Initiate of Mind
Aura Perception (Mind •)
The mage can discern the mental and emotional states of a thinking being by reading his aura. Some mages perceive auras as a series of colors, while others describe them in terms of musical notes, odors, tastes or other purely non-physical senses.
One Mind, Two Thoughts (Mind •)
This spell enables the mage to hold two individual and wholly distinct trains of thought at once, provided neither is intensely physically demanding.
Sense Consciousness (Mind •)
The mage can detect the presence of minds in the material world or mental projections in the state of Twilight (see “Psychic Projection,” p. 215). He knows how to detect the presence of psychic activity, from the basest (that possessed by the simplest of animal life) to the most complex and elevated (powerful lords among spirits, the most enlightened of willworkers and the like). This sense allows the mage to know when other thinking creatures are present, and roughly what sorts of minds are present. (Experience may not teach a mage the distinction between a cockroach’s mind and a dung beetle’s, but it does tell her the difference between an insect and reptile mind.) The mage detects the general type of mind she senses (a ghost, disembodied consciousness or spirit, for example) and this sense is useful for helping the mage to know when she is spied upon or just watched by a being currently lurking in refined dimensions
Third Eye (Mind •)
The mage gains the Mage Sight (see “Mage Sight,” p. 110). He senses when others nearby use exceptional mental powers, such as telepathy, psychom CHAPTER THREE: MAGIC 207 etry or ESP, reading the telltale ripples left by the movements of exceptionally advanced thought. The mage can also read resonance, discerning the emotional and psychic qualities of it: the particular nuances of will, conscious or otherwise that went into creating it. He can feel the mental processes that went into creating the resonance (such as strong emotional states or a powerful exercise of will), effectively detecting its context within reality, the “why” behind the resonance.