Adimus Abilities

There are many abilities made possibly by the adimus. Some of them are unconscious abilities while others require intense skill and training.

Telepathy

The adimus can send and receive telepathic communication to one or many people. While receiving telepathic communications is automatic for anyone with an active adimus, starting around age seven, sending them requires training, especially sending targeted or covert communications.

Translation

The adimus stores an imprint of a person’s language skills directly from the language center of the brain. This allows a person to automatically translate any language they know into their primary language (which is the language a person thinks in). In addition, the adimus automatically transmits a person’s spoken words into every language they unconsciously know. It is a type of automatic telepathic translation that is done subconsciously. This is different from normal telepathy since it requires a person to speak and cannot be targeted or controlled.
This allows people who share a common language to understand each other regardless of what language they are currently speaking. It develops by age twelve and only works with a language that a person knows significantly well.

Adimus Immune System

The adimus immune system starts at age seven as the adimus develops and grows stronger the more a person uses adimus abilities. It provides resistance to almost all natural illnesses and diseases, heals injuries and wounds quickly, and provides various levels of resistance to adimus based abilities or attack, largely based on a person’s adimus classification. The adimus immune system also extends a person’s lifespan, which is increased exponentially based on their classification.
Just as exercise increases physical abilities and stamina, continuous practice and use of the adimus, without pushing it constantly to fatigue state, increases the adimus immune system. This results in enhanced durability, speed, and other heightened physical senses, without the need to use mentus for temporary boosts.
Adimus immunity will fail, however, if a person’s adimus energy is at or near depletion, or injury far exceeds what can be repaired before death. An external influx of adimus energy can be used to temporarily boost a person’s adimus immunity to two or three times its normal abilities, but this can only be performed by mandants or guardians.

Mentus

Mentus uses a part of the adimus called the permutare, that converts adimus energy into energy that can be used and manipulated by the wielder for various results. This is the most versatile of adimus abilities. Mentus can be used for various telekinetic abilities, energy barriers, temporary body strengthening and enhancement beyond what the adimus immune system gives, and  the creation and manipulation of energy-based fire, known as mentus fire. There are many other ways mentus energy can be used and the ability is limited only by one’s skill and imagination. However, because adimus energy is finite, mentus usually cannot be used for large effects unless one has an exceptionally large adimus energy pool or is a mind mage, with the ability to store large quantities of adimus energy in their scepter.
Certain mentant abilities are only available to specific adimus classifications since they are reliant on specific subtle differences in a person’s adimus signature that control these skills. This is mostly seen with mentant-non classifications.

Adimus Vision

This is the ability to access the mentant realm. Though considered a mentus skill, adimus vision is actually separate from mentus since it doesn't require the permutare to use. In addition, a person's adimus classification affects what they're able to sense in the mentant realm. For example, quickeners, mind mages, environs, and sensants all have different levels of access to the mentant realm and can interpret the information there differently. It can take years to interpret the signals seen with adimus vision. Like other adimus abilities, constant use of adimus vision helps it improve over time.

Adimus Voice

This is the ability to infuse adimus energy into one’s voice, which is used for mandamus as well as quickener calls. Adimus voice resonates at a specific frequency that can be used to transmit a person’s will into the surrounding environment.
For a quickener call, it stimulates the part of one’s own adimus that holds a specific quickener connection, which in turn sends a signal through the quickener link to that quickener’s staff. Because the quickener call is essentially self-referential, the animus’s own natural frequency is used. This is the simplest type of adimus voice and requires little skill. It can be done almost unconsciously by anyone with an adimus.
Adimus voice for mandamus is completely different as it seems to involve using a specific and unique energy frequency. Because its impossible to measure, its unknown if the frequency is based on the object being controlled, the type of command, the person issuing it, or all three. It’s believed that this is the reason why only certain people can use mandamus, since their adimus signature allows them to create that special frequency with their voice.

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Understanding The Adimus

Terminology & Abilities

Adimus Classifications (Main Article)