Talk:warg
Verb[edit]
There's a verb "to warg" out there, meaning to magically take control of another being. At the moment, it's only in Game of Thrones, but I imagine it'll mainstream pretty soon. --New WT User Girl (talk) 13:13, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
- I managed to find one use in non-GOT fiction (see cites page). Together with any one of the GOT-related uses, that makes for two uses in
{{lb|en|fantasy}}, but we still need a third... - -sche (discuss) 13:13, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
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Verb: "(fantasy fiction) To enter the body of an animal." I believe this is only in A Song of Ice and Fire, not a general term, and thus could fail WT:FICTION. Equinox ◑ 16:02, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
- Also, be careful how we word the definition if it stays.... Zumbacool (talk) 18:03, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
- LOL. Wargs in ASoIaF/GOT are people who can magically possess an animal, with the power varying from having full, conscious control of the animal's body to "warg-dreams" in which one is a merely passenger inside the mind of a still-autonomous animal. I've seen this term used generically in reference to similar magical abilities in other fantasy works. It's also sometimes used figuratively. Nothing on Google Books, Internet Archive, or Issuu that doesn't reference GOT. Might be attestible off Twitter. WordyAndNerdy (talk) 04:17, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
- RFV-failed Zumbacool (talk) 01:24, 6 July 2022 (UTC)