Life-Force Assault (Life ••••)

Practice: Unraveling
Primary Factor: Potency
Suggested Rote Skills: Brawl, Intimidation, Medicine

The mage attacks the very life energies that sustain a living Pattern. This involves rending that Pattern, causing horribly painful internal wounds and unspecific tissue damage. This is an attack spell, inflicting lethal damage equal to its Potency.

+1 Reach: The mage can damage and destroy nerves, leaving some affected body parts numb and others crippled with incred- ible pain. Increase wound penalties suffered by the target by 2.

+1 Reach: The spell’s damage is aggravated (cost: 1 Mana.)