Why this word is great
SORTILEGER — [Noun] A magician, especially one who practices divination or sorcery. From Old French sortilege ("divination, sorcery"), from Latin sortilegium ("divination by lots"), from sors ("lot, fortune") + legere ("to choose") + -er (agent suffix). Unlike "magician" (a broad term for any wielder of tricks or enchantments) or "diviner" (a seeker of omens, unbound to arcane craft), the sortileger is a figure steeped in the ritualistic, the clandestine—one who reads fate in the fall of bones, the scatter of runes, the whisper of smoke. Picture the flicker of candlelight on a table of carved ivory lots, the slow unspooling of a knotted cord, the sudden stillness of a room when the cards turn just so. To name someone a sortileger is to admit the world might yet hold pockets of the inexplicable.