Sapphire Circle Banishment

Cost: 15+ motes
Target: Demon or demons

This spell has special timing rules. The character can cast it as two reflexive Shape Celestial Circle Sorcery actions that take 0 ticks. It has a range of (Essence x 15) yards.

The sorcerer makes the Seven Devils Rebuking sign just before the Victory over Primordials Mudra. Sapphire Circle Banishment forces a single First Circle demon back to Malfeas, without a contest of wills. It can banish a Second Circle demon, but doing so forces a contest of wills, handled as for Emerald Circle Banishment. If the demon wins, it remains in Creation, and the sorcerer cannot attempt to banish it again for five days.

The spell can also banish a group of First Circle demons. This contest is handled as for a Second Circle demon, but the group uses the most powerful demon's (Willpower + Essence) as the base pool and then adds one to the pool per additional demon. If the sorcerer defeats the group (accumulating successes equal to the highest demon’s Essence), every demon in the group is banished simultaneously. If the demons accumulate a number of successes equal to the sorcerer's Essence, they remain. In that case, the sorcerer may not attempt to banish any of them (singly or as a group) for five days unless he uses Adamant Circle Banishment.

In war, successful use of this spell can reduce a unit of First Circle demons by a single point of Magnitude.