Índice 2: Aprendiz em Matéria (••)

Alchemist’s Touch (Matter ••)

Practice: Shielding
Primary Factor: Potency
Suggested Rote Skills: Crafts, Survival, Persuasion

Draped in the leaden shrouds of Stygia, the subject may handle even the most dangerous of substances without fear. When the spell is cast, the mage chooses a particular form of matter: The subject is largely immune to its deleterious effects. The material cannot inflict bashing damage on her at all, and she reduces the damage from lethal sources of harm by the spell’s Potency. The spell has no effect on aggravated damage.

This spell only protects the mage from harm that comes due to an intrinsic property of the material. The damage from a gun or a sword, for example, comes from the force behind the impact and thus isn’t reduced by this spell. However, a mage under the protection of this spell can handle radioactive or caustic substances or walk through a cloud of chlorine gas with no ill effects.

+1 Reach: The mage chooses another form of matter the spell protects against.

+2 Reach: The mage is immune to bashing and lethal damage from the material, and reduces any aggravated damage by the spell’s Potency.

Add Forces ••: The subject is protected from extreme temperatures caused by the substance’s state. She can walk across lava, scoop up a handful of molten steel without being burned, or dip a finger in liquid nitrogen without it freezing.

Find the Balance (Matter ••)

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

Those initiated into the Stygian Mysteries know that understanding a tool is only the first step toward perfecting it. By subtly manipulating the density and purity of a tool, the mage improves its balance and heft. The tool grants its user the 9-Again quality for the Duration of the spell, so long as it’s a tool that can benefit from balance or weight distribution.

+1 Reach: The tool grants the 8-Again quality instead.

Hidden Hoard (Matter ••)

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

This spell renders Matter difficult to detect. It isn’t invisibility, precisely; rather, the spell veils the subject’s connection to the Supernal truths, making it seem insignificant and beneath notice. Mundane attempts to detect the subject fail automatically. Spells and powers that would detect the veiled object are subject to a Clash of Wills.

Machine Invisibility (Matter ••)

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

By means of this spell, the mage blinds the eyes and ears of inert matter to her subject’s presence: cameras refuse to see her, microphones refuse to hear her voice, and so on. Supernatural objects (such as remote-viewing Artifacts or perhaps a ghost-haunted camera) provoke a Clash of Wills.

+1 Reach: This spell also applies to unliving constructs animated with magic, including zombies and golems. Such beings always provoke a Clash of Wills.

Shaping (Matter ••)

Practice: Ruling
Primary Factor: Potency
Withstand: Durability
Suggested Rote Skills: Crafts, Expression, Persuasion

Liquids, gases, and amorphous solids are the mage’s playthings with this spell. She can shape them into any form she desires, manipulating them in defiance of gravity, for as long as the spell lasts. This spell cannot change the state of matter (e.g. from solid to liquid), but substances that have been temporarily transformed into shapeable states by magic may be affected. Particularly intricate shapes may require a reflexive Wits + Crafts roll, at the Storyteller’s discretion.

+1 Reach: The mage can alter the shape of solid substances as well. If used to warp a tool or weapon, each point of Potency reduces the subject’s equipment bonus or damage by –1. If the equipment bonus or damage is reduced to 0, the object is useless.

+1 Reach: If the mage is creating or repairing an object using this spell, reduce the number of successes required on the extended action by one per point of Potency. This can’t reduce the number of required successes below one.

+2 Reach: The mage can create an appropriate Environmental Tilt, such as Earthquake, Flooded, or Heavy Winds.