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* Mind Gift ( the combined abilities of telepathy and telekinesis ).

This is the ability to communicate and read thoughts, especially of humans, and to move objects with the mind.

This gift is used largely to obtain blood – since via telepathy a criminal or amoral human can be sensed, and many of Rice's vampires refuse to feed on the innocent, this allows them to identify their prey.

It is impossible for a maker or fledgling to contact each other directly, although in some cases it is possible for a vampire to seek out their master / fledgling by looking through the eyes of those near their fledgling, or by hearing the thoughts of their master / fledgling through others in a relay effect.

A vampire of sufficient power or age may also unwillingly ' hear ' the thoughts of all the humans within range of this power, leading to an old vampire saying: " If you do not learn to silence the voices, they will drive you mad.

" Khayman of the First Brood possessed this level of telepathic power, but had trained himself to hear the multitude of thoughts as " one annoying noise.

" Older vampires may also possess the ability to move objects with the mind, as witnessed through Akasha's destruction of the Elder, or Akasha's habit of opening the doors to the tabernacle, and Marius ' opening and unlocking the doors to Akasha's shrine in Blood and Gold