Psionics are not practiced openly in the Dragon Empire. There are many roumors about psions, but officially they don't exist. The rumors say, among other things, that the dragon houses secretly try to develop psionics, that psions are all the slaves of the mind flayers, that the DS:ISPD is using psionics to mind-control various powerful people and so on. In actuality, many of these rumors refer to the DarkZonePsion.
Loyal imperial citizens fear and loathe psionics and will report any psionic activity they see. Such reports are likely to be acted upon swiftly and surely. Most are now handled by the DS:ISPD. Psionics are thus rare indeed.
But there exist secret psionic societies in the DS:DragonEmpire - some with powerful patrons, others surviving simply by being very well hidden.
Limitations
Manifestation: Psionics is the power of the mind. It can cause telekinesis, and it can transform creatures freely and objects in a minor way. However, it cannot create large amounts of elemental matter, nor can it have lasting effects much beyond the concentration of the psion. When the psion ceases to spend attention on same power, that power fails. Permanent psionic items are still possible, but those require an investment, a small part of the psions soul.
Obvious: Psionic powers channel energies through astral space, and these energies leave ectoplasmic trails or cause other side effects such as phantasmal sounds or smells, poltergeist activity. This makes using psionics surreptiously very hard to do, making the life of underground psions very difficult.
Common Schticks
Enhancement, Influence, Movement.
Rare or prohibited Schticks
Conjuring, Summoning.