Thaumaturgy
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Thaumaturgy (from the Greek words θαῦμα thaûma, meaning "miracle" or "marvel" and ἔργον érgon, meaning "work") is the capability of a saint to work miracles. It is sometimes translated into English as wonderworking.
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In popular culture
The term thaumaturgy is used in various novels and games as a synonym for magic, or a particular sub-school (often mechanical) of magic.
- In Patrick O'Brien's The Surgeon's Mate, Kimber, a character who swindles Jack Aubrey with a vast mining and canal digging scheme, is referred to as a thaumaturge.
- Thaumaturgy is often used as a name for the magic in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.
- In K.E Mills' Rogue Agent trilogy, wizards are considered to practice thaumaturgy.
- Magic is almost always referred to as thaumaturgy in China Miéville's Bas-Lag books.
- In The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever, by Stephen R. Donaldson, Kasreyn of the Gyre is called a thaumatugist
- In Lyndon Hardy's Magics trilogy, thaumaturgy is one of the five disciplines of magic. It figures most prominently in the first book, Master of the Five Magics.
- In the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons the thaumaturgist (sic) is a prestige class which specifically summons outsiders.
- Thaumaturgy is a magical discipline in White Wolf's role-playing game, Vampire: The Masquerade
- In the Elder Scrolls games Daggerfall and Battlespire, thaumaturgy is a character skill, which is loosely defined as "focus[ing] on manipulating known forces and objects within their natural laws."
- In Final Fantasy XIII, thaumaturgy refers to a battle paradigm consisting of two magic-casters and one healer.
- In Final Fantasy XIV, thaumaturge is the title of a playable character class.
- In the online multiplayer game Wizard101, thaumaturge is a title used to describe ice wizards.
- In Dominions 3: The Awakening, thaumaturgy is one of the paths of magic that can be researched.
- In Rex Stout's novel The Doorbell Rang, Nero Wolfe states: "Madam, I am neither a thaumaturge nor a dunce."
- In World of Warcraft, a thaumaturge is the NPC you speak to in order to change 40% of a certain stat on a piece of gear into another stat, which is the action of "reforging" as it is called in-game.
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