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Virtual Adept (Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary)
The Virtual Adepts are digital mages who see magic through information and technology. They believe magic is information and use computers, networks, and digital technology to work their effects. Virtual Adepts mages are hackers, programmers, and digital revolutionaries who manipulate reality through information.
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Tradition
Priorities
- Define how your magic looks through a tech lens.
- Build Correspondence and Forces for your signature effects.
- Keep your tech paradigm broad enough to cover multiple Spheres.
Play tips
- Frame magic as hacking, coding, or reprogramming reality.
- Use coincidental effects: 'the traffic camera happened to glitch' is safer than 'I stopped the camera with my mind.'
- Technology gives you plausible deniability. Use it to keep Paradox low.