Are wanderers automatically empaths?

[zedro]

On the subject of wanderers being inherently compassionate or not....

(Edit: my apologies if I missed a split in the conversation between empathy and compassion, I initially assumed these terms were being erroneously intermixed)

Being empathic and being compassionate are 2 different things. Empathy is just sensing another's emotional state, it does not signify ones owns feelings/opinions towards the others emotional state. An empath could be sadistic and enjoy the negative emotional states of others like fear, or be neutral and just passively sense/experience.

In the typical layman's sense (non energy specific) it just means you understand. In the energetic sense it is sensing, but not necessarily understanding (because it can be hard to differentiate from ones own emotional state if the ability is new or unrefined).