Stage magic

Tere Athlanere, who performs stage magic as "Tere the Magnificent".

Stage magic is a form of entertainment in which a performer simulates magical phenomena using primarily or exclusively sleight-of-hand techniques, misdirection, deception, mundane forms of illusion, and quick changes in costume.

A practitioner of stage magic is often called a stage magician, a distinct term from "magician", which can refer to practitioners of magic.

On Golarion

Despite the existence of real magic on Golarion, stage magic can be a viable profession for skilled performers.

Alchemists have developed items to enhance performances of stage magic, such as painless alchemist's fire or specialized smokesticks and thunderstones.

Varisians are renowned for their skills in stage magic, with many learning tricks from an early age. The Sczarni often apply such skills toward confidence schemes and pickpocketing, which had led to a negative stereotype of Varisians at large. The Varisian arts of fortune-telling are sometimes mistaken for, or derogatorily referred to as, stage magic despite their mystic and often uncanny accuracy.

Some kitsune are also naturally proficient at elements of stage magic.

Known stage magicians

See also: Category:Stage magicians

• Tere Athlanere, surgeon of the University of Lepidstadt who moonlights as a stage magician known as "Tere the Magnificent"
• Braedan Azperex, founder of the Fantasmagorium in Kintargo
• The Crascondo Company, a traveling band of performers whose possessions included a stage magician's cloak
• The Everbright Circus, a traveling carnival that included performances of stage magic
• Myrtrine "Myrrie" Mollern, a musician who incorporates stage magic into her performances
• Vaddrigan Pol

On distant worlds

In the Rue d'Auseil nexus of Carcosa, Leng ghouls produce reproductions of stage magic at a cabaret.

External links

• Magic (illusion) and Stage illusion (real-world practices) on Wikipedia