This spell reveals themes and interconnections between people, places and things. In other words, the caster can read the degree of sympathetic connection between subjects. The mage can also sense manipulations of destiny and their causes. This ability extends to any supernatural effect that will or might result in a person’s destiny unfolding in a manner different from that in which it is “meant” to.
Success allows the mage to examine anyone in sensory range to determine the interconnections they might have with each other (or even with things and institutions, such as corporate brands or fashions). On each turn following the casting of this spell (so long as the mage continues to concentrate), an extended Wits + Empathy + Fate roll can be made for the mage to scrutinize people. Each success yields some information, with more successes yielding more powerful or secret connections. The mage cannot tell exactly what the connections mean, just their intensity. See Sympathetic Range for details on what each degree of connection means.
| Successes
| Interconnection
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| 1
| The caster can identify Unknown and Described connections between people and/or things. The caster can also detect an oathbreaker, one who has violated an oath or geas.
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| 2
| The caster can identify Encountered connections between people and/or things. The caster can read an individual’s dots (if any) in the Destiny Merit (up to two dots, with one additional dot per additional success).
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| 3
| The caster can identify Acquainted connections between people and/or things. The caster can also detect direct supernatural mind control, spiritual possession or alterations of destiny.
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| 4
| The caster can identify Known connections between people and/or things. The caster can also detect indirect supernatural mind control, spiritual possession or alterations of destiny.
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| 5
| The caster can identify Intimate connections between people and/or things. The caster can also detect interconnections of destiny, such as if one person viewed (or depicted nearby) is destined to be the mentor or apprentice of another person viewed or depicted — or is destined to be his murderer.
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If the target has any form of supernatural occlusion (such as the Occultation Merit) that would hinder the mage’s perception, the caster’s dice pool is modified by the dots or Potency
of that protection.
Guardians of the Veil Rote: Indra’s Net
The power to read Fate’s mark on another can often prove vital to a Guardian’s work. Sometimes, a paranormal influence impresses itself upon a given individual’s destiny, for example, and drastic steps must be taken to defend the secrecy of the Mysteries.
Silver Ladder Rote:
Mages of the Silver Ladder often use this rote to discern those who might be suitable for inclusion among their own ranks (or conversely to discern those who may prove to be rivals to their order in time).
Ancient Lands Pentalogy Rote: Reading the Bloody Paths [1]
By spilling the blood of the
target and reading the patterns therein, the caster of this
Silver Ladder rote may understand the nuances of destiny
that Fate holds in store for him. The Regent in Silver uses
this spell to sense Soter as the heir of the Great Emperor.
