Space
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Space is one of the ten Arcana of Mage: The Awakening, the Gross ruling Arcana of Pandemonium. It commands both physical and metaphysical space, useful not only for travel and viewing distant events, but for erecting wards and determining the connections between things. Common applications of the Space arcanum include teleportation, scrying, improving spatial awareness and manipulationg the sympathetic connections between objects and/or people.
Space is considered one of the more difficult arcana to learn, but most mages make the effort to become at least Apprentices of it in order to cast sympathetic spells. The principle of sympathy is simply that, magically speaking, "like affects like"; by establishing a connection with the target, a spell may be cast at any range, beyond the normal limit of the mage's senses. The strength of the connection greatly effects the efficacy of the spell: having only a description of the target is a weak link, making the spell possible but difficult; having a piece of the target (a chip of glass, a lock of hair) provides a very strong link. This is the reason mages use shadow names: not knowing the real name of a target makes it much harder to establish a strong sympathetic connection.
Though it may seem counterintuitive, targets that are famous are more difficult to affect using sympathetic magic by dint of their "metaphysical weight": the sheer number of (albeit weak) connections such a target has to others makes establishing a strong one difficult.[1]
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- ^ MTAw: Mage: The Awakening Rulebook, p. 115
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