Sorcery

Sorcery (15 Points)

Sorcery is much more powerful than Power Words, but it takes longer to cast a Sorcery spell. It can take anything from minutes to several days to cast a Sorcery spell. The way around this is to prepare spells in advance and this requires studying and maintenance in detail. A well prepared Sorcerer can have up to a dozen spells prepared, but they will require about 20 hours maintenance a week.

A sorcerer can only have one spell in memory at a time, thus if you take a nap, get hit on the head or work on other magic the memorized spell will be lost. Thus the only way of storing memorized spells is to put them in some kind of container. This is known as hanging spells and it can only be done in a special receptacle. It must be either a living thing capable of remembering the spell or a magical item containing power that can be forced in to the form and structure of the spell.  

Also prepared spells can be very specific and specific to a Shadow. The only way around this is to prepare spells that arent quite complete leaving out key instructions. These instructions are then filled in when it is cast and are called lynchpins.

A full description of building an using spells in contained in the Amber rulebook.