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The Principles of Peace

2013-01-10T07:50:37Z

No one in particular: Link fix

=Canon=
A book (or a set of books or writings) authored by [[King Banhammer]] of [[Faq]] first mentioned in [[IPTSF Text 58]]

The work lays forth a series of Principles and a Hierarchy of Good, likely among other ideas.

The Principles shown include:
*Principle of Mutual Benefit - presumably about working in two parties best interests simultaneously

*Principle of Generosity - presumably about free giving between parties to encourage peace

The Hierarchy of Good appears to be about weighing different values of [[Erfworld]] by important to the greater good. The Service of Wisdom ranks higher than the Services of Life, Love, Harmony, and others.

=Real World References=
Likely a reference to the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistance (or the Panchsheel Treaty) that originated in India which feature five principles for peaceful relationships with their neighbor China. This oriental reference fits with the known Canon, art, and feel of [[Faq]].

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IPTSF Text 33

2013-01-08T18:29:04Z

No one in particular: Formatting tweaks

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“Princess [[Jillian]], fust let me say ‘welcome home.’ The side is sustained in paht by your wuck in distant lands. And I thank you.”

Jillian had to parse the Court-speak of that opening. “I” thank you, not “we.” At [[Marie]]’s words, all of the Court members did place their palms together and nod to her, except the [[Banhammer|King]]. But she knew there were dissenters among them. Jack had told her that some of them felt strongly that she should never have been popped. He wouldn’t say which ones, but several of them didn’t think that Faq could stand the “moral burden” of being a mercenary side, instead of a true bubble kingdom. They were just that lofty.

And “work,” she’d said, not “fighting.” They didn’t like to use the f-word around here. Jillian had the instinctive urge to jump in and skewer the euphemism like a game bird, to say, “You mean ‘lopping off heads to pay your upkeep?’ You’re welcome.” But she kept her face carefully blank. In a sword fight, you plant your feet and bend your knees and don’t overreact to your opponent’s every motion. Here, keeping your lips together was just your basic defensive stance.

Besides, she really wanted to hear this business about her father and the Titans.

So she nodded back, and Sister Marie continued, “You ah a very brave woman, Princess. And the naytcha of bravery is something we often discoss here. You ah a brave woman, physically, yes. I wondah if you are so brave intellectually? Or spiritually? I am afraid I don’t know you well enough. What do you think?”

Jillian felt the pointed challenge of that question, but she didn’t really understand what the Predicatamancer was getting at. “I do what I need to do, Sister Marie,” she said in a low voice. “Not much of my ‘work’ is intellectual, as the Court never forgets to remind me. Spiritual? You’ll have to explain that one to me.”

Marie nodded. “So. An enemy swings a club at you. They want to smash your skull, yes? And you, of course, don’t let them. You ah not afraid. You know where your head is at, and you move it so you don’t let the club hit it. It wucks something like that?” Many of the Court members grinned at the abstract and silly description of combat.

Jillian smiled as well, but mainly because she was thinking of several occasions when she didn’t quite move her head in time. “Something like that, yes.”

“So, intellectually, it’s the same thing. Someone wants to smash your ahgument. If you don’t really know what you think, then it’s like you don’t know where your head is. You don’t move, and they smash you. Ahgument ovah. You have to be brave and stand up for the truth.”

Jillian had doubts about that analogy, but said nothing and nodded. The concept of intellectual cowardice was not something she wanted to think about.

“Spiritual bravery is the hoddest,” continued Sister Marie. “Sometimes, some very hod truth comes along that wants to smash your spirit. You lose someone you love. You find out something about the world that you can’t face. Or wuss, you find out something about yourself. In thot case, you will stand there and get smashed to pieces if you ''don’t know who you really ah''.”

To Jillian’s ears, this sounded like the typical windy sophistry of the Court of [[Faq]], but it still gave her a gnawing feeling in her stomach. There was maybe something to it. Maybe. She wasn’t going to follow along willingly, not right now. But some night out on the trail, she would lie under the stars and think about these ideas and try to work some sense out of it all.

“I see,” was all she said.

“As a [[Predictamancer]], I have to be brave in spirit. I see so many hod truths! Many times, I know if I share what I see, then the truths will stay true, but they get hodda. People can’t face hearing their [[Fate]], so they fight and make it much wuss. Your fatha,” said Marie, very seriously, “is the bravest of us all.” There were nods of assent.

Jillian looked at the King. Brave? There were lots of words she might use to describe him, but that wasn’t exactly first among them. “Why is that?”

“Because he knows his Fate,” said Marie. “He will fall, and this coppital will fall. I so Predict it.”

The words felt like one of those times Jillian hadn’t moved her head out of the way fast enough. She was still looking at [[King Banhammer]], who nodded to her with great poise. A moment ago, she had been imagining leaving Faq as an adventure. But something about the way the old man met her eyes brought home the weight of it. They were serious. Faq would fall, and father would be gone.

“Oh, no,” was all she could manage to say.

“Hod truth,” nodded Marie. “But old news here. I made this Prediction before you were evah popped. It’s the ''reason'' you wah popped. Your King ordered an heir to carry on the side, because he is the kind of man who can face a hod truth and still do the right thing,” said Marie. “Thot is bravery of a different and higher ordah. Now you must face that same hod truth, and you must find the spiritual bravery to do your part in it. So. Will you?”

She looked at the faces around the table. They really didn’t like her, most of them. They certainly didn’t like having to depend on her. Jack gave her a look that was hard to read, but in his hand he cupped a yellow rose blossom, a tiny bit of Foolamancy that only she could see. It was the perfect little gesture of confidence.

“I said I do what I need to do,” she said. “What’s the plan?”

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The plan was nothing like what Jillian had pictured. They weren’t going to evacuate the side en masse. When trouble came, all the casters would flee into the [[Magic Kingdom]].

Jillian’s role now was to forego her mercenary duties and scout the world for a capital site or barbarian capital city. She should capture that city, making it Faq’s fourth, then be prepared to move the side’s capital there once Faq fell and she became Queen. The casters would then pass through the new portal and join her.

The treasury would dwindle while she hunted for a new home, so time would be tight. But when she succeeded, the fourth city would add much needed [[Shmuckers]] to their treasury.

There was no consideration in the plan for the survival of Faq’s non-caster units, other than “surrender if possible.”

“My preference would be a distant island, or someplace at least as isolated as here,” her father said.

“Mm, yeah,” said Jillian. “Those are just lying around all over the place out there. I’ll go fly out and grab one tomorrow. Do you have a color preference?”

“Search, Jillian. We have time,” said the King.

“Yeah? How much time?” she asked.

Marie shifted on her cushion and looked uncomfortable. “I am not sure,” she said, squinting as if trying to see. “I’ve felt for a long time thot we wah safe. I didn’t believe Haffaton would be the agent of our distroction. It still does not feel as if this city will fall very soon. But Predictamancy does motch bettah with events than particulahs. How Fate plays out is up to us. Haffaton ''could'' be the one to conquah us. I don’t know. They ah getting so close. You should try to hurry, but... you should have some time yet.”

“Once this is done, daughter, you will be the keeper of my legacy.” The King was leaning forward and looking her in the eyes earnestly. “I must ask you to swear to uphold the ideals of Faq after I am gone.”

“Well that part shouldn’t be too hard,” the Princess shrugged, “since those ideals include abandoning most of your people.”

The table fell into a prickly silence. Glances were exchanged. Jillian didn’t much care.

“If our units croak, they will do so alongside their King,” said [[Moothfott]] the [[Moneymancer]]. “There’s no dishonor in that. Fate will claim its price, Princess Jillian. That’s the way of things. But the wisdom of Faq will be preserved, and that is all that ''can'' be saved. Find us a fertile patch and the seed will sprout anew.”

Nods of assent. Jillian scowled at them. “No,” she said. “I don’t like it. I would tell you exactly ''why'' I don’t like it, but I’m still counting up all the reasons.”

Sister Marie leaned forward. “Princess, recall what I said about intellectual bravery.”

“Yeah, I remember,” said Jillian stubbornly. “You said, ‘fight for the truth.’ And the truth is: that plan is terrible.”

Around the table, some of the casters began leaning and whispering.

“No, Highness,” said Marie patiently, “the ''truth'' is terrible. Thot’s what we must face. But the plan is good. You find it a chollange to your way of thinking, so you don’t like it. But you must be brave enough to accept it as necessary.”

“Brave?” Jillian balked. “You think this plan is ''brave''? Scampering away like pac-rats and leaving everybody else here to croak?” She shot the King an angry look, but then suddenly broke out in a predatory grin as something occurred to her.

She turned her head and aimed that grin directly at Marie. “Okay. Okay, then show me intellectual bravery,” Jillian said. “Show me how ''you all'' handle an idea that’s not what you want to hear. Because I’ve got one. Ya ready?”

She looked around the table, waiting until the whispering stopped and all eyes were upon her again. “Let’s take this whole show on the road,” she said. “As Chief Warlord, I say we go to war with [[Haffaton]], and ''win''.”

The crazy idea she’d been working up in the back of her head for the last two days, the one she had planned to pitch them, came spilling out of her mouth. It had occurred to her some time ago that the [[Lookamancy]]/[[Predictamancy]]/[[Foolamancy]] combination which concealed Faq’s location could go mobile. Three casters could hide an ''army'' even better than a city.

With [[Marie]] to Predict enemy moves, [[Orwell]] to scout, and [[Jack Snipe]] to veil, it was entirely possible that they could get a large airborne force all the way to Haffaton’s capital undetected. Then, depending on the defenses, they’d drop out of the sky with heavies and casters, and knock out the entire vast empire in a single strike.

“If we can pull it off, then all of Haffaton’s cities would go barbarian. So, then we’ve got a vast empty wasteland on three sides of Faq. At that point, either we take over all those cities and run it as a traditional side that’s too big to fail, or we just boost up the treasury by raiding and razing all those cities one at a time. We’d be set for a ''thousand'' turns! So,” she said, slapping her palms on the table’s edge and rattling the bone china, “how ‘bout ''that'' plan instead?”

Throughout her long, excited pitch, the members of Court had remained silent. But Jillian had been on such a tear that she hadn’t noticed how they were sitting: almost stock still. No-one had raised a cup, or even shifted in place. Their mouths were clamped shut, and their wide eyes darted around. Even Jack Snipe looked fearful. Now that she was finished, looking around at their silence and statuelike rigidity suddenly made her guts clench up.

After several more agonizing moments in this tableau, Brother Orwell was the first to speak up. “I’ll not ride into battle,” he said quietly, shaking his head. “I will not take lives.”

Some of the others nodded and looked about to speak, but King Banhammer’s somber and commanding voice suddenly filled the hall.

“You will, if I order you to,” he said to Orwell, and to the entire table.

In the mead-hall of [[Slamalot]], Jillian had once dropped a porcelain beer stein which bounced off the stone floor and then shattered on the ''second'' bounce. This scene was like that. The second shock of the King’s words sent the members of the Court of Faq into mass babbling, even ''yelling''. Ha! Did that mean she was winning? She hadn’t yelled yet, right?

King Banhammer, who carried no scepter, smacked the flat of his palm on the table once. The room quickly fell silent once more, although in silent, seething outrage this time. He turned to [[Adderall Hawk]], who was seated beside Marie.

“Is it possible?”

The [[Mathamancer]] straightened, suddenly called to his primary [[Duty]] for the first time in uncounted turns. Most Mathamancers do nothing but calculate battle odds. Add seemed taken well off-guard.

He pushed his spectacles up the bridge of his nose. “Possible? Oh... certainly. We were sending out our forces with the plan of capturing a capital, on the theory that the Princess could find one with poor air defenses. If Haffaton could be caught off guard, then its defenses would likely be as weak as anywhere else.”

“Exactly!” blurted Jillian. “See? It’s no stupider than ''your'' plan.”

“Quiet,” said Banhammer in a soft-toned order.

“But,” added Add, “as I understand it, Haffaton’s power is largely based on [[Hippiemancy]]. It might even be physically ''impossible'' to attack. I can’t calculate our chances unless I know something more about their forces.”

Jillian raised a finger, and her father nodded to her.

“I talked with that Haffaton warlord we ran into,” she said to Add. “[[Dame Branch]] is their Hippiemancer. No idea what level she is, but she’s pretty high. And they have a [[Croakamancer]] with a reputation that stretches to a lot of the sides I’ve talked to. [[Lady Firebaugh]]. I’ve heard she’s been responsible for most of their conquests. But that’s why I think the defenses will be weak. They’ve got to be relying on [[uncroak]]ed [[unit]]s for defense, because of their low upkeep. ... What?”

Add was pointing to Marie, whose finger was raised. Her mouth hung slack, and her eyes were wide as tea saucers. Jillian thought she’d better give her the table.

“Yeah, Marie?”

Marie’s voice was rough, her expression thoroughly spooked. “I would like to amend my Prediction, Your Highness,” she said to the King. “Haffaton ''will'' be the agent of your destroction, and of the fall of Faq as well. I think soon.”

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IPTSF Text 32

2013-01-08T18:26:44Z

No one in particular: Couple of references added

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Even tea ceremonies have their natural limits. [[Royal]] patience might be infinite, but least Royal stomachs and bladders are not.

As various members came and went from the table, words of idle conversation flashed and forked around [[Jillian]] like lightning in distant clouds. The game of Court was to hold the interest of Court, so the players kept playing. She was new in their midst, but that only made her a ''topic'', rather than a new contestant. It was just as well with her; she hated this crap. She ignored their subtle jabs, and only spoke in answer to direct questions, the occasional lightning strike sent her way.

Her turn to hold the table came when all the Court members had returned from necessary ablutions. Brother [[Orwell]] appeared and sat, apologizing for his absence. Jillian knew that [[Lookamancy]] could be time-consuming, especially when an intruder might be [[veil]]ed, and she respected his devotion to his Duty. Only Rusty was missing, although not really missed. She hadn’t seen him since her return, and could do without that privilege.

In the past, some of her trouble at this table had certainly come from the way she spoke. She’d learned by falling and floundering and failing in front of these faces: you don’t ''yell''. Whatever you feel, however important your point or dire your appeal, you do not shout at Court, or else you automatically lose.

Even knowing that, the dam of Jillian’s frustration would often build up and burst anyway. Her word-battles here were usually lost in a rout. So she planned to keep it to the facts. Those were dramatic enough.

“The situation out there is... pretty bad, I have to say,” she told them. She tried to keep her eyes moving, making contact with each of them equally in a show of respect. Don’t play favorites. She kept tight control over her delivery. Slow. Calm. Space between your words. Breathe. “We haven’t seen the other side of Haffaton’s territory; it goes way out past anywhere we’ve ever scouted. I know you’ve seen their scouts around here lately.”

There were nods, and [[Jack]] raised a finger, saying, “They’ve been through, but they haven’t seen ''us''. Of that I’m certain. They believe this city is a lake, actually.”

The combination of [[Jack]]’s [[Foolamancy]], [[Orwell]]’s [[Lookamancy]], and [[Marie]]’s [[Predictamancy]] allowed [[Faq]] to remain off the enemy’s maps. That system was pretty good, but not perfect. It could be overwhelmed. Jillian had listened to some of the legends about other bubble kingdoms, shuffled in among the stories she swapped with her patron sides. In those tales, things never ended well for those who tried to hide from the world, whatever clever tricks they were betting their survival on. But of course, no-one told stories about the sides that managed to stay undetected. It would be nice if they could find one of those. They could really use an ally right now.

“I know,” said Jillian, “and I believe you. But it’s getting to the point where someone’s going to want to go for a swim in the lake, for whatever reason. We’re almost completely surrounded. We really need to do something.”

The [[Banhammer|King]] suddenly pressed his fingers together and chuckled softly. “[[Jillian|Princess]],” he said, smiling, “I am relieved to hear you say as much. You were recalled for that very purpose, you see.”

Oh? That seemed like... bait. But even though Jillian did not trust it, she couldn’t help nibbling. “Really? So, um... Do you want to hear my plan?”

Her Father’s smile broadened into real amusement. “Oh, no quite the opposite! There is ''already'' a plan for our predicament. But you are the only one here unfamiliar with it.”

Several at the table chuckled with the King. Jillian didn’t. “Right. Everyone but the Chief Warlord knows the plan,” she said dryly.

“You’ve been busy, of course,” said Banhammer facetiously. He liked to do that to her. “In any event, it isn’t a war plan. It is an escape plan.”

Jillian tilted her head, evaluating him. She respected a good escape plan. “Escape for whom? And to where?”

“Well,” said her father, his smile going a bit sad, “not for me. But escape for Faq. An evacuation plan for when we can no longer avoid detection here.”

He gave her some time to absorb this idea, and her tactical mind took it and ran.

Evacuation! All right... let’s see, depending on the timing, if they popped mainly megalos, how many turns before they could load up the bulk of Faq forces for transport? And how would that work, exactly? With this many commanders, they could distribute most of the treasury into individual purses, so unit upkeep could be maintained for oh, a dozen, two dozen turns, depending. That’d be enough with the right destination city, but where exactly did they plan to go?

If the Court had a plan, then maybe they knew the target already. But she was already nominating some pushover sides within a 20-turn flight that they could grab and take over. [[Brangelina]] and [[Bennifer]]{{ref|2}} were both pretty shaky. If they could take [[Bananastan]] and its huge treasury, they’d be set for upkeep for ages. There was always money in [[Bananastan]].

Jillian actually liked this better than her own plan, which was back to seeming kind of crazy in comparison. She’d just never imagined they would be willing to pack up and leave here.

Oh wow, yeah. Actually fly away from Faq. She could picture it: a grand sky armada, an entire side on the move, on a quest for a new home. And she with her warriors protecting the ragtag fugitive fleet, like... like a ''battle star''.{{ref|1}} Her father would finally see the worth she and her warlords—

“Wait,” she looked at Banhammer suddenly. “Whaddya mean, not for you?”

The King tilted his head and smiled even more wistfully. “Precisely what I said. When the time comes, the side will be yours to lead.”

In battle once, Jillian had taken an arrow right in the navel. This idea that she’d become a ruler seemed to retrace that arrow’s route. “Aw, no. Not me,” she said, looking around the table. She looked at her father with irritation. “Oh, what are you gonna do, ''abdicate''?”

“No,” said her father. And for once, he was looking upon her without the condescension, just meeting her eyes. It was somehow worse than his usual I-know-more-than-you-ever-will smirk. He cleared his throat.

“I will be with the [[Titans]],” he said with deep serenity and grace. “I give the table to Sister [[Marie]].”

==Notes==
# {{note|2|Gossip}} The names Brangelina and Bennifer are portmanteaus of the celebrity couples '''BRA'''d Pitt & '''ANGELINA''' Jolie and '''BEN''' Affleck & j'''ENNIFER''' Lopez. Calling them "shaky" is a reference to the tendency of such relationships to be unstable, and inevitably breaking up.

# {{note|1|Battlestar}} The scenario Jillian describes, of a ragtag armada of ships looking for a new home, being hunted by an enemy that seems to be everywhere and being protected by a small group of dedicated fighters is a summary of the tv show ''Battlestar Galactica''. The phrase "battle star" is a more direct reference.

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Quotes: Magic

2013-01-08T18:15:30Z

No one in particular: /* General */

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Quoted statements about the various forms and branches of magic.

''Next quote to be pulled from'': [[IPTSF Text 32]]

note to self: Pull quotes from [[TBFGK 38a]] later; basics of magic, classes &c.

=General=
*"He told me that Casters are Commanders, and can lead stacks, but they almost never do. Casters are too rare and valuable to risk, and they give no leadership bonus to the stack anyway. Only Warlords have leadership. Makes sense. Except for certain exceptions. Like, say... the bonus those golems get if they're led by a Dirtamancer. Or the huge one to Uncroaked units being led by a Croakamancer(!)." 
:::''Parson's Klog, [[TBFGK 84a]]''

*"Casters can also spend juice, doing most things casters do: make scrolls, items, golems, uncroak, turn Schmuckers to gems (or vice versa but that doesn't cost juice), upgrade units, etc." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on off-turn actions, [[LIAB 33a]]''

*"Okay, you said you can cast in the Magic Kingdom, right? 
:Yes..." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[LIAB 45]]''

*"Ahead and below, the target threw some Shockmancy bolts up at them. The defense was automatic. Not only were there no casters there to direct the stored spells, but there were apparently no commanders of any kind in the city." 
:::''Jillian, on tower defenses, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

*"Wanda said she thought it was a whole mess of different magicks, what'd she say... Shockmancy, obviously. Rhyme-o-mancy because it rocked out. Carnymancy because it made big flashes and sometimes could make things disappear (he never could do it on purpose, though). And what else? Changemancy? He looked at the hammer closely. There might be a lot more he could do with it besides taming dwagons, which was... Date-o-mancy, he guessed?" 
:::''Stanley, on the Arkenhammer, [[LIAB Text 44]]''

*"He had not actually crossed the threshold to Master class, but that could happen any time a caster gained powerful new insight into his discipline or major class." 
:::''Sizemore, on Class vs Level, [[LIAB Text 45]''

*"The Arkendish's feel was all over that Turnamancy spell." 
:::''Rachel, on the feel of a spell, [[LIAB Text 53]]''

*"N'they're like archers; they'd be able to take shots at me any time." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on caster attacks, [[LIAB 71]]

*"Each discipline of magic has its own special insight into cosmic truths." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"A ball of juice formed between her outstretched fingers. The hoboken is the basic offensive spell known to almost all casters at the time they pop." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"Wanda snorted, but then had to admit casters can't actually see one another's discipline." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 11]]''

*"It was not offensive; she could cast it before Goodminton broke alliance." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on a Dirtamancy scroll that modified the tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"It had been as effective as her effort at Rhyme-o-mancy, but it left her no better understanding of what she had cast." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on casting outside her discipline, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Delphie immediately leveled up to 5, and her spells became that much more potent." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"The combination of Jack’s Foolamancy, Orwell’s Lookamancy, and Marie’s Predictamancy allowed Faq to remain off the enemy’s maps. That system was pretty good, but not perfect. It could be overwhelmed." 
:::''Jillian Banhammer, [[IPTSF Text 32]]''

=Elements=
*"Here was a complicated bit of Matter. Once it had possessed Life and Motion, but those had been taken away from it. And though only the Titans could restore Life to it, she could give it Motion again, once she had the juice." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the body of a croaked scout, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"The three Elements were created equal. Are you a Titan, to say otherwise?" 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Life==
*"Life magic, Wanda. Croakamancers don't use it." 
:::''Olive Branch, disparaging a Croakamancer, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Motion==
*"This unit has Motion, and that is something a Hippiemancer would know nothing of." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, disparaging a Florist, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Matter==

=Classes=
==Hocus Pocus==
===Findamancy===
===Predictamancy===
*"Marie, of course, had told her many times that she had Predicted the fall of her side, the kingdom where she and Wanda had served. But when it came to explaining how the fall had happened, how she and Wanda both had escaped destruction in different ways, she wouldn't budge. 
:'It all got cloudy,' was all she would really say. 'It happens. I saw it would come and I wonned my Rulah. But when it came it all got cloudy, I don't know.' " 
:::''Janis & Marie, [[LIAB Text 37]]''

*"Thinkamancers understood intuition to be a form of natural Predictamancy, in which a unit can dimly perceive its Fate on a subconscious level." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Shouldn't you know? Oh I should, yes. But turns like this, they come up time to time and everything afta is cloudy. Something has to get decided today, Sizemore. Fate will go fowad from there." 
:::''Sizemore & Marie, on the clarity of Predictions, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"It’s a complicated subject, Wanda. Predictamancy... You know, dear? There are rules we don’t discuss. About...what we don’t discuss." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 3]]''

*"Wanda, the reason that Predictamancers do not say everything we know is not because it would change the future, but because it usually will make it longer and more painful to reach those future outcomes. The less you know about what is to come, about your Fate, then the easier it will be for you to get there, the less... you and others will have to suffer, to lose." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 9]]''

*"Delphie looked at her Overlord and squinted a bit, examining him. Wanda could sense that she was using a kind of magical sight like her own Croakamancy senses. She'd asked Delphie a raft of questions about Predictamancy in correspondence from the road, as they'd worked out this plan. She knew Delphie was now intuiting something about Father's near-term outcomes." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Somewhere in those notes in her satchel, there was a brief explanation of how Predictamancy worked in combat. It amounted to the caster using her juice to see things happen a second or two ahead, so that she could aim where the enemy would be, and to move where the enemy's return blows and arrows would not land." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Most importantly to this plan, a Predictamancer could know whether or not a shot or blow she was about to initiate would be a hit. If it wouldn't, then she simply did not take the shot." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Only one magic blast struck Fritz's shield. Delphie sidestepped the others as necessary, still casting in a kind of concentration trance." 
:::''Narration, on a Predictamancer in battle , [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Not everyone walking these halls has a purpose. I cannot make Predictions about every unit, or commander, or even every ruler." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

*"It was the only way Goodminton could survive you. 
::You don't know that. You never Predicted that. 
:No. I can't. Fate doesn't care about us. That's the terror of it; we have no Fate. The world doesn't care if we live or not. Only about you." 
:::''Delphie & Wanda, on who has Fate, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

*"However much Faq wanted to avoid crossing paths, it was inevitable. Battlespace determinations were Natural Predictamancy. She would be spotted by the enemy and allow them an encounter of some sort, all too close to her own territory." 
:::''Jillian Banhammer, [[IPTSF Text 27]]''

===Mathamancy===
*"Mathamancy is what, again? Analyzing probabilities... predicting outcomes? Yes, and the raw calculations of that work." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 54]]''

*"CharlsNChrg: Tell me the odds that learning what happened to my Archons right now will be worth giving up those calculations in the future. 
:LordHamster: ... 
:LordHamster: I don't know if this thing can even DO a calculation like that. Predicting the future? 
:CharlsNChrg: Try it. 
:LordHamster: Fine. 
:LordHamster: I'll be damned. 
:LordHamster: It says there's all of a 4% chance it's worth taking my deal, even after spending this calculation. 
::[...] 
:LordHamster: Teaching me that my bracer can make sophisticated predictions about the future? Priceless." 
:::''Charlie & Parson, [[First Intermission 39]]

*"The dice describe the world. They don’t determine it. A Mathamancer can tell you how many dice will be rolled, how many points’ll be lost when you’re wounded. He’ll tell you what’ll probably happen, and possibly happen, and what can’t happen." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Mathamancy deals with real Numbers." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

==Spookism==
===Turnamancy===
*"Having a Turnamancer reduced the production of an heir by twenty turns, and with funds coming in from Transylvito, Vanna was able to boost Otoh and Kibo's production drastically." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 49]]''

*"That level 6 Jitterati warlord, Duncan Scone, was now her best fighter. Vanna had done some good work to turn him, but the dungeon didn't much interest Jillian. Vanna didn't really know how to play right." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 49]]''

*"You okay? 
::Yes. That was just like, whoa. Intense. You know? 
:How's your juice? 
::Low. That spell cost two turns' worth, basically. 
:::''Jillian & Vanna, on KingWorld, [[LIAB 22]]''

*"Can't move to other hexes (because of zero move, exceptions possible using Turnamancy)." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33a]]''

*Next turn, when the Turnamancer had juice, she would be able to cast a mass spell that should convert half these prisoners to Faq units. The rest could be worked on in future turns." 
:::''Vanna, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

===Dollamancy===
*"Tell me about that. Where do changes of clothes come from?" [...] 
::"Well, it's Dollamancy, Lord," said Maggie, looking up at him. [...] "This particular 'outfit'... I would call it 'raiment'... came from the Magic Kingdom. The helm was made by one of our new Twolls. 
:"Yeah, how do Twolls do that? Bogroll made my armor, and he put the sword together. This new guy Zhopa just made me a picnic basket." [...] 
::"Twolls have the 'fabrication' special, which is a form of natural Dollamancy. Units with that ability can make small nonmagical items, usually armor and equipment. I understand that the next Twoll we pop will be assigned to the stables as a smith and saddlemaker." 
:Parson nodded. "But the rest of the clothes were from an actual Dollamancer?" 
::"Yes, his name is Ken." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"What about these symbols?" Parson slapped his chest plate. "My Hamstard crest and Wanda's skull emblem, and the Stanley posters. That's all Dollamancy, too?" "The emblems are called 'livery,' Lord. And yes, that is a common form of natural Dollamancy. New units pop bearing the livery their Ruler desires. Twolls can fabricate items which bear their master's livery. And when a caster creates another unit, as in golem-making or uncroaking, the caster sets the livery and other features of the unit's appearance." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"With a Dollamancer to heal the Cloth Golems and a Healomancer for the rest..." 
:::''Ossomer, [[LIAB 4]]''

*"There are different applications of Dollamancy. Lady Shortcake was fond of fashioning cloth golems. She was very imaginative. 
:Precious, puffy-looking animals. The hit of the parade. And when she wasn't doing that, she was always designing new raiment for the changing fashions at court!" 
:::''Cubbins & Ace, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Look, there's a lot you can do in Dollamancy. It's fabrication with a motion element, right? If we want." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Dollamancy is Fate magic, so I know something about that." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Ace stroked his chin, contemplating the King's potential as a combatant. "Start with your weapon, I guess. May I?" Slately put the Royal Scepter of Jetstone in the hands of a non-Royal caster without a moment's hesitation. It was a mark of his seriousness of purpose. But he did cringe as Ace began to take it apart." 
:::''Ace & Slately, on repurposing existing items, [[LIAB Text 48]]''

*"I'm thinkin' just defense for these, Cubbins. 
::Yeah, me too. 
:I'm just doin' blasts. You cover the tricky-fooly stuff, okay?" 
:::''Ace & Cubbins, [[LIAB 69]]''

*"As he modded the Royal Scepter, it dawned on Ace that he had become accustomed to working in cloth — weaving and cutting and shaping it to another Dollamancer's specifications." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 54]]''

*"Look, the cloth golems will be much stronger with my bonus." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB 93]]''

*"I don't have a lof of time, Cubs. But I can definitely... mff... add one feature to this puppy. Gonna call it "an autopilot." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB 99]]''

*"Upon claiming it, she’d imposed Goodminton’s livery on it by natural Dollamancy, reluctantly changing the black to slate blue. But on a whim, she kept just one of the pink flowers, offset in a patch of white." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on clothing, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Olay," she said, casting the minor Dollamancy spell that Teddy had taught her. The wrinkles in each piece went smooth, as the garment was restored to its new-turn condition." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

*"The Dollamancer had modified her old riding gloves into long, chamois evening gloves with stealthy riding grips sewn into the palms. Her clunky boots he'd turned into shiny black thigh-highs topped with lace, but still reinforced in the feet and ankles for combat riding." 
:::''Narration, on a Dollamancer modifying existing clothes, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

*"It stayed right in place via the natural Dollamancy (or was it natural Hat Magic?) of just belonging there." 
:::''Narration, on Wanda's jaunty hat, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

===Weirdomancy===
*"Weirdomancers can cancel a flyer's special to make it fall (or make a non-flyer fly, then dispel it and cause a fall)." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33b]]''

*"[...] to hiring a Weirdomancer to try to make the Gumps grow radishes in their branches, [...]" 
:::''Narration, [[LIAB Text 55]]''

==Stuffamancy==
*"How would you make a magic blanket?" Parson asked, gnawing on a heel of the rye loaf. "If you wanted one?" 
::Sizemore looked at Maggie, who was nibbling cheese, and spoke up. "That's Stuffamancy. Really versatile magic. Weapons, armor, tools... Stuffamancers just imagine it and conjure it." 
:"Conjure as in make it?" Parson said with his mouth full. "Create it? Or summon it from somewhere?" 
::Sizemore leaned forward excitedly, rocking a little as he spoke. "That's a great question, Warlord. There's a big debate about that, getting right down to the level of 'what is magic?' and 'what is stuff?' Some Casters think they're the same thing, and that Stuffamancy proves it. But even the Stuffamancers don't agree about that."
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[First Intermission 28]]''

===Dirtamancy===
*"... Sizemore can dig through solid rock, it's cool to watch." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 77a]]''

*"Hav- Having a Dirtamancer in your city when you upgrade it reduces the cost by a lot," he began. 
::Parson tried to see where this was going. "Okayyyy..."
:"But it means the Dirtamancer sets the appearance, the shape of things... and the livery." 
:::''Sizemore & Parson, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"At the end of the pavement, he frowned at a spot where the squares were sinking into the softer ground. Drawing his index finger over the pathway's edge, he spent a little juice to fix it." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"Dirtamancy was among the most rare and useful disciplines [in the Magic Kingdom]. Everyone needed a wall built, a garden tilled, a well dug, a foundation excavated. There were no city sites; construction was a manual industry." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"Can you tunnel? 
::Tunnel. 
:Yeah, can you? 
::Well, yes. 
:Good. Now can you tunnel under Portal Park, all the way from our portal to the one that goes to Spacerock? 
::I... ''can.''"
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[LIAB 45]]''

*"Without word or ceremony they lifted, and Jillian willed the city razed. With a great swirl of sparkling natural Dirtamancy, and a tinny crashing sound, Progrock turned to dust and rubble below them." 
:::''Jillian, razing Progrock, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

*"Touching the spade to the grass of Portal Park put Sizemore directly in touch with Erfworld. He sensed the physical world in deep, primal ways which he found difficult to convey to other casters. Even Changemancers and Dittomancers would stare at him blankly when he described it, though they too practiced forms of Stuffamancy." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"He could feel the ground feeling him, pulling him down, pushing up on the soles of his feet as he lifted each leg to walk. In the soil below, rocks sat immersed in the cold mud. Their whole surface touched it, in all dimensions at once. Sizemore could feel this contact as if the pebbles were his own toes and fingers" 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"Sizemore's mind slid away, down below his feet, to his other self. The strata, the stresses, the peace of land at rest, he understood them that way: as if they were parts of his own body. The ground could be comfortable and sedate, like a tired person feels when lying on onsic a soft mattress. Or it could be awkward, unsustainable, like a man trying to lean on a jagged stump, or sleep upside down on a stone staircase. The land in the Magic Kingdom was deeply, permanently at rest." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"This body analogy described something he had always intuited about the land. But only since his link with the Lady Firebaugh did he think of it consciously. His entire mental frame for visualizing his discipline had been reworked on that day. A hundred turns later, he was still reconsidering the fundamentals of his craft. [...] Between the volcano link-up and his three recent levels (two from traps and combat, one from all of the city rebuilding), Sizemore was now a greater Dirtamancer than he ever imagined he could become. He had not actually crossed the threshold to Master class, but that could happen any time a caster gained powerful new insight into his discipline or major class. The body analogy wasn't quite enough to push him past that mark; he was still missing something. But for the first time in his life, he felt pretty sure that he would get there." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"It felt strange and dirty, tingling with a magic she had barely even thought about." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the magical feel of a Dirtamancy scroll, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"The tower rose indeed, far higher into the sky than it had stood before. Stone blocks and tiles sprang from nothing, widening the platform upon which they stood." 
:::''Narration, on a Dirtamancy scroll modifying a tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"When she'd boosted the tower, a few such nice little changes in design, decor, and accouterments had crept in from her mind's eye." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

===Changemancy===
===Dittomancy===
*"Yes, and a Dittomancer doubling leadership and specials... duplicating surviving units... I see." 
:::''Ansom, [[LIAB 4]]''

*"And double those arrows, Caster. 
:Double 'em? Double 'em! I'll quadruple 'em." 
:::''Jetstone Warlord & Lloyd, [[LIAB 8]]''

*'''For the duplication of an actual unit, see: ''[[LIAB 79]]'''''

*"Doubles don't leave a body." 
:::''Tramennis, [[LIAB 88]]''

*"When Jetstone's next turn starts, you will vanish." 
:::''Charlie, to the Slately-ditto, [[LIAB 89]]''

==Eyemancy==
*"This [[eyebook|item]] works on "Eyemancy." Which covers "Lookamancy", "Thinkamancy", and "Foolamancy." And it uses all three of those." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 35]]''

*"The Eyemancers may be our single most valuable asset, above even the Arkenhammer. Ordering them linked was... the shrewdest thing I've ever known Stanley to do. They created the Eyebooks. They give us unmatched communications and intelliegence. When Stanley sees you have tampered with their functioning..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 47]]''

*"Spells are trickier. Most can't be cast unless there are enemy units in the same hex/city, but some like Lookamancy and Thinkagrams can be cast anytime." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on off-turn actions, [[LIAB 33a]]''

===Lookamancy===
*"Well, yes! I mean for a unit that is... that is moving, time passes normally, but not relative to units in other hexes. A Lookamancer tracking the movement of that unit may see it move much faster in their time. The time in their hex." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[First Intermission 29]]''

*"What the enemy brings you, you usually don't know until they're on you. But here, we've got the count. We know just what we're facing. It's like having a Lookamancer for once." 
:::''Pom Fritz, on having a roster of units in the area, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Jillian knew that Lookamancy could be time-consuming, especially when an intruder might be veiled, and she respected his devotion to his Duty." 
:::''Jillian Banhammer, on Brother Orwell, [[IPTSF Text 32]]''

===Thinkamancy===
*"Not entirely unwitting. Nor entirely controlled. It's... complex." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 41]]''

*"We control her, though. So just make her write the message. Right? The control is subtle, Warlord. Suggestions, perceptions, emotions... not commands." 
:::''Parson & Wanda, [[TBFGK 41]]''

*"What is this link up? 
:: *sigh* It's a trick that only Thinkamancers can perform. A caster's will is subsumed into a... kind of psychological alloy with the Thinkamancer. The joint mind they form can cast spells no single caster can even comprehend. 
:The downside being that the casters lose their will... 
::Their sanity... their individuality... It's a risky and fragile spell, especially with three. Four can't even be done. Talking to them as individuals can break that spell, Parson. That may croak the casters. Or leave them useless. Or, have no effect." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 54]]''

*"These kinds of spells rely on the subject. Suggestions can make her inclined to do things... such as lead recklessly, disobey orders. She provides her own reasons for these choices. 
::Which she is doing! 
:Yes. But those are things she is inclined to do anyway." 
:::''Sizemore & Wanda, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"Suggestions like 'turn sides' or 'ignore enemy forces' may be too hard for her to rationalize, and cause her to break the spell." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"There are things she will not do. 
::Okay, but... like ''what?'' 
: *sigh* She won't fight for someone she hates. Nor harm someone she loves." 
:::''Wanda & Parson, [[TBFGK 66]]''

*"The spell ''compells'' [''sic''] you to seek a reason." 
:::''Jaclyn, [[TBFGK 67]]''

*"But when such a spell breaks, there is a kind of backlash. A cord which snaps. A good Thinkamancer can protect herself from damage. Had I been the caster, the object of the spell would have borne the brunt of it. This would likely have croaked the unit or left it incapacitated." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 84]]''

*"Incredibly useful, incredibly scary magic. We got into spells, communications, suggestions... and then she mentions "Natural Thinkamancy." Innate magic. Like how some units fly and some dig... that's "Natural Magic." When scouting units send back intel, that's Natural Thinkamancy. But apparently so is following the Tool's orders. All units are subject to Natural Thinkamancies: Obedience, Loyalty, Duty, and others." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 84a]]''

*"The Arkendish affords him a command of Thinkamancy I cannot match." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 88]]''

*"There is a feeling. You may no longer notice it. But think of the first spell you ever cast. When you cast within your disclipline, there is a sense of warmth, comfort, familiarity. I want you to relax, and recall that feeling. Find the feel of your discipline, and step inside it. Lose yourself to it. Become your function." 
:::''Maggie, on forming a link-up, [[TBFGK 135]]''

*"All right, I'll need a master-class Thinkamancer to unravel this link. More than one, preferably." 
:::''Janis Atlantis, on breaking a link-up, [[TBFGK 140]]''

*"[The veil] worked because Bogroll already resembled you in most important aspects. Thinkamancy works similarly, on the mind to which it is applied. The changes it makes are remarkably small and subtle. It cannot turn a dullard into a genius, or a mouse into a maniac. 
::Or a hamster into a pit bull... Right, so if I thought of this. If I did this... 
:Then some very great part of you wanted to. The spell only nudged it forward."
:::''Maggie & Parson, [[TBFGK 148]]''

*"It's utterly fascinating, casting from a link. I just... understand the spell so clearly." According to Maggie, a two-caster linkup was a less risky and drastic thing than three, especially when done voluntarily. In it, the Thinkamancer's function was something like "cognitive copilot," managing the other caster's mental functions, focusing his attention and boosting his energy to achieve better results than the caster could alone. And it had worked. Their side got a better capital out of it than if Sizemore had upgraded the city by himself. The link was easily broken afterward, and neither of them seemed to suffer any harm." 
:::''Sizemore & Maggie, on linking, [[First Intermission 26]]''

*"And it was very little risk. In our earlier link, we discovered a strong rapport. Such mutual trust can make the process a great deal easier." 
:::''Maggie, on linking, [[First Intermission 26]]''

*"Speaking or shouting the command will work, Lord," said Maggie, lurching a bit as she rounded the remains of the picnic and walked up beside him. Though he was not completely steady himself, he offered his right elbow and she grabbed it gratefully. "Not be- because they understand Language, but because it hhhelps you frame the intent in your mind. You see. Experienced-" she swallowed hard, or possibly hiccupped. "Excuse me. Experienced commanders can command stacks with few or no words. When you understand your command, the unit will. Yet another fo-horm of natural Thinkamancy, Lord." 
:::''Maggie, [[First Intermission 32]]''

*"Jack, do you remember what you did... to project the battle table... when you were linked up? 
:I remember doing it, Lord. But I don't remember how. If that makes sense." 
:::''Parson & Jack, [[First Intermission 38]]

*"As she soared over the rushes, she felt the tickle of an incoming Thinkagram." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 41]]''

*"'''What did the Arkendish do?''' Many things, most of them connected to Thinkamancy. Charlie could handle an unlimited number of Thinkagrams, and extend some of his abilities to his personal Archons in the tower. Any commander in the world could get those Archons' attention by concentrating hard enough, for long enough. This could take hours or even days, but Charlescomm would establish contact eventually. This allowed him to hire out to any side or barbarian in the world, and probably provided him more revenue than mercenary work. He was the telecom giant of Erfworld. This was the main thing he used the Arkendish for, but guessing its other powers was a favorite topic for the Archons." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[First Intermission 46]]''

*"Natural Allies know the will of their tribe’s Chief or Chiefs by Natural Thinkamancy, even from other hexes." 
:::''Vurp, [[LIAB Text 4]]''

*"Doombats typically had a range of twenty hexes or so for scouting, but a Thinkamancer extended that range indefinitely." 
:::''Don King, [[LIAB Text 5]]''

*"For the juice cost of a Thinkagram, Bunny could link him to one of their views, just like he was in the area himself." 
:::''Don King, on Doombats, [[LIAB Text 5]]''

*"Among these were over eight thousand speaking units, any one of whom could request Maggie's attention via intense concentration. Similarly, she could reach out to these units herself, to relay orders or request status." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"Some (mercifully subconscious) part of Maggie's mind was always sorting and prioritizing the incoming and outgoing messages, making little decisions which added up to bigger ones. That was at the quietest of times. Before and during a major battle, it was more than she could fully process, more than she had the juice for. However structured and competent her mind might be, she was still only an Adept class Thinkamancer. Even a Mastermind would be taxed under these conditions." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"She spent a tiny bit of juice to confirm the existence and status of the major units there, but did not open a Thinkagram." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"Jillian thought maybe the Thinkagram connection was broken, but she hadn't felt the usual little pop." 
:::''Jillian, [[LIAB Text 17]]''

*"So, what? You can just mind-control your Ruler whenever he makes a decision you don't like? 
: No. Only when I am certain he is wrong. And, in fact, it involves great personal risk..." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[LIAB 33]]''

*"Bunny, when the battle starts I want you to send that bat's view to everybody in here." 
:::''King Don, [[LIAB 34]]''

*"Little lanterns in Maggie's mind kept blowing out, in ones, twos and threes. The dwagon units, being harvested. And some of the riders, impacting the ground and ceasing to exist (at least, as Gobwin Knob units she had to manage)." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Everyone else imagined Thinkamancy as a set of discrete capabilities: "relay a command" or "plant a suggestion" or "send a two-way visual/audible Thinkagram." They were meant to think of it that way. So long as that was the perception of the discipline, then its fundamental powers could stay largely unknown, untapped, and uncalled-upon." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Thinkamancers were aware of certain magical truths for which, quite intentionally, there were no words in Language." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"For example, a Thinkagram was not one type of spell. There was a spectrum, from which a Thinkamancer would choose one or more bands to communicate within. To someone without a sensitivity to this spectrum, it would be impossible to describe the advantages and capabilities of each, but many of those capabilities went entirely unused, except by Thinkamancers themselves. A warlord would only call for one of a short list of communiques: speech, orders, pictures and sounds. But he would not, for example, ask to communicate and compare his own intuition with that of an allied commander in the field. " 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Thinkamancers understood intuition to be a form of natural Predictamancy, in which a unit can dimly perceive its Fate on a subconscious level. To a Thinkamancer, intuition was as communicable as speech or emotion or the underlying intentions of orders. It could be sent and received, combined and multiplied, and manipulated." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"There were many other such hidden mechanics. There were mental senses which could not even be described to a non-Thinkamancer. The most important of these was the ability to sense Grandiocosmic Strings, the conduits of all magic power in Erfworld." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Only Thinkamancers even knew they existed. A Thinkamancer could feel out the G-Strings of the world, and vibrate upon them by plucking. That was how a Thinkagram was sent, and so much else. Each unit had its own individual G-String, which had many uses." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"This was what Maggie had been doing for several minutes. Putting little notches in her G-String. It was a coded message, passive, and costing no juice. Any Thinkamancer who plucked her would find this note in her G-String. " 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"He found himself staring up at the springmount, wondering if he should get up and tune it again. This one was modeled on a gwiffon, made of Thinkamancy-polarized Stuff and imprinted with Signamancy in bright yellow. It was centered on a single strong coil of steel anchored deeply into the ground. The mount shape was neither fanciful nor accidental. One used this instrument as a surrogate mount, climbing upon it and building up a physical oscillation of the proper frequency to detect and study the Thinkamancy of orders. The intent of a commander in issuing an order to a non-speaking unit, or of a Ruler in issuing an order to a remote field unit, was one of the most interesting forms of natural Thinkamancy, Isaac felt." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"G-strings vibrated on different frequencies, and would cancel or amplify each other across predictable distances. Before Isaac had built these devices, a Thinkamancer had to walk around until his head was in a place of amplification, then hold still." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"But staying within one node deprived the observer of important perspective, much in the way that closing one eye caused a loss of depth perception, or covering an ear made it hard to tell the direction of a sound. It had already been known that two linked Thinkamancers standing in different nodes could detect and send far better than any one caster. Isaac had figured out that one caster switching rapidly between nodes had a similar effect." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"He stood up, glancing up the hill to the great Temple. It was also made of polarized Stuff, designed long ago (and modified more recently) as a refuge. Cosmic vibrations couldn't penetrate it." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"At the top and bottom of the smooth inclined plane were nodes of intuition. One did not get more than a quick glimpse between the two, but that usually would suffice. If not, one could always climb the ladder again. This apparatus had a personal effect on the operator, giving him a glance at his own Fate and perhaps a vague insight or focus or warning." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"A tickle upon his brain, then Bunny, Transylvito's spooky Thinkamancer, "Your Royal Highness King Slately of Jetstone, His Royal Highness Don King of Transylvito." The words were only in his mind; she never spoke aloud. Don's image floated before him, seated as Slately was." 
:::''Slately, being contatced by Thinkamancy, [[LIAB Text 42]]''

*"Rulers have a natural Thinkamancy which allows them to relay orders to their field units, even without a Thinkamancer. He had an[sic] feel for what was going on with his forces, even sitting there in a chair in his capital's garrison's larder." 
:::''Stanley, [[LIAB Text 44]]''

*"In the empty side room, he sat holding his crown in his lap, pauper-like, while time ticked away and his units perished in the dungeons below. He saw their lights in his mind, being extinguished in twos and threes. No-one was leveling. It was clearly an awful rout." 
:::''Slately, demonstrating a Ruler's natural Thinkamancy, [[LIAB Text 48]]''

*"Maggie," Stanley said to the air. It was a form of order only a Thinkamancer could follow. "Maggie!" 
:::''Stanley, contacting a distant Thinkamancer, [[LIAB Text 49]]''

*"There's way too many ways a Thinkamancer can incapacitate me." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on rushing a stack of Thinkamancers, [[LIAB 67]]''

*"For discretion, Chief Parson. You can break contact at any time." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB 84]]''

*"I will thank you not to... put my Chief Warlord into thinkspace without... my mind on the call!" 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB 84]]''

*"Maggie, what are you doing? Why are you running in place? I apologize, Lord. I can't spare the attention to alter my... appearance at the moment. I am... physically moving toward your position." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[LIAB 85]]''

*"The numbers rose as a column, into the millions and billions and more, a silver thread stretching up and away from the peace below. This thread was being drawn up by the system of the world. Thinkamancers knew it as a "Grandiocosmic string." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"Delphie’s last sentence had been delivered in a perfectly friendly and casual tone, but it carried the natural Thinkamancy weight of a direct order." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 2]]''

*"The Thinkamancy inherent in giving them commands would have to be so specific to the throat and mouth muscles..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on making uncroaked sing, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"All at once, completely new senses opened up in her head and she was flooded with information. She could see the distant lights of minds, know the numbers and locations and points of units." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on being promoted to Overlord, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"Delphie was there in the tower, wounded." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on knowing the status of a distant unit, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"In Wanda's head, Delphie's light went out as well. Gone." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on using Ruler (instead of Croakamancer) senses to detect the death of a unit, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"Even as she struggled to comprehend, this brand new part of her mind calmly told her the score. The Garrison had seven Goodminton units left. Four." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on knowing the number of units in her City, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

===Foolamancy===
*"Waitwaitwait. Time out. We can ''veil'' our troops?" 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 61]]''

*"There is ''absolutely'' no way to pull this 'veiling' thing, right? 
::No, you need a Foolamancer in– 
:... in the stack you're veiling, right. 
::Yes, and– 
:''And'' we can't do it with the Eyemancers linked up. ''And'' we can't cast on the enemy's turn." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"We got eleven pairs of warlord eyes here, and he's got thirty or so units. So there's like 300 chances to blow the veil, if he's got one." 
:::''Vinny Doombats, [[TBFGK 107]]''

*" Lord, recall the Foolamancy veil I cast on your lackey. That would not have worked on a gobwin. It worked because Bogroll already resembled you in most important aspects." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 148]]''

*"Above the fountain of sparks there appeared a huge, glowing apparition of Stanley the Tool's face, surrounded by bright rays of red and gold, just as he appeared on his new emblem. But these rays were like arrows pulsing outward, outward... go that way, scatter! Whether the archons took the direction literally or not, they knew the big giant head projection was beyond any of their natural Foolamancy abilities, and it certainly had not been part of the rehearsal." 
:::''The narrator, [[First Intermission 7]]''

*"You must conserve your remaining juice. What can you do cheaply? A simple displacement? 
:If we use a flash to cover the casting, it ought to do." 
:::''Wanda & Jack, [[LIAB 6]]''

*"Form a flash mob over the bridge. 
::[...] 
:You are free to cast. The enemy can see nothing else in this hex." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[LIAB 6]]''

*"But [Charlie] had still gone to great risk to give her cover along the way, using veiled Archons to scout out safe routes. These were probably detectable only by a Foolamancer, another Archon, or a lucky/smart Warlord." 
:::''Jillian, [[LIAB Text 6]]''

*"Foolamancy is Eyemancy. By habit and trade, a Foolamancer must look. At all times, the Foolamancer must observe the nouns around him in finest detail and broadest stroke, in a way that other minds do not. Other minds take shortcuts. Other minds construct, telling themselves ''stories'' about what they see, rather than seeing. Foolamancy is therefore only a narrative. To tell a mind it sees something, the Foolamancer must both see the world as it is, and also as it is seen. Staring into the void of that discrepancy is what drives one mad, really." 
:::''Jack, [[LIAB Text 10]]''

*"Hilary and her partner Avril took up a risky blind, directly over the heads of Prince Sammy's leadership stack. They kept the rising sun at their backs, relative to the warlords, and spent most of their juice to shine out their shadows. It was tricky, but worth it." 
:::''Narration, [[LIAB Text 18]]''

*"Habitually, he sought out the lines and dots of the scenery, the little hooks that other minds used to build their idea of the world around them." 
:::''Jack, [[LIAB Text 21]]''

*"Phoebe was made of brick. She was covered in soot. Black and red and gray, matching the colors of her raiment. All in a column, matching her general body size and opacity. She was a chimney on a rooftop, one of many dozens. It was a really good veil. Maybe her best ever. Gold star! The enemy’s minds would not have to reconcile very much with their eyes, and that was the name of the game." 
:::''Phoebe, [[LIAB Text 56]]''

*"He was wearing a very good scouting veil; she was very lucky to have spotted him in the tree. But such items are fragile, and this one had been destroyed in the melee." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"Upon the flat landing near the top of the pagoda, an honor guard raised the bells of their banner-hung trumpets and called out a fanfare in brassy harmony. "Blatt, bippa, braaaang... Buh-brang! Buh-braaaang!" [...] Bright flares shot upward from the roof in blazing yellow and green, Faq’s colors. A flock of white doves was released from the eaves. [...] Squads of sharply synchronized soldiers raised their spears in reverent salute to her approach. The steel tips of twoscore spears glinted in the sunlight. [...] Behind the honor guard, in the shade of the upwardly curving rooftop, she could now see a full formal reception. There stood her father and the entire Court. All of Faq’s casters were there, in their humble matching robes. Servants waited in the shadows with teacups and sweetmeats. She recognized the slender Add Hawk, standing right next to big Brother Orwell the Lookamancer. There was Marie LaVraie, the Predictamancer, and Sister Betsy Murgatroyd the Healomancer. The Signamancer, Brother Labeler, stood beside Jack Snipe, their indispensable Foolamancer. Moothfott the Moneymancer stood at the right hand of King Banhammer, of course. Even the lowly and disfavored Shockmancer, Rusty Trombone, was standing off to one side. They all smiled at her serenely as she pulled beside the edge of the tower top. Floating on the cool breeze came the gentle whisper of bamboo flutes. [...] She planted her boots on the worn hardwood, which was littered with yellow rose petals in a trail that led straight to her father the King. There he stood, his great arms crossed in judgment. But his face was smiling proudly, as if to say “All is forgiven, welcome home.” [...] Her boots clomp-clomped over the flower petals." 
:::''Narration, describing the range of sights, sounds, set pieces and units types & individuals that Jack Snipe could create, [[IPTSF Text 30]]''

*"It was just for your eyes, of course, Royal Highness." 
:::''Jack Snipe, on Fooling for one, [[IPTSF Text 30]]''

==Hippiemancy==
*"Among other things, Hippiemancy is the magic of relationships: detecting and altering the forces of opposition and attraction which bind people or units." 
:::''Duncan Scone, [[LIAB Text 11]]''

*"But Hippiemancy is people magic, and Janis also had a heavy understanding about relationships." 
:::''Janis Atlantis, [[LIAB Text 37]]

===Flower Power===
*"But in the presence of so much Flower Power, time perception sort of ''crumbles''. The Hippiemancers call it– 'Flaking.' I know." 
:::''Sizemore & Wanda, [[TBFGK 11]]''

*"Even a Grand Abbie couldn't hope to quiet the coming battle." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 13]]''

*"What did you just do to him? Mm? Oh, just basic Flower Power. He can't engage this turn." 
:::''Parson, Janis & Sizemore, [[LIAB 65]]''

*"I think... I think they mainly keep units from being able to engage." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"The figure in the tower was employing the apparatus they all had assumed was a weapon, but in fact it was a stringed instrument. She plucked and strummed upon it, and even from so far away, they could hear it perfectly. The music took an otherworldly, magical route to their ears." 
:::''Narration, on a Florist quieting a Hex, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"Tommy's sword came down upon his target like a feather. He merely tapped the shoulder of the soldier with the flat of his blade, as if knighting him." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"As if in a dream, she could not swing it with any significant force. The staff moved as if she were trying to stir honey with it." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"The spell would be on the city through Haffaton's turn tomorrow, and could be cast again." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"So red. So angry. Your Life aura, Warlord. It's just awful. Can't you relax? You're in no danger here, I promise. 
::Wanda watched Tommy's face, what she could see of it. He seemed not to change his expression, and barely to relax his posture, but suddenly Olive brightened. 
:Yes! Better!" 
:::''Olive Branch, on seeing auras, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Apparently putting a hand inside the enemy's shirt was not a form of engagement that was prevented by Olive's spell. " 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 14]]''

*"As she walked down another empty hall, Wanda casually held out her staff and tipped a ceramic vase of dried orange flowers from its marble pedestal. The crash was painful to her wine-tenderized head, yet enormously satisfying. Really, even the pain of it was satisfying. So Olive's spellsong did not prevent this form of engagement, either." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 14]]''

*"With a perfunctory "Thanks," she upended the helmet and placed the plant's roots inside. She stepped a few feet away from the uncroaked and turned around to do something to the plant. Wanda could tell she was casting, but not what. [...] When Olive turned around, she held a perfectly healthy green plant in a steel planter." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"This unit has Motion, and that is something a Hippiemancer would know nothing of." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, disparaging a Florist, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"As with yesterday, her voice reached them from everywhere and nowhere, sweet and haunting." 
:::''Narration, on Olive quieting Kiloton, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"Wordlessly, Tommy drew his sword. He stepped out into the courtyard and swung it as hard as he could at a Haffaton soldier who was standing in the sunlight, chewing on a dried pear. The sword stopped in midair, an inch from the man's neck." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"When they finally drew apart, Tommy looked distant and distracted. [..] His voice was barely a loud whisper. [...] his voice low and strained. Wanda watched him closely. He was in deep distress. [...] Tommy looked as pained as Wanda had ever seen him, and he said nothing more until the group had spent the move of its slowest units. [...] Then he dismounted his brontosword, slid down its side, and collapsed into the snow." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being poisoned, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"A crit to the head would cause the muscles to seize at croaking. But one to the heart left the muscles starved out, relaxed and unable to contract. Tommy's were like that." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the effects of Olive's poison on Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"There were almost no functioning nerves in Tommy's heart. Or... his stomach, or most of the rest of his internal organs. He probably had not been in pain, but he must have known something was very wrong." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the effects of Olive's poison on Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She had never seen one before, and she did not understand how it worked, but this was certainly a poisoning. And poisons, both natural and magical, were Flower Power." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She'd also asked him to kiss her. So she did not initiate an engagement in the city." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on a workaround of quieting, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

===Signamancy===
*"The Signamancers claimed that all Stuff was Foolamancy. Our bodies and all the things we see and touch were supposed to only be Signs: symbols of their true nature. Vinny didn't know about all that, but a person's appearance was definitely a Sign. It told you how they think about themselves. And how others see them."
:::''Vinny Doombats, reflecting on what he's been told about Signamancy, [[First Intermission 37]]''

*"Signamancy was a terrible curse. The Titans knew his true nature. No unipegataur-riding warrior king was he, no towering leader and orator. Over the three-thousand or so turns he had ruled, he had only once seen battle, and that from a well-guarded turret. And so he had shrunk. Gone white and fat." 
:::''King Slately Jetsone, [[LIAB Text 33]]''

*"No signs stood to point the way, but the Signamancy of a caster's home portal was plainer than writing." 
:::''Narration, on the color of Portals in the Magic Kingdom, [[IPTSF Text 21]]''

*"Sides with a Signamancer always kept the tidiest cities in Erfworld." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 30]]''

===Date-a-mancy===
*"Date-a-mancy is the oddest branch of Hippiemancy, in that it follows the Numbers which underlie all action. Date-a-mancy tries to quantify the intangible, things like leadership and compatibility and morale and Loyalty and Duty and even love, by means of match-ups." 
:::''Duncan Scone, [[LIAB Text 11]]''

==Naughtymancy==
===Shockmancy===
*"Their Shockmancer was here, a couple turns back. Gone now. He spelled up that tower hard, Bunny. " 
:::''Caesar Borgata, [[First Intermission 47]]''

*"It's natural Shockmancy. When you fall, one of three things happens: you are injured (possibly only slightly), you are incapacitated (you croak in one turn if not given Healomancy), or you just croak. Height of the fall does seem to have some bearing on that, but it's essentially random." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33b]]''

*"She'd told Tommy about spelling up Minnow Tower, and he'd said it was smart thinking. But he never said what kind of effect the raw Shockmancy they were storing in the tower might have in battle." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on having Delphi & Clay juicing up the tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

===Croakamancy===
*"Uncroaked casters just function as infantry..." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 77a]]''

*"She explained it this way. 'Croakamancy comes from the mind.' The more time and attention the caster spends uncroaking the unit, the closer it will be to its original strength and abilities when it was alive. And the more turns it lasts before degrading. So a good croakamancer can mass-animate every fallen unit in a hex, or city zone. But they'll be the weakest kind, and only last a few turns." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 116]]''

*"These are Uncroaked. They require a simple, specific order of battle." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 123]]''

*"Uncroaked infantry, led by a master-class Croakamancer... can." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on dance-fighting, [[TBFGK 127]]''

*"I can decrypt many unit types which had been impossible to uncroak before." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on using the Arkenpliers, [[TBFGK 146]]''

*"From what I can tell, they're like the dwagons are with Stanley. They're loyal to the 'pliers, and therefore to Cruella herself. For all I know, she can see through their eyes and hear what they hear. But if not, they'll prob'ly just tell her anything interesting when they can." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on Decrypted, [[First Intermission 44]]''

*"And what Lady Firebaugh was doing with hers was causing real alarm. The theoretical consensus was that she was extending Croakamancy to the Life axis." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"A big one being, "we don't know if he'd still be able to cast or not." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on decrypting a caster, [[LIAB 11]]

*"Tool, we don't even know if they keep existing without her." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on the Decrypted and the possibility of losing Wanda, [[LIAB 22]]''

*"She could animate the husks of the once-living." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, right after popping, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"We can animate the casualties. Their units and ours, if we take the city!" 
:::''Overlord Firebaugh & Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"Bodies of croaked units decay the next turn. So we would need her on the battlefield." 
:::''Overlord Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"I would have a leadership bonus over uncroaked units, Lord." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"She had senses that she did not yet understand were unique to Croakamancers, and she used them on the fallen scout. His bones she could feel without touching him. She knew which ribs and teeth and vertebrae were broken." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"There would be some craft to this uncroaking, as not all of the original muscles and sinew could be counted on to perform their original functions. That was not a problem. That was what Croakamancy was for. Where a knee would no longer bend, where a bicep no longer existed to flex an arm, the Croakamancer made magical Motion to move the Matter." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"When she had removed all of his raiment, she still could see better with her natural Croakamancy sense than her eyes." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"The body of the scout would have depopped at dawn, had they not moved it out of the hex where it was croaked. Claimed as a spoil for Goodminton, it would only decay a bit when they started their turn later in the morning." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"This scene was a massacre: twenty-two enemy saps, an enemy warlord, and forty-three of their own infantry. She could feel them each, sense the skulls and the hearts and the spines." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"This is a warlord. If I uncroak him, he would benefit from all of my attention, and all of the juice I can spare. The more carefully I cast, the fewer mistakes I might make, and the more he will retain of the power he had in life. I believe I could make him last as long as ten or twelve turns, and retain about half his levels and leadership." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"What are our other choices? 
::I could concentrate on uncroaking more than one unit, diluting the effects, but giving us more units. Or I could attempt to mass uncroak every unit in the hex. 
:You could do that? 
::Tommy... I-I don’t know. I feel it might be too much for me. A disaster. I could become overwhelmed. Maybe we wouldn’t get any units at all out of it. But if I succeeded, then the uncroaked units I create probably would not last more than a turn. Even the warlord." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"She silently ordered the line of uncroaked to bow in unison, which prompted more cheers and laughter." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 10]]''

*"Blood flowed to her face, a mechanism she understood down to the tissues and sinus cavities within her head, for Croakamancy was a beautiful art. She felt her eyelids getting hot, ducts and vessels dilating. She was just a speck of Matter, herself, after all." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 10]]''

*"Wanda waved her staff vaguely in the direction of one of the uncroaked knights in their stack. He tilted his head a bit and grinned happily, showing his remaining teeth around proudly." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Wanda made her Fellow fold his hands together and flex his arms like a champion, grinning obscenely at everyone." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Life magic, Wanda. Croakamancers don't use it." 
:::''Olive Branch, disparaging a Croakamancer, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"Make sure all the Fellows are in the Courtyard, except the ones me and you are stacking with. Wanda nodded, and mentally sent the order as she took another deep swig of chocolate. "Done." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"But before she could even get her boots out of the stirrups, her senses as a Croakamancer told her she would find his lifeless body upon the ground." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"The first thing to determine in uncroaking a body is what took its life, because that was where the most repair and attention would likely be needed. Attention was the key. A simple or a mass uncroaking took no more attention than lighting a candle, with the Matter of the body representing the candle wax. The body would move as it could, and take simple orders until its fuel was exhausted a few turns later." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"But the craft of the Croakamancer was to understand the body's condition, its functions, its strengths and weaknesses." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"The Croakamancer could conserve the fuel of the body by focusing her juice upon the mechanisms of its movement, repairing and augmenting them with magic. An expertly uncroaked unit could function almost as well as it had when alive, and last for perhaps dozens of turns." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"If this body had no wounds, then what croaked it? Sensing her way through the architecture of his insides, she could not immediately say. Something about the muscles was familiar, though. She had uncroaked the victims of critical hits before. A crit to the head would cause the muscles to seize at croaking. But one to the heart left the muscles starved out, relaxed and unable to contract." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"So she focused on his heart. She tried to make it beat once, and knew something was wrong. One tells a muscle to move by means of the nerves, and reconnecting nerves by magic was one of the trickier parts of an attentive uncroaking." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She had never made one so beautifully preserved. The bloating in his face faded, as some slow circulation of the blood was possible in this one. She was overjoyed at the results. Almost everything a living unit could do, this one could..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on uncroaking her brother, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Then she thought out an order, and Un-Tommy disengaged from his melee." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Re-attaching the head during the uncroaking process had been an interesting new challenge." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Even through blinding blasts, Wanda's Croakamancy senses let her know that the first enemy casualties had been struck and were falling. She sensed broken skulls and wings and burst organs inside the bodies that spiraled down through the air toward the courtyard below." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on detecting the dead, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"And the Fellows...they're really quite weak without leadership." 
:::''Pom Fritz, on uncroaked units, [[IPTSF Text 25]]''

*"Wanda could feel the consumption of Matter there in the fireplace, too, if she chose to. " 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on burning logs, [[IPTSF Text 25]]''

*"As they marched on, she hoped for an ambush, or any enemy encounter, so that she might spend her juice this turn making fresh units instead of hopelessly re-patching these. It was better than wasting the juice entirely, but there was only so much she could do. These bodies were decaying inexorably to dust, and only the Titans could prevent that." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on extending the duration of uncroaked, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"From what she understood of her discipline, it ought to be possible to make them sing, if she were a master of Croakamancy. Singing was part of the Stagemancy involved in dance fighting. So how would that work, she wondered? The Thinkamancy inherent in giving them commands would have to be so specific to the throat and mouth muscles... maybe if she sang the order to them? Or thought of singing it? Hmm..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"If you're croaked, and that is no joke, you pass the yoke of Chief to a bloke named Fritz... '''Pooda onga riiish!'''" 
:::''Wanda & Tommy, demonstrating uncroaked theater, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"Uncroaked units were cheap." 
:::''Jillian Banhammer, [[IPTSF Text 28]]''

===Retconjuration===
*'''This is a theoretical branch of magic, like an undiscovered element on the periodical table.
*'''No ordinary caster can practice it; there are no Retconjurers in Erfworld.
*'''It is reserved for the Titans.'''
:::''Titan Rob, Word of the Titans 8/19/2009

*"Hey, maybe she's a Retconjuror. Oh do not even joke about that. There is no such thing." 
:::''Tommy & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 11]]''

==Stagemancy==
*"Singing was part of the Stagemancy involved in dance fighting." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

===Hat Magic===
*"Is it dual use? Abjuration only. Report any engagements and observations at the end of your move." 
:::''Jillian & Ansom, [[TBFGK 9]]''

*"The sun was setting, as a tired woman with raw red eyes waved a wand over an upturned silk hat, and saw the letter inside vanish." 
:::''Queen Bea, [[First Intermission 43]]''

*"You know, I can do some small object conjuration for you. You just have to tell me what you need." 
:::''Cubbins, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"He dropped it into the crown and waved his scepter over it three times. "Pinochet," he intoned. The coin was made to disappear." 
:::''Slately, sending a coin to King Don, [[LIAB Text 42]]''

*"Sire, I can help too. Hand me your crown." 
:::''Cubbins, prior to modifying something into a Magic Item, [[LIAB 69]]''

*"One of the units in the group, for example, was a snow golem. It was a terribly crude thing, made of only three large balls of snow she had rolled up, with sticks for arms and small black rocks for features. It moved lurchingly forward and was almost useless as a unit. But as abominable as it was, she was quite proud of her first attempt at hat magic." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, demonstrating unit creation, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"The snow golem she ordered to stand sentry at the base of Minnow Tower. Then she took the silk top hat from its head, reducing it to a mere ornament." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"It stayed right in place via the natural Dollamancy (or was it natural Hat Magic?) of just belonging there." 
:::''Narration, on Wanda's jaunty hat, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

===Carnymancy===
*"Carnymancy. It's... the magic of rigging the game. Here! That's a crude slander on our noble discipline, sir. Oh, truly you do wound me. But yes." 
:::''Parson & Jojo, [[LIAB 63]]''

*"But we had this Carnymancer who really liked me. He saved me from croaking by rigging the incapacitation rules on me. They hauled me back to the capital in a wagon, and he cast over me every day for ten turns, just keeping me alive. 
::Until they got you a Healomancer?" 
:Pff, no. Queen Bea was mad enough at all the fuss over a Level 1 stabber. No, one day I just popped up off the bed, good as new. The Carnymancer said he'd 'made a trade' for me." 
:::''Sylvia & Archer, [[LIAB 86]]''

*"Then what can we do? Our specialties, of course. Stirring up trouble, roping a dope. You dodgers work the crowd. Get 'em in a real lather. Maybe they'll shoot him." 
:::''Unnamed Carnymancer & Jojo, [[LIAB 90]]''

===Rhyme-o-mancy===
*"A poetic incantation could settle the mind, focus any caster on their work." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Even warlords could use Rhymes in leadership, for morale and focus, and in dance fighting." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Those bawdy trail songs of Tommy's were crude, but effective on the units under his command. Her singing along with the knights had likely helped her spot that scout on her first day." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Songs and poems held great and mysterious power." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"But to use Rhyme-o-mancy in casting, it must be quick and clever, and it must rhyme. If she flubbed the rhyme, the spell would weaken or fail completely." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"The attention of an entire day was collapsed into those few seconds." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

==Clevermancy==
*"Clevermancy should have no Xs. It's raw magic dealing with raw magical forces." 
:::''Titan Rob, Word of the Titans 2315787''

===Luckamancy===
*"Delphie tells you what to cast, doesn’t she? What battles to affect. What units to...what, bless? 
::Yeah. I just say ‘boost.’” 
:And you can alter the outcome of a battle, by casting ahead of time. You boost up a unit’s luck by a lot, or a whole side’s luck by a little? 
::Yeah, kind of. Or jinx the enemy. Battles are hard, though. Sides are harder. Units are pretty easy. I boost our warlords all the time." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"I boosted his roll to a 4! I changed his odds, chose a way to describe the outcome of his choices. You see?” He picked up the dice and showed them to her. “The dice are not the guy, okay? In this case the guy is imaginary, and the dice are representing him. But this is real life,” he said, making a circle in the air with his index finger, “and you are not the dice. Okay? In real life, you are real, but the dice are imaginary. The dice that describe your choices. Mathamancy describes those, and Luckamancy affects those." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Now here's an important thing, though. Where did those 4s come from? 
::From you. You cast upon the die. 
:So you're saying my juice had a physical effect on the way the die rolled. 
::Yes. 
:Yes and no. It's not a direct effect, you see? The 4 is a Number. It had to come from somewhere. 
::The juice in your spell did not create the outcome, you are saying. Your spell did not create the 4. It...what?" What was the alternative? "Enabled it, somehow? 
: Honestly?That's the nice way to say it. Whatt'm saying is that maybe that die would have come up 4s three times anyway. So maybe my spell did nothing at all, at least so far. That's why I say it'll roll high 'for a little while.' I don't know." 
:::''Clay & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"But here's what I do know. And maybe it's kind of a secret of my discipline but I think it's important, and I wanna tell you. Luckamancy doesn't create good outcomes, because that would undermine Mathamancy and Predictamancy. Mathamancy deals with real Numbers. If Luckamancy could just create Numbers out of juice, out of thin air, then every odds calculation would be off. Y'see? So what Luckamancy actually does is steal Numbers from the world." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"Where do you steal the Numbers from? Well, the world. If you rolled all the D4s in the world a bunch of times, that one included, you'd get an even mix of ones, twos, threes and fours. This little guy stole his roll from somewhere, and I think the world is lazy, you know? I don't think it goes very far to steal good outcomes when I boost one of our warlords, you know?" 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"Would it steal from our enemies? If only. That's the one thing it really doesn't do. In fact we sometimes see the opposite. The enemy rolls better than they should or... or we roll worse." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"What, it steals Numbers from us?! Not all the time! I mean, it depends. The net effect is still good for us, because we're picking the right battles to win. But yeah it can be really hard on the rest of our side, sometimes. Especially unled and unboosted units. We...lose more of those kind of battles than we should." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"A Luckamancy boost could have any number of specific effects on a unit's "dice." Defensively, it could affect their chance to be hit, the damage they would take from hits, their chance of receiving a critical hit, their chance of being incapacitated or croaked from a fall, et cetera. Or it could affect the enemy's outcomes: their defenses." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Frenemy units fell by twos and threes, the victims of outrageously high damage outcomes and critical hit rates." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of Luckamancy on battle, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"You know how when a unit falls, it can croak, or be incapacitated, or just be plain wounded and lose some hits? 
::Yes? 
:Well, that's Luckamancy, too. And I'm thinking f'we get into another airspace fight we can first cast against the enemy to make 'em more likely to croak in a fall. Then we can go for dismounting attacks. And there's not a lot of, um, downside to that. Less backlash from borrowing Numbers, right? Because we don't use air mounts. We do a lot less falling. See?" 
:::''Clay & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 22]]''

===Healomancy===
*"It contained a healing elixir of his own devising, the recipe of which varied, but usually consisted of "two gin rations, stirred with a Wand of Cure Incapacitation." 
:::''Pierce, mentioning a type of wand, [[LIAB Text 41]]''

===Moneymancy===
*"It had been as ridiculous as everything else in Erfworld, rebuilding the city. The Overlord ordered it, the treasury was debited, and the city was instantly recreated. It was only Moneymancy. When it happened, Parson was standing in the ruins of the courtyard. There was a sound like a wind chime, with a whoosh of orchestral cymbals. Enormous, blinding magical sparkles filled the sky and the ground. And then the city was simply standing again, fully intact. There was no more rubble, not even a wisp of settling dust." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[First Intermission 1]]''

=Axes=
*"Its numbers were being shaped and guided by the firmament, by what magic theorists called the Erf Axis. For when the price was paid, it was Erfworld which processed the transaction. The world would produce the unit that was called for...more or less. There was the matter of the Fate Axis as well, and this unit was turning out to be very special." 
:::''Narration, on popping a unit, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

==Erf==

==Fate==
*"Fate is inevitable, Warlord. But our ''path'' to it is not. We must first divine, and then ''enact'' our destinies. To live is to suffer. Our Fate is our only release. So if we fight against Fate, or fail to act in support of it when the way is clear, then we only worsen and prolong our misery. Our choices do matter. Wise choices ease the way, and foolish ones cause suffering." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[LIAB 70]]''

==Numbers==
*"Life is all Numbers. Ask any Mathamancer; they know." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"To live is to stand on one side of an equation, which must equal zero in the end. There is a price, a cost in Numbers, to be paid for staying alive. Zero is a balance, an equilibrium. Zero is a flat country, neither far away nor near. You can travel there any time, at the cost of your life. And perhaps, if someone were to pay the price to the exact number, you could even return again. That Mathamancers often say such things, and nod to one another soberly, is thought to be why they tend to keep to their own company." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"Few casters doubted what was said of the Numbers Axis, but even fewer understood. Not consciously, anyway." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"This unit would be worth far more than the buyer had paid for. That was no violation of Numbers, though. It simply meant that this unit carried a balance due. And though it was an astronomically high figure, someone would pay. Zero always called, and someone would have to pay." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

[[Category:Canon]]
[[Category:Erfworld Mechanics]]
[[Category:Magic]]
[[Category:Quotes]]

Quotes: Magic

2013-01-08T18:14:08Z

No one in particular: /* Lookamancy */

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Quoted statements about the various forms and branches of magic.

''Next quote to be pulled from'': [[IPTSF Text 32]]

note to self: Pull quotes from [[TBFGK 38a]] later; basics of magic, classes &c.

=General=
*"He told me that Casters are Commanders, and can lead stacks, but they almost never do. Casters are too rare and valuable to risk, and they give no leadership bonus to the stack anyway. Only Warlords have leadership. Makes sense. Except for certain exceptions. Like, say... the bonus those golems get if they're led by a Dirtamancer. Or the huge one to Uncroaked units being led by a Croakamancer(!)." 
:::''Parson's Klog, [[TBFGK 84a]]''

*"Casters can also spend juice, doing most things casters do: make scrolls, items, golems, uncroak, turn Schmuckers to gems (or vice versa but that doesn't cost juice), upgrade units, etc." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on off-turn actions, [[LIAB 33a]]''

*"Okay, you said you can cast in the Magic Kingdom, right? 
:Yes..." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[LIAB 45]]''

*"Ahead and below, the target threw some Shockmancy bolts up at them. The defense was automatic. Not only were there no casters there to direct the stored spells, but there were apparently no commanders of any kind in the city." 
:::''Jillian, on tower defenses, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

*"Wanda said she thought it was a whole mess of different magicks, what'd she say... Shockmancy, obviously. Rhyme-o-mancy because it rocked out. Carnymancy because it made big flashes and sometimes could make things disappear (he never could do it on purpose, though). And what else? Changemancy? He looked at the hammer closely. There might be a lot more he could do with it besides taming dwagons, which was... Date-o-mancy, he guessed?" 
:::''Stanley, on the Arkenhammer, [[LIAB Text 44]]''

*"He had not actually crossed the threshold to Master class, but that could happen any time a caster gained powerful new insight into his discipline or major class." 
:::''Sizemore, on Class vs Level, [[LIAB Text 45]''

*"The Arkendish's feel was all over that Turnamancy spell." 
:::''Rachel, on the feel of a spell, [[LIAB Text 53]]''

*"N'they're like archers; they'd be able to take shots at me any time." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on caster attacks, [[LIAB 71]]

*"Each discipline of magic has its own special insight into cosmic truths." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"A ball of juice formed between her outstretched fingers. The hoboken is the basic offensive spell known to almost all casters at the time they pop." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"Wanda snorted, but then had to admit casters can't actually see one another's discipline." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 11]]''

*"It was not offensive; she could cast it before Goodminton broke alliance." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on a Dirtamancy scroll that modified the tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"It had been as effective as her effort at Rhyme-o-mancy, but it left her no better understanding of what she had cast." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on casting outside her discipline, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Delphie immediately leveled up to 5, and her spells became that much more potent." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

=Elements=
*"Here was a complicated bit of Matter. Once it had possessed Life and Motion, but those had been taken away from it. And though only the Titans could restore Life to it, she could give it Motion again, once she had the juice." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the body of a croaked scout, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"The three Elements were created equal. Are you a Titan, to say otherwise?" 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Life==
*"Life magic, Wanda. Croakamancers don't use it." 
:::''Olive Branch, disparaging a Croakamancer, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Motion==
*"This unit has Motion, and that is something a Hippiemancer would know nothing of." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, disparaging a Florist, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Matter==

=Classes=
==Hocus Pocus==
===Findamancy===
===Predictamancy===
*"Marie, of course, had told her many times that she had Predicted the fall of her side, the kingdom where she and Wanda had served. But when it came to explaining how the fall had happened, how she and Wanda both had escaped destruction in different ways, she wouldn't budge. 
:'It all got cloudy,' was all she would really say. 'It happens. I saw it would come and I wonned my Rulah. But when it came it all got cloudy, I don't know.' " 
:::''Janis & Marie, [[LIAB Text 37]]''

*"Thinkamancers understood intuition to be a form of natural Predictamancy, in which a unit can dimly perceive its Fate on a subconscious level." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Shouldn't you know? Oh I should, yes. But turns like this, they come up time to time and everything afta is cloudy. Something has to get decided today, Sizemore. Fate will go fowad from there." 
:::''Sizemore & Marie, on the clarity of Predictions, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"It’s a complicated subject, Wanda. Predictamancy... You know, dear? There are rules we don’t discuss. About...what we don’t discuss." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 3]]''

*"Wanda, the reason that Predictamancers do not say everything we know is not because it would change the future, but because it usually will make it longer and more painful to reach those future outcomes. The less you know about what is to come, about your Fate, then the easier it will be for you to get there, the less... you and others will have to suffer, to lose." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 9]]''

*"Delphie looked at her Overlord and squinted a bit, examining him. Wanda could sense that she was using a kind of magical sight like her own Croakamancy senses. She'd asked Delphie a raft of questions about Predictamancy in correspondence from the road, as they'd worked out this plan. She knew Delphie was now intuiting something about Father's near-term outcomes." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Somewhere in those notes in her satchel, there was a brief explanation of how Predictamancy worked in combat. It amounted to the caster using her juice to see things happen a second or two ahead, so that she could aim where the enemy would be, and to move where the enemy's return blows and arrows would not land." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Most importantly to this plan, a Predictamancer could know whether or not a shot or blow she was about to initiate would be a hit. If it wouldn't, then she simply did not take the shot." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Only one magic blast struck Fritz's shield. Delphie sidestepped the others as necessary, still casting in a kind of concentration trance." 
:::''Narration, on a Predictamancer in battle , [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Not everyone walking these halls has a purpose. I cannot make Predictions about every unit, or commander, or even every ruler." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

*"It was the only way Goodminton could survive you. 
::You don't know that. You never Predicted that. 
:No. I can't. Fate doesn't care about us. That's the terror of it; we have no Fate. The world doesn't care if we live or not. Only about you." 
:::''Delphie & Wanda, on who has Fate, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

*"However much Faq wanted to avoid crossing paths, it was inevitable. Battlespace determinations were Natural Predictamancy. She would be spotted by the enemy and allow them an encounter of some sort, all too close to her own territory." 
:::''Jillian Banhammer, [[IPTSF Text 27]]''

===Mathamancy===
*"Mathamancy is what, again? Analyzing probabilities... predicting outcomes? Yes, and the raw calculations of that work." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 54]]''

*"CharlsNChrg: Tell me the odds that learning what happened to my Archons right now will be worth giving up those calculations in the future. 
:LordHamster: ... 
:LordHamster: I don't know if this thing can even DO a calculation like that. Predicting the future? 
:CharlsNChrg: Try it. 
:LordHamster: Fine. 
:LordHamster: I'll be damned. 
:LordHamster: It says there's all of a 4% chance it's worth taking my deal, even after spending this calculation. 
::[...] 
:LordHamster: Teaching me that my bracer can make sophisticated predictions about the future? Priceless." 
:::''Charlie & Parson, [[First Intermission 39]]

*"The dice describe the world. They don’t determine it. A Mathamancer can tell you how many dice will be rolled, how many points’ll be lost when you’re wounded. He’ll tell you what’ll probably happen, and possibly happen, and what can’t happen." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Mathamancy deals with real Numbers." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

==Spookism==
===Turnamancy===
*"Having a Turnamancer reduced the production of an heir by twenty turns, and with funds coming in from Transylvito, Vanna was able to boost Otoh and Kibo's production drastically." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 49]]''

*"That level 6 Jitterati warlord, Duncan Scone, was now her best fighter. Vanna had done some good work to turn him, but the dungeon didn't much interest Jillian. Vanna didn't really know how to play right." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 49]]''

*"You okay? 
::Yes. That was just like, whoa. Intense. You know? 
:How's your juice? 
::Low. That spell cost two turns' worth, basically. 
:::''Jillian & Vanna, on KingWorld, [[LIAB 22]]''

*"Can't move to other hexes (because of zero move, exceptions possible using Turnamancy)." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33a]]''

*Next turn, when the Turnamancer had juice, she would be able to cast a mass spell that should convert half these prisoners to Faq units. The rest could be worked on in future turns." 
:::''Vanna, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

===Dollamancy===
*"Tell me about that. Where do changes of clothes come from?" [...] 
::"Well, it's Dollamancy, Lord," said Maggie, looking up at him. [...] "This particular 'outfit'... I would call it 'raiment'... came from the Magic Kingdom. The helm was made by one of our new Twolls. 
:"Yeah, how do Twolls do that? Bogroll made my armor, and he put the sword together. This new guy Zhopa just made me a picnic basket." [...] 
::"Twolls have the 'fabrication' special, which is a form of natural Dollamancy. Units with that ability can make small nonmagical items, usually armor and equipment. I understand that the next Twoll we pop will be assigned to the stables as a smith and saddlemaker." 
:Parson nodded. "But the rest of the clothes were from an actual Dollamancer?" 
::"Yes, his name is Ken." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"What about these symbols?" Parson slapped his chest plate. "My Hamstard crest and Wanda's skull emblem, and the Stanley posters. That's all Dollamancy, too?" "The emblems are called 'livery,' Lord. And yes, that is a common form of natural Dollamancy. New units pop bearing the livery their Ruler desires. Twolls can fabricate items which bear their master's livery. And when a caster creates another unit, as in golem-making or uncroaking, the caster sets the livery and other features of the unit's appearance." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"With a Dollamancer to heal the Cloth Golems and a Healomancer for the rest..." 
:::''Ossomer, [[LIAB 4]]''

*"There are different applications of Dollamancy. Lady Shortcake was fond of fashioning cloth golems. She was very imaginative. 
:Precious, puffy-looking animals. The hit of the parade. And when she wasn't doing that, she was always designing new raiment for the changing fashions at court!" 
:::''Cubbins & Ace, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Look, there's a lot you can do in Dollamancy. It's fabrication with a motion element, right? If we want." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Dollamancy is Fate magic, so I know something about that." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Ace stroked his chin, contemplating the King's potential as a combatant. "Start with your weapon, I guess. May I?" Slately put the Royal Scepter of Jetstone in the hands of a non-Royal caster without a moment's hesitation. It was a mark of his seriousness of purpose. But he did cringe as Ace began to take it apart." 
:::''Ace & Slately, on repurposing existing items, [[LIAB Text 48]]''

*"I'm thinkin' just defense for these, Cubbins. 
::Yeah, me too. 
:I'm just doin' blasts. You cover the tricky-fooly stuff, okay?" 
:::''Ace & Cubbins, [[LIAB 69]]''

*"As he modded the Royal Scepter, it dawned on Ace that he had become accustomed to working in cloth — weaving and cutting and shaping it to another Dollamancer's specifications." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 54]]''

*"Look, the cloth golems will be much stronger with my bonus." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB 93]]''

*"I don't have a lof of time, Cubs. But I can definitely... mff... add one feature to this puppy. Gonna call it "an autopilot." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB 99]]''

*"Upon claiming it, she’d imposed Goodminton’s livery on it by natural Dollamancy, reluctantly changing the black to slate blue. But on a whim, she kept just one of the pink flowers, offset in a patch of white." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on clothing, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Olay," she said, casting the minor Dollamancy spell that Teddy had taught her. The wrinkles in each piece went smooth, as the garment was restored to its new-turn condition." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

*"The Dollamancer had modified her old riding gloves into long, chamois evening gloves with stealthy riding grips sewn into the palms. Her clunky boots he'd turned into shiny black thigh-highs topped with lace, but still reinforced in the feet and ankles for combat riding." 
:::''Narration, on a Dollamancer modifying existing clothes, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

*"It stayed right in place via the natural Dollamancy (or was it natural Hat Magic?) of just belonging there." 
:::''Narration, on Wanda's jaunty hat, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

===Weirdomancy===
*"Weirdomancers can cancel a flyer's special to make it fall (or make a non-flyer fly, then dispel it and cause a fall)." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33b]]''

*"[...] to hiring a Weirdomancer to try to make the Gumps grow radishes in their branches, [...]" 
:::''Narration, [[LIAB Text 55]]''

==Stuffamancy==
*"How would you make a magic blanket?" Parson asked, gnawing on a heel of the rye loaf. "If you wanted one?" 
::Sizemore looked at Maggie, who was nibbling cheese, and spoke up. "That's Stuffamancy. Really versatile magic. Weapons, armor, tools... Stuffamancers just imagine it and conjure it." 
:"Conjure as in make it?" Parson said with his mouth full. "Create it? Or summon it from somewhere?" 
::Sizemore leaned forward excitedly, rocking a little as he spoke. "That's a great question, Warlord. There's a big debate about that, getting right down to the level of 'what is magic?' and 'what is stuff?' Some Casters think they're the same thing, and that Stuffamancy proves it. But even the Stuffamancers don't agree about that."
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[First Intermission 28]]''

===Dirtamancy===
*"... Sizemore can dig through solid rock, it's cool to watch." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 77a]]''

*"Hav- Having a Dirtamancer in your city when you upgrade it reduces the cost by a lot," he began. 
::Parson tried to see where this was going. "Okayyyy..."
:"But it means the Dirtamancer sets the appearance, the shape of things... and the livery." 
:::''Sizemore & Parson, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"At the end of the pavement, he frowned at a spot where the squares were sinking into the softer ground. Drawing his index finger over the pathway's edge, he spent a little juice to fix it." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"Dirtamancy was among the most rare and useful disciplines [in the Magic Kingdom]. Everyone needed a wall built, a garden tilled, a well dug, a foundation excavated. There were no city sites; construction was a manual industry." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"Can you tunnel? 
::Tunnel. 
:Yeah, can you? 
::Well, yes. 
:Good. Now can you tunnel under Portal Park, all the way from our portal to the one that goes to Spacerock? 
::I... ''can.''"
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[LIAB 45]]''

*"Without word or ceremony they lifted, and Jillian willed the city razed. With a great swirl of sparkling natural Dirtamancy, and a tinny crashing sound, Progrock turned to dust and rubble below them." 
:::''Jillian, razing Progrock, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

*"Touching the spade to the grass of Portal Park put Sizemore directly in touch with Erfworld. He sensed the physical world in deep, primal ways which he found difficult to convey to other casters. Even Changemancers and Dittomancers would stare at him blankly when he described it, though they too practiced forms of Stuffamancy." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"He could feel the ground feeling him, pulling him down, pushing up on the soles of his feet as he lifted each leg to walk. In the soil below, rocks sat immersed in the cold mud. Their whole surface touched it, in all dimensions at once. Sizemore could feel this contact as if the pebbles were his own toes and fingers" 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"Sizemore's mind slid away, down below his feet, to his other self. The strata, the stresses, the peace of land at rest, he understood them that way: as if they were parts of his own body. The ground could be comfortable and sedate, like a tired person feels when lying on onsic a soft mattress. Or it could be awkward, unsustainable, like a man trying to lean on a jagged stump, or sleep upside down on a stone staircase. The land in the Magic Kingdom was deeply, permanently at rest." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"This body analogy described something he had always intuited about the land. But only since his link with the Lady Firebaugh did he think of it consciously. His entire mental frame for visualizing his discipline had been reworked on that day. A hundred turns later, he was still reconsidering the fundamentals of his craft. [...] Between the volcano link-up and his three recent levels (two from traps and combat, one from all of the city rebuilding), Sizemore was now a greater Dirtamancer than he ever imagined he could become. He had not actually crossed the threshold to Master class, but that could happen any time a caster gained powerful new insight into his discipline or major class. The body analogy wasn't quite enough to push him past that mark; he was still missing something. But for the first time in his life, he felt pretty sure that he would get there." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"It felt strange and dirty, tingling with a magic she had barely even thought about." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the magical feel of a Dirtamancy scroll, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"The tower rose indeed, far higher into the sky than it had stood before. Stone blocks and tiles sprang from nothing, widening the platform upon which they stood." 
:::''Narration, on a Dirtamancy scroll modifying a tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"When she'd boosted the tower, a few such nice little changes in design, decor, and accouterments had crept in from her mind's eye." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

===Changemancy===
===Dittomancy===
*"Yes, and a Dittomancer doubling leadership and specials... duplicating surviving units... I see." 
:::''Ansom, [[LIAB 4]]''

*"And double those arrows, Caster. 
:Double 'em? Double 'em! I'll quadruple 'em." 
:::''Jetstone Warlord & Lloyd, [[LIAB 8]]''

*'''For the duplication of an actual unit, see: ''[[LIAB 79]]'''''

*"Doubles don't leave a body." 
:::''Tramennis, [[LIAB 88]]''

*"When Jetstone's next turn starts, you will vanish." 
:::''Charlie, to the Slately-ditto, [[LIAB 89]]''

==Eyemancy==
*"This [[eyebook|item]] works on "Eyemancy." Which covers "Lookamancy", "Thinkamancy", and "Foolamancy." And it uses all three of those." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 35]]''

*"The Eyemancers may be our single most valuable asset, above even the Arkenhammer. Ordering them linked was... the shrewdest thing I've ever known Stanley to do. They created the Eyebooks. They give us unmatched communications and intelliegence. When Stanley sees you have tampered with their functioning..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 47]]''

*"Spells are trickier. Most can't be cast unless there are enemy units in the same hex/city, but some like Lookamancy and Thinkagrams can be cast anytime." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on off-turn actions, [[LIAB 33a]]''

===Lookamancy===
*"Well, yes! I mean for a unit that is... that is moving, time passes normally, but not relative to units in other hexes. A Lookamancer tracking the movement of that unit may see it move much faster in their time. The time in their hex." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[First Intermission 29]]''

*"What the enemy brings you, you usually don't know until they're on you. But here, we've got the count. We know just what we're facing. It's like having a Lookamancer for once." 
:::''Pom Fritz, on having a roster of units in the area, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Jillian knew that Lookamancy could be time-consuming, especially when an intruder might be veiled, and she respected his devotion to his Duty." 
:::''Jillian Banhammer, on Brother Orwell, [[IPTSF Text 32]]''

===Thinkamancy===
*"Not entirely unwitting. Nor entirely controlled. It's... complex." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 41]]''

*"We control her, though. So just make her write the message. Right? The control is subtle, Warlord. Suggestions, perceptions, emotions... not commands." 
:::''Parson & Wanda, [[TBFGK 41]]''

*"What is this link up? 
:: *sigh* It's a trick that only Thinkamancers can perform. A caster's will is subsumed into a... kind of psychological alloy with the Thinkamancer. The joint mind they form can cast spells no single caster can even comprehend. 
:The downside being that the casters lose their will... 
::Their sanity... their individuality... It's a risky and fragile spell, especially with three. Four can't even be done. Talking to them as individuals can break that spell, Parson. That may croak the casters. Or leave them useless. Or, have no effect." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 54]]''

*"These kinds of spells rely on the subject. Suggestions can make her inclined to do things... such as lead recklessly, disobey orders. She provides her own reasons for these choices. 
::Which she is doing! 
:Yes. But those are things she is inclined to do anyway." 
:::''Sizemore & Wanda, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"Suggestions like 'turn sides' or 'ignore enemy forces' may be too hard for her to rationalize, and cause her to break the spell." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"There are things she will not do. 
::Okay, but... like ''what?'' 
: *sigh* She won't fight for someone she hates. Nor harm someone she loves." 
:::''Wanda & Parson, [[TBFGK 66]]''

*"The spell ''compells'' [''sic''] you to seek a reason." 
:::''Jaclyn, [[TBFGK 67]]''

*"But when such a spell breaks, there is a kind of backlash. A cord which snaps. A good Thinkamancer can protect herself from damage. Had I been the caster, the object of the spell would have borne the brunt of it. This would likely have croaked the unit or left it incapacitated." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 84]]''

*"Incredibly useful, incredibly scary magic. We got into spells, communications, suggestions... and then she mentions "Natural Thinkamancy." Innate magic. Like how some units fly and some dig... that's "Natural Magic." When scouting units send back intel, that's Natural Thinkamancy. But apparently so is following the Tool's orders. All units are subject to Natural Thinkamancies: Obedience, Loyalty, Duty, and others." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 84a]]''

*"The Arkendish affords him a command of Thinkamancy I cannot match." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 88]]''

*"There is a feeling. You may no longer notice it. But think of the first spell you ever cast. When you cast within your disclipline, there is a sense of warmth, comfort, familiarity. I want you to relax, and recall that feeling. Find the feel of your discipline, and step inside it. Lose yourself to it. Become your function." 
:::''Maggie, on forming a link-up, [[TBFGK 135]]''

*"All right, I'll need a master-class Thinkamancer to unravel this link. More than one, preferably." 
:::''Janis Atlantis, on breaking a link-up, [[TBFGK 140]]''

*"[The veil] worked because Bogroll already resembled you in most important aspects. Thinkamancy works similarly, on the mind to which it is applied. The changes it makes are remarkably small and subtle. It cannot turn a dullard into a genius, or a mouse into a maniac. 
::Or a hamster into a pit bull... Right, so if I thought of this. If I did this... 
:Then some very great part of you wanted to. The spell only nudged it forward."
:::''Maggie & Parson, [[TBFGK 148]]''

*"It's utterly fascinating, casting from a link. I just... understand the spell so clearly." According to Maggie, a two-caster linkup was a less risky and drastic thing than three, especially when done voluntarily. In it, the Thinkamancer's function was something like "cognitive copilot," managing the other caster's mental functions, focusing his attention and boosting his energy to achieve better results than the caster could alone. And it had worked. Their side got a better capital out of it than if Sizemore had upgraded the city by himself. The link was easily broken afterward, and neither of them seemed to suffer any harm." 
:::''Sizemore & Maggie, on linking, [[First Intermission 26]]''

*"And it was very little risk. In our earlier link, we discovered a strong rapport. Such mutual trust can make the process a great deal easier." 
:::''Maggie, on linking, [[First Intermission 26]]''

*"Speaking or shouting the command will work, Lord," said Maggie, lurching a bit as she rounded the remains of the picnic and walked up beside him. Though he was not completely steady himself, he offered his right elbow and she grabbed it gratefully. "Not be- because they understand Language, but because it hhhelps you frame the intent in your mind. You see. Experienced-" she swallowed hard, or possibly hiccupped. "Excuse me. Experienced commanders can command stacks with few or no words. When you understand your command, the unit will. Yet another fo-horm of natural Thinkamancy, Lord." 
:::''Maggie, [[First Intermission 32]]''

*"Jack, do you remember what you did... to project the battle table... when you were linked up? 
:I remember doing it, Lord. But I don't remember how. If that makes sense." 
:::''Parson & Jack, [[First Intermission 38]]

*"As she soared over the rushes, she felt the tickle of an incoming Thinkagram." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 41]]''

*"'''What did the Arkendish do?''' Many things, most of them connected to Thinkamancy. Charlie could handle an unlimited number of Thinkagrams, and extend some of his abilities to his personal Archons in the tower. Any commander in the world could get those Archons' attention by concentrating hard enough, for long enough. This could take hours or even days, but Charlescomm would establish contact eventually. This allowed him to hire out to any side or barbarian in the world, and probably provided him more revenue than mercenary work. He was the telecom giant of Erfworld. This was the main thing he used the Arkendish for, but guessing its other powers was a favorite topic for the Archons." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[First Intermission 46]]''

*"Natural Allies know the will of their tribe’s Chief or Chiefs by Natural Thinkamancy, even from other hexes." 
:::''Vurp, [[LIAB Text 4]]''

*"Doombats typically had a range of twenty hexes or so for scouting, but a Thinkamancer extended that range indefinitely." 
:::''Don King, [[LIAB Text 5]]''

*"For the juice cost of a Thinkagram, Bunny could link him to one of their views, just like he was in the area himself." 
:::''Don King, on Doombats, [[LIAB Text 5]]''

*"Among these were over eight thousand speaking units, any one of whom could request Maggie's attention via intense concentration. Similarly, she could reach out to these units herself, to relay orders or request status." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"Some (mercifully subconscious) part of Maggie's mind was always sorting and prioritizing the incoming and outgoing messages, making little decisions which added up to bigger ones. That was at the quietest of times. Before and during a major battle, it was more than she could fully process, more than she had the juice for. However structured and competent her mind might be, she was still only an Adept class Thinkamancer. Even a Mastermind would be taxed under these conditions." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"She spent a tiny bit of juice to confirm the existence and status of the major units there, but did not open a Thinkagram." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"Jillian thought maybe the Thinkagram connection was broken, but she hadn't felt the usual little pop." 
:::''Jillian, [[LIAB Text 17]]''

*"So, what? You can just mind-control your Ruler whenever he makes a decision you don't like? 
: No. Only when I am certain he is wrong. And, in fact, it involves great personal risk..." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[LIAB 33]]''

*"Bunny, when the battle starts I want you to send that bat's view to everybody in here." 
:::''King Don, [[LIAB 34]]''

*"Little lanterns in Maggie's mind kept blowing out, in ones, twos and threes. The dwagon units, being harvested. And some of the riders, impacting the ground and ceasing to exist (at least, as Gobwin Knob units she had to manage)." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Everyone else imagined Thinkamancy as a set of discrete capabilities: "relay a command" or "plant a suggestion" or "send a two-way visual/audible Thinkagram." They were meant to think of it that way. So long as that was the perception of the discipline, then its fundamental powers could stay largely unknown, untapped, and uncalled-upon." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Thinkamancers were aware of certain magical truths for which, quite intentionally, there were no words in Language." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"For example, a Thinkagram was not one type of spell. There was a spectrum, from which a Thinkamancer would choose one or more bands to communicate within. To someone without a sensitivity to this spectrum, it would be impossible to describe the advantages and capabilities of each, but many of those capabilities went entirely unused, except by Thinkamancers themselves. A warlord would only call for one of a short list of communiques: speech, orders, pictures and sounds. But he would not, for example, ask to communicate and compare his own intuition with that of an allied commander in the field. " 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Thinkamancers understood intuition to be a form of natural Predictamancy, in which a unit can dimly perceive its Fate on a subconscious level. To a Thinkamancer, intuition was as communicable as speech or emotion or the underlying intentions of orders. It could be sent and received, combined and multiplied, and manipulated." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"There were many other such hidden mechanics. There were mental senses which could not even be described to a non-Thinkamancer. The most important of these was the ability to sense Grandiocosmic Strings, the conduits of all magic power in Erfworld." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Only Thinkamancers even knew they existed. A Thinkamancer could feel out the G-Strings of the world, and vibrate upon them by plucking. That was how a Thinkagram was sent, and so much else. Each unit had its own individual G-String, which had many uses." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"This was what Maggie had been doing for several minutes. Putting little notches in her G-String. It was a coded message, passive, and costing no juice. Any Thinkamancer who plucked her would find this note in her G-String. " 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"He found himself staring up at the springmount, wondering if he should get up and tune it again. This one was modeled on a gwiffon, made of Thinkamancy-polarized Stuff and imprinted with Signamancy in bright yellow. It was centered on a single strong coil of steel anchored deeply into the ground. The mount shape was neither fanciful nor accidental. One used this instrument as a surrogate mount, climbing upon it and building up a physical oscillation of the proper frequency to detect and study the Thinkamancy of orders. The intent of a commander in issuing an order to a non-speaking unit, or of a Ruler in issuing an order to a remote field unit, was one of the most interesting forms of natural Thinkamancy, Isaac felt." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"G-strings vibrated on different frequencies, and would cancel or amplify each other across predictable distances. Before Isaac had built these devices, a Thinkamancer had to walk around until his head was in a place of amplification, then hold still." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"But staying within one node deprived the observer of important perspective, much in the way that closing one eye caused a loss of depth perception, or covering an ear made it hard to tell the direction of a sound. It had already been known that two linked Thinkamancers standing in different nodes could detect and send far better than any one caster. Isaac had figured out that one caster switching rapidly between nodes had a similar effect." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"He stood up, glancing up the hill to the great Temple. It was also made of polarized Stuff, designed long ago (and modified more recently) as a refuge. Cosmic vibrations couldn't penetrate it." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"At the top and bottom of the smooth inclined plane were nodes of intuition. One did not get more than a quick glimpse between the two, but that usually would suffice. If not, one could always climb the ladder again. This apparatus had a personal effect on the operator, giving him a glance at his own Fate and perhaps a vague insight or focus or warning." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"A tickle upon his brain, then Bunny, Transylvito's spooky Thinkamancer, "Your Royal Highness King Slately of Jetstone, His Royal Highness Don King of Transylvito." The words were only in his mind; she never spoke aloud. Don's image floated before him, seated as Slately was." 
:::''Slately, being contatced by Thinkamancy, [[LIAB Text 42]]''

*"Rulers have a natural Thinkamancy which allows them to relay orders to their field units, even without a Thinkamancer. He had an[sic] feel for what was going on with his forces, even sitting there in a chair in his capital's garrison's larder." 
:::''Stanley, [[LIAB Text 44]]''

*"In the empty side room, he sat holding his crown in his lap, pauper-like, while time ticked away and his units perished in the dungeons below. He saw their lights in his mind, being extinguished in twos and threes. No-one was leveling. It was clearly an awful rout." 
:::''Slately, demonstrating a Ruler's natural Thinkamancy, [[LIAB Text 48]]''

*"Maggie," Stanley said to the air. It was a form of order only a Thinkamancer could follow. "Maggie!" 
:::''Stanley, contacting a distant Thinkamancer, [[LIAB Text 49]]''

*"There's way too many ways a Thinkamancer can incapacitate me." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on rushing a stack of Thinkamancers, [[LIAB 67]]''

*"For discretion, Chief Parson. You can break contact at any time." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB 84]]''

*"I will thank you not to... put my Chief Warlord into thinkspace without... my mind on the call!" 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB 84]]''

*"Maggie, what are you doing? Why are you running in place? I apologize, Lord. I can't spare the attention to alter my... appearance at the moment. I am... physically moving toward your position." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[LIAB 85]]''

*"The numbers rose as a column, into the millions and billions and more, a silver thread stretching up and away from the peace below. This thread was being drawn up by the system of the world. Thinkamancers knew it as a "Grandiocosmic string." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"Delphie’s last sentence had been delivered in a perfectly friendly and casual tone, but it carried the natural Thinkamancy weight of a direct order." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 2]]''

*"The Thinkamancy inherent in giving them commands would have to be so specific to the throat and mouth muscles..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on making uncroaked sing, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"All at once, completely new senses opened up in her head and she was flooded with information. She could see the distant lights of minds, know the numbers and locations and points of units." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on being promoted to Overlord, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"Delphie was there in the tower, wounded." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on knowing the status of a distant unit, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"In Wanda's head, Delphie's light went out as well. Gone." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on using Ruler (instead of Croakamancer) senses to detect the death of a unit, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"Even as she struggled to comprehend, this brand new part of her mind calmly told her the score. The Garrison had seven Goodminton units left. Four." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on knowing the number of units in her City, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

===Foolamancy===
*"Waitwaitwait. Time out. We can ''veil'' our troops?" 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 61]]''

*"There is ''absolutely'' no way to pull this 'veiling' thing, right? 
::No, you need a Foolamancer in– 
:... in the stack you're veiling, right. 
::Yes, and– 
:''And'' we can't do it with the Eyemancers linked up. ''And'' we can't cast on the enemy's turn." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"We got eleven pairs of warlord eyes here, and he's got thirty or so units. So there's like 300 chances to blow the veil, if he's got one." 
:::''Vinny Doombats, [[TBFGK 107]]''

*" Lord, recall the Foolamancy veil I cast on your lackey. That would not have worked on a gobwin. It worked because Bogroll already resembled you in most important aspects." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 148]]''

*"Above the fountain of sparks there appeared a huge, glowing apparition of Stanley the Tool's face, surrounded by bright rays of red and gold, just as he appeared on his new emblem. But these rays were like arrows pulsing outward, outward... go that way, scatter! Whether the archons took the direction literally or not, they knew the big giant head projection was beyond any of their natural Foolamancy abilities, and it certainly had not been part of the rehearsal." 
:::''The narrator, [[First Intermission 7]]''

*"You must conserve your remaining juice. What can you do cheaply? A simple displacement? 
:If we use a flash to cover the casting, it ought to do." 
:::''Wanda & Jack, [[LIAB 6]]''

*"Form a flash mob over the bridge. 
::[...] 
:You are free to cast. The enemy can see nothing else in this hex." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[LIAB 6]]''

*"But [Charlie] had still gone to great risk to give her cover along the way, using veiled Archons to scout out safe routes. These were probably detectable only by a Foolamancer, another Archon, or a lucky/smart Warlord." 
:::''Jillian, [[LIAB Text 6]]''

*"Foolamancy is Eyemancy. By habit and trade, a Foolamancer must look. At all times, the Foolamancer must observe the nouns around him in finest detail and broadest stroke, in a way that other minds do not. Other minds take shortcuts. Other minds construct, telling themselves ''stories'' about what they see, rather than seeing. Foolamancy is therefore only a narrative. To tell a mind it sees something, the Foolamancer must both see the world as it is, and also as it is seen. Staring into the void of that discrepancy is what drives one mad, really." 
:::''Jack, [[LIAB Text 10]]''

*"Hilary and her partner Avril took up a risky blind, directly over the heads of Prince Sammy's leadership stack. They kept the rising sun at their backs, relative to the warlords, and spent most of their juice to shine out their shadows. It was tricky, but worth it." 
:::''Narration, [[LIAB Text 18]]''

*"Habitually, he sought out the lines and dots of the scenery, the little hooks that other minds used to build their idea of the world around them." 
:::''Jack, [[LIAB Text 21]]''

*"Phoebe was made of brick. She was covered in soot. Black and red and gray, matching the colors of her raiment. All in a column, matching her general body size and opacity. She was a chimney on a rooftop, one of many dozens. It was a really good veil. Maybe her best ever. Gold star! The enemy’s minds would not have to reconcile very much with their eyes, and that was the name of the game." 
:::''Phoebe, [[LIAB Text 56]]''

*"He was wearing a very good scouting veil; she was very lucky to have spotted him in the tree. But such items are fragile, and this one had been destroyed in the melee." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"Upon the flat landing near the top of the pagoda, an honor guard raised the bells of their banner-hung trumpets and called out a fanfare in brassy harmony. "Blatt, bippa, braaaang... Buh-brang! Buh-braaaang!" [...] Bright flares shot upward from the roof in blazing yellow and green, Faq’s colors. A flock of white doves was released from the eaves. [...] Squads of sharply synchronized soldiers raised their spears in reverent salute to her approach. The steel tips of twoscore spears glinted in the sunlight. [...] Behind the honor guard, in the shade of the upwardly curving rooftop, she could now see a full formal reception. There stood her father and the entire Court. All of Faq’s casters were there, in their humble matching robes. Servants waited in the shadows with teacups and sweetmeats. She recognized the slender Add Hawk, standing right next to big Brother Orwell the Lookamancer. There was Marie LaVraie, the Predictamancer, and Sister Betsy Murgatroyd the Healomancer. The Signamancer, Brother Labeler, stood beside Jack Snipe, their indispensable Foolamancer. Moothfott the Moneymancer stood at the right hand of King Banhammer, of course. Even the lowly and disfavored Shockmancer, Rusty Trombone, was standing off to one side. They all smiled at her serenely as she pulled beside the edge of the tower top. Floating on the cool breeze came the gentle whisper of bamboo flutes. [...] She planted her boots on the worn hardwood, which was littered with yellow rose petals in a trail that led straight to her father the King. There he stood, his great arms crossed in judgment. But his face was smiling proudly, as if to say “All is forgiven, welcome home.” [...] Her boots clomp-clomped over the flower petals." 
:::''Narration, describing the range of sights, sounds, set pieces and units types & individuals that Jack Snipe could create, [[IPTSF Text 30]]''

*"It was just for your eyes, of course, Royal Highness." 
:::''Jack Snipe, on Fooling for one, [[IPTSF Text 30]]''

==Hippiemancy==
*"Among other things, Hippiemancy is the magic of relationships: detecting and altering the forces of opposition and attraction which bind people or units." 
:::''Duncan Scone, [[LIAB Text 11]]''

*"But Hippiemancy is people magic, and Janis also had a heavy understanding about relationships." 
:::''Janis Atlantis, [[LIAB Text 37]]

===Flower Power===
*"But in the presence of so much Flower Power, time perception sort of ''crumbles''. The Hippiemancers call it– 'Flaking.' I know." 
:::''Sizemore & Wanda, [[TBFGK 11]]''

*"Even a Grand Abbie couldn't hope to quiet the coming battle." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 13]]''

*"What did you just do to him? Mm? Oh, just basic Flower Power. He can't engage this turn." 
:::''Parson, Janis & Sizemore, [[LIAB 65]]''

*"I think... I think they mainly keep units from being able to engage." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"The figure in the tower was employing the apparatus they all had assumed was a weapon, but in fact it was a stringed instrument. She plucked and strummed upon it, and even from so far away, they could hear it perfectly. The music took an otherworldly, magical route to their ears." 
:::''Narration, on a Florist quieting a Hex, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"Tommy's sword came down upon his target like a feather. He merely tapped the shoulder of the soldier with the flat of his blade, as if knighting him." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"As if in a dream, she could not swing it with any significant force. The staff moved as if she were trying to stir honey with it." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"The spell would be on the city through Haffaton's turn tomorrow, and could be cast again." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"So red. So angry. Your Life aura, Warlord. It's just awful. Can't you relax? You're in no danger here, I promise. 
::Wanda watched Tommy's face, what she could see of it. He seemed not to change his expression, and barely to relax his posture, but suddenly Olive brightened. 
:Yes! Better!" 
:::''Olive Branch, on seeing auras, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Apparently putting a hand inside the enemy's shirt was not a form of engagement that was prevented by Olive's spell. " 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 14]]''

*"As she walked down another empty hall, Wanda casually held out her staff and tipped a ceramic vase of dried orange flowers from its marble pedestal. The crash was painful to her wine-tenderized head, yet enormously satisfying. Really, even the pain of it was satisfying. So Olive's spellsong did not prevent this form of engagement, either." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 14]]''

*"With a perfunctory "Thanks," she upended the helmet and placed the plant's roots inside. She stepped a few feet away from the uncroaked and turned around to do something to the plant. Wanda could tell she was casting, but not what. [...] When Olive turned around, she held a perfectly healthy green plant in a steel planter." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"This unit has Motion, and that is something a Hippiemancer would know nothing of." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, disparaging a Florist, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"As with yesterday, her voice reached them from everywhere and nowhere, sweet and haunting." 
:::''Narration, on Olive quieting Kiloton, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"Wordlessly, Tommy drew his sword. He stepped out into the courtyard and swung it as hard as he could at a Haffaton soldier who was standing in the sunlight, chewing on a dried pear. The sword stopped in midair, an inch from the man's neck." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"When they finally drew apart, Tommy looked distant and distracted. [..] His voice was barely a loud whisper. [...] his voice low and strained. Wanda watched him closely. He was in deep distress. [...] Tommy looked as pained as Wanda had ever seen him, and he said nothing more until the group had spent the move of its slowest units. [...] Then he dismounted his brontosword, slid down its side, and collapsed into the snow." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being poisoned, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"A crit to the head would cause the muscles to seize at croaking. But one to the heart left the muscles starved out, relaxed and unable to contract. Tommy's were like that." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the effects of Olive's poison on Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"There were almost no functioning nerves in Tommy's heart. Or... his stomach, or most of the rest of his internal organs. He probably had not been in pain, but he must have known something was very wrong." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the effects of Olive's poison on Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She had never seen one before, and she did not understand how it worked, but this was certainly a poisoning. And poisons, both natural and magical, were Flower Power." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She'd also asked him to kiss her. So she did not initiate an engagement in the city." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on a workaround of quieting, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

===Signamancy===
*"The Signamancers claimed that all Stuff was Foolamancy. Our bodies and all the things we see and touch were supposed to only be Signs: symbols of their true nature. Vinny didn't know about all that, but a person's appearance was definitely a Sign. It told you how they think about themselves. And how others see them."
:::''Vinny Doombats, reflecting on what he's been told about Signamancy, [[First Intermission 37]]''

*"Signamancy was a terrible curse. The Titans knew his true nature. No unipegataur-riding warrior king was he, no towering leader and orator. Over the three-thousand or so turns he had ruled, he had only once seen battle, and that from a well-guarded turret. And so he had shrunk. Gone white and fat." 
:::''King Slately Jetsone, [[LIAB Text 33]]''

*"No signs stood to point the way, but the Signamancy of a caster's home portal was plainer than writing." 
:::''Narration, on the color of Portals in the Magic Kingdom, [[IPTSF Text 21]]''

*"Sides with a Signamancer always kept the tidiest cities in Erfworld." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 30]]''

===Date-a-mancy===
*"Date-a-mancy is the oddest branch of Hippiemancy, in that it follows the Numbers which underlie all action. Date-a-mancy tries to quantify the intangible, things like leadership and compatibility and morale and Loyalty and Duty and even love, by means of match-ups." 
:::''Duncan Scone, [[LIAB Text 11]]''

==Naughtymancy==
===Shockmancy===
*"Their Shockmancer was here, a couple turns back. Gone now. He spelled up that tower hard, Bunny. " 
:::''Caesar Borgata, [[First Intermission 47]]''

*"It's natural Shockmancy. When you fall, one of three things happens: you are injured (possibly only slightly), you are incapacitated (you croak in one turn if not given Healomancy), or you just croak. Height of the fall does seem to have some bearing on that, but it's essentially random." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33b]]''

*"She'd told Tommy about spelling up Minnow Tower, and he'd said it was smart thinking. But he never said what kind of effect the raw Shockmancy they were storing in the tower might have in battle." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on having Delphi & Clay juicing up the tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

===Croakamancy===
*"Uncroaked casters just function as infantry..." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 77a]]''

*"She explained it this way. 'Croakamancy comes from the mind.' The more time and attention the caster spends uncroaking the unit, the closer it will be to its original strength and abilities when it was alive. And the more turns it lasts before degrading. So a good croakamancer can mass-animate every fallen unit in a hex, or city zone. But they'll be the weakest kind, and only last a few turns." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 116]]''

*"These are Uncroaked. They require a simple, specific order of battle." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 123]]''

*"Uncroaked infantry, led by a master-class Croakamancer... can." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on dance-fighting, [[TBFGK 127]]''

*"I can decrypt many unit types which had been impossible to uncroak before." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on using the Arkenpliers, [[TBFGK 146]]''

*"From what I can tell, they're like the dwagons are with Stanley. They're loyal to the 'pliers, and therefore to Cruella herself. For all I know, she can see through their eyes and hear what they hear. But if not, they'll prob'ly just tell her anything interesting when they can." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on Decrypted, [[First Intermission 44]]''

*"And what Lady Firebaugh was doing with hers was causing real alarm. The theoretical consensus was that she was extending Croakamancy to the Life axis." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"A big one being, "we don't know if he'd still be able to cast or not." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on decrypting a caster, [[LIAB 11]]

*"Tool, we don't even know if they keep existing without her." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on the Decrypted and the possibility of losing Wanda, [[LIAB 22]]''

*"She could animate the husks of the once-living." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, right after popping, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"We can animate the casualties. Their units and ours, if we take the city!" 
:::''Overlord Firebaugh & Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"Bodies of croaked units decay the next turn. So we would need her on the battlefield." 
:::''Overlord Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"I would have a leadership bonus over uncroaked units, Lord." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"She had senses that she did not yet understand were unique to Croakamancers, and she used them on the fallen scout. His bones she could feel without touching him. She knew which ribs and teeth and vertebrae were broken." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"There would be some craft to this uncroaking, as not all of the original muscles and sinew could be counted on to perform their original functions. That was not a problem. That was what Croakamancy was for. Where a knee would no longer bend, where a bicep no longer existed to flex an arm, the Croakamancer made magical Motion to move the Matter." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"When she had removed all of his raiment, she still could see better with her natural Croakamancy sense than her eyes." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"The body of the scout would have depopped at dawn, had they not moved it out of the hex where it was croaked. Claimed as a spoil for Goodminton, it would only decay a bit when they started their turn later in the morning." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"This scene was a massacre: twenty-two enemy saps, an enemy warlord, and forty-three of their own infantry. She could feel them each, sense the skulls and the hearts and the spines." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"This is a warlord. If I uncroak him, he would benefit from all of my attention, and all of the juice I can spare. The more carefully I cast, the fewer mistakes I might make, and the more he will retain of the power he had in life. I believe I could make him last as long as ten or twelve turns, and retain about half his levels and leadership." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"What are our other choices? 
::I could concentrate on uncroaking more than one unit, diluting the effects, but giving us more units. Or I could attempt to mass uncroak every unit in the hex. 
:You could do that? 
::Tommy... I-I don’t know. I feel it might be too much for me. A disaster. I could become overwhelmed. Maybe we wouldn’t get any units at all out of it. But if I succeeded, then the uncroaked units I create probably would not last more than a turn. Even the warlord." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"She silently ordered the line of uncroaked to bow in unison, which prompted more cheers and laughter." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 10]]''

*"Blood flowed to her face, a mechanism she understood down to the tissues and sinus cavities within her head, for Croakamancy was a beautiful art. She felt her eyelids getting hot, ducts and vessels dilating. She was just a speck of Matter, herself, after all." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 10]]''

*"Wanda waved her staff vaguely in the direction of one of the uncroaked knights in their stack. He tilted his head a bit and grinned happily, showing his remaining teeth around proudly." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Wanda made her Fellow fold his hands together and flex his arms like a champion, grinning obscenely at everyone." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Life magic, Wanda. Croakamancers don't use it." 
:::''Olive Branch, disparaging a Croakamancer, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"Make sure all the Fellows are in the Courtyard, except the ones me and you are stacking with. Wanda nodded, and mentally sent the order as she took another deep swig of chocolate. "Done." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"But before she could even get her boots out of the stirrups, her senses as a Croakamancer told her she would find his lifeless body upon the ground." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"The first thing to determine in uncroaking a body is what took its life, because that was where the most repair and attention would likely be needed. Attention was the key. A simple or a mass uncroaking took no more attention than lighting a candle, with the Matter of the body representing the candle wax. The body would move as it could, and take simple orders until its fuel was exhausted a few turns later." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"But the craft of the Croakamancer was to understand the body's condition, its functions, its strengths and weaknesses." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"The Croakamancer could conserve the fuel of the body by focusing her juice upon the mechanisms of its movement, repairing and augmenting them with magic. An expertly uncroaked unit could function almost as well as it had when alive, and last for perhaps dozens of turns." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"If this body had no wounds, then what croaked it? Sensing her way through the architecture of his insides, she could not immediately say. Something about the muscles was familiar, though. She had uncroaked the victims of critical hits before. A crit to the head would cause the muscles to seize at croaking. But one to the heart left the muscles starved out, relaxed and unable to contract." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"So she focused on his heart. She tried to make it beat once, and knew something was wrong. One tells a muscle to move by means of the nerves, and reconnecting nerves by magic was one of the trickier parts of an attentive uncroaking." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She had never made one so beautifully preserved. The bloating in his face faded, as some slow circulation of the blood was possible in this one. She was overjoyed at the results. Almost everything a living unit could do, this one could..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on uncroaking her brother, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Then she thought out an order, and Un-Tommy disengaged from his melee." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Re-attaching the head during the uncroaking process had been an interesting new challenge." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Even through blinding blasts, Wanda's Croakamancy senses let her know that the first enemy casualties had been struck and were falling. She sensed broken skulls and wings and burst organs inside the bodies that spiraled down through the air toward the courtyard below." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on detecting the dead, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"And the Fellows...they're really quite weak without leadership." 
:::''Pom Fritz, on uncroaked units, [[IPTSF Text 25]]''

*"Wanda could feel the consumption of Matter there in the fireplace, too, if she chose to. " 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on burning logs, [[IPTSF Text 25]]''

*"As they marched on, she hoped for an ambush, or any enemy encounter, so that she might spend her juice this turn making fresh units instead of hopelessly re-patching these. It was better than wasting the juice entirely, but there was only so much she could do. These bodies were decaying inexorably to dust, and only the Titans could prevent that." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on extending the duration of uncroaked, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"From what she understood of her discipline, it ought to be possible to make them sing, if she were a master of Croakamancy. Singing was part of the Stagemancy involved in dance fighting. So how would that work, she wondered? The Thinkamancy inherent in giving them commands would have to be so specific to the throat and mouth muscles... maybe if she sang the order to them? Or thought of singing it? Hmm..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"If you're croaked, and that is no joke, you pass the yoke of Chief to a bloke named Fritz... '''Pooda onga riiish!'''" 
:::''Wanda & Tommy, demonstrating uncroaked theater, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"Uncroaked units were cheap." 
:::''Jillian Banhammer, [[IPTSF Text 28]]''

===Retconjuration===
*'''This is a theoretical branch of magic, like an undiscovered element on the periodical table.
*'''No ordinary caster can practice it; there are no Retconjurers in Erfworld.
*'''It is reserved for the Titans.'''
:::''Titan Rob, Word of the Titans 8/19/2009

*"Hey, maybe she's a Retconjuror. Oh do not even joke about that. There is no such thing." 
:::''Tommy & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 11]]''

==Stagemancy==
*"Singing was part of the Stagemancy involved in dance fighting." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

===Hat Magic===
*"Is it dual use? Abjuration only. Report any engagements and observations at the end of your move." 
:::''Jillian & Ansom, [[TBFGK 9]]''

*"The sun was setting, as a tired woman with raw red eyes waved a wand over an upturned silk hat, and saw the letter inside vanish." 
:::''Queen Bea, [[First Intermission 43]]''

*"You know, I can do some small object conjuration for you. You just have to tell me what you need." 
:::''Cubbins, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"He dropped it into the crown and waved his scepter over it three times. "Pinochet," he intoned. The coin was made to disappear." 
:::''Slately, sending a coin to King Don, [[LIAB Text 42]]''

*"Sire, I can help too. Hand me your crown." 
:::''Cubbins, prior to modifying something into a Magic Item, [[LIAB 69]]''

*"One of the units in the group, for example, was a snow golem. It was a terribly crude thing, made of only three large balls of snow she had rolled up, with sticks for arms and small black rocks for features. It moved lurchingly forward and was almost useless as a unit. But as abominable as it was, she was quite proud of her first attempt at hat magic." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, demonstrating unit creation, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"The snow golem she ordered to stand sentry at the base of Minnow Tower. Then she took the silk top hat from its head, reducing it to a mere ornament." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"It stayed right in place via the natural Dollamancy (or was it natural Hat Magic?) of just belonging there." 
:::''Narration, on Wanda's jaunty hat, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

===Carnymancy===
*"Carnymancy. It's... the magic of rigging the game. Here! That's a crude slander on our noble discipline, sir. Oh, truly you do wound me. But yes." 
:::''Parson & Jojo, [[LIAB 63]]''

*"But we had this Carnymancer who really liked me. He saved me from croaking by rigging the incapacitation rules on me. They hauled me back to the capital in a wagon, and he cast over me every day for ten turns, just keeping me alive. 
::Until they got you a Healomancer?" 
:Pff, no. Queen Bea was mad enough at all the fuss over a Level 1 stabber. No, one day I just popped up off the bed, good as new. The Carnymancer said he'd 'made a trade' for me." 
:::''Sylvia & Archer, [[LIAB 86]]''

*"Then what can we do? Our specialties, of course. Stirring up trouble, roping a dope. You dodgers work the crowd. Get 'em in a real lather. Maybe they'll shoot him." 
:::''Unnamed Carnymancer & Jojo, [[LIAB 90]]''

===Rhyme-o-mancy===
*"A poetic incantation could settle the mind, focus any caster on their work." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Even warlords could use Rhymes in leadership, for morale and focus, and in dance fighting." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Those bawdy trail songs of Tommy's were crude, but effective on the units under his command. Her singing along with the knights had likely helped her spot that scout on her first day." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Songs and poems held great and mysterious power." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"But to use Rhyme-o-mancy in casting, it must be quick and clever, and it must rhyme. If she flubbed the rhyme, the spell would weaken or fail completely." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"The attention of an entire day was collapsed into those few seconds." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

==Clevermancy==
*"Clevermancy should have no Xs. It's raw magic dealing with raw magical forces." 
:::''Titan Rob, Word of the Titans 2315787''

===Luckamancy===
*"Delphie tells you what to cast, doesn’t she? What battles to affect. What units to...what, bless? 
::Yeah. I just say ‘boost.’” 
:And you can alter the outcome of a battle, by casting ahead of time. You boost up a unit’s luck by a lot, or a whole side’s luck by a little? 
::Yeah, kind of. Or jinx the enemy. Battles are hard, though. Sides are harder. Units are pretty easy. I boost our warlords all the time." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"I boosted his roll to a 4! I changed his odds, chose a way to describe the outcome of his choices. You see?” He picked up the dice and showed them to her. “The dice are not the guy, okay? In this case the guy is imaginary, and the dice are representing him. But this is real life,” he said, making a circle in the air with his index finger, “and you are not the dice. Okay? In real life, you are real, but the dice are imaginary. The dice that describe your choices. Mathamancy describes those, and Luckamancy affects those." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Now here's an important thing, though. Where did those 4s come from? 
::From you. You cast upon the die. 
:So you're saying my juice had a physical effect on the way the die rolled. 
::Yes. 
:Yes and no. It's not a direct effect, you see? The 4 is a Number. It had to come from somewhere. 
::The juice in your spell did not create the outcome, you are saying. Your spell did not create the 4. It...what?" What was the alternative? "Enabled it, somehow? 
: Honestly?That's the nice way to say it. Whatt'm saying is that maybe that die would have come up 4s three times anyway. So maybe my spell did nothing at all, at least so far. That's why I say it'll roll high 'for a little while.' I don't know." 
:::''Clay & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"But here's what I do know. And maybe it's kind of a secret of my discipline but I think it's important, and I wanna tell you. Luckamancy doesn't create good outcomes, because that would undermine Mathamancy and Predictamancy. Mathamancy deals with real Numbers. If Luckamancy could just create Numbers out of juice, out of thin air, then every odds calculation would be off. Y'see? So what Luckamancy actually does is steal Numbers from the world." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"Where do you steal the Numbers from? Well, the world. If you rolled all the D4s in the world a bunch of times, that one included, you'd get an even mix of ones, twos, threes and fours. This little guy stole his roll from somewhere, and I think the world is lazy, you know? I don't think it goes very far to steal good outcomes when I boost one of our warlords, you know?" 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"Would it steal from our enemies? If only. That's the one thing it really doesn't do. In fact we sometimes see the opposite. The enemy rolls better than they should or... or we roll worse." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"What, it steals Numbers from us?! Not all the time! I mean, it depends. The net effect is still good for us, because we're picking the right battles to win. But yeah it can be really hard on the rest of our side, sometimes. Especially unled and unboosted units. We...lose more of those kind of battles than we should." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"A Luckamancy boost could have any number of specific effects on a unit's "dice." Defensively, it could affect their chance to be hit, the damage they would take from hits, their chance of receiving a critical hit, their chance of being incapacitated or croaked from a fall, et cetera. Or it could affect the enemy's outcomes: their defenses." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Frenemy units fell by twos and threes, the victims of outrageously high damage outcomes and critical hit rates." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of Luckamancy on battle, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"You know how when a unit falls, it can croak, or be incapacitated, or just be plain wounded and lose some hits? 
::Yes? 
:Well, that's Luckamancy, too. And I'm thinking f'we get into another airspace fight we can first cast against the enemy to make 'em more likely to croak in a fall. Then we can go for dismounting attacks. And there's not a lot of, um, downside to that. Less backlash from borrowing Numbers, right? Because we don't use air mounts. We do a lot less falling. See?" 
:::''Clay & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 22]]''

===Healomancy===
*"It contained a healing elixir of his own devising, the recipe of which varied, but usually consisted of "two gin rations, stirred with a Wand of Cure Incapacitation." 
:::''Pierce, mentioning a type of wand, [[LIAB Text 41]]''

===Moneymancy===
*"It had been as ridiculous as everything else in Erfworld, rebuilding the city. The Overlord ordered it, the treasury was debited, and the city was instantly recreated. It was only Moneymancy. When it happened, Parson was standing in the ruins of the courtyard. There was a sound like a wind chime, with a whoosh of orchestral cymbals. Enormous, blinding magical sparkles filled the sky and the ground. And then the city was simply standing again, fully intact. There was no more rubble, not even a wisp of settling dust." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[First Intermission 1]]''

=Axes=
*"Its numbers were being shaped and guided by the firmament, by what magic theorists called the Erf Axis. For when the price was paid, it was Erfworld which processed the transaction. The world would produce the unit that was called for...more or less. There was the matter of the Fate Axis as well, and this unit was turning out to be very special." 
:::''Narration, on popping a unit, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

==Erf==

==Fate==
*"Fate is inevitable, Warlord. But our ''path'' to it is not. We must first divine, and then ''enact'' our destinies. To live is to suffer. Our Fate is our only release. So if we fight against Fate, or fail to act in support of it when the way is clear, then we only worsen and prolong our misery. Our choices do matter. Wise choices ease the way, and foolish ones cause suffering." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[LIAB 70]]''

==Numbers==
*"Life is all Numbers. Ask any Mathamancer; they know." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"To live is to stand on one side of an equation, which must equal zero in the end. There is a price, a cost in Numbers, to be paid for staying alive. Zero is a balance, an equilibrium. Zero is a flat country, neither far away nor near. You can travel there any time, at the cost of your life. And perhaps, if someone were to pay the price to the exact number, you could even return again. That Mathamancers often say such things, and nod to one another soberly, is thought to be why they tend to keep to their own company." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"Few casters doubted what was said of the Numbers Axis, but even fewer understood. Not consciously, anyway." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"This unit would be worth far more than the buyer had paid for. That was no violation of Numbers, though. It simply meant that this unit carried a balance due. And though it was an astronomically high figure, someone would pay. Zero always called, and someone would have to pay." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

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[[Category:Quotes]]

Quotes: Magic

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Quoted statements about the various forms and branches of magic.

''Next quote to be pulled from'': [[IPTSF Text 32]]

note to self: Pull quotes from [[TBFGK 38a]] later; basics of magic, classes &c.

=General=
*"He told me that Casters are Commanders, and can lead stacks, but they almost never do. Casters are too rare and valuable to risk, and they give no leadership bonus to the stack anyway. Only Warlords have leadership. Makes sense. Except for certain exceptions. Like, say... the bonus those golems get if they're led by a Dirtamancer. Or the huge one to Uncroaked units being led by a Croakamancer(!)." 
:::''Parson's Klog, [[TBFGK 84a]]''

*"Casters can also spend juice, doing most things casters do: make scrolls, items, golems, uncroak, turn Schmuckers to gems (or vice versa but that doesn't cost juice), upgrade units, etc." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on off-turn actions, [[LIAB 33a]]''

*"Okay, you said you can cast in the Magic Kingdom, right? 
:Yes..." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[LIAB 45]]''

*"Ahead and below, the target threw some Shockmancy bolts up at them. The defense was automatic. Not only were there no casters there to direct the stored spells, but there were apparently no commanders of any kind in the city." 
:::''Jillian, on tower defenses, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

*"Wanda said she thought it was a whole mess of different magicks, what'd she say... Shockmancy, obviously. Rhyme-o-mancy because it rocked out. Carnymancy because it made big flashes and sometimes could make things disappear (he never could do it on purpose, though). And what else? Changemancy? He looked at the hammer closely. There might be a lot more he could do with it besides taming dwagons, which was... Date-o-mancy, he guessed?" 
:::''Stanley, on the Arkenhammer, [[LIAB Text 44]]''

*"He had not actually crossed the threshold to Master class, but that could happen any time a caster gained powerful new insight into his discipline or major class." 
:::''Sizemore, on Class vs Level, [[LIAB Text 45]''

*"The Arkendish's feel was all over that Turnamancy spell." 
:::''Rachel, on the feel of a spell, [[LIAB Text 53]]''

*"N'they're like archers; they'd be able to take shots at me any time." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on caster attacks, [[LIAB 71]]

*"Each discipline of magic has its own special insight into cosmic truths." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"A ball of juice formed between her outstretched fingers. The hoboken is the basic offensive spell known to almost all casters at the time they pop." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"Wanda snorted, but then had to admit casters can't actually see one another's discipline." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 11]]''

*"It was not offensive; she could cast it before Goodminton broke alliance." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on a Dirtamancy scroll that modified the tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"It had been as effective as her effort at Rhyme-o-mancy, but it left her no better understanding of what she had cast." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on casting outside her discipline, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Delphie immediately leveled up to 5, and her spells became that much more potent." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

=Elements=
*"Here was a complicated bit of Matter. Once it had possessed Life and Motion, but those had been taken away from it. And though only the Titans could restore Life to it, she could give it Motion again, once she had the juice." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the body of a croaked scout, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"The three Elements were created equal. Are you a Titan, to say otherwise?" 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Life==
*"Life magic, Wanda. Croakamancers don't use it." 
:::''Olive Branch, disparaging a Croakamancer, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Motion==
*"This unit has Motion, and that is something a Hippiemancer would know nothing of." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, disparaging a Florist, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Matter==

=Classes=
==Hocus Pocus==
===Findamancy===
===Predictamancy===
*"Marie, of course, had told her many times that she had Predicted the fall of her side, the kingdom where she and Wanda had served. But when it came to explaining how the fall had happened, how she and Wanda both had escaped destruction in different ways, she wouldn't budge. 
:'It all got cloudy,' was all she would really say. 'It happens. I saw it would come and I wonned my Rulah. But when it came it all got cloudy, I don't know.' " 
:::''Janis & Marie, [[LIAB Text 37]]''

*"Thinkamancers understood intuition to be a form of natural Predictamancy, in which a unit can dimly perceive its Fate on a subconscious level." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Shouldn't you know? Oh I should, yes. But turns like this, they come up time to time and everything afta is cloudy. Something has to get decided today, Sizemore. Fate will go fowad from there." 
:::''Sizemore & Marie, on the clarity of Predictions, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"It’s a complicated subject, Wanda. Predictamancy... You know, dear? There are rules we don’t discuss. About...what we don’t discuss." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 3]]''

*"Wanda, the reason that Predictamancers do not say everything we know is not because it would change the future, but because it usually will make it longer and more painful to reach those future outcomes. The less you know about what is to come, about your Fate, then the easier it will be for you to get there, the less... you and others will have to suffer, to lose." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 9]]''

*"Delphie looked at her Overlord and squinted a bit, examining him. Wanda could sense that she was using a kind of magical sight like her own Croakamancy senses. She'd asked Delphie a raft of questions about Predictamancy in correspondence from the road, as they'd worked out this plan. She knew Delphie was now intuiting something about Father's near-term outcomes." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Somewhere in those notes in her satchel, there was a brief explanation of how Predictamancy worked in combat. It amounted to the caster using her juice to see things happen a second or two ahead, so that she could aim where the enemy would be, and to move where the enemy's return blows and arrows would not land." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Most importantly to this plan, a Predictamancer could know whether or not a shot or blow she was about to initiate would be a hit. If it wouldn't, then she simply did not take the shot." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Only one magic blast struck Fritz's shield. Delphie sidestepped the others as necessary, still casting in a kind of concentration trance." 
:::''Narration, on a Predictamancer in battle , [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Not everyone walking these halls has a purpose. I cannot make Predictions about every unit, or commander, or even every ruler." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

*"It was the only way Goodminton could survive you. 
::You don't know that. You never Predicted that. 
:No. I can't. Fate doesn't care about us. That's the terror of it; we have no Fate. The world doesn't care if we live or not. Only about you." 
:::''Delphie & Wanda, on who has Fate, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

*"However much Faq wanted to avoid crossing paths, it was inevitable. Battlespace determinations were Natural Predictamancy. She would be spotted by the enemy and allow them an encounter of some sort, all too close to her own territory." 
:::''Jillian Banhammer, [[IPTSF Text 27]]''

===Mathamancy===
*"Mathamancy is what, again? Analyzing probabilities... predicting outcomes? Yes, and the raw calculations of that work." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 54]]''

*"CharlsNChrg: Tell me the odds that learning what happened to my Archons right now will be worth giving up those calculations in the future. 
:LordHamster: ... 
:LordHamster: I don't know if this thing can even DO a calculation like that. Predicting the future? 
:CharlsNChrg: Try it. 
:LordHamster: Fine. 
:LordHamster: I'll be damned. 
:LordHamster: It says there's all of a 4% chance it's worth taking my deal, even after spending this calculation. 
::[...] 
:LordHamster: Teaching me that my bracer can make sophisticated predictions about the future? Priceless." 
:::''Charlie & Parson, [[First Intermission 39]]

*"The dice describe the world. They don’t determine it. A Mathamancer can tell you how many dice will be rolled, how many points’ll be lost when you’re wounded. He’ll tell you what’ll probably happen, and possibly happen, and what can’t happen." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Mathamancy deals with real Numbers." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

==Spookism==
===Turnamancy===
*"Having a Turnamancer reduced the production of an heir by twenty turns, and with funds coming in from Transylvito, Vanna was able to boost Otoh and Kibo's production drastically." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 49]]''

*"That level 6 Jitterati warlord, Duncan Scone, was now her best fighter. Vanna had done some good work to turn him, but the dungeon didn't much interest Jillian. Vanna didn't really know how to play right." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 49]]''

*"You okay? 
::Yes. That was just like, whoa. Intense. You know? 
:How's your juice? 
::Low. That spell cost two turns' worth, basically. 
:::''Jillian & Vanna, on KingWorld, [[LIAB 22]]''

*"Can't move to other hexes (because of zero move, exceptions possible using Turnamancy)." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33a]]''

*Next turn, when the Turnamancer had juice, she would be able to cast a mass spell that should convert half these prisoners to Faq units. The rest could be worked on in future turns." 
:::''Vanna, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

===Dollamancy===
*"Tell me about that. Where do changes of clothes come from?" [...] 
::"Well, it's Dollamancy, Lord," said Maggie, looking up at him. [...] "This particular 'outfit'... I would call it 'raiment'... came from the Magic Kingdom. The helm was made by one of our new Twolls. 
:"Yeah, how do Twolls do that? Bogroll made my armor, and he put the sword together. This new guy Zhopa just made me a picnic basket." [...] 
::"Twolls have the 'fabrication' special, which is a form of natural Dollamancy. Units with that ability can make small nonmagical items, usually armor and equipment. I understand that the next Twoll we pop will be assigned to the stables as a smith and saddlemaker." 
:Parson nodded. "But the rest of the clothes were from an actual Dollamancer?" 
::"Yes, his name is Ken." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"What about these symbols?" Parson slapped his chest plate. "My Hamstard crest and Wanda's skull emblem, and the Stanley posters. That's all Dollamancy, too?" "The emblems are called 'livery,' Lord. And yes, that is a common form of natural Dollamancy. New units pop bearing the livery their Ruler desires. Twolls can fabricate items which bear their master's livery. And when a caster creates another unit, as in golem-making or uncroaking, the caster sets the livery and other features of the unit's appearance." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"With a Dollamancer to heal the Cloth Golems and a Healomancer for the rest..." 
:::''Ossomer, [[LIAB 4]]''

*"There are different applications of Dollamancy. Lady Shortcake was fond of fashioning cloth golems. She was very imaginative. 
:Precious, puffy-looking animals. The hit of the parade. And when she wasn't doing that, she was always designing new raiment for the changing fashions at court!" 
:::''Cubbins & Ace, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Look, there's a lot you can do in Dollamancy. It's fabrication with a motion element, right? If we want." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Dollamancy is Fate magic, so I know something about that." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Ace stroked his chin, contemplating the King's potential as a combatant. "Start with your weapon, I guess. May I?" Slately put the Royal Scepter of Jetstone in the hands of a non-Royal caster without a moment's hesitation. It was a mark of his seriousness of purpose. But he did cringe as Ace began to take it apart." 
:::''Ace & Slately, on repurposing existing items, [[LIAB Text 48]]''

*"I'm thinkin' just defense for these, Cubbins. 
::Yeah, me too. 
:I'm just doin' blasts. You cover the tricky-fooly stuff, okay?" 
:::''Ace & Cubbins, [[LIAB 69]]''

*"As he modded the Royal Scepter, it dawned on Ace that he had become accustomed to working in cloth — weaving and cutting and shaping it to another Dollamancer's specifications." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 54]]''

*"Look, the cloth golems will be much stronger with my bonus." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB 93]]''

*"I don't have a lof of time, Cubs. But I can definitely... mff... add one feature to this puppy. Gonna call it "an autopilot." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB 99]]''

*"Upon claiming it, she’d imposed Goodminton’s livery on it by natural Dollamancy, reluctantly changing the black to slate blue. But on a whim, she kept just one of the pink flowers, offset in a patch of white." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on clothing, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Olay," she said, casting the minor Dollamancy spell that Teddy had taught her. The wrinkles in each piece went smooth, as the garment was restored to its new-turn condition." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

*"The Dollamancer had modified her old riding gloves into long, chamois evening gloves with stealthy riding grips sewn into the palms. Her clunky boots he'd turned into shiny black thigh-highs topped with lace, but still reinforced in the feet and ankles for combat riding." 
:::''Narration, on a Dollamancer modifying existing clothes, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

*"It stayed right in place via the natural Dollamancy (or was it natural Hat Magic?) of just belonging there." 
:::''Narration, on Wanda's jaunty hat, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

===Weirdomancy===
*"Weirdomancers can cancel a flyer's special to make it fall (or make a non-flyer fly, then dispel it and cause a fall)." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33b]]''

*"[...] to hiring a Weirdomancer to try to make the Gumps grow radishes in their branches, [...]" 
:::''Narration, [[LIAB Text 55]]''

==Stuffamancy==
*"How would you make a magic blanket?" Parson asked, gnawing on a heel of the rye loaf. "If you wanted one?" 
::Sizemore looked at Maggie, who was nibbling cheese, and spoke up. "That's Stuffamancy. Really versatile magic. Weapons, armor, tools... Stuffamancers just imagine it and conjure it." 
:"Conjure as in make it?" Parson said with his mouth full. "Create it? Or summon it from somewhere?" 
::Sizemore leaned forward excitedly, rocking a little as he spoke. "That's a great question, Warlord. There's a big debate about that, getting right down to the level of 'what is magic?' and 'what is stuff?' Some Casters think they're the same thing, and that Stuffamancy proves it. But even the Stuffamancers don't agree about that."
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[First Intermission 28]]''

===Dirtamancy===
*"... Sizemore can dig through solid rock, it's cool to watch." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 77a]]''

*"Hav- Having a Dirtamancer in your city when you upgrade it reduces the cost by a lot," he began. 
::Parson tried to see where this was going. "Okayyyy..."
:"But it means the Dirtamancer sets the appearance, the shape of things... and the livery." 
:::''Sizemore & Parson, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"At the end of the pavement, he frowned at a spot where the squares were sinking into the softer ground. Drawing his index finger over the pathway's edge, he spent a little juice to fix it." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"Dirtamancy was among the most rare and useful disciplines [in the Magic Kingdom]. Everyone needed a wall built, a garden tilled, a well dug, a foundation excavated. There were no city sites; construction was a manual industry." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"Can you tunnel? 
::Tunnel. 
:Yeah, can you? 
::Well, yes. 
:Good. Now can you tunnel under Portal Park, all the way from our portal to the one that goes to Spacerock? 
::I... ''can.''"
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[LIAB 45]]''

*"Without word or ceremony they lifted, and Jillian willed the city razed. With a great swirl of sparkling natural Dirtamancy, and a tinny crashing sound, Progrock turned to dust and rubble below them." 
:::''Jillian, razing Progrock, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

*"Touching the spade to the grass of Portal Park put Sizemore directly in touch with Erfworld. He sensed the physical world in deep, primal ways which he found difficult to convey to other casters. Even Changemancers and Dittomancers would stare at him blankly when he described it, though they too practiced forms of Stuffamancy." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"He could feel the ground feeling him, pulling him down, pushing up on the soles of his feet as he lifted each leg to walk. In the soil below, rocks sat immersed in the cold mud. Their whole surface touched it, in all dimensions at once. Sizemore could feel this contact as if the pebbles were his own toes and fingers" 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"Sizemore's mind slid away, down below his feet, to his other self. The strata, the stresses, the peace of land at rest, he understood them that way: as if they were parts of his own body. The ground could be comfortable and sedate, like a tired person feels when lying on onsic a soft mattress. Or it could be awkward, unsustainable, like a man trying to lean on a jagged stump, or sleep upside down on a stone staircase. The land in the Magic Kingdom was deeply, permanently at rest." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"This body analogy described something he had always intuited about the land. But only since his link with the Lady Firebaugh did he think of it consciously. His entire mental frame for visualizing his discipline had been reworked on that day. A hundred turns later, he was still reconsidering the fundamentals of his craft. [...] Between the volcano link-up and his three recent levels (two from traps and combat, one from all of the city rebuilding), Sizemore was now a greater Dirtamancer than he ever imagined he could become. He had not actually crossed the threshold to Master class, but that could happen any time a caster gained powerful new insight into his discipline or major class. The body analogy wasn't quite enough to push him past that mark; he was still missing something. But for the first time in his life, he felt pretty sure that he would get there." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"It felt strange and dirty, tingling with a magic she had barely even thought about." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the magical feel of a Dirtamancy scroll, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"The tower rose indeed, far higher into the sky than it had stood before. Stone blocks and tiles sprang from nothing, widening the platform upon which they stood." 
:::''Narration, on a Dirtamancy scroll modifying a tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"When she'd boosted the tower, a few such nice little changes in design, decor, and accouterments had crept in from her mind's eye." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

===Changemancy===
===Dittomancy===
*"Yes, and a Dittomancer doubling leadership and specials... duplicating surviving units... I see." 
:::''Ansom, [[LIAB 4]]''

*"And double those arrows, Caster. 
:Double 'em? Double 'em! I'll quadruple 'em." 
:::''Jetstone Warlord & Lloyd, [[LIAB 8]]''

*'''For the duplication of an actual unit, see: ''[[LIAB 79]]'''''

*"Doubles don't leave a body." 
:::''Tramennis, [[LIAB 88]]''

*"When Jetstone's next turn starts, you will vanish." 
:::''Charlie, to the Slately-ditto, [[LIAB 89]]''

==Eyemancy==
*"This [[eyebook|item]] works on "Eyemancy." Which covers "Lookamancy", "Thinkamancy", and "Foolamancy." And it uses all three of those." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 35]]''

*"The Eyemancers may be our single most valuable asset, above even the Arkenhammer. Ordering them linked was... the shrewdest thing I've ever known Stanley to do. They created the Eyebooks. They give us unmatched communications and intelliegence. When Stanley sees you have tampered with their functioning..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 47]]''

*"Spells are trickier. Most can't be cast unless there are enemy units in the same hex/city, but some like Lookamancy and Thinkagrams can be cast anytime." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on off-turn actions, [[LIAB 33a]]''

===Lookamancy===
*"Well, yes! I mean for a unit that is... that is moving, time passes normally, but not relative to units in other hexes. A Lookamancer tracking the movement of that unit may see it move much faster in their time. The time in their hex." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[First Intermission 29]]''

*"What the enemy brings you, you usually don't know until they're on you. But here, we've got the count. We know just what we're facing. It's like having a Lookamancer for once." 
:::''Pom Fritz, on having a roster of units in the area, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

===Thinkamancy===
*"Not entirely unwitting. Nor entirely controlled. It's... complex." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 41]]''

*"We control her, though. So just make her write the message. Right? The control is subtle, Warlord. Suggestions, perceptions, emotions... not commands." 
:::''Parson & Wanda, [[TBFGK 41]]''

*"What is this link up? 
:: *sigh* It's a trick that only Thinkamancers can perform. A caster's will is subsumed into a... kind of psychological alloy with the Thinkamancer. The joint mind they form can cast spells no single caster can even comprehend. 
:The downside being that the casters lose their will... 
::Their sanity... their individuality... It's a risky and fragile spell, especially with three. Four can't even be done. Talking to them as individuals can break that spell, Parson. That may croak the casters. Or leave them useless. Or, have no effect." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 54]]''

*"These kinds of spells rely on the subject. Suggestions can make her inclined to do things... such as lead recklessly, disobey orders. She provides her own reasons for these choices. 
::Which she is doing! 
:Yes. But those are things she is inclined to do anyway." 
:::''Sizemore & Wanda, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"Suggestions like 'turn sides' or 'ignore enemy forces' may be too hard for her to rationalize, and cause her to break the spell." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"There are things she will not do. 
::Okay, but... like ''what?'' 
: *sigh* She won't fight for someone she hates. Nor harm someone she loves." 
:::''Wanda & Parson, [[TBFGK 66]]''

*"The spell ''compells'' [''sic''] you to seek a reason." 
:::''Jaclyn, [[TBFGK 67]]''

*"But when such a spell breaks, there is a kind of backlash. A cord which snaps. A good Thinkamancer can protect herself from damage. Had I been the caster, the object of the spell would have borne the brunt of it. This would likely have croaked the unit or left it incapacitated." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 84]]''

*"Incredibly useful, incredibly scary magic. We got into spells, communications, suggestions... and then she mentions "Natural Thinkamancy." Innate magic. Like how some units fly and some dig... that's "Natural Magic." When scouting units send back intel, that's Natural Thinkamancy. But apparently so is following the Tool's orders. All units are subject to Natural Thinkamancies: Obedience, Loyalty, Duty, and others." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 84a]]''

*"The Arkendish affords him a command of Thinkamancy I cannot match." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 88]]''

*"There is a feeling. You may no longer notice it. But think of the first spell you ever cast. When you cast within your disclipline, there is a sense of warmth, comfort, familiarity. I want you to relax, and recall that feeling. Find the feel of your discipline, and step inside it. Lose yourself to it. Become your function." 
:::''Maggie, on forming a link-up, [[TBFGK 135]]''

*"All right, I'll need a master-class Thinkamancer to unravel this link. More than one, preferably." 
:::''Janis Atlantis, on breaking a link-up, [[TBFGK 140]]''

*"[The veil] worked because Bogroll already resembled you in most important aspects. Thinkamancy works similarly, on the mind to which it is applied. The changes it makes are remarkably small and subtle. It cannot turn a dullard into a genius, or a mouse into a maniac. 
::Or a hamster into a pit bull... Right, so if I thought of this. If I did this... 
:Then some very great part of you wanted to. The spell only nudged it forward."
:::''Maggie & Parson, [[TBFGK 148]]''

*"It's utterly fascinating, casting from a link. I just... understand the spell so clearly." According to Maggie, a two-caster linkup was a less risky and drastic thing than three, especially when done voluntarily. In it, the Thinkamancer's function was something like "cognitive copilot," managing the other caster's mental functions, focusing his attention and boosting his energy to achieve better results than the caster could alone. And it had worked. Their side got a better capital out of it than if Sizemore had upgraded the city by himself. The link was easily broken afterward, and neither of them seemed to suffer any harm." 
:::''Sizemore & Maggie, on linking, [[First Intermission 26]]''

*"And it was very little risk. In our earlier link, we discovered a strong rapport. Such mutual trust can make the process a great deal easier." 
:::''Maggie, on linking, [[First Intermission 26]]''

*"Speaking or shouting the command will work, Lord," said Maggie, lurching a bit as she rounded the remains of the picnic and walked up beside him. Though he was not completely steady himself, he offered his right elbow and she grabbed it gratefully. "Not be- because they understand Language, but because it hhhelps you frame the intent in your mind. You see. Experienced-" she swallowed hard, or possibly hiccupped. "Excuse me. Experienced commanders can command stacks with few or no words. When you understand your command, the unit will. Yet another fo-horm of natural Thinkamancy, Lord." 
:::''Maggie, [[First Intermission 32]]''

*"Jack, do you remember what you did... to project the battle table... when you were linked up? 
:I remember doing it, Lord. But I don't remember how. If that makes sense." 
:::''Parson & Jack, [[First Intermission 38]]

*"As she soared over the rushes, she felt the tickle of an incoming Thinkagram." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 41]]''

*"'''What did the Arkendish do?''' Many things, most of them connected to Thinkamancy. Charlie could handle an unlimited number of Thinkagrams, and extend some of his abilities to his personal Archons in the tower. Any commander in the world could get those Archons' attention by concentrating hard enough, for long enough. This could take hours or even days, but Charlescomm would establish contact eventually. This allowed him to hire out to any side or barbarian in the world, and probably provided him more revenue than mercenary work. He was the telecom giant of Erfworld. This was the main thing he used the Arkendish for, but guessing its other powers was a favorite topic for the Archons." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[First Intermission 46]]''

*"Natural Allies know the will of their tribe’s Chief or Chiefs by Natural Thinkamancy, even from other hexes." 
:::''Vurp, [[LIAB Text 4]]''

*"Doombats typically had a range of twenty hexes or so for scouting, but a Thinkamancer extended that range indefinitely." 
:::''Don King, [[LIAB Text 5]]''

*"For the juice cost of a Thinkagram, Bunny could link him to one of their views, just like he was in the area himself." 
:::''Don King, on Doombats, [[LIAB Text 5]]''

*"Among these were over eight thousand speaking units, any one of whom could request Maggie's attention via intense concentration. Similarly, she could reach out to these units herself, to relay orders or request status." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"Some (mercifully subconscious) part of Maggie's mind was always sorting and prioritizing the incoming and outgoing messages, making little decisions which added up to bigger ones. That was at the quietest of times. Before and during a major battle, it was more than she could fully process, more than she had the juice for. However structured and competent her mind might be, she was still only an Adept class Thinkamancer. Even a Mastermind would be taxed under these conditions." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"She spent a tiny bit of juice to confirm the existence and status of the major units there, but did not open a Thinkagram." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"Jillian thought maybe the Thinkagram connection was broken, but she hadn't felt the usual little pop." 
:::''Jillian, [[LIAB Text 17]]''

*"So, what? You can just mind-control your Ruler whenever he makes a decision you don't like? 
: No. Only when I am certain he is wrong. And, in fact, it involves great personal risk..." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[LIAB 33]]''

*"Bunny, when the battle starts I want you to send that bat's view to everybody in here." 
:::''King Don, [[LIAB 34]]''

*"Little lanterns in Maggie's mind kept blowing out, in ones, twos and threes. The dwagon units, being harvested. And some of the riders, impacting the ground and ceasing to exist (at least, as Gobwin Knob units she had to manage)." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Everyone else imagined Thinkamancy as a set of discrete capabilities: "relay a command" or "plant a suggestion" or "send a two-way visual/audible Thinkagram." They were meant to think of it that way. So long as that was the perception of the discipline, then its fundamental powers could stay largely unknown, untapped, and uncalled-upon." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Thinkamancers were aware of certain magical truths for which, quite intentionally, there were no words in Language." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"For example, a Thinkagram was not one type of spell. There was a spectrum, from which a Thinkamancer would choose one or more bands to communicate within. To someone without a sensitivity to this spectrum, it would be impossible to describe the advantages and capabilities of each, but many of those capabilities went entirely unused, except by Thinkamancers themselves. A warlord would only call for one of a short list of communiques: speech, orders, pictures and sounds. But he would not, for example, ask to communicate and compare his own intuition with that of an allied commander in the field. " 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Thinkamancers understood intuition to be a form of natural Predictamancy, in which a unit can dimly perceive its Fate on a subconscious level. To a Thinkamancer, intuition was as communicable as speech or emotion or the underlying intentions of orders. It could be sent and received, combined and multiplied, and manipulated." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"There were many other such hidden mechanics. There were mental senses which could not even be described to a non-Thinkamancer. The most important of these was the ability to sense Grandiocosmic Strings, the conduits of all magic power in Erfworld." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Only Thinkamancers even knew they existed. A Thinkamancer could feel out the G-Strings of the world, and vibrate upon them by plucking. That was how a Thinkagram was sent, and so much else. Each unit had its own individual G-String, which had many uses." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"This was what Maggie had been doing for several minutes. Putting little notches in her G-String. It was a coded message, passive, and costing no juice. Any Thinkamancer who plucked her would find this note in her G-String. " 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"He found himself staring up at the springmount, wondering if he should get up and tune it again. This one was modeled on a gwiffon, made of Thinkamancy-polarized Stuff and imprinted with Signamancy in bright yellow. It was centered on a single strong coil of steel anchored deeply into the ground. The mount shape was neither fanciful nor accidental. One used this instrument as a surrogate mount, climbing upon it and building up a physical oscillation of the proper frequency to detect and study the Thinkamancy of orders. The intent of a commander in issuing an order to a non-speaking unit, or of a Ruler in issuing an order to a remote field unit, was one of the most interesting forms of natural Thinkamancy, Isaac felt." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"G-strings vibrated on different frequencies, and would cancel or amplify each other across predictable distances. Before Isaac had built these devices, a Thinkamancer had to walk around until his head was in a place of amplification, then hold still." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"But staying within one node deprived the observer of important perspective, much in the way that closing one eye caused a loss of depth perception, or covering an ear made it hard to tell the direction of a sound. It had already been known that two linked Thinkamancers standing in different nodes could detect and send far better than any one caster. Isaac had figured out that one caster switching rapidly between nodes had a similar effect." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"He stood up, glancing up the hill to the great Temple. It was also made of polarized Stuff, designed long ago (and modified more recently) as a refuge. Cosmic vibrations couldn't penetrate it." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"At the top and bottom of the smooth inclined plane were nodes of intuition. One did not get more than a quick glimpse between the two, but that usually would suffice. If not, one could always climb the ladder again. This apparatus had a personal effect on the operator, giving him a glance at his own Fate and perhaps a vague insight or focus or warning." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"A tickle upon his brain, then Bunny, Transylvito's spooky Thinkamancer, "Your Royal Highness King Slately of Jetstone, His Royal Highness Don King of Transylvito." The words were only in his mind; she never spoke aloud. Don's image floated before him, seated as Slately was." 
:::''Slately, being contatced by Thinkamancy, [[LIAB Text 42]]''

*"Rulers have a natural Thinkamancy which allows them to relay orders to their field units, even without a Thinkamancer. He had an[sic] feel for what was going on with his forces, even sitting there in a chair in his capital's garrison's larder." 
:::''Stanley, [[LIAB Text 44]]''

*"In the empty side room, he sat holding his crown in his lap, pauper-like, while time ticked away and his units perished in the dungeons below. He saw their lights in his mind, being extinguished in twos and threes. No-one was leveling. It was clearly an awful rout." 
:::''Slately, demonstrating a Ruler's natural Thinkamancy, [[LIAB Text 48]]''

*"Maggie," Stanley said to the air. It was a form of order only a Thinkamancer could follow. "Maggie!" 
:::''Stanley, contacting a distant Thinkamancer, [[LIAB Text 49]]''

*"There's way too many ways a Thinkamancer can incapacitate me." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on rushing a stack of Thinkamancers, [[LIAB 67]]''

*"For discretion, Chief Parson. You can break contact at any time." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB 84]]''

*"I will thank you not to... put my Chief Warlord into thinkspace without... my mind on the call!" 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB 84]]''

*"Maggie, what are you doing? Why are you running in place? I apologize, Lord. I can't spare the attention to alter my... appearance at the moment. I am... physically moving toward your position." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[LIAB 85]]''

*"The numbers rose as a column, into the millions and billions and more, a silver thread stretching up and away from the peace below. This thread was being drawn up by the system of the world. Thinkamancers knew it as a "Grandiocosmic string." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"Delphie’s last sentence had been delivered in a perfectly friendly and casual tone, but it carried the natural Thinkamancy weight of a direct order." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 2]]''

*"The Thinkamancy inherent in giving them commands would have to be so specific to the throat and mouth muscles..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on making uncroaked sing, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"All at once, completely new senses opened up in her head and she was flooded with information. She could see the distant lights of minds, know the numbers and locations and points of units." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on being promoted to Overlord, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"Delphie was there in the tower, wounded." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on knowing the status of a distant unit, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"In Wanda's head, Delphie's light went out as well. Gone." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on using Ruler (instead of Croakamancer) senses to detect the death of a unit, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"Even as she struggled to comprehend, this brand new part of her mind calmly told her the score. The Garrison had seven Goodminton units left. Four." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on knowing the number of units in her City, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

===Foolamancy===
*"Waitwaitwait. Time out. We can ''veil'' our troops?" 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 61]]''

*"There is ''absolutely'' no way to pull this 'veiling' thing, right? 
::No, you need a Foolamancer in– 
:... in the stack you're veiling, right. 
::Yes, and– 
:''And'' we can't do it with the Eyemancers linked up. ''And'' we can't cast on the enemy's turn." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"We got eleven pairs of warlord eyes here, and he's got thirty or so units. So there's like 300 chances to blow the veil, if he's got one." 
:::''Vinny Doombats, [[TBFGK 107]]''

*" Lord, recall the Foolamancy veil I cast on your lackey. That would not have worked on a gobwin. It worked because Bogroll already resembled you in most important aspects." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 148]]''

*"Above the fountain of sparks there appeared a huge, glowing apparition of Stanley the Tool's face, surrounded by bright rays of red and gold, just as he appeared on his new emblem. But these rays were like arrows pulsing outward, outward... go that way, scatter! Whether the archons took the direction literally or not, they knew the big giant head projection was beyond any of their natural Foolamancy abilities, and it certainly had not been part of the rehearsal." 
:::''The narrator, [[First Intermission 7]]''

*"You must conserve your remaining juice. What can you do cheaply? A simple displacement? 
:If we use a flash to cover the casting, it ought to do." 
:::''Wanda & Jack, [[LIAB 6]]''

*"Form a flash mob over the bridge. 
::[...] 
:You are free to cast. The enemy can see nothing else in this hex." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[LIAB 6]]''

*"But [Charlie] had still gone to great risk to give her cover along the way, using veiled Archons to scout out safe routes. These were probably detectable only by a Foolamancer, another Archon, or a lucky/smart Warlord." 
:::''Jillian, [[LIAB Text 6]]''

*"Foolamancy is Eyemancy. By habit and trade, a Foolamancer must look. At all times, the Foolamancer must observe the nouns around him in finest detail and broadest stroke, in a way that other minds do not. Other minds take shortcuts. Other minds construct, telling themselves ''stories'' about what they see, rather than seeing. Foolamancy is therefore only a narrative. To tell a mind it sees something, the Foolamancer must both see the world as it is, and also as it is seen. Staring into the void of that discrepancy is what drives one mad, really." 
:::''Jack, [[LIAB Text 10]]''

*"Hilary and her partner Avril took up a risky blind, directly over the heads of Prince Sammy's leadership stack. They kept the rising sun at their backs, relative to the warlords, and spent most of their juice to shine out their shadows. It was tricky, but worth it." 
:::''Narration, [[LIAB Text 18]]''

*"Habitually, he sought out the lines and dots of the scenery, the little hooks that other minds used to build their idea of the world around them." 
:::''Jack, [[LIAB Text 21]]''

*"Phoebe was made of brick. She was covered in soot. Black and red and gray, matching the colors of her raiment. All in a column, matching her general body size and opacity. She was a chimney on a rooftop, one of many dozens. It was a really good veil. Maybe her best ever. Gold star! The enemy’s minds would not have to reconcile very much with their eyes, and that was the name of the game." 
:::''Phoebe, [[LIAB Text 56]]''

*"He was wearing a very good scouting veil; she was very lucky to have spotted him in the tree. But such items are fragile, and this one had been destroyed in the melee." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"Upon the flat landing near the top of the pagoda, an honor guard raised the bells of their banner-hung trumpets and called out a fanfare in brassy harmony. "Blatt, bippa, braaaang... Buh-brang! Buh-braaaang!" [...] Bright flares shot upward from the roof in blazing yellow and green, Faq’s colors. A flock of white doves was released from the eaves. [...] Squads of sharply synchronized soldiers raised their spears in reverent salute to her approach. The steel tips of twoscore spears glinted in the sunlight. [...] Behind the honor guard, in the shade of the upwardly curving rooftop, she could now see a full formal reception. There stood her father and the entire Court. All of Faq’s casters were there, in their humble matching robes. Servants waited in the shadows with teacups and sweetmeats. She recognized the slender Add Hawk, standing right next to big Brother Orwell the Lookamancer. There was Marie LaVraie, the Predictamancer, and Sister Betsy Murgatroyd the Healomancer. The Signamancer, Brother Labeler, stood beside Jack Snipe, their indispensable Foolamancer. Moothfott the Moneymancer stood at the right hand of King Banhammer, of course. Even the lowly and disfavored Shockmancer, Rusty Trombone, was standing off to one side. They all smiled at her serenely as she pulled beside the edge of the tower top. Floating on the cool breeze came the gentle whisper of bamboo flutes. [...] She planted her boots on the worn hardwood, which was littered with yellow rose petals in a trail that led straight to her father the King. There he stood, his great arms crossed in judgment. But his face was smiling proudly, as if to say “All is forgiven, welcome home.” [...] Her boots clomp-clomped over the flower petals." 
:::''Narration, describing the range of sights, sounds, set pieces and units types & individuals that Jack Snipe could create, [[IPTSF Text 30]]''

*"It was just for your eyes, of course, Royal Highness." 
:::''Jack Snipe, on Fooling for one, [[IPTSF Text 30]]''

==Hippiemancy==
*"Among other things, Hippiemancy is the magic of relationships: detecting and altering the forces of opposition and attraction which bind people or units." 
:::''Duncan Scone, [[LIAB Text 11]]''

*"But Hippiemancy is people magic, and Janis also had a heavy understanding about relationships." 
:::''Janis Atlantis, [[LIAB Text 37]]

===Flower Power===
*"But in the presence of so much Flower Power, time perception sort of ''crumbles''. The Hippiemancers call it– 'Flaking.' I know." 
:::''Sizemore & Wanda, [[TBFGK 11]]''

*"Even a Grand Abbie couldn't hope to quiet the coming battle." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 13]]''

*"What did you just do to him? Mm? Oh, just basic Flower Power. He can't engage this turn." 
:::''Parson, Janis & Sizemore, [[LIAB 65]]''

*"I think... I think they mainly keep units from being able to engage." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"The figure in the tower was employing the apparatus they all had assumed was a weapon, but in fact it was a stringed instrument. She plucked and strummed upon it, and even from so far away, they could hear it perfectly. The music took an otherworldly, magical route to their ears." 
:::''Narration, on a Florist quieting a Hex, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"Tommy's sword came down upon his target like a feather. He merely tapped the shoulder of the soldier with the flat of his blade, as if knighting him." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"As if in a dream, she could not swing it with any significant force. The staff moved as if she were trying to stir honey with it." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"The spell would be on the city through Haffaton's turn tomorrow, and could be cast again." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"So red. So angry. Your Life aura, Warlord. It's just awful. Can't you relax? You're in no danger here, I promise. 
::Wanda watched Tommy's face, what she could see of it. He seemed not to change his expression, and barely to relax his posture, but suddenly Olive brightened. 
:Yes! Better!" 
:::''Olive Branch, on seeing auras, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Apparently putting a hand inside the enemy's shirt was not a form of engagement that was prevented by Olive's spell. " 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 14]]''

*"As she walked down another empty hall, Wanda casually held out her staff and tipped a ceramic vase of dried orange flowers from its marble pedestal. The crash was painful to her wine-tenderized head, yet enormously satisfying. Really, even the pain of it was satisfying. So Olive's spellsong did not prevent this form of engagement, either." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 14]]''

*"With a perfunctory "Thanks," she upended the helmet and placed the plant's roots inside. She stepped a few feet away from the uncroaked and turned around to do something to the plant. Wanda could tell she was casting, but not what. [...] When Olive turned around, she held a perfectly healthy green plant in a steel planter." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"This unit has Motion, and that is something a Hippiemancer would know nothing of." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, disparaging a Florist, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"As with yesterday, her voice reached them from everywhere and nowhere, sweet and haunting." 
:::''Narration, on Olive quieting Kiloton, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"Wordlessly, Tommy drew his sword. He stepped out into the courtyard and swung it as hard as he could at a Haffaton soldier who was standing in the sunlight, chewing on a dried pear. The sword stopped in midair, an inch from the man's neck." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"When they finally drew apart, Tommy looked distant and distracted. [..] His voice was barely a loud whisper. [...] his voice low and strained. Wanda watched him closely. He was in deep distress. [...] Tommy looked as pained as Wanda had ever seen him, and he said nothing more until the group had spent the move of its slowest units. [...] Then he dismounted his brontosword, slid down its side, and collapsed into the snow." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being poisoned, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"A crit to the head would cause the muscles to seize at croaking. But one to the heart left the muscles starved out, relaxed and unable to contract. Tommy's were like that." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the effects of Olive's poison on Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"There were almost no functioning nerves in Tommy's heart. Or... his stomach, or most of the rest of his internal organs. He probably had not been in pain, but he must have known something was very wrong." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the effects of Olive's poison on Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She had never seen one before, and she did not understand how it worked, but this was certainly a poisoning. And poisons, both natural and magical, were Flower Power." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She'd also asked him to kiss her. So she did not initiate an engagement in the city." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on a workaround of quieting, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

===Signamancy===
*"The Signamancers claimed that all Stuff was Foolamancy. Our bodies and all the things we see and touch were supposed to only be Signs: symbols of their true nature. Vinny didn't know about all that, but a person's appearance was definitely a Sign. It told you how they think about themselves. And how others see them."
:::''Vinny Doombats, reflecting on what he's been told about Signamancy, [[First Intermission 37]]''

*"Signamancy was a terrible curse. The Titans knew his true nature. No unipegataur-riding warrior king was he, no towering leader and orator. Over the three-thousand or so turns he had ruled, he had only once seen battle, and that from a well-guarded turret. And so he had shrunk. Gone white and fat." 
:::''King Slately Jetsone, [[LIAB Text 33]]''

*"No signs stood to point the way, but the Signamancy of a caster's home portal was plainer than writing." 
:::''Narration, on the color of Portals in the Magic Kingdom, [[IPTSF Text 21]]''

*"Sides with a Signamancer always kept the tidiest cities in Erfworld." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 30]]''

===Date-a-mancy===
*"Date-a-mancy is the oddest branch of Hippiemancy, in that it follows the Numbers which underlie all action. Date-a-mancy tries to quantify the intangible, things like leadership and compatibility and morale and Loyalty and Duty and even love, by means of match-ups." 
:::''Duncan Scone, [[LIAB Text 11]]''

==Naughtymancy==
===Shockmancy===
*"Their Shockmancer was here, a couple turns back. Gone now. He spelled up that tower hard, Bunny. " 
:::''Caesar Borgata, [[First Intermission 47]]''

*"It's natural Shockmancy. When you fall, one of three things happens: you are injured (possibly only slightly), you are incapacitated (you croak in one turn if not given Healomancy), or you just croak. Height of the fall does seem to have some bearing on that, but it's essentially random." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33b]]''

*"She'd told Tommy about spelling up Minnow Tower, and he'd said it was smart thinking. But he never said what kind of effect the raw Shockmancy they were storing in the tower might have in battle." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on having Delphi & Clay juicing up the tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

===Croakamancy===
*"Uncroaked casters just function as infantry..." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 77a]]''

*"She explained it this way. 'Croakamancy comes from the mind.' The more time and attention the caster spends uncroaking the unit, the closer it will be to its original strength and abilities when it was alive. And the more turns it lasts before degrading. So a good croakamancer can mass-animate every fallen unit in a hex, or city zone. But they'll be the weakest kind, and only last a few turns." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 116]]''

*"These are Uncroaked. They require a simple, specific order of battle." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 123]]''

*"Uncroaked infantry, led by a master-class Croakamancer... can." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on dance-fighting, [[TBFGK 127]]''

*"I can decrypt many unit types which had been impossible to uncroak before." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on using the Arkenpliers, [[TBFGK 146]]''

*"From what I can tell, they're like the dwagons are with Stanley. They're loyal to the 'pliers, and therefore to Cruella herself. For all I know, she can see through their eyes and hear what they hear. But if not, they'll prob'ly just tell her anything interesting when they can." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on Decrypted, [[First Intermission 44]]''

*"And what Lady Firebaugh was doing with hers was causing real alarm. The theoretical consensus was that she was extending Croakamancy to the Life axis." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"A big one being, "we don't know if he'd still be able to cast or not." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on decrypting a caster, [[LIAB 11]]

*"Tool, we don't even know if they keep existing without her." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on the Decrypted and the possibility of losing Wanda, [[LIAB 22]]''

*"She could animate the husks of the once-living." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, right after popping, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"We can animate the casualties. Their units and ours, if we take the city!" 
:::''Overlord Firebaugh & Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"Bodies of croaked units decay the next turn. So we would need her on the battlefield." 
:::''Overlord Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"I would have a leadership bonus over uncroaked units, Lord." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"She had senses that she did not yet understand were unique to Croakamancers, and she used them on the fallen scout. His bones she could feel without touching him. She knew which ribs and teeth and vertebrae were broken." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"There would be some craft to this uncroaking, as not all of the original muscles and sinew could be counted on to perform their original functions. That was not a problem. That was what Croakamancy was for. Where a knee would no longer bend, where a bicep no longer existed to flex an arm, the Croakamancer made magical Motion to move the Matter." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"When she had removed all of his raiment, she still could see better with her natural Croakamancy sense than her eyes." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"The body of the scout would have depopped at dawn, had they not moved it out of the hex where it was croaked. Claimed as a spoil for Goodminton, it would only decay a bit when they started their turn later in the morning." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"This scene was a massacre: twenty-two enemy saps, an enemy warlord, and forty-three of their own infantry. She could feel them each, sense the skulls and the hearts and the spines." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"This is a warlord. If I uncroak him, he would benefit from all of my attention, and all of the juice I can spare. The more carefully I cast, the fewer mistakes I might make, and the more he will retain of the power he had in life. I believe I could make him last as long as ten or twelve turns, and retain about half his levels and leadership." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"What are our other choices? 
::I could concentrate on uncroaking more than one unit, diluting the effects, but giving us more units. Or I could attempt to mass uncroak every unit in the hex. 
:You could do that? 
::Tommy... I-I don’t know. I feel it might be too much for me. A disaster. I could become overwhelmed. Maybe we wouldn’t get any units at all out of it. But if I succeeded, then the uncroaked units I create probably would not last more than a turn. Even the warlord." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"She silently ordered the line of uncroaked to bow in unison, which prompted more cheers and laughter." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 10]]''

*"Blood flowed to her face, a mechanism she understood down to the tissues and sinus cavities within her head, for Croakamancy was a beautiful art. She felt her eyelids getting hot, ducts and vessels dilating. She was just a speck of Matter, herself, after all." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 10]]''

*"Wanda waved her staff vaguely in the direction of one of the uncroaked knights in their stack. He tilted his head a bit and grinned happily, showing his remaining teeth around proudly." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Wanda made her Fellow fold his hands together and flex his arms like a champion, grinning obscenely at everyone." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Life magic, Wanda. Croakamancers don't use it." 
:::''Olive Branch, disparaging a Croakamancer, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"Make sure all the Fellows are in the Courtyard, except the ones me and you are stacking with. Wanda nodded, and mentally sent the order as she took another deep swig of chocolate. "Done." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"But before she could even get her boots out of the stirrups, her senses as a Croakamancer told her she would find his lifeless body upon the ground." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"The first thing to determine in uncroaking a body is what took its life, because that was where the most repair and attention would likely be needed. Attention was the key. A simple or a mass uncroaking took no more attention than lighting a candle, with the Matter of the body representing the candle wax. The body would move as it could, and take simple orders until its fuel was exhausted a few turns later." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"But the craft of the Croakamancer was to understand the body's condition, its functions, its strengths and weaknesses." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"The Croakamancer could conserve the fuel of the body by focusing her juice upon the mechanisms of its movement, repairing and augmenting them with magic. An expertly uncroaked unit could function almost as well as it had when alive, and last for perhaps dozens of turns." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"If this body had no wounds, then what croaked it? Sensing her way through the architecture of his insides, she could not immediately say. Something about the muscles was familiar, though. She had uncroaked the victims of critical hits before. A crit to the head would cause the muscles to seize at croaking. But one to the heart left the muscles starved out, relaxed and unable to contract." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"So she focused on his heart. She tried to make it beat once, and knew something was wrong. One tells a muscle to move by means of the nerves, and reconnecting nerves by magic was one of the trickier parts of an attentive uncroaking." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She had never made one so beautifully preserved. The bloating in his face faded, as some slow circulation of the blood was possible in this one. She was overjoyed at the results. Almost everything a living unit could do, this one could..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on uncroaking her brother, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Then she thought out an order, and Un-Tommy disengaged from his melee." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Re-attaching the head during the uncroaking process had been an interesting new challenge." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Even through blinding blasts, Wanda's Croakamancy senses let her know that the first enemy casualties had been struck and were falling. She sensed broken skulls and wings and burst organs inside the bodies that spiraled down through the air toward the courtyard below." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on detecting the dead, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"And the Fellows...they're really quite weak without leadership." 
:::''Pom Fritz, on uncroaked units, [[IPTSF Text 25]]''

*"Wanda could feel the consumption of Matter there in the fireplace, too, if she chose to. " 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on burning logs, [[IPTSF Text 25]]''

*"As they marched on, she hoped for an ambush, or any enemy encounter, so that she might spend her juice this turn making fresh units instead of hopelessly re-patching these. It was better than wasting the juice entirely, but there was only so much she could do. These bodies were decaying inexorably to dust, and only the Titans could prevent that." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on extending the duration of uncroaked, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"From what she understood of her discipline, it ought to be possible to make them sing, if she were a master of Croakamancy. Singing was part of the Stagemancy involved in dance fighting. So how would that work, she wondered? The Thinkamancy inherent in giving them commands would have to be so specific to the throat and mouth muscles... maybe if she sang the order to them? Or thought of singing it? Hmm..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"If you're croaked, and that is no joke, you pass the yoke of Chief to a bloke named Fritz... '''Pooda onga riiish!'''" 
:::''Wanda & Tommy, demonstrating uncroaked theater, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"Uncroaked units were cheap." 
:::''Jillian Banhammer, [[IPTSF Text 28]]''

===Retconjuration===
*'''This is a theoretical branch of magic, like an undiscovered element on the periodical table.
*'''No ordinary caster can practice it; there are no Retconjurers in Erfworld.
*'''It is reserved for the Titans.'''
:::''Titan Rob, Word of the Titans 8/19/2009

*"Hey, maybe she's a Retconjuror. Oh do not even joke about that. There is no such thing." 
:::''Tommy & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 11]]''

==Stagemancy==
*"Singing was part of the Stagemancy involved in dance fighting." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

===Hat Magic===
*"Is it dual use? Abjuration only. Report any engagements and observations at the end of your move." 
:::''Jillian & Ansom, [[TBFGK 9]]''

*"The sun was setting, as a tired woman with raw red eyes waved a wand over an upturned silk hat, and saw the letter inside vanish." 
:::''Queen Bea, [[First Intermission 43]]''

*"You know, I can do some small object conjuration for you. You just have to tell me what you need." 
:::''Cubbins, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"He dropped it into the crown and waved his scepter over it three times. "Pinochet," he intoned. The coin was made to disappear." 
:::''Slately, sending a coin to King Don, [[LIAB Text 42]]''

*"Sire, I can help too. Hand me your crown." 
:::''Cubbins, prior to modifying something into a Magic Item, [[LIAB 69]]''

*"One of the units in the group, for example, was a snow golem. It was a terribly crude thing, made of only three large balls of snow she had rolled up, with sticks for arms and small black rocks for features. It moved lurchingly forward and was almost useless as a unit. But as abominable as it was, she was quite proud of her first attempt at hat magic." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, demonstrating unit creation, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"The snow golem she ordered to stand sentry at the base of Minnow Tower. Then she took the silk top hat from its head, reducing it to a mere ornament." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"It stayed right in place via the natural Dollamancy (or was it natural Hat Magic?) of just belonging there." 
:::''Narration, on Wanda's jaunty hat, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

===Carnymancy===
*"Carnymancy. It's... the magic of rigging the game. Here! That's a crude slander on our noble discipline, sir. Oh, truly you do wound me. But yes." 
:::''Parson & Jojo, [[LIAB 63]]''

*"But we had this Carnymancer who really liked me. He saved me from croaking by rigging the incapacitation rules on me. They hauled me back to the capital in a wagon, and he cast over me every day for ten turns, just keeping me alive. 
::Until they got you a Healomancer?" 
:Pff, no. Queen Bea was mad enough at all the fuss over a Level 1 stabber. No, one day I just popped up off the bed, good as new. The Carnymancer said he'd 'made a trade' for me." 
:::''Sylvia & Archer, [[LIAB 86]]''

*"Then what can we do? Our specialties, of course. Stirring up trouble, roping a dope. You dodgers work the crowd. Get 'em in a real lather. Maybe they'll shoot him." 
:::''Unnamed Carnymancer & Jojo, [[LIAB 90]]''

===Rhyme-o-mancy===
*"A poetic incantation could settle the mind, focus any caster on their work." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Even warlords could use Rhymes in leadership, for morale and focus, and in dance fighting." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Those bawdy trail songs of Tommy's were crude, but effective on the units under his command. Her singing along with the knights had likely helped her spot that scout on her first day." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Songs and poems held great and mysterious power." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"But to use Rhyme-o-mancy in casting, it must be quick and clever, and it must rhyme. If she flubbed the rhyme, the spell would weaken or fail completely." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"The attention of an entire day was collapsed into those few seconds." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

==Clevermancy==
*"Clevermancy should have no Xs. It's raw magic dealing with raw magical forces." 
:::''Titan Rob, Word of the Titans 2315787''

===Luckamancy===
*"Delphie tells you what to cast, doesn’t she? What battles to affect. What units to...what, bless? 
::Yeah. I just say ‘boost.’” 
:And you can alter the outcome of a battle, by casting ahead of time. You boost up a unit’s luck by a lot, or a whole side’s luck by a little? 
::Yeah, kind of. Or jinx the enemy. Battles are hard, though. Sides are harder. Units are pretty easy. I boost our warlords all the time." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"I boosted his roll to a 4! I changed his odds, chose a way to describe the outcome of his choices. You see?” He picked up the dice and showed them to her. “The dice are not the guy, okay? In this case the guy is imaginary, and the dice are representing him. But this is real life,” he said, making a circle in the air with his index finger, “and you are not the dice. Okay? In real life, you are real, but the dice are imaginary. The dice that describe your choices. Mathamancy describes those, and Luckamancy affects those." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Now here's an important thing, though. Where did those 4s come from? 
::From you. You cast upon the die. 
:So you're saying my juice had a physical effect on the way the die rolled. 
::Yes. 
:Yes and no. It's not a direct effect, you see? The 4 is a Number. It had to come from somewhere. 
::The juice in your spell did not create the outcome, you are saying. Your spell did not create the 4. It...what?" What was the alternative? "Enabled it, somehow? 
: Honestly?That's the nice way to say it. Whatt'm saying is that maybe that die would have come up 4s three times anyway. So maybe my spell did nothing at all, at least so far. That's why I say it'll roll high 'for a little while.' I don't know." 
:::''Clay & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"But here's what I do know. And maybe it's kind of a secret of my discipline but I think it's important, and I wanna tell you. Luckamancy doesn't create good outcomes, because that would undermine Mathamancy and Predictamancy. Mathamancy deals with real Numbers. If Luckamancy could just create Numbers out of juice, out of thin air, then every odds calculation would be off. Y'see? So what Luckamancy actually does is steal Numbers from the world." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"Where do you steal the Numbers from? Well, the world. If you rolled all the D4s in the world a bunch of times, that one included, you'd get an even mix of ones, twos, threes and fours. This little guy stole his roll from somewhere, and I think the world is lazy, you know? I don't think it goes very far to steal good outcomes when I boost one of our warlords, you know?" 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"Would it steal from our enemies? If only. That's the one thing it really doesn't do. In fact we sometimes see the opposite. The enemy rolls better than they should or... or we roll worse." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"What, it steals Numbers from us?! Not all the time! I mean, it depends. The net effect is still good for us, because we're picking the right battles to win. But yeah it can be really hard on the rest of our side, sometimes. Especially unled and unboosted units. We...lose more of those kind of battles than we should." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"A Luckamancy boost could have any number of specific effects on a unit's "dice." Defensively, it could affect their chance to be hit, the damage they would take from hits, their chance of receiving a critical hit, their chance of being incapacitated or croaked from a fall, et cetera. Or it could affect the enemy's outcomes: their defenses." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Frenemy units fell by twos and threes, the victims of outrageously high damage outcomes and critical hit rates." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of Luckamancy on battle, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"You know how when a unit falls, it can croak, or be incapacitated, or just be plain wounded and lose some hits? 
::Yes? 
:Well, that's Luckamancy, too. And I'm thinking f'we get into another airspace fight we can first cast against the enemy to make 'em more likely to croak in a fall. Then we can go for dismounting attacks. And there's not a lot of, um, downside to that. Less backlash from borrowing Numbers, right? Because we don't use air mounts. We do a lot less falling. See?" 
:::''Clay & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 22]]''

===Healomancy===
*"It contained a healing elixir of his own devising, the recipe of which varied, but usually consisted of "two gin rations, stirred with a Wand of Cure Incapacitation." 
:::''Pierce, mentioning a type of wand, [[LIAB Text 41]]''

===Moneymancy===
*"It had been as ridiculous as everything else in Erfworld, rebuilding the city. The Overlord ordered it, the treasury was debited, and the city was instantly recreated. It was only Moneymancy. When it happened, Parson was standing in the ruins of the courtyard. There was a sound like a wind chime, with a whoosh of orchestral cymbals. Enormous, blinding magical sparkles filled the sky and the ground. And then the city was simply standing again, fully intact. There was no more rubble, not even a wisp of settling dust." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[First Intermission 1]]''

=Axes=
*"Its numbers were being shaped and guided by the firmament, by what magic theorists called the Erf Axis. For when the price was paid, it was Erfworld which processed the transaction. The world would produce the unit that was called for...more or less. There was the matter of the Fate Axis as well, and this unit was turning out to be very special." 
:::''Narration, on popping a unit, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

==Erf==

==Fate==
*"Fate is inevitable, Warlord. But our ''path'' to it is not. We must first divine, and then ''enact'' our destinies. To live is to suffer. Our Fate is our only release. So if we fight against Fate, or fail to act in support of it when the way is clear, then we only worsen and prolong our misery. Our choices do matter. Wise choices ease the way, and foolish ones cause suffering." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[LIAB 70]]''

==Numbers==
*"Life is all Numbers. Ask any Mathamancer; they know." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"To live is to stand on one side of an equation, which must equal zero in the end. There is a price, a cost in Numbers, to be paid for staying alive. Zero is a balance, an equilibrium. Zero is a flat country, neither far away nor near. You can travel there any time, at the cost of your life. And perhaps, if someone were to pay the price to the exact number, you could even return again. That Mathamancers often say such things, and nod to one another soberly, is thought to be why they tend to keep to their own company." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"Few casters doubted what was said of the Numbers Axis, but even fewer understood. Not consciously, anyway." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"This unit would be worth far more than the buyer had paid for. That was no violation of Numbers, though. It simply meant that this unit carried a balance due. And though it was an astronomically high figure, someone would pay. Zero always called, and someone would have to pay." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

[[Category:Canon]]
[[Category:Erfworld Mechanics]]
[[Category:Magic]]
[[Category:Quotes]]

Quotes: Magic

2013-01-08T04:34:18Z

No one in particular: /* Foolamancy */

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Quoted statements about the various forms and branches of magic.

''Next quote to be pulled from'': [[IPTSF Text 29]]

note to self: Pull quotes from [[TBFGK 38a]] later; basics of magic, classes &c.

=General=
*"He told me that Casters are Commanders, and can lead stacks, but they almost never do. Casters are too rare and valuable to risk, and they give no leadership bonus to the stack anyway. Only Warlords have leadership. Makes sense. Except for certain exceptions. Like, say... the bonus those golems get if they're led by a Dirtamancer. Or the huge one to Uncroaked units being led by a Croakamancer(!)." 
:::''Parson's Klog, [[TBFGK 84a]]''

*"Casters can also spend juice, doing most things casters do: make scrolls, items, golems, uncroak, turn Schmuckers to gems (or vice versa but that doesn't cost juice), upgrade units, etc." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on off-turn actions, [[LIAB 33a]]''

*"Okay, you said you can cast in the Magic Kingdom, right? 
:Yes..." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[LIAB 45]]''

*"Ahead and below, the target threw some Shockmancy bolts up at them. The defense was automatic. Not only were there no casters there to direct the stored spells, but there were apparently no commanders of any kind in the city." 
:::''Jillian, on tower defenses, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

*"Wanda said she thought it was a whole mess of different magicks, what'd she say... Shockmancy, obviously. Rhyme-o-mancy because it rocked out. Carnymancy because it made big flashes and sometimes could make things disappear (he never could do it on purpose, though). And what else? Changemancy? He looked at the hammer closely. There might be a lot more he could do with it besides taming dwagons, which was... Date-o-mancy, he guessed?" 
:::''Stanley, on the Arkenhammer, [[LIAB Text 44]]''

*"He had not actually crossed the threshold to Master class, but that could happen any time a caster gained powerful new insight into his discipline or major class." 
:::''Sizemore, on Class vs Level, [[LIAB Text 45]''

*"The Arkendish's feel was all over that Turnamancy spell." 
:::''Rachel, on the feel of a spell, [[LIAB Text 53]]''

*"N'they're like archers; they'd be able to take shots at me any time." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on caster attacks, [[LIAB 71]]

*"Each discipline of magic has its own special insight into cosmic truths." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"A ball of juice formed between her outstretched fingers. The hoboken is the basic offensive spell known to almost all casters at the time they pop." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"Wanda snorted, but then had to admit casters can't actually see one another's discipline." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 11]]''

*"It was not offensive; she could cast it before Goodminton broke alliance." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on a Dirtamancy scroll that modified the tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"It had been as effective as her effort at Rhyme-o-mancy, but it left her no better understanding of what she had cast." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on casting outside her discipline, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Delphie immediately leveled up to 5, and her spells became that much more potent." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

=Elements=
*"Here was a complicated bit of Matter. Once it had possessed Life and Motion, but those had been taken away from it. And though only the Titans could restore Life to it, she could give it Motion again, once she had the juice." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the body of a croaked scout, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"The three Elements were created equal. Are you a Titan, to say otherwise?" 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Life==
*"Life magic, Wanda. Croakamancers don't use it." 
:::''Olive Branch, disparaging a Croakamancer, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Motion==
*"This unit has Motion, and that is something a Hippiemancer would know nothing of." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, disparaging a Florist, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Matter==

=Classes=
==Hocus Pocus==
===Findamancy===
===Predictamancy===
*"Marie, of course, had told her many times that she had Predicted the fall of her side, the kingdom where she and Wanda had served. But when it came to explaining how the fall had happened, how she and Wanda both had escaped destruction in different ways, she wouldn't budge. 
:'It all got cloudy,' was all she would really say. 'It happens. I saw it would come and I wonned my Rulah. But when it came it all got cloudy, I don't know.' " 
:::''Janis & Marie, [[LIAB Text 37]]''

*"Thinkamancers understood intuition to be a form of natural Predictamancy, in which a unit can dimly perceive its Fate on a subconscious level." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Shouldn't you know? Oh I should, yes. But turns like this, they come up time to time and everything afta is cloudy. Something has to get decided today, Sizemore. Fate will go fowad from there." 
:::''Sizemore & Marie, on the clarity of Predictions, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"It’s a complicated subject, Wanda. Predictamancy... You know, dear? There are rules we don’t discuss. About...what we don’t discuss." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 3]]''

*"Wanda, the reason that Predictamancers do not say everything we know is not because it would change the future, but because it usually will make it longer and more painful to reach those future outcomes. The less you know about what is to come, about your Fate, then the easier it will be for you to get there, the less... you and others will have to suffer, to lose." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 9]]''

*"Delphie looked at her Overlord and squinted a bit, examining him. Wanda could sense that she was using a kind of magical sight like her own Croakamancy senses. She'd asked Delphie a raft of questions about Predictamancy in correspondence from the road, as they'd worked out this plan. She knew Delphie was now intuiting something about Father's near-term outcomes." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Somewhere in those notes in her satchel, there was a brief explanation of how Predictamancy worked in combat. It amounted to the caster using her juice to see things happen a second or two ahead, so that she could aim where the enemy would be, and to move where the enemy's return blows and arrows would not land." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Most importantly to this plan, a Predictamancer could know whether or not a shot or blow she was about to initiate would be a hit. If it wouldn't, then she simply did not take the shot." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Only one magic blast struck Fritz's shield. Delphie sidestepped the others as necessary, still casting in a kind of concentration trance." 
:::''Narration, on a Predictamancer in battle , [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Not everyone walking these halls has a purpose. I cannot make Predictions about every unit, or commander, or even every ruler." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

*"It was the only way Goodminton could survive you. 
::You don't know that. You never Predicted that. 
:No. I can't. Fate doesn't care about us. That's the terror of it; we have no Fate. The world doesn't care if we live or not. Only about you." 
:::''Delphie & Wanda, on who has Fate, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

*"However much Faq wanted to avoid crossing paths, it was inevitable. Battlespace determinations were Natural Predictamancy. She would be spotted by the enemy and allow them an encounter of some sort, all too close to her own territory." 
:::''Jillian Banhammer, [[IPTSF Text 27]]''

===Mathamancy===
*"Mathamancy is what, again? Analyzing probabilities... predicting outcomes? Yes, and the raw calculations of that work." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 54]]''

*"CharlsNChrg: Tell me the odds that learning what happened to my Archons right now will be worth giving up those calculations in the future. 
:LordHamster: ... 
:LordHamster: I don't know if this thing can even DO a calculation like that. Predicting the future? 
:CharlsNChrg: Try it. 
:LordHamster: Fine. 
:LordHamster: I'll be damned. 
:LordHamster: It says there's all of a 4% chance it's worth taking my deal, even after spending this calculation. 
::[...] 
:LordHamster: Teaching me that my bracer can make sophisticated predictions about the future? Priceless." 
:::''Charlie & Parson, [[First Intermission 39]]

*"The dice describe the world. They don’t determine it. A Mathamancer can tell you how many dice will be rolled, how many points’ll be lost when you’re wounded. He’ll tell you what’ll probably happen, and possibly happen, and what can’t happen." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Mathamancy deals with real Numbers." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

==Spookism==
===Turnamancy===
*"Having a Turnamancer reduced the production of an heir by twenty turns, and with funds coming in from Transylvito, Vanna was able to boost Otoh and Kibo's production drastically." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 49]]''

*"That level 6 Jitterati warlord, Duncan Scone, was now her best fighter. Vanna had done some good work to turn him, but the dungeon didn't much interest Jillian. Vanna didn't really know how to play right." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 49]]''

*"You okay? 
::Yes. That was just like, whoa. Intense. You know? 
:How's your juice? 
::Low. That spell cost two turns' worth, basically. 
:::''Jillian & Vanna, on KingWorld, [[LIAB 22]]''

*"Can't move to other hexes (because of zero move, exceptions possible using Turnamancy)." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33a]]''

*Next turn, when the Turnamancer had juice, she would be able to cast a mass spell that should convert half these prisoners to Faq units. The rest could be worked on in future turns." 
:::''Vanna, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

===Dollamancy===
*"Tell me about that. Where do changes of clothes come from?" [...] 
::"Well, it's Dollamancy, Lord," said Maggie, looking up at him. [...] "This particular 'outfit'... I would call it 'raiment'... came from the Magic Kingdom. The helm was made by one of our new Twolls. 
:"Yeah, how do Twolls do that? Bogroll made my armor, and he put the sword together. This new guy Zhopa just made me a picnic basket." [...] 
::"Twolls have the 'fabrication' special, which is a form of natural Dollamancy. Units with that ability can make small nonmagical items, usually armor and equipment. I understand that the next Twoll we pop will be assigned to the stables as a smith and saddlemaker." 
:Parson nodded. "But the rest of the clothes were from an actual Dollamancer?" 
::"Yes, his name is Ken." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"What about these symbols?" Parson slapped his chest plate. "My Hamstard crest and Wanda's skull emblem, and the Stanley posters. That's all Dollamancy, too?" "The emblems are called 'livery,' Lord. And yes, that is a common form of natural Dollamancy. New units pop bearing the livery their Ruler desires. Twolls can fabricate items which bear their master's livery. And when a caster creates another unit, as in golem-making or uncroaking, the caster sets the livery and other features of the unit's appearance." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"With a Dollamancer to heal the Cloth Golems and a Healomancer for the rest..." 
:::''Ossomer, [[LIAB 4]]''

*"There are different applications of Dollamancy. Lady Shortcake was fond of fashioning cloth golems. She was very imaginative. 
:Precious, puffy-looking animals. The hit of the parade. And when she wasn't doing that, she was always designing new raiment for the changing fashions at court!" 
:::''Cubbins & Ace, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Look, there's a lot you can do in Dollamancy. It's fabrication with a motion element, right? If we want." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Dollamancy is Fate magic, so I know something about that." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Ace stroked his chin, contemplating the King's potential as a combatant. "Start with your weapon, I guess. May I?" Slately put the Royal Scepter of Jetstone in the hands of a non-Royal caster without a moment's hesitation. It was a mark of his seriousness of purpose. But he did cringe as Ace began to take it apart." 
:::''Ace & Slately, on repurposing existing items, [[LIAB Text 48]]''

*"I'm thinkin' just defense for these, Cubbins. 
::Yeah, me too. 
:I'm just doin' blasts. You cover the tricky-fooly stuff, okay?" 
:::''Ace & Cubbins, [[LIAB 69]]''

*"As he modded the Royal Scepter, it dawned on Ace that he had become accustomed to working in cloth — weaving and cutting and shaping it to another Dollamancer's specifications." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 54]]''

*"Look, the cloth golems will be much stronger with my bonus." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB 93]]''

*"I don't have a lof of time, Cubs. But I can definitely... mff... add one feature to this puppy. Gonna call it "an autopilot." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB 99]]''

*"Upon claiming it, she’d imposed Goodminton’s livery on it by natural Dollamancy, reluctantly changing the black to slate blue. But on a whim, she kept just one of the pink flowers, offset in a patch of white." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on clothing, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Olay," she said, casting the minor Dollamancy spell that Teddy had taught her. The wrinkles in each piece went smooth, as the garment was restored to its new-turn condition." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

*"The Dollamancer had modified her old riding gloves into long, chamois evening gloves with stealthy riding grips sewn into the palms. Her clunky boots he'd turned into shiny black thigh-highs topped with lace, but still reinforced in the feet and ankles for combat riding." 
:::''Narration, on a Dollamancer modifying existing clothes, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

*"It stayed right in place via the natural Dollamancy (or was it natural Hat Magic?) of just belonging there." 
:::''Narration, on Wanda's jaunty hat, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

===Weirdomancy===
*"Weirdomancers can cancel a flyer's special to make it fall (or make a non-flyer fly, then dispel it and cause a fall)." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33b]]''

*"[...] to hiring a Weirdomancer to try to make the Gumps grow radishes in their branches, [...]" 
:::''Narration, [[LIAB Text 55]]''

==Stuffamancy==
*"How would you make a magic blanket?" Parson asked, gnawing on a heel of the rye loaf. "If you wanted one?" 
::Sizemore looked at Maggie, who was nibbling cheese, and spoke up. "That's Stuffamancy. Really versatile magic. Weapons, armor, tools... Stuffamancers just imagine it and conjure it." 
:"Conjure as in make it?" Parson said with his mouth full. "Create it? Or summon it from somewhere?" 
::Sizemore leaned forward excitedly, rocking a little as he spoke. "That's a great question, Warlord. There's a big debate about that, getting right down to the level of 'what is magic?' and 'what is stuff?' Some Casters think they're the same thing, and that Stuffamancy proves it. But even the Stuffamancers don't agree about that."
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[First Intermission 28]]''

===Dirtamancy===
*"... Sizemore can dig through solid rock, it's cool to watch." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 77a]]''

*"Hav- Having a Dirtamancer in your city when you upgrade it reduces the cost by a lot," he began. 
::Parson tried to see where this was going. "Okayyyy..."
:"But it means the Dirtamancer sets the appearance, the shape of things... and the livery." 
:::''Sizemore & Parson, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"At the end of the pavement, he frowned at a spot where the squares were sinking into the softer ground. Drawing his index finger over the pathway's edge, he spent a little juice to fix it." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"Dirtamancy was among the most rare and useful disciplines [in the Magic Kingdom]. Everyone needed a wall built, a garden tilled, a well dug, a foundation excavated. There were no city sites; construction was a manual industry." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"Can you tunnel? 
::Tunnel. 
:Yeah, can you? 
::Well, yes. 
:Good. Now can you tunnel under Portal Park, all the way from our portal to the one that goes to Spacerock? 
::I... ''can.''"
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[LIAB 45]]''

*"Without word or ceremony they lifted, and Jillian willed the city razed. With a great swirl of sparkling natural Dirtamancy, and a tinny crashing sound, Progrock turned to dust and rubble below them." 
:::''Jillian, razing Progrock, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

*"Touching the spade to the grass of Portal Park put Sizemore directly in touch with Erfworld. He sensed the physical world in deep, primal ways which he found difficult to convey to other casters. Even Changemancers and Dittomancers would stare at him blankly when he described it, though they too practiced forms of Stuffamancy." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"He could feel the ground feeling him, pulling him down, pushing up on the soles of his feet as he lifted each leg to walk. In the soil below, rocks sat immersed in the cold mud. Their whole surface touched it, in all dimensions at once. Sizemore could feel this contact as if the pebbles were his own toes and fingers" 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"Sizemore's mind slid away, down below his feet, to his other self. The strata, the stresses, the peace of land at rest, he understood them that way: as if they were parts of his own body. The ground could be comfortable and sedate, like a tired person feels when lying on onsic a soft mattress. Or it could be awkward, unsustainable, like a man trying to lean on a jagged stump, or sleep upside down on a stone staircase. The land in the Magic Kingdom was deeply, permanently at rest." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"This body analogy described something he had always intuited about the land. But only since his link with the Lady Firebaugh did he think of it consciously. His entire mental frame for visualizing his discipline had been reworked on that day. A hundred turns later, he was still reconsidering the fundamentals of his craft. [...] Between the volcano link-up and his three recent levels (two from traps and combat, one from all of the city rebuilding), Sizemore was now a greater Dirtamancer than he ever imagined he could become. He had not actually crossed the threshold to Master class, but that could happen any time a caster gained powerful new insight into his discipline or major class. The body analogy wasn't quite enough to push him past that mark; he was still missing something. But for the first time in his life, he felt pretty sure that he would get there." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"It felt strange and dirty, tingling with a magic she had barely even thought about." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the magical feel of a Dirtamancy scroll, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"The tower rose indeed, far higher into the sky than it had stood before. Stone blocks and tiles sprang from nothing, widening the platform upon which they stood." 
:::''Narration, on a Dirtamancy scroll modifying a tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"When she'd boosted the tower, a few such nice little changes in design, decor, and accouterments had crept in from her mind's eye." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

===Changemancy===
===Dittomancy===
*"Yes, and a Dittomancer doubling leadership and specials... duplicating surviving units... I see." 
:::''Ansom, [[LIAB 4]]''

*"And double those arrows, Caster. 
:Double 'em? Double 'em! I'll quadruple 'em." 
:::''Jetstone Warlord & Lloyd, [[LIAB 8]]''

*'''For the duplication of an actual unit, see: ''[[LIAB 79]]'''''

*"Doubles don't leave a body." 
:::''Tramennis, [[LIAB 88]]''

*"When Jetstone's next turn starts, you will vanish." 
:::''Charlie, to the Slately-ditto, [[LIAB 89]]''

==Eyemancy==
*"This [[eyebook|item]] works on "Eyemancy." Which covers "Lookamancy", "Thinkamancy", and "Foolamancy." And it uses all three of those." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 35]]''

*"The Eyemancers may be our single most valuable asset, above even the Arkenhammer. Ordering them linked was... the shrewdest thing I've ever known Stanley to do. They created the Eyebooks. They give us unmatched communications and intelliegence. When Stanley sees you have tampered with their functioning..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 47]]''

*"Spells are trickier. Most can't be cast unless there are enemy units in the same hex/city, but some like Lookamancy and Thinkagrams can be cast anytime." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on off-turn actions, [[LIAB 33a]]''

===Lookamancy===
*"Well, yes! I mean for a unit that is... that is moving, time passes normally, but not relative to units in other hexes. A Lookamancer tracking the movement of that unit may see it move much faster in their time. The time in their hex." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[First Intermission 29]]''

*"What the enemy brings you, you usually don't know until they're on you. But here, we've got the count. We know just what we're facing. It's like having a Lookamancer for once." 
:::''Pom Fritz, on having a roster of units in the area, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

===Thinkamancy===
*"Not entirely unwitting. Nor entirely controlled. It's... complex." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 41]]''

*"We control her, though. So just make her write the message. Right? The control is subtle, Warlord. Suggestions, perceptions, emotions... not commands." 
:::''Parson & Wanda, [[TBFGK 41]]''

*"What is this link up? 
:: *sigh* It's a trick that only Thinkamancers can perform. A caster's will is subsumed into a... kind of psychological alloy with the Thinkamancer. The joint mind they form can cast spells no single caster can even comprehend. 
:The downside being that the casters lose their will... 
::Their sanity... their individuality... It's a risky and fragile spell, especially with three. Four can't even be done. Talking to them as individuals can break that spell, Parson. That may croak the casters. Or leave them useless. Or, have no effect." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 54]]''

*"These kinds of spells rely on the subject. Suggestions can make her inclined to do things... such as lead recklessly, disobey orders. She provides her own reasons for these choices. 
::Which she is doing! 
:Yes. But those are things she is inclined to do anyway." 
:::''Sizemore & Wanda, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"Suggestions like 'turn sides' or 'ignore enemy forces' may be too hard for her to rationalize, and cause her to break the spell." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"There are things she will not do. 
::Okay, but... like ''what?'' 
: *sigh* She won't fight for someone she hates. Nor harm someone she loves." 
:::''Wanda & Parson, [[TBFGK 66]]''

*"The spell ''compells'' [''sic''] you to seek a reason." 
:::''Jaclyn, [[TBFGK 67]]''

*"But when such a spell breaks, there is a kind of backlash. A cord which snaps. A good Thinkamancer can protect herself from damage. Had I been the caster, the object of the spell would have borne the brunt of it. This would likely have croaked the unit or left it incapacitated." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 84]]''

*"Incredibly useful, incredibly scary magic. We got into spells, communications, suggestions... and then she mentions "Natural Thinkamancy." Innate magic. Like how some units fly and some dig... that's "Natural Magic." When scouting units send back intel, that's Natural Thinkamancy. But apparently so is following the Tool's orders. All units are subject to Natural Thinkamancies: Obedience, Loyalty, Duty, and others." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 84a]]''

*"The Arkendish affords him a command of Thinkamancy I cannot match." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 88]]''

*"There is a feeling. You may no longer notice it. But think of the first spell you ever cast. When you cast within your disclipline, there is a sense of warmth, comfort, familiarity. I want you to relax, and recall that feeling. Find the feel of your discipline, and step inside it. Lose yourself to it. Become your function." 
:::''Maggie, on forming a link-up, [[TBFGK 135]]''

*"All right, I'll need a master-class Thinkamancer to unravel this link. More than one, preferably." 
:::''Janis Atlantis, on breaking a link-up, [[TBFGK 140]]''

*"[The veil] worked because Bogroll already resembled you in most important aspects. Thinkamancy works similarly, on the mind to which it is applied. The changes it makes are remarkably small and subtle. It cannot turn a dullard into a genius, or a mouse into a maniac. 
::Or a hamster into a pit bull... Right, so if I thought of this. If I did this... 
:Then some very great part of you wanted to. The spell only nudged it forward."
:::''Maggie & Parson, [[TBFGK 148]]''

*"It's utterly fascinating, casting from a link. I just... understand the spell so clearly." According to Maggie, a two-caster linkup was a less risky and drastic thing than three, especially when done voluntarily. In it, the Thinkamancer's function was something like "cognitive copilot," managing the other caster's mental functions, focusing his attention and boosting his energy to achieve better results than the caster could alone. And it had worked. Their side got a better capital out of it than if Sizemore had upgraded the city by himself. The link was easily broken afterward, and neither of them seemed to suffer any harm." 
:::''Sizemore & Maggie, on linking, [[First Intermission 26]]''

*"And it was very little risk. In our earlier link, we discovered a strong rapport. Such mutual trust can make the process a great deal easier." 
:::''Maggie, on linking, [[First Intermission 26]]''

*"Speaking or shouting the command will work, Lord," said Maggie, lurching a bit as she rounded the remains of the picnic and walked up beside him. Though he was not completely steady himself, he offered his right elbow and she grabbed it gratefully. "Not be- because they understand Language, but because it hhhelps you frame the intent in your mind. You see. Experienced-" she swallowed hard, or possibly hiccupped. "Excuse me. Experienced commanders can command stacks with few or no words. When you understand your command, the unit will. Yet another fo-horm of natural Thinkamancy, Lord." 
:::''Maggie, [[First Intermission 32]]''

*"Jack, do you remember what you did... to project the battle table... when you were linked up? 
:I remember doing it, Lord. But I don't remember how. If that makes sense." 
:::''Parson & Jack, [[First Intermission 38]]

*"As she soared over the rushes, she felt the tickle of an incoming Thinkagram." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 41]]''

*"'''What did the Arkendish do?''' Many things, most of them connected to Thinkamancy. Charlie could handle an unlimited number of Thinkagrams, and extend some of his abilities to his personal Archons in the tower. Any commander in the world could get those Archons' attention by concentrating hard enough, for long enough. This could take hours or even days, but Charlescomm would establish contact eventually. This allowed him to hire out to any side or barbarian in the world, and probably provided him more revenue than mercenary work. He was the telecom giant of Erfworld. This was the main thing he used the Arkendish for, but guessing its other powers was a favorite topic for the Archons." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[First Intermission 46]]''

*"Natural Allies know the will of their tribe’s Chief or Chiefs by Natural Thinkamancy, even from other hexes." 
:::''Vurp, [[LIAB Text 4]]''

*"Doombats typically had a range of twenty hexes or so for scouting, but a Thinkamancer extended that range indefinitely." 
:::''Don King, [[LIAB Text 5]]''

*"For the juice cost of a Thinkagram, Bunny could link him to one of their views, just like he was in the area himself." 
:::''Don King, on Doombats, [[LIAB Text 5]]''

*"Among these were over eight thousand speaking units, any one of whom could request Maggie's attention via intense concentration. Similarly, she could reach out to these units herself, to relay orders or request status." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"Some (mercifully subconscious) part of Maggie's mind was always sorting and prioritizing the incoming and outgoing messages, making little decisions which added up to bigger ones. That was at the quietest of times. Before and during a major battle, it was more than she could fully process, more than she had the juice for. However structured and competent her mind might be, she was still only an Adept class Thinkamancer. Even a Mastermind would be taxed under these conditions." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"She spent a tiny bit of juice to confirm the existence and status of the major units there, but did not open a Thinkagram." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"Jillian thought maybe the Thinkagram connection was broken, but she hadn't felt the usual little pop." 
:::''Jillian, [[LIAB Text 17]]''

*"So, what? You can just mind-control your Ruler whenever he makes a decision you don't like? 
: No. Only when I am certain he is wrong. And, in fact, it involves great personal risk..." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[LIAB 33]]''

*"Bunny, when the battle starts I want you to send that bat's view to everybody in here." 
:::''King Don, [[LIAB 34]]''

*"Little lanterns in Maggie's mind kept blowing out, in ones, twos and threes. The dwagon units, being harvested. And some of the riders, impacting the ground and ceasing to exist (at least, as Gobwin Knob units she had to manage)." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Everyone else imagined Thinkamancy as a set of discrete capabilities: "relay a command" or "plant a suggestion" or "send a two-way visual/audible Thinkagram." They were meant to think of it that way. So long as that was the perception of the discipline, then its fundamental powers could stay largely unknown, untapped, and uncalled-upon." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Thinkamancers were aware of certain magical truths for which, quite intentionally, there were no words in Language." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"For example, a Thinkagram was not one type of spell. There was a spectrum, from which a Thinkamancer would choose one or more bands to communicate within. To someone without a sensitivity to this spectrum, it would be impossible to describe the advantages and capabilities of each, but many of those capabilities went entirely unused, except by Thinkamancers themselves. A warlord would only call for one of a short list of communiques: speech, orders, pictures and sounds. But he would not, for example, ask to communicate and compare his own intuition with that of an allied commander in the field. " 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Thinkamancers understood intuition to be a form of natural Predictamancy, in which a unit can dimly perceive its Fate on a subconscious level. To a Thinkamancer, intuition was as communicable as speech or emotion or the underlying intentions of orders. It could be sent and received, combined and multiplied, and manipulated." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"There were many other such hidden mechanics. There were mental senses which could not even be described to a non-Thinkamancer. The most important of these was the ability to sense Grandiocosmic Strings, the conduits of all magic power in Erfworld." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Only Thinkamancers even knew they existed. A Thinkamancer could feel out the G-Strings of the world, and vibrate upon them by plucking. That was how a Thinkagram was sent, and so much else. Each unit had its own individual G-String, which had many uses." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"This was what Maggie had been doing for several minutes. Putting little notches in her G-String. It was a coded message, passive, and costing no juice. Any Thinkamancer who plucked her would find this note in her G-String. " 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"He found himself staring up at the springmount, wondering if he should get up and tune it again. This one was modeled on a gwiffon, made of Thinkamancy-polarized Stuff and imprinted with Signamancy in bright yellow. It was centered on a single strong coil of steel anchored deeply into the ground. The mount shape was neither fanciful nor accidental. One used this instrument as a surrogate mount, climbing upon it and building up a physical oscillation of the proper frequency to detect and study the Thinkamancy of orders. The intent of a commander in issuing an order to a non-speaking unit, or of a Ruler in issuing an order to a remote field unit, was one of the most interesting forms of natural Thinkamancy, Isaac felt." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"G-strings vibrated on different frequencies, and would cancel or amplify each other across predictable distances. Before Isaac had built these devices, a Thinkamancer had to walk around until his head was in a place of amplification, then hold still." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"But staying within one node deprived the observer of important perspective, much in the way that closing one eye caused a loss of depth perception, or covering an ear made it hard to tell the direction of a sound. It had already been known that two linked Thinkamancers standing in different nodes could detect and send far better than any one caster. Isaac had figured out that one caster switching rapidly between nodes had a similar effect." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"He stood up, glancing up the hill to the great Temple. It was also made of polarized Stuff, designed long ago (and modified more recently) as a refuge. Cosmic vibrations couldn't penetrate it." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"At the top and bottom of the smooth inclined plane were nodes of intuition. One did not get more than a quick glimpse between the two, but that usually would suffice. If not, one could always climb the ladder again. This apparatus had a personal effect on the operator, giving him a glance at his own Fate and perhaps a vague insight or focus or warning." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"A tickle upon his brain, then Bunny, Transylvito's spooky Thinkamancer, "Your Royal Highness King Slately of Jetstone, His Royal Highness Don King of Transylvito." The words were only in his mind; she never spoke aloud. Don's image floated before him, seated as Slately was." 
:::''Slately, being contatced by Thinkamancy, [[LIAB Text 42]]''

*"Rulers have a natural Thinkamancy which allows them to relay orders to their field units, even without a Thinkamancer. He had an[sic] feel for what was going on with his forces, even sitting there in a chair in his capital's garrison's larder." 
:::''Stanley, [[LIAB Text 44]]''

*"In the empty side room, he sat holding his crown in his lap, pauper-like, while time ticked away and his units perished in the dungeons below. He saw their lights in his mind, being extinguished in twos and threes. No-one was leveling. It was clearly an awful rout." 
:::''Slately, demonstrating a Ruler's natural Thinkamancy, [[LIAB Text 48]]''

*"Maggie," Stanley said to the air. It was a form of order only a Thinkamancer could follow. "Maggie!" 
:::''Stanley, contacting a distant Thinkamancer, [[LIAB Text 49]]''

*"There's way too many ways a Thinkamancer can incapacitate me." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on rushing a stack of Thinkamancers, [[LIAB 67]]''

*"For discretion, Chief Parson. You can break contact at any time." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB 84]]''

*"I will thank you not to... put my Chief Warlord into thinkspace without... my mind on the call!" 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB 84]]''

*"Maggie, what are you doing? Why are you running in place? I apologize, Lord. I can't spare the attention to alter my... appearance at the moment. I am... physically moving toward your position." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[LIAB 85]]''

*"The numbers rose as a column, into the millions and billions and more, a silver thread stretching up and away from the peace below. This thread was being drawn up by the system of the world. Thinkamancers knew it as a "Grandiocosmic string." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"Delphie’s last sentence had been delivered in a perfectly friendly and casual tone, but it carried the natural Thinkamancy weight of a direct order." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 2]]''

*"The Thinkamancy inherent in giving them commands would have to be so specific to the throat and mouth muscles..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on making uncroaked sing, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"All at once, completely new senses opened up in her head and she was flooded with information. She could see the distant lights of minds, know the numbers and locations and points of units." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on being promoted to Overlord, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"Delphie was there in the tower, wounded." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on knowing the status of a distant unit, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"In Wanda's head, Delphie's light went out as well. Gone." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on using Ruler (instead of Croakamancer) senses to detect the death of a unit, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"Even as she struggled to comprehend, this brand new part of her mind calmly told her the score. The Garrison had seven Goodminton units left. Four." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on knowing the number of units in her City, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

===Foolamancy===
*"Waitwaitwait. Time out. We can ''veil'' our troops?" 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 61]]''

*"There is ''absolutely'' no way to pull this 'veiling' thing, right? 
::No, you need a Foolamancer in– 
:... in the stack you're veiling, right. 
::Yes, and– 
:''And'' we can't do it with the Eyemancers linked up. ''And'' we can't cast on the enemy's turn." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"We got eleven pairs of warlord eyes here, and he's got thirty or so units. So there's like 300 chances to blow the veil, if he's got one." 
:::''Vinny Doombats, [[TBFGK 107]]''

*" Lord, recall the Foolamancy veil I cast on your lackey. That would not have worked on a gobwin. It worked because Bogroll already resembled you in most important aspects." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 148]]''

*"Above the fountain of sparks there appeared a huge, glowing apparition of Stanley the Tool's face, surrounded by bright rays of red and gold, just as he appeared on his new emblem. But these rays were like arrows pulsing outward, outward... go that way, scatter! Whether the archons took the direction literally or not, they knew the big giant head projection was beyond any of their natural Foolamancy abilities, and it certainly had not been part of the rehearsal." 
:::''The narrator, [[First Intermission 7]]''

*"You must conserve your remaining juice. What can you do cheaply? A simple displacement? 
:If we use a flash to cover the casting, it ought to do." 
:::''Wanda & Jack, [[LIAB 6]]''

*"Form a flash mob over the bridge. 
::[...] 
:You are free to cast. The enemy can see nothing else in this hex." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[LIAB 6]]''

*"But [Charlie] had still gone to great risk to give her cover along the way, using veiled Archons to scout out safe routes. These were probably detectable only by a Foolamancer, another Archon, or a lucky/smart Warlord." 
:::''Jillian, [[LIAB Text 6]]''

*"Foolamancy is Eyemancy. By habit and trade, a Foolamancer must look. At all times, the Foolamancer must observe the nouns around him in finest detail and broadest stroke, in a way that other minds do not. Other minds take shortcuts. Other minds construct, telling themselves ''stories'' about what they see, rather than seeing. Foolamancy is therefore only a narrative. To tell a mind it sees something, the Foolamancer must both see the world as it is, and also as it is seen. Staring into the void of that discrepancy is what drives one mad, really." 
:::''Jack, [[LIAB Text 10]]''

*"Hilary and her partner Avril took up a risky blind, directly over the heads of Prince Sammy's leadership stack. They kept the rising sun at their backs, relative to the warlords, and spent most of their juice to shine out their shadows. It was tricky, but worth it." 
:::''Narration, [[LIAB Text 18]]''

*"Habitually, he sought out the lines and dots of the scenery, the little hooks that other minds used to build their idea of the world around them." 
:::''Jack, [[LIAB Text 21]]''

*"Phoebe was made of brick. She was covered in soot. Black and red and gray, matching the colors of her raiment. All in a column, matching her general body size and opacity. She was a chimney on a rooftop, one of many dozens. It was a really good veil. Maybe her best ever. Gold star! The enemy’s minds would not have to reconcile very much with their eyes, and that was the name of the game." 
:::''Phoebe, [[LIAB Text 56]]''

*"He was wearing a very good scouting veil; she was very lucky to have spotted him in the tree. But such items are fragile, and this one had been destroyed in the melee." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"Upon the flat landing near the top of the pagoda, an honor guard raised the bells of their banner-hung trumpets and called out a fanfare in brassy harmony. "Blatt, bippa, braaaang... Buh-brang! Buh-braaaang!" [...] Bright flares shot upward from the roof in blazing yellow and green, Faq’s colors. A flock of white doves was released from the eaves. [...] Squads of sharply synchronized soldiers raised their spears in reverent salute to her approach. The steel tips of twoscore spears glinted in the sunlight. [...] Behind the honor guard, in the shade of the upwardly curving rooftop, she could now see a full formal reception. There stood her father and the entire Court. All of Faq’s casters were there, in their humble matching robes. Servants waited in the shadows with teacups and sweetmeats. She recognized the slender Add Hawk, standing right next to big Brother Orwell the Lookamancer. There was Marie LaVraie, the Predictamancer, and Sister Betsy Murgatroyd the Healomancer. The Signamancer, Brother Labeler, stood beside Jack Snipe, their indispensable Foolamancer. Moothfott the Moneymancer stood at the right hand of King Banhammer, of course. Even the lowly and disfavored Shockmancer, Rusty Trombone, was standing off to one side. They all smiled at her serenely as she pulled beside the edge of the tower top. Floating on the cool breeze came the gentle whisper of bamboo flutes. [...] She planted her boots on the worn hardwood, which was littered with yellow rose petals in a trail that led straight to her father the King. There he stood, his great arms crossed in judgment. But his face was smiling proudly, as if to say “All is forgiven, welcome home.” [...] Her boots clomp-clomped over the flower petals." 
:::''Narration, describing the range of sights, sounds, set pieces and units types & individuals that Jack Snipe could create, [[IPTSF Text 30]]''

*"It was just for your eyes, of course, Royal Highness." 
:::''Jack Snipe, on Fooling for one, [[IPTSF Text 30]]''

==Hippiemancy==
*"Among other things, Hippiemancy is the magic of relationships: detecting and altering the forces of opposition and attraction which bind people or units." 
:::''Duncan Scone, [[LIAB Text 11]]''

*"But Hippiemancy is people magic, and Janis also had a heavy understanding about relationships." 
:::''Janis Atlantis, [[LIAB Text 37]]

===Flower Power===
*"But in the presence of so much Flower Power, time perception sort of ''crumbles''. The Hippiemancers call it– 'Flaking.' I know." 
:::''Sizemore & Wanda, [[TBFGK 11]]''

*"Even a Grand Abbie couldn't hope to quiet the coming battle." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 13]]''

*"What did you just do to him? Mm? Oh, just basic Flower Power. He can't engage this turn." 
:::''Parson, Janis & Sizemore, [[LIAB 65]]''

*"I think... I think they mainly keep units from being able to engage." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"The figure in the tower was employing the apparatus they all had assumed was a weapon, but in fact it was a stringed instrument. She plucked and strummed upon it, and even from so far away, they could hear it perfectly. The music took an otherworldly, magical route to their ears." 
:::''Narration, on a Florist quieting a Hex, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"Tommy's sword came down upon his target like a feather. He merely tapped the shoulder of the soldier with the flat of his blade, as if knighting him." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"As if in a dream, she could not swing it with any significant force. The staff moved as if she were trying to stir honey with it." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"The spell would be on the city through Haffaton's turn tomorrow, and could be cast again." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"So red. So angry. Your Life aura, Warlord. It's just awful. Can't you relax? You're in no danger here, I promise. 
::Wanda watched Tommy's face, what she could see of it. He seemed not to change his expression, and barely to relax his posture, but suddenly Olive brightened. 
:Yes! Better!" 
:::''Olive Branch, on seeing auras, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Apparently putting a hand inside the enemy's shirt was not a form of engagement that was prevented by Olive's spell. " 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 14]]''

*"As she walked down another empty hall, Wanda casually held out her staff and tipped a ceramic vase of dried orange flowers from its marble pedestal. The crash was painful to her wine-tenderized head, yet enormously satisfying. Really, even the pain of it was satisfying. So Olive's spellsong did not prevent this form of engagement, either." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 14]]''

*"With a perfunctory "Thanks," she upended the helmet and placed the plant's roots inside. She stepped a few feet away from the uncroaked and turned around to do something to the plant. Wanda could tell she was casting, but not what. [...] When Olive turned around, she held a perfectly healthy green plant in a steel planter." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"This unit has Motion, and that is something a Hippiemancer would know nothing of." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, disparaging a Florist, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"As with yesterday, her voice reached them from everywhere and nowhere, sweet and haunting." 
:::''Narration, on Olive quieting Kiloton, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"Wordlessly, Tommy drew his sword. He stepped out into the courtyard and swung it as hard as he could at a Haffaton soldier who was standing in the sunlight, chewing on a dried pear. The sword stopped in midair, an inch from the man's neck." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"When they finally drew apart, Tommy looked distant and distracted. [..] His voice was barely a loud whisper. [...] his voice low and strained. Wanda watched him closely. He was in deep distress. [...] Tommy looked as pained as Wanda had ever seen him, and he said nothing more until the group had spent the move of its slowest units. [...] Then he dismounted his brontosword, slid down its side, and collapsed into the snow." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being poisoned, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"A crit to the head would cause the muscles to seize at croaking. But one to the heart left the muscles starved out, relaxed and unable to contract. Tommy's were like that." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the effects of Olive's poison on Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"There were almost no functioning nerves in Tommy's heart. Or... his stomach, or most of the rest of his internal organs. He probably had not been in pain, but he must have known something was very wrong." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the effects of Olive's poison on Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She had never seen one before, and she did not understand how it worked, but this was certainly a poisoning. And poisons, both natural and magical, were Flower Power." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She'd also asked him to kiss her. So she did not initiate an engagement in the city." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on a workaround of quieting, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

===Signamancy===
*"The Signamancers claimed that all Stuff was Foolamancy. Our bodies and all the things we see and touch were supposed to only be Signs: symbols of their true nature. Vinny didn't know about all that, but a person's appearance was definitely a Sign. It told you how they think about themselves. And how others see them."
:::''Vinny Doombats, reflecting on what he's been told about Signamancy, [[First Intermission 37]]''

*"Signamancy was a terrible curse. The Titans knew his true nature. No unipegataur-riding warrior king was he, no towering leader and orator. Over the three-thousand or so turns he had ruled, he had only once seen battle, and that from a well-guarded turret. And so he had shrunk. Gone white and fat." 
:::''King Slately Jetsone, [[LIAB Text 33]]''

*"No signs stood to point the way, but the Signamancy of a caster's home portal was plainer than writing." 
:::''Narration, on the color of Portals in the Magic Kingdom, [[IPTSF Text 21]]''

*"Sides with a Signamancer always kept the tidiest cities in Erfworld." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 30]]''

===Date-a-mancy===
*"Date-a-mancy is the oddest branch of Hippiemancy, in that it follows the Numbers which underlie all action. Date-a-mancy tries to quantify the intangible, things like leadership and compatibility and morale and Loyalty and Duty and even love, by means of match-ups." 
:::''Duncan Scone, [[LIAB Text 11]]''

==Naughtymancy==
===Shockmancy===
*"Their Shockmancer was here, a couple turns back. Gone now. He spelled up that tower hard, Bunny. " 
:::''Caesar Borgata, [[First Intermission 47]]''

*"It's natural Shockmancy. When you fall, one of three things happens: you are injured (possibly only slightly), you are incapacitated (you croak in one turn if not given Healomancy), or you just croak. Height of the fall does seem to have some bearing on that, but it's essentially random." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33b]]''

*"She'd told Tommy about spelling up Minnow Tower, and he'd said it was smart thinking. But he never said what kind of effect the raw Shockmancy they were storing in the tower might have in battle." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on having Delphi & Clay juicing up the tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

===Croakamancy===
*"Uncroaked casters just function as infantry..." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 77a]]''

*"She explained it this way. 'Croakamancy comes from the mind.' The more time and attention the caster spends uncroaking the unit, the closer it will be to its original strength and abilities when it was alive. And the more turns it lasts before degrading. So a good croakamancer can mass-animate every fallen unit in a hex, or city zone. But they'll be the weakest kind, and only last a few turns." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 116]]''

*"These are Uncroaked. They require a simple, specific order of battle." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 123]]''

*"Uncroaked infantry, led by a master-class Croakamancer... can." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on dance-fighting, [[TBFGK 127]]''

*"I can decrypt many unit types which had been impossible to uncroak before." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on using the Arkenpliers, [[TBFGK 146]]''

*"From what I can tell, they're like the dwagons are with Stanley. They're loyal to the 'pliers, and therefore to Cruella herself. For all I know, she can see through their eyes and hear what they hear. But if not, they'll prob'ly just tell her anything interesting when they can." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on Decrypted, [[First Intermission 44]]''

*"And what Lady Firebaugh was doing with hers was causing real alarm. The theoretical consensus was that she was extending Croakamancy to the Life axis." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"A big one being, "we don't know if he'd still be able to cast or not." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on decrypting a caster, [[LIAB 11]]

*"Tool, we don't even know if they keep existing without her." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on the Decrypted and the possibility of losing Wanda, [[LIAB 22]]''

*"She could animate the husks of the once-living." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, right after popping, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"We can animate the casualties. Their units and ours, if we take the city!" 
:::''Overlord Firebaugh & Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"Bodies of croaked units decay the next turn. So we would need her on the battlefield." 
:::''Overlord Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"I would have a leadership bonus over uncroaked units, Lord." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"She had senses that she did not yet understand were unique to Croakamancers, and she used them on the fallen scout. His bones she could feel without touching him. She knew which ribs and teeth and vertebrae were broken." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"There would be some craft to this uncroaking, as not all of the original muscles and sinew could be counted on to perform their original functions. That was not a problem. That was what Croakamancy was for. Where a knee would no longer bend, where a bicep no longer existed to flex an arm, the Croakamancer made magical Motion to move the Matter." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"When she had removed all of his raiment, she still could see better with her natural Croakamancy sense than her eyes." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"The body of the scout would have depopped at dawn, had they not moved it out of the hex where it was croaked. Claimed as a spoil for Goodminton, it would only decay a bit when they started their turn later in the morning." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"This scene was a massacre: twenty-two enemy saps, an enemy warlord, and forty-three of their own infantry. She could feel them each, sense the skulls and the hearts and the spines." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"This is a warlord. If I uncroak him, he would benefit from all of my attention, and all of the juice I can spare. The more carefully I cast, the fewer mistakes I might make, and the more he will retain of the power he had in life. I believe I could make him last as long as ten or twelve turns, and retain about half his levels and leadership." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"What are our other choices? 
::I could concentrate on uncroaking more than one unit, diluting the effects, but giving us more units. Or I could attempt to mass uncroak every unit in the hex. 
:You could do that? 
::Tommy... I-I don’t know. I feel it might be too much for me. A disaster. I could become overwhelmed. Maybe we wouldn’t get any units at all out of it. But if I succeeded, then the uncroaked units I create probably would not last more than a turn. Even the warlord." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"She silently ordered the line of uncroaked to bow in unison, which prompted more cheers and laughter." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 10]]''

*"Blood flowed to her face, a mechanism she understood down to the tissues and sinus cavities within her head, for Croakamancy was a beautiful art. She felt her eyelids getting hot, ducts and vessels dilating. She was just a speck of Matter, herself, after all." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 10]]''

*"Wanda waved her staff vaguely in the direction of one of the uncroaked knights in their stack. He tilted his head a bit and grinned happily, showing his remaining teeth around proudly." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Wanda made her Fellow fold his hands together and flex his arms like a champion, grinning obscenely at everyone." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Life magic, Wanda. Croakamancers don't use it." 
:::''Olive Branch, disparaging a Croakamancer, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"Make sure all the Fellows are in the Courtyard, except the ones me and you are stacking with. Wanda nodded, and mentally sent the order as she took another deep swig of chocolate. "Done." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"But before she could even get her boots out of the stirrups, her senses as a Croakamancer told her she would find his lifeless body upon the ground." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"The first thing to determine in uncroaking a body is what took its life, because that was where the most repair and attention would likely be needed. Attention was the key. A simple or a mass uncroaking took no more attention than lighting a candle, with the Matter of the body representing the candle wax. The body would move as it could, and take simple orders until its fuel was exhausted a few turns later." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"But the craft of the Croakamancer was to understand the body's condition, its functions, its strengths and weaknesses." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"The Croakamancer could conserve the fuel of the body by focusing her juice upon the mechanisms of its movement, repairing and augmenting them with magic. An expertly uncroaked unit could function almost as well as it had when alive, and last for perhaps dozens of turns." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"If this body had no wounds, then what croaked it? Sensing her way through the architecture of his insides, she could not immediately say. Something about the muscles was familiar, though. She had uncroaked the victims of critical hits before. A crit to the head would cause the muscles to seize at croaking. But one to the heart left the muscles starved out, relaxed and unable to contract." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"So she focused on his heart. She tried to make it beat once, and knew something was wrong. One tells a muscle to move by means of the nerves, and reconnecting nerves by magic was one of the trickier parts of an attentive uncroaking." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She had never made one so beautifully preserved. The bloating in his face faded, as some slow circulation of the blood was possible in this one. She was overjoyed at the results. Almost everything a living unit could do, this one could..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on uncroaking her brother, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Then she thought out an order, and Un-Tommy disengaged from his melee." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Re-attaching the head during the uncroaking process had been an interesting new challenge." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Even through blinding blasts, Wanda's Croakamancy senses let her know that the first enemy casualties had been struck and were falling. She sensed broken skulls and wings and burst organs inside the bodies that spiraled down through the air toward the courtyard below." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on detecting the dead, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"And the Fellows...they're really quite weak without leadership." 
:::''Pom Fritz, on uncroaked units, [[IPTSF Text 25]]''

*"Wanda could feel the consumption of Matter there in the fireplace, too, if she chose to. " 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on burning logs, [[IPTSF Text 25]]''

*"As they marched on, she hoped for an ambush, or any enemy encounter, so that she might spend her juice this turn making fresh units instead of hopelessly re-patching these. It was better than wasting the juice entirely, but there was only so much she could do. These bodies were decaying inexorably to dust, and only the Titans could prevent that." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on extending the duration of uncroaked, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"From what she understood of her discipline, it ought to be possible to make them sing, if she were a master of Croakamancy. Singing was part of the Stagemancy involved in dance fighting. So how would that work, she wondered? The Thinkamancy inherent in giving them commands would have to be so specific to the throat and mouth muscles... maybe if she sang the order to them? Or thought of singing it? Hmm..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"If you're croaked, and that is no joke, you pass the yoke of Chief to a bloke named Fritz... '''Pooda onga riiish!'''" 
:::''Wanda & Tommy, demonstrating uncroaked theater, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"Uncroaked units were cheap." 
:::''Jillian Banhammer, [[IPTSF Text 28]]''

===Retconjuration===
*'''This is a theoretical branch of magic, like an undiscovered element on the periodical table.
*'''No ordinary caster can practice it; there are no Retconjurers in Erfworld.
*'''It is reserved for the Titans.'''
:::''Titan Rob, Word of the Titans 8/19/2009

*"Hey, maybe she's a Retconjuror. Oh do not even joke about that. There is no such thing." 
:::''Tommy & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 11]]''

==Stagemancy==
*"Singing was part of the Stagemancy involved in dance fighting." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

===Hat Magic===
*"Is it dual use? Abjuration only. Report any engagements and observations at the end of your move." 
:::''Jillian & Ansom, [[TBFGK 9]]''

*"The sun was setting, as a tired woman with raw red eyes waved a wand over an upturned silk hat, and saw the letter inside vanish." 
:::''Queen Bea, [[First Intermission 43]]''

*"You know, I can do some small object conjuration for you. You just have to tell me what you need." 
:::''Cubbins, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"He dropped it into the crown and waved his scepter over it three times. "Pinochet," he intoned. The coin was made to disappear." 
:::''Slately, sending a coin to King Don, [[LIAB Text 42]]''

*"Sire, I can help too. Hand me your crown." 
:::''Cubbins, prior to modifying something into a Magic Item, [[LIAB 69]]''

*"One of the units in the group, for example, was a snow golem. It was a terribly crude thing, made of only three large balls of snow she had rolled up, with sticks for arms and small black rocks for features. It moved lurchingly forward and was almost useless as a unit. But as abominable as it was, she was quite proud of her first attempt at hat magic." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, demonstrating unit creation, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"The snow golem she ordered to stand sentry at the base of Minnow Tower. Then she took the silk top hat from its head, reducing it to a mere ornament." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"It stayed right in place via the natural Dollamancy (or was it natural Hat Magic?) of just belonging there." 
:::''Narration, on Wanda's jaunty hat, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

===Carnymancy===
*"Carnymancy. It's... the magic of rigging the game. Here! That's a crude slander on our noble discipline, sir. Oh, truly you do wound me. But yes." 
:::''Parson & Jojo, [[LIAB 63]]''

*"But we had this Carnymancer who really liked me. He saved me from croaking by rigging the incapacitation rules on me. They hauled me back to the capital in a wagon, and he cast over me every day for ten turns, just keeping me alive. 
::Until they got you a Healomancer?" 
:Pff, no. Queen Bea was mad enough at all the fuss over a Level 1 stabber. No, one day I just popped up off the bed, good as new. The Carnymancer said he'd 'made a trade' for me." 
:::''Sylvia & Archer, [[LIAB 86]]''

*"Then what can we do? Our specialties, of course. Stirring up trouble, roping a dope. You dodgers work the crowd. Get 'em in a real lather. Maybe they'll shoot him." 
:::''Unnamed Carnymancer & Jojo, [[LIAB 90]]''

===Rhyme-o-mancy===
*"A poetic incantation could settle the mind, focus any caster on their work." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Even warlords could use Rhymes in leadership, for morale and focus, and in dance fighting." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Those bawdy trail songs of Tommy's were crude, but effective on the units under his command. Her singing along with the knights had likely helped her spot that scout on her first day." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Songs and poems held great and mysterious power." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"But to use Rhyme-o-mancy in casting, it must be quick and clever, and it must rhyme. If she flubbed the rhyme, the spell would weaken or fail completely." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"The attention of an entire day was collapsed into those few seconds." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

==Clevermancy==
*"Clevermancy should have no Xs. It's raw magic dealing with raw magical forces." 
:::''Titan Rob, Word of the Titans 2315787''

===Luckamancy===
*"Delphie tells you what to cast, doesn’t she? What battles to affect. What units to...what, bless? 
::Yeah. I just say ‘boost.’” 
:And you can alter the outcome of a battle, by casting ahead of time. You boost up a unit’s luck by a lot, or a whole side’s luck by a little? 
::Yeah, kind of. Or jinx the enemy. Battles are hard, though. Sides are harder. Units are pretty easy. I boost our warlords all the time." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"I boosted his roll to a 4! I changed his odds, chose a way to describe the outcome of his choices. You see?” He picked up the dice and showed them to her. “The dice are not the guy, okay? In this case the guy is imaginary, and the dice are representing him. But this is real life,” he said, making a circle in the air with his index finger, “and you are not the dice. Okay? In real life, you are real, but the dice are imaginary. The dice that describe your choices. Mathamancy describes those, and Luckamancy affects those." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Now here's an important thing, though. Where did those 4s come from? 
::From you. You cast upon the die. 
:So you're saying my juice had a physical effect on the way the die rolled. 
::Yes. 
:Yes and no. It's not a direct effect, you see? The 4 is a Number. It had to come from somewhere. 
::The juice in your spell did not create the outcome, you are saying. Your spell did not create the 4. It...what?" What was the alternative? "Enabled it, somehow? 
: Honestly?That's the nice way to say it. Whatt'm saying is that maybe that die would have come up 4s three times anyway. So maybe my spell did nothing at all, at least so far. That's why I say it'll roll high 'for a little while.' I don't know." 
:::''Clay & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"But here's what I do know. And maybe it's kind of a secret of my discipline but I think it's important, and I wanna tell you. Luckamancy doesn't create good outcomes, because that would undermine Mathamancy and Predictamancy. Mathamancy deals with real Numbers. If Luckamancy could just create Numbers out of juice, out of thin air, then every odds calculation would be off. Y'see? So what Luckamancy actually does is steal Numbers from the world." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"Where do you steal the Numbers from? Well, the world. If you rolled all the D4s in the world a bunch of times, that one included, you'd get an even mix of ones, twos, threes and fours. This little guy stole his roll from somewhere, and I think the world is lazy, you know? I don't think it goes very far to steal good outcomes when I boost one of our warlords, you know?" 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"Would it steal from our enemies? If only. That's the one thing it really doesn't do. In fact we sometimes see the opposite. The enemy rolls better than they should or... or we roll worse." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"What, it steals Numbers from us?! Not all the time! I mean, it depends. The net effect is still good for us, because we're picking the right battles to win. But yeah it can be really hard on the rest of our side, sometimes. Especially unled and unboosted units. We...lose more of those kind of battles than we should." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"A Luckamancy boost could have any number of specific effects on a unit's "dice." Defensively, it could affect their chance to be hit, the damage they would take from hits, their chance of receiving a critical hit, their chance of being incapacitated or croaked from a fall, et cetera. Or it could affect the enemy's outcomes: their defenses." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Frenemy units fell by twos and threes, the victims of outrageously high damage outcomes and critical hit rates." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of Luckamancy on battle, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"You know how when a unit falls, it can croak, or be incapacitated, or just be plain wounded and lose some hits? 
::Yes? 
:Well, that's Luckamancy, too. And I'm thinking f'we get into another airspace fight we can first cast against the enemy to make 'em more likely to croak in a fall. Then we can go for dismounting attacks. And there's not a lot of, um, downside to that. Less backlash from borrowing Numbers, right? Because we don't use air mounts. We do a lot less falling. See?" 
:::''Clay & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 22]]''

===Healomancy===
*"It contained a healing elixir of his own devising, the recipe of which varied, but usually consisted of "two gin rations, stirred with a Wand of Cure Incapacitation." 
:::''Pierce, mentioning a type of wand, [[LIAB Text 41]]''

===Moneymancy===
*"It had been as ridiculous as everything else in Erfworld, rebuilding the city. The Overlord ordered it, the treasury was debited, and the city was instantly recreated. It was only Moneymancy. When it happened, Parson was standing in the ruins of the courtyard. There was a sound like a wind chime, with a whoosh of orchestral cymbals. Enormous, blinding magical sparkles filled the sky and the ground. And then the city was simply standing again, fully intact. There was no more rubble, not even a wisp of settling dust." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[First Intermission 1]]''

=Axes=
*"Its numbers were being shaped and guided by the firmament, by what magic theorists called the Erf Axis. For when the price was paid, it was Erfworld which processed the transaction. The world would produce the unit that was called for...more or less. There was the matter of the Fate Axis as well, and this unit was turning out to be very special." 
:::''Narration, on popping a unit, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

==Erf==

==Fate==
*"Fate is inevitable, Warlord. But our ''path'' to it is not. We must first divine, and then ''enact'' our destinies. To live is to suffer. Our Fate is our only release. So if we fight against Fate, or fail to act in support of it when the way is clear, then we only worsen and prolong our misery. Our choices do matter. Wise choices ease the way, and foolish ones cause suffering." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[LIAB 70]]''

==Numbers==
*"Life is all Numbers. Ask any Mathamancer; they know." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"To live is to stand on one side of an equation, which must equal zero in the end. There is a price, a cost in Numbers, to be paid for staying alive. Zero is a balance, an equilibrium. Zero is a flat country, neither far away nor near. You can travel there any time, at the cost of your life. And perhaps, if someone were to pay the price to the exact number, you could even return again. That Mathamancers often say such things, and nod to one another soberly, is thought to be why they tend to keep to their own company." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"Few casters doubted what was said of the Numbers Axis, but even fewer understood. Not consciously, anyway." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"This unit would be worth far more than the buyer had paid for. That was no violation of Numbers, though. It simply meant that this unit carried a balance due. And though it was an astronomically high figure, someone would pay. Zero always called, and someone would have to pay." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

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Moothfott

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No one in particular: Added a pic, tiny though it is.

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=Proposed Canon=
'''First Appearance:''' [[IPTSF Text 30]]

Moothfott is a Moneymancer in service to [[Faq]] before its fall.

=Plot=
When Jack conjures an illusion of a grand reception for the return of Princess [[Jillian]], Moothfott is shown as being directly to the right of King [[Banhammer]], a position of prominence.

=Speculation=
Jillian describes him as "dour". (Which may be true of all Moneymancers, given the nature of their craft)

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Labeler

2013-01-07T06:59:54Z

No one in particular: Marked as Stub

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==Canon==
Labeler is a Signamancer in service to Faq before its destruction. It is likely that he is the signamancer that is responsible for making the capital look so nice. {{ref | [[IPTSF_Text_30]] }}

==Real World Reference==
Labellers can be used to make various labels or 'signs' to be placed on items.

Quotes: Magic

2013-01-07T06:38:17Z

No one in particular: /* Signamancy */

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Quoted statements about the various forms and branches of magic.

''Next quote to be pulled from'': [[IPTSF Text 29]]

note to self: Pull quotes from [[TBFGK 38a]] later; basics of magic, classes &c.

=General=
*"He told me that Casters are Commanders, and can lead stacks, but they almost never do. Casters are too rare and valuable to risk, and they give no leadership bonus to the stack anyway. Only Warlords have leadership. Makes sense. Except for certain exceptions. Like, say... the bonus those golems get if they're led by a Dirtamancer. Or the huge one to Uncroaked units being led by a Croakamancer(!)." 
:::''Parson's Klog, [[TBFGK 84a]]''

*"Casters can also spend juice, doing most things casters do: make scrolls, items, golems, uncroak, turn Schmuckers to gems (or vice versa but that doesn't cost juice), upgrade units, etc." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on off-turn actions, [[LIAB 33a]]''

*"Okay, you said you can cast in the Magic Kingdom, right? 
:Yes..." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[LIAB 45]]''

*"Ahead and below, the target threw some Shockmancy bolts up at them. The defense was automatic. Not only were there no casters there to direct the stored spells, but there were apparently no commanders of any kind in the city." 
:::''Jillian, on tower defenses, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

*"Wanda said she thought it was a whole mess of different magicks, what'd she say... Shockmancy, obviously. Rhyme-o-mancy because it rocked out. Carnymancy because it made big flashes and sometimes could make things disappear (he never could do it on purpose, though). And what else? Changemancy? He looked at the hammer closely. There might be a lot more he could do with it besides taming dwagons, which was... Date-o-mancy, he guessed?" 
:::''Stanley, on the Arkenhammer, [[LIAB Text 44]]''

*"He had not actually crossed the threshold to Master class, but that could happen any time a caster gained powerful new insight into his discipline or major class." 
:::''Sizemore, on Class vs Level, [[LIAB Text 45]''

*"The Arkendish's feel was all over that Turnamancy spell." 
:::''Rachel, on the feel of a spell, [[LIAB Text 53]]''

*"N'they're like archers; they'd be able to take shots at me any time." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on caster attacks, [[LIAB 71]]

*"Each discipline of magic has its own special insight into cosmic truths." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"A ball of juice formed between her outstretched fingers. The hoboken is the basic offensive spell known to almost all casters at the time they pop." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"Wanda snorted, but then had to admit casters can't actually see one another's discipline." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 11]]''

*"It was not offensive; she could cast it before Goodminton broke alliance." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on a Dirtamancy scroll that modified the tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"It had been as effective as her effort at Rhyme-o-mancy, but it left her no better understanding of what she had cast." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on casting outside her discipline, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Delphie immediately leveled up to 5, and her spells became that much more potent." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

=Elements=
*"Here was a complicated bit of Matter. Once it had possessed Life and Motion, but those had been taken away from it. And though only the Titans could restore Life to it, she could give it Motion again, once she had the juice." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the body of a croaked scout, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"The three Elements were created equal. Are you a Titan, to say otherwise?" 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Life==
*"Life magic, Wanda. Croakamancers don't use it." 
:::''Olive Branch, disparaging a Croakamancer, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Motion==
*"This unit has Motion, and that is something a Hippiemancer would know nothing of." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, disparaging a Florist, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Matter==

=Classes=
==Hocus Pocus==
===Findamancy===
===Predictamancy===
*"Marie, of course, had told her many times that she had Predicted the fall of her side, the kingdom where she and Wanda had served. But when it came to explaining how the fall had happened, how she and Wanda both had escaped destruction in different ways, she wouldn't budge. 
:'It all got cloudy,' was all she would really say. 'It happens. I saw it would come and I wonned my Rulah. But when it came it all got cloudy, I don't know.' " 
:::''Janis & Marie, [[LIAB Text 37]]''

*"Thinkamancers understood intuition to be a form of natural Predictamancy, in which a unit can dimly perceive its Fate on a subconscious level." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Shouldn't you know? Oh I should, yes. But turns like this, they come up time to time and everything afta is cloudy. Something has to get decided today, Sizemore. Fate will go fowad from there." 
:::''Sizemore & Marie, on the clarity of Predictions, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"It’s a complicated subject, Wanda. Predictamancy... You know, dear? There are rules we don’t discuss. About...what we don’t discuss." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 3]]''

*"Wanda, the reason that Predictamancers do not say everything we know is not because it would change the future, but because it usually will make it longer and more painful to reach those future outcomes. The less you know about what is to come, about your Fate, then the easier it will be for you to get there, the less... you and others will have to suffer, to lose." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 9]]''

*"Delphie looked at her Overlord and squinted a bit, examining him. Wanda could sense that she was using a kind of magical sight like her own Croakamancy senses. She'd asked Delphie a raft of questions about Predictamancy in correspondence from the road, as they'd worked out this plan. She knew Delphie was now intuiting something about Father's near-term outcomes." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Somewhere in those notes in her satchel, there was a brief explanation of how Predictamancy worked in combat. It amounted to the caster using her juice to see things happen a second or two ahead, so that she could aim where the enemy would be, and to move where the enemy's return blows and arrows would not land." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Most importantly to this plan, a Predictamancer could know whether or not a shot or blow she was about to initiate would be a hit. If it wouldn't, then she simply did not take the shot." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Only one magic blast struck Fritz's shield. Delphie sidestepped the others as necessary, still casting in a kind of concentration trance." 
:::''Narration, on a Predictamancer in battle , [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Not everyone walking these halls has a purpose. I cannot make Predictions about every unit, or commander, or even every ruler." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

*"It was the only way Goodminton could survive you. 
::You don't know that. You never Predicted that. 
:No. I can't. Fate doesn't care about us. That's the terror of it; we have no Fate. The world doesn't care if we live or not. Only about you." 
:::''Delphie & Wanda, on who has Fate, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

*"However much Faq wanted to avoid crossing paths, it was inevitable. Battlespace determinations were Natural Predictamancy. She would be spotted by the enemy and allow them an encounter of some sort, all too close to her own territory." 
:::''Jillian Banhammer, [[IPTSF Text 27]]''

===Mathamancy===
*"Mathamancy is what, again? Analyzing probabilities... predicting outcomes? Yes, and the raw calculations of that work." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 54]]''

*"CharlsNChrg: Tell me the odds that learning what happened to my Archons right now will be worth giving up those calculations in the future. 
:LordHamster: ... 
:LordHamster: I don't know if this thing can even DO a calculation like that. Predicting the future? 
:CharlsNChrg: Try it. 
:LordHamster: Fine. 
:LordHamster: I'll be damned. 
:LordHamster: It says there's all of a 4% chance it's worth taking my deal, even after spending this calculation. 
::[...] 
:LordHamster: Teaching me that my bracer can make sophisticated predictions about the future? Priceless." 
:::''Charlie & Parson, [[First Intermission 39]]

*"The dice describe the world. They don’t determine it. A Mathamancer can tell you how many dice will be rolled, how many points’ll be lost when you’re wounded. He’ll tell you what’ll probably happen, and possibly happen, and what can’t happen." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Mathamancy deals with real Numbers." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

==Spookism==
===Turnamancy===
*"Having a Turnamancer reduced the production of an heir by twenty turns, and with funds coming in from Transylvito, Vanna was able to boost Otoh and Kibo's production drastically." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 49]]''

*"That level 6 Jitterati warlord, Duncan Scone, was now her best fighter. Vanna had done some good work to turn him, but the dungeon didn't much interest Jillian. Vanna didn't really know how to play right." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 49]]''

*"You okay? 
::Yes. That was just like, whoa. Intense. You know? 
:How's your juice? 
::Low. That spell cost two turns' worth, basically. 
:::''Jillian & Vanna, on KingWorld, [[LIAB 22]]''

*"Can't move to other hexes (because of zero move, exceptions possible using Turnamancy)." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33a]]''

*Next turn, when the Turnamancer had juice, she would be able to cast a mass spell that should convert half these prisoners to Faq units. The rest could be worked on in future turns." 
:::''Vanna, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

===Dollamancy===
*"Tell me about that. Where do changes of clothes come from?" [...] 
::"Well, it's Dollamancy, Lord," said Maggie, looking up at him. [...] "This particular 'outfit'... I would call it 'raiment'... came from the Magic Kingdom. The helm was made by one of our new Twolls. 
:"Yeah, how do Twolls do that? Bogroll made my armor, and he put the sword together. This new guy Zhopa just made me a picnic basket." [...] 
::"Twolls have the 'fabrication' special, which is a form of natural Dollamancy. Units with that ability can make small nonmagical items, usually armor and equipment. I understand that the next Twoll we pop will be assigned to the stables as a smith and saddlemaker." 
:Parson nodded. "But the rest of the clothes were from an actual Dollamancer?" 
::"Yes, his name is Ken." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"What about these symbols?" Parson slapped his chest plate. "My Hamstard crest and Wanda's skull emblem, and the Stanley posters. That's all Dollamancy, too?" "The emblems are called 'livery,' Lord. And yes, that is a common form of natural Dollamancy. New units pop bearing the livery their Ruler desires. Twolls can fabricate items which bear their master's livery. And when a caster creates another unit, as in golem-making or uncroaking, the caster sets the livery and other features of the unit's appearance." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"With a Dollamancer to heal the Cloth Golems and a Healomancer for the rest..." 
:::''Ossomer, [[LIAB 4]]''

*"There are different applications of Dollamancy. Lady Shortcake was fond of fashioning cloth golems. She was very imaginative. 
:Precious, puffy-looking animals. The hit of the parade. And when she wasn't doing that, she was always designing new raiment for the changing fashions at court!" 
:::''Cubbins & Ace, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Look, there's a lot you can do in Dollamancy. It's fabrication with a motion element, right? If we want." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Dollamancy is Fate magic, so I know something about that." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Ace stroked his chin, contemplating the King's potential as a combatant. "Start with your weapon, I guess. May I?" Slately put the Royal Scepter of Jetstone in the hands of a non-Royal caster without a moment's hesitation. It was a mark of his seriousness of purpose. But he did cringe as Ace began to take it apart." 
:::''Ace & Slately, on repurposing existing items, [[LIAB Text 48]]''

*"I'm thinkin' just defense for these, Cubbins. 
::Yeah, me too. 
:I'm just doin' blasts. You cover the tricky-fooly stuff, okay?" 
:::''Ace & Cubbins, [[LIAB 69]]''

*"As he modded the Royal Scepter, it dawned on Ace that he had become accustomed to working in cloth — weaving and cutting and shaping it to another Dollamancer's specifications." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 54]]''

*"Look, the cloth golems will be much stronger with my bonus." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB 93]]''

*"I don't have a lof of time, Cubs. But I can definitely... mff... add one feature to this puppy. Gonna call it "an autopilot." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB 99]]''

*"Upon claiming it, she’d imposed Goodminton’s livery on it by natural Dollamancy, reluctantly changing the black to slate blue. But on a whim, she kept just one of the pink flowers, offset in a patch of white." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on clothing, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Olay," she said, casting the minor Dollamancy spell that Teddy had taught her. The wrinkles in each piece went smooth, as the garment was restored to its new-turn condition." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

*"The Dollamancer had modified her old riding gloves into long, chamois evening gloves with stealthy riding grips sewn into the palms. Her clunky boots he'd turned into shiny black thigh-highs topped with lace, but still reinforced in the feet and ankles for combat riding." 
:::''Narration, on a Dollamancer modifying existing clothes, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

*"It stayed right in place via the natural Dollamancy (or was it natural Hat Magic?) of just belonging there." 
:::''Narration, on Wanda's jaunty hat, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

===Weirdomancy===
*"Weirdomancers can cancel a flyer's special to make it fall (or make a non-flyer fly, then dispel it and cause a fall)." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33b]]''

*"[...] to hiring a Weirdomancer to try to make the Gumps grow radishes in their branches, [...]" 
:::''Narration, [[LIAB Text 55]]''

==Stuffamancy==
*"How would you make a magic blanket?" Parson asked, gnawing on a heel of the rye loaf. "If you wanted one?" 
::Sizemore looked at Maggie, who was nibbling cheese, and spoke up. "That's Stuffamancy. Really versatile magic. Weapons, armor, tools... Stuffamancers just imagine it and conjure it." 
:"Conjure as in make it?" Parson said with his mouth full. "Create it? Or summon it from somewhere?" 
::Sizemore leaned forward excitedly, rocking a little as he spoke. "That's a great question, Warlord. There's a big debate about that, getting right down to the level of 'what is magic?' and 'what is stuff?' Some Casters think they're the same thing, and that Stuffamancy proves it. But even the Stuffamancers don't agree about that."
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[First Intermission 28]]''

===Dirtamancy===
*"... Sizemore can dig through solid rock, it's cool to watch." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 77a]]''

*"Hav- Having a Dirtamancer in your city when you upgrade it reduces the cost by a lot," he began. 
::Parson tried to see where this was going. "Okayyyy..."
:"But it means the Dirtamancer sets the appearance, the shape of things... and the livery." 
:::''Sizemore & Parson, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"At the end of the pavement, he frowned at a spot where the squares were sinking into the softer ground. Drawing his index finger over the pathway's edge, he spent a little juice to fix it." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"Dirtamancy was among the most rare and useful disciplines [in the Magic Kingdom]. Everyone needed a wall built, a garden tilled, a well dug, a foundation excavated. There were no city sites; construction was a manual industry." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"Can you tunnel? 
::Tunnel. 
:Yeah, can you? 
::Well, yes. 
:Good. Now can you tunnel under Portal Park, all the way from our portal to the one that goes to Spacerock? 
::I... ''can.''"
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[LIAB 45]]''

*"Without word or ceremony they lifted, and Jillian willed the city razed. With a great swirl of sparkling natural Dirtamancy, and a tinny crashing sound, Progrock turned to dust and rubble below them." 
:::''Jillian, razing Progrock, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

*"Touching the spade to the grass of Portal Park put Sizemore directly in touch with Erfworld. He sensed the physical world in deep, primal ways which he found difficult to convey to other casters. Even Changemancers and Dittomancers would stare at him blankly when he described it, though they too practiced forms of Stuffamancy." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"He could feel the ground feeling him, pulling him down, pushing up on the soles of his feet as he lifted each leg to walk. In the soil below, rocks sat immersed in the cold mud. Their whole surface touched it, in all dimensions at once. Sizemore could feel this contact as if the pebbles were his own toes and fingers" 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"Sizemore's mind slid away, down below his feet, to his other self. The strata, the stresses, the peace of land at rest, he understood them that way: as if they were parts of his own body. The ground could be comfortable and sedate, like a tired person feels when lying on onsic a soft mattress. Or it could be awkward, unsustainable, like a man trying to lean on a jagged stump, or sleep upside down on a stone staircase. The land in the Magic Kingdom was deeply, permanently at rest." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"This body analogy described something he had always intuited about the land. But only since his link with the Lady Firebaugh did he think of it consciously. His entire mental frame for visualizing his discipline had been reworked on that day. A hundred turns later, he was still reconsidering the fundamentals of his craft. [...] Between the volcano link-up and his three recent levels (two from traps and combat, one from all of the city rebuilding), Sizemore was now a greater Dirtamancer than he ever imagined he could become. He had not actually crossed the threshold to Master class, but that could happen any time a caster gained powerful new insight into his discipline or major class. The body analogy wasn't quite enough to push him past that mark; he was still missing something. But for the first time in his life, he felt pretty sure that he would get there." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"It felt strange and dirty, tingling with a magic she had barely even thought about." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the magical feel of a Dirtamancy scroll, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"The tower rose indeed, far higher into the sky than it had stood before. Stone blocks and tiles sprang from nothing, widening the platform upon which they stood." 
:::''Narration, on a Dirtamancy scroll modifying a tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"When she'd boosted the tower, a few such nice little changes in design, decor, and accouterments had crept in from her mind's eye." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

===Changemancy===
===Dittomancy===
*"Yes, and a Dittomancer doubling leadership and specials... duplicating surviving units... I see." 
:::''Ansom, [[LIAB 4]]''

*"And double those arrows, Caster. 
:Double 'em? Double 'em! I'll quadruple 'em." 
:::''Jetstone Warlord & Lloyd, [[LIAB 8]]''

*'''For the duplication of an actual unit, see: ''[[LIAB 79]]'''''

*"Doubles don't leave a body." 
:::''Tramennis, [[LIAB 88]]''

*"When Jetstone's next turn starts, you will vanish." 
:::''Charlie, to the Slately-ditto, [[LIAB 89]]''

==Eyemancy==
*"This [[eyebook|item]] works on "Eyemancy." Which covers "Lookamancy", "Thinkamancy", and "Foolamancy." And it uses all three of those." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 35]]''

*"The Eyemancers may be our single most valuable asset, above even the Arkenhammer. Ordering them linked was... the shrewdest thing I've ever known Stanley to do. They created the Eyebooks. They give us unmatched communications and intelliegence. When Stanley sees you have tampered with their functioning..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 47]]''

*"Spells are trickier. Most can't be cast unless there are enemy units in the same hex/city, but some like Lookamancy and Thinkagrams can be cast anytime." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on off-turn actions, [[LIAB 33a]]''

===Lookamancy===
*"Well, yes! I mean for a unit that is... that is moving, time passes normally, but not relative to units in other hexes. A Lookamancer tracking the movement of that unit may see it move much faster in their time. The time in their hex." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[First Intermission 29]]''

*"What the enemy brings you, you usually don't know until they're on you. But here, we've got the count. We know just what we're facing. It's like having a Lookamancer for once." 
:::''Pom Fritz, on having a roster of units in the area, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

===Thinkamancy===
*"Not entirely unwitting. Nor entirely controlled. It's... complex." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 41]]''

*"We control her, though. So just make her write the message. Right? The control is subtle, Warlord. Suggestions, perceptions, emotions... not commands." 
:::''Parson & Wanda, [[TBFGK 41]]''

*"What is this link up? 
:: *sigh* It's a trick that only Thinkamancers can perform. A caster's will is subsumed into a... kind of psychological alloy with the Thinkamancer. The joint mind they form can cast spells no single caster can even comprehend. 
:The downside being that the casters lose their will... 
::Their sanity... their individuality... It's a risky and fragile spell, especially with three. Four can't even be done. Talking to them as individuals can break that spell, Parson. That may croak the casters. Or leave them useless. Or, have no effect." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 54]]''

*"These kinds of spells rely on the subject. Suggestions can make her inclined to do things... such as lead recklessly, disobey orders. She provides her own reasons for these choices. 
::Which she is doing! 
:Yes. But those are things she is inclined to do anyway." 
:::''Sizemore & Wanda, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"Suggestions like 'turn sides' or 'ignore enemy forces' may be too hard for her to rationalize, and cause her to break the spell." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"There are things she will not do. 
::Okay, but... like ''what?'' 
: *sigh* She won't fight for someone she hates. Nor harm someone she loves." 
:::''Wanda & Parson, [[TBFGK 66]]''

*"The spell ''compells'' [''sic''] you to seek a reason." 
:::''Jaclyn, [[TBFGK 67]]''

*"But when such a spell breaks, there is a kind of backlash. A cord which snaps. A good Thinkamancer can protect herself from damage. Had I been the caster, the object of the spell would have borne the brunt of it. This would likely have croaked the unit or left it incapacitated." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 84]]''

*"Incredibly useful, incredibly scary magic. We got into spells, communications, suggestions... and then she mentions "Natural Thinkamancy." Innate magic. Like how some units fly and some dig... that's "Natural Magic." When scouting units send back intel, that's Natural Thinkamancy. But apparently so is following the Tool's orders. All units are subject to Natural Thinkamancies: Obedience, Loyalty, Duty, and others." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 84a]]''

*"The Arkendish affords him a command of Thinkamancy I cannot match." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 88]]''

*"There is a feeling. You may no longer notice it. But think of the first spell you ever cast. When you cast within your disclipline, there is a sense of warmth, comfort, familiarity. I want you to relax, and recall that feeling. Find the feel of your discipline, and step inside it. Lose yourself to it. Become your function." 
:::''Maggie, on forming a link-up, [[TBFGK 135]]''

*"All right, I'll need a master-class Thinkamancer to unravel this link. More than one, preferably." 
:::''Janis Atlantis, on breaking a link-up, [[TBFGK 140]]''

*"[The veil] worked because Bogroll already resembled you in most important aspects. Thinkamancy works similarly, on the mind to which it is applied. The changes it makes are remarkably small and subtle. It cannot turn a dullard into a genius, or a mouse into a maniac. 
::Or a hamster into a pit bull... Right, so if I thought of this. If I did this... 
:Then some very great part of you wanted to. The spell only nudged it forward."
:::''Maggie & Parson, [[TBFGK 148]]''

*"It's utterly fascinating, casting from a link. I just... understand the spell so clearly." According to Maggie, a two-caster linkup was a less risky and drastic thing than three, especially when done voluntarily. In it, the Thinkamancer's function was something like "cognitive copilot," managing the other caster's mental functions, focusing his attention and boosting his energy to achieve better results than the caster could alone. And it had worked. Their side got a better capital out of it than if Sizemore had upgraded the city by himself. The link was easily broken afterward, and neither of them seemed to suffer any harm." 
:::''Sizemore & Maggie, on linking, [[First Intermission 26]]''

*"And it was very little risk. In our earlier link, we discovered a strong rapport. Such mutual trust can make the process a great deal easier." 
:::''Maggie, on linking, [[First Intermission 26]]''

*"Speaking or shouting the command will work, Lord," said Maggie, lurching a bit as she rounded the remains of the picnic and walked up beside him. Though he was not completely steady himself, he offered his right elbow and she grabbed it gratefully. "Not be- because they understand Language, but because it hhhelps you frame the intent in your mind. You see. Experienced-" she swallowed hard, or possibly hiccupped. "Excuse me. Experienced commanders can command stacks with few or no words. When you understand your command, the unit will. Yet another fo-horm of natural Thinkamancy, Lord." 
:::''Maggie, [[First Intermission 32]]''

*"Jack, do you remember what you did... to project the battle table... when you were linked up? 
:I remember doing it, Lord. But I don't remember how. If that makes sense." 
:::''Parson & Jack, [[First Intermission 38]]

*"As she soared over the rushes, she felt the tickle of an incoming Thinkagram." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 41]]''

*"'''What did the Arkendish do?''' Many things, most of them connected to Thinkamancy. Charlie could handle an unlimited number of Thinkagrams, and extend some of his abilities to his personal Archons in the tower. Any commander in the world could get those Archons' attention by concentrating hard enough, for long enough. This could take hours or even days, but Charlescomm would establish contact eventually. This allowed him to hire out to any side or barbarian in the world, and probably provided him more revenue than mercenary work. He was the telecom giant of Erfworld. This was the main thing he used the Arkendish for, but guessing its other powers was a favorite topic for the Archons." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[First Intermission 46]]''

*"Natural Allies know the will of their tribe’s Chief or Chiefs by Natural Thinkamancy, even from other hexes." 
:::''Vurp, [[LIAB Text 4]]''

*"Doombats typically had a range of twenty hexes or so for scouting, but a Thinkamancer extended that range indefinitely." 
:::''Don King, [[LIAB Text 5]]''

*"For the juice cost of a Thinkagram, Bunny could link him to one of their views, just like he was in the area himself." 
:::''Don King, on Doombats, [[LIAB Text 5]]''

*"Among these were over eight thousand speaking units, any one of whom could request Maggie's attention via intense concentration. Similarly, she could reach out to these units herself, to relay orders or request status." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"Some (mercifully subconscious) part of Maggie's mind was always sorting and prioritizing the incoming and outgoing messages, making little decisions which added up to bigger ones. That was at the quietest of times. Before and during a major battle, it was more than she could fully process, more than she had the juice for. However structured and competent her mind might be, she was still only an Adept class Thinkamancer. Even a Mastermind would be taxed under these conditions." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"She spent a tiny bit of juice to confirm the existence and status of the major units there, but did not open a Thinkagram." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"Jillian thought maybe the Thinkagram connection was broken, but she hadn't felt the usual little pop." 
:::''Jillian, [[LIAB Text 17]]''

*"So, what? You can just mind-control your Ruler whenever he makes a decision you don't like? 
: No. Only when I am certain he is wrong. And, in fact, it involves great personal risk..." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[LIAB 33]]''

*"Bunny, when the battle starts I want you to send that bat's view to everybody in here." 
:::''King Don, [[LIAB 34]]''

*"Little lanterns in Maggie's mind kept blowing out, in ones, twos and threes. The dwagon units, being harvested. And some of the riders, impacting the ground and ceasing to exist (at least, as Gobwin Knob units she had to manage)." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Everyone else imagined Thinkamancy as a set of discrete capabilities: "relay a command" or "plant a suggestion" or "send a two-way visual/audible Thinkagram." They were meant to think of it that way. So long as that was the perception of the discipline, then its fundamental powers could stay largely unknown, untapped, and uncalled-upon." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Thinkamancers were aware of certain magical truths for which, quite intentionally, there were no words in Language." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"For example, a Thinkagram was not one type of spell. There was a spectrum, from which a Thinkamancer would choose one or more bands to communicate within. To someone without a sensitivity to this spectrum, it would be impossible to describe the advantages and capabilities of each, but many of those capabilities went entirely unused, except by Thinkamancers themselves. A warlord would only call for one of a short list of communiques: speech, orders, pictures and sounds. But he would not, for example, ask to communicate and compare his own intuition with that of an allied commander in the field. " 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Thinkamancers understood intuition to be a form of natural Predictamancy, in which a unit can dimly perceive its Fate on a subconscious level. To a Thinkamancer, intuition was as communicable as speech or emotion or the underlying intentions of orders. It could be sent and received, combined and multiplied, and manipulated." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"There were many other such hidden mechanics. There were mental senses which could not even be described to a non-Thinkamancer. The most important of these was the ability to sense Grandiocosmic Strings, the conduits of all magic power in Erfworld." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Only Thinkamancers even knew they existed. A Thinkamancer could feel out the G-Strings of the world, and vibrate upon them by plucking. That was how a Thinkagram was sent, and so much else. Each unit had its own individual G-String, which had many uses." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"This was what Maggie had been doing for several minutes. Putting little notches in her G-String. It was a coded message, passive, and costing no juice. Any Thinkamancer who plucked her would find this note in her G-String. " 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"He found himself staring up at the springmount, wondering if he should get up and tune it again. This one was modeled on a gwiffon, made of Thinkamancy-polarized Stuff and imprinted with Signamancy in bright yellow. It was centered on a single strong coil of steel anchored deeply into the ground. The mount shape was neither fanciful nor accidental. One used this instrument as a surrogate mount, climbing upon it and building up a physical oscillation of the proper frequency to detect and study the Thinkamancy of orders. The intent of a commander in issuing an order to a non-speaking unit, or of a Ruler in issuing an order to a remote field unit, was one of the most interesting forms of natural Thinkamancy, Isaac felt." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"G-strings vibrated on different frequencies, and would cancel or amplify each other across predictable distances. Before Isaac had built these devices, a Thinkamancer had to walk around until his head was in a place of amplification, then hold still." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"But staying within one node deprived the observer of important perspective, much in the way that closing one eye caused a loss of depth perception, or covering an ear made it hard to tell the direction of a sound. It had already been known that two linked Thinkamancers standing in different nodes could detect and send far better than any one caster. Isaac had figured out that one caster switching rapidly between nodes had a similar effect." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"He stood up, glancing up the hill to the great Temple. It was also made of polarized Stuff, designed long ago (and modified more recently) as a refuge. Cosmic vibrations couldn't penetrate it." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"At the top and bottom of the smooth inclined plane were nodes of intuition. One did not get more than a quick glimpse between the two, but that usually would suffice. If not, one could always climb the ladder again. This apparatus had a personal effect on the operator, giving him a glance at his own Fate and perhaps a vague insight or focus or warning." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"A tickle upon his brain, then Bunny, Transylvito's spooky Thinkamancer, "Your Royal Highness King Slately of Jetstone, His Royal Highness Don King of Transylvito." The words were only in his mind; she never spoke aloud. Don's image floated before him, seated as Slately was." 
:::''Slately, being contatced by Thinkamancy, [[LIAB Text 42]]''

*"Rulers have a natural Thinkamancy which allows them to relay orders to their field units, even without a Thinkamancer. He had an[sic] feel for what was going on with his forces, even sitting there in a chair in his capital's garrison's larder." 
:::''Stanley, [[LIAB Text 44]]''

*"In the empty side room, he sat holding his crown in his lap, pauper-like, while time ticked away and his units perished in the dungeons below. He saw their lights in his mind, being extinguished in twos and threes. No-one was leveling. It was clearly an awful rout." 
:::''Slately, demonstrating a Ruler's natural Thinkamancy, [[LIAB Text 48]]''

*"Maggie," Stanley said to the air. It was a form of order only a Thinkamancer could follow. "Maggie!" 
:::''Stanley, contacting a distant Thinkamancer, [[LIAB Text 49]]''

*"There's way too many ways a Thinkamancer can incapacitate me." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on rushing a stack of Thinkamancers, [[LIAB 67]]''

*"For discretion, Chief Parson. You can break contact at any time." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB 84]]''

*"I will thank you not to... put my Chief Warlord into thinkspace without... my mind on the call!" 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB 84]]''

*"Maggie, what are you doing? Why are you running in place? I apologize, Lord. I can't spare the attention to alter my... appearance at the moment. I am... physically moving toward your position." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[LIAB 85]]''

*"The numbers rose as a column, into the millions and billions and more, a silver thread stretching up and away from the peace below. This thread was being drawn up by the system of the world. Thinkamancers knew it as a "Grandiocosmic string." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"Delphie’s last sentence had been delivered in a perfectly friendly and casual tone, but it carried the natural Thinkamancy weight of a direct order." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 2]]''

*"The Thinkamancy inherent in giving them commands would have to be so specific to the throat and mouth muscles..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on making uncroaked sing, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"All at once, completely new senses opened up in her head and she was flooded with information. She could see the distant lights of minds, know the numbers and locations and points of units." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on being promoted to Overlord, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"Delphie was there in the tower, wounded." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on knowing the status of a distant unit, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"In Wanda's head, Delphie's light went out as well. Gone." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on using Ruler (instead of Croakamancer) senses to detect the death of a unit, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"Even as she struggled to comprehend, this brand new part of her mind calmly told her the score. The Garrison had seven Goodminton units left. Four." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on knowing the number of units in her City, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

===Foolamancy===
*"Waitwaitwait. Time out. We can ''veil'' our troops?" 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 61]]''

*"There is ''absolutely'' no way to pull this 'veiling' thing, right? 
::No, you need a Foolamancer in– 
:... in the stack you're veiling, right. 
::Yes, and– 
:''And'' we can't do it with the Eyemancers linked up. ''And'' we can't cast on the enemy's turn." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"We got eleven pairs of warlord eyes here, and he's got thirty or so units. So there's like 300 chances to blow the veil, if he's got one." 
:::''Vinny Doombats, [[TBFGK 107]]''

*" Lord, recall the Foolamancy veil I cast on your lackey. That would not have worked on a gobwin. It worked because Bogroll already resembled you in most important aspects." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 148]]''

*"Above the fountain of sparks there appeared a huge, glowing apparition of Stanley the Tool's face, surrounded by bright rays of red and gold, just as he appeared on his new emblem. But these rays were like arrows pulsing outward, outward... go that way, scatter! Whether the archons took the direction literally or not, they knew the big giant head projection was beyond any of their natural Foolamancy abilities, and it certainly had not been part of the rehearsal." 
:::''The narrator, [[First Intermission 7]]''

*"You must conserve your remaining juice. What can you do cheaply? A simple displacement? 
:If we use a flash to cover the casting, it ought to do." 
:::''Wanda & Jack, [[LIAB 6]]''

*"Form a flash mob over the bridge. 
::[...] 
:You are free to cast. The enemy can see nothing else in this hex." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[LIAB 6]]''

*"But [Charlie] had still gone to great risk to give her cover along the way, using veiled Archons to scout out safe routes. These were probably detectable only by a Foolamancer, another Archon, or a lucky/smart Warlord." 
:::''Jillian, [[LIAB Text 6]]''

*"Foolamancy is Eyemancy. By habit and trade, a Foolamancer must look. At all times, the Foolamancer must observe the nouns around him in finest detail and broadest stroke, in a way that other minds do not. Other minds take shortcuts. Other minds construct, telling themselves ''stories'' about what they see, rather than seeing. Foolamancy is therefore only a narrative. To tell a mind it sees something, the Foolamancer must both see the world as it is, and also as it is seen. Staring into the void of that discrepancy is what drives one mad, really." 
:::''Jack, [[LIAB Text 10]]''

*"Hilary and her partner Avril took up a risky blind, directly over the heads of Prince Sammy's leadership stack. They kept the rising sun at their backs, relative to the warlords, and spent most of their juice to shine out their shadows. It was tricky, but worth it." 
:::''Narration, [[LIAB Text 18]]''

*"Habitually, he sought out the lines and dots of the scenery, the little hooks that other minds used to build their idea of the world around them." 
:::''Jack, [[LIAB Text 21]]''

*"Phoebe was made of brick. She was covered in soot. Black and red and gray, matching the colors of her raiment. All in a column, matching her general body size and opacity. She was a chimney on a rooftop, one of many dozens. It was a really good veil. Maybe her best ever. Gold star! The enemy’s minds would not have to reconcile very much with their eyes, and that was the name of the game." 
:::''Phoebe, [[LIAB Text 56]]''

*"He was wearing a very good scouting veil; she was very lucky to have spotted him in the tree. But such items are fragile, and this one had been destroyed in the melee." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

==Hippiemancy==
*"Among other things, Hippiemancy is the magic of relationships: detecting and altering the forces of opposition and attraction which bind people or units." 
:::''Duncan Scone, [[LIAB Text 11]]''

*"But Hippiemancy is people magic, and Janis also had a heavy understanding about relationships." 
:::''Janis Atlantis, [[LIAB Text 37]]

===Flower Power===
*"But in the presence of so much Flower Power, time perception sort of ''crumbles''. The Hippiemancers call it– 'Flaking.' I know." 
:::''Sizemore & Wanda, [[TBFGK 11]]''

*"Even a Grand Abbie couldn't hope to quiet the coming battle." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 13]]''

*"What did you just do to him? Mm? Oh, just basic Flower Power. He can't engage this turn." 
:::''Parson, Janis & Sizemore, [[LIAB 65]]''

*"I think... I think they mainly keep units from being able to engage." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"The figure in the tower was employing the apparatus they all had assumed was a weapon, but in fact it was a stringed instrument. She plucked and strummed upon it, and even from so far away, they could hear it perfectly. The music took an otherworldly, magical route to their ears." 
:::''Narration, on a Florist quieting a Hex, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"Tommy's sword came down upon his target like a feather. He merely tapped the shoulder of the soldier with the flat of his blade, as if knighting him." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"As if in a dream, she could not swing it with any significant force. The staff moved as if she were trying to stir honey with it." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"The spell would be on the city through Haffaton's turn tomorrow, and could be cast again." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"So red. So angry. Your Life aura, Warlord. It's just awful. Can't you relax? You're in no danger here, I promise. 
::Wanda watched Tommy's face, what she could see of it. He seemed not to change his expression, and barely to relax his posture, but suddenly Olive brightened. 
:Yes! Better!" 
:::''Olive Branch, on seeing auras, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Apparently putting a hand inside the enemy's shirt was not a form of engagement that was prevented by Olive's spell. " 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 14]]''

*"As she walked down another empty hall, Wanda casually held out her staff and tipped a ceramic vase of dried orange flowers from its marble pedestal. The crash was painful to her wine-tenderized head, yet enormously satisfying. Really, even the pain of it was satisfying. So Olive's spellsong did not prevent this form of engagement, either." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 14]]''

*"With a perfunctory "Thanks," she upended the helmet and placed the plant's roots inside. She stepped a few feet away from the uncroaked and turned around to do something to the plant. Wanda could tell she was casting, but not what. [...] When Olive turned around, she held a perfectly healthy green plant in a steel planter." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"This unit has Motion, and that is something a Hippiemancer would know nothing of." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, disparaging a Florist, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"As with yesterday, her voice reached them from everywhere and nowhere, sweet and haunting." 
:::''Narration, on Olive quieting Kiloton, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"Wordlessly, Tommy drew his sword. He stepped out into the courtyard and swung it as hard as he could at a Haffaton soldier who was standing in the sunlight, chewing on a dried pear. The sword stopped in midair, an inch from the man's neck." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"When they finally drew apart, Tommy looked distant and distracted. [..] His voice was barely a loud whisper. [...] his voice low and strained. Wanda watched him closely. He was in deep distress. [...] Tommy looked as pained as Wanda had ever seen him, and he said nothing more until the group had spent the move of its slowest units. [...] Then he dismounted his brontosword, slid down its side, and collapsed into the snow." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being poisoned, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"A crit to the head would cause the muscles to seize at croaking. But one to the heart left the muscles starved out, relaxed and unable to contract. Tommy's were like that." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the effects of Olive's poison on Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"There were almost no functioning nerves in Tommy's heart. Or... his stomach, or most of the rest of his internal organs. He probably had not been in pain, but he must have known something was very wrong." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the effects of Olive's poison on Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She had never seen one before, and she did not understand how it worked, but this was certainly a poisoning. And poisons, both natural and magical, were Flower Power." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She'd also asked him to kiss her. So she did not initiate an engagement in the city." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on a workaround of quieting, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

===Signamancy===
*"The Signamancers claimed that all Stuff was Foolamancy. Our bodies and all the things we see and touch were supposed to only be Signs: symbols of their true nature. Vinny didn't know about all that, but a person's appearance was definitely a Sign. It told you how they think about themselves. And how others see them."
:::''Vinny Doombats, reflecting on what he's been told about Signamancy, [[First Intermission 37]]''

*"Signamancy was a terrible curse. The Titans knew his true nature. No unipegataur-riding warrior king was he, no towering leader and orator. Over the three-thousand or so turns he had ruled, he had only once seen battle, and that from a well-guarded turret. And so he had shrunk. Gone white and fat." 
:::''King Slately Jetsone, [[LIAB Text 33]]''

*"No signs stood to point the way, but the Signamancy of a caster's home portal was plainer than writing." 
:::''Narration, on the color of Portals in the Magic Kingdom, [[IPTSF Text 21]]''

*"Sides with a Signamancer always kept the tidiest cities in Erfworld." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 30]]''

===Date-a-mancy===
*"Date-a-mancy is the oddest branch of Hippiemancy, in that it follows the Numbers which underlie all action. Date-a-mancy tries to quantify the intangible, things like leadership and compatibility and morale and Loyalty and Duty and even love, by means of match-ups." 
:::''Duncan Scone, [[LIAB Text 11]]''

==Naughtymancy==
===Shockmancy===
*"Their Shockmancer was here, a couple turns back. Gone now. He spelled up that tower hard, Bunny. " 
:::''Caesar Borgata, [[First Intermission 47]]''

*"It's natural Shockmancy. When you fall, one of three things happens: you are injured (possibly only slightly), you are incapacitated (you croak in one turn if not given Healomancy), or you just croak. Height of the fall does seem to have some bearing on that, but it's essentially random." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33b]]''

*"She'd told Tommy about spelling up Minnow Tower, and he'd said it was smart thinking. But he never said what kind of effect the raw Shockmancy they were storing in the tower might have in battle." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on having Delphi & Clay juicing up the tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

===Croakamancy===
*"Uncroaked casters just function as infantry..." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 77a]]''

*"She explained it this way. 'Croakamancy comes from the mind.' The more time and attention the caster spends uncroaking the unit, the closer it will be to its original strength and abilities when it was alive. And the more turns it lasts before degrading. So a good croakamancer can mass-animate every fallen unit in a hex, or city zone. But they'll be the weakest kind, and only last a few turns." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 116]]''

*"These are Uncroaked. They require a simple, specific order of battle." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 123]]''

*"Uncroaked infantry, led by a master-class Croakamancer... can." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on dance-fighting, [[TBFGK 127]]''

*"I can decrypt many unit types which had been impossible to uncroak before." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on using the Arkenpliers, [[TBFGK 146]]''

*"From what I can tell, they're like the dwagons are with Stanley. They're loyal to the 'pliers, and therefore to Cruella herself. For all I know, she can see through their eyes and hear what they hear. But if not, they'll prob'ly just tell her anything interesting when they can." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on Decrypted, [[First Intermission 44]]''

*"And what Lady Firebaugh was doing with hers was causing real alarm. The theoretical consensus was that she was extending Croakamancy to the Life axis." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"A big one being, "we don't know if he'd still be able to cast or not." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on decrypting a caster, [[LIAB 11]]

*"Tool, we don't even know if they keep existing without her." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on the Decrypted and the possibility of losing Wanda, [[LIAB 22]]''

*"She could animate the husks of the once-living." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, right after popping, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"We can animate the casualties. Their units and ours, if we take the city!" 
:::''Overlord Firebaugh & Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"Bodies of croaked units decay the next turn. So we would need her on the battlefield." 
:::''Overlord Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"I would have a leadership bonus over uncroaked units, Lord." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"She had senses that she did not yet understand were unique to Croakamancers, and she used them on the fallen scout. His bones she could feel without touching him. She knew which ribs and teeth and vertebrae were broken." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"There would be some craft to this uncroaking, as not all of the original muscles and sinew could be counted on to perform their original functions. That was not a problem. That was what Croakamancy was for. Where a knee would no longer bend, where a bicep no longer existed to flex an arm, the Croakamancer made magical Motion to move the Matter." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"When she had removed all of his raiment, she still could see better with her natural Croakamancy sense than her eyes." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"The body of the scout would have depopped at dawn, had they not moved it out of the hex where it was croaked. Claimed as a spoil for Goodminton, it would only decay a bit when they started their turn later in the morning." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"This scene was a massacre: twenty-two enemy saps, an enemy warlord, and forty-three of their own infantry. She could feel them each, sense the skulls and the hearts and the spines." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"This is a warlord. If I uncroak him, he would benefit from all of my attention, and all of the juice I can spare. The more carefully I cast, the fewer mistakes I might make, and the more he will retain of the power he had in life. I believe I could make him last as long as ten or twelve turns, and retain about half his levels and leadership." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"What are our other choices? 
::I could concentrate on uncroaking more than one unit, diluting the effects, but giving us more units. Or I could attempt to mass uncroak every unit in the hex. 
:You could do that? 
::Tommy... I-I don’t know. I feel it might be too much for me. A disaster. I could become overwhelmed. Maybe we wouldn’t get any units at all out of it. But if I succeeded, then the uncroaked units I create probably would not last more than a turn. Even the warlord." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"She silently ordered the line of uncroaked to bow in unison, which prompted more cheers and laughter." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 10]]''

*"Blood flowed to her face, a mechanism she understood down to the tissues and sinus cavities within her head, for Croakamancy was a beautiful art. She felt her eyelids getting hot, ducts and vessels dilating. She was just a speck of Matter, herself, after all." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 10]]''

*"Wanda waved her staff vaguely in the direction of one of the uncroaked knights in their stack. He tilted his head a bit and grinned happily, showing his remaining teeth around proudly." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Wanda made her Fellow fold his hands together and flex his arms like a champion, grinning obscenely at everyone." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Life magic, Wanda. Croakamancers don't use it." 
:::''Olive Branch, disparaging a Croakamancer, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"Make sure all the Fellows are in the Courtyard, except the ones me and you are stacking with. Wanda nodded, and mentally sent the order as she took another deep swig of chocolate. "Done." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"But before she could even get her boots out of the stirrups, her senses as a Croakamancer told her she would find his lifeless body upon the ground." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"The first thing to determine in uncroaking a body is what took its life, because that was where the most repair and attention would likely be needed. Attention was the key. A simple or a mass uncroaking took no more attention than lighting a candle, with the Matter of the body representing the candle wax. The body would move as it could, and take simple orders until its fuel was exhausted a few turns later." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"But the craft of the Croakamancer was to understand the body's condition, its functions, its strengths and weaknesses." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"The Croakamancer could conserve the fuel of the body by focusing her juice upon the mechanisms of its movement, repairing and augmenting them with magic. An expertly uncroaked unit could function almost as well as it had when alive, and last for perhaps dozens of turns." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"If this body had no wounds, then what croaked it? Sensing her way through the architecture of his insides, she could not immediately say. Something about the muscles was familiar, though. She had uncroaked the victims of critical hits before. A crit to the head would cause the muscles to seize at croaking. But one to the heart left the muscles starved out, relaxed and unable to contract." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"So she focused on his heart. She tried to make it beat once, and knew something was wrong. One tells a muscle to move by means of the nerves, and reconnecting nerves by magic was one of the trickier parts of an attentive uncroaking." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She had never made one so beautifully preserved. The bloating in his face faded, as some slow circulation of the blood was possible in this one. She was overjoyed at the results. Almost everything a living unit could do, this one could..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on uncroaking her brother, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Then she thought out an order, and Un-Tommy disengaged from his melee." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Re-attaching the head during the uncroaking process had been an interesting new challenge." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Even through blinding blasts, Wanda's Croakamancy senses let her know that the first enemy casualties had been struck and were falling. She sensed broken skulls and wings and burst organs inside the bodies that spiraled down through the air toward the courtyard below." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on detecting the dead, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"And the Fellows...they're really quite weak without leadership." 
:::''Pom Fritz, on uncroaked units, [[IPTSF Text 25]]''

*"Wanda could feel the consumption of Matter there in the fireplace, too, if she chose to. " 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on burning logs, [[IPTSF Text 25]]''

*"As they marched on, she hoped for an ambush, or any enemy encounter, so that she might spend her juice this turn making fresh units instead of hopelessly re-patching these. It was better than wasting the juice entirely, but there was only so much she could do. These bodies were decaying inexorably to dust, and only the Titans could prevent that." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on extending the duration of uncroaked, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"From what she understood of her discipline, it ought to be possible to make them sing, if she were a master of Croakamancy. Singing was part of the Stagemancy involved in dance fighting. So how would that work, she wondered? The Thinkamancy inherent in giving them commands would have to be so specific to the throat and mouth muscles... maybe if she sang the order to them? Or thought of singing it? Hmm..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"If you're croaked, and that is no joke, you pass the yoke of Chief to a bloke named Fritz... '''Pooda onga riiish!'''" 
:::''Wanda & Tommy, demonstrating uncroaked theater, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"Uncroaked units were cheap." 
:::''Jillian Banhammer, [[IPTSF Text 28]]''

===Retconjuration===
*'''This is a theoretical branch of magic, like an undiscovered element on the periodical table.
*'''No ordinary caster can practice it; there are no Retconjurers in Erfworld.
*'''It is reserved for the Titans.'''
:::''Titan Rob, Word of the Titans 8/19/2009

*"Hey, maybe she's a Retconjuror. Oh do not even joke about that. There is no such thing." 
:::''Tommy & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 11]]''

==Stagemancy==
*"Singing was part of the Stagemancy involved in dance fighting." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

===Hat Magic===
*"Is it dual use? Abjuration only. Report any engagements and observations at the end of your move." 
:::''Jillian & Ansom, [[TBFGK 9]]''

*"The sun was setting, as a tired woman with raw red eyes waved a wand over an upturned silk hat, and saw the letter inside vanish." 
:::''Queen Bea, [[First Intermission 43]]''

*"You know, I can do some small object conjuration for you. You just have to tell me what you need." 
:::''Cubbins, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"He dropped it into the crown and waved his scepter over it three times. "Pinochet," he intoned. The coin was made to disappear." 
:::''Slately, sending a coin to King Don, [[LIAB Text 42]]''

*"Sire, I can help too. Hand me your crown." 
:::''Cubbins, prior to modifying something into a Magic Item, [[LIAB 69]]''

*"One of the units in the group, for example, was a snow golem. It was a terribly crude thing, made of only three large balls of snow she had rolled up, with sticks for arms and small black rocks for features. It moved lurchingly forward and was almost useless as a unit. But as abominable as it was, she was quite proud of her first attempt at hat magic." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, demonstrating unit creation, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"The snow golem she ordered to stand sentry at the base of Minnow Tower. Then she took the silk top hat from its head, reducing it to a mere ornament." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"It stayed right in place via the natural Dollamancy (or was it natural Hat Magic?) of just belonging there." 
:::''Narration, on Wanda's jaunty hat, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

===Carnymancy===
*"Carnymancy. It's... the magic of rigging the game. Here! That's a crude slander on our noble discipline, sir. Oh, truly you do wound me. But yes." 
:::''Parson & Jojo, [[LIAB 63]]''

*"But we had this Carnymancer who really liked me. He saved me from croaking by rigging the incapacitation rules on me. They hauled me back to the capital in a wagon, and he cast over me every day for ten turns, just keeping me alive. 
::Until they got you a Healomancer?" 
:Pff, no. Queen Bea was mad enough at all the fuss over a Level 1 stabber. No, one day I just popped up off the bed, good as new. The Carnymancer said he'd 'made a trade' for me." 
:::''Sylvia & Archer, [[LIAB 86]]''

*"Then what can we do? Our specialties, of course. Stirring up trouble, roping a dope. You dodgers work the crowd. Get 'em in a real lather. Maybe they'll shoot him." 
:::''Unnamed Carnymancer & Jojo, [[LIAB 90]]''

===Rhyme-o-mancy===
*"A poetic incantation could settle the mind, focus any caster on their work." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Even warlords could use Rhymes in leadership, for morale and focus, and in dance fighting." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Those bawdy trail songs of Tommy's were crude, but effective on the units under his command. Her singing along with the knights had likely helped her spot that scout on her first day." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Songs and poems held great and mysterious power." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"But to use Rhyme-o-mancy in casting, it must be quick and clever, and it must rhyme. If she flubbed the rhyme, the spell would weaken or fail completely." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"The attention of an entire day was collapsed into those few seconds." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

==Clevermancy==
*"Clevermancy should have no Xs. It's raw magic dealing with raw magical forces." 
:::''Titan Rob, Word of the Titans 2315787''

===Luckamancy===
*"Delphie tells you what to cast, doesn’t she? What battles to affect. What units to...what, bless? 
::Yeah. I just say ‘boost.’” 
:And you can alter the outcome of a battle, by casting ahead of time. You boost up a unit’s luck by a lot, or a whole side’s luck by a little? 
::Yeah, kind of. Or jinx the enemy. Battles are hard, though. Sides are harder. Units are pretty easy. I boost our warlords all the time." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"I boosted his roll to a 4! I changed his odds, chose a way to describe the outcome of his choices. You see?” He picked up the dice and showed them to her. “The dice are not the guy, okay? In this case the guy is imaginary, and the dice are representing him. But this is real life,” he said, making a circle in the air with his index finger, “and you are not the dice. Okay? In real life, you are real, but the dice are imaginary. The dice that describe your choices. Mathamancy describes those, and Luckamancy affects those." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Now here's an important thing, though. Where did those 4s come from? 
::From you. You cast upon the die. 
:So you're saying my juice had a physical effect on the way the die rolled. 
::Yes. 
:Yes and no. It's not a direct effect, you see? The 4 is a Number. It had to come from somewhere. 
::The juice in your spell did not create the outcome, you are saying. Your spell did not create the 4. It...what?" What was the alternative? "Enabled it, somehow? 
: Honestly?That's the nice way to say it. Whatt'm saying is that maybe that die would have come up 4s three times anyway. So maybe my spell did nothing at all, at least so far. That's why I say it'll roll high 'for a little while.' I don't know." 
:::''Clay & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"But here's what I do know. And maybe it's kind of a secret of my discipline but I think it's important, and I wanna tell you. Luckamancy doesn't create good outcomes, because that would undermine Mathamancy and Predictamancy. Mathamancy deals with real Numbers. If Luckamancy could just create Numbers out of juice, out of thin air, then every odds calculation would be off. Y'see? So what Luckamancy actually does is steal Numbers from the world." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"Where do you steal the Numbers from? Well, the world. If you rolled all the D4s in the world a bunch of times, that one included, you'd get an even mix of ones, twos, threes and fours. This little guy stole his roll from somewhere, and I think the world is lazy, you know? I don't think it goes very far to steal good outcomes when I boost one of our warlords, you know?" 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"Would it steal from our enemies? If only. That's the one thing it really doesn't do. In fact we sometimes see the opposite. The enemy rolls better than they should or... or we roll worse." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"What, it steals Numbers from us?! Not all the time! I mean, it depends. The net effect is still good for us, because we're picking the right battles to win. But yeah it can be really hard on the rest of our side, sometimes. Especially unled and unboosted units. We...lose more of those kind of battles than we should." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"A Luckamancy boost could have any number of specific effects on a unit's "dice." Defensively, it could affect their chance to be hit, the damage they would take from hits, their chance of receiving a critical hit, their chance of being incapacitated or croaked from a fall, et cetera. Or it could affect the enemy's outcomes: their defenses." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Frenemy units fell by twos and threes, the victims of outrageously high damage outcomes and critical hit rates." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of Luckamancy on battle, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"You know how when a unit falls, it can croak, or be incapacitated, or just be plain wounded and lose some hits? 
::Yes? 
:Well, that's Luckamancy, too. And I'm thinking f'we get into another airspace fight we can first cast against the enemy to make 'em more likely to croak in a fall. Then we can go for dismounting attacks. And there's not a lot of, um, downside to that. Less backlash from borrowing Numbers, right? Because we don't use air mounts. We do a lot less falling. See?" 
:::''Clay & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 22]]''

===Healomancy===
*"It contained a healing elixir of his own devising, the recipe of which varied, but usually consisted of "two gin rations, stirred with a Wand of Cure Incapacitation." 
:::''Pierce, mentioning a type of wand, [[LIAB Text 41]]''

===Moneymancy===
*"It had been as ridiculous as everything else in Erfworld, rebuilding the city. The Overlord ordered it, the treasury was debited, and the city was instantly recreated. It was only Moneymancy. When it happened, Parson was standing in the ruins of the courtyard. There was a sound like a wind chime, with a whoosh of orchestral cymbals. Enormous, blinding magical sparkles filled the sky and the ground. And then the city was simply standing again, fully intact. There was no more rubble, not even a wisp of settling dust." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[First Intermission 1]]''

=Axes=
*"Its numbers were being shaped and guided by the firmament, by what magic theorists called the Erf Axis. For when the price was paid, it was Erfworld which processed the transaction. The world would produce the unit that was called for...more or less. There was the matter of the Fate Axis as well, and this unit was turning out to be very special." 
:::''Narration, on popping a unit, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

==Erf==

==Fate==
*"Fate is inevitable, Warlord. But our ''path'' to it is not. We must first divine, and then ''enact'' our destinies. To live is to suffer. Our Fate is our only release. So if we fight against Fate, or fail to act in support of it when the way is clear, then we only worsen and prolong our misery. Our choices do matter. Wise choices ease the way, and foolish ones cause suffering." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[LIAB 70]]''

==Numbers==
*"Life is all Numbers. Ask any Mathamancer; they know." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"To live is to stand on one side of an equation, which must equal zero in the end. There is a price, a cost in Numbers, to be paid for staying alive. Zero is a balance, an equilibrium. Zero is a flat country, neither far away nor near. You can travel there any time, at the cost of your life. And perhaps, if someone were to pay the price to the exact number, you could even return again. That Mathamancers often say such things, and nod to one another soberly, is thought to be why they tend to keep to their own company." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"Few casters doubted what was said of the Numbers Axis, but even fewer understood. Not consciously, anyway." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"This unit would be worth far more than the buyer had paid for. That was no violation of Numbers, though. It simply meant that this unit carried a balance due. And though it was an astronomically high figure, someone would pay. Zero always called, and someone would have to pay." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

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IPTSF Text 30

2013-01-07T05:03:26Z

No one in particular: Formatting tweaks

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Yeah, there were grander [[capital]]s in Erfworld. That was true.

[[Jillian]] had seen [[city|cities]] woven from black iron, cities of soaring brass arches and snowy-white marble, a jumble of complicated little aqueducts beneath a rainbow-tinged waterfall, a city in the sand, tilted like a castoff seashell, cities of smoke and of glitter, of reeds and of weeping rust. But in all her travels she had yet to see the like of [[Faq]], her home.

On the one hand, she hated the design of this place. The [[Outer Walls|outer walls]] were ridiculously high for a city that would probably never have to repel an attacking army on the ground. The squat and venerable [[Abe Pagoda]] was nothing like the soaring mooring [[tower]] she’d have liked to have, with berths for dozens of [[heavy]] [[flier]]s. And ([[Titans]] forbid) if they ever had to defend this city from the air, all those [[caster]]s they kept in that sad little tower would be wishing for one with a decent boost.

But those were just the gripes of her [[Chief Warlord]] side. Really, she always surprised herself with how much she loved this place.

Perched upon her great bulky [[megalogwiff]], she flew in high over green terraces with carefully tended gardens, shining fountains, and ponds full of tasty fish. The orderly streets fanned out below her in symmetrical patterns of curves and rays. Sides with a [[Signamancer]] always kept the tidiest cities in Erfworld.

Yeah, Faq could best be appreciated from the air like this. But few people ever saw it from up here. [[Adderall Hawk]], Faq's [[Mathamancer]], was their only talking [[unit]] with the [[flying]] [[special]]. The last Jillian had heard, he only ever used it to go meditate on the nearby mountaintops.

She certainly couldn't imagine her father taking any pleasure flights on [[gwiffon]]back. No. Too undignified and improper for a [[king]]. Members of the Royal Court were above that sort of thing (or in this case, beneath it). And they almost never flew out to [[Otoh]] or [[Kibo]], either. No reason for the intellectuals to go out to the [[farm]] and watch the bread appear.

So looking upon home from the air was a treat just for her, just for the wayward Princess and her warriors. For scores upon scores of [[turn]]s she had flown far away to put her life up for this elegant, stuffy, manicured, snooty, beautiful city. Out there in the field, the sons and daughters of Faq had fought and fallen, in gruesome scenes of valor that would remain unknown to those who slept here.

The Court, of course, had no interest in glory.

Truth be told, neither did she. Glory was a fairly stupid thing to fight for. But those who had gone to meet the Titans in support of their side deserved better than a polite cough and a change of subject, and that's what was waiting for her on the ground.

She realized she was stalling, spiraling lazily around the [[garrison]]. She grunted at herself in disgust. Okay, sightseeing over. This was not how she tackled her problems. She had her orders.

Princess Jillian nosed her stack into a sharp dive, straight toward that ridiculous hut they called a “tower.”

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Upon the flat landing near the top of the pagoda, an honor guard raised the bells of their banner-hung trumpets and called out a fanfare in brassy harmony. "Blatt, bippa, braaaang... Buh-brang! Buh-braaaang!"

Huh. That was new.

Bright flares shot upward from the roof in blazing yellow and green, Faq’s colors. A flock of white doves was released from the eaves.

... What?

Squads of sharply synchronized soldiers raised their spears in reverent salute to her approach. The steel tips of twoscore spears glinted in the sunlight.

And that was... ''very'' new. And unexpected. Okay, when and ''why'' did they [[pop]] new infantry? What did they expect to do with these troops? Wait, were those ''[[knight]]s''? When were they going to tell her about all this?

She tugged on the reins and brought her enormous, silent beast into a leisurely approach, on a level with the tower top. She could barely believe this reception, and she wanted to appreciate it. Had there really been this much of a change at Court? About defense, and... about her?

“How ‘bout all of this?” she remarked over her shoulder to [[Chip Tunage]], whose megalo followed closely along at her flank.

“Hm?” he said.

“This welcome,” she said, indicating the tower.

Chip frowned a bit, looking oddly apologetic. “Well, you know,” he shrugged, “what’d you expect, right?”

Jillian wasn’t sure what he meant by that, and turned and looked again at the tower top. Behind the honor guard, in the shade of the upwardly curving rooftop, she could now see a full formal reception. There stood her father and the entire Court. All of Faq’s casters were there, in their humble matching robes. Servants waited in the shadows with teacups and sweetmeats.

She recognized the slender Add Hawk, standing right next to big Brother [[Orwell]] the [[Lookamancer]]. There was [[Marie LaVraie]], the [[Predictamancer]], and Sister [[Betsy Murgatroyd]] the [[Healomancer]]. The Signamancer, Brother [[Labeler]], stood beside [[Jack Snipe]], their indispensable [[Foolamancer]]. [[Moothfott]] the [[Moneymancer]] stood at the right hand of [[King Banhammer]], of course. Even the lowly and disfavored [[Shockmancer]], [[Rusty Trombone]], was standing off to one side.

They all smiled at her serenely as she pulled beside the edge of the tower top. Floating on the cool breeze came the gentle whisper of bamboo flutes.

At first bump, she threw down her reins and dismounted quickly and smartly, quickly sliding down her megalo’s yellow flank. She planted her boots on the worn hardwood, which was littered with yellow rose petals in a trail that led straight to her father the King.

There he stood, his great arms crossed in judgment. But his face was smiling proudly, as if to say “All is forgiven, welcome home.”

She heaved her shoulders up, blew out a long breath, and stalked her way forward. Her boots clomp-clomped over the flower petals.

A few steps from her father, Jillian veered from the trail. Head forward, eyebrows low, she walked up to Jack Snipe, not even breaking her stride.

“Okay. Cut this crap,” she scowled at him, closing in face-to face.

“Aww,” said the Foolamancer, looking around. “Aw, now,” he frowned, “I plead best intent, of course. But yes all right, I know an order when I hear one.”

He jerked his head, and the flute stopped in mid-note. The entire tower top emptied of personnel and decorations, except for Jack, Jillian, and off to one side the Master of the Garrison, [[Sergeant Lepper]]. These were the only two who had ''actually'' come to greet her return.

Jillian nodded to the Sergeant's shaky salute, and turned back to the skinny little caster who had made this whole trick appear. “Jack...”

“It was just for your eyes, of course, Royal Highness. The point was made. That’s the reception you ''ought'' to’ve had.” His gaunt face was earnest and unapologetic, his tone insistent. “Our Yellow Rose has returned! And it is... an ''injustice'' to treat the flyer landing as a servants’ entrance.”

Poor Jack Snipe. He was maybe the only caster at Court who was actually fond of her. She could imagine him standing up for her in their little late-night philosophy circle. He played his role of Knave and said the things only a Royal fool could really get away with, but being her friend still cost him a lot.

“Hey!” she yelled at the Captain and her troops alike. “This caster tried to use his [[Foolamancy]] on me, and I caught him. Everybody turn around, you shouldn’t have to see this. S’gonna be a little brutal.”

Her troops, on her order, turned their heads away.

She grabbed the rail-thin man by his shoulders, and popped him right in the lips with a quick kiss. Then she drew him to her, and crushed him mightily against her armor. “Thanks,” she whispered.

“Of... of course Mistress,” said Jack humbly.

Jillian released him, then took a few steps back toward her megalo and unbuckled a saddlebag. She slung it over her shoulder and stalked into the tower. “They want me at Court, right? I’m going to change, ’cause... I guess they’ll want me to.”

“They do,” said Jack. “But Highness... please don’t ever.”

When the troops looked back, they winced. Jillian couldn’t imagine what picture Jack had put in their eyes, but she laughed wickedly as she skipped down the wooden staircase.

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IPTSF Text 29

2013-01-07T05:02:13Z

No one in particular: Formatting tweaks

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When [[Faq]]'s [[turn]] came, [[Jillian]] called out a cursory farewell to [[Lord]] [[Christian Sidehug|Sidehug]] and lifted her group to the skies. They left the [[hex]] in on a misdirection heading. She took them as far out as they could spare the [[move]] for, then turned sharply and made for the first rendezvous point, keeping high above the treetops for most of the flight. All three warlords kept a constant vigil for [[Haffaton]] [[flyer]]s and [[scout]]s.

By blind [[Luckamancy|luck]] (or blindness), they made it all the way without seeing any enemy units. A little giddy with relief and exhaustion, the [[warlord]]s sank their three [[stack]]s of [[gwiffon]]s down through the fog bank that shrouded the peak of [[Mount Pilot]]. They landed and secured their [[mount]]s, making camp in a shallow depression that was not quite a cave, sheltered beneath a huge overhanging dagger of gray/pink marble.

The new [[Viscount]] of [[Kibo]], [[Bart Lightrail]], was waiting there as expected, along with five new gwiffons and four fresh [[archer]]s. Jillian gave him her standard we-don't-stand-on-ceremony briefing speech, with the usual cheery ending.

"... So we're small, but that's okay. A small force applied at a distance can be powerful, like a lever," she said. Then she narrowed her eyes. "And listen, Warlord. I'm sure you appeared at Court. And I bet you were told about how fighting's a 'necessary evil' and that kind of crap. That's the way they see it."

The new warlord nodded solemnly, looking worried.

Jillian held up her index finger. "Well, don't forget we're providing them that ''luxury'', to sit around in silk robes and tell each other stuff like that. Our work out here keeps the side ''alive''. Whatever they think of us, we fight for our home—that's what the [[Titans]] [[pop]]ped us to do—but get used to the idea that we might not see home again. You may be standing in front of the Titans to explain yourself, before you're ever in front of your [[King Banhammer|King]] again. Fight well, and you'll be able to tell them what they want to hear." She smirked. "And given that choice, I'd rather talk to the Titans, anyway."

[[Bart Lightrail|Bart]] was quiet, but his eyes were attentive and quick and his build was promisingly powerful. He seemed as solid as any [[Level]] 1 with no specials. Handsome, too. She'd have to watch herself and not step in any trail drama.

Titans, would they ''ever'' pop another flying warlord, though? She needed an edge. Losing [[Marika Neagle]] over a hundred turns ago ''still'' hurt. You took your losses out in the field, but [[disband]] it, that was a painful day. In combat, Marika and Jillian had been a team like no other, and there was just no replacing her.

(Outside of combat, though... oof, talk about trail drama. Maybe they'd meet again in the [[City of Heroes]] and patch things up, someday. She was in no hurry.)

She looked up into the gray fog, now tinged with orange. "That's it," said Jillian. "Turn's over, let's eat."

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Wood for the lone cooking fire was scarce, although water was plentiful; the rock shelter had a nice clear drinking pool. The infantry sat on their bedrolls against the mountainside, eating hardtack [[ration]]s and trading the same threadbare jokes. Beside them, the gwiffons gummed up their bonemeal feed.

Faq's [[commander]]s huddled around the fire, sharing a pot of barley soup made with scraps of two-turn-old game meat and cave mushrooms. There was less joking here. Jillian would have been content to bed down early, or at most talk tactics. But there was a new warlord here. [[Hedda Splode|Hedda]] and [[Chip Tunage|Chip]] both pressed Bart for news of home.

"I'm not sure what to tell you," said the quiet new man. "I think the Court looked splendid. Regal and elegant. Very dignified. [[King Banhammer]] was kind to me. The [[Jack]] entertained us with his tricks. We meditated. Brother [[Orwell]] took me aside and explained my mission. He took me to the map room for my route. I met Sister [[Marie]] there as well."

Orwell was Faq's [[Chief Caster|Chief]] [[Lookamancer]], and Marie was the [[Predictamancer]]. To enter or leave the kingdom undetected, it took the two of them to plot a safe route. Mount Pilot and the other points of rendezvous marked the edge of Orwell's range. When new units popped at home, they were collected into a stack and sent out here, as far as was safe. Jillian would then go about the dangerous business of cutting through enemy territory to meet and collect them. She'd been lucky enough at that, until this morning.

"Did they say anything about Haffaton?" asked Chip. "Last we could tell, Faq's nearly surrounded."

Bart shrugged. "Not really."

"Well, what are they going to ''do'' about it?" Hedda frowned.

Jillian shifted her sore rear end on the cold and uncomfortable rock. "Meditate," she said in a softly sneering tone. "Meditate much harder." She looked up from the fire. "I guarantee you the Court will meditate ''so'' hard, Haffaton won't know what hit 'em."

The four of them sat in silence for a while. Chip munched some of the dried apples that Bart had brought from home. Hedda poked the fire with her sword. Bart watched Jillian quizzically.

"I mean literally," said Jillian. They won't know ''anything'' hit them."

"Yeah, I got it, Chief," said Hedda.

She made a wry face. "See, that's why I don't tell jokes." The Princess stood up, pushing hard on her knees. "Latrine, then sleep for me. You want to stay up all night to hear about how things back home are ''exactly'' the same as always, suit yourself. Just keep it low." She walked toward the cave mouth. "We're flying out at dawn, though. I gotta hunch about the east."

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The turn came with the dawn, which was good.

But it also came with orders, from daddy. In the bottom of the conjuring [[Hat Magic|hat]] there was a slip of parchment with two sets of routes plotted. They were being recalled to Court.

She expected to be furious. She ''wanted'' to be furious. Her legs tensed, ready to kick a rock over the cliff. But in truth, she was amazed that her father had let her stay out in the field this long. In truth, she was relieved. The encounter with Haffaton had scared her more than she wanted to admit. In her dreams last night, she'd been trapped in the branches of a tree while jolly [[High Elves|musical elves]] were setting it on fire.

She tore the parchment in half, walked up to Hedda, and placed one piece in her clammy palm.

"We're going home," she said cheerlessly.

"What? We are? Is there trouble?" asked Hedda, with alarm.

"Yes," said Jillian gravely. "It's terrible. Someone dropped their serviette at the tea ceremony. Four warlords are urgently needed to pick it up, so that nobody ''important'' will lose face."

The capital sent the separate route orders for two groups of faster and slower mounts. Jillian and Chip took the ones that could make the trip in two turns, while Hedda and Bart led the rest. Chip was unforgivably cheery about it.

"Two days' guaranteed safe travel, without a fight waiting at the end of it?" he bubbled. "I believe I can handle that, [[Chief Warlord|Chief]]. Yes, indeed. I can't wait to see Faq again. Can't wait to raid the larder!"

Soon they were stacked and underway, with a cold, wet wind in their faces. Hills and jagged mountains poked out all around them, teeth and claws and daggers.

Somewhere in the fourth of the forty-odd hexes they would cross this trip, Jillian pulled her mount close to Chip's and stared at him gloomily.

"What exactly makes you think," she asked, "there isn't going to be a fight waiting there?"
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Talk:Dirtamancy

2013-01-07T03:19:17Z

No one in particular: /* Alternate Golem Types */

==Element and Axis==
Dirtamancy is Stuffamancy, the magic of Matter. It is aligned to the axis of Erf. So, Dirtamancy is concerned with Stuff on Erf; specifically, rock, dirt, and crap. [[User:Commander I. Heartly Noah|Commander I. Heartly Noah]] June 3 2009

=="Unusual" bonus==
The page mentions that a bonus to mineral golems led by a dirtamancer is "unusual"... but for all we know any caster that can create units (like a dollamancer) also gives them a bonus. We know that this is true for croakamancers and uncroaked. -- [[user:DevilDan|DevilDan]]

== Improvement of a city level ==

Isn't the improvement of the city level done automatically? That item needs a more detailed explanation, as it seems thoroughly misleading.
:Not sure, it was already up there and said that it required a caster-linkup. That part is pure speculation... not sure about the rest of it, because I wasn't willing to go through the comic again to disprove that part.
::Now it's Canon after a Summer Update. Dirtamancer definitely provides discounts to upgrading city level.
--[[User:Ichthus|Ichthus]] ([[User talk:Ichthus|eyeBook]]) 19:28, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

My original concern was the idea that it made upgrading "faster." [[user:DevilDan|DevilDan]]

==Natural dirtamancy==
I think building and upgrading ia kind of natural dirtamancy, just like natural thinkamancy and natural moneymancy. i think that's why a dirtamancer in the city can reduce the costs for an upgrade. --[[User:Welf von Ehrwald|Welf von Ehrwald]] 23:00, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

==Alternate Golem Types==
We've seen rock and metal golems, but what about making actual ''dirt'' golems? I think having someone field Terra-Cotta Warriors would be awesome.

* Couldn't be any more delicate than the glass tchotchkes we've seen! -[[User:No one in particular|No one in particular]] 22:19, 6 January 2013 (EST)

King Banhammer

2013-01-06T07:33:54Z

No one in particular: Adding Loj to the mix, Principles of Peace, and a new pic

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==Proposed Canon==
'''Strengths:''' Philosophy, Peace, Moderating Discussions

'''Weaknesses:''' War, Dealing With His Daughter

'''First Appearance:''' [[TBFGK 82]]

King Loj Banhammer was the [[Royal]], [[men|human]] and final [[Ruler]] of [[Faq]] before he was [[croaking|croaked]].{{erf|1|082}} [[Jillian Zamussels]] is his [[Lineage|daughter]] and an [[heir]] to his throne. His rule was, until the end, peaceful and avoided conflict.

He had multiple [[Caster|Casters]]. In order to remain out of the conflict that rages across Erfworld, he relied on his [[Foolamancer]] ([[Jack Snipe]]) and [[Predictamancer]] ([[Marie Lavraie]]) to conceal his [[city|cities]]. He had few [[Warlord]]s and did not think much of them, lacking any use for them.{{erf|1|082}}

After his Predictamancer foretold the eventual fall of the kingdom, King Banhammer ordered an [[heir]] popped. The heir, Jillian, did not have the philosophical temperament Banhammer had hoped for, leading to problems in their relationship. According to Jillian, Banhammer was very rule-bound, obsessed with philosophy, and uninterested in military matters.{{erf|1|082}}.

King Banhammer was croaked during the assault on [[Faq]] by [[Stanley the Plaid]]. This attack was orchestrated by [[Wanda Firebaugh]] in an attempt to pry the Arkenhammer from Stanley, but the plan failed when Stanley proved too powerful.

===The Principles of Peace===
According to [[IPTSF Text 58]], Banhammer wrote a treatise of his philosophies called ''The Principles of Peace''. In it, he discourses on the different Principles (which include the '''Principle of Mutual Benefit''' and the '''Principle of Generosity''') and the '''Hierarchy of Good'''. Within the Hierarchy, he ranks what he terms as Services, based on which are of the greatest Good.

As of IPTSF 58, we only know of the Services '''Life, Love, Harmony''' and '''Wisdom'''. '''Wisdom''' is ranked over the others, because: 
::''You must understand that the progression of the world is toward a greater Wisdom. Individual Life must perish, but Wisdom well-served can accumulate. It will serve and enrich new Life as new Life inevitably generates! So the hierarchy does not imply that Wisdom is greater in value than Life, but that the service of Wisdom is of greater importance because it also serves Life and Love and Harmony and all the other Goods.''

==Speculation==
*It is possible that his croaking is shown on page 147{{erf|1|147}}. The body size seems to match with King Banhammer. {{erf|1|082}}
**Defeated as Stanley relates in text update 27 {{erf|2|T27}} that Wanda immediately croaked and uncroaked the King when his dwagons stormed Faq.

Banhammer may have intentionally caused the strife between himself and his daughter. Popping an heir would not have changed the Prediction concerning his Kingdom: With or without an heir, it would still have been destroyed. From Jillian's temperament, he would know that she would have died in glorious battle defending her kingdom futilely making her popping a waste of effort; however, by being away from Faq at the time of its fall, she would become a Barbarian Warlord at his croaking, then could return to Faq and reclaim it, resurrecting and rebuilding the dead [[Side]].

==Real World References==
His name is a reference to the power wielded by an administrator to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banhammer ban or block users of internet media].

His name might also be a reference to the proverb "He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword", since he and his city were defeated by the power of the [[Arkenhammer]].

Lojban is a constructed, syntactically unambiguous human language based on predicate logic.

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Heavy Unit

2013-01-05T07:05:15Z

No one in particular: /* Proposed Canon */ Promotion & newly powerful limbs.

=Proposed Canon=

Heavy units are a [[Class]] of [[unit]] that have the "Heavy" [[Unit#Natural Abilities|natural ability]]. Most of those seen thus far are considered the most powerful non-[[Commander]] units; presumably, since the only known Heavy 'abilities' are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerf_(computer_gaming) nerfs], the unit receives compensatory [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buff_(computer_gaming) buffs] that make it extremely useful in situations where their nerfs do not apply. Most heavy units are restricted from entering [[Tunnels]], for example, and can't ride [[Mount]]s. (Specifically, they can climb aboard, but the mount cannot bear them and move normally.)

Heavy units may spontaneously pop in [[Ruins]].

Some units can be promoted to Heavy{{erf|2|48}}

According to [[LIAB Text 39]], being made a Heavy gave the hobgobwin [[Fud]]: "newly powerful legs, newly powerful fists, and newly powerful arms"

==Known Heavy Units==

*[[Dwagon]]s
*[[Gump]]s
*[[Twoll]]s
*[[Sourmander]]s
*[[Tchotchke]]s
*Cloth [[Golem]]s
**[[Battle Bear]]s
*[[Hobgobwin]]s, Parson promotes them to heavy units in [[LIAB 48]]
*[[Holla]]s
*[[Giant]]s
*[[Gwiffon]]s[[IPTSF Text 27]]
*[[Megalogwiffs]]
*[[Parson]]
*[[Spidew]]s {{blog|2009|06|summer-updates-002}}

=Speculation=

Heavy Units may be unable to enter many terrain types besides Tunnels which could vary from unit to unit. Apparently, most heavies cannot enter tunnels, however Sourmanders, Tchotchkes and Spidews are exempt from this for example. It is possible that heavy is a classification with sub-classifications such as "Heavy (Tunnel faring)" or "Heavy (Small)" for example. Or that "Tunnel faring" is a separate special which can be stacked with the "Heavy" special undoing the nerf.{{erf|1|098a|Tunnels - light units only, some exceptions}}, {{blog|2009|06|summer-updates-002}}

==Possible Heavy Units==

*Dirtamantic [[Golem]]s
*[[Unipegataur]]s
*[[Brontosword]]s
*[[Pokedaemon]]s
*[[Fruit brute]]s

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Quotes: Magic

2013-01-04T07:24:04Z

No one in particular: Progress update

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Quoted statements about the various forms and branches of magic.

''Next quote to be pulled from'': [[IPTSF Text 29]]

note to self: Pull quotes from [[TBFGK 38a]] later; basics of magic, classes &c.

=General=
*"He told me that Casters are Commanders, and can lead stacks, but they almost never do. Casters are too rare and valuable to risk, and they give no leadership bonus to the stack anyway. Only Warlords have leadership. Makes sense. Except for certain exceptions. Like, say... the bonus those golems get if they're led by a Dirtamancer. Or the huge one to Uncroaked units being led by a Croakamancer(!)." 
:::''Parson's Klog, [[TBFGK 84a]]''

*"Casters can also spend juice, doing most things casters do: make scrolls, items, golems, uncroak, turn Schmuckers to gems (or vice versa but that doesn't cost juice), upgrade units, etc." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on off-turn actions, [[LIAB 33a]]''

*"Okay, you said you can cast in the Magic Kingdom, right? 
:Yes..." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[LIAB 45]]''

*"Ahead and below, the target threw some Shockmancy bolts up at them. The defense was automatic. Not only were there no casters there to direct the stored spells, but there were apparently no commanders of any kind in the city." 
:::''Jillian, on tower defenses, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

*"Wanda said she thought it was a whole mess of different magicks, what'd she say... Shockmancy, obviously. Rhyme-o-mancy because it rocked out. Carnymancy because it made big flashes and sometimes could make things disappear (he never could do it on purpose, though). And what else? Changemancy? He looked at the hammer closely. There might be a lot more he could do with it besides taming dwagons, which was... Date-o-mancy, he guessed?" 
:::''Stanley, on the Arkenhammer, [[LIAB Text 44]]''

*"He had not actually crossed the threshold to Master class, but that could happen any time a caster gained powerful new insight into his discipline or major class." 
:::''Sizemore, on Class vs Level, [[LIAB Text 45]''

*"The Arkendish's feel was all over that Turnamancy spell." 
:::''Rachel, on the feel of a spell, [[LIAB Text 53]]''

*"N'they're like archers; they'd be able to take shots at me any time." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on caster attacks, [[LIAB 71]]

*"Each discipline of magic has its own special insight into cosmic truths." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"A ball of juice formed between her outstretched fingers. The hoboken is the basic offensive spell known to almost all casters at the time they pop." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"Wanda snorted, but then had to admit casters can't actually see one another's discipline." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 11]]''

*"It was not offensive; she could cast it before Goodminton broke alliance." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on a Dirtamancy scroll that modified the tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"It had been as effective as her effort at Rhyme-o-mancy, but it left her no better understanding of what she had cast." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on casting outside her discipline, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Delphie immediately leveled up to 5, and her spells became that much more potent." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

=Elements=
*"Here was a complicated bit of Matter. Once it had possessed Life and Motion, but those had been taken away from it. And though only the Titans could restore Life to it, she could give it Motion again, once she had the juice." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the body of a croaked scout, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"The three Elements were created equal. Are you a Titan, to say otherwise?" 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Life==
*"Life magic, Wanda. Croakamancers don't use it." 
:::''Olive Branch, disparaging a Croakamancer, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Motion==
*"This unit has Motion, and that is something a Hippiemancer would know nothing of." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, disparaging a Florist, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Matter==

=Classes=
==Hocus Pocus==
===Findamancy===
===Predictamancy===
*"Marie, of course, had told her many times that she had Predicted the fall of her side, the kingdom where she and Wanda had served. But when it came to explaining how the fall had happened, how she and Wanda both had escaped destruction in different ways, she wouldn't budge. 
:'It all got cloudy,' was all she would really say. 'It happens. I saw it would come and I wonned my Rulah. But when it came it all got cloudy, I don't know.' " 
:::''Janis & Marie, [[LIAB Text 37]]''

*"Thinkamancers understood intuition to be a form of natural Predictamancy, in which a unit can dimly perceive its Fate on a subconscious level." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Shouldn't you know? Oh I should, yes. But turns like this, they come up time to time and everything afta is cloudy. Something has to get decided today, Sizemore. Fate will go fowad from there." 
:::''Sizemore & Marie, on the clarity of Predictions, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"It’s a complicated subject, Wanda. Predictamancy... You know, dear? There are rules we don’t discuss. About...what we don’t discuss." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 3]]''

*"Wanda, the reason that Predictamancers do not say everything we know is not because it would change the future, but because it usually will make it longer and more painful to reach those future outcomes. The less you know about what is to come, about your Fate, then the easier it will be for you to get there, the less... you and others will have to suffer, to lose." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 9]]''

*"Delphie looked at her Overlord and squinted a bit, examining him. Wanda could sense that she was using a kind of magical sight like her own Croakamancy senses. She'd asked Delphie a raft of questions about Predictamancy in correspondence from the road, as they'd worked out this plan. She knew Delphie was now intuiting something about Father's near-term outcomes." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Somewhere in those notes in her satchel, there was a brief explanation of how Predictamancy worked in combat. It amounted to the caster using her juice to see things happen a second or two ahead, so that she could aim where the enemy would be, and to move where the enemy's return blows and arrows would not land." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Most importantly to this plan, a Predictamancer could know whether or not a shot or blow she was about to initiate would be a hit. If it wouldn't, then she simply did not take the shot." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Only one magic blast struck Fritz's shield. Delphie sidestepped the others as necessary, still casting in a kind of concentration trance." 
:::''Narration, on a Predictamancer in battle , [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Not everyone walking these halls has a purpose. I cannot make Predictions about every unit, or commander, or even every ruler." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

*"It was the only way Goodminton could survive you. 
::You don't know that. You never Predicted that. 
:No. I can't. Fate doesn't care about us. That's the terror of it; we have no Fate. The world doesn't care if we live or not. Only about you." 
:::''Delphie & Wanda, on who has Fate, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

*"However much Faq wanted to avoid crossing paths, it was inevitable. Battlespace determinations were Natural Predictamancy. She would be spotted by the enemy and allow them an encounter of some sort, all too close to her own territory." 
:::''Jillian Banhammer, [[IPTSF Text 27]]''

===Mathamancy===
*"Mathamancy is what, again? Analyzing probabilities... predicting outcomes? Yes, and the raw calculations of that work." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 54]]''

*"CharlsNChrg: Tell me the odds that learning what happened to my Archons right now will be worth giving up those calculations in the future. 
:LordHamster: ... 
:LordHamster: I don't know if this thing can even DO a calculation like that. Predicting the future? 
:CharlsNChrg: Try it. 
:LordHamster: Fine. 
:LordHamster: I'll be damned. 
:LordHamster: It says there's all of a 4% chance it's worth taking my deal, even after spending this calculation. 
::[...] 
:LordHamster: Teaching me that my bracer can make sophisticated predictions about the future? Priceless." 
:::''Charlie & Parson, [[First Intermission 39]]

*"The dice describe the world. They don’t determine it. A Mathamancer can tell you how many dice will be rolled, how many points’ll be lost when you’re wounded. He’ll tell you what’ll probably happen, and possibly happen, and what can’t happen." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Mathamancy deals with real Numbers." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

==Spookism==
===Turnamancy===
*"Having a Turnamancer reduced the production of an heir by twenty turns, and with funds coming in from Transylvito, Vanna was able to boost Otoh and Kibo's production drastically." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 49]]''

*"That level 6 Jitterati warlord, Duncan Scone, was now her best fighter. Vanna had done some good work to turn him, but the dungeon didn't much interest Jillian. Vanna didn't really know how to play right." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 49]]''

*"You okay? 
::Yes. That was just like, whoa. Intense. You know? 
:How's your juice? 
::Low. That spell cost two turns' worth, basically. 
:::''Jillian & Vanna, on KingWorld, [[LIAB 22]]''

*"Can't move to other hexes (because of zero move, exceptions possible using Turnamancy)." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33a]]''

*Next turn, when the Turnamancer had juice, she would be able to cast a mass spell that should convert half these prisoners to Faq units. The rest could be worked on in future turns." 
:::''Vanna, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

===Dollamancy===
*"Tell me about that. Where do changes of clothes come from?" [...] 
::"Well, it's Dollamancy, Lord," said Maggie, looking up at him. [...] "This particular 'outfit'... I would call it 'raiment'... came from the Magic Kingdom. The helm was made by one of our new Twolls. 
:"Yeah, how do Twolls do that? Bogroll made my armor, and he put the sword together. This new guy Zhopa just made me a picnic basket." [...] 
::"Twolls have the 'fabrication' special, which is a form of natural Dollamancy. Units with that ability can make small nonmagical items, usually armor and equipment. I understand that the next Twoll we pop will be assigned to the stables as a smith and saddlemaker." 
:Parson nodded. "But the rest of the clothes were from an actual Dollamancer?" 
::"Yes, his name is Ken." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"What about these symbols?" Parson slapped his chest plate. "My Hamstard crest and Wanda's skull emblem, and the Stanley posters. That's all Dollamancy, too?" "The emblems are called 'livery,' Lord. And yes, that is a common form of natural Dollamancy. New units pop bearing the livery their Ruler desires. Twolls can fabricate items which bear their master's livery. And when a caster creates another unit, as in golem-making or uncroaking, the caster sets the livery and other features of the unit's appearance." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"With a Dollamancer to heal the Cloth Golems and a Healomancer for the rest..." 
:::''Ossomer, [[LIAB 4]]''

*"There are different applications of Dollamancy. Lady Shortcake was fond of fashioning cloth golems. She was very imaginative. 
:Precious, puffy-looking animals. The hit of the parade. And when she wasn't doing that, she was always designing new raiment for the changing fashions at court!" 
:::''Cubbins & Ace, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Look, there's a lot you can do in Dollamancy. It's fabrication with a motion element, right? If we want." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Dollamancy is Fate magic, so I know something about that." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Ace stroked his chin, contemplating the King's potential as a combatant. "Start with your weapon, I guess. May I?" Slately put the Royal Scepter of Jetstone in the hands of a non-Royal caster without a moment's hesitation. It was a mark of his seriousness of purpose. But he did cringe as Ace began to take it apart." 
:::''Ace & Slately, on repurposing existing items, [[LIAB Text 48]]''

*"I'm thinkin' just defense for these, Cubbins. 
::Yeah, me too. 
:I'm just doin' blasts. You cover the tricky-fooly stuff, okay?" 
:::''Ace & Cubbins, [[LIAB 69]]''

*"As he modded the Royal Scepter, it dawned on Ace that he had become accustomed to working in cloth — weaving and cutting and shaping it to another Dollamancer's specifications." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 54]]''

*"Look, the cloth golems will be much stronger with my bonus." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB 93]]''

*"I don't have a lof of time, Cubs. But I can definitely... mff... add one feature to this puppy. Gonna call it "an autopilot." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB 99]]''

*"Upon claiming it, she’d imposed Goodminton’s livery on it by natural Dollamancy, reluctantly changing the black to slate blue. But on a whim, she kept just one of the pink flowers, offset in a patch of white." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on clothing, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Olay," she said, casting the minor Dollamancy spell that Teddy had taught her. The wrinkles in each piece went smooth, as the garment was restored to its new-turn condition." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

*"The Dollamancer had modified her old riding gloves into long, chamois evening gloves with stealthy riding grips sewn into the palms. Her clunky boots he'd turned into shiny black thigh-highs topped with lace, but still reinforced in the feet and ankles for combat riding." 
:::''Narration, on a Dollamancer modifying existing clothes, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

*"It stayed right in place via the natural Dollamancy (or was it natural Hat Magic?) of just belonging there." 
:::''Narration, on Wanda's jaunty hat, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

===Weirdomancy===
*"Weirdomancers can cancel a flyer's special to make it fall (or make a non-flyer fly, then dispel it and cause a fall)." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33b]]''

*"[...] to hiring a Weirdomancer to try to make the Gumps grow radishes in their branches, [...]" 
:::''Narration, [[LIAB Text 55]]''

==Stuffamancy==
*"How would you make a magic blanket?" Parson asked, gnawing on a heel of the rye loaf. "If you wanted one?" 
::Sizemore looked at Maggie, who was nibbling cheese, and spoke up. "That's Stuffamancy. Really versatile magic. Weapons, armor, tools... Stuffamancers just imagine it and conjure it." 
:"Conjure as in make it?" Parson said with his mouth full. "Create it? Or summon it from somewhere?" 
::Sizemore leaned forward excitedly, rocking a little as he spoke. "That's a great question, Warlord. There's a big debate about that, getting right down to the level of 'what is magic?' and 'what is stuff?' Some Casters think they're the same thing, and that Stuffamancy proves it. But even the Stuffamancers don't agree about that."
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[First Intermission 28]]''

===Dirtamancy===
*"... Sizemore can dig through solid rock, it's cool to watch." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 77a]]''

*"Hav- Having a Dirtamancer in your city when you upgrade it reduces the cost by a lot," he began. 
::Parson tried to see where this was going. "Okayyyy..."
:"But it means the Dirtamancer sets the appearance, the shape of things... and the livery." 
:::''Sizemore & Parson, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"At the end of the pavement, he frowned at a spot where the squares were sinking into the softer ground. Drawing his index finger over the pathway's edge, he spent a little juice to fix it." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"Dirtamancy was among the most rare and useful disciplines [in the Magic Kingdom]. Everyone needed a wall built, a garden tilled, a well dug, a foundation excavated. There were no city sites; construction was a manual industry." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"Can you tunnel? 
::Tunnel. 
:Yeah, can you? 
::Well, yes. 
:Good. Now can you tunnel under Portal Park, all the way from our portal to the one that goes to Spacerock? 
::I... ''can.''"
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[LIAB 45]]''

*"Without word or ceremony they lifted, and Jillian willed the city razed. With a great swirl of sparkling natural Dirtamancy, and a tinny crashing sound, Progrock turned to dust and rubble below them." 
:::''Jillian, razing Progrock, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

*"Touching the spade to the grass of Portal Park put Sizemore directly in touch with Erfworld. He sensed the physical world in deep, primal ways which he found difficult to convey to other casters. Even Changemancers and Dittomancers would stare at him blankly when he described it, though they too practiced forms of Stuffamancy." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"He could feel the ground feeling him, pulling him down, pushing up on the soles of his feet as he lifted each leg to walk. In the soil below, rocks sat immersed in the cold mud. Their whole surface touched it, in all dimensions at once. Sizemore could feel this contact as if the pebbles were his own toes and fingers" 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"Sizemore's mind slid away, down below his feet, to his other self. The strata, the stresses, the peace of land at rest, he understood them that way: as if they were parts of his own body. The ground could be comfortable and sedate, like a tired person feels when lying on onsic a soft mattress. Or it could be awkward, unsustainable, like a man trying to lean on a jagged stump, or sleep upside down on a stone staircase. The land in the Magic Kingdom was deeply, permanently at rest." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"This body analogy described something he had always intuited about the land. But only since his link with the Lady Firebaugh did he think of it consciously. His entire mental frame for visualizing his discipline had been reworked on that day. A hundred turns later, he was still reconsidering the fundamentals of his craft. [...] Between the volcano link-up and his three recent levels (two from traps and combat, one from all of the city rebuilding), Sizemore was now a greater Dirtamancer than he ever imagined he could become. He had not actually crossed the threshold to Master class, but that could happen any time a caster gained powerful new insight into his discipline or major class. The body analogy wasn't quite enough to push him past that mark; he was still missing something. But for the first time in his life, he felt pretty sure that he would get there." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"It felt strange and dirty, tingling with a magic she had barely even thought about." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the magical feel of a Dirtamancy scroll, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"The tower rose indeed, far higher into the sky than it had stood before. Stone blocks and tiles sprang from nothing, widening the platform upon which they stood." 
:::''Narration, on a Dirtamancy scroll modifying a tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"When she'd boosted the tower, a few such nice little changes in design, decor, and accouterments had crept in from her mind's eye." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

===Changemancy===
===Dittomancy===
*"Yes, and a Dittomancer doubling leadership and specials... duplicating surviving units... I see." 
:::''Ansom, [[LIAB 4]]''

*"And double those arrows, Caster. 
:Double 'em? Double 'em! I'll quadruple 'em." 
:::''Jetstone Warlord & Lloyd, [[LIAB 8]]''

*'''For the duplication of an actual unit, see: ''[[LIAB 79]]'''''

*"Doubles don't leave a body." 
:::''Tramennis, [[LIAB 88]]''

*"When Jetstone's next turn starts, you will vanish." 
:::''Charlie, to the Slately-ditto, [[LIAB 89]]''

==Eyemancy==
*"This [[eyebook|item]] works on "Eyemancy." Which covers "Lookamancy", "Thinkamancy", and "Foolamancy." And it uses all three of those." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 35]]''

*"The Eyemancers may be our single most valuable asset, above even the Arkenhammer. Ordering them linked was... the shrewdest thing I've ever known Stanley to do. They created the Eyebooks. They give us unmatched communications and intelliegence. When Stanley sees you have tampered with their functioning..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 47]]''

*"Spells are trickier. Most can't be cast unless there are enemy units in the same hex/city, but some like Lookamancy and Thinkagrams can be cast anytime." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on off-turn actions, [[LIAB 33a]]''

===Lookamancy===
*"Well, yes! I mean for a unit that is... that is moving, time passes normally, but not relative to units in other hexes. A Lookamancer tracking the movement of that unit may see it move much faster in their time. The time in their hex." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[First Intermission 29]]''

*"What the enemy brings you, you usually don't know until they're on you. But here, we've got the count. We know just what we're facing. It's like having a Lookamancer for once." 
:::''Pom Fritz, on having a roster of units in the area, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

===Thinkamancy===
*"Not entirely unwitting. Nor entirely controlled. It's... complex." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 41]]''

*"We control her, though. So just make her write the message. Right? The control is subtle, Warlord. Suggestions, perceptions, emotions... not commands." 
:::''Parson & Wanda, [[TBFGK 41]]''

*"What is this link up? 
:: *sigh* It's a trick that only Thinkamancers can perform. A caster's will is subsumed into a... kind of psychological alloy with the Thinkamancer. The joint mind they form can cast spells no single caster can even comprehend. 
:The downside being that the casters lose their will... 
::Their sanity... their individuality... It's a risky and fragile spell, especially with three. Four can't even be done. Talking to them as individuals can break that spell, Parson. That may croak the casters. Or leave them useless. Or, have no effect." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 54]]''

*"These kinds of spells rely on the subject. Suggestions can make her inclined to do things... such as lead recklessly, disobey orders. She provides her own reasons for these choices. 
::Which she is doing! 
:Yes. But those are things she is inclined to do anyway." 
:::''Sizemore & Wanda, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"Suggestions like 'turn sides' or 'ignore enemy forces' may be too hard for her to rationalize, and cause her to break the spell." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"There are things she will not do. 
::Okay, but... like ''what?'' 
: *sigh* She won't fight for someone she hates. Nor harm someone she loves." 
:::''Wanda & Parson, [[TBFGK 66]]''

*"The spell ''compells'' [''sic''] you to seek a reason." 
:::''Jaclyn, [[TBFGK 67]]''

*"But when such a spell breaks, there is a kind of backlash. A cord which snaps. A good Thinkamancer can protect herself from damage. Had I been the caster, the object of the spell would have borne the brunt of it. This would likely have croaked the unit or left it incapacitated." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 84]]''

*"Incredibly useful, incredibly scary magic. We got into spells, communications, suggestions... and then she mentions "Natural Thinkamancy." Innate magic. Like how some units fly and some dig... that's "Natural Magic." When scouting units send back intel, that's Natural Thinkamancy. But apparently so is following the Tool's orders. All units are subject to Natural Thinkamancies: Obedience, Loyalty, Duty, and others." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 84a]]''

*"The Arkendish affords him a command of Thinkamancy I cannot match." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 88]]''

*"There is a feeling. You may no longer notice it. But think of the first spell you ever cast. When you cast within your disclipline, there is a sense of warmth, comfort, familiarity. I want you to relax, and recall that feeling. Find the feel of your discipline, and step inside it. Lose yourself to it. Become your function." 
:::''Maggie, on forming a link-up, [[TBFGK 135]]''

*"All right, I'll need a master-class Thinkamancer to unravel this link. More than one, preferably." 
:::''Janis Atlantis, on breaking a link-up, [[TBFGK 140]]''

*"[The veil] worked because Bogroll already resembled you in most important aspects. Thinkamancy works similarly, on the mind to which it is applied. The changes it makes are remarkably small and subtle. It cannot turn a dullard into a genius, or a mouse into a maniac. 
::Or a hamster into a pit bull... Right, so if I thought of this. If I did this... 
:Then some very great part of you wanted to. The spell only nudged it forward."
:::''Maggie & Parson, [[TBFGK 148]]''

*"It's utterly fascinating, casting from a link. I just... understand the spell so clearly." According to Maggie, a two-caster linkup was a less risky and drastic thing than three, especially when done voluntarily. In it, the Thinkamancer's function was something like "cognitive copilot," managing the other caster's mental functions, focusing his attention and boosting his energy to achieve better results than the caster could alone. And it had worked. Their side got a better capital out of it than if Sizemore had upgraded the city by himself. The link was easily broken afterward, and neither of them seemed to suffer any harm." 
:::''Sizemore & Maggie, on linking, [[First Intermission 26]]''

*"And it was very little risk. In our earlier link, we discovered a strong rapport. Such mutual trust can make the process a great deal easier." 
:::''Maggie, on linking, [[First Intermission 26]]''

*"Speaking or shouting the command will work, Lord," said Maggie, lurching a bit as she rounded the remains of the picnic and walked up beside him. Though he was not completely steady himself, he offered his right elbow and she grabbed it gratefully. "Not be- because they understand Language, but because it hhhelps you frame the intent in your mind. You see. Experienced-" she swallowed hard, or possibly hiccupped. "Excuse me. Experienced commanders can command stacks with few or no words. When you understand your command, the unit will. Yet another fo-horm of natural Thinkamancy, Lord." 
:::''Maggie, [[First Intermission 32]]''

*"Jack, do you remember what you did... to project the battle table... when you were linked up? 
:I remember doing it, Lord. But I don't remember how. If that makes sense." 
:::''Parson & Jack, [[First Intermission 38]]

*"As she soared over the rushes, she felt the tickle of an incoming Thinkagram." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 41]]''

*"'''What did the Arkendish do?''' Many things, most of them connected to Thinkamancy. Charlie could handle an unlimited number of Thinkagrams, and extend some of his abilities to his personal Archons in the tower. Any commander in the world could get those Archons' attention by concentrating hard enough, for long enough. This could take hours or even days, but Charlescomm would establish contact eventually. This allowed him to hire out to any side or barbarian in the world, and probably provided him more revenue than mercenary work. He was the telecom giant of Erfworld. This was the main thing he used the Arkendish for, but guessing its other powers was a favorite topic for the Archons." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[First Intermission 46]]''

*"Natural Allies know the will of their tribe’s Chief or Chiefs by Natural Thinkamancy, even from other hexes." 
:::''Vurp, [[LIAB Text 4]]''

*"Doombats typically had a range of twenty hexes or so for scouting, but a Thinkamancer extended that range indefinitely." 
:::''Don King, [[LIAB Text 5]]''

*"For the juice cost of a Thinkagram, Bunny could link him to one of their views, just like he was in the area himself." 
:::''Don King, on Doombats, [[LIAB Text 5]]''

*"Among these were over eight thousand speaking units, any one of whom could request Maggie's attention via intense concentration. Similarly, she could reach out to these units herself, to relay orders or request status." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"Some (mercifully subconscious) part of Maggie's mind was always sorting and prioritizing the incoming and outgoing messages, making little decisions which added up to bigger ones. That was at the quietest of times. Before and during a major battle, it was more than she could fully process, more than she had the juice for. However structured and competent her mind might be, she was still only an Adept class Thinkamancer. Even a Mastermind would be taxed under these conditions." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"She spent a tiny bit of juice to confirm the existence and status of the major units there, but did not open a Thinkagram." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"Jillian thought maybe the Thinkagram connection was broken, but she hadn't felt the usual little pop." 
:::''Jillian, [[LIAB Text 17]]''

*"So, what? You can just mind-control your Ruler whenever he makes a decision you don't like? 
: No. Only when I am certain he is wrong. And, in fact, it involves great personal risk..." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[LIAB 33]]''

*"Bunny, when the battle starts I want you to send that bat's view to everybody in here." 
:::''King Don, [[LIAB 34]]''

*"Little lanterns in Maggie's mind kept blowing out, in ones, twos and threes. The dwagon units, being harvested. And some of the riders, impacting the ground and ceasing to exist (at least, as Gobwin Knob units she had to manage)." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Everyone else imagined Thinkamancy as a set of discrete capabilities: "relay a command" or "plant a suggestion" or "send a two-way visual/audible Thinkagram." They were meant to think of it that way. So long as that was the perception of the discipline, then its fundamental powers could stay largely unknown, untapped, and uncalled-upon." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Thinkamancers were aware of certain magical truths for which, quite intentionally, there were no words in Language." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"For example, a Thinkagram was not one type of spell. There was a spectrum, from which a Thinkamancer would choose one or more bands to communicate within. To someone without a sensitivity to this spectrum, it would be impossible to describe the advantages and capabilities of each, but many of those capabilities went entirely unused, except by Thinkamancers themselves. A warlord would only call for one of a short list of communiques: speech, orders, pictures and sounds. But he would not, for example, ask to communicate and compare his own intuition with that of an allied commander in the field. " 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Thinkamancers understood intuition to be a form of natural Predictamancy, in which a unit can dimly perceive its Fate on a subconscious level. To a Thinkamancer, intuition was as communicable as speech or emotion or the underlying intentions of orders. It could be sent and received, combined and multiplied, and manipulated." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"There were many other such hidden mechanics. There were mental senses which could not even be described to a non-Thinkamancer. The most important of these was the ability to sense Grandiocosmic Strings, the conduits of all magic power in Erfworld." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Only Thinkamancers even knew they existed. A Thinkamancer could feel out the G-Strings of the world, and vibrate upon them by plucking. That was how a Thinkagram was sent, and so much else. Each unit had its own individual G-String, which had many uses." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"This was what Maggie had been doing for several minutes. Putting little notches in her G-String. It was a coded message, passive, and costing no juice. Any Thinkamancer who plucked her would find this note in her G-String. " 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"He found himself staring up at the springmount, wondering if he should get up and tune it again. This one was modeled on a gwiffon, made of Thinkamancy-polarized Stuff and imprinted with Signamancy in bright yellow. It was centered on a single strong coil of steel anchored deeply into the ground. The mount shape was neither fanciful nor accidental. One used this instrument as a surrogate mount, climbing upon it and building up a physical oscillation of the proper frequency to detect and study the Thinkamancy of orders. The intent of a commander in issuing an order to a non-speaking unit, or of a Ruler in issuing an order to a remote field unit, was one of the most interesting forms of natural Thinkamancy, Isaac felt." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"G-strings vibrated on different frequencies, and would cancel or amplify each other across predictable distances. Before Isaac had built these devices, a Thinkamancer had to walk around until his head was in a place of amplification, then hold still." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"But staying within one node deprived the observer of important perspective, much in the way that closing one eye caused a loss of depth perception, or covering an ear made it hard to tell the direction of a sound. It had already been known that two linked Thinkamancers standing in different nodes could detect and send far better than any one caster. Isaac had figured out that one caster switching rapidly between nodes had a similar effect." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"He stood up, glancing up the hill to the great Temple. It was also made of polarized Stuff, designed long ago (and modified more recently) as a refuge. Cosmic vibrations couldn't penetrate it." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"At the top and bottom of the smooth inclined plane were nodes of intuition. One did not get more than a quick glimpse between the two, but that usually would suffice. If not, one could always climb the ladder again. This apparatus had a personal effect on the operator, giving him a glance at his own Fate and perhaps a vague insight or focus or warning." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"A tickle upon his brain, then Bunny, Transylvito's spooky Thinkamancer, "Your Royal Highness King Slately of Jetstone, His Royal Highness Don King of Transylvito." The words were only in his mind; she never spoke aloud. Don's image floated before him, seated as Slately was." 
:::''Slately, being contatced by Thinkamancy, [[LIAB Text 42]]''

*"Rulers have a natural Thinkamancy which allows them to relay orders to their field units, even without a Thinkamancer. He had an[sic] feel for what was going on with his forces, even sitting there in a chair in his capital's garrison's larder." 
:::''Stanley, [[LIAB Text 44]]''

*"In the empty side room, he sat holding his crown in his lap, pauper-like, while time ticked away and his units perished in the dungeons below. He saw their lights in his mind, being extinguished in twos and threes. No-one was leveling. It was clearly an awful rout." 
:::''Slately, demonstrating a Ruler's natural Thinkamancy, [[LIAB Text 48]]''

*"Maggie," Stanley said to the air. It was a form of order only a Thinkamancer could follow. "Maggie!" 
:::''Stanley, contacting a distant Thinkamancer, [[LIAB Text 49]]''

*"There's way too many ways a Thinkamancer can incapacitate me." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on rushing a stack of Thinkamancers, [[LIAB 67]]''

*"For discretion, Chief Parson. You can break contact at any time." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB 84]]''

*"I will thank you not to... put my Chief Warlord into thinkspace without... my mind on the call!" 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB 84]]''

*"Maggie, what are you doing? Why are you running in place? I apologize, Lord. I can't spare the attention to alter my... appearance at the moment. I am... physically moving toward your position." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[LIAB 85]]''

*"The numbers rose as a column, into the millions and billions and more, a silver thread stretching up and away from the peace below. This thread was being drawn up by the system of the world. Thinkamancers knew it as a "Grandiocosmic string." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"Delphie’s last sentence had been delivered in a perfectly friendly and casual tone, but it carried the natural Thinkamancy weight of a direct order." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 2]]''

*"The Thinkamancy inherent in giving them commands would have to be so specific to the throat and mouth muscles..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on making uncroaked sing, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"All at once, completely new senses opened up in her head and she was flooded with information. She could see the distant lights of minds, know the numbers and locations and points of units." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on being promoted to Overlord, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"Delphie was there in the tower, wounded." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on knowing the status of a distant unit, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"In Wanda's head, Delphie's light went out as well. Gone." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on using Ruler (instead of Croakamancer) senses to detect the death of a unit, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"Even as she struggled to comprehend, this brand new part of her mind calmly told her the score. The Garrison had seven Goodminton units left. Four." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on knowing the number of units in her City, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

===Foolamancy===
*"Waitwaitwait. Time out. We can ''veil'' our troops?" 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 61]]''

*"There is ''absolutely'' no way to pull this 'veiling' thing, right? 
::No, you need a Foolamancer in– 
:... in the stack you're veiling, right. 
::Yes, and– 
:''And'' we can't do it with the Eyemancers linked up. ''And'' we can't cast on the enemy's turn." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"We got eleven pairs of warlord eyes here, and he's got thirty or so units. So there's like 300 chances to blow the veil, if he's got one." 
:::''Vinny Doombats, [[TBFGK 107]]''

*" Lord, recall the Foolamancy veil I cast on your lackey. That would not have worked on a gobwin. It worked because Bogroll already resembled you in most important aspects." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 148]]''

*"Above the fountain of sparks there appeared a huge, glowing apparition of Stanley the Tool's face, surrounded by bright rays of red and gold, just as he appeared on his new emblem. But these rays were like arrows pulsing outward, outward... go that way, scatter! Whether the archons took the direction literally or not, they knew the big giant head projection was beyond any of their natural Foolamancy abilities, and it certainly had not been part of the rehearsal." 
:::''The narrator, [[First Intermission 7]]''

*"You must conserve your remaining juice. What can you do cheaply? A simple displacement? 
:If we use a flash to cover the casting, it ought to do." 
:::''Wanda & Jack, [[LIAB 6]]''

*"Form a flash mob over the bridge. 
::[...] 
:You are free to cast. The enemy can see nothing else in this hex." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[LIAB 6]]''

*"But [Charlie] had still gone to great risk to give her cover along the way, using veiled Archons to scout out safe routes. These were probably detectable only by a Foolamancer, another Archon, or a lucky/smart Warlord." 
:::''Jillian, [[LIAB Text 6]]''

*"Foolamancy is Eyemancy. By habit and trade, a Foolamancer must look. At all times, the Foolamancer must observe the nouns around him in finest detail and broadest stroke, in a way that other minds do not. Other minds take shortcuts. Other minds construct, telling themselves ''stories'' about what they see, rather than seeing. Foolamancy is therefore only a narrative. To tell a mind it sees something, the Foolamancer must both see the world as it is, and also as it is seen. Staring into the void of that discrepancy is what drives one mad, really." 
:::''Jack, [[LIAB Text 10]]''

*"Hilary and her partner Avril took up a risky blind, directly over the heads of Prince Sammy's leadership stack. They kept the rising sun at their backs, relative to the warlords, and spent most of their juice to shine out their shadows. It was tricky, but worth it." 
:::''Narration, [[LIAB Text 18]]''

*"Habitually, he sought out the lines and dots of the scenery, the little hooks that other minds used to build their idea of the world around them." 
:::''Jack, [[LIAB Text 21]]''

*"Phoebe was made of brick. She was covered in soot. Black and red and gray, matching the colors of her raiment. All in a column, matching her general body size and opacity. She was a chimney on a rooftop, one of many dozens. It was a really good veil. Maybe her best ever. Gold star! The enemy’s minds would not have to reconcile very much with their eyes, and that was the name of the game." 
:::''Phoebe, [[LIAB Text 56]]''

*"He was wearing a very good scouting veil; she was very lucky to have spotted him in the tree. But such items are fragile, and this one had been destroyed in the melee." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

==Hippiemancy==
*"Among other things, Hippiemancy is the magic of relationships: detecting and altering the forces of opposition and attraction which bind people or units." 
:::''Duncan Scone, [[LIAB Text 11]]''

*"But Hippiemancy is people magic, and Janis also had a heavy understanding about relationships." 
:::''Janis Atlantis, [[LIAB Text 37]]

===Flower Power===
*"But in the presence of so much Flower Power, time perception sort of ''crumbles''. The Hippiemancers call it– 'Flaking.' I know." 
:::''Sizemore & Wanda, [[TBFGK 11]]''

*"Even a Grand Abbie couldn't hope to quiet the coming battle." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 13]]''

*"What did you just do to him? Mm? Oh, just basic Flower Power. He can't engage this turn." 
:::''Parson, Janis & Sizemore, [[LIAB 65]]''

*"I think... I think they mainly keep units from being able to engage." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"The figure in the tower was employing the apparatus they all had assumed was a weapon, but in fact it was a stringed instrument. She plucked and strummed upon it, and even from so far away, they could hear it perfectly. The music took an otherworldly, magical route to their ears." 
:::''Narration, on a Florist quieting a Hex, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"Tommy's sword came down upon his target like a feather. He merely tapped the shoulder of the soldier with the flat of his blade, as if knighting him." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"As if in a dream, she could not swing it with any significant force. The staff moved as if she were trying to stir honey with it." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"The spell would be on the city through Haffaton's turn tomorrow, and could be cast again." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"So red. So angry. Your Life aura, Warlord. It's just awful. Can't you relax? You're in no danger here, I promise. 
::Wanda watched Tommy's face, what she could see of it. He seemed not to change his expression, and barely to relax his posture, but suddenly Olive brightened. 
:Yes! Better!" 
:::''Olive Branch, on seeing auras, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Apparently putting a hand inside the enemy's shirt was not a form of engagement that was prevented by Olive's spell. " 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 14]]''

*"As she walked down another empty hall, Wanda casually held out her staff and tipped a ceramic vase of dried orange flowers from its marble pedestal. The crash was painful to her wine-tenderized head, yet enormously satisfying. Really, even the pain of it was satisfying. So Olive's spellsong did not prevent this form of engagement, either." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 14]]''

*"With a perfunctory "Thanks," she upended the helmet and placed the plant's roots inside. She stepped a few feet away from the uncroaked and turned around to do something to the plant. Wanda could tell she was casting, but not what. [...] When Olive turned around, she held a perfectly healthy green plant in a steel planter." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"This unit has Motion, and that is something a Hippiemancer would know nothing of." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, disparaging a Florist, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"As with yesterday, her voice reached them from everywhere and nowhere, sweet and haunting." 
:::''Narration, on Olive quieting Kiloton, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"Wordlessly, Tommy drew his sword. He stepped out into the courtyard and swung it as hard as he could at a Haffaton soldier who was standing in the sunlight, chewing on a dried pear. The sword stopped in midair, an inch from the man's neck." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"When they finally drew apart, Tommy looked distant and distracted. [..] His voice was barely a loud whisper. [...] his voice low and strained. Wanda watched him closely. He was in deep distress. [...] Tommy looked as pained as Wanda had ever seen him, and he said nothing more until the group had spent the move of its slowest units. [...] Then he dismounted his brontosword, slid down its side, and collapsed into the snow." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being poisoned, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"A crit to the head would cause the muscles to seize at croaking. But one to the heart left the muscles starved out, relaxed and unable to contract. Tommy's were like that." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the effects of Olive's poison on Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"There were almost no functioning nerves in Tommy's heart. Or... his stomach, or most of the rest of his internal organs. He probably had not been in pain, but he must have known something was very wrong." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the effects of Olive's poison on Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She had never seen one before, and she did not understand how it worked, but this was certainly a poisoning. And poisons, both natural and magical, were Flower Power." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She'd also asked him to kiss her. So she did not initiate an engagement in the city." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on a workaround of quieting, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

===Signamancy===
*"The Signamancers claimed that all Stuff was Foolamancy. Our bodies and all the things we see and touch were supposed to only be Signs: symbols of their true nature. Vinny didn't know about all that, but a person's appearance was definitely a Sign. It told you how they think about themselves. And how others see them."
:::''Vinny Doombats, reflecting on what he's been told about Signamancy, [[First Intermission 37]]''

*"Signamancy was a terrible curse. The Titans knew his true nature. No unipegataur-riding warrior king was he, no towering leader and orator. Over the three-thousand or so turns he had ruled, he had only once seen battle, and that from a well-guarded turret. And so he had shrunk. Gone white and fat." 
:::''King Slately Jetsone, [[LIAB Text 33]]''

*"No signs stood to point the way, but the Signamancy of a caster's home portal was plainer than writing." 
:::''Narration, on the color of Portals in the Magic Kingdom, [[IPTSF Text 21]]''

===Date-a-mancy===
*"Date-a-mancy is the oddest branch of Hippiemancy, in that it follows the Numbers which underlie all action. Date-a-mancy tries to quantify the intangible, things like leadership and compatibility and morale and Loyalty and Duty and even love, by means of match-ups." 
:::''Duncan Scone, [[LIAB Text 11]]''

==Naughtymancy==
===Shockmancy===
*"Their Shockmancer was here, a couple turns back. Gone now. He spelled up that tower hard, Bunny. " 
:::''Caesar Borgata, [[First Intermission 47]]''

*"It's natural Shockmancy. When you fall, one of three things happens: you are injured (possibly only slightly), you are incapacitated (you croak in one turn if not given Healomancy), or you just croak. Height of the fall does seem to have some bearing on that, but it's essentially random." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33b]]''

*"She'd told Tommy about spelling up Minnow Tower, and he'd said it was smart thinking. But he never said what kind of effect the raw Shockmancy they were storing in the tower might have in battle." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on having Delphi & Clay juicing up the tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

===Croakamancy===
*"Uncroaked casters just function as infantry..." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 77a]]''

*"She explained it this way. 'Croakamancy comes from the mind.' The more time and attention the caster spends uncroaking the unit, the closer it will be to its original strength and abilities when it was alive. And the more turns it lasts before degrading. So a good croakamancer can mass-animate every fallen unit in a hex, or city zone. But they'll be the weakest kind, and only last a few turns." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 116]]''

*"These are Uncroaked. They require a simple, specific order of battle." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 123]]''

*"Uncroaked infantry, led by a master-class Croakamancer... can." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on dance-fighting, [[TBFGK 127]]''

*"I can decrypt many unit types which had been impossible to uncroak before." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on using the Arkenpliers, [[TBFGK 146]]''

*"From what I can tell, they're like the dwagons are with Stanley. They're loyal to the 'pliers, and therefore to Cruella herself. For all I know, she can see through their eyes and hear what they hear. But if not, they'll prob'ly just tell her anything interesting when they can." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on Decrypted, [[First Intermission 44]]''

*"And what Lady Firebaugh was doing with hers was causing real alarm. The theoretical consensus was that she was extending Croakamancy to the Life axis." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"A big one being, "we don't know if he'd still be able to cast or not." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on decrypting a caster, [[LIAB 11]]

*"Tool, we don't even know if they keep existing without her." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on the Decrypted and the possibility of losing Wanda, [[LIAB 22]]''

*"She could animate the husks of the once-living." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, right after popping, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"We can animate the casualties. Their units and ours, if we take the city!" 
:::''Overlord Firebaugh & Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"Bodies of croaked units decay the next turn. So we would need her on the battlefield." 
:::''Overlord Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"I would have a leadership bonus over uncroaked units, Lord." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"She had senses that she did not yet understand were unique to Croakamancers, and she used them on the fallen scout. His bones she could feel without touching him. She knew which ribs and teeth and vertebrae were broken." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"There would be some craft to this uncroaking, as not all of the original muscles and sinew could be counted on to perform their original functions. That was not a problem. That was what Croakamancy was for. Where a knee would no longer bend, where a bicep no longer existed to flex an arm, the Croakamancer made magical Motion to move the Matter." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"When she had removed all of his raiment, she still could see better with her natural Croakamancy sense than her eyes." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"The body of the scout would have depopped at dawn, had they not moved it out of the hex where it was croaked. Claimed as a spoil for Goodminton, it would only decay a bit when they started their turn later in the morning." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"This scene was a massacre: twenty-two enemy saps, an enemy warlord, and forty-three of their own infantry. She could feel them each, sense the skulls and the hearts and the spines." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"This is a warlord. If I uncroak him, he would benefit from all of my attention, and all of the juice I can spare. The more carefully I cast, the fewer mistakes I might make, and the more he will retain of the power he had in life. I believe I could make him last as long as ten or twelve turns, and retain about half his levels and leadership." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"What are our other choices? 
::I could concentrate on uncroaking more than one unit, diluting the effects, but giving us more units. Or I could attempt to mass uncroak every unit in the hex. 
:You could do that? 
::Tommy... I-I don’t know. I feel it might be too much for me. A disaster. I could become overwhelmed. Maybe we wouldn’t get any units at all out of it. But if I succeeded, then the uncroaked units I create probably would not last more than a turn. Even the warlord." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"She silently ordered the line of uncroaked to bow in unison, which prompted more cheers and laughter." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 10]]''

*"Blood flowed to her face, a mechanism she understood down to the tissues and sinus cavities within her head, for Croakamancy was a beautiful art. She felt her eyelids getting hot, ducts and vessels dilating. She was just a speck of Matter, herself, after all." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 10]]''

*"Wanda waved her staff vaguely in the direction of one of the uncroaked knights in their stack. He tilted his head a bit and grinned happily, showing his remaining teeth around proudly." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Wanda made her Fellow fold his hands together and flex his arms like a champion, grinning obscenely at everyone." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Life magic, Wanda. Croakamancers don't use it." 
:::''Olive Branch, disparaging a Croakamancer, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"Make sure all the Fellows are in the Courtyard, except the ones me and you are stacking with. Wanda nodded, and mentally sent the order as she took another deep swig of chocolate. "Done." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"But before she could even get her boots out of the stirrups, her senses as a Croakamancer told her she would find his lifeless body upon the ground." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"The first thing to determine in uncroaking a body is what took its life, because that was where the most repair and attention would likely be needed. Attention was the key. A simple or a mass uncroaking took no more attention than lighting a candle, with the Matter of the body representing the candle wax. The body would move as it could, and take simple orders until its fuel was exhausted a few turns later." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"But the craft of the Croakamancer was to understand the body's condition, its functions, its strengths and weaknesses." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"The Croakamancer could conserve the fuel of the body by focusing her juice upon the mechanisms of its movement, repairing and augmenting them with magic. An expertly uncroaked unit could function almost as well as it had when alive, and last for perhaps dozens of turns." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"If this body had no wounds, then what croaked it? Sensing her way through the architecture of his insides, she could not immediately say. Something about the muscles was familiar, though. She had uncroaked the victims of critical hits before. A crit to the head would cause the muscles to seize at croaking. But one to the heart left the muscles starved out, relaxed and unable to contract." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"So she focused on his heart. She tried to make it beat once, and knew something was wrong. One tells a muscle to move by means of the nerves, and reconnecting nerves by magic was one of the trickier parts of an attentive uncroaking." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She had never made one so beautifully preserved. The bloating in his face faded, as some slow circulation of the blood was possible in this one. She was overjoyed at the results. Almost everything a living unit could do, this one could..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on uncroaking her brother, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Then she thought out an order, and Un-Tommy disengaged from his melee." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Re-attaching the head during the uncroaking process had been an interesting new challenge." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Even through blinding blasts, Wanda's Croakamancy senses let her know that the first enemy casualties had been struck and were falling. She sensed broken skulls and wings and burst organs inside the bodies that spiraled down through the air toward the courtyard below." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on detecting the dead, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"And the Fellows...they're really quite weak without leadership." 
:::''Pom Fritz, on uncroaked units, [[IPTSF Text 25]]''

*"Wanda could feel the consumption of Matter there in the fireplace, too, if she chose to. " 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on burning logs, [[IPTSF Text 25]]''

*"As they marched on, she hoped for an ambush, or any enemy encounter, so that she might spend her juice this turn making fresh units instead of hopelessly re-patching these. It was better than wasting the juice entirely, but there was only so much she could do. These bodies were decaying inexorably to dust, and only the Titans could prevent that." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on extending the duration of uncroaked, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"From what she understood of her discipline, it ought to be possible to make them sing, if she were a master of Croakamancy. Singing was part of the Stagemancy involved in dance fighting. So how would that work, she wondered? The Thinkamancy inherent in giving them commands would have to be so specific to the throat and mouth muscles... maybe if she sang the order to them? Or thought of singing it? Hmm..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"If you're croaked, and that is no joke, you pass the yoke of Chief to a bloke named Fritz... '''Pooda onga riiish!'''" 
:::''Wanda & Tommy, demonstrating uncroaked theater, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"Uncroaked units were cheap." 
:::''Jillian Banhammer, [[IPTSF Text 28]]''

===Retconjuration===
*'''This is a theoretical branch of magic, like an undiscovered element on the periodical table.
*'''No ordinary caster can practice it; there are no Retconjurers in Erfworld.
*'''It is reserved for the Titans.'''
:::''Titan Rob, Word of the Titans 8/19/2009

*"Hey, maybe she's a Retconjuror. Oh do not even joke about that. There is no such thing." 
:::''Tommy & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 11]]''

==Stagemancy==
*"Singing was part of the Stagemancy involved in dance fighting." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

===Hat Magic===
*"Is it dual use? Abjuration only. Report any engagements and observations at the end of your move." 
:::''Jillian & Ansom, [[TBFGK 9]]''

*"The sun was setting, as a tired woman with raw red eyes waved a wand over an upturned silk hat, and saw the letter inside vanish." 
:::''Queen Bea, [[First Intermission 43]]''

*"You know, I can do some small object conjuration for you. You just have to tell me what you need." 
:::''Cubbins, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"He dropped it into the crown and waved his scepter over it three times. "Pinochet," he intoned. The coin was made to disappear." 
:::''Slately, sending a coin to King Don, [[LIAB Text 42]]''

*"Sire, I can help too. Hand me your crown." 
:::''Cubbins, prior to modifying something into a Magic Item, [[LIAB 69]]''

*"One of the units in the group, for example, was a snow golem. It was a terribly crude thing, made of only three large balls of snow she had rolled up, with sticks for arms and small black rocks for features. It moved lurchingly forward and was almost useless as a unit. But as abominable as it was, she was quite proud of her first attempt at hat magic." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, demonstrating unit creation, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"The snow golem she ordered to stand sentry at the base of Minnow Tower. Then she took the silk top hat from its head, reducing it to a mere ornament." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"It stayed right in place via the natural Dollamancy (or was it natural Hat Magic?) of just belonging there." 
:::''Narration, on Wanda's jaunty hat, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

===Carnymancy===
*"Carnymancy. It's... the magic of rigging the game. Here! That's a crude slander on our noble discipline, sir. Oh, truly you do wound me. But yes." 
:::''Parson & Jojo, [[LIAB 63]]''

*"But we had this Carnymancer who really liked me. He saved me from croaking by rigging the incapacitation rules on me. They hauled me back to the capital in a wagon, and he cast over me every day for ten turns, just keeping me alive. 
::Until they got you a Healomancer?" 
:Pff, no. Queen Bea was mad enough at all the fuss over a Level 1 stabber. No, one day I just popped up off the bed, good as new. The Carnymancer said he'd 'made a trade' for me." 
:::''Sylvia & Archer, [[LIAB 86]]''

*"Then what can we do? Our specialties, of course. Stirring up trouble, roping a dope. You dodgers work the crowd. Get 'em in a real lather. Maybe they'll shoot him." 
:::''Unnamed Carnymancer & Jojo, [[LIAB 90]]''

===Rhyme-o-mancy===
*"A poetic incantation could settle the mind, focus any caster on their work." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Even warlords could use Rhymes in leadership, for morale and focus, and in dance fighting." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Those bawdy trail songs of Tommy's were crude, but effective on the units under his command. Her singing along with the knights had likely helped her spot that scout on her first day." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Songs and poems held great and mysterious power." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"But to use Rhyme-o-mancy in casting, it must be quick and clever, and it must rhyme. If she flubbed the rhyme, the spell would weaken or fail completely." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"The attention of an entire day was collapsed into those few seconds." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

==Clevermancy==
*"Clevermancy should have no Xs. It's raw magic dealing with raw magical forces." 
:::''Titan Rob, Word of the Titans 2315787''

===Luckamancy===
*"Delphie tells you what to cast, doesn’t she? What battles to affect. What units to...what, bless? 
::Yeah. I just say ‘boost.’” 
:And you can alter the outcome of a battle, by casting ahead of time. You boost up a unit’s luck by a lot, or a whole side’s luck by a little? 
::Yeah, kind of. Or jinx the enemy. Battles are hard, though. Sides are harder. Units are pretty easy. I boost our warlords all the time." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"I boosted his roll to a 4! I changed his odds, chose a way to describe the outcome of his choices. You see?” He picked up the dice and showed them to her. “The dice are not the guy, okay? In this case the guy is imaginary, and the dice are representing him. But this is real life,” he said, making a circle in the air with his index finger, “and you are not the dice. Okay? In real life, you are real, but the dice are imaginary. The dice that describe your choices. Mathamancy describes those, and Luckamancy affects those." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Now here's an important thing, though. Where did those 4s come from? 
::From you. You cast upon the die. 
:So you're saying my juice had a physical effect on the way the die rolled. 
::Yes. 
:Yes and no. It's not a direct effect, you see? The 4 is a Number. It had to come from somewhere. 
::The juice in your spell did not create the outcome, you are saying. Your spell did not create the 4. It...what?" What was the alternative? "Enabled it, somehow? 
: Honestly?That's the nice way to say it. Whatt'm saying is that maybe that die would have come up 4s three times anyway. So maybe my spell did nothing at all, at least so far. That's why I say it'll roll high 'for a little while.' I don't know." 
:::''Clay & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"But here's what I do know. And maybe it's kind of a secret of my discipline but I think it's important, and I wanna tell you. Luckamancy doesn't create good outcomes, because that would undermine Mathamancy and Predictamancy. Mathamancy deals with real Numbers. If Luckamancy could just create Numbers out of juice, out of thin air, then every odds calculation would be off. Y'see? So what Luckamancy actually does is steal Numbers from the world." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"Where do you steal the Numbers from? Well, the world. If you rolled all the D4s in the world a bunch of times, that one included, you'd get an even mix of ones, twos, threes and fours. This little guy stole his roll from somewhere, and I think the world is lazy, you know? I don't think it goes very far to steal good outcomes when I boost one of our warlords, you know?" 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"Would it steal from our enemies? If only. That's the one thing it really doesn't do. In fact we sometimes see the opposite. The enemy rolls better than they should or... or we roll worse." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"What, it steals Numbers from us?! Not all the time! I mean, it depends. The net effect is still good for us, because we're picking the right battles to win. But yeah it can be really hard on the rest of our side, sometimes. Especially unled and unboosted units. We...lose more of those kind of battles than we should." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"A Luckamancy boost could have any number of specific effects on a unit's "dice." Defensively, it could affect their chance to be hit, the damage they would take from hits, their chance of receiving a critical hit, their chance of being incapacitated or croaked from a fall, et cetera. Or it could affect the enemy's outcomes: their defenses." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Frenemy units fell by twos and threes, the victims of outrageously high damage outcomes and critical hit rates." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of Luckamancy on battle, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"You know how when a unit falls, it can croak, or be incapacitated, or just be plain wounded and lose some hits? 
::Yes? 
:Well, that's Luckamancy, too. And I'm thinking f'we get into another airspace fight we can first cast against the enemy to make 'em more likely to croak in a fall. Then we can go for dismounting attacks. And there's not a lot of, um, downside to that. Less backlash from borrowing Numbers, right? Because we don't use air mounts. We do a lot less falling. See?" 
:::''Clay & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 22]]''

===Healomancy===
*"It contained a healing elixir of his own devising, the recipe of which varied, but usually consisted of "two gin rations, stirred with a Wand of Cure Incapacitation." 
:::''Pierce, mentioning a type of wand, [[LIAB Text 41]]''

===Moneymancy===
*"It had been as ridiculous as everything else in Erfworld, rebuilding the city. The Overlord ordered it, the treasury was debited, and the city was instantly recreated. It was only Moneymancy. When it happened, Parson was standing in the ruins of the courtyard. There was a sound like a wind chime, with a whoosh of orchestral cymbals. Enormous, blinding magical sparkles filled the sky and the ground. And then the city was simply standing again, fully intact. There was no more rubble, not even a wisp of settling dust." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[First Intermission 1]]''

=Axes=
*"Its numbers were being shaped and guided by the firmament, by what magic theorists called the Erf Axis. For when the price was paid, it was Erfworld which processed the transaction. The world would produce the unit that was called for...more or less. There was the matter of the Fate Axis as well, and this unit was turning out to be very special." 
:::''Narration, on popping a unit, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

==Erf==

==Fate==
*"Fate is inevitable, Warlord. But our ''path'' to it is not. We must first divine, and then ''enact'' our destinies. To live is to suffer. Our Fate is our only release. So if we fight against Fate, or fail to act in support of it when the way is clear, then we only worsen and prolong our misery. Our choices do matter. Wise choices ease the way, and foolish ones cause suffering." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[LIAB 70]]''

==Numbers==
*"Life is all Numbers. Ask any Mathamancer; they know." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"To live is to stand on one side of an equation, which must equal zero in the end. There is a price, a cost in Numbers, to be paid for staying alive. Zero is a balance, an equilibrium. Zero is a flat country, neither far away nor near. You can travel there any time, at the cost of your life. And perhaps, if someone were to pay the price to the exact number, you could even return again. That Mathamancers often say such things, and nod to one another soberly, is thought to be why they tend to keep to their own company." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"Few casters doubted what was said of the Numbers Axis, but even fewer understood. Not consciously, anyway." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"This unit would be worth far more than the buyer had paid for. That was no violation of Numbers, though. It simply meant that this unit carried a balance due. And though it was an astronomically high figure, someone would pay. Zero always called, and someone would have to pay." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

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[[Category:Quotes]]

Quotes: Magic

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No one in particular: /* Croakamancy */

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Quoted statements about the various forms and branches of magic.

''Next quote to be pulled from'': [[IPTSF Text 26]]

note to self: Pull quotes from [[TBFGK 38a]] later; basics of magic, classes &c.

=General=
*"He told me that Casters are Commanders, and can lead stacks, but they almost never do. Casters are too rare and valuable to risk, and they give no leadership bonus to the stack anyway. Only Warlords have leadership. Makes sense. Except for certain exceptions. Like, say... the bonus those golems get if they're led by a Dirtamancer. Or the huge one to Uncroaked units being led by a Croakamancer(!)." 
:::''Parson's Klog, [[TBFGK 84a]]''

*"Casters can also spend juice, doing most things casters do: make scrolls, items, golems, uncroak, turn Schmuckers to gems (or vice versa but that doesn't cost juice), upgrade units, etc." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on off-turn actions, [[LIAB 33a]]''

*"Okay, you said you can cast in the Magic Kingdom, right? 
:Yes..." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[LIAB 45]]''

*"Ahead and below, the target threw some Shockmancy bolts up at them. The defense was automatic. Not only were there no casters there to direct the stored spells, but there were apparently no commanders of any kind in the city." 
:::''Jillian, on tower defenses, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

*"Wanda said she thought it was a whole mess of different magicks, what'd she say... Shockmancy, obviously. Rhyme-o-mancy because it rocked out. Carnymancy because it made big flashes and sometimes could make things disappear (he never could do it on purpose, though). And what else? Changemancy? He looked at the hammer closely. There might be a lot more he could do with it besides taming dwagons, which was... Date-o-mancy, he guessed?" 
:::''Stanley, on the Arkenhammer, [[LIAB Text 44]]''

*"He had not actually crossed the threshold to Master class, but that could happen any time a caster gained powerful new insight into his discipline or major class." 
:::''Sizemore, on Class vs Level, [[LIAB Text 45]''

*"The Arkendish's feel was all over that Turnamancy spell." 
:::''Rachel, on the feel of a spell, [[LIAB Text 53]]''

*"N'they're like archers; they'd be able to take shots at me any time." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on caster attacks, [[LIAB 71]]

*"Each discipline of magic has its own special insight into cosmic truths." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"A ball of juice formed between her outstretched fingers. The hoboken is the basic offensive spell known to almost all casters at the time they pop." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"Wanda snorted, but then had to admit casters can't actually see one another's discipline." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 11]]''

*"It was not offensive; she could cast it before Goodminton broke alliance." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on a Dirtamancy scroll that modified the tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"It had been as effective as her effort at Rhyme-o-mancy, but it left her no better understanding of what she had cast." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on casting outside her discipline, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Delphie immediately leveled up to 5, and her spells became that much more potent." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

=Elements=
*"Here was a complicated bit of Matter. Once it had possessed Life and Motion, but those had been taken away from it. And though only the Titans could restore Life to it, she could give it Motion again, once she had the juice." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the body of a croaked scout, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"The three Elements were created equal. Are you a Titan, to say otherwise?" 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Life==
*"Life magic, Wanda. Croakamancers don't use it." 
:::''Olive Branch, disparaging a Croakamancer, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Motion==
*"This unit has Motion, and that is something a Hippiemancer would know nothing of." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, disparaging a Florist, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Matter==

=Classes=
==Hocus Pocus==
===Findamancy===
===Predictamancy===
*"Marie, of course, had told her many times that she had Predicted the fall of her side, the kingdom where she and Wanda had served. But when it came to explaining how the fall had happened, how she and Wanda both had escaped destruction in different ways, she wouldn't budge. 
:'It all got cloudy,' was all she would really say. 'It happens. I saw it would come and I wonned my Rulah. But when it came it all got cloudy, I don't know.' " 
:::''Janis & Marie, [[LIAB Text 37]]''

*"Thinkamancers understood intuition to be a form of natural Predictamancy, in which a unit can dimly perceive its Fate on a subconscious level." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Shouldn't you know? Oh I should, yes. But turns like this, they come up time to time and everything afta is cloudy. Something has to get decided today, Sizemore. Fate will go fowad from there." 
:::''Sizemore & Marie, on the clarity of Predictions, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"It’s a complicated subject, Wanda. Predictamancy... You know, dear? There are rules we don’t discuss. About...what we don’t discuss." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 3]]''

*"Wanda, the reason that Predictamancers do not say everything we know is not because it would change the future, but because it usually will make it longer and more painful to reach those future outcomes. The less you know about what is to come, about your Fate, then the easier it will be for you to get there, the less... you and others will have to suffer, to lose." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 9]]''

*"Delphie looked at her Overlord and squinted a bit, examining him. Wanda could sense that she was using a kind of magical sight like her own Croakamancy senses. She'd asked Delphie a raft of questions about Predictamancy in correspondence from the road, as they'd worked out this plan. She knew Delphie was now intuiting something about Father's near-term outcomes." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Somewhere in those notes in her satchel, there was a brief explanation of how Predictamancy worked in combat. It amounted to the caster using her juice to see things happen a second or two ahead, so that she could aim where the enemy would be, and to move where the enemy's return blows and arrows would not land." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Most importantly to this plan, a Predictamancer could know whether or not a shot or blow she was about to initiate would be a hit. If it wouldn't, then she simply did not take the shot." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Only one magic blast struck Fritz's shield. Delphie sidestepped the others as necessary, still casting in a kind of concentration trance." 
:::''Narration, on a Predictamancer in battle , [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Not everyone walking these halls has a purpose. I cannot make Predictions about every unit, or commander, or even every ruler." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

*"It was the only way Goodminton could survive you. 
::You don't know that. You never Predicted that. 
:No. I can't. Fate doesn't care about us. That's the terror of it; we have no Fate. The world doesn't care if we live or not. Only about you." 
:::''Delphie & Wanda, on who has Fate, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

*"However much Faq wanted to avoid crossing paths, it was inevitable. Battlespace determinations were Natural Predictamancy. She would be spotted by the enemy and allow them an encounter of some sort, all too close to her own territory." 
:::''Jillian Banhammer, [[IPTSF Text 27]]''

===Mathamancy===
*"Mathamancy is what, again? Analyzing probabilities... predicting outcomes? Yes, and the raw calculations of that work." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 54]]''

*"CharlsNChrg: Tell me the odds that learning what happened to my Archons right now will be worth giving up those calculations in the future. 
:LordHamster: ... 
:LordHamster: I don't know if this thing can even DO a calculation like that. Predicting the future? 
:CharlsNChrg: Try it. 
:LordHamster: Fine. 
:LordHamster: I'll be damned. 
:LordHamster: It says there's all of a 4% chance it's worth taking my deal, even after spending this calculation. 
::[...] 
:LordHamster: Teaching me that my bracer can make sophisticated predictions about the future? Priceless." 
:::''Charlie & Parson, [[First Intermission 39]]

*"The dice describe the world. They don’t determine it. A Mathamancer can tell you how many dice will be rolled, how many points’ll be lost when you’re wounded. He’ll tell you what’ll probably happen, and possibly happen, and what can’t happen." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Mathamancy deals with real Numbers." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

==Spookism==
===Turnamancy===
*"Having a Turnamancer reduced the production of an heir by twenty turns, and with funds coming in from Transylvito, Vanna was able to boost Otoh and Kibo's production drastically." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 49]]''

*"That level 6 Jitterati warlord, Duncan Scone, was now her best fighter. Vanna had done some good work to turn him, but the dungeon didn't much interest Jillian. Vanna didn't really know how to play right." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 49]]''

*"You okay? 
::Yes. That was just like, whoa. Intense. You know? 
:How's your juice? 
::Low. That spell cost two turns' worth, basically. 
:::''Jillian & Vanna, on KingWorld, [[LIAB 22]]''

*"Can't move to other hexes (because of zero move, exceptions possible using Turnamancy)." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33a]]''

*Next turn, when the Turnamancer had juice, she would be able to cast a mass spell that should convert half these prisoners to Faq units. The rest could be worked on in future turns." 
:::''Vanna, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

===Dollamancy===
*"Tell me about that. Where do changes of clothes come from?" [...] 
::"Well, it's Dollamancy, Lord," said Maggie, looking up at him. [...] "This particular 'outfit'... I would call it 'raiment'... came from the Magic Kingdom. The helm was made by one of our new Twolls. 
:"Yeah, how do Twolls do that? Bogroll made my armor, and he put the sword together. This new guy Zhopa just made me a picnic basket." [...] 
::"Twolls have the 'fabrication' special, which is a form of natural Dollamancy. Units with that ability can make small nonmagical items, usually armor and equipment. I understand that the next Twoll we pop will be assigned to the stables as a smith and saddlemaker." 
:Parson nodded. "But the rest of the clothes were from an actual Dollamancer?" 
::"Yes, his name is Ken." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"What about these symbols?" Parson slapped his chest plate. "My Hamstard crest and Wanda's skull emblem, and the Stanley posters. That's all Dollamancy, too?" "The emblems are called 'livery,' Lord. And yes, that is a common form of natural Dollamancy. New units pop bearing the livery their Ruler desires. Twolls can fabricate items which bear their master's livery. And when a caster creates another unit, as in golem-making or uncroaking, the caster sets the livery and other features of the unit's appearance." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"With a Dollamancer to heal the Cloth Golems and a Healomancer for the rest..." 
:::''Ossomer, [[LIAB 4]]''

*"There are different applications of Dollamancy. Lady Shortcake was fond of fashioning cloth golems. She was very imaginative. 
:Precious, puffy-looking animals. The hit of the parade. And when she wasn't doing that, she was always designing new raiment for the changing fashions at court!" 
:::''Cubbins & Ace, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Look, there's a lot you can do in Dollamancy. It's fabrication with a motion element, right? If we want." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Dollamancy is Fate magic, so I know something about that." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Ace stroked his chin, contemplating the King's potential as a combatant. "Start with your weapon, I guess. May I?" Slately put the Royal Scepter of Jetstone in the hands of a non-Royal caster without a moment's hesitation. It was a mark of his seriousness of purpose. But he did cringe as Ace began to take it apart." 
:::''Ace & Slately, on repurposing existing items, [[LIAB Text 48]]''

*"I'm thinkin' just defense for these, Cubbins. 
::Yeah, me too. 
:I'm just doin' blasts. You cover the tricky-fooly stuff, okay?" 
:::''Ace & Cubbins, [[LIAB 69]]''

*"As he modded the Royal Scepter, it dawned on Ace that he had become accustomed to working in cloth — weaving and cutting and shaping it to another Dollamancer's specifications." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 54]]''

*"Look, the cloth golems will be much stronger with my bonus." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB 93]]''

*"I don't have a lof of time, Cubs. But I can definitely... mff... add one feature to this puppy. Gonna call it "an autopilot." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB 99]]''

*"Upon claiming it, she’d imposed Goodminton’s livery on it by natural Dollamancy, reluctantly changing the black to slate blue. But on a whim, she kept just one of the pink flowers, offset in a patch of white." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on clothing, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Olay," she said, casting the minor Dollamancy spell that Teddy had taught her. The wrinkles in each piece went smooth, as the garment was restored to its new-turn condition." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

*"The Dollamancer had modified her old riding gloves into long, chamois evening gloves with stealthy riding grips sewn into the palms. Her clunky boots he'd turned into shiny black thigh-highs topped with lace, but still reinforced in the feet and ankles for combat riding." 
:::''Narration, on a Dollamancer modifying existing clothes, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

*"It stayed right in place via the natural Dollamancy (or was it natural Hat Magic?) of just belonging there." 
:::''Narration, on Wanda's jaunty hat, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

===Weirdomancy===
*"Weirdomancers can cancel a flyer's special to make it fall (or make a non-flyer fly, then dispel it and cause a fall)." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33b]]''

*"[...] to hiring a Weirdomancer to try to make the Gumps grow radishes in their branches, [...]" 
:::''Narration, [[LIAB Text 55]]''

==Stuffamancy==
*"How would you make a magic blanket?" Parson asked, gnawing on a heel of the rye loaf. "If you wanted one?" 
::Sizemore looked at Maggie, who was nibbling cheese, and spoke up. "That's Stuffamancy. Really versatile magic. Weapons, armor, tools... Stuffamancers just imagine it and conjure it." 
:"Conjure as in make it?" Parson said with his mouth full. "Create it? Or summon it from somewhere?" 
::Sizemore leaned forward excitedly, rocking a little as he spoke. "That's a great question, Warlord. There's a big debate about that, getting right down to the level of 'what is magic?' and 'what is stuff?' Some Casters think they're the same thing, and that Stuffamancy proves it. But even the Stuffamancers don't agree about that."
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[First Intermission 28]]''

===Dirtamancy===
*"... Sizemore can dig through solid rock, it's cool to watch." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 77a]]''

*"Hav- Having a Dirtamancer in your city when you upgrade it reduces the cost by a lot," he began. 
::Parson tried to see where this was going. "Okayyyy..."
:"But it means the Dirtamancer sets the appearance, the shape of things... and the livery." 
:::''Sizemore & Parson, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"At the end of the pavement, he frowned at a spot where the squares were sinking into the softer ground. Drawing his index finger over the pathway's edge, he spent a little juice to fix it." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"Dirtamancy was among the most rare and useful disciplines [in the Magic Kingdom]. Everyone needed a wall built, a garden tilled, a well dug, a foundation excavated. There were no city sites; construction was a manual industry." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"Can you tunnel? 
::Tunnel. 
:Yeah, can you? 
::Well, yes. 
:Good. Now can you tunnel under Portal Park, all the way from our portal to the one that goes to Spacerock? 
::I... ''can.''"
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[LIAB 45]]''

*"Without word or ceremony they lifted, and Jillian willed the city razed. With a great swirl of sparkling natural Dirtamancy, and a tinny crashing sound, Progrock turned to dust and rubble below them." 
:::''Jillian, razing Progrock, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

*"Touching the spade to the grass of Portal Park put Sizemore directly in touch with Erfworld. He sensed the physical world in deep, primal ways which he found difficult to convey to other casters. Even Changemancers and Dittomancers would stare at him blankly when he described it, though they too practiced forms of Stuffamancy." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"He could feel the ground feeling him, pulling him down, pushing up on the soles of his feet as he lifted each leg to walk. In the soil below, rocks sat immersed in the cold mud. Their whole surface touched it, in all dimensions at once. Sizemore could feel this contact as if the pebbles were his own toes and fingers" 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"Sizemore's mind slid away, down below his feet, to his other self. The strata, the stresses, the peace of land at rest, he understood them that way: as if they were parts of his own body. The ground could be comfortable and sedate, like a tired person feels when lying on onsic a soft mattress. Or it could be awkward, unsustainable, like a man trying to lean on a jagged stump, or sleep upside down on a stone staircase. The land in the Magic Kingdom was deeply, permanently at rest." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"This body analogy described something he had always intuited about the land. But only since his link with the Lady Firebaugh did he think of it consciously. His entire mental frame for visualizing his discipline had been reworked on that day. A hundred turns later, he was still reconsidering the fundamentals of his craft. [...] Between the volcano link-up and his three recent levels (two from traps and combat, one from all of the city rebuilding), Sizemore was now a greater Dirtamancer than he ever imagined he could become. He had not actually crossed the threshold to Master class, but that could happen any time a caster gained powerful new insight into his discipline or major class. The body analogy wasn't quite enough to push him past that mark; he was still missing something. But for the first time in his life, he felt pretty sure that he would get there." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"It felt strange and dirty, tingling with a magic she had barely even thought about." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the magical feel of a Dirtamancy scroll, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"The tower rose indeed, far higher into the sky than it had stood before. Stone blocks and tiles sprang from nothing, widening the platform upon which they stood." 
:::''Narration, on a Dirtamancy scroll modifying a tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"When she'd boosted the tower, a few such nice little changes in design, decor, and accouterments had crept in from her mind's eye." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

===Changemancy===
===Dittomancy===
*"Yes, and a Dittomancer doubling leadership and specials... duplicating surviving units... I see." 
:::''Ansom, [[LIAB 4]]''

*"And double those arrows, Caster. 
:Double 'em? Double 'em! I'll quadruple 'em." 
:::''Jetstone Warlord & Lloyd, [[LIAB 8]]''

*'''For the duplication of an actual unit, see: ''[[LIAB 79]]'''''

*"Doubles don't leave a body." 
:::''Tramennis, [[LIAB 88]]''

*"When Jetstone's next turn starts, you will vanish." 
:::''Charlie, to the Slately-ditto, [[LIAB 89]]''

==Eyemancy==
*"This [[eyebook|item]] works on "Eyemancy." Which covers "Lookamancy", "Thinkamancy", and "Foolamancy." And it uses all three of those." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 35]]''

*"The Eyemancers may be our single most valuable asset, above even the Arkenhammer. Ordering them linked was... the shrewdest thing I've ever known Stanley to do. They created the Eyebooks. They give us unmatched communications and intelliegence. When Stanley sees you have tampered with their functioning..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 47]]''

*"Spells are trickier. Most can't be cast unless there are enemy units in the same hex/city, but some like Lookamancy and Thinkagrams can be cast anytime." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on off-turn actions, [[LIAB 33a]]''

===Lookamancy===
*"Well, yes! I mean for a unit that is... that is moving, time passes normally, but not relative to units in other hexes. A Lookamancer tracking the movement of that unit may see it move much faster in their time. The time in their hex." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[First Intermission 29]]''

*"What the enemy brings you, you usually don't know until they're on you. But here, we've got the count. We know just what we're facing. It's like having a Lookamancer for once." 
:::''Pom Fritz, on having a roster of units in the area, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

===Thinkamancy===
*"Not entirely unwitting. Nor entirely controlled. It's... complex." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 41]]''

*"We control her, though. So just make her write the message. Right? The control is subtle, Warlord. Suggestions, perceptions, emotions... not commands." 
:::''Parson & Wanda, [[TBFGK 41]]''

*"What is this link up? 
:: *sigh* It's a trick that only Thinkamancers can perform. A caster's will is subsumed into a... kind of psychological alloy with the Thinkamancer. The joint mind they form can cast spells no single caster can even comprehend. 
:The downside being that the casters lose their will... 
::Their sanity... their individuality... It's a risky and fragile spell, especially with three. Four can't even be done. Talking to them as individuals can break that spell, Parson. That may croak the casters. Or leave them useless. Or, have no effect." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 54]]''

*"These kinds of spells rely on the subject. Suggestions can make her inclined to do things... such as lead recklessly, disobey orders. She provides her own reasons for these choices. 
::Which she is doing! 
:Yes. But those are things she is inclined to do anyway." 
:::''Sizemore & Wanda, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"Suggestions like 'turn sides' or 'ignore enemy forces' may be too hard for her to rationalize, and cause her to break the spell." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"There are things she will not do. 
::Okay, but... like ''what?'' 
: *sigh* She won't fight for someone she hates. Nor harm someone she loves." 
:::''Wanda & Parson, [[TBFGK 66]]''

*"The spell ''compells'' [''sic''] you to seek a reason." 
:::''Jaclyn, [[TBFGK 67]]''

*"But when such a spell breaks, there is a kind of backlash. A cord which snaps. A good Thinkamancer can protect herself from damage. Had I been the caster, the object of the spell would have borne the brunt of it. This would likely have croaked the unit or left it incapacitated." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 84]]''

*"Incredibly useful, incredibly scary magic. We got into spells, communications, suggestions... and then she mentions "Natural Thinkamancy." Innate magic. Like how some units fly and some dig... that's "Natural Magic." When scouting units send back intel, that's Natural Thinkamancy. But apparently so is following the Tool's orders. All units are subject to Natural Thinkamancies: Obedience, Loyalty, Duty, and others." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 84a]]''

*"The Arkendish affords him a command of Thinkamancy I cannot match." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 88]]''

*"There is a feeling. You may no longer notice it. But think of the first spell you ever cast. When you cast within your disclipline, there is a sense of warmth, comfort, familiarity. I want you to relax, and recall that feeling. Find the feel of your discipline, and step inside it. Lose yourself to it. Become your function." 
:::''Maggie, on forming a link-up, [[TBFGK 135]]''

*"All right, I'll need a master-class Thinkamancer to unravel this link. More than one, preferably." 
:::''Janis Atlantis, on breaking a link-up, [[TBFGK 140]]''

*"[The veil] worked because Bogroll already resembled you in most important aspects. Thinkamancy works similarly, on the mind to which it is applied. The changes it makes are remarkably small and subtle. It cannot turn a dullard into a genius, or a mouse into a maniac. 
::Or a hamster into a pit bull... Right, so if I thought of this. If I did this... 
:Then some very great part of you wanted to. The spell only nudged it forward."
:::''Maggie & Parson, [[TBFGK 148]]''

*"It's utterly fascinating, casting from a link. I just... understand the spell so clearly." According to Maggie, a two-caster linkup was a less risky and drastic thing than three, especially when done voluntarily. In it, the Thinkamancer's function was something like "cognitive copilot," managing the other caster's mental functions, focusing his attention and boosting his energy to achieve better results than the caster could alone. And it had worked. Their side got a better capital out of it than if Sizemore had upgraded the city by himself. The link was easily broken afterward, and neither of them seemed to suffer any harm." 
:::''Sizemore & Maggie, on linking, [[First Intermission 26]]''

*"And it was very little risk. In our earlier link, we discovered a strong rapport. Such mutual trust can make the process a great deal easier." 
:::''Maggie, on linking, [[First Intermission 26]]''

*"Speaking or shouting the command will work, Lord," said Maggie, lurching a bit as she rounded the remains of the picnic and walked up beside him. Though he was not completely steady himself, he offered his right elbow and she grabbed it gratefully. "Not be- because they understand Language, but because it hhhelps you frame the intent in your mind. You see. Experienced-" she swallowed hard, or possibly hiccupped. "Excuse me. Experienced commanders can command stacks with few or no words. When you understand your command, the unit will. Yet another fo-horm of natural Thinkamancy, Lord." 
:::''Maggie, [[First Intermission 32]]''

*"Jack, do you remember what you did... to project the battle table... when you were linked up? 
:I remember doing it, Lord. But I don't remember how. If that makes sense." 
:::''Parson & Jack, [[First Intermission 38]]

*"As she soared over the rushes, she felt the tickle of an incoming Thinkagram." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 41]]''

*"'''What did the Arkendish do?''' Many things, most of them connected to Thinkamancy. Charlie could handle an unlimited number of Thinkagrams, and extend some of his abilities to his personal Archons in the tower. Any commander in the world could get those Archons' attention by concentrating hard enough, for long enough. This could take hours or even days, but Charlescomm would establish contact eventually. This allowed him to hire out to any side or barbarian in the world, and probably provided him more revenue than mercenary work. He was the telecom giant of Erfworld. This was the main thing he used the Arkendish for, but guessing its other powers was a favorite topic for the Archons." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[First Intermission 46]]''

*"Natural Allies know the will of their tribe’s Chief or Chiefs by Natural Thinkamancy, even from other hexes." 
:::''Vurp, [[LIAB Text 4]]''

*"Doombats typically had a range of twenty hexes or so for scouting, but a Thinkamancer extended that range indefinitely." 
:::''Don King, [[LIAB Text 5]]''

*"For the juice cost of a Thinkagram, Bunny could link him to one of their views, just like he was in the area himself." 
:::''Don King, on Doombats, [[LIAB Text 5]]''

*"Among these were over eight thousand speaking units, any one of whom could request Maggie's attention via intense concentration. Similarly, she could reach out to these units herself, to relay orders or request status." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"Some (mercifully subconscious) part of Maggie's mind was always sorting and prioritizing the incoming and outgoing messages, making little decisions which added up to bigger ones. That was at the quietest of times. Before and during a major battle, it was more than she could fully process, more than she had the juice for. However structured and competent her mind might be, she was still only an Adept class Thinkamancer. Even a Mastermind would be taxed under these conditions." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"She spent a tiny bit of juice to confirm the existence and status of the major units there, but did not open a Thinkagram." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"Jillian thought maybe the Thinkagram connection was broken, but she hadn't felt the usual little pop." 
:::''Jillian, [[LIAB Text 17]]''

*"So, what? You can just mind-control your Ruler whenever he makes a decision you don't like? 
: No. Only when I am certain he is wrong. And, in fact, it involves great personal risk..." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[LIAB 33]]''

*"Bunny, when the battle starts I want you to send that bat's view to everybody in here." 
:::''King Don, [[LIAB 34]]''

*"Little lanterns in Maggie's mind kept blowing out, in ones, twos and threes. The dwagon units, being harvested. And some of the riders, impacting the ground and ceasing to exist (at least, as Gobwin Knob units she had to manage)." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Everyone else imagined Thinkamancy as a set of discrete capabilities: "relay a command" or "plant a suggestion" or "send a two-way visual/audible Thinkagram." They were meant to think of it that way. So long as that was the perception of the discipline, then its fundamental powers could stay largely unknown, untapped, and uncalled-upon." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Thinkamancers were aware of certain magical truths for which, quite intentionally, there were no words in Language." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"For example, a Thinkagram was not one type of spell. There was a spectrum, from which a Thinkamancer would choose one or more bands to communicate within. To someone without a sensitivity to this spectrum, it would be impossible to describe the advantages and capabilities of each, but many of those capabilities went entirely unused, except by Thinkamancers themselves. A warlord would only call for one of a short list of communiques: speech, orders, pictures and sounds. But he would not, for example, ask to communicate and compare his own intuition with that of an allied commander in the field. " 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Thinkamancers understood intuition to be a form of natural Predictamancy, in which a unit can dimly perceive its Fate on a subconscious level. To a Thinkamancer, intuition was as communicable as speech or emotion or the underlying intentions of orders. It could be sent and received, combined and multiplied, and manipulated." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"There were many other such hidden mechanics. There were mental senses which could not even be described to a non-Thinkamancer. The most important of these was the ability to sense Grandiocosmic Strings, the conduits of all magic power in Erfworld." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Only Thinkamancers even knew they existed. A Thinkamancer could feel out the G-Strings of the world, and vibrate upon them by plucking. That was how a Thinkagram was sent, and so much else. Each unit had its own individual G-String, which had many uses." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"This was what Maggie had been doing for several minutes. Putting little notches in her G-String. It was a coded message, passive, and costing no juice. Any Thinkamancer who plucked her would find this note in her G-String. " 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"He found himself staring up at the springmount, wondering if he should get up and tune it again. This one was modeled on a gwiffon, made of Thinkamancy-polarized Stuff and imprinted with Signamancy in bright yellow. It was centered on a single strong coil of steel anchored deeply into the ground. The mount shape was neither fanciful nor accidental. One used this instrument as a surrogate mount, climbing upon it and building up a physical oscillation of the proper frequency to detect and study the Thinkamancy of orders. The intent of a commander in issuing an order to a non-speaking unit, or of a Ruler in issuing an order to a remote field unit, was one of the most interesting forms of natural Thinkamancy, Isaac felt." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"G-strings vibrated on different frequencies, and would cancel or amplify each other across predictable distances. Before Isaac had built these devices, a Thinkamancer had to walk around until his head was in a place of amplification, then hold still." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"But staying within one node deprived the observer of important perspective, much in the way that closing one eye caused a loss of depth perception, or covering an ear made it hard to tell the direction of a sound. It had already been known that two linked Thinkamancers standing in different nodes could detect and send far better than any one caster. Isaac had figured out that one caster switching rapidly between nodes had a similar effect." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"He stood up, glancing up the hill to the great Temple. It was also made of polarized Stuff, designed long ago (and modified more recently) as a refuge. Cosmic vibrations couldn't penetrate it." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"At the top and bottom of the smooth inclined plane were nodes of intuition. One did not get more than a quick glimpse between the two, but that usually would suffice. If not, one could always climb the ladder again. This apparatus had a personal effect on the operator, giving him a glance at his own Fate and perhaps a vague insight or focus or warning." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"A tickle upon his brain, then Bunny, Transylvito's spooky Thinkamancer, "Your Royal Highness King Slately of Jetstone, His Royal Highness Don King of Transylvito." The words were only in his mind; she never spoke aloud. Don's image floated before him, seated as Slately was." 
:::''Slately, being contatced by Thinkamancy, [[LIAB Text 42]]''

*"Rulers have a natural Thinkamancy which allows them to relay orders to their field units, even without a Thinkamancer. He had an[sic] feel for what was going on with his forces, even sitting there in a chair in his capital's garrison's larder." 
:::''Stanley, [[LIAB Text 44]]''

*"In the empty side room, he sat holding his crown in his lap, pauper-like, while time ticked away and his units perished in the dungeons below. He saw their lights in his mind, being extinguished in twos and threes. No-one was leveling. It was clearly an awful rout." 
:::''Slately, demonstrating a Ruler's natural Thinkamancy, [[LIAB Text 48]]''

*"Maggie," Stanley said to the air. It was a form of order only a Thinkamancer could follow. "Maggie!" 
:::''Stanley, contacting a distant Thinkamancer, [[LIAB Text 49]]''

*"There's way too many ways a Thinkamancer can incapacitate me." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on rushing a stack of Thinkamancers, [[LIAB 67]]''

*"For discretion, Chief Parson. You can break contact at any time." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB 84]]''

*"I will thank you not to... put my Chief Warlord into thinkspace without... my mind on the call!" 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB 84]]''

*"Maggie, what are you doing? Why are you running in place? I apologize, Lord. I can't spare the attention to alter my... appearance at the moment. I am... physically moving toward your position." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[LIAB 85]]''

*"The numbers rose as a column, into the millions and billions and more, a silver thread stretching up and away from the peace below. This thread was being drawn up by the system of the world. Thinkamancers knew it as a "Grandiocosmic string." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"Delphie’s last sentence had been delivered in a perfectly friendly and casual tone, but it carried the natural Thinkamancy weight of a direct order." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 2]]''

*"The Thinkamancy inherent in giving them commands would have to be so specific to the throat and mouth muscles..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on making uncroaked sing, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"All at once, completely new senses opened up in her head and she was flooded with information. She could see the distant lights of minds, know the numbers and locations and points of units." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on being promoted to Overlord, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"Delphie was there in the tower, wounded." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on knowing the status of a distant unit, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"In Wanda's head, Delphie's light went out as well. Gone." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on using Ruler (instead of Croakamancer) senses to detect the death of a unit, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"Even as she struggled to comprehend, this brand new part of her mind calmly told her the score. The Garrison had seven Goodminton units left. Four." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on knowing the number of units in her City, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

===Foolamancy===
*"Waitwaitwait. Time out. We can ''veil'' our troops?" 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 61]]''

*"There is ''absolutely'' no way to pull this 'veiling' thing, right? 
::No, you need a Foolamancer in– 
:... in the stack you're veiling, right. 
::Yes, and– 
:''And'' we can't do it with the Eyemancers linked up. ''And'' we can't cast on the enemy's turn." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"We got eleven pairs of warlord eyes here, and he's got thirty or so units. So there's like 300 chances to blow the veil, if he's got one." 
:::''Vinny Doombats, [[TBFGK 107]]''

*" Lord, recall the Foolamancy veil I cast on your lackey. That would not have worked on a gobwin. It worked because Bogroll already resembled you in most important aspects." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 148]]''

*"Above the fountain of sparks there appeared a huge, glowing apparition of Stanley the Tool's face, surrounded by bright rays of red and gold, just as he appeared on his new emblem. But these rays were like arrows pulsing outward, outward... go that way, scatter! Whether the archons took the direction literally or not, they knew the big giant head projection was beyond any of their natural Foolamancy abilities, and it certainly had not been part of the rehearsal." 
:::''The narrator, [[First Intermission 7]]''

*"You must conserve your remaining juice. What can you do cheaply? A simple displacement? 
:If we use a flash to cover the casting, it ought to do." 
:::''Wanda & Jack, [[LIAB 6]]''

*"Form a flash mob over the bridge. 
::[...] 
:You are free to cast. The enemy can see nothing else in this hex." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[LIAB 6]]''

*"But [Charlie] had still gone to great risk to give her cover along the way, using veiled Archons to scout out safe routes. These were probably detectable only by a Foolamancer, another Archon, or a lucky/smart Warlord." 
:::''Jillian, [[LIAB Text 6]]''

*"Foolamancy is Eyemancy. By habit and trade, a Foolamancer must look. At all times, the Foolamancer must observe the nouns around him in finest detail and broadest stroke, in a way that other minds do not. Other minds take shortcuts. Other minds construct, telling themselves ''stories'' about what they see, rather than seeing. Foolamancy is therefore only a narrative. To tell a mind it sees something, the Foolamancer must both see the world as it is, and also as it is seen. Staring into the void of that discrepancy is what drives one mad, really." 
:::''Jack, [[LIAB Text 10]]''

*"Hilary and her partner Avril took up a risky blind, directly over the heads of Prince Sammy's leadership stack. They kept the rising sun at their backs, relative to the warlords, and spent most of their juice to shine out their shadows. It was tricky, but worth it." 
:::''Narration, [[LIAB Text 18]]''

*"Habitually, he sought out the lines and dots of the scenery, the little hooks that other minds used to build their idea of the world around them." 
:::''Jack, [[LIAB Text 21]]''

*"Phoebe was made of brick. She was covered in soot. Black and red and gray, matching the colors of her raiment. All in a column, matching her general body size and opacity. She was a chimney on a rooftop, one of many dozens. It was a really good veil. Maybe her best ever. Gold star! The enemy’s minds would not have to reconcile very much with their eyes, and that was the name of the game." 
:::''Phoebe, [[LIAB Text 56]]''

*"He was wearing a very good scouting veil; she was very lucky to have spotted him in the tree. But such items are fragile, and this one had been destroyed in the melee." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

==Hippiemancy==
*"Among other things, Hippiemancy is the magic of relationships: detecting and altering the forces of opposition and attraction which bind people or units." 
:::''Duncan Scone, [[LIAB Text 11]]''

*"But Hippiemancy is people magic, and Janis also had a heavy understanding about relationships." 
:::''Janis Atlantis, [[LIAB Text 37]]

===Flower Power===
*"But in the presence of so much Flower Power, time perception sort of ''crumbles''. The Hippiemancers call it– 'Flaking.' I know." 
:::''Sizemore & Wanda, [[TBFGK 11]]''

*"Even a Grand Abbie couldn't hope to quiet the coming battle." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 13]]''

*"What did you just do to him? Mm? Oh, just basic Flower Power. He can't engage this turn." 
:::''Parson, Janis & Sizemore, [[LIAB 65]]''

*"I think... I think they mainly keep units from being able to engage." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"The figure in the tower was employing the apparatus they all had assumed was a weapon, but in fact it was a stringed instrument. She plucked and strummed upon it, and even from so far away, they could hear it perfectly. The music took an otherworldly, magical route to their ears." 
:::''Narration, on a Florist quieting a Hex, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"Tommy's sword came down upon his target like a feather. He merely tapped the shoulder of the soldier with the flat of his blade, as if knighting him." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"As if in a dream, she could not swing it with any significant force. The staff moved as if she were trying to stir honey with it." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"The spell would be on the city through Haffaton's turn tomorrow, and could be cast again." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"So red. So angry. Your Life aura, Warlord. It's just awful. Can't you relax? You're in no danger here, I promise. 
::Wanda watched Tommy's face, what she could see of it. He seemed not to change his expression, and barely to relax his posture, but suddenly Olive brightened. 
:Yes! Better!" 
:::''Olive Branch, on seeing auras, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Apparently putting a hand inside the enemy's shirt was not a form of engagement that was prevented by Olive's spell. " 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 14]]''

*"As she walked down another empty hall, Wanda casually held out her staff and tipped a ceramic vase of dried orange flowers from its marble pedestal. The crash was painful to her wine-tenderized head, yet enormously satisfying. Really, even the pain of it was satisfying. So Olive's spellsong did not prevent this form of engagement, either." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 14]]''

*"With a perfunctory "Thanks," she upended the helmet and placed the plant's roots inside. She stepped a few feet away from the uncroaked and turned around to do something to the plant. Wanda could tell she was casting, but not what. [...] When Olive turned around, she held a perfectly healthy green plant in a steel planter." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"This unit has Motion, and that is something a Hippiemancer would know nothing of." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, disparaging a Florist, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"As with yesterday, her voice reached them from everywhere and nowhere, sweet and haunting." 
:::''Narration, on Olive quieting Kiloton, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"Wordlessly, Tommy drew his sword. He stepped out into the courtyard and swung it as hard as he could at a Haffaton soldier who was standing in the sunlight, chewing on a dried pear. The sword stopped in midair, an inch from the man's neck." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"When they finally drew apart, Tommy looked distant and distracted. [..] His voice was barely a loud whisper. [...] his voice low and strained. Wanda watched him closely. He was in deep distress. [...] Tommy looked as pained as Wanda had ever seen him, and he said nothing more until the group had spent the move of its slowest units. [...] Then he dismounted his brontosword, slid down its side, and collapsed into the snow." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being poisoned, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"A crit to the head would cause the muscles to seize at croaking. But one to the heart left the muscles starved out, relaxed and unable to contract. Tommy's were like that." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the effects of Olive's poison on Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"There were almost no functioning nerves in Tommy's heart. Or... his stomach, or most of the rest of his internal organs. He probably had not been in pain, but he must have known something was very wrong." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the effects of Olive's poison on Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She had never seen one before, and she did not understand how it worked, but this was certainly a poisoning. And poisons, both natural and magical, were Flower Power." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She'd also asked him to kiss her. So she did not initiate an engagement in the city." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on a workaround of quieting, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

===Signamancy===
*"The Signamancers claimed that all Stuff was Foolamancy. Our bodies and all the things we see and touch were supposed to only be Signs: symbols of their true nature. Vinny didn't know about all that, but a person's appearance was definitely a Sign. It told you how they think about themselves. And how others see them."
:::''Vinny Doombats, reflecting on what he's been told about Signamancy, [[First Intermission 37]]''

*"Signamancy was a terrible curse. The Titans knew his true nature. No unipegataur-riding warrior king was he, no towering leader and orator. Over the three-thousand or so turns he had ruled, he had only once seen battle, and that from a well-guarded turret. And so he had shrunk. Gone white and fat." 
:::''King Slately Jetsone, [[LIAB Text 33]]''

*"No signs stood to point the way, but the Signamancy of a caster's home portal was plainer than writing." 
:::''Narration, on the color of Portals in the Magic Kingdom, [[IPTSF Text 21]]''

===Date-a-mancy===
*"Date-a-mancy is the oddest branch of Hippiemancy, in that it follows the Numbers which underlie all action. Date-a-mancy tries to quantify the intangible, things like leadership and compatibility and morale and Loyalty and Duty and even love, by means of match-ups." 
:::''Duncan Scone, [[LIAB Text 11]]''

==Naughtymancy==
===Shockmancy===
*"Their Shockmancer was here, a couple turns back. Gone now. He spelled up that tower hard, Bunny. " 
:::''Caesar Borgata, [[First Intermission 47]]''

*"It's natural Shockmancy. When you fall, one of three things happens: you are injured (possibly only slightly), you are incapacitated (you croak in one turn if not given Healomancy), or you just croak. Height of the fall does seem to have some bearing on that, but it's essentially random." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33b]]''

*"She'd told Tommy about spelling up Minnow Tower, and he'd said it was smart thinking. But he never said what kind of effect the raw Shockmancy they were storing in the tower might have in battle." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on having Delphi & Clay juicing up the tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

===Croakamancy===
*"Uncroaked casters just function as infantry..." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 77a]]''

*"She explained it this way. 'Croakamancy comes from the mind.' The more time and attention the caster spends uncroaking the unit, the closer it will be to its original strength and abilities when it was alive. And the more turns it lasts before degrading. So a good croakamancer can mass-animate every fallen unit in a hex, or city zone. But they'll be the weakest kind, and only last a few turns." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 116]]''

*"These are Uncroaked. They require a simple, specific order of battle." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 123]]''

*"Uncroaked infantry, led by a master-class Croakamancer... can." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on dance-fighting, [[TBFGK 127]]''

*"I can decrypt many unit types which had been impossible to uncroak before." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on using the Arkenpliers, [[TBFGK 146]]''

*"From what I can tell, they're like the dwagons are with Stanley. They're loyal to the 'pliers, and therefore to Cruella herself. For all I know, she can see through their eyes and hear what they hear. But if not, they'll prob'ly just tell her anything interesting when they can." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on Decrypted, [[First Intermission 44]]''

*"And what Lady Firebaugh was doing with hers was causing real alarm. The theoretical consensus was that she was extending Croakamancy to the Life axis." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"A big one being, "we don't know if he'd still be able to cast or not." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on decrypting a caster, [[LIAB 11]]

*"Tool, we don't even know if they keep existing without her." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on the Decrypted and the possibility of losing Wanda, [[LIAB 22]]''

*"She could animate the husks of the once-living." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, right after popping, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"We can animate the casualties. Their units and ours, if we take the city!" 
:::''Overlord Firebaugh & Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"Bodies of croaked units decay the next turn. So we would need her on the battlefield." 
:::''Overlord Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"I would have a leadership bonus over uncroaked units, Lord." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"She had senses that she did not yet understand were unique to Croakamancers, and she used them on the fallen scout. His bones she could feel without touching him. She knew which ribs and teeth and vertebrae were broken." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"There would be some craft to this uncroaking, as not all of the original muscles and sinew could be counted on to perform their original functions. That was not a problem. That was what Croakamancy was for. Where a knee would no longer bend, where a bicep no longer existed to flex an arm, the Croakamancer made magical Motion to move the Matter." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"When she had removed all of his raiment, she still could see better with her natural Croakamancy sense than her eyes." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"The body of the scout would have depopped at dawn, had they not moved it out of the hex where it was croaked. Claimed as a spoil for Goodminton, it would only decay a bit when they started their turn later in the morning." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"This scene was a massacre: twenty-two enemy saps, an enemy warlord, and forty-three of their own infantry. She could feel them each, sense the skulls and the hearts and the spines." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"This is a warlord. If I uncroak him, he would benefit from all of my attention, and all of the juice I can spare. The more carefully I cast, the fewer mistakes I might make, and the more he will retain of the power he had in life. I believe I could make him last as long as ten or twelve turns, and retain about half his levels and leadership." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"What are our other choices? 
::I could concentrate on uncroaking more than one unit, diluting the effects, but giving us more units. Or I could attempt to mass uncroak every unit in the hex. 
:You could do that? 
::Tommy... I-I don’t know. I feel it might be too much for me. A disaster. I could become overwhelmed. Maybe we wouldn’t get any units at all out of it. But if I succeeded, then the uncroaked units I create probably would not last more than a turn. Even the warlord." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"She silently ordered the line of uncroaked to bow in unison, which prompted more cheers and laughter." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 10]]''

*"Blood flowed to her face, a mechanism she understood down to the tissues and sinus cavities within her head, for Croakamancy was a beautiful art. She felt her eyelids getting hot, ducts and vessels dilating. She was just a speck of Matter, herself, after all." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 10]]''

*"Wanda waved her staff vaguely in the direction of one of the uncroaked knights in their stack. He tilted his head a bit and grinned happily, showing his remaining teeth around proudly." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Wanda made her Fellow fold his hands together and flex his arms like a champion, grinning obscenely at everyone." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Life magic, Wanda. Croakamancers don't use it." 
:::''Olive Branch, disparaging a Croakamancer, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"Make sure all the Fellows are in the Courtyard, except the ones me and you are stacking with. Wanda nodded, and mentally sent the order as she took another deep swig of chocolate. "Done." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"But before she could even get her boots out of the stirrups, her senses as a Croakamancer told her she would find his lifeless body upon the ground." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"The first thing to determine in uncroaking a body is what took its life, because that was where the most repair and attention would likely be needed. Attention was the key. A simple or a mass uncroaking took no more attention than lighting a candle, with the Matter of the body representing the candle wax. The body would move as it could, and take simple orders until its fuel was exhausted a few turns later." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"But the craft of the Croakamancer was to understand the body's condition, its functions, its strengths and weaknesses." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"The Croakamancer could conserve the fuel of the body by focusing her juice upon the mechanisms of its movement, repairing and augmenting them with magic. An expertly uncroaked unit could function almost as well as it had when alive, and last for perhaps dozens of turns." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"If this body had no wounds, then what croaked it? Sensing her way through the architecture of his insides, she could not immediately say. Something about the muscles was familiar, though. She had uncroaked the victims of critical hits before. A crit to the head would cause the muscles to seize at croaking. But one to the heart left the muscles starved out, relaxed and unable to contract." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"So she focused on his heart. She tried to make it beat once, and knew something was wrong. One tells a muscle to move by means of the nerves, and reconnecting nerves by magic was one of the trickier parts of an attentive uncroaking." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She had never made one so beautifully preserved. The bloating in his face faded, as some slow circulation of the blood was possible in this one. She was overjoyed at the results. Almost everything a living unit could do, this one could..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on uncroaking her brother, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Then she thought out an order, and Un-Tommy disengaged from his melee." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Re-attaching the head during the uncroaking process had been an interesting new challenge." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Even through blinding blasts, Wanda's Croakamancy senses let her know that the first enemy casualties had been struck and were falling. She sensed broken skulls and wings and burst organs inside the bodies that spiraled down through the air toward the courtyard below." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on detecting the dead, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"And the Fellows...they're really quite weak without leadership." 
:::''Pom Fritz, on uncroaked units, [[IPTSF Text 25]]''

*"Wanda could feel the consumption of Matter there in the fireplace, too, if she chose to. " 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on burning logs, [[IPTSF Text 25]]''

*"As they marched on, she hoped for an ambush, or any enemy encounter, so that she might spend her juice this turn making fresh units instead of hopelessly re-patching these. It was better than wasting the juice entirely, but there was only so much she could do. These bodies were decaying inexorably to dust, and only the Titans could prevent that." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on extending the duration of uncroaked, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"From what she understood of her discipline, it ought to be possible to make them sing, if she were a master of Croakamancy. Singing was part of the Stagemancy involved in dance fighting. So how would that work, she wondered? The Thinkamancy inherent in giving them commands would have to be so specific to the throat and mouth muscles... maybe if she sang the order to them? Or thought of singing it? Hmm..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"If you're croaked, and that is no joke, you pass the yoke of Chief to a bloke named Fritz... '''Pooda onga riiish!'''" 
:::''Wanda & Tommy, demonstrating uncroaked theater, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"Uncroaked units were cheap." 
:::''Jillian Banhammer, [[IPTSF Text 28]]''

===Retconjuration===
*'''This is a theoretical branch of magic, like an undiscovered element on the periodical table.
*'''No ordinary caster can practice it; there are no Retconjurers in Erfworld.
*'''It is reserved for the Titans.'''
:::''Titan Rob, Word of the Titans 8/19/2009

*"Hey, maybe she's a Retconjuror. Oh do not even joke about that. There is no such thing." 
:::''Tommy & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 11]]''

==Stagemancy==
*"Singing was part of the Stagemancy involved in dance fighting." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

===Hat Magic===
*"Is it dual use? Abjuration only. Report any engagements and observations at the end of your move." 
:::''Jillian & Ansom, [[TBFGK 9]]''

*"The sun was setting, as a tired woman with raw red eyes waved a wand over an upturned silk hat, and saw the letter inside vanish." 
:::''Queen Bea, [[First Intermission 43]]''

*"You know, I can do some small object conjuration for you. You just have to tell me what you need." 
:::''Cubbins, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"He dropped it into the crown and waved his scepter over it three times. "Pinochet," he intoned. The coin was made to disappear." 
:::''Slately, sending a coin to King Don, [[LIAB Text 42]]''

*"Sire, I can help too. Hand me your crown." 
:::''Cubbins, prior to modifying something into a Magic Item, [[LIAB 69]]''

*"One of the units in the group, for example, was a snow golem. It was a terribly crude thing, made of only three large balls of snow she had rolled up, with sticks for arms and small black rocks for features. It moved lurchingly forward and was almost useless as a unit. But as abominable as it was, she was quite proud of her first attempt at hat magic." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, demonstrating unit creation, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"The snow golem she ordered to stand sentry at the base of Minnow Tower. Then she took the silk top hat from its head, reducing it to a mere ornament." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"It stayed right in place via the natural Dollamancy (or was it natural Hat Magic?) of just belonging there." 
:::''Narration, on Wanda's jaunty hat, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

===Carnymancy===
*"Carnymancy. It's... the magic of rigging the game. Here! That's a crude slander on our noble discipline, sir. Oh, truly you do wound me. But yes." 
:::''Parson & Jojo, [[LIAB 63]]''

*"But we had this Carnymancer who really liked me. He saved me from croaking by rigging the incapacitation rules on me. They hauled me back to the capital in a wagon, and he cast over me every day for ten turns, just keeping me alive. 
::Until they got you a Healomancer?" 
:Pff, no. Queen Bea was mad enough at all the fuss over a Level 1 stabber. No, one day I just popped up off the bed, good as new. The Carnymancer said he'd 'made a trade' for me." 
:::''Sylvia & Archer, [[LIAB 86]]''

*"Then what can we do? Our specialties, of course. Stirring up trouble, roping a dope. You dodgers work the crowd. Get 'em in a real lather. Maybe they'll shoot him." 
:::''Unnamed Carnymancer & Jojo, [[LIAB 90]]''

===Rhyme-o-mancy===
*"A poetic incantation could settle the mind, focus any caster on their work." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Even warlords could use Rhymes in leadership, for morale and focus, and in dance fighting." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Those bawdy trail songs of Tommy's were crude, but effective on the units under his command. Her singing along with the knights had likely helped her spot that scout on her first day." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Songs and poems held great and mysterious power." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"But to use Rhyme-o-mancy in casting, it must be quick and clever, and it must rhyme. If she flubbed the rhyme, the spell would weaken or fail completely." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"The attention of an entire day was collapsed into those few seconds." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

==Clevermancy==
*"Clevermancy should have no Xs. It's raw magic dealing with raw magical forces." 
:::''Titan Rob, Word of the Titans 2315787''

===Luckamancy===
*"Delphie tells you what to cast, doesn’t she? What battles to affect. What units to...what, bless? 
::Yeah. I just say ‘boost.’” 
:And you can alter the outcome of a battle, by casting ahead of time. You boost up a unit’s luck by a lot, or a whole side’s luck by a little? 
::Yeah, kind of. Or jinx the enemy. Battles are hard, though. Sides are harder. Units are pretty easy. I boost our warlords all the time." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"I boosted his roll to a 4! I changed his odds, chose a way to describe the outcome of his choices. You see?” He picked up the dice and showed them to her. “The dice are not the guy, okay? In this case the guy is imaginary, and the dice are representing him. But this is real life,” he said, making a circle in the air with his index finger, “and you are not the dice. Okay? In real life, you are real, but the dice are imaginary. The dice that describe your choices. Mathamancy describes those, and Luckamancy affects those." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Now here's an important thing, though. Where did those 4s come from? 
::From you. You cast upon the die. 
:So you're saying my juice had a physical effect on the way the die rolled. 
::Yes. 
:Yes and no. It's not a direct effect, you see? The 4 is a Number. It had to come from somewhere. 
::The juice in your spell did not create the outcome, you are saying. Your spell did not create the 4. It...what?" What was the alternative? "Enabled it, somehow? 
: Honestly?That's the nice way to say it. Whatt'm saying is that maybe that die would have come up 4s three times anyway. So maybe my spell did nothing at all, at least so far. That's why I say it'll roll high 'for a little while.' I don't know." 
:::''Clay & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"But here's what I do know. And maybe it's kind of a secret of my discipline but I think it's important, and I wanna tell you. Luckamancy doesn't create good outcomes, because that would undermine Mathamancy and Predictamancy. Mathamancy deals with real Numbers. If Luckamancy could just create Numbers out of juice, out of thin air, then every odds calculation would be off. Y'see? So what Luckamancy actually does is steal Numbers from the world." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"Where do you steal the Numbers from? Well, the world. If you rolled all the D4s in the world a bunch of times, that one included, you'd get an even mix of ones, twos, threes and fours. This little guy stole his roll from somewhere, and I think the world is lazy, you know? I don't think it goes very far to steal good outcomes when I boost one of our warlords, you know?" 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"Would it steal from our enemies? If only. That's the one thing it really doesn't do. In fact we sometimes see the opposite. The enemy rolls better than they should or... or we roll worse." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"What, it steals Numbers from us?! Not all the time! I mean, it depends. The net effect is still good for us, because we're picking the right battles to win. But yeah it can be really hard on the rest of our side, sometimes. Especially unled and unboosted units. We...lose more of those kind of battles than we should." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"A Luckamancy boost could have any number of specific effects on a unit's "dice." Defensively, it could affect their chance to be hit, the damage they would take from hits, their chance of receiving a critical hit, their chance of being incapacitated or croaked from a fall, et cetera. Or it could affect the enemy's outcomes: their defenses." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Frenemy units fell by twos and threes, the victims of outrageously high damage outcomes and critical hit rates." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of Luckamancy on battle, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"You know how when a unit falls, it can croak, or be incapacitated, or just be plain wounded and lose some hits? 
::Yes? 
:Well, that's Luckamancy, too. And I'm thinking f'we get into another airspace fight we can first cast against the enemy to make 'em more likely to croak in a fall. Then we can go for dismounting attacks. And there's not a lot of, um, downside to that. Less backlash from borrowing Numbers, right? Because we don't use air mounts. We do a lot less falling. See?" 
:::''Clay & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 22]]''

===Healomancy===
*"It contained a healing elixir of his own devising, the recipe of which varied, but usually consisted of "two gin rations, stirred with a Wand of Cure Incapacitation." 
:::''Pierce, mentioning a type of wand, [[LIAB Text 41]]''

===Moneymancy===
*"It had been as ridiculous as everything else in Erfworld, rebuilding the city. The Overlord ordered it, the treasury was debited, and the city was instantly recreated. It was only Moneymancy. When it happened, Parson was standing in the ruins of the courtyard. There was a sound like a wind chime, with a whoosh of orchestral cymbals. Enormous, blinding magical sparkles filled the sky and the ground. And then the city was simply standing again, fully intact. There was no more rubble, not even a wisp of settling dust." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[First Intermission 1]]''

=Axes=
*"Its numbers were being shaped and guided by the firmament, by what magic theorists called the Erf Axis. For when the price was paid, it was Erfworld which processed the transaction. The world would produce the unit that was called for...more or less. There was the matter of the Fate Axis as well, and this unit was turning out to be very special." 
:::''Narration, on popping a unit, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

==Erf==

==Fate==
*"Fate is inevitable, Warlord. But our ''path'' to it is not. We must first divine, and then ''enact'' our destinies. To live is to suffer. Our Fate is our only release. So if we fight against Fate, or fail to act in support of it when the way is clear, then we only worsen and prolong our misery. Our choices do matter. Wise choices ease the way, and foolish ones cause suffering." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[LIAB 70]]''

==Numbers==
*"Life is all Numbers. Ask any Mathamancer; they know." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"To live is to stand on one side of an equation, which must equal zero in the end. There is a price, a cost in Numbers, to be paid for staying alive. Zero is a balance, an equilibrium. Zero is a flat country, neither far away nor near. You can travel there any time, at the cost of your life. And perhaps, if someone were to pay the price to the exact number, you could even return again. That Mathamancers often say such things, and nod to one another soberly, is thought to be why they tend to keep to their own company." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"Few casters doubted what was said of the Numbers Axis, but even fewer understood. Not consciously, anyway." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"This unit would be worth far more than the buyer had paid for. That was no violation of Numbers, though. It simply meant that this unit carried a balance due. And though it was an astronomically high figure, someone would pay. Zero always called, and someone would have to pay." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

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[[Category:Quotes]]

Quotes: Magic

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No one in particular: /* Predictamancy */

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Quoted statements about the various forms and branches of magic.

''Next quote to be pulled from'': [[IPTSF Text 26]]

note to self: Pull quotes from [[TBFGK 38a]] later; basics of magic, classes &c.

=General=
*"He told me that Casters are Commanders, and can lead stacks, but they almost never do. Casters are too rare and valuable to risk, and they give no leadership bonus to the stack anyway. Only Warlords have leadership. Makes sense. Except for certain exceptions. Like, say... the bonus those golems get if they're led by a Dirtamancer. Or the huge one to Uncroaked units being led by a Croakamancer(!)." 
:::''Parson's Klog, [[TBFGK 84a]]''

*"Casters can also spend juice, doing most things casters do: make scrolls, items, golems, uncroak, turn Schmuckers to gems (or vice versa but that doesn't cost juice), upgrade units, etc." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on off-turn actions, [[LIAB 33a]]''

*"Okay, you said you can cast in the Magic Kingdom, right? 
:Yes..." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[LIAB 45]]''

*"Ahead and below, the target threw some Shockmancy bolts up at them. The defense was automatic. Not only were there no casters there to direct the stored spells, but there were apparently no commanders of any kind in the city." 
:::''Jillian, on tower defenses, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

*"Wanda said she thought it was a whole mess of different magicks, what'd she say... Shockmancy, obviously. Rhyme-o-mancy because it rocked out. Carnymancy because it made big flashes and sometimes could make things disappear (he never could do it on purpose, though). And what else? Changemancy? He looked at the hammer closely. There might be a lot more he could do with it besides taming dwagons, which was... Date-o-mancy, he guessed?" 
:::''Stanley, on the Arkenhammer, [[LIAB Text 44]]''

*"He had not actually crossed the threshold to Master class, but that could happen any time a caster gained powerful new insight into his discipline or major class." 
:::''Sizemore, on Class vs Level, [[LIAB Text 45]''

*"The Arkendish's feel was all over that Turnamancy spell." 
:::''Rachel, on the feel of a spell, [[LIAB Text 53]]''

*"N'they're like archers; they'd be able to take shots at me any time." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on caster attacks, [[LIAB 71]]

*"Each discipline of magic has its own special insight into cosmic truths." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"A ball of juice formed between her outstretched fingers. The hoboken is the basic offensive spell known to almost all casters at the time they pop." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"Wanda snorted, but then had to admit casters can't actually see one another's discipline." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 11]]''

*"It was not offensive; she could cast it before Goodminton broke alliance." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on a Dirtamancy scroll that modified the tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"It had been as effective as her effort at Rhyme-o-mancy, but it left her no better understanding of what she had cast." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on casting outside her discipline, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Delphie immediately leveled up to 5, and her spells became that much more potent." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

=Elements=
*"Here was a complicated bit of Matter. Once it had possessed Life and Motion, but those had been taken away from it. And though only the Titans could restore Life to it, she could give it Motion again, once she had the juice." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the body of a croaked scout, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"The three Elements were created equal. Are you a Titan, to say otherwise?" 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Life==
*"Life magic, Wanda. Croakamancers don't use it." 
:::''Olive Branch, disparaging a Croakamancer, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Motion==
*"This unit has Motion, and that is something a Hippiemancer would know nothing of." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, disparaging a Florist, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Matter==

=Classes=
==Hocus Pocus==
===Findamancy===
===Predictamancy===
*"Marie, of course, had told her many times that she had Predicted the fall of her side, the kingdom where she and Wanda had served. But when it came to explaining how the fall had happened, how she and Wanda both had escaped destruction in different ways, she wouldn't budge. 
:'It all got cloudy,' was all she would really say. 'It happens. I saw it would come and I wonned my Rulah. But when it came it all got cloudy, I don't know.' " 
:::''Janis & Marie, [[LIAB Text 37]]''

*"Thinkamancers understood intuition to be a form of natural Predictamancy, in which a unit can dimly perceive its Fate on a subconscious level." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Shouldn't you know? Oh I should, yes. But turns like this, they come up time to time and everything afta is cloudy. Something has to get decided today, Sizemore. Fate will go fowad from there." 
:::''Sizemore & Marie, on the clarity of Predictions, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"It’s a complicated subject, Wanda. Predictamancy... You know, dear? There are rules we don’t discuss. About...what we don’t discuss." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 3]]''

*"Wanda, the reason that Predictamancers do not say everything we know is not because it would change the future, but because it usually will make it longer and more painful to reach those future outcomes. The less you know about what is to come, about your Fate, then the easier it will be for you to get there, the less... you and others will have to suffer, to lose." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 9]]''

*"Delphie looked at her Overlord and squinted a bit, examining him. Wanda could sense that she was using a kind of magical sight like her own Croakamancy senses. She'd asked Delphie a raft of questions about Predictamancy in correspondence from the road, as they'd worked out this plan. She knew Delphie was now intuiting something about Father's near-term outcomes." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Somewhere in those notes in her satchel, there was a brief explanation of how Predictamancy worked in combat. It amounted to the caster using her juice to see things happen a second or two ahead, so that she could aim where the enemy would be, and to move where the enemy's return blows and arrows would not land." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Most importantly to this plan, a Predictamancer could know whether or not a shot or blow she was about to initiate would be a hit. If it wouldn't, then she simply did not take the shot." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Only one magic blast struck Fritz's shield. Delphie sidestepped the others as necessary, still casting in a kind of concentration trance." 
:::''Narration, on a Predictamancer in battle , [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Not everyone walking these halls has a purpose. I cannot make Predictions about every unit, or commander, or even every ruler." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

*"It was the only way Goodminton could survive you. 
::You don't know that. You never Predicted that. 
:No. I can't. Fate doesn't care about us. That's the terror of it; we have no Fate. The world doesn't care if we live or not. Only about you." 
:::''Delphie & Wanda, on who has Fate, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

*"However much Faq wanted to avoid crossing paths, it was inevitable. Battlespace determinations were Natural Predictamancy. She would be spotted by the enemy and allow them an encounter of some sort, all too close to her own territory." 
:::''Jillian Banhammer, [[IPTSF Text 27]]''

===Mathamancy===
*"Mathamancy is what, again? Analyzing probabilities... predicting outcomes? Yes, and the raw calculations of that work." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 54]]''

*"CharlsNChrg: Tell me the odds that learning what happened to my Archons right now will be worth giving up those calculations in the future. 
:LordHamster: ... 
:LordHamster: I don't know if this thing can even DO a calculation like that. Predicting the future? 
:CharlsNChrg: Try it. 
:LordHamster: Fine. 
:LordHamster: I'll be damned. 
:LordHamster: It says there's all of a 4% chance it's worth taking my deal, even after spending this calculation. 
::[...] 
:LordHamster: Teaching me that my bracer can make sophisticated predictions about the future? Priceless." 
:::''Charlie & Parson, [[First Intermission 39]]

*"The dice describe the world. They don’t determine it. A Mathamancer can tell you how many dice will be rolled, how many points’ll be lost when you’re wounded. He’ll tell you what’ll probably happen, and possibly happen, and what can’t happen." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Mathamancy deals with real Numbers." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

==Spookism==
===Turnamancy===
*"Having a Turnamancer reduced the production of an heir by twenty turns, and with funds coming in from Transylvito, Vanna was able to boost Otoh and Kibo's production drastically." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 49]]''

*"That level 6 Jitterati warlord, Duncan Scone, was now her best fighter. Vanna had done some good work to turn him, but the dungeon didn't much interest Jillian. Vanna didn't really know how to play right." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 49]]''

*"You okay? 
::Yes. That was just like, whoa. Intense. You know? 
:How's your juice? 
::Low. That spell cost two turns' worth, basically. 
:::''Jillian & Vanna, on KingWorld, [[LIAB 22]]''

*"Can't move to other hexes (because of zero move, exceptions possible using Turnamancy)." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33a]]''

*Next turn, when the Turnamancer had juice, she would be able to cast a mass spell that should convert half these prisoners to Faq units. The rest could be worked on in future turns." 
:::''Vanna, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

===Dollamancy===
*"Tell me about that. Where do changes of clothes come from?" [...] 
::"Well, it's Dollamancy, Lord," said Maggie, looking up at him. [...] "This particular 'outfit'... I would call it 'raiment'... came from the Magic Kingdom. The helm was made by one of our new Twolls. 
:"Yeah, how do Twolls do that? Bogroll made my armor, and he put the sword together. This new guy Zhopa just made me a picnic basket." [...] 
::"Twolls have the 'fabrication' special, which is a form of natural Dollamancy. Units with that ability can make small nonmagical items, usually armor and equipment. I understand that the next Twoll we pop will be assigned to the stables as a smith and saddlemaker." 
:Parson nodded. "But the rest of the clothes were from an actual Dollamancer?" 
::"Yes, his name is Ken." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"What about these symbols?" Parson slapped his chest plate. "My Hamstard crest and Wanda's skull emblem, and the Stanley posters. That's all Dollamancy, too?" "The emblems are called 'livery,' Lord. And yes, that is a common form of natural Dollamancy. New units pop bearing the livery their Ruler desires. Twolls can fabricate items which bear their master's livery. And when a caster creates another unit, as in golem-making or uncroaking, the caster sets the livery and other features of the unit's appearance." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"With a Dollamancer to heal the Cloth Golems and a Healomancer for the rest..." 
:::''Ossomer, [[LIAB 4]]''

*"There are different applications of Dollamancy. Lady Shortcake was fond of fashioning cloth golems. She was very imaginative. 
:Precious, puffy-looking animals. The hit of the parade. And when she wasn't doing that, she was always designing new raiment for the changing fashions at court!" 
:::''Cubbins & Ace, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Look, there's a lot you can do in Dollamancy. It's fabrication with a motion element, right? If we want." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Dollamancy is Fate magic, so I know something about that." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Ace stroked his chin, contemplating the King's potential as a combatant. "Start with your weapon, I guess. May I?" Slately put the Royal Scepter of Jetstone in the hands of a non-Royal caster without a moment's hesitation. It was a mark of his seriousness of purpose. But he did cringe as Ace began to take it apart." 
:::''Ace & Slately, on repurposing existing items, [[LIAB Text 48]]''

*"I'm thinkin' just defense for these, Cubbins. 
::Yeah, me too. 
:I'm just doin' blasts. You cover the tricky-fooly stuff, okay?" 
:::''Ace & Cubbins, [[LIAB 69]]''

*"As he modded the Royal Scepter, it dawned on Ace that he had become accustomed to working in cloth — weaving and cutting and shaping it to another Dollamancer's specifications." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 54]]''

*"Look, the cloth golems will be much stronger with my bonus." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB 93]]''

*"I don't have a lof of time, Cubs. But I can definitely... mff... add one feature to this puppy. Gonna call it "an autopilot." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB 99]]''

*"Upon claiming it, she’d imposed Goodminton’s livery on it by natural Dollamancy, reluctantly changing the black to slate blue. But on a whim, she kept just one of the pink flowers, offset in a patch of white." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on clothing, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Olay," she said, casting the minor Dollamancy spell that Teddy had taught her. The wrinkles in each piece went smooth, as the garment was restored to its new-turn condition." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

*"The Dollamancer had modified her old riding gloves into long, chamois evening gloves with stealthy riding grips sewn into the palms. Her clunky boots he'd turned into shiny black thigh-highs topped with lace, but still reinforced in the feet and ankles for combat riding." 
:::''Narration, on a Dollamancer modifying existing clothes, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

*"It stayed right in place via the natural Dollamancy (or was it natural Hat Magic?) of just belonging there." 
:::''Narration, on Wanda's jaunty hat, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

===Weirdomancy===
*"Weirdomancers can cancel a flyer's special to make it fall (or make a non-flyer fly, then dispel it and cause a fall)." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33b]]''

*"[...] to hiring a Weirdomancer to try to make the Gumps grow radishes in their branches, [...]" 
:::''Narration, [[LIAB Text 55]]''

==Stuffamancy==
*"How would you make a magic blanket?" Parson asked, gnawing on a heel of the rye loaf. "If you wanted one?" 
::Sizemore looked at Maggie, who was nibbling cheese, and spoke up. "That's Stuffamancy. Really versatile magic. Weapons, armor, tools... Stuffamancers just imagine it and conjure it." 
:"Conjure as in make it?" Parson said with his mouth full. "Create it? Or summon it from somewhere?" 
::Sizemore leaned forward excitedly, rocking a little as he spoke. "That's a great question, Warlord. There's a big debate about that, getting right down to the level of 'what is magic?' and 'what is stuff?' Some Casters think they're the same thing, and that Stuffamancy proves it. But even the Stuffamancers don't agree about that."
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[First Intermission 28]]''

===Dirtamancy===
*"... Sizemore can dig through solid rock, it's cool to watch." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 77a]]''

*"Hav- Having a Dirtamancer in your city when you upgrade it reduces the cost by a lot," he began. 
::Parson tried to see where this was going. "Okayyyy..."
:"But it means the Dirtamancer sets the appearance, the shape of things... and the livery." 
:::''Sizemore & Parson, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"At the end of the pavement, he frowned at a spot where the squares were sinking into the softer ground. Drawing his index finger over the pathway's edge, he spent a little juice to fix it." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"Dirtamancy was among the most rare and useful disciplines [in the Magic Kingdom]. Everyone needed a wall built, a garden tilled, a well dug, a foundation excavated. There were no city sites; construction was a manual industry." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"Can you tunnel? 
::Tunnel. 
:Yeah, can you? 
::Well, yes. 
:Good. Now can you tunnel under Portal Park, all the way from our portal to the one that goes to Spacerock? 
::I... ''can.''"
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[LIAB 45]]''

*"Without word or ceremony they lifted, and Jillian willed the city razed. With a great swirl of sparkling natural Dirtamancy, and a tinny crashing sound, Progrock turned to dust and rubble below them." 
:::''Jillian, razing Progrock, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

*"Touching the spade to the grass of Portal Park put Sizemore directly in touch with Erfworld. He sensed the physical world in deep, primal ways which he found difficult to convey to other casters. Even Changemancers and Dittomancers would stare at him blankly when he described it, though they too practiced forms of Stuffamancy." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"He could feel the ground feeling him, pulling him down, pushing up on the soles of his feet as he lifted each leg to walk. In the soil below, rocks sat immersed in the cold mud. Their whole surface touched it, in all dimensions at once. Sizemore could feel this contact as if the pebbles were his own toes and fingers" 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"Sizemore's mind slid away, down below his feet, to his other self. The strata, the stresses, the peace of land at rest, he understood them that way: as if they were parts of his own body. The ground could be comfortable and sedate, like a tired person feels when lying on onsic a soft mattress. Or it could be awkward, unsustainable, like a man trying to lean on a jagged stump, or sleep upside down on a stone staircase. The land in the Magic Kingdom was deeply, permanently at rest." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"This body analogy described something he had always intuited about the land. But only since his link with the Lady Firebaugh did he think of it consciously. His entire mental frame for visualizing his discipline had been reworked on that day. A hundred turns later, he was still reconsidering the fundamentals of his craft. [...] Between the volcano link-up and his three recent levels (two from traps and combat, one from all of the city rebuilding), Sizemore was now a greater Dirtamancer than he ever imagined he could become. He had not actually crossed the threshold to Master class, but that could happen any time a caster gained powerful new insight into his discipline or major class. The body analogy wasn't quite enough to push him past that mark; he was still missing something. But for the first time in his life, he felt pretty sure that he would get there." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"It felt strange and dirty, tingling with a magic she had barely even thought about." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the magical feel of a Dirtamancy scroll, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"The tower rose indeed, far higher into the sky than it had stood before. Stone blocks and tiles sprang from nothing, widening the platform upon which they stood." 
:::''Narration, on a Dirtamancy scroll modifying a tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"When she'd boosted the tower, a few such nice little changes in design, decor, and accouterments had crept in from her mind's eye." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

===Changemancy===
===Dittomancy===
*"Yes, and a Dittomancer doubling leadership and specials... duplicating surviving units... I see." 
:::''Ansom, [[LIAB 4]]''

*"And double those arrows, Caster. 
:Double 'em? Double 'em! I'll quadruple 'em." 
:::''Jetstone Warlord & Lloyd, [[LIAB 8]]''

*'''For the duplication of an actual unit, see: ''[[LIAB 79]]'''''

*"Doubles don't leave a body." 
:::''Tramennis, [[LIAB 88]]''

*"When Jetstone's next turn starts, you will vanish." 
:::''Charlie, to the Slately-ditto, [[LIAB 89]]''

==Eyemancy==
*"This [[eyebook|item]] works on "Eyemancy." Which covers "Lookamancy", "Thinkamancy", and "Foolamancy." And it uses all three of those." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 35]]''

*"The Eyemancers may be our single most valuable asset, above even the Arkenhammer. Ordering them linked was... the shrewdest thing I've ever known Stanley to do. They created the Eyebooks. They give us unmatched communications and intelliegence. When Stanley sees you have tampered with their functioning..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 47]]''

*"Spells are trickier. Most can't be cast unless there are enemy units in the same hex/city, but some like Lookamancy and Thinkagrams can be cast anytime." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on off-turn actions, [[LIAB 33a]]''

===Lookamancy===
*"Well, yes! I mean for a unit that is... that is moving, time passes normally, but not relative to units in other hexes. A Lookamancer tracking the movement of that unit may see it move much faster in their time. The time in their hex." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[First Intermission 29]]''

*"What the enemy brings you, you usually don't know until they're on you. But here, we've got the count. We know just what we're facing. It's like having a Lookamancer for once." 
:::''Pom Fritz, on having a roster of units in the area, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

===Thinkamancy===
*"Not entirely unwitting. Nor entirely controlled. It's... complex." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 41]]''

*"We control her, though. So just make her write the message. Right? The control is subtle, Warlord. Suggestions, perceptions, emotions... not commands." 
:::''Parson & Wanda, [[TBFGK 41]]''

*"What is this link up? 
:: *sigh* It's a trick that only Thinkamancers can perform. A caster's will is subsumed into a... kind of psychological alloy with the Thinkamancer. The joint mind they form can cast spells no single caster can even comprehend. 
:The downside being that the casters lose their will... 
::Their sanity... their individuality... It's a risky and fragile spell, especially with three. Four can't even be done. Talking to them as individuals can break that spell, Parson. That may croak the casters. Or leave them useless. Or, have no effect." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 54]]''

*"These kinds of spells rely on the subject. Suggestions can make her inclined to do things... such as lead recklessly, disobey orders. She provides her own reasons for these choices. 
::Which she is doing! 
:Yes. But those are things she is inclined to do anyway." 
:::''Sizemore & Wanda, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"Suggestions like 'turn sides' or 'ignore enemy forces' may be too hard for her to rationalize, and cause her to break the spell." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"There are things she will not do. 
::Okay, but... like ''what?'' 
: *sigh* She won't fight for someone she hates. Nor harm someone she loves." 
:::''Wanda & Parson, [[TBFGK 66]]''

*"The spell ''compells'' [''sic''] you to seek a reason." 
:::''Jaclyn, [[TBFGK 67]]''

*"But when such a spell breaks, there is a kind of backlash. A cord which snaps. A good Thinkamancer can protect herself from damage. Had I been the caster, the object of the spell would have borne the brunt of it. This would likely have croaked the unit or left it incapacitated." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 84]]''

*"Incredibly useful, incredibly scary magic. We got into spells, communications, suggestions... and then she mentions "Natural Thinkamancy." Innate magic. Like how some units fly and some dig... that's "Natural Magic." When scouting units send back intel, that's Natural Thinkamancy. But apparently so is following the Tool's orders. All units are subject to Natural Thinkamancies: Obedience, Loyalty, Duty, and others." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 84a]]''

*"The Arkendish affords him a command of Thinkamancy I cannot match." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 88]]''

*"There is a feeling. You may no longer notice it. But think of the first spell you ever cast. When you cast within your disclipline, there is a sense of warmth, comfort, familiarity. I want you to relax, and recall that feeling. Find the feel of your discipline, and step inside it. Lose yourself to it. Become your function." 
:::''Maggie, on forming a link-up, [[TBFGK 135]]''

*"All right, I'll need a master-class Thinkamancer to unravel this link. More than one, preferably." 
:::''Janis Atlantis, on breaking a link-up, [[TBFGK 140]]''

*"[The veil] worked because Bogroll already resembled you in most important aspects. Thinkamancy works similarly, on the mind to which it is applied. The changes it makes are remarkably small and subtle. It cannot turn a dullard into a genius, or a mouse into a maniac. 
::Or a hamster into a pit bull... Right, so if I thought of this. If I did this... 
:Then some very great part of you wanted to. The spell only nudged it forward."
:::''Maggie & Parson, [[TBFGK 148]]''

*"It's utterly fascinating, casting from a link. I just... understand the spell so clearly." According to Maggie, a two-caster linkup was a less risky and drastic thing than three, especially when done voluntarily. In it, the Thinkamancer's function was something like "cognitive copilot," managing the other caster's mental functions, focusing his attention and boosting his energy to achieve better results than the caster could alone. And it had worked. Their side got a better capital out of it than if Sizemore had upgraded the city by himself. The link was easily broken afterward, and neither of them seemed to suffer any harm." 
:::''Sizemore & Maggie, on linking, [[First Intermission 26]]''

*"And it was very little risk. In our earlier link, we discovered a strong rapport. Such mutual trust can make the process a great deal easier." 
:::''Maggie, on linking, [[First Intermission 26]]''

*"Speaking or shouting the command will work, Lord," said Maggie, lurching a bit as she rounded the remains of the picnic and walked up beside him. Though he was not completely steady himself, he offered his right elbow and she grabbed it gratefully. "Not be- because they understand Language, but because it hhhelps you frame the intent in your mind. You see. Experienced-" she swallowed hard, or possibly hiccupped. "Excuse me. Experienced commanders can command stacks with few or no words. When you understand your command, the unit will. Yet another fo-horm of natural Thinkamancy, Lord." 
:::''Maggie, [[First Intermission 32]]''

*"Jack, do you remember what you did... to project the battle table... when you were linked up? 
:I remember doing it, Lord. But I don't remember how. If that makes sense." 
:::''Parson & Jack, [[First Intermission 38]]

*"As she soared over the rushes, she felt the tickle of an incoming Thinkagram." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 41]]''

*"'''What did the Arkendish do?''' Many things, most of them connected to Thinkamancy. Charlie could handle an unlimited number of Thinkagrams, and extend some of his abilities to his personal Archons in the tower. Any commander in the world could get those Archons' attention by concentrating hard enough, for long enough. This could take hours or even days, but Charlescomm would establish contact eventually. This allowed him to hire out to any side or barbarian in the world, and probably provided him more revenue than mercenary work. He was the telecom giant of Erfworld. This was the main thing he used the Arkendish for, but guessing its other powers was a favorite topic for the Archons." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[First Intermission 46]]''

*"Natural Allies know the will of their tribe’s Chief or Chiefs by Natural Thinkamancy, even from other hexes." 
:::''Vurp, [[LIAB Text 4]]''

*"Doombats typically had a range of twenty hexes or so for scouting, but a Thinkamancer extended that range indefinitely." 
:::''Don King, [[LIAB Text 5]]''

*"For the juice cost of a Thinkagram, Bunny could link him to one of their views, just like he was in the area himself." 
:::''Don King, on Doombats, [[LIAB Text 5]]''

*"Among these were over eight thousand speaking units, any one of whom could request Maggie's attention via intense concentration. Similarly, she could reach out to these units herself, to relay orders or request status." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"Some (mercifully subconscious) part of Maggie's mind was always sorting and prioritizing the incoming and outgoing messages, making little decisions which added up to bigger ones. That was at the quietest of times. Before and during a major battle, it was more than she could fully process, more than she had the juice for. However structured and competent her mind might be, she was still only an Adept class Thinkamancer. Even a Mastermind would be taxed under these conditions." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"She spent a tiny bit of juice to confirm the existence and status of the major units there, but did not open a Thinkagram." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"Jillian thought maybe the Thinkagram connection was broken, but she hadn't felt the usual little pop." 
:::''Jillian, [[LIAB Text 17]]''

*"So, what? You can just mind-control your Ruler whenever he makes a decision you don't like? 
: No. Only when I am certain he is wrong. And, in fact, it involves great personal risk..." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[LIAB 33]]''

*"Bunny, when the battle starts I want you to send that bat's view to everybody in here." 
:::''King Don, [[LIAB 34]]''

*"Little lanterns in Maggie's mind kept blowing out, in ones, twos and threes. The dwagon units, being harvested. And some of the riders, impacting the ground and ceasing to exist (at least, as Gobwin Knob units she had to manage)." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Everyone else imagined Thinkamancy as a set of discrete capabilities: "relay a command" or "plant a suggestion" or "send a two-way visual/audible Thinkagram." They were meant to think of it that way. So long as that was the perception of the discipline, then its fundamental powers could stay largely unknown, untapped, and uncalled-upon." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Thinkamancers were aware of certain magical truths for which, quite intentionally, there were no words in Language." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"For example, a Thinkagram was not one type of spell. There was a spectrum, from which a Thinkamancer would choose one or more bands to communicate within. To someone without a sensitivity to this spectrum, it would be impossible to describe the advantages and capabilities of each, but many of those capabilities went entirely unused, except by Thinkamancers themselves. A warlord would only call for one of a short list of communiques: speech, orders, pictures and sounds. But he would not, for example, ask to communicate and compare his own intuition with that of an allied commander in the field. " 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Thinkamancers understood intuition to be a form of natural Predictamancy, in which a unit can dimly perceive its Fate on a subconscious level. To a Thinkamancer, intuition was as communicable as speech or emotion or the underlying intentions of orders. It could be sent and received, combined and multiplied, and manipulated." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"There were many other such hidden mechanics. There were mental senses which could not even be described to a non-Thinkamancer. The most important of these was the ability to sense Grandiocosmic Strings, the conduits of all magic power in Erfworld." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Only Thinkamancers even knew they existed. A Thinkamancer could feel out the G-Strings of the world, and vibrate upon them by plucking. That was how a Thinkagram was sent, and so much else. Each unit had its own individual G-String, which had many uses." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"This was what Maggie had been doing for several minutes. Putting little notches in her G-String. It was a coded message, passive, and costing no juice. Any Thinkamancer who plucked her would find this note in her G-String. " 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"He found himself staring up at the springmount, wondering if he should get up and tune it again. This one was modeled on a gwiffon, made of Thinkamancy-polarized Stuff and imprinted with Signamancy in bright yellow. It was centered on a single strong coil of steel anchored deeply into the ground. The mount shape was neither fanciful nor accidental. One used this instrument as a surrogate mount, climbing upon it and building up a physical oscillation of the proper frequency to detect and study the Thinkamancy of orders. The intent of a commander in issuing an order to a non-speaking unit, or of a Ruler in issuing an order to a remote field unit, was one of the most interesting forms of natural Thinkamancy, Isaac felt." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"G-strings vibrated on different frequencies, and would cancel or amplify each other across predictable distances. Before Isaac had built these devices, a Thinkamancer had to walk around until his head was in a place of amplification, then hold still." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"But staying within one node deprived the observer of important perspective, much in the way that closing one eye caused a loss of depth perception, or covering an ear made it hard to tell the direction of a sound. It had already been known that two linked Thinkamancers standing in different nodes could detect and send far better than any one caster. Isaac had figured out that one caster switching rapidly between nodes had a similar effect." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"He stood up, glancing up the hill to the great Temple. It was also made of polarized Stuff, designed long ago (and modified more recently) as a refuge. Cosmic vibrations couldn't penetrate it." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"At the top and bottom of the smooth inclined plane were nodes of intuition. One did not get more than a quick glimpse between the two, but that usually would suffice. If not, one could always climb the ladder again. This apparatus had a personal effect on the operator, giving him a glance at his own Fate and perhaps a vague insight or focus or warning." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"A tickle upon his brain, then Bunny, Transylvito's spooky Thinkamancer, "Your Royal Highness King Slately of Jetstone, His Royal Highness Don King of Transylvito." The words were only in his mind; she never spoke aloud. Don's image floated before him, seated as Slately was." 
:::''Slately, being contatced by Thinkamancy, [[LIAB Text 42]]''

*"Rulers have a natural Thinkamancy which allows them to relay orders to their field units, even without a Thinkamancer. He had an[sic] feel for what was going on with his forces, even sitting there in a chair in his capital's garrison's larder." 
:::''Stanley, [[LIAB Text 44]]''

*"In the empty side room, he sat holding his crown in his lap, pauper-like, while time ticked away and his units perished in the dungeons below. He saw their lights in his mind, being extinguished in twos and threes. No-one was leveling. It was clearly an awful rout." 
:::''Slately, demonstrating a Ruler's natural Thinkamancy, [[LIAB Text 48]]''

*"Maggie," Stanley said to the air. It was a form of order only a Thinkamancer could follow. "Maggie!" 
:::''Stanley, contacting a distant Thinkamancer, [[LIAB Text 49]]''

*"There's way too many ways a Thinkamancer can incapacitate me." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on rushing a stack of Thinkamancers, [[LIAB 67]]''

*"For discretion, Chief Parson. You can break contact at any time." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB 84]]''

*"I will thank you not to... put my Chief Warlord into thinkspace without... my mind on the call!" 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB 84]]''

*"Maggie, what are you doing? Why are you running in place? I apologize, Lord. I can't spare the attention to alter my... appearance at the moment. I am... physically moving toward your position." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[LIAB 85]]''

*"The numbers rose as a column, into the millions and billions and more, a silver thread stretching up and away from the peace below. This thread was being drawn up by the system of the world. Thinkamancers knew it as a "Grandiocosmic string." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"Delphie’s last sentence had been delivered in a perfectly friendly and casual tone, but it carried the natural Thinkamancy weight of a direct order." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 2]]''

*"The Thinkamancy inherent in giving them commands would have to be so specific to the throat and mouth muscles..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on making uncroaked sing, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"All at once, completely new senses opened up in her head and she was flooded with information. She could see the distant lights of minds, know the numbers and locations and points of units." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on being promoted to Overlord, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"Delphie was there in the tower, wounded." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on knowing the status of a distant unit, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"In Wanda's head, Delphie's light went out as well. Gone." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on using Ruler (instead of Croakamancer) senses to detect the death of a unit, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"Even as she struggled to comprehend, this brand new part of her mind calmly told her the score. The Garrison had seven Goodminton units left. Four." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on knowing the number of units in her City, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

===Foolamancy===
*"Waitwaitwait. Time out. We can ''veil'' our troops?" 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 61]]''

*"There is ''absolutely'' no way to pull this 'veiling' thing, right? 
::No, you need a Foolamancer in– 
:... in the stack you're veiling, right. 
::Yes, and– 
:''And'' we can't do it with the Eyemancers linked up. ''And'' we can't cast on the enemy's turn." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"We got eleven pairs of warlord eyes here, and he's got thirty or so units. So there's like 300 chances to blow the veil, if he's got one." 
:::''Vinny Doombats, [[TBFGK 107]]''

*" Lord, recall the Foolamancy veil I cast on your lackey. That would not have worked on a gobwin. It worked because Bogroll already resembled you in most important aspects." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 148]]''

*"Above the fountain of sparks there appeared a huge, glowing apparition of Stanley the Tool's face, surrounded by bright rays of red and gold, just as he appeared on his new emblem. But these rays were like arrows pulsing outward, outward... go that way, scatter! Whether the archons took the direction literally or not, they knew the big giant head projection was beyond any of their natural Foolamancy abilities, and it certainly had not been part of the rehearsal." 
:::''The narrator, [[First Intermission 7]]''

*"You must conserve your remaining juice. What can you do cheaply? A simple displacement? 
:If we use a flash to cover the casting, it ought to do." 
:::''Wanda & Jack, [[LIAB 6]]''

*"Form a flash mob over the bridge. 
::[...] 
:You are free to cast. The enemy can see nothing else in this hex." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[LIAB 6]]''

*"But [Charlie] had still gone to great risk to give her cover along the way, using veiled Archons to scout out safe routes. These were probably detectable only by a Foolamancer, another Archon, or a lucky/smart Warlord." 
:::''Jillian, [[LIAB Text 6]]''

*"Foolamancy is Eyemancy. By habit and trade, a Foolamancer must look. At all times, the Foolamancer must observe the nouns around him in finest detail and broadest stroke, in a way that other minds do not. Other minds take shortcuts. Other minds construct, telling themselves ''stories'' about what they see, rather than seeing. Foolamancy is therefore only a narrative. To tell a mind it sees something, the Foolamancer must both see the world as it is, and also as it is seen. Staring into the void of that discrepancy is what drives one mad, really." 
:::''Jack, [[LIAB Text 10]]''

*"Hilary and her partner Avril took up a risky blind, directly over the heads of Prince Sammy's leadership stack. They kept the rising sun at their backs, relative to the warlords, and spent most of their juice to shine out their shadows. It was tricky, but worth it." 
:::''Narration, [[LIAB Text 18]]''

*"Habitually, he sought out the lines and dots of the scenery, the little hooks that other minds used to build their idea of the world around them." 
:::''Jack, [[LIAB Text 21]]''

*"Phoebe was made of brick. She was covered in soot. Black and red and gray, matching the colors of her raiment. All in a column, matching her general body size and opacity. She was a chimney on a rooftop, one of many dozens. It was a really good veil. Maybe her best ever. Gold star! The enemy’s minds would not have to reconcile very much with their eyes, and that was the name of the game." 
:::''Phoebe, [[LIAB Text 56]]''

*"He was wearing a very good scouting veil; she was very lucky to have spotted him in the tree. But such items are fragile, and this one had been destroyed in the melee." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

==Hippiemancy==
*"Among other things, Hippiemancy is the magic of relationships: detecting and altering the forces of opposition and attraction which bind people or units." 
:::''Duncan Scone, [[LIAB Text 11]]''

*"But Hippiemancy is people magic, and Janis also had a heavy understanding about relationships." 
:::''Janis Atlantis, [[LIAB Text 37]]

===Flower Power===
*"But in the presence of so much Flower Power, time perception sort of ''crumbles''. The Hippiemancers call it– 'Flaking.' I know." 
:::''Sizemore & Wanda, [[TBFGK 11]]''

*"Even a Grand Abbie couldn't hope to quiet the coming battle." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 13]]''

*"What did you just do to him? Mm? Oh, just basic Flower Power. He can't engage this turn." 
:::''Parson, Janis & Sizemore, [[LIAB 65]]''

*"I think... I think they mainly keep units from being able to engage." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"The figure in the tower was employing the apparatus they all had assumed was a weapon, but in fact it was a stringed instrument. She plucked and strummed upon it, and even from so far away, they could hear it perfectly. The music took an otherworldly, magical route to their ears." 
:::''Narration, on a Florist quieting a Hex, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"Tommy's sword came down upon his target like a feather. He merely tapped the shoulder of the soldier with the flat of his blade, as if knighting him." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"As if in a dream, she could not swing it with any significant force. The staff moved as if she were trying to stir honey with it." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"The spell would be on the city through Haffaton's turn tomorrow, and could be cast again." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"So red. So angry. Your Life aura, Warlord. It's just awful. Can't you relax? You're in no danger here, I promise. 
::Wanda watched Tommy's face, what she could see of it. He seemed not to change his expression, and barely to relax his posture, but suddenly Olive brightened. 
:Yes! Better!" 
:::''Olive Branch, on seeing auras, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Apparently putting a hand inside the enemy's shirt was not a form of engagement that was prevented by Olive's spell. " 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 14]]''

*"As she walked down another empty hall, Wanda casually held out her staff and tipped a ceramic vase of dried orange flowers from its marble pedestal. The crash was painful to her wine-tenderized head, yet enormously satisfying. Really, even the pain of it was satisfying. So Olive's spellsong did not prevent this form of engagement, either." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 14]]''

*"With a perfunctory "Thanks," she upended the helmet and placed the plant's roots inside. She stepped a few feet away from the uncroaked and turned around to do something to the plant. Wanda could tell she was casting, but not what. [...] When Olive turned around, she held a perfectly healthy green plant in a steel planter." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"This unit has Motion, and that is something a Hippiemancer would know nothing of." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, disparaging a Florist, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"As with yesterday, her voice reached them from everywhere and nowhere, sweet and haunting." 
:::''Narration, on Olive quieting Kiloton, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"Wordlessly, Tommy drew his sword. He stepped out into the courtyard and swung it as hard as he could at a Haffaton soldier who was standing in the sunlight, chewing on a dried pear. The sword stopped in midair, an inch from the man's neck." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"When they finally drew apart, Tommy looked distant and distracted. [..] His voice was barely a loud whisper. [...] his voice low and strained. Wanda watched him closely. He was in deep distress. [...] Tommy looked as pained as Wanda had ever seen him, and he said nothing more until the group had spent the move of its slowest units. [...] Then he dismounted his brontosword, slid down its side, and collapsed into the snow." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being poisoned, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"A crit to the head would cause the muscles to seize at croaking. But one to the heart left the muscles starved out, relaxed and unable to contract. Tommy's were like that." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the effects of Olive's poison on Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"There were almost no functioning nerves in Tommy's heart. Or... his stomach, or most of the rest of his internal organs. He probably had not been in pain, but he must have known something was very wrong." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the effects of Olive's poison on Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She had never seen one before, and she did not understand how it worked, but this was certainly a poisoning. And poisons, both natural and magical, were Flower Power." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She'd also asked him to kiss her. So she did not initiate an engagement in the city." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on a workaround of quieting, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

===Signamancy===
*"The Signamancers claimed that all Stuff was Foolamancy. Our bodies and all the things we see and touch were supposed to only be Signs: symbols of their true nature. Vinny didn't know about all that, but a person's appearance was definitely a Sign. It told you how they think about themselves. And how others see them."
:::''Vinny Doombats, reflecting on what he's been told about Signamancy, [[First Intermission 37]]''

*"Signamancy was a terrible curse. The Titans knew his true nature. No unipegataur-riding warrior king was he, no towering leader and orator. Over the three-thousand or so turns he had ruled, he had only once seen battle, and that from a well-guarded turret. And so he had shrunk. Gone white and fat." 
:::''King Slately Jetsone, [[LIAB Text 33]]''

*"No signs stood to point the way, but the Signamancy of a caster's home portal was plainer than writing." 
:::''Narration, on the color of Portals in the Magic Kingdom, [[IPTSF Text 21]]''

===Date-a-mancy===
*"Date-a-mancy is the oddest branch of Hippiemancy, in that it follows the Numbers which underlie all action. Date-a-mancy tries to quantify the intangible, things like leadership and compatibility and morale and Loyalty and Duty and even love, by means of match-ups." 
:::''Duncan Scone, [[LIAB Text 11]]''

==Naughtymancy==
===Shockmancy===
*"Their Shockmancer was here, a couple turns back. Gone now. He spelled up that tower hard, Bunny. " 
:::''Caesar Borgata, [[First Intermission 47]]''

*"It's natural Shockmancy. When you fall, one of three things happens: you are injured (possibly only slightly), you are incapacitated (you croak in one turn if not given Healomancy), or you just croak. Height of the fall does seem to have some bearing on that, but it's essentially random." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33b]]''

*"She'd told Tommy about spelling up Minnow Tower, and he'd said it was smart thinking. But he never said what kind of effect the raw Shockmancy they were storing in the tower might have in battle." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on having Delphi & Clay juicing up the tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

===Croakamancy===
*"Uncroaked casters just function as infantry..." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 77a]]''

*"She explained it this way. 'Croakamancy comes from the mind.' The more time and attention the caster spends uncroaking the unit, the closer it will be to its original strength and abilities when it was alive. And the more turns it lasts before degrading. So a good croakamancer can mass-animate every fallen unit in a hex, or city zone. But they'll be the weakest kind, and only last a few turns." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 116]]''

*"These are Uncroaked. They require a simple, specific order of battle." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 123]]''

*"Uncroaked infantry, led by a master-class Croakamancer... can." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on dance-fighting, [[TBFGK 127]]''

*"I can decrypt many unit types which had been impossible to uncroak before." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on using the Arkenpliers, [[TBFGK 146]]''

*"From what I can tell, they're like the dwagons are with Stanley. They're loyal to the 'pliers, and therefore to Cruella herself. For all I know, she can see through their eyes and hear what they hear. But if not, they'll prob'ly just tell her anything interesting when they can." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on Decrypted, [[First Intermission 44]]''

*"And what Lady Firebaugh was doing with hers was causing real alarm. The theoretical consensus was that she was extending Croakamancy to the Life axis." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"A big one being, "we don't know if he'd still be able to cast or not." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on decrypting a caster, [[LIAB 11]]

*"Tool, we don't even know if they keep existing without her." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on the Decrypted and the possibility of losing Wanda, [[LIAB 22]]''

*"She could animate the husks of the once-living." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, right after popping, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"We can animate the casualties. Their units and ours, if we take the city!" 
:::''Overlord Firebaugh & Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"Bodies of croaked units decay the next turn. So we would need her on the battlefield." 
:::''Overlord Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"I would have a leadership bonus over uncroaked units, Lord." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"She had senses that she did not yet understand were unique to Croakamancers, and she used them on the fallen scout. His bones she could feel without touching him. She knew which ribs and teeth and vertebrae were broken." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"There would be some craft to this uncroaking, as not all of the original muscles and sinew could be counted on to perform their original functions. That was not a problem. That was what Croakamancy was for. Where a knee would no longer bend, where a bicep no longer existed to flex an arm, the Croakamancer made magical Motion to move the Matter." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"When she had removed all of his raiment, she still could see better with her natural Croakamancy sense than her eyes." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"The body of the scout would have depopped at dawn, had they not moved it out of the hex where it was croaked. Claimed as a spoil for Goodminton, it would only decay a bit when they started their turn later in the morning." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"This scene was a massacre: twenty-two enemy saps, an enemy warlord, and forty-three of their own infantry. She could feel them each, sense the skulls and the hearts and the spines." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"This is a warlord. If I uncroak him, he would benefit from all of my attention, and all of the juice I can spare. The more carefully I cast, the fewer mistakes I might make, and the more he will retain of the power he had in life. I believe I could make him last as long as ten or twelve turns, and retain about half his levels and leadership." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"What are our other choices? 
::I could concentrate on uncroaking more than one unit, diluting the effects, but giving us more units. Or I could attempt to mass uncroak every unit in the hex. 
:You could do that? 
::Tommy... I-I don’t know. I feel it might be too much for me. A disaster. I could become overwhelmed. Maybe we wouldn’t get any units at all out of it. But if I succeeded, then the uncroaked units I create probably would not last more than a turn. Even the warlord." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"She silently ordered the line of uncroaked to bow in unison, which prompted more cheers and laughter." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 10]]''

*"Blood flowed to her face, a mechanism she understood down to the tissues and sinus cavities within her head, for Croakamancy was a beautiful art. She felt her eyelids getting hot, ducts and vessels dilating. She was just a speck of Matter, herself, after all." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 10]]''

*"Wanda waved her staff vaguely in the direction of one of the uncroaked knights in their stack. He tilted his head a bit and grinned happily, showing his remaining teeth around proudly." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Wanda made her Fellow fold his hands together and flex his arms like a champion, grinning obscenely at everyone." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Life magic, Wanda. Croakamancers don't use it." 
:::''Olive Branch, disparaging a Croakamancer, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"Make sure all the Fellows are in the Courtyard, except the ones me and you are stacking with. Wanda nodded, and mentally sent the order as she took another deep swig of chocolate. "Done." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"But before she could even get her boots out of the stirrups, her senses as a Croakamancer told her she would find his lifeless body upon the ground." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"The first thing to determine in uncroaking a body is what took its life, because that was where the most repair and attention would likely be needed. Attention was the key. A simple or a mass uncroaking took no more attention than lighting a candle, with the Matter of the body representing the candle wax. The body would move as it could, and take simple orders until its fuel was exhausted a few turns later." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"But the craft of the Croakamancer was to understand the body's condition, its functions, its strengths and weaknesses." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"The Croakamancer could conserve the fuel of the body by focusing her juice upon the mechanisms of its movement, repairing and augmenting them with magic. An expertly uncroaked unit could function almost as well as it had when alive, and last for perhaps dozens of turns." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"If this body had no wounds, then what croaked it? Sensing her way through the architecture of his insides, she could not immediately say. Something about the muscles was familiar, though. She had uncroaked the victims of critical hits before. A crit to the head would cause the muscles to seize at croaking. But one to the heart left the muscles starved out, relaxed and unable to contract." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"So she focused on his heart. She tried to make it beat once, and knew something was wrong. One tells a muscle to move by means of the nerves, and reconnecting nerves by magic was one of the trickier parts of an attentive uncroaking." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She had never made one so beautifully preserved. The bloating in his face faded, as some slow circulation of the blood was possible in this one. She was overjoyed at the results. Almost everything a living unit could do, this one could..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on uncroaking her brother, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Then she thought out an order, and Un-Tommy disengaged from his melee." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Re-attaching the head during the uncroaking process had been an interesting new challenge." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Even through blinding blasts, Wanda's Croakamancy senses let her know that the first enemy casualties had been struck and were falling. She sensed broken skulls and wings and burst organs inside the bodies that spiraled down through the air toward the courtyard below." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on detecting the dead, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"And the Fellows...they're really quite weak without leadership." 
:::''Pom Fritz, on uncroaked units, [[IPTSF Text 25]]''

*"Wanda could feel the consumption of Matter there in the fireplace, too, if she chose to. " 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on burning logs, [[IPTSF Text 25]]''

*"As they marched on, she hoped for an ambush, or any enemy encounter, so that she might spend her juice this turn making fresh units instead of hopelessly re-patching these. It was better than wasting the juice entirely, but there was only so much she could do. These bodies were decaying inexorably to dust, and only the Titans could prevent that." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on extending the duration of uncroaked, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"From what she understood of her discipline, it ought to be possible to make them sing, if she were a master of Croakamancy. Singing was part of the Stagemancy involved in dance fighting. So how would that work, she wondered? The Thinkamancy inherent in giving them commands would have to be so specific to the throat and mouth muscles... maybe if she sang the order to them? Or thought of singing it? Hmm..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"If you're croaked, and that is no joke, you pass the yoke of Chief to a bloke named Fritz... '''Pooda onga riiish!'''" 
:::''Wanda & Tommy, demonstrating uncroaked theater, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

===Retconjuration===
*'''This is a theoretical branch of magic, like an undiscovered element on the periodical table.
*'''No ordinary caster can practice it; there are no Retconjurers in Erfworld.
*'''It is reserved for the Titans.'''
:::''Titan Rob, Word of the Titans 8/19/2009

*"Hey, maybe she's a Retconjuror. Oh do not even joke about that. There is no such thing." 
:::''Tommy & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 11]]''

==Stagemancy==
*"Singing was part of the Stagemancy involved in dance fighting." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

===Hat Magic===
*"Is it dual use? Abjuration only. Report any engagements and observations at the end of your move." 
:::''Jillian & Ansom, [[TBFGK 9]]''

*"The sun was setting, as a tired woman with raw red eyes waved a wand over an upturned silk hat, and saw the letter inside vanish." 
:::''Queen Bea, [[First Intermission 43]]''

*"You know, I can do some small object conjuration for you. You just have to tell me what you need." 
:::''Cubbins, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"He dropped it into the crown and waved his scepter over it three times. "Pinochet," he intoned. The coin was made to disappear." 
:::''Slately, sending a coin to King Don, [[LIAB Text 42]]''

*"Sire, I can help too. Hand me your crown." 
:::''Cubbins, prior to modifying something into a Magic Item, [[LIAB 69]]''

*"One of the units in the group, for example, was a snow golem. It was a terribly crude thing, made of only three large balls of snow she had rolled up, with sticks for arms and small black rocks for features. It moved lurchingly forward and was almost useless as a unit. But as abominable as it was, she was quite proud of her first attempt at hat magic." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, demonstrating unit creation, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"The snow golem she ordered to stand sentry at the base of Minnow Tower. Then she took the silk top hat from its head, reducing it to a mere ornament." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"It stayed right in place via the natural Dollamancy (or was it natural Hat Magic?) of just belonging there." 
:::''Narration, on Wanda's jaunty hat, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

===Carnymancy===
*"Carnymancy. It's... the magic of rigging the game. Here! That's a crude slander on our noble discipline, sir. Oh, truly you do wound me. But yes." 
:::''Parson & Jojo, [[LIAB 63]]''

*"But we had this Carnymancer who really liked me. He saved me from croaking by rigging the incapacitation rules on me. They hauled me back to the capital in a wagon, and he cast over me every day for ten turns, just keeping me alive. 
::Until they got you a Healomancer?" 
:Pff, no. Queen Bea was mad enough at all the fuss over a Level 1 stabber. No, one day I just popped up off the bed, good as new. The Carnymancer said he'd 'made a trade' for me." 
:::''Sylvia & Archer, [[LIAB 86]]''

*"Then what can we do? Our specialties, of course. Stirring up trouble, roping a dope. You dodgers work the crowd. Get 'em in a real lather. Maybe they'll shoot him." 
:::''Unnamed Carnymancer & Jojo, [[LIAB 90]]''

===Rhyme-o-mancy===
*"A poetic incantation could settle the mind, focus any caster on their work." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Even warlords could use Rhymes in leadership, for morale and focus, and in dance fighting." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Those bawdy trail songs of Tommy's were crude, but effective on the units under his command. Her singing along with the knights had likely helped her spot that scout on her first day." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Songs and poems held great and mysterious power." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"But to use Rhyme-o-mancy in casting, it must be quick and clever, and it must rhyme. If she flubbed the rhyme, the spell would weaken or fail completely." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"The attention of an entire day was collapsed into those few seconds." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

==Clevermancy==
*"Clevermancy should have no Xs. It's raw magic dealing with raw magical forces." 
:::''Titan Rob, Word of the Titans 2315787''

===Luckamancy===
*"Delphie tells you what to cast, doesn’t she? What battles to affect. What units to...what, bless? 
::Yeah. I just say ‘boost.’” 
:And you can alter the outcome of a battle, by casting ahead of time. You boost up a unit’s luck by a lot, or a whole side’s luck by a little? 
::Yeah, kind of. Or jinx the enemy. Battles are hard, though. Sides are harder. Units are pretty easy. I boost our warlords all the time." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"I boosted his roll to a 4! I changed his odds, chose a way to describe the outcome of his choices. You see?” He picked up the dice and showed them to her. “The dice are not the guy, okay? In this case the guy is imaginary, and the dice are representing him. But this is real life,” he said, making a circle in the air with his index finger, “and you are not the dice. Okay? In real life, you are real, but the dice are imaginary. The dice that describe your choices. Mathamancy describes those, and Luckamancy affects those." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Now here's an important thing, though. Where did those 4s come from? 
::From you. You cast upon the die. 
:So you're saying my juice had a physical effect on the way the die rolled. 
::Yes. 
:Yes and no. It's not a direct effect, you see? The 4 is a Number. It had to come from somewhere. 
::The juice in your spell did not create the outcome, you are saying. Your spell did not create the 4. It...what?" What was the alternative? "Enabled it, somehow? 
: Honestly?That's the nice way to say it. Whatt'm saying is that maybe that die would have come up 4s three times anyway. So maybe my spell did nothing at all, at least so far. That's why I say it'll roll high 'for a little while.' I don't know." 
:::''Clay & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"But here's what I do know. And maybe it's kind of a secret of my discipline but I think it's important, and I wanna tell you. Luckamancy doesn't create good outcomes, because that would undermine Mathamancy and Predictamancy. Mathamancy deals with real Numbers. If Luckamancy could just create Numbers out of juice, out of thin air, then every odds calculation would be off. Y'see? So what Luckamancy actually does is steal Numbers from the world." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"Where do you steal the Numbers from? Well, the world. If you rolled all the D4s in the world a bunch of times, that one included, you'd get an even mix of ones, twos, threes and fours. This little guy stole his roll from somewhere, and I think the world is lazy, you know? I don't think it goes very far to steal good outcomes when I boost one of our warlords, you know?" 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"Would it steal from our enemies? If only. That's the one thing it really doesn't do. In fact we sometimes see the opposite. The enemy rolls better than they should or... or we roll worse." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"What, it steals Numbers from us?! Not all the time! I mean, it depends. The net effect is still good for us, because we're picking the right battles to win. But yeah it can be really hard on the rest of our side, sometimes. Especially unled and unboosted units. We...lose more of those kind of battles than we should." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"A Luckamancy boost could have any number of specific effects on a unit's "dice." Defensively, it could affect their chance to be hit, the damage they would take from hits, their chance of receiving a critical hit, their chance of being incapacitated or croaked from a fall, et cetera. Or it could affect the enemy's outcomes: their defenses." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Frenemy units fell by twos and threes, the victims of outrageously high damage outcomes and critical hit rates." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of Luckamancy on battle, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"You know how when a unit falls, it can croak, or be incapacitated, or just be plain wounded and lose some hits? 
::Yes? 
:Well, that's Luckamancy, too. And I'm thinking f'we get into another airspace fight we can first cast against the enemy to make 'em more likely to croak in a fall. Then we can go for dismounting attacks. And there's not a lot of, um, downside to that. Less backlash from borrowing Numbers, right? Because we don't use air mounts. We do a lot less falling. See?" 
:::''Clay & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 22]]''

===Healomancy===
*"It contained a healing elixir of his own devising, the recipe of which varied, but usually consisted of "two gin rations, stirred with a Wand of Cure Incapacitation." 
:::''Pierce, mentioning a type of wand, [[LIAB Text 41]]''

===Moneymancy===
*"It had been as ridiculous as everything else in Erfworld, rebuilding the city. The Overlord ordered it, the treasury was debited, and the city was instantly recreated. It was only Moneymancy. When it happened, Parson was standing in the ruins of the courtyard. There was a sound like a wind chime, with a whoosh of orchestral cymbals. Enormous, blinding magical sparkles filled the sky and the ground. And then the city was simply standing again, fully intact. There was no more rubble, not even a wisp of settling dust." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[First Intermission 1]]''

=Axes=
*"Its numbers were being shaped and guided by the firmament, by what magic theorists called the Erf Axis. For when the price was paid, it was Erfworld which processed the transaction. The world would produce the unit that was called for...more or less. There was the matter of the Fate Axis as well, and this unit was turning out to be very special." 
:::''Narration, on popping a unit, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

==Erf==

==Fate==
*"Fate is inevitable, Warlord. But our ''path'' to it is not. We must first divine, and then ''enact'' our destinies. To live is to suffer. Our Fate is our only release. So if we fight against Fate, or fail to act in support of it when the way is clear, then we only worsen and prolong our misery. Our choices do matter. Wise choices ease the way, and foolish ones cause suffering." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[LIAB 70]]''

==Numbers==
*"Life is all Numbers. Ask any Mathamancer; they know." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"To live is to stand on one side of an equation, which must equal zero in the end. There is a price, a cost in Numbers, to be paid for staying alive. Zero is a balance, an equilibrium. Zero is a flat country, neither far away nor near. You can travel there any time, at the cost of your life. And perhaps, if someone were to pay the price to the exact number, you could even return again. That Mathamancers often say such things, and nod to one another soberly, is thought to be why they tend to keep to their own company." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"Few casters doubted what was said of the Numbers Axis, but even fewer understood. Not consciously, anyway." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"This unit would be worth far more than the buyer had paid for. That was no violation of Numbers, though. It simply meant that this unit carried a balance due. And though it was an astronomically high figure, someone would pay. Zero always called, and someone would have to pay." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

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IPTSF Text 27

2013-01-04T05:22:04Z

No one in particular: Formatting tweaks

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[[Chip Tunage]], the [[Earl]] of [[Otoh]] squinted up and tsked at the sky. "That's dawn, [[Chief Warlord|Chief]]," he said, running his fingers through his messy black hair. He had slept in the saddle, and no start-of-[[turn]] cleansing had straightened out that tangled nest. "We're in for it, I guess."

Princess [[Jillian Zamussels]] of the [[Kingdom of Faq]]—who had not put up with anyone ''calling'' her "Princess" in more than two hundred turns—looked up through pine boughs at the starless patches of sky. There was no denying that it was getting light out. The stupid birds nesting in the adjacent treetops twittered in assent.

She nodded, shifting in her own saddle with a leathery scrunch. Her [[gwiffon]] shifted its weight on the branch to match. "Yeah, probably," she admitted. "Okay Chip. Put the archers on guard. Watch the ground and the skies."

"Yes, Chief."

She took a brown pear from her saddlebag and mechanically gnawed it down to the core, pondering the options the world was giving her today. There were two, really: either they'd find her, or she'd find them. Neither was any good.

The "they" would almost certainly mean [[Haffaton]], a vast powerhouse [[side]] which had long ago gobbled up all of its immediate neighbors. Growing slowly, like vegetation, Haffaton had oozed most of the way around Faq, until it had their little three-city side almost surrounded. The only reason they hadn't been conquered yet was that Haffaton did not know Faq existed. Jillian's tiny bubble-kingdom took extraordinary pains to avoid detection.

But that secrecy was now distinctly threatened by the fact that someone else had a turn before Faq's today. That meant that their sides shared a [[battlespace]] today; there would be an opportunity for the sides to fight. However much Faq wanted to avoid crossing paths, it was inevitable. Battlespace determinations were [[Natural Predictamancy]]. She ''would'' be spotted by the enemy and allow them an encounter of some sort, all too close to her own territory.

This was why she hated coming home.

Well... one of the reasons.

Jillian had spent a long time far afield, working as an [[ally]]-for-hire with sides who had no idea where the capital of Faq might be. For the sake of maintaining the [[treasury]] she took contracts, mostly simple bounties on enemy units. She preferred to fight for weaker sides, partly out of sympathy (it was a lot of fun to rescue a side from the brink of extinction), but also because a side that fell would never tell.

"If they don't find us on their turn, we should bolt back ''exactly'' the way we came in," Hedda suddenly declared.

The Countess [[Hedda Splode]] was Jillian's other field [[commander]], a sturdy brown-haired [[Level]] 6 with a mean temper that served her well in battle... but only in battle. Like Jillian, she considered herself an exile from [[King Banhammer]]'s court, and saw stabbing things with swords as the only good honest way to earn one's upkeep. Hedda had Jillian's respect, but as blunt and headstrong as she was, probably no-one could really ''like'' her.

"You don't think we could swing out over the water?" Jillian asked, mostly for the sake of raising options. "Go for the secondary rendezvous point?"

Hedda made a face. "F'you wanna risk that. But if we're going to be spotted, I say we get spotted as far from home as we can. Then we disengage and flee on a misdirect heading."

Jillian nodded, knowing Hedda was exactly right. That habit was the annoying thing about the woman.

"Yeah, all right. If they don't come here on their turn, that's the plan, then."

She realized she was still holding the core of the pear in her hand. Rather than drop it to the forest floor as a clue to the enemy to look up in the trees, she ate that as well.

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Two [[elves]] wandered into the clearing before the sun was even visible through the pine needles. One of them was round and bald, with a laurel of white hair. The other was pale and gaunt. They wore loose tunics dyed in crazy multicolor patterns, lined with psychedelic fur. They were armed only with tall staves.

Jillian's [[unit]]s went silent, using the barest hand signals to communicate. The elves talked and giggled as they walked crookedly between the tree trunks. They looked to be on a foraging mission of some kind, studying the ground very closely. With any luck, Jillian hoped they would pass through without noticing the three [[stack]]s of [[mount]]ed gwiffons nested above.

The fat one pointed at something at the base of a large fir tree. As the wispy one bent to look, his companion tripped him with his staff and he fell on his face into the dirt and pine needles. Both of them started laughing, but the thin one looked up and saw.

"Oh, hey. Wait, man, look," he said, pointing and climbing to his feet.

"Ohhhh, wow," said the other, looking right up at Jillian in her saddle. "Hey, up there! Hey! Friend or foe?"

"Neither," called Jillian, trying to sound disinterested even with her heart pounding behind her armor. "[[Mercenary|Mercenaries]]. Just passing through."

The big one looked around, counting the units. "You got a lot of [[heavies]]. Who are you?"

"Mercenaries," she said again.

"Umm..."

The thin one tugged on the fat one's sleeve. "Hey man, let's go. Right? Let's just go."

With a few slow steps, then breaking suddenly into a run, they went. Jillian gave the hand signal to allow them to pass. Their crashing, graceless footsteps faded away into the forest, and the warrior princess had to restrain her hunting instincts. [[Croak]]ing enemy [[scout]]s as first contact rarely went well.

"What kind of elves ''were'' those?" asked Chip, when they had left the hex.

"[[High Elves]]," said Hedda. "[[Natural allies]] of Haffaton. They use natural [[Hippiemancy]], mostly [[Flower Power]]."

"I see." Chip squinted in the direction the elves had left. "I'm guessing... they use it a lot."

"That was the start of trouble, [[Warlord]]s," said Jillian, quietly. "First pebble of a landslide. We gotta step very carefully now."

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Quotes: Magic

2013-01-04T05:11:25Z

No one in particular: /* Thinkamancy */

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Quoted statements about the various forms and branches of magic.

''Next quote to be pulled from'': [[IPTSF Text 26]]

note to self: Pull quotes from [[TBFGK 38a]] later; basics of magic, classes &c.

=General=
*"He told me that Casters are Commanders, and can lead stacks, but they almost never do. Casters are too rare and valuable to risk, and they give no leadership bonus to the stack anyway. Only Warlords have leadership. Makes sense. Except for certain exceptions. Like, say... the bonus those golems get if they're led by a Dirtamancer. Or the huge one to Uncroaked units being led by a Croakamancer(!)." 
:::''Parson's Klog, [[TBFGK 84a]]''

*"Casters can also spend juice, doing most things casters do: make scrolls, items, golems, uncroak, turn Schmuckers to gems (or vice versa but that doesn't cost juice), upgrade units, etc." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on off-turn actions, [[LIAB 33a]]''

*"Okay, you said you can cast in the Magic Kingdom, right? 
:Yes..." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[LIAB 45]]''

*"Ahead and below, the target threw some Shockmancy bolts up at them. The defense was automatic. Not only were there no casters there to direct the stored spells, but there were apparently no commanders of any kind in the city." 
:::''Jillian, on tower defenses, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

*"Wanda said she thought it was a whole mess of different magicks, what'd she say... Shockmancy, obviously. Rhyme-o-mancy because it rocked out. Carnymancy because it made big flashes and sometimes could make things disappear (he never could do it on purpose, though). And what else? Changemancy? He looked at the hammer closely. There might be a lot more he could do with it besides taming dwagons, which was... Date-o-mancy, he guessed?" 
:::''Stanley, on the Arkenhammer, [[LIAB Text 44]]''

*"He had not actually crossed the threshold to Master class, but that could happen any time a caster gained powerful new insight into his discipline or major class." 
:::''Sizemore, on Class vs Level, [[LIAB Text 45]''

*"The Arkendish's feel was all over that Turnamancy spell." 
:::''Rachel, on the feel of a spell, [[LIAB Text 53]]''

*"N'they're like archers; they'd be able to take shots at me any time." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on caster attacks, [[LIAB 71]]

*"Each discipline of magic has its own special insight into cosmic truths." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"A ball of juice formed between her outstretched fingers. The hoboken is the basic offensive spell known to almost all casters at the time they pop." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"Wanda snorted, but then had to admit casters can't actually see one another's discipline." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 11]]''

*"It was not offensive; she could cast it before Goodminton broke alliance." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on a Dirtamancy scroll that modified the tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"It had been as effective as her effort at Rhyme-o-mancy, but it left her no better understanding of what she had cast." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on casting outside her discipline, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Delphie immediately leveled up to 5, and her spells became that much more potent." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

=Elements=
*"Here was a complicated bit of Matter. Once it had possessed Life and Motion, but those had been taken away from it. And though only the Titans could restore Life to it, she could give it Motion again, once she had the juice." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the body of a croaked scout, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"The three Elements were created equal. Are you a Titan, to say otherwise?" 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Life==
*"Life magic, Wanda. Croakamancers don't use it." 
:::''Olive Branch, disparaging a Croakamancer, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Motion==
*"This unit has Motion, and that is something a Hippiemancer would know nothing of." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, disparaging a Florist, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Matter==

=Classes=
==Hocus Pocus==
===Findamancy===
===Predictamancy===
*"Marie, of course, had told her many times that she had Predicted the fall of her side, the kingdom where she and Wanda had served. But when it came to explaining how the fall had happened, how she and Wanda both had escaped destruction in different ways, she wouldn't budge. 
:'It all got cloudy,' was all she would really say. 'It happens. I saw it would come and I wonned my Rulah. But when it came it all got cloudy, I don't know.' " 
:::''Janis & Marie, [[LIAB Text 37]]''

*"Thinkamancers understood intuition to be a form of natural Predictamancy, in which a unit can dimly perceive its Fate on a subconscious level." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Shouldn't you know? Oh I should, yes. But turns like this, they come up time to time and everything afta is cloudy. Something has to get decided today, Sizemore. Fate will go fowad from there." 
:::''Sizemore & Marie, on the clarity of Predictions, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"It’s a complicated subject, Wanda. Predictamancy... You know, dear? There are rules we don’t discuss. About...what we don’t discuss." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 3]]''

*"Wanda, the reason that Predictamancers do not say everything we know is not because it would change the future, but because it usually will make it longer and more painful to reach those future outcomes. The less you know about what is to come, about your Fate, then the easier it will be for you to get there, the less... you and others will have to suffer, to lose." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 9]]''

*"Delphie looked at her Overlord and squinted a bit, examining him. Wanda could sense that she was using a kind of magical sight like her own Croakamancy senses. She'd asked Delphie a raft of questions about Predictamancy in correspondence from the road, as they'd worked out this plan. She knew Delphie was now intuiting something about Father's near-term outcomes." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Somewhere in those notes in her satchel, there was a brief explanation of how Predictamancy worked in combat. It amounted to the caster using her juice to see things happen a second or two ahead, so that she could aim where the enemy would be, and to move where the enemy's return blows and arrows would not land." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Most importantly to this plan, a Predictamancer could know whether or not a shot or blow she was about to initiate would be a hit. If it wouldn't, then she simply did not take the shot." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Only one magic blast struck Fritz's shield. Delphie sidestepped the others as necessary, still casting in a kind of concentration trance." 
:::''Narration, on a Predictamancer in battle , [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Not everyone walking these halls has a purpose. I cannot make Predictions about every unit, or commander, or even every ruler." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

*"It was the only way Goodminton could survive you. 
::You don't know that. You never Predicted that. 
:No. I can't. Fate doesn't care about us. That's the terror of it; we have no Fate. The world doesn't care if we live or not. Only about you." 
:::''Delphie & Wanda, on who has Fate, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

===Mathamancy===
*"Mathamancy is what, again? Analyzing probabilities... predicting outcomes? Yes, and the raw calculations of that work." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 54]]''

*"CharlsNChrg: Tell me the odds that learning what happened to my Archons right now will be worth giving up those calculations in the future. 
:LordHamster: ... 
:LordHamster: I don't know if this thing can even DO a calculation like that. Predicting the future? 
:CharlsNChrg: Try it. 
:LordHamster: Fine. 
:LordHamster: I'll be damned. 
:LordHamster: It says there's all of a 4% chance it's worth taking my deal, even after spending this calculation. 
::[...] 
:LordHamster: Teaching me that my bracer can make sophisticated predictions about the future? Priceless." 
:::''Charlie & Parson, [[First Intermission 39]]

*"The dice describe the world. They don’t determine it. A Mathamancer can tell you how many dice will be rolled, how many points’ll be lost when you’re wounded. He’ll tell you what’ll probably happen, and possibly happen, and what can’t happen." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Mathamancy deals with real Numbers." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

==Spookism==
===Turnamancy===
*"Having a Turnamancer reduced the production of an heir by twenty turns, and with funds coming in from Transylvito, Vanna was able to boost Otoh and Kibo's production drastically." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 49]]''

*"That level 6 Jitterati warlord, Duncan Scone, was now her best fighter. Vanna had done some good work to turn him, but the dungeon didn't much interest Jillian. Vanna didn't really know how to play right." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 49]]''

*"You okay? 
::Yes. That was just like, whoa. Intense. You know? 
:How's your juice? 
::Low. That spell cost two turns' worth, basically. 
:::''Jillian & Vanna, on KingWorld, [[LIAB 22]]''

*"Can't move to other hexes (because of zero move, exceptions possible using Turnamancy)." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33a]]''

*Next turn, when the Turnamancer had juice, she would be able to cast a mass spell that should convert half these prisoners to Faq units. The rest could be worked on in future turns." 
:::''Vanna, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

===Dollamancy===
*"Tell me about that. Where do changes of clothes come from?" [...] 
::"Well, it's Dollamancy, Lord," said Maggie, looking up at him. [...] "This particular 'outfit'... I would call it 'raiment'... came from the Magic Kingdom. The helm was made by one of our new Twolls. 
:"Yeah, how do Twolls do that? Bogroll made my armor, and he put the sword together. This new guy Zhopa just made me a picnic basket." [...] 
::"Twolls have the 'fabrication' special, which is a form of natural Dollamancy. Units with that ability can make small nonmagical items, usually armor and equipment. I understand that the next Twoll we pop will be assigned to the stables as a smith and saddlemaker." 
:Parson nodded. "But the rest of the clothes were from an actual Dollamancer?" 
::"Yes, his name is Ken." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"What about these symbols?" Parson slapped his chest plate. "My Hamstard crest and Wanda's skull emblem, and the Stanley posters. That's all Dollamancy, too?" "The emblems are called 'livery,' Lord. And yes, that is a common form of natural Dollamancy. New units pop bearing the livery their Ruler desires. Twolls can fabricate items which bear their master's livery. And when a caster creates another unit, as in golem-making or uncroaking, the caster sets the livery and other features of the unit's appearance." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"With a Dollamancer to heal the Cloth Golems and a Healomancer for the rest..." 
:::''Ossomer, [[LIAB 4]]''

*"There are different applications of Dollamancy. Lady Shortcake was fond of fashioning cloth golems. She was very imaginative. 
:Precious, puffy-looking animals. The hit of the parade. And when she wasn't doing that, she was always designing new raiment for the changing fashions at court!" 
:::''Cubbins & Ace, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Look, there's a lot you can do in Dollamancy. It's fabrication with a motion element, right? If we want." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Dollamancy is Fate magic, so I know something about that." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Ace stroked his chin, contemplating the King's potential as a combatant. "Start with your weapon, I guess. May I?" Slately put the Royal Scepter of Jetstone in the hands of a non-Royal caster without a moment's hesitation. It was a mark of his seriousness of purpose. But he did cringe as Ace began to take it apart." 
:::''Ace & Slately, on repurposing existing items, [[LIAB Text 48]]''

*"I'm thinkin' just defense for these, Cubbins. 
::Yeah, me too. 
:I'm just doin' blasts. You cover the tricky-fooly stuff, okay?" 
:::''Ace & Cubbins, [[LIAB 69]]''

*"As he modded the Royal Scepter, it dawned on Ace that he had become accustomed to working in cloth — weaving and cutting and shaping it to another Dollamancer's specifications." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 54]]''

*"Look, the cloth golems will be much stronger with my bonus." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB 93]]''

*"I don't have a lof of time, Cubs. But I can definitely... mff... add one feature to this puppy. Gonna call it "an autopilot." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB 99]]''

*"Upon claiming it, she’d imposed Goodminton’s livery on it by natural Dollamancy, reluctantly changing the black to slate blue. But on a whim, she kept just one of the pink flowers, offset in a patch of white." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on clothing, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Olay," she said, casting the minor Dollamancy spell that Teddy had taught her. The wrinkles in each piece went smooth, as the garment was restored to its new-turn condition." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

*"The Dollamancer had modified her old riding gloves into long, chamois evening gloves with stealthy riding grips sewn into the palms. Her clunky boots he'd turned into shiny black thigh-highs topped with lace, but still reinforced in the feet and ankles for combat riding." 
:::''Narration, on a Dollamancer modifying existing clothes, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

*"It stayed right in place via the natural Dollamancy (or was it natural Hat Magic?) of just belonging there." 
:::''Narration, on Wanda's jaunty hat, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

===Weirdomancy===
*"Weirdomancers can cancel a flyer's special to make it fall (or make a non-flyer fly, then dispel it and cause a fall)." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33b]]''

*"[...] to hiring a Weirdomancer to try to make the Gumps grow radishes in their branches, [...]" 
:::''Narration, [[LIAB Text 55]]''

==Stuffamancy==
*"How would you make a magic blanket?" Parson asked, gnawing on a heel of the rye loaf. "If you wanted one?" 
::Sizemore looked at Maggie, who was nibbling cheese, and spoke up. "That's Stuffamancy. Really versatile magic. Weapons, armor, tools... Stuffamancers just imagine it and conjure it." 
:"Conjure as in make it?" Parson said with his mouth full. "Create it? Or summon it from somewhere?" 
::Sizemore leaned forward excitedly, rocking a little as he spoke. "That's a great question, Warlord. There's a big debate about that, getting right down to the level of 'what is magic?' and 'what is stuff?' Some Casters think they're the same thing, and that Stuffamancy proves it. But even the Stuffamancers don't agree about that."
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[First Intermission 28]]''

===Dirtamancy===
*"... Sizemore can dig through solid rock, it's cool to watch." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 77a]]''

*"Hav- Having a Dirtamancer in your city when you upgrade it reduces the cost by a lot," he began. 
::Parson tried to see where this was going. "Okayyyy..."
:"But it means the Dirtamancer sets the appearance, the shape of things... and the livery." 
:::''Sizemore & Parson, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"At the end of the pavement, he frowned at a spot where the squares were sinking into the softer ground. Drawing his index finger over the pathway's edge, he spent a little juice to fix it." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"Dirtamancy was among the most rare and useful disciplines [in the Magic Kingdom]. Everyone needed a wall built, a garden tilled, a well dug, a foundation excavated. There were no city sites; construction was a manual industry." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"Can you tunnel? 
::Tunnel. 
:Yeah, can you? 
::Well, yes. 
:Good. Now can you tunnel under Portal Park, all the way from our portal to the one that goes to Spacerock? 
::I... ''can.''"
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[LIAB 45]]''

*"Without word or ceremony they lifted, and Jillian willed the city razed. With a great swirl of sparkling natural Dirtamancy, and a tinny crashing sound, Progrock turned to dust and rubble below them." 
:::''Jillian, razing Progrock, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

*"Touching the spade to the grass of Portal Park put Sizemore directly in touch with Erfworld. He sensed the physical world in deep, primal ways which he found difficult to convey to other casters. Even Changemancers and Dittomancers would stare at him blankly when he described it, though they too practiced forms of Stuffamancy." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"He could feel the ground feeling him, pulling him down, pushing up on the soles of his feet as he lifted each leg to walk. In the soil below, rocks sat immersed in the cold mud. Their whole surface touched it, in all dimensions at once. Sizemore could feel this contact as if the pebbles were his own toes and fingers" 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"Sizemore's mind slid away, down below his feet, to his other self. The strata, the stresses, the peace of land at rest, he understood them that way: as if they were parts of his own body. The ground could be comfortable and sedate, like a tired person feels when lying on onsic a soft mattress. Or it could be awkward, unsustainable, like a man trying to lean on a jagged stump, or sleep upside down on a stone staircase. The land in the Magic Kingdom was deeply, permanently at rest." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"This body analogy described something he had always intuited about the land. But only since his link with the Lady Firebaugh did he think of it consciously. His entire mental frame for visualizing his discipline had been reworked on that day. A hundred turns later, he was still reconsidering the fundamentals of his craft. [...] Between the volcano link-up and his three recent levels (two from traps and combat, one from all of the city rebuilding), Sizemore was now a greater Dirtamancer than he ever imagined he could become. He had not actually crossed the threshold to Master class, but that could happen any time a caster gained powerful new insight into his discipline or major class. The body analogy wasn't quite enough to push him past that mark; he was still missing something. But for the first time in his life, he felt pretty sure that he would get there." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"It felt strange and dirty, tingling with a magic she had barely even thought about." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the magical feel of a Dirtamancy scroll, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"The tower rose indeed, far higher into the sky than it had stood before. Stone blocks and tiles sprang from nothing, widening the platform upon which they stood." 
:::''Narration, on a Dirtamancy scroll modifying a tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"When she'd boosted the tower, a few such nice little changes in design, decor, and accouterments had crept in from her mind's eye." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

===Changemancy===
===Dittomancy===
*"Yes, and a Dittomancer doubling leadership and specials... duplicating surviving units... I see." 
:::''Ansom, [[LIAB 4]]''

*"And double those arrows, Caster. 
:Double 'em? Double 'em! I'll quadruple 'em." 
:::''Jetstone Warlord & Lloyd, [[LIAB 8]]''

*'''For the duplication of an actual unit, see: ''[[LIAB 79]]'''''

*"Doubles don't leave a body." 
:::''Tramennis, [[LIAB 88]]''

*"When Jetstone's next turn starts, you will vanish." 
:::''Charlie, to the Slately-ditto, [[LIAB 89]]''

==Eyemancy==
*"This [[eyebook|item]] works on "Eyemancy." Which covers "Lookamancy", "Thinkamancy", and "Foolamancy." And it uses all three of those." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 35]]''

*"The Eyemancers may be our single most valuable asset, above even the Arkenhammer. Ordering them linked was... the shrewdest thing I've ever known Stanley to do. They created the Eyebooks. They give us unmatched communications and intelliegence. When Stanley sees you have tampered with their functioning..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 47]]''

*"Spells are trickier. Most can't be cast unless there are enemy units in the same hex/city, but some like Lookamancy and Thinkagrams can be cast anytime." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on off-turn actions, [[LIAB 33a]]''

===Lookamancy===
*"Well, yes! I mean for a unit that is... that is moving, time passes normally, but not relative to units in other hexes. A Lookamancer tracking the movement of that unit may see it move much faster in their time. The time in their hex." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[First Intermission 29]]''

*"What the enemy brings you, you usually don't know until they're on you. But here, we've got the count. We know just what we're facing. It's like having a Lookamancer for once." 
:::''Pom Fritz, on having a roster of units in the area, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

===Thinkamancy===
*"Not entirely unwitting. Nor entirely controlled. It's... complex." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 41]]''

*"We control her, though. So just make her write the message. Right? The control is subtle, Warlord. Suggestions, perceptions, emotions... not commands." 
:::''Parson & Wanda, [[TBFGK 41]]''

*"What is this link up? 
:: *sigh* It's a trick that only Thinkamancers can perform. A caster's will is subsumed into a... kind of psychological alloy with the Thinkamancer. The joint mind they form can cast spells no single caster can even comprehend. 
:The downside being that the casters lose their will... 
::Their sanity... their individuality... It's a risky and fragile spell, especially with three. Four can't even be done. Talking to them as individuals can break that spell, Parson. That may croak the casters. Or leave them useless. Or, have no effect." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 54]]''

*"These kinds of spells rely on the subject. Suggestions can make her inclined to do things... such as lead recklessly, disobey orders. She provides her own reasons for these choices. 
::Which she is doing! 
:Yes. But those are things she is inclined to do anyway." 
:::''Sizemore & Wanda, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"Suggestions like 'turn sides' or 'ignore enemy forces' may be too hard for her to rationalize, and cause her to break the spell." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"There are things she will not do. 
::Okay, but... like ''what?'' 
: *sigh* She won't fight for someone she hates. Nor harm someone she loves." 
:::''Wanda & Parson, [[TBFGK 66]]''

*"The spell ''compells'' [''sic''] you to seek a reason." 
:::''Jaclyn, [[TBFGK 67]]''

*"But when such a spell breaks, there is a kind of backlash. A cord which snaps. A good Thinkamancer can protect herself from damage. Had I been the caster, the object of the spell would have borne the brunt of it. This would likely have croaked the unit or left it incapacitated." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 84]]''

*"Incredibly useful, incredibly scary magic. We got into spells, communications, suggestions... and then she mentions "Natural Thinkamancy." Innate magic. Like how some units fly and some dig... that's "Natural Magic." When scouting units send back intel, that's Natural Thinkamancy. But apparently so is following the Tool's orders. All units are subject to Natural Thinkamancies: Obedience, Loyalty, Duty, and others." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 84a]]''

*"The Arkendish affords him a command of Thinkamancy I cannot match." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 88]]''

*"There is a feeling. You may no longer notice it. But think of the first spell you ever cast. When you cast within your disclipline, there is a sense of warmth, comfort, familiarity. I want you to relax, and recall that feeling. Find the feel of your discipline, and step inside it. Lose yourself to it. Become your function." 
:::''Maggie, on forming a link-up, [[TBFGK 135]]''

*"All right, I'll need a master-class Thinkamancer to unravel this link. More than one, preferably." 
:::''Janis Atlantis, on breaking a link-up, [[TBFGK 140]]''

*"[The veil] worked because Bogroll already resembled you in most important aspects. Thinkamancy works similarly, on the mind to which it is applied. The changes it makes are remarkably small and subtle. It cannot turn a dullard into a genius, or a mouse into a maniac. 
::Or a hamster into a pit bull... Right, so if I thought of this. If I did this... 
:Then some very great part of you wanted to. The spell only nudged it forward."
:::''Maggie & Parson, [[TBFGK 148]]''

*"It's utterly fascinating, casting from a link. I just... understand the spell so clearly." According to Maggie, a two-caster linkup was a less risky and drastic thing than three, especially when done voluntarily. In it, the Thinkamancer's function was something like "cognitive copilot," managing the other caster's mental functions, focusing his attention and boosting his energy to achieve better results than the caster could alone. And it had worked. Their side got a better capital out of it than if Sizemore had upgraded the city by himself. The link was easily broken afterward, and neither of them seemed to suffer any harm." 
:::''Sizemore & Maggie, on linking, [[First Intermission 26]]''

*"And it was very little risk. In our earlier link, we discovered a strong rapport. Such mutual trust can make the process a great deal easier." 
:::''Maggie, on linking, [[First Intermission 26]]''

*"Speaking or shouting the command will work, Lord," said Maggie, lurching a bit as she rounded the remains of the picnic and walked up beside him. Though he was not completely steady himself, he offered his right elbow and she grabbed it gratefully. "Not be- because they understand Language, but because it hhhelps you frame the intent in your mind. You see. Experienced-" she swallowed hard, or possibly hiccupped. "Excuse me. Experienced commanders can command stacks with few or no words. When you understand your command, the unit will. Yet another fo-horm of natural Thinkamancy, Lord." 
:::''Maggie, [[First Intermission 32]]''

*"Jack, do you remember what you did... to project the battle table... when you were linked up? 
:I remember doing it, Lord. But I don't remember how. If that makes sense." 
:::''Parson & Jack, [[First Intermission 38]]

*"As she soared over the rushes, she felt the tickle of an incoming Thinkagram." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 41]]''

*"'''What did the Arkendish do?''' Many things, most of them connected to Thinkamancy. Charlie could handle an unlimited number of Thinkagrams, and extend some of his abilities to his personal Archons in the tower. Any commander in the world could get those Archons' attention by concentrating hard enough, for long enough. This could take hours or even days, but Charlescomm would establish contact eventually. This allowed him to hire out to any side or barbarian in the world, and probably provided him more revenue than mercenary work. He was the telecom giant of Erfworld. This was the main thing he used the Arkendish for, but guessing its other powers was a favorite topic for the Archons." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[First Intermission 46]]''

*"Natural Allies know the will of their tribe’s Chief or Chiefs by Natural Thinkamancy, even from other hexes." 
:::''Vurp, [[LIAB Text 4]]''

*"Doombats typically had a range of twenty hexes or so for scouting, but a Thinkamancer extended that range indefinitely." 
:::''Don King, [[LIAB Text 5]]''

*"For the juice cost of a Thinkagram, Bunny could link him to one of their views, just like he was in the area himself." 
:::''Don King, on Doombats, [[LIAB Text 5]]''

*"Among these were over eight thousand speaking units, any one of whom could request Maggie's attention via intense concentration. Similarly, she could reach out to these units herself, to relay orders or request status." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"Some (mercifully subconscious) part of Maggie's mind was always sorting and prioritizing the incoming and outgoing messages, making little decisions which added up to bigger ones. That was at the quietest of times. Before and during a major battle, it was more than she could fully process, more than she had the juice for. However structured and competent her mind might be, she was still only an Adept class Thinkamancer. Even a Mastermind would be taxed under these conditions." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"She spent a tiny bit of juice to confirm the existence and status of the major units there, but did not open a Thinkagram." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"Jillian thought maybe the Thinkagram connection was broken, but she hadn't felt the usual little pop." 
:::''Jillian, [[LIAB Text 17]]''

*"So, what? You can just mind-control your Ruler whenever he makes a decision you don't like? 
: No. Only when I am certain he is wrong. And, in fact, it involves great personal risk..." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[LIAB 33]]''

*"Bunny, when the battle starts I want you to send that bat's view to everybody in here." 
:::''King Don, [[LIAB 34]]''

*"Little lanterns in Maggie's mind kept blowing out, in ones, twos and threes. The dwagon units, being harvested. And some of the riders, impacting the ground and ceasing to exist (at least, as Gobwin Knob units she had to manage)." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Everyone else imagined Thinkamancy as a set of discrete capabilities: "relay a command" or "plant a suggestion" or "send a two-way visual/audible Thinkagram." They were meant to think of it that way. So long as that was the perception of the discipline, then its fundamental powers could stay largely unknown, untapped, and uncalled-upon." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Thinkamancers were aware of certain magical truths for which, quite intentionally, there were no words in Language." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"For example, a Thinkagram was not one type of spell. There was a spectrum, from which a Thinkamancer would choose one or more bands to communicate within. To someone without a sensitivity to this spectrum, it would be impossible to describe the advantages and capabilities of each, but many of those capabilities went entirely unused, except by Thinkamancers themselves. A warlord would only call for one of a short list of communiques: speech, orders, pictures and sounds. But he would not, for example, ask to communicate and compare his own intuition with that of an allied commander in the field. " 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Thinkamancers understood intuition to be a form of natural Predictamancy, in which a unit can dimly perceive its Fate on a subconscious level. To a Thinkamancer, intuition was as communicable as speech or emotion or the underlying intentions of orders. It could be sent and received, combined and multiplied, and manipulated." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"There were many other such hidden mechanics. There were mental senses which could not even be described to a non-Thinkamancer. The most important of these was the ability to sense Grandiocosmic Strings, the conduits of all magic power in Erfworld." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Only Thinkamancers even knew they existed. A Thinkamancer could feel out the G-Strings of the world, and vibrate upon them by plucking. That was how a Thinkagram was sent, and so much else. Each unit had its own individual G-String, which had many uses." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"This was what Maggie had been doing for several minutes. Putting little notches in her G-String. It was a coded message, passive, and costing no juice. Any Thinkamancer who plucked her would find this note in her G-String. " 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"He found himself staring up at the springmount, wondering if he should get up and tune it again. This one was modeled on a gwiffon, made of Thinkamancy-polarized Stuff and imprinted with Signamancy in bright yellow. It was centered on a single strong coil of steel anchored deeply into the ground. The mount shape was neither fanciful nor accidental. One used this instrument as a surrogate mount, climbing upon it and building up a physical oscillation of the proper frequency to detect and study the Thinkamancy of orders. The intent of a commander in issuing an order to a non-speaking unit, or of a Ruler in issuing an order to a remote field unit, was one of the most interesting forms of natural Thinkamancy, Isaac felt." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"G-strings vibrated on different frequencies, and would cancel or amplify each other across predictable distances. Before Isaac had built these devices, a Thinkamancer had to walk around until his head was in a place of amplification, then hold still." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"But staying within one node deprived the observer of important perspective, much in the way that closing one eye caused a loss of depth perception, or covering an ear made it hard to tell the direction of a sound. It had already been known that two linked Thinkamancers standing in different nodes could detect and send far better than any one caster. Isaac had figured out that one caster switching rapidly between nodes had a similar effect." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"He stood up, glancing up the hill to the great Temple. It was also made of polarized Stuff, designed long ago (and modified more recently) as a refuge. Cosmic vibrations couldn't penetrate it." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"At the top and bottom of the smooth inclined plane were nodes of intuition. One did not get more than a quick glimpse between the two, but that usually would suffice. If not, one could always climb the ladder again. This apparatus had a personal effect on the operator, giving him a glance at his own Fate and perhaps a vague insight or focus or warning." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"A tickle upon his brain, then Bunny, Transylvito's spooky Thinkamancer, "Your Royal Highness King Slately of Jetstone, His Royal Highness Don King of Transylvito." The words were only in his mind; she never spoke aloud. Don's image floated before him, seated as Slately was." 
:::''Slately, being contatced by Thinkamancy, [[LIAB Text 42]]''

*"Rulers have a natural Thinkamancy which allows them to relay orders to their field units, even without a Thinkamancer. He had an[sic] feel for what was going on with his forces, even sitting there in a chair in his capital's garrison's larder." 
:::''Stanley, [[LIAB Text 44]]''

*"In the empty side room, he sat holding his crown in his lap, pauper-like, while time ticked away and his units perished in the dungeons below. He saw their lights in his mind, being extinguished in twos and threes. No-one was leveling. It was clearly an awful rout." 
:::''Slately, demonstrating a Ruler's natural Thinkamancy, [[LIAB Text 48]]''

*"Maggie," Stanley said to the air. It was a form of order only a Thinkamancer could follow. "Maggie!" 
:::''Stanley, contacting a distant Thinkamancer, [[LIAB Text 49]]''

*"There's way too many ways a Thinkamancer can incapacitate me." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on rushing a stack of Thinkamancers, [[LIAB 67]]''

*"For discretion, Chief Parson. You can break contact at any time." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB 84]]''

*"I will thank you not to... put my Chief Warlord into thinkspace without... my mind on the call!" 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB 84]]''

*"Maggie, what are you doing? Why are you running in place? I apologize, Lord. I can't spare the attention to alter my... appearance at the moment. I am... physically moving toward your position." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[LIAB 85]]''

*"The numbers rose as a column, into the millions and billions and more, a silver thread stretching up and away from the peace below. This thread was being drawn up by the system of the world. Thinkamancers knew it as a "Grandiocosmic string." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"Delphie’s last sentence had been delivered in a perfectly friendly and casual tone, but it carried the natural Thinkamancy weight of a direct order." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 2]]''

*"The Thinkamancy inherent in giving them commands would have to be so specific to the throat and mouth muscles..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on making uncroaked sing, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"All at once, completely new senses opened up in her head and she was flooded with information. She could see the distant lights of minds, know the numbers and locations and points of units." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on being promoted to Overlord, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"Delphie was there in the tower, wounded." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on knowing the status of a distant unit, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"In Wanda's head, Delphie's light went out as well. Gone." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on using Ruler (instead of Croakamancer) senses to detect the death of a unit, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"Even as she struggled to comprehend, this brand new part of her mind calmly told her the score. The Garrison had seven Goodminton units left. Four." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on knowing the number of units in her City, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

===Foolamancy===
*"Waitwaitwait. Time out. We can ''veil'' our troops?" 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 61]]''

*"There is ''absolutely'' no way to pull this 'veiling' thing, right? 
::No, you need a Foolamancer in– 
:... in the stack you're veiling, right. 
::Yes, and– 
:''And'' we can't do it with the Eyemancers linked up. ''And'' we can't cast on the enemy's turn." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"We got eleven pairs of warlord eyes here, and he's got thirty or so units. So there's like 300 chances to blow the veil, if he's got one." 
:::''Vinny Doombats, [[TBFGK 107]]''

*" Lord, recall the Foolamancy veil I cast on your lackey. That would not have worked on a gobwin. It worked because Bogroll already resembled you in most important aspects." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 148]]''

*"Above the fountain of sparks there appeared a huge, glowing apparition of Stanley the Tool's face, surrounded by bright rays of red and gold, just as he appeared on his new emblem. But these rays were like arrows pulsing outward, outward... go that way, scatter! Whether the archons took the direction literally or not, they knew the big giant head projection was beyond any of their natural Foolamancy abilities, and it certainly had not been part of the rehearsal." 
:::''The narrator, [[First Intermission 7]]''

*"You must conserve your remaining juice. What can you do cheaply? A simple displacement? 
:If we use a flash to cover the casting, it ought to do." 
:::''Wanda & Jack, [[LIAB 6]]''

*"Form a flash mob over the bridge. 
::[...] 
:You are free to cast. The enemy can see nothing else in this hex." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[LIAB 6]]''

*"But [Charlie] had still gone to great risk to give her cover along the way, using veiled Archons to scout out safe routes. These were probably detectable only by a Foolamancer, another Archon, or a lucky/smart Warlord." 
:::''Jillian, [[LIAB Text 6]]''

*"Foolamancy is Eyemancy. By habit and trade, a Foolamancer must look. At all times, the Foolamancer must observe the nouns around him in finest detail and broadest stroke, in a way that other minds do not. Other minds take shortcuts. Other minds construct, telling themselves ''stories'' about what they see, rather than seeing. Foolamancy is therefore only a narrative. To tell a mind it sees something, the Foolamancer must both see the world as it is, and also as it is seen. Staring into the void of that discrepancy is what drives one mad, really." 
:::''Jack, [[LIAB Text 10]]''

*"Hilary and her partner Avril took up a risky blind, directly over the heads of Prince Sammy's leadership stack. They kept the rising sun at their backs, relative to the warlords, and spent most of their juice to shine out their shadows. It was tricky, but worth it." 
:::''Narration, [[LIAB Text 18]]''

*"Habitually, he sought out the lines and dots of the scenery, the little hooks that other minds used to build their idea of the world around them." 
:::''Jack, [[LIAB Text 21]]''

*"Phoebe was made of brick. She was covered in soot. Black and red and gray, matching the colors of her raiment. All in a column, matching her general body size and opacity. She was a chimney on a rooftop, one of many dozens. It was a really good veil. Maybe her best ever. Gold star! The enemy’s minds would not have to reconcile very much with their eyes, and that was the name of the game." 
:::''Phoebe, [[LIAB Text 56]]''

*"He was wearing a very good scouting veil; she was very lucky to have spotted him in the tree. But such items are fragile, and this one had been destroyed in the melee." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

==Hippiemancy==
*"Among other things, Hippiemancy is the magic of relationships: detecting and altering the forces of opposition and attraction which bind people or units." 
:::''Duncan Scone, [[LIAB Text 11]]''

*"But Hippiemancy is people magic, and Janis also had a heavy understanding about relationships." 
:::''Janis Atlantis, [[LIAB Text 37]]

===Flower Power===
*"But in the presence of so much Flower Power, time perception sort of ''crumbles''. The Hippiemancers call it– 'Flaking.' I know." 
:::''Sizemore & Wanda, [[TBFGK 11]]''

*"Even a Grand Abbie couldn't hope to quiet the coming battle." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 13]]''

*"What did you just do to him? Mm? Oh, just basic Flower Power. He can't engage this turn." 
:::''Parson, Janis & Sizemore, [[LIAB 65]]''

*"I think... I think they mainly keep units from being able to engage." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"The figure in the tower was employing the apparatus they all had assumed was a weapon, but in fact it was a stringed instrument. She plucked and strummed upon it, and even from so far away, they could hear it perfectly. The music took an otherworldly, magical route to their ears." 
:::''Narration, on a Florist quieting a Hex, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"Tommy's sword came down upon his target like a feather. He merely tapped the shoulder of the soldier with the flat of his blade, as if knighting him." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"As if in a dream, she could not swing it with any significant force. The staff moved as if she were trying to stir honey with it." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"The spell would be on the city through Haffaton's turn tomorrow, and could be cast again." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"So red. So angry. Your Life aura, Warlord. It's just awful. Can't you relax? You're in no danger here, I promise. 
::Wanda watched Tommy's face, what she could see of it. He seemed not to change his expression, and barely to relax his posture, but suddenly Olive brightened. 
:Yes! Better!" 
:::''Olive Branch, on seeing auras, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Apparently putting a hand inside the enemy's shirt was not a form of engagement that was prevented by Olive's spell. " 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 14]]''

*"As she walked down another empty hall, Wanda casually held out her staff and tipped a ceramic vase of dried orange flowers from its marble pedestal. The crash was painful to her wine-tenderized head, yet enormously satisfying. Really, even the pain of it was satisfying. So Olive's spellsong did not prevent this form of engagement, either." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 14]]''

*"With a perfunctory "Thanks," she upended the helmet and placed the plant's roots inside. She stepped a few feet away from the uncroaked and turned around to do something to the plant. Wanda could tell she was casting, but not what. [...] When Olive turned around, she held a perfectly healthy green plant in a steel planter." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"This unit has Motion, and that is something a Hippiemancer would know nothing of." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, disparaging a Florist, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"As with yesterday, her voice reached them from everywhere and nowhere, sweet and haunting." 
:::''Narration, on Olive quieting Kiloton, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"Wordlessly, Tommy drew his sword. He stepped out into the courtyard and swung it as hard as he could at a Haffaton soldier who was standing in the sunlight, chewing on a dried pear. The sword stopped in midair, an inch from the man's neck." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"When they finally drew apart, Tommy looked distant and distracted. [..] His voice was barely a loud whisper. [...] his voice low and strained. Wanda watched him closely. He was in deep distress. [...] Tommy looked as pained as Wanda had ever seen him, and he said nothing more until the group had spent the move of its slowest units. [...] Then he dismounted his brontosword, slid down its side, and collapsed into the snow." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being poisoned, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"A crit to the head would cause the muscles to seize at croaking. But one to the heart left the muscles starved out, relaxed and unable to contract. Tommy's were like that." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the effects of Olive's poison on Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"There were almost no functioning nerves in Tommy's heart. Or... his stomach, or most of the rest of his internal organs. He probably had not been in pain, but he must have known something was very wrong." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the effects of Olive's poison on Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She had never seen one before, and she did not understand how it worked, but this was certainly a poisoning. And poisons, both natural and magical, were Flower Power." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She'd also asked him to kiss her. So she did not initiate an engagement in the city." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on a workaround of quieting, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

===Signamancy===
*"The Signamancers claimed that all Stuff was Foolamancy. Our bodies and all the things we see and touch were supposed to only be Signs: symbols of their true nature. Vinny didn't know about all that, but a person's appearance was definitely a Sign. It told you how they think about themselves. And how others see them."
:::''Vinny Doombats, reflecting on what he's been told about Signamancy, [[First Intermission 37]]''

*"Signamancy was a terrible curse. The Titans knew his true nature. No unipegataur-riding warrior king was he, no towering leader and orator. Over the three-thousand or so turns he had ruled, he had only once seen battle, and that from a well-guarded turret. And so he had shrunk. Gone white and fat." 
:::''King Slately Jetsone, [[LIAB Text 33]]''

*"No signs stood to point the way, but the Signamancy of a caster's home portal was plainer than writing." 
:::''Narration, on the color of Portals in the Magic Kingdom, [[IPTSF Text 21]]''

===Date-a-mancy===
*"Date-a-mancy is the oddest branch of Hippiemancy, in that it follows the Numbers which underlie all action. Date-a-mancy tries to quantify the intangible, things like leadership and compatibility and morale and Loyalty and Duty and even love, by means of match-ups." 
:::''Duncan Scone, [[LIAB Text 11]]''

==Naughtymancy==
===Shockmancy===
*"Their Shockmancer was here, a couple turns back. Gone now. He spelled up that tower hard, Bunny. " 
:::''Caesar Borgata, [[First Intermission 47]]''

*"It's natural Shockmancy. When you fall, one of three things happens: you are injured (possibly only slightly), you are incapacitated (you croak in one turn if not given Healomancy), or you just croak. Height of the fall does seem to have some bearing on that, but it's essentially random." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33b]]''

*"She'd told Tommy about spelling up Minnow Tower, and he'd said it was smart thinking. But he never said what kind of effect the raw Shockmancy they were storing in the tower might have in battle." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on having Delphi & Clay juicing up the tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

===Croakamancy===
*"Uncroaked casters just function as infantry..." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 77a]]''

*"She explained it this way. 'Croakamancy comes from the mind.' The more time and attention the caster spends uncroaking the unit, the closer it will be to its original strength and abilities when it was alive. And the more turns it lasts before degrading. So a good croakamancer can mass-animate every fallen unit in a hex, or city zone. But they'll be the weakest kind, and only last a few turns." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 116]]''

*"These are Uncroaked. They require a simple, specific order of battle." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 123]]''

*"Uncroaked infantry, led by a master-class Croakamancer... can." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on dance-fighting, [[TBFGK 127]]''

*"I can decrypt many unit types which had been impossible to uncroak before." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on using the Arkenpliers, [[TBFGK 146]]''

*"From what I can tell, they're like the dwagons are with Stanley. They're loyal to the 'pliers, and therefore to Cruella herself. For all I know, she can see through their eyes and hear what they hear. But if not, they'll prob'ly just tell her anything interesting when they can." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on Decrypted, [[First Intermission 44]]''

*"And what Lady Firebaugh was doing with hers was causing real alarm. The theoretical consensus was that she was extending Croakamancy to the Life axis." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"A big one being, "we don't know if he'd still be able to cast or not." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on decrypting a caster, [[LIAB 11]]

*"Tool, we don't even know if they keep existing without her." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on the Decrypted and the possibility of losing Wanda, [[LIAB 22]]''

*"She could animate the husks of the once-living." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, right after popping, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"We can animate the casualties. Their units and ours, if we take the city!" 
:::''Overlord Firebaugh & Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"Bodies of croaked units decay the next turn. So we would need her on the battlefield." 
:::''Overlord Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"I would have a leadership bonus over uncroaked units, Lord." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"She had senses that she did not yet understand were unique to Croakamancers, and she used them on the fallen scout. His bones she could feel without touching him. She knew which ribs and teeth and vertebrae were broken." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"There would be some craft to this uncroaking, as not all of the original muscles and sinew could be counted on to perform their original functions. That was not a problem. That was what Croakamancy was for. Where a knee would no longer bend, where a bicep no longer existed to flex an arm, the Croakamancer made magical Motion to move the Matter." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"When she had removed all of his raiment, she still could see better with her natural Croakamancy sense than her eyes." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"The body of the scout would have depopped at dawn, had they not moved it out of the hex where it was croaked. Claimed as a spoil for Goodminton, it would only decay a bit when they started their turn later in the morning." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"This scene was a massacre: twenty-two enemy saps, an enemy warlord, and forty-three of their own infantry. She could feel them each, sense the skulls and the hearts and the spines." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"This is a warlord. If I uncroak him, he would benefit from all of my attention, and all of the juice I can spare. The more carefully I cast, the fewer mistakes I might make, and the more he will retain of the power he had in life. I believe I could make him last as long as ten or twelve turns, and retain about half his levels and leadership." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"What are our other choices? 
::I could concentrate on uncroaking more than one unit, diluting the effects, but giving us more units. Or I could attempt to mass uncroak every unit in the hex. 
:You could do that? 
::Tommy... I-I don’t know. I feel it might be too much for me. A disaster. I could become overwhelmed. Maybe we wouldn’t get any units at all out of it. But if I succeeded, then the uncroaked units I create probably would not last more than a turn. Even the warlord." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"She silently ordered the line of uncroaked to bow in unison, which prompted more cheers and laughter." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 10]]''

*"Blood flowed to her face, a mechanism she understood down to the tissues and sinus cavities within her head, for Croakamancy was a beautiful art. She felt her eyelids getting hot, ducts and vessels dilating. She was just a speck of Matter, herself, after all." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 10]]''

*"Wanda waved her staff vaguely in the direction of one of the uncroaked knights in their stack. He tilted his head a bit and grinned happily, showing his remaining teeth around proudly." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Wanda made her Fellow fold his hands together and flex his arms like a champion, grinning obscenely at everyone." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Life magic, Wanda. Croakamancers don't use it." 
:::''Olive Branch, disparaging a Croakamancer, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"Make sure all the Fellows are in the Courtyard, except the ones me and you are stacking with. Wanda nodded, and mentally sent the order as she took another deep swig of chocolate. "Done." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"But before she could even get her boots out of the stirrups, her senses as a Croakamancer told her she would find his lifeless body upon the ground." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"The first thing to determine in uncroaking a body is what took its life, because that was where the most repair and attention would likely be needed. Attention was the key. A simple or a mass uncroaking took no more attention than lighting a candle, with the Matter of the body representing the candle wax. The body would move as it could, and take simple orders until its fuel was exhausted a few turns later." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"But the craft of the Croakamancer was to understand the body's condition, its functions, its strengths and weaknesses." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"The Croakamancer could conserve the fuel of the body by focusing her juice upon the mechanisms of its movement, repairing and augmenting them with magic. An expertly uncroaked unit could function almost as well as it had when alive, and last for perhaps dozens of turns." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"If this body had no wounds, then what croaked it? Sensing her way through the architecture of his insides, she could not immediately say. Something about the muscles was familiar, though. She had uncroaked the victims of critical hits before. A crit to the head would cause the muscles to seize at croaking. But one to the heart left the muscles starved out, relaxed and unable to contract." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"So she focused on his heart. She tried to make it beat once, and knew something was wrong. One tells a muscle to move by means of the nerves, and reconnecting nerves by magic was one of the trickier parts of an attentive uncroaking." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She had never made one so beautifully preserved. The bloating in his face faded, as some slow circulation of the blood was possible in this one. She was overjoyed at the results. Almost everything a living unit could do, this one could..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on uncroaking her brother, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Then she thought out an order, and Un-Tommy disengaged from his melee." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Re-attaching the head during the uncroaking process had been an interesting new challenge." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Even through blinding blasts, Wanda's Croakamancy senses let her know that the first enemy casualties had been struck and were falling. She sensed broken skulls and wings and burst organs inside the bodies that spiraled down through the air toward the courtyard below." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on detecting the dead, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"And the Fellows...they're really quite weak without leadership." 
:::''Pom Fritz, on uncroaked units, [[IPTSF Text 25]]''

*"Wanda could feel the consumption of Matter there in the fireplace, too, if she chose to. " 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on burning logs, [[IPTSF Text 25]]''

*"As they marched on, she hoped for an ambush, or any enemy encounter, so that she might spend her juice this turn making fresh units instead of hopelessly re-patching these. It was better than wasting the juice entirely, but there was only so much she could do. These bodies were decaying inexorably to dust, and only the Titans could prevent that." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on extending the duration of uncroaked, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"From what she understood of her discipline, it ought to be possible to make them sing, if she were a master of Croakamancy. Singing was part of the Stagemancy involved in dance fighting. So how would that work, she wondered? The Thinkamancy inherent in giving them commands would have to be so specific to the throat and mouth muscles... maybe if she sang the order to them? Or thought of singing it? Hmm..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"If you're croaked, and that is no joke, you pass the yoke of Chief to a bloke named Fritz... '''Pooda onga riiish!'''" 
:::''Wanda & Tommy, demonstrating uncroaked theater, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

===Retconjuration===
*'''This is a theoretical branch of magic, like an undiscovered element on the periodical table.
*'''No ordinary caster can practice it; there are no Retconjurers in Erfworld.
*'''It is reserved for the Titans.'''
:::''Titan Rob, Word of the Titans 8/19/2009

*"Hey, maybe she's a Retconjuror. Oh do not even joke about that. There is no such thing." 
:::''Tommy & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 11]]''

==Stagemancy==
*"Singing was part of the Stagemancy involved in dance fighting." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

===Hat Magic===
*"Is it dual use? Abjuration only. Report any engagements and observations at the end of your move." 
:::''Jillian & Ansom, [[TBFGK 9]]''

*"The sun was setting, as a tired woman with raw red eyes waved a wand over an upturned silk hat, and saw the letter inside vanish." 
:::''Queen Bea, [[First Intermission 43]]''

*"You know, I can do some small object conjuration for you. You just have to tell me what you need." 
:::''Cubbins, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"He dropped it into the crown and waved his scepter over it three times. "Pinochet," he intoned. The coin was made to disappear." 
:::''Slately, sending a coin to King Don, [[LIAB Text 42]]''

*"Sire, I can help too. Hand me your crown." 
:::''Cubbins, prior to modifying something into a Magic Item, [[LIAB 69]]''

*"One of the units in the group, for example, was a snow golem. It was a terribly crude thing, made of only three large balls of snow she had rolled up, with sticks for arms and small black rocks for features. It moved lurchingly forward and was almost useless as a unit. But as abominable as it was, she was quite proud of her first attempt at hat magic." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, demonstrating unit creation, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"The snow golem she ordered to stand sentry at the base of Minnow Tower. Then she took the silk top hat from its head, reducing it to a mere ornament." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"It stayed right in place via the natural Dollamancy (or was it natural Hat Magic?) of just belonging there." 
:::''Narration, on Wanda's jaunty hat, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

===Carnymancy===
*"Carnymancy. It's... the magic of rigging the game. Here! That's a crude slander on our noble discipline, sir. Oh, truly you do wound me. But yes." 
:::''Parson & Jojo, [[LIAB 63]]''

*"But we had this Carnymancer who really liked me. He saved me from croaking by rigging the incapacitation rules on me. They hauled me back to the capital in a wagon, and he cast over me every day for ten turns, just keeping me alive. 
::Until they got you a Healomancer?" 
:Pff, no. Queen Bea was mad enough at all the fuss over a Level 1 stabber. No, one day I just popped up off the bed, good as new. The Carnymancer said he'd 'made a trade' for me." 
:::''Sylvia & Archer, [[LIAB 86]]''

*"Then what can we do? Our specialties, of course. Stirring up trouble, roping a dope. You dodgers work the crowd. Get 'em in a real lather. Maybe they'll shoot him." 
:::''Unnamed Carnymancer & Jojo, [[LIAB 90]]''

===Rhyme-o-mancy===
*"A poetic incantation could settle the mind, focus any caster on their work." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Even warlords could use Rhymes in leadership, for morale and focus, and in dance fighting." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Those bawdy trail songs of Tommy's were crude, but effective on the units under his command. Her singing along with the knights had likely helped her spot that scout on her first day." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Songs and poems held great and mysterious power." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"But to use Rhyme-o-mancy in casting, it must be quick and clever, and it must rhyme. If she flubbed the rhyme, the spell would weaken or fail completely." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"The attention of an entire day was collapsed into those few seconds." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

==Clevermancy==
*"Clevermancy should have no Xs. It's raw magic dealing with raw magical forces." 
:::''Titan Rob, Word of the Titans 2315787''

===Luckamancy===
*"Delphie tells you what to cast, doesn’t she? What battles to affect. What units to...what, bless? 
::Yeah. I just say ‘boost.’” 
:And you can alter the outcome of a battle, by casting ahead of time. You boost up a unit’s luck by a lot, or a whole side’s luck by a little? 
::Yeah, kind of. Or jinx the enemy. Battles are hard, though. Sides are harder. Units are pretty easy. I boost our warlords all the time." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"I boosted his roll to a 4! I changed his odds, chose a way to describe the outcome of his choices. You see?” He picked up the dice and showed them to her. “The dice are not the guy, okay? In this case the guy is imaginary, and the dice are representing him. But this is real life,” he said, making a circle in the air with his index finger, “and you are not the dice. Okay? In real life, you are real, but the dice are imaginary. The dice that describe your choices. Mathamancy describes those, and Luckamancy affects those." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Now here's an important thing, though. Where did those 4s come from? 
::From you. You cast upon the die. 
:So you're saying my juice had a physical effect on the way the die rolled. 
::Yes. 
:Yes and no. It's not a direct effect, you see? The 4 is a Number. It had to come from somewhere. 
::The juice in your spell did not create the outcome, you are saying. Your spell did not create the 4. It...what?" What was the alternative? "Enabled it, somehow? 
: Honestly?That's the nice way to say it. Whatt'm saying is that maybe that die would have come up 4s three times anyway. So maybe my spell did nothing at all, at least so far. That's why I say it'll roll high 'for a little while.' I don't know." 
:::''Clay & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"But here's what I do know. And maybe it's kind of a secret of my discipline but I think it's important, and I wanna tell you. Luckamancy doesn't create good outcomes, because that would undermine Mathamancy and Predictamancy. Mathamancy deals with real Numbers. If Luckamancy could just create Numbers out of juice, out of thin air, then every odds calculation would be off. Y'see? So what Luckamancy actually does is steal Numbers from the world." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"Where do you steal the Numbers from? Well, the world. If you rolled all the D4s in the world a bunch of times, that one included, you'd get an even mix of ones, twos, threes and fours. This little guy stole his roll from somewhere, and I think the world is lazy, you know? I don't think it goes very far to steal good outcomes when I boost one of our warlords, you know?" 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"Would it steal from our enemies? If only. That's the one thing it really doesn't do. In fact we sometimes see the opposite. The enemy rolls better than they should or... or we roll worse." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"What, it steals Numbers from us?! Not all the time! I mean, it depends. The net effect is still good for us, because we're picking the right battles to win. But yeah it can be really hard on the rest of our side, sometimes. Especially unled and unboosted units. We...lose more of those kind of battles than we should." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"A Luckamancy boost could have any number of specific effects on a unit's "dice." Defensively, it could affect their chance to be hit, the damage they would take from hits, their chance of receiving a critical hit, their chance of being incapacitated or croaked from a fall, et cetera. Or it could affect the enemy's outcomes: their defenses." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Frenemy units fell by twos and threes, the victims of outrageously high damage outcomes and critical hit rates." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of Luckamancy on battle, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"You know how when a unit falls, it can croak, or be incapacitated, or just be plain wounded and lose some hits? 
::Yes? 
:Well, that's Luckamancy, too. And I'm thinking f'we get into another airspace fight we can first cast against the enemy to make 'em more likely to croak in a fall. Then we can go for dismounting attacks. And there's not a lot of, um, downside to that. Less backlash from borrowing Numbers, right? Because we don't use air mounts. We do a lot less falling. See?" 
:::''Clay & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 22]]''

===Healomancy===
*"It contained a healing elixir of his own devising, the recipe of which varied, but usually consisted of "two gin rations, stirred with a Wand of Cure Incapacitation." 
:::''Pierce, mentioning a type of wand, [[LIAB Text 41]]''

===Moneymancy===
*"It had been as ridiculous as everything else in Erfworld, rebuilding the city. The Overlord ordered it, the treasury was debited, and the city was instantly recreated. It was only Moneymancy. When it happened, Parson was standing in the ruins of the courtyard. There was a sound like a wind chime, with a whoosh of orchestral cymbals. Enormous, blinding magical sparkles filled the sky and the ground. And then the city was simply standing again, fully intact. There was no more rubble, not even a wisp of settling dust." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[First Intermission 1]]''

=Axes=
*"Its numbers were being shaped and guided by the firmament, by what magic theorists called the Erf Axis. For when the price was paid, it was Erfworld which processed the transaction. The world would produce the unit that was called for...more or less. There was the matter of the Fate Axis as well, and this unit was turning out to be very special." 
:::''Narration, on popping a unit, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

==Erf==

==Fate==
*"Fate is inevitable, Warlord. But our ''path'' to it is not. We must first divine, and then ''enact'' our destinies. To live is to suffer. Our Fate is our only release. So if we fight against Fate, or fail to act in support of it when the way is clear, then we only worsen and prolong our misery. Our choices do matter. Wise choices ease the way, and foolish ones cause suffering." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[LIAB 70]]''

==Numbers==
*"Life is all Numbers. Ask any Mathamancer; they know." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"To live is to stand on one side of an equation, which must equal zero in the end. There is a price, a cost in Numbers, to be paid for staying alive. Zero is a balance, an equilibrium. Zero is a flat country, neither far away nor near. You can travel there any time, at the cost of your life. And perhaps, if someone were to pay the price to the exact number, you could even return again. That Mathamancers often say such things, and nod to one another soberly, is thought to be why they tend to keep to their own company." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"Few casters doubted what was said of the Numbers Axis, but even fewer understood. Not consciously, anyway." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"This unit would be worth far more than the buyer had paid for. That was no violation of Numbers, though. It simply meant that this unit carried a balance due. And though it was an astronomically high figure, someone would pay. Zero always called, and someone would have to pay." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

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[[Category:Quotes]]

Quotes: Magic

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No one in particular: /* Croakamancy */

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Quoted statements about the various forms and branches of magic.

''Next quote to be pulled from'': [[IPTSF Text 26]]

note to self: Pull quotes from [[TBFGK 38a]] later; basics of magic, classes &c.

=General=
*"He told me that Casters are Commanders, and can lead stacks, but they almost never do. Casters are too rare and valuable to risk, and they give no leadership bonus to the stack anyway. Only Warlords have leadership. Makes sense. Except for certain exceptions. Like, say... the bonus those golems get if they're led by a Dirtamancer. Or the huge one to Uncroaked units being led by a Croakamancer(!)." 
:::''Parson's Klog, [[TBFGK 84a]]''

*"Casters can also spend juice, doing most things casters do: make scrolls, items, golems, uncroak, turn Schmuckers to gems (or vice versa but that doesn't cost juice), upgrade units, etc." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on off-turn actions, [[LIAB 33a]]''

*"Okay, you said you can cast in the Magic Kingdom, right? 
:Yes..." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[LIAB 45]]''

*"Ahead and below, the target threw some Shockmancy bolts up at them. The defense was automatic. Not only were there no casters there to direct the stored spells, but there were apparently no commanders of any kind in the city." 
:::''Jillian, on tower defenses, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

*"Wanda said she thought it was a whole mess of different magicks, what'd she say... Shockmancy, obviously. Rhyme-o-mancy because it rocked out. Carnymancy because it made big flashes and sometimes could make things disappear (he never could do it on purpose, though). And what else? Changemancy? He looked at the hammer closely. There might be a lot more he could do with it besides taming dwagons, which was... Date-o-mancy, he guessed?" 
:::''Stanley, on the Arkenhammer, [[LIAB Text 44]]''

*"He had not actually crossed the threshold to Master class, but that could happen any time a caster gained powerful new insight into his discipline or major class." 
:::''Sizemore, on Class vs Level, [[LIAB Text 45]''

*"The Arkendish's feel was all over that Turnamancy spell." 
:::''Rachel, on the feel of a spell, [[LIAB Text 53]]''

*"N'they're like archers; they'd be able to take shots at me any time." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on caster attacks, [[LIAB 71]]

*"Each discipline of magic has its own special insight into cosmic truths." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"A ball of juice formed between her outstretched fingers. The hoboken is the basic offensive spell known to almost all casters at the time they pop." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"Wanda snorted, but then had to admit casters can't actually see one another's discipline." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 11]]''

*"It was not offensive; she could cast it before Goodminton broke alliance." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on a Dirtamancy scroll that modified the tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"It had been as effective as her effort at Rhyme-o-mancy, but it left her no better understanding of what she had cast." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on casting outside her discipline, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Delphie immediately leveled up to 5, and her spells became that much more potent." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

=Elements=
*"Here was a complicated bit of Matter. Once it had possessed Life and Motion, but those had been taken away from it. And though only the Titans could restore Life to it, she could give it Motion again, once she had the juice." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the body of a croaked scout, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"The three Elements were created equal. Are you a Titan, to say otherwise?" 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Life==
*"Life magic, Wanda. Croakamancers don't use it." 
:::''Olive Branch, disparaging a Croakamancer, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Motion==
*"This unit has Motion, and that is something a Hippiemancer would know nothing of." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, disparaging a Florist, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

==Matter==

=Classes=
==Hocus Pocus==
===Findamancy===
===Predictamancy===
*"Marie, of course, had told her many times that she had Predicted the fall of her side, the kingdom where she and Wanda had served. But when it came to explaining how the fall had happened, how she and Wanda both had escaped destruction in different ways, she wouldn't budge. 
:'It all got cloudy,' was all she would really say. 'It happens. I saw it would come and I wonned my Rulah. But when it came it all got cloudy, I don't know.' " 
:::''Janis & Marie, [[LIAB Text 37]]''

*"Thinkamancers understood intuition to be a form of natural Predictamancy, in which a unit can dimly perceive its Fate on a subconscious level." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Shouldn't you know? Oh I should, yes. But turns like this, they come up time to time and everything afta is cloudy. Something has to get decided today, Sizemore. Fate will go fowad from there." 
:::''Sizemore & Marie, on the clarity of Predictions, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"It’s a complicated subject, Wanda. Predictamancy... You know, dear? There are rules we don’t discuss. About...what we don’t discuss." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 3]]''

*"Wanda, the reason that Predictamancers do not say everything we know is not because it would change the future, but because it usually will make it longer and more painful to reach those future outcomes. The less you know about what is to come, about your Fate, then the easier it will be for you to get there, the less... you and others will have to suffer, to lose." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 9]]''

*"Delphie looked at her Overlord and squinted a bit, examining him. Wanda could sense that she was using a kind of magical sight like her own Croakamancy senses. She'd asked Delphie a raft of questions about Predictamancy in correspondence from the road, as they'd worked out this plan. She knew Delphie was now intuiting something about Father's near-term outcomes." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Somewhere in those notes in her satchel, there was a brief explanation of how Predictamancy worked in combat. It amounted to the caster using her juice to see things happen a second or two ahead, so that she could aim where the enemy would be, and to move where the enemy's return blows and arrows would not land." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Most importantly to this plan, a Predictamancer could know whether or not a shot or blow she was about to initiate would be a hit. If it wouldn't, then she simply did not take the shot." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Only one magic blast struck Fritz's shield. Delphie sidestepped the others as necessary, still casting in a kind of concentration trance." 
:::''Narration, on a Predictamancer in battle , [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Not everyone walking these halls has a purpose. I cannot make Predictions about every unit, or commander, or even every ruler." 
:::''Delphie Temple, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

*"It was the only way Goodminton could survive you. 
::You don't know that. You never Predicted that. 
:No. I can't. Fate doesn't care about us. That's the terror of it; we have no Fate. The world doesn't care if we live or not. Only about you." 
:::''Delphie & Wanda, on who has Fate, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

===Mathamancy===
*"Mathamancy is what, again? Analyzing probabilities... predicting outcomes? Yes, and the raw calculations of that work." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 54]]''

*"CharlsNChrg: Tell me the odds that learning what happened to my Archons right now will be worth giving up those calculations in the future. 
:LordHamster: ... 
:LordHamster: I don't know if this thing can even DO a calculation like that. Predicting the future? 
:CharlsNChrg: Try it. 
:LordHamster: Fine. 
:LordHamster: I'll be damned. 
:LordHamster: It says there's all of a 4% chance it's worth taking my deal, even after spending this calculation. 
::[...] 
:LordHamster: Teaching me that my bracer can make sophisticated predictions about the future? Priceless." 
:::''Charlie & Parson, [[First Intermission 39]]

*"The dice describe the world. They don’t determine it. A Mathamancer can tell you how many dice will be rolled, how many points’ll be lost when you’re wounded. He’ll tell you what’ll probably happen, and possibly happen, and what can’t happen." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Mathamancy deals with real Numbers." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

==Spookism==
===Turnamancy===
*"Having a Turnamancer reduced the production of an heir by twenty turns, and with funds coming in from Transylvito, Vanna was able to boost Otoh and Kibo's production drastically." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 49]]''

*"That level 6 Jitterati warlord, Duncan Scone, was now her best fighter. Vanna had done some good work to turn him, but the dungeon didn't much interest Jillian. Vanna didn't really know how to play right." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 49]]''

*"You okay? 
::Yes. That was just like, whoa. Intense. You know? 
:How's your juice? 
::Low. That spell cost two turns' worth, basically. 
:::''Jillian & Vanna, on KingWorld, [[LIAB 22]]''

*"Can't move to other hexes (because of zero move, exceptions possible using Turnamancy)." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33a]]''

*Next turn, when the Turnamancer had juice, she would be able to cast a mass spell that should convert half these prisoners to Faq units. The rest could be worked on in future turns." 
:::''Vanna, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

===Dollamancy===
*"Tell me about that. Where do changes of clothes come from?" [...] 
::"Well, it's Dollamancy, Lord," said Maggie, looking up at him. [...] "This particular 'outfit'... I would call it 'raiment'... came from the Magic Kingdom. The helm was made by one of our new Twolls. 
:"Yeah, how do Twolls do that? Bogroll made my armor, and he put the sword together. This new guy Zhopa just made me a picnic basket." [...] 
::"Twolls have the 'fabrication' special, which is a form of natural Dollamancy. Units with that ability can make small nonmagical items, usually armor and equipment. I understand that the next Twoll we pop will be assigned to the stables as a smith and saddlemaker." 
:Parson nodded. "But the rest of the clothes were from an actual Dollamancer?" 
::"Yes, his name is Ken." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"What about these symbols?" Parson slapped his chest plate. "My Hamstard crest and Wanda's skull emblem, and the Stanley posters. That's all Dollamancy, too?" "The emblems are called 'livery,' Lord. And yes, that is a common form of natural Dollamancy. New units pop bearing the livery their Ruler desires. Twolls can fabricate items which bear their master's livery. And when a caster creates another unit, as in golem-making or uncroaking, the caster sets the livery and other features of the unit's appearance." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"With a Dollamancer to heal the Cloth Golems and a Healomancer for the rest..." 
:::''Ossomer, [[LIAB 4]]''

*"There are different applications of Dollamancy. Lady Shortcake was fond of fashioning cloth golems. She was very imaginative. 
:Precious, puffy-looking animals. The hit of the parade. And when she wasn't doing that, she was always designing new raiment for the changing fashions at court!" 
:::''Cubbins & Ace, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Look, there's a lot you can do in Dollamancy. It's fabrication with a motion element, right? If we want." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Dollamancy is Fate magic, so I know something about that." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"Ace stroked his chin, contemplating the King's potential as a combatant. "Start with your weapon, I guess. May I?" Slately put the Royal Scepter of Jetstone in the hands of a non-Royal caster without a moment's hesitation. It was a mark of his seriousness of purpose. But he did cringe as Ace began to take it apart." 
:::''Ace & Slately, on repurposing existing items, [[LIAB Text 48]]''

*"I'm thinkin' just defense for these, Cubbins. 
::Yeah, me too. 
:I'm just doin' blasts. You cover the tricky-fooly stuff, okay?" 
:::''Ace & Cubbins, [[LIAB 69]]''

*"As he modded the Royal Scepter, it dawned on Ace that he had become accustomed to working in cloth — weaving and cutting and shaping it to another Dollamancer's specifications." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB Text 54]]''

*"Look, the cloth golems will be much stronger with my bonus." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB 93]]''

*"I don't have a lof of time, Cubs. But I can definitely... mff... add one feature to this puppy. Gonna call it "an autopilot." 
:::''Ace Hardware, [[LIAB 99]]''

*"Upon claiming it, she’d imposed Goodminton’s livery on it by natural Dollamancy, reluctantly changing the black to slate blue. But on a whim, she kept just one of the pink flowers, offset in a patch of white." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on clothing, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Olay," she said, casting the minor Dollamancy spell that Teddy had taught her. The wrinkles in each piece went smooth, as the garment was restored to its new-turn condition." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

*"The Dollamancer had modified her old riding gloves into long, chamois evening gloves with stealthy riding grips sewn into the palms. Her clunky boots he'd turned into shiny black thigh-highs topped with lace, but still reinforced in the feet and ankles for combat riding." 
:::''Narration, on a Dollamancer modifying existing clothes, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

*"It stayed right in place via the natural Dollamancy (or was it natural Hat Magic?) of just belonging there." 
:::''Narration, on Wanda's jaunty hat, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

===Weirdomancy===
*"Weirdomancers can cancel a flyer's special to make it fall (or make a non-flyer fly, then dispel it and cause a fall)." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33b]]''

*"[...] to hiring a Weirdomancer to try to make the Gumps grow radishes in their branches, [...]" 
:::''Narration, [[LIAB Text 55]]''

==Stuffamancy==
*"How would you make a magic blanket?" Parson asked, gnawing on a heel of the rye loaf. "If you wanted one?" 
::Sizemore looked at Maggie, who was nibbling cheese, and spoke up. "That's Stuffamancy. Really versatile magic. Weapons, armor, tools... Stuffamancers just imagine it and conjure it." 
:"Conjure as in make it?" Parson said with his mouth full. "Create it? Or summon it from somewhere?" 
::Sizemore leaned forward excitedly, rocking a little as he spoke. "That's a great question, Warlord. There's a big debate about that, getting right down to the level of 'what is magic?' and 'what is stuff?' Some Casters think they're the same thing, and that Stuffamancy proves it. But even the Stuffamancers don't agree about that."
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[First Intermission 28]]''

===Dirtamancy===
*"... Sizemore can dig through solid rock, it's cool to watch." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 77a]]''

*"Hav- Having a Dirtamancer in your city when you upgrade it reduces the cost by a lot," he began. 
::Parson tried to see where this was going. "Okayyyy..."
:"But it means the Dirtamancer sets the appearance, the shape of things... and the livery." 
:::''Sizemore & Parson, [[First Intermission 25]]''

*"At the end of the pavement, he frowned at a spot where the squares were sinking into the softer ground. Drawing his index finger over the pathway's edge, he spent a little juice to fix it." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"Dirtamancy was among the most rare and useful disciplines [in the Magic Kingdom]. Everyone needed a wall built, a garden tilled, a well dug, a foundation excavated. There were no city sites; construction was a manual industry." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"Can you tunnel? 
::Tunnel. 
:Yeah, can you? 
::Well, yes. 
:Good. Now can you tunnel under Portal Park, all the way from our portal to the one that goes to Spacerock? 
::I... ''can.''"
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[LIAB 45]]''

*"Without word or ceremony they lifted, and Jillian willed the city razed. With a great swirl of sparkling natural Dirtamancy, and a tinny crashing sound, Progrock turned to dust and rubble below them." 
:::''Jillian, razing Progrock, [[LIAB Text 43]]''

*"Touching the spade to the grass of Portal Park put Sizemore directly in touch with Erfworld. He sensed the physical world in deep, primal ways which he found difficult to convey to other casters. Even Changemancers and Dittomancers would stare at him blankly when he described it, though they too practiced forms of Stuffamancy." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"He could feel the ground feeling him, pulling him down, pushing up on the soles of his feet as he lifted each leg to walk. In the soil below, rocks sat immersed in the cold mud. Their whole surface touched it, in all dimensions at once. Sizemore could feel this contact as if the pebbles were his own toes and fingers" 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"Sizemore's mind slid away, down below his feet, to his other self. The strata, the stresses, the peace of land at rest, he understood them that way: as if they were parts of his own body. The ground could be comfortable and sedate, like a tired person feels when lying on onsic a soft mattress. Or it could be awkward, unsustainable, like a man trying to lean on a jagged stump, or sleep upside down on a stone staircase. The land in the Magic Kingdom was deeply, permanently at rest." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"This body analogy described something he had always intuited about the land. But only since his link with the Lady Firebaugh did he think of it consciously. His entire mental frame for visualizing his discipline had been reworked on that day. A hundred turns later, he was still reconsidering the fundamentals of his craft. [...] Between the volcano link-up and his three recent levels (two from traps and combat, one from all of the city rebuilding), Sizemore was now a greater Dirtamancer than he ever imagined he could become. He had not actually crossed the threshold to Master class, but that could happen any time a caster gained powerful new insight into his discipline or major class. The body analogy wasn't quite enough to push him past that mark; he was still missing something. But for the first time in his life, he felt pretty sure that he would get there." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 45]]''

*"It felt strange and dirty, tingling with a magic she had barely even thought about." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the magical feel of a Dirtamancy scroll, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"The tower rose indeed, far higher into the sky than it had stood before. Stone blocks and tiles sprang from nothing, widening the platform upon which they stood." 
:::''Narration, on a Dirtamancy scroll modifying a tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"When she'd boosted the tower, a few such nice little changes in design, decor, and accouterments had crept in from her mind's eye." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 24]]''

===Changemancy===
===Dittomancy===
*"Yes, and a Dittomancer doubling leadership and specials... duplicating surviving units... I see." 
:::''Ansom, [[LIAB 4]]''

*"And double those arrows, Caster. 
:Double 'em? Double 'em! I'll quadruple 'em." 
:::''Jetstone Warlord & Lloyd, [[LIAB 8]]''

*'''For the duplication of an actual unit, see: ''[[LIAB 79]]'''''

*"Doubles don't leave a body." 
:::''Tramennis, [[LIAB 88]]''

*"When Jetstone's next turn starts, you will vanish." 
:::''Charlie, to the Slately-ditto, [[LIAB 89]]''

==Eyemancy==
*"This [[eyebook|item]] works on "Eyemancy." Which covers "Lookamancy", "Thinkamancy", and "Foolamancy." And it uses all three of those." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 35]]''

*"The Eyemancers may be our single most valuable asset, above even the Arkenhammer. Ordering them linked was... the shrewdest thing I've ever known Stanley to do. They created the Eyebooks. They give us unmatched communications and intelliegence. When Stanley sees you have tampered with their functioning..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 47]]''

*"Spells are trickier. Most can't be cast unless there are enemy units in the same hex/city, but some like Lookamancy and Thinkagrams can be cast anytime." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on off-turn actions, [[LIAB 33a]]''

===Lookamancy===
*"Well, yes! I mean for a unit that is... that is moving, time passes normally, but not relative to units in other hexes. A Lookamancer tracking the movement of that unit may see it move much faster in their time. The time in their hex." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[First Intermission 29]]''

*"What the enemy brings you, you usually don't know until they're on you. But here, we've got the count. We know just what we're facing. It's like having a Lookamancer for once." 
:::''Pom Fritz, on having a roster of units in the area, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

===Thinkamancy===
*"Not entirely unwitting. Nor entirely controlled. It's... complex." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 41]]''

*"We control her, though. So just make her write the message. Right? The control is subtle, Warlord. Suggestions, perceptions, emotions... not commands." 
:::''Parson & Wanda, [[TBFGK 41]]''

*"What is this link up? 
:: *sigh* It's a trick that only Thinkamancers can perform. A caster's will is subsumed into a... kind of psychological alloy with the Thinkamancer. The joint mind they form can cast spells no single caster can even comprehend. 
:The downside being that the casters lose their will... 
::Their sanity... their individuality... It's a risky and fragile spell, especially with three. Four can't even be done. Talking to them as individuals can break that spell, Parson. That may croak the casters. Or leave them useless. Or, have no effect." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 54]]''

*"These kinds of spells rely on the subject. Suggestions can make her inclined to do things... such as lead recklessly, disobey orders. She provides her own reasons for these choices. 
::Which she is doing! 
:Yes. But those are things she is inclined to do anyway." 
:::''Sizemore & Wanda, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"Suggestions like 'turn sides' or 'ignore enemy forces' may be too hard for her to rationalize, and cause her to break the spell." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"There are things she will not do. 
::Okay, but... like ''what?'' 
: *sigh* She won't fight for someone she hates. Nor harm someone she loves." 
:::''Wanda & Parson, [[TBFGK 66]]''

*"The spell ''compells'' [''sic''] you to seek a reason." 
:::''Jaclyn, [[TBFGK 67]]''

*"But when such a spell breaks, there is a kind of backlash. A cord which snaps. A good Thinkamancer can protect herself from damage. Had I been the caster, the object of the spell would have borne the brunt of it. This would likely have croaked the unit or left it incapacitated." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 84]]''

*"Incredibly useful, incredibly scary magic. We got into spells, communications, suggestions... and then she mentions "Natural Thinkamancy." Innate magic. Like how some units fly and some dig... that's "Natural Magic." When scouting units send back intel, that's Natural Thinkamancy. But apparently so is following the Tool's orders. All units are subject to Natural Thinkamancies: Obedience, Loyalty, Duty, and others." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 84a]]''

*"The Arkendish affords him a command of Thinkamancy I cannot match." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 88]]''

*"There is a feeling. You may no longer notice it. But think of the first spell you ever cast. When you cast within your disclipline, there is a sense of warmth, comfort, familiarity. I want you to relax, and recall that feeling. Find the feel of your discipline, and step inside it. Lose yourself to it. Become your function." 
:::''Maggie, on forming a link-up, [[TBFGK 135]]''

*"All right, I'll need a master-class Thinkamancer to unravel this link. More than one, preferably." 
:::''Janis Atlantis, on breaking a link-up, [[TBFGK 140]]''

*"[The veil] worked because Bogroll already resembled you in most important aspects. Thinkamancy works similarly, on the mind to which it is applied. The changes it makes are remarkably small and subtle. It cannot turn a dullard into a genius, or a mouse into a maniac. 
::Or a hamster into a pit bull... Right, so if I thought of this. If I did this... 
:Then some very great part of you wanted to. The spell only nudged it forward."
:::''Maggie & Parson, [[TBFGK 148]]''

*"It's utterly fascinating, casting from a link. I just... understand the spell so clearly." According to Maggie, a two-caster linkup was a less risky and drastic thing than three, especially when done voluntarily. In it, the Thinkamancer's function was something like "cognitive copilot," managing the other caster's mental functions, focusing his attention and boosting his energy to achieve better results than the caster could alone. And it had worked. Their side got a better capital out of it than if Sizemore had upgraded the city by himself. The link was easily broken afterward, and neither of them seemed to suffer any harm." 
:::''Sizemore & Maggie, on linking, [[First Intermission 26]]''

*"And it was very little risk. In our earlier link, we discovered a strong rapport. Such mutual trust can make the process a great deal easier." 
:::''Maggie, on linking, [[First Intermission 26]]''

*"Speaking or shouting the command will work, Lord," said Maggie, lurching a bit as she rounded the remains of the picnic and walked up beside him. Though he was not completely steady himself, he offered his right elbow and she grabbed it gratefully. "Not be- because they understand Language, but because it hhhelps you frame the intent in your mind. You see. Experienced-" she swallowed hard, or possibly hiccupped. "Excuse me. Experienced commanders can command stacks with few or no words. When you understand your command, the unit will. Yet another fo-horm of natural Thinkamancy, Lord." 
:::''Maggie, [[First Intermission 32]]''

*"Jack, do you remember what you did... to project the battle table... when you were linked up? 
:I remember doing it, Lord. But I don't remember how. If that makes sense." 
:::''Parson & Jack, [[First Intermission 38]]

*"As she soared over the rushes, she felt the tickle of an incoming Thinkagram." 
:::''Jillian, [[First Intermission 41]]''

*"'''What did the Arkendish do?''' Many things, most of them connected to Thinkamancy. Charlie could handle an unlimited number of Thinkagrams, and extend some of his abilities to his personal Archons in the tower. Any commander in the world could get those Archons' attention by concentrating hard enough, for long enough. This could take hours or even days, but Charlescomm would establish contact eventually. This allowed him to hire out to any side or barbarian in the world, and probably provided him more revenue than mercenary work. He was the telecom giant of Erfworld. This was the main thing he used the Arkendish for, but guessing its other powers was a favorite topic for the Archons." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[First Intermission 46]]''

*"Natural Allies know the will of their tribe’s Chief or Chiefs by Natural Thinkamancy, even from other hexes." 
:::''Vurp, [[LIAB Text 4]]''

*"Doombats typically had a range of twenty hexes or so for scouting, but a Thinkamancer extended that range indefinitely." 
:::''Don King, [[LIAB Text 5]]''

*"For the juice cost of a Thinkagram, Bunny could link him to one of their views, just like he was in the area himself." 
:::''Don King, on Doombats, [[LIAB Text 5]]''

*"Among these were over eight thousand speaking units, any one of whom could request Maggie's attention via intense concentration. Similarly, she could reach out to these units herself, to relay orders or request status." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"Some (mercifully subconscious) part of Maggie's mind was always sorting and prioritizing the incoming and outgoing messages, making little decisions which added up to bigger ones. That was at the quietest of times. Before and during a major battle, it was more than she could fully process, more than she had the juice for. However structured and competent her mind might be, she was still only an Adept class Thinkamancer. Even a Mastermind would be taxed under these conditions." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"She spent a tiny bit of juice to confirm the existence and status of the major units there, but did not open a Thinkagram." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 13]]''

*"Jillian thought maybe the Thinkagram connection was broken, but she hadn't felt the usual little pop." 
:::''Jillian, [[LIAB Text 17]]''

*"So, what? You can just mind-control your Ruler whenever he makes a decision you don't like? 
: No. Only when I am certain he is wrong. And, in fact, it involves great personal risk..." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[LIAB 33]]''

*"Bunny, when the battle starts I want you to send that bat's view to everybody in here." 
:::''King Don, [[LIAB 34]]''

*"Little lanterns in Maggie's mind kept blowing out, in ones, twos and threes. The dwagon units, being harvested. And some of the riders, impacting the ground and ceasing to exist (at least, as Gobwin Knob units she had to manage)." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Everyone else imagined Thinkamancy as a set of discrete capabilities: "relay a command" or "plant a suggestion" or "send a two-way visual/audible Thinkagram." They were meant to think of it that way. So long as that was the perception of the discipline, then its fundamental powers could stay largely unknown, untapped, and uncalled-upon." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Thinkamancers were aware of certain magical truths for which, quite intentionally, there were no words in Language." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"For example, a Thinkagram was not one type of spell. There was a spectrum, from which a Thinkamancer would choose one or more bands to communicate within. To someone without a sensitivity to this spectrum, it would be impossible to describe the advantages and capabilities of each, but many of those capabilities went entirely unused, except by Thinkamancers themselves. A warlord would only call for one of a short list of communiques: speech, orders, pictures and sounds. But he would not, for example, ask to communicate and compare his own intuition with that of an allied commander in the field. " 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Thinkamancers understood intuition to be a form of natural Predictamancy, in which a unit can dimly perceive its Fate on a subconscious level. To a Thinkamancer, intuition was as communicable as speech or emotion or the underlying intentions of orders. It could be sent and received, combined and multiplied, and manipulated." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"There were many other such hidden mechanics. There were mental senses which could not even be described to a non-Thinkamancer. The most important of these was the ability to sense Grandiocosmic Strings, the conduits of all magic power in Erfworld." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"Only Thinkamancers even knew they existed. A Thinkamancer could feel out the G-Strings of the world, and vibrate upon them by plucking. That was how a Thinkagram was sent, and so much else. Each unit had its own individual G-String, which had many uses." 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"This was what Maggie had been doing for several minutes. Putting little notches in her G-String. It was a coded message, passive, and costing no juice. Any Thinkamancer who plucked her would find this note in her G-String. " 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB Text 38]]''

*"He found himself staring up at the springmount, wondering if he should get up and tune it again. This one was modeled on a gwiffon, made of Thinkamancy-polarized Stuff and imprinted with Signamancy in bright yellow. It was centered on a single strong coil of steel anchored deeply into the ground. The mount shape was neither fanciful nor accidental. One used this instrument as a surrogate mount, climbing upon it and building up a physical oscillation of the proper frequency to detect and study the Thinkamancy of orders. The intent of a commander in issuing an order to a non-speaking unit, or of a Ruler in issuing an order to a remote field unit, was one of the most interesting forms of natural Thinkamancy, Isaac felt." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"G-strings vibrated on different frequencies, and would cancel or amplify each other across predictable distances. Before Isaac had built these devices, a Thinkamancer had to walk around until his head was in a place of amplification, then hold still." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"But staying within one node deprived the observer of important perspective, much in the way that closing one eye caused a loss of depth perception, or covering an ear made it hard to tell the direction of a sound. It had already been known that two linked Thinkamancers standing in different nodes could detect and send far better than any one caster. Isaac had figured out that one caster switching rapidly between nodes had a similar effect." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"He stood up, glancing up the hill to the great Temple. It was also made of polarized Stuff, designed long ago (and modified more recently) as a refuge. Cosmic vibrations couldn't penetrate it." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"At the top and bottom of the smooth inclined plane were nodes of intuition. One did not get more than a quick glimpse between the two, but that usually would suffice. If not, one could always climb the ladder again. This apparatus had a personal effect on the operator, giving him a glance at his own Fate and perhaps a vague insight or focus or warning." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB Text 40]]''

*"A tickle upon his brain, then Bunny, Transylvito's spooky Thinkamancer, "Your Royal Highness King Slately of Jetstone, His Royal Highness Don King of Transylvito." The words were only in his mind; she never spoke aloud. Don's image floated before him, seated as Slately was." 
:::''Slately, being contatced by Thinkamancy, [[LIAB Text 42]]''

*"Rulers have a natural Thinkamancy which allows them to relay orders to their field units, even without a Thinkamancer. He had an[sic] feel for what was going on with his forces, even sitting there in a chair in his capital's garrison's larder." 
:::''Stanley, [[LIAB Text 44]]''

*"In the empty side room, he sat holding his crown in his lap, pauper-like, while time ticked away and his units perished in the dungeons below. He saw their lights in his mind, being extinguished in twos and threes. No-one was leveling. It was clearly an awful rout." 
:::''Slately, demonstrating a Ruler's natural Thinkamancy, [[LIAB Text 48]]''

*"Maggie," Stanley said to the air. It was a form of order only a Thinkamancer could follow. "Maggie!" 
:::''Stanley, contacting a distant Thinkamancer, [[LIAB Text 49]]''

*"There's way too many ways a Thinkamancer can incapacitate me." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on rushing a stack of Thinkamancers, [[LIAB 67]]''

*"For discretion, Chief Parson. You can break contact at any time." 
:::''Isaac, [[LIAB 84]]''

*"I will thank you not to... put my Chief Warlord into thinkspace without... my mind on the call!" 
:::''Maggie, [[LIAB 84]]''

*"Maggie, what are you doing? Why are you running in place? I apologize, Lord. I can't spare the attention to alter my... appearance at the moment. I am... physically moving toward your position." 
:::''Parson & Maggie, [[LIAB 85]]''

*"The numbers rose as a column, into the millions and billions and more, a silver thread stretching up and away from the peace below. This thread was being drawn up by the system of the world. Thinkamancers knew it as a "Grandiocosmic string." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"Delphie’s last sentence had been delivered in a perfectly friendly and casual tone, but it carried the natural Thinkamancy weight of a direct order." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 2]]''

*"The Thinkamancy inherent in giving them commands would have to be so specific to the throat and mouth muscles..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on making uncroaked sing, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

===Foolamancy===
*"Waitwaitwait. Time out. We can ''veil'' our troops?" 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 61]]''

*"There is ''absolutely'' no way to pull this 'veiling' thing, right? 
::No, you need a Foolamancer in– 
:... in the stack you're veiling, right. 
::Yes, and– 
:''And'' we can't do it with the Eyemancers linked up. ''And'' we can't cast on the enemy's turn." 
:::''Parson & Sizemore, [[TBFGK 64]]''

*"We got eleven pairs of warlord eyes here, and he's got thirty or so units. So there's like 300 chances to blow the veil, if he's got one." 
:::''Vinny Doombats, [[TBFGK 107]]''

*" Lord, recall the Foolamancy veil I cast on your lackey. That would not have worked on a gobwin. It worked because Bogroll already resembled you in most important aspects." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 148]]''

*"Above the fountain of sparks there appeared a huge, glowing apparition of Stanley the Tool's face, surrounded by bright rays of red and gold, just as he appeared on his new emblem. But these rays were like arrows pulsing outward, outward... go that way, scatter! Whether the archons took the direction literally or not, they knew the big giant head projection was beyond any of their natural Foolamancy abilities, and it certainly had not been part of the rehearsal." 
:::''The narrator, [[First Intermission 7]]''

*"You must conserve your remaining juice. What can you do cheaply? A simple displacement? 
:If we use a flash to cover the casting, it ought to do." 
:::''Wanda & Jack, [[LIAB 6]]''

*"Form a flash mob over the bridge. 
::[...] 
:You are free to cast. The enemy can see nothing else in this hex." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[LIAB 6]]''

*"But [Charlie] had still gone to great risk to give her cover along the way, using veiled Archons to scout out safe routes. These were probably detectable only by a Foolamancer, another Archon, or a lucky/smart Warlord." 
:::''Jillian, [[LIAB Text 6]]''

*"Foolamancy is Eyemancy. By habit and trade, a Foolamancer must look. At all times, the Foolamancer must observe the nouns around him in finest detail and broadest stroke, in a way that other minds do not. Other minds take shortcuts. Other minds construct, telling themselves ''stories'' about what they see, rather than seeing. Foolamancy is therefore only a narrative. To tell a mind it sees something, the Foolamancer must both see the world as it is, and also as it is seen. Staring into the void of that discrepancy is what drives one mad, really." 
:::''Jack, [[LIAB Text 10]]''

*"Hilary and her partner Avril took up a risky blind, directly over the heads of Prince Sammy's leadership stack. They kept the rising sun at their backs, relative to the warlords, and spent most of their juice to shine out their shadows. It was tricky, but worth it." 
:::''Narration, [[LIAB Text 18]]''

*"Habitually, he sought out the lines and dots of the scenery, the little hooks that other minds used to build their idea of the world around them." 
:::''Jack, [[LIAB Text 21]]''

*"Phoebe was made of brick. She was covered in soot. Black and red and gray, matching the colors of her raiment. All in a column, matching her general body size and opacity. She was a chimney on a rooftop, one of many dozens. It was a really good veil. Maybe her best ever. Gold star! The enemy’s minds would not have to reconcile very much with their eyes, and that was the name of the game." 
:::''Phoebe, [[LIAB Text 56]]''

*"He was wearing a very good scouting veil; she was very lucky to have spotted him in the tree. But such items are fragile, and this one had been destroyed in the melee." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

==Hippiemancy==
*"Among other things, Hippiemancy is the magic of relationships: detecting and altering the forces of opposition and attraction which bind people or units." 
:::''Duncan Scone, [[LIAB Text 11]]''

*"But Hippiemancy is people magic, and Janis also had a heavy understanding about relationships." 
:::''Janis Atlantis, [[LIAB Text 37]]

===Flower Power===
*"But in the presence of so much Flower Power, time perception sort of ''crumbles''. The Hippiemancers call it– 'Flaking.' I know." 
:::''Sizemore & Wanda, [[TBFGK 11]]''

*"Even a Grand Abbie couldn't hope to quiet the coming battle." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[TBFGK 13]]''

*"What did you just do to him? Mm? Oh, just basic Flower Power. He can't engage this turn." 
:::''Parson, Janis & Sizemore, [[LIAB 65]]''

*"I think... I think they mainly keep units from being able to engage." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"The figure in the tower was employing the apparatus they all had assumed was a weapon, but in fact it was a stringed instrument. She plucked and strummed upon it, and even from so far away, they could hear it perfectly. The music took an otherworldly, magical route to their ears." 
:::''Narration, on a Florist quieting a Hex, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"Tommy's sword came down upon his target like a feather. He merely tapped the shoulder of the soldier with the flat of his blade, as if knighting him." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"As if in a dream, she could not swing it with any significant force. The staff moved as if she were trying to stir honey with it." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 12]]''

*"The spell would be on the city through Haffaton's turn tomorrow, and could be cast again." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"So red. So angry. Your Life aura, Warlord. It's just awful. Can't you relax? You're in no danger here, I promise. 
::Wanda watched Tommy's face, what she could see of it. He seemed not to change his expression, and barely to relax his posture, but suddenly Olive brightened. 
:Yes! Better!" 
:::''Olive Branch, on seeing auras, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Apparently putting a hand inside the enemy's shirt was not a form of engagement that was prevented by Olive's spell. " 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 14]]''

*"As she walked down another empty hall, Wanda casually held out her staff and tipped a ceramic vase of dried orange flowers from its marble pedestal. The crash was painful to her wine-tenderized head, yet enormously satisfying. Really, even the pain of it was satisfying. So Olive's spellsong did not prevent this form of engagement, either." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 14]]''

*"With a perfunctory "Thanks," she upended the helmet and placed the plant's roots inside. She stepped a few feet away from the uncroaked and turned around to do something to the plant. Wanda could tell she was casting, but not what. [...] When Olive turned around, she held a perfectly healthy green plant in a steel planter." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"This unit has Motion, and that is something a Hippiemancer would know nothing of." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, disparaging a Florist, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"As with yesterday, her voice reached them from everywhere and nowhere, sweet and haunting." 
:::''Narration, on Olive quieting Kiloton, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"Wordlessly, Tommy drew his sword. He stepped out into the courtyard and swung it as hard as he could at a Haffaton soldier who was standing in the sunlight, chewing on a dried pear. The sword stopped in midair, an inch from the man's neck." 
:::''Narration, on being quieted, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"When they finally drew apart, Tommy looked distant and distracted. [..] His voice was barely a loud whisper. [...] his voice low and strained. Wanda watched him closely. He was in deep distress. [...] Tommy looked as pained as Wanda had ever seen him, and he said nothing more until the group had spent the move of its slowest units. [...] Then he dismounted his brontosword, slid down its side, and collapsed into the snow." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of being poisoned, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"A crit to the head would cause the muscles to seize at croaking. But one to the heart left the muscles starved out, relaxed and unable to contract. Tommy's were like that." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the effects of Olive's poison on Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"There were almost no functioning nerves in Tommy's heart. Or... his stomach, or most of the rest of his internal organs. He probably had not been in pain, but he must have known something was very wrong." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on the effects of Olive's poison on Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She had never seen one before, and she did not understand how it worked, but this was certainly a poisoning. And poisons, both natural and magical, were Flower Power." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She'd also asked him to kiss her. So she did not initiate an engagement in the city." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on a workaround of quieting, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

===Signamancy===
*"The Signamancers claimed that all Stuff was Foolamancy. Our bodies and all the things we see and touch were supposed to only be Signs: symbols of their true nature. Vinny didn't know about all that, but a person's appearance was definitely a Sign. It told you how they think about themselves. And how others see them."
:::''Vinny Doombats, reflecting on what he's been told about Signamancy, [[First Intermission 37]]''

*"Signamancy was a terrible curse. The Titans knew his true nature. No unipegataur-riding warrior king was he, no towering leader and orator. Over the three-thousand or so turns he had ruled, he had only once seen battle, and that from a well-guarded turret. And so he had shrunk. Gone white and fat." 
:::''King Slately Jetsone, [[LIAB Text 33]]''

*"No signs stood to point the way, but the Signamancy of a caster's home portal was plainer than writing." 
:::''Narration, on the color of Portals in the Magic Kingdom, [[IPTSF Text 21]]''

===Date-a-mancy===
*"Date-a-mancy is the oddest branch of Hippiemancy, in that it follows the Numbers which underlie all action. Date-a-mancy tries to quantify the intangible, things like leadership and compatibility and morale and Loyalty and Duty and even love, by means of match-ups." 
:::''Duncan Scone, [[LIAB Text 11]]''

==Naughtymancy==
===Shockmancy===
*"Their Shockmancer was here, a couple turns back. Gone now. He spelled up that tower hard, Bunny. " 
:::''Caesar Borgata, [[First Intermission 47]]''

*"It's natural Shockmancy. When you fall, one of three things happens: you are injured (possibly only slightly), you are incapacitated (you croak in one turn if not given Healomancy), or you just croak. Height of the fall does seem to have some bearing on that, but it's essentially random." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[LIAB 33b]]''

*"She'd told Tommy about spelling up Minnow Tower, and he'd said it was smart thinking. But he never said what kind of effect the raw Shockmancy they were storing in the tower might have in battle." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on having Delphi & Clay juicing up the tower, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

===Croakamancy===
*"Uncroaked casters just function as infantry..." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 77a]]''

*"She explained it this way. 'Croakamancy comes from the mind.' The more time and attention the caster spends uncroaking the unit, the closer it will be to its original strength and abilities when it was alive. And the more turns it lasts before degrading. So a good croakamancer can mass-animate every fallen unit in a hex, or city zone. But they'll be the weakest kind, and only last a few turns." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[TBFGK 116]]''

*"These are Uncroaked. They require a simple, specific order of battle." 
:::''Maggie, [[TBFGK 123]]''

*"Uncroaked infantry, led by a master-class Croakamancer... can." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on dance-fighting, [[TBFGK 127]]''

*"I can decrypt many unit types which had been impossible to uncroak before." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on using the Arkenpliers, [[TBFGK 146]]''

*"From what I can tell, they're like the dwagons are with Stanley. They're loyal to the 'pliers, and therefore to Cruella herself. For all I know, she can see through their eyes and hear what they hear. But if not, they'll prob'ly just tell her anything interesting when they can." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on Decrypted, [[First Intermission 44]]''

*"And what Lady Firebaugh was doing with hers was causing real alarm. The theoretical consensus was that she was extending Croakamancy to the Life axis." 
:::''Sizemore Rockwell, [[LIAB Text 1]]''

*"A big one being, "we don't know if he'd still be able to cast or not." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on decrypting a caster, [[LIAB 11]]

*"Tool, we don't even know if they keep existing without her." 
:::''Parson Gotti, on the Decrypted and the possibility of losing Wanda, [[LIAB 22]]''

*"She could animate the husks of the once-living." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, right after popping, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"We can animate the casualties. Their units and ours, if we take the city!" 
:::''Overlord Firebaugh & Tommy, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"Bodies of croaked units decay the next turn. So we would need her on the battlefield." 
:::''Overlord Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"I would have a leadership bonus over uncroaked units, Lord." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 4]]''

*"She had senses that she did not yet understand were unique to Croakamancers, and she used them on the fallen scout. His bones she could feel without touching him. She knew which ribs and teeth and vertebrae were broken." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"There would be some craft to this uncroaking, as not all of the original muscles and sinew could be counted on to perform their original functions. That was not a problem. That was what Croakamancy was for. Where a knee would no longer bend, where a bicep no longer existed to flex an arm, the Croakamancer made magical Motion to move the Matter." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"When she had removed all of his raiment, she still could see better with her natural Croakamancy sense than her eyes." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 5]]''

*"The body of the scout would have depopped at dawn, had they not moved it out of the hex where it was croaked. Claimed as a spoil for Goodminton, it would only decay a bit when they started their turn later in the morning." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"This scene was a massacre: twenty-two enemy saps, an enemy warlord, and forty-three of their own infantry. She could feel them each, sense the skulls and the hearts and the spines." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"This is a warlord. If I uncroak him, he would benefit from all of my attention, and all of the juice I can spare. The more carefully I cast, the fewer mistakes I might make, and the more he will retain of the power he had in life. I believe I could make him last as long as ten or twelve turns, and retain about half his levels and leadership." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"What are our other choices? 
::I could concentrate on uncroaking more than one unit, diluting the effects, but giving us more units. Or I could attempt to mass uncroak every unit in the hex. 
:You could do that? 
::Tommy... I-I don’t know. I feel it might be too much for me. A disaster. I could become overwhelmed. Maybe we wouldn’t get any units at all out of it. But if I succeeded, then the uncroaked units I create probably would not last more than a turn. Even the warlord." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 6]]''

*"She silently ordered the line of uncroaked to bow in unison, which prompted more cheers and laughter." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 10]]''

*"Blood flowed to her face, a mechanism she understood down to the tissues and sinus cavities within her head, for Croakamancy was a beautiful art. She felt her eyelids getting hot, ducts and vessels dilating. She was just a speck of Matter, herself, after all." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 10]]''

*"Wanda waved her staff vaguely in the direction of one of the uncroaked knights in their stack. He tilted his head a bit and grinned happily, showing his remaining teeth around proudly." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Wanda made her Fellow fold his hands together and flex his arms like a champion, grinning obscenely at everyone." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 13]]''

*"Life magic, Wanda. Croakamancers don't use it." 
:::''Olive Branch, disparaging a Croakamancer, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"Make sure all the Fellows are in the Courtyard, except the ones me and you are stacking with. Wanda nodded, and mentally sent the order as she took another deep swig of chocolate. "Done." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 15]]''

*"But before she could even get her boots out of the stirrups, her senses as a Croakamancer told her she would find his lifeless body upon the ground." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 17]]''

*"The first thing to determine in uncroaking a body is what took its life, because that was where the most repair and attention would likely be needed. Attention was the key. A simple or a mass uncroaking took no more attention than lighting a candle, with the Matter of the body representing the candle wax. The body would move as it could, and take simple orders until its fuel was exhausted a few turns later." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"But the craft of the Croakamancer was to understand the body's condition, its functions, its strengths and weaknesses." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"The Croakamancer could conserve the fuel of the body by focusing her juice upon the mechanisms of its movement, repairing and augmenting them with magic. An expertly uncroaked unit could function almost as well as it had when alive, and last for perhaps dozens of turns." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"If this body had no wounds, then what croaked it? Sensing her way through the architecture of his insides, she could not immediately say. Something about the muscles was familiar, though. She had uncroaked the victims of critical hits before. A crit to the head would cause the muscles to seize at croaking. But one to the heart left the muscles starved out, relaxed and unable to contract." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"So she focused on his heart. She tried to make it beat once, and knew something was wrong. One tells a muscle to move by means of the nerves, and reconnecting nerves by magic was one of the trickier parts of an attentive uncroaking." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"She had never made one so beautifully preserved. The bloating in his face faded, as some slow circulation of the blood was possible in this one. She was overjoyed at the results. Almost everything a living unit could do, this one could..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on uncroaking her brother, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Then she thought out an order, and Un-Tommy disengaged from his melee." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Re-attaching the head during the uncroaking process had been an interesting new challenge." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"Even through blinding blasts, Wanda's Croakamancy senses let her know that the first enemy casualties had been struck and were falling. She sensed broken skulls and wings and burst organs inside the bodies that spiraled down through the air toward the courtyard below." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on detecting the dead, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"And the Fellows...they're really quite weak without leadership." 
:::''Pom Fritz, on uncroaked units, [[IPTSF Text 25]]''

*"Wanda could feel the consumption of Matter there in the fireplace, too, if she chose to. " 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on burning logs, [[IPTSF Text 25]]''

*"As they marched on, she hoped for an ambush, or any enemy encounter, so that she might spend her juice this turn making fresh units instead of hopelessly re-patching these. It was better than wasting the juice entirely, but there was only so much she could do. These bodies were decaying inexorably to dust, and only the Titans could prevent that." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, on extending the duration of uncroaked, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"From what she understood of her discipline, it ought to be possible to make them sing, if she were a master of Croakamancy. Singing was part of the Stagemancy involved in dance fighting. So how would that work, she wondered? The Thinkamancy inherent in giving them commands would have to be so specific to the throat and mouth muscles... maybe if she sang the order to them? Or thought of singing it? Hmm..." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

*"If you're croaked, and that is no joke, you pass the yoke of Chief to a bloke named Fritz... '''Pooda onga riiish!'''" 
:::''Wanda & Tommy, demonstrating uncroaked theater, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

===Retconjuration===
*'''This is a theoretical branch of magic, like an undiscovered element on the periodical table.
*'''No ordinary caster can practice it; there are no Retconjurers in Erfworld.
*'''It is reserved for the Titans.'''
:::''Titan Rob, Word of the Titans 8/19/2009

*"Hey, maybe she's a Retconjuror. Oh do not even joke about that. There is no such thing." 
:::''Tommy & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 11]]''

==Stagemancy==
*"Singing was part of the Stagemancy involved in dance fighting." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 26]]''

===Hat Magic===
*"Is it dual use? Abjuration only. Report any engagements and observations at the end of your move." 
:::''Jillian & Ansom, [[TBFGK 9]]''

*"The sun was setting, as a tired woman with raw red eyes waved a wand over an upturned silk hat, and saw the letter inside vanish." 
:::''Queen Bea, [[First Intermission 43]]''

*"You know, I can do some small object conjuration for you. You just have to tell me what you need." 
:::''Cubbins, [[LIAB Text 30]]''

*"He dropped it into the crown and waved his scepter over it three times. "Pinochet," he intoned. The coin was made to disappear." 
:::''Slately, sending a coin to King Don, [[LIAB Text 42]]''

*"Sire, I can help too. Hand me your crown." 
:::''Cubbins, prior to modifying something into a Magic Item, [[LIAB 69]]''

*"One of the units in the group, for example, was a snow golem. It was a terribly crude thing, made of only three large balls of snow she had rolled up, with sticks for arms and small black rocks for features. It moved lurchingly forward and was almost useless as a unit. But as abominable as it was, she was quite proud of her first attempt at hat magic." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, demonstrating unit creation, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"The snow golem she ordered to stand sentry at the base of Minnow Tower. Then she took the silk top hat from its head, reducing it to a mere ornament." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 19]]''

*"It stayed right in place via the natural Dollamancy (or was it natural Hat Magic?) of just belonging there." 
:::''Narration, on Wanda's jaunty hat, [[IPTSF Text 23]]''

===Carnymancy===
*"Carnymancy. It's... the magic of rigging the game. Here! That's a crude slander on our noble discipline, sir. Oh, truly you do wound me. But yes." 
:::''Parson & Jojo, [[LIAB 63]]''

*"But we had this Carnymancer who really liked me. He saved me from croaking by rigging the incapacitation rules on me. They hauled me back to the capital in a wagon, and he cast over me every day for ten turns, just keeping me alive. 
::Until they got you a Healomancer?" 
:Pff, no. Queen Bea was mad enough at all the fuss over a Level 1 stabber. No, one day I just popped up off the bed, good as new. The Carnymancer said he'd 'made a trade' for me." 
:::''Sylvia & Archer, [[LIAB 86]]''

*"Then what can we do? Our specialties, of course. Stirring up trouble, roping a dope. You dodgers work the crowd. Get 'em in a real lather. Maybe they'll shoot him." 
:::''Unnamed Carnymancer & Jojo, [[LIAB 90]]''

===Rhyme-o-mancy===
*"A poetic incantation could settle the mind, focus any caster on their work." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Even warlords could use Rhymes in leadership, for morale and focus, and in dance fighting." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Those bawdy trail songs of Tommy's were crude, but effective on the units under his command. Her singing along with the knights had likely helped her spot that scout on her first day." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"Songs and poems held great and mysterious power." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"But to use Rhyme-o-mancy in casting, it must be quick and clever, and it must rhyme. If she flubbed the rhyme, the spell would weaken or fail completely." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

*"The attention of an entire day was collapsed into those few seconds." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[IPTSF Text 18]]''

==Clevermancy==
*"Clevermancy should have no Xs. It's raw magic dealing with raw magical forces." 
:::''Titan Rob, Word of the Titans 2315787''

===Luckamancy===
*"Delphie tells you what to cast, doesn’t she? What battles to affect. What units to...what, bless? 
::Yeah. I just say ‘boost.’” 
:And you can alter the outcome of a battle, by casting ahead of time. You boost up a unit’s luck by a lot, or a whole side’s luck by a little? 
::Yeah, kind of. Or jinx the enemy. Battles are hard, though. Sides are harder. Units are pretty easy. I boost our warlords all the time." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"I boosted his roll to a 4! I changed his odds, chose a way to describe the outcome of his choices. You see?” He picked up the dice and showed them to her. “The dice are not the guy, okay? In this case the guy is imaginary, and the dice are representing him. But this is real life,” he said, making a circle in the air with his index finger, “and you are not the dice. Okay? In real life, you are real, but the dice are imaginary. The dice that describe your choices. Mathamancy describes those, and Luckamancy affects those." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 7]]''

*"Now here's an important thing, though. Where did those 4s come from? 
::From you. You cast upon the die. 
:So you're saying my juice had a physical effect on the way the die rolled. 
::Yes. 
:Yes and no. It's not a direct effect, you see? The 4 is a Number. It had to come from somewhere. 
::The juice in your spell did not create the outcome, you are saying. Your spell did not create the 4. It...what?" What was the alternative? "Enabled it, somehow? 
: Honestly?That's the nice way to say it. Whatt'm saying is that maybe that die would have come up 4s three times anyway. So maybe my spell did nothing at all, at least so far. That's why I say it'll roll high 'for a little while.' I don't know." 
:::''Clay & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"But here's what I do know. And maybe it's kind of a secret of my discipline but I think it's important, and I wanna tell you. Luckamancy doesn't create good outcomes, because that would undermine Mathamancy and Predictamancy. Mathamancy deals with real Numbers. If Luckamancy could just create Numbers out of juice, out of thin air, then every odds calculation would be off. Y'see? So what Luckamancy actually does is steal Numbers from the world." 
:::''Clay Dice, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"Where do you steal the Numbers from? Well, the world. If you rolled all the D4s in the world a bunch of times, that one included, you'd get an even mix of ones, twos, threes and fours. This little guy stole his roll from somewhere, and I think the world is lazy, you know? I don't think it goes very far to steal good outcomes when I boost one of our warlords, you know?" 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"Would it steal from our enemies? If only. That's the one thing it really doesn't do. In fact we sometimes see the opposite. The enemy rolls better than they should or... or we roll worse." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"What, it steals Numbers from us?! Not all the time! I mean, it depends. The net effect is still good for us, because we're picking the right battles to win. But yeah it can be really hard on the rest of our side, sometimes. Especially unled and unboosted units. We...lose more of those kind of battles than we should." 
:::''Wanda & Clay, [[IPTSF Text 8]]''

*"A Luckamancy boost could have any number of specific effects on a unit's "dice." Defensively, it could affect their chance to be hit, the damage they would take from hits, their chance of receiving a critical hit, their chance of being incapacitated or croaked from a fall, et cetera. Or it could affect the enemy's outcomes: their defenses." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"Frenemy units fell by twos and threes, the victims of outrageously high damage outcomes and critical hit rates." 
:::''Narration, on the effects of Luckamancy on battle, [[IPTSF Text 20]]''

*"You know how when a unit falls, it can croak, or be incapacitated, or just be plain wounded and lose some hits? 
::Yes? 
:Well, that's Luckamancy, too. And I'm thinking f'we get into another airspace fight we can first cast against the enemy to make 'em more likely to croak in a fall. Then we can go for dismounting attacks. And there's not a lot of, um, downside to that. Less backlash from borrowing Numbers, right? Because we don't use air mounts. We do a lot less falling. See?" 
:::''Clay & Wanda, [[IPTSF Text 22]]''

===Healomancy===
*"It contained a healing elixir of his own devising, the recipe of which varied, but usually consisted of "two gin rations, stirred with a Wand of Cure Incapacitation." 
:::''Pierce, mentioning a type of wand, [[LIAB Text 41]]''

===Moneymancy===
*"It had been as ridiculous as everything else in Erfworld, rebuilding the city. The Overlord ordered it, the treasury was debited, and the city was instantly recreated. It was only Moneymancy. When it happened, Parson was standing in the ruins of the courtyard. There was a sound like a wind chime, with a whoosh of orchestral cymbals. Enormous, blinding magical sparkles filled the sky and the ground. And then the city was simply standing again, fully intact. There was no more rubble, not even a wisp of settling dust." 
:::''Parson Gotti, [[First Intermission 1]]''

=Axes=
*"Its numbers were being shaped and guided by the firmament, by what magic theorists called the Erf Axis. For when the price was paid, it was Erfworld which processed the transaction. The world would produce the unit that was called for...more or less. There was the matter of the Fate Axis as well, and this unit was turning out to be very special." 
:::''Narration, on popping a unit, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

==Erf==

==Fate==
*"Fate is inevitable, Warlord. But our ''path'' to it is not. We must first divine, and then ''enact'' our destinies. To live is to suffer. Our Fate is our only release. So if we fight against Fate, or fail to act in support of it when the way is clear, then we only worsen and prolong our misery. Our choices do matter. Wise choices ease the way, and foolish ones cause suffering." 
:::''Wanda Firebaugh, [[LIAB 70]]''

==Numbers==
*"Life is all Numbers. Ask any Mathamancer; they know." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"To live is to stand on one side of an equation, which must equal zero in the end. There is a price, a cost in Numbers, to be paid for staying alive. Zero is a balance, an equilibrium. Zero is a flat country, neither far away nor near. You can travel there any time, at the cost of your life. And perhaps, if someone were to pay the price to the exact number, you could even return again. That Mathamancers often say such things, and nod to one another soberly, is thought to be why they tend to keep to their own company." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"Few casters doubted what was said of the Numbers Axis, but even fewer understood. Not consciously, anyway." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

*"This unit would be worth far more than the buyer had paid for. That was no violation of Numbers, though. It simply meant that this unit carried a balance due. And though it was an astronomically high figure, someone would pay. Zero always called, and someone would have to pay." 
:::''Narration, [[IPTSF Text 1]]''

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