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(Partial) List of Abilities and Opt-Out
Jan. 7th, 2015 04:29 pm I'm ridiculously slow in getting around to one of these, but better late than never, eh? Ushahin has a lot of abilities, some well-defined and others handwaved as simply being magic. Here's a list of them. This is also the place where you can choose to opt-out of having him use any of these abilities on your character.
-Dream-related abilities: He can enter the dreams of others while he's awake or sleeping, with distance being no factor, seeing as how he psychically travels the whole of the entire continent trying to find certain people. While in the dream, he can manipulate, change, or even put his own thoughts into the dreamer's head. Think of him as being like a magical Freddy Kreuger. Fortunately, his ability affects nothing in the real world, leaving only the dreamer's mind vulnerable. The only defenses shown to be strong enough to ward him off are powerful magical wards.
-Psychic-related abilities: He mentions several times that he can "scry the minds of others", which basically means he can read minds to some extent. He's shown doing so only a few times in canon and the only experience fully detailed almost kills him, since the creature he attempts it on is not human. He's shown to push his own madness and despair on other people, giving them an emotional state that can confuse them for several minutes. Another ability he has is what he calls "the glamour". It's more subtle than simple mind-reading. Basically, he puts an illusion over himself, making him seem harmless to the person or animal looking at him. People see only a normal human-being while animals tend to forget he's even there.
-Ravens: He's got an affinity for the birds. He uses them to either see through their eyes to spy on people, can combine them to form a giant "Ravensmirror" that allows him to view things going on elsewhere, and uses them as a psychic link back to the real world when he goes too far inside someone's mind.
-Immortality: He has a form of immortality granted to him by Satoris burning a brand into him with Godslayer, which is basically a chip from an object that helped to create the world. It's immortality more along the lines of the Norse gods than the Greek. He doesn't age, but he can still be killed.
-Dream-related abilities: He can enter the dreams of others while he's awake or sleeping, with distance being no factor, seeing as how he psychically travels the whole of the entire continent trying to find certain people. While in the dream, he can manipulate, change, or even put his own thoughts into the dreamer's head. Think of him as being like a magical Freddy Kreuger. Fortunately, his ability affects nothing in the real world, leaving only the dreamer's mind vulnerable. The only defenses shown to be strong enough to ward him off are powerful magical wards.
-Psychic-related abilities: He mentions several times that he can "scry the minds of others", which basically means he can read minds to some extent. He's shown doing so only a few times in canon and the only experience fully detailed almost kills him, since the creature he attempts it on is not human. He's shown to push his own madness and despair on other people, giving them an emotional state that can confuse them for several minutes. Another ability he has is what he calls "the glamour". It's more subtle than simple mind-reading. Basically, he puts an illusion over himself, making him seem harmless to the person or animal looking at him. People see only a normal human-being while animals tend to forget he's even there.
-Ravens: He's got an affinity for the birds. He uses them to either see through their eyes to spy on people, can combine them to form a giant "Ravensmirror" that allows him to view things going on elsewhere, and uses them as a psychic link back to the real world when he goes too far inside someone's mind.
-Immortality: He has a form of immortality granted to him by Satoris burning a brand into him with Godslayer, which is basically a chip from an object that helped to create the world. It's immortality more along the lines of the Norse gods than the Greek. He doesn't age, but he can still be killed.
