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@Scorpius

But the whole point of crossovers is to confuse things into such a mess that it actually makes sense. "pouts"

I kid about the pouting. I just like to try to make multiple things come together into a cohesive whole so that any two pieces of fiction can come together somehow. Psychic powers are one of the trickier things to bring together, though I would say that Eddings does a fantastic job in the Belgariad of making an underlying foundation that can be used to under how psychic powers could work realistically with his "Will and the Word" approach; the person has to picture something happening in their mind, gather the energy required from the surrounding environment, then release the energy through either a word or gesture so that what was imagined happened. And generally, the Force encompasses that framework with the addition of precognosis.

Aura though only allows one major psychic ability and some minor ones related to aura manipulation with some superhuman healing/enhancement, causing a bit of a challenge. Their minds might only comprehend doing that much, but that would make them either rather dumb and/or would allow them to become incredibly over-powered once they found out they could do more. Much pondering this challenge requires.