Restore Lost Soul

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Mage The Awakening Sourcebook, p.250 Rotes
Guardians :	Restoring the Stolen Light
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The mage can restore a severed or stolen soul. A mage with Death 3 can sever a soul (see Sever the Sleeping Soul p. 141), and certain spirits have powers that allow them to steal souls. The mage must have the soul and its original owner at hand, unless he has a Space 2 sympathetic connection to both (or a Space Portal that transcends distance, allowing him to teleport one to the other). Retrieving the soul might be dangerous, since it usually requires confronting the being that took it and who might have wards protecting it from being snatched away.

• Practice: Weaving
• Action: Extended (target number = weeks the soul has been lost)
• Duration: Lasting (or prolonged vs. familars)
• Aspect: Covert
• Cost: None

The target number is one success per week the soul has been gone, but the spell’s effect is lasting. If the stolen soul has been attached to a new body, the mage must first use the Fate 4 Destroy Bindings spell, to detach it before he can restore it to its rightful owner.

Guardians of the Veil Rote: Restoring the Stolen Light

• Dice Pool: Presence + Empathy Skill + Spirit

Not all of a Guardian’s duties are unpleasant, though it might sometimes seem that way. This rote enables such a mage to restore a stolen soul to its rightful owner.