Índice 5: Mestre em Primórdio (•••••)

Blasphemy (Prime •••••)

Practice: Unmaking
Primary Factor: Potency
Withstand: Hallow Rating, if applicable
Suggested Rote Skills: Athletics, Occult, Survival

By defining all truths, the Supernal includes the means of its own erasure. This spell severs the world’s connection with the Supernal, creating a “dead zone” in which the energies of life simply cease to be. The spell has the following effects:

• Ley lines within the area dry up and die. Nodes similarly cease to function.
• Hallows whose rating is less than the spell’s Potency fall dormant.
• Sleepers who spend more than a day within the area gain the Enervated condition (though this is not soul loss and the victims do not progress to the Thrall Condition, see p. 315).
• Any attempt to reawaken a Hallow within the area adds the Potency of this spell to the Hallow’s dot rating for purposes of Withstanding the effect.

+2 Reach: The effects are Lasting, though without major geomantic workings to maintain the barren state, within a month or so natural rhythms will reassert themselves and ley lines, nodes, and the health of the Sleepers will return. Hallows, however, remain dormant.

Create Truth (Prime •••••)

Practice: Making
Primary Factor: Duration
Cost: 5 Mana per Potency
Withstand: Hallow Rating of desired Hallow
Suggested Rote Skills: Expression, Occult, Persuasion

The Awakened speaks, and the heavens reshape themselves. This spell overwrites the conditions of Fallen Reality within the area, creating a Hallow with a dot rating equal to the spell’s Potency. This Hallow has Resonance appropriate to its location and to the caster’s Path and Nimbus (see p. 242). The sudden emergence of such a mystically potent site causes massive ripples and aftershocks through the local network of ley lines, which almost certainly creates new Mysteries.

Hallows “cap out” at a rating of •••••; any Potency in excess has no effect.

+2 Reach: For 5 Mana, the effect becomes Lasting.

Eidolon (Prime •••••)

Practice: Making
Primary Factor: Potency
Cost: 1+ Mana
Suggested Rote Skills: Academics, Crafts, Occult

Where adepts of Prime can create platonic objects by forcing Mana into the pattern it wears within tass, a master can create the complex Prime patterns within living beings and the environment. When fuelled with Mana, this spell creates an obviously-magical construct much like Platonic Form, except that the construct is not limited to single physical objects. Eidolons may imitate fire, fog, and even entire environments, but most masters use it to create “living” constructs. Eidolons are still made of solidified Mana, and have Durability and Structure instead of Healt , and when mimicking environmental hazards do not inflict damage as they do (Eidolon fire does not burn, for example.) They follow the Potency rules for Platonic Form (p.169) but Potency may also be allocated to grant dots of the Retainer Merit.

Though animate, the construct is mindless . If used as a Retainer, the Eidolon’s “field” includes simple physical labor, combat, and other uncomplicated tasks. The Eidolon can only execute whatever order the caster gave it last. Orders must be very simple. If attacked, the Eidolon has no Defense.

Unlike Platonic forms, Eidolons do not crumble when all Mana is withdrawn. A mage may “refill” the construct with the Channel Mana spell (p. 168) or similar effects. When the spell’s Duration runs out, any unused Mana sublimates back into the world and is lost.

Add Forces •••: The construct is not obviously magical.

Add Mind •••••: The tass may be given a mind of its own. See p. 165 for details.

Forge Purpose (Prime •••••)

Practice: Making
Primary Factor: Duration
Withstand: Resolve
Suggested Rote Skills: Empathy, Expression, Medicine

The mage imparts a holy mission upon her subject. For the Duration of the spell, the subject gains one of the mage’s Obsessions as his own. If the subject is a mage who already has the maximum number of Obsessions allowed by her Gnosis, this spell triggers a Clash of Wills. If the caster is successful, she replaces the subject’s most recently acquired Obsession with her own.

Even Sleepers, who normally only have Aspirations, gain an Obsession. Though they can’t generally spend Arcane Experiences, they still accrue them and may spend the Experiences if they ever Awaken. Some mages believe Sleepers who have experienced the Mysteries are more likely to Awaken — empirical evidence, however, suggests that mental illness is more likely.

+1 Reach: The mage may create a wholly new Obsession rather than copy one of her own.

Word of Unmaking (Prime •••••)

Practice: Unmaking
Primary Factor: Potency
Withstand: Merit rating of the targeted magical object, or Durability if not measured in Merit dots
Suggested Rote Skills: Intimidation, Occult, Weaponry

The Aetheric storms scour and destroy as much as they revitalize. With this spell, the mage calls down the destructive power of the Supernal to destroy a magical item. Supernal Artifacts cannot be destroyed by this spell.

+2 Reach: The item explodes violently when destroyed. Roll the object’s Merit rating (or Durability) as a dice pool: Anyone within 1 yard per dot suffers a point of lethal damage per success.