Thread:The real cal howard/@comment-31165326-20190112061447/@comment-31165326-20190112062644

Manipulation is the art of controlling objects. From Creation to Regeneration to destruction, all of these things are covered under the blanket of "Manipulation"

Manipulation itself is done indiscriminately, as the mana flows through every bit of matter in the object. There is no sort of specialty in one form of magic, as all are accessible because everything is formed from the same sort of ordeal. There aren't fire mages or ice mages, it's just "Mage".

In special cases, people can manipulate the fine details of matter, but that requires they have their senses ludicriously tuned. Only Jack and Xander, the two characters most prevalent in the main story, are on such a level that they can pull that.

Another thing about magic users is that use their souls, not their minds, to think. Brainpower is limited by the speed of electricity, but souls have the information travel much faster. If you're aware of your soul, you'd just end up using it to think. Your brain would merely carry the signal to your body for the action.

... Of course, they are able to carry the signal fast enough to block Rel attacks, so.... Eh, fiction is fiction.

Magic Users draw their power from their souls, which resides on the Ethereal Plane. A vast, unending land of the Dead made of an incoporeal form of matter, ungoverned by several physical laws, including relativity. Magic Users of a certain level can phase into Ethereal Matter, turning their body into purely Mana in order to go at or surpass the speed of light.

Of course, phasing is dangerous.

Normally, Souls are fused with the physical body, allowing it to be completely untouchable. Of course, when you phase, or when the soul is unbinded via an instantly lethal wound, all you get is a membrane of your own Mana preventing you from being completely oblitherated from existence.

.... Man that's an info dump and I haven't even gotten into the main purpose of Alsandairs existing