02-05-2011, 12:25 AM
Seismic Sense: The child can detect vibrations in the ground and perceive objects and their environment through it.
First and foremost of Seismic Sense's applications is the ability to perceive surroundings. By sensing vibrations in the ground, the child can perceive her surroundings as precisely as normal sight. Practitioners can use the sense to detect things out of their line of sight, even right behind them. Obstacles that would normally obstruct regular vision, such as walls and thick dust clouds, are ineffective against Seismic Sense, and caverns and other cavities deep underground can also be detected by an acute Seismic Sense. Even earth that is not on the ground can be detected.
Another ability enabled by Seismic Sense is lie detection. The sense allows the youth to sense the interiors of humans, and any changes in their status. Since humans have a physical reaction when they lie, people with this skill can tell when one happens. However, the reaction can be suppressed by skilled liars, making her unable to tell if the statement is a lie. By extension, Seismic Sense should also allow users to sense internal injuries.
Seismic Sense is not without its limitations. Seismic Sense only detects things in contact with the ground; objects floating in water or thrown in the air are undetectable unless they are earth. The practitioner must also be in contact with solid ground to use the sense at all; again, if the user is in the air or water, or even standing on a non-earth solid such as ice, he will be unable to sense anything. Sand, although an earth-based substance, is not firm like normal earth, and renders Seismic Sense "fuzzy" and very imprecise. Uninterrupted contact with the ground is preferred for the user- an object such as a shoe sole interferes with the sense. The sense also has considerably less range than uninterrupted sight. Also, the sense does not allow for perception of facial features or written characters.
Requires: Terraknises, maybe Ki Sense?
First and foremost of Seismic Sense's applications is the ability to perceive surroundings. By sensing vibrations in the ground, the child can perceive her surroundings as precisely as normal sight. Practitioners can use the sense to detect things out of their line of sight, even right behind them. Obstacles that would normally obstruct regular vision, such as walls and thick dust clouds, are ineffective against Seismic Sense, and caverns and other cavities deep underground can also be detected by an acute Seismic Sense. Even earth that is not on the ground can be detected.
Another ability enabled by Seismic Sense is lie detection. The sense allows the youth to sense the interiors of humans, and any changes in their status. Since humans have a physical reaction when they lie, people with this skill can tell when one happens. However, the reaction can be suppressed by skilled liars, making her unable to tell if the statement is a lie. By extension, Seismic Sense should also allow users to sense internal injuries.
Seismic Sense is not without its limitations. Seismic Sense only detects things in contact with the ground; objects floating in water or thrown in the air are undetectable unless they are earth. The practitioner must also be in contact with solid ground to use the sense at all; again, if the user is in the air or water, or even standing on a non-earth solid such as ice, he will be unable to sense anything. Sand, although an earth-based substance, is not firm like normal earth, and renders Seismic Sense "fuzzy" and very imprecise. Uninterrupted contact with the ground is preferred for the user- an object such as a shoe sole interferes with the sense. The sense also has considerably less range than uninterrupted sight. Also, the sense does not allow for perception of facial features or written characters.
Requires: Terraknises, maybe Ki Sense?
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