The Foundation
x6 for a Pillar, considering 10 experience points for the first
This topic is specific to Storytellers who wish to use foundations
as a means to simulate Mage Spheres. If there isn’t that kind
of interest for your chronicle, skip it. In vampire, a mage has
limitations for casting a spell. Although he has a great deal
of freedom to choose what he wants to do, he does need the
resources necessary for the magic to happen. In Mage 20TH:
The Ascension, the Spheres are divided into nine and are your
techniques for creating the desired effects. In Vampire, the
Foundations are a “philosophy” that mages preach to name the
Spheres in classical antiquity.
The Spheres are the Foundations. The Pillars are the Paths of
Magic they can follow. These represent the arcane knowledge
of a sorcerer. If he has the necessary Pillars (there may be more
than one needed to cast a spell), he can make the attempt at
magick. Inspect each Pillars keywords, general description, and
ranking descriptions to determine if the spell would fit them.
These Pillars can be found on the following pages.
Whenever an awakened one uses his spells, define what the
Sorcerer wants to accomplish and determine the Pillars, Focuses
and minimum necessary successes. Any spell roll is instantaneous
is determined by Foundation + the highest rank among the Pillars
required (difficulty 7). The spending of Quintessence remains
as described in the topic above.
It is always important to remember that only one system should
be used. In his chronicle, either the mage has Disciplines or he
has Foundations. Just in case he was a Ghoul he could have
some points in Disciplines, without getting Paradox. If a wizard
has Foundation, he only receives Paradox points when he uses
them and not when he uses Disciplines.
Acquiring Foundations and Pillars
When creating a character, he must buy a Foundation point,
where he will be entitled to one of the three available Pillars.
When he uses his spells, he rolls his Foundation rank. The
awakened one always rolls the Foundation related to the Pillar
he is using. In the case of interspersing his spells, he uses the
greatest Foundation among those he has.
In terms of Vampire, it’s as if the Foundation were one of
the Sorceries and the Pillars were the Paths, with the difference
that the mage can merge spells even if they belong to different
Foundations. The mage’s Foundation is the only trait that
can reach Level 10, however Pillars are limited to Level 5. In
addition, the awakened one chooses one of the Pillars to evolve
along with their Foundation. This is considered your primary
Pillar. Secondary Pillars cannot have the same or higher level
than the Primary Pillar.
Every mage receives a starting point on his Foundation token.
This point allows you to buy your primary Pillar. He cannot
evolve other Pillars above this one and this Pillar evolves along
with his Foundation level. Foundations cost the equivalent of 7
per point in bonus, while Pillars cost 5 per point. In experience
points, this cost borders on Level x8 for Foundation and Level
point. The cost of Pillars is reduced by one point for minors, to
XP. Bonus points have no modified costs.
Creating the Spell
Whenever a wizard casts the spell, the first step is to make it
as clear as possible what he is trying to do. A wizard has several
possibilities at hand. His spells could be like “I want to create fire
through my hands” to “I want to turn this silver coin into gold”.
Once you have determined which Pillars are needed, you need
to determine the Focus. Spells often require specific instruments,
gestures and rites. They can be as elaborate as a sacrifice in the
middle of a sacred diagram or as simple as a prayer to Jupiter.
These focuses represent the belief and occult knowledge that
produce the spell. To ignite an enemy, the awakened one can
invoke his God by praying to him and brandishing his symbol.
Each Foundation point beyond the first allows the sorcerer to
dispense the focuses needed for a specific Pillar. If the sorcerer
still requires focuses for at least one of the Pillars of the spell,
he must incorporate them into the spell. Then, the narrator
determines the minimum number of successes according to the
rules described below::
• The number of successes is defined by the level of the highest Pillar
used to perform the spell. Add the extra success needed if the mage is
trying something unbelievable in the presence of sleeping mortals.
• Add more difficulty points needed to satisfy all spell effects (listed
on the following pages). This can exceed the limit of successes needed,
necessitating the creation of a ritual for the spell to work.
Casting a Spell
When casting a spell, the character rolls Foundation (difficulty
3 + Level of the highest Pillar used during the spell).
Example: Marius wishes to predict the thought of a mortal. The
Storyteller decides that this requires Soul 1 and Evros 3. Marius has
Foundation of Mind 3 and Pillars of Reason 2, Soul 1 and Evros 3.
So he rolls 3 dice (difficulty 6), requiring three successes.
If the Spell requires a minimum Pillar level that exceeds
the sorcerer’s Foundation, the player must spend an extra
Quintessence point per check, boosting their concentration with
raw power. Quintessence can also be spent to increase a spell’s
prospects. Each point reduces the difficulty of the casting check
by 1, maximum -3 (minimum 3).
The wizard can spend one Foundation point when casting his
spell to add automatic successes equal to his Foundation level.
He doesn’t lose this point permanently, only temporarily and
must stay for a number of days equivalent to the Foundation
Level lost without being able to use those levels. He always spends
the highest point, that is: a mage who has Foundation 5 and
spends one point receives the automatic successes dodging his
Foundation, but cannot use any fifth-level Pillar for five days. If
the mage spends two Pillar points, being level 5 and then level
4, he must first recover the lowest level to recover the highest.
So, he will need to wait four days, recover the fourth level and
then 5 days to recover the fifth level.
A mage can only cast spells on targets he can perceive with his
natural senses, ie: sight, hearing, or fact, touch or taste. Some
Pillars may allow spells to be cast at a distance greater than the
mage’s senses can catch, though this requires extra successes on
the waking part.
Using Rituals
A sorcerer can cast his ritual as an extended action. A ritual
can last from two consecutive turns to up to a scene or an entire
hour. There are rituals, however, that the sorcerer can spend
hours or days doing to make sure everything goes right.
The awakened must roll their Foundation dice to accumulate
successes for each hour of ritual. He is able to accumulate
a maximum number of successes equal to his Foundation x
Willpower, but the player can only roll as many times as his
Stamina + Foundation. If a roll fails, he can spend a Willpower
point to continue, but Failing twice in a row or a Critical Failure
once ruins the spell and he must start again. In the event of a
Critical Failure, the mage loses control of the Spell and casts
it with a chaotic effect. The consequences can be diverse, from
directing who the magician did not want to cause the opposite
effect of what he wanted.
Permanent Magick
A wizard can make a spell effect permanent. Most of the time
this requires a ritual for the amount of successes needed, as it
requires your 10x the raw successes the mage would need, ie:
without the reduction by the expenditure of Quintessence. The
wizard can spend a permanent Willpower point, if desired, to
increase the number of successes equal to the level of Willpower
spent. However, he will not be able to regain these points for at
least an entire story arc.
Be careful! A permanent magick, if affected by Paradox or
through Critical Failure can fully focus its effects on the sorcerer
himself. Depending on what the mage wanted to do, he could
be completely destroyed by it.
Defending Yourself From Magic
There are ways to defend against a mage’s Foundations. Though
they are complicated defenses, other sorcerers like vampires and
certain supernatural beings can nullify incoming spells. If the
target can use a hidden supernatural power that can deflect
or block it, roll the dice pool used for that power on difficulty
8, which cannot be changed by any traits the target has. If the
target’s successes exceed those of the spell, it neutralizes the spell.
Otherwise it will take full effect. If the target’s combat power
rating is lower than the sorcerer’s rating on the highest Pillar used,
add +2 to the defender’s difficulty. Mistaking sorcery when you
don’t have the knowledge to do so is a dangerous act. Awakened
can attempt to use their defensive action for a counterspell, with
difficulty increased by two, rolling their Foundation against the
attacker’s. Additionally, other supernatural beings can attempt
defense as long as they know the minimum Blood Magic or
Sorcery, rolling their Willpower (difficulty 8).
If the spell directs material power through space, such as a
Pillar of Flame or throwing an iron door, the target can simply
dodge it with a Dexterity + Athletics roll (difficulty 6). If the
target gets more successes than the spell, it moves out of the
way. Otherwise, all the power of the spell works. If the attack
is invisible, the difficulty increases to 9, considering Blind
Fighting, but can be reduced by Spiritual Sense (Auspex). Spells
that directly manipulate the target’s body, mind, or other innate
qualities cannot be avoided by simple avoidance.
Targets may attempt to resist mental attacks caused by a wizard’s
Willpower spells (difficulty 9), or Fortitude’s Mind Barrier and
Sensory Shield (difficulty 7). It takes a number of successes
equivalent to the successes determined in the topic “Effects of
Magic”, described below. In the case of a spell with extended
duration, which has already affected the target, it can roll its
resistance until it gets rid of it, as long as it gets the necessary
successes. The first two saving throws can be made on subsequent
turns. Additional plays can be made every hour or scene, at the
narrator’s expense.
Os Efeitos da Magia
When a mage accumulates the necessary successes, the
Storyteller can use two ways to accurately count all effects. The
first would be to demand a minimum number of successes
and say that “that effect happened”. One way to exemplify this
would be to say that “Marius would need 15 successes to summon
a lightning storm on an opponent that could deal 10d10 damage.”
These successes are determined by the narrator and when they
are achieved, they happen.
The second way is by dividing successes between different traits.
This includes Targets, Intensity, Damage, Manipulation, Area
and Duration. The number of successes the wizard acquires, in
addition to the successes needed in the spell, is distributed among
these traits according to what the narrator or player thinks he
needs at that moment. The mage would be able to distribute
different successes between each trait, affecting a number of
targets, changing duration or other effects. This probably requires
a number of successes already accumulated for the mage to get
what he wants or a good expenditure of Quintessence.
• Targets: the number of successes defines the number of targets,
always adding two targets per success used in this trait. A wizard who
doesn’t invest points can only affect a single target. An Area spell,
however, discards the need for this investment.
• Intensity: This trait measures the power of an undefined magical
effect, such as a mind-control spell, for the purpose of attempting to
dispel or resist it. For example, with five Intensity successes dedicated
to imprisoning a demon would require five successes to overcome. If the
spell also has the Duration, then it must be overcome first.
• Damage: two Health Levels per success, with the damage type
determined by the Pillars used. If the spell increases some other form of
attack (such as a knife slash), they become automatic levels. To inflict
Aggravated damage with an attack that does not normally inflict it,
or with pure magical strength, the sorcerer must possess the necessary
Pillars and spend an extra Quintessence point per attack.
• Shaping: Increases or penalizes a similar mundane Attribute, Skill,
or Trait to one success per point, for the duration of the spell. Most spells
cannot change permanent supernatural Traits, such as Generation.
• Area: One success affects a sphere with 10 feet / 3 meters radius
or equivalent area. Each additional success doubles this area, up to a
number of successes equal to the Sorcerer’s Foundation. In addition,
the Area can only expand further with Pillar of Evros.
• Duration: Duration considers the table below to determine how
long a spell will remain there. Any damage spell cannot have more than
one success in duration.
Successes Duration
1 Sucesso One turn.
2 Successes One turn per Foundation point.
3 Successes One scene or hour.
4 Successes 12 hours.
5 Successes 24 hours.
6 Successes One day per Foundation point.
7 Successes One month.
8 Successes One month per Foundation point.
9+ Successes Undetermined. To the Storyteller’s charge,
such as “until next spring” or “until this sword
is taken from the rock.”
The Foundation of the Mind
The Mind Foundation works with the three Pillars that involve
spells that influence or depart from a mage’s psyche in some
way: Pillar of Soul, Pillar of Evros, and Pillar of Reason. The
Pillar of Soul works with mentalization through the spirit and
strengthening it, the Pillar of Evros works with the transition of
consciousness and evolution of immediate perceptions, while
the Pillar of Reason works with the evolution and projection of
reason as man’s main tool.
Wizards who invest in the Foundation of Mind are generally
quite rational, intelligent, and some tend to explore the paths of
Philosophy. They preach the rationalization and full expansion of
the senses, seeking to perfect the “I”. Among these magicians, the
exploration of the spirit, mind and senses is full and they value
creatures with a high degree of intelligence for seeing “beyond”
the average population.
Focus: Meditation, prayers, mantras, concentration rituals,
dream-inducing herbs, focus on the “inner self”, writing and
learning.
Pillar of the Soul
Through matter, there is spirit. There are worlds and planes
that are not noticeable or frequented by humans, but for a
friend with Pillar of the Soul, this is not a difficult task to do.
The mage is able to use this pillar as a way to visit other planes,
interact with spirits, create objects and manipulate the planes
of the Umbra.
Mages who use the Pillars of the Soul a lot often have an
extremely noticeable otherworldly connection, as if they saw
something we weren’t able to see. Normally they interact on an
umbralistic level that vampires aren’t able to access, but ghosts
and werewolves can.
Power Specializations: Umbral Travel, Spiritual Relations,
Shroud Manipulation, Primordial Spirits, Celestials, Infernals,
Possession and so on.
• Sense Spirit / Discern Aura: Most mortals have little or no
interaction with the supernatural world. However, mages can do
it once they know this power. This level allows a mage to change
his perception so that he can sense spirits of all kinds, see them,
feel the thickness of the local Umbra, and read a target’s aura,
as in Aura Reading.
Combined with other Pillars, the magician can locate forces,
places, or items with unusual connections to the spirit world,
such as Awakened objects, elemental spirits, possessed organisms,
Surfaces, Nodes, and so on. With Quintessence 1, the magician
can make a combination in order to perceive powers being used
such as Spirit Sense, from Auspex.
It is necessary to know that the spirit world that a mage reaches
is not necessarily the Land of Shadows, used by the Wraiths and
Specters. The mage reaches a much more superficial layer of the
Umbra, but can still see ghosts that are nearby, especially those
who seek to come to the world of men.
•• Manipulate the Shroud / Touch the Umbra: Now, the
magician is able to slightly manipulate the shroud and touch the
spirit world, so that he can transfer or bring objects from there.
This feat also allows understanding of spiritual objects such as
Fetishes and Apparition Artifacts.
This manipulation of the shroud allows the mage to move into
the Umbra, speak to spirit entities, or touch them for a brief
few turns, depending on the successes invested in Duration.
Additionally it can thin or thicken the local Shroud. In the latter
case, each success decreases or increases the Shroud Index by
+1 for each success obtained, and can increase or decrease the
difficulty even for werewolves (minimum 4, maximum 9). That
said, a human mage cannot lower the Gauntlet to below 4 in
the mortal world.
••• Pierce the Shroud / Jump Flat: By jumping through the
flats, the magician is able to cross the Umbra, transmuting his
physical body into a spiritual one. He can carry some material
goods, though changing them to spiritual also increases the
difficulty of the roll and the number of successes needed for the
trip, and in some cases requires Elements 2. Simple equippables
like clothing and normal items increase both factors by +1
difficulty while bulky clothing and items increase by +2.
The mage is not yet able to harm spirits, but can minimally
interact with them. In addition, he manages to expand his
knowledge by adding other pillars, allowing the projection of
thoughts through the barrier (combined with Reason 4 or 5),
awaken elemental disturbances in the spiritual world, such as a
small energy storm (Energy 3) or can imbue spiritual residues,
powers and effects on objects (Elements 3).
The mage is not yet able to harm spirits, but can drain them,
weakening their energies (Quintessence 3) and can also help
living creatures touch the other world (Life 2).
•••• Imprison Spirit / Hurt Spirit: the magician at this
level of knowledge can affect spirits in a much deeper way. He
is now able to imprison them, creating Fetishes and Artifacts
purely at the will of these spirit entities (Quintessence 3, Time
3), although these objects may be short-lived. Hurt the spirits
with spiritual, mental or physical attacks, simply by combining
the Pillars.
A mage with this ability can also wake up from any moment of
sleep, coma, induced or not, in addition to being able to project
his soul spiritually (combined with Reason 2).
••••• Banish Spirit / Seal the Breach / Jump into
Shadowland: The spirit master is now able to tear open portals
through the Umbra, allowing groups and large objects to pass
through. It can also close these spaces, even for long durations.
At this Level, the mage can also force spirits to appear, trap
them in Fetish objects, or tie them to certain locations or prisons.
For obvious reasons, this bondage is risky, especially if the spirit
is powerful. A brave or foolish mage can even transform into a
temporary Fetish, channeling a spirit entity into his mortal body.
In such cases, he loses his ability to use true magic, but he can
employ the spirit’s abilities within him. On the other hand, he
can also exorcise a spirit that has possessed a mortal host and
banish it from votla to the plane of the dead. In all cases, the
wizard enters a series of opposed checks against the spirit, pitting
his Willpower against the spirit itself.
This power also allows the mage to break the Umbra of Dreams
and venture beyond the Horizons (magical realms created by
archmages) or wander the Deep of the Umbrae. These tasks
require at least 10 successes, but a brave DM can travel as far
as his soul wants.
Pillar of Evros
One of the most useful Pillars for every magician is precisely
the Pillar of Evros, as it expands his senses on a regional scale
and is able to move him through space and give him a complete
sense of the entire environment. These sensory advantages are
similar to the powers of perception provided by the Auspex
Discipline, however the magician is not able to perceive spirits,
ghosts, only spatial and immediate senses. Without the help of
other Pillars, he cannot do everything Auspex would do on his
own, for example.
No awakened person is capable of casting a spell at a distance
greater than his instantaneous senses without the third level of
the Pillar of Evros. When combining Evros with other Pillars, the
Effect becomes limited. in game terms, the level of the secondary
Pillars cannot be higher than the level of the Pillar of Evros of
that awakened one. A mage, for example, who only has Pillar of
Evros 2, could try to perform an effect of Elements 4 and Energy
3 to try to initiate ranged shots, however he is limited to Strengths
2, a very low level to cast these shots of objects. To increase this
effect, he would need to increase his Pillar to at least 3.
Words of Power: Conjuration, Divination, Gates, Protection,
Teleportation.
• Space Comprehension / Sharpened Perceptions: the first
effect of the Pillar of Évros involves an innate understanding
of space. With this level, the character can manipulate their
immediate perceptions, such as perceiving any creature, object,
knowing the direction of North, South, East and West and even
estimating the distance between the senses. This type of use of
power removes Blind Combat penalties.
•• Elevate Senses / Sharpened Perceptions: now, the
magician is able to extend his senses through space, being able
to sense presences in other places. This type of use of power
leaves noticeable marks for oracular powers as in Spiritual Sense,
of vampires. Additionally, the magician can shape perceptions
so that he can notice supernatural influences, as the Auspex
Discipline itself does.
The character is able to increase his senses just as Heightened
Senses and Spiritual Sense can, reducing the difficulties for
Perception checks equal to his Pillar level.
••• Hide / Pierce Space / Track: a mage who understands
his correspondence in this range is able to hinder attempts to
perceive himself, similar to Obfuscate, by placing his successes in
Intensity. However, he can only hide spatial perceptions such as
covering his tracks or preventing his powers from being detected.
When active, this effect can increase tracking difficulty by one
point per success.
The magician has also learned to dig small holes through space.
So if the awakened could combine this with other Pillars like
Pillars of Life 2 or Elements 2, they could pull objects through
tiny holes in space, steal diplomatic letters, swords, small animals
and the like from another location, apparently pulling them out
of nowhere. This hole isn’t enough for him to go through, and
his distance is still limited as the successes he puts in Area can
help him a lot and complete what he wants.
This power also allows the mage to trace through space. It can
attempt to locate a target if it has any objects it once belonged
to or a trace of the target. Through allocating successes to Area
and Intensity, the magician expands his gifts in order to search
for the target using the surrounding environment or sensing its
likely locations. Without any traces or belongings of the target,
it is impossible to locate him! However, with Pillar of Life, Mind
or Spirit, this quest can be made easier.
•••• Open Rift / Location Mark: while at the third level of
Foundation, the awakened can dig small holes through space,
at this level the magician can open rifts between space. That
doesn’t mean it’s an easy task, after all, he still needs to follow
the rules for successes in Area, Intensity and similar to know
if he could cross the desired distance. These dimensional gates
are temporary and last at least one turn.
There is no possibility for the mage to create a rift to a place he
does not know! He must at least have visited the environment or
heard about it. The difficulty of the rift check increases with the
paucity of information about where the mage wishes to teleport.
The narrator is the final arbiter when making these changes.
The mage is also able to mark a location in order to perceive
all targets in the environment. The Area, Duration and Intensity
depend on how much the mage invested his successes and how he
created the location mark. For characters protected by Obfuscate,
compare successes between the Intensity and the target’s “See
the Unseen” rolls.
••••• Alter Spaces / Co-Location / Extremely Acute
Perceptions: At this point, the magician has reached his apex
of spatial awareness. With this power level, he is able to split his
perception to see a number of places equal to his Wits + Alertness
at the same time, without taking penalties. All of these locations
appear as ghosts superimposed on each other, as if they have been
layered over the nearest location. Furthermore, by combining
Pillar of Évros 3 with Pillar of Energy, Life or Elements 3, the
magician can move things at a distance, levitating, manipulating
or teleporting them without the slightest physical contact.
By creating bigger holes in space, the mage can now open
permanent gates between locations (10 or more successes),
isolate forces, spaces, objects or people in their own tiny realms
(combining the correct Pillars), and protect certain locations
against specific Patterns like Vampires, Werewolves, Fairies and
other beings. This protection effect can prevent or even block
prohibited elements from entering or leaving the protected
space, requiring more successes than the Intensity invested by
the mage. With Pillar of Elements and Life, the mage could
even deal damage by investing points in Damage on anyone
who entered the location.
As a last effect, the awakened one can also appear in several
different places at the same time, within your Area’s radius.
To work, however, it must add the Pillar of Reason 1 for this
Effect. Each copy reflects the actions of the original, unless it
also adds Pillar of Life 2, getting an additional action for every
success invested in Casting.
Pillar of Reason
Masters of the mind are able to manipulate thoughts, implant
commands, read aura, spy on the mind, control dreams, and
other variables. Facing a master of the mind is definitely one of
the worst decisions a vampire can make, especially in the case
of a vampire who is also fighting with the mind. These wizards
are real mental barriers.
Literally “thought-filled,” mind-knowing magicians possess
mental clarity and unnerving perceptiveness. Some seem to be
adrift in a sea of ​​distractions, but most of them see the world
with a laser-focused intensity that penetrates illusions to reach
their deepest truth.
Words of Power: Communication, Illusion, Emotion,
Social Programming, Self-Empowerment, Astral Travel, Mind
Protection, Psychodynamics, Psychic Combat.
• Feeling Thoughts and Emotions / Perfecting the Mind:
With a basic knowledge of mental magic, the magician learns to
feel other people’s emotions and superficial impulses. Although
he cannot read specific thoughts, he is able to perceive psychic
impressions about a person or (with Matter 1) a place or object.
Through this insight, he can guess the nature of weak impression
signatures and read the strongest ones immediately. Even without
psychic impressions, the magician can scan auras, notice mood
swings, discern truth from lies, or understand the general state
of one’s mind through a successful Foundation check.
With this power the magician can evolve his own mind, so
that he can have better concentration, be able to do several
tasks at once without penalties (invest successes in Moldar).
Additionally, each success he gets allows him to consider an
additional target or speed up the processing time that a normal
person might require. For a scene or two, he may even increase
one of his Mental Traits by one point per success, thanks to a
mind-enabling effect that focuses his mental faculties.
•• Mental Barrier / Empathic Connection / Reading
Shallow Thoughts: by focusing on people, the magician is able
to fly over the minds of unnoticed targets by concentrating
their power and seeing shallow thoughts, discerning emotional
states, reading memories that have been left behind on objects
or places and projecting isolated words or emotional impulses
to other people. The simpler the emotional content, the easier
it will be to send or read. A flash of anger, for example, is easy
to project or receive, but a surge of melancholy can be complex
even for experienced mages.
Additionally, the magician also learns to protect his own mind
from other people’s thoughts and emotions, building mental
barriers around his aura, emotions and consciousness. Each
success on a coincident Foundation check removes one success
from any other character’s attempt to read these psychic elements.
••• Mental Explosion / Telepathy / Command: With
increasing skill, the magician learns to connect minds, create
telepathic communications, read or influence another person’s
thoughts with subtle commands, and launch psychic attacks
on the consciousness of a reluctant rival. At this stage, mental
attacks can do painful, though rarely fatal, damage.
Combined with Évros, Energies, Elements or Life, he is able
to employ telekinesis, pyrokinetics and psychophysical attack,
influencing objects, elements or people with the power of his
mind. Unlike most other effects, this type of effect causes an
additional Paradox point.
•••• Controlling Dreams / Projecting Illusions / Advanced
Commands: Entering someone’s dreams and exploring Dream
Realms is one of the capabilities a mage can most exploit at
this level of knowledge, and project illusions almost as real as a
Ravnos’s powerful. These magicians can confuse victims, wake
up from a coma, or even control their own dreams even if they
are induced to do so.
These mages also achieve powers very similar to domination,
commanding another person’s actions as well as their thoughts,
altering their perceptions or mental state and even erasing
memories or molding them.
••••• Change Consciousness / Read Deep Thoughts /
Powerful Commands: A true master of the mind commands not
only his consciousness, but other minds as well. He is capable
of altering a person’s consciousness, making him crazy or sane,
receiving or curing his disturbances. He can also overlay his aura
with a desired impression and set powerful, as well as hypnotic,
commands that his targets wouldn’t even know exist.
At this level of power, the magician reads thoughts in the
deeper layers of the mind and is able to alter any man’s stages
of consciousness at his leisure.
The Foundation of Reality
The Foundation of Reality the three Pillars that involve spells
that influence the reality we live in in some way: Pillar of Destiny,
Pillar of Quintessence and the Pillar of Kronos. The Pillar of
Destiny works with the manipulation of probabilities and events,
as well as predictions of what may or may not happen. The
Pillar of Quintessence works with the transition of energies and
transmutation from the beginning into matter. Finally, the Pillar
of Kronos works with the manipulation of time.
Magicians who invest in the Foundation of Reality are often
quite attached to concepts from our world. Understanding the
time, our fate on earth, the point of view through the energies,
all from a different perspective. These magicians study so much
about our reality that they distance themselves from humanity
for not being able to connect to the points of view considered
“human”.
Focus: Mantra, chakras, mystical rites through energized stones,
herbs that bring energy, destiny boards and games, connection
to the world and contemplation.
Pillar of Destiny
Oraculists, prophets and other types of magicians had domain
of the Pillar of Destinies to know what they knew and get where
they arrived. A mage with this Pilar level is capable of influencing
any creature’s fate, from sensing odds to causing bad luck and
good luck. A wizard with Fate could make his life much easier
by influencing his deeds and allowing him to contemplate the
odds at his hands.
Unfortunately, this power does not allow you to predict
everything, without the help of other Pillars. A wizard without
Pillar of Life and Pillar of Kronos could not know what a target
would die from, nor when. But he could know the chance of
this target dying or with Pillar of Évros, who would have a better
chance of trying to kill him. Or perhaps he could perceive the
event that would kill him, such as “violent death”, “sudden
death”, “supernatural death”, without being able to specify
exactly what would happen and in how long it would happen.
Words of Power: Fate, Fortune, Decay, Order, Chaos,
Necromancy.
• Sense the Probability: Although simplistic, the first level
of the Pillar of Destinies brings the great ability to sense the
probability of the consequences of something. Similar to
Precognition, but on a more immediate scale, like sensing if a
person will tend to draw a sword against you or if “that man
who owes you will pay you.”
This power allows the mage to glimpse immediate probabilities
in even one scene, but if combined with Pillar of Kronos, he can
extend his insights into the future. With Pillar of Destinies, each
success invested in Shaping reduces the difficulty of the wizard’s
actions in subsequent actions. If you don’t have the Pillar of
Kronos, the awakened can only invest up to three successes in
Duration for this power.
•• Feel the Truth: Lying to a wizard is a tremendous
challenge, especially when it comes to the Pillar of Destinies.
With this level of Pilar, the magician can detect lies, knowing
when the person is telling the truth or not. However, this roll
is not similar to Auspex, as it would require a Pillar of the Soul
to see a target’s aura.
By investing successes in Intensity, the mage can be much
more accurate about those words. A target who tries to lie
naturally cannot dodge this power, only with the help of some
supernatural tool.
••• Control Probability: Now the magician can control
possibilities that he could only sense before. By altering the
chain of seemingly random events, he can influence activities
and outcomes in subtle ways, such as increasing the likelihood
of a Roman lawyer’s error or convincing some members of the
Senate to agree with his idea (combined with Pillar of Minds),
repeatedly hitting weaknesses and directing people and things to
a conclusion of their choice. It’s easier to track small events like
who would win a fight in the coliseum or a carriage going down
the wrong street than big events like controlling the probability
of an entire house falling down.
In systemic terms, this could increase or decrease the difficulty
of the targets or self rolls according to the successes invested in
Casting. Appropriate expenditure of Quintessence can lessen the
difficulty, however grand feats may require up to ten successes
or more because they are unbelievable.
 •••• Influencing Fate: objects break, people make mistakes,
strangest possible events happen in the way the mage has
controlled. With Pillar of Destiny 4, the wizard begins to dictate
the fate of his targets. That is, he could cause a “bad luck mate”
by taking hits off his targets, controlling events on a larger scale,
or increasing the effectiveness of events.
This doesn’t rule out the need for a successful scroll! Overall,
the mage can’t use Destiny Control to dictate whether his rituals
or powers will work, but he can influence the abilities of other
targets, like saying “the Nosferatu slipped into the mud puddle
and broke its Obfuscate.”
••••• Dictate Fate: curses, blessings, health or decay,
whatever the wizard can dictate! At this power level, the awakened
one is able to influence the Fate of any existing creature or event.
It could grant exceptional vitality or inflict sudden illness on its
target (combined with Health 3). This would allow for even the
most astronomical feats where it would cause or heal aggravated
damage and may grant long-term luck or misfortune.
Pillar of Kronos
Magicians who manipulate time can transition between
energies considered strange to humans and other supernatural
creatures. Similar to ancient Brujah who studied the arts of the
Temporis, these mages become somewhat apathetic due to their
understanding of the facts, always seeking logical reasoning as a
viable option for any decision-making.
Words of Power: Perceptions, Prophecy, Triggers, Time Travel,
Time Control
• Temporal Understanding: Understanding time begins
with the magician’s own perceptions. At this stage, it develops
an accurate internal clock and can detect the temporal ripples
left by (or, in many cases, developing before) the effects of time.
Other phenomena also leave disturbances in the flow of time,
and the magician may notice them too. This power is quite similar
to what Tempris’s Hourglass of Mind is capable of.
•• Vision of the Future and Past: the awakened person
is able to look forward and backward in time. While these
impressions are subtle, nebulous, not entirely accurate, and tied
to the limitations of that time and place (ie, what a viewer at that
particular time and place might feel under the circumstances),
they allow the Time seer to catch glimpses of the past. or future.
This Effect also allows the mage to see only their current
location. By combining Past/Future Vision with other Pulars,
however, he can read past or likely future impressions of objects
or places (Elements), living things (Life) and alternate locations
(Evros). With Destiny, the wizard is able to glimpse multiple
futures and choose the one most likely to occur.
••• Difficult Time Ripples / Speed ​​Up or Slow Time: By
speeding up or slowing down the movement of time, the mage
can now take various actions, slow down other characters or
phenomena, or rewind small fragments of time. In game terms,
every two successes allows the character to perform an additional
action that doesn’t involve casting magic (only one Foundation
check can be made per turn) or else slow down another character,
object, or even herself in an increment by success. This power is
very similar to Temporis’s Patience of the Norns effects.
Additionally, the mage can thicken the walls of time, which
makes other effects of Time more difficult. Each success she gets
deducts one success from the attempts of other characters with
experience over time, whether by Disciplines or Foundations.
•••• Reverse Turns / Time Bubble: If desired, the wizard
will time backward one turn for every two successes. Combining
this Level with other Spheres, the magician can affect other
Patterns (Forces, Life or Energies 2), cast effects across distance
and time (Evros 3), go back in time while recalling events from
the future. just left (Life 3 / Reason 2), or even invoke multiple
probabilities (Fate 3). Again, these attempts are Paradox magnets
with dire long-term consequences.
The mage can also withdraw from the time stream for a few
turns, as he accumulates one extra Paradox point per turn that
remains out of the stream. This effect is very similar to Temporis’
Out of the Flow. The difference involves the magician being able
to withdraw from the flow of time. It is also able to do this to
try to keep up with the speed of a time handler that is freezing
it or doing similar actions. This power also allows this power
to retain effects until they are triggered by events or by adding
Évros, Energies, Life, Elements and/or Soul, capturing other
beings or phenomena in bubbles of time, trapping them there
for some periods of time although this may require a fair amount
of successes (+10 successes).
••••• Temporal Immunity / Temporal Redemption:
Temporal immunity is not based on the magician being literally
immune to the effects of another character’s weather. In reality,
this power implies that when active, a mage tracks the speed of
another character even if he withdraws from the flow of time
and can immunize people with him so that they too track these
temporal aspects.
In addition, the mage can bring a period of time to an area,
similar to Temporis’ powers that allow only visualization. The
magician is not able to travel into the past and not change anything
that happened, but to see, interact and know. Any changes he
tries to make to the scene are corrected by reality, which applies
some extra Paradox points to the mage and keeps things going.
Pillar of Quintessence
By studying the raw energy of the world, an awakened one
learns to understand, manipulate and absorb the Fifth Essence
within all things. Also known as Odylic Force, Primordial Energy
and Quintessence, this basic energy feeds the characteristics of
other Pillars and forms of power. Energies, Life, Elements, all
flow through the sublime essence of the Soul. A skilled wizard
like Pillar of Quintessence, therefore, can create and destroy
things at their essential level, items of enchanted or Enlightened
creation power, and sustain their own life essence through their
understanding of Primal Force.
 Creating objects with primordia may still require the character
to use Crafts, setting the character of his weaponry. Using
channeling energies can be one of the best weapons a wizard has
to match his powers against other powerful creatures.
Words of Power: Absorption, Artifice, Perceptions,
Channeling, Creation, Destruction
• Sense the Ether: A mage with this knowledge of Pilar is
able to sense any type of target that channels Quintessence. It
can detect energy flows, including by using powers and other
magical stimuli.
•• Channel Power / Absorb Quintessence: absorb
Quintessence (wizards without this foundation cannot absorb
Quintessence without the Avatar Background) and infuse its
Quintessence into an object, allowing it to store its personal
energy for later use.
Additionally, at this degree of control over energies, the
magician can divert the Quintessence into new or existing forms.
Combined with other Pillars, this allows the mage to create new
patterns of Elements, Life, or Energy (summoning them out of
thin air) and infuse existing items with a primordial force to
strengthen them or increase their protective or destructive power.
Weapons or attacks infused with Quintessence can harm spirits
and deal Aggravated damage.
The magician is also able to create light in an ephemeral way,
projected through your body. Although this Body of Light has
no substance or special properties, it does present a kind of
glowing projection of magic itself.
••• Extract Energy Flow / Channel Energy to Target /
Temporary Artifacts: by tapping energy flows around you to
extract free and raw Quintessence from Nodes and solidified
Quintessence. This energy can also be channeled with its
powers, to enchant any living target (combined with Life 3), deal
Aggravated damage, or destabilize an organism.
Employ Quintessence on a target to create temporary Talismans
or Artifacts, infusing them with powers from other Pillars to
further strengthen what the mage is capable of, such as creating
a sword of flame (Elements 3). Yet the mage can create a weapon
of glowing energy to bring pain to his enemies.
•••• Expel Quintessence / Destroy Quintessence / Drain
Greater Quintessence: The power of a wizard who is close to
mastery with Quintessence allows him to drain Quintessence
and forces (not from living targets), disintegrate something or
decay it instantly (with Target 2). The mage can break extremely
strong objects that cannot be broken or rotted naturally.
At this stage, he is able to permanently enchant items and extract
Quintessence from the energy sources of exciting events, as well
as unload his own Quintessence sources in order to crystallize
them so that they materialize. At this level, the mage can drain
Quintessence from supernatural targets as well.
••••• Nullify Paradox / Extract Superior Quintessence: A
master of Quintessence can extract it from any source, absolutely.
In addition, he manages to perform a very powerful effect of
unloading Paradox, unloading one point per expenditure of
Quintessence, considering the successes on the roll. Each success
allows you to discharge an extra point, but Failure causes you to
lose those Quintessence points.
The Foundation of the
Mind
The Foundation of Matter the three Pillars that involve
magic that influence the reality we live in in some way: Pillar
of Elements, Pillar of Energy and Pillar of Life. The Pillar of
Elements works with the manipulation of palpable matter, as well
as fire, earth, water and the modification of their substances, as
well as the understanding of matter itself. The Pillar of Energy
works with the interaction with energies that cannot be seen or
manipulated by man, such as force, winds, gravity and others.
Finally, the Pillar of Life works with the manipulation of Life,
with the cure, with diseases, longevity and maximum adaptability
of the human being.
Wizards who invest their knowledge in the Matter Foundation
are often quite attached to natural resources. Elemental spells,
manipulation of physical energies and knowledge of life are
part of your daily life and allow you to further explore life’s
probabilities. They tend to create a shamanic relationship with
the world and utilize this through their rites. Some of the Masters
of this Foundation are believed to be located in the darkest parts
of Gaul and Bretannia.
Focus: Incense, herbs, blood rituals, moon rituals, animal
sacrifice, using natural resources such as stones or sticks, mystical
symbols written in runes or prayers to the Gods.
Pillar dos Elements
While the Pillar of Energies moves and manipulates
insubstantial matter, which cannot be seen, felt or touched, the
Pillar of Elements manipulates palpable matter. Unlike other
Pillars, this is one of the few that most needs variability. A
magician without Energies or Pillar of Quintessence will not be
able to create matter through solid energy, reinforce or destroy it
through the Pillar of Destiny, or create any kind of manipulation
of Life through the Elements.
Words of Power: Transmutation, Modeling, Conjuration,
Refinement, Complex Patterns.
• Perceive Aspect: A primary understanding of matter allows
the magician to perceive the properties of basic materials such
as the quality of that material, its main properties and type of
material. With this knowledge, he can visualize the material
composition of an object, notice its less obvious structures, find
its hidden layers, or by combining this perception with Destiny,
point out its weaknesses. Combined with Vida, this Pillar detects
supernatural enhancements and other integrations of living
tissue and inert materials.
•• Basic Transmutation: the magician begins to understand
more about the state of materials and can change them minimally.
He is able to change basic things like temperature, turn it into
another material (like lead into gold), wood and stone, or water
into some spirits. However, the magician cannot change the form
to liquid, gas or solid.
He also only manages to transform materials that have
conditions for that. A rope could not turn to metal. However,
a stone could be turned into iron. The material cannot be
totally opposite or different from what the magician intends to
transform. Knowledge in Alchemy can help you a lot to know
how to work better in the transformations of basic substances.
••• Shape: With some advanced knowledge, the magician
is now able to shape substances. He could bend an iron bar
effortlessly, shape a piece of wood, and even dissolve materials.
Now, the magician is able to mold materials in a way that
makes them more or less resistant. Armor could easily be
fortified by manipulating metal. A stone column could stiffen
so that it would not fall to the magician’s touch. Additionally,
the character gains a deep understanding of materials, being able
to see through the supernatural aspects of materials (combined
with Quintessence 2).
•••• Complex Transformation: changing the state of
substances such as gas to liquid or liquid to solid is now possible.
The mage manages to make an almost complete transformation
of the materials. He could easily, as in the previous example, turn
a rope into iron chains. It is interesting to say that the magician
will probably need knowledge in Alchemy to understand about
compositions, otherwise he simply transforms of his own free
will and not because he understands what he is doing.
When combined with other spheres, this basic level of
understanding allows a mage to conjure basic materials of energy
or dissolve them into Quintessence, transmute matter into living
tissue (Life 4 or higher), move an object through space (Évros 2
or higher ) or time (Kronos 3 or higher), ephemeral change in
matter and matter in ephemeral, or awaken the sleeping spirit
within material objects (Soul 3 or higher).
••••• Change Properties: Complex and radical
transformations now become perfectly possible, especially with
the addition of other Pillars. Just the touch could turn someone
into gold (Life 4), people into thrones (Life 5), chariots into
weapons (combinations of Energies and Quintessence). However,
these feats accumulate more Paradox than usual, causing an extra
point beyond the ordinary.
Different principles can be combined in complicated ways,
creating contraptions quite advanced for the time. Complicated
devices (like the mechanics of a scorpio) can be conjured from
empty space if the wizard understands the principles behind such
things (in terms of the game, he must have the proper Abilities).
As usual, however, complicated creations require lengthy rituals
and many successes.
Pillar of Energies
Heat and cold, drought and storms, light and darkness,
from lighting a candle to nuclear fusion, the Sphere of Forces
encompasses natural energy and forces as well as their negative
version. Anything in the material world that can be seen or
felt but is not material can be controlled through the Pillar of
Energies. Electricity, gravity, magnetism, friction, heat, motion,
fire, etc., as well as their opposites or their absence. At lower
levels the mage can control forces on a small scale, changing
their direction or converting one energy into another. At higher
levels, storms and explosions can be cast.
Words of Power: Alchemy, Movement, Elements (any or all),
Physics, Weather, Weaponry.
• Energetic Glimpse: By unlocking basic perceptions of the
elements, a magician with Pillar of Energies can sense the flow
of forces in their environment. He could increase his perceptions
to see in other aspects, sensing darkness with exquisiteness or
observing through vibrational patterns, perceiving movement,
discerning the flow of sound waves and hearing frequencies
beyond the normal human range.
This pillar only allows the mage to attain human perceptions.
Supernatural interferences are beyond his reach, such as
identifying a vampire’s Potency level or tracking the speed
of another creature’s Celerity. This would only be possible
through the third level of this pillar. However, the mage is able
to completely ignore dark perception penalties by reducing the
difficulties of his Perception rolls, understanding about weight,
pressure, kinetic strength as no one else would.
Any Mental roll that involves this type of awareness when this
power is active has a guaranteed automatic success and can be
modified based on the wizard’s investments.
•• Influencing Energies: Changing the state of energies
becomes part of the magician’s domain. It could completely mute
a shrill sound or amplify it, simulating Fortitude’s Sensory Barrier
effects. He could reduce or increase shadows, minimally shaping
or dispelling them, similar to the first level of Obtenebration,
although he couldn’t control supernatural shadows, but see
through Obtenebration like in Auspex, reducing penalties.
If unable to see something, the mage can distort the light to
make things visible, change their colors by altering the localized
light spectrum, or make them silent by bending the sound waves in
their surroundings, damaging the Obfuscate of a hidden vampire.
With a wave of the hand, the awakened one can interrupt
electrical currents, blazing flames, or direct the course of winds
or gravity. However, mage is only able to command energy
around a single humanized character or within a small Area
(maximum investment must equal the level of Pillar of Energies
of the awakened one). To affect a larger area, you need a higher
Rank on this Pillar.
••• Summon Forces / Telekinesis: With Pillar of Energy
3, the magician is able to alter and summon energies that he
could only touch before. By adding Quintessence 2, he could cast
powerful winds, fire, electricity, and so on. The mage could also
leverage the effects of his punches to deal damage beyond normal.
Combined with Life or Matter, it could turn people into
electricity (Health 5 / Energies 3), dealing an amount of Lethal
damage equal to allocated hits to Damage, turn water to air
(Energy 3 / Elements 3), or attach an elemental force to material
forms, making them fly with Telekinesis, pinning them to the
ground, and having other similar effects (usually with Life or
Elements 3).
•••• Control Greater Forces / Extended Senses: Greater
effects become possible. Awakening could change weather
patterns, conjure darkness as in Obtenebration, decrease or
increase temperatures; protect locations or even destroy them. By
adding an Ephemeral Pillar to this level, it can corrode or increase
energy (Target 3); manifest thoughts into energies (Reason 3),
transmute spiritual matter into physical energies (Soul 3); or set
triggers for energy fluctuations at some later interval (Kronos 4).
A wizard who could amplify his senses to match a vampire’s
speed with Celerity requires an amount of successes equal to
the penalty the vampire imposes. A vampire with Celerity 6,
who causes +3 difficulty to sense it with the senses, can request
3 successes from the mage in Shaping and Intensity, dividing
the successes between the two traits.
It is not possible for an awakened one to undo Chimerstry
effects without distrusting them. The magician needs to know
that this is an illusion, but he could undo them as soon as he
notices the vibrational aspects. He must compare the effects
of “Seeing the Unseen”, using his successes against those of
Ravnos so that he can deactivate a single illusion. The wizard
manages to try to undo two levels of Chimerstry for every level
of Pilar you have.
••••• True Transmutation: Almost like a Methuselah
vampire, a Master of the Forces works his Will over vast areas.
He could cast tornadoes on a clear day (+10 successes), calm tides
would turn into overwhelming waves (+15 successes), and turn
the very air into a firestorm (+20 successes). These mages don’t
usually show their full powers without good reason. There are
few who survive long enough to enjoy it. It’s easier to invoke
these forces under the right conditions, after all, a cold snap
• Note que essas adaptações foram fortemente inspiradas em M20, Idade das Trevas: Mago (Edição Revisada) e Guia da Mão
Negra para Tal’Mahe’Ra (V20). Em nenhum momento, o objetivo é desconsiderar o que foi escrito pela editora, mas revisar e
adaptar conceitos de forma que os universos possam trabalhar juntos. Todas as Esferas foram convertidas em Pilares, que podem
fazer exatamente as mesmas coisas, em escalas levemente menores do que um mago realmente poderia fazer no cenário original.
Seu Arete foi transformado em Fundação, mas o mago não possuí um único e sim uma linha ao qual ele domina mais. A ideia é
diversificar, equilibrar e tornar o jogo divertido.
comes more easily in winter than in summer, and these radical
changes have repercussions that often outlast the original Effect.
Absolutely all effects using Energies 5 cause three automatic
Paradox points. In game terms, massive Forces spells should
disturb the weather and leave massive resonant echoes behind.
Pillar of Life
Just as blood is life to vampires, the Pillar of Life represents
this trait to mages. In addition to being able to heal themselves,
they can shape the patterns of your own body. Some mages
transform into other creatures and animals, for example. With
life, a magician can take other forms, adapt to natural adversities,
feel life, and even mold other people. If a vampire saw such
traits, he would assume the mage might have domains similar
to Vicissitude in combination with Valeren.
Words of Power: Transformation, Shape Change, Healing,
Improvement, Creation, Cloning, Evolution, Injury.
• Sense Life: Similar to the first level of Valeren, of the Healer
caste, this one provides a basic knowledge of life and allows a
person to read the presence and health of nearby lifeforms.
With this knowledge, the magician can discern the age, sex and
general health of a living being. By combining these perceptions
with other Pillars, he can also sense distant organisms (Evros 2),
guess their potential for illness or misfortune (Fate 1), or perceive
them through past or future states (Kronos 2).
•• Simple Healing / Subtle Changes: With some turns
investing successes in Intensity, the mage is able to perform
healings that would not naturally be possible. Being a mortal,
the mage could not heal himself if he wanted to, nor could he
heal other targets. With this level of power he can.
Focusing on its own Pattern, it can also heal itself (up to Lethal
damage, healing one point per success with difficulty increased by
+1), and any healing the mage does on other targets requires an
extra Quintessence point spent to work, in addition to causing
lethal damage. Or make small changes (hair color, skin tone,
height, weight, and so on) to your basic shape.
••• Alter Simple Lifeforms / Change Yourself: Similar to
what a Tzimisce would know how to do with its own body, a
mage can make substantial changes to himself, creating the gills
that would allow him to last longer underwater, claws that would
rip as much as a bear’s claws, skin shells that would give you
dice to absorb lethal damage, and so on. It remains essentially
human, but it begins to dominate the definition of “human”,
reaching the aspect of perfect mastery of human bodies as the
Greeks would think.
 Simple life forms like crustaceans, insects, plants, etc. become
“clay” in the magician’s hands, as if he could make small changes
to these creatures. He learns to adjust their traits (investing
successes in Molding), giving wings to a crab, for example)
without killing them. Although he cannot yet transmute them
into other states of being, he can make flowers bloom or wither,
help trees to bear fruit, and so on, however subtly.
•••• Advanced Healing / Radical Changes: A mage’s Life
domain is now vastly increased. He also gains the ability to heal
Aggravated damage to himself and other complex organisms, put
them to sleep, or inflict Aggravated damage to their life forms. It
should be noted that healing for Aggravated damage requires 5
successes and still requires eight hours of rest, although it does
not spend Willpower on the mage’s part, but on the target’s
part. A mage with this Health level could heal even lost limbs
if he wanted to.
The magician can also make radical changes in any complex
organism like people, dogs, horses, and so on. It can elevate
other species with new limbs, opposable thumbs, increased brain
capacity, etc., as long as it doesn’t change its nature.
••••• Complex Life / Longevity: By molding his own body
and the bodies of others, the mage can transform into other
life forms of similar size and mass. Thinking about it, he could
become a dog, for example, but not a hummingbird. Special
abilities of this form (flight, water breathing and the like) are
not carried, however, unless he builds them into this new form
with additional Health effects, and the new body may require a
period of adjustment before the mind and the reflections reflect
the new features.
Additionally, the mage can increase their longevity, being able
to stay alive for centuries or even a millennium. It is unknown
how long the mage is able to rejuvenate himself so that he begins
to age. However, he cannot live eternal life! At some point, his
magic will no longer have any effect and he will have to depart
for the underworld.
 Magickal Guide
Difficulty of Magic Points of Paradox
Classification Pillar Level +3 Min Successes What is the Pillar Level? Amount
• Difficulty 4 +1 Success • +0
•• Difficulty 5 +2 Successes •• +0 or +1
••• Dif. 6 +3 Successes ••• +1 or +2
•••• Dif. 7 +4 Successes •••• +2 or +3
••••• Dif. 8 +5 Successes ••••• +3 or Pillar x2

Feats of Magick
Classification Minimum Suggested Successes
Simple 1 Success: lighting a candle, improving your perceptions, changing your hair color and so on.
Common 2 Successes: heal yourself, light a torch, change your shape, protect your mind, and so on.
Difficult 3 Successes: affect someone’s mind, change their appearance drastically, cast a fireball, and so
on.
Impressive 4 Successes: heal aggravated damage, regenerate lost limbs, cast a storm, control someone’s
mind, and so on.
Powerful 5-15 Successes: Conjure entities, blow up structures, possess someone’s body, jump to the
Land of the Dead or other realms, and so on.
Unreal 15-25 Successes: blowing up entire buildings, incinerating someone’s mind, creating complex
new life forms, and so on.
Divine 30+ Successes: incinerate cities, enslave hundreds of people, conjure hordes of spirits, teleport
a realm, and so on.

• Personal effects require at least one success, while effects that hit others require two or more successes.
• Always divide successes gained on the spell between the spell’s effects (Targets, Intensity, Damage, Mold, Area, or Duration).
• Effects that change the setting and world in some way require at least 4 Successes!
• Damage or Duration for these feats (not both at the same time) is based on the number of successes rolled, according to the
Base Damage or Duration graph. If you chose Damage, Duration is instant. If you choose the duration, the damage is zero.
• If you want to add to Damage, Targets or Effect Duration before making the check, find out how many additional successes you
would need, declare them to Storyteller, then roll considering the total amount (ie Base + additional successes ).
 Magic Difficulty Modifiers
Feats Condition

Using a personal, improvised Focus -1 of difficulty

Using a unique, magical instrument -1 of difficulty

Use a magical, unique and specialized instrument -2 of difficulty (maximum)

Working with Foci that do not belong to your Foundation +3 of difficulty

Working with Focuses unfamiliar to you +2 of difficulty

Use Focuses even when you don’t need to -1 of difficulty

Using an object that belonged to your target -1 to -3 difficulty

Using Pillars during a fight +1 of difficulty

Cast more than one spell at the same time +1 of difficulty, per spell

Keeping one spell active while casting another +1 of difficulty, per spell

Circumstantial Modifiers
Feat Condition

Use Quintessence -1 to -3 difficulty (max -3)

Wait for additional Turns -1 per expected Turn (max -3)

Reflective spell (as in defensive action) +2 of difficulty

Rewind Turn in time +3 of difficulty

General Modifiers
Feat Condition

Study about the spell target in advance -1 to -3 difficulty

Use magic near a Node or Caern -1 to -3 difficulty

Distant target, hidden (not by Obfuscate!) +1 difficulty

Distracted magician +1 difficulty

Unreal or Divine Effect +3 difficulty

Use successes accumulated by ritual +1 to +5 automatic roll successes

Spend Foundation Points Add a Foundation Equivalent Success Variable

 Range from the Pillar of Evros
Successes Range Contact

One Line of sight Body sample

Two Very Familiar Close or Allied Contact

Three Familiar Object of yours or casual friend

Four Visited Once Casual knowledge or object used once

Five Local Descrito Brevemente Tocou no objeto ou conheceu a pessoa brevemente

Six or More Anywhere in the world No type of contact

Note: the Pillar of Evros further extends the distance in Area of magical investments, beyond the “common” limits.

Damage Magickal Resistance

Successes Amount Pillar Defense
One None Pillar of the Soul Willpower or Auspex
Two Two points Pillar of the Reason Willpower or Fortitude
Three Six points Pillar of the Destiny Stamina + Fortitude
Four Eight points Pillar of the Quintessence Fortitude (dif. 7)
Five Ten points Pillar of the Elements Stamina
Six or more Successes x2 Pillar of the Energies Stamina + Fortitude

This score also reflects the number of Health levels healed Pillar of the Life Stamina + Fortitude
by the Pillar of Life or Quintessence points channeled by
the Pillar of Quintessence. Counter Magick Blood Sorcery or Founda-
Assume that the maximum damage dealt by any Pillar is tion vs Foundation.
equivalent to 20 Vitality points (10 successes or nine for
Pillar of Energies).
• Concussion Damage: Pillar of Reason. • Effects created by the Pillar of Reason can only be defended by
• Lethal Damage: Most Pillars. Willpower (difficulty 9), however Mind Barrier or Sensory Shield
has the difficulty reduced by -2. The target can only defend using
• Aggravated Damage: Any Pillar charged with the energies one of the options! Never both.
of the Pillar of Quintessence, with an extra Quintessence
point spent for the turn. Electricity and Fire Effects. Decay • Effects created by the Pillar of the Soul can be defended by
through the Pillar of Destiny, Life or Pillar of Quintessence. Willpower (difficulty 9) or Auspex (difficulty8).

The Pillar of Évros and Kronos are unable to deal damage, • All damage considered Blasting and Lethal to a non-lethal target’s
although it can be combined with other Pillars that do. physical body can be soaked with Stamina + Fortitude.

The Pillar of Energies adds an automatic hit to damage. • Aggravated Damage can only be absorbed with Fortitude.

The Pillar of Fate always deals Aggravated damage from • Counter Magic Defenses only work if the opponent knows some
fourth level onwards. Blood Sorcery or Necromancy that can assist him in such an act.
• Awakened roll their Foundation levels to try to defend themselves.
 Teleport
Successes Range
One Familiar perceptions.
Two A familiar place (refuge, home, etc).
Three A family member or someone you’ve met recently.
Four Visited briefly.
Five Heard some brief description.
Six or more Teleport even without knowing anything about the location.

Illusion
Successes Illusion
One Only one sense (smell, sight, taste, etc.).
Two A simple, one-way illusion that moves.
Three Complex illusion, which affects two directions or simple, which moves (affecting two direc-
tions).
Four Complex and moving (various sensations)
Five Complex and reflective (various sensations)
Six or more Complex and interactive (multiple sensations).

• Mental Illusions = Pillar of Reason 4+ (only the target sees, the more investments in Intensity, the stronger the illusion)
• Physical Illusions = Pillar of Energy 3+/Quintessence 2+ (visible to a number of victims equivalent to Area level x10, can
manipulate elemental forces to manifest sensory components, but requires successes invested in Intensity).
• Interactive Illusions = Pillar of 4+/Quintessence 4+ Energies (intense reality level, requires at least one success in Intensity,
Area, and Duration).
• Ilusions usually do no damage! Unless successes are invested in damage, for the illusion. However, victims can be directed to
situations where they risk their lives.
• Pillar of Reason = bashing damage (absorbed with Willpower, dif 9 or Fortitude, dif 7).
• Pillar of Reason 4/ Life 4 = aggravated damage
• Pillar of Energies = Breaching or Lethal, depending on the energies involved during the spell.
The common Duration of an illusion is one scene. However, Duration or Damage levels can be added with additional successes.
An extra scene + two damage levels would need three more successes, for example.
• Visualizing through illusions follows the same rules as “Seeing the Invisible”, from Auspex vs Chimerstry. Levels of Chimerstry
can try to dispel illusions created by a mage, as long as they distrust it.

• All successes and descriptions shown in these tables are demonstrations of the minimum successes for a wizard to do as he
pleases with his powers. However, they do not rule out the need for extra investment in magical aspects. A mage can cast a
five-success illusion, but without Intensity, it’s easily resisted. The same goes for other effects! A Teleport may require successes
on Targets if the wizard wants to carry someone else, or on Intensity to go faster or on Area if the wizard wants to transport
more objects. No type of magic discards this feature.
 Time and Distance Temporal Range
Affect Distant Object or Person Pillar of Evros 3 Min. Successes Temporal Range
Aging / Rejuvenating Pillar of Kronos 3 + Life 4 One Up to one year.
(living beings) or/+ Elements
3 (objects) Two Up to five year.
Summon an Animal Pillar of Evros 2 + Life 3
Three 20 years
Create multiple images Pillar of Evros 2 + Life 3
Four 50 yeras
Create passage between locations Pillar of Evros 4 or 5
Five 100 years
Create multiple objects Pillar of Evros 5 + Quintessence
Six or more 500 years
2 + Elements 3
Fall back a few turns Pillar of Kronos 4 10+ 1000 years

Create Temporal Trigger Pillar of Kronos 4

Speed up / Slow down time
Temporal Travel
Banning / Vigilance
Pillar of Kronos 3
Pillar of Kronos 5 + Life 3 +
Reason 3 + Quintessence 2 +
Soul 2 + Elements 2
Pillar of Évros 3 + Quintessence
3 + Appropriate Pillar
• Time range is related to how much a mage can visualize
in the past only. A mage cannot make time travel without
bursting out of Paradox or returning weakened.
• Time Spells give between +1 and +3 extra Paradox points
above the usual when they involve going back in time.
• Going back in the past does not allow the mage to change
what happened. The timeline is unique and will correct
itself to whatever the mage tries to do.

Time Magick
Min. Successes Feats of Time

Three Jumping out of time (Mold) / Aging (Intense)

Four Take another creature outside the Time Bubble (Target) / Common aging

Five Take multiple targets out of the time stream (Targets), or an area of approximately 3x3m (Area), out of
time / Powerful aging
Eight Take a larger area of 6x6m of time / Aging to decrepitude

10-20 Take an even larger area out of time 12x12m / Aging on the brink of destruction

20+ Freeze or isolate a very large area (24x24m or more) or Event / Destruction by aging (Intensity x Damage)

• Aging or rejuvenation need the same number of successes.

• Attempts to return turns in time add +2 to the difficulty.
• Weak Aging increases a person’s age by up to five years. Each success in the intensity of aging increases ten years. The wizard
can only age the target equivalent to the level described if he gets the necessary successes. Vampires, fairies in their true forms and
demons are immune to any aging effects caused by the mage, but not decay.
• Vampires with Temporis can use Clotho’s Gift, Step Out of Time, and other effects to reflexively step out of the flow along
with the mage. However, these vampires are subject to a dice penalty equal to the difference between their Temporis level and
their Foundation level.
 Body Alteration Spells Soul Spells
Awaken the Spirit of the Pillar of the Soul 3
Adapt to the Pillar of Life 2 or 3
Object
environment
Bless / Curse Pillar of the Soul 4
Animate body and parts Pillar of Life 3 + Quintessence 2
Command spirit Pillar of Reason 4 + Pillar of Soul 4
Animate bones and Pillar of Elements 2 + Quintessence
debris 2 Drain the Essence of a Pillar of Soul 2 + Pillar of
Cause or cure disease Pillar of Life 3 or Destiny 2 Spirit Quintessence 4
Hurt Apparition / Pillar of Soul 4 / Pillar of Destinies
Simple body change Pillar of Life 3 Ghost 3 + Pillar of Quintessence 2
Create body Pillar of Life 3 (simple) or 5 Hurt spirit Pillar of Soul 4 (as in Life 3)
(complex) + Quintessence 3
Open / Close Shroud Pillar of Soul 4 or 5
Duplicate body Pillar of Life 3 + Quintessence 3 Gate
Heal / Hurt Human Pillar of Life 2 or 3 See Spirits Pillar of Soul 1

Heal / Hurt Fairy Pilar da Vida 3 + Pilar da Razão 2 Talk to spirits Pillar of Soul 2

Heal / Hurt Vampire Pilar da Vida 3 + Pilar do Jump to Umbra Pillar of Soul 3
Elemento 2
Touch spirit Pillar of Soul 2
Heal / Hurt Werewolf Pillar of Life 3 + Pillar of Spirit 2

Increase P hy s i c a l Pillar of Life 2 Artifact Magick

Attributes Enchant talisman Pillar of Quintessence 4 + Pillar
Revive recently dead Pillar of Life 5 + Pillar of Souls 4 suitable for effect
+ Pillar of Quintessence 3 Create Fetish Pillar of the Soul 4 (trapping or
Rot body Pillar of Destiny 3 interacting with spirit)
Enchant Weapons Pillar of Quintessence 2 + Pillar
Change form Pillar of Life 4 or 5
of Elements 2
Sleep spell Pillar of Mind 2 (suggestion) or 4 Create artifact Pillar of Quintessence 5 + Pillar
+ Life 3 (combination forces sleep) of Elements 3
Soak Aggravated Pillar of Life 3
• Given the flexibility of the Pillar, there can be several options
Transform Body into Pillar of Life 3+, added with
when performing a particular feat. The methods listed on this
Element Appropriate Pillar for testing
page are simply the easiest ways to cast a spell, not necessarily
the only ways to do it. Common alternatives for the same task
Destiny and Fortune are separated by a semicolon.
• These tables represent the minimum level of Pillar that the
Alter probability Pillar of Destiny 2+ mage will need to accomplish the tasks he desires. The amount
of successes may or may not change depending on what the
Bless / curse Pillar of Destiny 5 + Pillar of Life
mage wants to do. The difficulty also varies.
2 or Pillar of Quintessence 5
• These spells have no automatic effects to work. A wizard
Cause destruction Pillar of Destiny 3+
still needs to allocate the necessary successes as with any other
Find weakness Pillar of Destiny 1 spell and the target can still try to resist if he has the resources
ready for that.
 Quintessence Magick
Absorb Quintessence Pillar of Quintessence 3
Channel Quintessence Pillar of Quintessence 3
Create / Destroy Node Pillar of Quintessence 5
Destroy by Draining Quintessence Pillar of Quintessence 4 (object) / Quintessence 5 (crea-
ture)
Drain Node Pillar of Quintessence 4
Drain Quintessence Pillar of Quintessence 3
Enchant Armor / Weapon Pillar of Quintessence 2
Nullify Paradox Pillar of Quintessence 5
Share / Exchange Quintessence Pillar of Quintessence 3
Create a simple body of light Pillar of Quintessence 2+

Final Considerations of the Author

Even if you are playing or narrating, you need to think about the fun of your games. This supplement only exists for that. The
narrator and player must work together. While mages aren’t as powerful as those in the base scenario, they will be if the Storyteller
wants them to be. And if the player character wants to take any action, he can. Everything that is written here is solely and
exclusively a guide! It would be best if you DON’T stuck to it. If you think that to blow up a house, your mage will only need 4
successes? All good! It exploded! If you want a Mind 4 effect to be possible with Mind 2, congratulations! The world is yours, and
you can do it. Don’t get hung up on the book, but ALWAYS consider the balance and fun of your games. RPG chronicles are
not creations to generate frustration; they are fun. From the moment one of the players is frustrated or sad with their chronicle
and the other players, it’s worth a conversation to solve the problem.
Don’t fight over bullshit. Our groups don’t need to fight to prove that a Pillar or Sphere is more powerful than a Discipline or
that werewolves rip vampires in half. All this doesn’t matter. What matters is whether your chronicle is fulfilling its role. Life is
too short for us to focus on small arrogances like these. Proving points showing that powerful characters might not be as fun as it
sounds. A good story, laughter, and brotherhood among friends are what we look for and what I look for with my books. Always
remember to use the rules as fairly as possible. While these adaptations will help you, they won’t solve 100% of your problems
as a Storyteller. You are still the machine that makes your imaginative world go round.
Both this and other supplements were a gift to the community, which has always given me due to support to continue publishing
the books of Vampire: the Classical Era and others, which in the past were part of my daily life. If today, my work is with RPG, I
owe it to the community. All the books I’ve published and intend to publish are community-driven with the best quality I can give,
and I try to do this with perfection. I will continue to evolve my creations to higher levels if my creativity and abilities allow me.

I make RPG my art, my inspiration. Hope you like it.

Graciously, the Author.