Psionics are supernatural abilities of the brain. Some races have these abilities appear more prominently, and even in those without it being prominent sometimes have a person here and there that are born with these powers. This can also be taught, though it takes much effort to learn and even more to become proficient.

Unless otherwise specified, all Psionic knowledge under Disciplines follow the Standard Effects of Degrees and Levels.

Psionics itself requires 10 Skill Points (though some professions award this knowledge with no additional skill point cost). Arcane Knowledge itself awards the following basic abilities:

The ability to project consciousness into the astral plane, which looks just like the plane from which a character is astrally projecting except for the fact that most creatures cannot interface with them or even sense their presence. Movement can be slower than clairvoyance, which happens almost instantaneously, but the character, at higher degrees, also optionally has the ability to interface with or even cause harm to opponents they meet astrally. To reach the astral plane, a character must make a Skill Check with at least two successes. To stay on the astral plane, a character must continue to make Skill Checks each hour or each round of combat but with only one success required. Mana is used at a rate equal to one per Skill Check.

Any characters taking damage on the astral plane can only recover that damage through rest.

There are two forms of ESP, the simple form of just sensing the presence of others nearby, especially others wishing to cause harm. The second is much more involved, seeking out a quiet location to remote view an area using clairvoyance and clairaudience.

Although this essentially has the same effect as illusions available under Arcane Knowledge, Arcane Knowledge actually creates the illusion whereas Psionic Illusions are only in the minds of the “beholders”. The one real difference is that allies generally don't see Psionic Illusions but they would see Illusions created by Arcane Knowledge and could potentially be fooled by them along with the enemies.

Cognitive disruption means that the character creates a sort of block in the neural pathways of an opponent to prevent the brain from controlling motor functions or thinking clearly. This can take many forms with more dangerous functionality requiring a higher degree of skill.

A successful Win-Loss dice roll vs Cognitive Defense is required to be effective. The opponent receives a bonus of two if the action would cause harm to them, four if there's a good chance it would kill them.

Unlike illusions and cognitive disruption, domination doesn’t just block a neural pathway. It effectively sends signals telling an opponent to do things it wasn’t planning on doing. There are many classes of cognitive domination from making a different choice or just not doing something they had fully intended to do to actually doing something they rarely or never would have done, whether that be based on morality or other reasons.

If an action is so against the will of the opponent being dominated (such as putting themselves or an ally in mortal danger), the opponent receive a bonus of two or four dice to battle against it (depending on how much in opposition an opponent's mind might be) and requires at least third degree skill. Maintaining control of an outright unwilling opponent requires a successful non-combat action to maintain it (rather than simply a passive action).

Levitation is the ability to move without the normal aerodynamics of wings at play. Levitation just happens automatically unless conditions make it so that a standard skill check is required. As characters put more dice toward levitation, their aerodynamics increase to the point that the character can actually fly.

Unlike most of these other attacks, psionic attacks actually causes real damage based on dice roll successes against cognitive defense. Like physical attacks, mental attacks reducing an opponent to zero hit points renders them unconscious.

This can also be performed as a defensive action against opponents trying to use telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance or clairaudience, cognitive domination, or even another psionic attack. In this case, all cognitive defense successes result in one point of physical damage against the attacker.

Telekinesis is similar to levitation except that it always requires mana and it employs mental means to move an object from one place to another by applying momentum to it without force in the traditional sense. Weights that can be moved are shown in the table below:

Telekinetics can also move themselves as if they were levitating, but this always requires mana and never gets beyond the ability to hover. They would obviously require sufficient degree to move the weight necessary to move themselves. For a normal human, this would mean third degree for a character with no armor or fourth degree with armor.

Opponents being moved via telekinesis have two ways of countering being moved via a character's telekinesis. First, they can hold onto something immovable. If they attempt this, the character must make a successful Win-Loss roll versus their opponent's personal defense (with benefits from the opponent's brute strength). Second, they can attempt to counteract the telekinesis with their own, forcing a Win-Loss roll versus their own telekinesis or levitation roll. In these rolls, the dice are the standard “two for trying” plus two per degree.