Rogue Heresy Death Crusade Powers

Using Psychic Powers

Navigator Powers

Unlike psychic powers, Navigators do not need to summon the energies of the warp or use arcane psychic foci to activate their powers. Rather, their powers are a result of their innate connection to the warp and the legacy of their genes. Because of these factors, a Navigator character does not make a focus test to try and gather warp energy as a Psyker would or have a Psy Rating. Instead, whenever he chooses to use one of his powers, he must pass a characteristic test for it to be successful.

Each navigator power’s description indicates which characteristic must be tested, plus any modifiers and additional effects for degrees of success the Navigator gains. The most common characteristics used by a Navigator in this way are Willpower and Perception.

In addition to any modifiers detailed in the power’s description, a Navigator gains a bonus to the test based on his level of mastery with the power:

• +0 Novice

• +10 Adept

• +20 Master

Unless otherwise noted, using a Navigator Power is a Standard Action.

Note that Navigators never need to roll for Psychic Phenomena or Perils of the Warp, and cannot risk triggering these effects with the use of their powers. Likewise, any items, creatures, or psychic effects that would either cause or increase the chance of a Psyker triggering Perils of the Warp will not affect them when they use their abilities.

Gaining Navigator Powers

A Navigator character begins play with The Lidless Stare power and may choose one more power, or instead of choosing a second power, he may increase his mastery of one of his powers by one stage. At higher ranks a Navigator may spend 200 experience to gain access to additional powers or improve the powers he already knows.

As sure as a star will dwindle and die, a Navigator will be warped by his heritage over time “The sins of blood” as the old Imperial proverb goes, “will out.” As stable a mutation as the Navigator gene is, it still gives rise to countless other deformities of body and soul within its host. This, combined with long term exposure to the warp, almost always ensures that Navigators will be afflicted with some kind of physical aberration. Simply being born into a Navigator family means that an individual will be mutated in some way.

Whenever the character gains a new Navigator power, or increases his level of mastery over a power he already has, he must test for mutation as his body begins to change as his mysterious power waxes.

A Navigator’s resistance or susceptibility to mutation is almost purely down to the psychical purity of his gene-stock. When a Navigator learns a new power or increases mastery of a power, he must make an Ordinary (+10) Toughness Test. If he fails this test, then a flaw in his genes has revealed itself, and he must generate a mutation on Table Navigator Mutations. Should a Navigator gain the same mutation twice, re-roll the result.

Navigator Mutations

01-15	Strangely Jointed Limbs: Your limbs have extra joints that articulate differently to a normal human. You gain the Acrobatics Skill as a trained Basic Skill. If you already possess the Acrobatics Skill, you gain it at +10 instead.
16-30	Elongated Form: You are extremely tall and painfully thin, and loose 1d5 Toughness permanently. Re-roll this mutation if you already have the Bloated Form mutation.
31-45	Pale and Hairless Flesh: Your skin is pale, marbled with veins and completely without hair.
46-55	Eyes as Dark as the Void: Your eyes are completely black and without iris; you gain the Dark Sight Trait.
56-60	Withered Form: Your body is withered, your flesh hanging loosely from your bones. You reduce your Strength Characteristic by 10 permanently and halve your movement rates. Re-roll this mutation if you already have the Bloated Form mutation.
61-65	Bloated Form: Your body is grossly bloated and your limbs thick with flesh. You gain 5 wounds and the Sturdy trait but may no longer run. Re-roll this mutation if you already have the Elongated Form or Withered Form mutations.
66-70	Membranous Growths: You have membranes of skin between your limbs and digits and your skin sags in folds from your flesh; you suffer –5 Fellowship permanently.
71-75	Inhuman Visage: Your face is devoid of human features, your nose is nothing but a pair of slits, your ears are small holes, your eyes are unblinking. You gain the Fear (1) Trait.
76-80	Fingers like Talons: The bones of your fingers have grown and hardened into talons. You gain the Natural Weapons Trait.
81-85	Teeth as Sharp as Needles: Your mouth is filled with hundreds of fine, pointed teeth. You gain the Natural Weapons Trait and suffer –1d5 Fellowship.
86-90	Disturbing Grace: You move with a fluid, sinuous grace that is somewhat unpleasant and unnatural in its quality. You gain the Unnatural Agility (+2) Trait.
91-95	Strange Vitality: You possess a vitality and resilience that is at odds with your physical form; wounds bleed translucent fluid and close quickly, bones knit together after being horrifically broken. You gain the Regeneration Trait.
96-00	Unnatural Presence: In your presence living things feel strange unpleasant sensations, a cloying touch to their skin, a keening whine in their ears and a metallic tang in their mouth. All your tests that involve positive social interaction are at –10, whilst all those that involve intimidation or inducing fear are at +10.

Psychic Powers

Biomancy

Endurance

Value: 300 xp

Prerequisites: Toughness 30+

Action: Half Action

Maintainable: No

Focus Power: Difficult (-10) Willpower

Range: 3 metres x Psy Rating radius

Extending his will over his allies, the psyker reaches into their bodies to mend their flesh and reinvigorate their will to fight by ridding their bodies of fatigue. Psykers trained in this power have been known to turn the tides of entire battles, invigorating their troops at the critical moment to tip the scales in their favour.

A number of allies in range equal to the psyker’s Psy Rating, plus the psyker himself, recover Wounds equal to half the psyker’s Psy Rating, rounded up. They also may immediately overcome the effects of pinning. This power is incredibly taxing and requires at least 12 hours of recovery before it may be used again.

Enfeeble

Value: 100 xp

Prerequisites: Toughness 35+

Action: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power: Challenging (+0) Opposed Willpower

Range: 20 metres x Psy Rating

The psyker lashes at his target with tendrils of Warp energy. The vile power quickly strips the victim of vitality, draining its spirit with every caress. The psyker nominates a single target in range and line of sight who opposes this power with a Toughness Test. If the target fails to resist the power, it is Stunned for one turn. In addition, as long as this power remains in effect, if the target rolls doubles on any Test it makes, it gains a number of levels of Fatigue equal to half the psyker’s Psy Rating rounded down. A single target can only be affected by one instance of the Enfeeble power at a time.

Haemorrhage

Value: 400 xp

Prerequisites: Psy Rating 4, Smite

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: No

Focus Power: Difficult (-10) Opposed Willpower

Range: 10 metres x Psy Rating

Bypassing exterior defences, the psyker reaches his mind out into the body of his adversary, using the writhing power of the Warp to set a fire deep within his victim’s flesh. Boiling blood begins bursting from every pore as the target’s body tears itself apart from the inside. The psyker nominates a single target in range and line of sight who opposes this power with a Toughness Test. If the target fails to resist the power, it suffers Energy Damage equal to the psyker’s Psy Rating plus one additional Damage per Degree of Failure on its Toughness Test; this Damage ignores Toughness Bonus and Armour. If this Damage successfully kills the target, the psyker may immediately recast this Psychic Power as a Free Action on any legal target within 5 metres of the original target.

Iron Arm

Value: 400 xp

Prerequisites: Endurance, Strength 35+, Toughness 35+

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes, Free Action

Focus Power: Hard (-20) Willpower

Range: Personal

The psyker’s flesh transforms, hardening into a slick, living metal, weighing him down but also rendering him incredibly resistant. His new form allows him to shrug off small arms fire and crush his enemies with his bare hands While this power is in effect, the psyker gains the Unnatural Toughness and Unnatural Strength Traits with ratings equal to half his Psy Rating, rounded up. However, his flesh’s more sturdy form weighs the psyker down, causing him to suffer a -10 penalty to his Agility characteristic while the power is in effect.

Life Leech

Value: 400 xp

Prerequisites: Enfeeble, Toughness 40+

Activation Time: Full Action

Maintainable: Yes, Free Action

Focus Power: Difficult (-10) Opposed Willpower

Range: 10 metres x Psy Rating

The psyker latches on to his target’s life force and tears it from the hapless victim’s body. The psyker absorbs this stolen essence, using it to reinvigorate and bolster his own flesh. The psyker nominates a single target in range and line of sight who opposes this power with a Toughness Test. If the target fails to resist the power, he suffers 1d10 + Psy Rating Toughness Damage, and the psyker gains Unnatural Toughness (1), +1 for every full 5 points of Toughness damage the power inflicts. This Unnatural Toughness remains for as long as the power’s effect persists.

Smite

Value: 200 xp

Prerequisites: None

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: No

Focus Power: Challenging (+0) Willpower

Range: 20 metres x Psy Rating

Called by many names, Smite is a common destructive power used throughout the galaxy by many different psykers. The psyker conjures up bio-energy from deep within himself, summoning lethal bolts of lightning which leap from his fingertips to bum and blast his enemies to ash.

Smite is a Psychic Barrage that deals 1d10 + Psy Rating Energy Damage with a Pen of 4.

Warp Speed

Value: 500 xp

Prerequisites: Psy Rating 5

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes, Free Action

Focus Power: Difficult (-10) Willpower

Range: Personal

The Immaterium flows through the psyker, allowing him the means to defy the limits of time, hastening his movements and reflexes far beyond the range of any human. He becomes but a blur to his enemies, striking out with lightning speed. The psyker gains the Unnatural Weapon Skill, Unnatural Ballistic Skill, and Unnatural Agility Traits, all at values equal to his Psy Rating.

Divination

At Psy Rating 1-3, the psyker receives images that are hazy and indistinct. At Psy Rating 4-6, the same images are clearer and sharply in focus. At Psy Rating 7+, any images will be crisp, clear, and accompanied by other sensory input—sound, taste, etc.—as appropriate.

Augury

Alternate Names: Tarot Reading, Casting the Runes

Value: 200 xp

Prerequisites: Foreshadow

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power Test: Psyniscience

Range: 1m

By reading the Emperor’s Tarot for a specific individual, the psyker can grant insight into what troubles lay ahead. A specific question must be asked, though it can be as detailed as “What must we overcome to defeat the xenos on Choir?” or as broad as “How can I turn a greater profit?” After that, the psyker will read the Emperor’s Tarot for the subject as they both concentrate on the question asked. At the end of this time, typically 30 minutes—though some readings take longer to interpret—the psyker makes a Psyniscience Test. Every two degrees of success reveals more information. However, any rolls on the Psychic Phenemona chart that are provoked from this technique also add +10.

Aura Reading

Degrees of Success	Results
0	Opposition: The psyker can determine the greatest opposition that the subject will face.
2	Fears: The psyker also can determine other negative forces that may be in play—the number of these is equal to the Psy Rating used in this power.
4	Hopes: The psyker can now determine the greatest advantage or tool the subject has at hand.
6+	Outcome: The psyker may offer a single sentence of advice to the subject about the clearest path to his answer.

Aura Reading

Value: 100 xp

Prerequisites: None

Activation Time: Full Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power Test: Psyniscience

Range: You

Diviners can read a person’s aura, the unconscious projection of his being in to the warp. This is a very pale shadow, beneath the notice of most beings, but the diviner can study this aura to learn about the person.

The psyker can attempt to read the aura of any person he can see as a Full Action. This requires a successful Focus Power Test, with every degree of success providing more information. A psyker can only maintain this power on one target. If he wishes to divine the well-being of a different person, he must activate the power again.

If the psyker maintains the power on the same target, he can increase his Degrees of Success by +1 per round cumulatively, eventually getting to the full 3 Degrees of Success.

Aura Reading

Degrees of Success	Results
0	The psyker gains superficial impressions about the target person. This includes the three strongest emotions the target is currently experiencing, his race, whether or not he has any psychic powers, and a rough idea of his state of mental and physical health (No numbers, just good, poor, weak, etc.). Lastly, it determines if the target is an untouchable–naturally, in this case, the psyker receives no further information, including the effects from this technique!
1	The psyker gets all of the information above, plus he gets a deeper insight in to all of the target’s feelings, granting a +10 to all Fellowship Tests made against the target while Divination is active. The psyker also gets a better idea about the target’s well-being, including current Wounds and Fatigue levels. Finally, if the target is also a psyker, he can sense the target’s Psy Rating.
2	The psyker gets all of the above results, plus he can now determine the target’s Insanity Points, as well as which addictions or madness he might be suffering from. If the target is a psyker, he can determine which Discipline(s) and Techniques the target possesses.
3	The psyker gets all of the above information, and now he can determine how many Corruption Points the target might have accumulated. Also, the psyker can determine if the aura is genuine, or has been produced by some other means—technologically, psychically, daemonically, etc.

Blessed

Value: 300 xp

Prerequisites: Divining the Future

Activation Time: Free Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power Test: Hard (-20) Psyniscience

Range: 5m x Psy Rating

At this level of skill, the psyker has learned how to explore multiple outcomes to different choices and actions, and to be able to sort through them to choose the safest course. The psyker must succeed at a Focus Power Test. If successful, the psyker gains a +20 bonus to all Weapon Skill and Ballistic Skill Tests, and Ballistic Skill Tests against him are at a –30 penalty. Additionally, he can shout warnings to his comrades within 5m x Psy Rating and warn them of incoming attacks. Allies beyond this range are outside of the scope of his power to foresee. All Ballistic Skill Tests against those so warned suffer a –10 penalty. This technique may not be used at the Fettered Psychic Strength.

Divining the Future

Value: 200 xp

Prerequisites: Augury

Activation Time: Full Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power Test: Psyniscience

Range: Personal

Divining the Future represents the psyker’s growing affinity for the Emperor’s Tarot, and his ability to access answers about the future with greater speed and precision. Just like Augury, a specific question must be asked, though it can be as detailed as “When will Da Wurldbreaka return to this planet?” or as broad as “How can I turn a greater profit?” However the time involved is considerably less — only one minute is required for a use of this technique. The psyker makes a Psyniscience Test. Every two degrees of success reveals more information. However, any rolls on the Psychic Phenomena chart that are provoked from this technique also add +10.

Divining the Future

Degrees of Success	Results
0	Opposition: The psyker can determine the greatest opposition that the subject will face.
2	Fears: The psyker also can determine other negative forces that may be in play—the number of these is equal to the Psy Rating used in this power.
4	Hopes: The psyker can now determine the greatest advantage or tool the subject has at hand.
6+	Outcome: The psyker may offer two sentences of advice to the subject about the clearest path to their answer. This grants the subject a +10 bonus on a number of Tests equal to the psyker’s Psy Rating for the next month or until the question is resolved, whichever occurs first.

Foreshadow

Alternate Names: Glimpse, Moment of Insight, Witch’s Ruse, Outcome Thief

Value: 100 xp

Prerequisites: None

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: No

Focus Power Test: Willpower

Range: Personal

Peering in to the future for a brief instant, the psyker is able to see possible outcomes and potential dangers. Until the end of the next turn, the psyker gains a +30 bonus to one skill roll (except ones made as a Reaction). This power must be used at the Unfettered Psychic Strength.

Forewarning

Value: 400 xp

Prerequisites: Precognition

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes, Free Action

Focus Power: Difficult (–10) Psyniscience

Range: 3 metres x Psy Rating radius

The psyker’s mind skims the Warp for glimpses of the immediate future, seeking to prepare himself and his allies for any incoming threats. His insight keeps them ahead of the battle, making them aware of incoming attacks before their enemies even fire a shot.

For the duration of this power, a number of allies within range equal to the Psyker’s Psy Rating, plus the psyker himself, gain a bonus to all Dodge and Parry Tests equal to twice the psyker’s Psy Rating. Allies affected by this power lose its benefits as soon as they move out of range.

In Harm’s Way

Value: 200 xp

Prerequisites: None

Activation Time: Free Action

Maintainable: No

Focus Power Test: Willpower

Range: Personal

By taking a deep look into the near future, the psyker can anticipate the actions of his enemies. Until the end of the next turn, the psyker gains a +20 bonus to all Weapon Skill and Ballistic Skill Tests. Moreover, all Ballistic Skill tests made against him are at a –20 penalty. This power must be used at the Unfettered Psychic Strength.

Misfortune

Value: 300 xp

Prerequisites: In Harm’s Way

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes, Free Action

Focus Power: Difficult (-10) Opposed Willpower

Range: 20 metres x Psy Rating

Staring down his unfortunate victim, the psyker simply snaps his fingers, twisting the strands of his target’s fate. Suddenly, everything around the psyker’s opponent begins to fail. His vision blurs, his weapons jam, and every bullet flying his way easily finds its way into the weakest points of his armour.

The psyker nominates a single target in range and line of sight who opposes this power with a Willpower Test. If the target fails to resist the power, misfortune follows it wherever it goes. For the duration of this power, the target’s Armour points are reduced in all locations by half the pyker’s Psy Rating, rounded up. Additionally, the target’s weapons jam on any Attack in which they fail to hit their target.

Perfect Timing

Value: 300 хр

Prerequisites: Prescience

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power: Difficult (-10) Psyniscience

Range: 3 metres x Psy Rating Radius

Tearing through the boundary to the Warp with his consciousness, the psyker begins to see vivid images of his foes’ future actions with an unnatural precision. Empowered by this information, the psyker and his allies can predict exactly when their foes will peer from cover, allowing them to place their shots perfectly.

For the duration of this power, a number of allies within range equal to the Psyker’s Psy Rating, plus the psyker himself, ignore the effects of cover when firing on a target. If their attacks would hit a location on the enemy that would benefit from cover, that benefit is ignored. Allies affected by this power lose its benefits as soon as they move out of range.

Precognition

Alternate Names: Momentary Foresight, Defy the Crone, Fortune’s Favour

Value: 100xp

Prerequisites: Psyniscience +0

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes, Free Action

Focus Power: Ordinary (+10) Psyniscience Test

Range: Personal

The psyker’s mind skims the warp for glimpses of the immediate future, seeking to discern threats to himself so that he may avoid them. Many latent psykers are unknowing of the gift they possess, considering their survival to be a matter of luck, while Eldar seers describe it as an act of defiance against the fate-weaving Crone Goddess, Morai-Heg.

While this power remains in effect, the psyker gains a bonus to all Dodge and Parry Tests equal to twice his Psy Rating.

Prescience

Value: 300 xp

Prerequisites: Psyniscience +0, Precognitive Strike

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power: Difficult (–10) Psyniscience

Range: 3 metres x Psy Rating radius

The psyker taps into the Immaterium, using its energies to spread his senses over the battle, seeing what is, what has been, and what will be. By focussing this Warpsight to a razor’s edge he can guide his allies’ aims, directing their attacks to strike home.

For the duration of this power, a number of allies within range equal to the Psyker’s Psy Rating, plus the psyker himself, gain a bonus to their Weapon Skill and Ballistic Skill equal to twice the psyker’s Psy Rating. Allies affected by tis power lose its benefit as soon as they move out of range.

Preternatural Awareness

Alternate Names: Unavoidable Sight

Value: 100xp

Prerequisites: Precognition

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes, Free Action

Focus Power: Challenging (+0) Psyniscience

Range: Personal

The psyker’s perceptions are focussed on his immediate surroundings, searching for even the slightest disturbance or most minor change.

While this power remains in effect, the psyker gains the Unnatural Perception Trait, at a rating equal to his Psy Rating. In addition, he gains a bonus to his Initiative equal to the Degrees of Success on his Focus Power Test.

Precognitive Dodge

Alternate Names: Whispers of Fate, Prophet’s Escape

Value: 200xp

Prerequisites: Precognition

Action: Reaction

Maintainable: No

Focus Power: Difficult (–10) Psyniscience

Range: Personal

The psyker’s awareness of the warp grants him the means to elude his opponents’ attacks without needing to rely on mortal reflexes. It takes a skilled psyker to reflexively observe the warp in this way, and such a difficult technique is often performed only by the most potent of diviners, such as Eldar Farseers.

In any situation where the psyker would be called upon to make an Dodge Test, he may instead attempt to use this power. If the power is successful, the psyker avoids the attack exactly as if he had passed an Dodge Test.

Precognitive Strike

Alternate Names: Khaine’s Ruthless Blade, Templar’s Foresight

Value: 300xp

Prerequisites: Precognition, Precognitive Dodge

Activation Time: Free Action

Maintainable: No

Focus Power: Difficult (–10) Psyniscience

Range: Personal

To discern one’s own future is sometimes deemed easier than discerning the futures of others — to look for the echoes of one’s own soul, rather than those of unfamiliar foes. However, the psyker has learned to do just that, seeing the way his foes fight and discerning moments of weakness, discerning opportunities to strike. Eldar Warlocks often turn this technique to their advantage, striking with uncanny accuracy.

The psyker gains a bonus on the first Weapon Skill or Ballistic Skill Test during this turn, equal to +5 x his Psy Rating.

Psycholocation

Value: 100 xp

Prerequisites: None

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power Test: Psyniscience

Range: 1km x Psy Rating

By succeeding at a Psyniscience Test, the psyker can locate and track down a single object or person in his immediate vicinity. The psyker can find anything, but there must be some degree of familiarity. Touching a lock and trying to find the key to that lock is fine, but just thinking “I want a key” without a corresponding lock will not work. In the same vein, the psyker must have seen the person he wants to find—either directly or through some image, painting, etc.—or have the target’s true name.

Once the psyker has chosen a target, he makes a Psyniscience Test modified by the following factors:

• Intimately familiar with target (Knows subject well, or has an item that has been with the subject for a long time): +10

• Has a portion of the subject (Fragment from the item, lock of hair from a person): +5

• Subject is surrounded by others of its kind (a coin in a coin purse, a person in a crowd, etc.): –10

• Subject is within 50m x Psy Rating: +5

• Subject is over 2 km away: –20

If the psyker passes the Psyniscience Test, and the subject is within range, the psyker receives a rough idea of where the subject is located, based on how many degrees of success he has scored.

Psycholocation

Degrees of Success	Results
0	The psyker knows the rough direction of the subject.
2	The psyker knows the specific direction of the subject, and roughly how far away it is.
4	The psyker knows the specific direction of the subject, and exactly how far away it is.

Psychometry

Value: 200 xp

Prerequisites: Augury

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power Test: Psyniscience

Range: 1m x Psy Rating radius

Learning to read the Tarot is in part the act of learning to divine the Emperor’s word from psychic impressions. Refining this skill allows the psyker to learn more about others from the crude psychic traces they leave behind on objects and places in the world around them. In its simplest form, the psyker can gain rough impressions from an object or a general area by maintaining physical contact and making a Psyniscience Test. More information beyond the strongest emotions requires time, and the longer the psyker stays in a given area, the more information he can ascertain. These numbers are modified by the raw strength of the psyker, and he may subtract a number of rounds equal to his Psy Rating from each result level. Example: A psyker with Psy Rating 5 will get the first result in 5 rounds, the second result in 10, etc.

Psychometry

10

The psyker discovers an additional fact about the person as determined by the GM.

Rounds	Results
10	The psyker can detect the strongest emotion associated with the area or object.
20	The psyker can see the general features of the person who experienced the emotion
30	The psyker gets a clear image of the person who experienced the emotion
40	The psyker is able to identify the person’s occupation
50	The psyker can now determine the name of the person

Scrier ’s Gaze

Value: 200xp

Prerequisites: Psyniscience +10

Activation Time: Special

Maintainable: No

Focus Power: Challenging (+0) Psyniscience

Range: Personal

When presented with a clear and immediate opposing force, the psyker can cast his gaze upon the infinite tides of the Warp, seeing the entire playing field clearly in his mind’s eye. This rush of information is too much for weaker psykers to handle, often casting them into madness. But those who can focus are able to divine information regarding the future comflict with astounding precision, capturing every movement of troops, war machines or space-faring vessels under their omniscient gaze.

To begin the ritual, the psyker must spend at least thirty minutes using assorted psychic foci to concentrate his vision — drawing Tarot cards, casting runes, gazing deep into fire, the methods to this are as varied as the stars of the Imperium. At the end of these thirty minutes, the psyker makes his Focus Power Test to project his vision over the field of conflict. Each Degree of Success reveals more information, as explained on Table Scrier’s Gaze.

Scrier's Gaze

Degrees of Success	Results
1	Single Threat: The psyker manages to focus his view on a a single key manoeuvre the enemy is either planning, or currently enacting. This could be an ambush, an all out assault, or a flanking manoeuvre, but regardless of its nature, it is a key manoeuvre to the enemy’s plans.
2	Movements: The psyker’s visions stretches over the entire field, able to see the movement of all allied and enemy forces. However, he is unable to focus his vision enough to see the exact number and makeup of each unit, or exact build of the vessels.
3	Details: The psyker controls the focus of his vision, he is aware of all previous effects and is also able to discern the number and makeup of each individual unit, or the modules in the vessels.
4+	Commander’s Plans: The psyker breaks through the veil of time, seeing the battle and its countless different outcomes. He is aware of all previous effects, and also knows details of the enemy commanders’ battle plans.

Strands of Fate

Value: 400 xp

Prerequisites: Perfect Timing

Activation Time: Full Action

Maintainable: No

Focus Power: Hard (-20) Psyniscience

Range: 5 metres x Psy Rating radius

Such is the psyker’s power that he has witnessed every action, every decision, that will bring his allies to victory. With tremendous focus he uses his power to impart this incredible knowledge to his allies, guiding them along the true path to victory.

The psyker gains a number of re-rolls equal to his Psy Rating that last until the beginning of the his next turn. For the duration of that round, whenever an ally in range, or the psyker himself, rolls a Test or Damage Roll, the psyker may spend one of these re-rolls to allow that ally to re-roll all dice involved in that Test or Damage Roll. If the psyker is killed or rendered unconscious before the beginning of his next turn, all remaining re-rolls are lost.

Walking the Path

Value: 200 xp

Prerequisites: Divining the Future

Activation Time: Free Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power Test: Psyniscience

Range: Personal (1m x Psy Rating)

At this level of skill, the psyker has learned how to explore multiple outcomes to different choices and actions, and to be able to sort through them in less than a heartbeat. The psyker must succeed at a Focus Power Test. If successful, the psyker gains a +10 bonus to all Weapon Skill and Ballistic Skill Tests, and Ballistic Skill Tests against him are at a –20 penalty—these benefits apply for one round, unless the psyker sustains this technique. Additionally, he can see glimpses of the dangers in his immediate vicinity and shout warnings to his comrades within 1m x Psy Rating to warn them of incoming attacks. Allies beyond this range are outside of the scope of his power to foresee. All Ballistic Attacks against those so warned suffer a –5 penalty. This technique may not be used at the Fettered Psychic Strength.

Pyromancy

Fiery Form

Value: 400 xp

Prerequisites: Fire Shield, Psy Rating 4

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Half Action

Focus Power: Difficult (-10) Willpower

Range: Personal

The psyker engulfs his own body in the fire of the Warp. It spreads over every inch of his skin, transforming his very flesh into living Warpfire. Reborn a being of living flame, the psyker burns everything he touches, transforming his surrounding into a burning hellscape with every step he takes.

While this power is in effect, all of the psyker’s melee attacks deal addition Energy Damage equal to his Psy Rating and gain the Flame Quality. In addition, at the end of each of the psyker’s turns in which he sustains this power he emits a Psychic Blast centred on himself with a radius equal to his Psy Rating. All creatures within the area of effect, with the exception of the psyker, suffer 1d10 + Psy Rating Energy Damage with a Pen of 0 and the Flame Quality.

Fire Shield

Value: 300 xp

Prerequisites: None

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes, Free Action

Focus Power: Challenging (+0) Willpower

Range: 20 metres x Psy Rating

With a sweep of his hand, the psyker surrounds himself with a wall of writhing flame. The living fire lashes out at his attackers, sending tendrils of flame lashing at any foolish enough to take him on.

While this power is in effect, any creatures in range and line of sight that successfully hit the Psyker with an Attack immediately suffer Energy Damage equal to the psykers Psy Rating, this Damage is not reduced by Armour or Toughness.

Flame Breath

Value: 300 хр

Prerequisites: Psy Rating 3, Spontaneous Combustion

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: No

Focus Power: Challenging (+0) Willpower

Range: 20 metres x Psy Rating

A truly horrifying sight, the psyker faces his enemy, opening his eyes and mouth wide as torrents of psychic flame spew forth from them at his target. This power is a Psychic Barrage that deals 1d10+2 Energy Damage, +2 per point of Psy Rating, with a Pen of 0 and the Flame Quality.

Inferno

Value: 500 xp

Prerequisites: Molten Beam, Psy Rating 5, Sunburst

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: No

Focus Power: Difficult (-10) Willpower

Range: 10 metres x Psy Rating

Channelling his rage into the fires of the Warp, the psyker calls down a pillar of flame upon his enemies. The whirling blast sets the very air aflame as it smashes into his foes.

This power is a Psychic Blast with a radius equal to the psyker’s Psy Rating. All creatures caught in the blast suffer 2d10 Energy damage, +3 per point of Psy Rating, with a Pen of 0 and the Flame Quality.

Molten Beam

Value: 400 xp

Prerequisites: Flame Breath, Psy Rating 4

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: No

Focus Power: Challenging (+0) Willpower

Range: 5 metres x Psy Rating

The psyker extends his palm towards his enemy and unleashes a concentrated, white-hot beam of energy. Such is the heat of the focused beam of Warpfire that armour melts to slag and flesh simply vaporises as it effortlessly cuts through them.

This power is a Psychic Bolt that deals 1d10+5 Energy Damage, +3 per point of Psy Rating, with a Pen equal to twice the psyker’s Psy Rating, and the Melta quality.

Spontaneous Combustion

Value: 200 xp

Prerequisites: None

Action: Half Action

Maintainable: No

Focus Power: Ordinary (+10) Willpower

Range: 20 metres x Psy Rating

The psyker reaches into the body of his foe, pooling his anger into his victim and igniting his rage with the powers of the Warp. The target’s blood boils and flesh smoulders, and as the psyker rage reaches its pinnacle, the target’s body begins to explode in blasts of ash and flame.

This power is a Psychic Bolt that deals 1d10+2 Energy Damage, +2 per point of Psy Rating, with a Pen of 0 and the Flame Quality.

Sunburst

Value: 400 xp

Prerequisites: Flame Breath, Psy Rating 4

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: No

Focus Power: Challenging (+0) Willpower

Range: 20 metres x Psy Rating

The psyker pools his hate inside himself, channelling it into the power of the Warp. As he collects his rage he begins to glow with energy until he surrounded by a blinding globe of light that dulls out the very light of the sun. As he opens his eyes he unleashes this pent-up energy on his unfortunate target, assailing them with an unending barrage of flame.

This power is a Psychic Storm that deals 1d10+2 Energy Damage, +2 per point of Psy Rating, with a Pen of 0 and the Flame Quality.

Telekinesis

The majority of the power scale in Telekinesis is reflected in the actual power or psychic techniques. However at lower levels (below Psy Rating 4), a psyker’s telekinesis will seem tentative; the hold on objects/people will be shaky. At higher levels, this will turn into a rock solid mental force.

Force Bolt

Alternate Names: Kurnous’ Arrow, Mind-bullet, Destructive Impulse, Furious Echo

Value: 200 xp

Prerequisites: Mind over Matter

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: No

Focus Power Test: Ordinary (+10) Willpower

Range: 10m x Psy Rating

The psyker gathers up his will, coalescing it into a fist-sized bolt. The Eldar, when inclined to tell of their lore at all, speak of the arrows of the hunter-god Kurnous that strike invisibly and silently, while the psykers of the Imperium speak of destructive thoughts and righteous fury given physical form.

This power is a Psychic Bolt that deals 1d10+2 Impact Damage, +2 per point of Psy Rating, with a Pen of 0. If the psyker hits after scoring at least four Degrees of Success the target is also thrown 1d5 metres away and knocked prone (certain especially large targets such as battle tanks, Greater Daemons, and Titans are immune to this at the GM’s discretion).

Force Shards

Value: 400 xp

Prerequisites: Precision Telekinesis, Telekinetic Weapon

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power Test: Willpower

Range: 5m x Psy Rating

This technique is an elegant manifestation of the psyker’s killing will in the form of multiple hovering blades of destructive force, visible as hazy distortions in the air. When activated, the psyker brings a number of force shards into existence equal to his Willpower Bonus. The force shards hover around the psyker, acting as a potential barrier to incoming attacks. Any opponent attacking the psyker when he has one or more force shards orbiting suffers a –10 to Weapon Skill or Ballistic Skill tests. The force shards can be launched singly or as a group at ranged targets. The psyker makes a Ballistic Skill Test to hit the target, and deals 1d10 Rending Damage with a bonus of +1 Damage per Psy Rating. For every Degree of Success, the psyker hits his target with an additional force shard, up to the total amount of shards generated by this technique. Additionally, the force shards have a Penetration value equal to the Psy Rating used in the technique.

Gate of Infinity

Value: 500 xp

Prerequisites: Psy Rating 5

Activation Time: Extended Action (3)

Maintainable: No

Focus Power: Hard (-20) Willpower

Range: 1 kilometres x Psy Rating

Controlling the roiling nature of time and space in the Warp, the psyker can open a hole through the Immaterium, bending the fabric of reality to his will. Using this gateway, the psyker and his allies can cross great distances in a blink of the eye, travelling miles in naught but a few steps.

The psyker chooses a point anywhere within 5 metres times his Psy Rating, and opens a gate to the Immaterium at that point. He then chooses a point within range of the power, and opens an exit to the gate at that location. The psyker must be aware of the location in which he is opening the exit to the gate, either having visited it before, seen it from afar, or simply studied it on a map.

The gate lasts for a number of Rounds equal to the psyker’s Psy Rating, and has a radius in metres equal to the psykers Psy Rating as well. For the duration of the power, the two sides of the gate are linked, and any person or objects may pass between them freely provided they can fit through the gate. This power is incredibly taxing and requires at least 12 hours of recovery before it may be used again.

Mind over Matter

Alternate Names: Spectral Hands, Ethereal Motion

Value: 100 xp

Prerequisites: None

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes

Range: up to 5m x Psy Rating

Focus Power Test: Willpower/Opposed Willpower

Telekinesis is the ability to move physical objects with force of will. The psyker’s initial gift in Telekinesis has several applications. The psyker may lift or move any object within his range and line of sight that does not exceed the weight limit of 10 kg x Psy Rating. The object may be moved slowly within the range of the power. Objects move far too slowly to be used as an attack, however. Additionally, this raw lifting ability does not function on living beings, as the smallest movements tend to unbalance the psyker’s mental focus. Once an object is released from Telekinesis, it begins to slowly settle back to earth as the last vestiges of the power leave it. When using constant motion, the Focus Power Test is Routine (+20).

A more forceful approach can be taken with lighter objects, weighing up to 5 kg x Psy Rating. These may be accelerated with greater speed and force, out to a maximum of 5 metres x Psy Rating. To hit a target, the psyker makes a Ballistic Skill Test. Damage is equal to 1d10 Impact Damage plus 1 point per 5 kg of the missile’s weight. When using a forceful throw, the Focus Power Test is Challenging (+0).

Lastly, the psyker can direct a sharp wave of force against a target to shove it away. When using a rapid push, the Focus Power Test is Ordinary (+10) Willpower against the target’s Strength. If the psyker wins, he knocks the target to the ground and pushes it away a number of metres equal to his Psy Rating.

Objuration Mechanicum

Value: 300 хр

Prerequisites: Mind over Matter

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: No

Focus Power: Challenging (+0) Willpower Test

Range: 10 metres x Psy Rating

The psyker releases the havoc of the Warp into the orderly inner workings of nearby machines. The maligned energy twists and deforms the machine spirits, causing weapons to jam and engines to seize up.

The psyker chooses a point anywhere within range and line of sight. This power creates a Haywire Field centred at this point with a radius in metres equal to the psyker’s Psy Rating.

Precision Telekinesis

Alternate Names: Subtle Will, Geisthand, Iridescent Grasp of Edriané

Value: 100 xp

Prerequisites: Mind over Matter

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power Test: Willpower

Range: 5m x Psy Rating

Unlike the first gross manipulations of Telekinesis, this allows the psyker to fine tune his ability until he can do anything at range that he could do with his bare hands. In any situation where the task in question would require a Characteristic Test, the psyker substitutes Willpower instead. The psyker’s Psy Rating substitutes for his Strength Bonus when using this technique.

Shockwave

Alternate Names: Soundblast, Step-Away

Value: 300 хр

Prerequisites: Force Bolt

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: No

Focus Power: Challenging (+0) Willpower

Range: Personal

The psyker slams his palms together and uses his considerable power to amplify the noise exponentially, creating a torrential shockwave. The energy batters any unfortunate enough to be nearby, throwing them away from the psyker in a barrage of force.

This power is a Psychic Blast centred on the psyker with a radius equal to the psyker’s Psy Rating. Any creature within the area o f effect, with the exception of the psyker, suffers 1d10 + Psy Rating Explosive Damage with Pen 0 and is pushed directly away from the Psyker a number of metres equal to the psyker’s Psy Rating.

Telekinetic Crush

Value: 200 xp

Prerequisites: Mind over Matter

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: No

Focus Power Test: Opposed Willpower

Range: 10m x Psy Rating

The psyker wraps a target in crushing bands of force. Make an Opposed Test, pitting the psyker’s Willpower against the target’s Toughness. If the target fails to resist the power, it suffers 1d10 + Psy Rating Impact Damage with a Pen of 2 to the Body Location and counts as being affected by the Snare Quality with a value equal to half the psyker’s Psy Rating rounded down.

Telekine Dome

Value: 300 хр

Prerequisites: Psy Rating 4, Telekinetic Shield

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes, Free Action

Focus Power: Challenging (+0) Willpower Test

Range: 5 metres x Psy Rating

Extending his power over his allies, the psyker creates a shimmering dome of energy around them that deflects enemy fire as effectively as any bunker. Despite its sturdy protection, the dome feels no different than thin air, and allies and enemies alike can pass through it unheeded.

The psyker chooses a point in range and line of sight, and creates a dome of invisible energy centered on that point with a radius equal to half the psyker’s Psy Rating, rounded up. All allies standing inside the dome gain a number of Armour Points equal to the psykers Psy Rating to all Locations against any attack that originated outside of the dome's radius that stacks with any other armour they may be wearing. The dome is not opaque and does not block line of sight. The defence provided by this power will also work against attacks with the Warp Weapon quality.

However, enemies may still physically pass through the dome at no penalty.

Telekinetic Shield

Alternate Names: Bulwark, Kineshield, Bunker of Will

Value: 200 xp

Prerequisites: Mind over Matter

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes, Free Action

Focus Power Test: Ordinary (+10) Willpower

Range: Personal

The psyker can create a field of telekinetic energy for self-defense. The form-fitting shield grants the psyker 1 point of AP per Psy Rating — this technique lasts for one round unless the psyker chooses to sustain it. This protection counts as armour on every location that stacks with any other armour the psyker may be wearing. The shield is not opaque and does not block line of sight. The defence provided by this power will also work against attacks with the Warp Weapon quality.

Telekinetic Weapon

Alternate Names: Keenest Edge, Wyrd-knife, Ephemeral Razor

Value: 200 xp

Prerequisites: Force Bolt

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power Test: Difficult (–10) Willpower

Range: Personal

Shaping the force of the psyker’s mind into a blade of destructive force, the Telekinetic Weapon is a powerful manifestation of the psyker’s discipline and control. The Telekinetic Weapon counts as a sword in the hand of the psyker, but there is no penalty for lacking the required Weapon Training Talent. To strike with the Psychic Weapon, the psyker makes a Weapon Skill Test — the Telekinetic weapon may be parried, but is not destroyed by weapons with the Power Field quality. If the weapon hits, it does 1d10 Rending Damage with a bonus of +1 Damage per Psy Rating. Additionally, the weapon has a Penetration value equal to the psyker’s Psy Rating.

Storm of Force

Alternate Names: The Maiden’s Scorn, Witch-Barrage, Telekinetic Onslaught

Value: 350 xp

Prerequisites: Force Bolt, Mind over Matter

Activation Time: Full Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power Test: Willpower

Range: 5m x Psy Rating radius

The psyker’s will is extended out into a great flurry of bolts of invisible force, akin to a storm of fire from an automatic weapon. The scholars of the Imperium maintain chain-bound grimoires of witch-lore that speak of barrages of ghostly force, or onslaughts of telekinetic brutality, while Eldar Warlocks sing songs of Lileath, the Maiden, whose ire manifested as punishing blasts that shine like moonlight. This power is a Psychic Storm that deals 1d10 Impact Damage +3 per point of Psy Rating, with a Pen of 0.

Vortex of Doom

Value: 400xp

Prerequisites: Psy Rating 5, Shockwave, Storm of Force

Action: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power: Difficult (-10) Willpower

Range: 5 metres x Psy Rating

Playing with impossible energies of the Immaterium, the psyker uses his power to punch a hole in reality, opening a tear to the Warp. Roiling energies pour into reality, tearing apart anything unlucky enough to be close to the unstable rift. The psyker struggles to keep the volatile torrent of energy in check, pouring all his energy into constraining the vortex, lest it break out of control and cause untold destruction.

The psyker chooses a point in range and line of sight, and creates a vortex of energy centered on that point that starts with a radius of 2 metres. Anyone who is touching the vortex at the end of the psykers turn must take 2d10 Energy Damage, +2 per point of Psy Rating, with a Pen equal to the vortex’s current radius in metres. The psyker may not voluntarily stop sustaining this power. Instead, at the beginning of each turn the Psyker is sustaining the vortex, he must take a Challenging (+0) Willpower Test with a -5 penalty for each metre in the vortex’s current radius. If he passes the Test, he may perform one of the following actions:

• Increase the vortex’s radius by one metre.

• Decrease the vortex’s radius by one metre.

• Move the vortex any direction a number of metres equal to the psyker’s Psy Rating.

If the psyker fails the Willpower Test to sustain the vortex, or if he is unable to make the Test due to other circumstances, its radius increases by one metre and it moves a number of metres equal to the psyker’s Psy Rating in a random direction, using the Scatter Diagram.

If the vortex’s radius ever decreases to zero metres, the power ends and the vortex disappears. If the vortex’s radius ever grows larger than the psyker’s Psy Rating, it explodes, ending the power, destroying the vortex, and dealing 2d 10 Energy Damage, +4 per point of Psy Rating, with a Pen equal to the vortex’s current radius is metres, to anyone with a number of metres of the centre of the vortex equal to twice the Psy Rating of the psyker. The psyker is hit by this damage regardless of his proximity to the exploding vortex as the energy of the Warp he was channelling lashes back into him.

Telepathy

At Psy Rating 1-2, the psyker can only send or receive verbal communications but no images. At Psy Rating 3-4, the psyker can send or receive visual communication as well, but all images will only be in black and white, with a dream-like quality. At Psy Rating 5-6, any images will be crisp, clear, in colour, and accompanied by other sensory input—sound, taste, etc—as appropriate. At Psy Rating 7+, the psyker sends so powerfully that any communication at higher than the Fettered Psychic Strength level will come across as “shouting” unless carefully modulated.

Astral Telepathy

Value: Free

Prerequisites: Soul-bound to the Emperor, Astropath

Activation Time: Varies (see table below)

Maintainable: No

Focus Power Test: Willpower

As part of the Soul Binding process, astropaths become able to send and receive messages across vast distances using the warp as a medium. Using astro-telepathic abilities in this way requires careful concentration, meditation, and freedom from distraction, and so cannot be done “on the move,” let alone during combat or strife. Transmitting a message over interstellar distances normally takes 1d5 hours (this time may be adjusted at the GM’s discretion based on the length and complexity of the message).

Astropathic communication in this way is a matter of sending and receiving messages that must themselves be encapsulated and encrypted lest they become lost in the warp, hopelessly garbled, or worse yet, intercepted. As a result, messages sent over long distances are often ‘packets’ of information, akin in some ways to letters or brief recordings from the real world absorbed and sent on their way to be (hopefully) caught and possibly relayed on by other astropaths to their intended destination. This process is not instantaneous. However, it is considerably faster than warp travel—an astropathic signal will cross a solar system in moments, across a subsector in hours, a sector in days and, if strong enough, a Segmentum in weeks and so on.

An astropath’s “signal strength”—broadly how far in average conditions in the warp he may transmit clearly with a successful focused use of his power—is determined by his Psy Rating (see Table: Astral Signals). After this distance, unless relayed on, the signal will sharply degrade, imposing a –20 penalty to understand per additional range bracket until it dissolves into nothingness. Picking up an astropathic communication by its intended target within clear range is a Routine (+10) Psyniscience Test for an astropath in a meditative state to receive one, and a Challenging (+0) test for one going about ordinary life, increasing to Hard (–20) if he is in life or death combat or other such distracting circumstances.

Astrotelepathic Signals

Time	Distance	Required Psy Rating† Base	Difficulty††
Instant	Orbit	2	Routine (+20)
1d5Rounds	Nearby Solar	2	Ordinary (+10)
1d10 Rounds	Distant Solar	3	Challenging (+0)
1d10 Minutes	Nearby System	6	Difficult (–10)
1d5 Hours	Sub Sector	10	Hard (–20)
1d5 Weeks	Sector	15	Very Hard (–30)
1d5 Months	Segmentum	18	Very Hard (–30)

†This is the minimum Psy Rating required to send a signal this distance, including any boosting effect for the presence of an Astropathic Choir, etc.

†† This is the basic difficulty for a test needed to transmit or receive a message at this distance; prevailing difficulties such as Warp Storms can adversely effect this.

Astrotelepathic Relays

Astropathic relays are techno-arcane installations found both aboard major star vessels and in spires and facilities on important worlds designed to boost an astropath’s gifts. Sending and receiving from a relay provides an astropath with the following benefits. Astropathic Choir: For each astropath in the choir assisting the sending astropath, the sending astropath’s Psy Rating for transmission is boosted by +1 to a maximum of +5. However, weaker astropaths are at risk of burn out. If a signal is sent at the Push Psychic Strength, the astropath suffers a +20 on any rolls on the Psychic Phenomena or Perils of the Warp charts. Dispersal Scoop: +10 to Psyniscience tests to detect astral signals. Hexagrammatic Warding: All rolls on the Psychic Phenomena and Perils of the Warp Charts are at –10.

Beastmaster

Value: 200 xp

Prerequisites: Thought Sending

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power Test: Opposed Willpower

Range: 5m x Psy Rating

The psyker can establish rudimentary control over animals. He can affect a number of animals (creatures with the Bestial trait) equal to his Psy Rating, and if the psyker succeeds at the Opposed Willpower Test, the target animals must follow his psychic commands. Each round, the psyker may spend a Reaction to give a single animal a simple command such as “Come here”, “Guard me,” “Run,” “Attack,” and so forth. The animal will do its best to follow the command. If the animal feels threatened, becomes injured, or is commanded to act in manner contrary to its nature, it may make a further Opposed Willpower Test against the psyker with a +10 bonus to break free of the psyker’s control. How the animal reacts if it breaks free depends largely on how the psyker treated the animal.

Compel

Alternate Names: Subversion

Value: 200 xp

Prerequisites: Delude, Thought Sending

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: No

Focus Power Test: Difficult (–10) Opposed Willpower

Range: 5m x Psy Rating

The next level of compulsion, this technique allows the psyker to force others to briefly act against their will. The psyker makes an Opposed Willpower Test against the target. If the psyker succeeds, the target must follow his commands. The commands must be simple and achievable in one round. Some examples include “Flee,” “Fall,” “Attack the closest target,” and so forth. If the command is a potentially suicidal act, the target gets a +20 to his Opposed Willpower Test.

Delude

Alternate Names: Witch’s Deception, Obfuscate

Value: 100 xp

Prerequisites: Thought Sending

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power Test: Opposed Willpower

Range: 1m x Psy Rating

One of the simpler Telepathic tricks, Delude allows the psyker to subtly mask his intentions and manipulate others into reacting favourably to him for a short time. The psyker makes an Opposed Willpower Test against the target. If the psyker succeeds, the target will find the psyker to be a person deserving of respect and react positively to any friendly overtures he makes. For as long as the psyker maintains this power, he gains a +30 bonus to all Interaction Skill Tests against the target. Note that this technique is not ‘mind control’ as such and the psyker cannot force others to act against their better judgement, harm themselves, nor hide acts of overt hostility by the psyker.

Dominate

Value: 300 xp

Prerequisites: Sensory Deprivation

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power Test: Opposed Willpower

Range: 5m x Psy Rating

The psyker has gained the most infamous power attributed to witches and renegades, the control of another’s mind. The psyker makes an Opposed Willpower Test against the target. If the psyker succeeds, the target is controlled as if he were a puppet. For as long as the psyker maintains the power, he can divide his Actions between himself and the target. The dominated target uses its own Characteristics, but at a –10 penalty to all Tests—except Opposed Willpower Tests—due to the crudity of the control. Any action deemed suicidal forces another Opposed Willpower Test to try and break the hold. The range for Dominate counts for both for the initial Test and for ongoing control.

Hallucination

Value: 200 xp

Prerequisites: Thought Sending

Action: Half Action

Maintainable: No

Focus Power: Challenging (+0) Opposed Willpower

Range: 10 m x Psy Rating

As with many things, the mind is much easier to break than it is to control. The psyker reaches into his victim’s mind, snapping the fragile controls over its own paranoia, confusion, and panic that roil beneath the surface. Once freed, these violent mental energies do the psyker’s work for him, tearing through his opponent’s mind, bending the hapless victim’s very perception of reality.

The psyker nominates a single target in range and line of sight who opposes this power with a Willpower Test. If the target fails to resist the power, it must roll on Table: Hallucinogenic Effects, as if under the effect of a Hallucinogenic Grenade, and immediately apply the effects. The effect rolled on the table lasts for a number of Rounds equal to half the psyker’s Psy Rating, rounded up.

Naturally, targets with Machine or Daemonic Traits are immune to this power.

Inspire

Alternate Names: Embolden, Defy Fear

Value: 100 xp

Prerequisites: Thought Sending

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power Test: Willpower

Range: 2m x Psy Rating

The psyker can bolster his comrades by sending out waves of reassurance and martial spite. A number of targets equal to the psyker’s Psy Rating (including the psyker himself ) may immediately overcome the effects of Pinning and gain a +10 bonus to all Willpower rolls to resist Fear. This effect lasts as long as the targets stay within range of the psyker and the psyker maintains the power.

Invisibility

Value: 400 xp

Prerequisites: Psy Rating 4, Agility 30, Mind Probe

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes, Free Action

Focus Power: Difficult (-10) Willpower

Range: 10 m x Psy Rating

The psyker worms his way into his opponents’ senses, causing even their sight to betray them. Using this control he can bend their vision around a target, rendering it all but invisible to their eyes.

The psyker nominates a single target within range and line of sight (this could be the psyker himself). For the duration of the power, the target counts as being Trained in the Stealth Skill, and gains a bonus to Stealth Tests equal to +5 times the psyker’s Psy Rating. Additionally, all ranged attacks made against the target suffer a penalty equal to -5 times the psyker’s Psy Rating. The target loses this power’s benefits as soon as it moves out of range.

Mental Bond

Value: 300 xp

Prerequisites: Mind Link

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power Test: Willpower

Range: 1 km x Psy Rating

With a successful Focus Power Test, the psyker can create a permanent Fettered Strength telepathic connection to another being. The psyker must succeed at a Difficult (–10) Focus Power Test in order to forge the link, and doing so takes 1d5 hours. If the Test is failed, the psyker must start the process again. If he succeeds, a permanent mental link is formed. No effort is needed to establish or maintain the link, it automatically works as long as the psyker and his target are within range of each other and the psyker wishes to engage it. The psyker can only maintain one Mental Bond at a time.

If the target dies, the bond is dissolved, and the psyker suffers 1d10 Insanity points in the backlash. If the psyker wants to eliminate the bond at any time, he must succeed at a Hard (–20) Willpower Test.

Mental Fortitude

Value: 300 хр

Prerequisites: Fearless, Inspire

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes, Free Action

Focus Power: Difficult (-10) Willpower

Range: 3 m x Psy Rating

The psyker uses his mastery of the human mind to bolster his allies in battle. He extends his power over them, projecting inspirational thoughts into their minds and banishing fear, moving even the greatest cowards to acts of heroism.

For the duration of this power, a number of allies within range equal to the Psyker’s Psy Rating count as having the Fearless Talent. Allies affected by this power lose its benefits as soon as they move out of range.

Mind’s Eye

Value: 200 xp

Prerequisites: Thought Sending

Activation Time: N/A

Maintainable: N/A

Focus Power Test: None

This technique allows the psyker to increase the range of all of his Telepathic communications (with the exception of Astrotelepathy) by a factor of 10. Thus, standard Telepathy would have a range of 10km x Psy Rating, Short Range Telepathy would be 100m x Psy Rating, and so forth.

Mind Link

Alternate Names: Warp Whisper, Silent Voice

Value: 200 xp

Prerequisites: Thought Sending

Activation Time: Full Action

Maintainable: Yes, Free Action

Focus Power Test: Ordinary (+10) Willpower

Range: 1km x Psy Rating

While this power remains in effect, a number of willing creatures equal to the psyker’s Willpower Bonus are mentally linked, allowing them to communicate instantly and silently. This power requires line of sight between the psyker and all the other participants at the moment the power is used, but once the power is in effect, line of sight is no longer necessary.

Mind Probe

Alternate Names: Thoughtworm, Deep Interrogation, Thief of Memory

Value: 200 xp

Prerequisites: Thought Sending

Activation Time: Full Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power Test: Opposed Willpower

Range: 1m x Psy Rating

This technique allows the psyker to peel back the layers of another’s mind to read the basic surface thoughts and beyond.

It takes 5 rounds of sustained effort to complete the mind probe. The psyker must win an Opposed Willpower Test to successfully establish the forced link to the target’s mind. Each Round, the psyker digs successively deeper into the subject’s consciousness. If the psyker wins the Opposed Willpower Test, he gleans certain information from the target’s mind, depending on what level of contact he has achieved (see Table Mind Probe). If the psyker fails the Opposed Willpower Test, the probe is rebuffed, the technique fails, and the psyker suffers one level of Fatigue for every degree of failure. This is also not a gentle process, brute force is a factor, and the target will be aware that his mind is being plundered. However, the psyker retains any knowledge he received at each level he successfully attained.

If the psyker wants to perform the Probe without the target’s knowledge, then the psyker takes a –20 penalty to the Opposed Willpower Test and can only use this technique at the Fettered Psychic Strength.

Mind Probe

Round One (Contact)	The psyker makes initial contact, and learns basic information about the target such as his name, mood, Insanity level, and the state of his physical health.
Round Two (Surface Thoughts)	Now the psyker can sense the thoughts uppermost in the target’s mind, such as immediate fears/concerns, conscious lies, etc. The target’s Corruption level is also now known to the psyker.
Round Three (Short Term Memory)	The psyker can now sort through the target’s memories over the last 12 hours. Less casual information the subject may keep as secrets — such as simple passwords or recent experiences he might wish to hide — may also be available at this level.
Round Four (Subconscious)	The psyker now gains detailed information about people, places, or objects that the target considers as important and how they relate to each other. The target’s beliefs, motivations and personal goals are known, as any contacts or complicated hidden ciphers. The psyker is also aware of the pivotal moments in the target’s life.
Round Five (Broken)	The psyker may plunder the target’s mind at will. Any information contained in the target’s psyche is an open book for the psyker. The psyker can also use this technique to identify implanted memories or personalities.

Mind Scan

Value: 300 xp

Prerequisites: Mind’s Eye, Mind Probe

Activation Time: Full Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power Test: Willpower

Range: 250m x Psy Rating

The psyker extends his mind to contact and identify other sentient minds within range. This technique does not require line of sight, enabling the psyker to garner impressions and information about the consciousnesses within range. The information the psyker receives from this technique is based on the degrees of success from the Focus PowerTest:

One Success: The psyker gains a crude impression of the number of conscious minds in his range and his general position in relation to them.

Two Successes: The psyker knows the number, general location and relative ‘strength’ of conscious minds within the area of effect, and may determine if those minds are themselves psykers with a successful Challenging (+0) Psyniscience Test.

Three Successes: As per two successes, plus the psyker may attempt to initiate telepathic communication with any of the minds he has sensed in the area.

Four or More Successes: As per three successes, plus the psyker may attempt to carry out a Mind Probe on one of the minds he has sensed in the area.

Untouchables, mindless creatures — such as servitors or robots — and other psychically inert creatures are invisible to Mind Scan. Also, individuals with the Resistance (Psychic Techniques) Talent inflict a –10 penalty on the Psyker’s Focus Power Test (the penalty does not stack with itself ). Other creatures or individuals that are resistant to psychic powers may be hidden entirely at the GM’s discretion.

Psychic Scream

Alternate Names: The Banshee’s Wail, Splinter of Agony, Soul-killer

Value: 300 xp

Prerequisites: Mind Probe

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: No

Focus Power Test: Hard (–20) Willpower

Range: 5m x Psy Rating

By focusing all of his will behind one massive psychic scream, the psyker can injure or stun an opponent out to a range of 5m x Psy Rating. The psyker must pass a Focus Power Test to hit his target, and deals 1d10 Explosive Damage (with a bonus of +2 per Psy Rating) with the Shocking and Warp Weapon quality. The target suffers a penalty to his Toughness Test to resist Stunning equal to –5 times the psyker’s Psy Rating. If the target fails the Toughness Test, he is stunned for a number of rounds equal to half of the psyker’s Psy Rating (rounding up). Additionally, if successfully used, this power will always hit the target’s head—as the power affects the target’s mind directly — rather than a random location.

Puppet Master

Value: 300 xp

Prerequisites: Dominate

Activation Time: Full Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power Test: Opposed Willpower

Range: 1 km x Psy Rating

This rare and dreaded power takes psychic domination to its final expression. The psyker makes an Opposed Willpower Test against the target—in this Test, the psyker suffers a –10 penalty. If the psyker wins, the target’s body is completely under his control. The psyker’s mind leaves his body behind to take over the victim’s body completely, whilst the victim’s consciousness is suppressed into a nightmarish dream state. The psyker’s own body is vulnerable during this time, as if he were in a deep sleep. The psyker may end this power at any time but suffers 1d5 Fatigue levels for doing so.

The possessed target retains its prior physical characteristics (Weapon Skill, Ballistic Skill, Strength, Toughness, and Agility), but its mental characteristics (Intelligence, Willpower, and Fellowship) are those of the psyker. The psyker in control of the body may use either his skills or the target’s at a –10 penalty. Any action deemed suicidal forces another Opposed Willpower Test to try and break the hold. However, the target is now suffering a –10 penalty rather than the psyker. Should the target’s body be killed, the psyker’s consciousness is hurled violently out of the dying vessel, suffering 1d5 Wounds—these Wounds bypass all defences—and 1d10 Insanity Points.

If the distance between the psyker and his victim reaches beyond the technique’s range, the link is severed, and the psyker returns to his own body whilst suffering 1d5 Fatigue levels in the process.

Reprogram

Value: 500 xp

Prerequisites: Dominate, Mind Probe

Activation Time: Full Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power Test: Opposed Willpower

Range: 1m

Requiring utmost skill and experience, this technique enables the psyker to enter into another mind and completely reprogram the contents, insidiously reshaping its memories and experiences as he desires. This can be something as simple as an engram designed to fool casual searches by other telepaths, or something more crafted and elaborate to remake an entire personality and constructed as ‘false self ’ the unfortunate victim will believe to be true.

The briefest expression of this power takes 2d5 rounds. The psyker must win an Opposed Willpower Test against the victim, delving one level deeper into the target’s mind with every two degrees of success. If the target wins, he rejects the reprogramming and forces the psyker out ending the procedure and inflicting a Fatigue level on the psyker, who may not re-attempt this technique for 1d5 hours. This is also not a gentle process, and the target will be aware that his mind is being reordered until the reprogramming is successful, at which point the reprogramming itself will be forgotten as an event, buried deep in the subject’s unconscious mind. For every 2 Psy Rating the psyker uses, he gains a +10 bonus to the Opposed Willpower Test. The effects of Reprogramming are permanent unless they are forcibly broken down (see The Danger of Paradox section). At the end of this process, the psyker’s results will depend on the amount of successes he has achieved.

Major Reprogramming: Given extensive time, effort and the malign will to do so, a psyker with this power can freely implant a complete new personality, restructure memories, counterfeit experience, and implant hate with this ability. However, the level of effort and detailed attention required to do this without overtaxing the psyker and driving the subject mad is far beyond most immediate game use, and requires a minimum of 2d10 hours.

The Danger of Paradox: The mind is a complex thing, and a reprogrammed individual — if faced with evidence of the truth, or major discrepancies between what he has been manipulated into believing and the facts — may break through his reprogramming. If the GM judges such an event occurs, the victim must succeed at a Hard (–20) Willpower Test. If successful, the mental reprogramming breaks down. If the Test is failed, the victim goes on believing what he has been manipulated into thinking is the truth. In either case the mental strain inflicts 1d10 Insanity points on the subject.

Reprogram

Degrees of Success	Effect
1 (Sow Confusion)	The psyker can shroud a single event or memory in the subject’s mind in doubt and mental fog, inflicting a –20 penalty to his recall of facts concerning it.
2 (Implant Falsehood)	The psyker can now implant simple information like a false face on a killer in a witness’s mind, a false pass code, or any other single sentence’s worth of knowledge the subject will now recall as fact.
3 (Rewritten History)	The psyker can now alter a single event or series of events in the subject’s recent memories to his specification. The subject will now earnestly believe this ‘new’ version of events to be the truth.
4 (Sculpt Synapses)	The psyker can now supplant a single major long term memory or obliterate it entirely, affecting potentially the perception of an entire sequence of events in the subject’s lives, and perhaps influencing the subject’s personality in the process. This also inflicts 1D5 Insanity Points on the subject.
5+ (Psychic Block)	In addition to his other workings, the psyker can put in place a basic psychic block that grants the target a +10 bonus to his Willpower Test when resisting Mind Probes. This also conceals the psyker’s tampering.

Sensory Deprivation

Value: 200 xp

Prerequisites: Compel

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power Test: Opposed Willpower

Range: 10m x Psy Rating

The psyker has learned how to block the messages of the target’s senses. The psyker makes an Opposed Willpower Test against the target. If he succeeds, the target is struck deaf, blind, and is unable to scent or taste for as long as the psyker maintains the power plus 1d5 rounds.

This power can also be used as a crude form of effective ‘invisibility’ allowing the psyker to pass unnoticed to sight or sound. The psyker selects a number of targets equal to his Willpower Bonus and selects which single sense he wishes to suppress. This must be the same sense for each target. Each target must make an Opposed Willpower Test. Those that fail notice nothing out of the ordinary, and the sensory information is successfully masked by the psyker until he stops maintaining the power.

Shock

Value: 300 xp

Prerequisites: Mind Probe

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: No

Focus Power: Difficult (-10) Opposed Willpower

Range: 10 metres x Psy Rating

Slithering deep into the mind of his victim, the psyker unearths their greatest failings, greatest weaknesses, and greatest fears. Using these as tools against his opponent, the psyker can turn even the most courageous warriors into pathetic, whimpering cowards before him.

The psyker nominates a single target in range and line of sight who opposes this power with a Willpower Test. If the target fails to resist the power, it must roll on Table: Shock, adding +10 times the psyker’s Psy Rating to the roll in place of the normally addition for Degrees of Failure, and immediately apply the effects.

Naturally, the power does not work against targets with Machine or Daemonic Traits.

Short Range Telepathy

Value: 100 xp

Prerequisites: Thought Sending

Activation Time: Half Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power Test: Willpower

Range: 10m x Psy Rating

A successful Focus Power Test allows the psyker to establish and maintain a single telepathic connection to another character at Unfettered Psychic Strength. However, using this ability does not provoke Psychic Phenomena.

Terrify

Value: 200 xp

Prerequisites: Mind Probe

Activation Time: Full Action

Maintainable: Yes

Focus Power Test: Willpower

Range: 5m x Psy Rating

By using his psychic abilities to intrude forcefully on another mind, the psyker assails his target with raw fear and horrific imagery. If the psyker succeeds at the Focus Power Test, the target is affected as if the psyker possessed the Fear (1) Trait. The psyker may increase the level of the Fear Trait by 1 for every 3 Psy Rating he uses in the Focus Power Test.

Thought Sending

Alternate Names: Echo of Thought, Whispered Will

Value: 100 xp.

Prerequisites: None

Activation Time: Free Action.

Maintainable: Yes.

Focus Power Test: Simple (+40) Opposed Willpower

Range: 1km x Psy Rating

The psyker can send his thoughts into the minds of those around him. This can be a select group, either to individuals he can see, or minds he is familiar with within range, or a generalised broadcast to every mind within range indiscriminately at the psyker’s discretion. Much of the mind’s processes are still affected by the structure of language, so that if telepathy is attempted without a shared language it suffers a –20 penalty. Minds who do not wish to be open to such a communication can resist with an Opposed Willpower test.

Navigator Powers

A Cloud in the Warp

By understanding and perceiving the currents of the warp, the Navigator can hide his presence from those that would use the Immaterium to detect him. Whilst it does not in any way mask his presence in the real universe, it can ably hide him from detection by Psykers and confuse creatures whose essence and existence are linked to the warp, such as Daemons and other warp entities. As the Navigator grows in power, he will become harder to detect, as well as being able to mask others if they stand nearby.

Novice: By making a Willpower test, the Navigator becomes shrouded in an immaterial cloak, forcing those that use any kind of psychic sight, detection or divination to make a Challenging (+0) Perception Test to see him with such powers. This power also has the same effect on the perception of all Daemons and warp entities. This power will last as long as the Navigator maintains it, however whilst he does so, he cannot use any other powers (though he may take other actions normally).

Adept: As above, except the test to detect the Navigator becomes Difficult (–10).

Master: As above, except the power gains a radius equal to the Navigator’s Willpower Bonus in metres centred on his person. Any creature within the radius may be shrouded at the choice of the Navigator.

Foreshadowing

By using his warp eye to filter small secrets from the near future, the Navigator can choose to make slight adjustments to his actions to avoid harm and manipulate the course of events. Only if the Navigator tries to dig too deep into the near future for secrets does this power become unpredictable and he may become victim of the warp’s lies.

Novice: With a successful Perception Test, the Navigator draws three secrets from the future. He may then “spend” a secret on his following turn to gain a +10% bonus on any Test. Using one secret in this way carries no danger. However, he may choose to spend either of his other two secrets to add an additional +10 bonus to the roll for each secret spent (for a total bonus of +20 for 2 secrets used, and +30 for three secrets used). For each additional secret used beyond the first, the Navigator must roll a d10; if this roll comes up 7, 8, 9, or 10, then the secret causes the Navigator to suffer a –10 penalty instead of granting a bonus. Secrets not used in the following round are lost as time marches on. Using this power more than once in the same hour is dangerous, as no one should know too much about his own future. For every use after the first in a single hour, the Navigator suffers 1d5 Insanity Points.

Adept: As above, except secrets will only deduct rather than add on a roll of 9 or 10.

Master: As above, except secrets can be used up to five rounds after the power is used.

Gaze into the Abyss

This power allows a Navigator to see a creature’s or object’s reflection in the warp and learn things hidden from the real universe. This power is most useful in unmasking both psykers and daemons, but has other applications, such as reading residual psychic taint on objects and tracking powerful psychic entities.

Novice: With a successful Perception Test, the Navigator can determine if a creature or object holds the taint of the warp. This will tell the Navigator if the person or object has a Psy Rating or is tainted (roughly speaking if they have more than 20 Corruption Points, warp mutations, are possessed, etc.). Psykers who have made dark pacts with the warp and daemons are more resistant to this power, however. These creatures may make a Willpower Test opposed by the Navigator’s Perception, which if successful will hide their true natures. This power can also be used to track powerful psychic or warp creatures using the rules for Survival Skill.

Adept: As above, with the additional effect that the Navigator can detect major disturbances in the warp, such as warp portals and ships entering and exiting the Immaterium within a radius of 100 kilometres times his Perception Bonus. In Starship Combat, this power functions within a number of VUs equal to the Navigator’s Perception Bonus.

Master: As above but the Navigator can also use the power to detect the use of psychic powers within a radius of 10 metres per point of his Perception Bonus.

Held in my Gaze

The unflinching eye of a Navigator locks a creature in place with a gaze that pierces flesh and bone to see the immaterial essence of all things. Most commonly employed against psykers, this ability can be used to render them effectively powerless and prevent them from calling upon their abilities. It is also undeniably effective against creatures with a strong connection to the warp, such as daemons, for which it can have spectacular and devastating consequences.

Novice: The Navigator chooses a target which he has line of sight to and is no further away than 5 metres per point of his Perception Bonus. He then makes an Opposed Willpower test with the target. If he is successful, then the target is locked and will remain so as long as the Navigator does not use any other powers. A locked target must beat the Navigator in an Opposed Willpower test each time it wishes to use a psychic power or invoke the Daemonic Presence Trait. If the target moves out of range or line of sight, the power ends. Daemons affected by this power suffer 1 point of additional Damage for Warp Instability.

Adept: As above, however the range increases to the 20 metres per point of the Navigator’s Perception Bonus and daemons affected by this power suffer 2d10 points of damage instead of 1 point when suffering Warp Instability.

Master: As above, with the addition that the Navigator no longer needs to have line of sight to the target and daemons suffering any damage from Warp Instability are immediately destroyed and cast back into the warp.

The Course Untravelled

Time is not an arrow that flies straight and true, but rather,a tangled web of moments and possibilities. The Course Untravelled power allows a Navigator to negotiate this web, stepping fractionally from one moment to another, and in the process, altering his position in the physical world. The use of such power is extremely dangerous, however, as the Navigator is not actually physically travelling in place as such, but rather choosing an alternate future in which wish to inhabit. He risks both injury and madness in trying to step outside the flow of time in this way.

Novice: If the Navigator succeeds at a Difficult (–10) Willpower Test, he may move to any point within a distance equal to his Perception Characteristic in metres, so long as he could have walked, climbed, or swam there normally without impediment. If he fails this test, he is Stunned for 1 round and fails to change position. If he fails this test by three degrees or more, he is Stunned for 1d10 rounds and gains an Insanity Point. Whether or not this power is successful, the Navigator suffers a level of Fatigue at the end of the Round thanks to the strain on his body.

Adept: As above, except the test is only Challenging (+0) and the range is increased to double the Navigator’s Perception Characteristic in metres.

Master: As above, except he may now perform this power as a Free Action or as a Reaction.

The Lidless Stare

If a Navigator opens his warp eye fully, anyone gazing into its depths will witness the power and mind breaking unreality of the warp. In an instant, they witness the chaos boiling beneath the skin of existence and for many, it is the last thing they ever see.

Novice: The Navigator makes an Opposed Willpower Test with anyone looking into his Warp Eye. Make a single test for the Navigator and compare it to the results of each of his opponents. If the Navigator achieves more degrees of success, the opponent suffers 1d10+ the Navigator’s Willpower bonus in Energy damage. This damage is not reduced by armour or Toughness Bonus. Anyone taking damage from this power is also Stunned for 1 round as they are ripped with agony.

Using this power is taxing and inflicts a level of Fatigue on the Navigator. If the Navigator fails this Test by one degree of failure or more, he suffers two levels of Fatigue.

Adept: As above, however, the damage is increased to 2d10+(the Navigator’s WP bonus) and the time the victims are Stunned increases to 1d5 rounds. Victims also suffer 1d5 Insanity Points.

Master: As above, with the additional effect that any creature possessing an Intelligence of 20+ suffering damage from this power must make an immediate Difficult (–10) Toughness Test or be sent into the Warp and slain. If they pass, they suffer 1d10 Insanity points rather than 1d5.

Avoiding a Navigator’s Gaze

The Lidless Stare will affect anyone, friend or foe, that looks into the Navigator’s third eye when this power is activated. This has an effective range of 15m (reduced to 5m in fog or mist) and has no effect on unliving targets, Untouchables, and daemons or other entities from the Warp. Those forewarned can look away, though even then being within line of sight of a Navigator is dangerous. The power of his eye is persuasive, and looking away only grants them +30 on their rolls to resist its power. Those who are unaware of the Navigator’s presence gain this bonus as well.

Tides of Time and Space

By examining the flow of the warp around him, the Navigator can anticipate near future actions and thus move outside the normal flow of events by choosing strands of reality and slipping between them. Whilst this power can be of great benefit to the Navigator, it is also very dangerous, and should he lose control, the results can be disastrous.

Novice: Each round the Navigator wishes to use this power he must make a Perception test to read the strands of time. On a success, he doubles his Agility Bonus for the purposes of determining initiative and may take an additional Half Action that turn. The additional Action may not have the Concentration subtype. On a failure, he halves his Agility Bonus for initiative and may only take a Half Action that turn as he loses his grip on reality, becoming confounded and disorientated. Should he fail by three degrees or more, he winks out of existence for 1d5 rounds, reappearing where he was at the end of this duration. Should something else occupy that space when the Navigator returns, he shifts his position as much as necessary to a point of the player’s choice should something else occupy that space. Whether or not this power is successful, however, the Navigator suffers a level of Fatigue at the end of the Round each time it is used. This power does not give the Navigator an additional Reaction.

Adept: As above, except he triples his Agility Bonus for the purposes of determining Initiative.

Master: As above, however, he quadruples his Agility Bonus for Initiative. In addition, he may take two extra Half Actions or a Full Action in addition to his other actions this round (rather than a single Half Action as results from the Novice manifestation of this power).

Tracks in the Stars

When a ship travels though either real space or the warp it leaves a faint trail, the lingering shadow of its warp drive. Using his third eye, the Navigator can follow this trail across the stars.

Novice: Using Perception, the Navigator can track the warp trail of a ship through real space in the same way as if he was using the Survival skill. To track a warp trail, it can be no older than the Navigator’s Perception Bonus in weeks, although the size and power of the vessel involved may mitigate this.

Adept: As above, however, the warp trail may be up to a number of months old equal to the Navigator’s Perception Bonus. He may also track ships in the warp in the same manner.

Master: As above, except he can follow a warp trail equal to the Navigator’s Perception bonus in years old, although this information may be erratic and fragmentary.

Void Watcher

Using this power and gazing into the void whilst aboard ship, the Navigator can learn things about space in the immediate vicinity of his vessel. This can reveal hidden dangers such as mines, void creatures, and concealed ships, as well as more mundane perils like asteroids and debris. With skill and practice, a Navigator’s void sense can become amazingly precise and reach out across millions of kilometres of space.

Novice: The Navigator can make a Perception test (modified by range and size of potential objects as the GM thinks appropriate) to detect objects in space up to a distance equal to the Navigator’s Perception Bonus in Void Units. If the power is not being used during space combat, the distance equals 1,000 kilometres times the Navigator’s Perception Bonus. Information gained about such objects is only what the Navigator could discover through normal observation.

Adept: As above, however, range is increased to a distance equal to double the Navigator’s Perception Bonus in Void Units, or 10,000 km times the Navigator’s Perception Bonus if the power is not being used during space combat. He may make a Difficult (–10) Willpower Test to gain some information about the nature of the object (i.e., what minerals are in an asteroid, what kind of crew a starship has).

Master: As above, except range becomes equal to five times the Navigator’s Perception Bonus in Void Units, or 100,000 km times the Navigator’s Perception Bonus if the power is not being used during space combat. The test to gain additional information becomes Ordinary (+10).

Arcanas

Arcanas are the gateway drug of Chaos powers. While not as inherently vile and damning as truly Chaotic abilities, they're still far beyond what the Imperium deems heretical. Arcanas are available to both Imperial and Chaotic psykers, but each time an Imperial successfully manifests an Arcana, he gains 1d10 minus his Willpower Bonus points of Corruption.

Create Door

Value: 500 xp.

Prerequisites: Psy Rating 3, Arcane Symbols

Activation Time: Full Action.

Maintainable: No.

Focus Power Test: Difficult (-10) Willpower

Range: anywhere within the Sector

The psyker summons a burning doorway from thin air. The doorway may be used to transport the psyker anywhere he can clearly recall in his mind. The psyker’s player must tell the GM where he would like the door to lead; the GM will then set an appropriate Difficulty rating based on when the psyker was last in this place, his state of mind, circumstances, and concentration. The psyker can then step through the doorway and make an Intelligence Test based on that Difficulty. If passed, all is well. If not, the GM will determine a suitable alternate destination — typically one the psyker would prefer to avoid.

Travelling through such a blasphemous portal brings users closer to the horrors of the warp than it is safe to tread. Anyone passing through the door must pass a Hard (–20) Willpower Test. If the Test is failed, then that character must roll on the Perils of the Warp table.

Create Door

Circumstance	Modifier
10m-100m	+20
101m-1000m	+10
Anywhere upon a Planet	+0
Anywhere within a System	-10
Anywhere within a Subsector	-20
Anywhere within a Sector	-30
Intimately known place	+20
Frequently visited place	+10
Place visited once	+0
Place seen in pict-caps	-10
Place described by visitors	-20
Place described in books	-30

Exsanguine

Value: 200 xp.

Prerequisites: Sacrifice

Activation Time: Half Action.

Maintainable: No.

Focus Power Test: Opposed Willpower

Range: 3m x Psy Rating

By snapping his fingers and bellowing an incantation at his target, the psyker causes the target’s blood to bubble and rush from his body. Make an Opposed Willpower Test against the Target’s Toughness. If successful, the target suffers Damage equal to triple the psyker’s Willpower Bonus (Toughness Bonus and Armour will not reduce this Damage) and will suffer from Blood Loss.

Naturally, the power has no effect on targets without blood (or similar bodily fluid).

Flail of Skulls

Value: 200 xp.

Prerequisites: Sacrifice

Activation Time: Half Action.

Maintainable: Yes.

Focus Power Test: Difficult (–10) Willpower

Range: Personal

Using strands of warp energy, the sorcerer binds together the skulls of the fallen, creating a flail of skulls that burns with malice. Once manifest, the Flail of Skulls counts as a flail in the psyker's hand. It deals 1d10 damage, increased by 1 per point of Psy Rating. It also has the Flexible and Warp Weapon qualities and will bypass most armour and defences. There is no penalty for lacking the required Weapon Training Talent. Any target suffering Damage from the Flail of Skulls gains 1d10 Insanity Points and an additional Insanity Point for every skull used in the flail’s construction after the second.

Manifesting this power requires the sorcerer to possess one or more skulls of sentient beings, however fresh.

Flaming Word

Value: 300 xp.

Prerequisites: None

Activation Time: Half Action.

Maintainable: No

Focus Power Test: Difficult (-10) Willpower

Range: 20 metres

The psyker opens his mouth, using it as a gateway for the fires of the warp. This power is a Psychic Barrage that deals 1d10+2 Energy Damage, +2 per point of Psy Rating, with a Pen of 3 and the Flame Quality. In addition, due to the unnatural nature of the flames, any target struck by the effects of this power is automatically set on fire.

The psyker may not communicate verbally while this power is manifest, until his next turn.

Immunity

Value: 300 xp.

Prerequisites: Sacrifice

Activation Time: Half Action.

Maintainable: Yes, Free Action.

Focus Power Test: Difficult (-10) Willpower

Range: Personal.

By swallowing a solid round of ammunition, the psyker fortifies his body against projectiles and crude weapons. The psyker must pass a Toughness Test. If successful, he does not suffer any Impact Type Damage for 1d5 Rounds.

Living Weapon

Value: 400 xp.

Prerequisites: Arcane Symbols

Activation Time: Half Action.

Maintainable: Yes, Free Action.

Focus Power Test: Hard (-20) Willpower

Range: Personal.

The psyker carves a blasphemous rune into his flesh, calling on the warp to remake his flesh for war. Whilst this power is in effect, the psyker gains the following profile increases: +20 Weapon Skill, +20 Strength, +10 Toughness, and +10 Agility. In addition, he gains a +3 bonus on all Initiative rolls, the Natural Weapons Trait, and all of his melee attacks gain the Tearing Quality. Whilst in this bestial state, his Fellowship is reduced to 10.

Open

Value: 300 xp.

Prerequisites: Fueled by Flesh

Activation Time: Full Action.

Maintainable: No.

Focus Power Test: Willpower

Range: Touch.

Using his own blood, the psyker traces a rune across a sealed portal or object, dissolving the essence of the locking mechanism. This power can be used on any object regardless of how it was originally sealed. The sorcerer suffers 1d5 Damage for a small object, 1d10 Damage for a medium-sized object, and 2d10 Damage for a large object. The GM should feel free to alter the amount of Damage taken to better represent a given object. This Damage is not reduced by the psyker’s Armour or Toughness Bonus.

Psy Barrier

Value: 200 xp.

Prerequisites: Fueled by Flesh

Activation Time: Half Action.

Maintainable: Yes.

Focus Power Test: Willpower

Range: 5m.

With a finger dipped in blood, the psyker raws a burning rune in the air which then scorches the minds of those nearby with a mixture of fear and confusion. Anyone wishing to advance towards the rune must pass a Difficult (–10) Willpower Test or become rooted to the spot in fear. A target that fails his Willpower Test may do nothing further that turn.

Summon Object

Value: 400 xp.

Prerequisites: Sacrifice

Activation Time: Full Action (longer for larger objects).

Maintainable: No.

Focus Power Test: Willpower (harder for larger or more complex objects).

Range: 10m.

Through ritual blood-letting, the psyker summons an object out of thin air. The psyker needs blood weighing about much as the object he is summoning, but it doesn't need to be blood of the sentient creatures.

Manifesting this power to summon a simple object such as a palm-sized gold ingot is a Challenging (+0) Willpower Test. For each ten times the object summoned is larger than this, increase the difficulty by one step. Summoning a technologically complex object such as a plasma pistol additionally increases the difficulty by one step.

Basic manifesting time for the power is one Full Action; summoning a palm-sized item takes this long. For each time the item size is double this, add a Full Action to the manifesting time (so summoning a bolter takes about six Full Actions). By doubling this duration, you can reduce the difficulty of manifesting this power one step; you can reduce the difficulty up to three steps this way.

If the psyker fails his Focus Power Test with one Degree of Failure, the object is not created from warp-stuff or summoned from the other end of the Galaxy, but whisked away from somewhere close by. If no items of the desired type are available in the vicinity, the result below applies.

If the psyker fails his Focus Power Test with more than one Degree of Failure, the item may still appear at the GM's discretion. However, it is likely to be imbued by the most unexpected and unpleasant properties, up to and including Daemon possession or properties associated with Cursed Heirloom Talent.

Transfix

Value: 400 xp.

Prerequisites: Fueled by Flesh

Activation Time: Half Action.

Maintainable: No.

Focus Power Test: Hard (-20) Willpower

Range: 5m.

Flicking the blood of the recently dead onto the target’s face and muttering a guttural curse, the psyker inflicts horrible hallucinations on the target. The victim witnesses horrific images of darkness and despair. Distraught and emotionally paralysed, the target is totally transfixed. Unless he passes a Very Hard (–30) Willpower Test, the target can do nothing for 10 minutes. He also gains 1d10 Insanity Points.

The psyker needs some reasonably fresh blood of the dead in order to manifest this power normally. If he has no access to blood, manifesting this power deals him 1d5 damage that is not reduced by his Armour or Toughness.

Naturally, the power does not work against targets with Daemonic or Machine Traits.

Wall of Souls

Value: 200 xp.

Prerequisites: Sacrifice

Activation Time: Half Action.

Maintainable: Yes.

Focus Power Test: Willpower

Range: 15m.

The psyker draws on the power of the warp and calls forth a wall of leering, aetheric faces to bar the path of his adversaries. Once manifest, this wall of souls is 5m x Psy Rating in breadth and height. Crossing or penetrating the wall is easy, but carries a price. Any individual unlucky enough to be hit by the wall as it manifests, stumble into it, or passing through suffers Psy Rating d5 Insanity Points and must pass an Ordinary (+10) Toughness Test or become Stunned.

If the psyker fails to manifest this power by 2 Degrees of Failure or more, the aetheric faces are called forth and swarm around him like a cloud of flies. The psyker gains 1d10 Insanity Points and may do nothing further that round as he clutches his head and tries to hold onto what remains of his mind.

Warp Corruption

Value: 300 xp.

Prerequisites: Corruption 50+

Activation Time: Full Action.

Maintainable: No.

Focus Power Test: Difficult (-10) Willpower

Range: Earshot.

Crying aloud the dark truths of the warp, the psyker is able to corrupt the souls of those around him. Everyone who hears his chanting — friend or foe — must pass a Willpower Test or gain a number of Corruption Points equal to the amount of Degrees of Failure by which the Test was failed, increased by the Psy Rating of the psyker, and decreased by his Willpower Bonus.

Warp Tongue

Value: 300 xp.

Prerequisites: Forbidden Lore (Daemonology) +10

Activation Time: Half Action.

Maintainable: Yes.

Focus Power Test: Opposed Willpower

Range: Personal.

The psyker distorts the cacophony of voices in the warp, fooling daemons into believing he is a minor herald. Any creature with the Daemonic Trait who hears the sorcerer must pass an Opposed Willpower Test or become vulnerable to his suggestions. The sorcerer receives a +5 x Psy Rating bonus to any Charm, Intimidate or Deceive Tests against these targets. If the daemon wins the Opposed Test, however, it gains a +10 bonus to all Tests made against the psyker (including Weapon Skill Tests!).

Warp Vigour

Value: 200 xp.

Prerequisites: Arcane Symbols

Activation Time: Half Action.

Maintainable: No.

Focus Power Test: Willpower

Range: Touch.

With a mix of blood and ash, the psyker marks a burning rune on the target’s head. Through the rune, the target can draw on unnatural reserves of fortitude. A character marked in this way may re-roll any Strength or Toughness Opposed Tests he is required to make and gains an additional 5 Wounds whilst this power is active. Any Damage that is inflicted upon the subject of this power affects these bonus Wounds first before affecting the rest. The rune will continue to protect the character for 1 hour.

Any character whose body is defiled by this unholy symbol gains 1d10 Corruption Points, unless he is already serving Chaos.