Empathy (psionic)

Empathy was a minor psionic devotion that allowed a psion or wilder to perceive various surface feelings in the unshielded mind of any sentient creature.
==Effects==
This discipline allowed a psion to detect and sense a multitude of different surface emotions, drives, and moods. These could include hatred, hostility, curiosity, friendliness, love, rage, uncertainty, and the like. It also allowed a psion to detect various sensations, such as pain, and basic needs like fatigue, hunger, and thirst.
Reports differed on the exact effective range of this devotion. Older accounts spoke of it being unlimited in its range, but limited to a by area, and requiring physical contact if used against another psionicists. Later accounts spoke of its range instead being centered on the caster and spreading out .
Psionic defenses such as mind bar, as well as spells like mind blank, could shield against it.
==Display==
Manifesting this power produced a standard mental display.
==Notable Users==
===Creatures & Sentient Races===
* Aratha, a psionic species of giant beetles.
* Embracs.
* Greater lammasu.
* Lesser shedu.
===Individuals===
* Elyse.
* Gaulauntyr, an adult copper dragon.
* Illistyl Elventree, a member of the Knights of Myth Drannor.
===Religions===
* Powerful shamans of the Great Worm tribe, who worshiped Uthgar's Great Worm beast totem, were capable of assuming a "great worm" form that conferred a number of psionic abilities, including empathy.
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===References===
Category:Telepathy powers