Prime Effects

• • Body of Light — At this level of Prime, the mage may use his control over the ether to weave what is known as a Body of Light. A Body of

Light is a purely etheric construct that typically takes the form of a person's idealized self, but it may take any form the mage devises. There is no

mental or emotional content to such a creation. It is merely a useful empty shell typically used to house the astral form of a mage using Mind to

travel. Without one, the psyche is essentially naked for its journeys through the Astral.

The Body of Light, however, is more than just a work of vanity. The form serves as armor, as well as a physical form for travel within the

Middle and Lower Realms of the Umbra. Astral travelers who wish to perform shapeshifting or other feats in places where they do not have a

spiritual body — like Dream Realms — must use a body of light. Also, without such a body, an astral traveler is invisible to those in the physical

world, even to those who can sense spirits or magic (Spirit 1, Prime 1). While those sensitive to mental emanations (Mind I) will be able to sense

the mage's presence, he will not be able to communicate without further use of Mind magic.

The Body of Light is also commonly used in conjunctional Effects with the Pattern Spheres to allow a mage to materialize his idealized form as

an illusion of light, as living flesh or even as a golem of living stone, while his true body and spirit lie protected elsewhere.

The technique of Grafting the Body of Light is also used to create things of ether which are then transmuted to physical substance via the

Pattern magic. It may also translate things of the base elements into pure ether which may then be used as adjuncts to a Body of Light.