Citations:mageocracy

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English citations of mageocracy

Noun: "(fantasy) government or rule by those with magical powers; a hierarchy composed of wizards or mages"

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  • 2010, Bruce R. Cordell, Key of Stars, unnumbered page:
    If he believed Seren was a member of Thay's mageocracy, she judged fear would make him more pliable.
  • 2016, Luke Scull, Sword of the North, page 276:
    She was the greatest wizard of her age and might have reconciled the church with the mageocracy.
  • 2018, Cameron Johnston, The Traitor God, unnumbered page:
    A mageocracy like the Setharii Empire was probably not the most efficient of governments, but nobody else could ever dream of controlling the hundreds of Gifted throughout the empire.
  • 2018, Michael Atamanov, Game Changer, unnumbered page:
    Minn-O grew visibly calmer and, generously peppering her speech with words from her world, she began to tell me about the mageocracy, the ruling families and the twelve directories.
  • 2020, Nunzio DeFilippis & Christina Weir, Dragon Age: Blue Wraith, back cover blurb:
    With the fanatical Qunari seeking to topple the Tevinter mageocracy, the Inquisition sends some of their best agents to retrieve a powerful elven relic before the Tevinter magisters can unleash it to devastating effect.
  • 2021, Russell Zimmerman, Shadowrun: On the Rocks, unnumbered page:
    “Everyone in Seattle, hell, everyone in the Tír, has seen how he talks to you. Him, a mundane, ordering you around?” The mageocracy rhetoric didn't come easily to me, but it came when I needed it. I knew what buttons to push.