Initiate of Prime
Analyze Enchanted Item (Prime •)
The mage can scrutinize an enchanted item —an Artifact, enhanced item or imbued item — to discern its powers.
Discern Phantasm (Prime •)
The mage can see through Primebased illusions (those created with manifested Mana; see “Phantasm,” p. 227), knowing them for what they are. Having substance, however, they do not vanish from her sight.
Dispel Magic (Prime •)
Mages can dismantle or dispel existing spells, a process also known as “unweaving.”
However, they need at least one rank in the School they are dispelling. For example, to dispel a Fate Spell, they need Prime+Fate.
Inscribe Grimoire (Prime •)
The mage can record the secrets of his rotes into a magical book readable by other Awakened minds.
Practice: Compelling
Action: Extended
Duration: Lasting
Aspect: Covert
Cost: None
Inscribing a grimoire is a bold act, for the mage puts part of his magic into the book by removing it from himself. In doing so, the mage forgets how to cast CHAPTER THREE: MAGIC 221 a rote. He can later re-learn it by studying his own grimoire (or learning from another mage who knows the rote) and with the expenditure of the proper experience points, but until he does he cannot cast that rote on his own again (although he can use the grimoire to cast it; see below). Recording would seem at first to be a selfless or foolish thing to do, but orders are hungry for
grimoires with which to teach young mages, and pay for them in favors. Also, certain Mind spells or creatures can take knowledge from a mage’s mind, leaving a void in its place. In case rotes are lost in this way, it’s good to have them “backed up” in a book.
Supernal Vision (Prime •)
The mage gains the Mage Sight (see “Mage Sight,” p. 110). This is the most potent of the resonance-detecting senses and the Storyteller should be lavish with its details, explaining intricacies of any given source of resonance that would likely be invisible to one using another Arcanum. Some details, however, are best analyzed with other Arcana (in the way that Matter is best suited to “thick” or “ponderous” resonances), or better still in conjunction with Prime. Many mages describe this sense as sight, though some claim to “smell” or “taste” lingering sorcery on a person or place. Others simply speak of a sixth sense or other esoteric perception that defies ordinary categorization.