Flight of Separation

Cost: 10m Target: Caster

The sorcerer speaks the Word of Ten Thousand Birds, part of the song that all the birds of Creation sing when they gather in one place. Because humans cannot speak this word, the caster is suddenly transformed into a flock of birds in a burst of Essence. The birds fly together at a speed of 20 miles per hour and can travel up to a number of miles equal to the caster's Essence. Once the birds reach this distance (or some nearer destination), the birds complete the Word of Ten Thousand Birds, and coalesce to become the sorcerer once more.

This spell has special timing rules. The character can cast it as a reflexive Shape Terrestrial Circle Sorcery action that takes 0 ticks. It follows all of the other normal rules for sorcery actions, except the character takes her Cast Sorcery action as her next normal action after she re-forms.

While transformed into a flock of birds, the sorcerer keeps all of her Attributes, Abilities, Willpower, health levels, Virtues and soak (including armor). Her Dodge DV]] increases by an amount equal to her permanent Essence. She cannot, however, take any actions other than Move actions. She may not attack, use Charms, communicate or use her Parry DV. Any health levels of damage are reflected by the deaths of several birds until the caster re-forms, whereupon the damage manifests as wounds and the slain birds dissolve into pools of the caster's blood. Each sorcerer always becomes a particular species of bird. Abyssal sorcerers invariably become carrion- eating birds.