Supernal Vision (Prime •)
Practice: Unveiling
Primary Factor: Potency
Suggested Rote Skills: Empathy, Occult, Survival
By opening her subject’s third eye, the mage reveals her fellows as the wells of Supernal power they are. By studying a person, place, or location for one turn, the subject automatically knows whether it is connected to the Supernal (e.g. if a person is a mage, a Sleepwalker, a Proximus, or a Sleeper; if a place is a Demesne or Verge; if an object is Imbued, Enhanced, or an Artifact), and may ask a number of the following questions equal to the spell’s Potency:
- How much Mana does the target have in her Pattern?
- To which Supernal World is the target most closely aligned?
- What is the target’s highest-rated Arcanum?*
- How adept is the target at their highest-rated Arcanum?
- How many Arcana does the subject know?
- What is the target’s Nimbus?
- What is the target’s Gnosis?
* Subsequent asking of this question reveals the target’s second, third, etc. highest Arcana.
The subject perceives the answers as Supernal symbols and visions unfolding around the target. If the subject desires more information about a particular phenomenon, she may study it for multiple turns, as long as the spell’s Duration lasts. Effects that would cloak the target’s nature provoke a Clash of Wills as normal.
+1 Reach: The spell reveals the nature of supernatural beings and effects other than Supernal phenomena — though there’s no guarantee the mage knows what the aura of, for example, a Promethean looks like, and most of the questions will return nonsensical imagery that best translates as “not applicable.”