Telepathy

"Your mind, to me, is an open book: full of big print and lots of pictures!"

- Maldis, Farscape

"Secrets? What secrets?"

- Magic: The Gathering, Telepathy

"Do not be startled, child. My voice is in your mind, not in your ear. Verbal communication is so limited. You will find that telepathy is purity."

- Mage: The Ascension - Core Rulebook (1st edition)

The power to mentally receive and/or transmit information. Users of this power are often called Telepaths or Mind Readers.

Also Called

 * Mental Surfing
 * Mind Induction
 * Psyche Probe
 * Thought-Casting
 * TP

Capabilities
User can read/sense another person's thoughts, communicate with them mentally and/or affect their minds/thoughts. Telepathy falls into two categories: Telepathic Communication, which is the ability to transmit information from one mind to another, and Telepathic Perception, which is the ability to receive information from another mind.

Applications
Similar to "Telekinesis", "Telepathy" is an umbrella term for any ability that involves projecting, reading and manipulating thoughts.

Basic Level

 * Mind Reading: The ability to read/sense the thoughts of others.
 * Visual Mind Reading: The ability to see the thoughts of others.
 * Psychic Communication: The ability to open up secret conversations and relay covert information.
 * Empathy: The ability to interpret the emotions of others.
 * Telempathy: The ability to communicate through emotions.
 * Telepathic Speaking: The ability to speak aloud using only the mind.

Advanced Level

 * Binding: The ability to restrict the movements of others via the mind.
 * Download: The ability to quickly process, store, or download information through another's mind.
 * Emotion Manipulation: The ability to make one feel pleased, happy, pained, or any other emotion.
 * Knowledge Projection: The ability to project knowledge into another mind.
 * Telepathic Language Instruction: The ability to teach languages telepathically.
 * Knowledge Replication: The ability to replicate the learned knowledge and skills of others.
 * Memory Reading: The ability to read the target's memories.
 * Mental Hallucination: The ability to cause mental hallucinations.
 * Mental Inducement: The ability to temporarily push the targets mind into the wanted state.
 * Mind Control: The ability to manipulate the minds of other via thought process.
 * Mind Image: The ability to project one's image to the mind of another.
 * Mind Link: The ability to develop a permanent mental bond with any person, also called imprinting.
 * Mind Melding: The ability to fuse one's consciousness with another.
 * Mind Walking: The ability to enter the mind of another.
 * Omnilingualism: The ability to intuitively understand all languages.
 * Telepathic Translation: The ability to translate all languages.
 * Psionic Inundation: The ability to launch psi-bolts to cause mental damage.
 * Neurocognitive Deficit: The ability to shut down an opponent's higher brain function.
 * Telepathic Static: The ability to project telepathic static.
 * Psychic Inhibitors: The ability to place inhibitors in the mind to limit the target's capabilities.
 * Psychic Navigation: The ability to create a mental map of the area.
 * Psychic Shadow: The ability to mask psychic presence, hiding from other psychics.
 * Psychic Shield: The ability to erect a psychic shield to protect the minds of oneself and/or others.
 * Psychic Torture: The ability to torture victims mentally and spiritually.
 * Pushing: The ability to implant memories, thoughts, and emotions into others.
 * Sensory Scrying: The ability to perceive through the senses of other beings.
 * Speaking Inducement: The ability to make others say whatever one wants.
 * Telepathic Hijacking: The ability to hijack telepathic communication.
 * Telepathic Language Instruction: The ability to project language information to others to communicate.
 * Telepathic Prediction: The ability to know an opponent's moves and attacks by reading their brain waves.
 * Telepathic Relay: The ability to act as a mental relay station for a group of minds, allowing said minds to "speak" to one another through the user.
 * Thought Manifestation: The ability to make one's thoughts visible to all.
 * Thought Manipulation: The ability to control the thoughts of others.

Master Level

 * Consciousness Transferal: The ability to transfer one's mind to a new body.
 * Darkside View:  The ability to communicate with and bring out the dark side of a person's personality.
 * Lightside View: The ability to communicate with and bring out the good side of a person's personality.
 * Memory Manipulation: The ability to erase, restore and alter the target's memories.
 * Mental Manipulation: The ability to manipulate functions of the mind.
 * Mind Exchange: The ability to transfer one's mind into another's body, taking control of that body.
 * Possession: The ability to inhabit the body of a living being.
 * Projective Omnilingualism: The ability to emit a field that translates every spoken language.
 * Psychic Energy Manipulation: The ability to produce and manipulate mental energy.
 * Psychic Constructs: The ability to generate constructs out of mental energy.
 * Psychic Wave Manipulation: The ability to generate and manipulate thought waves.
 * Psychosomatic Illusion: The ability to create powerful illusions that may cause severe physical damage.
 * Remote Telepathy: The ability to use telepathy from a long range.
 * Subconscious Manipulation: The ability to manipulate the subconscious.
 * Telepathic Surgery: The ability to perform neuropsychic surgery, healing and/or damaging the mind.

Ultimate Level

 * Cosmic Telepathy: The ability to read the thoughts of billions or more subjects at once.
 * Mental Projection: The ability to project thoughts into reality.
 * Mindscape Transportation: The ability to transport physical matter into one's conscious or subconscious thoughts.
 * Panempathy: The ability to interpret the emotions of billions or more subjects at once.

Absolute Level

 * Mindscape Materialization: The ability to will ones thoughts and their inner world into reality.
 * Omnipathy: The ability to read, sense, communicate with, and control an infinite number of minds across all universes, planes and dimensions.
 * Unimind: The ability be connected with all things and their essences.

Techniques

 * Telepathic Combat: The ability to use telepathy in physical combat

Variations

 * Animal Telepathy
 * Electrical Telepathy
 * Energy Telepathy
 * Magical Telepathy
 * Technological Telepathy
 * Telepathic Dream Creation
 * Telepathic Force Manipulation
 * Temporal Telepathy

Associations

 * Clairvoyance
 * Dream Manipulation
 * Mental Shield Penetration
 * Psychological Intuition
 * Telepathic Mimicry

Limitations

 * Does not work on mindless beings (corpses, animated objects, robots, etc.).
 * Users of Psychic Shield (highly resistant) and Psychic Immunity (impervious).
 * The more intense the thought, the louder it sounds to the user.
 * May be limited to a certain range to work, including touch only.
 * May be limited to certain number of targets at a time.
 * May be constantly active and have to constantly hear thoughts.
 * Since the user constantly hears thoughts, this power becomes ineffective in large crowds.
 * May be limited to the thought(s) which the target is currently thinking.
 * May be limited to reading either thoughts or memories.
 * May not be able to read impulsive actions.
 * May get overwhelmed by too many thoughts, especially the ones which are too complicated (e.g. a genius' mind which is doing calculus), detailed (e.g. an artist's or photographer's mind which has a photographic memory), insane/morally corrupted (e.g. "murder is good", "I will create my idea of the perfect world by genocide", etc.), and/or ones which don't make any sense (e.g. "2+2=5", "a square circle", etc.).
 * Users of Divided Mind may be especially complicated because of so many conflictual thoughts in one mind.
 * Depending upon the user's ability, skill, and tolerance, attempting to read certain minds (e.g. genius or the insane) may be hard, impossible, or not a good idea.
 * Unless one is multilingual or has the automatic ability to translate and/or decrypt, the ability may not work if the target is thinking in alternate languages or encrypted codes.
 * May risk detection, losing themselves, and/or being "hacked" themselves.
 * May need focus all their attention on the task, thereby leaving their physical body and/or mind vulnerable.
 * May be susceptible to the pain/injury as the person with whom they are communicating.

Known Users
See Also: Telepathy and Real Telepathy.

Movies
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 * Space Jockeys (Aliens franchise)
 * Belial (Basket Case)
 * Duane Bradley (Basket Case)
 * Rage (Dream Warrior)
 * Uncle Bene (Escape to Witch Mountain/Return from Witch Mountain); Humans, animals, other aliens
 * Tia and Tony Malone (Escape to Witch Mountain/Return from Witch Mountain); Humans, animals, other aliens
 * Sheng Yayu/Emotionless (The Four)
 * Guiron (Gamera vs Guiron)
 * Virasians (Gamera vs Viras)
 * Jobe Smith (The Lawnmower Man)
 * Siu May (Mermaid Got Married)
 * Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
 * The Tall Man (Phantasm)
 * Jeremy Reed (Powder)
 * Sara (Race to Witch Mountain)
 * Tyler Burns (Skyrunners)
 * Brain Bugs (Starship Troopers)
 * Freya McAllister (Thoughtcrimes)
 * Charles Xavier/Professor X (X-Men)
 * Emma Frost (X-Men)
 * Jean Grey/Phoenix (X-Men)

Literature

 * Andalites (Animorphs)
 * Anyone in morph (Animorphs)
 * Crayak (Animorphs)
 * Ellimist (Animorphs)
 * Howlers (Animorphs)
 * Iskoort (Animorphs)
 * Taija race telepath Quanx (Record the Quanx - Denma S.E. - The Love Sick); via Telepathy Quanx ability
 * Carrie White (Carrie)
 * Phoners (Cell)
 * Luke Magewood (Children of the Red King)
 * Eustacia Yewbeam (Children of the Red King)
 * Serena Killingsworth (Daughters of the Moon series)
 * Alec Warrdon (The Eidolon Saga)
 * Linnea Wallin (Engelsfors)
 * Dragon riders and their dragons (Inheritance Cycle)
 * Magicians (Inheritance Cycle)
 * Laura Leander (Laura and the Secret of Aventerra)
 * Mary Morgain (Laura and the Secret of Aventerra)
 * Edythe Cullen (Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined)
 * Ella/Number Ten (Lorien Legacies)
 * Angel (Maximum Ride)
 * Bradley (The Medusa Project)
 * Ed (The Medusa Project)
 * Whispers (Red Queen)
 * Elara Merandus
 * Samson Merandus
 * Faes, chameleons, elves, ghost-whispering supernaturals & spirits (Shadow Falls)
 * Telepaths (The Sookie Stackhouse Novels)
 * Barry The Bellboy
 * Hunter Savoy
 * Sookie Stackhouse
 * Pennywise the Dancing Clown/It (Stephen King's It)
 * Edward Cullen (Twilight series)
 * Jayfeather (Warriors series)
 * Dr. Tachyon (Wild Cards series)
 * NightWings (Wings of Fire)
 * Gregory Kennedy (The Young Guardians)}}

Video Games
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 * Jodie Holmes/Aiden (Beyond: Two Souls)
 * Hivemind (Dead Space)
 * Marker (Dead Space)
 * Furons (Destroy All Humans)
 * Cryptosporidium 137-139
 * Pact Partners (Drakengard)
 * The Watchers (Drakengard)
 * Disciples (Drakengard 3)
 * Ninten/Ken (Earthbound Beginnings/Mother)
 * Paula (Earthbound/Mother 2)
 * Alma Wade (F.E.A.R.)
 * Kessler (inFAMOIUS)
 * Sasha (inFAMOUS)
 * John White (inFAMOUS)
 * Bloody Mary (inFAMOUS: Festival of Blood)
 * Hades (Kid Icarus)
 * Palutena (Kid Icarus)
 * Viridi (Kid Icarus)
 * Lingering Sentiment (Kingdom Hearts)
 * Sona (League of Legends)
 * Ganondorf (The Legend of Zelda)
 * Princess Zelda (The Legend of Zelda)
 * Fi (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)
 * Akira Tadokoro (Live-A-Live)
 * Lucius (Lucius)
 * Mallow (Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars); via Psychopath
 * Chakron (Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story)
 * Dr. Toadley (Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story)
 * Psycho Mantis (Metal Gear Solid)
 * Elisa and Ursula (Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops)
 * Mother Brain (Metroid)
 * Ermac (Mortal Kombat)
 * Kenshi (Mortal Kombat)
 * Takeda Takahashi (Mortal Kombat)
 * Ghosts (Murdered: Soul Suspect)
 * Ronan O'Connor (Murdered: Soul Suspect)
 * Exeggcute (Pokemon)
 * Mewtwo (Pokémon)
 * The Keepers (Prey)
 * Sarah and Tanya Blake (Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy)
 * Razputin (Psychonauts)
 * John Vattic (Second Sight)
 * Jayne Wilde (Second Sight)
 * Zenner Children (Second Sight)
 * Blastermind (Skylanders); uses a variation of this power while driving a vehicle
 * Master Eon (Skylanders)
 * Hex (Skylanders)
 * Black Doom (Sonic the Hedgehog)
 * Chip/Light Gaia (Sonic the Hedgehog)
 * Doctor Timothy (South Park: The Fractured But Whole)
 * Krystal (Star Fox)
 * Ghosts (Starcraft)
 * Satori Komeiji (Touhou)
 * The Guardian (Ultima)
 * Kamal Re'x (Universe at War)
 * Esper (Valkyrie Crusade)
 * Minister Sucia (Valkyrie Crusade)
 * Saga (Valkyrie Crusade)

Web Comics

 * Tavros Nitram (Homestuck)
 * Aranea Serket (Homestuck)
 * Vriska Serket (Homestuck)

Web Original

 * SCP-795 - Reality-Bending Cat (SCP Foundation)
 * SCP-1470 - Telepathic Spider (SCP Foundation)
 * SCP-1564 - Post-Nibbanic (SCP Foundation)
 * SCP-1849 - Telepathic Parrot (SCP Foundation)
 * SCP-1867 - A Gentleman (SCP Foundation)
 * SCP-1956 - The Gnomes (SCP Foundation)4
 * SCP-2634 - A Higher Power (SCP Foundation)
 * SCP-2664 - Redline (SCP Foundation)
 * SCP-2682 - The Blind Idiot (SCP Foundation)
 * SCP-2764 - The Eldritch Antarctic (SCP Foundation)
 * SCP-2870-A - General Malaise (SCP Foundation)

Other

 * Toa Kongu (BIONICLE); via Kanohi Suletu
 * Female Skrall (BIONICLE)}}

Known Objects

 * Goruda Brain Tonic (Doctor Who)
 * Mind Gem (Marvel Comics)
 * SCP-484 - Memory Stealing Drug (SCP Foundation)
 * Mind Reader Conch (Xiaolin Showdown)