Fast Reply

[劳伦斯·塔利斯曼]

效应循环图示 Cycle of Effect Diagram

---

[劳伦斯·塔利斯曼]

游玩过程中的科联领域 Technocratic Spheres in Play

---

在你描述一位科联角色的游戏系统效应时，常用的九大领域命名是完全适用的。因为角色卡上没有足够的空间用于列举像原质经济学这样的领域命名，并且使用这种术语指代规则会让玩家在游戏过程中感到困惑。 然而，科联角色永远不会谈论什么施放“心灵魔法”。这种观念完全对立于他们的信念系统。他们所践行的是超心理学的科学原理，你可千万别忘了这点！在你扮演这类角色时，一连串貌似有理的伪科学天书——很像你可能用在以太裔或虚拟行者身上的那些专业术语——就能描绘出鲜活的设定与氛围。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

When you’re describing the game system Effects of a Technocratic character, the usual nine Sphere names are totally appropriate. There’s not enough room on a character sheet to list Sphere names like Primal Utility Theory, and using such terms to refer to the rules can get confusing in the middle of a game. Technocratic characters, however, will never talk about doing “Mind magick.”That concept runs totally counter to their belief system. They practice the scientific disciplines of Psychodynamics, and don’t you forget it!When you’re playing such characters, a stream of reasonable-sounding pseudoscientific gobbledygook – much like the terminology you might use for an Etherite or Virtual Adept – conveys a vibrant sense of setting and mood.

法师的讽刺元素之一在于所有人都在做同一件事，但几乎没有人愿意相应地承认这一点。所有法师都在使用基于同一套九大领域的某些变体的事实是对这种讽刺有意设计的反映。所以，不要过于纠结界层科学与精魂领域之间的差异；这些差异可能对使用它们的角色而言意味着一切，但是——除开角色扮演选择和基于焦点的限制之外——它们在决定角色能做什么的游戏系统方面并没有什么不同。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

One of the satirical elements of Mage involves the fact that everyone’s doing the same thing but almost no one will admit as much. The fact that all mages use some variation on the same nine Spheres is an intentional reflection of that satire. Don’t get too wrapped up, then, in the differences between Dimensional Science and the Spirit Sphere;those differences might mean everything to the characters who use them, but – beyond roleplaying choices and focus-based limitations – they make no difference in terms of the game systems that determine what those characters can do.

科联领域的更多细节详见第十章有关数据、界层科学和原质经济学领域的可选规则。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

For details about the Technocratic Spheres, see the optional rules regarding the Data, Dimensional Science, and Primal Utility Spheres in Chapter Ten.

魔法效应的科学解释的更多应用详见第六章的边栏-“科学！！！”(P. 290)。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

And for more about the use of technological explanations for magickal Effects, see the sidebar SCIENCE!!! in Chapter Six, (p. 290).

领域的进度与专精等级 Levels of Sphere Progress and Expertise

---

当法师开始运用一个特定领域时，她的能力将沿着一个普遍的专精进程成长。她对这个领域理解得越深入，能用这个领域做到的事也就越多。领域专精等级分为五步进展：

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

When a mage begins working with a particular Sphere, her abilities follow a general progression of expertise. The more she understands that Sphere, the more she can do with it.
The levels of Sphere expertise feature five advancing steps:

• 感知（即游戏术语中的，领域等级1）：一位新手将掌握领域的基本原理并开始感知领域的运作方式。空间新手将学会感知联结和推测距离；力场新手将注意到元素现象；时间新手将获得对时间起伏的神秘感知。法师尚不能改变任何东西，但她可以善加利用她的观察力。
  
  » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «
  Perception (in game terms, Sphere Rank 1): An initiate grasps the essential principles and begins to perceive the ways in which that Sphere behaves.A Correspondence initiate learns to spot connections and reckon distances; a Forces initiate notes elemental phenomena; and a Time initiate achieves an uncanny sense of the ebbs and flows of time. The mage can’t alter anything just yet, but she can put her observations to good use.
• 调用（领域等级2）：法师开始使用该领域略微改变身边的现实。空间学徒可以跨距离视物或从“无处”之中抽出小型物件；力场学徒可以让燃烧的蜡烛烧得更猛或熄灭；时间学徒获得了有限的事前与事后认知。尽管尚不能创造出戏剧性的效应，但法师已经获得了对该领域原理的低程度控制力……而在许多行为中，低程度的控制力就是你所需的一切。
  
  » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «
  Manipulation (Sphere Rank 2): The mage begins to use the Sphere to make small alterations in her local reality. The Correspondence student can look across distances or pull small objects from “nowhere”; the Forces student can make burning candles flare or go out; and the Time student gains limited pre- and postcognition. Although not yet able to perform dramatic Effects, the mage gains a small degree of control over the Sphere’s principles… but for many tasks, a small degree of control is all you need.
• 掌控（领域等级3）：法师达成了技艺的更高层次，可以显著改变该领域相关的元素。空间门徒可以跨越两点之间的空间；力场门徒可以召唤气流或令火焰爆燃；时间门徒可以让自己的速度相对于周边环境加快或减慢。非凡的行为成为可能，法师正在接近真正巫术的领域。
  
  » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «
  Control (Sphere Rank 3): Achieving a greater level of accomplishment, the mage can make notable changes to elements connected with the Sphere. Our Correspondence devotee can step through intervening space; the Forces devotee could conjure winds or make fire leap; the Time devotee might speed up or slow down her speed relative to her surroundings. Remarkable feats become possible, and the mage approaches the realm of true wizardry.
• 统御（领域等级4）：对该领域令人印象深刻的统御能力允许法师执行戏剧性的行为。空间达人可以同时出现在数个地点，力场达人可以唤来风暴，时间达人可以在字面意义上停止她周围的时间。即使是在这类效应不是很魔法的时候，法师实际上也已取得对该领域相关原理的显著影响能力。
  
  » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «
  Command (Sphere Rank 4): An impressive command of the Sphere in question allows the mage to perform dramatic feats.The Correspondence adept might appear in severalplaces at once, the Forces adept conjures storms, and the Time adept can literally stop time in her vicinity.Even when such Effects arent obviously magick, the mage attains significant influence over the principles associated with that Sphere.
• 宗师（领域等级5）：既已在领域之中取得此等主宰之力，那么宏大的壮举也并非没有实现的可能。
  空间大师能把几处地点堆在一个位置；力场大师能统御巨型现象——火焰风暴、暴风雪、甚至是核爆炸；时间大师可以超脱时间，达成有限的不朽，或在时间之中来回穿梭。神一般的奇迹在向领域大师招手，就连现实也要遵照他们的一时兴起塑造自己——句句属实，所言非虚。
  
  » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «
  Mastery (Sphere Rank 5): Magnificent feats become possible with such dominion within the Sphere.Our Correspondence master can stack several places into a single location; the Forces master commands vast phenomena – firestorms, blizzards, even nuclear blasts; the Time master can step outside of time, achieve limited immortality, or travel back and forth through time.Literally godlike miracles greet the master ofa Sphere, and Reality literally shapes itself to her whim.

谣传每个领域还存在着超凡大师（Archmastery）等级，其能授予法师连诸神都要嫉妒的概念之力。在游戏术语中，它们是我们极度不推荐的可选领域等级6-10。这种威能几乎所有的在世法师都无法触及，需要耗费数百年的时间成就，并且会把你的编年史炸成一片废墟。想要把这种力量带到游玩过程中的团队可以在资源书秘艺大师中找到它们。然而，再次强调，我们再怎么强调这些可选领域等级的破坏性潜力都不为过。
尽管严格说来是正统内容，但它们应当被避免用在除最离奇的法师编年史以外的地方。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

Rumor has it that levels of Archmastery exist for each Sphere, granting abstract powers that even gods might envy.In game terms, these would be the EXTREMELY optional Sphere Ranks 6-10. Such powers are beyond almost every mage alive, take centuries to attain, and turn chronicles into blasted wreckage. Groups that want to bring such powers into play can find them in the sourcebook Masters of the Art.We cannot, however, overemphasize the destructive potential of these, again, OPTIONAL Sphere Ranks. Though technically canon, they should be avoided for all but the most outlandish Mage chronicles.

领域和领域威能的更多细节详见第十章 (P. 511-527)。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

For more details about the Spheres and their powers, see Chapter Ten, (pp. 511-527).

[劳伦斯·塔利斯曼]

对各领域及其特性的简要概述
A Brief Overview of the Spheres and Their Properties

---

所以这些领域具体是什么，它们又能做到些什么？这又是一个能让法师们可以连续几月抒发诗意的问题。然而，其中涉及的基本原理或多或少可以归结如下：

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

So what are these Spheres, and what can they do? That’s another one those things that mages can wax poetic about for months on end. The basic principles involved, however, can be summed up more or less like this:

---

空间：联结的原理 Correspondence: The Principle of Connection

---

万事万物都以某种方式联系在一起。尽管所谓的离散现象感知——这种看法认为我们都是偶然交汇的独立物件与实体——已有数百年的历史，但无论是物理学还是形而上学都在提醒我们，所有东西究其本质是互相联系。你的行动影响了我，我的行动又影响了邻家的狗，一只蝴蝶扇动翅膀然后唤起了那场著名的飓风……这类基本想法。当然，这些联系不会立刻显现出来。如果能看见我们之间的所有联系，我们或许会疯掉。这也难怪空间这一领域——最初被称为联系领域——的大师往往看上去相当怪异。在我们其他所有人视为分离之处，他们感知到了统一。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

Everything’s connected in some way.Despite centuries of what’s been called discrete phenomenon perception – that is, the idea that we’re all separate objects and entities that occasionally cross paths – both physics and metaphysics remind us that all things are intrinsically interconnected. Your actions affect me, my actions affect the dog next door, a butterfly flaps his wings and stirs up the proverbial hurricane… that basic idea. Those connections aren’t immediately apparent, of course. If we saw all of the connections between us, we’d probably go insane. It’s no wonder, then, that masters of Correspondence – the Sphere originally called Connection – often seem pretty weird. They perceive unity where the rest of us see division.

空间是一种反安·兰德*的原理。在理解该领域后，你将开始认知人、地、事、物之间的联系，最终意识到“人、地、事、物”的观念到头来全然是个假象。该领域的大师可以跨越距离，隔空触及某处然后把东西拿到另一个地方，看到除非你能理解所有地点实际上都是一个地点、不然似乎很遥远的地区。就像雷格巴老爹**或骗徒之神赫尔墨斯，一位深度理解空间领域的法师将超脱分离的理念。他将看到旁人所不能见的门径，学会打开它们，最终成为它们。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

Correspondence is the anti-Ayn Rand principle. When you understand this Sphere, you start to recognize connections between places, people, and things, ultimately realizing that the idea of “places, people, and things” is all an illusion anyway.A Master of this Sphere can step across distances, reach into one place and take something into another, and see into areas that appear to be far away unless you understand that all places are actually one single place.Like Papa Legba or the trickster god Hermes, a mage who deeply understands Correspondence transcends the idea of separation. He sees doorways where no one else notices them, learns to open them, and eventually becomes them.

*安·兰德（Ayn Rand）：美国俄裔哲学家，小说家。她的作品中着重强调个人主义以及理性利己主义的力量。文中空间领域的思想被描述为“反安·兰德”式的，正是因为万物连结动摇了这一理性利己主义思想的根本。
**雷格巴老爹（Papa Legba）：海地伏都以及本地天主教信仰中的众多洛阿（Lwa，即神灵）之一，司掌沟通、语言、与理解。他同时也是海地信仰中洛阿与人类之间的沟通桥梁

熵：命运、机运与腐朽 Entropy: Fate, Fortune, and Decay

---

变化是宇宙的固有规律。如果事物停止变化，万物就将冻结为永恒的静态。不过即使如此，这种静态依旧是种错觉；这种冻结状态迟早会开始腐朽。因此，熵之领域运转变化与腐朽之力，能加快或减慢死亡的影响。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

Change is an innate law of the universe. If things stopped changing, everything would freeze into eternal stasis. Even then, though, such stasis is an illusion; sooner or later, that frozen state begins to decay. The Entropy Sphere, then, works with the forces of change and decay, speeding or slowing the effects of mortality.

熵的掷骰打开了装着薛定谔之猫的盒子。它的原理导向可能性、必然性和二者的结果。熵之大师——他们往往看上去精神病态、坚信宿命或快乐得令人害怕——能强制推动机会之手、激发或毁灭某人的运气、分解物质、甚至摧毁思维。熵之法师往往要么遵循秩序，要么遵循混乱；秩序的门徒检查式样并寻求加固它们的方法，混乱的学徒则追寻着分解同一批式样的方法并引导它们的能量重新起步。就像经常与该领域联系在一起的命运三女神，追求熵之领域的法师捡起造物的丝缕，运用它们，最终切断它们。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

Entropy throws open the box that holds Schrödinger’s cat.Its principles guide probability, inevitability, and the results of both. Masters of Entropy – who often seem morbid, fatalistic, or terribly cheerful – can force the hand of Chance, boost or destroy someone’s luck, degrade substances, and even destroy thoughts. Entropic mages tend to follow either order or chaos; devotees of order examine patterns and look for ways to reinforce them, whereas students of chaos look for ways to break down those same patterns and guide their energies toward a new beginning.Like the Fates who are often associated with this Sphere, mages pursuing Entropy pick up the threads of Creation, work with them, and eventually cut them off.

---

力场：元素威能的原理 Forces: The Principles of Elemental Might

---

土。气。火。水。在元素周期表现世的许久之前，法师就意识到了自然元素自有其威能。它们怎么会没有呢？即使是现在，我们所居住的房屋比起历史上的其他任何房屋都要更牢固和更能适应气候（随带一提，在这点上你可以感谢科技联盟），但飓风或火焰风暴的威能依旧能把一切安保手段化作废墟。因此，当然，在我们的先祖把他们的心灵与力量转而用于控制时，他们寻求激发灵感的第一个地方大概就是元素。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

Earth. Air. Fire. Water. Long before the Periodic Table of elements existed, mages realized that the natural elements held power of their own.How could they not? Even now, when we live in houses more stable and climate-controlled than anything else in history (and for that, incidentally, you can thank the Technocracy), the power of a hurricane or firestorm can turn security to ruins. And so, of course, when our forebears turned their minds and powers toward control, the first place they looked for inspiration was probably the elements.

力场是元素能量的领域，尽管土与水的产物主要由物质处理，而精魂和原质又共同处理了第五要素（它可以是精魂或魔素，取决于你向谁提问），但力场领域允许法师理解、影响、最终统御气与火的力量。除此之外，该领域授予的力量还能让你控制驱动了所有尘世元素的无形力场：重力、动量、光、黑暗、甚至——在它的最高等级——原子的庞大力量。正因为所有这些，该领域的大师将能统御尘世最具破坏性的能量。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

Forces is the Sphere of elemental energies. Although Matter deals primarily in the products of Earth and Water, and Spirit and Prime deal with the Fifth Essence (which is either Spirit or Quintessence, depending on who you ask), the Forces Sphere allows a mage to understand, influence, and eventually command the powers of Air and Fire.Beyond that, this Sphere also grants power over the invisible Forces that drive all earthly elements: gravity, momentum, light, darkness, and even – at its highest levels – the titanic power of the atom.And because of all that, masters of this Sphere command the most devastating energies on Earth.

“力场”是该领域的恰当命名。力场的大师和力场的显现都相当劲爆强大，考虑到如此庞大的力量触手可及，也难怪赫密巫师、塔夫塔尼编织者和科联的部队看上去既傲慢又自信。在宙斯的界域之中，你的生死皆操由雷霆之手。为使用这一领域，你必须足够自豪，敢于肆意施加你的分量，但又要足够自律，知道哪里可以——以及哪里不可以——施加它。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

“Forces” is an appropriate name for this Sphere. Its masters and manifestations are pretty damned forceful.Given the immense powers within their reach, it’s no wonder that Hermetic wizards, Taftáni weavers, and Technocratic troopers seem both arrogant and confident. In the realm of Zeus, you live and die by lightning’s hand. To wield this Sphere, you’ve got to be proud enough to throw your weight around, yet disciplined enough to know where – and where not – to hurl it.

[劳伦斯·塔利斯曼]

生命：理解生命形式 Life: Understanding the Living Form

---

恐怖的内源性生命领域不是一门为虚弱的肠胃或神经质的心灵准备的秘艺。这门深入腑脏的学科为有机生命凌乱的辉煌而欢呼。在皮肤、毛皮与鳞片之下，我们都是浓浆、骨头和恶心的体液。理解生命领域的法师将接受我们的缺陷，并学会如何治愈它们、利用它们、把它们扭曲成有趣的形状。而为了做到这点，你必须弄脏你自己的手——非常、非常之肮脏。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

The frighteningly intimate Sphere of Life is not an Art for weak stomachs or squeamish minds. This visceral discipline celebrates the messy splendors of organic life. Beneath our skins and furs and scales, we’re all pulp and bones and vile fluids. The mage who understands Life accepts our frailties and learns how to heal them, exploit them, and twist them into interesting shapes. And to do that, you’ve got to get your hands very, very dirty.

作为最原始和最肉体的秘艺，生命既需要激情又需要同情。生命大师很可能同时是你遇到过的最有爱心和最无情的法师。这些人能改变外形、治愈伤口、治愈疾病、撕裂肢体、把人变成癞蛤蟆、一瞥就让树木成材、把敌人变成蠕动的原浆。这是迦梨*的领域——这位黑暗之母用她的舞蹈庆祝性与杀戮，或者阿芙洛狄忒的领域——她的恩惠包含了生命本身的残酷之美。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

The rawest and most carnal Art, Life requires both passion and compassion.Its masters are simultaneously the most loving and the most ruthless mages you’re ever likely to meet. These folks can change shapes, heal wounds, cure sickness, rend limbs, turn people into toads, grow trees with a glance, and turn enemies into writhing protoplasm. This is the Sphere of Kali, the Dark Mother who celebrates sex and carnage in her dance, or Aphrodite, whose favors hold the cruel beauty of Life itself.

*迦梨（Kali）：亦称时母，大黑神女或大黑女。是印度教文化中的一尊重要女神。传统上她被认为是毁灭之神湿婆之妻雪山神女的化身之一，也是时间、变化、创造、毁灭和力量女神。

---

物质：掌握惰性实体 Matter: Mastery of Inert Substances

---

力场处理的是灵质元素，而物质处理的是你能握在手中的东西。土，水和——在亚洲语境中——金的元素原理是该领域及其达人主宰的疆域。在尘世界域弯曲、破坏、颠扑不破或倒塌的事物保留了固体式样……或者说至少维持了稳固的假象，所以这门秘艺依靠拆散它们、强化它们和把它们转化成另一些东西发挥作用。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

Whereas Forces deals with ephemeral elements, Matter deals with things you can hold in your hands. The elemental principles of Earth, Water, and – in the Asian sense – Metal are the dominion of this Sphere and its adepts. Things that bend, break, hold firm, or give way retain solid Patterns… or maintain at least an illusion of solidity… in the Earthly realm, so this Art depends upon taking them apart, strengthening them, or transmuting them into something else.

（重点注意：某些实体，比如树木和棉花，在有生命时为生命领域所管辖，在生命逝去后为物质领域所管辖。骨头、血肉、皮毛和诸如此类的东西将在它们的生命能量消散后从生命变成物质。因此，某些既是活的又是死的实体——最突出的当属吸血鬼不可思议的存在形式——被这两个领域共同管辖。生命或物质领域都不能单独影响它们，因为它们同时属于这两大领域的界域。）

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

(An important note: certain substances, like wood or cotton, are governed by the Life Sphere while they’re alive and governed by the Matter Sphere when life has fled. Bones, flesh, fur, and so on pass from Life into Matter when their animating energies are gone. As a result, certain substances that are both alive and dead – most notably, the uncanny forms of vampires – are governed by both Spheres together.Neither Life nor Matter can affect them alone, because they belong to the realms of both at once.）

物质在很多方面是一门强关联性的秘艺。法师经常把它和其他领域结合在一起以创造出更强大的效果。结合了物质的原质能从明显的虚无之中编织出物体；结合了物质的时间能让物体脱离正常的时间流；结合了物质的熵能侵蚀事物；结合了物质的精魂能把这些东西短暂地变为精魂灵体。尽管物质本身就是一个强大的领域，但它只在它的特性与其他这些领域相融合时发挥出最佳效用。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

Matter is, in many respects, an associative Art.Mages often combine it with other Spheres to create greater effects.Prime combined with Matter weaves objects out of apparent nothingness; Time combined with Matter takes objects out of the normal time stream; Entropy combined with Matter causes things to erode; Spirit and Matter shift those things to spiritual ephemera. Although it’s a potent Sphere in its own right, Matter works best when its properties blend with those of other Spheres.

物质专家往往就是你们所说的巧手，用他们的双手工作，时常测量、修补或拆解物体以寻求进一步的知识。即使不是全部，这些法师绝大多——都掌握着像木工和石工这样的艺术，个个都能就金属特性或不同的木头纹理滔滔不绝数小时。就像神一般的科学家代达罗斯——早期的科技联盟正是得名于他，物质是巧妙而可靠的。在表面的不灵活性质之下，它们往往会让你感到惊讶，因为这个领域的专家理解所谓的固体材料实际上能具有多么大的易变性。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

Matter specialists tend to be what you might call crafty, working with their hands, often gauging, tinkering, or deconstructing objects for the sake of further knowledge. Most, if not all, of these mages master arts like carpentry and stonework, and each one of them can hold forth for hours about metallic properties or different grains of wood.Like Daedalus, the godlike inventor from whom early Technocrats took their name, Matter is ingenious yet dependable. Behind apparent inflexibility, they’ll often surprise you, because experts in this field understand how mutable so-called solid materials can be.

---

心灵：探索意识 Mind: Exploration of Consciousness

---

“这都是你的想象。”你每隔多久就能听到这句特别的否决？然而，正如心灵达人会告诉你的一样，存在的一切即是“我们脑中的一切”。每个想法、每个直觉、所有的情感领悟或抽象感知都要通过我们脑海中被意识处理过的电流脉冲显现出来。意识是心灵领域的乐园，心灵专家可以颠覆你心中对现实的一切看法与认识。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

“It’s all in your head.” How often have you heard that particular dismissal?And yet, as Mind adepts will tell you, everything in existence is “all in our heads.” Each thought, each sensation, every emotional realization or abstract perception manifests through electrical impulses in the brain that get processed by consciousness.That consciousness is the playground of the Mind Sphere, and its experts can turn everything you thought you knew about reality inside out.

心灵是较为模糊的领域之一——更多的是一门艺术而非科学。物质、生命和力场处理的是你可以触及和衡量的东西，而心灵则涉及了抽象领域。想法、感觉、印象、个性——这些都是精神魔法的工具与玩具。因此，如果心灵达人有些时候看上去有些……上头，他们这种“思想饱满”的状态是有着充分理由的。就像骗子先知独眼的奥丁，这类法师扫视着地平线，派出思维和记忆作为他们的向导。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

Mind is one of the fuzzier Spheres – more of an art than a science.Where Matter, Life, and Forces deal with things you can touch and measure, Mind reaches into abstract fields. Thoughts, feelings, impressions, identity – these are the tools and toys of mental magicks.And so, if Mind adepts seem somewhat… heady at times, there are good reasons for their “thought-full” state.Like Odin One-Eye, the trickster seer, such mages scan the horizon, sending out Thought and Memory as their guides.

---

原质：探索魔素能量 Prime: Exploration of Quintessential Energies

---

正如我前面提到过的，原质在万物体内脉动。不论魔素是束缚于式样还是在概念与潜在可能之间流动，它都构成了我们这个世界的根基。探索原质之秘的法师将理解这种崇高本质——“龙血”与神之精液——的潮起潮落。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

As I mentioned earlier, there’s a Primal Essence that pulses within all things. Whether it’s bound up into Patterns or flowing through concepts and potential, this Quintessence forms the basis for our world. Mages who explore the mysteries of Prime understand the ebbs and flows of this sublime essence – the “Blood of the Dragon” and the seminal fluid of the gods.

原质秘艺研究能量与形式，在式样之间或之中发现魔素的痕迹，然后引导它们以使其契合法师的意图。该领域的大师可以跟随魔素的流动，品尝特定能量的共鸣，把这些能量变为式样或反其道而行之，由此使事物成为现实或耗尽使它们成为现实的力量。大多数行愿者都通晓原质领域的基础，但成功掌握它的人少之又少。原质是一门棘手的秘艺，太容易被晦涩难懂的秘传所掩藏。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

Prime Arts study energies and forms, spotting traces of Quintessence in or between each Pattern and then channeling them to suit the purpose of a mage. Masters of this Sphere can follow Quintessential flows, taste the Resonance of certain energies, shift those energies in or out of Patterns, and thus bring things into being or drain them of the power to be real.Most willworkers know the basics of this Sphere, but very few manage to master it. Prime’s a slippery Art, easily obscured by esoterica.

正如原质经济学理论的学徒会告诉你的那样，原质能量往往会围绕活物起伏……尤其是围绕人类起伏。当人类在情感和理智上投身于某些事物时，这些事物往往也会聚集起原质能量。你最爱的衬衫比你刚从商店货架上买来的那件具有更多的原质能量，因为你把你自己更多地投入到了前者的式样与能量之中。因此，原质原理的某些学徒从奇异数学和超经济学的角度看待他们的魔法，计算生物与非生物之间的交易所包含的崇高能量。他们相信，通过追踪这些联系，你也可以操纵这些能量。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

As students of the Primal Utility Theory can tell you, Prime energies tend to ebb and flow around living things… most especially around people. When human beings invest themselves, emotionally and intellectually, in something, that something tends to gather Prime energies. Your favorite shirt has more Prime energy than one just purchased off the rack at a store because you have put more of yourself into that Pattern and its energies. Thus, certain students of the Prime principles view their magick in terms of strange math and hypereconomics, calculating the sublime energies involved in transactions between living and unliving things. By tracing those connections, they believe, you can manipulate those energies as well.

就像得名于它的能量一样，原质领域是崇高的，超越了确切的分析或具体的定义。原质达人诉说谜语与隐喻，往往因魅力与健康而熠熠生辉。然而尽管有着鲜明的表面形象，但他们的个性却是瞬息万变的。原质是观音的甘露，耶稣的唾液，提亚马特的血液——一种既纯净又破则的精华，以向万物注入活力为其特性。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

Like the energy for which it’s named, the Prime Sphere is sublime, transcending firm analysis or concrete definitions.Its adepts speak in riddles and metaphors, often blazing with charisma and robust health. Yet despite their bright personas, they have quicksilver personalities.Prime is the milk of Kuan Yin, the spit of Jesus, the blood of Tiamat – an essence both rarified and vulgar, whose properties energize all things.

This post has been edited by 劳伦斯·塔利斯曼: 2023-02-23, 16:31

[劳伦斯·塔利斯曼]

精魂：与精魂的本质和衍生相调谐 Spirit: Accord with Spiritual Essence and Emanations

---

尽管有着唯物论的先入之见，但任何法师——甚至是科技联盟的法师——都能理解物质只不过是造物织锦的一部分。在物质的实体团块、心灵的意识和力场与原质的能量之外，还存在着精魂的灵质：一个从这些其他成分中提纯出来的元素——或者说可能本就是它们的源头。在一些神秘学思想流派中，精魂是第五元素，是整个宇宙的纯洁灵魂物质。而在其他观点看来，精魂是所有活物的核心、生命的共鸣或尘世位面的备份维度。所有这些观点都一致同意：精魂超越了物质元素，并且仍有全然属于自己的意识。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

Despite materialistic preconceptions, any mage – even a Technocratic one – understands that matter is just part of Creation’s Tapestry.Beyond the physical mass of Matter, the consciousness of Mind, and the energies of Forces and Prime, there’s the ephemeral quality of Spirit: an element distilled from – or perhaps the originating source of – those other components. In some schools of occult thought, Spirit is the fifth element, the rarified soul-stuff of the Universe at large. To other outlooks, Spirit is the core of every living thing, the Resonance of life, or the alternate dimensions to the Earthly plant.All perspectives agree on this much: Spirit transcends the physical elements, yet it has a consciousness all its own.

作为最早的魔法追求之一，精魂领域囊括了异界、影界实体和人类灵魂的原理。与心灵类似，它不可能被精准的度量加以量化。精魂一词（Spirit）来源于拉丁语中的呼吸，所以某些法师又称这门秘艺为“世界的吐息”。它是萨满和祭司的原初秘艺，是架在我们用手感知的世界和我们用灵魂感知的世界之间的桥梁。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

One of the earliest magickal pursuits, the Spirit Sphere encompasses the Otherworlds, Umbral entities, and the principles of the human soul. Like Mind, it’s impossible to quantify with precise measurements.The word spirit comes from the Latin term for breathing, so certain mages call this Art “the Breath of the World.”This is the primal Art of the shaman and the priest, the bridge between what we feel with our hands and what we feel with our souls.

（界层科学的专家对这个奇异的领域有着在某种程度上更具科学性的使用方法。然而，即使如此，他们往往也要承认许多事情不是科学能解释的—总之，暂时如此。）

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

(Dimensional Science specialists have a somewhat more scientific approach to this weird Sphere. Even then, though, they often admit that many things remain beyond the reach of science… for the moment, anyway.)

精魂法师身边环绕着异界的大气——时而空灵，往往宁静，经常任性，偶尔残酷。他们往往会不耐烦于人们对物质的重视。精魂魔法回荡着郊狼柯帝*的咯咯笑声和萨梅迪男爵**的嘶哑笑声——这是对所谓的现实世界及其否定的无尽嘲弄。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

Spiritual mages have an otherworldly air about them – sometimes spacey, often serene, frequently capricious, and occasionally cruel. They tend to get impatient with the importance that folks place upon material things. Spirit magicks echo with the cackle of Coyote and the throaty laugh of Baron Samedi – a mockery of the so-called real world and its denial of infinity.

*郊狼柯帝（Coyote）：美洲原住民纳瓦霍文化中的骗徒之神，以郊狼的形象出现。他同时也是文化中治愈仪式的守护神。
**萨梅迪男爵（Baron Samedi）：海地伏都文化及信仰的众多洛阿之一，司掌死亡，以喜好破坏、淫乱。以及烟草与朗姆酒著称。

---

时间：感知时序流动 Time: The Perception of Chronological Flow

---

作为最令人费解的秘艺，时间游离在不朽泰坦克洛诺斯的奇异领地的边缘。欢喜宗派曾一度用这位传奇泰坦命名自己，并且少有其他法师能像欢喜宗徒一样深入地理解时间的原理。这门秘艺比心灵更抽象，比精魂更灵质，能让任何试图理解它的人头晕目眩。设法揭晓时间之秘的法师能看到未来或过去，减缓或加快时间的动量，甚至跳出生命中流逝的分钟、小时和年月。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

The most confounding Art of all, Time skirts the strange domain of Chronos, titan of eternity. The Ecstatic Tradition once named itself after that legendary titan, and few other mages understand Time’s principles as well as the Ecstatics do.More abstract than Mind, more ephemeral than Spirit, this Art dizzies anyone who tries to understand it.Mages who manage to unravel Time’s mysteries can look forward or backward, slow or speed time’s momentum, or even step outside the passing minutes, hours, and years of our lives.

与空间类似，时间领域混淆了理性的分析。它的原理有悖于你被教导要相信的一切。也许人类的心灵需要使用药物才能适应这种等级的时间紊乱。我们都曾有过这样的感受：“这在过去发生过”或“这似乎会一直持续下去……”然而，只有时间法师才能真正理解时间的流动性质并把它化为自己的优势。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

Like Correspondence, the Time Sphere confounds rational analysis. Its principles go against everything you’ve been taught to believe.Perhaps the human mind needs drugs in order to accommodate such levels of temporal dislocation.We all get those feelings that “this has happened before” or “this seems to take foreverrrr…” Only a Time mage, though, can truly comprehend the fluid nature of time and turn it to her advantage.

和流水一样，时间有着时流、潮汐和暗流。顺流而下远比逆流而上容易。与时间打交道的法师明白，拨回时钟的难度高得不可思议，即使是对该领域的大师而言亦是如此。如果你把时间想成一道强大的潮汐——以深不可测的力量推动你，而当你挣扎着回推，便会溅起水花淹没你——那么你就能明白为什么某些行为，比如时间旅行，在共识看来是破则的。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

Like running water, time has currents, tides, and undertows.Going with its flow is far easier than going against it.Mages who work with time understand that turning back the clock is incredibly difficult, even for masters of this Sphere. If you think of time like a strong tide – pushing against you with unfathomable force, splashing you when you struggle to push back – then you’ll understand why certain feats, like time-travel, are vulgar as far as the Consensus is concerned.

时间大师往往要么有着做梦般的心不在焉，要么有着狂信徒般的一丝不苟。他们可以在一瞬间准时出现，回答你还未问出口的问题，并且一直用现在时态说话。在时间大师眼里，不存在过去、现在或未来。用詹尼斯·乔普林的话来说，"都是他妈的同一天，伙计"......而他们可以随意拉伸或压缩这一天。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

Time masters tend to be either dreamily distracted or fanatically precise.They can be punctual within a split second, answer questions you haven’t asked yet, and speak in an eternal present tense. There’s no past, present, or future to the masters of Time. In the words of Janis Joplin, “It’s all the same fucking day, man”… a day they can stretch or compress at will.

---

不论你是以宗派的尊重、科联的分析还是其他文化的观点来看待这些领域，这九大原理都能给予你一套超自然工具箱。与觉醒意识、集中的信念和专注的意志力相结合，领域转动了插在现实门径上的钥匙并邀请你入内一观。对我们这些理解领域运作方式的人来说，没有比它更真实的魔法形式了。下位术士和夜裔有着他们自己的力量，并且这些力量也确实足够真切。然而，他们没有哪个能做到我们所做的事。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

Whether you view the Spheres with a Tradition’s respect, a Technocratic analysis, or some other cultural outlook, these nine principles give you a metaphysical toolkit.Combined with Awakened awareness, focused belief, and dedicated willpower, the Spheres turn the keys in Reality’s doorway and invite you in to have a look around. For those of us who understand their ways, there is no truer form of magick.Lesser sorcerers and Night-Folk have their own powers, true enough. None of them, though, can do the things we do.

[劳伦斯·塔利斯曼]

要么做，要么别做 Do, or Do Not

---

让我们再次回到我们的开头。
魔法是一个动词。你这样做了，你愿意这样做，你让事情发生了。尽管老旧的观点认为法师都是些老迈的神秘学怪人，但我们实际上是我们世界中的动态力量。不论他使用何种工具，不论他接受何种信念，不论他们要用他们所统御的力量追求何种目的，法师皆有所作为。不论我们扮演着何种角色，我们的秘艺就是我们的行动。

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

Which brings me back to my opening again. Magick is a verb. You do it, you will it, you make things happen. Despite the old view of mages as doddering mystic weirdoes, we are dynamic forces in our world. Whichever tools she uses, whichever beliefs he accepts, whichever ends they pursue with the forces at their command, mages DO things. Our Arts are our actions, whatever role we play.

所以，当你超脱了秘传，就会发现魔法的核心其实很简单；学习。通晓。意愿。以及行动。要自豪但不能大意，要有创意但不能不守规矩。要理解行为皆有其后果，要准备好为你所知的更伟大的目标冒一切风险。不论你在做什么，都要把这种自豪感和艺术性带入你的技艺，这样当游戏结束时，连诸神自身也要为你唱赞歌。
“摆脱你的桎梏应当是这条律法的全部。”

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

And so, when you get beyond the esoterica, magick’s core is simple: Learn. Know. Will. And do.Be proud but not careless, creative but not undisciplined.Understand that actions have consequences, and be ready to risk everything for what you know to be a greater goal.Whatever you do, bring such pride and artistry to your accomplishments that the gods themselves will sing your praises when the game is done.
“Get off thy ass shall be the whole of the Law.“