Doctrine
Parent Path: Obrimos
Prerequisites: Life 2, Athletics 2, 2 dots between Brawl, Firearms, or Weaponry
Initiation: Perform a feat of endurance and physical prowess as designed by your Mentor.
Magic
Ruling Arcanum: Life
Yantras: Perform a rigorous workout to focus the mind as appropriate for the spell (+2), contemplate your situation (+1), meditate into a state of peace before casting the spell (+2), disregard worldly concerns in the pursuit of your target (+1, +2 if this imposes a negative Condition)
Oblations: Rigorous martial parts practice, feats of endurance, exhibiting humility.
Attainments
First Attainment: Chi Sight
Prerequisite: Initiation
With an Instant Action, the Mage can focus on the subtle energies contained within a body called chi or prana and discern from this information the nature of the body they are contained within. This includes all information as per the spell Analyze Life including health, sex, species, age, conditions, tilts, and physical attribute dots. To focus on another individual, the mage must use this Attainment again.
Analyze Life, Reach to Instant Casting.
Optional Arcanum: Prime 1
His vision more delicate in his understanding of the nature of Prime, the Monk may over time read a great many Truths about the nature of the subject’s connection to the Supernal. With each round of use, the Mage may as a number of the questions from Supernal Vision equal to his dots in Prime about a single subject.
Supernal Vision, Reach to Instant Casting.
Second Attainment: Body as a Temple
Prerequisite: Life 2
So long as the Monk maintains his exercise regimen daily, his Awakened Soul grants him full control over his normally autonomous bodily functions. The Mage gains the full effects of the spell Body Control with a Potency of 2 (increasing to 3 at Life 4).
Body Control, Reach to Advanced Duration.
Optional Arcanum: Prime 2
Furthermore, the Mage’s inviolate body can repel the efforts of other willworkers with greater ease, increasing his Withstand by 2 (increasing to 3 at Life 4).
This is basically a modified version of the non-houseruled Wards and Signs (Prime ••), to bring it in line with 1E, somewhat. But hey, it fits with the idea of being such a master of yourself that it is harder to affect you with spells.
Third Attainment: Chi Force
Prerequisite: Life 3
The Mage’s constant exercise regimen has granted him an unparalleled physique, permitting him to channel his chi into it to enhance the potency of musculature, suppleness of ligaments, or rigidity and durability of his frame. Upon learning this Attainment, select Strength, Dexterity or Stamina. So long as the Monk maintains his daily exercise regimen, he may as an Instant Action, spend 1 Mana and increase that attribute by his dots in Life for the remainder of the scene.
Honing the Form, with Reach for Advanced Duration and exceeding Gnosis-determined maximum. This is one reach in excess, however the spell is limited to a singular attribute determined when taken, and still requires “activation” despite the scene-length exercise regimen. So, it’s balanced.
Optional Arcanum: Forces 3
The Monk’s Chi can be channeled into more than his mere form, but can be projected out of his form in the manner of kinetic energy. The Mage may reflexively channel his chi into his unarmed melee attacks (punching while wearing normal boots, or gloves is fine, no knuckle dusters though), increasing damage by 2 (rising to 3 at Forces 4) and turning it from Bashing into Lethal. Furthermore, any successful attack causes ripples of chi to pass directly through the subject disorientating them and applying the Stunned tilt, even if no damage is caused due to armor.
This Attainment takes a Scene to activate, and lasts for a period equal to the Mage’s dots in Forces on the Advanced Duration table, during which time the Mage may make use of its effects. Many a Monk has found great use for this Attainment in physically disrupting the Willworking of hostile mages, even where one would not wish any lasting, lethal harm upon them.
Kinetic Strike, reach into Advanced Duration and the Stunned Tilt.
Fourth Attainment: Inviolate Form
Prerequisite: Life 4
Monks have rigorous, punishing trails ahead of them, and with this attainment they can ensure that they will survive all but the most arduous and punishing challenges. With an Instant Action, the Monk can call upon an individual’s chi to rise to the surface of their form and work miracles upon their physiology, stitching up all but the most heinous of wounds in a matter of seconds. As an Instant Action, the Mage can remove an amount of Lethal damage from a touched subject equal to twice his dots in Life.
Mend, with Reach to Instant Casting.
Optional Arcanum: Forces 4
Through rigorous concentration and a more thorough understanding of the underpinnings of universal forces, the Monk can project his chi about his body in a protective shell, redirecting projectiles and larger objects which would otherwise collide with him. As an Instant Action, the Mage can focus his chi about him for the next 3 rounds, during this time as a reflexive action he can redirect a number of objects each round equal to his dots in Forces. These must all be of size 5 or less and the mage cannot redirect them unless he could apply his Defense, likely requiring use of a specific Mage Armor in the case of firearms wielding brutes. This spell does however function against even individuals, allowing the Mage to deflect melee assailants.
Turn Momentum, with Reach spent on Instant Casting and Reflexive usage.
Through rigorous concentration and a more thorough understanding of the underpinnings of universal forces, the Monk can project his chi about his body in a protective shell, redirecting projectiles and larger objects which would otherwise collide with him. As an Instant Action, the Mage can focus his chi about him for the next 3 rounds, during this time as a reflexive action he can redirect a number of objects each round equal to his dots in Forces. These must all be of size 5 or less and the mage cannot redirect them unless he could apply his Defense, likely requiring use of a specific Mage Armor in the case of firearms wielding brutes. This spell does however function against even individuals, allowing the Mage to deflect melee assailants.
Fifth Attainment: Avatar of the Perfected Form
Prerequisite: Life 5
Having studied long and hard, the Monk has returned to the mastery of his own physical form, and meditating upon his form can remake it he desires. This takes the form of a modified version of the Shapechanging spell, whereby the Mage can remake his own physical form within any constraints of physical human life. Meditating upon the nature of the physical for a scene, the Mage calls upon his full understanding of life and may redefine any aspect of his physical person as he so desire. This includes redefining physical appearance (but not age), biological sex, and increasing physical attributes to any level, including his Gnosis-derived Maximum.
Shapechanging, with Reach to Advanced Duration. Technically not how Shapechanging works, but oh well.
Optional Arcanum: Forces 5
With little more than a quick motion and thought, a Monk can grievously injure their foes. Taking an Instant Action, and spere nding a point of Mana, the Monk can flex a blast of Aggravated damage equal to his dots in Forces using the rules for aimed spells.
This is an aimed, kinetic version of Thunderbolt with Reach for Aggravated Damage and Instant Casting.