Telepathy is the power to mentally receive and/or transmit information and mentally receive and/or transmit information. Users of this power are often called Telepaths or Mind Readers.
Also Called[]
- Mental Surfing
- Mind Induction
- Psyche Probe
- Thought-Casting
- TP
Capabilities[]
User can read/sense another person's thoughts, communicate with them mentally and/or affect their minds/thoughts. Telepathy falls into two categories: Telepathic Communication, which is the ability to transmit information from mind to another, and Telepathic Perception, which is the ability to receive information from another mind.
Applications[]
Similar to "Telekinesis", "Telepathy" is an umbrella term for any ability that involves projecting, reading and manipulating thoughts.
Basic Level[]
- Mind Reading: The ability to read/sense the thoughts of others.
- Psychic Communication: The ability to open up secret conversations and relay covert information.
- Empathy: The ability to interpret the emotions of others.
- Telempathy: The ability to communicate through emotions.
- Telepathic Speaking: The ability to speak aloud using only the mind.
Advanced Level[]
- Binding: The ability to restrict the movements of others via the mind.
- Download: The ability to quickly process, store, or download information through another's mind.
- Emotion Manipulation: The ability to make one feel pleased, happy, pained, or any other emotion.
- Knowledge Projection: The ability to project knowledge into another mind.
- Telepathic Language Instruction: The ability to teach languages telepathically.
- Knowledge Replication: The ability to replicate the learned knowledge and skills of others.
- Memory Reading: The ability to read the target's memories.
- Mental Hallucination: The ability to cause mental hallucinations.
- Mental Inducement: The ability to temporarily push the targets mind into the wanted state.
- Mind Control: The ability to manipulate the minds of other via thought process.
- Mind Image: The ability to project one's image to the mind of another.
- Mind Link: The ability to develop a permanent mental bond with any person, also called imprinting.
- Mind Melding: The ability to fuse one's consciousness with another.
- Mind Walking: The ability to enter the mind of another.
- Omnilingualism: The ability to intuitively understand all languages.
- Telepathic Translation: The ability to translate all languages.
- Psionic Inundation: The ability to launch psi-bolts to cause mental damage.
- Neurocognitive Deficit: The ability to shut down an opponent's higher brain function.
- Telepathic Static: The ability to project telepathic static.
- Psychic Inhibitors: The ability to place inhibitors in the mind to limit the target's capabilities.
- Psychic Navigation: The ability to create a mental map of the area.
- Psychic Shadow: The ability to mask psychic presence, hiding from other psychics.
- Psychic Shield: The ability to erect a psychic shield to protect the minds of oneself and/or others.
- Psychic Torture: The ability to torture victims mentally and spiritually.
- Pushing: The ability to implant memories, thoughts, and emotions into others.
- Sensory Scrying: The ability to perceive through the senses of other beings.
- Speaking Inducement: The ability to make others say whatever one wants.
- Telepathic Combat: The ability to use telepathy in physical combat
- Telepathic Hijacking: The ability to hijack telepathic communication.
- Telepathic Language Instruction: The ability to project language information to others to communicate.
- Telepathic Prediction: The ability to know an opponent's moves and attacks by reading their brain waves.
- Telepathic Relay: The ability to act as a mental relay station for a group of minds, allowing said minds to "speak" to one another through the user.
- Thought Manifestation: The ability to make one's thoughts visible to all.
- Thought Manipulation: The ability to control the thoughts of others.
Master Level[]
- Consciousness Transferal: The ability to transfer one's mind to a new body.
- Darkside View: The ability to communicate with and bring out the dark side of a person's personality.
- Lightside View: The ability to communicate with and bring out the good side of a person's personality.
- Memory Manipulation: The ability to erase, restore and alter the target's memories.
- Mental Manipulation: The ability to manipulate functions of the mind.
- Mind Exchange: The ability to transfer one's mind into another's body, taking control of that body.
- Projective Omnilingualism: The ability to emit a field that translates every spoken language.
- Psychic Constructs: The ability to generate constructs out of mental energy.
- Psychic Energy Manipulation: The ability to produce and manipulate mental energy.
- Psychic Wave Manipulation: The ability to generate and manipulate thought waves.
- Psychosomatic Illusion: The ability to create powerful illusions that may cause severe physical damage.
- Remote Telepathy: The ability to use telepathy from a long range.
- Subconscious Manipulation: The ability to manipulate the subconscious.
Ultimate Level[]
- Mental Projection: The ability to project thoughts into reality.
- Mindscape Transportation: The ability to transport physical matter into one's conscious or subconscious thoughts.
- Omnipathy: The ability to read the thoughts of billions or more subjects at once.
- Panempathy: The ability to interpret the emotions of billions or more subjects at once.
Absolute Level[]
- Metapathy: The ability to read, sense, communicate with, and control an infinite number of minds across all universes, planes and dimensions.
- Mindscape Materialization: The ability to will ones thoughts and their inner world into reality.
Variations[]
- Animal Telepathy
- Electrical Telepathy
- Telepathic Dream Creation
- Telepathic Force
- Temporal Telepathy
Associations[]
- Potentially all non-physical Mental Powers.
- Clairvoyance
- Dream Manipulation
- Mental Shield Penetration
- Telepathic Mimicry
Limitations[]
- Does not work on mindless beings (corpses, animated objects, robots, etc.).
- May be limited to a certain range to work, including touch only.
- May be limited to certain number of targets at a time.
- May be constantly active and have to constantly hear thoughts.
- Since the user constantly hears thoughts, this power becomes ineffective in large crowds.
- May not be able to read impulsive actions.
- Users of Psychic Shield are either immune or highly resistant.
- May get overwhelmed by too many thoughts.
- Unless one is multilingual or has the automatic ability to translate and decrypt, ability may not work if the target is thinking in alternate languages or encrypted codes.
- The more intense the thought, the louder it sounds to the user.