Rank

3 Life Arts (Rank 4 for other characters) can boost or lower body-based Attributes by one dot per success rolled. Altered Physical and Social Attributes generally reveal themselves in obvious ways: rippling muscles, beautiful features, straighter posture, rapid reflexes, and so forth. Mental Attributes might be increased the same way, either by altering the character’s sensory organs (raising Perception) or his brain matter and capacity (raising Intelligence or Wits). Those mental augmen-tations, however, might not be obvious to someone looking at the transformed character unless they involve some radical change from the way that person normally appears.

As with all other Effects, those enhancements last for the length of the Effect’s duration unless the mage makes those changes permanent (see below). So long as the changes remain within the normal human range – between one and five dots – and do not radically and abruptly alter the subject’s normal appearance (as it would if you suddenly turned a skinny dude into an underwear model), the alterations remain coincidental; if the changes go beyond the normal human maximum, however, or make other radical changes to a person’s appearance (huge eyes, antlers, etc.), then the alterations become vulgar. Radical and permanent changes may also (Storyteller’s call) inspire Genetic