Life

Sense Life. The mage can read Patterns of Life and sense different forms of life nearby. Alter Simple Patterns, Heal Self. Life manipulation begins with the simplest Patterns. The mage can alter the structure of basic life forms now, from microscopic viruses and bacteria to creatures as complex as insects and shellfish -- anything, that is, without a spine. He can only influence these patterns, healing or killing them, creating extra legs, causing trees bear fruit or insects to releaes the phermones which signal a swarm. A poisounous-fruited cherry tree is still a cherry tree, and a four-foot wide moth is still a moth. Also, the mage may begin to work on creating and healing breaks in the complex pattern most familiar to him -- his own. Alter Self, Heal Life, Transform Simple Patterns, Create Simple Patterns. At this rank, the mage can alter his own pattern, Making subtle improvements and variations as he did with simple Patterns at Life 2. He can change gender, appearance, or grow claws, fur, or gills, etc. He must, however, remain human. He may also completely edit simple patterns, changing a moth into a crab, or creating both with a conjunctional use of Prime 2. With Matter or Forces 2, he can turn, respectively, a box or a laser beam into a butterfly. Created creatures have no minds of their own, but may be imbued with rudimentary instinctive responses. Finally, at this rank, the mage may now heal (or harm) others as he did himself at Life 2. Alter Complex Patterns, Transform Self. The mage may change the structure of any complex Life Pattern, including those of other sentient beings. As with Life 2, the creatures maintain their original form, but radical variations thereupon are possible. The Life Adept can alter his form to resembled any creature of his size and mass, but special abilities of that creature (water breathing, flight) require further Life magicks, and getting around in the new form will take some getting used to. Transform Complex Patterns, Create Complex Patterns, Perfect Metamorphosis. Masters of life can transform others as he did himself at rank four, attaining for himself or others any form he desires. When a mage with Life Mastry transforms, he takes with him both his mind and his Arts, the form being as natural as the one into which he was born. Masters of Life, like God, can weave from Forces, Matter, or Prime (with the proper sphere at 2), a new Life pattern. However, their creation will have no soul or mind beyond the base Resonance of its materials.