{"id":"mage/power/rote/shapeshifting-and-consecrating-possessions","type":"power","system":"rote","line":"mage","name":"Shapeshifting and Consecrating Possessions","sources":[{"source":"HDYDT","page":21}],"entries":["{@sphere Life|M20} magick deals only with living organisms. Transforming clothing or other objects requires several dots in {@sphere Matter|M20} as well. The exact Rank necessary depends upon the nature of the object; a simple rock would require {@sphere Matter|M20} 2, while a laptop would require {@sphere Matter|M20} 4 due to its complex material structure (plus {@sphere Forces|M20} 3/ {@sphere Prime|M20} 2 to provide the power if you wanted the thing to function like a laptop afterward).","A mage can consecrate simple objects to herself using the {@sphere Prime|M20} 1 Effect of that name; as usual, this usually requires one additional success per item. A consecrated item (pants, backpack, sword, etc.) will shapeshift along with the mage, although one item that carries other items (like a backpack full","of stuff) will require more successes than one simple object (a pair of pants) demands.","Objects that get consecrated, or bound by {@sphere Matter|M20} magick, into a person’s Pattern become parts of that character for the duration of the Effect. After that, they lose that connection and must be re-bound.","Even so, they retain a Resonance-connection to the character in question, which makes those items into potential liabilities. An item that has been consecrated or bound to a character’s Pattern gets treated as a “personal object” until and unless it gets “deconsecrated” by another {@sphere Prime|M20} 1 Effect afterward. A mage who wants to use that object against its owner reduces his difficulty by -3 if he employs it in a spell directed against that character afterward. (See Using a personal item"],"tags":["hdydt","feat"],"_qa":{"flags":[],"parser":"headed_entries","confidence":0.9,"extracted":"2026-10-12","job":"hdydt-feats"},"level":null,"_links":{"self":"/api/v1/records/mage/power/rote/shapeshifting-and-consecrating-possessions","html":"/records/mage/power/rote/shapeshifting-and-consecrating-possessions","parent":null,"children":"/api/v1/records/mage/power/rote/shapeshifting-and-consecrating-possessions/children","sources":[{"abbr":"HDYDT","page":21,"folio":21,"title":"How Do You DO That?"}]},"_db":{"title":"Shapeshifting and Consecrating Possessions","props":[],"parent_id":null,"level":null,"category":null,"summary":"Life magick deals only with living organisms. Transforming clothing or other objects requires several dots in Matter as well. The exact Rank necessary depends upon the nature of the object; a simple rock would require","tags":["feat","hdydt"],"children":[]}}