A related form of torment, inflicted with Spirit 4/ Prime 2 or Spirit 5/ Prime 2, can reshape a spirit the way that Life 4 or 5 can reshape a human being. Beyond the damage inflicted by the attack, this variation on the spirit-wrack lets the mage do horrible things to the entity.

Most spirits can reform themselves with little difficulty; even so, these “ephemeral mutations” can be painful, humil-iating, and possibly – if the mage manages to make the spirit look like something else – dangerous to that spirit if it appears to be prey to other entities. (Reshaping, for example, a demon to look like a fresh damned soul and then dropping it into a hell for other demons to hunt.)