The
Sphere of
Forces in
Mage: the Ascension is the one with the most possible
destructive capacities, for it governs the capacity to manipulate energy as is understood by man.
Electrical,
thermonuclear,
hot,
cold,
gravitational,
light,
dark,
sound,
silence, anything that the mage's
paradigm will accept as a force capable of being manipulated can be altered with an appropriate level of knowledge in this
Sphere. However, because
Sleepers aren't likely to accept
off-handedly the possibility of people throwing gigantic fireballs at a cat in
Times Square, it also tends to be the one with the greatest potential for
Paradox.
With an introduction to the capacity of
Forces, a mage can have
x-ray vision and blow out the fuses of a rival's main computer archive, while masters can use
gigantic magnifying glasses mounted in their
"Death Star" to focus the power of the sun into a
"laser", and charge enough energy into alarm clocks that they become
atomic weapons ready to blow apart.
Paradox ho!
The
Order of Hermes holds the strongest masters of this
Sphere.