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In the ''World of Greyhawk'' campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game, Drawmij is an archmage. A founding member of the sorcerous conclave known as the Circle of Eight, Drawmij is reputed to live in an underwater fortress beneath the ''Azure Sea''. The name "Drawmij" is one of Gary Gygax's homages to a real-world person, Jim Ward.〔(Gygax's Anagrams, Puns, and Homages in the World of Greyhawk ) at greyhawkonline.com.〕 ==Creative origins== The name "Drawmij" entered ''Dungeons & Dragons'' canon through the spell ''Drawmij's Instant Summons'', and was formed by reversing "Jim Ward," the name of one of Gary Gygax's players. By Ward's own account, the spell originated during a session in Gygax's original Greyhawk campaign during which the players were stranded in a dungeon; Ward's character owned a magical item which would have rescued the party, but had left it in an inn before setting out. Ward remarked to Gygax that wizards should have access to a spell which allowed them to recall any item in their possession to their hand; Gygax promptly devised ''instant summons'', which did exactly that. There has been some confusion over whether Gygax created the name in homage to Ward or Ward's character; though it is known that Ward played a character named Drawmij at one time, some sources claim the name of the wizard he was playing at the time ''instant summons'' was created was "Bombidell," not Drawmij. This leaves two theories as to how the name got started: *Ward named his wizard character "Drawmij" from the outset, and the spell simply used the name of Ward's character. *Gygax devised the name for publication purposes, as the name "Bombidell" was derivative of the Tolkien character Tom Bombadil, and Ward subsequently created a new character, Drawmij. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Drawmij」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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