Okay, this is a kind of silly thing to ask people to brainstorm, but hell, I've been turning it over and over in my head and can't come up with a good answer by myself.
What would be a good term for the magical equivalent of a classic pre-1996 computer hacker? Someone who discovers what the Universal Theory of Magic lets them do and then recapitulates the entire hacker evolution from larval stage to guru, only for magic? The two most obvious neologisms, "spacker" and "macker", just sound silly. I don't want something so alien sounding that the correspondence between magic and computers is completely missing, but ... I'm having a critical imagination failure here and I need help.
This isn't something immediate -- I won't need it for a few chapters yet -- so you have lots of time to argue nomenclature.
Thanks!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
What would be a good term for the magical equivalent of a classic pre-1996 computer hacker? Someone who discovers what the Universal Theory of Magic lets them do and then recapitulates the entire hacker evolution from larval stage to guru, only for magic? The two most obvious neologisms, "spacker" and "macker", just sound silly. I don't want something so alien sounding that the correspondence between magic and computers is completely missing, but ... I'm having a critical imagination failure here and I need help.
This isn't something immediate -- I won't need it for a few chapters yet -- so you have lots of time to argue nomenclature.
Thanks!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.