Speak with the Dead

Death	●
Instant	None
Covert	Unveiling
Duration	Prolonged
Mage The Awakening Sourcebook, p.135 Rotes
The Mysterium :	Clamor of the Departed
Ladder :	Song of Orpheus
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The mage can see, hear and speak with ghosts within Twilight. He can also detect their unseen presence, if they are hiding or have chosen not to reveal themselves. He can see spirits within Twilight, too, but they appear hazy and indistinct and he cannot hear them, unless he also uses Spirit ● while casting this spell. He cannot perceive mental projections unless he adds Mind ● to the casting.

• Practice: Unveiling
• Action: Instant
• Duration: Prolonged (one scene)
• Aspect: Covert
• Cost: None

This spell’s successes must equal or exceed the Potency of any power (if any) used to conceal the ghost.

Mysterium Rote: Clamor of the Departed

• Dice Pool: Wits + Occult + Death

Long have the Awakened known that the dead keep secrets. Mages of the Mysterium use this magic to learn such lost lore. More pragmatically, willworkers of the Adamantine Arrow have sometimes been known to use this rote to ask questions of allies or enemies recently slain.

Silver Ladder Rote: Song of Orpheus^[1]

• Dice Pool: Presence + Occult + Death

As Orpheus' music could move even the dead to weep and speak with him, the mage using this rote calls upon that precedent to compel the dead to speak with him.