I am thinking whether wizards and really are shamanistic instances.
In a lot of stories wizards know a lot but are impractical, disinvolved and overtly theorethical. Those aspects don’t really jive with the high wisdom aspects.
It is more that wizard are people that have knowledge that other people do not have. And while it might utilise wisdom to come up with such unusual things being able to receive or wield it doesn’t have so high requirements. Wizards are associated with spellbooks and stuff which is clearly in the domain of sticking with a lot of propositional knowledge.
In particular my mind is that in Dungeos and Dragons, wizards have intelligence as their spellcasting stat while the cleric and monk have wisdom, sorcerers and warlock have charisma. I guess the more general class of “spellcasters” catches more fo the aspects and wizard is like the “default” spellcaster.
When the shaman is donning the deer mask they are essentially playing singleplayer D&D activating the muscle “roleplay”.
Some fo the speelcaster seem to be revolving around some of the actions deemed beneficial. The warlock is about relying in an entity outside of yourself, your patron to get things done, to channel the other. Sorceresser are about enbodying the the improvement. You don’t use the magic, you are the magic. Clerics tap into devotion and how intense focus and elaborate system opens new options.
I am thinking whether wizards and really are shamanistic instances.
In a lot of stories wizards know a lot but are impractical, disinvolved and overtly theorethical. Those aspects don’t really jive with the high wisdom aspects.
It is more that wizard are people that have knowledge that other people do not have. And while it might utilise wisdom to come up with such unusual things being able to receive or wield it doesn’t have so high requirements. Wizards are associated with spellbooks and stuff which is clearly in the domain of sticking with a lot of propositional knowledge.
In particular my mind is that in Dungeos and Dragons, wizards have intelligence as their spellcasting stat while the cleric and monk have wisdom, sorcerers and warlock have charisma. I guess the more general class of “spellcasters” catches more fo the aspects and wizard is like the “default” spellcaster.
When the shaman is donning the deer mask they are essentially playing singleplayer D&D activating the muscle “roleplay”.
Some fo the speelcaster seem to be revolving around some of the actions deemed beneficial. The warlock is about relying in an entity outside of yourself, your patron to get things done, to channel the other. Sorceresser are about enbodying the the improvement. You don’t use the magic, you are the magic. Clerics tap into devotion and how intense focus and elaborate system opens new options.