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Through the fearsome act of unwilling sacrifice, the mage can use Prime 3 to pull Quintessence out of a living creature’s Pattern, usually in the process of doing something horrible to it. The “best” kinds of live sacrifices use quick, humane methods to dispatch the offering with minimal suffering; awful variants stretch the pain and anguish out for hours, days or even weeks, drawing energy from prolonged suffering. For obvious reasons, this isn’t something characters should do without invoking equally awful consequences.

Human-sized characters carry 10 points of Quintessence; smaller creatures have between three and five points, and much larger creatures may have 15 points or more… which explains why tigers and elephants are endangered species. All living sacrifices – especially unwilling ones – transfer the Resonance of that act onto the person who receives the Quintessence. As described below, that can have powerful results.