Psionics

*"A Psion is always armed," the teacher pointed his languish blade at the student before him, "so long as their mind is kept sharp." He began swinging at the student with his thin but sharp blade as the student stepped back with each encroaching stroke. "Think of the chilled handle, the weight of the hilt in your hand and glint of the metal." The student became more frantic, "But how?!" the student proclaimed as he jumped back from another sweep of the blade. "Close your eyes and focus." the teacher stopped swinging holding the blade at an angle as he thought, "imagine this vary blade in your hand, how it would feel within your palm, how the metal would chill your hand as you ran your fingers down its edge. The teacher was about ready to give up hope, another day wasted, but then he saw it, the faint indention of a hilt within the students palm and the faint outline of energy of a sword.*

*"Excellent." the teacher muttered, but the students eyes snapped open and the faint outline was once again lost. "You had it, if only for a moment," the teacher clasped his student on their shoulder, a short sigh releasing from their lips. "It will take practice, but eventually you will know how to call upon that blade with less and less effort, will know how to change its properties at will. But more importantly, it will be no less real than the iron blade in my hand, and twice as deadly. Tomorrow we will work on holding it for a longer period of time, get some rest, tomorrow we will begin again."*

Psionics are one of the more mystical and difficult arts that exist within the realms, an art based around intense discipline and exerting ones will on the world around them. Psion's can manifest their abilities in a myriad of ways from the ability to move objects to creating invisible blades made purely of will but just as efficient. These magics use the mental power a person in order to operate, overuse of psionic abilities can lead to a person losing all their psionic powers and even their fine motor skills.

* **Telekinesis** - ability to manipulate objects/matter with one's mind, most commonly to move objects or creatures from one place to another.
* **Telepathy** - ability to speak into another's mind or omit images into one’s mind.
	+ **Telempathy** - ability to read one’s mind and share emotions.
* **Clairvoyance** - ability to detect objects, beings, and locations.
* **Precognition** - ability to perceive future events as they may occur.
* **Etherkinensis** - ability to manipulate ethereal energy to project into the Ethereal plane and interact there.
* **Psycho-Ergokinesis** - ability to create, shape, and manipulate psychic energy in various ways
* **Tychokinesis** - ability to manipulate probability, how likely an event is to occur, or how likely it is that a proposition is true.

## Telekinesis

Telekinesis is the ability to manipulate objects/matter with one's mind, most commonly to move objects or creatures from one place to another. It is most commonly seen in races like the Elves, Celestials, and Spirits who have a stronger innate magical connection but can be utilized by all humanoids if they are born with an innately high psionic connection which they can develop in various ways.

### Other Names

* Psychokinesis
* Psychic Manipulation

### Capabilities

An individual that has telekinesis has the ability to manipulate or otherwise interact with items and creatures so long as they within their field of sight by the use of the individuals mind. Most commonly is that an individual with telekinetic powers is able to move and control objects from a distance and/or without physical contact, if an individual is able to strengthen their telekinetic powers enough then it may result in the ability to generate a force field around oneself, release a shockwave of psionic power knocking creatures and objects back, and/or lift multiple objects within a certain area.

Since the abilities and control of telekinesis is connected to the mind of user, it can be activated and controlled through conscious effort and concentration, through willpower and emotion of a certain level of intensity, or through achieving a state of discipline. The ability can respond to the user's thoughts and ideas, imagination, or desires, making it extremely easy to activate ones power while also being more challenging to control, especially during moments of stress which will render the power as more of a liability or even an unintended hazard in certain scenarios where the user cannot fully control themselves/their power. Additionally, the overall mental health and control the user has over their mind play a large role in affecting the users accuracy, range, and strength of their ability which can subsequently limit the powers intuitiveness, usability, and reliability in a number of situations.

Telekinesis is an extremely difficult power to master but its boons are far beyond what most can comprehend with it having a near limitless possibility so long as the user has control over it. Telekinesis could be honed and evolved to the point that it can affect anything at a universal level; At its most advances, its influence can expand to affect facets of reality other than matter, mainly space and time.

### Mastery

#### Weight/Mass

* **Beginner:** User can manipulate objects equal to or less than a lb. in weight so long as they can see it.
* **Fledgling:** User can manipulate objects equal to or less than 50 lbs in weight so long as they can see it.
* **Novice:** User can manipulate objects equal to or less than 200 lbs in weight so long as they can see it.
* **Advanced:** User can manipulate objects equal to or less than 400 lbs in weight so long as they can see and/or hear it.
* **Adept:** User can manipulate objects equal to or less than 600 lbs in weight so long as they can see and/or hear it.
* **Expert:** User can manipulate objects equal to or less than 800 lbs in weight so long as they can see and/or hear it.
* **Prodigy:** User can manipulate objects equal to several people/heavy household appliances/industrial machine so long as they can see and/or hear it.
* **Master:** User can manipulate objects equal to a medium sized buildings mass
* **Absolute:** User can move objects equal to a planets mass.
* **Godly:** User can move infinite weight/mass.

#### Accuracy/Precision

* **Beginner, Fledgling:** User can manipulate objects as if they were using mittens.
* **Novice, Advanced:** User can manipulate objects as if they were using their hands.
* **Adept:** User can manipulate objects as if they were using precision tools.
* **Expert, Prodigy, Master:** User can manipulate objects on microscopic scale.
* **Absolute:** User can operate at an atomic level.
* **Godly:** User can operate below the size of subatomic particles.

## Telepathy

Telepathy is the psionic ability to mentally receive and transmit information, it should not be confused with Telekinesis, though they share a similar name the capabilities of these differing psionics is a tell tale distinguisher between the two.

### Other Names

* Thought Transference
* Psyche Probe
* TP

### Capabilities

Users of Telepathy can perceive and interact with the mind, consciousness, and thoughts of other people and, sometimes, creatures using their minds; through this the user is able to read and sense another persons thoughts, communicate with them mentally, and convey complex emotions/events through imagery. There are three different ways that Telepathy can be used: Telepathic communication, the ability to transmit information from one mind to another; Telepathic Perception, the ability to receive and transmit imagery via the mind; and Telepathic Manipulation, the ability to influence the minds of others to varying degrees. Less powerful psionics may only be able to use one of the ways of telepathy without ever being able to do the rest, but those with more enhanced mind could perhaps preform all three.

### Telempathy

A subtype of Telepathy, Telempathy is ones ability to read minds/emotions and communicate both telepathically and empathically; it is essentially a combination of psionic Telepathy and Empathy. A psionic who is touched with telempathy can receive and transmit thoughts and emotions from others, perceiving what others think and feel as if it was what they were feeling.

## Clairvoyance

The ability to acquire information using sight outside the normal mortal range of detection, most times the psionic will simply feel the answer (such as if they had lost their keys and were trying to find it they might sense the keys between their bed and nightstand), with others being able to somewhat see as if out of a third eye what they seek.

### Other Names

* True Sight
* Divinative Mind
* Mind Sight
* Psionic Scrying
* Second Sight

### Capabilities

Users are able to acquire information using sight outside of the normal mortal realm of detection be it about an object, person, location, or event; typically this can be done without the aid of ones natural vision, allowing them to act when they are unable to use their eyes (thus how the Omvaai Monks came to be). Users would be able to detect beings/items/entities which are normally undetectable be it because of invisibility or otherwise, this also applies to various spiritual beings like ghosts, specters, and the like. In addition, they can perceive sights and visual sensations from other realms and from past events, future events, or locations that are outside the range of normal mortal senses or vision.