Circle of Sympathetic Lore
“Everything the Power of the World does Is done in a circle. The sky is round, And I have heard that the earth is round Like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, For theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again In a circle. The moon does the same And both are round. Even the seasons Form a great circle in their changing, And always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, And so it is in everything where The Power moves.”
— Black Elk, Medicine Man of the Oglala Sioux Nation
Introduction
The Circle of Sympathetic Lore also know as the Circle of Iron and Blood is Kiasyd ritual, as such it is a magic primordial in nature and result. To understand this concept better it is important to keep in mind that such magics draw power from two radically different sources of power. Like all vampires Kiasyd draw their power from blood, but they also draw much of their power from the Dreaming. Where these two forces meet chaos reigns and it is from this crux that the Kiasyd magician must forge an orderly working of magic. Unlike the more stable and staid sorceries of other blood magicians Kaisyd magic can be very volatile and often unpredictable to in its manifestation.