A positive value relates to mana that has been aspected in some fashion, making it harder to control unless your aspect overlaps with it (domains and warps). A negative value relates to lower-than-normal mana available to be used for magic (meaning mana ebbs and voids). Arcane scholars have developed a scale to measure the strength of these areas, ranging from –24 to 24, with 0 considered normal mana levels. “A background count is a measurement of a variance from normal of mana levels in the area. Feng shui, geomancy, and geomasonry are able to manipulate how the mana flows and what aspect it might have. Mana is also sensitive to the environment of the mundane world getting warped by pollution or radiation or naturally aligned to certain types of magic by powerful physical variables like the area around volcanoes being aspected towards fire magic and friendly to fire spirits. An area can also become a domain and aspected towards a specific magical skill like a master enchanter’s forge who loves what he does used over decades could develop additional layers of aspect for joy, creation, artificing, the enchanter, and the enchanter’s tradition. Widespread worship, prayer, and meditation can create a spiritual oasis as well. Repeated use of magic performed by a Tradition or through the use of geomancy can aspect mana towards supporting that Tradition. Mana is very sensitive to metahumanity and psychoactively charged by emotions, violence, and events charged with meaning and psychological significance. From a game mechanic point of view the increase of mana allows for today’s magicians to be just as effective as magicians in 2050 using a fetish. We are in the Sixth World and mana is rising overall each year except for the Year of the Comet when it spiked and later dropped. Mana is fueled by life and rises and falls in different locations and times. Magicians can perform magic because of the nature of mana.
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