Magic and its Effects

### **Magic**

Magic is the transformation of the universe. Mana is the energy that lets you lift reality to a precipice: a point where truth teeters back and forth. Magic is what we call it when we push reality down a new path.

### **Chroma**

There are all sorts of metaphors for chromas. Punctures that push through both Arholt and the hygd, letting properties from each bleed through and change each other's properties. Cysts on reality's flesh, where properties build and swirl in an anomalous bubble. The list goes on. But, truth be told, we have no words to describe the whole of what they are. Transdimensional rifts tend to defy description that way. All that matters is that they're here, and since they've arrived, the world has never been the same.

#### **Bloom**

Magic created by chromas that tend to be incredibly stable and constant in their effects.

#### **Blight**

Magic created by chromas that are highly unstable and volatile, meaning their effects are often erratic or destructive.

### **Mana**

Mana is potential energy of being. It can be harvested from chromas via meditation, analysis, binding, or ascension.

#### **Ambition**

Ambition mana is attained by meditative conflict with a chroma, bending it to the will of the user. The process used to harvest ambition mana is called ascension.

**Ascension**

Ascension functions by mixing one’s will with a chroma’s, much like as in meditation, but then supplanting the chroma’s will with one’s own. The type of mana gained from ascension is colloquially called ambition.

#### **Devotion**

Devotion mana is attained by peaceful meditation with a chroma, cooperating with it peacefully as a spiritual comrade. The process used to harvest devotion mana is called meditation.

**Meditation**

Meditation functions by dissolving the boundaries of one’s identity and allowing the essence of the chroma to meld into it. The type of mana gained from meditation is colloquially called devotion.

#### **Valor**

Valor mana is attained by directly controlling the direction of a chroma’s magical output, akin to taming a wild animal. The process used to harvest valor mana is called binding.

**Binding**

Binding functions by study of a chroma’s essential composition in the hygd and, upon apprehending it, forging a direct link between the binder’s will and the chroma. The type of mana gained from binding is colloquially called valor.

#### **Insight**

Insight mana is attained by academic study of a chroma, with the goal of understanding it completely in a scientific manner. The process used to harvest insight mana is called analysis.

**Analysis**

Analysis functions by studying a chroma’s presence in both Arholt and the hygd, thereby learning to direct its powers in both.The type of mana gained from analysis is colloquially called insight.

### **Senses**

After things started mutating, some people's senses began to change. Some found themselves able to track things like sniffer hounds, or able to hear an owl hoot two villages over. I was not gifted with any of these, unfortunately!

### **Curse**

Some people do quite nasty things with magic. Curses—either on objects or living things—are living manifestations of hate, corrupting the host and spreading their vile energies to everything nearby.