The term sigil may refer to: A seal (device) or signet ring. A type of symbol used in magick. See sigil (magic) In some programming languages, a symbol that must be attached to a variable name. See sigil (computer programming). A city in the Dungeons & Dragons setting Planescape. Other related archivesDungeons & Dragons, Planescape, magick, programming languages, seal (device), sigil (computer programming), sigil (magic), signet ring, sym

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Sigil

A magickal seal or gylph.

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SIGIL: old word for seal; those written symbols related to spirits, etc. of each planet.

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Sigil, the "City of Doors", is located atop the Spire in the Outer Planes. It has the shape of a tire; the city itself is located on the inside of the ring. There is no sky, simply an all-pervasive light that waxes and wanes to create day and night; over the edge of the ring is an infinite, impenetrable void. Sigil cannot be entered or exited save via portals; although this makes it quite safe from any would-be invader, it also makes it a prison of sorts for those not possessing a portal key. Thus, many call Sigil "The Bird Cag ...

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Planescape, Planescape - Cosmology, Planescape - Sigil, Planescape - Factions, Planescape - The Faction War, Planescape - Sects, Planescape - Published material

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Cross Generation Entertainment, or CrossGen, was an American comic book publisher. CrossGen - Overview. In 1998, Tampa, Florida-based entrepreneur Mark Alessi founded a comic book publishing company based not on the prevailing superhero trend but on a variety of genres, with characters nonetheless sharing a single fictional universe. Most of the titles in the CrossGen Universe, or Sigilverse, involved characters who had mysteriously gained a sigil marking on their body, granting them unusual powers.< ...

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Chaos Magick is a relatively new form of ritual and empty-handed magic, utilizing paradigm shifting and inhibitory or excitatory states of consciousness, called "gnosis," not limited to but including meditation, chanting, spinning, dancing, drug use, pain or orgasm. Practitioners hold that they can shape reality using this form of magic. Chaos magic - Pre-History. Austin Osman Spare was initially involved with the Golden Dawn tradition, and its offshoots such as the O.T.O and Aleister Crowley's Argenteum As ...

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Austin Osman Spare (December 30, 1886 - May 15, 1956) was an English artist and magician. He was the son of a London policeman. As a child, he showed an affinity for art, and he briefly attended evening classes at Lambeth Art School. At the age of 13, he left school to become an apprentice to a stained glass maker, Powell's of Whitefriars Street. During his teen years, his fascination for the occult grew apace, heavily influencing the work he produced. In May 1904 one of his drawings was exhibited at the annual Royal Academy exhibition in Lond ...

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Urd (ウルド Urudo) is a character in the popular Oh My Goddess! manga and anime, voiced by Toma Yumi (冬馬由美). Urd Oh My Goddess! - Biography. Urd is Belldandy's older sister and is the second Goddess to appear to Keiichi. Urd ranks as Goddess second class, limited license, management category simmilar to her youngest sister Skuld. She is also a self-appointed Goddess of love, though she has proven she is not cut out for such a post as she tries to solve every problem b ...

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SIGIL: Magically oriented seal, sign, glyph, or other device used in a magickal working. Ones you create yourself are the most effective. Sigils can be used on letters, packages, clothing, etc.

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SIGIL: A magically oriented seal, sign, glyph, or other device used in a magickal working. The most powerful sigils are those that you create yourself. Sigils can be used on letters, packages, clothing, on paper tucked in your pocket, etc.

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Sigil - A magickal oriented seal,sign,glyph,or other device used in magickal workings.The most powerful sigil are those that you create yourself.

(See also: Sigil, Pagan, Wicca Pagan Dictionary)

A magically oriented seal, sign, glyph, or other device used in a
magickal working.

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A 'hypersigil' is an extended piece of artwork, be it a novel, song, dance etc, that is created with a similar intent as a sigil. People attempting to create a hypersigil optimally want it to allude to and be referenced by multiple other artworks to reinforce its 'strength.' The term was possibly coined by Grant Morrison. He used the word to describe his purpose in writing the comic book series The Invisibles. Morrison considers it the key to a memetic complex ...

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Sigil magic, Sigil magic - Hypersigils, Sigil magic - Other Uses

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Sigil was created by Mark Alessi and Gina Villa. The original creative team consisted of writer Barbara Kesel, the Lai Brothers, Ben on pencils and Ray on inks, and Wil Quintana coloring. Over the years, this line-up has changed several times. Sigil comics - Writers. Barbara Kesel Mark Waid Chuck Dixon - Dixon re-energized the series by bringing a widescreen style of writing, with a focus on high action, explosions, and large panels of art ...

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In 1998, Tampa, Florida-based entrepreneur Mark Alessi founded a comic book publishing company based not on the prevailing superhero trend but on a variety of genres, with characters nonetheless sharing a single fictional universe. Most of the titles in the CrossGen Universe, or Sigilverse, involved characters who had mysteriously gained a sigil marking on their body, granting them unusual powers. The various CrossGen series included space opera (Sigil); magical fantasy fiction (Mystic); folklore-esque fantasy (Meridi ...

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Sigil starred Samandahl Rey, a former soldier for the Planetary Union. Years ago, he and his good friend Roiya Sintor were laid off from the army thanks to cut-backs, and had since became mercenaries. The pair were “vactioning” on the pleasure world of Tanipal when the series began. While on Tanipal, Sam and Roiya meet a mysterious orange eyed-man named JeMerik Meer and an attractive beauty called Zaniatti Oribatta. It was just as the four had gathered that a Sauri ...

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In some programming languages, a similar notation now called sigils is built into the language and enforced by the compiler. For example, in BASIC, name$ names a string and count% names an integer, and in Perl, $name refers to a scalar value while @namelist refers to a list of values. Sigils have the notable advantages over Hungarian notation that they implicitly define the type of the variable without need for redundant declaration, and are also ...

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Where Systems notation and Apps notation differ is in the purpose of the prefixes. In Systems Hungarian notation, the most common form, the prefix encodes the actual data type of the variable. For example: ulAccountNum : variable is an unsigned long integer szName : variable is a zero-terminated string Apps Hungarian notation doesn't encode the actual data type but rather, it gives a hint as to what the variable's purpose is, or what it represents. rwPosition ...

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In 1998, TSR published Faction War, an adventure that effectively closed the book on Planescape as it was then and ending the product line. The culmination of several adventures leading up to that point, the Faction War brought an end to the factions' control of the city. Instigated by the power-hungry Duke Rowan Darkwood, factol of the Fated, in a bid to dethrone the Lady and rule Sigil himself, the war spread throughout the city before the Lady of Pain, with the aid of a group of adve ...

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The mnemonics for pointers and arrays, which are not actual data types, are usually followed by the type of the data element itself: pszOwner : pointer to zero-terminated string rgfpBalances : array of floating-point values While Hungarian notation can be applied to any programming language and environment, it was widely adopted by Microsoft for use with the C language, in particular for Microsoft Windows, and its use remains largely confined to that area. Thus, many commonly-seen constructs of H ...

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