Psychics Psychics are normally people that are born with a special ability. The age at which these abilities surface varies from person to person. Traumatic events can also cause they abilities surface. Sometimes, normal people will become psychic after suffering a brain injury or dying for a few minutes before being brought back by medical means.
Usually a psychic only has one ability. Some times they might have two, but very rarely more than that. When having one ability, it's easier for them to gain control over it and develop that talent.
Astral Projection - The ability to leave one's body and travel in spirit to another location. Level 1: You are able to leave your body for a few minutes Level 2: You are able to leave your body for an hour. Level 3: You are now able to stay outside of your body for hours at a time before having to return. Level 4: Now you are able to stay outside of your body for a full day and can affect the things around you by expanding large amounts of psychic energy, forcing you back into your body sooner if you do this. Drawbacks: While outside of your body, you body is defenseless and should your body die while outside of it you will be stuck in spirit form as you slowly fade away to nothing.
Clairvoyance: A person with this type of ability can "see" things not apparent to others, like receiving a vision of events or a visual impression about a person. Level 1: You get feelings about a place or person Level 2: You get visions of present Level 3: You get visions of the past Level 4: When around a person you pick up visions of their past and present. Drawbacks: It's sometimes hard to tell if a vision is from the past or the present. Clairvoyants also tend to get migraines more than someone without an ability.
Empathy - The talent to sense the needs, drives, and emotions of another. Level 1: You can feel the general emotions of others. It's a 24/7 thing. There's no turning it off. Level 2: You've built some psychic walls and are able to filter out the emotions of those around you when needed, but the act takes a lot out of you. Level 3: Now you can feel the deep emotions of others, not just what is at the surface. You're starting to learn to channel your own emotions and project them on to others. Level 4: You can now block at emotions out as needed without it taking a lot out of you. With physical contact you can alter the emotions of another. Drawbacks: Not all empaths realize they're feeling the emotions of others and start to go crazy. Others can't take the strain of feeling them, even though they know what's happening, and crack. Once they crack they don't control their abilities and leak emotions all over people.
Precognition - Quite simply, "knowing the future". However, since time is a dynamic construct, no one psychic can ever know every detail about the future. Usually this ability refers to knowing general outcomes of specific courses of action, with occasional flashes of detailed insight. Level 1: You get a feeling about things right before they happen. Like you know that the glass your friend is reaching for it about to fall. Level 2: You got visions of future in your sleep. Level 3: You're now getting visions while you're awake but you have no control over them. Level 4: You can now control your visions and understand them. You can 'revisit' a vision that you have had to get more details. Drawbacks: Knowing the future isn't always the best of things. Especially when you know things like when your friends or yourself is going to die. Some precogs try to change the future after a vision and only end up making it worse.
Psychometry - Also known as "object reading", psychometry enables a psychic to pick up on psychic impressions left on an object by someone connected with it. Someone with this ability could use an unfamiliar object to reveal much about its owner. Level 1: Touching objects gives you feeling about it. Whether it's been used for good or evil. Other it was loved or not. Level 2: When touching an object you get brief visions of where it's been or what it's done Level 3: Touching an object gives you brief visions about it's more recent owner Level 4: You get full visions about the object and it's owner. By focusing you can see the more recent owner or ones from long ago. Drawbacks: You can't turn it off. Unless the item is shiny new then you get some type of reading from it. Most people with this ability end up wearing gloves to avoid this.
Pyrokinesis - The ability to start fires with one's mind. Level 1: You can start and snuff out a small flame with your mind. Level 2: You can call small flames to you. Level 3: You can call medium size flames and shape them. Level 4: Controlling and making large fires is no problem with you. Flame is your friend and you can do with what you please. Drawbacks: Firebugs tend to get a little obsessed with fire and have been known to burn to death missing with a fire that's bigger than they can handle. Someone also been known to combust.
Telekinesis - Also known as psychokinesis, the ability to move objects with one's mind. Level 1: You move small objects, sometimes not even realizing you are doing it. Level 2: You can move several small objects at once and move medium size object by themselves. Level 3: Handling several medium size objects at once or large objects is not a problem. Level 4: You can now levitate yourself and others and handling several large objects at a time is no problem. Drawbacks: Telekinics often find themselves having to keep a tight rain on their emotions, least the lose control of their abilities. Using their abilities for long periods or for large things drains them.
Telepathy - The ability to communicate mind-to-mind with another. Level 1: You can read the surface thoughts of others. Level 2: You can now read the deeper thoughts of others around you. Level 3: You're able to send and receive information with another person through telepathic means. Level 4: At this level you can implant suggestions and establish a connection with another or several people. Drawbacks: Some people go crazy before ever developing their abilities, the fact that they hear 'voices' driving them made. Telepaths tend to get more migraines than people without abilities.
Animal Telepathy - The ability to communicate with (but not command or influence) various kinds of creatures. Level 1: You can tell what animals are feeling. Level 2: You get images of what animals are thinking. Level 3: You can send images and other information to the target animal. Level 4: You can form a connection with an animal that lasts or communicate with several animals at once. Drawbacks: Not all animals take kindly to you poking around in their heads. Remember most have teeth and claws.
Remote Viewing-(This ability can not be chosen with a second or third one) This is the ability to see, hear or feel target locations unknown to the viewer. It can involve all of the psychic senses and is associated with the term bi-location which means the viewer can actually experience a hyper reality, as if they were there on location with the target. Some advanced viewers have even claimed that they can interact with the target, such as swimming in a lake, having a conversation with a person (dead or alive) and so on. Level 1: You can briefly visit a place in your mind's eye. Level 2: You can visit a place with your mind's eye for longer periods of time and look around the place. Level 3: You can focus on a person and in your mind's eye you'll see where they are and what they're doing. Level 4: You can visit locations and people for long periods of time and can interact with the environment and people. Drawbacks: Viewing is a draining process and can leave the psychic drained afterwards. Some become lost in the ability and become hermits, only visiting places with their minds.
Medium--(This ability can not be chosen with a second or third one) the ability to communicate and see the spirits of the dead. Drawbacks: They know you can see and hear them and so they bug you all the time.
Mind Control - The ability to Control people Level 1: You can make someone drop something or similar small things, nothing big, when you focus hard, using your focus. Level 2: You can make someone do something bigger. But it takes a lot of focus and the use of your focus. Level 3: You can make someone do nearly anything for a short amount of time, using your focus. Level 4: You can Control someone for a longer length of time, when you focus but you may not need a focus. Drawbacks: Most have to use a focus for their ability. For example, you can only use your power while rubbing your favourite teddy bear, or you can only use your ability when wearing your lucky underwear, or when staring at a photo of your target. People don't like being controlled, so angry mobs aren't impossible if your discovered. If you get people to do things out of character they'll be more aware of being controlled. But if they are doing things they would anyway, they may not realise. You can only usually control one type of person. One sex. One age group. Etc. Your more susceptable to mind control yourself. Using the power is tiring, physcially and emotionally.
Discernment: Discernment is a special type of Clairvoyance that is quite rare. Instead of falling into the normal levels of Clairvoyance, a person with Discernment is able to 'see' the true nature of a being. If a demon is hiding in human form, or inside of a human being, a discerner can see their true self beneath the disguise. This does not mean they can see past fey seeming, whether a person is a Were, etc; these supernaturals appear to be a normal, uninhabited human to a discerner. The nature of this power also allows one to tell the difference between a good soul and an evil one, in strictly black and white terms One sees a type of aura around a person when meeting them; this is the visual manifestation of their soul. The ‘aura’ appears as either white or black. (Angels appear as a blinding white light.) If a person is being controlled by a demon, the image of the demon is superimposed over that of the human. A demon in a human form has the blackest aura possible.