Sorcery

== Magia vs. Goetica ==
There are two forms of magic. Magia is magic simply by having magic powers. You do the magic thing as directly as you move your fingers, or at least as directly as you speak a language you are fluent in. Goetica is a matter of pacts and rituals and incantations and, really, amounts to getting supernatural beings to do magical things for you. It depends on something else's magia.
Magia can be good or evil, just like any natural ability. Goetica strongly slants evil, but that is simply because the supernatural beings that are willing to take part in it are almost always infernal. Innocent goetica is a theoretical possibility, but not much of an historical reality.
== Irreversibility ==
Sorcery has its limits. Certain changes of state are irreversible in this setting, barring miracle, including:
* Fay Marking. Mortals can be turned into fays, but not vice versa.
* Adam's Marking. A creature (usually a fay) may acquire our capacity for all knowledge, good and evil, but they cannot lose it, cannot un-know it.
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