Goetic Evocation (Mind • • • •)
Practice: Patterning
Primary Factor: Duration
Withstand: Rank of entity evoked
Suggested Rote Skills: Intimidation, Occult, Persuasion
While a soul stone doesn’t contain any particular piece of a person’s psyche, the Mind Adept can extract the bit of soulstuff inside a stone and convert it into a Goetia that manifests in Twilight. The Goetia has a Rank equal to half the Gnosis of the soul stone’s creator. Its Numina, Influences, and Manifes- tations should reflect the Path, Legacy, and Shadow Name of the creator. It acts as a flat echo of its originator, embodying the platonic ideal of his most recognizable aspects rather than his true personality, and has only a few of his memories. Which memories they are depends on the form of the soul stone, the circumstances of its creation, and its importance as an object.
Mages use this spell to speak with long-dead masters, trying to glean nuggets of their vanished wisdom and secrets lost to time. If the mage studies the soul stone to learn a Legacy with the Goetia’s aid, he may learn it as though he had a tutor.
When the Duration of this spell ends, the entity is immediately destroyed, absorbed back into the soul stone wherever it is.
The mage may combine this spell or follow it up with “Goetic Summons” (Mage: The Awakening Second Edition, p. 162) to further affect the evoked Goetia.
Substitute Death ••••: Casting a similar spell using Death on a soul stone created by a now-dead mage results in manifesting a ghost with the same properties, rather than a Goetia. A ghost can’t be ex- tracted into the mage’s Oneiros using Reach. With Death •••••, the caster can call up a ghost of the originator even if they’re still alive
+2 Reach: The mage may extract the Goetia directly into his own Oneiros and benefit from its memories and Legacy tutoring effect without interacting with it. The Storyteller or player of the soul stone’s creator chooses a number of appropriate Skills equal to this spell’s Potency; the caster benefits from an effective extra dot in each of those Skills for purposes of casting rotes, as long as the Goetia remains within him. If the spell endures for longer than a week, the Goetia integrates itself with the caster’s psyche and becomes a true part of him for the Duration of the spell, influencing his attitudes, behaviors, and even mannerisms. This is dangerous if the soul stone’s creator was at the Falling Wisdom tier — the mage suffers a one-die penalty to all degeneration rolls from Acts of Hubris and adds one to the Withstand Trait of the “Goetic Summoning” spell to remove the Goetia from his Oneiros.