Technique Mirror

Cost: 50m
Target: Caster

The powerful techniques of the Exalted take time to learn and even longer to master. Luckily, a skilled sorcerer need never bother. The Solar traces the Sign of Reversal on a small, ordinary mirror with his finger while reciting a palindrome. With a flip of the wrist, he sets it spinning above his head, where it continues to rotate for the rest of the scene. For an instant when the caster completes this spell, and every time it takes effect, the sorcerer appears to be surrounded by several body-sized distorting mirrors.

Each time someone attacks the sorcerer within the scene, a perfect duplicate of the attacker appears without flash or fanfare and uses the same attack on the sorcerer's foe. The mirrored attacker looks and acts just like the original did while attacking, and it uses the same dice pools. Attacks and other dice pools are rolled again. After attacking, the duplicate disappears.

Example: A soldier runs at the Solar sorceress Arianna, who has invoked Technique Mirror, and swings an axe at her. As the soldier attacks, a duplicate of him appears, runs toward the soldier and attacks him with an identical axe.'

More dangerously, Crimson Banner Executioner attacks Arianna with his deadly "Last Wall Shatters" Combo. Whether or not he succeeds, a copy of this great Sidereal warrior appears and invokes the same Combo against the original. The duplicate uses the same attack pool and all the same Charm effects.

When the duplicate disappears, any Charm or attack effects cease if they require the attacker's continued presence. A warrior cannot be grappled if there is no body to grapple him. Victims of a grapple are forced into a single Inactive action before regaining control of their facilities. Destroying the mirror that spins above the sorcerer ends the spell, but such attacks are defended by the sorcerer's normal DVs and mirrored by the spell. The spell incidentally grants the mirror 10L/14B soak and 20 health levels.