d100 Logomantic Lexicon for Magic Word Spellcasters
Inspired by this recent post on Eldritch Fields.
I'm a sesquipedalian spell enjoyer; in my opinion D&D magic suffers from excessive demystification, and suffusing it with ridiculous archaic words is a simple way to reintroduce some grandeur. (Though this list probably would work best to mix these with the two d100 tables at d4 Caltrops).
Most of these were sourced from the amazing lists at The Phrontistery. I did my best to curate words that could conceivably form useful spells while occasionally throwing in a wild card.
- Abactinal: opposite the mouth, away from the surface
- Abyssopelagic: relating to the deep ocean
- Acopic: curing fatigue
- Aculeiform: thorn-shaped
- Aeropleustic: relating to aerial navigation
- Aligerous: winged
- Amaranthine: deep purple red, immortal
- Ampelidious: relating to vines
- Antenniferous: bearing antennae
- Argent: silver-white
- Atrous: jet-black
- Aurulent: gold
- Baetyl: meteoric stone
- Bolar: pertaining to clay
- Branchiferous: bearing gills
- Castral: of a camp
- Chrestomathic: pertaining to useful knowledge
- Cibarious: pertaining to food
- Cinerious: ashen
- Cosmotellurian: pertaining to both heaven and earth
- Cryptaesthetic: pertaining to supranormal perception
- Deontic: pertaining to duty or obligation
- Diadermic: puncturing the skin
- Effulgent: bright
- Erythraean: reddish
- Estiferous: emitting heat
- Excrescence: protuberance
- Falsiloquence: deceptive speech
- Ferriginous: iron
- Fictile: plastic, moldable
- Fulgural: pertaining to lightning
- Gelastic: provoking laughter
- Goetic: pertaining to black magic
- Gyroidal: spiral, rotating
- Hyetal: pertaining to rainfall
- Igniferous: bearing flame
- Incarnadine: blood-red
- Iridal: pertaining to the rainbow
- Jectigation: wagging
- Jettatura: evil eye
- Keratogenic: causing growth of horns or antlers
- Kinetogenic: causing movement
- Lambent: softly luminous
- Laminary: thinly layered
- Lampyridine: like or relating to fireflies
- Lapidarian: inscribed on stones
- Limpid: Clear, bright
- Lucernal: lamp-like
- Malaxage: softening by kneading (e.g. of clay)
- Matrical: like a womb or matrix
- Mellaginous: honey-like
- Metameric: having a segmented body
- Mimetic: pertaining to mimicry
- Motiferous: conveying motion
- Mulciberian: pertaining to metalworking
- Nebulous: cloudy, amorphous
- Niveous: snow-white
- Nubigent: moving among clouds
- Obnubilate: darken, hide, obscure
- Ocular: relating to eyes
- Onieric: pertaining to dreams
- Ophidian: snake-like
- Ornithic: bird-like
- Pampiniform: like a tendril
- Panacea: remedy, cure-all
- Pestiferous: disease-bearing
- Porphyrous: purple
- Precipitinogenic: causing precipitation
- Quaesitum: sought-after truth
- Quercine: pertaining to oaks
- Quisquilious: formed from rubbish
- Quisquous: perplexing, difficult to deal with
- Racemiferous: bearing clusters or bunches
- Ranarian: froggy
- Receptacular: acting as a receptacle
- Retromorphosis: worsening
- Rhabdoid: rod-like
- Stelliferous: many-starred
- Stomatiferous: bearing a mouth
- Sylvestral: pertaining to trees
- Tegmental: shell-like
- Tellural: pertaining to the earth
- Telodynamic: relating to the transmission of power to a distance
- Teratogenic: producing monsters
- Terpsichorean: relating to dancing
- Theriacal: pertaining to antidotes
- Trochiferous: wheeled
- Uberous: producing abundant milk
- Uliginous: slimy
- Umbraculiform: umbrella-shaped, providing shade
- Unciform: hook-shaped
- Unipotent: powerful in only one direction
- Velamentous: membrane- or sail-like
- Viatical: pertaining to roads or travels
- Virescent: greenish
- Welkin: the sky/heavens
- Xanthic: yellow
- Yttriferous: bearing yttrium
- Zoomimetic: imitating an animal
- Zygal: yoking or unifying, like the letter H or its crossbar