Your magic is fascinating and befuddling.

I've never actually heard it described that way before!

I think it's likely no one had the appropriate senses to figure out how befuddling it is!

Sorcerers can sense magic!

Oooh, I wanna become one!

Reasonable. Just be careful.

Is it dangerous?

It's not super dangerous but remember what I said about emotional feeback loops causing villainy?

Yeah?

That.

How do these feedback loops work, exactly?

Um, I've never been in one, at all, but--apparently if you do a lot of magic while in a strong emotional state, it's easier to get--stuck--in that brainspace and then if you do more magic while like that it sort of happens again...

Huh. And that's a magical thing?

Yeah.

So maybe I'll be able to see it coming via more than mere introspection, like I did with the tendril.

Might depend on how exactly it works.

Yeah. How many sorcerers are there and how many turn evil?

Uh, ballpark of a few million, I think--and not that many go evil really, but some of them fake it...

Order of a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand?

It's hard to be sure, exactly, because if a sorcerer commits a crime feedback loops are a great defense regardless of veracity, and the available statistics suggest it wobbles over time--and most sorcerers and artifact users experience some feedback-looping, what's rare is having it get quite this bad--but, mm, ballpark of ten thousand.

So order of one percent chance—is it addictive at all?

Magic? Or the feedback loops?

Magic, or sorcery in specific.

Generally no. It wouldn't shock me to find an addictive artifact, though.

So if I find myself going down on a loop I can stop using sorcery? Or you can stop me, since it seems to be your job and all.