SCIENCE (and kinda history) LESSON!!!
There are six known ways; collectively known as the energetic or spiritual skills; that are the basis of all 'supernatural' capabilities as I know them.
Mortals (you know, the fleshy biological things) for the most part were gifted the ability to utilize these skills by entities living in the lower dimensions we spoke of last time. Most call these entities Spirits, and we'll discuss them in greater detail later.
The gift was mostly given to creatures that had either impressed or help the spirit giving it, and only happens on planets with enough of raw energy in the first place. The gift itself wasn't necessarily a mote of knowledge or divine inspiration; it was an act that changed the intrinsic nature of an individual.
Their physiology is changed, simplified to become less biological in nature and more energetic, like the spirits themselves. Thus the original name of those who had the gift, "the Fallen"; those who had fallen from the heights of biological complexity. This change in biology also has a tendency to spurn on natural evolutionary processes, particularly when it comes to developing true sapience.
Many a intelligent species in the universe own their capabilities and brain power to some spirit blessing one of their ancestors a million years before.
The Fallen instinctively began to use the afore mentioned six methods. But what are these six methods, these six energetic skills? How do they do?
(Symbols only applicable on Earth Proper!)
The six skills are as follows. Transformation, Transportation, Manifestation, Manipulation, Connection, and Absorption, symbolized in their most common Earth-based runic form above. They, with an application of energy from either a Fallen's own reserves or the external world, allow them to manipulate the world around them in ways that mundane mortals cannot. We'll go into more detail on each one later.
Most Fallen had affinities towards two or so of the skills, allowing them to excel in their usage, but all Fallen can use all six skills, in general. They have been cases where Fallen are incapable or manipulating either internal or external energies, making certain skills either impossible to use or extremely dangerous.
Overtaxing yourself when using the six is a very real danger, as the Fallen's physiology has adapted to need at least a certain amount of it to function. Once one has utilized any extra energy they may have taken in or produced, they begin to utilize what could be considered their very life-blood. This can even lead to death, though you're likely to fall unconscious before then.
Still, there are stories of great martyr heroes that gave their everything in one final push to defeat some great calamity or seal some fabled portal into some hell-space, releasing everything they have in one big explosion of power.
There's also the fact that newbies sometimes get ahead of themselves and blow themselves up. That happens too.
Fairly regularly.
Next time we'll go into the individual skills. Starting with one of the most often overlooked, but so delightfully potent skills: TRANSPORTATION!
(It's not an energy bus or anything... but I know a guy who can make a bus out of energy.)
(It explodes 90% of the time.)