The control of water, pulled from a standing source or out of ambient moisture, and the powerful waves that it forms.

The following game effects are treated as one grade lower in this Domain:

• Strike 

LESSER EFFECTS 

• The Magician may narratively create small amounts of water.

STANDARD EFFECTS

• Call Water Strike

GREATER EFFECTS

• The Magician may call Power Water Strike

MIGHTY EFFECTS

• The Magician may call Power Thirst Winded on a target.

EPIC EFFECTS

• The Magician immediately and drastically wrenches forth all the moisture from a target’s body. The target takes Power Blackout, and if it is not immediately resisted, they gain the Traumatized condition on awakening.

The Faith Attribute as well as the occasional feat of Faith, such as changing one’s Devotion.  

The Faith Domain governs game effects relating to the Faith Attribute, Devotion, Hope, Despair, Devoted, Prayer, Willpower, Zeal and Beliefs.

LESSER EFFECTS 

• Know whether a target is Pragmatic or Spiritual.

STANDARD EFFECTS

• Set Attribute Faith to a minimum base of Sound (1)
• Know the target’s Devotion and how much Despair they have, if any. (Power 3 as Faith/Clarity)
• Prevent Hope from expiring for the duration of the spell. (Power 3 as Faith/Time/Cycles)

GREATER EFFECTS

• Set Faith to a minimum base of Impressive (2)
• The target’s Devotion changes into the Magician’s Devotion. (Paths/Purpose/Reflection)

MIGHTY EFFECTS

• Set Faith to a minimum base of Great (3)

EPIC EFFECTS

• Set Faith to a minimum base of Epic (4)

The Speed Attribute as well as the occasional feat of Speed, such as moving a blinding speed all at once over a certain distance.

The Speed Domain governs game effects relating to the Speed Attribute, Dodge, Quick, and Mobility.

LESSER EFFECTS 

• The Magician may create a path where none previously existed, exiting a locked room or other space in which they are trapped. (Power 2 as Paths/Speed)

STANDARD EFFECTS

• Set Attribute Speed to a minimum base of Sound (1)
• The Magician may enter Ignore, opening a Hidden Path to an unblocked location within Range. They may traverse the Path in Stealth for the duration of the spell. The Magician must treat anything outside of the Stealthed path as though it were also in Stealth and unable to be perceived. (Power 4 as Paths/Speed)
• Defense: Dodge

GREATER EFFECTS

• Set Attribute Speed to a minimum base of Impressive (2).
• Add the Quick quality to any Brawl ability.
• Enter Ignore and immediately leave the scene if not impeded by barriers. 

MIGHTY EFFECTS

• Set Attribute Speed to a minimum base of Great (3).
• Accomplish Crafting in half the time.
• Gain an additional Downtime Action for a purely physical activity. 

EPIC EFFECTS

• Set Attribute Speed to a minimum base of Epic (4).
• Accomplish Crafting in a third of the time.
• Gain two additional Downtime Actions for purely physical activities.

Removing impurities, contagions, and other negative influences.

LESSER EFFECTS 

• The Magician may narratively cleanse an object or person.
• The target’s Disease is reduced by one step of progression. This spell may not remove the Disease itself.

STANDARD EFFECTS

• The Magician may suppress a Mild or Severe Insanity. (Power 4 as Clarity/Cleansing)
• The target receives a Toughness to spent immediately against Disease.
• Remove 1 Filth in all Districts of a city using Convolutional Escapement or appropriate Forms and Range.

GREATER EFFECTS

• The Magician may remove a Mild Insanity
• Remove 3 Filth in all Districts of a city using Convolutional Escapement or appropriate Forms and Range.
  

MIGHTY EFFECTS

• The Magician may remove a Severe Insanity
• Remove 5 Filth in all Districts of a city using Convolutional Escapement or appropriate Forms and Range.
  

EPIC EFFECTS

• The Magician may remove a Crippling Insanity.
• Remove 10 Filth in all Districts of a city using Convolutional Escapement or appropriate Forms and Range.
  

Experiencing events outside of one’s own moment in time.

Time can be used to gain some level of precognitive ability by distorting the perception of time or at higher Power, experience a moment out of time as if present.

Perception of Time

Most Time spells bend the perception of time for the caster.  Spells from the Time Domain always affect the Magician and only the Magician.  If the target of the spell is another character, the spell allows the Magician to perceive information about that character’s timeline.  If the Magician targets themselves with a Time spell, they learn information about their own timeline. These can allow the Magician to learn about critical events in their future or past, which can grant them prescient alertness to some kinds of danger.

Abilities that can be justified with precognitive abilities can be utilized under the standard Effect grades.

Kairotic Time Travel

Time magic can allow a Magician to fully experience an event out of time, either forward or backwards from their ordinary moment in time.  Time is measured from certain points of metaphysical importance to the world. Such a point is called a Kairos. These events are summoned from their place in time and experienced by the Magician mentally.  The Magician can interact with characters or objects to a limited degree, but isn’t actually present in the real event and can’t make changes to the outcomes in their timeline.

These experiences are run either by narration or as a Trial, depending on the subject matter.  While the Magician is a present participant in the scene, they can interact with any characters or items in the scene, however, the scene only has “content” within it that was kairotic to the event.  For example, if a character were holding and examining a book, that book would be present. If the character wrote within the book, the page and what they wrote would be present, as would any passages that were critical to the event occurring.  An unrelated book sitting on a shelf might also be present, but the pages would be blank and insubstantial were the Magician to examine it, because its contents are not relevant to the Kairos.

During an experience such as this, the Magician enters a trance state.  Once the Kairos ends, the Magician’s senses are returned to their ordinary timeline automatically, or it can be ended early with the Unweave Technique.

Time Spell Parameters

A Kairos has a given “Kairocity” rating depending on how important of an event it is, and the higher this rating, the easier it is to navigate to magically.  

Time spells use Power to find a Kairos. Experiencing an event with a strong Kairos, such as an event of global importance or deep personal significance to the target of the spell is a Mighty Effect.  Experiencing an event with a weak Kairos, such an obscure but important event is an Epic effect. Events of deep personal significance to the target are Greater Effects. The most powerful magic (Power 10) can target even miniscule points in time.

Time spells can navigate to any point within the Duration of the spell as a form of chronological distance, such as a spell with Duration 5 being able to perceive an event during the last Period.  The event in question must have happened within the Range of the spell.

Apoptotic Time

If the Apoptosis Technique is used with the Time Domain, the manipulation of Time is less perspective and more mechanical.  Instead of experiencing Time, the Magician is bodily shunted out of their own time and to the Kairos, which is run as a Trial.  Actions the Magician takes can go on to affect future time periods from the event.  

Future Intervention

The Magician can also attempt to alter a future event that has not yet happened in their time.  When doing so, the Magician names a set of circumstances that might happen and tries to locate a Kairos.  If the event was ever possible, the Magician finds a Kairos and has an effect there, but if the description was not specific enough, they may travel to and change the wrong Kairos for what they really wanted to accomplish by changing a moment they never encounter in their own timeline.  The Magician must name at minimum the location (such as a specific building or small area), what happens (such as “someone comes to kill me”) and a specific named target that is present. The Magician can be more specific if they wish. The target moment must also be within the Duration and Range of the spell.  Generally such personal events are Greater Effects to navigate to.

When the spell is cast, the Magician briefly flickers out of existence for those who see them, having gone to that moment of time and intervened.  The Magician has enough time in the future event to cast any one spell they have on the target that they designated (which may be themselves), provided the spell meets the requirements of whatever Fallacies it has associated with it.  They are then discharged back to their own timeline, somewhat disoriented and hazy on the details.

Until the moment actually comes to pass or the Duration of the spell expires, the Magician gains 1 Anacrusis Point.  If the specific circumstances do come to pass, the Magician may immediately call the effect of the spell they previously indicated.

Past Intervention

If a Magician intervenes in a past event, they may be able to affect outcomes in the present. Changes the Magician makes to an event play out over the intervening periods, and new events unfold.  

Time will naturally try to reform itself in a way that preserves as much of the timeline as possible without error, so many events, may surprisingly remain unaffected or have come about in different ways, though at least the actual facts of the intervention do play out.  Especially powerful Kairoi that have shaped hundreds of other Kairoi around them are especially resilient to change.

Personal Understanding Navigational Requirement

The other essential component is that the magician must be able to conceive of the Kairos they are attempting to travel to, which generally means they must know about it, and have at least a moderately solid understanding of what they are trying to find.  It is more or less impossible to find “theoretical” kairoi in the past. Note that this means that events that are completely unknown to living history are not targetable. If the Magician achieves an understanding of the event somehow (Archaeology, magical visions, an old book, interviewing a person they meet in the past) they can attempt to target that event with a spell, even if they return to their home time.

Returning

Apoptotic Time Travelling does not have a native way to return to one’s own timeline, and a second spell to return to your place in time must be cast while you are in a foreign timeline. The Power to return to your proper place in Time is 1 due to its intense personal importance to you, but the Duration must be sufficient to return, usually the same Duration as the original spell, with the possibility of higher Durations for longer trips backward.

LESSER EFFECTS 

STANDARD EFFECTS

• The Magician is able to define the next steps for the target to achieve a Personal Victory based on their Devotion.
• The Magician gains an Alert Dodge through foresight (Power 4)

GREATER EFFECTS

• The Magician gazes into the multiverse of possible futures to see how likely a specific outcome to a specific action is. The Magician may ask an ST how likely a specific result is from a specific action. Both action and result must be contained within the Event.
• Experience a Kairos of powerful personal significance to the target.

MIGHTY EFFECTS

•  Experience a Powerful Kairos important to world events.

EPIC EFFECTS

• Experience an Weak Kairos of obscure importance.

Accessing and enhancing those things which an object or idea is made to accomplish, or setting a new purpose for those things.

Purpose is a Broad Domain, and its effects are usually one grade higher than similar effects from other Domains.

LESSER EFFECTS 

• Know a Target’s Devotion Prefix.

STANDARD EFFECTS

• The Magician is able to divine the next steps necessary for the target to achieve a Personal Victory based on their devotion. ST required. (Power 3 as Purpose/Paths/Time)

GREATER EFFECTS

• The Magician gazes into the multiverse of possible futures to see how likely a specific outcome to a specific action is. The Magician may ask an ST how likely a specific result is from a specific action. Both action and result must be contained within the Event.(Power 5 as Purpose/Time/Paths)
• The Magician may inflict a Belief on a target for the duration of the spell. (Power 5 as Purpose/Pressure/Faith)
• Know the target’s 1 sentence description of character concept. ST required(Power 5 as Clarity/Purpose)

MIGHTY EFFECTS

• Change the focus of a target’s Insanity.

EPIC EFFECTS

• Change a Target’s Devotion into yours permanently. (Faith/Purpose)

Washing away obscurity, illusion and control.

Clarity spells do not grant any form of superior sight or perception, they only deal with removing obscurities over what is normal.

LESSER EFFECTS 

• The Magician gains a Discipline vs the Trust call, as per the Suspicion Ability.
• (Power 2 as Clarity/Purpose)

STANDARD EFFECTS

• Gain a Discipline vs. one category: Illusions, Social Conditions, Mental Conditions, or Insanities
• Suppress a Mild or Severe Insanity. (Power 3 as Clarity/Cleansing)

GREATER EFFECTS

• Call Reveal, as per Vigilance 3.

MIGHTY EFFECTS

• Ignore the effects of Despair for the duration of the spell

EPIC EFFECTS

• The Magician may completely remove any Insanities, Despair, or mind altering effects from the target.

Reflection of any kind of effect, be it physical, emotional or otherwise.

LESSER EFFECTS 

• The Magician may narratively feel a target’s current emotion or cause a target to feel the Magician’s own emotion.

STANDARD EFFECTS

• The Magician equalizes their health with the target, making the target suffer all physical Calls and Conditions, including Injuries and Battered, that the Magician suffers for the duration of the spell. The Magician should repeat any Condition calls made against them to the target of this spell. (Power 4 as Balance/Reflection)

GREATER EFFECTS

• If a Social Condition is successfully applied to you, you may repeat that call.

MIGHTY EFFECTS

• Whenever you suffer a specific Category of Combat Condition (Striking, Stunning, or Staggering) you may repeat that same Call against your attacker, whether or not you have called a Defense against the condition.

EPIC EFFECTS

• The Magician may call No Effect on Combat Conditions targeted at them, then the same call back at their opponent if in melee.  If defended, the initial effect resumes on the Magician.
• The Magician may call No effect on Melee Hits, then Strike on that opponent.  If defended, the initial effect resumes on the Magician.
• The Magician may call No Effect on Social Conditions, then back at their interlocutor. If defended, the initial effect resumes on the Magician.

Manipulating, creating and revealing new and existing paths of travel for people and objects.

LESSER EFFECTS 

• Projectiles slow to a crawl within a 15ft bubble for the duration, becoming ineffective to all but the completely immobilized (Requires Blasting Form)
• Gain the ability to walk clearly along the hidden paths of the forest. Target may walk on trials as if they had Survival 1 for the duration.  

STANDARD EFFECTS

• The Magician may use the Ignore Pose to walk directly to the targeted area that they could have walk to.
• When Travelling the Magician may shorten the Path travelled along, cutting the distance in half (Requires range 8 or 9 if travelling outside the Theatre)

GREATER EFFECTS

• The target may enter the Ignore pose and immediately leave the area.
• When Travelling the Magician may shorten the Path travelled along, cutting the distance into a quarter of its original length (Require range 8 or 9 if travelling outside the Theatre)

MIGHTY EFFECTS

• When Travelling the Magician may shorten the Path travelled along, cutting the distance into an  eighth of its original length (Requires range 8 or 9 if travelling outside the Theatre)

EPIC EFFECTS

• SWhen Travelling the Magician may shorten the Path travelled along, cutting the distance to practically nothing, requiring only to travel a single Hex to travel anywhere in the world(Requires range 8 or 9 if travelling outside the Theatre)

Maintaining of corresponding effects, opposite effects and evening of distributions.

LESSER EFFECTS 

• The Magician may perform a minor narrative feat requiring good physical balance

STANDARD EFFECTS

• The Magician equalizes their health with the target, making the target suffer all physical Calls and Conditions, including Injuries and Battered, that the Magician suffers for the duration of the spell. The Magician should repeat any Condition calls made against them to the target of this spell. ( Power 4 as Balance/Reflection)
• The target gains a Dodge against Staggering Conditions, refreshing on Rest.

GREATER EFFECTS

• The target’s Devotion Prefix is changed to that of the Magician’s for the duration of the spell. (Balance/Faith)

MIGHTY EFFECTS

• The target may call No Effect on all Staggering Conditions.

EPIC EFFECTS

• In any case when a Staggering Condition would have been called on the Magician, the Condition is instead called on their attacker. (Balance/Reflection)

Manipulation of any cyclical series, anything that happens and un-happens in sequence.

LESSER EFFECTS 

• The Magician halts their biological needs for a Downtime. They are treated as being adequately fed and housed without the necessity of consuming Resources, as per the Camping ability. (Reduced from Standard Effect)

STANDARD EFFECTS

• Make someone who is moving and fighting Winded / Give target that is out of combat and sitting a Rest.(Power 4 as Time/Cycles)

GREATER EFFECTS

• Prevents Hope from expiring for the duration of the spell.

MIGHTY EFFECTS

• The Magician gains a Power Social Call to be used immediately on a target, as if the Magician had previously put them into the relevant Social Condition.

EPIC EFFECTS

• While gathering resources from a Node, the output is double what it would have been otherwise.

Exerting the force of great weight upon particular points or places.

Pressure is a Narrow Domain, and its effects are typically one grade lower.  

LESSER EFFECTS 

• The Magician may cause a target to feel intense pressure on a specific limb.

STANDARD EFFECTS

• Magician may call Water Sunder on a targeted object
• (Power 3 as Pressure/Water)

GREATER EFFECTS

• The Magician may inflict a Belief on a target for the Event.

• (Power 5 as Purpose/Pressure/Faith)

MIGHTY EFFECTS

• The Magician may call Power Water Knockdown on a target. (Pressure/Water)

EPIC EFFECTS

• One of the target’s limbs is crushed and twisted by the full force of Ujoctl. The limb gains a Severe Maim and the target takes the Traumatized condition.
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