Thaumaturgy - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

The term thaumaturgy is used in various novels and games as a synonym for magic, or a particular sub-school (often mechanical) of magic.

• In Patrick O'Brien's The Surgeon's Mate, Kimber, a character who swindles Jack Aubrey with a vast mining and canal digging scheme, is referred to as a thaumaturge.
• Thaumaturgy is often used as a name for the magic in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.
• In K.E Mills' Rogue Agent trilogy, wizards are considered to practice thaumaturgy.
• Magic is almost always referred to as thaumaturgy in China Miéville's Bas-Lag books.
• In The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever, by Stephen R. Donaldson, Kasreyn of the Gyre is called a thaumatugist
• In Lyndon Hardy's Magics trilogy, thaumaturgy is one of the five disciplines of magic. It figures most prominently in the first book, Master of the Five Magics.
• In the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons the thaumaturgist (sic) is a prestige class which specifically summons outsiders.
• Thaumaturgy is a magical discipline in White Wolf Publishing's role-playing game, Vampire: The Masquerade
• In the Elder Scrolls games Daggerfall and Battlespire, thaumaturgy is a character skill, which is loosely defined as "focus on manipulating known forces and objects within their natural laws."
• In Final Fantasy XIII, thaumaturgy refers to a battle paradigm consisting of two magic-casters and one healer.
• In Final Fantasy XIV, thaumaturge is the title of a playable character class.
• In Dissidia Duodecim, Golbez's title is 'Thaumaturge'
• In the online multiplayer game Wizard101, thaumaturge is a title used for ice wizards.
• In Dominions 3: The Awakening, thaumaturgy is one of the paths of magic that can be researched.
• In Rex Stout's novel The Doorbell Rang, Nero Wolfe states: "Madam, I am neither a thaumaturge nor a dunce."
• In World of Warcraft, a thaumaturge is the NPC you speak to in order to change 40% of a certain stat on a piece of gear into another stat, which is the action of "reforging" as it is called in-game.
• In Touhou, Sanae Kochiya uses the term "Thaumaturgy" on various of her attacks, and her special ability is the "Power to work miracles".
• In Lynn Flewelling's The Nightrunner Series, the particular type of magic done by Wizards is referred to as "Thaumaturgy".
• In Marissa Meyer's The Lunar Chronicles, Sybil Mira is the head 'Thaumaturge' of Luna.
• In Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, the term "thaumaturgy" and variations of it, such as "thaumatomains", are used to refer to magic and magicians by several of the upper class.
• In the MMO The Secret World, a thaumaturge is one of the decks available to collect. The thaumaturge here is a combination of a blood magician and a fierce fist weapon fighter.
• In the works by Kinoko Nasu for Type-Moon, Thaumaturgy is the offical name for magecraft. Most evident in Fate/Stay Night
• Thaumaturgy is often referenced in The Secret World by Funcom