Naomi Novik

empathic adj.	2013 N. Novik Rocks Fall in Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination 293 You’re a fourth-generation superhero, you grew up on the squad training grounds, you’ve got minor empathic abilities and your personality profile is outgoing and humanistic.
mundane n. 3	2022 N. Novik Golden Enclaves v. 113 Even when mundanes didn’t have science to helpfully explain the world and happily burned witches at the stake, they didn’t really believe in magic. If you believed in magic, you wouldn’t drag a witch to the stake; you’d have her lob fireballs at your enemies instead.