Life

Life 1, Initiate

Name	Practice	Primary Factor	Withstand	Suggested Rote Skills	Description	Source
Analyze Life	Knowing	Duration	-	Animal Ken, Medicine, Survival	Observe a creature and learn information like species, age, sex and overall health. A supernatural creature's species shows up as unknown unless the mage has studied it's kind before. Can discern amount of dots in physical attributes and any illnesses, injuries, Personal Tilts and Condition on target+1 Reach: May learn a specific Physical Attribute level, rather than just the total number of dots	MtAw2 p148
Cleanse the Body	Compelling	Potency	-	Athletics, Medicine, Survival	Help subject resist any toxins in her system+1 Reach: The subject may make a resistance roll immediately, in addition to the normal ones from regular intervals	MtAw2 p148
Heightened Senses	Unveiling	Duration	-	Empathy, Investigation, Survival	Heighten desired senses. Grants bonus to perception roles+1 Reach: You can track by scent	MtAw2 p149
Speak With Beasts	Unveiling	Duration	-	Animal Ken, Empathy, Survival	Magically speak with a specific species of animal. Animals have limited ability to understand things around them, for example a rat may refer to a cat and vampire alike as simply a "predator"+1 Reach: May communicate with all animals rather than only a single species	MtAw2 p148
Web of Life	Knowing	Duration	-	Investigation, Medicine, Survival	Detect all forms of specified life in the spells area of effect	MtAw2 p148

Life 2, Apprentice

Name	Practice	Primary Factor	Withstand	Suggested Rote Skills	Description	Source
Body Control	Ruling	Duration	-	Athletics, Medicine, Survival	Slow Breathing, Heartbeat and/or Metabolism. Up your Initiative, eliminate or increase body odors and halve healing time for bashing damage+1 Reach: Gain 1/0 armor+2 reach: Half healing time for lethal damage	MtAw2 p148
Control Instincts	Ruling	Duration	Composure	Animal Ken, Intimidation, Persuasion	Trigger a specific instinctual response in animals(includes humans). Subject suffers a Condition related to the desired instinct+1 Reach: Control instincts of living supernatural creatures	MtAw2 p149
Lure and Repel	Ruling	Duration	Resolve	Animal Ken, Persuasion, Survival	Create a lure or repellent that works on a specific organism. Plant and bacteria have 0 resolve for the purposes of this spell+1 Reach: Lured creatures may offer food or small favors a appropriate for the animal+1 Reach: Lured creatures treat the subject good if a lure or bad if a repellent for the purposes of first impressions in Social maneuvering	MtAw2 p149
Mutable Mask	Veiling	Duration	Stamina	Medicine, Stealth, Subterfuge	Change a subjects appearance, apparent sex, voice, smell, etc. Changes are illusionary, bio-metric devices will still pick up the truth. Cannot imitate specific people+2 Reach: Can duplicate the appearance of a specific person, including fingerprints	MtAw2 p149
Purge Illness	Ruling	Potency	-	Athletics, Medicine, Survival	Cure yourself of an illness. Compare Potency to the illness' rating if less, reduce the illness by the difference if more, eliminate the illness	MtAw2 p149

Life 3, Disciple

Name	Practice	Primary Factor	Withstand	Suggested Rote Skills	Description	Info	Source
Bruise Flesh	Fraying	Potency	-	Brawl, Intimidation, Medicine	Deal bashing damage+1 Reach: Inflict an additional -1 penalty to any wound penalties the target might have	-	MtAw2 p150
Contact High	Weaving	Duration	-	Medicine, Occult, Science	Creates a drug that targets the nervous system. Anyone who comes into contact with the Subject is affected by this drug for one scene. The Caster determines if it increases Initiative equal to Potency or penalizes Initiative equal to Potency. The drug affects a living subject as well as any touching it +1 Reach: Living subjects are Immune but still spread the drug to anything they touch	-	SoS 65
Degrading the Form	Fraying	Duration	Stamina	Brawl, Medicine, Survival	Reduce a targets Physical Attributes, but only one+1 Reach: Spell may effect two different Physical Attributes	-	MtAw2 p150
Honing the Form	Perfecting	Duration	-	Athletics, Medicine, Survival	Raise Strength, Dexterity or Stamina, but no higher than a subjects max for these stats+1 Reach: Spell may effect two different Physical. This effect can be applied twice so that all three attributes may be affected+1 Reach: Spend a point of Mana, may increase stats beyond the allowed maximum	-	MtAw2 p150
Knit	Perfecting	Potency	-	Empathy, Medicine, Survival	Heal 2 bashing damage per Potency+1 Reach: You can heal Personal Tilts such as Arm Wrack+1 Reach: Can heal damage done by deprivation+1 Reach: Reproduce the effect of night's rest, regain a Willpower point if appropriate+1 Reach: Heal one lethal per Potency instead of 2 Bashing	-	MtAw2 p150
Living Vessel	Weaving	Duration	Stamina	Academics, Medicine, Persuasion	Prepare a subject under the purview of Life for the Imbue Item Attainment. The mage can use the Attainment to imbue any living subject	Needs Prime •••	SoS 69
Many Faces	Weaving	Duration	Stamina	Medicine, Stealth, Subterfuge	Like "Mutable Mask" only the changes are real rather than an illusion. Poor vision or other senses can be restored. Missing organs and limbs can not be restored however. You may also rearrange the subjects Physical AttributesAdd Time 3: You can change physical age as well	-	MtAw2 p150
Steal Life Force	Fraying	Duration	Resolve	Crafts, Medicine, Persuasion	This spell is cast on a mage to alter his imbument process causing the item to damage the user. The item appears to function as normal but requires Life force to function. This item deals 1 point of Lethal damage for each point of Mana spent to cast the imbued spell, if the Item runs out of Mana it deals Lethal to the user to replenish its Mana	-	SoS 72
Transform Life	Weaving	Potency	Stamina	Animal Ken, Science, Survival	Give life features normally belonging to other organisms. Gills, Claws, Senses, Etc.+2 Reach: The bestowed feature, if permanent, can be passed on to a creatures descendants	-	MtAw2 p150

Life 4. Adept

Name	Practice	Primary Factor	Withstand	Suggested Rote Skills	Description	Info	Source
Accelerate Growth	Patterning	Duration	Stamina	Animal Ken, Medicine, Science	Cause a lifeform to rapidly grow, at the end of the duration the subject will return to their actual age. If the subject exceeds its natural lifespan, it will die of old age+1 Reach: When the spell ends the subject will rapidly de-age at an even faster rate than they grew, returning to their actual age in minutes. This puts great stress on the target. They must make a Stamina roll and on a failure they will enter a coma for a number of days.	-	MtAw2 p151
Animal Minion	Patterning	Duration	Stamina	Animal Ken, Science, Survival	The mage takes complete bodily control of a subject. Difference in gait may be noticeable to those familiar with the subject. The mage's body will be inert while this spell is active+1 Reach: Target behaves more normally, as you understand the targets habits	-	MtAw2 p151
Life-Force Assault	Unraveling	Potency	-	Brawl, Intimidation, Medicine	Deal lethal damage+1 Reach: Inflict an additional -2 penalty to any wound penalties the target might have+1 Reach: Spend a point of Mana, deal aggravated damage	-	MtAw2 p152
Living Grimoire	Patterning	Potency	Total Arcanum dots used in the Rote + Stamina	Crafts, Medicine, Occult	The Mage scribes a single rote per casting of this spell onto a living being. Casting this spell constitutes as an act of Hubris against Understanding Wisdom	Needs Prime ••••	SoS 85
Mend	Patterning	Potency	-	Empathy, Medicine, Survival	Heal 2 lethal wounds per Potency+1 Reach: Can erase scars+1 Reach: Can heal damage done by deprivation+1 Reach: Reproduce the effect of night's rest, regain a Willpower point if appropriate+1 Reach: Spend a point of Mana, can heal aggravated damage	-	MtAw2 p152
Regeneration	Patterning	Duration	-	Athletics, Medicine, Survival	Cost: 1 Mana, restore lost organs or limbs	-	MtAw2 p152
Shapechanging	Patterning	Potency	Stamina	Animal Ken, Science, Survival	Take on the form of another creature. Clothes and gear do not change with you. Instincts of the new form may need to be resisted with a Composure + Resolve rollAdd Matter 4: Gear changes with you to fit the new form	-	MtAw2 p152

Life 5, Master

Name	Practice	Primary Factor	Withstand	Suggested Rote Skills	Description	Source
Create Life	Making	Duration	-	Medicine, Science, Survival	Design and create any form of life you desire. If cast with finite duration life will disappear at the end of the spell, this may count as an Act of Hubris.Add Mind 5: Give your organism a true mind as appropriate to type+1 Reach: Creature can be given additional features as per "Transform Life"	MtAw2 p153
Contagion	Making	Potency	-	Medicine, Occult, Science	Create minor or life-threatening diseases+1 Reach: Create a never before seen disease. This is likely to be an Act of Hubris as no creature in the world could have developed any defenses against it	MtAw2 p153
Salt the Earth	Unmaking	Duration	-	Medicine, Science, Survival	Destroy life-force in an area. This Creates an Extreme Environment equal to Potency+1 Reach: Individual living things that survive, will still suffer an additional -1 to any wound penalties they might have	MtAw2 p153