This is far more complicated than accepting that one's fate is one's own. To utilize the Archspheres of Entropy, the mage has to realize that their fate is their own fault. These arts are dangerous, for they invite Jhor, the death-taint, which drives the mage into homicide and obsession. As such, mages who practice the death-arts (known collectively as Kalananda among the Euthanatoi, the foremost experts on this kind of magic) tend to be well versed in the use of Entropy, as well as Spirit, Mind, Prime, and Life. An Entropy-schooled mage can manipulate random factors, observe and influence flaws within a system, induce or remove corruption, and otherwise exert their Will through the inexorable process of mortality.Īnother aspect of Entropy is its connection to the Resonance of the Low Umbra and Oblivion, the final destination of everything that is. The mage can spot chance on the move, recognizing points where probability quirks in odd directions. Students of chaos study the dissolution of patterns, the destruction of matter and the random elements that infect happenstance and probability.ĭeterminism and chaos are equal partners to the student. Students of order look into patterns, into the ways that events flow from one to the next and into the means by which new things build on the old. Mages who study Entropy often choose the path of either order or chaos. All things dissolve eventually into haphazard components, and similar events form from disjointed, unconnected patterns. From this Sphere comes the study of order and randomness, and thus, the study of totally random creation and destruction. Entropy concerns itself mainly with the study of order, chaos, luck, and destiny.