Pleasantly surprised, Lillith paused at the Sun Tree and gave it a loving pat. "The arcane elements are verbal and somatic and require ten minutes continuous casting," she began her explanation. "Those can be taught to any wizard with sufficient skill.

"A wizard is a spellcaster who learns magic via their intellect, as opposed to a warlock my cousin whose power comes from her patron, a cleric like her lover whose power comes from his god, a bard like Scanlan whose magic comes from his music, a druid whose magic comes from nature, or a sorcerer whose magic comes from their own blood."

She paused, glanced to her audience, and further explained, "Because of my demonic ancestry, I could cast as a sorceress, but I prefer the precision of magic I learn and craft and control to the power of sorcery, and I have no interest in the kind of pacts my sisters made. My cousin's is of an altogether different nature."