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by MisterTompson » Fri Jun 12, 2015 1:18 am | |
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With the likely reveal of some new Talents coming sort-of/maybe soon, it got me to thinking that we really don't have a single list of all currently known (to the readers) Talents. Given the direction the snippets are pointing towards, I think that such a list will be very nice to have. So, without further ado:
Voice - Telepathy. An extremely small percentage can project what they see. Glimpses (Calirath dynasty) - Precognition in regards to human actions. Some foreseen events can be changed, but not all (such as when one sees their own death). Mapper - Mental elevation map Distance Viewer - Mentally project one's vision, as if their eyes were far away. A small number can predict where creatures/people they see will be in a short time. Plotter - A Mapper who can also sense "life essences". Flicker - Small scale teleportation Porter - Used to power the Emergency Transportation System (Teleporting) Tracer - Able to See things which happened at a given place, as long as not to much time has gone. Also called "Sniffers". Sifter - Lie detector. Precognition - See general events in the future (natural disasters/weather forecasting) Lifter - Telekinesis, but only on a very small scale. The most powerful of them can only lift up to 40 pounds. Wiffer - Able to sense residual psychic residue. Healer - The ability to speed up and enhance natural Human healing. Mind Healer - Vague, but essentially a super shrink with possible telepathy like powers. Portal Hound - The ability to sense the location of portals (compass like). Very rare. Nonhuman Translator - The ability to communicate with intelligent, nonhuman creatures such as dolphins and whales. Please post any that I missed, and I will check for updates every couple days. Hopefully I will be able to add some after the next snippet! Update 1 (6/12): Added Sniffer, Tracer, and Precognition. Edited Glimpses. Thanks to Eagleeye, Kieth_w, and tonyz. Update 2 (6/15): Added Plotter, Sifter, Lifter, Wiffer, Healer, and Mind Healer. Removed Sniffer. Edited Voice, Distance Viewer, Porter, and Tracer. Thanks to bkwormlisa, SCC, and brnicholas. Update 3 (6/18): Added Portal Hound and Nonhuman Translator. Thanks to Howard T. Map-addict, bkwormlisa, Knightfire, and Jonathan_S. Last edited by MisterTompson on Thu Jun 18, 2015 6:49 pm, edited 3 times in total.
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by Eagleeye » Fri Jun 12, 2015 3:52 am | |
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Sniffer - expert to recognise flavors and odors, even if the source of them is some days old.
Tracer - able to See things which happened at a given place, as long as not to much time has gone. Addition to the Calirath-Talent: Glimpses refer always to humans who will be involve in events and/or cause them. That is the difference to Precognition, which concentrates on future events with sources not related to human decisions (like earthquakes or vulcan eruptions) |
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by Keith_w » Fri Jun 12, 2015 6:34 am | |
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Don't forget Lie Detector.
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A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. |
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by tonyz » Fri Jun 12, 2015 1:55 pm | |
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The Calirath Glimpses are precognition involving human action; there are also other Precogs though we don't know very much about the limits of their Talents -- but, e.g., we've heard about weather forecasting.
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by Howard T. Map-addict » Fri Jun 12, 2015 2:11 pm | |
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I Seem To Recall that I wrote up such a list,
but I cannot find that I posted it. If I find it in my papers, I'll post it on Monday. That gives y'all a chance to beat me to it. HTM |
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by bkwormlisa » Sat Jun 13, 2015 7:22 pm | |
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I went to the HHNF Glossary and pulled these out (yes, I know I cheated). You didn't have Lifter, Healer, Mind Healer, Projector, or Whiffer in your list. Lie Detectors are actually Sifters and the ETS Talents are Porters. Sniffers and Tracers are the same thing; I'm not sure where your definition of Sniffers came from (I don't remember the term from the books). Whiffers are the ones that see what happened at a place; Tracers use objects.
I would add that Voices have perfect memories, natural ability with languages, and can transmit up to several hundred miles. And while the HHNF definition doesn't include it, Tracers can also sense some of what the last person touching an object was feeling and seeing. Healer - Can block pain and encourage the body to heal more quickly. Predictive Distance Viewer - A varient of Distance Viewer that can predict a moving target’s position ever so briefly in advance.
I would assume the "wing is" in the Lifter description should actually be "weighing as". And for reasons I can't figure out, Distance Viewers, Glimpsers, Healers, Mappers, and Voices aren't in the Glossary. |
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by SCC » Sat Jun 13, 2015 10:39 pm | |
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There's a variant of Distance viewer with Precog
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by brnicholas » Sun Jun 14, 2015 2:15 pm | |
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One thing that I find interesting about talents is the fact that despite the text saying several times that only the Calirath's can predict human actions the battle at Fort Salby shows that Predictive Distance Viewers know where something will be a couple minutes in advance even when its position will be determined by human action. See the order in which events happened in the quote from HHNF below.
Nicholas
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by Howard T. Map-addict » Mon Jun 15, 2015 10:55 am | |
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Y'all seem to have everything except Portal Hound.
We've only seen one PH, Darcel, who is also a Voice. My guess is that the PH talent is new. (It would not have been of any use, until the first Portal opened up, anyway!) Considering how much Darcel made of it, and how that surprised the SPA Council, I might even guess that Darcel was the First PH. If a rash of them suddenly develops, then Sharonans might suddenly find that their worlds have more Portals than they had known! I will put these lists into the Civilians Thread, viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3242 for easier reference. HTM
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by bkwormlisa » Mon Jun 15, 2015 6:42 pm | |
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Portal Hounds aren't new, but they are very rare.
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