2nd Body Art: Shapeshifting

Shapeshifting is an advanced and extremely complex spell to learn, use, and master, a spell most novices do not even attempt. The physical control needed to make use of Shapeshifting is exceptional, but more than this is the metaphysical aspect. Forme and Function refer to the physical shape of a being and what purpose that being has respectively. When Shapeshifting into people or animals, a Mage must retain their own unique Function while changing their forme and capable of returning, as the spell is cast once to turn and once again to turn back.

Effect

The power to alter one's form and appearance. Users can change their shape, size, color, density, texture, cellular composition, and atomic composition to mimic qualities, impersonate entities, amplify abilities, and/or traverse environments. Users with greater degrees of control are more than likely capable of using their bodies by unpredictably functioning as a perpetually reconstructing all-purpose appliance and/or employing near-indomitable deception in their strategies. Assuming the identity of distinguished or unsuspecting subjects allows for easier access to prohibited areas, superior persuasion, and potent espionage, depending upon the user's power and skill to imitate likenesses.

Side/Secondary Effects

• Users may need awareness of each form's limitations and weaknesses

• For the user to shapeshift, controlling all the cells in the body to transform may require a tremendous amount of energy and physical strength.

• Unconsciousness, excessive pain, and/or death may involuntarily revert the user to original form.

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Grandmaster SixPathsSage

Khali Crawford

   

Material Components

There are three triggers or methods of Shapeshifting.

• Visual

• Taste

• Awareness

Simply seeing the being that they wish to turn into, a Mage can develop an idea or sense of them and successfully shapeshift. This can be improved via the 2nd Body Art: True Copy spell which allows a Mage to gain intimate knwoledge about a being via ingesting a part of their physical being. From this, they can shapeshift into a more convincing copy and even gain access to the functional aspects of that person or animals species. If a Mage shapeshifts into a bird via only sight of one, they will look like a bird, but will lack the functional capabilities to fly. The final trigger is not needed but can be used with Visual if Taste is not possible. Basically, a Mage can learn about the target they are copying and shapeshift from this information.
Mages who use this spell are known to carry body parts of animals that they are extremely familiar with to shapeshift such as a frog's leg or a bird's feather. Skilled Mages can transform on command without aid via visual memory and extensive research on their various forms, without the aid of a body part.

Related Discipline

The 2nd Body Art

Related School

Alchemy