# Words for "wizard" linked to types of magic **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 16, 2007, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-wizard-linked-to-types-of-magic/404302 "2007-05-16T11:52:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-wizard-linked-to-types-of-magic/404302/41 "2007-05-18T14:12:28Z")
[QUOTE=Max the Immortal] Magekiller: A spellcaster who focuses on magic used to slay other mages. [/QUOTE] Some titles really speak for themselves, or ought to anyway. “You’re a ‘Magekiller,’ eh? So what does that involve, exactly?” \* --last words of Ethelred the Illusionist\* ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-wizard-linked-to-types-of-magic/404302/42 "2007-05-18T16:58:06Z")
[Technomage:](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technomage) Cult/school/fraternity of the _Babylon 5_ universe who do “magic” through high technology. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-wizard-linked-to-types-of-magic/404302/43 "2007-05-18T17:47:16Z")
[QUOTE=si\_blakely] Sourcerer - code wizard [/QUOTE] Not according to Terry Pratchett flippermancer - a pinball wizard! ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-wizard-linked-to-types-of-magic/404302/44 "2007-05-18T17:49:16Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] Enchanter - imbuing others with magic (need a good short word for this) [/QUOTE] Call me crazy, but how about “enchanting”? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-wizard-linked-to-types-of-magic/404302/45 "2007-05-18T20:08:18Z")
Lepimage: Has power to conjure rabbits out of thin air. Unfortunately, nobody has ever found a practical use for this ability outside of stage performances. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-wizard-linked-to-types-of-magic/404302/46 "2007-05-18T20:32:37Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Lepimage: Has power to conjure rabbits out of thin air. Unfortunately, nobody has ever found a practical use for this ability outside of stage performances. [/QUOTE] What about the famous arcanist Hassenpfeffer the Magnificent, Conjuring Connoisseur of the Culinary Cuniculus? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-wizard-linked-to-types-of-magic/404302/47 "2007-05-18T21:12:27Z")
Magical Thief–spells for burglaring. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-wizard-linked-to-types-of-magic/404302/48 "2007-05-18T21:23:51Z")
Triviamancer: Able to divine the future, but only WRT completely unimportant and uninteresting matters. (SNL once did a skit on this with Christopher Walken (of _The Dead Zone_ movie): “John Smith, Trivial Psychic!”) ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-wizard-linked-to-types-of-magic/404302/49 "2007-05-18T21:36:24Z")
Heisenbergomancer - can manipulate an object’s speed or position, but not both at the same time. Distantly related to the: Higgsbosonometricist - very abstracted specialist that contemplates and manipulates the ultimate laws of the physical universe. Completely incomprehensible to other magicians. Prattles incessantly about some alchemical Holy Grail (also completely incomprehensible) referred to as The Grand Unificator. Very, very good at blowing shit up, however. ---
**Author:** ![Strain\_of\_Thought](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@Strain\_of\_Thought](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strain_of_Thought)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-wizard-linked-to-types-of-magic/404302/50 "2007-05-18T22:01:56Z")
How about ‘Artificer’? That’s a good name for people who build machines that incorporate magic into the design. There’s a Young Adult book about a wizard apprentice who has a skunk for a familiar that I can’t remember the name of right now, but in their world they take the interesting step of dividing all magical schools (Basic categories like Weather and Potions) into theoretical/academic and experimental/practical disciplines, _and_ having one school solely dedicated to the creation of new spells, which is again itself split into two disciplines. Oh, and I guess that’s two types I haven’t seen here yet: A Weatherworker and a Potiontiate. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-wizard-linked-to-types-of-magic/404302.md?page=2)