World of Gray
Touch
of Gray is an urban fantasy series featuring Gray Graham, a touch
clairvoyant. She is one of the thousands of Psycepts, psychics or those
with enhanced perception, that were genetically identified by the US
government over fifteen years ago. Rather than stay in America and be
subject to being drafted into service or compelled to use at the expense
of her freedom, Gray sought asylum in the Greater Tribal Council of the
Americas (GT).
A majority of Indigenous tribes (Native American, Alaskan Native, or First Nation) formed an alliance in the early half of the 1800s. Taking advantage of the opportunity the American Civil War provided, the Indigenous alliance fought non-native settlers and the armies of the US, Canada, and Mexico to a standstill and forced concessions from those governments including a large swath of land to form their own country, now called the GT. While the GT and its neighboring countries are geographic allies, they have various differences in ideologies regarding land and water stewardship and environmental resource managment.
In modern day, the GT grants permanent resident status to Psycepts like Gray, upon certain conditions. In exchange for her living in the GT, Gray assists petitioners with missing persons or homicide cases. The difference between GT and US policy is that Gray chooses which petitions she accepts, she has a quota of only three cases per week, and her contract has an expiration date.
Gray lives quietly in Albuquerque, a regional seat in the Southwestern Alliance Conservatorship (SWACon). The GT is made up of eleven conservatorships, of which seven have Psycept residents. Albuquerque is the only settlement in SWACon approved for Psycepts to live, though Gray keeps herself away from most Psycept concerns. It seems as if the rest of the world has forgotten Psycepts and moved on. However, nothing is that easy and events conspire to drag Psycepts, including Gray, back into the wider world.
Gray is the main character in the Touch of Gray books. There is an adjacent series called 'World of Touch of Gray' focusing on other characters introduced in various books. More information about individual books can be found on the Books page.
A majority of Indigenous tribes (Native American, Alaskan Native, or First Nation) formed an alliance in the early half of the 1800s. Taking advantage of the opportunity the American Civil War provided, the Indigenous alliance fought non-native settlers and the armies of the US, Canada, and Mexico to a standstill and forced concessions from those governments including a large swath of land to form their own country, now called the GT. While the GT and its neighboring countries are geographic allies, they have various differences in ideologies regarding land and water stewardship and environmental resource managment.
In modern day, the GT grants permanent resident status to Psycepts like Gray, upon certain conditions. In exchange for her living in the GT, Gray assists petitioners with missing persons or homicide cases. The difference between GT and US policy is that Gray chooses which petitions she accepts, she has a quota of only three cases per week, and her contract has an expiration date.
Gray lives quietly in Albuquerque, a regional seat in the Southwestern Alliance Conservatorship (SWACon). The GT is made up of eleven conservatorships, of which seven have Psycept residents. Albuquerque is the only settlement in SWACon approved for Psycepts to live, though Gray keeps herself away from most Psycept concerns. It seems as if the rest of the world has forgotten Psycepts and moved on. However, nothing is that easy and events conspire to drag Psycepts, including Gray, back into the wider world.
Gray is the main character in the Touch of Gray books. There is an adjacent series called 'World of Touch of Gray' focusing on other characters introduced in various books. More information about individual books can be found on the Books page.
Psycept Categories
PsyMovers
= able to manipulate objects
PsyKinetics = telekinetics
PsyPorters = transport objects
Weather Guides = move weather
PsySapients
= communicators
Flora = plant, tree, flower
Fauna = animal
Terra = land, minerals
PsyWitch
= body and spirit influencer
PsySentients
= mind perception
PsyPath = telepath or empath
PsyMemori = memory path
Variegated
= miscellaneous
Seekers, Asomatous, etc
PreCog
= precognition, prophecy
PsyChometrist = object reader
Bone Sage = read bones, cast wards
Blood Sage = read blood, divination
Mind Sage = read memories
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