Tier: 1
Computation: 1 segment
Area of Effect: One document
Range: Touch
Glass Required: Yes
Duration: Special
B-M-S Cost: 0.125
This function can be used to copy any map or document. The mathematician must first have the document to be copied, as well as a plank sheet of parchment or vellum. To copy, the mathematician must place the blank paper underneath the original document, then pass the glass over the original. Up to a 12"x12" surface area can be copied each round. A Mathematician can copy the equivalent of four pages per level per use of this formula. A page is considered a 12"x12" sheet. This power can also be used to inscribe a written document to a flat sheet of metal or a smooth stone surface as well, but the copy times are seven rounds per sheet for metal and 10 rounds per sheet for stone. Assuming identical media, a mathematician can, on a critical success, create a duplicate so exact that differentiation between the original and the copy is possible only on a critical success. On an ordinary success, the original and copy are differentiable.
Of course one of the more common uses for the Copy function is for Wishsingers to make archival backups of their songbooks, as well as distribute copies of spellsongs to student Wishsingers. For a Wishsinger to learn a copied song, he or she must still make a Learn Song roll, since merely having the music in hand does not imply the ability to play it.