Clairvoyance {Skill}

Clairvoyance on its own is a psionic phenomenon, enabling people with the ability view limited visual data of any remote location in real time, while further variations of this power exist in its own forms. But 'magic' clairvoyance is a little different, in terms of its source and power.


Strangely, the clairvoyance skill when used in magic actually does make use of one's Cora brain sector (alternatively pineal gland), while the magic itself simply serves as a bolster effect to help this happen. Most people are capable of using clairvoyance on their own without magic, though simply lack the knowledge and often the physiological energy supply to do so. Having magical energy as an extra source mitigates this problem.


As the name entails, magical clairvoyance functions very similarly to non-magical clairvoyance, in terms of what results can be collected from the remote-viewing technique. This relies on the assistance of detection instincts through the veil merged with dimensional-curving magic. However, even when assisted with magical energy, the process is incredibly draining and taxing to humans. Four seconds of full-range clairvoyance can drain an adult of their entire MP energy supply, while eight seconds can cause that person to pass out instantly. In the same moment, rapid dehydration is incurred, suggesting that natural clairvoyance requires a heavy water supply from the body's process. While not an official spell or skill, this ability needs no other spell mastery to function.

Effect

Support Form: Remote Viewing
Support Type: Boosted Clairvoyance
Glyphring: False

Side/Secondary Effects

As mentioned before, clairvoyance causes a massive drain to all formats of energy (including magical when magical energy is used), as well as rapid dehydration. Anyone who overdoes this without the support of a magic symbol will certainly pass out and struggle coming back to a state of normalcy ever again. Additionally, natural clairvoyance has three time-formats; the past, present, and future tense of remote viewing. Clairvoyance can sometimes be used to see into the past, or into the future for targets and locations. But this all depends on the person. When assisted with magic however, the version of clairvoyance is always in present tense, (or real time clairvoyance).

Manifestation

For the user of this skill, the eyes shut blocking out physical and peripheral vision. The user then concentrates on their psionic ability while exerting magical energy to assist their concentration at the same time. The mind must be cleared before starting, having soon focused on either a specific individual, or a specific location of interest. When the ability activates, a hazy aerial or third person view of the targets can be seen with perfect detail, so long as there is a person in that location to lock onto. Once the concentration ends, the vision is over. If a location is selected while no people are in it, there will be no echoed response at all, though location scanning and panning can occur instantly just from the change of thought.

For anyone other than the user of the skill, there are no visible effects to note.

Source

Personal MP + Excellent Hydration + Psionic Projections
Average ME usage (per second): 9800 ME

Discovery

Mainne Gelica is the Leray elite who came up with the idea to modify this skill from some existing though illegal magical research into symbols that enhance the third eye spell for the cost of that wielder's life. The ability was technically discovered before Mainne's time, during the Avion Wars. In the Avion Wars, clairvoyance was one of the many sought out abilities to be achieved using illegal symbols and markings. The results from these markings were initially resounded, yielding in powerful clairvoyants who had unnatural boosts in magic giving them the ability to maintain a full-area clairvoyance field for up to two sustained minutes with minimal permanent injury. However, the end results in these experiments were all the same. Anyone who marked themselves with this symbol, whether they used it for clairvoyance or not had their lives shortened to a nearly exact time of two months from the time they were marked. Any marked clairvoyance would have exactly two months to live beginning from the moment they were marked, most of which never realized their shortened life spans being the heavy cost of their shiny new powers. Once this was discovered, nobody was willing to ever try these symbols again, and ironically was banned by the Liberators, the same faction who developed the symbols.

Related Discipline

While the origin or discovery of clairvoyance cannot be determined, popularity of this ability was boosted from the teaching of the Yogi Philosophy in 1904.

Related Element

Boosted Clairvoyance

Effect Duration

Defined by the wielder.

Effect Casting Time

Instant

Range

Universal

Level

N/A

Applied Restriction

Serious practice and discipline is required to get any use of the skill, and not everybody will be capable of getting it at all.