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  • noun Alternative spelling of dwimmer.
  • noun fantasy, games The magical aura on an enchanted item; or more broadly, the aura of a magic spell having been cast while active.

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Examples

  • So too was the power of the dweomer that forced compliance with the test if any of their numbers chose not to heed the mental promptings.

    Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987

  • Chert, meanwhile, was chipping the ice from the frozen corpse of the spell-caster who had foolishly. sent his dweomer at the ogre-magus.

    Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987

  • Old Phompy, why, he never was any great shakes at spinning a dweomer, either.

    Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987

  • "The dweomer surrounding the repository of the items in the possession of the Wizardess demands that no metal be present," the bent-backed agent wheedled.

    Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987

  • In no time at all they bade the insect-infested morass and the accompanying trolls adieu, and then they headed for Castle Fizziak at a swift pace, guarded by the ex-bandits and whatever dweomer Quodilde the witch of Grimalkinsham had placed over them as an aegis.

    Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987

  • It is of magical power and, unless one is a dweomer-craefter steeped in the arcane arts, useless.

    Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987

  • No thief or assassin can kill another so utterly without the aid of some greater power, a magic or special dweomer bestowed by supernatural means.

    Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987

  • That, and his combination of whining and continued attempts to break the dweomer sent all high regard iar from them.

    Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987

  • Gord was unable to fathom what the dweomer was, but after making several passes in the air and uttering some tongue-twisting syllables, Eneever Zig rapped the wall with a small silver rod, turned, and dashed into the pool, the spray from his hurried entry wetting both adventurers as they stood in the ankle-deep water.

    Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987

  • So much for that The now-enlarged band of questers set out for the bandits 'encampment, which, as luck would have it, was on the same route the dweomer compelled the quartet to tread.

    Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987

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  • Dweomer, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is the Old English word meaning 'witchcraft' that derives from the Old Norse term dvergmál literally meaning 'dwarf talk' (dvergr dwarf + mál talk), referring to the secret knowledge of magic among the Norse dwarves. See for instance the entry, dweomercræft. A related Middle English word that derives from the phrase 'dwarf talk', dwergma, means 'echo', crediting the dwarves who live in the stones with the sound.

    July 19, 2008

  • And similarly, dweomercraeft is witchcraft.

    July 19, 2008

  • Also see dwimmer.

    July 19, 2008