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-====== Magical Classes, Covens & Witch Families======
-This is a snapshot of all types of magical classes in the Mercyverse.
-===== How to Read the Format: =====
-**Name**: Alphabetical by type. \\
-**IA**: Initial Appearance or Mention (Book or Short Fiction) - Link will lead to series or short fiction summaries and snapshot.\\
-**Characters Affiliated as this Magical Class** - Link will lead to individual character pages with expanded details. \\ \\
-**Known Characteristics & Information **
-  * Broken Down by Series/Short Fiction with page notation
-===== A =====
-===== B =====
-====Black Witch====
-[[Black Witch]]
-====Blessed====
-**Blessed**\\
-===== C =====
-====Cornick Witches====
-[[Cornick Family Witches]]
-===== D =====
-===== E =====
-===== F =====
-===== G =====
-====Gray Witch====
-[[Gray Witch]]
-===== H =====
-===== I =====
-===== J =====
-===== K =====
-====Kabbalah====
-[[Kabbalah]]
-====Kikimora Witches====
-[[Kikimora Family Witches]]
-===== L =====
-===== M =====
-===== N =====
-===== O =====
-===== P =====
-===== Q =====
-===== R =====
-===== S =====
-====Shaman====
-[[Shaman]]
-====Skinwalker====
-[[Skinwalker]]
-====Sorcerer====
-[[Sorcerer]]
-===== T =====
-===== U =====
-===== V =====
-===== W =====
-====Wild Magic====
-[[Wild Magic]]
-====Witch====
-[[Witch]]
-====Witchborn====
-[[Witchborn]]
-====Witchbound====
-[[Witchbound]]
-====White Witch====
-[[White Witch]]
-====Wild Magic====
-[[Wild Magic]]
-====Wizard====
-[[Wizard]]
-===== X =====
-===== Y =====
-===== Z =====
-GENERAL SORCERER FACTS
-a sorcerer, someone who controls the demon by means of a bargain, is far more deadly; they may live undetected by the human population for yearsBB-134
-sorcerers sell themselves to demons for knowledge and powerBB-199
-eventually, the sorcerer will lose control, and the demon takes overBB-134
-GENERAL WITCHBLOOD FACTS
-GENERAL WITCHCRAFT FACTS
-History
-clans of witchesCW-213
-a bad time for all in Europe; the Inquisition had taken a terrible toll a couple of centuries before - and when it was over, the witches started fighting for power; only Napoleon kept them from exterminating each other entirelyCW-213
-the only Western European bloodline to survive the power struggle was the Torvalis line, which was interbred with the GypsiesCW-213
-the few witchblood families left in Europe during the Napoleonic Wars had quit killing each other, forced instead to protect themselves from the ravages of more mundane fightingCW-121
-witches were still born here and there into mundane families, but seldom had a tenth of the power of the old familiesCW-214
-the Eastern European and Oriental witches had never established the kind of dynasties the Western European witches hadCW-214
-they guarded their spells from each other; so each family tended to specializeCW-214
-witches are so jealous of each otherCW-219
-From Chat Transcripts:
-a witch is born to use magicChat 2007-11-03
-they are trained in spell usageChat 2007-11-03
-and they are usually born to different families who are witchesChat 2007-11-03
-some of the things witches can do to increase their power, is as corrupting as sorceryChat 2007-11-03
-witches do things with mind and body. Wizards have power over the physical -- and both do magic. The ends are sometimes the same, but the means are different. It's far easier to be a powerful wizard and still be a good person then it is to be a powerful witch.Chat 2008-07-27
-From Cry Wolf:
-witches and dead things went together; there were witches that didn't kill but they were far less powerful than their darker sistersCW-234
-witches often hired themselves outCW-181
-there were witches who regularly worked for the various law-enforcement agenciesCW-181
-most witches are human and not immortalCW-191
-magic and fire have an odd, synergistic effect sometimesCW-237
-likely the witches didn't know why it was forbidden for them to try to take a werewolf for a pet or familiar--not that most of them had the power to do itCW-239
-Black Witches
-they used the mind and body; anyone's mind and body; they toyed with things that were alive - or had been aliveCW-233
-a black witch/something evilCW-179
-a dark witch gains power from others' pain and sufferingCW-235
-black witches gained power by killing or torturing things: from flies to humansCW-233
-most witches of any power are black witchesSB-302
-they smell of it, some more than othersSB-302
-there are black witches who skirt the doing of actual evil; skirting evil is difficult, time-consuming, and requires a lot more from a practitioner than true black magic doesSB-302
-White Witches
-most white witches weren't powerful enough to be usefulCW-229
-it's hard to be a good witchCW-235
-white witches weren't so badCW-233
-people born to the witch families who have chosen to do no harmSB-301
-not very powerful because witch magic gets its power from death, pain, and sacrifice, and white witches have chosen to eschew thatSB-302
-Covens and Witch Families
-Torvalis line
-raise the deadCW-171
-Spell Casting
-imprisoning spells are pretty basicCW-189
-illusions were among the very basic tenets of witchcraftCW-174
-a strong enough witch can control any werewolf who doesn't have a pack to protect him; it is forbidden by witch law, but it is possibleCW-218
-it usually took witches a while to gain a hold on a lone wolfCW-232
-power circles: some witches used them to set guard spells to keep things they valued safe, and others used them to store power for drawing upon laterCW-234
-changing what the senses of other perceived was one of the major powers of the witchCW-234
-most of witchcraft is potions and spellsCW-236
-witches could hide in plain sight if they had some sort of hold on you; hide-me spellsCW-238
-a witch's creations did not survive their makerCW-280
-self-sacrifice--as when the witch uses her own blood to fuel a spell -- has some power, but it's difficult to work withHG-120
-power circles; some witches used them to set guard spells to keep things they valued safe, and others used to them to store power for drawing upon laterCW-234
-changing what the senses of others perceived was one of the major powers of the witchCW-234
-GENERAL WIZARD FACTS
-Wizards aren’t exactly commonSd-
-Sometimes I can fix things as well as move themSd-
-they played with nonliving thingsCW-233
-Wizards have power over the physical -- and both do magic. The ends are sometimes the same, but the means are different. It is far easier to be a powerful wizard and still be a good person than it is to be a powerful witch.
-Wizards aren’t exactly commonSd-
-A witch’s power centers on bodies and minds, flesh and blood. A wizard has power over the physicalSd-
-Most wizards have at least a little Gypsy bloodSd-