Legacy:Imaginem

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Date: 2008-05-03 09:31:24 GMT Author: Yair Comment: Initial version

'''Imaginem''' is a [[Form]], one of the fifteen [[Hermetic Arts]] that underlie [[Hermetic Magic]]. It governs '''species''' or "images", which are the physical carriers of sensation, and therefore is key in producing illusions and changing perceptions and sensations. Imaginem magic often affects the ''generation''' of species, leaving the species themselves perfectly natural (and thereby making [[Magic Resistance]] mute against such illusions and misperceptions).

The Art is explained in [[ArM5]] 79 and 143. The treatment of species and the use of the Art is further expanded on [[HoHS]] 61-68; this treatment includes further examples and categorization of species, extended guidelines for the use of [[Finesse]] in fashioning illusions, including the effects of Familiarity, Transparency (a directed use of Perdo Imaginem), Synaesthesia (changing species types), Anamorphs (generic "illusions" that appear as what people expect them to appear), and Miniatures (the illusion of perspective).

[[HoHS]] also includes a new interpretation of the Individual, Part, and Group [[Spell Target|Targets]], which are somewhat incompatible with the core spells (e.g. ''Phantasm of the Talking Head'', [[ArM5]] 144, should use the [[Part Target]] according to [[HoHS]]'s descriptions).

Version 2

Date: 2008-05-03 09:46:23 GMT Author: Yair Comment: typo

'''Imaginem''' is a [[Form]], one of the fifteen [[Hermetic Arts]] that underlie [[Hermetic Magic]]. It governs '''species''' or "images", which are the physical carriers of sensation, and therefore is key in producing illusions and changing perceptions and sensations. Imaginem magic often affects the ''''generation''' of species, leaving the species themselves perfectly natural (and thereby making [[Magic Resistance]] mute against such illusions and misperceptions).

The Art is explained in [[ArM5]] 79 and 143. The treatment of species and the use of the Art is further expanded on [[HoHS]] 61-68; this treatment includes further examples and categorization of species, extended guidelines for the use of [[Finesse]] in fashioning illusions, including the effects of Familiarity, Transparency (a directed use of Perdo Imaginem), Synaesthesia (changing species types), Anamorphs (generic "illusions" that appear as what people expect them to appear), and Miniatures (the illusion of perspective).

[[HoHS]] also includes a new interpretation of the Individual, Part, and Group [[Spell Target|Targets]], which are somewhat incompatible with the core spells (e.g. ''Phantasm of the Talking Head'', [[ArM5]] 144, should use the [[Part Target]] according to [[HoHS]]'s descriptions)