THE UNCONSCIOUS

By andersonb@mindspring.com

Description

This is a special group of mages that gets very little attention. The reason that they go unknown is fairly obvious considering what separates them from the rest of mage society. Deep down in their unconscious minds these mages are fully Awakened and tend to have very strong Avatars. However, they are not able to consciously accept this new reality. They are not consciously aware that they are able to affect reality as a mage can. They usually do think of themselves as lucky or blessed in some way. In games terms, this means that these mages cannot use vulgar magic at character creation. They are, however more adept at using coincidental magic, in fact their entire lives seem to be full of it. When casting magick which will affect the mage the difficulty is 1 + the highest sphere level needed. When the spell is cast on someone else the difficulty is 2 + the highest sphere level needed. Their denial is actually the tool used for the spell. Because of the general difficulty in making Spirit effects coincidental, these mages tend to be less skilled in this sphere. When these mages reach higher level of understanding they are able to discard their denial as another mage discards his tools. When their Arete reaches seven they may choose 3 spheres which they can use in a vulgar fashion. Each additional level grants them three more spheres. These mages draw their power from a primal place deep within them and as this place is more in touch with reality than our paradigm riddled logic they can purchase dots of Arete for 75% the normal cost. Of course there is very little organization among these mages and many do not consider this group to be a group, but rather mages who are flawed in some way. However, the mages among this group who have begun to leave their denial behind (Arete 7+) tend to want to give back and will begin to search out others of their ilk to help spur them on to higher levels of understanding. These mages can instinctively sense one another. This is not exact at all, but they will often feel a sense of kinship to one another without understanding why.