• Mind 1 or Spirit 1 allows you to “read” someone else’s emotional state.

• Mind 2, Life 3, or a combination of them allows you to influence another character’s mood, either by altering their mental currents (Mind), their body chemistry (Life), or both.

• Mind 2 also allows a mage to read another character’s surface thoughts.

• Life 1 allows a mage to read an organism for biological cues, while Life 3 can perform subtle manipulations of chemistry that mimic those cues and, by extension, manipulate the organism too. For details see Tweaking Chemistry, below.