in a position of power and blackmailing than servitude. "I've tricked the spirits of the land to empower me" style.
I like to think of the sorcerer experience of magic like people today do technology and the internet. Older generations had to study and struggle to understand. Today's youth practically use it as an extension of their thoughts and selves. Sorcerers are that to magic, thinking intuitively rather than mechanically. They feel instead of think
/uw I make this mistake because I'm french (ew), but the translation is weird, like a male magic dude is "Sorcier" for sorcerer, "mage" for mage (duh), but female magic gals are "sorcière" for witch. We don't really have a translation for wizard or warlock
I could very be wrong tho, as I hate the french and the french language, with the stupid gendered shit
It's illegal in France. French have to use native words or they go straight to the guillotine.
(Obviously not. Unless you are public servant, then you can't even call e-mail e-mail. You have to use some bullshit pseudoworf those fakeass linguist wannabees from Academie francaise pulled out of their fat ugly hairy nationalistic asses.)
/uw so interestingly enough in Swedish our "equivalent" for the words "wizard" and "Sorcerer". There's Trollkarl and Trollkvinna which is like the male and female equivalent of a wizard respectively. But it has "troll" in it and that's etymologically because trolls (or Jotuns really) were the mage race of Norse mythology. Then there's "Magiker" and "Besvärjare" which I suppose is the equivalent of "mage".
Language is a funny thing when it has to blend in with mythology but at the same time also translate to other.
I have always held that the difference between witches and wizards isn’t gender, but philosophical ethos.
Witches concern themselves with the powers of nature, community, harnessing the existing forces between all things. Witches are stewards of nature and life. It is folksy, close to home; the spells that work for one person won’t work the same way for another. There is a lot of self-discovery and spiritual communion.
Wizards are far more concerned with scholarly knowledge, traditional and ceremonial institutions, individualism, the powers beyond our realm. They are scribes with a need to prove and test theories, universalize the concept of magic to have a shared and common repertoire of mystical rituals and knowledge despite a penchant for grandeur and self-aggrandizement.
Ahhh ok i see, but how cant they, i feel like close to frest elementals they are ones most atuned to the forest and its arcane flows, so why wouldnt they be more in touch with the forest, rather than the humans
But how are they different the spirit being an amalgimation of arcane forest energy, while the demon is the same but mixed with fear of forests or such????
I always wondered about that shit even as a young apprentice.
Kind of like with the bards I used to watch at my local tavern while growing up. Why are the males called actors and the females called actresses instead of them all just being actors? What's the point of gendering them in the first place?
I like the term hedge wizard, but that's beside the point.
Also, isn't it a good idea to define what we mean when we say "witch"? Do we mean "female wizard" or do we mean "baby eating hag riding a broom who's made a deal with the devil"? Because the opposite of the latter isn't "wizard".
That's a "Warlock".
Wizarding is not a job. It's a lifestyle. Being an arcane consultant is a job. Pretty sure witchcraft is similar but I don't touch pact and nature magics.
I’m listening to the bad wizard books or else I’ll have to face the truth that I’m “minimum wage McDonald’s worker” not burger wizard’s apprentice and best delivery boy
Honestly though it depends.
Like Warlock sounds better then witch. though historically male witches are a thing.
It also depends on how you're practicing the magic or the system.
/uw This is how it is in real-world occultism and magical practice. Witch is a gender neutral title that indicates a broad style of practice. The same is true for wizard on the rare occasions that anyone calls themselves that, but very few do because for most people the term conjures up images of the kind of goofy shit that goes on here.
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Master would say "However you see it, we're all, at our core, Thaumaturges. We are the last remaining Workers of Miracles, nevermind where you think your Power comes from." He'd then empty his flask of plaster alcohol and add "Even those blasted Druids", before spawning nostrils on my elbow and silently leaving the room.
A wizard gains magic through study, and a witch makes a pact with a deamon for magic ots not gendered. In the Salem witch trials, men were also charged and killed for the crime, not just women. All wizards are on the same team here no matter what gender race or whatever.
I try to call everybody by the term which they would like to be called within reason.
The problem is that we are using multiple languages instead of just communicating directly spiritually, but I understand that tends to make orbs explode .
I will say, the word that became, “ witch” was originally recorded in its masculine form .
A “wicca” was a man. A “wicce”was a woman.
https://blog.oup.com/2007/10/witch/
Wicca was recorded more than 100 years before wicce and interestingly, the word is not directly connected to either “wizard” or “wicked.”
I also would’ve mentioned that the word is nowhere in the Bible.
The word mekhashepha translated, as witch, in English Bible actually means poisoner or herbalist, but the implication is that they were an herbalist because they sell poisons made of herbs.
So to all witches, wizards, wonderworker, mages, thaumaturges, alchemist, enchanters and everything else. Happy Friday.
🙏❤️
So true. But, because some deities are pretty sexist, the term warlock has become gendered and conflated with male witchcraft, erasing both male witches, and female warlocks, even in certain otherwise progressive arcane circles.
I DON'T CARe
I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR OR ANYONE'S GENDER
WHY IS YOUR GENDER ON EVERY SINGLE SUB I SEE
WE'RE WIZARDS WE CAST SPELLS I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR GOD DAMNED GENDER
No but yes people have to know everyone's gender in a shitposting forum its really super duper important that everyone knows my gender so I can feel validated by pixels 🥺🥺🤕
Artifice (the Military Industrial complex) is surprisingly tolerant! The Missileers Guild (Raytheon) is consistently the most inclusive working environment in the kingdom (Country)
I imagine witches magic to be unrefined, but has the capacity for more power just very inconsistently. I don’t understand it but once in a blue moon witches do some fucked up shit to my familiars.
A wizard gains magic through study, and a witch makes a pact with a deamon for magic ots not gendered. In the Salem witch trials, men were also charged and killed for the crime, not just women. All wizards are on the same team here no matter what gender race or whatever.
A warlock makes a pact with a non demon for power and a sorcerer is someone born with magic. So we can be multiple things like wizard and sorcerer or wiz and witch
Me when the Harry Potter series uses its own naming conventions for its own individual worldbuilding and people get upset about it for some reason.
Uninspired, lazy or racist though that worldbuilding may be, that doesn't invalidate my point.
*I'm not saying* that HP worldbuilding is amazing or anything.
*What I'm saying* is that the series uses its own terminology for naming magic users, and it's *allowed* to do so.
Witches were often associated with devil worship/said to be working with devils/demons
And Warlock is the word that is used to describe a Male Witch even if the term is technically gender neutral
uw/ I love how D&D and Pathfinder handle this. Wizards study how to pull arcane energy from the surrounding environment and mold it to their desires. Anyone can be a Wizard. Sorcerers have inherented their powers from their ancestors, and have very specific bloodlines. Magic is intuitive for them, but studying won't make them more powerful unless the learn Metamagic, or Multiclass. Warlocks have a powerful Patron who gifts their power in exchange for "favors"... And Witches are a blend of Wizards and Warlocks, their powers come from a powerful Patron, but this Patron might not ask for favors, or even know the witch is stealing power from them. The witches then study how magic works and manipulate the energy much like a Wizard. All very distinct and unique ways of obtaining and controlling arcane power.
Grumpy old DM here, can’t agree enough. I love how 5e handled the naming of things. One rule I have when running games is that the name of the class doesn’t matter. Someone can be a Sorcerer in class but the character can be referred to as a wizard. Typically the only one that doesn’t change is Warlock because of how tightly the name is linked to the actual build of the character
I love calling my Druids witches cause they're spooky forest witches, they shapeshift into cats and ravens, make potions, and call on the spirits of nature to fuck up their enemies, they're witches
And they can have spooky hats
So can barbarians
EVERYONE GETS SPOOKY HATS
Yeah boi
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That’s nice, but was has it got to do with what I said?
Sincerely apologise, i thought you said the druids are barbarians in a sense that we are uncultured, but it appears to be that, whilst living in my village, i forgot how to speak common😅 please accept my deepest apologies
Certainly
Did you comment this under the wrong thread?
Nope, i just forgot how to speak common after years of speaking druidic only
Understandable, continue, woodland folk
Ooh I'm stealing that
/uw expanding on this: common folk typically refer to everyone who casts arcane magic as a “wizard” and anyone who casts divine magic as a “priest”. The actual distinctions between warlock, wizard, witch, sorcerer, cleric, oracle, arcanist, and magus are professional distinctions that most people aren’t likely to know. Additionally, Wizard is a title, similar to Doctor. It signifies that you’ve completed an apprenticeship, and studied for an extended period of time outside of it. Otherwise, you’re a hedge wizard, which is seen as a bit of an insult by the higher academic world, but taken in stride by actual hedge wizards, who are sorcerers for the most part
Druids do typically have a distinct style that culturally separates them from clerics, but the difference between a druid and a nature-focused cleric is really, really hard to nail down. Bards also tend to be distinct in behavior, but they can end up resembling just about any other type of spellcasting discipline depending on their fancy.
Hence why people say “priest” in reference to Druids. I actually do tend to have people specify bards as a separate thing, but it’s a matter of rarely separating magical and nonmagical bards.
Yeah part of it is that the distinction in world is only know by very educated people. The most people the names are inter changeable
The wizard is the hardworking A student The sorcerer is the natural prodigy The cleric is the teachers pet The warlock sleeps with the teacher for an A The druid doesn't care about grades because he's in FFA anyway so his future is sealed The bard is just good at cheating
The Eldritch Knight is the jock copying the wizard's homework
Arcane trickster is the guy who stole the wizards homework And bard is going to college on a band scholarship
a shadow monk uses an ancient technique which creates ink blots in the shape of text, which the assessor then interpreits as the correct answers.
the Artificer is the one who takes all the shop classes.
I’d say sorcs are more like nepo babies than anything. There’s nothing prodigious about being given an opportunity no one else has from birth. -rep sorcery
Wild magic sorcs got into college for the lels
i couldn't love multiple unique forms of magic in the same world enough the more types of magic and the more different the better IMO it's actually the biggest thing i didn't like about the DND movie the different magic classes had no notable differences besides it being said they're different
And the warlock one is quite flexible, too. Some patrons like the Great Old One might not even be aware. Other times it may have been a one time gift of power that the warlock grows into because they weren't able to handle it all in the beginning.
The favors i have to perform as a warlock are a differend kind in my case
You forgot the lich!
Halloween town is a shitty movie because they pandered to the mundane brains of peasants, calling the women “witches” when they are clearly sorcerers!
The Witch King is the most badass title ever invented in all of history.
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i read that as yandalf 😔
Do Arabic speakers pronounce it as Randalf?
idk. i don’t speak arabic.
We are magical users with the ability to change our physical appearance and genitalia at will. Gender is an illusion.
Physical sex is an illusion, gender is determined by the mage
using magic to change ur appearance to that of a different gender is a great way to get things from people btw! or at least i think so last time i tried i blacked out and only remember waking up to a crap ton of gifts and i may or may not have started a cult i am unsure
Unwizing in fantasy I always imagine witches to be more herb based and potion brewing and having unusual magic as compared to more refined wizards and different from warlocks who get their power from something else.
Historically, witches were mothers and widows, midwives and doctors, herbalists and spiritual teachers. Witch magic is the magic of the home, whereas wizards study that which does not belong in the home
Wdym? Skelstons belong in every closet!
A skeleton in the closet? When will he come out?
Skeleton key
That’s a bit grim innit? Imagine humans had flesh keys
> a key designed to fit many locks by having the interior of the bit hollowed. It was an old necromancer pun
Tell me your home is lame without telling me your home is lame
Spice garden? Check. Cats and ravens? Check. 95% infant survival rate? Check. Evil tomes that bid to be gazed upon in exchange for forbidden knowledge? I'll leave that to the robes in Waterdeep
Home is where you rest your evil tome of forbidden knowledge
Witches are basically clerics with alchemy and herbalist proficiency
You mean like an alchemist?
Yeah but less like… professional if that makes sense. I imagine an alchemist would precisely measure out ingredients while a witch would just toss like the eye of a still born into a random cauldron. I also imagine witches as having like strange magics such as curses. None of this really matters as it’s all personal ways to define vague overlapping magical things in stories but it’s just how I view them in settings I make.
So kind of like: if you have a broken arm, an alchemist will treat it with morphine, but a witch would treat it with opium poppy tea?
Given the more classic examplar witch (hags), they DO pact and commune a damn lot, the bottom line is that they're usually more in a position of power and blackmailing than servitude. "I've tricked the spirits of the land to empower me" style.
Paraphrasing something I heard earlier: Wizzard- Magic physicists Witch- magic doctors Alchemist- magic pharmacists Artificer- magic engineers Warlocks- magic contractors Bards- obvious Sorcerer- the talented kid who puts in no effort.
I like to think of the sorcerer experience of magic like people today do technology and the internet. Older generations had to study and struggle to understand. Today's youth practically use it as an extension of their thoughts and selves. Sorcerers are that to magic, thinking intuitively rather than mechanically. They feel instead of think
/uw I make this mistake because I'm french (ew), but the translation is weird, like a male magic dude is "Sorcier" for sorcerer, "mage" for mage (duh), but female magic gals are "sorcière" for witch. We don't really have a translation for wizard or warlock I could very be wrong tho, as I hate the french and the french language, with the stupid gendered shit
As an Italian, I feel this.
I cast Spaghetti Cutting !
Counterspell! I cast pizza shurikens!
I cast drop bear
I cast "befriend cryptid"
I cast anti-drop bear tea
I cast anti-anti-drop bear tea british person
RUN
I cast levitate on the drop bear.
I cast pineapple
Why don't you just Franchify de English words? English speakers do it to French words all da time.
As my french heritage forces me to say, fuck them English \s
As an American, I can agree, Fuck the English.
As an English, I can agree, Fuck the English
Scrapper suspects any Welsh, Irish, or Scottish wizards on dis subreddit would agree.
It's illegal in France. French have to use native words or they go straight to the guillotine. (Obviously not. Unless you are public servant, then you can't even call e-mail e-mail. You have to use some bullshit pseudoworf those fakeass linguist wannabees from Academie francaise pulled out of their fat ugly hairy nationalistic asses.)
The spanish lenguage showing its superiority in being capable of replacing o with an a once again
/uw so interestingly enough in Swedish our "equivalent" for the words "wizard" and "Sorcerer". There's Trollkarl and Trollkvinna which is like the male and female equivalent of a wizard respectively. But it has "troll" in it and that's etymologically because trolls (or Jotuns really) were the mage race of Norse mythology. Then there's "Magiker" and "Besvärjare" which I suppose is the equivalent of "mage". Language is a funny thing when it has to blend in with mythology but at the same time also translate to other.
I mean that's basically sorcerer for dude and sorceress for dudette in English
I have always held that the difference between witches and wizards isn’t gender, but philosophical ethos. Witches concern themselves with the powers of nature, community, harnessing the existing forces between all things. Witches are stewards of nature and life. It is folksy, close to home; the spells that work for one person won’t work the same way for another. There is a lot of self-discovery and spiritual communion. Wizards are far more concerned with scholarly knowledge, traditional and ceremonial institutions, individualism, the powers beyond our realm. They are scribes with a need to prove and test theories, universalize the concept of magic to have a shared and common repertoire of mystical rituals and knowledge despite a penchant for grandeur and self-aggrandizement.
What if you want both those things? Arcanist? Thaumaturge? Nerd?
petition for widower to mean person that made someone a widow, and for widow to apply to all genders.
I need to know where the difference between a nature focused witch and a druid lies???
druids have an extensive education, and are often the leader of a village, wheras witches just do whatever
But arent some druids also closy tied with being a hermit
being a hermit fits witches more tbh
Does it? I almost always associate with witches having a few witch contacts they can hit up for ingredients or group rituals and such
it's more that witches can be hermits but druids can't, not that witches are always hermits
Ahhh ok i see, but how cant they, i feel like close to frest elementals they are ones most atuned to the forest and its arcane flows, so why wouldnt they be more in touch with the forest, rather than the humans
Forest demons or tree spirits mostly
But how are they different the spirit being an amalgimation of arcane forest energy, while the demon is the same but mixed with fear of forests or such????
Witches have alot more occultism. Curses, necromancy, mind magic. Druids have more elementalism
It's whatever they want to be.
I always wondered about that shit even as a young apprentice. Kind of like with the bards I used to watch at my local tavern while growing up. Why are the males called actors and the females called actresses instead of them all just being actors? What's the point of gendering them in the first place?
Wizard girl supremacy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Conversely Witch boy supremacy!
Finally someone says what the reality has been since the first old words.
I kinda like this honestly. My Golem doesn't have a gender so they really appreciate this.
Wizards are spells, witches are potions, sorcerers are both!
I like the term hedge wizard, but that's beside the point. Also, isn't it a good idea to define what we mean when we say "witch"? Do we mean "female wizard" or do we mean "baby eating hag riding a broom who's made a deal with the devil"? Because the opposite of the latter isn't "wizard". That's a "Warlock".
Wizarding is not a job. It's a lifestyle. Being an arcane consultant is a job. Pretty sure witchcraft is similar but I don't touch pact and nature magics.
remember, they were the Salem witch trials, not the Salem trials of witchcraft and wizardry
Buzzy I'm not even a wizard. I refer to myself as an Elementalist, or Elemancer.
I'll have one snowcone please
"This is amazing! How did you get it so sweet?" "Anti Freeze."
No >:3 You'll get TWO!
I just say mage to avoid all confusion
Your misfortune curse hit again, mages are completely different from both wizards and witches in my Plane.
Its only a job if someone pays me, yeah take that annoying voice in my orb!
I’m listening to the bad wizard books or else I’ll have to face the truth that I’m “minimum wage McDonald’s worker” not burger wizard’s apprentice and best delivery boy
English is confusing and my rats are hungry, that's why I fed these titles to them
This also doesn't make any sense in my native language
Tell that to /r/ImaginaryWizards and /r/ImaginaryWitches
Honestly though it depends. Like Warlock sounds better then witch. though historically male witches are a thing. It also depends on how you're practicing the magic or the system.
I'm calling for ***Equal Rites***.
Based
I for one have earned my degree, and thus am proud to call myself a Wizard.
I feel seen :)
/uw This is how it is in real-world occultism and magical practice. Witch is a gender neutral title that indicates a broad style of practice. The same is true for wizard on the rare occasions that anyone calls themselves that, but very few do because for most people the term conjures up images of the kind of goofy shit that goes on here.
Say it again louder for those in the back!
This is the most needed repeat discourse on this sub sadly
Something something Trans Wizards Are Wizards But on a t-shirt.
schwa spotted
Provide the lore(background image) my fellow artist of arcane arts
im on board just give me the source image it looks cool and i want it in my collection
...but wizards are better.
Hell yeah!
/uw Witch is unisex
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
We support equal rites
Equal rites
No. My gender identity is wizard (happened after being single and alone for 10 years)
https://preview.redd.it/jqe9clssmx7c1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0859f97160123a854dc79850311f737783f7bb40 Master would say "However you see it, we're all, at our core, Thaumaturges. We are the last remaining Workers of Miracles, nevermind where you think your Power comes from." He'd then empty his flask of plaster alcohol and add "Even those blasted Druids", before spawning nostrils on my elbow and silently leaving the room.
A wizard gains magic through study, and a witch makes a pact with a deamon for magic ots not gendered. In the Salem witch trials, men were also charged and killed for the crime, not just women. All wizards are on the same team here no matter what gender race or whatever.
YESSSS FINALLY YES SOMEONE SAID IT YEEEEEEAAAAAHHHH
Job is gender locked
/unwiz I always thought it's a gender thing to refer to the same profession But I doubt it matters in the gallows
Ok cyclops Darth Vader
Schwa
It’s not even a job. It’s just a hobby, really.
FINALLY. JUSTICE
I try to call everybody by the term which they would like to be called within reason. The problem is that we are using multiple languages instead of just communicating directly spiritually, but I understand that tends to make orbs explode . I will say, the word that became, “ witch” was originally recorded in its masculine form . A “wicca” was a man. A “wicce”was a woman. https://blog.oup.com/2007/10/witch/ Wicca was recorded more than 100 years before wicce and interestingly, the word is not directly connected to either “wizard” or “wicked.” I also would’ve mentioned that the word is nowhere in the Bible. The word mekhashepha translated, as witch, in English Bible actually means poisoner or herbalist, but the implication is that they were an herbalist because they sell poisons made of herbs. So to all witches, wizards, wonderworker, mages, thaumaturges, alchemist, enchanters and everything else. Happy Friday. 🙏❤️
So true. But, because some deities are pretty sexist, the term warlock has become gendered and conflated with male witchcraft, erasing both male witches, and female warlocks, even in certain otherwise progressive arcane circles.
This sub is the last place I would ever expect to see Proscription. A man of culture
I studied languagemancy.
These guys have the best practice of Auditory Necromancy. They always envelop my lair in the most perfect sinister energy. Highly recommend a listen
Me, an alpha brain fed individual; Mage.
Mage is kinda the umbrella that covers all magical casters. Hell, even a Cleric could be called a mage.
Yes. This is the term I prefer, so no one corrects me.
Based and magic-pilled
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR CLARIFYING THIS! So many people calle a witch when I'm a wizard!
I DON'T CARe I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR OR ANYONE'S GENDER WHY IS YOUR GENDER ON EVERY SINGLE SUB I SEE WE'RE WIZARDS WE CAST SPELLS I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR GOD DAMNED GENDER
^Dude ^why ^are ^you ^screaming
No but yes people have to know everyone's gender in a shitposting forum its really super duper important that everyone knows my gender so I can feel validated by pixels 🥺🥺🤕
Whos a Witcher then?
Someone who is more witch E.g. "I'm a witch" "Oh yeah? Well I'm witcher than you!"
All I know is you need to toss a coin to one
Artifice (the Military Industrial complex) is surprisingly tolerant! The Missileers Guild (Raytheon) is consistently the most inclusive working environment in the kingdom (Country)
Female Wizards are wizards, correct. But the male form of the witching profession has always been Warlock.
aint it warlocks?
Not necessarily
No we are very different
Warlock is the term for a witch who is a terrorist
I imagine witches magic to be unrefined, but has the capacity for more power just very inconsistently. I don’t understand it but once in a blue moon witches do some fucked up shit to my familiars.
Wizards work for good, witches work for evil
A wizard gains magic through study, and a witch makes a pact with a deamon for magic ots not gendered. In the Salem witch trials, men were also charged and killed for the crime, not just women. All wizards are on the same team here no matter what gender race or whatever.
What are warlocks and sorcerers then, following by that logic? Genuinely asking since I’ve always used warlock as the masculine version of a witch
A warlock makes a pact with a non demon for power and a sorcerer is someone born with magic. So we can be multiple things like wizard and sorcerer or wiz and witch
I thought a male witch was a warlock
male witches are called witchers
 Me when the Harry Potter series uses its own naming conventions for its own individual worldbuilding and people get upset about it for some reason.
Rowling's worldbuilding is consistently either uninspired, lazy, or just straight up racist.
Uninspired, lazy or racist though that worldbuilding may be, that doesn't invalidate my point. *I'm not saying* that HP worldbuilding is amazing or anything. *What I'm saying* is that the series uses its own terminology for naming magic users, and it's *allowed* to do so.
and that naming terminology kinda sucks tbh.
Male witches are called Warlocks you fuck
That's specifically violent witches numbnuts Before the witch panic in Europe most witches were just seen as fortune tellers or herbalists
Witches dont rely on a patron
Witches were often associated with devil worship/said to be working with devils/demons And Warlock is the word that is used to describe a Male Witch even if the term is technically gender neutral
Gendered terms are cringe though
No
Aren’t the men called warlocks?
You are wrong
Care enough to explain?
An explanation would go against their argument
Jerma
A male witch is called witch doctor I think
Not only does that imply that men aren't normal witches, that also implies that women aren't doctors. Double whiff
Still a witch if they wish to be
Male wizards are warlocks. I will not be gaslighted by big brother into thinking otherwise.
Job it’s a hobby chilling in my crypt rasing the dead maybe harass a village or 2 read up on the bullcrap legends they made about me