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Phantasy Spelling
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The tendency for common words describing fantasy concepts to be deliberately misspelled, typically: As a way of distinguishing the "real" concept from the fake version, such as "Magick" versus stage magic. As a way of implying great age. This is somewhat Truth in Television, because before spelling was codified words could be spelled in a number of different ways, though in modern fantasy it is often gratuitous and may not even reflect the way a word was really spelled in any ancient languages. As a way of being pretentious. It looks Kool Common words spelled this way are "magic", "vampire", "fairy", and "fantasy", among others. See also My Nayme Is, Xtreme Kool Letterz, Heävy Mëtal Ümlaut, The Backwards Я, Punctuation Shaker, A Villain Named "Z__rg" and Law of Alien Names. Depending on the word, the author may instead decide that Capital Letters Are Magic. A Super-Trope to Magick. Also known as phantassie spælling, pfant'see pspaëllynnge, or fantaſy ſpelling. |
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His Dark Materials was a bit more on the ball with the original meaning: a shortening of the term "Agathos Dæmon", a benevolent guardian spirit, "Daimon" meaning minor immortal or spirit. It is the eventual root of the Christian concept of "Demon", but indirectly. | |
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Nosferatu the Vampyre, the 1979 remake of Nosferatu. | |
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They're "duaroughs" in The Darkangel Trilogy. | |
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Later, in an episode of Angel he even gets Angel pronouncing it that way. | |
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Both Changeling: The Dreaming and Changeling: The Lost go for "faerie" or "fae." In Lost, it's divided up amongst "faerie/fae," lowercase (to refer to all things that draw power from the Wyrd), "Faerie," uppercase (to refer to Arcadia) and "the True Fae" (to refer to the Gentry). | |
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In the 2004 The Tomb of Dracula mini-series, starring Marvel horror mainstay Blade, it's indirectly implied that a vampyre is completely different from a vampire. From the context, they're apparently analogous to the real life vampire subculture, except they hobnob with actual vampires and are really obnoxious about it. | |
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Discworld parodies this occasionally, not only with the 'vampyres' mentioned above, but also with... “Magick” (see above), which is the largely-useless modern attempt at witchcraft done by the younger witches who don't understand what they're doing. Also "Wizzard", but that was an in-universe spelling error on Rincewind's part. It becomes a plot point in Interesting Times when Unseen University is instructed to send "a Great Wizzard" and because there's only one wizard who spells it like that, they send him. (The use of a different spelling for differentiation actually kind of applies. Rincewind is not like most wizards. Mainly, he can't do any actual wizardry.) |
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While World of Warcraft has no vampires per se, the San'layn come close. One of the dungeon bosses in Wrath of the Lich King, Prince Taldaram, has an attack called "Embrace of the Vampyr". | |
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Maskerade at some point mentions a "Vampyre whose morals were worse than his spelling" during a speculation about whose laugh would be scarier. | |
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A jokey example in The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World: The four inadvertently introduce pizza to C'hou. Whenever one of the inhabitants or outworlders mentions the food, it's always spelled “peetzah,” but when the four or the narrative use it, it's always “pizza.” | |
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Brian Lumley's Necroscope series features the classic Romanian mythological variant "Wamphyri". | |
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Tales of Phantasia. | |
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One Blade series implies that vampires and vampyres are actually different things. | |
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: The magical otherworld is spelled "Faerie", while its inhabitants are called "Fairies". (In English, at least. In their own language (which is apparently Irish), they're the Sidhe; their name for their homeland is never given.) This distinction is not uncommon in fantasy generally. One of the short stories in the connected story collection The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories has its semi-literate narrator refer to fairies as "Pharisees". Obviously, she has a confusion in terminology, but since the fairies of the stories are often somewhat different than Strange and Norrell fairies, a different term might be justified. "Pharisees" as a term for fairies really has been used in various rural locations across England, mostly Sussex but also Somerset where the above story is set. There's at least one of Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill stories, set in Sussex, where a farmer uses "Pharisees" in this sense. |
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Most The Legend of Zelda games use "fairy," but the original version of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past used "faerie." The GBA remake went back to "fairy." | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court lampshades it: | |
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RuneScape's vampires are vampyres (noted in the quest name "Vampyre Slayer"), with the tie-in novels being the current notable exception spelling-wise. This would be because originally they were all called vampires, then the race was split into the mindless vampires and the intelligent and stronger vampyres, then in mid-2011 they were changed again so the race as a whole was called vampyre, with the intelligent ones referred to as vyres. The novels were released before the changes to spelling and terminology. |
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Parodied in Carpe Jugulum: | |
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In The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, Flamel is called the Alchemyst and that's also used as the first book's title. | |
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The Phantasy Star video games. The whole different spelling thing is true in both America and in Japan. | |
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The different tribes of Trollocs in The Wheel of Time: Al'ghol, Ahf'frait, Bhansheen, Dha'vol, Dhai'mon, Dhjin'nen, Ghar'ghael, Ghob'hlin, Gho'hlem, Ghraem'lan, Ko'bal, Kno'mon. | |
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The roleplaying game Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura shows off the use of "Magic as Magick" spelling already in its title, and magic is always referred to with such a spelling throughout the entire game. Given the industrial revolution setting and steampunk esthetics, a lot of the more technical language in the game is also influenced by outdated 18th and 19th century terminology and expressions (though not excessively and usually without archaic spellings). | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire: Knights are "Ser" not "Sir". Phantasy Spelling is common in character names as well. A non-exhaustive list of these include: Eddard (Edward) Helaena (Helena) Laena (Lana) Alysanne (Alison) Cersei (Circe) Daario (Dario) Alys (Alice) Jeyne (Jane) Joffrey (Geoffrey) Myrcella (Marcella) Lysa (Lisa) Myranda (Miranda) Tytos (Titus) |
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EverQuest divides them into Griffawns (lowest-level), Griffennes (in the middle), and Griffons (highest-level) | |
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And "lyons," "sfinxes," and (in The Firebringer Trilogy) "wyches." | |
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Another parody in Preacher: Cassidy calls an exceptionally pretentious fellow vampire a "wanker", and the latter assumes it's an archaic variant of the word vampire. | |
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One of the short stories in the connected story collection The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories has its semi-literate narrator refer to fairies as "Pharisees". Obviously, she has a confusion in terminology, but since the fairies of the stories are often somewhat different than Strange and Norrell fairies, a different term might be justified. | |
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In Magic: The Gathering, it's faeries. | |
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The Ravenloft campaign setting makes the distinction explicit: vampyres are living, predatory humanoids who consume blood and have the ability to supernaturally dominate the minds of their prey; vampires (generally) follow their traditional depictions. That setting did the same trick with "goblin"/"goblyn", making them two different monsters. |
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Mage: The Ascension sometimes uses the -k spelling to indicate proper reality-warping magic(k), as opposed to lower-powered supernatural dabbling. | |
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The Crescent Moon Kingdoms: Justified, in that they're alternate transliterations of terms from Arabic. Still, the book is riddled with "alkhemy," "faroes," and of course, "ghuls." | |
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In Wicked Lovely, they are commonly referred to as the fey, one on it's own is a faery. The world is faerie. | |
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Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre. | |
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In Slay the Spire names of various mundane animals, of all things, are given this treatment. Hence we get "byrd", "phrog", "krane" and "snecko". Aside from the last one, which seems to be a hybrid of snake and gecko, the others don't seem much different from their real world counterparts. | |
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The House of Night would like to remind you that their vampyres are in fact super special. They have no association with feral, violent 'vampires' of any sort. Spelling vampyre with a 'y' both differentiates from these completely imaginary creatures and creates a cozy learning environment. The House of Night would also like to wish you a nice day. | |
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However, the first vampire story published in English is called The Vampyre and uses that spelling exclusively. | |
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Warhammer 40,000 in an odd mix of sci-fi and fantasy. Orks vs. Orcs, Psykers vs. Psychics — and Daemons vs. Demons.(Daemon is the Latin spelling, which is understandable here because the Imperial High Gothic language is Canis Latinicus. Of course, Warhammer Fantasy likewise.) The Eldar and Dark Eldar make liberal use of peculiar spellings: Vyper hover-tanks, Wych cults, Haemonculi... | |
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A Court of Thorns and Roses uses "faerie"/"fae". | |
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Poison: A Phaerie Tale uses 'Phaerie,' naturally. | |
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Erfworld somewhat subverts this by replacing many an 'r' with a 'w', resulting in gwiffons, dwagons and spidews. When the protagonist makes note of this and asks if it shouldn't be "dragon" instead, the other characters seem to be quite weirded out by these "incredible stupid words" and state that they "really don't want to know what you call spidews in Stupidworld or whatever you call it". Note that "erf" sounds slightly like "earth". "earthworld"? It also has the effect of making the words sound childish, accenting the "cutesy" trappings overlaid on a rather grim world of constant warfare. |
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American Gods includes a very brief walk-on by a "wampyr". Mostly, this is to evoke the Slavic folk roots of the creature, and not simply to say that Neil Gaiman's Vampires Are Different. Which hardly needs saying. Neil Gaiman's everything is different, at least from the pop culture version. | |
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GURPS Thaumatology notes the variation and its origins; “Some people think this offers a useful distinction between stage trickery and the real supernatural deal; others consider it pretentious.” | |
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In The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson, it's consistently spelled "phant'sy". The apostrophe is actually there to indicate that the word "fancy" is a contraction of "fantasy", which is Truth in Television. | |
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Red Moon Rising (Moore): Werewulves instead of "werewolves" | |
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In The Wanderings of Wuntvor books by Craig Shaw Gardner, the plural is "dwarves" ... and the singular is "dwarve". | |
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The first vampire novel published in English, Varney the Vampire spells the word in two ways; one cover uses "vampire" while the title page reads "vampyre". However, the first vampire story published in English is called The Vampyre and uses that spelling exclusively. |
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City of Heroes' 5th Column / Council Vampyri are explicitly stated not be "true" vampires but the end result of a super-soldier program. | |
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Supplementary sources state that J.R.R. Tolkien discovered too late that "dwerrow" was an acceptable plural for "dwarf". Had he known that earlier he said he would have used it, and avoided the "dwarfs/dwarves" question. He realized too late for The Hobbit, but in The Lord of the Rings he did use "Dwarrowdelf" as a translation for Khazad-Dûm. | |
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