The mage can transform energy: sound into light or heat, or electricity into sound, or fire into electricity, or any combination of these forces. All kinds of energy have their origins in certain physical principles that manifested long ago and diverged from a single course. Using that sympathy, a mage can change one kind of energy into another.
Electricity, for example, can be transformed into sound. (As with the Sound Mastery spell, however, a separate Skill roll might be required to generate exacting sounds. The mage could easily get screams or gunfire, but it’s harder to get a specific person screaming or the telltale sound of a certain model of gun.) Light could be changed into heat, meaning that a blindingly bright room could become pitch-black and searingly hot.
The existing energy is transformed, but it is not increased or diminished unless cast in combination with a spell that allows that effect. Use the chart below as a general guideline for transforming one form of energy into another:
| Potency
| Light
| Sound
| Heat¤
| Electricity
| Fire
|
| 1
| Flashlight
| Casual talk
| Room temp. (72)
| Car battery
| Lighter
|
| 2
| 75-watt lamp
| Scream
| Body temp. (98.6)
| Wall socket
| Torch
|
| 3
| Car headlight
| Electric guitar
| Kills bacteria (160)
| Security fence
| Bonfire
|
| 4
| Floodlight
| Gunshot
| Boiling point (212)
| Junction box
| Inferno
|
| 5
| Stadium lights
| Industrial
| Books burn (451)
| Main line
| Conflagration
|
¤ Fahrenheit
Note
Sunlight cannot be transformed (nor can another energy be transformed into sunlight) at this level.
Free Council Rote: Electromagnetic Spectrum
By using advanced scientific techniques, a Council willworker can transmute simple forces, causing one form of energy to become another.
Guardians of the Veil Rote: Alternating Flow
Guardians of the Veil use similar magic when their duties require it.
Ancient Lands Pentalogy Rote: Silence of the Heavens [1]
A Free Council rote used
by the Storm Outlaw at his death to transform all sound
on the battlefield into reaving sheets of lightning, this spell
can actually transform any energy into any other kind.
