Initiate of Life
Analyze Life (Life •)
The mage discerns the species, age and sex of a nearby living plant or animal, including humans.
Cleanse the Body (Life •)
The mage can cleanse herself of drugs, toxins or poisons.
Healer’s Trance (Life •)
The mage can discern the state of health of a living being and detect and identify any illnesses.
Pulse of the Living World (Life •)
The mage gains the Mage Sight (see “Mage Sight,” p. 110). He is able to detect the presence of mystic vital animation in the area, effectively reading resonance as a function of reality’s living energies.
Sense Life (Life •)
It is often handy for a mage to know the proximity of living creatures. Sometimes he may need to find a potential food source. At other times, he may be curious as to whether potential allies or enemies are nearby. This spell allows a mage to reach out with an arcane sense, to touch the subtle eddies life impresses upon the Tapestry, and thereby discern the nearness of other living creatures, from the most miniscule microorganisms to the most expansive flora and fauna. A mage typically specifies certain types of life to look for (“white-tailed deer, salmon and humans,” for example, or “all insects”), which is often a much faster proposition than singling out certain kinds of life to not look for. Without putting some kind of filter on his search, the mage is apt to get a uselessly overwhelming response. The mage might even be overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of living creatures to be found virtually anywhere on, in, under or above the face of the earth, from the depths of the seas to the outermost reaches of the atmosphere. The spell enables a mage to get a good sense of where these living patterns are in relation to him. By adding a Space 1 component to the spell, he can get an exact bearing on the detected life forms.