Mana

Mana
The word "mana" originated in indigenous Pacific island culture but became popular during the Revival. It is the life force or spiritual energy found in living things and natural objects such as rocks, mountains, wood and metal ores. To shamans and theurgists, mana creates spirits and souls. To sorcerers, it is the "stuff that magic makes and needs." Fae consider themselves the masters of mana manipulation. Human parapsychologists view ephemera as spirit forms and mana as spriit forces.

Vampires & Mana
Vampires sustain themselves by consuming mana directly from other life forms. They harvest it by drinking blood, consuming breath, or from leaching it directly by skin-to-skin contact. Vampires who are kept from all sources of mana will go into a berserk frenzy that consumes the last of their mana and then turn into ash. Young vampires are more susceptible to mana deprivation than ancient vampires who are able to sustain themselves on more diffuse and subtle forms of energy than young vampires.

Fae & Mana
Fae by their nature produce more mana that humans and can manipulate it with great precision. They are able to transform natural objects by touch, whistle the wind into obeying the comand, shapeshift themselves or others with a single chat. The terrestrial world leaches their mana rapidly in the Industrial Age and True Fae can no longer safely cross the Parapet except by possessing a living vessel. Fae with human heritage are more resistant to mana leaching and can safely live 2-3 decades among humans provided they maintain their distrance from too much industry-technology.



Magicians & Mana
Spellcrafters draw upon their own mana to create spells or bribe spirits to act on their behalf. Most magicians learn how to channel mana from their environment to enhance their own life force. Black magicians tend to claim mana with little regard for the well-being of the source.

Werewolves & Mana
Werewolves as with fae produce much more mana than humans. Some werewolves are able to create spells and create pacts with spirits. Shapeshifting requires the expenditure of a lot of mana. While werewolves recover mana quickly, especially when they are in forests or other natural habitats with a reduced Parapet, they will pass out when they've spent thier mana in a berserk and automatically shift human.



Spirits & Mana
Spirits feed upon mana as their only form of sustenance except other ephemera. They can take it directly from a source including a spellscrafter, werewolf, or fae that offers it as part of a pact. They are also able to draw it form their affliliations in the physical world, especially those they are tethered too. Zombies are animated corpses inhabited by spirits who canibalistically attack people and animals to consume them for their mana.