Psychics: Mortals at Nightfall Toronto may possess Psychic Merits. If a mortal with Psychic Powers is ghouled, embraced or bitten by a werewolf their Psychic powers are lost in the mystical transformation.
Some of the Merits listed below have Prerequisites, or require additional choices. Please refer to your book for these details. Second Sight, pages 27 - 67 for lots more.
ESP Merits
ESP Merits permit a psychic to perceive things that lie beyond the mundane senses of normal people. The most common form of ESP allows one to perceive contemporaneous events happening far away. Other powers allow a seer to cast her senses through time instead of space, observing the past of objects or the future of individuals. People who exercise ESP Merits are sometimes referred to as clairvoyants, seers or ESPers.
Astral Projection (•••)
Clairvoyance (•••)
Dowsing (•)
Dream Travel (• to •••••)
Postcognition (• or •••)
Precognition (••••)
Psychometry (••• or ••••)
Mediumist Merits
A medium is a psychic able to use her own body as a vessel for acquiring unconscious knowledge or for interacting with spirit entities. Most parapsychologists point to the abilities of mediums as proof of other stages of existence • ghosts, past lives, even the Universal Unconscious. A few parapsychologists, however, reject these theories as scientifi cally unverifi able, and argue that a medium is simply a clairvoyant who is unaware that the source of her insights and abilities lies within her own subconscious. It•s even possible to defi ne mediumship in terms of the mind and the soul. The former occurs as a result of conscious and unconscious thought being able to access the same from ghosts and spirits, entities beyond physical form. The latter type of mediumship involves a direct bond between the souls of psychic and entity, typically achieved through religious or ritualist means. This book defi nes two types of mediums: ones who possess Psychic Merits, their powers deriving from the mind, and ones who possess Spiritual Merits, their powers deriving from the soul. Faith and ritual-inspired mediums are defined possible under the rules of thaumaturgy.
Channeling (•••)
Death Sight (••••)
Ghost-Calling (•••)
Psychokinetic Merits
Psychokinesis governs the ability to affect physical objects and materials through the mind alone. By far the most common form of psychokinesis is telekinesis, which is the power to move objects without touching them. Less common are biokinesis, which allows a psychic to exert control over his own body and those of others; pyrokinesis, which allows a psychic to cause objects to spontaneously combust; and thermokinesis, which allows a psychic to manipulate ambient temperature. To the uninitiated, pyrokinesis and thermokinesis seem to overlap, as both can be used to start fires. In practice, however, pyrokinesis causes objects to burst into flames without first increasing temperature to ignition level, while thermokinesis raises the temperature around an object to be burned until it ignites. This subtle distinction plays an important role in how the two powers function in the fi eld. Other more rare forms of psychokinesis are also discussed here. In general, psychics with any form of psychokinesis are referred to as psychokinetics, while those with specific powers are often called telekinetics, pyrokinetics or by similar terms
Biokinesis (• to •••••)
Cryokinesis (• to •••••)
Plant Empathy (•)
Psychic Healing (••• or •••••)
Psychic Vampirism (•••• or •••••)
Pyrokinesis (•••••)
Pyrokinetic Immunity (•• or ••••)
Pyrokinetic Shaping (•••••)
Telekinesis (• to •••••)
Thermokinesis (• to •••••)
Telepathic Merits
Telepathy is a catch-all term for psychic powers that permit one to perceive or affect the thoughts or emotions of other beings. All Telepathic Merits require a psychic to be able to clearly see his target within direct line of sight. A psychic cannot read another•s thoughts or use any other Telepathic Merit over the phone or by watching his target on TV, for example. A telepath capable of Astral Projection can read the thoughts of someone in whose presence the telepath projects himself, while a clairvoyant with telepathy can read the thoughts of someone she can view remotely. These two are the only ESP Merits that can be combined with telepathy in this way, however. A precog might be able to see someone acting in the past or future, but is not able to read that person•s thoughts, while a psychic using psychometry could read the mental impressions associated with an object, but not probe the mind of someone who handled it. Psychics who demonstrate Telepathic Merits are typically referred to as telepaths.
Animal Possession (••••)
Animal Rapport (variable)
Aura Reading (•• or •••••)
Mental Blast (•••••)
Mind Breaker (•••••)
Mind Control (•••••)
Mind Reading (••• to •••••)
Psychic Empathy (•••• or •••••)
Psychic Illusions (•••••)
Psychic Invisibility (•••••)
Telepathic Communication (••••)
Telepathic Rapport (•••)
Thought Projection (••• or ••••)
Misc Merits
Anti-Psi (•••••)
Believers (• to •••••)
Doubting Thomas (•)
Ghost Ally (••• to •••••)
Hypnotic Voice (••••)
Lucid Dreamer (•)
Psychic Resistance (• to •••)
