The Violent Opening of Closed Portals

Cost: 20 motes Target: Template:A single structure

The sorcerer stamps the ground, and her Essence blasts out to force open all the non-magical entrances in a single structure she touches or stands within. Any portal blocked with material less durable than metal is destroyed. Windows shatter, wooden doors are blown to splinters, sturdier doors, and portcullises are blasted from their moorings. The spell affects the portals of a single structure. If the sorcerer casts this spell on the walls of a city, the city gates blow open, but the doors of the buildings in the city are not affected. Casting the spell while touching a barrier with no door opens an oval entrance two yards wide and three yards tall in front of the sorcerer, boring through up to (sorcerer's Essence x 10) feet of material.

This spell has no effect on materials reinforced through magic, such as Charms, sorcery, necromancy or thaumaturgy, including all materials used in First Age construction. The Essence channeled through manses also makes them immune—and many of the more important buildings in Creation are manses.