I hate to be even more of that guy but the suffix 'mancer' has nothing to do with 'man' or 'mankind' but is derived from the Old French word "mancie," which itself comes from the Latin "mantia" and ultimately from the Greek "manteia," meaning divination. Therefore, "mancer" typically signifies someone who manipulates a certain element or force, often with a divinatory aspect.
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I hate to be that guy, but I will point out that "man" in English can mean both a male human and humankind in general.
As in "Man is a wolf to man": women too can be wolves and victims alike.
Or "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind": womankind is definitely included here.
Call it sexist. I even agree that it is. But the fact remains that, for historical and outdated patriarcal reasons, "man" in the English language, like in many others, does bear that meaning.
As for "man" being in "necromancer", I reckon it's like "fun" being in "fungi": you're not interpreting it right 🙂
Apparently there was not much distinguishing 'man' between men and women until after 1000AD, at least from the Germanic perspective.
are you saying that is wrong to say "huwomankind"?
necrOwOmancer
Necromancers imply the existence of necplatonics.
Necrowomancers imply the existence of Necrowowomancers.
Necrowomancers but it's just a group of peacocking early-2000s PUAs raising dead ladies, competing on corpse harem sizes.
-mancers empies the expertise in magic of it. like geomaner, biomancer, ,,,etc.