Awakening

Awakening will not be, like in the traditional game a process of fully understanding the principles concerned with the operation of reality and the means to alter it through magic, but only the second.

It will be considered that, due to his connection with the Spirit World, every man will have in him the seed of operating upon the rules of nature.

A small fraction of those will actually be able to achieve the awakening, at which time a controller will gain the ability to magically affect reality, his understanding of such operations being defined by his Gnosis rating.

This will allow for the creation of characters (mainly antagonists) with a strong hold over magical proceedures, yet are not in possession of a thorough understanding of the way the world operates, leading to strong paradox effects and giving magic, in the long run, the bad name it carries in early modern society.