𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐣𝐮𝐣𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐮 𝐤𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐫
sooooo, after making my butterfly effect post, i realized that there's quite a bit of expanded lore that i scripted into my jjk dr that would be helpful to explain! here's that post <3 feel free to use these in your dr as well
jujutsu sorcery, internationally:
so, 'sorcery', as it is called in japan, actually developed indepentently in various societies across the world. japan does have the oldest known iteration of it and is known for consistently having the strongest sorcerers, but it exists outside of the nations borders. america, austria, the philippines, and argentina all developed sorcery societies on their own, and the culture eventually spread to surrounding countries—in fact, japan is the only country where sorcery did not spread to a neighbor.
the countries with a cursed energy community as of 2017 are:
japan (the oldest (~710 CE) and most prestigious community in the world)
america (the second most prestigious sorcery community and the third oldest—~1830 CE)
canada (very very weak community despite being only slightly younger than america's, ~1870 CE)
austria (second oldest community (~1680 CE) in the world; the strength all of central european nations with sorcerers are generally lumped together as the 3rd most prestigious, but austria is on the weaker side on its own)
germany (on its own, germany is slightly stronger than average. sorcery reached germany in an official capacity around 1905 CE)
poland (on its own, poland has the fourth strongest sorcery community though members aren't very well-liked by the international community due to their tendency to be very comparatively cold. sorcery reached poland around 1940 CE)
lithuania (on its own, lithuania is just below indonesia in power level. sorcery reached lithuania around 1927 CE)
the philippines (fourth oldest community (~1890s CE) in the world. although the sorcery community here is relatively new, sorcerers from the philippines are known for developing some of the most unique and creative uses of cursed energy. the american and filipino sorcerer communities are very close allies and have the most overseas missions in the other country)
indonesia (fifth oldest sorcerer community (~1900 CE) in the world. indonesian sorcers tend to be average in strength, but are very capable people and the indonesian community has the most sorcerers that use cursed energy in their daily life for the greater good. as opposed to having an established organization that distributes missions and responsibilities, people tend to handle curses themselves while living mostly-mundane lives. sorcerers from indonesia have the lowest mortality rates in the world and are most likely to see old age)
all of these countries tend to have different vocabulary and organization when it comes to handling cursed energy, but all of it describes and interacts with the same forces in the universe. this difference in vocabulary exists because all of these various cultures discovered curses and cursed energy on their own and came up with their own terms to describe the phenomenon. there is currently no international standardized way of referring to these forces, but there's talk of a potential conference in the coming years to standardize how international cursed energy users talk about their work, but there's no concrete information.
the organization that oversees any and all things to do with cursed energy is called the American Neo-Exorcist Society (ANES). ANES has it's headquarters in nyc, but has an office in the largest city in every state. in america and canada, what is known as 'jujutsu sorcery' in japan is referred to as 'neo-exorcism' due to the similarities between cursed energy users destroying curses and the religious exorcising of demons. similarly, curses are instead called 'entities'.
where the japanese cursed energy culture refers to both its sorcerers and curses with a descending ranking system (grade 4, grade 3, grade 2, grade 1, special grade), american cursed energy culture refers to neo-exorcists and entities with an ascending ranking system (level 1, level 2, level 3, level 4, level 5, and level 6. levels 5 and 6 are equivalent to special grade, with level 6 being reserved for only the extraordinarily powerful).
shikigami are often referred to as 'summons' if they act more as tools for a neo-exorcist, and 'familiars' if they're more like companions. likewise, talismen are called script.
ANES does send out neo-exorcists to do overseas work, but it's rare to see an exorcist under 23 handling anything with much importance—meaning that it's a tell-tale sign they are exceptionally powerful if you see a young person doing more than handling a couple level 3 entities regardless of their level.
ANES is sort of known for coddling its members quite a bit; even level 1 neo-exorcists get a nice hotel room on overnight missions and rarely fly below business class unless they're in serious trouble with their superiors. and the lowest salary for a full-time neo-exorcist is $75,000/year.
but for all its swaddling, ANES can't hide the fact that america has some of the most dangerous entities on the planet and in large abundance.
after all, expenses go down a lot if 75% of your members die before 35.
