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Psychic Influence is a bizarre phenomenon that occurs within the mind and flows through the eyes. All of humanity and any form of sentient life holds some degree of Influence and some means to exude and intake it.

For humans, simple eye contact exudes subtle psychic pressures upon others. But this pressure is also impacting them as well. Influence is gentle in its power of suggestion and impossible to detect regularly.

However, there is a way to strengthen one's power of Influence over others. The best known method is to deprive oneself of sleep in a rhythmic fashion to damage one's own Psychic Resistance, the factor of one's mind that reduces the flow of influence.

What this means, however, is that one must be cautious about the power they gain as it will adversely effect their ability to resist Psychic Influence.

In time, smaller groups and hidden organizations have developed a means to mitigate this consequence. Namely prescription glasses that can amplify one's Psychic Influence or Psychic Resistance. Though they cannot do both.

There are three distinct powers a practitioner of this magic can access.

Power: Convey as mentioned before is the ability to alter another's mind, be it warping memories, changing opinions, or even keeping an object concealed from sight by altering their perception of it.

Consequence: With a low psychic resistance, one risks being manipulated by other practitioners with little to no defense from their power.

Power: Comprehend is the ability to draw in information from your surroundings and process it quickly, be it seeing in all directions, reading the intention of written language through psychic residue, detecting life through the psychic influence coagulating around all living creatures.

Consequence: With a low psychic resistance, one processes information even more rapidly, but they risk sensory overload that can be debilitating.

Power: Conduit is the ability to pull on dead psychic influence to essentially become a medium for the dead to communicate or to learn from their memories.

Consequence: With a low psychic resistance, one typically can communicate with more dead individuals at once, but risk taking on personality traits from those individuals.

Psychic Influence is a bizarre phenomenon that occurs within the mind and flows through the eyes. All of humanity and any form of sentient life holds some degree of Influence and some means to exude and intake it.

For humans, simple eye contact exudes subtle psychic pressures upon others. But this pressure is also impacting them as well. Influence is gentle in its power of suggestion and impossible to detect regularly.

However, there is a way to strengthen one's power of Influence over others. The best known method is to deprive oneself of sleep in a rhythmic fashion to damage one's own Psychic Resistance, the factor of one's mind that reduces the flow of influence.

What this means, however, is that one must be cautious about the power they gain as it will adversely effect their ability to resist Psychic Influence.

In time, smaller groups and hidden organizations have developed a means to mitigate this consequence. Namely prescription glasses that can amplify one's Psychic Influence or Psychic Resistance. Though they cannot do both.

There are three distinct powers a practitioner of this magic can access.

Power: Convey as mentioned before is the ability to alter another's mind, be it warping memories, changing opinions, or even keeping an object concealed from sight by altering their perception of it.

Consequence: With a low psychic resistance, one risks being manipulated by other practitioners with little to no defense from their power.

Power: Comprehend is the ability to draw in information from your surroundings and process it quickly, be it seeing in all directions, reading the intention of written language through psychic residue, detecting life through the psychic influence coagulating around all living creatures.

Consequence: With a low psychic resistance, one processes information even more rapidly, but they risk sensory overload that can be debilitating.

Power: Conduit is the ability to pull on dead psychic influence to essentially become a medium for the dead to communicate or to learn from their memories.

Consequence: With a low psychic resistance, one typically can communicate with more dead individuals at once, but risk taking on personality traits from those individuals.