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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jbear" data-source="post: 7672487" data-attributes="member: 75065">For me, as I imagine psionic powers, it is far closer to a martial skill than magical one. I imagine it as the types of powers that one could gain by learning to use new areas of the brain. In the end the brain is an organ. Something natural. Using more of it is not bound to chanting secret words, using special charms, or drawing energy from the blood. A silent, invisible and terrifying power of mind over matter. It is the type of power that I could atcually imagine human kind eventually developing over a very long time perhaps in combination with certain types of psychotropics asper Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune, or perhaps in combination with highly sensitive technology to amplify mental commands, a realty just around the corner for us in the real world with technology being developed to respond to brainwaves of paraplegics for example. The powers one might obtain should reflect what you might actually do with your mind: move things from afar, heighten your ability to use you body in ways beyond its normal limits, read or influence the minds of others, extend your senses beyond the body and gain a 6th sense for example. The naming of things ... well, I guess the words related to psychic powers all come from the greek, which makes it sound scientific. Tele: Far Kinesis: Movement - Would "Move from Afar" sound better? Not convinced. Psycho: Mind  Metry: Measuring so Mental Measure? Better ...? Okay, so I'm obviously not a pro at coming up with alternative names, I guess. It might be fun for us to have a go at it!As for the origins. Being so internal how could it be connected to another plane? ANy other plane? It comes from our own inner plane in my mind. Dark Sun gives specific conditions for such powers to flourish. The conditions are so hostile that as a question of survival the mind has been forced to develop in new ways. A natural evolutionary step. The environment is a catalyst, but there could be many other ways such powers could develop. I imagine that extreme situations generally result in extreme solutions i.e physical and mental torture as per Stephen King's Carrie. Perhaps a contact with unspeakable horrors such as those of the Far Realm, could twist the mind and cause it to expand beyond its default use... but that should only be another possible catalyst amongst many (and one with its own uniquely mad flavour), not the one source. That's my view of things. Tinker away, make it unique, but do not tinker too Far perhaps?</blockquote>

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