Stormlord
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Stormlords are psychics so-called for their fearsome power of manipulating the energies of lightning. While they cannot create electrical energy out of whole cloth, this generally proves little impediment to them.
The backbone of your powers is the ability to create a field of psychic force that absorbs and collects electrical energy. The power stored in your lightning absorption field may then be put to work in other ways. The amount of energy that the field can hold is limited by your level of ability, which is determined by your willpower, intelligence, perception, luck, and skill at psycholeptesis and metasenses. The field will attempt to disperse what energy it cannot absorb, but its power to absorb and its power to disperse can both be overwhelmed by too much incoming energy at once. Nonetheless, it is quite difficult indeed to harm a stormlord with electricity. You can obtain a general idea of how much energy is bound up in your field simply by examining yourself; any significant amount of energy will be visible as an aura around you. When your field has a great deal of energy in it, individuals attacking you bare-handed or using weapons of conductive material are likely to trigger an electrical discharge; be cautious, as this can deplete the strength of your field. To bring up your lightning absorption field, concentrate on absorbing lightning; to shut it down, concentrate on ceasing to absorb lightning. Any power stored in your field when you shut it down will be lost.
You can put the lightnings stored in your field to work by creating small lightning arcs to shock opponents. This ability will draw on the energy stored in your lightning absorption field unless you are in circumstances where you could call a lightning bolt, as described below, in which case you will draw the necessary energy from your environment. To throw a lightning arc at an enemy, concentrate on directing lightning at your target; you may refer simply to "my opponent" to target whomever you are fighting. Your level of ability at this is determined by your willpower, intelligence, perception, luck, and skill at psycholeptesis.
The most feared of the stormlord's capabilities is what earns them their name: the ability to call lightning down from the sky against their foes. In order to do this, you must be outdoors and the weather must be in such a state as to at least hint at a storm; that is, a cloudy sky and a significant amount of precipitation. Your proficiency at calling lightning is a matter of your willpower, intelligence, perception, luck, and skill at psycholeptesis; to do this, concentrate on calling lightning down upon your target.
