Used to be, a lot of the classic spells were named for their creators (who, as often as not, were the Lake Geneva PCs).
Of course, Pathfinder being an OGL game and Golarion not even being in the same cosmology as Greyhawk et cetera, we can't have the old names back. But... there are now a bunch of established historical casters of note.
What spells did the great wizards of the Elder Days create and stamp so firmly with their legends that even now they're still remembered? The Runelords may be too far in the past even for their names to be remembered properly... but what of Geb's horrid wilting? Jatembe's phantom steed?
(Obviously the core books are setting neutral, but it would be nice to have a few such notes in the Companions or Chronicles.)
Used to be, a lot of the classic spells were named for their creators (who, as often as not, were the Lake Geneva PCs).
Of course, Pathfinder being an OGL game and Golarion not even being in the same cosmology as Greyhawk et cetera, we can't have the old names back. But... there are now a bunch of established historical casters of note.
What spells did the great wizards of the Elder Days create and stamp so firmly with their legends that even now they're still remembered? The Runelords may be too far in the past even for their names to be remembered properly... but what of Geb's horrid wilting? Jatembe's phantom steed?
(Obviously the core books are setting neutral, but it would be nice to have a few such notes in the Companions or Chronicles.)
I'd like to see such a list of personalized spells too. Presumably the spells in the Corebook and even the APG and UM etc... are all things that could be discovered independently or lost and recovered or rediscovered many times over. So it wouldn't make sense to me that there would necessarily be a single wizard's name associated with, say, "Magic missile" or "Fireball." However, I would think these generic spells might have individualized versions that would be named after their creators - the game mechanics would be the same but the fluff would be particular to them. So for instance, a magic missile spell named "Willow's Big Bag O' Knives" wherein the caster brings forth a group of knives out of a bag or pack.
"Willow's Big Bag O' Knives"
You have excellent taste. :)
It occurs to me that one particular Core spell should definitely have a tag, to fit one of the very few hinted at crossovers: Tashanna's (uncontrollable) hideous laughter. ^.^
EDIT: And if I had my druthers, all the mage's x spells (formerly Mordenkainen's x) would be attributed as "Jatembe's" or "Old-Mage's." Jatembe's faithful hound. Old-Mage's sword. Jatembe's disjunction. Et cetera.
