I’m designing a new Focused Practitioner, aiming at him becoming a full blown Wizard later on. The issue I’m looking help on here is his paradigm. I started the idea with police detective, French one from Paris that can see lies as dark spots in people’s words. It grow to become something like supernatural crime scene investigation. I started with psychomancy, but after some though and cautioning words from another player I steered a bit from that, trying not to break any laws up front. So I’m now moving from “Ectomancy” side but thinking more on the echo side; word is full of emotional echoes, ghosts being only the most direct ones. This matter of spirit and emotion is the stuff my character is supposed to control and mold by channeling his will into it or disturbing structures inside formed ones. The base effect would be conjuring past emotions and “observations” back, sensing emotional stains on objects, making the ectoplasm (need better name for my character to use) more tangible and bending light itself with it or releasing light trapped inside ectoplasm and therefore producing ghost light and so forth.

So how would this paradigm work and how should I narrate the belief the character has on his ability?
What would the character, detective from police force, call his ability as he has had no contact with White Council?
Is it viable base for interesting magic effects and what affects would you see it producing?
How would this paradigm grow when I can upgrade rituals to thaumaturgy and channeling into evocation?

Thanks for your help
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Character so far.


le commissaire Jean-Vérité Larosiére
Skills:
Great (+4) Discipline
Good (+3) Conviction Investigation Presence
Fair (+2) Intimidation Rapport Scholarship
Average (+1) Alertness Athletics Contacts Empathy Lore Resources
Stress: Physical: (2) OO Mental: (4) OOOO Social: (4) OOOO
Template: Focused Practitioner
Must and Options [-5 Refresh]: Channeling (Spirit), Ritual (Ectomancy/Referomancy), Sight (Sense Lies).
Focus Item(s): The Rings of Nicolas Flamel: +1 for offensive power, offensive control and defensive power and defensive control to Spirit Evocation. (2 x 2 Focus item slots)
High Concept Aspect: Le Commissaire Empathique
Trouble: Lies are “the Black” I “see”.
Background Aspect: Off the Record… the World is Rotten
Rising Conflict: All I wanted to do was to save them…
The Story:
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