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| The Gifts |
| Thoughtsensing-This Gift is the ability to sense another's thoughts, and to read them. There are two forms of Thoughtsensing, projection, where the Gifted can put out their own thoughts for others to read, and recieving, where the Gifted can hear all thoughts. A person Gifted with both projection and recieving is called a Mindspeaker. Farsight-This Gift is the ability to activly see that which is far away. Often paired with a person Gifted with Fetching, Farseers are useful spies, or to find things a distance away. Foresight-This Gift is the ability to see the future. The hardest gift to control, but one of the most useful of all. Fetching-This Gift is the ability to move things with the mind. This ranges from line of sight floating to actual relocation by making an object disappear in one place and reappeare in another. Animal Mindspeech-This Gift is the ability to communicate with animals. One so Gifted can use animal eyes and ears to spy, send them to do tasks, or to cover ones trail. Firestarting-The rarest and most dangerous Gift, this is the power to start fires, or to command those already built. The most famous Firestarter is Lavan Firestorm, although his power has not been seen in years. Empathy-The ability to sense and project emotions. An Empath can sense another's emotions, project their own, Heal damaged minds, and create a loop to aid in the Healing of others. Healer's Gift-The ability to Heal almost anyone of anything. Healers are a class of their own. No one can command the Healers. Bardic Gift- No one knows just what this Gift really is, all they know is how it is used. Through the medium of music, a Bard can control a crowd and project into them the emotions of any song they so choose. Bards enjoy immunity from certain laws, but can be called up by their Guild for misuse of the Gift. Mage Gift-The Gift that enables one to sense the life energies of other beings and to manipulate them. One of the rarest forms of the Mage Gift is the Fire-Mage, a mage with a strong firestarting Gift. Their signature is Fire. There has only been one Fire-Mage sense Elspeth brought the Mages back to Valdemar. Another rare Gift is that of the Healer-Adept, but there has never been a Herald-Healer Adept. |