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#Lore24 - Day 29 - On Towler Classification

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In Simon R. Green's world, there were water mages and mist mages. That always stuck with me because I liked the idea that someone could be specialized in a specific form of an element[1] (or reaction[2]) while others were more generic.

=> 1: /elemental/ | 2: /reactional/

That lead into the “original” system (Crystal Spheres Techniques) not making a distinction but then someone inventing something that attempted to create a new system that did.

We've seen this in our world when Carl Linnaeus[3] came up with his taxonomy with genus and species.

=> 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus

Naturally, I decided to go with the faux-Latin of my world, Lojban[4] which has a more relaxed variant in Fedran called Lorban[5] (and the source of most of my naming).

=> 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban | 5: /lorban/

I haven't delved too far into the Towler Classification[6], but the basic ideas are there:

=> 6: /towler-classification/

• frati: All reactionals
• frati fagri: Fire magic, including heat[7] and flame

=> 7: /heat/

• frati fagri fagri: Heat-less flame
• frati fagri glanejni: Magic that produces heat without flames
• rakle: All elementals
• rakle djacu: Water
• rakle djacu bumru: Mist

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