Índice 5: Mestre em Espaço (•••••)

Create Sympathy (Space •••••)

Practice: Making
Primary Factor: Potency
Withstand: Connection of desired link
Suggested Rote Skills: Empathy, Persuasion, Politics

To a Master of Space, powerful connections are forged as easily as snapping one’s fingers. With this spell, the mage creates a new sympathetic connection on the subject. These new connections are Lasting, but can fade with time as described on p. 172.

+1 Reach: The sympathetic connections created are Lasting, and will never fade. Only magic can sever them. This can have dramatic, long-term psychological repercussions on a subject, as he is effectively never able to emotionally let go.

+2 Reach: The mage may apply a new sympathetic name to the subject, which does not replace the original. This effect is not Lasting, and fades when the spell’s Duration ends.

Forge No Chains (Space •••••)

Practice: Unmaking
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Occult, Subterfuge, Survival

To leave behind attachments is the truest sign of freedom. For the Duration of this spell, the subject leaves no sympathetic traces behind. She cannot forge sympathetic connections, and even blood, hair, and the like shed during the spell’s Duration do not link back to her. Her Space spells leave no tell-tale ripples in the Tapestry. Any attempt to scrutinize her Space magic or previously-created sympathetic connections with Mage Sight (see p. 92) add the spell’s Potency to the Mystery’s Opacity.

Pocket Dimension (Space •••••)

Practice: Making
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Crafts, Expression, Survival

The mage creates a space outside of space, one ideally suited to serve as a sanctum — or a prison. Without the addition of other Arcana, this space is devoid of any identifiable features, dimensions, or boundaries. It has no Time, so anything within it is held in stasis, unaging (but also unhealing and never growing or improving). It has no Death or Spirit, so Twilight doesn’t exist within it. It is, in essence, a space whose only definition is that it is a space. Someone within the dimension can walk forever in any direction, but when she turns back she finds herself only as far as the boundary of the spell’s Area Factor.

The Pocket Dimension is divorced from physical reality; unless the mage chooses to anchor the realm to a point in the world, the only way to reach it is to teleport there. Spells cast within the Pocket Dimension do not incur Paradox, unless they are cast sympathetically on someone outside the Pocket Dimension. The mage counts as a material sympathetic Yantra for her own Pocket Dimension. If the Pocket Dimension is ever destroyed, or if its Duration expires, everything inside reappears in the world at the exact location from which it or they entered the Dimension.

+1 Reach: The mage may create an Iris to the Pocket Dimension in the material realm, allowing anyone to enter and leave it. For an additional Reach, she may specify a Key for the Iris.

Add Time ••: Time flows normally within the pocket dimension, matching the flow of Time in the material realm. Wise mages supplement this conjunction with Matter spells or similar effects to ensure a continuous air supply.

Add Death ••, Mind ••, or Spirit ••: The Pocket Dimension includes Twilight for entities attuned to the Arcanum added.

Quarantine (Space •••••)

Practice: Unmaking
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Academics, Larceny, Socialize

This spell excises a subject from Space altogether, removing all paths from it to the rest of the world and vice versa. For all intents and purposes, the subject simply ceases to exist and reality “fills in” to adjust. A Quarantined house doesn’t leave behind an empty lot; rather, its two neighboring houses suddenly find themselves adjacent. A building with a Quarantined 12th floor appears to only have 11 stories — though the elevator has a “12” button, it doesn’t do anything. Those inside the Quarantined area find that they cannot leave — any attempt to do so simply loops back through whatever door they passed through. They are, in effect, in a Pocket Dimension — albeit one that, because it is actually an excised piece of the Fallen World, possesses its own Time, Twilight, and so forth.

+1 Reach: The mage may specify a Key that allows access to and from the Quarantined area.

Add Mind ••••: For as long as the Quarantine exists, no one remembers that the Quarantined area, or anyone caught within it, exists. Memories are altered as necessary (so the new neighbors remember always being neighbors, and the office workers are sure the “12” button in the elevator was a weird construction gaffe and there never was an advertising firm on 12, and so on).

Add Time •••••: For as long as the Quarantine lasts, not only is the targeted area excised from space, it retroactively never existed at all. Any influence it, or anyone inside, had on the world is either undone or was caused by someone else. Normal history reasserts itself when the spell ends.