Telepathy

The power to **mentally receive and/or transmit information**. Users of this power are often called *Telepaths* or *Mind Readers*.
**Telepathy** is the ability to read and broadcast the thoughts of oneself and others. It is considered a rare power, possessed by only a few magical beings, though most have only been shown to possess limited forms of telepathy. For that reason, only a select few with this power are considered and referred to as *Telepaths*.

## Also Called

* Mental Surfing
* Mind Induction
* Psyche Probe
* Thought-Casting
* TP

## Capabilities

User can read/sense another person's thoughts, communicate with them mentally or affect their minds/thoughts. Telepathy has two common abilities or categories; *Telepathic Communication*, which is the ability to transmit information from one mind to another and *Telepathic Perception*, which is the ability to receive information from another mind knowing an opponent’s moves and attacks.

## Applications

Similar to "Telekinesis", "Telepathy" is an umbrella term for any ability that involves projecting, reading and manipulating thoughts.

### Basic Level

* **Mind Reading/Thought Detection:** The ability to read/sense the thoughts of others.
	+ **Visual Mind Reading:** The ability to see the thoughts of others.
	+ **Memory Reading:** The ability to read the target's memories.
* **Psychic Communication:** The ability to open up secret conversations and relay covert information.
* **Empathy:** The ability to interpret the emotions of others.
	+ **Telempathy:** The ability to communicate through emotions.
* **Telepathic Speaking:** The ability to speak aloud using only the mind.

### Advanced Level

* **Binding:** The ability to restrict the movements of others via the mind.
* **Download:** The ability to quickly process, store, or download information through another's mind.

* **Emotion Manipulation:** The ability to make one feel pleased, happy, pained, or any other emotion.
* **Knowledge Projection:** The ability to project knowledge into another mind.
	+ **Telepathic Language Instruction:** The ability to teach languages telepathically.
* **Knowledge Replication:** The ability to replicate the learned knowledge and skills of others.
* **Mental Hallucination:** The ability to cause mental hallucinations.
	+ **Telepathic Invisibility:** The ability to become invisible via telepathy.
* **Mental Inducement:** The ability to temporarily push the targets mind into the wanted state.
* **Mind Control:** The ability to manipulate the minds of other via thought process.
* **Mind Image:** The ability to project one's image to the mind of another.
* **Mind Link:** The ability to develop a permanent mental bond with any person, also called imprinting.
* **Mind Melding:** The ability to fuse one's consciousness with another.
* **Mind Walking:** The ability to enter the mind of another.
* **Omnilingualism:** The ability to intuitively understand all languages.
	+ **Telepathic Translation:** The ability to translate all languages.
* **Psionic Inundation:** The ability to launch psi-bolts to cause mental damage.
	+ **Neurocognitive Deficit:** The ability to shut down an opponent's higher brain function.
	+ **Telepathic Static:** The ability to project telepathic static.
* **Psychic Inhibitors:** The ability to place inhibitors in the mind to limit the target's capabilities.
* **Psychic Navigation:** The ability to create a mental map of the area.
* **Psychic Shadow:** The ability to mask psychic presence, hiding from other psychics.
* **Psychic Shield:** The ability to erect a psychic shield to protect the minds of oneself and/or others.
* **Psychic Torture:** The ability to torture victims mentally and spiritually.
* **Pushing:** The ability to implant memories, thoughts, and emotions into others.
* **Sensory Scrying:** The ability to perceive through the senses of other beings.
* **Speaking Inducement:** The ability to make others say whatever one wants.
* **Telepathic Aura:** The ability to project telepathic field.
* **Telepathic Hijacking:** The ability to hijack telepathic communication.
* **Telepathic Language Instruction:** The ability to project language information to others to communicate.
* **Telepathic Prediction:** The ability to know an opponent's moves and attacks by reading their brain waves.
* **Telepathic Relay:** The ability to act as a mental relay station for a group of minds, allowing said minds to "speak" to one another through the user.
* **Thought Manifestation:** The ability to make one's thoughts visible to all.
* **Thought Manipulation:** The ability to control the thoughts of others.

### Master Level

* **Clairtelepathy:** The ability to detect mental resonances from other locations and times.
* **Consciousness Transferal:** The ability to transfer one's mind to a new body.
* **Darkside View:**  The ability to communicate with and bring out the dark side of a person's personality.
* **Lightside View:** The ability to communicate with and bring out the good side of a person's personality.
* **Memory Manipulation**: The ability to erase, restore and alter the target's memories.
* **Mental Manipulation:** The ability to manipulate functions of the mind.
* **Mind Exchange:** The ability to transfer one's mind into another's body, taking control of that body.
* **Possession:** The ability to project one's mind into the body of a living being to inhabit and control them.
* **Projective Omnilingualism:** The ability to emit a field that translates every spoken language.
* **Psychic Energy Manipulation:** The ability to produce and manipulate mental energy.
	+ **Psychic Constructs:** The ability to generate constructs out of mental energy.
* **Psychic Wave Manipulation:** The ability to generate and manipulate thought waves.
* **Psychosomatic Illusion:** The ability to create powerful illusions that may cause severe physical damage.
* **Remote Telepathy:** The ability to use telepathy from a long range.
* **Subconscious Manipulation:** The ability to manipulate the subconscious.
	+ **Subliminal Messaging:** The ability to implant thoughts/ideas into the subconscious
* **Telepathic Surgery:** The ability to perform neuropsychic surgery, healing and/or damaging the mind.
* **Telepathic Dilation:** The power to water down the abilities of others by blocking neurological signals.

### Ultimate Level

* **Cosmic Empathy:** The ability to interpret the emotions of billions or more subjects at once.
* **Cosmic Telepathy:** The ability to read the thoughts of billions or more subjects at once.
* **Mental Projection:** The ability to project thoughts into reality.
* **Neural Jumpstart:** The power to augment another's abilities by accelerating neuronal activity.
* **Mindscape Transportation:** The ability to transport physical matter into one's conscious or subconscious thoughts.

### Absolute Level

* **Mindscape Materialization**: The ability to will ones thoughts and their inner world into reality.
* **Omni-Empathy:** The ability to sense and feel an infinite number of emotions across all universes, planes and dimensions.
* **Omni-Telepathy:** The ability to read, sense, communicate with, and control an infinite number of minds across all universes, planes and dimensions.
* **Unimind:** The ability to be connected with all things and their essences.

## Techniques

* Telepathic Combat: The ability to use telepathy in physical combat.
* Telepathic Intelligence: The ability to heighten ones intelligence using telepathy.

## Variations

* Animal Telepathy
* Ballistic Telepathy
* Electrical Telepathy
* Energy Telepathy
* Genetic Telepathy
* Magical Telepathy
* Spiritual Telepathy
* Tactile Telepathy
* Technological Telepathy
* Telepathic Force Manipulation
* Temporal Telepathy

## Associations

* Clairvoyance
* Mental Shield Penetration
* Psychological Intuition
* Telepathic Mimicry