From a game and story standpoint, reality zones encourage players and their characters to be clever and resourceful – to work within the zone rather than to fight the program and probably lose.

The sections below offer four essential reality zones:

• Earthly Foundations: Certain laws of Earth’s reality physics are more or less fixed. You can go against them, but no matter who you are or what you do, those efforts will almost certainly count as vulgar magick.

• Technocratic Reality: Here, the laws of scientific technology dictate what is and is not acceptable within the zone.

• Localized Reality: In certain flexible areas, reality depends more upon specific local beliefs than on a rigid set of rules.

• Primal Reality: Technology holds little influence in Primal Reality places. The laws of mystic Old Ways still dominate what is and is not possible.

In game terms, a given zone either accepts or rejects a mage’s activities. The more she can play within the rules of a zone, the more successful she will be.