Ahl-i-Batin

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Ahl-i-Batin Rotes

Type: Opposed Paradox: +1 if witnessed Challenge: Mentals(Arete) vs Mentals(willpower) Cost: 1Q Duration: 1 scene

Short cast: Make a mentals(arete) vs mentals(willpower) against all viewers, if you succeed you simply fade away into invisibility with an obfuscate rating of corr+2. If you are a master of (corr) You also gain arcane 5 as if you had the passive effect of obfuscate 5 when you take this rote.

Long cast: You can long cast this action to start the process to grow your arcane to super arcane (diff 50), which gives you 1 extra bluebook action that cannot be tracked by anyone with less than Auspex 5, the action simply is untraceable.

Type: Passive Paradox: N/A Challenge: N/A Cost: N/A Duration: Permanent

Long cast: Wonder: Rose of the desert The Batini maintain a powerful geomantic network across the middle east called the web of faith. Many Batini return and take magical pilgrimage along the web in the form of this rote, walking along the powerful leylines of water that cross the heat of a huge desert. Travel across this desert rewards the mage with a single gem that contains the desert’s heat, solidified quintessence from within the web. This gem has several benefits.
The bearer of the gem absorbs (corr) levels of damage from all fiery sources.
The bearer of the gem gains 1 Q.
The bearer of the gem can extinguish any fire within sight.
The bearer of the gem can talk across any distance to anyone else with a gem.

Type: Upgrade Paradox: N/A Challenge: N/A Cost: N/A Duration: Permanent

Short cast: The Batini know that all the world is connected through the leylines of the earth which was once Qaf. This spell upgrades teleport allowing the mage to travel to the nearest node with the spell. Travel to a node counts as an escape power and happens at the end of the round as normal.