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[Max White]

The really interesting part is when you add another prefix.
Polyneurocrator - Mass mind control guy.

[Fniff]

Electrocrat? Bloodcrat? Voicecrat?

Hm... What do you guys think? I think it needs more greek then just crat.

[misko27]

Needs to be a video-game incorporating this concept of mix-and-match powers and names. Like now. It is too awesome not to.

[RedKing]

Pyrocrat, hydrocrat, biocrat... I think it works pretty damn well!
Sorry frost mages, cryocrat is a bit off... Chronocrat, however, is dead sexy.

EDIT: Wait, Chronomancy, to tell the future based off... What happens over time. So to just watch something. Amazing.

Yeah, made me realize that the common usage of -crat is actually off target.

Common English usage is more of a "government/control by" rather than control of. Which should really be -archy/-archs.

I.e. plutarchs instead of plutocrats, technarchs instead of technocrats, bureaurchs instead of bureaucrats, etc.
You actually *do* see "autarch" used synonymously with "autocrat", but it's far less common.

[Max White]

Needs to be a video-game incorporating this concept of mix-and-match powers and names. Like now. It is too awesome not to.

Well the standard formula would be [Aspect] [Expression]. Aspects are easy, we have already gone over a few, but expression?
There is 'crat' or 'crator' for your standard mage and 'mancer' for one who divines knowledge from their aspect. What else is there? Perhaps one who is specialized in opposing [Aspect]? Do we have a suffix for that?

[RedKing]

Needs to be a video-game incorporating this concept of mix-and-match powers and names. Like now. It is too awesome not to.

Well the standard formula would be [Aspect] [Expression]. Aspects are easy, we have already gone over a few, but expression?
There is 'crat' or 'crator' for your standard mage and 'mancer' for one who divines knowledge from their aspect. What else is there? Perhaps one who is specialized in opposing [Aspect]? Do we have a suffix for that?

Hmm...most Greek words for oppose are pretty long and are some variation on antikos (root of anti- prefix). I suppose you could use -ant as a suffix, but that already has too many uses in English as "one who does" (celebrant, defendant, etc.)

Plus, it's ungainly. Pyrant? Cryant? Necrant? Chronant? Bleah.

EDIT: Could go to Latin and pull something from oppōnō, "I set against". -opon?

Pyropon. Cryopon. Necropon. Chronopon. It's not great, but it has potential. Melds nicely with all those prefixes ending with o.

[Max White]

So what you mean to tell me is that somebody who illegally puts out fires on the high seas is a pyrant pirate?

[SalmonGod]

Neuromancer is still one of the coolest words ever

[Reudh]

Oneiromancer is still pretty cool.

[Max White]

Hmm...most Greek words for oppose are pretty long and are some variation on antikos (root of anti- prefix). I suppose you could use -ant as a suffix, but that already has too many uses in English as "one who does" (celebrant, defendant, etc.)

Plus, it's ungainly. Pyrant? Cryant? Necrant? Chronant? Bleah.

EDIT: Could go to Latin and pull something from oppōnō, "I set against". -opon?

Pyropon. Cryopon. Necropon. Chronopon. It's not great, but it has potential. Melds nicely with all those prefixes ending with o.

Wait, I have it. It is a little bit of a stretch, but phage could work. Plus it sounds great.

Chronophage sounds fucking terrifying.

[Reudh]

Hmm...most Greek words for oppose are pretty long and are some variation on antikos (root of anti- prefix). I suppose you could use -ant as a suffix, but that already has too many uses in English as "one who does" (celebrant, defendant, etc.)

Plus, it's ungainly. Pyrant? Cryant? Necrant? Chronant? Bleah.

EDIT: Could go to Latin and pull something from oppōnō, "I set against". -opon?

Pyropon. Cryopon. Necropon. Chronopon. It's not great, but it has potential. Melds nicely with all those prefixes ending with o.

Wait, I have it. It is a little bit of a stretch, but phage could work. Plus it sounds great.

Chronophage sounds fucking terrifying.

It does... but that means time eater doesn't it?

[Max White]

Pretty much. Time eater is close enough to time destroyer for me to not care for the technical difference, but chronant just isn't doing it for me.

[SalmonGod]

Hmm...most Greek words for oppose are pretty long and are some variation on antikos (root of anti- prefix). I suppose you could use -ant as a suffix, but that already has too many uses in English as "one who does" (celebrant, defendant, etc.)

Plus, it's ungainly. Pyrant? Cryant? Necrant? Chronant? Bleah.

EDIT: Could go to Latin and pull something from oppōnō, "I set against". -opon?

Pyropon. Cryopon. Necropon. Chronopon. It's not great, but it has potential. Melds nicely with all those prefixes ending with o.

Wait, I have it. It is a little bit of a stretch, but phage could work. Plus it sounds great.

Chronophage sounds fucking terrifying.

It does... but that means time eater doesn't it?

Which just makes it more terrifying

[Max White]

So if we were to build a class system around this, we might have the following possibilities in a simple build.

	Controls	Divines	Consumes	Guards
Fire	Pyrocrat	Pyromancer	Pyrophage	Pyrophyl
Death	Necrocrat	Necromancer	Necrophage	Necrophyl
Time	Chronocrat	Chronomancer	Chronophage	Chronophyl
Frost	Cryocrat	Cryomancer	Cryophage	Cryophyl
Life	Biocrat	Biomancer	Biophage	Biophyl

[Frumple]

Chronophage is terrifying roughly up to the point you realize that "one who consumes time" is... pretty much everything. Eat time, do stuff.

But yeah, -phage makes for great stuff. Helped inspire an artifact named Umbraphage for ToME4, heh. Glad I didn't have to code that one

Necrophage is actually a D&D critter, I think. There's one in Incursion, anyway.