The second clause of the Contracts of Mirror is actually very powerful. Unlike the Mirroskin kith ability, it can perfectly recreate another person’s appearance feature by feature, limited only by the changeling’s recollection of detail and available Glamour. This includes not only skin tone, hair color, eye spacing, etc. but also things like the voice box (allowing the imitation of someone’s speech) or fingerprints. These special features have their own rules:
- Vocal Chords
- The sound of a voice is made distinctive by a handful of physical features. To reproduce a particular voice using Skinmask, you must approximate the physical characteristics needed and then use the clause fo mimic them. This imposes a -3 penalty on the activation roll.
- Fingerprints
- As long as you know the fingerprints in question, you can mimic them with Skinmask. The set of 10 fingerprints counts as a single “feature” for the purposes of activation.
- Retina Pattern
- Retina patterns can be mimicked as long as you are familiar with the target pattern, but are more tricky than most other features. Changing your retina imposes a -2 penalty to the activation roll.