Nimbus Forgery (Prime • •)
Practice: Veiling
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Expression, Larceny, Subterfuge
Once a mage has Scrutinized an Immediate or Signature Nimbus with Focused Mage Sight, she may cast this spell to disguise her own Nimbus of the same type as that of the one she studied. If she forges an Immediate Nimbus, she generates the false Nimbus Tilt instead of her own. If she forges a Signature Nimbus, the false one is left behind by any magic she performs until this spell’s Duration ends; any previous Signatures remain as they were. Once this spell expires, all false Signature Nimbuses she created revert to her own. Any attempt to pierce the deception with appropriate magic provokes a Clash of Wills.
+1 Reach: The mage forges all three types of Nimbus with a single casting, even if she has only Scrutinized one. For the duration of the spell, every aspect of her Nimbus is effectively replaced with that of the mage she’s impersonating.