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Spiritual Power Classifications

Throughout the following sections, the spiritual powers described herein are categorized by "Classifications". By placing powers into classifications, the Player Characters have some idea as to what role each power plays in the World of Gaianar. The table below describes each Classification and which character classes have the greatest access to them.

Table: Spiritual Power Classifications
Classification Name Description of Powers

Primarily Available To

armour of God

A Special classification of defensive, combative, and informational capabilities used for rallying against powerful evils both physical and spiritual.

Priest

Benedictions

Bestows some blessing or other boon upon another person or group of people. Generally gives bonuses to hit and saving throws.

Priest / Shaman

Charm

Powers under this Classification affect the way people or creatures think or perceive the world.

Crystallin / Wishsinger

Combat

Uses spiritual powers against a physical threat.

All

Death Magic

Death Magic is the power to slay, bestow diseases or curses, to create Undead from corpses and skeletons. Powers of Death Magic can also drain life energy, hit points, and abilities.

Crystallin  / Scaxathrom   / Shaman

Defense

Aids in the protection of self and others, usually from physical attack.

Paladin / Priest  / Protector

Divination

Divination is the gaining of information through the use of spirits or Dark Powers (usually one in the same). Can sometimes be portrayed as Word of Knowledge, but the faithful aren't fooled.

Crystallin / Scaxathrom  / Shaman

Elemental Powers

Any supernatural power in which the manifestation (or defense against) involves air, earth, water, or fire.

Ranger / Shaman  / Wishsinger

Elements of Creation

The creation of something from nothing. Powers under this category usually create temporary physical objects, such as weapons, food, or tools.

Priest  / Shaman

Faith Healing

Refers to supernatural wound healing, poison removal, life force restoration, Paralysis and insanity curing, even raising the dead.

Paladin  / Priest

Healing

A less powerful Classification than Faith Healing, powers listed here can undo limited damage, but may also work on plants and animals.

Ranger  / Scaxathrom  / Shaman  / Wishsinger

Illusion

These powers affect the way people sense their environment. They are hallucinatory powers that make their victims perceive things and events that do not exist.

Nexus  / Crystallin

Informational

A watered down version of either Word of Knowledge or Divination, this allows the wielder to gain some information about persons or objects.

Cavalier  / Wishsinger

Physics

Powers under this classification have to do with directing and utilizing known laws of physics, time and/or space.

Wishsinger  / Mathematician

Plant/Animal

Special powers granted under the Plant/Animal classification give the wielder the ability to control and direct the actions of plants and animals.

Ranger  / Wishsinger

Spiritual Warfare

Aids in the protection of self and others from spiritual attacks. Can also be used in combating spiritual powers and entities.

Gunslinger / Priest  / Shaman

Summoning

Summoning brings about physical manifestations of spiritual entities to do the bidding of the summoner. Generally demons and lesser spiritual entities are brought into the material plane for a limited period of time

Scaxathrom  / Shaman

Word of Knowledge

Allows the wielder to gain special knowledge about a person or situation that he would otherwise not know. Generally used to detect the presence of Dark Powers.

Priest / Shaman