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===Tradition Skills===
 
===Tradition Skills===
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* '''Animal Ken:''' Understanding the signs of animals - and the gods of those animals - is a vital aspect of the Craft. Many witches have an animal familiar that grants them insight into certain aspects of their practice.
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* '''Empathy:''' Understanding the nuances of others is vital to the successful practice of the Craft, and the empathic witch can discover what someone wants from them not from what they say, but from what they do not.
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* '''Expression:''' Witchcraft is quite poetic, with beautiful invocations, songs and chants enwrapped in its practice. The skilled witch should be passionate in her speech and prayers.
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* '''Survival:''' Understanding of the natural cycles of the world, herbal recognition, an understanding of the weather and similar knowledges fall within this Skill, and are all vital to an understanding of witchcraft.
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* '''Occult:''' Lengthy correspondences, an understanding of how the moon, the sun, the stars and the weather affect one's witchcraft, as well as the names of spirits and gods who have established pacts with the practice of witchcraft. This also encompasses the various means of divination witches use: runework, cartomancy and crystal-, fire- or cauldron-gazing.
  
 
===Praxis===
 
===Praxis===

Revision as of 19:53, 22 July 2007

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[Origins and Information]

Prerequisites

Tradition Skills

  • Animal Ken: Understanding the signs of animals - and the gods of those animals - is a vital aspect of the Craft. Many witches have an animal familiar that grants them insight into certain aspects of their practice.
  • Empathy: Understanding the nuances of others is vital to the successful practice of the Craft, and the empathic witch can discover what someone wants from them not from what they say, but from what they do not.
  • Expression: Witchcraft is quite poetic, with beautiful invocations, songs and chants enwrapped in its practice. The skilled witch should be passionate in her speech and prayers.
  • Survival: Understanding of the natural cycles of the world, herbal recognition, an understanding of the weather and similar knowledges fall within this Skill, and are all vital to an understanding of witchcraft.
  • Occult: Lengthy correspondences, an understanding of how the moon, the sun, the stars and the weather affect one's witchcraft, as well as the names of spirits and gods who have established pacts with the practice of witchcraft. This also encompasses the various means of divination witches use: runework, cartomancy and crystal-, fire- or cauldron-gazing.

Praxis

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Correspondences

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Higher Mysteries

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