Seers and Mediums

**Seers** are a sub-type of Unbound who have the ability to see energy fields, and often be more attuned to them than other Unbound, but are not able to manipulate energy on their own. **Mediums** are similar to Seers in that they cannot manipulate energy on their own, with the exception that they do have the ability to commune with old-world spirits and demons in order to do so.

## Unbound and Conceptual Manipulation

After much working with the planet itself, learning what tangible things they could manipulate, the Unbound became fascinated with the idea of manipulating time in small, fixed "areas." The concept of hastening, slowing, or even stopping time itself was fascinating enough as it was -- but it made way for a new question: What other intangible concepts were there that could be manipulated?

This began a new, strange line of research into what the limits of Unbound were exactly. Was the manipulation that Unbound were capable of only limited by what was conceptualized?

## "Powerless" Unbound?

There were a number of Unbound who showed no ability toward any means of manipulation, but they could see the threads of energy around them when they so wished. Many of these Unbound were originally thought of as Soulbound, gifted with the sensitivity to the world around them as the Unbound had, but with no means of changing their world.

While this was unfortunate, and there wasn't much these Unbound could do to defend themselves, they could serve as visual aid when working in the field. At a distance, they could help pick apart what was going on in the area around whoever needed assistance, and offer an extra pair of eyes in more serious situations. Thus, they came to be known as **Seers**.

These people proved to not be as "powerless" as they were once thought. It seemed that being out of tune with their natural surroundings -- despite seeing the energy that flowed in the world around them -- these Unbound seemed to have a strange attunement with unseen forces that other Unbound wouldn't normally pick up on. The strange non-tangible concepts were thought of in conjunction with these individuals since they seemed to become quite attuned to concepts that were being "dissected," so to speak, prodding and poking into the ideas of what could be manipulated by sheer will of the Unbound.

## Mediums

As more research was done into the influence that old-world "magic" had over Axxenith, it was also discovered that some of these Seers, later called **Mediums**, could tap into this old-world magic in the form of communing with spirits and demons - or becoming possessed by them against their will. When this happened, their ability to manipulate energy could oftentimes even surpass that of other Unbound.

It seemed that this was a strangely useful ability, though it was a bit of a double-edged sword; while some spirits that were reached seemed
 simply lost, without aim, others seemed quite vengeful.

What was particularly of interest was the ability of these
spirits to take the intuition the Mediums that reached them posessed and
 to utilize them tenfold -- if the Unbound had no ability to manipulate
their surroundings, they were suddenly "posessed" by this entity, and
displayed impressive, intensive abilities that surpassed most of their
peers.

The issue was, however, that most of these spirits had no concept
 of keeping their mediums from focusing on too many abilities at once;
some of these mediums ended up comatose after being pushed far beyond
their physical limitations.

Among the most interesting of some of these spirits were
individuals that called themselves demons; they represented specific
aspects, used old-world names, and, when these entities were "channeled"
 by Unbound, seemed to linger in the body of their mediums, ever-lurking
 in their minds until the individual expired -- due to the demon's
meddling or otherwise.

*Note: It was exceedingly rare that normally-abled Unbound were also able to be Mediums, but it did happen on occassion.*