Everything

Warriors often wish they had eyes everywhere. A mage with Correspondence 1 or better, though, actually can see the bat-tleground’s Big Picture. By harnessing the Spatial Perceptions Effect of first-rank Correspondence Arts (described in Mage 20, Chapter Ten), an Enlightened combatant can get a sense of the various parties, obstacles, weapons, and other factors of a given fight.

This feat requires a normal Arete roll, focused through the appropriate tools and activities: a viewscreen, a brief meditation, a battlefield “Hail Mary,” or whatever other tactic suits the mage and his practice. Each success on the roll (typically a coincidental Effect) lowers the difficulty of a related Perception roll by -1 per success (-3 maximum).

That Perception roll maps out the battlefield in the mage’s mind, showing him who’s where and what’s around them. If the mage has an Academics specialty of Strategy or Tactics, or the Leadership Talent, he can add that Ability onto the Perception roll and then issue orders to his associates. A Mind-Sphere link – like that shared by most Black Suit operatives – lets them see what he can see… which says volumes about the eerie way in which Black Suits always seem to know what’s going on before their enemies do.