Definition of Sorcery

Sorcery is a technical system in which the user does not operate power directly, but completes a structure of conditions and symbols to induce external power to act. The source of power is most often set as something outside human control — spirits, demons, transcendent concepts, the laws of the world.

Where magic operates on mana and martial arts operates on bodily and inner-energy training, sorcery operates on the structure 'meet conditions → activate → pay cost.' The user is less the owner of the power than 'the one who completes the activation conditions.'

Because of this, sorcery inherently carries instability and risk, and its social reception often combines respect and fear in the same breath.