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    pythagorean tsugumi's Avatar
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    What's a nasuverse term you'll die by?

    It doesn't matter if it's not the word of choice in current year. Maybe it never was. Maybe only you and handful of others still say it. Doesn't matter. You'll keep using it until you
    move on from TM
    die
    . Alternatively, maybe there's a popular term you'll never be swayed from using, even if the tides change.

    For me, it's magi and thaumaturgy. I have my reasons. You can give your reasons for your terms, if you want.

    This post brought to you by the wiki removing instances of the word thaumaturgy from a page I follow.

    To be clear, it still counts if you alternate your terms. I'll never not use magi, but I do say words other than thaumaturgy.
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    In the nasuverse the easiest way to find out who is the strongest is to have them fight. Whoever loses was the stronger one.

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    Magic for Magecraft and Sorcery for True Magic. I just find the terms Magecraft and True Magic too clunky and they just end up clashing with other terminologies in my opinion. Like creatures other than mages can use 'magecraft' and Magic is supposed to be a special thing yet everyone uses 'magic circuits'. It just ends up being weird

    Also The Vortex of Radix, it just sounds cool

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    死徒(上級)Greater Dead Apostle Norayd's Avatar
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    Have you fully swapped to Fount, or is Origin too ingrained at this point?

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    Prefer the old terms - mystery, true magic , magecraft, origin, root. Not changing them and frankly I don't see any need either

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    In translations and the like I stick to some old terms like Mystery still, but I guess the one most relevant to this topic is probably "true magic". Not because I think it's the best or anything, I just tend to default to it in discussions because it's the only thing alternative for "mahou" we have that pretty much has no likelihood of being misunderstood.
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    the term 超越種 (refers to high-tier Elementals like Arc and generally things that are 'on a completely different level' from humanity) is no longer used very much (not that it was ever used that often back in the day) but I still like Transcendent Kind for it
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    Expresses the exceeding size of one's library.
    Books are extremely many, loaded on an oxcart the ox will sweat.
    At home piled to the ridgepole of the house, from this meaning.
    Read out as 「Ushi ni ase shi, munagi ni mitsu.」
    Source: 柳宗元「其為書,處則充棟宇,出則汗牛馬。」— Tang Dynasty


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    Quote Originally Posted by Norayd View Post
    Have you fully swapped to Fount, or is Origin too ingrained at this point?
    For me I really like Fount but I still find myself defaulting to Root unless I'm actively trying not to. It's just too ingrained yeah.

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    RE: OP

    The diverse terminology is not only a desirable barrier to entry but also informative of a poster's provenance, and very probably the way things work in the Association. One says Akasha, another says Root, the third Ymir's Gate, and they all understand what each other means, as do we.

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