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“Sorcery has no bounds or limits, except those that are put in place by the practitioner. It is the Study of Raw Power and often of Dark Energies. It stems from an Inherent need to delve into the deepest and darkest parts of One’s Self and although it may be dangerous and painful to Realise your Primal fears and desires it is well worth the effort”.

I was somewhat disappointed but not surprised to see so little interest in this category. I know that information is hard to find but so is anything that is worth the effort.

Although this is not the Path for everybody I hope that at least some of you are interested.

I am therefore inserting a basic description.

EDIT - text reduced to normal size. Mediocracy 01/04/2005

Sorcery is the need to study the deepest and darkest parts of ones self. Through understanding their primal desires, obscure passions, and emotionality the practitioner than draws on his or her own Raw Power. Most Sorcerers adopt an aggressive stance in their magical works. They tend to ignore whether or not they use their power for “good” or “evil, and often dismiss such concepts from their lives altogether.

Sorcery cares not what it changes.... it simply changes

Central to sorcery are Balance and Polarity within ones self, this can then be transferred to the world around us. The sorcerer is an expert at bending things to their own will. The most common way of achieving this is by using Twilight – this is a realm of the mind which is characterized by its extreme distortive properties, roiling energies, and occurrences bizarre enough to shock even the calmest, most accepting individuals. The practitioner can make changes in this shadow world that will then manifest themselves in the everyday world.

The unique art known as Sorcery is one which knows no bounds and has no limits, except those which are allowed by the user.

Another aspect of Sorcery is Glamour. This grants its wielder immense powers of persuasion. Ultimately it changes the way People Perceive the Person that is using it. It can Instill fear and create harmony. Oh and if you wish to temporarily change your appearance it can be useful to.

Hope this was some Help

This post has been edited by mediocracy: Apr 1 2005, 09:18 AM

That's what I do. Charms are there to manipulate people's perceptions. Subtlety makes things easier. Turning invisible in any practical form would be REALLY difficult.

That really depends on what kind of invisibility you trying to achieve, (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Invisibility- The ability to avoid being seen or noticed by observers.

There's a form of invisibility where the subject can be seen by the naked eye, but the mind doesn't register it as being important, and thus unnoticable. This is known as the Tarnhelm Effect.

Imagine going into a room where you know you don't belong there, but everyone else in the room thinks you do. That's an example of the Tarnhelm Effect.

The above example has happened to me on a couple of occassions: One time when I was a kid, I was wondering around the prosthetic limb shop of a children's hospital. I knew I wasn't suppose to be wandering around in there, but no one really noticed me there. I didn't sneak, I didn't scurry around, I simply walked around like I had a reason to be there. So everyone treated me like I belonged there (Even had a couple of head nods like they knew, and they didn't)!

Finally, the Effect wore off and one guy snapped out of it and yelled "Hey, you don't belong here," but by that time I had already seen everything in the room. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blush2.gif)
That was the Tarnhelm Effect in action, at a time I didn't even know what it was. Personally, I find this form of invisibility fairly easy to achieve.

Here's a good site where one Chaote explains the Tarnhelm Effect in more depths:

A Chaote's description of the Tarnhelm Effect

This post has been edited by mediocracy: Apr 2 2005, 01:42 AM