wizard vs. mage

>>8476113
None, it's just a convention that varies from book to book.

>>8476113
>Wizard
Teleports, summons magical creatures
>Mage
Uses fire, frost and arcane spells, conjures foods and opens portals
>Sorcerer
The most battle-type of mage, all his spells are for combat.
>Enchanter
Uses magic to give you +stats on items.

>>8476128
>Mage Uses fire, frost and arcane spells, conjures foods and opens portals

I too have played world of warcraft

>>8476122
/thread

>>8476113
different etymologies

wizard may come from arabic vizier or maybe from ME wysard (i.e. a wise man -- the "ard" being the same as in laggard or drunkard)

sorcerer prob goes back to latin root for lots for chance (think someone using runes or bones to divine the future)

mage is related to magus, plural magi -- Persian Zoroastrian astrologers (and the dudes who brought baby Jesus stuff).

others like conjurer, enchanter, necromancer, the meaning is more transparent

thaumaturge is a good one meaning miracle worker

witch and wiccan go back to OE words meaning weak (referring to pliant types of trees and wood , I guess that witches used?)

>>8476122
But yeah, they are all interchangeable today

>>8476113
>gandalf
>wizard or any of those things

>>8476113
The difference is for wizard, sorceror and enchanted im all like whatever dude and sometimes if im already in a bad blues mood ill even huff but whenever jts a mage its like oh yea hoo oh dude here we go and it always sets me a go go going in a rock n ready mood

>>8476113
There is none, except for those fags whose understanding of fantasy comes from roleplaying games

>Enchanter
makes items magical
>Mage
fights with magic spells, uses magical items
>Sorcerer
Harry Potter
>Wizard
you

>>8476415
based

>mage
Any magician

>wizard
Proffessor magician of 1+ schools

>enchanter
Crafting mage

>sorceror
Battle mage

>warlock/witch
Male/female Mage that practices any illegle magic

>necromancer
Practitioner of (usually illegle) dovine magic

>priest
Divine magician

>paladin
Battle divine magician

>druid
Blazer magician

>divine schools
Usually these worlds are polytheistic, which have gods of nature, life death, and have exclusive spells

>arcane magic
Most pragmatic fuel source for non divine magic. Depending on lore, it can be your literall focusing ability(eldar acrolls) or something you can buy(dnd)