By means of this spell, a mage can craft tass that does not take the shape of a solid material object but, rather, the form of some kind of simple energy (light, heat, electricity or sound). Such tass might be a fi re that burns without the need for fuel, or a pattern of shifting lights, crawling arcs of electricity or an otherworldly sound with no discernible source.
- Practice: Weaving
- Action: Instant
- Duration: Prolonged (one scene)
- Aspect: Covert (if cast in an unbelievable way, such as a green flame that burns harmlessly on the mage's fingertips, the spell invokes Disbelief in Sleeper witnesses)
- Cost: 1 Mana (minimum)
Successes are allocated between Size and Potency. The Potency of the spell determines how complex the phenomenon created can be.
| Successes
| Effect (Light)
| Effect (Fire)
| Effect (Electricity)
| Effect (Sound)
|
| 1 success
| Fixed white light
| Ordinary fire
| Intermittent electrical arcs
| Monotonous sound
|
| 2 successes
| Colored light or moving white light
| Strange but natural fire (blue or red)
| Constant random electrical arcs
| Modulating sound
|
| 3 successes
| Moving multicolored light
| Unnatural fire (violet or silver)
| Patterned electrical arcs
| Multi-playered complex sound
|
Mana must be channeled into the tass, and can be withdrawn by a mage skilled in the Prime Arcanum, as normal[1]. This energetic tass can inflict only bashing damage, and then only if in the form of electricity or fire.
Optional Effect: Forces ●●●●
With Forces ●●●●, and by adding an extra success to the spell’s Potency, however, the tass can be made to inflict lethal damage when in such forms.
Note
Fire created by this spell does not automatically burn flammable items. Such fire must be made to inflict lethal damage, and the mage must will it to burn like a normal fire. The tass will then burn as normal for as long as the mage actively concentrates on making it do so.
Free Council Rote: Light of Creation
Energy is nothing more than another form of matter, and so a skilled willworker can will into being tass that takes on such immaterial shapes.
