It seems there are so many words out there to denote practitioners of magic. That’s only the arcane side of things and not the holy ones too. Imagine if we add priests, priestesses, paladins, druids, and the rest of those who tend to use magic in fantasy. Even with all of this, people tend to only really use ‘Wizard’ and I put the blame squarely on these two:
Gandalf and Dumbledore
Because of the popularity of certain fantasy series, people tend to only use wizard and not even acknowledge the others. It gets even messier when you factor in some Harry Potter fans accusing Tolkien of plagiarism, especially when it comes to the Hocus and Pocus up there. Let’s not get into that one because it really only shows how many people don’t bother learning the history of the genre. That and how they can’t look up which series came…
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