(05-05-2018, 01:04 PM)Norgarth Wrote:Almost. On the Discworld, they're big on eight as the mystical number, so the eighth son of an eighth son is a wizard ... and the eighth son of a wizard is a sourcerer, a source of magic rather than one who taps ambient magic. Somewhere in the text, it's specified that preventing these is one of the main reasons wizards are encouraged to be celibate.(05-04-2018, 02:32 PM)NifT Wrote:(05-04-2018, 01:19 PM)ECSNorway Wrote:(05-03-2018, 07:00 PM)robkelk Wrote: Bob, you've ruined me for reading fanfic.
Quote:Show me the magic. C'mon. Show me the magic.I got this far and immediately thought of Bugs Bunny. "You're a sorcerer? C'mon, let me see you sorcer." (Or however the quote goes.)
— John Cassavetes, Tempest (1982)
Who was it that wrote a novel about a "sourceror", based around the gimmick that only certain types of people were able to create new types of magic / new spells / whatev? (Thus "source"-eror.)
Terry Pratchett's Sourcery is what you're thinking of, I believe.
I believe the line went "The seventh son of a seventh son. A wizard squared. A Sourcerer."
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"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed."
"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed."