The Prime-wielding mage can also use Quintessence to fuse living and inert matter together (a combined Life 4/ Matter 4/ Prime 4 Effect), installing cybernetics or other “improvements” on a complex organism. And although mad scientists of all persuasions love to play at being God this way, the techniques of fusing matter and living tissue into a functioning whole is also an old staple of Enlightened artisanship and certain forms of witchcraft or miracle-work.

For more details about different sorts of alterations – ones conducted through raw Pattern-binding rather than through infusions of energy – see Body Modifications, under Conjuration,