A Brief Overview of the Spheres and Their Properties

Spheres

A Brief Overview of the Spheres and Their Properties

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:

Correspondence: The Principle of Connection

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.

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.