Índice 4: Adepto em Destino (••••)

Atonement (Fate ••••)

Practice: Unraveling
Primary Factor: Potency
Withstand: Subject effect’s Potency
Suggested Rote Skills: Academics, Empathy, Survival

A powerful Witch can aid a hero who labors under a curse, but her remedies often demand strange rituals or arduous quests. This spell can dispel a supernatural effect enforced by the dictates of destiny, including Awakened spells, by Patterning Fate to provide a means by which the subject can escape his curse. While the subject remains under the effects of Atonement, she must complete a task determined by the caster.

• Minor curses (1-2 dots) require a minor quest (bathing in a nearby river, donating a small sum to charity, etc.).

• Moderate curses (3-4 dots) require a medial quest (reading a rare book available in another city’s library, removing all the graffiti in a neighborhood, etc.).

• Major curses (5+ dots) demand major quests (undertaking a months-long pilgrimage, recovering an artifact that has been missing for centuries, etc.). Especially powerful curses, such as those levied by ephemeral entities of Rank 6 or more, will often demand more elaborate tasks to break.

+1 Reach: The quest can be undertaken on the subject’s behalf by another person who wishes to champion her. If the subject is unwilling, this spell is Withstood with Resolve.

Chaos Mastery (Fate ••••)

Practice: Patterning
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Empathy, Occult, Science

The mage can Pattern Fate to manipulate complex probabilities within the spell’s subject or area of effect. This spell allows the mage to dictate any physically possible outcome within the bounds of the spell’s subject, no matter how unlikely.

The spell cannot create supernatural effects, but within the bounds of improbability the mage can cause a number of effects equal to Potency, such as:

• Create a narrative effect such as controlling how vehicles behave in a multiple-car crash.

• By directing once-random biochemical changes within a subject, cause seizures, hallucinations, and physical events, imposing suitable Conditions such as Blind or Disabled.

• The mage reduces a subject’s next action to a chance die.

• Attack a subject by directing chance around them, or protect a subject from dangerous circumstances; this is not a direct-attack spell, and should use any rules for the hazard.

Divine Intervention (Fate ••••)

Practice: Patterning
Primary Factor: Potency
Withstand: Resolve
Suggested Rote Skills: Intimidation, Occult, Subterfuge

The mage casts a powerful curse that either encourages the subject to achieve a goal specified by the mage when he casts this spell, or that thwarts the subject’s every attempt to pursue such a goal. The subject must, however, be aware of the goal, and the mage cannot levy impossible tasks.

One of the subject’s Aspirations is replaced by the goal. As a goad, the subject suffers ill luck except when taking constructive action to bring her closer to achieving the stated goal. If the subject has not pursued the spell’s objective in a meaningful way within the last 24 hours, she suffers a hex (see p. 134).

As a ban, the subject suffers ill luck whenever he attempts to achieve the forbidden goal. For the Duration of the spell, the subject suffers a hex if she actively strives toward it.

Strings of Fate (Fate ••••)

Practice: Patterning
Primary Factor: Duration
Withstand: Resolve
Suggested Rote Skills: Academics, Persuasion, Stealth

The roads of destiny fork and converge, governing the probability of events. An adept of Fate can re-weave the strings of Fate on a subject, encouraging (if not ensuring) that a specified event will happenas long as the spell remains active.

The mage specifies an event that she wishes to happen to the subject. If the event would be possible without magic or any effort on the subject’s part, it occurs as soon as circumstances allow as long as the spell’s Duration is in effect. If the event requires the subject’s participation or cannot take place without a change in circumstances, the spell introduces opportunities to work towards the event, at least once per week while the spell remains on the subject. If the event is simply impossible, the spell has no effect.

For example, if a mage casts the spell on herself and specifies that she will meet with her mentor while they are both in the same city, they will “randomly” cross paths at first opportunity. If she casts it on a Sleepwalker ally and specifies that he will recover a stolen artifact (when, unknown to her, it has been moved) he will find travel tickets for the artifact’s new location, clues pointing there, or reasons to travel there. If she cast it on a student and specifies that he will become a doctor, circumstances will hint at a transfer to pre-med.

The spell cannot deal damage directly, though it can put subjects in harm’s way. For example, a mage could curse a victim with this spell specifying that she will be in a car wreck, or exposed to a disease.

+1 Reach: The spell presents opportunities to work toward the specified event once per day.

Sever Oaths (Fate ••••)

Practice: Unraveling
Primary Factor: Duration
Withstand: Composure
Suggested Rote Skills: Occult, Subterfuge, Weaponry

To an Adept of Fate, all fetters on a being’s free will are ultimately breakable, and oaths can be renegotiated. The mage may apply a number of the following effects equal to Potency:

• Free a bound ephemeral entity, or soul.

• Change the effects of an active boon or hex.

• Modify or negate an oath or other supernatural agreement reinforced by the dictates of Fate.

• Change or dispel a conditional trigger.

• Modify the Doom of a subject with the Destiny Merit.

+2 Reach: The spell’s effects are Lasting.