Índice 4: Adepto em Forças (••••)

Electromagnetic Pulse (Forces ••••)

Practice: Unraveling
Primary Factor: Potency
Suggested Rote Skills: Crafts, Computers, Science

The mage degrades electromagnetic energy within the spell’s subject, wrecking electronic devices. The spell is capable of snuffing out mundane electrical devices, although some military-grade devices are shielded, requiring Potency equal to their level of hardening. Shorting out magical devices requires a Clash of Wills. When used against a living being, the damage to their nervous system acts as a direct damage spell, inflicting Potency in lethal damage.

Levitation (Forces ••••)

Practice: Patterning
Primary Factor: Duration
Withstand: Stamina
Suggested Rote Skills: Athletics, Science, Survival

The subject floats through the air using telekinetic force. Its air speed equals the spell’s Potency. Subjects may use their Defense against attacks, if applicable. Unwilling subjects Withstand the spell with Stamina.

The mage may direct the subject’s levitation each turn as an instant action. If she fails to do so, the object simply remains afloat in midair, coming to a stop wherever it was when she stopped moving it.

+1 Reach: The subject retains momentum from turn to turn, floating slowly in whatever direction the mage initially directed it.

+1 Reach: The subject flies fluid and free. She instinctively creates the telekinetic force as she maneuvers in midair, granting her incredible speed and maneuverability. The subject gains an air Speed equal to the mage’s Gnosis + the spell’s Potency. While airborne she can make a Dexterity + Athletics roll to avoid obstacles, gains her normal Defense against attacks, and can fly without exhausting herself as she would by running.

Rend Friction (Forces ••••)

Practice: Patterning
Primary Factor: Potency
Suggested Rote Skills: Crafts, Drive, Science

The mage alters the level of friction upon a target. She can increase it to the point where simple air friction shears the target to pieces, or lower it so much that an object can continue moving almost indefinitely.

If the spell increases friction, every 3 yards that the target moves in a given turn (round down) causes it one point of lethal damage to a maximum of Potency damage. The target must be exposed to open air, and non-magical armor is only half as effective. Conversely, if the mage decreases friction, an object doubles the length it moves before slowing down per point of Potency, even after it has stopped accelerating or maintaining its speed. This also doubles weapon ranges in the same way. Vehicles suffer a penalty to their Handling equal to the spell’s Potency, as the vehicle fails to stop or react in a way the operator can fully control.

Thunderbolt (Forces ••••)

Practice: Patterning
Primary Factor: Potency
Suggested Rote Skills: Athletics, Firearms, Science

The mage channels ambient energies as a weapon, pouring them into her subject. This spell deals lethal damage equal to its Potency.

+1 Reach: The spell deals aggravated damage. Cost: 1 Mana.

Transform Energy (Forces ••••)

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

All energy shares sympathy, born perhaps from the same cosmic source in the same instant. An Adept of Forces can use that sympathy to transform one energy type into another. The table below serves as a rough equivalency chart for different energy types. She can change a room full of light into heat, at once turning it into a pitch-black oven. She might also change the thunderous roar of a waterfall into electricity, far more efficient than any hydroelectric dam. The spell may affect energy of a level equal to Potency.

+1 Reach: the mage may decrease the level of the energy transformed by one. This Reach may be applied multiple times.

+1 Reach: the mage may split a source of energy into two different kinds or leave part of the original source behind — for example, turning an inferno into light equivalent to daylight and sound equivalent to a scream.

+1 Reach: For one Mana, the mage may increase the level of the energy transformed by one.