With Prime 4, a mage can disintegrate a sacrificial object; with Prime 5, he can do the same thing to a living being. In both cases, the character disperses the Quintessence within her target – not draining it (which can be done at the lower levels described above) but sending that energy back into the world by igniting it, decaying it, or otherwise rendering it nonexistent.

If she chooses to draw that energy into herself, of course,