Call Forth Zeitgeist

(• • Mind, • • Time, • • Spirit)                                           Cult of Ecstasy Tradition Book  65

Also known as Nostalgia, this spell summons the spirit of an age so that others may experience it. Ecstatics often do this to make a point; bringing someone the actual feeling of the Summer at Love is infinitely more effective than simply telling them about it.

|h helps to be near some relic or location tied to the age when summoning its spirit; the Burning Times may be evoked more easily (and more coincidentally) in a Nuremberg dungeon than in a field in Kansas. In a neutral place, such as a library, no modifiers apply. Using a place or thing that's actually tied in the time lowers the difficulty by -1 (like a Node), or perhaps more; evoking the zeitgeist in a completely unrelated place raises the difficulty the same way.

[Most zeitgeists wash across the area where they were summoned, touching all people there with a brief sense of what it must have been like, then fade away. Four successes or more should bring the spirit in a more active form.  The way a zeitgeist acts up to the Storyteller, but the summoner's state of heart and mind should shape the manifestation.  A shaman trying to evoke the Free Love aspect of the Summer of Love will stand a better chance if he's listening to the Jefferson. Airplane and feeling frisky than if he's listening to The Doors and afraid.]