Resonance and Nature
Rote · Mage
Resonance
carries through as well, especially if it’s really strong. A murderer who’s been changed into a mouse will come across as the world’s scariest mouse. For the most part, though, this “carryover” effect manifests through storytelling
and roleplaying, not in game-systems. No one really needs to keep track of the number dots of Murderous Resonance that the new-forged mouse possesses, but the Storyteller might describe the “re-formed” killer as “a twitching bundle of compressed rage, watching the world with evil red eyes and a seething sense of bloodlust.”
A new form also tends to follow its original nature. That tiger-lady will be sleek, muscular, and tawny, with long nails and a tendency to snarl. The murderer will be more likely to change into an especially nasty black rat unless the mage specifically wants to make him cute and tiny. Also, a transmuted organism retains its original mind and memory, at least for a while, unless the mage takes extra measures to replace that mind with another one. The killer-mouse remains a man in a rodent body, while Lady Tiger is literally an animal passing for a human being.