Índice 4: Adepto em Tempo (••••)
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Índice 4: Adepto em Tempo (••••)
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Present as Past (Time ••••)
Practice: Patterning
Primary Factor: Potency
Cost: 1 Mana
Suggested Rote Skills: Empathy, Investigation, Streetwise
Weaving between the many immediate potential futures, the mage can read the immediate futures of her subjects and react accordingly to thwart (or aid) their plans. In combat, while this spell is in effect, the player can require that every character affected by the spell declare his or her action at the start of every turn. The player need not declare her own action, but instead can choose to act freely at any point within the Initiative order. This trumps all other supernatural Initiative effects save for those created by the Time Arcanum, which requires a Clash of Wills.
In Social situations, the mage adds Doors equal to Potency when the target of Social maneuvering by her subject, or removes them from a subject she is maneuvering against.
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Prophecy (Time ••••)
Practice: Patterning
Primary Factor: Potency
Suggested Rote Skills: Academics, Expression, Investigation
The mage causes the future to conform to her expectations, building a hypothetical scenario she can then examine for knowledge about how to alter the future drastically, whether to ensure or avert a specific event. This works like “Divination,” p. 186, but the mage can ask specific questions and also gains answers about things that might come to pass, depending on variables like choice or outside chance. For example, she could ask whether calling her ex will lead to reconciliation if she makes the attempt, or whether killing a man might set his son down a road to revenge. She can ask one such question per level of Potency and receive a detailed answer that accounts for hypothetical events. Other mages using Divination on the same subject while Prophecy is in effect see the most likely outcome of the scenario set by this spell.
+1 Reach: By building the hypothetical future around a Social interaction, the mage may reduce the subject’s Doors by Potency, since she has intimate knowledge how each question or interaction might affect the target’s choices.
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Rend Lifespan (Time ••••)
Practice: Unraveling
Primary Factor: Potency
Suggested Rote Skills: Athletics, Medicine, Intimidation
The mage can cause parts of a target’s body to age rapidly and others to regress in development. The effects are temporary but devastating, inflicting lethal damage equal to the spell’s Potency. Targets killed by this spell often appear to have “died of old age,” despite their apparent age. At the Storyteller’s discretion, undead beings like vampires and ghosts may be immune to this spell.
+1 Reach: For a point of Mana, the spell now inflicts aggravated damage.
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Rewrite History (Time ••••)
Practice: Patterning
Primary Spell Factor: Potency
Withstand: Resolve
Suggested Rote Skills: Expression, Investigation, Persuasion
Reaching back through time, the mage warps her subject’s timeline, making her present self as though her life took a very different course. This spell allows the mage to rewrite a subject’s history, choosing a point of divergence on his timeline and specifying changes from there. Without Temporal Sympathy, only recent decisions and changes can be rewritten, but as long as the subject is Unchanged at the point of divergence, the mage may make alterations as she wishes. With Temporal Sympathy, the spell is capable of changing every detail of a subject’s history, though the false timeline created must still be possible.
Once the Duration expires, the subject instantly reverts to its original history. Memories of the time spent “rewritten” will seem distant and hazy, dreamlike, but the subject will remember the altered perspective at least to some degree unless Mind magic further alters her memories. This spell does not normally affect supernatural creatures.
+1 Reach: The spell may reassign up to Potency Skill or Merit dots, as the subject’s training and background shift. Skills may not exceed the subject’s maximum.
+1 Reach: The spell may reassign Attribute dots up to Potency, but may not move any category of Attributes below the character creation amount for its priority, or take any Attribute over the maximum for the subject.
+2 Reach: This spell can affect supernatural creatures. While this cannot remove the supernatural Advantages of creatures born to their condition (like werewolves, spirits, or demons), creatures transformed at some point during their lives, like vampires or changelings, can briefly experience life as though they hadn’t been changed.
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Temporal Stutter (Time ••••)
Practice: Patterning
Primary Spell Factor: Potency
Withstand: Stamina
Suggested Rote Skills: Intimidation, Science, Survival
By redefining how a subject’s Time Pattern interacts with the present, the mage throws that subject forward through time, awaiting the moment the present catches up to him. The subject completely vanishes from the Fallen World, and reappears unchanged when the spell’s Duration ends. The subject experiences a momentary lurch in his perceptions, and then suddenly finds his surroundings changed by intervening events. The subject remains in the same location and retains momentum if he had been moving. If something now occupies the space the subject reappears in, apply the Knocked Down Tilt to whichever has the least Size.
Add Space ••: By using the Sympathetic Range Attainment tied to a destination, the spell brings the subject back at that destination rather than at the point he left.
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