Trail of Thought

Ability Type: Spell, Difficulty 16
Provided By: Basic Mentalic Tracking

Spell Type: Astral, Mentalics
Form: Contained
Function: Utility
Power Cost: Minimal
Duration: Maintainable
Notes: Requires Astral Tag or Mentalic Impression

Able to sense the faint traces left in the Astral Plane by a sentient mind, Trail of Thought can allow its caster to follow a target known by Mentalic Impression or marked by an Astral Tag – even if the physical trail is almost non-existent.

The strength of trail left by a given mind is greater if they were marked by an Astral Tag at the time, but the spell can still track them past the point where that tag fades or is destroyed so long as its caster retains a Mentalic Impression of them.

In addition to providing a bonus to Awareness: Tracking checks, Trail of Thought also slightly reduces the penalty to checks of this kind applied to those without the Tracking ability – though both bonus and penalty-reduction are applied only to attempts to track the target individual.

Tracking Penalty Reduction: Reduces penalty for lacking Tracking Ability from -3 to -2
Bonus to Awareness: Tracking with Mentalic Impression: +2
Bonus to Awareness: Tracking with Astral Tag: +4