Touch Gifts

Touch gifts are a type of gifts imparted by the Overseer that handles contact and the manipulation of things through this contact. The coterie for touch at Renasci is Tattatauri.

Touch is the only gift that is constantly active. People with touch abilities must learn to block their gifts to avoid an overload of information or uncomfortable sensations. For this reason, water is beloved of people with touch gifts because "it is one of the few things that feels soothing even you're not blocking." Due to their ever-present nature, people with touch gifts can sometimes use them accidentally, such as when Heath 'cheated' at cards.

## Sub-Abilities

### Conveyance

Conveyance allows people with touch gifts to send objects through space. It is considered an exceedingly difficult ability, and "Mr. Morven had to study overseas for three years before he managed to learn Conveyance as well as he did." It is traditionally done solely via touch, which Anne Legaspi cites as the reason it sends off red sparks rather than the blue of L'Azzulla. However, Celia Fincastle displayed a previously unheard of ability to perform Conveyance using her mind, an intersection of the two that was the result of a vision.

### Blocks

Blocks, a skill that requires a combination of touch and body gifts, are used in the demense to "keep people away from certain objects or locations." Blocks create a blue force field that physically prevents penetrating into the protected area, sometimes preventing the entrance of sound as well. When constructed with enough skill, blocks can be completely invisible rather than blue.

#### Block Breaking

In addition to the creation of blocks, it is also possible to break them, a rare skill that does not favor specific skills. Known people with the block-breaking ability are Celia Fincastle and Antoine Spadaro. Celia notes that moving through blocks feels like a wash of cold, which may be a sensation linked to that same block-breaking power.

#### Counter Blocks

Counter-blocks are blocks that are used specifically to attack blocks erected inside them. Blaine notes that Bellicose used them, rendering their guest's blocks "only forty percent effective." However, he conjectures that Celia could have overridden this feature.

### Shrinking Objects

This skill is similar to the Body Gift of shrinking other people, which Doxa uses in *The Gathering Storm*. However, this skill does not extend to things that are "objects" such as a book. The limits of size manipulation are not clear.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Melissa Gunther, *Secrets Hidden*, Neeghan's Journey 3 (n.p.: Hayes-Allan, 2022), [72].
2. ↑ Melissa Gunther, *The Final Word* (Colorado Springs, Colo.: Hayes Allan, 2015). *Chaos of Visions*.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Melissa Gunther, *The Gathering Storm* (Colorado Springs, Colo.: Hayes Allan, 2014), [28].
4. ↑ Melissa Gunther, *Secrets, Letters, and Lies* (Colorado Springs, Colo.: Hayes Allan, 2013), [150].
5. ↑ Gunther, *The Final*, [68]. *Page number certain, book not.*
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Gunther, *Secrets, Letters*, [151-2].
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gunther, *Secrets, Letters*, [153].
8. ↑ Gunther, *The Gathering*, [53].
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Gunther, *The Gathering*, [795].
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Gunther, *The Gathering*, [757].