What is "dweomer"

Usage examples of "dweomer".

Yet as he considered the problem, not one single dweomer warning came to him, only the generalized and normal fear that silver daggers, after all, often died young in battle.

Once, back in the Dawntime when the people of Bel had first come to Deverry from their original homeland across the eastern seas, the priests of the oak groves known as drwiddion had openly worked dweomer.

Like the way she ensouled that dweomer image of the wolf and sent it after Baruma - or did she tell you about that?

The Wildfolk swarmed round them both, gnomes and sprites and like crystals in the air, the sylphs, but she could strip the dweomer away, she realized, and see the man himself.

Camdel had been a quivering shrieking wreck, stick-thin and utterly mad from the tortures of those who followed the dark dweomer.

Although his vows forbade him to argue or plead, he could become her friend, and in time, she would see that the dweomer was in its own way perfectly naturalor he could hope she would.

Everywhere Rhodry walked, he heard the men talking of dweomer, and he could no longer cheerily dismiss their fears.

The full moon would only enhance the enchantment of that night, and Bruenor believed that he would capture a mighty spell indeed when he uttered the dweomer of power.

One of the many things bemusing Galrion these days was the way that Rhegor had chosen to settle so close to the Falcon clan and Brangwen, where Galrion could stumble across him and the dweomer both.

Even though he'd seen Aderyn fly many a time over the past years, there was just something about a shape-changer that creeped a man's flesh, even if that man had other dweomer himself.

It went slower than the wind, for the massive mythallar, the dweomer engine, could drive it in any direction decreed by the archwizards and city council.

A girl little older than a child, with a raw gift for dweomer, wandering unknowingly around the astral plane she might never stumble upon Dallandra's vigil again.

And he can do it again, even enhancing the previous dweomer to new heights.

Although ensorceling a person went against all the ethics of dweomer, Dallandra wasn't about to bring Jahdo home only to see him dead by morning.

For years the Dark Brotherhood had hoarded knowledge of the dweomer like some fat rich man gloating all grease-chin over his feasts and throwing only meagre scraps of stale bread and gristled meat to the beggars at his door.