Finchbearer
Istar
For me I’m coming in from a non-gaming background, and so I don’t use the word ‘mana’. I’d say that I’m very much coming in from the literary end of the spectrum in that my love of literature is what has brought me to feel compelled to tell my own stories. I can appreciate that gaming brings a lot of folks to fantasy writing - though sometimes I feel like a lost traveller at times trying to navigate new ground. I’d be more attracted to reading relaxing slice-of-life lit-RPG’s but then I’ll read a random number ‘300’ and just get confused as to how to read the book. I know I sound like a dinosaur.While reading this, I realized that maybe I should just use "mana" to describe my elements' energy, but then I remembered why I went against the idea. For me, mana just reminds me too much of video games and feels jarring for my world.