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A psion, once identified, often enters the care of a faction, and these factions regularly compete with each other to increase their ranks. The competition is usually friendly. The factions of psions are referred to as “Wings” within their own ranks. Despite differing goals, their unique nature as hyper-empaths and telepathic abilities have resulted in an affinity between them that outshines their connection with non-latents.

The Cabinet is a secret council of twelve formidable psions who oversee hundreds of latents. Neutral advisors to many kingdoms, The Cabinet’s representatives are dispersed across Ancerra, serving as translators, diplomats, adjudicators, and long-distance telepathic communicators. The presence of a Cabinet representative is a symbol of status, and kingdoms, nobles, and guilds alike pay handsomely for their services.

Lights from Below, colloquially known as Lebellos or Elbes, is a smaller Wing of psions dedicated to improving Ancerra. The Lights from Below construct bridges, dig wells, and fight bandits and monsters, taking only enough coin to reach their next destination. While traveling, they nurture young latents, and their headquarters, the Hall of Heroes, is a massive hall carved into a mountain face. It is filled with statues and murals that depict heroes from the Light from Below and their famous adventures.

One of the largest Wings is The Fixers, with thousands of latents throughout Ancerra. Their primary function is to hunt monsters and collect bounties.

Psionic Aptitudes are unique subcategories of psionic magic. Psionic casters typically focus on one Aptitude and greatly increase their power within it.

Generally, telepaths find themselves most tempted by the forbidden arts, and many telepathy spells ride a thin line between acceptable and forbidden.

In addition to spells, psionic casters might learn invocations. '''Invocation.''' If you know any invocations, you may cast invocations a number of times equal to your Psionic Tier. This

'''Spell.''' Spells follow the normal rules.

These tags are referenced by some psionic spells and invocations.

Your Psionic Power is the total number of talent points you have spent on psionic talents as a result of leveling up, along with the number of talent points you have spent in certain classes or stacks. These classes or stacks will specify that they contribute to Psionic Power.

Your Psionic Tier increases at varying increments of Psionic Power, as shown on the table below.

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Your Psionic Tier determines how many times you can use invocations each day.

When you take the Adept of the Psionic talent, choose one Aptitude: Clairsentience, Psychokinetics, Metacreativity, Telepathy, or Psychometabolics.

A Spell with the Manifestation tag costs 0 SP for psions who have the corresponding Aptitude (although upcharging still

requires SP).

Spells with the Concentration tag require a lot of mental focus to keep running; thus, only one can be active at a time. If you take [[damage]] while doing this, you must make a Concentration check: 1d20+END. The DC of the check is 1⁄2 the amount of damage that you took.