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The Disciplines of Magic
Psionics
by Baledor Dal'Goldenstein
The Psionics
Psionics are subject to the school of Sinistra. Psionicists are skilled at manipulating other people's thoughts and feelings.
Mechanics
While schools like Mentalism - the respectable counterpart of Psionics - or Elementalism concentrate on altering the physical world, psionicists directly interfere with one's mind. By doing so they cause the eyes of their victims to accept different scenarios as truth in order to influence their state of mind. Once the spell is cast, the victim can no longer distinguish between the real and the fictional world; hence the affected person can be controlled like a puppet.
To give a tangible example: If a psionicist is standing in front of a group of three mercenaries who are threatening him, he is able to make one of them believe that his brothers-in-arms are monstrosities. Then, provided that the spell is successful, that mercenary will turn on his comrades.
Another, highly dangerous skill within the discipline of Psionics is the ability to make oneself invisible in the minds of one's enemies, using the aforementioned principle of mental manipulation. Psionicists simply let their enemies' eyes see a version of reality in which they are not there.
Reputation
Similar to Entropy which is also part of the school of Sinistra, psionics are one of the most notorious of the magical disciplines, the use of which is a punishable offense in the civilized world. Due to its inherent dangers the reason for this should be self-evident: the extensive number of renowned personalities and rulers who have fallen victim to psionic mages and have committed crimes while being under their spell.
