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PARAHUMANS
13/30’s -- Regardless of what age they are they can shape shift into their 13 year old self or their 30 year old self (only if they’ve passed age 30 for the latter, however).
23’s -- Every 23’s power is different but all of their powers revolve around the # 23.
24/7/365’s -- Human paranormals who can go without sleep for varying lengths of time, so long as they are willing to sleep an equal amount of time afterwards to repay the accumulated sleep debt.
500’s -- Human paranormals who can live to be 500 but not one day older.
Agers -- Can age backwards to a previous age that they’ve been.
Animators -- Power to animate inanimate objects.
Anipaths -- Can communicate with any non-human, non-paranormal animals.
Audios -- Power comes from their voice.
Automatic Writers -- Get messages from ‘the other side’ and are compelled to write them down.
Babels -- Can cause others to speak gibberish. Powerful Babels can do this to large groups of people.
Balancers -- Can never lose their balance. Ever.
Berserkers -- When in a berserker rage, they’re invincible.
Bleeders -- Universal donors. Unlimited blood supply.
Blobs -- Can shapeshift into a gelatinous blob form.
Blues -- Power is over anything blue. Red trumps Blue.
Bodymorphs -- Human paranormals who can control their body weight and shape. They can expand to be 400-lbs if they want or shrink down to just 99-lbs.
Borrowers -- Can ‘borrow’ other human paranormal powers temporarily.
Breathers -- Human paranormals who’s power revolves around breathing. Lungs are able to filter out almost everything and get the air they need. Can also store up an oxygen reserve for use if needed later. Capable of exhaling pure oxygen and giving it go someone in need. Can breathe in all the oxygen in a room, leaving it without any.
Bulletproofs -- Doesn’t matter what the bullet is made of, if it’s a bullet, they’re impervious to it. But that’s the limit of their abilities. They’re ‘merely’ bulletproof.
Cambions -- Their powers are strongest against False Vampyres but they’re very seductive to even True Vampyres/.
Cannibals -- Consuming other paranormals gives them the powers of the paranormal they’ve eaten. Eating humans, adds their remaining years to their life
Casanovas -- They can get any of their lovers to do anything they want.
Cephalophores -- Can lose detach their heads and in detached form are more or less impervious.
Chameleons -- Can shape shift but only into other human forms.
Chocolates -- Can turn anything into chocolate. Anything. And their chocolate...is amazing.
Comedians -- Their power is in inciting uncontrollable laughter.
Cryos -- Power over the cold.
Cybers -- Able to project themselves into electronic devices and computer networks.
Depriveds -- Can go extreme long periods of time depriving themselves of necessities. Can go decades without eating, if they want. Same with breathing, drinking water, sleeping, etc.
Dhampirs -- Connected to vampyres and have the power to track and incite fear into any and all vampyres, True and False.
Dolls -- Shape shifters who can turn into a doll, any doll, any type of doll.
Dorian Grays -- As long as their photo or painting stays safe, they’re invulnerable and ageless.
Dream Divers -- Can project themselves into the dreams of others.
Duos -- Have a male and a female side.
Dusk & Dawns -- Power to become invisible, like Invisibles, but only for a brief time at dusk and at dawn.
Electros -- Have power over electricity.
Emoters -- Can control the emotions of others.
Epicureans -- Their meals have a special paranormal power.
Exes -- Supernaturally bond with those they have sex with. They’re linked. They can ‘tap into them’, see, hear, feel, experience what they’re experiencing, no matter how far away. They know when they’re afraid or when they’re in danger. They can read their thoughts no matter how far away, at any time.
Familia -- Can shapeshift but only into members of their imediate family.
Feelers -- Using their fingertips they can ‘feel’ and learn a lot of stuff.
Fireproofs -- Like Bulletproofs, Fireproofs have one power and in this case, they’re ‘merely’ fireproof. Can never burn, be burned, get a sunburn even.
Flagellants -- Flagellating themselves, Flagellants build up the ability to endure unspeakable pain. Even without flagellation, they’re highly pain resistant but regularly practicing flagellant acts greatly increases their pain resistance to unbelievable levels.
Foggers -- Human paranormals who can generate different kinds of fog and control them.
Gifters -- Human paranormals who can ‘gift’ powers, either temporary or permanent, to Normals.
Greens – Human paranormals who’s power is limited to any and everything green. But whatever is green they can control and make to do their bidding. Blue trumps green.
Harveys -- Human paranormals who, when very young, use their imagination and their abilities to actually create a ‘real’ imaginery friend that they are bonded to for the rest of their lives.
Hearers -- Human paranormals who’s power revolves around extraordinary hearing.
Hypochondriacs -- Can take on any disease and/or medical condition they want to take on and appear to actually have it, even though they don’t.
Illusionists -- Can create illusions in their targets minds.
Immaterials -- Can dematerialize. Go through walls.
Immunes -- Immune to diseases and any and everything supernatural.
Insectiforms – Shape shifters who can shift into numerous bugs and, as long as one bug lives, they live.
Invisibles -- Simply put, they can become invisible.
Invulnerables -- For brief periods of time they can be totally invulnerable but the damage they absorb during these periods take away from their lifeline.
Jeckyll & Hydes (J&H’s) -- Just like the story, they have a dark side.
Jibber Jabbers -- Speak a language no one can understand, unless the Jibber Jabber wants them to. Each Jibber has a unique language, no two can understand each other unless they want each other to understand.
Keymasters -- Human Paranormals who can unlock any lock of any type, ever made. Period.
Killer Clowns -- Can shape shift into a Killer Clown form.
Killer Sheep -- Can shape shift into Killer Sheep. Their wool has magical properties.
Landers – Always land on their feet. Always. No matter how far they fall.
Lawners -- Odd. They can shape shift into pretty much any lawn ornament.
Lazarine -- Can raise the recently dead and some more older dead.
Leapers -- Can leap to great heights and for very long distances.
Leashes -- Can generate energy ribbons that they can use to lasso others and create leashes with.
Markers -- Can mark others with energy and use it to track them anywhere, anytime.
Masks -- Can generate masks, of any kind and any number to wear and hide their true appearance.
Maximizers – Like other Sensors but they can only “Maximize” one sense at a time, however, they have the ability to maximize any of their senses and are not just limited to one.
Mediums -- Can communicate with the dead.
Mimics -- Can verbally mimic most anyone and anything.
Mirrors -- Can see things in mirrors and can hide in them
Necros -- Can temporarily bring the dead back to life by having sex with them. The length of time they can bring the dead back for varies.
Networkers -- Form voluntary bonds they can use at any time, for a limited time only. Can communicate telepathically.
Neutralizers -- Their power is to neutralize the powers of all human paranormals who are near to them.
“Niners” -- Have 9 lives.
Numerics -- Their powers are all in the numbers.
Peter Pans -- Stop physically growing old at a certain point in their youth and remain young-looking the rest of their lives.
Pied Pipers -- By playing music, they can control others.
Plantiforms -- Can shapeshift into any plant form or into a hybrid human/plant form.
Popeyes -- All Popeyes have a special food or drink that gives them temporary, immense strength and fighting ability. But it’s only when they consume this one food or drink. Power is time limited.
Possessors -- Human paranormals who can possess ghosts and make them do their bidding.
Possums -- Experts at playing dead. Are so convincing, that medical science believes them to be dead.
Pricklies -- Very smiliar to Spikers except they break out in pricklies, cactus-style. The thorns aren’t just painful but can easily become infected. Also, they’re barbed.
Psychics -- Can see possible futures. Do so in various ways.
Pumpkinheads -- Turn into pumpkinheaded creatures.
Puppeteers -- Similar to ventriloquists but they can take physical control of others and make them do their bidding.
Pyros – Power over heat and fire.
Quicksilvers -- Can turn into liquid mercury but can form into a mercury made humanoid form as well. Can conduct electricity.
Racials -- Paranormal shapeshifters who can shift into any racial identity that they want to.
Radars -- Have an internal radar that tells them when non-natural beings are nearby.
Rapunzels -- Their power lies in their hair.
Rebirthers -- Human paranormals who can choose to be reborn, over and over and are able to choose their mothers.
Receivers -- Can pick up any and all messages, normal and paranormal that are sensed by them. Encrypted messages don’t matter.
Recorders -- Able to see any and all events that have happened in the past involving human paranormals.
Reds -- Power over anything red. Green trumps red.
Regrowers -- Can’t regrow their head, if lost, but can regrow any other organ or body part if lost or damaged.
Regurgitators -- Can swallow and store pretty much anything in their digestive track, throwing it up (in perfect condition) later, when needed. Not only this, but while swallowed, the object doesn’t show up on any MRI’s or x-rays.
Relivers -- In their sleep, Relivers can travel back in time and ‘relive’ past events.
Remote Viewers -- Can see things happening in the present, remotely, from a distance.
Resurrectors -- Can shape shift into the form and identity of a deceased person bringing that person ‘back to life’.
RGB’s -- Powers over all 3 colors. However, 3 colors trump them, white, black and gray.
Rocks -- Can turn into rocks or into rock people.
Sadists -- Gain power from inflicting pain. They gain power from inflicting pain but they enjoy giving pain because it gives them power.
Sampsons -- Hair over the collar, amazing strength. Short hair, not so much.
Scarecrows -- Can change into animated scarecrows.
Shadowcasters -- Can create shadows of themselves that do their own bidding.
Shells -- Can create bony shells that cover their torsos.
Shielders -- Are able to project invisible energy shields.
Shrouds -- Shapeshifting human paranormals who can take on a spirit-like form which is obviously human but white and covered in a shroud, hiding their identity and giving them a traditional “ghost in white sheets” look.
Can fly. Solid but not, in shifted form. “Normals” who see a shroud are often affected by it and reporte strong feelings of grief and sadness after seeing one.
Are able to take the heat out of a room.
Ghost rules affect them, even though they’re not a ghost.
Sin Eaters -- Can take away disease from others
Sizers -- Can shrink to an inch high or grow as big as 12-ft. high.
Skeletals -- Can shed their skin and become nearly impervious walking skeletons.
Sleep Walkers -- Their power comes during their sleeping ‘walkabouts’ where they are totally invulnerable, totally powerful, totally indomitable. While they’re sleep walking.
Sleeping Beauties -- Can control (while asleep) any and all they kiss with intent.
Slimers -- Can generate slime of various types.
Sniffers -- Powers are all about their sense of smell.
Spikers -- Can project metal spikes out of every part of their body. Not only that, they can eject the spikes.
Spirit Photographers -- With special cameras they are able to capture things that noo one else can capture on film. Only they seem to be able to work these cameras.
Splitters -- Can split into multiple forms of themselves.
Sponges -- Can absorb any and everything that they consume or that hits them.
Spreaders -- Can collect diseases that they can willingly spread.
Sybils -- Invite ghosts to live within them, to share space, as you will, with multiple souls.
Tailies -- Have tails. Different Tailies have different types of tails.
Telekinetics -- Power to move matter with their minds.
Telepaths -- Can communicate with their minds and read the minds of others.
Teleporters – Can teleport themselves anyplace they can think of. Works best if it’s someplace they’ve been to before.
Therianthropes -- Shapeshifters. Period.
Touchers -- The power comes from their hands and the simple power of touch.
Twins -- Alone, no power, together? Very impressive, very challenging power.
Twisters -- Human tornadoes, basically.
Two Heads -- Have a second head, a real head, that comes up out of their back when summoned.
Unihorns -- Human paranormals who can generate a horn in the center of their head.
Vaults -- Are able to store information in their minds in such a way that it’s totally, completely safe. No one can get to it unless they willingly give it up.
Venoms -- Have stingers. Can inject others with venom.
Ventriliquists -- Can take over people and control them as if they were ventriloquist dummies.
Vinos – Their kisses truly are like wine. A very potent, highly alcoholic wine.
Virgins -- Power lies in their maintaining their virginity.
Visuals -- Their powers are all visual.
Werebeings
Werebears
Werebaribal -- Weres who can shift into the form of American Black Bears.
Weregriz -- Weres who can shift into grizzly bear form.
Werepolar -- Weres who can shift into polar bear form.
Wereboars -- Weres who can shift into giant boar form. Can also shift into a man/boar form.
Werecanines
Werecoyotes -- Weres that can shift into coyotes.
Weredholes -- Weres that can shift into dholes.
Weredingoes -- Weres that can shift into dingoes.
Werefoxes -- Most can only shift into one forx form, though some can change into any fox form.
Werejackals -- Can change into one of the 3 jackal types, or, in some rare cases, can change into all 3.
Werelycaons -- Weres who change into African Wild Dogs.
Werewolves -- Weres with 3 subspeies, gray, red and Mexican.
Hellhounds -- A werewolf variation that has a taste for the undead.
Werefelines
Werecheetahs -- Tend more towards the King cheetah coat pattern than the traditional cheetah pattern. Weres that can change into cheetahs.
Werecougars -- Weres that can change into cougars.
Werejaguars -- Weres that can change into jaguars.
Werelions -- Weres that can change into lions and into man/lion hybrids.
Werelynx -- Weres that can change into lynxes and/or bobcats.
Wereounces -- Weres that can change into snow leopards.
Werepanthers -- Weres that can change into leopards, most, into black panthers, some, just into leopards, a few, can do both.
Weretigers -- Weres that can change into tiger form. The Bengal tiger is the most common form. Siberian tigers, next most common. White tigers occur but are rare.
Werecaracals -- Weres that turn into caracals.
Wereocelots – Weres that turn into ocelots.
Werehyenas -- Weres that can change into hyenas, either spotted or striped.
Weregluttons -- Weres that can change into wolverines.
Weretazes -- Weres that can change into Tasmanian Devils.
Weresnakes
Werepython – Weres that can change into giant pythons.
Wereanaconda -- Weres that can change into giant anacondas.
Weremoccasin – Weres that can change into giant cottonmouths.
Werecobras -- Weres that can change into cobras and can become man/snake hybrids.
Werevampyres Weres that turn into vampyres. Only turned Werevamps exist, there are no known born ones. Are normal humans until they turn into a vampyre. Their powers most exactly mimic the Moroi.
Werezombies -- Weres that are human until they shift, when they shift, they shift into zombies and have all the powers and qualities of normal zombies except they appear to be smarter, more self aware.
Loupgarou -- The Great White Wolves, blue, yellow or green eyes. Ageless. Immortal. Magical.
Varcolac -- True vampyre / werewolf hybrid. For some reason, only werewolves have ever created a hybrid with vampyres. Stronger than either, fewer weaknesses than either.
UNDEAD
Mummies -- Undead who can be controlled by either controlling their brains, their hearts or both.
Revenants -- Undead corpses who return for specific tasks, specific reasons.
True Vampyres
Strigoi -- The classical vampyres of legend. The most powerful of the True Vampyres.
Moroi -- The second most powerful vampyres, often a challenge for the Strigoi.
Baital -- Vampyres who’s specialty is feeding on Weres.
Dopplegangers -- Vampyres who can shape shift into any of the victims they’ve fed upon, ever.
Lemures -- Astral vampyres who feed through their astral projections.
Shtriga -- Ancestral vampyres who feed on a specific bloodline.
Lamiae -- Vampyres who need to feed on young human blood to remain young looking.
Wampir -- Vampyres who are mostly aquatic.
False Vampyres
Ghouls -- Undead who feed on the dead only by dissolving what’s left of the dead and drinking it.
Vetala – Undead who feed on the recently dead by re-hydrating the blood of the dead and draining it.
Vasferatu -- Super predators who prey on all of the undead.
Ubi -- False vampyres who feed on their victims through sexual means.
Incubi -- Male Ubi who feed on their lovers via sex.
Succubi -- Female Ubi who feed on their lovers via sex.
Upyri -- Psychic vampyres, false vampyres, who prey on the life force of their victims.
Nosferatu -- Super predators who’s specialty is preyi8ng on True Vampyres.
Obake -- False Vampyres who prey on the electrical energy of living things.
Zombies -- The walking dead.
Psycho Zombies -- the walking, psychotic dead, they don’t seek to feed, they only seek to kill.
MAGIC USERS
Magicians -- The lowest level of magic users, they’re capable of simple tricks and minor magic.
Shamans -- Include Witch Doctors, Cuaranderas, Folk Healers and the like. Great with herbs, potions and ‘nature magic’.
Magi – Refers to a level more than a specific type of magic user, though Magis are a type at this level. Druids are ‘Magi level’ as well. This is priestly magic. More books, more spells, more power. More powerful in ‘community’ with others of their kind.
Witches & Warlocks -- Includes brujos, these are the majority movers and shakers in the magic world. More powerful than any but wizards. Books galore. Lots of spells. Brooms and wands come standard.
Wizards -- Rare. Massively powerful. Capable of the highest forms of magic. Staffs come standard.
GHOSTS
Banshee -- Ghosts that are always female, always fair of skin and red of hair, and are harbingers of doom and death. Famed for their spine-tingling cries and howls.
Double -- Ghostly doubles that are another type of harbinger of trouble, of doom, of death.
Ghost -- Bound or Free, ghosts can be either. Some are re-enactors.
Bound -- Trapped in a certain area.
Free -- Free, able to move about.
Re-Enactors – Re-enact events over and over again.
Phantasms -- Ghostly orbs. Spiritual orbs or ghostly energy. Mischievious. Playful.
Poltergeists -- Negative energy, unorganized, angry, violent, chaotic.
Reapers – Spirits who’s primary job is reaping the souls of the newly dead.
Shades -- Dark spirits that take the form of black shadows and can materialize as shadow people.
Sisyphuses -- Ghosts doomed to repeat the same actions for all of eternity.
Wraiths -- Traditional ghosts in white. Shrouds are similar but human paranormals while Wraiths are true ghosts.
OTHERS
Atlanteans -- Purple blood. Can breathe air and water. Salt water and fresh water, doesn’t matter. Are able to go to great depths and can fly, to great heights. Invulnerable to mind control. Stronger than Homo sapiens, Homo atlanteans, like many aquatics, have a third eyelid. Have power over their metabolism.
Gorgons -- Their stare paralyzes. They have acid blood. They have wound resistant skin. Can shift into snake/woman hybrids.
Phoenixes -- Male only. Can shape shift into large red and gold eagles. Live, die and are able to be reborn, over and over.
Achilles -- Amazing warriors who are invulnerable except for one weakness on their body where they can be killed. They may not be the strongest but they are the best fighters around. Invulnerable. Slow aging. Almost always really good looking and attractive. Wounds heal quickly.
Amazons – Eyes flash red when in battle rage. From an early age they’re gifted athletes and amaing fighters, regardless of their gender.
Apollos -- Fuelled by the power of th sun. Capable of unleashing the sun and sun energy at any time.
Arachnes -- Spider-women.
Bacchanalians -- Literally have lust in their veins. They live to party, they’re the ultimate hedonists.
Cassandras -- Psychics see possible futures, Cassandras see the future. Only, they’re not able to communicate it in an inteligible way. The true futures they see drive them temporarily mad.
Centaurs -- The Centaur form is their true form, but they’re able to shapeshift into human form to blend in.
Cyclopses – Can seal their two eyes and generate a third ‘all-seeing’ eye in the center of their forehead.
Cupids -- Can cause others to fall in love.
Daedalae -- Can fly but only for a temporary period of time.
Drones -- Aliens, tied to one another.
Fates -- Write. Always. The fate of others.
Harpies -- Condor-sized birds that are female. They can appear beautiful or horrid, depending on their mood and ‘audience’. Smaller female-sized heads, tiny human women breasts. Black and white feathers. Amazing eyesight, whether in shifted form or in human form.
Lay eggs to reproduce. Learning to fly is hard. Are meat eaters and not afraid to eat dead things.
Lucretias -- With their vagina dentata, they’re not like any women you’ve ever come across ever.
Merfolk -- Merfolk is their standard form, but can shape shift into human form to blend in.
Midases – Anything they want to turn into gold, they can turn into gold but what they change only stays changed for as long as they live.
The more things they change into gold, the shorter they make their lifespans.
Bleed gold, liquid gold.
When they die, everything they’ve changed to gold changes back. But when they die they permanently change into gold themselves.
What they change, they can change back, but the simple act of changing something in the first place shortens their lifeline. Organic things that are changed die, and don’t come back to life when changed back.
Minotaurs -- Only male. Have to eat humans. Have bovine DNA. Can change into half bull/half human.
Muses -- They’re power is to inspire others and give others creativity.
Oedipals -- Can erase the emotioanl pain of others by taking it on themselves but, go blind in the process.
Penelopes -- Bond with those they have first have sex with and are forever loyal and linked to them, no matter what.
Satyrs -- Male Satyrs are either violent or pranksters. Female Satyrs aren’t as violent as the men but are often seductresses.
Syrens -- Always female and always start out life as a Mer. They are turned by another Syren or...they turn spontaneously on their own. Once turned they need water a lot less than there Mer kin but are much, much stronger in water than out of it.
Under Consideration....
Vesuviuses -- Human volcanoes, can cause earthquakes, emit ash storms and generate molten lava to use as weapons. Can ‘erupt’ flatening everything nearby and turning all living things immediately into ash.
Orpheuses -- Paranormals who can play music to summon the dead to do their bidding. But they can’t bring the dead back to life.
Disgustings -- Paranormals who’s power is over the disgusting, the revolting.
John Does -- No fingerprints, no DNA, people’s memory of them fades after a brief while so they’re not remembered. They’re truly the anonymous.
Copyright M.R. McCaffery, 2012. All rights reserved.
