• @[email protected]
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    48 months ago

    Ditto, I had no idea. I knew them as the thing you had to find to defeat a lich in D&D.

    Sounds like it’s an insensitive term so I’ll try to stop using it that way.

    • @SheeEttin
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      28 months ago

      It’s not insensitive. It’s from Greek:

      First recorded 1350-400; from Late Latin phylactērium, from Greek phylaktérion “outpost, safeguard, amulet”

        • @SheeEttin
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          28 months ago

          I read their comment as not knowing the reference, not as being bothered.