Gold Sight

"It's everywhere, everywhere I look ... and it's so bright ... sometimes I can't see anything else ..."

Having this type of Sight is a serious handicap for a player character, because there are only three choices: your character has repressed it, your character is blind to the world, or your character is insane. It's not certain what exactly this type of Sight shows to one who possesses it, but whatever it is, there is too much of it.

Since children with any kind of Sight are born with the vision it grants and are unable to block it until they learn how to, children born with Gold Sight have a traumatic early childhood, often crying for no reason, sometimes mistaken for being visually impaired. Once they learn to block the Sight they may be afraid of the dark, a phobia that may extend into adulthood. When the Sight is active, what the possessor sees is a blindingly bright, frenetically shifting pattern of furious colors, everywhere they look -- imagine a color TV tuned to static, and imagine the brightness increased a millionfold and coming from all around you. The only way to make it stop is ... to turn it off. And as with all types of Sight, once it has been repressed, it is very difficult to regain. As if you'd want to.

Some never learn to turn it off. Some of those live life as if blind, although no physiological cause can be found for their inability to see the real world. Besides the difficulties of not being able to see the world around them, they will also have the disadvantage of being perpetually distracted by the visual and mental noise. Others gradually descend into insanity. The light can get inside your head, you know. Mess with your thoughts. You see things in the pattern, terrible things, beautiful things. And they talk to you, they really do, if you listen very closely to the noise you can make out what they're saying.