Índice 1: Iniciado em Primórdio (•)

Dispel Magic (Prime •)
Practice: Compelling
Primary Factor: Potency
Withstand: Arcanum rating of the subject spell’s caster
Suggested Rote Skills: Athletics, Intimidation, Occult

All Awakened magic contains the capacity to end, to allow the Fallen World’s laws to reassert themselves. By Compelling these flaws in an extant spell, the mage may temporarily suppress it — or even destroy it entirely. This spell is not potent enough to dispel an archmage’s spells, and only works against Awakened magic. In addition, the mage must include all Arcana involved in the casting of the subject spell at one dot.

A successful casting suppresses the spell for the Duration of Dispel Magic.

Add Fate •: The mage may suppress the subject spell selective-ly, for a number of subjects equal to Dispel Magic’s Scale factor.

+2 Reach: For one point of Mana, the effect is Lasting. If the spell’s original caster is still alive and has not relinquished the spell, she knows one of her spells was destroyed.

Pierce Deception (Prime •)

Practice: Unveiling
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Investigation, Medicine, Occult

Prime is the Arcanum of pure Truth, and no falsehood may stand before it. By means of this spell, the subject sees illusions, phantasms, and lies for what they are. The spell sees through mundane falsehoods the subject perceives automatically; magical illusion or deception automatically provokes a Clash of Wills.

This spell only reveals “active” untruths: the subject would see that someone with dyed hair isn’t really a blonde, or recognize a lie when she heard it, but she wouldn’t know that a Wall Street executive has been committing tax fraud for years just by looking at him. If she got a look at his tax return, however, she would see that it was a falsehood.

+1 Reach: In addition to sensing falsehoods, the subject gets some symbolic sense of what the actual truth is, veiled in Supernal symbolism and metaphor.

Supernal Vision (Prime •)
Practice: Unveiling
Primary Factor: Potency
Suggested Rote Skills: Empathy, Occult, Survival

By opening her subject’s third eye, the mage reveals her fellows as the wells of Supernal power they are. By studying a person, place, or location for one turn, the subject automatically knows whether it is connected to the Supernal (e.g. if a person is a mage, a Sleepwalker, a Proximus, or a Sleeper; if a place is a Demesne or Verge; if an object is Imbued, Enhanced, or an Artifact), and may ask a number of the following questions equal to the spell’s Potency:
• How much Mana does the target have in her Pattern?
• To which Supernal World is the target most closely aligned?
• What is the target’s highest-rated Arcanum?*
• How adept is the target at their highest-rated Arcanum?
• How many Arcana does the subject know?
• What is the target’s Nimbus?
• What is the target’s Gnosis?

* Subsequent asking of this question reveals the target’s sec-ond, third, etc. highest Arcana.

The subject perceives the answers as Supernal symbols and visions unfolding around the target. If the subject desires more information about a particular phenomenon, she may study it for multiple turns, as long as the spell’s Duration lasts. Effects that would cloak the target’s nature provoke a Clash of Wills as normal.

+1 Reach: The spell reveals the nature of supernatural beings and effects other than Supernal phenomena — though there’s no guarantee the mage knows what the aura of, for example, a Promethean looks like, and most of the questions will return nonsensical imagery that best translates as “not applicable.”

Scribe Grimoire (Prime •)

Practice: Compelling
Primary Factor: Potency
Cost: 1 Mana
Withstand: Total Arcanum dots of all Arcana used in the spell being scribed.
Suggested Rote Skills: Crafts, Expression, Occult

By means of this spell, the mage gives physical form to the mudras of a particular Rote, creating a Grimoire (see p. 101). This spell has two slightly different, albeit related, applications: The mage may either inscribe a Rote she knows, or she may copy a Rote from another Grimoire she has on hand.

Only a single Rote can be inscribed per casting of this spell, but a given Grimoire may hold multiple Rotes at a time: A large book can hold anywhere from 10–15 Rotes, while a fist-sized

carved stone might only hold one or two, and a computer da- tabase could hold a theoretically unlimited number.

When the spell’s Duration expires, the inscribed Rotes fade and cannot be recovered.

+1 Reach: For one point of Mana, the spell’s Duration is Lasting.

Word of Command (Prime •)

Practice: Compelling
Primary Factor: Potency
Cost: Variable
Suggested Rote Skills: Craft, Occult, Persuasion

Enchanted objects and long-lasting spells often have specific triggers or conditions that must be fulfilled before they will release their magic. With this spell, a mage can bypass those con- ditions, freeing the magic to do that which it would. The object or spell immediately activates, exactly as though it were triggered by whatever normally triggers the effect. If an activation roll is normally required, treat the spell’s Potency as rolled successes.

If the subject spell requires Mana to activate, the mage must spend it from her own pool.

Without additional Arcana, this spell can only trigger Supernal spells and objects tied to the Supernal World such as Artifacts and Imbued Items.

Add Any Other Arcanum •: By adding the relevant Arcanum, a mage can activate magical effects and objects created by other sources of power — Spirit to activate a fetish, Fate to trigger a faerie’s curse, and so on. If this object requires mystical energy (Essence or stranger substances) to activate, the mage may spend Mana in lieu of the normal power source.