| GABRIEL'S EMBRACE (• • Correspondence, • • Matter or • • • • • Life, • • Prime, • • • Forces) Blood Treachery 88 |
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This horrifically brutal Rote transforms the air around a subject (or, in the case of the Life 5 variant, the subject's own flesh) into a flame that burns until the victim is reduced to ash. The mage does so by calling upon Gabriel, Archangel of Fire, and keying a pentacle of Mercury to the victim (whether with a name, a possession or line of sight). System: Correspondence 2 allows the caster to fire this Rote from a distance and keep it locked on the victim. Forces holds the flames generated by the transformed Pattern tightly to the subject, and Prime keeps those flames fed (requiring a point of Quintessence per turn, but inflicting damage equal to that generated by the initial casting of the Rote automatically). The Matter version of the Rote inflicts damage as a normal Forces Effect, while the Life variant adds to that damage a number of aggravated health levels (as per a normal Life Effect) appropriate to the number of successes scored. Incidentally, casting the Matter and Life components of this Rote conjunctionally allows a mage to use the second variant of this Rote successfully on a vampire. |