What is a Sorcerer / What is a Witch

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Where Sorcerers and Witches come from is a strange mystery that none who exsist now can properly explain. What is known, mostly by the Sorcerers, is that in essence they are human. Embedded in their gentic code is something a little extra. They carry an extra set of chromosomes that allow them the ability to tap into innate powers within their physiology. For most laymen this would appear to be the ability to do "magic" to create feats that seem miraculous or magical. The explanation is actually far less magical.

The extra chromosome they carry allows them to exploit the energy within their body to affect the world around them. Some might call this Pyromancy, Telekinisis, or Psychokinisis. What this energy is that they're manipulating or controlling is hard to quantify and despite the Cabals constant research they have yet to figure out what it is or how they collect it. They simply know that they can.

What makes their abilities even more strange is the fact that they can only be accessed through "spells". Yes "spells", spoken words that allow them to shape the energy in their body through concentration to create certain effects. If the Sorceror or Witch can not say the spell the energy can't be shaped or expelled. Some believe this to be a mental block, others believe that this draw back is written into their DNA as well. Be that as it may, it is a hard and fast rule, to do a "spell" a witch or sorcerer has to be able to speak it, whispered, or mouthed in some form or fashion the spell has to be spoken.

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What is the Difference between a Witch and a Sorceror?

Well that depends on who you ask. If you ask a witch she will tell you nothing at all. If you ask a Sorcerer he'll tell you about his superiority to the witch. What is known is the difference in how they cast spells. Sorcerer magic is innately offensive. There magic shapes itself to attack, fire spells that burn flesh, force spells that knock people back. This type of offensive magic is hard for the witch to do, the witches magic is innately defensive. Cloaking spells that hide the witch in plain sight, barrier spells that keep out attackers, shield spells that repel energy attacks. Though it isn't well known, some paticularly crafty witches have shown the ability to conquer some sorcerer spells but its rare and The Cabals take great pains to keep the witches in the dark about what they might be capable of.

BUT this is a two way street, Sorcerer's have a harder time casting defensive spells, their cloaking spells are incredibly weak, and they have no shield spells to speak of. As hard as it is for a Witch to learn Sorcerer spells its just as hard for a Sorcerer to learn witch spells if not impossible. Though you'll never hear a Sorcerer admit such.

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What is the Physiology of a Sorcerer and a Witch?

Well to be blunt, they are indistingushable from humans. Unless you knew what you were looking for their DNA would come up as human as anyone else. On closer inspection the extra chromosome would be noticed but most would disregard it as a simple family mutation. The researchers in the Cabal call their subset of humanity, "Homomagi" both witches and sorcerers are a part of this subset besides spellcasting the extra chromosome does several other things and affects the carriers in a few physiological ways.

Homomagi live two and a half times longer than regular humans. What this means is their aging process is retarded, their cells do not divide as aggressively as normal humans. Thus what appears to be a 50 year old man would actually be closer to a hundred. At the end of puberty this paticular abnormality seems to take effect. This is also the time when the Homomagi comes into his or her own power, though study has usually began since childhood on how to control their spell casting ability.

The Homomagi Chromosome is ALWAYS dominant, but this is where the differences between Witches and Sorcerers become apparent. If a Sorcerer were to mate with a human if he had a son his son would automatically be a sorcerer, but were he to sire a daughter she would be a normal human. The same goes for a witch, if she mates with a normal human her girl child will be a witch, if she has a son he will be human. There is no if ands or buts about this. Sons of witches and daughters of sorcerors in human/homomagi pairings do not carry the homomagi chromosome. They can not pass it on to a daughter or son, period. Why this is, no one quite knows.

Now here is where it gets muddled. To this day Witches and Sorcerers are taught that they can not have children together, and because of the animosity between the two this is rarely a problem or a hard myth to propogate. The secret..........the great secret? They can have children together, and the great secret the Cabal has spent much time and effort keeping.....is that the children of such pairings have access to both set of spells. But again, this is a great secret and one the higher ups in the Sorcerer Cabals hide from everyone.

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How do Sorcerers and Witches interact?

Well to be quite blunt, for the most part they do not. Its said that hundreds of years ago the witches and sorcerers were once one people. They worked in tandem and were respected in their various cultures. BUT about six hundred years ago that all changed. The Males of the species did something unspeakable.........they gave their female companions up to the masses. As christianity took hold in the world, and anything strange was considered the devil's work. Sorcerers gave up their mates, the witches, to the fiery stakes. In order to save themselves and what they considered their own species they allowed normal humans to hunt the witches to near extinction.

In response the witches went into hiding, their numbers dwinding to nearly nothing, they were only saved with the discovery of the new world. Their hatred for the Sorcerers knew no bounds forced into secrecy even here in the new world they cut themselves off from the Sorcerers and thus began a hatred and animosity that would span centuries. Though with the advent of technology and the loss of Christianity's hold on peoples minds, witches have become more numerous yet they still hide themselves from the general knowledge of the people.

Sorcerers for thier part consider themselves superior to witches in every way. Generally considering the witches to be weak in magic and unworthy of what little power they do have. In these modern days many Cabals will employ some witches in the hopes of learning their spells from them, usually to little success. But Sorcerers spend a great amount of resources ensuring that witches do not grow powerful in their own right for fear they may someday exact revenge on them for their old betrayal.

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How are Sorcerers organized?

Once upon a time Sorcerers were organized into Cabals, 500 hundred years ago there were nearly twenty. These Cabals were always hereditary divided into family names, but over the centuries and with the loss of the female of the species they've slowly dwindled, and petty arguments became wars and eventually the Cabals began to vanish until all that was left was The Merrick Cabal.

Underneath the Merrick there are still several families of sorcerers they're just the most powerful now, all the other sorcerer families answer to them in some form or another. The Merricks have become the boogeymen of the Sorcerer community, they ensure that their power remains secret destroying those who expose them, and bringing into their employ the most powerful. There is no sorcerer family they don't know about, and who doesn't owe them some fealty. They spend many resources ensuring they know every sorcerer bloodline, and keeping them in line no matter the cost.

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How are Witches organized?

Because Sorcerers long ago wrote off witches as little more than weaklings, they have allowed those who escaped the great burning to do as they pleased. What they don't realize is that the witches have come back in a strong way. There are far more families of witches out in the world then Sorcerers. Each family or families usually organize themselves into a Coven. They were the one's who brought the "Wicca" religion to the Americas, and it is under this religion that most operate. Mostly to explain their eccentricities to the outside world without raising suspicion about who or what they are.

Most usually run small businesses of some sort or another. And their families are always matriarchal, male children are still part of the family but are used to protect the witches. They serve as protectors of the family and at times the historians. The Females who carry the homomagi gene are allowed to follow whatever path they wish, but are always reminded of where their true alliances lay.

Any witch who chooses to work for the cabals are immediatly banned from any coven. And word travels fast when a witch is found to be in cohoots with the Cabal. They guard their spells jealously, and they guard their privacy just as well. Every witch is taught about the burning, and every witch knows to interact with the Cabal is to lose her family. And for most witches their family is all important to them. But here in the last few years the witches have become more organized and have deftly placed some witches within the cabal in hopes of perhaps stealing power from them. Few of these endeavors have come to fruition and more than one witch has disappeared into the Cabal never to be heard from again.