Like "banderole," this word is sometimes used for the scrolls that function like speech bubbles in Renaissance art. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this English word of Greek origin that historically described cases for relics. In the King James Version, Jesus attacks the Pharisees for “making broad” objects denoted by this word, which are described as tefillin in Hebrew.
ANSWER: phylactery [or phylacteries]
[10e] Instead of Torah scrolls, the phylactery of a lich contains his soul in the world of this pencil-and-paper RPG published by Wizards of the Coast, whose gameplay is managed by a DM.
ANSWER: Dungeons & Dragons [or D&D; or DnD]
[10h] This writer helped to repopularize the Old English-derived word "lich" in stories such as "The Empire of the Necromancers," which pushed him above Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft as the most morbid of the "Big Three" contributors to Weird Tales.
ANSWER: Clark Ashton Smith [prompt on Smith]
<Other Academic - Other Academic>