Glamour

[deccan]

Alneyan said:
Dominions is not the first game to use glamour in this meaning either: at least a few fantasy roleplaying games (pen and paper) use the word in relation with Fey beings (and assorted creatures).

White Wolf's Changeling most conspicuously.

[Arralen]

Chaosiums "King Arthur Pendragon" .. around 1980 or something.

And they "borrowed" it, too, since it is the "historically correct term".

Actually, this sidhe/fay/fomorian ability is more than mere illusion, it's something about altering reality, or switching reality (they're all from some "otherworld", after all)

E.G.:
You meet some nice folks on a clearing.
You sit down with them and have a meal 'til late in the evening, lets say some really gorgous looking, smelling, tasting bread.
After that, you fell asleep.

Upon awakening the next morning, you find out that the strange folk is gone .. and that the bread has turned into stone - again.

Obviously, you wouldn't have been able eat stone, even if it looked like bread. So, under glamour, it must have had different pyhsical properties.

Another example:
There's a story about Merlin marching Kin Ban's army over 165 miles within two or three days, supposedly through some misty "otherworld" what shortened the length of path considerably.


Mmmmhhmm .. thinking about it - today's use of the word doesn't seem to be to much "off" - it's just that most people do not understand it anymore:

Glamour still is an enchantment/bewitchment which changes the laws of physics and logics in a limited place for limited time, beyond the comprehension of mere mortals, isn't it?

[Agrajag]

Just for fun, I ran "Glamour" through an English-Hebrew online translator.
What did I get?
In translation to english it will be:
Glow\Glamour(The hollywood style), Magic.
Interesting, don't you think?

[Manuk]

Then it´s disguise or something, but whenever I see my Van´s I have to say they deserve to be called glamourish in the sex appealing kind of meaning. (they just have to remove the helmet. They are gils, right?)