Killing Demons

[Rosver]

You don’t need a potion. Just need a script or program. It is easy really.

As we are talking about mana. It seems, as the book imply, that plants has mana too. Are plant mana the same as animal mana? Also, is demon mana very much the same as human manas? People can’t seem to tell a demon pretending to be a human from real humans.

Also, could people somehow use plant mana to do magic?

[Tizzy]

At the root level mana is just mana, and animus is just animus what changes is how it binds to different substances, and raw harvested mana can have some residuals from where it was harvested. For example the pure god mana has been filtered through a lot of Illuminaries and thus purified/filtered of impurities.

Plants have animus since they are alive, therefore they can attract mana, and some plants (i.e. magical plants) have a lot of mana.

I’m not an expert, but Druids are, they harvest excess mana etc from plants and animals in a manner similar to clerics. There is some discussion of it in the Druids part of the library.

And yes on the demon human thing, it’s just how it’s constrained to the body. As Maelen notes, Edwyrd appears to be a big mana blob, not very tightly contained or controlled, something that would be very sloppy for a wizard or even another animage, symptomatic of someone very powerful, but poorly organized/disciplined/etc.

[Tizzy]

That would give new applications for probiotics…

The various sights can actually reveal a great deal of things, if you know how to interpret an aura.

It also depends on exactly which sight you use (different sights can see some different things).

But in general most sights can see:

1) heat
2) some indication of animus level/usage
3) some indication of mana level/usage (mana wielding types)
4) strong emotions (rage, love, depression in large quantities)
5) enhanced spectrum (see heat above) and low light conditions
6) sometimes religious affiliation depending on the type of sight and individual (e.g. clerics can often determine religious affiliation, if they are familiar with the person’s relgion)
7) mana/animus binding/level/format (again this is interpretation) so “elf”/”demon”/”spirit”/”human”

A lot of it really is based on ones skill at interpreting the aura, Seers, like Maelen can figure out a lot more about a persons aura than your average demon can, I’m not sure though how much of this is the type of sight as it is the training/experience the person has in interpreting the aura.

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