Mind Effects

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• Mind Empowerment — The mage's mental discipline, even at this rudimentary level, lets her accomplish prodigious feats easily. She can

focus on multiple tasks at once, improve her thinking capabilities and focus her concentration. The mage can reach out to feel others' emotions,

defend herself (rudimentarily) from such intrusion or enhance her mental capabilities.

The mind-shielding of an Initiate is crude but effective: The mage's successes on the Effect counter direct Mind assaults. Very subtle or skilled

assailants may be able to bypass this protection, and the mage's mental defenses at this level of skill are obvious to anyone who cares to probe the

magician's psyche. This Effect can at least keep out some unwanted guests though.

Empowering mental processes allows the mage to function like a calculator or computer. He can work through information rapidly and with

little or no error, and he can collate facts and logical data. The successes scored either cut down the time necessary to process information

accurately, or allow the mage to multi-task and concentrate on multiple avenues of thought at once. Although the mage still moves, responds and

acts at his normal rate, he can engage in battle while simultaneously thinking about several problems and deciding what sort of tie to wear for

formal dinner later that evening. The mage can even improve her Mental Attributes temporarily and artificially, although surpassing hum an

limitations or supercharging her mind for too long can risk Pattern bleeding (see pp. 131-132).

With emotional sensitivity, the mage can "see" auras as multicolored halos that reflect the emotions of a person or object, or even feel some

1ev?1 of the subject's emotion. Strong emotions practically scream out at the mage, and they may even be traumatic if the mage does not defend

herself with mental shielding. A knowledgeable mage can also detect some types of supernatural activity or creatures by watching an aura. She can

even tell as a subject goes through mood shifts. Watching reactions to others lets the mage tell friend from foe, and the mage can also determine

when a subject is lying, with careful study and a handful of successes on the die roll. The mage can also determine when an area has strong

emotions associated with it, or sense the presence of Resonance in a given form of Tass or at a Node.