Ley power

For information on ley lines, click here.

Birth

When a person from a ley family is born, there is only a 5% chance that they will inherit the ley power of the mother; most take the ley power of the (socially) dominant House, the father's. This is why the Council and families are all still rather old-fashioned. No one is quite sure why this is, although many theorists say that it has to do with regular genetics. Whatever the reason, ley powers usually manifest when the child is eight years old, and thirteen years old at the latest. They have been known to appear at two months of age, as with the second generation of the Brant family. Any of these effects may be imbued in them, though generally not many clustered in one person (sometimes an individual only gets one gift). Heads of Houses often have a lot, as with Andrexa Brant.

Energy

Domains: fire, lightning, sunlight

Control of fire, emitting fire (from palms, mouth, or out of thin air), creating lightning storms, disintegration of matter, emitting heat, creating lightning, starting forest fires, causing sunlight to intensify, creation of and being able to focus high-heat radiation, creating explosions, etc.

Stone

Domains: rock, soil, ice, water, physical imbuements

Petrification of wood or soil or other living matter, creating earthquakes, creating concussive blasts from person's palms, superhuman strength, ability to harden skin to stone, ability to burrow through the earth with a gesture, creating caves, creating ice, causing snowstorms, ability to move water, calling forth ice as a weapon, etc.

Nature

Domains: plants, animals, healing

Causing plant growth acceleration, ability to grow plants without seeds or water, ability to talk to all lifeforms, sending messages through the wind, creating windstorms, ability to run fast though thick undergrowth, mending skin or wounds, getting rid of scars and scar tissue, etc.

Shadow

Domains: undead, dead, the mind, portals

Raising the dead as undead, ability to completely destroy a soul, portal magic, controlling people or animals' minds, never needing to eat, hiding in shadows perfectly, focused and painful shadow blasts, communication with the undead or the long dead, ability to put a restless undead soul at ease, erasing someone else's memories (or your own), etc.

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