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Shellfire vs Spellfire - What's the difference?

shellfire | spellfire |

As nouns the difference between shellfire and spellfire

is that shellfire is artillery bombardment while spellfire is the exchange of shots or explosive blasts of spells (from a wand, staff, etc.) as in magical combat.

shellfire

English

Noun

(shellfires)
  • Artillery bombardment.
  • :We were pinned down by shellfire . If the artillery hadn't run out of shells to shoot at us we would have been wiped out.

    • See also

    * shell (military weapon sense)

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    spellfire

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (fantasy) The exchange of shots or explosive blasts of spells (from a wand, staff, etc.) as in magical combat.
  • * 1995 , Lucy Sussex, Judith Raphael Buckrich, She's fantastical (page 191)
    • Just the tiniest speck of spellfire pushed into his palm.
  • * 2001 , Sean K. Reynolds, Angel Leigh McCoy, Duane Maxwell, Magic of Faerun
    • She gains one level of spellfire energy for every spell level absorbed and can store a number of spellfire energy levels equal to her Constitution.
  • * 2009 , Laura Anne Gilman, Flesh and Fire (page 370)
    • Jerzy watched the two of them, coming to Agreement over the flickering tendrils of spellfire , and felt something twist in his gut.

    See also

    * gunfire * spellwork * spellcraft * spell model * spell formula