Clairvoyant

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.

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.

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.

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:


 * Soothsayer
 * Seer
 * Common soothsayer


 * Augur
 * Vile augur
 * Common augur


 * Medium
 * Trance Medium
 * Restive Medium


 * Sensor
 * Gustant
 * Sniffer
 * Polyglot
 * Whisperer


 * Guardian
 * Binder
 * Summoner
 * Necromancer
 * Exorcist
 * Furies
 * Sibyl
 * Unreadable
 * Berserker
 * Jumper
 * Dreamwalker
 * Oracle

Humans

 * Paige Mahoney
 * Liss Rymore
 * Jaxon Hall
 * Nicklas Nygård
 * Eliza Renton
 * Nadine Arnett
 * Danica Panić
 * Ezekiel Sáenz
 * Ivy Jacob
 * Julian Amesbury
 * Agatha
 * Catrin Attard
 * Cutmouth
 * David
 * Didion Waite
 * Glym Lord
 * Haymarket Hector
 * Jack Hickathrift
 * Michael Wren
 * Minty Wolfson
 * Ognena Maria
 * Redcap
 * Roberta Attard
 * Róisín 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
 * Hari Maxwell
 * Elspeth Lin
 * Antoinette Carter
 * Eleanor Hahid
 * Alfred
 * The Underhand
 * Nerio Attard
 * Trenary
 * Amelia
 * Charles
 * Duckett
 * Lotte
 * Tilda
 * Ella
 * Kathryn
 * Overseer Beltrame
 * Bloatface
 * Ronald "Magtooth" Cranwell
 * Roundhead
 * Slabnose
 * Slipfinger
 * The Undertaker
 * La Chiffonnière
 * Thomas Ebon Merritt
 * Madge Blevins
 * The Golden Baroness
 * The Silver Baron

Rephaim

 * Arcturus Mesarthim
 * Situla Mesarthim
 * Nashira Sargas
 * Kraz Sargas
 * Thuban Sargas
 * Gomeisa Sargas
 * Aludra Chertan
 * Suhail Chertan
 * Pleione Sualocin
 * Terebell Sheratan
 * Graffias Sheratan
 * Alsafi Sualocin
 * Elnath Sarin
 * Errai Sarin
 * Lucida Sargas
 * Taygeta Chertan
 * Adhara Sarin
 * Mira Sarin
 * Ettanin Mothallath
 * Azha Mothallath