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Sympathetic Magic is a branch of magic that deals with forging connections, heavily tied to other branches such as enchantment,[1] luck, etc. A user of this type of magic is called a Sympath[1] or Sympathetic Mage.[2]

Methodology[]

A basic technique is to draw runes on items (although this is unnecessary with enough power) and recite three similarities between them and a target item, thus causing them to move in sympathy[1][3] or otherwise mimic the other, such as copying messages. Re-using the same parallels between objects tends to cause problems.[4]

Rose was able to move an item bound with her hair simply by pulling some hair out of her head, which was apparently a more painful varation on this.[5]

An advanced technique is to create a connection between a doll and a person, causing injuries inflicted on the doll to happen to the person.[1]

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Notable Users[]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Malfeasance 11.2
  2. ↑ Tools Schools
    Deals----------------------------------Sympath
    Sympathetic magic involves dealing with commonalities, links, and connections. Sympathetic mages can abuse connections or create ‘like’ things that are linked to a target. Subversive and subtle, their more powerful practices involve setting things in motion by way of a created object and then leaving the thing alone, hampering the enemy and distracting them from discovering access to the tool while the curse, hazard, or effect takes hold. - Pact Dice: The Practices - Wbow Version
  3. ↑ I willfully relinquished my presence on this mirror realm.
    I let the real world be reflected as it was.
    The Hyena spun lazily on the ground a few feet to my left.
    “Sympathetic magic,” I murmured.  I said a few words in latin, and I fed one spirit to the reflected sword.  “Shape, borne of the same goblin, delivers the same blows.”
    He heard me.  He snapped his head around.
    The real Hyena was still on the ground.
    I put my foot on the top of the reflected one, then kicked it.  It and the real Hyena skidded across the road, catching on a ruff of snow and skipping a foot and a half into the air, spiraling. - Excerpt from Malfeasance 11.4
  4. ↑ I pulled the book out of my waistband.

    While infusing the text with one more spirit I couldn’t afford to give, I recited a few words.  Three points of similarity.  Repeating the same ones tended to be a problem.

    Age.  The practitioner’s coat of arms.  The scuff mark on the back cover.

    I tore off the back cover, and laid it across the hood of the car.

    No pen, I’d have to make do.

    Drawing the Hyena, I began to carve letters out, as slowly and carefully as I could.  Rounded edges were harder. The paper cut, then turned black and brown where the blade had touched it.

    Rose,

    Behaims plan to back Alister.  They have weapon for him.  Must discredit or stop or attacks can become more serious, worse.

    Give permission?

    I didn’t sign my name.  No time.

    I threw the cover as far as I could get it, and I hoped the cover of the real book did something similar, within that library. - Excerpt from Malfeasance 11.3
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 The mirror wrapped in paper, bound in place with hair, lazily arcing through the air, might as well have been a bomb.

    The white of the paper around the mirror momentarily caught some of the light from the gray-black clouds overhead.  As if Conquest was reaching through.  Exulting.

    The mirror changed course, curving in the air.  It landed in soft snow, handle sticking up.

    I wasn’t the only one to turn to look at Rose, a distance away from Corvidae, fist held out to one side, expression grim.

    Her expression broke, head bowing a bit, eyes closing, hand going to the side of her head.

    “Wow,” one Behaim commented.  The girl that had been with Alister.  “Wow.  I don’t think I could have done that, and I have more hair to get a grip on.”

    “Yeah.  Ow,” Rose said.  “That hurt more than I thought it would.”

    It was too dark to make out, but she’d pulled out her own hair, and used sympathetic magic to connect to the hair that bound the paper to the mirror, also hers. - Excerpt from Sine Die 14.7
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