Illusion Powers (FiD)

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Illusion is the art of perception and deception. It is concerned with image, not substance. Illusion powers are most often used to deceive, but they can be used to educate and to discern new things. It can create some sounds, scents, tactile phenomena, and other sensory phenomena, but is focused on vision. Illusionists whose primary sense is not sight would instead focus on illusions to their primary sense, this is not covered by the rules.

Illusions create images of creatures and objects that are objectively real in the sense that there it registers on physical senses, including those of living creatures and sensory devices. Such images are still unreal in that they are mere projections, not the actual physical thing projected. An illusion cannot affect objects (other than sensors) unless the power explicitly says it can. An illusion of weight would cause scales to react, but could not cause a bridge to collapse. A lift with a weight limit sensor could shut off, but if the sensor is overridden, the lift would work normally despite the illusory overload.

Illusion attacks cause pain and apparent wounds, but cannot actually kill. Obviously they cannot affect insensate things that lack perception and imagination. This includes objects but also creatures under a certain threshold of perception and imagination, like bacteria and plants.

Illusion creatures are called specters. They are very good actors and believe themselves to really be what they portray, allowing their illusions to respond to events without the user's intervention. Some specters appear as objects and terrain features.

Illusion Power Effects

Action	Basic No minimum 3 Stress	Advanced Minimum 2 Dice 5 Stress	Master Minimum 4 Dice 7 Stress	Apex Minimum 6 Dice 13 Stress
Attune	Dream Detection You can detect illusory creatures and powers. This can spoil illusions, but you must actively work to see through them.	Sever Spectre You can force a specter that is native to another plane of existence to return to that plane, or to end the operation of an ability of the illusion power.	Summon Spectre You can call a specter from another plane. This is generally an unwilling servant, but very willing to maintain its illusory role. It will obey one command from you and this can be extended.	Apparition Army You can summon a host of specters who can create a large scene including terrain and creatures. No way to safely access the plane of illusions has been found, or maybe anyone who did went insane and didn't return.
Command	Menacing Mirage You can create scary or awe-inducing images or sounds perceptible to everyone.	Majestic Mirage You can create full-sense illusions scary or awe-inducing to others.	Stolen Scare You can create illusions apparent to anyone but drawn from a target's mind, making them extremely scary or awesome to this target and not requiring concentration on your part.	Mirage Arcana You project illusions over vast areas. You can disguise existing features and add new ones, but not make things invisible.
Consort	Makeover Mirage You can add any illusory clothes or accessories to your outfit. This can mask your identity or create fabulous outfits.	Monster Mirage You assume the appearance of any other creature. This does not confer any abilities.	Metamorphosis Mirage You can give a willing or helpless creatures any appearance you want. This can be a curse, it can be broken but it is not easy. You can easily break the effect.	Mob Mirage You can change the appearance of large number creatures, giving each an individual appearance if desired.
Finesse	Ride You can change the appearance of a mount or personal vehicle you are riding.	Fine Local Control You can create an illusion of a fine and potent close-range attack, similar to a fine potent dueling sword or pistol.	Manipulate You can alter the appearance of your surroundings, adding features like walls and objects.	Surge Your power manifests a storm of illusory blades, suppressing the effect of multiple opponents and acting as a fine potent weapon.
Hunt	Shadow Seeker You can track a creature as long as you have a good mental image or likeness to focus on.	Shadow Shot You create an illusory attack, similar in effect to a fine and potent rifle, painful but not lethal.	Shadow Shock You can make an illusory attack similar to a fine and potent grenade. This allows you to fight many creatures in the same area very effectively, but there is a risk of collateral damage to allies if not terrain.	Shadow Surge You call down the equivalent of a fine potent artillery barrage, attacking everything and everyone in a wide area. Depending on your power, this can raze buildings and create rubble. Usually enough to provide cover for any escape.
Prowl	Shadow Cloak You can hide in shadows, areas of local darkness.	Invisibility You can turn yourself invisible, but the air wavers just a bit and you glow very faintly in the dark. Sounds, strong light, and perfect darkness are your enemies.	Inclusive Invisibility You can make others invisible and bring others along when you use Invisibility.	Illusive Incursion You and allies can teleport from one location to another that looks much the same. This is regional travel, you stay within the same city or region, but it is generally sufficient to enter or escape just about any situation or location.
Skirmish	Illusory Impact You can use the power as an illusion of a close-range attack, similar in effect to a melee weapon or pistol.	Illusory Elite Same as Skirmish Attack, except the weapon is fine and potent.	Illusory Obstacle Your power changes the appearance of a battlefield that prevents the enemy from benefiting from numbers and otherwise works as a fine potent weapon.	Illusionary Onslaught Your power strikes out in all directions, attacking all enemies in a wide area.
Study	Identify Illusion You can identify illusions you can see as illusions and what type of creature created the illusion, such as a human or monster.	Illusion Insight You learn the powers and abilities of an image, illusion, or specter and the identity of the creator.	Illusory Echoes You can see the past of an place, image, illusionist, or specter. This is like playing a film backwards.	Panopticon You see everything in a wide area. Darkness, walls and barriers do not limit vision, but enclosed spaces do.
Survey	Detect You can see through illusions and see invisible things when you focus on observing a specific area.	Sensor Choose an object of a particular appearance; you can perceive as if you were at that spot. You cannot use your Survey action for anything else when doing so.	Scry Choose a location or creature and an imagined object. You gain a sensor at the nearest object that looks much like you imagined, which is often close enough to perceive the target.	Omnipresence You perceive from all objects looking like an object you imagine at once over a wide area. As long as you concentrate you retain this perception and can report what you see to others.
Sway	Persuasive Phantom You can create convincing visual images up to the size of a human.	Phantasmal Procession You can create full-sense illusions to convince others, up to the size of a small house of progression of people.	Mirage Mansion You can create a large illusion, such as a small forest or the exterior of a large mansion.	Dreamweaver You can take over all a target's senses, placing them in a private dream world under your control.
Tinker	Illusory Enhancement Change the appearance of an object up to man size. This can seem to give abilities your item do not actually have or hide abilities it does have.	Phantasmal Fabrication You can make more extensive appearance changes on objects, making them invisible or creating illusory items out of nothing.	Shadow Structure You can create items that work for you and allies, but not for anyone else, such as an illusory bridge only your team can cross.	Mass Mirage This is similar to Phantasmal Fabrication, but you mass produce objects, even a set of different objects. You can also make something huge, such as a vehicle or building or small landscape.
Wreck	Faux Fracture Illusory wrecking only affect appearance, but can seem to ruin objects even at a distance, such as enemy weapons.	Phantom Fracture Similar to Phantom Fracture but on a larger scale, allowing you to apparently smash a vehicle or small building. Works as a fine potent illusory sledgehammer in combat.	Illusionary Annihilation Similar to smash, but even larger. You can create the illusion of a blasted landscape or cityscape.	Obliterate Similar to Illusionary Annihilation, but the illusions is partly real, allowing creatures interacting with it to walk on illusory floors or through invisible walls.