Because Quintessence provides the essential energy for physical existence, a mage can alter certain aspects of that existence by altering the flow of Quintessence within an object. While that’s a pretty high-level feat (Prime 4, to be exact), a Prime Adept can combine that Sphere with the Forces and Matter Spheres in order to change qualities of a substance or force.

With Rank 4 expertise in the Spheres involved, an aspiring Master can change magnetic polarities (Forces 4/ Matter 4/ Prime 4); remove a chemical’s ability to form chemical bonds with other chemicals, and thus alter or remove that chemical’s usual effects (Matter 4/ Prime 4); turn a “solid” object insub-stantial (again, Matter 4/ Prime 4); extract the “shocking” qualities from electricity; create fire that does not generate heat or consume its fuel (Forces 4/ Prime 4); or perform other strange acts of physics. Although Forces and Matter alone can perform such feats at various Ranks – as described under Mystic