• eestileib@sh.itjust.works
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    10 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.

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      10 months ago

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

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