3ofswords | Powers and Abilities

powers

and abilities

CARDS:	Kira can use tarot, oracle, lenormand, or simple playing cards to gain insight into past, present, and future - regarding events or individuals. He can also use them to determine directions to physical objects, people, or locations. It is possible for him to ask spirits and supernatural beings to communicate through the cards, but he has little practice in this and results vary.
OMENS:	A flight of birds, a fall of bones, a shift in weather - Kira's sense of the world combines his prescience and empathy into gut feelings with a very good track record. Magic, in his world, is powered by belief, so that symbols of the collective conscious have actual power to lead his predictions.
DREAMS:	Some of Kira's predictions come in dreams, without aid of tools or elements from the world around him.
TOUCH:	His empathic gifts are bolstered by physical contact, especially skin to skin.

ABILITIES

Kira is a precognitive psychic and empath. He can sense or experience the emotions of others, and with or without traditional tools and sybmols, gain prescient knowledge, especially in regards to his own life and circumstances. While less practiced in most timelines, he has family history with and ability to perform exorcisms, contact spirits and supernatural beings, and detect the supernatural qualities and magic of other beings.

Use of his powers is expressed like another sense, and sometimes is done unconsciously. This is usually more of a plot device to facilitate meetings and character plots. He is in the right situation at the right time, or he is able to find a character he's seeking out. Please feel free to talk it out if you feel it is cramping your style, or use the comments to opt out entirely.

That said, if you are into his gifts and want to use them, or have specific Tarot cards or symbols you associate with your character, also comment to let me know!

RESOURCES

-Golden Thread Tarot
-Tarot Cheat Sheet
-Playing Card Meanings
-Tarot to Playing Card Translation

LIMITATIONS

Kira cannot read minds or sense memories, and it is perfectly acceptable for characters with their own psychic or magical abilities to say they dampen or cancel out his abilities, for player preference. I reserve the right to have this go both ways, though I have yet to opt him out of another character's powers.

His powers of precognition that do not use his tools, and his dreams of the future, are limited to people he directly knows and cares about. Even dreams of large-scale events are about their effect on his own people, not the world at-large. He also cannot gain insight from or imbue power into objects (such as making charms or wards), and he cannot know the feelings or intentions of animals or some magical beings - only people and those player characters who do not opt-out.

In games he adheres to rules about the dampening or loss of powers. This is especially focused on his empathic gifts, which go from ambient to needing concentration, touch, and/or purchase with activity rewards to regain full strength. These gifts reduce to impressions, which filter through his own life experience and relate to his physical senses. Kira does not experience your character's emotions as they experience them, or gain insight into their mind and memories. He gets impressions that filter through how he experiences or has sensed those emotions before, and he interprets them through his own point of view.

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