DESIGNATION: PSYCHIC TYPE — SEER CLEARANCE: PUBLIC ARCHIVE: BASILICA PURGATORY

Seer

Gifted — Psychic

Precognition & Psychometry — Reading What Was and What May Be

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Overview

Seers combine two distinct but related gifts: Precognition — the ability to perceive clues about the future — and Psychometry — the ability to perceive emotional impressions tied to objects and places through touch. What unites these is that both are forms of reading what most people cannot perceive. The Seer sees the residue of the past and the probability-shapes of the future simultaneously, which is as disorienting as it sounds and as useful as it seems.

Starting Attribute Priority

Category	Priority	Starting Points
Mental	Primary	7 points
Social	Secondary	5 points
Physical	Tertiary	3 points

Masking Practice

Seers typically mask as Augur Sorcerers — carrying divination tools (cards, runes, pendulums) and performing visible reading rituals before voicing premonitions.

Abilities

Choose one option at each level as you advance. The choice at each level is permanent.

●○○○○ Level 1 — Choose One

Option A — Surface Read: Touch an object or person and receive a faint emotional impression — the dominant feeling associated with this thing or person in the last 24 hours. No cost, automatic.

Option B — Probability Sense: Before a decision with significant consequences, receive a brief but accurate sense of whether proceeding will benefit or harm you specifically. No cost, automatic.

●●○○○ Level 2 — Choose One

Option A — Object History: Hold an object for a full minute and receive vivid impressions of its significant past. Roll Perception + Empathy (diff 6).

Option B — Likely Outcome: Focus on a specific question about the next 24 hours and receive the most probable answer. Roll Intelligence + Occult (diff 6).

●●●○○ Level 3 — Choose One (1 Willpower)

Option A — Deep Reading: Extended psychometric reading of a place or object's full significant history in sequence. Roll Perception + Empathy (diff 7); 3 successes for a complete account.

Option B — Vision of the Path: See the most likely outcome of a specific decision or event over the next week. Roll Intelligence + Occult (diff 7).

●●●●○ Level 4 — Choose One (1 Willpower)

Option A — Psychic Echo: Relive the most traumatic or significant event at a location as if present, in real time. Roll Perception + Empathy (diff 8).

Option B — Cascade Read: See two or three branches of a current decision point. Roll Intelligence + Occult (diff 8); 4+ successes reveals the currently most probable branch.

●●●●● Level 5 — Choose One (2 Willpower)

Option A — True History: Perceive the complete history of a person, place, or object from creation to present. -2 dice on all rolls for 24 hours afterward. Roll Perception + Empathy (diff 9).

Option B — The Fixed Point: Identify one outcome that is genuinely inevitable given current conditions. Once per month. Roll Intelligence + Occult (diff 9); Storyteller confirms accuracy.

Strength & Weakness

Strength: Reads What Others Cannot	Weakness: Cannot Unsee
A free passive read on any object or location interacted with for over a minute — cannot be turned off. Never without information.	Passive impressions are constant and involuntary. -1 die on all Social rolls in new environments while coping with what they're reading.