Path Manipulation

Path Manipulation
Fharlanghn (AD&D) The Dweller on the Horizon.
Power/Ability to:	Manipulate pathways.

"All parts of this world are connected, every road is but a twist in the grand knot of that we are all part."

― Moeran (Fractale)

"The road... takes us to the rest of the universe, then it leads back here. An endless circle."

― Q/Quinn (Star Trek Voyager)

The power to manipulate pathways. Variation of Environment Manipulation.

Also Called

• Highway/Passage Control/Manipulation
• Monopátikinesis
• Path Control
• Road/Street/Trail Control/Manipulation

Capabilities

The user can create, shape and manipulate different kinds of pathways, including trails, roads, streets, highways, railways, sidewalks, passages, etc. They can alter the path's direction, change its destination, or make surface changes to them.

Applications

• Appearance Manipulation
• Bridge Manipulation
• Directional Manipulation
• Distance Manipulation
• Door Manipulation
• Earth Manipulation
  • Asphalt Manipulation
  • Concrete Manipulation
  • Metal Manipulation
  • Mineral Manipulation
  • Mud Manipulation
  • Sand Manipulation
  • Soil Manipulation
• Location Manipulation
• Nigh Omniscience - regarding everything along the path.
  • Sensory Field Generation
• Obstacle Manipulation
• Passageway Manipulation
  • Tunnel Manipulation
• Path Creation
• Path Sense
• Portal Manipulation
• Shortcut Manipulation
• Structure Merging - become the path.
• Surface Manipulation - limited to paths.
• Travel Manipulation
  • Travel Mode
• Warp Manipulation
• Wood Manipulation

Variations

• Path Magic

Associations

• Architecture Manipulation
• Earth Manipulation
• Environment Manipulation
• Spatial Relation Manipulation
• Urban Manipulation

Limitations

• May be limited to certain kinds of paths.
• May be unable to create paths, being limited to manipulating already existing ones.
• Distance, mass, precision, etc. depend upon of the knowledge, skill, and strength of the user.

Known Users

• Path & Crossroads Deities (Mythology)
  • Hecate/Trivia (Greco-Roman Mythology)
  • Ariadne (Greek Mythology); within Labyrinths
• Teaching Girl (Breath of Fire IV)
• The Dragons (Drakkhen)
• Chibiterasu (Okamiden); via Guidance
• Michigami (Okamiden)
• Ariadne (Percy Jackson)
• Path-Finder Byakko (Horizon In The Middle of Nowhere)
• Hecate (Valkyrie Crusade); limited to crossroads
• Fharlanghn (AD&D); The Dweller on the Horizon
• Gaede (Valkyrie Crusade)
• The Headless Horseman (Ravenloft)

Gallery

Hecate/Trivia (Greco-Roman Mythology) the goddess of magic, crossroads, moon, ghosts and necromancy.

Hecate (Valkyrie Crusade)

Gaede H.png

Gaede (Valkyrie Crusade) is a deity that controls the path/crossroads of life and death, often sending the dead to the land of the living or vice-versa, or sending someone to hell instead of heaven and vice-versa.