Spoke the Wooden Face

Cost: Template:10m to cast, 5m to activate Target: Template:Living tree

The sorcerer turns a tree into a conduit through which she may communicate over long distances. First, the sorcerer must carve a likeness of her face into a living tree. This ritual lasts from sundown to sunup, during which the sorcerer spends 10 motes and her player rolls (Dexterity + Craft [Wood]). Should the roll fail or the sorcerer be interrupted, the motes are lost. The sorcerer can try again the next night and need not select a new tree.

Thereafter, from any distance in Creation and for as long as the tree lives, the sorcerer may concentrate and spend five motes to see and hear from the carved image's point of view and speak through its mouth. While inhabiting her wooden likeness, the sorcerer loses awareness of her body and surroundings, so all attacks upon her become unexpected. If she suffers such an attack and wants to maintain concentration, her player must succeed at a (Stamina + Resistance) roll with a difficulty equal to the levels of damage inflicted.

A sorcerer can place as many wooden faces as she wishes, and a single tree can host the faces of more than one sorcerer. Tales from the First Age tell of groves of trees covered in these carvings, used by sorcerers to converse at pre-scheduled times. Lunar Exalted sorcerers still enchant smaller groves in remote locations, enabling them to pass news across Creation.