Índice 2: Aprendiz em Destino (••)

Exceptional Luck (Fate ••)

Practice: Ruling
Primary Factor: Potency
Withstand: Composure
Suggested Rote Skills: Intimidation, Occult, Socialize

The mage blesses the subject’s endeavors or curses them with misfortune. Whether good or bad, the subject’s luck is truly exceptional. This spell bestows a boon or inflicts a hex on the subject (see p. 134). The subject may Withstand a hex with Composure.

+2 Reach: The boon or hex can affect spellcasting rolls.

+2 Reach: Spend a point of Mana. The mage can cast this spell as a reflexive action.

Fabricate Fortune (Fate ••)

Practice: Veiling
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Larceny, Occult, Subterfuge

Sometimes a mage wishes to hide a child of destiny from those who would abuse her gift. Other times he wishes to convince observers that a subject has a fate that she does not. This spell conceals or falsifies fates and Destiny.

It can be used to “trick” conditional Durations or spells with conditional triggers into ignoring an event that meets the defined condition or into acting as though the stipulated event has come to pass. It can create false omens regarding the subject when she is scrutinized by Fate magic. All such deceptions provoke a Clash of Wills against those attempting to overcome its protections.

Fools Rush In (Fate ••)

Practice: Ruling
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Athletics, Socialize, Streetwise

According to old wisdom Fate favors children and fools, and this spell makes the old adage true. So long as the subject has little or no detailed knowledge about a situation before he enters it, the spell allows him to act with perfect grace and timing. A turn or two of studying the scene before acting is acceptable, but extensive reconnaissance or a detailed briefing does not permit the necessary degree of randomness this spell requires.

The subject does not suffer untrained penalties during the spell’s Duration. If entering an unfamiliar social situation, the subject’s impression level also improves by one.

+1 Reach: The subject receives a dice bonus equal to Potency on a number of dice rolls (not including spellcasting rolls) equal to Potency during the Duration. The subject’s player chooses which rolls are affected (before the dice are rolled), and they can include any action or task, so long as they are instant or reflexive actions taken “in the moment” and not arranged ahead of time.

+3 Reach: As the first Reach effect, but this bonus can also affect spellcasting rolls.

Lucky Number (Fate ••)

Practice: Ruling
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Investigation, Larceny, Science

The probability of correctly guessing a phone number, a password, or lock combination on the first try is minute but not impossible. This spell allows the mage to do just that simply by entering data into an appropriate device (a password field, a telephone, a safe combination, etc.). In addition to any story benefits, the mage gains the Informed Condition on next relevant roll that benefits from knowledge gained through this spell.

This spell uses the input device as its subject, and the mage concentrates on what she is attempting to accomplish. It does not require sympathy even for applications such as guessing the phone number for a particular person; the magic applies to the probabilities of random input, rather than locating a target. Although it will call the nearest available phone to the person the mage is trying to reach, the spell doesn’t tell the caster where that phone is.

Shifting the Odds (Fate ••)

Practice: Ruling
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Investigation, Politics, Subterfuge

An Apprentice of Fate always has access to what she needs at the moment. The mage focuses on locating a particular kind of person, place, or thing, and this spell directs her steps to it unerringly as soon as possible within the next 24 hours as long as the spell remains active. Casting the spell looking for a kind of person in a crowd or an item anywhere it could appear is usually enough to immediately succeed.

The spell can find someone with a specific Trait, occupation, or context-specific quality (e.g. “corrupt cop”), but it only locates the nearest or most available subject matching the description the mage provides, never a specific person or object (although destiny sometimes draws familiar faces together).

Alternatively, the mage gains temporary access to certain Social Merits (Ally, Contacts, Mentor, Resources, or Retainer) with a rating no greater than Potency. Fate guides her to dropped cash, unattended mundane items, or useful strangers she can easily convince to do her a quick favor. The mage may benefit from this Merit a number of times no greater than Potency, after which the money runs out or the ally of convenience goes his own way unless the mage’s character spends Experiences to purchase the Merit.

+1 Reach: The mage locates the desired object within one hour.

Warding Gesture (Fate ••)

Practice: Shielding
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Brawl, Occult, Subterfuge

The mage creates a ward protecting the subject against supernatural effects that manipulate her fate — a geas, a supernatural compulsion to act against her will, or having her fate manipulated by Fate magic or similar supernatural effects. Each attempt to change the subject’s destiny provokes a Clash of Wills with the mage. This spell has no effect on pre-existing alterations to the subject’s destiny.

Additionally, the mage may selectively exclude the subject from any area-effect spell he casts. If cast on multiple subjects, this spell allows the mage to exclude each valid subject on a case-by-case basis.

+1 Reach: The mage can selectively exclude the subject from any spell she casts or any Attainment she uses.

+2 Reach: The mage may selectively grant protection from supernatural effects that target an area instead of individuals. This provokes a Clash of Wills to exclude the subject from the effect, which the mage may automatically pass if protecting subjects from his own spells.