[UA] Magick Schools: Lingomancy

[Stuart Anderson]

Liam Astley wrote:

> i was knocking around with Nomomancy a while back. based on names and
> identity. the paradox was that nomomancers couldn't have a strong idenity of
> their own - the taboo was that not more than one person a day could
> recognise them. obviously this is a school aimed more at GMCs than PCs.

The nameless ones who name things? Advertisers?
The anonymous assigners of the "true names?"
I'm seeing these gray, nondescript cats that work at the Bureau of Weights and
Standards, assigning metaphysical designations to all the atomic elements in an
enormous ritual to control them.
Holy crap--I find this chilling far beyond its potential use in a game.
--Stu


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