Life Effects

• • • Better Body — Mages who rely heavily on Life Effects use this power to alter themselves. A mage can take on various forms to her

advantage: Claws, gills, increased Physical Attributes or Appearance, body armor and more. The only limits are imagination and what the mage

believes that he can do within his paradigm. Successes scored indicate the limits of the change: One success would be good for an extra dot on one

Attribute, for instance. Additional successes can maintain the Effect or generate larger changes.

If a mage changes a Pattern beyond normal limits — increasing Attributes to legendary levels (six or more), adding totally inhuman features,

fortifying to soak against aggravated wounds, etc. — the subject gains permanent Paradox as long as the changes remain. Usually Paradox is a

problem only for mages, but other victims can suffer as well, especially when Paradox erupts near them. Such gross changes always cause Pattern

bleeding as well.

Simply altering a Pattern within its normal range of forms — swapping two Physical Attributes, for instance, or changing eye color — is a

much simpler and less danger-prone use of this Effect.