Índice 4: Adepto em Matéria (••••)

Ghostwall (Matter ••••)
Practice: Patterning
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Athletics, Occult, Stealth

All Fallen Matter is merely a shadow of Supernal truth, and this spell reveals the truth of that axiom. The mage renders a volume of inert matter wholly or partly insubstantial, no more “real” than an illusion. Insubstantial objects remain where they were when transfigured (that is, they don’t fall to the center of the Earth or fly off into space). Objects made insubstantial by this spell aren’t in Twilight, they simply don’t register as “real.”

Add Death •••, Mind •••, or Spirit •••: The insubstantial object may be shifted into Twilight, attuned to the used Arcanum.

Golem (Matter ••••)

Practice: Patterning
Primary Factor: Potency
Suggested Rote Skills: Crafts, Expression, Occult

This spell animates a statue or other object, allowing it to move and act almost as if it were alive. Each level of Potency effectively grants the mage a dot of the Retainer Merit. The Golem’s “field” includes simple physical labor, combat, and other uncomplicated tasks. The golem is completely mindless, and can only execute whatever order the caster gave it last. Orders must be very simple. If attacked, the golem has no Defense, but has Durability appropriate to its makeup (see Objects on p. 223) and Structure equal to Durability + Size.

Add Death •••• or Spirit ••••: Bind a ghost or spirit into the golem to serve as an animating intelligence. The golem still uses its Retainer rating to determine dice pools, but the ephemeral being can use any of its powers, and the golem’s “field” is whatever the entity is capable of.

Add Mind •••••: Create an intelligence from nothing that will guide the golem and inform its “field.” See “Psychic Genesis” on p. 165 for creating a mind from scratch.

Piercing Earth (Matter ••••)

Practice: Patterning
Primary Factor: Potency
Suggested Rote Skills: Athletics, Brawl, Crafts

Much like Windstrike (see p. 157), this spell causes inanimate matter to lash out at the subject. But where Windstrike lashes out with air and water, this spell causes the Earth itself to rise up and crush the subject. This is an attack spell; its damage rating is equal to the spell’s Potency, and it inflicts lethal damage.

+1 Reach: The warped matter of this spell sticks around after casting, creating an Environmental Tilt like Earthquake in the immediate vicinity.

+1 Reach: For one point of Mana, the spell inflicts aggravated damage.

Transubstantiation (Matter ••••)

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

The mage can transmute any inert matter into any other form of inert matter: lead into gold, water into wine, wood into chlorine gas, etc. The purity and quality of the transmuted matter is determined by the spell’s Potency: treat Potency as an equipment bonus or equivalent Resource Merit dots for a single purchase, whichever is appropriate. Both the initial substance and the transubstantiated substance must be relatively pure: Wood can be transformed into gold, but not into gold chased with silver. (The Stygian Mysteries teach that “purity” is a perceptual concept — so, for example, even though “wine” and “steel” are made up of numerous compounds, they are concrete enough as concepts to be transmuted).

Add Life ••••: Transform matter into living things, or transform a living being into inert matter (but see p.127 for rules on permanently transforming someone with magic). Unless the mage also adds Mind •••••, any organism created is mindless, driven purely by instinct.

+1 Reach: The mage may transmute multiple substances into a single substance or vice versa.