Ellis, also known as the linking sigil (/ˈsɪdʒəl/; pl. sigilia or sigils; from Latin sigillum "seal") is a symbol used in magic, more specifically chaos magic, to link locations, people and rituals into the ellis 'web'. Ellis, over the course of time, has also been said to have evolved into a thoughtform.
Ellis is a first name and surname of English origin. The surname was first recorded in 1202 in Lincolnshire, England.
The name Ellis may refer to:
Ellis (dates unknown) was an English cricketer who played for London Cricket Club in major matches during the 1730s. He was described in a contemporary report as London's "best bowler."
Ellis is mentioned in 1735 re two matches. He played in a single wicket match on Monday, 11 August 1735 for Four of London against Three of London at Kennington Common. On Saturday, 7 June 1735, he was due to play for London versus Surrey at Moulsey Hurst, but had to withdraw because of an injured finger. A contemporary report stated that he was London's "best bowler" and he was replaced by Cook of Brentford who was described as "one of the best bowlers in England".
As Ellis had established his reputation by 1735, he must have been active for some years previously and his career probably began in the 1720s. Very few players were mentioned by name in contemporary reports and there are no other references to Ellis.
The following is a list of the fictional characters featured in the 3D weapons-based fighting game series Battle Arena Toshinden, developed by Tamsoft and published by Takara.
Cupido made her first and only appearance in the Sega Saturn version of Battle Arena Toshinden, as both the "true" final boss of Story Mode and as an unlockable hidden character.
Cupido is an elite member of the Secret Society who secretly participated in the first Toshinden tournament for reasons unknown. She is highly aware of many characters' pasts and personal affairs and offers them cryptic advice upon defeat. She is later revealed to be the young sister of Ripper, a playable character in the Sega Saturn version of the second game. She is also known to have had a relationship with Sho Shinjo and is Subaru's mother. Cupido's whereabouts after the events of the first Toshinden game is never given any explanation, but it is likely that she may have died after the fall of the Secret Society, because Sho had left Subaru in Eiji's care after the events of Toshinden 3 and that Sho himself had told his young brother that he was the only family that Subaru had left.
Sigil may refer to:
Sigil /ˈsɪɡᵻl/ is a fictional city and the center of the Planescape campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.
Sigil was originally created for Planescape as the setting's "home base." According to Steve Winter in 30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons & Dragons, "A movable base, like a vessel of some sort (or an artifact, which was the original idea for the means of traversing the planes) wouldn't do it. It had to be a place that characters could come home to when they needed to, and it had to be central to the nature of the setting." Sigil's fifteen factions were created because, "Vampire: The Masquerade was a particularly hot game at [the] time and one of the ideas in it that we really liked was the clans. Jim Ward wanted to be sure that players had something to identify with and to give them a sense of belonging in this alien venue [Sigil]."
Scott Haring, in his review of the Planescape Campaign Setting for Pyramid, described Sigil as "a strange city with doors to every plane and every reality, and inhabitants from all those planes and realities living together in (more or less) harmony." Trenton Webb of British RPG magazine Arcane calls the city "splendidly bizarre" and declares that "Sigil, The Lady of Pain's citadel, is an elegant gaming construct, yet it can often feel a little hollow", feeling that life in Sigil should be "a swirl of plots, factions and sedition that leaves players' heads spinning, wounds bleeding and experience points tally in overdrive".Trenton Webb reviewed Uncaged: Faces of Sigil for Arcane magazine, rating it a 9 out of 10 overall.
In computer programming, a sigil (/ˈsɪdʒəl/) is a symbol attached to a variable name, showing the variable's datatype or scope, usually a prefix, as in $foo
, where $
is the sigil.
Sigil, from the Latin sigillum, meaning a "little sign", means a sign or image supposedly having magical power. In 1999 Philip Gwyn adopted the term "to mean the funny character at the front of a Perl variable".
The use of sigils was popularized by the BASIC programming language. The best known example of a sigil in BASIC is the dollar sign ("$
") appended to the names of all strings. Many BASIC dialects use other sigils (like "%
") to denote integers and floating point numbers and their precision, and sometimes other types as well.
Larry Wall adopted shell scripting's use of sigils for his Perl programming language. However, as Perl is a dynamically typed language, the sigils specify not fine-grained data-types like strings and integers, but the more general categories of scalars (using a prefixed "$
"), arrays (using "@
"), hashes (using "%
"), and subroutines (using "&
"). Perl 6 introduces secondary sigils, or twigils, to indicate the scope of variables. Prominent examples of twigils in Perl 6 include "^
", used with self-declared formal parameters ("placeholder variables"), and ".
", used with object attribute accessors (i.e., instance variables).