Below you will find some excerpts from an incredibly heavy tome written by one of my characters, it goes a little bit deep in the matter. It was a nice and long talk with my father that made me start this.
Of course, Blizzard did not provide such detailed information. This is just a -point of view- of one of my characters, Hungaro’s father in specific.
I hope this will enhance your mage roleplay experience, that’s all I want to provide.
[Book cover]
Conjuration, Evocation, and the Misconceptions
By João Viola
Page 4 of 1004
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There was a time when evocation and conjuration were the exact same thing, there was a time when there was no difference. “You are a conjurer, you evoked things. You brought them out into the world.” Well, conjuration -was- evocation, you conjured a being to send it out to do something.Evocation is an advanced form of conjuration or conjuration is an abridged form of evocation. It is the steps of the evocation without the full evocation. So what you’re getting is instead of working with it, learning about it, writing down the information and then evoking it, that step is being taken care of for you in the sense of building that connection to make it easier. It is basically the act of building bridges between you and the being you’re working with.
Evocation is the calling of a being and bringing them forth for a task to achieve something, it is a goal oriented concept. These methods have evolved quite a bit as well as the different viewpoints on them which will be covered further.
Evocation is bringing something for us ultimately to achieve a task and it’s based on the power of your authority to bring them into being. Ritual helps with it because it sets us in a mind frame and it sets us in a paradigm to help with the act of bringing them forth into action.
Conjuration is what I call an abridged version of evocation in which you are looking to bring a being into this realm on some level or rather make it connection with a being in the other realms and anchor that in this realm to a person, a place, or a thing. That is a very simple explanation of it. Technically, in the past, evocation and conjuration weren’t broke up because you evoked something and often then conjured it, linking it to an object so that you could call it forth later if need be. A lot of people still do that to this day and I don’t see anything wrong with it but I’m going to get into modern conjuration and how that differs.
Modern conjuration instead of evoking a being for the specific task you’re evoking it in such a way that it should be resonant with the person you’re either evoking it for or for yourself. So you’re seeking beings that are explicitly willing and overly joyous to be brought forth to the connection. This is very important because there is a big difference between willing, able, and powerful. You know you’re dealing with a being that is specifically skilled in certain areas that has information already written about and this is what we call a named being and that’s long-term evocation. A lot of beings that are conjured under the conjuration heading are suited for evocation, in fact, almost any being can be used with evocation, it strengthens the work of conjuration, that it actually empowers.
One of the biggest differences between conjuration and evocation is that a lot of conjuration is focused on a being that is compatible with another person as a friendly entity, as something that they would keep around and talk to and have influenced their mundane world on an emotional, psychological, and energetic feel. But it’s not evocation per say in the sense that in traditionally evocation concepts you are asking this being to accomplish something. That does fall under the evocation areas of conjuration but a lot of times what people are really looking for is a companion being, a familiar. The concept here is that with conjuration you’re focusing on resonance and compatibility more than anything else, and then the ability to accomplish a task becomes secondary because this being is going to have its energy linked to this realm even though they exist in multiple places at multiple times. Even though they have a vast area of focus they may be putting out there into the worlds. These things are vaster than we recognize and as a result they exist in many planes at one time. That’s why they can be here when we call for them.
In the end we are just trying to find terminology terms for things we don’t have terminology for. And I think it’s good because we need to so that we can understand and work with this method better. But we always need to recognize that we are using a very limited mind frame to comprehend a much faster understanding of things beyond anything we really can truly put down on paper.
…Page 145 of 1004
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So the difference between long term conjuration and evocation is that you’re not binding the being for any period of time because it doesn’t necessarily want to be. You can create a link that can be called upon, such as a ring or an item or even a soul link. But it doesn’t mean that their presence stays there, so in other words, as they’re projecting into this world in many places at many times they are not always projecting into this place into this time. Otherwise you would be dealing with that energy in this place in this time all of the time. It would be very overwhelming especially for these stronger beings. To do that, as a form of evocation preliminary in the conjuration. Short term evocation are named beings we call for when needed and otherwise we don’t expect their energy to be around and that’s a different type of binding, or bonding. Long term conjuration is where we expect them to be around. An example of this is the Golden Golem that we, the Order of Tutakis have. A golem which I’ve sent out to different clients, friends and family and such. He’s a very powerful being and he can accomplish certain tasks and that’s a good example of a familiar spirit that is a long-term conjuration.
…Page 238 of 1004
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With so many different conjurers being out there, there needs to be an awareness of that concept. Are you looking for the best match for the client? Or are you looking for the best match for the person being conjured for so that you have the best resonance, the best working together? Or are you looking for the most powerful to achieve a goal? Because they’re not always the same. There’s a difference and you’ve got to value what you need when on a group or in your own.Looking for something for a long-term evocation work means you’re looking for something that has resonance, it also has a lot more power to it from manifestation. Which means that it should be a little bit overwhelming for the conjurer or for the evoker when they first start. A lot of times I suggest to people that they ask their beings to lessen their energy output so that they can feel them, when you’re operating at a much higher level your presence might not be felt. It’s not a matter of vibration it’s a matter of overload. So why the division in the terminology?If conjuration used to be evocation and evocation used to be conjuration? And what in the seven happened?
Well… what happened was people realize that they could make these bonds over a longer term, the community sprang up and the term conjuration took on a different meaning. It’s an evolution of terms, evocation and invocation have taken on different meanings so too has conjuration taken on different term than evocation. And ultimately a lot of times conjuration refers to only a being that has been brought into a connection point with this place, a binding if you will. I prefer the term bonding because the term binding has another meaning as well. It generally means to restrain, and a lot of these beings if you restrain them and anchor them here and nowhere else so that they don’t exist within the other realms, they would fight. And I wouldn’t blame them, they are multi-dimensional being. Locking them into a single point would be torture and that’s not what we do and that’s one of the misconceptions that I want to get into starting out.
…Page 376 of 1004
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Evocation is not necessarily conjuration in the modern term. You don’t always evoke something that you would keep on hand all the time because they’re suited for a task and they love to do the task. Everyone has different methods, I don’t want to step on anyone’s toes who prefers to bind them for people. That’s great, you’re creating a two-way communication zone that the person couldn’t normally create themselves and you’re creating a link between this realm in that realm and that’s fantastic. I personally don’t keep them one hand on a single vessel because their energies are disruptive for my life in the aspect that I view of them. This is where we get into aspects of beings, I think every being has multiple aspects as to how it presents themselves.Evocation is not torturing a being even though you must have a force of will because sometimes they won’t respect it if you don’t. If you aren’t willing to walk in with a sword in hand a lot of beings don’t have anything for you. “Viola! That’s… that’s mean and that’s evil how dare you say that. They’re nice fluffy happy bunnies!” No… no they’re not. Some are nicer than they are presented and it depends on how you resonate with them. Some I get along great with, some not so much and as a mage I’ve got a call upon even the ones that I don’t get along with so well. They only respect me if I come in with a sword in hand. The same purposes I only respect them when they come in with sword in hand too. “How can you make a statement like that?” Because I make the same statement about the Titans. The Titans does not appreciate it if I come to them unarmed. I always have to have a weapon on hand or I have to raise my arm and represent my fist as my weapon and say “I am armed!” because that is the nature of that Titan. If you show up to talk to one unarmed… well you can do it and a lot of people do. I’m not saying anything against it but for me it doesn’t work out well maybe that’s the aspect of the Titan that I’m calling.
…Page 489 of 1004
Aggressive evocation versus passive and gentle methods.
Aggressive evocation means you come in armed and I really think that when you’re evoking something in that way you’re evoking the aspect of it that is torturous, that enjoys torture, that respects pain and suffering, because it is a force of change and order. I don’t think we ever get the whole true form of any being because if you did, it would blow through your wall and leave. Conjuration is not the -binding- of a being from the sense of the magi term of binding. The form of binding where you restrain it and hold it still in one spot. No, the only thing you get with that is a pissed off being, a being that was ready to blast you for what you just did and I don’t blame it. What other response is there for being tied up and forced to stay somewhere? That’s not what conjuration is about. This is about creating communications like a bond, a resonance point where they may project through and you may communicate to them through. And if anyone were to ask me “Could you bind this being in the sense of chaining it to one location?” In that way I would tell them no and I’d refund them. I’d say the client don’t understand what my services are so here’s the money back. So that gives you an idea of the misconceptions.
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Term familiarA lot of people really believe that we are tieing beings down and forcing them into subjugation and it is necessary to have tomes like this and to have the Kirin Tor reach out and explain what it is we’re NOT doing. Instead, we’re pulling forth familiars that want to work -with- someone, to commune with. They want to do things for the person because they feel a connection to them. That’s where the term familiar comes from.
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Evocation and familiar keeping
Evocation and familiar keeping is the act of empowering and strengthening that connection on your side as the person doing the work, as the person asking for the aid, as the spirit keeper. No conjurer can make it so that you don’t need to do something to work with the being. That working with the being may be for some as simple as asking them to do something and letting it go. Some people have that level of connection, but for those that don’t this is where we get into something that I hope will be a little bit useful. I’ve done lessons on this and I keep directing people to my classes.
So what can you expect from familiars with and without evocation and empowering? Without it, it depends on the level of energy of the being, its specialties and its goals, as well as how hard it is to perform the task and how much natural energy you’re outputting in you’re link to it. Because you are it’s link to the physical world on some level even when you have a vessel you’re still connecting it to the physical world by your actions. The conjurer is only facilitating the initial step of that and you’re strengthening it over time.
For those who don’t understand this…
When you pass away, unless you are passing the familiar down to someone else, it’s going to leave. It will break that bond, it’s not going to stay there forever, it’s not going to sit there and do nothing. It might leave the link there but it’s not going to actively work through it. It would actually take another evocationist to recognize the subtle hint of the link in that item to work with that being again through that vessel.
…Synopse
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Familiar keeping and conjuration are different from evocation and they are WAY DIFFERENT FROM BINDING! I am so tired of people saying:
“Hey you trap beings and make them do what they don’t want to do.”
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