Sorcerer
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Gaming
- Sorcerer (role-playing game)Sorcerer (role-playing game)Sorcerer is an award winning occult-themed indie role-playing game written by Ron Edwards and published through Adept Press. The game focuses on sorcerers who summon, bind, and interact with demons, which are powerful non-human entities who work with and against the sorcerer.-Setting:The game has...
, a 2002 tabletop role playing game made by Ron Edwards - Sorcerer (video game), a 1984 interactive fiction computer game made by Infocom
- Sorcerer (Dungeons & Dragons)Sorcerer (Dungeons & Dragons)The sorcerer is a playable character class in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. A sorcerer is weak in melee combat, but a master of arcane magic, the most generally powerful form of D&D magic. Sorcerers' magical ability is innate rather than studied...
, a character class in the game Dungeons & Dragons - Wizard (character class)Wizard (character class)The Wizard is a type of magical character class in certain role-playing games and computer role-playing games. Wizards are considered to be spellcasters who wield powerful spells, but are often physically weak as a trade-off. Wizards are commonly confused with similar offensive spellcasting...
, a class found in several roleplaying games
Music
- Sorcerer (Miles Davis album), 1967
- Sorcerer (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the 1977 film
- The SorcererThe SorcererThe Sorcerer is a two-act comic opera, with a libretto by W. S. Gilbert and music by Arthur Sullivan. It was the British duo's third operatic collaboration. The plot of The Sorcerer is based on a Christmas story, An Elixir of Love, that Gilbert wrote for The Graphic magazine in 1876...
, a 1877 comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan - "Sorcerer", a song by Stevie Nicks on the album Trouble in Shangri-LaTrouble in Shangri-La-Videos:Two promotional videos were shot for single releases; "Every Day" features Nicks performing in an enchanted forest setting, and "Sorcerer" featured Nicks with Sheryl Crow, both playing guitars in a straight forward performance set in a room where the lyrics to various Nicks songs magically...
- "The Sorcerer", a song by Herbie HancockHerbie HancockHerbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...
Other uses
- Sorcerer (film)Sorcerer (film)Sorcerer is a 1977 thriller adventure film, produced and directed by William Friedkin, starring Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal and Amidou. It is the second remake of the 1953 French film Le Salaire de la Peur ....
, a 1977 jungle adventure film - The Sorceror (film)The Sorceror (film)The Sorceror is a 1932 German drama film directed by Martin Frič and Karel Lamač. It is a German screen adaptation of Edgar Wallace's thriller The Ringer, and is not to be confused with the 1964 remake of the same title, Der Hexer.-Cast:...
, a 1932 German film - The Sorcerers, a 1967 British science fiction/horror film
- Sorcerer (operating system), a Linux distribution
- The Sorcerer (cave art)The Sorcerer (cave art)The Sorcerer is one name for an enigmatic cave painting found in the cavern known as 'The Sanctuary' at Trois-Frères, Ariège, France, made around 13,000 BC. The figure's significance is unknown, but it is usually interpreted as some kind of great spirit or master of the animals...
, an enigmatic cave painting in 'The Sanctuary' cavern, Ariège, France - Exidy SorcererExidy SorcererThe Sorcerer was one of the early home computer systems, released in 1978 by the videogame company, Exidy. It was comparatively advanced when released, especially when compared to the contemporary more commercially-orientated Commodore PET and TRS-80, but due to a number of problems including a...
, a home computer system released in 1978 - The Dark Tower: The Sorcerer, a comic book
- Charodei, a 1982 Soviet comedy film
- Sorcerer (moth), a moth of the Noctuidae family
- Sorceror (horse)Sorceror (horse)Sorceror was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who broke down in the 1998 Jim Beam Stakes. Another horse, Time Limit, also broke down and was euthanized in that race. The three-year-old colt was trained by Hall of Famer Jack Van Berg and owned by Jim McIngvale, a Texas-based mattress manufacturer...
(1995–1998), American Thoroughbred racehorse
See also
- Sorceress (disambiguation)
- SourcerySourcerySourcery is the fifth Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, published in 1988. On the Discworld, sourcerers - wizards who are sources of magic, and thus immensely more powerful than normal wizards – were the main cause of the great mage wars that left areas of the disc uninhabitable. Men born the...
, the fifth Discworld novel