You have spellcasting ability. Choose two bastions below which act as the touchstone for your psionic magic. You can cast spells using Wits, and can make them potent by adding instability afterward, eventually adding increasing thorns to your future spellcasting rolls. You can’t cast potent spells once adding +2t from instability. Thorns from instability can't be ignored and reset at the beginning of each session. You gain more slots that don't add instability with growth.
Instability: Each potent spell pulls at the threads in your mind, making your magic harder to control. You add thorns to all psionic spellcasting based on your instability, tracked by looking at the thorns on the lowest line you have marked (+0t, +1t, +2t). Consider what this progressive unraveling of your psyche looks like.
Bastions: Within your mind lie bastions of psionic power. As you grow stronger, you break down their walls, unlocking your true potential. These powers take shape as visions, psychic phenomena, and even physical manifestations in the form of ectoplasm—pure essence of creation.
Biodynamics • Altering and enhancing your own body. Power: Heal your broken arm. Hold your breath for hours. Run faster than a horse.
Clairsentience • Gaining knowledge from the collective unconscious. Power: Sense a hidden truth. See into someone's dreams. Find the way home.
Metacreation • Creating objects from ectoplasm, pure mental energy. Power: Forge a glowing sword. Build a bridge of thought. Shape armor from pure will.
Psychokinesis • Manipulating energy and force. Power: Shatter a boulder. Push an enemy back. Lift a heavy object with your mind.
Telepathy • Mind-to-mind communication, manipulation, and control. Power: Read someone's thoughts. Calm an angry mob. Implant a fleeting suggestion.
Transposition • Movement and manipulation of space. Power: Teleport across a room. Switch places with an ally. Freeze someone in place.