Akistra Vanrir/Cogent

Akistra VanrirCogent Sheet

 If behind cover or a shield, give up your movement and action to be invulnerable to frontal ranged attacks for that turn.

#### Charge

 If you are within medium range of a target and no closer, you expend your action and a considerable amount of energy to rush over the distance separating you, building up momentum to strike. There must be open ground between you. They cannot evade you so long as they are on the ground. You spend your turn closing the distance, and on your next turn you can attack them if you so wish. Your momentum gives you a +2 to your next attack roll. This ability allows the character to overcome the effects of suppression, though the -2 malnus from it still applies.

#### Shove

 Force the target back 5 feet. Interrupts spellcasting. Requires a weapon the same length or longer than that of your opponent, or a shield.

#### Brace

 You expend your movement, your action, and a considerable amount of energy to brace yourself for an oncoming charge. You subtract 2 from their charge bonus. If you have a weapon which is the same length or longer than your charging opponent, you attack first when they close with you, regardless of your Reflex.

#### Flurry

 As your action, make your normal number of attacks plus one. These do not have to be the same target. Make all of these rolls with -2 to your attack dice.

#### Cleave

 As your action, you cleave with your melee weapon through two enemies, making a regular melee attack against both. You may spend energy to increase the number of enemies which you attack, spending 1 Energy per additional enemy.

### Psionic Training

#### Psionic Sense

 To the psion, the world has an effervescent quality, linked together by a force, a purpose, an intelligence, which few can see with their own eyes. Living things and inanimate objects leave behind traces, imprints, which can be faintly felt in the world which one can touch with one's spirit. These imprints are not neutral, and take the form of feelings rather than objective observations: they carry with them information about intent; intent to harm, intent to help, distress, as if inanimate objects themselves carry with them either an imprint of the person who was using them or they themselves develop a personality which can be felt. The psion learns through training to incorporate this "sixth" sense into their perceptions, sometimes acquiring supernatural levels of awareness and intuition after many decades of practice.
Channeling this ability allows you to use your  Psionic Training proficiency in the place of another perception-oriented roll, such as Perception or Investigation, out to medium range, with the accuracy and detail of the read decreasing dramatically with distance.

#### Empathy

 Living creatures give off psionic auras which can be felt by ordinary people and psions alike. This is why emotions are often infectious, and those with strong emotions often give off strong auras. Psions are particularly susceptible to these auras, to broadcasting them and feeling them. A psion's empathy allows them to feel for another living creature's aura out to medium range, rolling their  Psionic Training against the creature's **Will**. If the roll succeeds, the psion will be able to glean information about the creature's emotional state, but not their thoughts. Psions and non-psions can roll Psionic Training with advantage in place of Will to defend against this.

#### Telepathy

 By closing their eyes and focusing their thoughts on another psion's aura, psions are able to communicate using only their thoughts. Based on your Psionic Training level, you can do this out to 80 m. This is done by extending your consciousness up against another psion's, and they have the choice to allow you past their mental barriers or not. A properly trained psion will be able to compartmentalize their mind and allow you to see what they want you to see.An untrained mind does not know how to lower its defenses, nor to compartmentalize once the other psion is inside. This means that telepathy between untrained or improperly trained minds can lead to serious damage. This is why telepathically communicating with a non-psion is frequently seen as a grievous sin in many cultures.

#### Push

 Hurl a wall of force at the target out to medium range to attempt to push them back. Roll 13 against their defense.
If the attempt succeeds, they are pushed back 5 meters and are staggered. If there is a solid obstacle behind them like a wall, you hurl them into it and may either inflict a minor injury on them or stagger them for the following turn. An object smaller than a basketball can be hurled back as far as you want, within reason.

#### Pull

 Reach out towards the target out to medium range with phantom hands and yank them towards you. Roll 13 against their defense.
If the attempt succeeds, they are pulled towards you 5 meters and are staggered. If there is a solid object in front of them, like a wall, you hurl them into it and may either inflict a minor injury on them or stagger them for the following turn.

#### Retrieve Object

 Reach out towards a small object like a weapon or item you can hold in one hand. Grasp it with phantom fingers and yank it towards you. If nobody challenges you for the object, you pull it into your hand. If the object is being held by someone, or someone challenges you for it telekinetically, you must wrestle over the object. Roll your  Psionic Training proficiency against their  Psionic Training or **Grapple**. You must win twice, or they must win twice, to gain control of the object. You expend 1 Energy for every roll made wrestling over the object. If the object is another character's weapon, this ability consumes a full action rather than a half-action.

#### Lift Object

 Reach out towards a small object like a weapon or item you can hold in one hand. Grasp it with phantom fingers and lift it upwards towards another location you can see within short or medium range. If the object is being held by someone, or someone challenges you for it telekinetically, you must wrestle over the object. Roll your  Psionic Training proficiency against their  Psionic Training or **Grapple**. You must win twice, or they must win twice, to gain control of the object. You expend 1 Energy for every roll made wrestling over the object.

#### Slow Fall

 You push up against the ground to control your momentum as you are falling, canceling any risk involved in a fall. You spend 1 Energy per turn you spend falling. When you land, you will need to recover and will be able to move and take actions on the following turn.

#### Throw Weapon

 You hurl a melee or thrown weapon at a target out to medium range. First, make a telekinetic attack against the target using 10 dice. The target defends with their **Athletics**. If this roll succeeds, make a melee attack with that weapon. The weapon must be picked up again or recalled using Retrieve Object if you intend to continue using it. Small melee weapons thrown in this way roll with 8 dice.

#### Heroic Push

 You surge forward with both hands to push everything in front of you to the ground. All creatures in melee, reach, and short range front of you in a cone must resist a 13 dice attack. If they lose to you by 1, they are staggered. If they lose to you by 3 or more, they are thrown back 5 feet and fall prone. If they were immediately in front of a wall or some other immovable object, they suffer a minor injury.

### Ionic Technique

#### Crackling Aura

 You give off a psionic aura which crackles with latent power, especially during moments of intense emotion, stress, and pain. Crackling Aura may be activated or deactivated at any time without using an action. Activating Crackling Aura sets your energy to 0 and deactivating it does not return you to your previous energy state. While Crackling Aura is active, every time an enemy makes an attack against you or anyone immediately adjacent to you, you gain 1 Energy, up to your cap. Energy recovery abilities such as Recuperate do not work with Crackling Aura.

#### Controlled Discharge

 You aim down your arm at a target with two fingers extended. Power surges through you. The air cracks. A bolt of lightning crashes into your target. Make a physical ranged attack against a target at short or medium range with 10 dice. This attack gains advantage when you are standing still.

#### Lightning Strike

 You spend a turn infusing your weapon with crackling energy. On the following turn, take one of the following actions:
* Make your first melee attack on your next turn with +3. If the attack lands, it also cleaves through to an adjacent target. Make a normal attack against that second target.
* Strike the ground, sending bolts of lighting arching in every direction. Make a normal melee attack against all creatures around you, friend and foe.

#### Storm Bolt

 You spend a turn infusing your weapon with crackling energy. On the following turn, hurl your weapon at an enemy to strike them with +3. If the attack lands, on top of any injury you might inflict, the target and all creatures immediately adjacent to them are staggered for one turn. Your weapon returns to you at the beginning of your next turn. If you are interrupted during the turn where the weapon is flying through the air, you lose control of the weapon and it clatters in whatever direction it was flying before you were interrupted. You can recover it later by using telekinesis.

#### Thunder Clap

 All creatures in melee or reach range with you need to make an **Athletics** save (CL 5). If they fail, they are staggered for one turn. May not be used while grappled.

#### Redirect Lightning

 If you are targeted by an electrokinetic discharge or are immediately adjacent to someone who is and have a movement and an action free, you may step in the path of your enemy's psicast and roll your  Ionic Technique proficiency. The opposing psicaster must also roll their proficiency with disadvantage. If you succeed, you may absorb the discharge's energy into yourself and redirect the ability at another target of your choosing. You may also add it to your energy reserve and store it for later. If assimilating the energy would cause you to exceed your cap, you gain a number of minor injuries equal to the amount it exceeds your cap by, but keep the rest of the energy.

#### Chain Lightning

 Make a ranged attack against a target at short or medium range with 12 dice. If you manage to hit and damage the target, the bolt jumps to another target of your choice. You roll an attack against that target with -2 dice relative to previously. If you manage to hit and damage that target, the bolt may jump to another target 2 fewer dice. It bounces until a creature successfully resists it.

#### Total Discharge

 Requires Crackling Aura. Discharges all your stockpiled energy in a ranged attack at short or medium range. The dice you roll with are 9 plus 1 for every point of energy you have stockpiled. If you manage to hit and damage the target, the bolt jumps to another target of your choice. You roll an attack against that target with -2 dice relative to previously. If you manage to hit and damage that target, the bolt may jump to another target 2 fewer dice. It bounces until a creature successfully resists it.

### Entropic Technique

#### Channel Heat

 You tap into a target heat source within short or medium range, leeching it into your hands to use it for your heat abilities. On the first turn, you leech 1 point of temporary Energy from your target. On every subsequent turn after that, you leech 2. If your target is a creature as opposed to an inert source of heat, you apply a stacking dice malnus equal to the energy you've sapped from them. When you are not channeling this technique, the malnus fades at a rate of 2 per turn. You may use the temporary energy you have gained this way in anti-entropic heat techniques until the combat ends, at which point you must release the energy back into the environment. Temporary energy gained this way may exceed your Energy cap. So long as you are able to maintain your concentration, this technique is active. You cannot move while using this technique. If you are damaged or forced to move in any way, you lose concentration and the effect ends. If you are forced to defend yourself in melee combat, you are unable to maintain this effect.

#### Scorching Blast

 You unleash the heat energy you have stored in a concentrated blast. Make a ranged attack against a target within grappling, melee, reach, short, or medium range with 12 dice. At grappling, melee, and reach range, the attack pierces armor.

#### Heat Lance

 You accelerate some of the heat you have stored towards a single point. Make a ranged attack against a target in short or medium range with 12 dice.

#### Flash Freeze

 You freeze wet ground in a target area. Until the ground is unfrozen by another ability or by the passage of time, all units, friend and foe, who make a movement within that zone must make an **Athletics** roll to determine if they slip and fall prone. The CL is 5. You gain 3 temporary Energy. This can also be used to freeze a wall of water solid.

#### Frost Trap

 You gather water at someone's feet and leech it of heat, freezing them in place. In order to get out, the target must make attempts to get out, each attempt taking one of their actions. In order to escape the trap, they must succeed two **Athletics** rolls with a CL of 3. If the target is already traversing through water up to ankle height, gain 2 temporary Energy instead.

#### Wall of Fire

 You create a wall of fire on a solid and flammable surface within short range of you. You can make the wall up to 60 feet long, 20 feet high, and 1 foot thick, or a ringed wall up to 20 feet in diameter, 20 feet high, and 1 foot thick. When the wall appears, each creature within its area must make an **Athletics** roll (CL 3) to get out of the way. If they fail this roll, they take two minor injuries. The wall is permeable to bullets and projectiles and can be seen through. However, it cannot be traversed without creatures suffering a 1d5-armor injury. So long as you are able to maintain your concentration, the wall remains in place. You cannot move while channeling this technique. If you move or are successfully damaged in any way, your concentration breaks and you lose control of the flames. How they spread from there depends heavily on the environment. This spell cannot be used in a vacuum; fire does not burn without oxygen.

#### Pyroclasm

 Unleash hell. You discharge a blast of concentrated heat into an area which detonates into a fireball which consumes everything it touches. Make a ranged attack against a single target within short, medium, or long range with 15 dice. All creatures (friend and foe) within melee range of that creature are similarly attacked with 12 dice. This ability must be channeled for two turns and the psicaster cannot move or do anything else while channeling it. If they are forced to move, take any other action, or are injured during this period, the technique fails, though the Energy which would have been spent on it is not lost.