mindrider
Mindriding is the telepathic projection of one’s will onto another creature. The mindgift often manifests as a talent for training collies, birds, or horses.
Someone with the mindriding gift is called a mindrider.
As with other forms of telepathy, this evolutionary adaptation augments the awareness of the subliminal collective consciousness evidenced in many life forms and extends the electrical energy of thought patterns beyond the synapses of one’s own brain.
Mindriding is the rarest of the mindgifts, and the most feared. It appears most often in males and seldom extends beyond the ability to influence beasts.
In Legend of the Storm Hawks, Seth Callan and Lamar Camran are confirmed to be of the extraordinarily rare caliber of mindriders whose gifts extend into the ethically questionable realm of controlling the minds of their fellow humans.