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More often than not, this is due to players fearing that something will go awry when psychic powers are used. This is a shame, because such a large variety of psychic archetypes exist, each presenting fantastic modelling opportunities. Whilst notre-writing the rules (psychic powers should come with pretty horrific downsides) this article hopes to redress the balance, offering new takes on psychic characters and new ideas to combat the difficulties commonly encountered when characters use psychic powers on the tabletop. I hope to see warpfire shrieking across tabletops in no time!  \nLook Not Upon The Witch  \nThe uneducated and superstitious masses of the Imperium trudge through their meagre lives oblivious to the greater galaxy around them. They have no knowledge of the myriad threats that circle the worlds of man, nor the complex political web that governs their institutions and keeps their world tied to the millions of others that make up the human realm. Their only connection with the Imperium is the church, which despite its innumerable guises and interpretations of the Imperial Creed, preaches one constant: cast out the mutant, the alien and the witch. The reason behind this teaching of intolerance is simple – left unchecked, these threats can spell doom for the planets of man, and vigilant, self-policing communities are far more likely to survive in a galaxy of insidious threats. It would therefore shock the average Imperial citizen to know that man could not survive without those with the witches gift: the Imperium is reliant on psykers for communication between its many worlds; travel between worlds would be far more hazardous without the beacon of the Astronomican; and the Emperor himself would perish within the Golden Throne without the daily  \nsacrifice of thousands of psykers to sustain its energies. While it is true that rogue psykers present a very real threat to the communities they hide in through the likelihood of attracting the attention of daemon, Enslaver or other warp predator, sanctioned psykers are vital to the day to day running of the Imperium.  \nThe Sanctioning  \nThe Blackships of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica traverse the Imperium in century long circuits to collect psykers from all of the domain’s worlds for transport to Terra. Most are martyred as sustenance for the Emperor upon their arrival. Some will be soul-bound, their very beings exposed to the almighty power of the God-Emperor to  \nimbibe a fraction of His power that they may send messages across His realm as Astropaths. The tiny percentage that are judged to have the strength of mind to control their abilities (after days, weeks, months or even years of brutal testing and psi-opsy) receive the sanctioning brand and are sent to a Scholastica Psykana facility to learn to focus their techniques and mould them into the tools the cogs of the Imperium need to keep turning.  \nThe sanctioning process has a profound effect on all that survive, varying from physical scarring, psychological trauma and the loss of sight and other senses universally suffered by those that are soulbound. The voyage to Terra is a defining point in the lives of all psykers, and its effects colour every action of their lives yet to come.  \nTheScholastia Psykana  \nThere are many thousands of Scholastica Psykana institutes throughout the galaxy, normally set upon important Imperial worlds that have known stability for centuries if not millennia. Though the institutes carry a high risk of collateral damage to local populations were some calamity to strike, the Adeptus Astra Telepathica is of the opinion that the security offered by positioning their colleges on major worlds provides is a necessity in a galaxy that would exploit psykers for their own ends. Often times, the local populace is unaware of","cbCaisbaIv9StQLs","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisbaIv9StQLs","pdf",740161,"English","# The Sanctioning Brand\n## Psykers in Inquisitor\n## Look Not Upon The Witch\n## The Sanctioning\n## The Scholastia Psykana\n## Exotic Abilities\n## Soul Bound\n## Warpsight","[{\"question\":\"Why are psykers often under-represented on the Inquisitor tabletop?\",\"answer\":\"Players tend to fear something going awry when psychic powers are used, leading to fewer psykers being represented in play.\"},{\"question\":\"What roles do sanctioned psykers serve in the Imperium?\",\"answer\":\"They enable communication between worlds, help sustain travel through the Astronomican, and are required to support the Emperor’s power on the Golden Throne.\"},{\"question\":\"What happens to psykers who are soul-bound during sanctioning?\",\"answer\":\"Soul-bound psykers can suffer effects such as physical scarring, psychological trauma, and loss of sight and other senses, and some develop Warpsight in place of normal vision.\"}]","The Sanctioning Brand - Psykers in Inquisitor | PDF",1791335391,15]