One Power

The **One Power**, also known as the **Source**, is a supernatural force that is the driving essence of creation and destruction. The One Power is a complex and dangerous force as it gives control to natural energies in order to produce a needed force, which is able to alter the fabric of reality. It is practiced by harnessing various forms of energy to manipulate one or more aspects of reality. People who can wield it are called channelers.

## Overview

One Power is a supernatural force, that allows its wielders to harness energy in order to influence reality in order to create change in the world. The One Power can be used to override the usual laws of nature, physics and reality, but is very difficult to accomplish properly. It is inherently neutral and cannot itself be split into Good or Evil, but can be used for either purpose. Since the One Power is powered by emotion, the strength of a spell depends on the feelings of the channeler focused into their output of the One Power. Negative emotions are generally used to power spells, while positive emotions are used to maintain control of spells.

In the One Power, channelers are able to manipulate the elements. Air, Earth, Fire, Spirit and Water. Men are usually stronger with Earth and Fire, and women with Air and Water, while the element Spirit is balanced equally among them. Channelers are usually strong in one or two of the five elements, and have less ability in others; some are strong in three or four of the powers, and very rarely all five.

## Nature

However, a channeler's strength with in the One Power doesn't factor in overall ability, which differed to a degree even between two channelers who possessed the same strength level.

Few people can learn to channel, although some channelers even have a family lineage of channeling, and come from a small, or even a long-line of channelers. Although just because a channeler has a child, doesn't necessarily mean their offspring will have the potential to channel. An even smaller number of people are born with the "spark", and will be always become whether they want to or not.

Touching the One Power slows the process of physical aging, and many channelers are able to live for centuries.

## Ability

The feeling of channeling is considered the sweetest pleasure there is. However, channelers need to learn not to take too much of the One Power, or else be overwhelmed by it. Trained channelers, such as a full Guardian, learn to fully control and direct the One Power.

## Strength

### Scales of Power

According to Kiara, overall strength of one's strength in the One Power is only a measure of the sheer raw amount of the One Power that an individual could draw at once, which also determined whether or not that individual could cast certain spells. When two channelers compared their strength, this was the factor that was considered. The scale of strength in the One Power consists of 26 base levels, with 26 being the lowest end of the range, and 1 being the highest.

### Longevity

Channelers have a lifespan considerably longer than normal human beings. But this can vary a lot from one channeler to another, depending on many factors, such as the strength of one's power and even their sex. A channeler's longevity roughly paralleled their strength level. Usually the strongest channelers have an expectancy of life far longer than the weakest. As male channelers have a lifespan longer than female channelers of comparable strength, which is among a ten-fifteen percent more. According to Taye, in the previous era, the strongest channeler could reach the age of 800 years old (with a span between 770-820) with very few able to reach 850 or even 900, (however, surviving to 900 years was exceedingly rare).