Witch

**Witches** are beings who are endowed with the magical arts of sorcery. Some witches have the innate gift of magic which is transmitted down through generations, giving them certain powers (although you can also skip a generation). If witchcraft is in their lineage, they have the potential of becoming very strong with enough practice. A powerful witch might lose control of themselves when dealing with black magic. If they use too much dark magic, the dark forces will overcome them - creating an immensely powerful, mystically driven, but dangerous and destructive version of themselves. A witch overcome by dark forces will go on a downhill tirade, losing sight of their usual moral beliefs and aiming only to kill and destroy.

Most witches has obtained their power through demonic forces. These witches are known to have summoned demons and made deals with them in exchange for power. While it is common for these witches to have traded their souls for power, it has been implied that not all borrowers sell their souls, but rather promise the demon something else of value.

## Powers and Abilities

### Common Powers

* **Magic:** The ability to channel supernatural energy to induce and manipulate events and phenomena. Magic can often be split into dark and light, though depending on the situation, can also be neutral. Magic can be studied by anyone and, in rare cases, can be caused by genetic heredity that connects witches to the elements and forces of nature.
* **Immortality:** Witches possess some kind of immortality; they lives as long as they are not killed by unnatural means and are immune to aging and most disease. The magical ability to live forever and never age, allowing those afflicted by it an immunity to all aging, disease, and death. It would appear to be an exceptionally rare and complicated ability, as even most high-ranking witches seem unaware of its existence.
* **Energy Projection:** Witches have power over magical energies, the very power that fuels spell-casting and mystical rituals. Through this mystic energy users can transmute magic for a variety of effects and purposes, including obtaining magical powers from external and internal source, yielding upstanding results in the users magical practices. Users can even invoke other forms of energies for specific forms of magic that require said necessary energies to empower their spells.
* **Conjuration:** The power to craft a numerous variety of desired weapons and tools out of pure magic. Witches can turn magic into different forms and objects of varying detail and permanence, ranging from simple shapes and images, to individual elements, substances and materials, to functional items such as tools and weapons, to more complex creations such as living or non-living entities, entire structures and even environments in certain cases.
* **Temporal Control:** The immensely rare and powerful magical ability to manipulate the flow of time. This power is especially unique in that it can be performed by a witch in two different ways: on a localized scale, such as reversing the time of a specific object or organism (i.e. reversing a fully-grown deer's age to turn it back into a doe), or on a larger scale, which involves the witch going back in time herself to alter the course of history from that point onwards, changing or reversing past events as if they never happened.
* **Telekinesis:** The ability to manipulate objects with the power of the mind, allowing witches to move or levitate people and objects without physically touching them. This seems to be the most common power, as it has been displayed by many witches, and can be used both offensively and defensively.
* **Divination:** The ability to obtain direct knowledge of an object, person, location, or physical event through means other than the user's physical senses. This power can be activated by just being around a person, focusing on specific tasks or touching objects.
* **Revival:** Witches can transfer life-force from one being to the next, healing and perhaps even resurrecting them. This may require physical contact, or just being in the same area, just thinking of transferring the life-force. Common side effects on witches with this power are fainting and dizziness, due to the strain a witch experiences from giving up part of their own soul to save someone or something else's.
* **Teleportation:** The ability to travel to another spot in space without having to transverse the distance between the two points.
* **Mind Manipulation:** The ability of a witch to impose their own will onto another person or animal, allowing the aforementioned witch to control many parts of an intended victim's mind (such as their thoughts, actions and memories). This power can be resisted by humans with strong willpower, though doing so will cause these individuals to experience an increase in pressure, leading to permanent brain damage in these individuals if they do not give in to being controlled by a witch

### Uncommon Powers

* **Reality Warping:** The ability to change the nature or form or physical reality.
* **Illusion Manipulation:** The magical ability to create and manipulate illusions, causing others to see, hear, touch, smell, and/or taste things which do not actually exist, or cause them to perceive things differently from what they truly are.
* **Telepathy:** The magical ability to read the minds of others and project one's own thoughts into them. Witches can sense the thoughts of other people, usually hearing them like ordinary speech but possibly by other senses such as sight. Usually, users sense the surface thoughts (including other mental communications), but they can also learn to push farther into the subconscious and memories.
* **Power Negation:** The magical ability to cancel out someone else's magic or curse.
* **Intuitive Polygraphy:** The magical ability to detect lies.
* **Foresight:** Witches can foresee possible futures and observe what may happen. As knowledge of the future invariably causes that future to change, visions of the future are subject to frequent shifting. While not being able to select futures or travel through time, these visions may assist in possible courses of action.
* **Glamouring:** The ability to create an illusion so real that it is to fool any on-looker. Witches can change the appearance of themselves and/or others. The means can vary from illusions, to disguises, to shapeshifting.
* **Memory Manipulation:** The magical ability to manipulate another person's memory in order to either implant false memories into them or erase their memory of specific events. They can change memories to confuse, wipe away certain memories to cause amnesia, discern and provoke nostalgia, and enter the victim into a psychic vision, replaying their memory.
* **Life-Force Detection:** The magical ability to detect a person's life-force (or lack of it). Witches with this power use it determine whether or not a fellow witch is alive or deceased, without ever needing to find the missing witch's body as confirmation of their fate. In addition, they can also know when someone is pregnant and how long the pregnancy will last.
* **Levitation:** The magical ability to propel oneself into the air, granting them flight.
* **Evil Sense:** The magical ability to sense evil like a perfume. Witches can tell how much evil is within the essence of others and decide how threatening they are based on the amount they sense.
* **Aura Vision:** The magical ability to detect auras, allowing a witch with this power to distinguish one individual's personality traits from someone else's.