Entropy Effects
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• • • • Midwife's Blessing — Remember all those stories about fairy godmothers and blessed children? Such blessings are possible with the
right command of Entropy. The mage's blessing doesn't ensure specific qualities, but it does help to ensure that the child will grow with health and
strength. The usual Verbena form of the Effect is a laying of hands on the belly of the mother-to-be, with the blessing, "Grow tall, straight of limb
and well favored." Hermetic mages have been known to enchant for specific qualities in their children, instilling specific forms of
vis(Quintessence) with Resonance designed to protect against negative qualities. Progenitors are more straightforward, deliberately engineering"
genetic qualities to remove negative traits and disease susceptibility.
Obviously, ensuring that a child is completely bereft of mischance is too difficult to perform, but a well-cast ritual can at least prevent birth
defects or fatal diseases. Protecting a child all through childhood would require an extremely strong ritual (as noted on the Damage and Duration
table). The mage also can't specify any specific gifts for the child; all she can do is ensure that harm or misfortune just won't come the child's way.