I relaxed slightly. Perhaps it was paranoia, but a part of me had feared that a spirit of a cemetery buried deep within the earth would ask for something like human sacrifices or something of the sort. Expanding the domain of the genius loci would help them, but it would also help the island of F...
2025-09-23 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“You reneged on our deal,” Meadow said calmly, taking a long sip from her gourd. “Why?”
It had taken a while for her to be able to have this conversation. The power level of the simulacra that she could send through most of the world was sharply limited, in order to avoid draw...
2025-09-22 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostMetal. Metal. Metal! My personal favorite of all essence types, as any loyal viewer knows. Heart’s truth, it’s the type I aspected to. Its pneuma tends to be incredibly solid and defensive, even more so than earth essence, and its anima is similar. It hits hard when its spells hit, and it’s...
2025-09-20 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe balance of essence within the spirit is important, which is why it’s easier to just aspect your essence to one element. Balancing two is harder, but doable, which is why there are plenty of Primals and magian who are dual typed. While there are a handful of historical records for humans man...
2025-09-19 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAir essence. A flexible type, similar to water in that way. Most air primals got a highly versatile set of status conditions, buffs, and debuffs. It’s also known for its speed boosting abilities – I’m sure some of you have seen how many magiaball players use air essence. But you’re probab...
2025-09-18 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostActing on instinct, I flickered out of the way, only for the shade to turn and tilt its head. It was only then that I realized that it hadn’t been a shadow attack, but rather a shade. I gently reached out with my mana senses, and froze. The shade in front of me was radiating power, at least pea...
2025-09-17 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostI Foxstepped out of the way as a spike of bone slammed into the space where my head had been a mere moment before. I spun and leapt to the side, even as I started to cycle Mantle Dragonfyre, and threw a ball of Foxfire at the ectoplasmic shell formed in front of me. It burnt through the forged ma...
2025-09-16 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostDown and down I went. When I passed the thirteenth sealed story, I was accosted by a shade attempting to suck me dry of death mana, like some sort of strange mana vampire. It was powerful, too, well into fourth gate, and it had eaten all of the ghosts and shades on its floor. If not for the fact ...
2025-09-15 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostSome believe that the first tournament was the start of the downfall of the Tamer’s Consortium. Though its stated purpose was to gather funding and identify talented up and coming tamers that could be assets on the ongoing war against the self-appointed Obsidian Kings plaguing the shattered Emp...
2025-09-13 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostEarth essence, sturdy as a rock. It might not have the highest magical energy density, nor the best type matchups, but it’s a solid choice regardless. I promise that’s the last intentional earth based pun I’ll make this episode. Probably. Earth was difficult to make a video for. Unlike with...
2025-09-12 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe question ‘are essence hearts sapient, or just sentient with weird abilities to connect to primals and people’, is a difficult one that’s been debated among philosophers – both armchair and full researchers? Nah. Let me be very clear. That’s a bunch of nonsense. I don’t care how ma...
2025-09-11 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostA part of me was tempted to blast my mana senses down as deep as I could, and then just immediately teleport down. After all, the deeper I went, the more concentrated the death magic would become, and the more likely I would be to find something that would help Kene. I resisted that idea, though....
2025-09-10 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe Isle of Fitiavana was entirely unlike any other nation I’d been to before. To be fair, that was true for all of the countries I’d visited, but I found that Fitiavana was more extreme than most in that regard… though admittedly, a lot of that might be the climate. On the boat, I’d most...
2025-09-09 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Is there any way I could split them? Maybe I cou–”
“No,” Meadow said firmly. “The point of the gate carving is to unify your mana-garden and channel your power as one into an ascension. Having two patterns splits that.”
“Doubling the difficulty of the ascension?...
2025-09-08 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAlright y’all, it’s time for water essence. There are probably more water Primals than any other type of Primal on the planet, given the number of oceanic essence hearts out there, but it’s one of the less common types for most people to actually interact with. It’s a hard type to put int...
2025-09-06 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostGhosts are what happens when a magian attempts to steal the ousia of other living creatures in a foolhardy attempt to extend their own life. It works, at first, but with each successive cast, the bonds between the thief’s essence and the biological body are frayed. Eventually, the connection br...
2025-09-05 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone! I am happy to announce the next book in the Mana Mirror series, The Third Gate. To celebrate, I have put up the first two books for free on Amazon!
If you can, please leave a rating or review. Even if there's no text, having the stars is super critical to the all-pow...
2025-09-04 17:49:14 +0000 UTC View PostI normally try to split the difference, but with no way to do that, I'm just gonna roll off.
2025-09-04 17:46:45 +0000 UTC View PostFire essence! One of the more unusual types for primals to possess, but one of the most common types that magians aspect their essence. I think we all have a decent idea of what fire actually is. Or do we? We’ll get to that later. But yeah! Despite not being the best in terms of essence matchup...
2025-09-04 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostIt took me nearly another two weeks before I had reached the level of speed and skill within the Elysian Mastery Tournament Orb that I was ready to step through and challenge the Arcanist level scenario.
When I finally did, I just let out a sigh and wondered if I ought not to have bot...
2025-09-03 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI stepped through a cloud of ash, Dusk casting a spell that held off the waves of deadly smoke and smog, then into view of the final fourth gate challenge. I’d seen him before, a tall man wearing a long, tan naval coat, with a pair of long, slightly off center knives. He had one foot atop the t...
2025-09-02 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostAs the days on the boat ticked by, I focused in on my training, both in general magic, and in combat specifically.
When it came to my general magical skills, the biggest thing I did was bring my new trees up to power and establish the Stone Gates in Mossford, Crysite, and outside of D...
2025-09-01 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostUhhh… Captain? This is [audio indecipherable]. I’m pretty sure that I just saw something moving out there, and now my body feels really stra
Uhhh… Captain? This is [audio indecipherable]. I’m pretty sure that I just saw something moving out there, and now my body feels really strang...
2025-08-30 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostNull element essence is often seen as what happens to raw essence when it settles down, and becomes less chaotic. Indeed, those of you in the audience who have raw essence are capable of learning to freecast null spells.
But while that’s a great way to simplify the process, it’s a bit ...
2025-08-29 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostWhy, exactly, does training yourself beyond your limits create a massive rush of essence when you stop to rest? Why does defeating a magian
Why, exactly, does training yourself beyond your limits create a massive rush of essence when you stop to rest? Why does defeating a magian or tamer in...
2025-08-28 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe Cì Kè stalked forward, moving through the shadows, their domain weapon held in one hand, their suicide talisman wrapped around their other, and their Flowers’ Shadows Layer Over Each Other on the Pavilion Art rushing over them as they approached their target.
Their Flowers’ Art wa...
2025-08-27 12:15:02 +0000 UTC View PostOrykson returned at eight the following morning, holding an old-fashioned lantern, the sort that burned oil, rather than using ambient energy or having an enchanted mana core. The lamp’s glass was slightly rounded, with a metal handle that could be held aloft. He held it out to me, and I took i...
2025-08-27 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostA few days after we returned to the boat, after it had set sail down the coast, charting a course to loop around the unclaimed lands near Kijani, cut through Tyrannosaurus Archipelligo, and then back up through a long stretch of unclaimed lands on the way to Tianzhu, Orykson arrived. I wasn’t s...
2025-08-26 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI picked up the mushroom and stuffed it into my mouth, munching down on the oddly squishy natural treasure. It reminded me a bit too much of a meaty aspic that had fallen into the dirt for me to really enjoy it, and I swallowed it down with a gag before taking a long sip of my coffee to get rid o...
2025-08-25 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe design of most augtech, outside of implants, is far bulkier than the Pre-Arrival technology it replaced. Some postulate that the inclusion of anima cores is why, and while that was initially true, we are now able to design truly tiny cores. But cores of that size are both more difficult to se...
2025-08-23 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post