Índice 4: Adepto em Espaço (••••)

Alter Direction (Space ••••)

Practice: Patterning
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Academics, Firearms, Persuasion

“Direction” is nothing more than a vector between two points. With this spell, the mage overwrites that concept, letting her define her path as anything she desires.

When cast on an area, this spell allows her to change a number of absolute directions (e.g. north, south, up, down) equal to the spell’s Potency. She might redefine “down” as “up,” causing anything not rooted to the ground to fall into the sky, or redefine “north” as “south by southwest,” causing compasses to point the wrong way. Objects entering the area at speed find their direction of travel and momentum abruptly altered, which may require a Dexterity + Athletics or Drive roll to maintain control. This change isn’t necessarily reciprocal; if the mage decrees that north is south, that doesn’t mean that south is north — rather, it is impossible for anyone in the area to go north.

Alternately, the mage may cast this spell on a specific subject and change a direction relative to that subject. She might redefine her own personal “down” as “the direction my feet are pointing,” allowing her to walk on walls or ceilings, or redefine an attacker’s “forward” as “toward the person holding the gun” before he shoots her.

+1 Reach: The mage can redefine directions as curves, loops, or other shapes beyond a simple straight line. This might allow her to cause anyone walking straight ahead to move in an endless circle, or trace a “straight” path for her bullets that weaves around obstacles and friendlies. Apply the spell’s Potency as a bonus or penalty to relevant actions.

Collapse (Space ••••)

Practice: Unraveling
Primary Factor: Potency
Suggested Rote Skills: Academics, Firearms, Intimidation

While lesser magic can blur the distinction between locations, this spell can destroy them outright. The mage forces her subject to momentarily occupy the same space as another object, with catastrophic effects. This is an attack spell; its damage rating is equal to the spell’s Potency, and it inflicts lethal damage. Collapsing multiple subjects into each other, thereby damaging them all, is an application of increased Subject Factor.

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

+1 Reach: The co-located object remains inside the subject, preventing natural or magical healing of the wound until it’s surgically excised or ripped out.

Cut Threads (Space ••••)

Practice: Unraveling
Primary Factor: Potency
Withstand: Sympathy (Connection)

Suggested Rote Skills: Persuasion, Politics, Weaponry
Isolation is the beginning of understanding. This spell destroys one of the subject’s sympathetic links (additional connections can be severed by increasing the number of subjects with
the Scale factor). This effect is Lasting, but normal interactions
may restore the links in time, as described on p. 172.

+2 Reach: The mage may remove the subject’s sympathetic name. This effect is not Lasting; the name returns when the spell’s Duration expires.

Secret Room (Space ••••)

Practice: Patterning
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Expression, Science, Survival

Volume is a product of dimension, and dimension is merely an expression of distance in three dimensions. This spell allows the mage to manipulate those axes, making a space much larger or smaller than should be possible. A cramped studio apartment can become a spacious loft, or a town square can be made the size of a closet. Subjects crushed by a shrinking space too small for them take lethal damage equal to the spell’s Potency and are forcibly ejected from the space.

The Scale spell factor must encompass the area as it exists before the spell acts. The subject space’s volume is increased or decreased a number of steps along the Area Scale factor table equal to the spell’s Potency. Anyone or anything within the expanded space when the spell runs out simply appears outside the original, unaltered space.

Teleportation (Space ••••)

Practice: Patterning
Primary Factor: Potency
Suggested Rote Skills: Larceny, Persuasion, Science

By means of this spell, the mage transforms her subject’s current location, effectively moving it from point to point without crossing the intervening space. She can, for example, summon a subject to her from anywhere in the world, banish someone to the outer reaches of Siberia, or teleport herself. By default, the subject’s current location and destination must both be within sensory range, but the mage may employ the Sympathetic Range Attainment on one of them.

+1 Reach: The mage can “swap” the location of two subjects with no more than one point of Size difference.

+2 Reach: The mage can now cast the spell with two separate Sympathetic Ranges, teleporting subjects without being present for either end of the journey. The spell is Withstood by the worse Sympathetic link.

Add Death ••, Sprit ••, etc: By adding •• in an Arcanum whose purview includes another realm of existence (e.g. the Underworld or the Shadow), the mage may move things from that realm into the physical world, or vice versa.