Editing Focus (section)

==Example Foci==


Of course, the following list isn’t all-inclusive. You can add or change foci according to your game style and needs. Each example includes an Ability that would be useful with the focus.


* '''Art''': The mage creates a piece of art, often a picture of the desired Effect.

* '''Crafts''': Painting (or similar).

* '''Blood''': The mage uses blood - her own or a sacrifice’s - to empower magic. Obviously you shouldn’t actually be spilling blood everywhere. Just pantomime and use your imagination. Medicine.

* '''Books''': Various tomes and scrolls grant insight or formulae to use and muse upon. Academics: Literature.

* '''Bones''': Symbolic of death, can be used whole or carved into shapes. Medicine

* '''Cauldrons/Chalices''': Cups or bowls, often with noxious liquids, used to mix formulas or for scrying. Science for chemical mixutres; Cosmology for scrying.

* '''Circles''': Mystic shapes of wholeness, warding and containment. Often made with chalk or blood. Craft: Drawing.

* '''Computers''': Any sort of computational device, especially with attendant useful programs. Computer.

* '''Crystals''': Channeling energy for healing or the like. Often, different cuts or colors determine the crystals' use. Enigmas.

* '''Dancing''': Ecstatic or specialized dances to channel energy or create trance states. Performance: Dance.

* '''Devices''': Various techno-toys to manipulate energy or chemicals. Technology.

* '''Do''': The lifestyle of the Akashic Brotherhood, used to return the human body to its natural living state. Brawl: Do or Meditation.

* '''Drugs''': Obviously, you shouldn’t bring drugs into your game, but you might represent the Effects of a shaman with peyote or a visionary with LSD. Science: Chemistry.

* '''Elements''': Associations to the various cardinal forms and powers like the traditional earth, air, fire, and water or modern things like glass, plastic, and electricity. Occult.

* '''Ether Goggles''': Special goggles or glasses used to change a mystic’s sight. Especially common with the Sons of Ether, who fill theirs with ether to promote clarity of vision into the Tapestry. Alertness.

* '''Feather''': Representative of flight, freedom and the life of beasts of the air. Often used in conjunction with spirits, as well. Animal Ken.

* '''Fire''': A small flame symbolic of destruction or creation, or inspiration. Occult.

* '''Formula''': A mathematical equation or scientific formula that “proves” the mage’s hypothesis. Science.

* '''Herbs''': Mixtures of plants, seeds, roots and fruits that grant properties when sprinkled, smoked, eaten or mixed in a poultice or potion. Medicine.

* '''Holy Symbol''': Arepresentation of higher power, and the cosmic forces that the mage invokes. Cosmology.

* '''Incense''': Used for smoke, clouding of vision, scent or altering consciousness to see reality as the mage desires instead of as it is. Meditation.

* '''Language''': The power of symbols and sounds that are given special meaning. Linguistics.

* '''Music''': For trance, for inspiration or artistic work, either by listening to or creating music. Performance for an appropriate musical instrument or talent.

* '''Network''': A group of computers set up to share information and processing power. A way of communicating and sharing knowledge. Computer.

* '''Ordeal''': A painful task that the mage must accomplish, like self-inflicted injury, branding or torture. Survival.

* '''Pure Water''': To wash away iniquity or to refresh the mage’s mind. Meditation.

* '''Purification''': Part of a ritual to purify the mage’s spirit, mind and body for the working of miracles. Etiquette.

* '''Ritual Sacrifice''': The destruction or slaying of something of value in order to gain favor or appease spirits. Occult.

* '''Runes''': Mystical sigils carved on a surface to attract or ward against certain powers. Occult.

* '''Scientific Meters and Probes''': Little gadgets that measure various scientific qualities. Science.

* '''Sex''': REMOVED

* '''Song''': The message of a song may carry magic, or the sound of the music or even its chorus with others. Expression.

* '''Tarot Cards and Ouija Boards''': Ubiquitous tools of modem occultists, often used for divination and spirit workings. Occult.

* '''Treatments''': Body piercings, oils, moxa burning, special baths... stuff that seeps magic into the body. Medicine.

* '''Toys''': Return to childhood, or symbols that represent more advanced tools. Expression.

* '''Vehicles''': Specialized automobiles or aircraft, even spaceships, with build in enhancements. Drive.

* '''Wands''': Pointing tools, standards for focusing energy and (if some pundits are to be believed) symbols of phallic power. Occult.

* '''Weapon''': A sword, ritual knife or similar device, often used in battle or bloodletting but also as a symbol of authority. Melee for hand weapons, Athletics for thrown weapons, Firearms for guns.