Índice 2: Aprendiz em Espaço (••)

Borrow Threads (Space ••)

Practice: Ruling
Primary Factor: Duration
Withstand: Connection
Suggested Rote Skills: Larceny, Occult, Subterfuge

By changing one’s connection to others, one changes oneself. This spell allows the mage to transfer a number of sympathetic connections equal to the spell’s Potency between herself and the subjects as determined by the spell’s Scale. She can either steal links from her targets or give her own to others. If the mage transfers a link to someone who already has a connection to the same thing, the new connection overwrites the old one for the Duration of the spell. The mage has to be aware of a connection (either through magic or just knowing the subject) to manipulate it.

+1 Reach: The mage may redirect the sympathetic connection between other subjects of the spell directly.

+1 Reach: Instead of transferring sympathetic connections, the mage may copy them.

Break Boundary (Space ••)

Practice: Ruling
Primary Factor: Potency
Suggested Rote Skills: Athletics, Larceny, Persuasion

To restrain a willworker is to try to ensnare someone in a lie he does not believe. This spell allows the mage to bypass a single obstacle restricting her subject’s movement: a locked door, a pair of handcuffs, a barred window, etc. The subject “blinks” through the door, or her hands seem to pass right through the handcuffs, or similar effects.

This spell can only bypass a physical obstacle obstructing an actual path. The mage can, for example, slip through a roaring fire that blocks the road ahead or across a chasm too wide to jump, but cannot blink through a solid wall. If cast on an inanimate object, the mage or an ally must still carry or push the subject through the obstacle.

+1 Reach: The spell allows subjects to fit through narrow or restrictive pathways they would not otherwise pass through, even if the path were not obstructed. For example, casting this spell on a car would allow the mage to drive it inside a house even though it would not fit through the door.

+2 Reach: Subjects pass through obstructions even if they are unable to move, appearing on the other side.

Lying Maps (Space ••)

Practice: Veiling
Primary Factor: Duration
Withstand: Resolve
Suggested Rote Skills: Academics, Politics, Survival

To know how to get from here to there is to tacitly accept the Lie.
By means of this spell, the mage twists the subject’s sense of direction,
making him certain that the best route from where he is to somewhere
else is one the mage desires. She could, for instance, convince the
subject that the road to a dangerous Verge is actually the way to his
mother’s house, or that the mage’s sanctum is in another part of the
city. If the subject actively, carefully navigates using a map or GPS
or the like, the navigation roll is a single chance die, and even on
a success it feels wrong. (“The map says left, but I swear it’s right!”).

Scrying (Space ••)

Practice: Ruling
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Computers, Occult, Subterfuge

By means of this spell, the mage parts the curtain of the Lie and reveals a distant location to her senses. She creates a “window” that allows her to perceive the subject, much like a television screen. When she casts the spell, she may choose whether the spell is one way, or whether people at the location can see back through the window.

When casting this spell sympathetically, exactly what the mage sees depends on the sympathetic Yantra she employs. Sympathy to a location shows her a broad overview of the area, analogous to a cinematic wide shot, but one that remains static. Sympathy to a person or object tends to show a “close up” of the subject — the window will follow the subject if it moves, but the mage may not be able to make out details of where the subject is or who else might be present.

When cast on a subject within sensory range, the scrying window gives the mage a view as though she were standing right next to the subject. The mage can move this view around as a reflexive action to view the target from any angle she wants.

Casting spells on subjects the mage can see through the window counts as viewing them remotely.

Add Fate ••: The mage may make the scrying window selectively one-way, allowing only specific people to perceive her from the other side of the window.

Secret Door (Space ••)

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

Doorways, roads, and portals represent a liminal point
between two distinct locations — but if distance is an illusion,
there can be no “distinct locations.” This spell cloaks a door,
intersection, or similar aperture between two locations, such
that one’s mundane perceptions simply slide ride past it. All
magical attempts to uncover the door provoke a Clash of Wills.

+1 Reach: The mage may specify a Key that allows the Secret
Door to be seen.

Veil Sympathy (Space ••)

Practice: Veiling
Primary Factor: Duration
Withstand: Sympathy (Connection)
Suggested Rote Skills: Politics, Subterfuge, Survival

A magician’s sympathetic connections allow her to reach out beyond herself, but they are also an avenue by which her enemies can attack her. This spell conceals one of the subject’s sympathetic links, chosen by the mage from those she is aware of. Any attempt to uncover or use the link provokes a Clash of Wills.

+1 Reach: Rather than suppressing a sympathetic link, the mage may instead make the subject appear to have a link to someone or something else instead. Attempts to detect the link provoke a Clash of Wills to see through the deception.

+1 Reach: The spell prevents the subject from being used as a sympathetic Yantra (p. 122) as well as removing its links; each level of Potency reduces all potential uses of the subject as a Yantra from Material, to Representational, to Symbolic, to suppressing them entirely.

+2 Reach: The mage may suppress all the subject’s sympathetic links. This effect applies in both directions; not only does the subject lose his links to loved ones, but those people lose their links to him. The spell is Withstood by the strongest connection the subject has.

Ward (Space ••)

Practice: Shielding
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Athletics, Subterfuge, Weaponry

Space is mutable, until a magician wills otherwise. Cast on an area or individual subjects, this spell locks its subject down, preventing the space within from being manipulated. Magic that uses the sympathy of Warded subjects or attempts to warp Warded areas provokes a Clash of Wills. The mage is aware when one of her Wards is attacked.

+1 Reach: The mage may specify a Key that allows use of Space magic on the Warded subject.

+2 Reach: The mage may cast Ward upon an Iris (p. 243) or its Key, preventing the Iris from opening while the Ward remains in effect. Supernatural powers opening the Iris provoke a Clash of Wills.