The thaumaturge can control local weather in a relatively minor way. He can call up weather conditions that are reasonable for the season and location, so making snow in Death Valley in the summer is impossible. The character cannot create catastrophic weather such as hurricanes or tornadoes. All weather produced appears to be perfectly natural and takes between a few minutes and an hour to appear, depending upon how long such conditions would normally take to form. After six hours (or longer in the case of an exceptional success), the weather fades at the same speed. The effects are purely local, covering anything from one square mile to an entire large town or small city (not counting the suburbs). The thaumaturge can make moderate changes, say, creating light rain on a sunny day, calling a light snowstorm on a cool, early winter day or transforming a thunderstorm into a violent and windy hailstorm or into a cloudy day with occasional rain. Exceptional success normally increases the duration to one day and allows a mystic to call up almost any sort of normal (non-disastrous) weather.
Dice Pool: Wits + Occult
Ritual Length: 10 minutes
Duration: Six hours
Suggested Equipment: A photograph of the desired type of weather in the target area (+1)
Possible Penalties:
| Dice Modifier | Situation |
|---|---|
| — | Attempting to produce weather in line with current conditions (rain on a cool, cloudy day) or attempting to change a single aspect of the current weather. |
| -2 | Attempting to produce weather somewhat different from current conditions or attempting to change multiple weather conditions at once. Examples include turning a cool, cloudy day into a warm, rainy one, or calling up a thunderstorm on a cloudy day or summoning light rain on a sunny day. |
| -4 | Attempting to produce dramatic changes: transforming a sunny day into a hard rain or calling up a thunderstorm and moderate winds on a cloudy day. |
Ritual Details: The magician must create some symbolic representation of the type of weather desired, whether playing loud music and making large clouds of steam, calling rain by dripping blood on the ground, tossing a handful of glitter or confetti into the air, saying chants or rhymes about weather or calling upon various deities or mythological beings associated with particular types of weather.