The ones who choose to focus on Life tend to view Life Patterns as temples dedicated to the One and their practice of Life as a means to strengthen, repair or improving them. Some believe that the One loves and cares for physical existence, while others maintain that corporeal reality is an illusion to be overcome. Celestial Chorus: The Celestial Chorus argues about the meaning of Life (and of its sister-Sphere, Matter) in their doctrine.By manipulating the body through pressure points and vibrations, the Akashic keeps his internal microcosm balanced. Their main focus is on honing their physical skill and perfecting their body, seeing it as a microcosm of the Ten Thousand Things, with chi flowing through meridians similar to Dragon tracks driven by both yin and yang, as well as the Five Ministers. Akashic Brotherhood: The Akashics call Life Neigong ("Internal Achievement").The only way to stop this is by providing the target with Quintessence or making the changes permanent.īelow is a short representation of how the Sphere of Life is interpreted by the various magickal factions within the World of Darkness. Quintessence leaves through the altered shape, as the Pattern fights against the unnatural changes, causing the target to suffer bashing damage. When a mage alters a Pattern too far from its original form, the creature will suffer Pattern leakage. Thus, the mage can transform themselves and then change themselves differently, or change back, but if they heal an injury or causes a wound in a given scene, they cannot use that power on the same subject again. If a mage pulls off a Life Effect, they cannot recast the same Effect for more successes until the Pattern has undergone some natural change. When a mage alters or heals a Pattern, they do so to the limit of their capabilities. If, for example, a mage has never heard of trees (because they were born into an isolated Inuit tribe or a sandy desert without tall vegetation), they cannot change another pattern into a tree without first learning and observing that specific pattern. LimitsĪ mage can only alter a Pattern into another Pattern that they know. Masters extend these effects to their surroundings: Flowers bloom, illnesses recede, and grass seems to become potent.Įnergies associated with Life tend to be green or red in color. Their bodies are without blemish and often of vibrant beauty or surreal horror, reflecting the aesthetics of the mage herself. Mages with experience in Life radiate healthiness. The quickest way to achieve this is to transform oneself into a virus-like form to infect as many patterns as possible. To achieve this, the mage has to experience the flow of Quintessence through various Life patterns, experience the chain between predators and prey and see how Life patterns transform in the cosmic stream of Quintessence. To utilize the Archspheres of Life, the mage has to understand that all Life patterns are in effect part of one great uber-pattern. Conversely, without auxiliary Spheres, Life allows a mage to change shapes, restore youth and health, heal injury, but also to strike down foes, rend apart the living, and spread disease in his wake. Mages who have mastered Life can use it in combination with the other Pattern Spheres to change lifeforms into elements, turned to stone or metal, or else created from such substances. Preserved blood and organs, still-living plants, live-culture cheese, and so forth contain Life, but corpses, cotton fibers, withered organs, or cut wood become Matter. As a whole, this Sphere embraces everything that has living cells within itself, even if that object is technically dead. This process only ends when Life transforms into Matter, during the moment of death. Life patterns differ from the other two static Spheres in that they are not self-contained vessels of Quintessence, but draw on the Tellurian for sustenance and later return these energies. Life governs those Patterns that grow, evolve and eventually change.
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