Sorcery 101: Difference between revisions

* [[Boomerang Bigot]]: Pat. He grew up in the Mage Council, and organization which teaches its members that most supernatural creatures -- including shapeshifters, blood bonds, and even the more harmless demons -- are inherently evil. Fraternization with them is treason, and grounds for execution. Now that he's a vampire, he hasn't dropped those beliefs. Even though the Council wants to kill him.

* [[Break Her Heart to Save Her]]: ''Cruelly'' inverted.

* [[Canis Latinicus]]: The spells, and the language of Nistay.

* [[Cast From Lifespan]]: Regular use of magic takes about ten to twenty years off the user's life. Danny, whose body is kept in a mostly constant state via his blood bond with Seth, is immune to these effects. Other magic users, such as Ally and Pat's late wife... not so much.

** ...Like Seth telling Danny that he could make him want him if he wanted to...much to Danny's horror.

* [[Incendiary Exponent]]: Suffice it to say that the one spell Danny can cast ends in [[Playing With Fire|"Incende"]].

* [[Jerkass]]: Where to begin? Pat, the bitter and misanthropic vampire prone to making [[Fantastic Racism|racist]] remarks to one of the nicest characters in the series, though he [[Jerkass Woobie|retains some sympathy]] because of his vast stores of self-loathing and angsty backstory. Cal, Ally's former [[Guardian Angel]], is just as prone to [[Fantastic Racism]], but without anything to make up for it. Then there's Seth. Seth, who:

** Convinced a very drunk Brad that Ally was sleeping with her boss, and sent him off to fight a man who is, first, probably a very powerful demon, and second, the head of an extremely powerful and far-reaching organization that essentially governs the "dark" side of the supernatural world. [[For the Evulz|For no other reason than he thought it would be funny.]]

* [[Purple Eyes]]: A sign of a certain kind of magical ability, in the same vein that seers all have white streaks in their hair. In this case, it means that the person has a large amount of magical inherent magical power. This comes with perks (the ability to be good at whatever they do) and drawbacks (migraines and seizures if the magic isn't controlled properly; a heightened tendency towards arrogance which can, if left unchecked, lead to a raging god complex). Natalie, Danny's daughter, has them.

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Seth seems to live to be as audacious as possible. See: fingering a lady vampire in combat just to piss her off, his little speech to Danny about how he could make him beg Seth to [[Ho Yay|explore every inch of his body]], keeping an outwardly thirteen-year-old boy as his personal assistant...

* [[Shrouded in Myth]]: Seth.

* [[Smug Straight Edge]]: Brad's mother.

* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: In-universe example: Seth keeps a blood bond servant, whose aging, due to the effects of the blood bond, happens to have been arrested at around age thirteen. Although his true age is probably quite a bit higher, Ally still finds this creepy.

* [[The Unmasqued World]]: King Damien of Lynnbria, Danny's cousin, tried to create this pre-series when he revealed to the world that he's a werewolf. Most people just think he's crazy, and organizations like Alpha Phoenix work busily to get things back under wraps. On the other hand, people are much less surprised when they find out about the supernatural world. Connor is only about as surprised that Jeff is a werewolf as Jeff is surprised that Connor is gay. Danny's now ex-girlfriend took the whole thing quite well, [[Arbitrary Skepticism|until she met an angel.]] And Danny's students talk about him practicing sorcery with only slightly less casualness than they would talk about him parasailing.

* [[Witch Species]]: Mages.