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Christopher_Heath
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  		   Posted 12/27/2007 6:02 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
What do you call those who are being trained by a shaman to become one, but are not quite there yet? I don't want to say, "The shaman and his (underlings, understudies, trainees, lessers) moved about the ship, applying salves to the burned."  

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"Azieran: Claimed by Birthright" in Return of the Sword
"Azieran: Oathbreaker's Promise" in Flashing Swords
"Azieran: The Hollow Kings" in Flashing Swords
"Azieran: The Harvester" in AlienSkin
"Azieran: Adairos" in Tower of Light Fantasy
"Azieran: Savior in a Flask" in Magic and Mechanica by Ricasso Press
"Azieran: The Travelers Four" in Black Dragon, White Dragon by Ricasso Press
"Azieran: The Breaking of Hell's Bones" in Black Sails by 1018 Press
"Azieran: Distilling the Essence" in Sails and Sorcery by Fantasist Enterprises
"Azieran: Crestfallen in Mal'kyrrik" serialized novella in Forgotten Worlds 
 
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Christopher_Heath
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  		   Posted 12/27/2007 6:05 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
medicine men, maybe? That's kind of what a shaman is, so I'd have to explain the new system of rankings, which might seem superfluous...

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"Azieran: Claimed by Birthright" in Return of the Sword
"Azieran: Oathbreaker's Promise" in Flashing Swords
"Azieran: The Hollow Kings" in Flashing Swords
"Azieran: The Harvester" in AlienSkin
"Azieran: Adairos" in Tower of Light Fantasy
"Azieran: Savior in a Flask" in Magic and Mechanica by Ricasso Press
"Azieran: The Travelers Four" in Black Dragon, White Dragon by Ricasso Press
"Azieran: The Breaking of Hell's Bones" in Black Sails by 1018 Press
"Azieran: Distilling the Essence" in Sails and Sorcery by Fantasist Enterprises
"Azieran: Crestfallen in Mal'kyrrik" serialized novella in Forgotten Worlds 
 
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MattDempsey
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  		   Posted 12/27/2007 6:38 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Rather than give his apprentices a rank what about a name for the group as a whole.

The Shaman moved about the ship applying salves to the wounded, his coterie following every move, fixing bandages and assisting their master.

for some horrible reason, the term padawan comes to mind here. Please resist that.

What about something like, the Eagle Dreamers tended the wounded under the directions of their Shaman master.
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  		   Posted 12/27/2007 7:57 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Paduan?

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  		   Posted 12/27/2007 7:57 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Shamanite?

Mini-Me?

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Christopher_Heath
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  		   Posted 12/27/2007 10:27 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Matt, I may take your advice. I won't use "coterie" though. Its French origin and sound makes it too sophisticated for this setting. Initiates? Disciples? Devout?

Christopher M. Heath
 
"Azieran: Claimed by Birthright" in Return of the Sword
"Azieran: Oathbreaker's Promise" in Flashing Swords
"Azieran: The Hollow Kings" in Flashing Swords
"Azieran: The Harvester" in AlienSkin
"Azieran: Adairos" in Tower of Light Fantasy
"Azieran: Savior in a Flask" in Magic and Mechanica by Ricasso Press
"Azieran: The Travelers Four" in Black Dragon, White Dragon by Ricasso Press
"Azieran: The Breaking of Hell's Bones" in Black Sails by 1018 Press
"Azieran: Distilling the Essence" in Sails and Sorcery by Fantasist Enterprises
"Azieran: Crestfallen in Mal'kyrrik" serialized novella in Forgotten Worlds 
 
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Christopher_Heath
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  		   Posted 12/27/2007 10:28 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Jordan, what's the "Thirdy" mean? Wasn't there someone with the moniker "Thirdy Lopez" or such? Does it mean you're thirty, or something else? I'm not following what it signfies.

Christopher M. Heath
 
"Azieran: Claimed by Birthright" in Return of the Sword
"Azieran: Oathbreaker's Promise" in Flashing Swords
"Azieran: The Hollow Kings" in Flashing Swords
"Azieran: The Harvester" in AlienSkin
"Azieran: Adairos" in Tower of Light Fantasy
"Azieran: Savior in a Flask" in Magic and Mechanica by Ricasso Press
"Azieran: The Travelers Four" in Black Dragon, White Dragon by Ricasso Press
"Azieran: The Breaking of Hell's Bones" in Black Sails by 1018 Press
"Azieran: Distilling the Essence" in Sails and Sorcery by Fantasist Enterprises
"Azieran: Crestfallen in Mal'kyrrik" serialized novella in Forgotten Worlds 
 
+ others
 
 
 
 

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  		   Posted 12/27/2007 11:16 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I think it comes from another thread, in which everyone who wasn't Thirdy Lopez, apparently overwhelmed by Thirdy's domination of the Brag page, decided that it was impossible that he be only one person, and changed all our names to Thirdy. This one seems to have stuck...

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  		   Posted 12/28/2007 7:05 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.

Back to the question at hand...

How about Initiates, Adepts, or Acolytes?

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  		   Posted 12/30/2007 5:58 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
recruit, novice, neophyte, tenderfoot, inceptor... those are the best picks I could find from my thesausrus

 

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  		   Posted 12/30/2007 11:49 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
wikipedia might give you some ideas. If the shamen are minor characters, alcolyte, novice or aspirant might work.

If they are important to the story and appear in much of it, you might try chosing an amimal guide type, like, say, birds, and naming the neophytes fledgelings, ect., or wolves, and naming them cubs.

You could try using a classification system that reflects spirits, like "the unguided" for shaman that lack a spirit guide, or reflects a system of value, like gemstones, weather, or

power sources that a shaman might tap into, like nature spirits, water, wind, ect. The alcolytes would be zephyres, ect.

You might also look at systems of gaming and see how they rank shamen or clerics.
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Charles Gramlich
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  		   Posted 1/1/2008 3:32 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Apprentice?

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Lyn
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  		   Posted 1/1/2008 1:28 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Grasshopper.

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erazmus
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  		   Posted 1/1/2008 1:46 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
You make up a plausable term that basicly means "Apprentis Shaman".

Mike

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"An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern" in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises:

www.fantasistent.com/books/anthologies/BASH.php
"Stains" in Tales of the Talisman 3-1 www.zianet.com/hadrosaur/index.html
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