The mage can read a recorded Final Name and understand its nature. She drinks in the knowledge that this Final Name contains, the summation of all that its owner was.
The mage must have access to the physical, stored form of a Final Name as created by the Fate ●● Scribe Final Name spell. By studying the Final Name, the mage gains insight into the owner of that Name.
She automatically learns the owner’s Virtue and Vice, and can gain a limited understanding of the subject’s sympathetic ties of Fate. The more successes the character achieves, the more remote are the ties discovered. The caster identifies one connection per success rolled. A character can search for particular sorts of connections (relatives, lovers, objects and so on) or just fish at random.
| Successes
| Connections
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| 1
| The caster can identify people Intimately involved with the person’s life, such as family members, a long-time spouse or a mage’s tutor in a Legacy. This does not offer names, only the roles of the other people. Objects intimately connected to the person can be sensed as well (that they existed, and a vague description, not where they are now or even if they still exist). This includes any items enchanted by a mage. The caster also knows if the person ever broke a magical oath or Geas.
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| 2
| The caster identifies people Known to the person, such as close friends, cabal-mates, people the subject worked with a lot or a murder victim’s killer. The caster also receives glimpses of objects that played an important but not crucial role in the person’s life, such as tools used daily in earning a living or a car owned and driven for years. The caster can also tell if the person possessed Occultation or a Destiny; in the latter case, the caster obtains a vague and general notion of the Destiny.
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| 3
| The spell reveals Acquainted people, such as lovers of brief duration, casual friends or teachers in magery. The caster also detects whether the person suffered supernatural mind control, possession or magical alterations of destiny. If the person had an actual Destiny, the caster knows its nature and the associated ban.
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| 4
| The caster senses Encountered people and objects. These are usually too numerous to identify as individuals, but people or objects who possess special significance may stand out from the blur: a king or an archmage once met, a potent Artifact wielded and the like. The caster knows if a Sleeper subject ever had a spell cast upon her.
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| 5
| A fog of thousands of people briefly met or who indirectly affected the person’s life. Extraordinary but indirect influences are revealed, such as the truck driver who dumped the toxic waste that gave the person cancer or the mage who exorcised the person’s house.
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This spell’s Duration is transitory if cast on the recorded Momentary Name of a still-living being, but prolonged if cast on a deceased person. If the mage has Fate ●●, the Duration is prolonged when cast on the living and uses the Advanced Prolongation chart when used to study the Final Name of the dead.
Mysterium Rote: Reading the Headstone
The Namers of the Mysterium use this rote to contemplate the knowledge held within Final Names.
