Índice 1: Iniciado em Vida (•)

Analyze Life (Life •)

Practice: Knowing
Primary Spell Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Animal Ken, Medicine, Survival

By observing a creature and casting this spell, the mage can discern details such as the species, age, sex, and overall health of a plant or animal, including humans. She may identify how many dots in Physical Attributes the subject has. Any illnesses or injuries, including Personal Tilts and Conditions, suffered by the creature become obvious to her sight. This spell identifies supernatural (but still living) creatures as unknown species, even if they take a human form, unless the mage has studied their kind before. Undead beings do not register to this spell.

+1 Reach: The player may learn a specific Physical Attribute rating of the subject, rather than the total number of dots.

Cleanse the Body (Life •)

Practice: Compelling
Primary Factor: Potency
Suggested Rote Skills: Athletics, Medicine, Survival

The mage can use this spell to help the subject’s body fight the effects of any toxin in her system, or even purge them completely. Its magic allows her a bonus equal to Potency to her next roll to resist the toxin’s effects.

+1 Reach: The subject may make her next resistance roll immediately, in addition to the one she would receive at its regular interval.

Heightened Senses (Life •)

Practice: Unveiling
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Empathy, Investigation, Survival

While this spell cannot grant a mage new senses, it can heighten her existing ones, including touch. This is a popular spell among hedonistic mages as a result, as well as those who want to revitalize senses dulled by city life. A mage’s strength lies in her preparation and knowledge, after all, and keen senses impart greater information about the world.

The spell grants a bonus to Perception rolls equal to its Potency.

+1 Reach: The mage instinctively knows how to track by scent while this spell is active, making use of her increased olfactory powers.

Speak With Beasts (Life •)

Practice: Unveiling
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Animal Ken, Empathy, Survival

The subject gains the ability to “speak” to any specimens of an animal specified by the mage during casting. She usually speaks to it by making noises similar to its own sounds, but this is not necessary; the subject can speak in her own language and the magic “translates” her words for her. This does not grant her any capability to control a creature, only to understand and be understood by it. Animals have limited ability to understand things that transpire around them, especially as pertains to humans, but the subject gains a bonus to any Animal Ken rolls made with that animal equal to the spell’s Potency. A bird may not understand just why the people went into the house across the street last night, for example, but it could give a general estimate of their number and unusual features like being covered in tattoos (“skin patterns”).

+1 Reach: The subject may communicate with all animals, instead of only a single species.

Web of Life (Life •)

Practice: Knowing
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Investigation, Medicine, Survival

By tapping into the pulse of the living world, the mage becomes keenly aware of any living things nearby. She feels their presence by the weight they exert upon the Tapestry, a gravity of the life-force that connects all creatures to the same great cycle. Because the unfiltered sensing of all life might provide a sensory overload, most mages specify certain types of life to detect, such as “humans, insects, and birds” or “only dogs.”

After successfully casting this spell, the mage can detect all the specified types of organisms within the spell’s area Scale, or that enter the spell’s area while it remains in effect. By casting on an individual subject or subjects, the spell may be used to scan them for parasites, bacteria, or pregnancy.