Enhancers have the rare ability to empower others with the touch of their hands.
Being around one will make those surrounding them more powerful to a very small extent, and most are not able to notice the change. The true boost of an Enhancer comes from the touch of their fingertips, where their body stores energy ready to transfer on contact.
Enhancers can wear gloves or avoid contact with others to prevent accidental enhancements. Wearing gloves can also give them a few seconds to escape from anyone that tries to take unwanted advantage of their ability, though gloves are not necessary to wear when at home or among friends. The ability itself cannot be turned off without help — it automatically occurs, like how a Polyglot's mind instinctively translates languages, although, with proper mindfulness and awareness, it can be controlled and turned manually on and off at will.
Being an Enhancer would not affect the Enhancer's own abilities, but it would strengthen the abilities of those around them, which can be both an advantage and disadvantage when battling against enemies with friends.
The only mentioned Enhancer in this series is Sophie Foster. When Sophie first manifests as an Enhancer in Lodestar, she feels as though a part of her has been missing her entire life, and like there was a layer of energy on and around her fingertips. Sophie manages to gain control of her Enhancing in Legacy during an exercise with Councillor Oralie. Councillor Oralie also theorized that Sophie could, with practice, change how much or how little power she Enhanced others by, allowing a range of power in her Enhancing.
Known Enhancers[]
Enhancing being used in the Series[]
Sophie manifested as an Enhancer in Lodestar; manually triggered by Mr. Forkle. He described Sophie's Enhancing ability to be a natural result of the various tweaks he had made to her genes. It had remained dormant — which meant that her Enhancing talent would never have manifested on its own — before he triggered it. Thus far, Sophie's Enhancing ability has helped the abilities of her friends and her family become more powerful.
In Lodestar, Sophie enhances Tam Song to allow his enchaned ability as a Shade to locate the thick black outline around the glow of the Lodestar symbol, using starlight absorbed by a shadow to leap himself, Sophie and Fitz Vacker to Valkonian - A hideout of the Neverseen's.
As Sophie and Edaline Ruewen are escaping from the crumbling ruins of Lumenaria in Lodestar, Sophie removes her gloves and enhances Edaline's ability as a Conjurer so Edaline could use her enhanced strength to better conjure away anything that tried to crush them.
Sophie also enhances Grady to control the gorgodon in Nightfall along with Linh to stop Lady Gisela from flooding Atlantis.
Keefe Sencen has also learned himself that he can control and influence Sophie’s emotions when enhanced by her. For example, when she wanted to inflict on King Dimitar, he ungloved and unhooked her gloves and her crush-cuffs so he could go to her emotional center. Occasionally, he gives others a cool breeze to calm them down.
Effects of Enhancing[]
Vanishers[]
Vanishers are able to vanish more people than themselves through hand-to-hand contact. Vanishing also comes almost automatically.
Empaths[]
Empaths have increased sensing abilities and feel emotions from the heart as well as the head. Keefe was also able to send "breezes" to calm Sophie down.
Shades[]
Shades can create leaping portals with darkness instead of light.
Technopaths[]
Technopaths completely understanding (most) gadgets in their hands and when not holding gadgets, get overwhelmed with different ideas for gadgets to create.
Mesmers[]
Mesmers are able to influence animals. They also have increased control and power.
Conjurers[]
Conjurers can put very large and heavy things into the void that they normally would be unable to.
Elemental Abilities[]
Those with elemental abilities are able to be completely in control of the element, with an increased threshold and power. An example of this is Linh Song who was able to gain an impressive control over water to stop Atlantis from flooding.
Telepath[]
Telepaths have enhanced abilities with extremely fast mental speed.
Phasers[]
Phasers can phase more than themselves through hand contact.