Witchcraft

[Xhuis]

https://github.com/tgstation/-tg-station/pull/13840

This is heavily work-in-progress.

Despite the metal and industry the universe uses, primal elements still compose it, and these forces can be tapped and harnessed for various uses. People who utilize these forces are known as witches (or warlocks, depending on gender). In this context, witchcraft is the utilization of the primal elements that make up the universe: Earth, Water, Fire, and Air, as well as Ether, which can be viewed as magic.

An individual can attune themselves to a specific element to manipulate their own bodies in various ways, or use certain objects to keep themselves whole.

Currently, there is no way to become a witch outside of admin intervention.
Features as of right now:

• Attunement - become attuned to a specific element to affect yourself in various ways, i.e. earth affinity helps nearby plants grow and slowly regenerates your health

I am open to any and all suggestions for this project.

[Super Aggro Crag]

why

[Xhuis]

why

That's an extremely broad question.

[ThanatosRa]

So um. Isn't Witch actually a sexless term and Warlock "Oathbreaker". SO like...calling a witch one is a grave insult.

[Remie Richards]

So um. Isn't Witch actually a sexless term and Warlock "Oathbreaker". SO like...calling a witch one is a grave insult.

I've head the same as Xhuis has, Warlocks being male Witches, but if you watched some other stuff (like the show Charmed) they just had male witches be... male witches.

[TheNightingale]

I've always learned it as:
Wizards study for their power; sorcerors have it innately; warlocks and witches make deals with otherworldly beings to get it. Sorcerors specialise in a wide variety of spells, wizards have a more focused approach, warlocks specialise in darker magics and summoning, and witches specialise in hexes, curses and maladies.

A wizard will throw a fireball at you, then a jet of flame, then a wall of fire, then another fireball for good measure.
A warlock will summon a tentacle monster from the abyss to devour you.
A witch will summon a tentacle monster from the abyss and then get it to curse your firstborn child.
A sorceror will throw a fireball at you, then a spike of ice, then a lightning bolt, and then a blast of force.

(Clerics, priests, inquisitors and paladins source their powers from deities - clerics and priests heal with it, whilst paladins and inquisitors fight with it. Druids and shamans get their powers from nature - druids heal, and shamans fight.)

So technically our Wizards aren't really wizards, they're sorcerors.

[Incoming]

So technically our Wizards aren't really wizards, they're sorcerors.

Our wizards are wizards, they actually know all the spells in the book they're just choosing what to prepare for the day.

[Ricotez]

I tend to stick with the Discworld definitions

Wizards studied magic so much they know they shouldn't use it, because it weakens the fabric of reality. Not that it stops them, but most of the time they're too busy sleeping or eating to cast spells.
Below that are mages which are just wizards who flunked out of Unseen University and know a few parlour tricks.
Then there are conjurers who are mead drinking tree huggers who laugh a lot.
At the bottom you have thaumaturges who you can't trust to wash out an alembic.

The witches in Discworld prefer not to use magic because they find psychology and a healthy dose of common sense works much better

[Amelius]

No adding witchcraft until we can make funeral pyres to burn them. That is all.

[Incomptinence]

The witches in Discworld prefer not to use magic because they find psychology and a healthy dose of common sense works much better

Also parasitic stories are a thing in discworld and if a witch overuses magic she can go full cackler and end up being tossed into an oven in a gingerbread house.

Their psychology capability also sort of ties into belief having tangible power in discworld so if you fool people well enough free magic basically.

Having the ability to fool people with fake versions of your actual abilities and control them by giving orders to say run away they actually follow would be a nice change of pace but not really suited to here.

[imblyings]

witches, wizards, sorcerors, warlocks what's the difference, they all float if you put them in a river

[Cheimon]

Wizards, witches, warlocks, sorcerers, mages, arcanists, and so on are all whatever the fuck you want them to be, because they're fictional concepts and they're not consistently applied across different settings in the same way. It's just like vampires: other than one thing (blood/magic) there is virtually no common ground between different versions of the concept.

[TheNightingale]

witches, wizards, sorcerors, warlocks what's the difference, they all float if you put them in a river

Well, aside from witches, you also burn wood. And what does wood do? Make bridges! But you can make bridges out of stone too... wood floats! And so does cider, great gravy, cherries, mud, churches, lead and ducks! So if she weighs the same as a duck... she's made of wood. And therefore, a witch!

[Xhuis]

Jesus Christ you people couldn't even go three replies without derailing the thread. In this context:
Female practicer = Witch
Male practicer = Warlock

[DemonFiren]

CLASSIFICATION!

"A wizard being called a sorcerer is sort of like having a PhD and someone telling you that you only managed to graduate because you have natural talent.
A wizard being called a warlock is like having a PhD and being told you only managed to graduate because you gave the dean a quickie in the alley behind the movie theater."

[DemonFiren]

(Actually, you pronounce it...nevermind.)

[callanrockslol]

Jesus Christ you people couldn't even go three replies without derailing the thread.

/tg/station13

[Luke Cox]

We lifeweb now

[Phalanx300]

How about retheming wizards to psychers or something? Mah immersions.

[callanrockslol]

How about retheming wizards to psychers or something? Mah immersions.

Space Wizards are canon though.