Plane of Vaern

Vaern does not have much Aetheric density (the equivalent to mana in this setting, found in the environment). Furthermore, people have more difficulty absorbing aether particles in Vaern than creatures residing in other planes. For this reason, inhabitants of Vaern found that they could not naturally perform great feats of magic without the help of catalysts.

This led to the adoption of magic amplifiers and catalysts (Psionic wands, psionic staves and other psionic implants) that attune to the brainwaves of the caster, enabling them to better manipulate aether particles without needing to absorb them. It has almost become tradition for truly gifted mages in Vaern to be sent at a young age to the other Planes in order to master True magic. This should is no indication that psionic mages in Vaern are weak by comparison. In fact, a fully trained and equipped psionic mage can easily match a TrueGifted in the amount of devastation they can cause. A psionic mage will simply need a tool to do it well.

Since catalysts serve to amplify brain waves rather than transform aether particles, Vaernian mages have naturally gravitated toward psionic abilities as their most widely taught form of magic. Other schools of magic still exist in Vaern, but it is acknowledged that they are far from being as powerful.


 * Apportation – The ability to undergo materialization, disappearance or teleportation of an object.
 * Astral projection or mental projection – The ability to voluntarily project the astral body (consciousness), being associated with the out-of-body experience, in which the astral body is felt to temporarily separate from the physical body.
 * Automatic writing – The ability to draw or write without conscious intent.
 * Divination – The ability to gain insight into a situation using occult means.
 * Dowsing – The ability to locate water, sometimes using a tool called a dowsing rod.
 * Energy medicine – The ability to heal with one's own empathic etheric, astral, mental or spiritual energy.
 * Levitation or transvection – The ability to float or fly by mystical means.
 * Mediumship or channeling – The ability to communicate with spirits.
 * Precognition or premonition – The ability to perceive future events.
 * Psychic surgery – The ability to remove disease or disorder within or over the body tissue via an "energetic" incision that heals immediately afterwards.
 * Psychokinesis or telekinesis – The ability to manipulate objects with one's mind.
 * Psychometry or psychoscopy – The ability to obtain information about a person or an object by touch.
 * Pyrokinesis – The ability to control flames, fire, or heat using one's mind.
 * Ṛddhi - through Buddhist meditation.
 * Remote viewing, telesthesia or remote sensing – The ability to see a distant or unseen target using extrasensory perception.
 * Retrocognition or postcognition – The ability to supernaturally perceive past events.
 * Telepathy – The ability to transmit or receive thoughts supernaturally