Empathy

Empathy is the supernatural ability to feel and understand nother people's feelings, emotions, and desires as if they were one's own. An empath is able to feel exactly what another person is feeling.

Description
The most basic level of empathy involves feeling what other people are feeling, either automatically or by focusing on them. The former usually occurs when the user encounters strong emotions or is new to the gift. Empaths can also understand and interpret the reason or truth behind certain emotions, oftne instantly, thereby gaining some insight into what others are thinking or feeling.

Stronger forms of empathy can be used to channel emotions from any being that can produce them. Empaths can use it to locate a person, verify a person's existence, be alerted to nearby disasters, and even become able to use the power as a lie detector.

This power takes a great amount of mental fortitude in order to be able to control. Many users lose touch with themselves if they cannot control their empathic gift since they will always be feeling the emotions of others unless completely isolated.

Known Users

 * Iolanthe Peverell