Índice 2: Aprendiz em Primórdio (••)

As Above, So Below (Prime ••)

Practice: Ruling
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Academics, Occult, Politics

A mage’s tools are sacred, her every word and deed a reflection of the Realms Above. By means of this spell, the mage imbues the tools of her Art with holy meaning, allowing her to draw down power with greater facility. For every level of Potency, she chooses a single Yantra (and it must be a specific example of a Yantra, not just a category: “the Crypt of the Mariner,” not just “Environment”). Any spell cast that incorporates that Yantra gains the 9-Again effect on the spell- casting roll.

+1 Reach: The Yantra instead grants the 8-Again effect on spellcasting rolls.

Invisible Runes (Prime ••)

Practice: Ruling
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Expression, Intimidation, Persuasion

The Awakened make use of signs others can’t see. This spell draws a short message in High Speech, visible only to Mage Sight, onto its subject. Attempting to alter the marks by overwriting them provokes a Clash of Wills. Mages use these signs to mark their cabal’s property and territory, or leave warnings for one another, as any form of Active Mage Sight reveals them.

Supernal Veil (Prime ••)

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

Sometimes even the greatest magician must hide her light under a bushel. This spell wards its subject, which can be a spell, object, mage, supernatural creature, or any other active magical phenomenon, from detection. Passive abilities (such as Peripheral Mage Sight) automatically fail to detect the veiled phenomenon, while active attempts provoke a Clash of Wills.

Wards and Signs (Prime ••)

Practice: Shielding
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Intimidation, Occult, Survival

By cloaking her subject in Aetheric symbols of victory and indomitability, the mage shields the subject from the effects of hostile magic. When the subject is the target of a spell, that spell is Withstood with the Potency of Wards and Signs.

Only spells that directly target the subject can be Withstood; a spell that turns the air around her into fire cannot be Withstood. Likewise, if the subject is one of many subjects, Wards and Signs only Withstands the spell with regards to her. Other subjects suffer the full effects.

Words of Truth (Prime ••)

Practice: Ruling
Primary Factor: Potency
Withstand: Composure
Suggested Rote Skills: Expression, Intimidation, Persuasion

The mage speaks with tongues of fire, and the world listens. So long as the words the mage speaks are objectively true and the mage herself knows them to be true, all subjects of this spell can hear her and understand her clearly, regardless of distance, noise, or language barriers. Moreover, all subjects know, on a soul-deep level, that what the mage says is true. The spell only works on statements the mage knows to be true: She can’t use it to confirm or reject theories. It also doesn’t necessarily compel the targets to act on the information in any particular way, but ignoring or refuting this Supernal truth may be grounds for a breaking point. In a Social maneuvering action, this spell may remove one Door or improve the impression level by one step per point of Potency.

+1 Reach: The mage’s words don’t merely ring with truth, they call to action. If a listener goes along with what the mage said, he gains the Inspired Condition. If, however, he ignores the mage’s words, he gains the Guilty Condition.