Clairvoyants are humans and other beings who possess clairvoyance, which is the ability to access the æther. There are many different types of clairvoyants. Clairvoyants often refer themselves as voyants, while Scion and most amaurotics refer to them as unnaturals.
Description[]
Clairvoyants access the interior minds of people through their dreamscapes, which is the place where memories are stored. Because Scion has made clairvoyance illegal, voyants generally have two possible futures: to busk and beg at the mercy of the Scion citizens, or to join one of the seven mime gangs and use their prohibited clairvoyance to commit crimes and earn money for their mime-lord or mime-queen. Amaurotics claim voyants are afflicted with clairvoyance. Voyants don't dream, only amaurotics do.
While all voyants can sense the æther to some degree, not all voyants can perceive the spirit world visually. Around 85% of voyants in London are described as being sighted, also called having the spirit sight or third eye. Sighted voyants display a keyhole-shaped defect in one or both eyes, called coloboma. People with only one coloboma, like Nick, are described as half-sighted. This means that they can switch their spirit sight on and off whenever they please. People with two coloboma, like Jaxon, are full-sighted and forced to see spirits constantly. The sighted report spirits manifesting in a number of ways: threads of glowing color, floating sparkles, pulsing zigzags, or flurries of bright spots.
The other 15% of London voyants have no coloboma at all and are known as the unsighted or spirit-blind. Spirit-blindness tends to be exhibited by the higher orders, particularly jumpers and furies. When voyants are unsighted, they generally develop a greater sensitivity to the æther and can learn to identify auras and spirits from the way they feel. Sighted clairvoyant are often better at physical combat than unsighted voyants because they see an aura shift before their opponent's muscles move. Unsighted voyants can't see it, but they can learn to sense it.
London amaurotics outnumber clairvoyants ten to one. Nighttime is the most dangerous time for voyants because of the NVD, but it's also when their gifts are the strongest. Unless it's essential, voyants try to only go out when the SVD is in control. Most voyants avoid public transport. Voyants don't protect each other unless they are in the same gang.
In Scion France, clairvoyants are called anormales or anormaux.
Etymology[]
The word clairvoyant means "one who sees clearly." The term comes from the French word clair, meaning "clear" and the word voyance, meaning "vision." It is used to refer to the ability to gain information about an object, person, location, or physical event through means other than the known human sense. It is a form of extrasensory perception.
Types of Clairvoyants[]
The seven orders of clairvoyance, according to On the Merits of Unnaturalness by Jaxon Hall:
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Known Clairvoyants[]
London Clairvoyants[]
- Paige Mahoney
- Liss Rymore
- Jaxon Hall
- Nicklas Nygård
- Eliza Renton
- Nadine Arnett
- Danica Panić
- Ezekiel Sáenz
- Ivy Jacob
- Julian Amesbury
- Agatha
- Cutmouth
- David Fitton
- Didion Waite
- The Glym Lord
- Haymarket Hector
- Jack Hickathrift
- Michael Wren
- Minty Wolfson
- Ognena Maria
- Redcap
- Róisín Jacob
- Vern Jacob
- The Abbess
- The Pearl Queen
- The Rag and Bone Man
- Tom the Rhymer
- Wynn Ní Luain Jacob
- The Wicked Lady
- Felix Samuel Coombs
- Joseph Biwott
- Carl Dempsey-Brown
- Bernard Hock
- Eleanor Hahid
- Alfred
- The Underhand
- Duckett
- Beltrame
- Kathryn
- Jack the Ripper
- Jimmy O'Goblin
- Trenary
- Driscoll
- Dobrev
- Amelia
- Charles
- Lotte
- Tilda
- Cyril
- Lem
- Jordan
- Babs
- Hearts
- Cloth
- Rin
- Ethel
- Scrawl
- Roundhead
- Slabnose
- Slipfinger
- Bloatface
- Faceless
- Halfpenny
- Slyboots
- Bea Cissé
- Ella Parsons
- Emma Orson
- William Linwood
- Mary Bourne
- Madge Blevins
- Hélène Smith
- The Undertaker
- La Chiffonnière
- Bramble Briar
- The Ferryman
- Madam Speaker
- Jenny Greenteeth
- The Highwayman
- Ark Ruffian
- The Monk
- Bloody Knuckles
- The Hare
- The Guy
- Seer Green
- Spring-heel'd Jack
- Charley Truthteller
- Thomas Ebon Merritt
- Magtooth/Ronald Cranwell
- The Golden Baroness
- The Silver Baron
- The Knife-Grinder
- The Bully-Rook
- The Swan Knight
- The Heathen Philosopher
- The Glass Duchess
- The Glass Dell
- The Greene Manne
- The May Fool
- The Wretched Sylph
- The Faerie Queen
- The Maverick Medium
- The Bleeding Heart
- The Fifth Sister
- The Winter Queen
- The Mudlark Prince
- The Buried King
- The Lord Costermonger
- The London Particular
- The Faithful Raven
- Captain Card-Sharp
- The Lady of the Manor
- The Fool of Farringdon
English Clairvoyants[]
- Catrin Attard
- Roberta Attard
- Hari Maxwell
- Nerio Attard
Parisian Clairvoyants[]
- Le Vieux Orphelin
- Renelde du Linceul
- Le Prince Creux
- Le Latronpuche
- La Reine des Thunes
- La Tarasque
- Mélusine
- Katell
- Gresham
- Paul Carson
- Louise Gilbert
- Marie-Anne Lenormand
- Ankou
- Le Bateleur
- Malperdy
- Le Chevalier des Deiners
- Sylvie Lambriquet
- Simon Cleutin
- Le Trouvère
- Burchard Louvel
- Noonday
- Jeanne of Arc
European Clairvoyants[]
- Antoinette Carter
- Elspeth Lin
- Bryndís Ingadóttir
- Rune Nygård
- Karolina Nygård
Rephaim[]
- Arcturus Mesarthim
- Situla Mesarthim
- Nashira Sargas
- Kraz Sargas
- Thuban Sargas
- Gomeisa Sargas
- Lucida Sargas
- Vindemiatrix Sargas
- Aludra Chertan
- Suhail Chertan
- Taygeta Chertan
- Pleione Sualocin
- Alsafi Sualocin
- Terebell Sheratan
- Graffias Sheratan
- Kornephoros Sheratan
- Elnath Sarin
- Errai Sarin
- Adhara Sarin
- Mira Sarin
- Procyon Sargas
- Ettanin Mothallath
- Azha Mothallath
- Mirzam
- Heze