Why is Birth Spirit a Making practice and not a Compelling practice? The description says that it transforms dormant essence into a living spirit, but, as I understand, that's what would've happened anyway if you'd just left the essence alone. Spirits spontaneously generate from essence, if I understand correctly. I don't see why it would take a Making-level practice to accomplish what would've happened on its own, given sufficient time.
For Birth Spirit to be a Making practice, I'd expect it to create a spirit without needing any essence whatsoever.
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Isn't Essence Fountain + Familiar an infinite mana engine? You give your familiar essence with Essence Fountain, then draw it into yourself, converting it to mana as per the description of the Familiar Condition (p.260). If a master of Spirit can generate unlimited mana, doesn't that have setting implications? Like, why should mana ever be in short supply if the Concilium can just get together to create reams of it it out of nothing? I was happy that you put restrictions on Create Truth so you can't just spam Hallows everywhere without consequences, but Essence Fountain seems to accomplish the same thing more simply.
For Birth Spirit to be a Making practice, I'd expect it to create a spirit without needing any essence whatsoever.
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Isn't Essence Fountain + Familiar an infinite mana engine? You give your familiar essence with Essence Fountain, then draw it into yourself, converting it to mana as per the description of the Familiar Condition (p.260). If a master of Spirit can generate unlimited mana, doesn't that have setting implications? Like, why should mana ever be in short supply if the Concilium can just get together to create reams of it it out of nothing? I was happy that you put restrictions on Create Truth so you can't just spam Hallows everywhere without consequences, but Essence Fountain seems to accomplish the same thing more simply.
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