Chronopathy

( • • or • • • • Time, • • • Mind) Hidden Lore 16

This anonymous rote of telepathy across time is quite old, but went into eclipse in the Renaissance. The Euthanatos Adept Constanza Perugia used it to experience the dying moments of countless predecessors. This, she thought, would lead her to Ascension. However, multiple death experiences caused a drastic Quiet. Constanza died at the hands of many hobgoblins, and their mischief led to witch-hunts and mass hysteria throughout northern Italy.

[By adding Telepathy to Past or Future Sight, a mystick can try to experience things that occurred in the past. The more remote or removed the time or person, the more successes the magick requires. Sleepers' feelings are easiest to detect; doing the same with an Awakened being's thoughts demands an extra success or two (or more in the case of an arch-mage or elder vampire).

[By using Time 4 to isolate a thought in time, the mage may send a message, image or emotion into the future. The message either arrives at a certain time, or is triggered by some specified event. ("The first three people to walk through this door will hear my warning.") Anyone who enters the mage's current location will telepathically receive the message at that time. The mage cannot know in advance whether a sending is received. The number of successes determines how far ahead in time the mage may send the message, or how precise its trigger will be.

[The Effect cannot capture experiences that were themselves gathered via chronopathy (so-called "second-order experience). Only actual "first-order" experiences are accessible.)