Commenter Heather requested a table of sorcery and slang terms for sorcery. Here you go, and I hope you all find this useful and/or interesting.

Name  SlangMinor forms of varying strengthTrue sorceryPerceptionGetFleetingly perceiving thoughts

Perceiving strong, clear thoughts

Perceiving glimpses of emotions

Impressions of presence and distance  You can see almost anything you want to see. People can block you, but if you don’t mind exercising overt sorcery, you can break through almost any defense.  CharismaPullPeople admire you and want to impress you and earn your approval, leading them to take your orders.  
Stronger, but similarAllure  PullPeople like you and want to please you; they want you to like them; they want to be close to you.  

People want to be friends with you, but friendship tends to shift toward devotion.  
Stronger, but similarPersuasionPullPeople find you persuasive, obviously. But the effect, as with any kind of minor pull wears off when people aren’t near you.  
Stronger, but similar

False memories might fall into something like this category.Coercion  NudgeInfluencing people to do things they might have been inclined to do anyway.  

Influencing people who are on the fence about something to decide one way or the other.  

Causing people who are moving fast and depending on reflexes to take actions you want them to take, especially if they have no strong contradictory motivation.  
You can force people to do things they don’t want to do, even act in ways they despise, even when they know exactly what you’re doing.  

You can impose your will on people for an extended period even if you’re asleep or they leave your immediate vicinity; eg, setting people to guard yu while you sleep or forbidding people to speak about you.  

Minor forms of sorcery can be nebulous and hard to define even for Lau. Anything in the ballpark of “people like you and want you to like them” or “people want to be close to you” or “people generally listen to your advice” is going to fall into the general category of pull.

Nudge doesn’t require people to like you or want to please you, though the edges between pull and nudge can be blurry.

Pure nudge is easiest and most effective when people simply aren’t paying attention, or aren’t making conscious choices, or are moving fairly briskly and thinking about other things. It’s easy to use nudge to make someone glance momentarily away from something or keep walking the way they’ve been going and miss turning down a side street.

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