[He pulls out the things necessary to the lesson as he explains, the space between them either unnoticed or not a concern.]
It's sort of a mixture between our own energies and capabilities and the connection mages from Thedas have to the Fade. Every living thing is connected to the Fade, a...dream-like realm where spirits and demons live, but only mages are actively aware of the connection and able to use it. We pull power from the Fade, but it's siphoned through our own abilities, a 'mana pool,' and if we exhaust that pool, we exhaust ourselves and need rest.
I'm not sure if you've anything like that yourself or back home, but in the middle of a fight when having to use mana to defend as much as heal, having alternatives to magic does help. So I have kits and make potions with the plants I grow so there's always options.
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apurrstate) wrote2016-05-03 09:35 pm
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[Aang stays out of arm's length, going across the table to see what Anders is doing with the materials, and his bright mood doesn't flag.]
You heal with magic, right? How does it work?
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It's sort of a mixture between our own energies and capabilities and the connection mages from Thedas have to the Fade. Every living thing is connected to the Fade, a...dream-like realm where spirits and demons live, but only mages are actively aware of the connection and able to use it. We pull power from the Fade, but it's siphoned through our own abilities, a 'mana pool,' and if we exhaust that pool, we exhaust ourselves and need rest.
I'm not sure if you've anything like that yourself or back home, but in the middle of a fight when having to use mana to defend as much as heal, having alternatives to magic does help. So I have kits and make potions with the plants I grow so there's always options.