Psionics

"“Very few of us have the ability to put their minds to their true power...” - Kaeden Dayne, Allpsion"

Overview
“Psionics, well.. Certainly one of the harder disciplines in life. It requires harnessing your own mind- given you have the.. Channel, or whatever the fuck it’s called, to make different things happen. You can teleport, lift things from far away, even see the future, I think. Shapeshift.. All types of things. With the amount of power, though, requires a certain amount of concentration, too, and if you ever break that concentration.. Well, I hope you don’t mind.. Like.. not existing. Pretty fun stuff, I hear.”

Nomad
Walkers of the planes, Nomads apply movement based techniques in most of their uses of psionics, whether it be on themselves or opponents.

Egoist
Self improvement based psions, they imply techniques such as thickening their own skin, and once skilled, fully (or partially) transforming into different creatures and even objects.

Seer
Just as the name implies, their unique, and almost impossibly rare abilities allow them to harness their mental energy to very literally see the future, whether it be short term, or long term.

Telepath
Attackers, and defenders of the mind, telepaths are uniquely focused to be able to alter, assault, or defend their own and other’s minds, and even repair them.

Shaper
Manipulators of the world, Shapers directly change the world using their own mind, creating whatever it is they wish, given enough time.

Kineticist
Similar to a Shaper, the Kineticist manipulates the world- through force. Literally. It’s force. They use force manipulation, forming it into blasts, turning it into a platform, or some such. Telekinesis.

Learning Process
Each discipline requires it’s own kind of learning style, but edgy stuff like meditation generally helps, at least with the concentration bit. Most people manifest psionics somewhere in their teens (not counting certain races) and, frankly, if they aren’t directly trained from there they probably die. Most of the powers of psionics, if not trained- which I’ll get onto in a second- tend to make you, y’know, teleport into a volcano, permanently make yourself a rabbit, or even create a rock. Where you’re standing. Doesn’t end well.

The learning process itself is a long, and challenging one. Unless in possession of some unnatural affinity (which do exist) then nobody can be counted as a “skilled” psion until a little less than a decade of training- if they don’t die during that, that is. And after that, becoming a psyker (which is a specialized, and very skilled psion) is significantly harder. It’s not a thing you decide on lightly. And frankly, unless you have an available telepath willing to destroy your channel (The thing in your mind that allows you to use psionics at all) and you’re willing, that is, you almost /have/ to have some amount of training to not kill yourself.

(Link to a full description and mostly complete ability list of psionics below, although it is incomplete and possibly unbalanced)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13A-HV8Qud4p1Dwos7vwa9Hi1h1kfbtjDTpdWH-BmxcI/edit