Psion v0.1

A young man meditates under a tree, holding a small bloody axe in his hand. A sudden look of shock and sadness comes across his face as he rises and looks behind a nearby boulder to find a patch of freshly dug dirt. He wept.

An elf is beckoned to a small stall in a crowded market. The fortune teller accepts some change from the elf and brings him to a small private room. At the smallest drop in the fortune teller’s guard, a knife flies from the shelf, slitting her throat, killing her and revealing her to be a Rakshasa in disguise.

The militia orcs howl their battle cries and surge forward charging. To their surprise, the human rabble holds its ground and fights with inexplicably ferocity. Suddenly, mindless fear clings to the orcs’ minds as they turn and run, never noticing the calm githyanki standing amid the humans and directing their efforts.

These are examples of those who are called Psions. They are wielder of psionics, a mysterious power that is cultivated from within. They are masters of their inner space and use it to change not only themselves but also the world around them.

Power of the Mind Psionic power, as its users here named the Psions, has always been an alien element in a world of magic. Folks and most of people mistake the manifestations of such power as magic, maybe weirder than usual but hey, it's magic, you never know what's really going on. Different story for those who taps into the magical Weave and can feel that psionic power has no connection to it, making them wary of Psions and their powers; some magic wielders may be interested in those quite rare beings, while others may just be uncomfortable around them or even resent them, thinking they are an aberration to the world as they know it.

Psionic power is fueled by the mind, conscious or unconscious, by thoughts or emotions, but as for the quetion of where it really comes from, there is no right or definite answer: some say from an outer plane of existence, as the Astral Plane or the Far Realm, others that a psion mind is its own Weave, others from a underlying collective will of all Psions themselves, past, present and future. It's up to the DM choosing something that merges and fits well with how he imagined and shaped his world; letting the source of psionic power be an unsolved mistery is also a solid option.

Psions abilities include (but are not limited to) telekinesis, telepathy, mind reading and even space-time manipulation is not outside of their scope.