Índice 2: Aprendiz em Morte (••)

Corpse Mask (Death ••)

Practice: Veiling
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Subterfuge, Crafts, Medicine

The mage alters the appearance of a body to make it look different even under scrutiny. She can cast the spell on a corpse, modifying its wounds and apparent time and cause of death completely. She can make a charred corpse look as though it instead died of a heart attack, or a person who died in a car crash look as though he is the victim of a stab wound.

+1 Reach: The mage may cast Corpse Mask on a living subject which has at least one Health box filled with damage to alter the appearance of his injuries, making stab wounds look like bruises, or abrasions look like third-degree burns.

+1 Reach: The mage may completely change a corpses’ appearance, even allowing her to change its apparent age and sex.

Decay (Death ••)

Practice: Ruling
Primary Factor: Potency
Suggested Rote Skills: Subterfuge, Science, Occult

The mage degrades a material object, causing it to age in a matter of moments. The object’s Durability is lowered by –1 for each Potency of the spell’s casting.

+1 Reach: The mage can decrease the object’s Structure for each point of Potency, possibly destroying the object outright.

Ectoplasm (Death ••)

Practice: Ruling
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Occult, Expression, Academics

The mage can create ectoplasm (see Ectoplasmic Shaping, above) from one of his own orifices, or the orifice of a corpse — normally the nose or mouth, but sometimes the tear ducts or ears. The mage can shape the ectoplasm into any shape he wishes. The ectoplasm retains its shape for the Duration of the spell.

Ghost Shield (Death ••)

Practice: Shielding
Primary Factor: Potency
Suggested Rote Skills: Streetwise, Subterfuge, Survival

The caster creates a shield that protects her subject from ghostly Numina, Influences, Manifestations, Death spells, and any death-related powers of other supernatural creatures. Any power attempting to pierce the shield provokes a Clash of Wills roll.

+1 Reach: The protection afforded by this spell extends to ghosts’ physical attacks.

Shape Ephemera (Death ••)

Practice: Ruling
Primary Factor: Duration
Withstand: Stamina
Suggested Rote Skills: Crafts, Expression, Science

The caster may reshape Death-attuned ephemera from one object into a new object entirely. This ephemera can be from a ghost or other entity in Twilight, but they have the ability to Withstand the spell, and being reshaped does not damage the entity’s Corpus.

The object gains a Durability of 2. If it is a weapon it gains a weapon rating of 2; if it is armor it gains an armor rating of 2. Objects made of ephemera are only useful against other objects or beings made of ephemera or within Twilight. Objects made this way can be used by any ephemeral entity in Twilight, including ghosts or a mage who has transformed himself into ephemera (See “Ghost Gate” p. 130).

Soul Armor (Death ••)

Practice: Shielding
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Academics, Occult, Survival

This spell armors the subject’s soul against all who would profane it. Any spell or effect that would remove, manipulate, or injure the subject’s soul must first win a Clash of Wills.

Soul Jar (Death ••)

Practice: Ruling
Primary Factor: Duration
Withstand: Resolve
Suggested Rote Skills: Crafts, Occult, Persuasion

The mage creates a receptacle for a displaced soul. The soul jar can be anything designed to hold and seal a liquid, from a paint can to a water bottle. A soul placed into the soul jar cannot escape and is protected from outside attack. If the jar is opened or broken before the Duration of the spell ends, the soul is released.

+ 1 Reach: The mage may bind the soul to herself or to another person. To bind the soul to a person, the recipient must be suffering from the Soulless, Enervated, or Thrall Condition. Once the soul is in the body, it becomes the person’s soul for the Duration of the spell. An unwilling person Withstands the spell’s effect.

+2 Reach: By spending a point of Mana, the effects of this spell are Lasting, and the soul remains bound or attached even when the Duration ends.

Suppress Aura (Death ••)

Practice: Veiling
Primary Factor: Duration
Withstand: Resolve
Suggested Rote Skills: Subterfuge, Intimidation, Medicine

The mage suppresses the personal aura of her subject. The subject’s Nimbus disappears and magical resonances around her are dampened, including the resonances of spells currently affecting her. She appears as a Sleeper to Mage Sight. She is harder to read in general, imposing a –2 penalty on Empathy checks, and supernatural attempts to discern her emotional or mental state. Magical attempts to see through the disguise provoke a Clash of Wills.

Suppress Life (Death ••)

Practice: Veiling
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Subterfuge, Medicine, Academics

The mage can suppress the subject’s life signs; the subject appears for all intents and purposes as though she is dead. All physical symptoms of death appear to set in and the soul appears absent from the body to magical senses.

+2 Reach: By spending a point of Mana, the mage may cast the spell reflexively in response to something that would reasonably cause the subject’s death.

Touch of the Grave (Death ••)

Practice: Ruling
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Survival, Crafts, Persuasion

The mage can physically interact with ghosts and other things in Death-attuned Twilight. She can “pull” items from Twilight, making them visible and solid; these items have a Durability of 1 and dissipate into ephemera if broken, or after the spell’s Duration ends. Items pulled from Twilight function as their material counterparts bestowing the same equipment bonuses.

Without a Trace (Death ••)

Practice: Veiling
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Science, Stealth, Subterfuge

People constantly shed dead skin, hair, and other small evidences of themselves as they pass through the world. The mage conceals all physical evidence from casual observation. For the Duration of the spell, the subject leaves no fingerprints, footprints, traces of blood, or any other forensic type evidence of herself behind. Using Death Mage Sight to search for such signs provokes a Clash of Wills.