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Brainburn

(Also referred to as toxic agonotraxis.) A traumatic disorder suffered by wizards who have become involved in too powerful a wizardry without appropriate safeguards, or in cases where the spell's power output overflows safeguards already in place.

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Bindings

Wizardries the purpose of which is specifically to keep a creature or object from doing something. In the case of non-sentients, this normally means preventing the object from doing something it was designed to do: in the case of sentients, it means preventing the being from doing something he, she or it wants to do, or would do in the normal course of events.

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Batracholepsy

The act of turning oneself into a frog: also (less frequently) the wizardry used to return oneself to one's normal shape afterwards.

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Batrachotropsy

The act of turning someone or something into a frog: also (less frequently) the wizardry used to return something to its proper shape or state after it's been a frog.

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Backlash

The result of doing a spell for which one does not have enough "onboard" energy to adequately meet the spell's energy requirements. Normally backlash in humans takes the form of generalized fatigue, often associated with a cluster of symptoms like headache, body aches similar to those caused by muscle strain, and shortness of breath.

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Aspirin

The generic name (though once a brand name) for acetylsalicylic acid. Kit is allergic to it.

One of the spells worked in SYWTBAW calls for aspirin as one of its vital ingredients.

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Asdekh

One of a number of "quantifier" words in the Speech used to indicate one of several aspects of a spell's strength or purpose.

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Actuator word

The word in the Speech that triggers or completes a partly executed spell. (WAW)

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Featured Concordance Entry: WizPod

 

An instance or implementation of the Wizard's Manual installed in an iPod. Such devices, when running in Manual mode, often display the Apple Without a Bite. Since each WizPod contains an inbuilt "stand-alone" temporospatial claudication, they are able to unfold to many times their apparent external size to display data, and are especially useful for working with spell diagrams which are better rendered in 3D format.

Darryl McAllister turns up on the Moon with a new WizPod during the crisis meeting in WAW, causing Dairine to go into a state of serious hardware envy. This WizPod is probably one of the "4G" or fourth-generation WizPods, as the first wizardly implentations started appearing around then.

(Interested parties should note that the implementation of the WizPhone has been delayed briefly while the issue of international service providers for the phone component is sorted out.)

An early ad for the WizPod, detailing some of the more attractive features of the first models, can be seen here. An ad for the more recent WizPod Touch implementation can be seen here (or click here for the large /PDF version).

(See also: Claudication and its associated entries.)

 

 

 

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