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Gordy77

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Make wizards and witches, wizards
« Topic Start: November 30, 2016, 12:41:29 PM »
It frustrates me no end to chase a special character down, labelled as a wizard or witch, only to find they are infact a sage.

I ask you to consider either making everyone labelled as a witch or wizard into a wizard, or name them something else.

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Re: Make wizards and witches, wizards
« Reply #1: November 30, 2016, 01:51:50 PM »
...I believe everyone labeled a wizard or witch is, in fact, a wizard or witch, and when you're after a sage, you'll find them labeled as such.

Could you please be more specific?

It's entirely possible that you were following the trail of a wizard, and happened to run into a (much more common) sage on the way.
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Re: Make wizards and witches, wizards
« Reply #2: November 30, 2016, 08:56:19 PM »
In Aix
Meet with Wyque... - the witch of the wild Sage


I'm sure there are other examples.

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Re: Make wizards and witches, wizards
« Reply #3: November 30, 2016, 11:16:31 PM »
So Wyque is a witch? I can definitely see why some people are confused though.

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Re: Make wizards and witches, wizards
« Reply #4: December 01, 2016, 02:52:35 AM »
Wyque the witch is a sage. My sensibilities say wizards and witches are Male/female equivalents and aught to be the ones making scrolls.

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Re: Make wizards and witches, wizards
« Reply #5: December 01, 2016, 03:38:04 AM »
I see. Okay that is very confusing.

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Re: Make wizards and witches, wizards
« Reply #6: December 01, 2016, 04:10:50 AM »
I'm almost certain there are other cases where something very wizardy sounding is a sage.

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Re: Make wizards and witches, wizards
« Reply #7: December 01, 2016, 04:16:08 AM »
I changed Wyque to a wise man, since he was actually coded as male.

Most of the EC sages and wizards were male; I've fixed it so several of them are female now.

I didn't see any other epithets that looked misleading.
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Re: Make wizards and witches, wizards
« Reply #8: December 03, 2016, 07:57:53 AM »
Great. Appreciated.