The Name-Speaker

“It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's hand and the wisdom in a tree's root: they all arise together. My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. 

There is no other power. No other name.”  - A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K Le Guin

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The Name-Speaker is a free expansion class for Adam Koebel and Sage LaTorra's Dungeon World, inspired by the presentation of naming magic in Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea books. 

Her books were a constant presence in my childhood and adolescence, and shaped the way I think about fantasy and move through the world. 

Vale Ursula. We are poorer without you.