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Working Title: Vampyr: From YKTTW
I'd like to point out that a dæmon is NOT the same thing as a demon. A demon is a Judeo-Christian evil spirit. A dæmon is a Greek concept of a minor deity.
Big T: Yes, but not originally. They came from the same Greek word and were spelled the same in English until recently.
(later) But that's already covered in the main page. Oops.
"as a way of implying ancientness, regardless of whether the word is really spelled that way in ancient languages"
fhqwhgads: Considering that Middle English had pretty much no uniform spelling for anything, and just used whatever phonetic spelling the writer felt like using, I'd say that this is at least somewhat justified for western medieval fantasy settings.
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- Ursula K. Leguin's Earthsea trilogy referred to its titular magic-wielders by the then-uncommon sobriquet "mage". Since then, the term has become standard in fantasy usage, due in no small part to the popularity of those novels.
JoeyJojo: that's got nothing to do with spelling
