Witches

Witches are humans who practice witchcraft. They can be of either gender, and are usually granted their powers by Satan or another demon.

## Origin

The origins of black witchcraft date back to the times of the Old Testament, when Satan first started to tempt humans into worshipping and serving him instead of God. He promised that he would grant those who did incredible dark powers.

## Creation

A witch could be made in one of a few ways. By being born to a witch, learning magic from an already existing witch, signing Satan's tome, or by selling your soul to a demon.

Most witches are those who harness the power of a demon, or even the Devil himself, to practice witchcraft. Usually, the demon is found through a summoning ritual. When they appear, the human makes a deal with them in return for their power. While it is common for witches to have traded their souls, sometimes they instead murder for them to offer a different soul aside from their own.

## Overview

### Community

Most witches operate in covens. A coven is a gathering of witches who gather together for satanic worship, practices of witchcraft, the celebrations of holidays, and more. At certain meetings, Lucifer himself may appear to oversee the witches.

## Powers/Abilities

Witches can be very either weak or very powerful, depending on how they got their powers and their knowledge of the craft. Witches who only learned their abilities are the weakest of them, while ones granted power by Satan are the most powerful. Genetic witches fall somewhere in the middle. Of the satanic witches, their usual powers include:

* **Spell Casting:** Witches can cast powerful magical spells using incantations and gestures. Through them, Witches can access various supernatural powers such as:
	+ **Astral Projection:** Powerful witches can separate their soul from their body and send it to another location.
	+ **Object Conjuring:** Witches can use spells to magically form objects from nothing. Such spells can be used to create various objects such as needles, knives, or other tools of witchcraft.
	+ **Healing Powers:** With a ritual, a witch can heal various wounds and illnesses, even fatal ones.
	+ **Cursing**: Witches have the ability to curse humans. Curses affect a person in a negative manner, for example causing misfortune, and are truly evil acts of magic.
	+ **Illusion Casting:** Witches can manipulate the senses of others to make them percieve a false reality.
	+ **Immobilization**: A witch can immobilize any person and prevent them from moving or speaking through an incantation.
	+ **Mind Control**: Witches can control the behavior and even thoughts of others, forcing them to do their bidding.
	+ **Memory Manipulation**: Powerful witches can remove memories from humans, place false ones, or alter them.
	+ **Necromancy**: A very powerful witch can resurrect and control the dead. However, it will not be a true resurrection as they will return as mindless zombies, similar to voodoo.
	+ **Scrying:** Utalizing crystals, mirrors, or other reflective materials, witches are able to see into the near future and find the location of whoever they desire. Scrying is far easier to perform if the witch already knows the appearance of, or has something belonging to, the person they seek to find.
	+ **Enhanced Strength:** Empowered by spells, witches can possess superhuman strength.
	+ **Telekinesis**: Witches have the power to move things without touching them. The size of the things they can move depends on the power of the witch in question.
	+ **Teleportation:** Witches can gain the power to instantly appear in another location through supernatural means if they are powerful enough. However, teleportation over long distances is all but impossible for all but the most powerful of witches.
	+ **Defensive Warding:** They have the power to place protection spells and enchantments on places and people, shielding them from harm or from the senses.
* **Potion Brewing:** With the right materials, witches can brew special potions and elixirs that have powerful supernatural properties.
* **Invulnerability:** Exceptionally powerful witches have some invulnerability to usual forms of harm, such as stabbing and poison.
* **Life Longevity:** Powerful witches can live hundreds of years while maintaining a youthful appearance.

### Weaknesses

* **Distraction**: Preventing a witch from giving full attention to their spells will weaken the spell, or even render them ineffective entirely.
* **Iron**: Iron is able to repress the supernatural power of a witch, similar to most malevolent entiries, supposedly rendering them powerless.
* **Magic:** Despite being known for their use of magic, witches are still susceptible to the powers of magic like any other being.
* **Mortality:** Despite their mystical abilities, witches are still human and share many of the same weaknesses as any mortal being, such as age, disease, and decapitation. However, it is known that especially powerful witches can overcome these weaknesses through magic.