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What is a sigil?
Sigil is the Latin word for "seal", as in for example the Great Seal of the United States. In occult studies a sigil is a name turned into a symbol, representing the creature, trait, or thing whose name it is derived from. The shapes of the letters are composed into a mostly symmetrical, or at least "harmonic-looking" sign. This is an intuitive, creative process, much like constructing bindrunes. It can be called an applied art form. Sometimes noble families possess a sigil of their own on the rings used to seal letters (hence the name). In medieval times, letters weren't put into envelopes; they were sealed with wax, and authorized with a ring pressed into the wax while it was still warm. The pattern on the ring was a signature of the sender - identifying either the individual, his family, or his office. Demons and angels also have their identifying sigils, although I created new ones for some of them here, because I'm not familiar with any "canonized" versions. (At any rate, each grimoire will have a different version because, as I said, this is a creative form of magic, and what really matters is that the letters stay mostly recognizable and the final sign "looks good".) Sigils can also be incorporated into larger constructions, such as invocation circles, complex formulas, etc. In the Third Reich, runic sigils (bindrunes using letters from the person's name) were also popular in certain circles - Reinhard Heydrich for example had his runic mark of identity on his plane and his official stationery (and I have it tattooed on my chest, lol).

Description
What is a sigil?
Sigil is the Latin word for "seal", as in for example the Great Seal of the United States. In occult studies a sigil is a name turned into a symbol, representing the creature, trait, or thing whose name it is derived from. The shapes of the letters are composed into a mostly symmetrical, or at least "harmonic-looking" sign. This is an intuitive, creative process, much like constructing bindrunes. It can be called an applied art form. Sometimes noble families possess a sigil of their own on the rings used to seal letters (hence the name). In medieval times, letters weren't put into envelopes; they were sealed with wax, and authorized with a ring pressed into the wax while it was still warm. The pattern on the ring was a signature of the sender - identifying either the individual, his family, or his office. Demons and angels also have their identifying sigils, although I created new ones for some of them here, because I'm not familiar with any "canonized" versions. (At any rate, each grimoire will have a different version because, as I said, this is a creative form of magic, and what really matters is that the letters stay mostly recognizable and the final sign "looks good".) Sigils can also be incorporated into larger constructions, such as invocation circles, complex formulas, etc. In the Third Reich, runic sigils (bindrunes using letters from the person's name) were also popular in certain circles - Reinhard Heydrich for example had his runic mark of identity on his plane and his official stationery (and I have it tattooed on my chest, lol).