Trigger the Lizard Brain

Life	●●●●
Instant
Covert	Weaving
Duration	Transitory
Mage The Awakening Sourcebook, p.191 Rotes
Arrow :	Pulling the Strings of Fear
FC :	Unnamed
Grimoire :	The Masters Temptations
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The mage can control the instinctual reactions of human beings as he does with lower life forms using the Control Median Life.

• Practice: Weaving
• Action: Instant and contested; target get rolls Stamina + Gnosis reflexively
• Duration: Transitory (one turn)
• Aspect: Covert
• Cost: None

At this level, the mage must touch the target. With Life 5, he can cast this spell at Sensory Range.

Adamantine Arrow Rote: Pulling the Strings of Fear

• Dice Pool: Manipulation + Intimidation + Life vs Stamina + Gnosis

Fear is a powerful tool. Adamantine Arrow willworkers who learn the casting of this rote understand the utility of such a resource. Of course, other instinctual reactions, such as deference to a superior or even the urge to mate, can be brought on through the use of such magic. Free Council mages use their own rote (Wits + Intimidation + Life) to trigger those sorts of reactions in other human beings.

Ancient Lands Pentalogy Rote: The Master's Temptations ^[1]

• Dice Pool: Manipulation + Survival + Life

The temptations the Master of Tomes lays into the natural impulses of Soter are attributed to this Mysterium rote, capable of causing endorphin rushes, focused distraction and similar elements of brainwashing and physiological manipulation in its targets.