Psychometry is the discipline of "eading the psychic impressions left on all material objects. With training it can also be used to hide such impressions.
	Psychometry manifests as a brief image of a person or event, or alternately as a brief sound, smell, etc. Possibly a short conversation is heard, or in some cases, even an entire scene can be replayed in the psychic’s senses. The psychic will also gain a general sense of the age of the manifestation she is sensing. In its most basic Latent levels, that is the only ability available to the psychic. With training, additional abilities may be gained.
	Normally, an object must be touched in order for such psychic impressions to manifest themselves to the psychic. However, in the case of extremely strong psychic impressions, just being in the immediate area (within the psychic’s Primary Zone) may result in a vision.
	Most psychic impressions fade very quickly (within a few minutes). Exceptions to this are impressions of events with strong emotional content (arguments, lovemaking, murder, etc), or impressions left through long association with an individual (owner, creator, etc.). In order for a person to leave a lasting psychic impression without intense emotion being involved, the object and person must be in frequent or continuous contact for a minimum of several days. Such a person is known as an Associate of the object. Every object that has been crafted in some way will have at least one Associate (the creator). It is possible for natural objects to have no Associates.
	Psychometry:
	Default Difficulty Moderate (10) Marginal Success The psychic senses a brief manifestation of very recent events or Associates (within the last few days). Complete Success The psychic senses a manifestation of the most significant event or Associate within the last few weeks. Superior Success The psychic senses a manifestation of the most significant event or Associate within the last few months. Extraordinary Success The psychic senses a manifestation of the most significant event(s) or Associate(s) within the past few years. Mythic Success The psychic senses a manifestation of the most significant event(s) or Associate(s) within the last century (or more, if the impression is extremely strong – enough that it overwhelms all the more recent events).
	Note: it is possible that the most significant event just happened, and that something that happened only moments ago will be what is manifested, even on a Mythic Success. This is especially likely with relatively young objects. If nothing "significant" has happened to an object, its creation might be viewed. For example, a psychic picks up a fist-sized rock on a mountain trail. He hears the sound of running water and sees a scene of ice melting and running off the side of a cliff, and sees some small rocks break free of the restraining ice and tumble to the trail. That’s all.
	Hide Signature is the ability to "erase" the psychic’s own impressions from an object or place. This is an extremely difficult task, and is normally possible only for a well-trained psychic. Many psychics, even accomplished psychometrists, never learn to do this.
	Once a psychic impression has been erased using this ability, a psychometrist will not be able to detect that such an impression ever existed.   However, a Superior success or higher on the Psychometry Trial may detect that some kind of erasure was performed on the object.  This will only occur if the degree of success of the Psychometry Trial exceeds the degree of success of the Hide Signature Trial (thus, a Mythic Success on the Hide Signature Trial will prevent any psychic from sensing that an impression was erased).  A psychic sensing that an erasure was accomplished will merely gain a sense of emptiness about the object, where there should be some sensation.  The psychic will never be able to sense who erased the impression or under what circumstances, merely that such an erasure was performed.   The psychic will generally not be able to sense even when the erasure was performed, but may be able to use logic to determine the general time-frame if the psychic has some idea (from other knowledge) of when an impression would have been made on the object.   For example, if the psychic has reason to believe that a knife was used in a murder, which occurred last night, and senses nothing about that murder but a "blank" on the object, then the psychic might come to the conclusion that the impression was erased sometime during the last day.
	Training in the ESP ability of Signsense is a requisite for learning this ability.
	Each use of Hide Signature costs the psychic one Fatigue Level.
	Hide Signature:
	Default Difficulty Challenging (15) Requisite: ESP 5 (Signsense) Marginal Success Minor impressions (brief but not intense emotional events, or brief ownership of the object) can be erased. Complete Success Most general impressions (typical events or ownership of no more than a few months) can be erased. Superior Success Impressions of a strong nature (intense emotional events such as murder or ownership for several years) can be erased. Extraordinary Success Very strong impressions (creation of the object, or psychic or mystical attunement) can be erased. Mythic Success All impressions of any kind associated with the psychic are erased from the object, including any impression gained from this erasure.