Sympathetic Illusion

The primary method of creating illusion intended to affect the soul. It uses replications of the user's own emotions and mental state. This is perhaps the simplest form of illusion to create from a soul-manipulation perspective. On the other hand, creating something meaningful requires a lot of mental acrobatics, as one must fool themselves into believing something is real for their target to do so. Pain burst, the simplest form of this, utilizes the fact that creating a sympathetic illusion inefficiently results in real pain to the user, easily called upon although with an obvious downside.
Sympathetic illusionists are inherently mentally unstable, requiring the compartmentalization to truly believe what they feel is real briefly while molding their illusion, then readjusting their perception of reality afterwards. Some of the most powerful and creative simply continue to be crazy afterwards.
Touch-range sympathetic illusion is possible without needing to create the sorcery medium, making it learnable by non-Cotd.